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2,432 records and collections
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Mirka Mora turns 83
Short Newspaper clipping reporting on Mirka Mora's 83rd birthday. Mirka Mora is an East Melbourne identity as the founder, with her husband George, of the Balzac Restaurant, Wellington Parade.
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Mis-use of public parkland
Newspaper articles about the threat to public parks through redevleopment and inappropriate usage. Discusses parkland all over Melbourne, but includes as examples the suggestion to fence off part of Yarra Park for entertainment during the Boxing Day Test, and redevlopment of Flin...
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Miss Blanche Barrett at Tara
Photo shows Miss Blanche Barrett outside Tara, 338 Victoria Parade. Miss Barrett was live-in house keeper to the elderly Misses McDonough whose house it was.
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Miss Footy '69
Newspaper clipping of an article in which Tony Wilson writes of the time his mother, Margaret, won a football quiz giving her the title of Miss Football 1969. Margaret is a resident of East Melbourne. The Age, 26 May 2012, Good Weekend, p.9
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Model Tudor Village and Fairies Tree
Photos of Model Tudor Village and Fairies tree.
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Monument to Harold Parsons
Information and photographs about Harold Parsons, champion motor cyclist who was killed in an accident. A monument in his memory stands in Weedon Reserve, corner of Wellington Parade and Hoddle Street, East Melbourne.
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More Than Just Gumtrees: A Personal, Social and Artistic History of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
A history of the society includes biographies of members. Photos. Index.
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More than a School: A history of St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne 1854-1968
A history of the school. Photos. List of students. Plan of school as endpapers. No index.
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More than a School: A history of St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne 1854-1968
A history of the school. Photos. List of students. Plan of school as endpapers. No index.
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Morgan for mayor
Newspaper articles about Gary Morgan's mayoral campaign as part of Melbourne city Council elections in 2004. Includes some biographical information. Photos.
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Mosspennoch, Vandalism and Neglect, 2012
This grand mansion on Clarendon Street has been unoccupied and crumbling for many years. In 2011 it was occupied by homeless people resulting in a fire and some internal and external damage. It is now boarded up and surrounded by security fencing. There has been no action on the...
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Mosspennoch, Vandalism and Neglect, 2015
This grand mansion on Clarendon Street has been unoccupied and crumbling for many years. In 2011 it was occupied by homeless people resulting in a fire and some internal and external damage. It is now boarded up and surrounded by security fencing. There has been no action on the...
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Mourning for Mornington
Newspaper clipping reporting on failed sale of Mornington, 105 Wellington Parade South. 29 May 2005.
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Mozart
Real estate article about Mozart, 105 George Street scheduled for auction on 14 February, 1987. Also copy photo of Mozart c.1975, from the Burchett files held in the East Melbourne Library.
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Mr. Cooke's House
Copy of pencil drawing of Mr. Henry Cooke's House, then known as Egglestone Villa. A later owner Thomas Welton Stanford called it Stanford House. Later again it was the Arms of Jesus Babies' Home. Originally a prefabricated house, believed to be the first private house in East Me...
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Mr. La Trobe's Perplexities: Choosing Legal Advisers
Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
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Mummy's the One in Slacks
A memoir in the which the author, Virginia Hill, recounts her experience as a child of the British Raj sent away to board at Melbourne's Merton Hall at the age of five. It was an unhappy experience, and although the story has nothing to do with East Melbourne directly it highligh...
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Muriel Ismay Smith - a remarkable life
The eventful, rags to riches life story of Muriel Ismay Smith who lived at Victoria House, 220 Clarendon Street between 1954 and 1988 when she died. The author is her grandson, Paul Lawrie. Includes photos.
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Musicians living in East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls - 1934, 1936 and 1945
1 x A4 page of typed notes being names of musicians and entertainers extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1934, 1936 and 1945.
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My Chronicle: From War to Peace
The author, Arda Barry, tells the story of her early life: growing up in Latvia, fleeing the Russian invaders, experiences in the refugee camps of occupied Germany, arrival in Australia five years later and the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, school in the Riverina and work as a milk bar...
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My Chronicle: From War to Peace
The author, Arda Barry, tells the story of her early life: growing up in Latvia, fleeing the Russian invaders, experiences in the refugee camps of occupied Germany, arrival in Australia five years later and the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, school in the Riverina and work as a milk bar...
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My Grandmother's Secret
Author, Kath McKay, writes about the legal case surrounding the rape of her grandmother, Ethel Wilkinson, as a nine year old child in 1895. The accused rapist was Edwin Worrall, a family friend who looked after Ethel and her two brothers while Harry Wilkinson, their father, a sol...
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Myers Vali
Newspaper clipping and obituary of Vali Myers, artist. She lived at Watlington, 189 Hotham Street. Photos. January to February 2003.
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Mygunya, 92 Vale Street, East Melbourne - 1885 and 1962
Two pictures of East Melbourne residents in front of Mygunya, 92 Vale Street, East Melbourne. The first of the family of Peter Hill taken in 1885. The second of Myra Young taken in 1962. Myra, about to leave for a holiday in Singapore and Hong Kong, is smartly dressed and sportin...