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Cook's Cottage - 70 years.
Articles about Captain Cook's Cottage to mark its re-erection in Fitzroy Gardens 70 years ago. Gives description, history and evaluation of its historical importance. The Age, 19 Jan., 2004. Photos.
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Cook's Cottage - fact sheet
A self-guided fact sheet for visitors to Cook's Cottage.
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Cooney Family of 1121 Hoddle Street
Cooney family portrait photo. Left to right back row: Twins Annetta (Netta) and James (Jim) 1871, John Joseph (Jack) 1874, Edward Augustus (Eddie) 1877, Hugh (Hubert? Bert) 1874, Left to right middle row: Catherine nee Sweeney 1848, James 1839, Francis Joseph (Frank) 1886), Left...
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Cooney-Meehan wedding
Photo shows Pauline (nee Cooney) and Richard Meehan as they leave St Patrick's Cathedral on 2 February 1945. Hubert Cooney, Pauline's uncle and sacristan at the cathedral, is in the background. Pauline, Richard and their children lived at 4 Grey Street from 1952-1972. Pauline gre...
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Correspondence regarding planning issues
Three items of correspondence 1995-1996 1. Malcolm Ritchie, Melbourne City Councillor, to Myra Sutton regarding proposed hotel development corner of Wellington Parade and Powlett Street. 2. Natalie Woodley to Save Prince's Park Group; Natalie Woodley to The Age regarding public p...
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Costigan Peter
Newspaper clipping - report of Peter Costigan's funeral. He was Lord Mayor and lived in Webb Lane. Photos. The Age, 9 August 2002.
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Cottage Garden
Plan and description of the garden surrounding Cook's Cottage, and its plants.
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Cottage's 70th birthday
Newspaper articles written for the 70th and 75th anniversaries of the re-location of Cook's Cottage to Fitzroy Gardens. Give historical background and photos.
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Cradle of Orthodoxy: St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, Melbourne 1932-2007
History of the church in East Melbourne. Photos.
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Crathre House
Newspaper clippings and auction brochure about Crathre House, 118 Gipps Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 25 October 2003. Interior and exterior photos. Plans.
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Creative East Melbourne
File contains items relating to Creative East Melbourne, an exhibition of artworks created by artists living in East Melbourne. It was held at the East Melbourne Library during August 2016 and curated by Lisette Malatesta of the East Melbourne General Store. 1. A copy of the flye...
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Cricket HQ, city tower hit market
Newspaper clipping about the forthcoming sale of 86-90 Jolimont Street, Jolimont, currently the headquarters of Cricket Victoria.
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Cricket in Long Skirts: Women's Cricket 1905-1916
A history of the first eleven years of women's cricket as an organised competition. The Victorian Ladies' Cricket Association was formed in 1905. This ceased to function after the 1915-16 season largely due to the war and the need for women to expend their energies elsewhere. A n...
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DUNKLING, George Joseph
George Dunkling was a watchmaker, aged 38, when he enlisted on 13 April, 1918. He was married (1908) to Elizabeth, nee Bruce, in Sydney and they had one child, Nancy - later Mrs. L. Brennan. He seems to have had a raher chequered career - in 1903, he lists himself in the Electora...
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Dallas Brooks Hall to be redeveloped
Newspaper clippings start with proposed redevelopment of Dallas Brooks Hall and the National Trust's fight to save it. Later clippings with updated news.
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Dallas Brooks site to become apartments
Newspaper clipping reporting on plans for development of the Dallas Brooks site in Albert Street, East Melbourne. The site is to be developed by Mirvac into luxury apartments, with Bates Smart as architects.
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Damage to Yarra Park from cars - summer 2012
Photos of indiscriminate parking at Yarra Park during the summer of 2012. A call to the MCC improved the situation around the plane trees to some extent but after a couple of weeks the situation reverted. Still, long lines of cars and trucks drive and park over tree roots well un...
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Dame Beryl Beaurepaire (1923-2018)
Obituary for Dame Beryl Beaurepaire. Dame Beryl was of the Bedggood family of shoe manufacturers whose factory was in Jolimont. She and her husband, Ian, had 124 Powlett Street as their town house during the 1970s.
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Dame Nellie Melba
Note card with reProduction of portrait of Dame Nellie Melba by Rupert Bunny in the National Gallery of Victoria, c. 1902. Melba attended Presbyterian Ladies College in East Melbourne.
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Dame Nellie Melba and Presbyterian Ladies College, East Melbourne
6 x A4 pages photocopied from Patchwork, the school magazine of Presbyterian Ladies College. File includes two short articles about old girl, Dame Nellie Melba, "Melba, the Singer" by Mary Campbell and "Melba and the Old School" by Frances Fraser. The pages also include snaps tak...
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Daniel Mannix: His Legacy
Daniel Mannix: His Legacy is about a controversial Irish-born twentieth-century Catholic archbishop of Melbourne. Twelve writers offer fresh views of Mannix's religious and political activities and of his influence in both Australia and Ireland. Contributors are: Patrick Morgan a...
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Darling Square, East Melbourne - 1916
Photograph of Darling Square taken by John Henry Harvey in 1916. Simpson Street is to the right, Gipps Street in the background. Queens Bess Row can be discerned in the distance through the winter's mist. A large birds nest can be seen in one of the bare elm trees.
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Darling Square. Fallen Poplar
Five colour photos of Darling Square, East Melbourne. Two, taken in the summer of 2002, show a glimpse of the Lombardy poplar growing in the central circular garden bed. The next three show the poplar after if fell in September the following year.
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Darling Street Stormwater Harvesting Scheme
Information circulated by Melbourne City Council to local residents about the proposed stormwater harvesting system to be built under Darling Street. Includes draft plans.