East Melbourne Group

Newsletters for 2010. Also Updates for 2010. Items on matters of local concern. Community news. Newsletters on-line at http://www.emg.org.au/

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East Melbourne, Mosspennoch, redevelopment proposal

Newspaper clippings about the fight by the East Melbourne Group under the presidency of Margaret Wood, to save Mosspennoch's ballroom from demolition. Photos.

Documents, research notes, correspondence relating to the East Melbourne Group's campaign to prevent the Council of Adult Education overturning the will of Ola Cohn and thereby leaving the Centre vulnerable to redevelopment. Includes information about Ola Cohn, and handwriten not...

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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 127, 129, 131, 133, 135

A short item about a new building being erected at 127-135 Simpson Street, East Melbourne to the design of architects, Romberg and Boyd. The piece appeared in Architect, January 1974. Architect is a publication of the Victorian Chapter of the Institute of Architects. The author w...

A collection of newspaper articles about living in East Melbourne and Jolimont. Includes information on real estate market and lifestyle. Interviews with residents including Elizabeth Hill, Jacinta Ryan. Photos. From 1992.

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Festa

A collection of flyers produced to advertise the Festa which was part of the East Melbourne Group's jubilee celebrations in 2004. Newspaper clipping about 2007 Festa.

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Fight to save the Ola Cohn Centre

Two items pertaining to the planned sale of the Ola Cohn Centre which would have meant the loss of the building to its occupiers, The Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters. 1. A letter to members of the East Melbourne Group seeking support in fighting the sale. 2. A n...

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Hilton Hotel in closure proposal

Newspaper article by Chris Vedelago about the possible closure of the Hilton Hotel in Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. At the time of the article the owners, Brookfield, had the property and two adjoining properties up for sale. Mention is made of development plans for the adjoi...

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Kick for Demons

Newspaper clipping reporting on plan by the Melbourne Football Club to build a training ground in Yarra Park with associated office building over the adjacent railway line. Residents, led by the East Melbourne Group, strongly opposed the plan.

Documents prepared for Planning Panels hearing (30 Oct. 2002) in support of the inclusion of Mercy Hospital, Freemasons Hospital and 183 Hotham Street in Melbourne City Council's Heritage Places Inventory. Includes Statement of Evidence by Bryce Raworth for the Melbourne City Cou...

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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Nerida Sampson stays put in East Melbourne

Newspaper clipping about suburbs where residents stay longest before selling their houses. Nerida Samson says why she will stay in her East Melbourne home. Nerida Samson was president of the East Melbourne Group and a keen advocate for her suburb.

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Noel Goss

Obituary of Noel Goss who died on 25 May 2004. He lived at 157 Gipps Street. He was founding president of the East Melbourne Group Also a card from Richard Goss, Noel's son with photos of Noel Goss.

Correspondence from City of Melbourne about proposal to charge a $20 fee for residential parking permits Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.

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Residents in bid for cottage

Newspaper article about a proposal to turn the old Yarra Park warden's cottage over to community use. Photo. The Leader 23 Feb. 2004.

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Residents use people power

Newspaper article features the work of the East Melbourne Group in its jubilee year, and history of its establishment. Comments from Margaret Wood and Michael Wilson. Photo of Wood and Wilson. Melbourne Yarra Leader 8 December 2003.

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Shadow looms over Treasury Square plan

Newspaper clipping about the controversy over the proposal for a major development of the land newly named Treasury Square which lies between Wellington Parade South and Batman Avenue. Greg Bisinella, planning spokesperson for the East Melbourne Group, puts a strong case against.

Photocopy of 'The Planning of East Melbourne' by Winston Burchett, published in The Victorian History Journal (Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Victora). Stuck to it is a membership card for the East Melbourne Group, not filled in. Part of a collection of miscellaneous...

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Treasury Square project

Newspaper clipping about the controversy over the proposal for a major development of the land newly named Treasury Square which lies between Wellington Parade South and Batman Avenue. Greg Bisinella of the East Melbourne Group is critical of the plan.

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Trinity Church Herald June 1954

Photocopy of newsletter of Holy Trinity Church, Hotham Street, East Melbourne for June 1954. One paragraph congratulates the committee of the East Melbourne Group on persuading the Melbourne City Council to plant ash trees in Gipps and George Streets, after cutting down the origi...

Updates put out by the East Melbourne Group to notify members of current planning issues. April 2001 - November 2004.

Photocopy of 'Walking Tour of East Melbourne' published by the National trust (Victoria) in association with the East Melbourne Group. First published 1982, copyright Winston Burchett. Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee m...

Newspaper article talks about East Melbourne's history, conservation problems, recent renovations.