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East Melbourne Historical Society
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"Art making and art collecting are vitally intertwined and mutually dependent."
I am seeking a community of people in East Melbourne who love art, and chose to collect art objects for their homes. My name is Kayla, and I live locally on Gipps Street. I am studying Art History and Curation at Monash University. Currently I am working on a curatorial project t...
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00 Index to MMBW plans
Click on an area in the Google map to link to a detailed plan in East Melbourne.
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1864 MCG
State Library of Victoria Date of creation: [1864] Print : tinted lithograph with hand colouring ; image 25.9 x 35.8 cm., on sheet 41.5 x 52.0 cm. approx. Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria Accession Number: H15455 Image Number: b28474
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19th century MMBW plans of East Melbourne published
Index to MMBW plansWith the permission of the State Library of Victoria, the East Melbourne Historical Society has published a (nearly) full set of MMBW plans drawn between 1895 and 1900 covering East Melbourne. The easiest way to access the plans is from the Index to MMBW plans.
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2010 City of Melbourne MSS Figure 2 - Growth Framework
first ‹ previous 13 of 14 next › last 2010 City of Melbourne MSS Figure 2 - Growth Framework Open full image ↗ Figure 2 from City of Melbourne Municipal Strategic Statement July 2010. See EMHS Catalogue Item DF0009 Acknowledgments http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au first ‹ previous...
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2010-08-02 Yarra Park 3686
Every direction you turn from the one spot ... all mud ... trees damaged or dead.
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2010-08-28 Yarra Park 3819
first ‹ previous 77 of 88 next › last 2010-08-28 Yarra Park 3819 Open full image ↗ The bull-bar versus the tree. Acknowledgments Photo by Graham Shepherd first ‹ previous 77 of 88 next › last
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A Tale of Two Sisters
Ball and Welch was once one of Melbourne’s landmark department stores, along with others such as Buckley and Nunn. History tells us that the store was founded by Charles Ball and his nephew, William Henry Welch. But perhaps there is more to the story. It is likely that their wive...
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BUNJILAKA ABORIGINAL CULTURE CENTRE
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre contains a permanent exhibition, created by a shared enterprise between Museum Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Community. It brings together the knowledge, culture, stories, objects and images from the Koorie peoples of Victoria and the w...
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Bedggood: Friendly Footwear
Daniel Bedggood arrived in Melbourne in 1854. Almost immediately he set up a boot and shoe factory in Richmond. A successful business from the start, succeeding generations kept it going and his son, John, oversaw the transition to a new and bigger factory in Jolimont, at 22 Agne...
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Catalogue
This is the East Melbourne Historical Society catalogue showing a brief summary of each item. For full details of an item click on the title link. To filter the list, select a Subject from the list, or enter terms in any of the other form fields and click "Apply". To return to th...
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Change of scheduled speaker
Greg de Moore was to speak to us on 16 June 2010 about Tom Wills, the co-founder of Australian Rules Football. Unfortunately Greg has had to reschedule. However, John Briggs, a heritage architect, known to many in East Melbourne, has agreed to speak to us on 16 June about heritag...
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City of Melbourne Development Strategy 2010
2010 City of Melbourne Growth FrameworkOur President Jill Fenwick reports on recent correspondence and discussions with the State Government and with the City of Melbourne concerning Yarra Park and developments in the sporting precincts and along the railway lines.
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DOCKLANDS LIBRARY
If you're looking for somewhere new to visit, why not head down to see the new Docklands Library at 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade? Catch the 48 tram down to its final stop, get off and spend a pleasant time exploring this new addition to our library network. It's an exciting pla...
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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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Desecration
Is desecration too strong a word for the devastation which is now taking place in Yarra Park? Yarra Park is arguably "sacred" in many respects. It contains some of the very few signs left of Aboriginal life in the land that became Melbourne. It is one of the large open spaces env...
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Died due to War Service
With Remberance Day coming up it seems a fitting time to acknowledge one of East Melbourne’s many residents who enlisted to serve their King and Country in the Great War. Shown here is Henri Joseph Lamande, in one of the more diverting photos in our society’s collection. For him...
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Dr Bertram Wainer and the Struggle for the Right to Abortion
On 24 June 2022, in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling, made as result of the now famous Roe v Wade case, that gave a fundamental right to women to access abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Alito...
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Dr Julian Smith: surgeon and photographer
One of East Melbourne’s more notable residents was Dr Julian Smith: a remarkable man, famous in two very different fields, surgery and photography. Born in England in 1873, he arrived in South Australia with his family three years later. He studied medicine at Adelaide University...
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Dr Samuel Peacock of Eastbourne House
Eastbourne House stands on the corner of Wellington Parade and Simpson Street in East Melbourne. It is a two-storey building of 16 rooms, with a large balcony overhanging Simpson Street, and is classified by the National Trust. It was built for Dr Samuel Peacock in 1902. He used...
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Dr. Ross McMullin ANZAC Lecture, Wednesday 22 April 2015
Dr. Ross McMullin is an historian and biographer whose major interests are Australian history, politics and sport. He has written extensively on the impact of involvement in World War 1 on Australia. His prize-winning biography on one of Australia's outstanding military leaders,...
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EMHS Digitisation Project
In 2009 the Society received a grant from Museums Australia (Victoria) to digitise its collection. (See news item: The East Melbourne Historical Society Receives a Special Grant) The picture shows project team members: Jill Fenwick, Nik Iljin and Wendy Babiolakis. Too busy to be...
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EMHS and Planning Applications
EMHS members are invited to contribute their thoughts on the Society's involvement in planning and heritage issues. Follow this link to join the forum.
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EMHS and Planning Applications
There has been some discussion within the Committee of the East Melbourne Historical Society about the merits and otherwise of the Society making submissions to the City of Melbourne and VCAT regarding planning applications within East Melbourne. Traditionally this has been the r...