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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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East Melbourne, Albert Street 83-91
Extract from Capital Gain column in The Age newspaper about the redevelopment of the Albert Heights site at 83-91 Albert Street. The site is for sale with a permit for a four storey building containing 14 apartments.
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 150
Real estate article describing apartment 1007/150 Clarendon Street in the lead up to its sale by expressions of interest closing 28 April 2022.
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East Melbourne, George Street 054. 1936
The photo appeared in Art in Australia 16 November 1936 with the caption, 'A small house in George Street, East Melbourne' and the architect given as W E Gower. William Elliot Gower lived at 54 George Street from 1936 to 1939. He was architect for the SEC and did very little priv...
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Fitzroy Gardens, Hotham Walk
This postcard shows the Hotham Walk in the Fitzroy Gardens circa 1908. It is a view entirely recognisable today but with interesting differences. The first is the presence of gaslights. The first five were installed in the gardens in 1865 and were replaced by electricity around t...
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East Melbourne has long been a place where someone in need could find an abortionist, and abortion and the fight to legalise it are now very much part of the suburb's history. Dr. Wainer and her husband, Dr. Bertram Wainer, were the leaders of the movement, and founders of the Fe...
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James Sinclair and his Cottage
In the centre of the Fitzroy Gardens is a cottage almost invisible behind its overgrown garden but it is an interesting little house and worth a more careful look. It was designed in 1866 by Francis Maloney White as the gardener’s cottage. Its first occupant was James Sinclair an...
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Maps
Maps, plans, aerial views of East Melbourne and surrounds. 1837 Town of Melbourne 1864 (revised 1875) East Melbourne Map 1864c East Melbourne Map 1865c East Melbourne Map 1866 Isometrical plan of Melbourne & suburbs 1945 Aerial Photo - Melbourne 1945 Aerial Photo - Melbourne East...
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People of East Melbourne
This project started to commemorate the soldiers and nurses who went to Europe to serve in World War 1. But it has grown from there to cover biographies of any and all residents of note.
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Policing East Melbourne
In 1883 the Police Department rented a house on a wide block of land in Darling Street, East Melbourne. This house would become the residence of the sergeant-in-charge of the new police station. Next door, on the undeveloped part of the land, a small two-roomed, wooden office was...
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The Changing Face of Darling Square
In the time before white settlement the area around what we know as Darling Square in East Melbourne was swampland, and was a source of plentiful foodstuffs enjoyed by the local Wurundjeri people. However, it was not long before white people made ‘improvements’. Bit by bit the ed...
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The Fitzroy and East Melbourne Bowling Club
In Fitzroy in 1865 the idea of a local bowling club finally came to fruition. A committee was elected. The name was confirmed as the Fitzroy Bowling Club and rules were put in place. The next task was to find a green. Within a month the Fitzroy council had granted the club permis...
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The Fitzroy and East Melbourne Bowling Club
In Fitzroy in 1865 the idea of a local bowling club finally came to fruition. A committee was elected. The name was confirmed as the Fitzroy Bowling Club and rules were put in place. The next task was to find a green. Within a month the Fitzroy council had granted the club permis...
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Victorian Historical Journal June 2026
Articles on aspects of Victoria's history
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Welcome
East Melbourne is a tiny suburb adjoining the city of Melbourne bounded by Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens to the west, Victoria Parade to the north, Hoddle Street to the east and Yarra Park to the south, home of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground. East Melbourne was included in Ro...