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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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DARLING, Edward Ernest
Edward Ernest Darling was born on 30 September, 1893, the son of Richard Stuart Darling and his wife Sophia, nee Cook. In 1903, he married Elizabeth Annie Agnes Kemp, known as Eliza, in South Melbourne, the daughter of Henry Kemp and Agnes Uglow Kemp. Their son, Reginald Ernest D...
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DAVIES, Gilbert Heneage
Gilbert Heneage Davies was born in 1879 in Jolimont, to George Schoen Davies, a clerk, and his wife, Sarah Annie, nee Staples. Gilbert was born on 27 April, and Sarah died on 4 May, 1879, so it would seem that she died of complications followinf childbirth, Geogre Davies married...
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DAVIES, Percival Naunton
Percival Naunton Davies was the son of John Davies and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Auguste Fischer. John Davies owned an iron foundry, Davies and Baird, and his son followed in his father's trade. Born in 1883, he married Irene Myra Scott in 1916, and they were to have three childre...
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DAVIS, John George Walker
John George Walker Davis was born in East Melbourne in 1897, but was orphaned at the age of three and raised in Western Australia as her adopted son by Mary Skene, of 157 Claisebrook St., East Perth. He was just over twenty when he enlisted on 21 February 1917, working as an appr...
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DAVISON, Frank Sinclair
Frank Davison was born on 10 August 1890. His father, John, had been a practising General Practitioner in Shepparton, but the marriage broke up in 1890 and Dr Davison moved to 19 George St., East Melbourne. Frank was brought up in East Melbourne and went to school at Christian Br...
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DICKINSON, Ruby Droma
Ruby Droma Dickinson Ruby Droma Dickinson (1885–1945) served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt and later in Greece at Salonika. (She is not to be confused with Ruby Dickinson, AANS, from NSW, who died of pneumonia in hospital in Southwell Gardens, London in June 1...
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DILNOT, Emily
Emily Dilnot (1887–1984) worked at Mena House Hospital, Simpson St, East Melbourne from 1912 until 1916 when she travelled to England and enlisted in the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. She attended nearby St Peter’s Eastern Hill Church of England, whe...
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DIX, Frank
Frank Dix was 22 years old when he enlisted on 18 January, 1916. He was the son of George Albert Dix and Edith Hooper and identified himself by occupation as a student. He was immediately attached to 'C' Flight, No 1 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps, at Laverton, Victoria,...
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DOCTER, Alfred William
Alfred William Docter and his brother, Thomas Cancel Doctor, were the sons of Thomas Docter, a dairyman, and his wife Alice, of 187 Edward St., Brunswick. Alfred was a driver by trade, while Thomas was a currier. Both died as a resut of war, but in very different circumstances. A...
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DONNAN, James
James Donnan enlisted on 15 July, 1915. It is a significant date, because it follows on from the assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula. James Donnan would have read the news and seen the casualty lists and therefore had full knowledge of his possible fate. Moreover, he was 44 years...
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DOUGLAS, Alexander
Alexander Douglas was born in 1883 at Junee NSW, the son of Samuel and Ruth Douglas. In 1912, at the age of 29, he married Margaret Emma Connolly (1884-1949) in Newcastle, NSW. They had two daughters, Yvonne Marguerite, known as Bonnie, on 25 September, 1915, at Essendon, Victori...
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DOW, Wilson
Born East Melbourne on the 10 May 1895. Was living in Williamstown with his father in 1915 and was an apprectice Engineer with W Jackson, Nelson Place Williamstown. Enlisted in the AIF on the 12 July 1915 Allocated to the 5th Battalion. Wilson was 20 years old, a small man of 5'6...
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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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DUNNING, Charles Hamilton
Charles Dunning was born at Liverpool England in November 1891. He enlisted in the AIF on the 20 August 1914 at Albert Park Melbourne Vic. He lists himself as a Law Clerk, 23 years old and single. He is a small man 5'' 3' tall and weighing just 9 stone. He was living at 104 Powle...
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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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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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Delivering a better library service
Short article and photo about improving library services by the creation of a joint library service by City of Melbourne and City of Yarra. Photo of Librarians, Lina Favrin and Heather McKay at the East Melbourne Library. From Capital News July 1995.
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Diamonds are forever for NGV
Two newspaper clippings: 1. Report of fund raising function held at the National Gallery of Victoria to raise money for its international fashion collection. Among the guests were Harold and Krystyna Campbell-Pretty of East Melbourne. Photo 2. Krystyna Campbell-Pretty's gift of t...