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Kent Villa, Victoria Parade, East Melbourne - 1926c.
The photo shows a symmetrical single storey house with bays on each side which continue up to the balustraded parapet. The verandah frieze is timber with iron inserts and is supported on double columns with ionic capitals. The central section of the verandah projects forward crea...
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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.
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Kiosk Refreshment Rooms c.1910
Postcard. Colour print. Printed in Melbourne by F.W.N. & Co. (Francis Wilson Niven) The image shows the old kiosk in the Fitzroy Gardens as it appeared when first built. A history of the building can be found using the link below. It was demolished in 1963 to make way for the cur...
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Knife ex Cliveden
Entree knife with silver plated handle and stainless steel blade. The blade is engraved with the words 'Grosvenor Delphic' written in copperplate style and on an angle to the blade. Across the base of the blade in block letters and over two lines are the words, 'Firth-Brearley St...
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Krystyna Campbell-Pretty interview
Newspaper clipping of interview with Krystyna Campbell-Pretty. She talks about her life, her philanthropy and her love of art. Campbell-Pretty is a resident of East Melbourne
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LAMANDE, Henri Joseph
Henri Joseph Lamande was born in 1884 in Majorca, Victoria. He was the son of Ambroise Lamande and Kate, née Harrington. Ambroise was representative of Prunier and Company cognac, and, for a shorter period, of Roederer champagne. As such he made frequent trips around the country....
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LARKINS, William James
William James Larkins was the son of William John Larkins, labourer, and Annie Teresa Browne. He was born in Richmond on 24 October 1898, only 16 years and 8 months at the time of his enlistment on 3 July 1915, rather less than the 18 years and 2 months he claimed. He was at the...
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LATTIMORE, Victory Reginald
Victor Reginald Lattimore was born on 24 May 1897 in Jolimont, the exact address, however, is not known. He was the son of Arthur Lattimore (1868-1915) and Louisa Augusta, nee Pay (1866-1948). Arthur has been variously described as a traveller, dairy salesman and grocer. When he...
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LAWRENCE, Helen Ruth
Helen Ruth Lawrence (1883–1964) Helen Ruth Lawrence is one of the nurses from St Peter’s Church Eastern Hill, East Melbourne named on the honour boards commemorating parishioners who served in the Great War of 1914–18. Sister Lawrence enlisted in 1915 and served in Egypt and Fran...
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LEE-ARCHER, Estelle Frances
Estelle Frances Lee-Archer (1879-1960) was born in Detention, Tasmania, the eleventh of fourteen children born to John Lee-Archer and his wife Mary Anne (nee Lyons). John Lee-Archer (1842-1907) was a second generation Tasmanian, a son of the distinguished colonial architect and c...
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LENNOX, Andrew
Andrew Lennox was 25 years and 11 months old when he enlisted in the AIF at East Melbourne. He had been born in Scotland and gave his next of kin as his sister Jenny Lennot, living at 11 Olm St., Pennycuik, Scotland. He was a sailor by trade and may not have been highly literate:...
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LINDSAY, Robert Henry
Robert Lindsay enlisted for war service on 18 May, 1916. He was 34 years old when he joined the AIF, single and a miner at Cootamundra, NSW. He had grown up in East Melbourne, however, with his parents, Matthew and Frances Lindsay, still iving at 30 Gipps St. He was sent for trai...
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LITTLEJOHN, Euan Ironside
Euan Ironside Littlejohn was born on 26 October 1892 in Nelson, New Zealand where his father William Still Littlejohn had been assistant master at Nelson College since his arrival from Scotland in 1881. Euan's mother Jean Littlejohn (nee Berry), a teacher, met her husband-to-be w...
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LIVINGSTON, David Frederick
1168 Corporal (Cpl) David Frederick (Fred) Livingston, 29th Battalion was from Larraville, NSW, but gave as his own abdress that of his wife's address, 144 Simpson St., East Melbourne, Victoria. A 38 year old grazier prior to enlisting on 5 November 1914, he embarked with the D C...
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LONG, Cuthbert Jones
Cuthbert Jones-Long was 44 years old, a Ticket Writer by trade, when he joined up. The son of Henry James Long, a pharmacist, he ahd been educated at Scothch College, East Melbourne. He had a conviction for using obscene language, was nearly six feet tall, with blue eyes and brow...
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LUCAS, Norman Carey
Norman Carey Lucas was born in Sydney in 1893, the younger son of William Lucas, architect and his wife, Agnes, nee Arnot. He was in Edinburgh when the war broke out and enlisted in the Royal Irish Rifles, where he was placed in the 6th Battalion. Excerpt from The Barber Family C...
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LYONS, Stanley
Stanley Lyons was a fine young man, described as 'a brave, bright, honourable boy and one of the first to answer his country's call' by his foster mother, Frances Sheppard, and as 'a bright, manly and truthful boy' by his 'Auntie', Susannah Taylor. In truth, he had no relations,...
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Lady Potter re-arranges Johnston Collection
Newspaper and magazine articles giving publicity to Johnston Collection's re-arrangement by Lady Potter. Many photos. July 2004.
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Legend of Fire mural
Short critical review of the Legend of Fire mural on the façade of the Eastern Hill Fire Station in Albert Street, along with an explanation of the legend. The mural was designed by Harold Freedman. Photo.
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Len Vincent Connell - Obituary
Obituary of Len Connel who died on 21 Mar. 2004. Len lived at 18 Berry Street.
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Let's play spot the barrister
Pen and ink sketch with caption, Let's play spot the barrister, by Patricia Broadbent. Created to illustrate a flyer publicising a social function held by the East Melbourne Group.
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Library updates
Updates from the Melbourne City Council on progress of library re-development. Drawings. 2003-2004.
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Library, Parliament House from north
Library, Parliament House from gardens on corner of Albert and Spring Streets
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Lift Up Your Hearts: The Story of St. Patrick's Cathedral
The history of the building of St. Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne. Black and white photos.