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Michael Buxton (x2) - Developer and critic on common ground
Article in The Age newspaper 15 August 2011 about two Michael Buxtons, related but not brothers. Both have different career interests in urban development, one as a developer, the other as Professor of Environment and Planning at RMIT University. The particular interest for East...
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Mirka Mora mural rediscovered
Newspaper clipping about the rediscovery of a mural on the wall of the old Balzac Restaurant, now Tippler & Co., at 58 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. Balzac Restaurant was established in 1956 by Georges Mora and his wife, artist Mirka Mora, who painted the mural.
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Mirka Mora turns 83
Short Newspaper clipping reporting on Mirka Mora's 83rd birthday. Mirka Mora is an East Melbourne identity as the founder, with her husband George, of the Balzac Restaurant, Wellington Parade.
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Miss Blanche Barrett at Tara
Photo shows Miss Blanche Barrett outside Tara, 338 Victoria Parade. Miss Barrett was live-in house keeper to the elderly Misses McDonough whose house it was.
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Miss Footy '69
Newspaper clipping of an article in which Tony Wilson writes of the time his mother, Margaret, won a football quiz giving her the title of Miss Football 1969. Margaret is a resident of East Melbourne. The Age, 26 May 2012, Good Weekend, p.9
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More than a School: A history of St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne 1854-1968
A history of the school. Photos. List of students. Plan of school as endpapers. No index.
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Mosspennoch, Vandalism and Neglect, 2012
This grand mansion on Clarendon Street has been unoccupied and crumbling for many years. In 2011 it was occupied by homeless people resulting in a fire and some internal and external damage. It is now boarded up and surrounded by security fencing. There has been no action on the...
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Mosspennoch, Vandalism and Neglect, 2015
This grand mansion on Clarendon Street has been unoccupied and crumbling for many years. In 2011 it was occupied by homeless people resulting in a fire and some internal and external damage. It is now boarded up and surrounded by security fencing. There has been no action on the...
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Mr. Cooke's House
Copy of pencil drawing of Mr. Henry Cooke's House, then known as Egglestone Villa. A later owner Thomas Welton Stanford called it Stanford House. Later again it was the Arms of Jesus Babies' Home. Originally a prefabricated house, believed to be the first private house in East Me...
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My Grandmother's Secret
Author, Kath McKay, writes about the legal case surrounding the rape of her grandmother, Ethel Wilkinson, as a nine year old child in 1895. The accused rapist was Edwin Worrall, a family friend who looked after Ethel and her two brothers while Harry Wilkinson, their father, a sol...
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Mygunya, 92 Vale Street, East Melbourne - 1885 and 1962
Two pictures of East Melbourne residents in front of Mygunya, 92 Vale Street, East Melbourne. The first of the family of Peter Hill taken in 1885. The second of Myra Young taken in 1962. Myra, about to leave for a holiday in Singapore and Hong Kong, is smartly dressed and sportin...
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Mystery photos
Newspaper article about the discovery of 240 mystery negatives depicting Melbourne scenes from the 1930s. They were donated to the East Melbourne Library where librarians and volunteers uncovered the story behind them and identified the subject matter. Louise McKenzie was the don...
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NEWTON, Eileen Catherine Kearney
Eileen Catherine Kearney Newton (1889-1937) Eileen Newton was associated with East Melbourne as a parishioner of St Peter's Church, Eastern Hill on Gisborne St. Born in 1889, she was brought up in Numurkah, before leaving the town and training as a nurse in Melbourne. In 1917, sh...
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Neighbourhoods - East Melboourne
Double page newspaper clipping (The Age, 20-21 November 2015) focusing on East Melbourne as one of the most sought after places to live and listing three properties up for sale: 47 Powlett Street 376 Victoria Parade 105 Wellington Parade Another similar article (The Age, 8-9 Augu...
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Neighbourhoods - East Melbourne
Newspaper clipping describes the neighbourhood of East Melbourne as a place to live. Includes reference and photo of 116 Hotham Street and 50 Hotham Street The Age, 18 Mar 2017, Domain, pp.14-15
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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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Nerida Samson and East Melbourne
A newspaper clipping featuring Nerida Samson who at the time was president of the East Melbourne Group. This group was fighting an application by the Anglican Church to subdivide the land on which Bishopscourt, the home of the archbishop, stands in Clarendon Street, East Melbourn...
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New Boundary Hotel Newsletter
In 1991 chef Lino d'Angelo leased the dining room of the New Boundary Hotel to run his Restaurant Menage. This newsletter lists the various activities planned at the restaurant including music nights and wine appreciation courses. The newsletter also reproduces an article by Clau...
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New Clarendon Street apartments
Advertising feature describes new apartments in East Melbourne. The development takes the form of three separate buildings: the redevelopment of the old Mosspennoch mansion into six apartments; the seven storey tower next door and a larger building around the corner in Wellington...
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New Kiosk, Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne - 1960c.
Scanned postcard of the new kiosk in the Fitzroy Gardens probably taken during the 1960s.
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New apartments at 28 Powlett Street
Newspaper clipping describing the new apartments at 30 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The building was designed by Glenn & Powell. (The address is now 28 Powlett Street.)
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New apartments at 28 Powlett Street
Newspaper clipping describing the new apartments at 28 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The building was designed by Glenn & Powell for ICON. Matt Stribely, who runs the cafe, Square and Compass, promotes East Melbourne as a good place to live.
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New apartments in Clarendon Street
Newspaper clipping reporting on the completion and successful sale of new apartments next to the Pullman Hotel in Clarendon Street and Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. The development involves three buldings: the conversion of the Victorian mansion, Mosspennoch into six apartme...
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New buildings for heritage listing
A list of buildings proposed by City of Melbourne to be added to its Conservation Inventory. Includes photos of St Martin's, 55 George Street, Liege Apartments, 51-53 Simpson Street and 22 Powlett Street.