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Bluestone
Newspaper clipping about the extensive use of bluestone in Melbourne. In East Melbourne it is commonly seen in lanes, foundations, kerbstones and gutters as well as some fine early buildings such as St. Patrick's Cathedral. In Melbourne's earliest days bluestone was quarried in w...
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Bourgoyne Cottage
Article in EMHS newsletter Feb. 2004 about Bourgoyne Cottage, 49 Agnes Street, Jolimont and it first owner, chef, Francois Monichon.
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Braemar sale
Newspaper article on recent sale at record price of Braemar, George Street, 10 Mar. 1989. Mentions merger of real estate firms, Carmichael & Co with Eric Weber.
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Brentani Terrace Plans, 159-161 Grey Street
Set of four architectural plans prepared by Peter Matthews for Mrs Brentani for the construction of "Brentani Terrace", at 159 and 161 Grey Street, East Melbourne. The framed originals are available for sale from Tarlo and Graham. Views include front, rear and side elevations as...
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Bridge hits troubled waters
Newspaper clipping about delays to the upgrading of Swan Street Bridge. The work will provide an extra east bound lane and wider footpaths. The delay is said to be due to inaccurate original drawings.
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Brief History of Rivers Beechcroft Dickinson
Brief biography of Rivers Beechcroft Dickinson, clergyman, who was curate at St. Peter's, Eastern Hill from 1855 and who performed the marriage of W.A.C. a'Beckett and Emma Mills, whose elopement caused a minor scandal.
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Browne Family and Park House, 124 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne
Photo shows single house of terrace type. A carriage, possibly a landau, with a pair of horses, and driver aboard, waits in front. The house was on the site of the current Post Office (2008) at 124 Wellington Parade. At the time the photo was taken it was owned by Hugh Junor Brow...
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Browsing the aisles of serendipity
Review of an exhibition held at the State Library of Victoria entitled Velvet, Iron, Ashes. Many of the apparently disparate items have a greater or lesser connection with Janet, Lady Clarke, wife of Sir William Clarke of Cliveden, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. The article s...
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Burchett Winston
Newspaper clipping - obituary of Winston Burchett, East Melbourne historian. Photo. The Age, The Culture, 27 September 2002.
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Burnell
Watercolour painting by William Tibbits of Burnell, the house which originally stood at 109 Albert Street, East Melbourne, now part of the Epworth Freemasons' Hospital site. Burnell was built for John Speechly Gotch, a partner in the firm of Gordon and Gotch, newsagents. The orig...
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CAMERON, Edith Clare
For many of the Great War nurses linked with East Melbourne, the connection was primarily a professional one, that is they trained or nursed in one of the suburb's hospitals. Some, however, were brought up and/or lived in East Melbourne for a number of years. Edith Clare Cameron...
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CAMERON, Henry Gervais Lovett
Henry Gervais Cameron was the son of Verney Lovett Cameron, a solicitor practising at 30 Collins St.East, Melbourne, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, nee Fraser. He was born in Kew and educated at Melbourne Grammar School. In 1915, when he enlisted, Henry Lovett Cameron was 35 y...
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CAMERON, John
John Cameron was one of a family of eight boys and one girl, of whom three brothers had died before John Cameron. He gave as his next of kin his sister, Violet May Cameron, living in Vale St. East Melbourne. He himself lived at 46 Hocking St. Footscray, while his elder brother, W...
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CAMERON, Robert Ewen
ROBERT EWEN CAMERON Born 27 October 1890 at Portarlington Victoria, the son of a Presbyterian Minister Educated at Geelong College, University of Melbourne and Adelaide, Graduating with Bachelor of Arts degree Teacher at St Peter's College in 1912 in the Prep School then transfer...
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CAMPBELL, John McNeil
John Campbell was born in Melbourne in 1897. His father was the Victorian Manager of the London Bank, based at 90 Bourke Street, Melbourne, and John lived at this address. He enlisted on the 30 September 1914 and entered his age as 19 years, six months. He was in fact only 17. It...
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CARDWELL, James Pearson
James Cardwell was born at Blackpool on the 1st March 1877. He was living with his parents in Blackpool in 1891 according to the 1891 census. He marries Elizabeth Hannah Duxbury at the Holy Trinity Church south Shore Blackpool in 1897 His first child Margaret Ellen Knoles Cardwel...
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CARROLL, William Edward
Mr William Carroll, 139 Simpson Street, East Melbourne (late of the Customs Department), has been notified that his only son, Sergeant William E. Carroll, who enlisted in Febuary, 1915, and served in Gallipoli, and France has been wounded in France. William Edward Carroll enliste...
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CARTER, Eric Charles
Eric Carter was born in Spotswood Victoria on the 15 March 1893. His father was Herbert James Carter and his mother was Louise Carter. In 1914, he was living with his mother and father at 531 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne.He enlisted in Melbourne on the 6 July 1915. He was by o...
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CATHIE, Harry Lorraine
Harry Cathie was born at Queenscliff in Victoria on the 15 Jan 1892. His mother was Kate and his father, John Cathie. John Cathie worked with the Postal Department and died in 1895. Harry was working at the State Saving Bank of Victoria as a clerk when he signed up in 1915 and li...
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CECIL, Edith Ruth
Edith Ruth Cecil was born in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1888, second youngest in the large family of Thomas William Cecil (c1840-1912) and his wife Mary (nee Roach) (1849-1908). Thomas had come to Victoria in 1853 on the 'Great Britain' aged 13 with his father and y...
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CHAMBERS, Gordon Enoch John
Gordon Chambers was the son of Ernest Enoch Chambers and his wife Alice Maud, nee Carter. He was 23 years old at the tmie he enlisted on 15 January, 1918, and working as a Commercial Traveller. He had married in 1916, when he was 21, to Elsie Kent Wade, but they did not appear to...
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CLEMENT, Sydney Reynold
Sydney Clement was born on the 4 March 1873 at Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. He was the second son of Reynold Clement of Snarestone Lodge in Snarestone, Leicestershire. The Clement family has an extraordinary history, Sydney's grandfather, Hampden Clement was the owner of several l...
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COBB, Alexander
Alexander Cobb was the son of Alexander and Catherine Cobb, nee Buchanan. His father is described in the Electoral Rolls as a cook, while the son is a warehouseman, alnd later, a storeman. He had served an apprenticeship Needham, Carter and Pirrie Coy, Melbourne, and may have sti...
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COCHRANE, Stanley
Stanley Warrender Cochrane was born in London in 1880, the second youngest of 6 sisters and 2 brothers. His father Robert was employed with Brooks, Robinson & Co, Melbourne based glass merchants. The family migrated to Melbourne in 1883, residing in the Hawthorn area. Stanley gre...