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Parks and Gardens
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145 Hands on Heritage workers 6 February 2009
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146 Korean Hands on Heritage volunteer February 2009
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147 Hands on Heritage group 6 February 2009
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1864 MCG
State Library of Victoria Date of creation: [1864] Print : tinted lithograph with hand colouring ; image 25.9 x 35.8 cm., on sheet 41.5 x 52.0 cm. approx. Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria Accession Number: H15455 Image Number: b28474
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2010 City of Melbourne MSS Figure 2 - Growth Framework
first ‹ previous 13 of 14 next › last 2010 City of Melbourne MSS Figure 2 - Growth Framework Open full image ↗ Figure 2 from City of Melbourne Municipal Strategic Statement July 2010. See EMHS Catalogue Item DF0009 Acknowledgments http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au first ‹ previous...
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2010-08-02 Yarra Park 3686
Every direction you turn from the one spot ... all mud ... trees damaged or dead.
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2010-08-28 Yarra Park 3819
first ‹ previous 77 of 88 next › last 2010-08-28 Yarra Park 3819 Open full image ↗ The bull-bar versus the tree. Acknowledgments Photo by Graham Shepherd first ‹ previous 77 of 88 next › last
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City of Melbourne Development Strategy 2010
2010 City of Melbourne Growth FrameworkOur President Jill Fenwick reports on recent correspondence and discussions with the State Government and with the City of Melbourne concerning Yarra Park and developments in the sporting precincts and along the railway lines.
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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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Desecration
Is desecration too strong a word for the devastation which is now taking place in Yarra Park? Yarra Park is arguably "sacred" in many respects. It contains some of the very few signs left of Aboriginal life in the land that became Melbourne. It is one of the large open spaces env...
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Fitzroy Gardens, Grey Street Walk - 1890c
Coloured postcard of Fitzroy Gardens looking west down Grey Street walk towards St Patrick's Cathedral. Two people are walking towards the city in period dress. A gardener can be seen in the distance as well as a statue.
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Lost, Stolen or Strayed - Yarra Park - Forty Shillings Reward
Has anyone noticed? Yarra Park has gone the way of James James Morrison's Mother. She has disappeared! One wonders, was it despite or because of repeated warnings from the National Trust (commonly known as Jim) about green wedgies at the end of Town? In any case, Yarra Park donne...
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Premier of Victoria passes the buck on Yarra Park
The tree versus the bull barThe EMHS referred its photographic essay on the devastation of Yarra Park to the Premier of Victoria. Similar letters were also sent to the Lord Mayor and the local State Member of Parliament, Bronwyn Pike. The Premier's office, unlike the local member...
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Protection of Yarra Park
Is Yarra Park being managed appropriately in accordance with its registration on the Victorian Heritage Register?
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Yarra Park - MCG Responds
Our continuing campaign to improve the well-being of Yarra Park has achieved some modest improvements of late. Construction vehicles have been causing quite a bit of damage plane trees to the south-western corner near the hump-backed bridge. The cabman's shelter has also been und...
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Yarra Park Heritage Listing 2010
The record of the decision of the Heritage Council of Victoria on 19 April 2010 to include Yarra Park in the Heritage Register. The outcome was the result of a strong campaign by the East Melbourne Group. (See news item link below.) Also included is a related newspaper clipping (...
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Yarra Park added to Heritage Register
Yarra Park 1864In culmination of a long campaign by the East Melbourne Group, the Heritage Council of Victoria has added Yarra Park to the Heritage Register. This means that any major developments will require a permit from Heritage Victoria.
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Yarra Park at its Lowest Point?
Yarra Park 2 August 2010The East Melbourne Historical Society has published a gallery of photographs recording the current condition of Yarra Park, perhaps at its worst in living memory.
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Yarra Park, from Go to Woe
When Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne in 1839 as the newly appointed superintendent of the colony of Port Phillip he would have found the north bank of the Yarra, just east of the city, to be bordered by swamps and lagoons rising gently to open scrubland dominated by...