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Browne
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12 records and collections
Collection item
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...
Place
East Melbourne, Albert Street 472, 476
A pair of houses of classical design with a covered carriageway between.
Place
East Melbourne, Darling Street 012, 014, 16, 18, The Old Police Station
Not known
Place
East Melbourne, Darling Street 028, The Workshop
Workshop
Place
East Melbourne, Gipps Street 121, Wooroonook
This is a fine two storey ruled render terrace residence with unusual tri-partite verandah. The upper floor verandah has brackets forming semi circular arches supported on timber columns and a concave (hipped) corrugated iron roof. There are render enrichments to the party walls...
Place
East Melbourne, Grey Street 042, Nirvana
A two-storeyed, single fronted house with a cast iron balcony, in the style of a terrace house.
Collection item
East Melbourne, Vale Street 112, 114, 116 - Burchett
1883. MCC BR: No.114. Wm. Scobie for Mrs. G.A. Grant. Norman Hitchcock - architect. 1883. MCC BR: No.116. G.A. Grant for self. Norman Hitchcock - architect. 1884. No.114. First Rate Book entry: George Alexander Grant - owner/occupier. Brick, 6 rooms and stable. 1892. MCC BR: No.1...
Place
East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 124, Park House
Two storey single fronted house with cast iron verandah and balcony.
Person
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...
Collection item
Park House, 124 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne
Scan of photograph of Park House, 124 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne taken circa 1878.
Story
That was Then, This is Now
If you stand on the corner of Powlett Street and Wellington Parade looking east, there’s the 7-Eleven store, the dry cleaner, a couple of cafes, the Il Duca restaurant and, at the end of the line, the Post Office, an unassuming, utilitarian modern building. It’s hard to believe t...
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Victoria and its Metropolis, Vol II
Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, Vol 2 "With contributed papers by R.L.J. Ellery...[et al]."-T.p. vol. 2. Subtitle: The colony and its people in 1888. includes biographical details of persons and companies. Includes indexes. Poor condition: covers missing; title pa...