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An Episode from Life in Clarendon Terrace
by Nan Hutton From The Age, 19 May 1977 Beyond its beautiful façade, Clarendon Terrace may be a mouldering wreck today. But it was a sound and gracious building when my grandmother lived in it. In the comparatively short history of our city, this was a long time ago. It was 1909...
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Archbishop Sir Frank Woods (1907-1992)
Originally published in 1993 by Anglican Media Melbourne and reproduced here with permission: http://www.melbourne.anglican.com.au/
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EMHS and Planning Applications
There has been some discussion within the Committee of the East Melbourne Historical Society about the merits and otherwise of the Society making submissions to the City of Melbourne and VCAT regarding planning applications within East Melbourne. Traditionally this has been the r...
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EMHS and Planning Applications
EMHS members are invited to contribute their thoughts on the Society's involvement in planning and heritage issues. Follow this link to join the forum.
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East Melbourne Jolimont News 2012
Newsletters for 2012: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Items on matters of local concern. Community news. Newsletters on-line at http://www.emg.org.au/
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East Melbourne Library site - Past and Present
An address to the Historical Society by Marga Macdonald, long time resident of East Melbourne and a founding member of the advisory committee for the new East Melbourne Library and Community Centre. December 2006
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Holy Trinity Centenary 2007
Thank you all for coming this evening to share in the joy of our celebrations. When we started thinking about how we would celebrate these important events, we were clear that we wanted to offer something for our friends and neighbours in the wider community of East Melbourne.
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McGuigan, Henry (1823-1891)
Henry McGuiganIn the years from 1845 to 1852 against a backdrop of an Ireland devastated with famine, through the potato blight – the people’s staple diet – and an insidious mixture of politics– one million Irish people emigrated to the New World and one million had already died...
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People
We would love to publish more stories about the residents of East Melbourne. If you have a historical record, an obituary, a memoir, an oral history, letters or a personal glimpse and would like to share it please make contact.
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Public nuisance in Gipps Street
On 6 December 1876 Charles Barthing was summoned under common law to answer a charge that “on the 28th October at Gipps-street, East Melbourne, and on divers days and hours between that day and the date hereof (29th ult.) he did keep and maintain a certain common dancingroom near...