East Melbourne Historical Society
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Charles Honeybone enlisted on 16 July,1915, and was accepted into the army on 3 August, 1915. There were probably two reasons for this slight delay: he was under age,18 and 10 months old, and his father, William Honeybone, had to write a letter to the army authorities giving perm...
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Andrew Victor Honman was born in Williamstown on 26 February 1891 to Dr. Andrew Holman and Wilhemina Clara Mahlenbach. His father Andrew was born in St Andrew's, Scotland where he studied medicine, then worked in Egypt in 1880 assisting with the management of an epidemic of chole...
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Dr Merrilyn Murnane AM, a long-time East Melbourne resident, has published a book about the first women doctors in the USA, UK and Australia: Honourable Healers: Pioneering Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Constance Stone.
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Anthony Honybun was the fourth child of the twelve children of William and Kate Honybun, and was their third son. He was born in Shepherd's Bush, London on 4 March 1894. The family emigrated to Melbourne in 1910, settling in Balwyn. Anthony enlisted on 17 August 1914, only a few...
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Alfred Thomas Hope was the son of Thomas Ebenezar Hope and his wife Elizabeth Agnes, nee Dowker.He was 19 years and 11 months old when he enlisted on 20 August, 1914, a storeman by occupation. He was tall for this time, 5'10", with a dark complexion, brown eyes and dark brown hai...
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Alfred Meakins Horne was born in April, 1881, at Torcester, Northhamptonshire, England. He was one of six children born to William Charzles Horne and his wifer Eliza, nee Meakins. She may well have been related to the famous Meakins Pottery family. In 1891, Alfred was living at W...
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Ruby Millie Hornsey Ruby Millie Hornsey (1885–1969) is commemorated on the honour board of Great War nurses who were parishioners at St Peter’s Church Eastern Hill East Melbourne. A Tasmanian, she trained at Launceston General Hospital and enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing...
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Newspaper article giving the stories of the Stanford Fountain and the statue of poet and expert horseman, Adam Lindsay Gordon, both to be found in the Gordon Reserve. William Stanford was arrested for stealing horses and sent to Pentridge. There, realizing his talent, the prison...
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Newsclippping reporting on the large number of hotels in Australia that have changed hands recently. Includes the sale of the Pullman on the Park to iProsperity for $156 million.
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Peter Calder Bryce Houston was the son of William Houston (1838-1895) and his wife, Agnes Sarah Bryce (1844-1900). When he enlisted on 4 July, 1914, Peter Houston was a month away from his thirtieth birthday and married to Lavinia Elizabeth Mills.They had met and married in Brisb...
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A collection of photos and newspaper clippings recording the life of Howarth family when they lived at Parliament House. Colin Howarth was the Housekeeper of the Legislative Assembly. He lived in an apartment at Parliament House with his wife, June and son, Darren. The apartment...
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Ormond James Hoyes enlisted on 18 August, 1914 and was attached to the 6th Battalion, H company. He was 28 years and 3 months old, a clerk by occupation, married in 1913 to Mabel, nee Brigham, and living at 6 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. The 6th Battalion soldiers, along wi...
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An historical article about the Eastern Hill Fire Station and the Great Fire of 1897. The fire station is now Eastern Hill Fire Museum.
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Wilfrid Kent Hughes, known as Billy, was born in East Melbourne on 12 June 1895. Members of his extended family had achieved, or would later achieve, some prominence in various aspects of public life. He attended Trinity Grammar School in Kew till he was aged 13, at which point h...
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Reginald Arthur Hummerston was born on 7 August 1888 in Waverley, New South Wales, the son of Sophia, nee Wilson and Arthur Hummerston. He was baptised at St. Matthias Anglican Church, Centennial Park, NSW, and became the eldest of four brothers, Albert, Stanley and Cecil. He mar...
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Alf Humphreys was born in Greenoch, Scotland and emigrated with his parents to Australia. The Humphreys had seven children, of whom two boys stayed behind. In 1914 when he enlisted, he was living with his mother and sister, Annie in Simpson Street, East Melbourne and working as a...
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Matthew was the son of Albert and Anne Hunt and was born c.1892. In about 1905 the family moved to 42 Grey Street, East Melbourne, when its original owner, James Peel Browne died the same year as his son, also James Peel Brown, leaving the son's wife, Catherine as the beneficiary...
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William Hussey was born on 3 July, 1895 at Strathmerton. He spent 3 years as a cadet whilst at school. On 16 September, 1915 he enlisted with the AIF at Broadmedows, however was discharged 3 days later as medically unfit - bunions. On 1 July, 1917 he renlisted again aged 23 years...
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George Hutchison enlisted on 19 June, 1916. He was a married man, having wed Elizabeth May Lott, known as May, in 1916. He gave their address on his enlistment form as 131 Powlett St., East Melbourne. Their son, Darken Charles Hutchison was born the following year in 1917, while...
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Frank Hyland was onle a boy when he joined up, eighteen years and five months old. He was a junior telephone mechanic, in training with the Electrical Engineers Branch of the PMG, and living at 18 Berry St., East Melbourne. In the immediate post-war years, he came back there, liv...
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Biography of the opera singer.
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Digital copy of a colour slide. Photo shows the ICI Building taken from the roof of the General Post Office building on the corner of Exhibition and Lt Lonsdale Streets. The photographer, Gordon J Walker, worked in the building at the time. ICI House was completed in 1958 and was...
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A six page pamphlet giving facts and figures about ICI House, the building itself and its creation. Also brief overview of ICIANZ, Imperial Chemical Industrties Limited. Black and white photos.
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Newspaper clipping gives a short history of the landmark building. Photo. The Age, 4 July 2009.