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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...
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Subjects WW1 Family name PULLAR Given names George Edward Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 21 Victoria Parade , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 6387 Rank Pte Military units 23rd Battalion, 18th Reinforcement
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From "Mr Punch in War Time", The New Punch Library Vol XX, Published circa 1933.
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From "Mr Punch in War Time", The New Punch Library Vol XX, Published circa 1933.
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Lithograph of a punt on the Yarra near the site of Prince's Bridge. The punt is carrying a cart and six oxen carrying a load of wood. Another cart is waiting on the bank. Lithograph by Ham Bros from a sketch by Charles Norton. The original lithograph is in the collection of the S...
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A flyer produced by the East Melbourne Group and the East Melbourne Historical Society which was delivered to local residents as part of a campaign to stop redevelopment of the Punt Road Oval which in particular would mean the demolition of the historic Jack Dyer Stand.
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Cartoon by Andrew Weldon in The Age 27 March 2012.
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Annie Watkins Bennett Vize Purcell Annie Purcell is commemorated on the honour board of nurses associated with St Peter’s Eastern Hill, East Melbourne who served in the Great War of 1914–18. She served in Egypt and England as well as on ships transporting troops to and from Austr...
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George Rising Purdey was born on 4 June 1887. He was the elder son of James Purdey (1852-1924) and Jessie Carrick Maver (1852-1927). He stated in his enlistment papers that he was born in Melbourne. However this was probably a loose interpretation as his brother, Joseph Ernest Pu...
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Joseph Ernest Purdey was born on 20 September 1889 in East Melbourne. He was the son of James Purdey (1852-1924) and Jessie Carrick Maver (1852-1927). The 1892 Sands & McDougall Post Office directory lists J. Purdy as caretaker of the Friendly Society Gardens, Yarra Park, East Me...
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Newspaper clipping about proposal by Melbourne City Council to demolish old police station and add the land to Yarra Park, along with former army barracks site on Swan Street, as compensation for land lost in re-development of MCG. Report that old police station to be used by Big...
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A note from Andrew Pyman to his customers on his retirement and handing over of his pharmacy to new owners. He tells a little of the history of the pharmacy.
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Postcard with old photo of Williams Pharmacy on the corner of Powlett Street and Wellington Parade from The Argus, 13 Oct 1956. Produced in 2004 to advertise change of address.
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Rosa Elizabeth Kate Quarterman (1872–1940) served in the Australian Army Nursing Service from 1914 to 1920. She worked initially in hospitals in Egypt until early 1916 when she returned to Australia with invalided and repatriated troops. She was then appointed a matron in the Sea...
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Real estate advertisement for Rubra, 72 Hotham Street, part of Queen Bess Row, inviting expressions of interest closing 12 Nov. 2004.
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Article on history of Queen Bess Row.
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Advertisement which appeared in the Australian Medical Journal on Feb. 15, 1892. Transcript of text: "It is a notorious fact, that the many excellent Hospitals in the Metropolis are seldom called into requisition by the richer classes. A Private Home for paying patients has there...
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Queen Bess Row, 72-76 Hotham Street, is possibly East Melbourne’s most remarked upon building. Its three red-brick, four-storey houses exhibit a rich decorative scheme of gables and arches which single it out among the smaller and more conservative houses around it.
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Joseph Charles Quin was born in Cobden, Victoria c March 1885. He was the son of John and Sarah Quin. On enlistment on 12 February 1916 he gave his occupation as labourer. He had been employed for the previous three years by Bennie, Teare and Co., suppliers of oil engines which h...
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Edward Quinn had no real connection with East Melbourne, other than that his mother, Bridget, lived in St Joseph's Convent, 360 Albert St, East Melbourne, now the Mary McKillop Centre. At the time of his enlistment for the war, he was working as a labourer in Hamilton, Victoria....
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"Widening roads to solve traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity,"says Walter Kulash, a traffic engineer from Orlando, Florida - something to keep in mind when contemplating the planned roadworks on Hoddle Street.
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Subjects WW1 Author Sylvia Black Family name RADCLIFFE Given names Harold Octavius Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 Avondale House 127 Victoria Parade , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 2010 Rank Pte Military units 57th Batt...
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Railways was a monthly newsletter published by the Vic Rail Board. In the January 1978 issue an article appeared which described the creation of a garden behind the Jolimont Workshops. A small group of workers clubbed together to create the garden. It struggled until the Moscow C...