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Sketch plans of the Richmond Mounted Police Barracks made in preparation for the building of a new police hospital. The Barracks were on the site of the residential area now bounded by Wellington Parade, Vale Street and Hoddle Street. The Barracks were decommissioned in 1881, whe...
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Article about Richmond Football Club's proposal to redevelop its ground to create a larger playing area, comparable to that of the MCG. This will necessitate the demolition of the Jack Dyer Stand, which will be replaced with a stand of twice the capacity. The club claims that the...
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Newspaper clipping about heavy rain in Melbourne which caused flooding at various points around the city including the Richmond Football Ground as shown in the photo.
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Subjects WW1 Family name RICHMOND Given names Albert James Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 64 Clarendon Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 445 Rank Pte Military units Australian Remount Unit 1, Squadron 2
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Edwin Riley was born in East Melbourne in July 1898. When he enlisted on 19 October, 1916, he was 28 years old, married to Lilian Ida Riley and livng at 16 Harmsworth St., Collingwood, Victoria. He had previous military experience in 1911, serving with the Australian Field Artile...
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Richard Falkinger, architect for the restoration of St. Patrick's, discusses the work and the constraints of heritage conservation against the need to adapt to the new liturgy. Photos.
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Subjects WW1 Family name RIORDAN Given names Keith Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 25 Hotham Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 13079 Rank Lcpl Military units Auxiliary Mechanical Transport Company 1, Section 2
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Jack Parker Rippingale was a Driver with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse. He was born at Malvern, Victoria, the son of John Parker Rippingale and Janet Jacks. A nurseryman by trade, he enlisted on 29 September, 1915 and was called up on 6 October 1915. Aged 23, he embark...
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Newspaper articles about rising property market In East Melbourne. Sales mentioned include apartment block at 187 George Street, Crathie House, 118 Gipps Street, Koorine, Powlett Street Includes photo of iron work being installed at 52 Powlett Street.
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Newspaper article listing East Melbourne as most expensive suburb.
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Proof photo on non-photographic paper. Scene from river bank towards city. The location would now be Birrarung Marr. Man sitting on park bench and reading a newspaper in foreground.
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Subjects WW1 Family name RIXON Given names George Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 48 George Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 3663 Rank Pte Military units 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Reinforcement 8
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Newspaper clipping about Rob Adams who was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to urban design, town planning and architecture. Prof Adams was responsible for the East Melbourne Library project (2006).
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Information compiled from various sources by descendants of Robert Huckson, architect and builder, for family history purposes. Includes table of descendants; brief biography; chronology of events in his life; notes and transcripts of newspaper articles on his works, including Cl...
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B/W portrait photo of Robert Huckson (1824-1902) as an elderly man. Photographer's name and subject's name printed below image. Copy.
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Portrait photo of Robert McFarland. Robert McFarland's father built the house at 183 Hotham Street, East Melbourne (now demolished). Robert's early life was spent there.
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Robert Outhwaite was a passenger on the Stag, the same ship which in 1847 brought to Melbourne its first bishop, Charles Perry, and his wife, Frances. Frances Perry wrote about the voyage in her journals, in his diary Outhwaite gives another view. In 2017 a painting of the Stag w...
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Two maps showing Robert Russell Lane in East Melbourne. The maps provide some details of changing surface treatments, land owners and local features.
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Annie Florence Roberts (1879–1958) Introduction Annie Florence Roberts was born to John and Emma Roberts in Maryborough. She trained as a nurse at the Ballarat District Hospital then undertook additional training in infectious diseases at Fairfield in Melbourne. By the time she e...
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Subjects WW1 Family name ROBERTS Given names Harrie Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 Carvally corner of Powlett and George Streets , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 301 Rank Pte Military units Army Medical Corps - Hospital...
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Margaret Roberts’ life was a remarkable one by any measure. Born in a Welsh workhouse, deemed too delicate for domestic service or hard work, she blossomed in body and mind and trained as a nurse in London. Her nursing career took her twice across the world from England to Austra...
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Duncan Glenerochie Robertson (youngest child) was born in 1883 to Robert Robertson (Robertson & Sons Jewellers, Little Collins Street West) and Clara Jane Robertson (nee Low). The family resided at 'Archdale', George Street, Fitzroy. Both parents died in 1887. It is unknown who c...
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The life of Gertrude Muriel Norton Robertson encapsulates in many ways the development of Victoria as colony and state, and its ongoing links with the British Empire. Early colonial Melbourne, medical practice in the colony, its involvement in the Boer War, and pioneering veterin...
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Killed in action 19 July 1916 Fromelles