East Melbourne Historical Society
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Subjects WW1 Family name TALBOT Given names Clive Richard Alton Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 151 Powlett Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 2885 Rank Pte Military units 38th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement
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Leaflet produced by the National Trust outlining the history of Tasma Terrace.
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History of Tasma Terrace. Photos.
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1 x A4 pages of typed notes being the names of residents living at 10 Parliament Place, East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1934.
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Subjects WW1 Family name TAYLOR Given names Robert Ralston Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 22 Evelyn Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 5203 Rank Pte Military units Light Horse Brigade Train 3
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Subjects WW1 Family name TAYLOR Given names Walter James Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 2 Liverpool Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 1631 Rank Pte Military units 14th Battalion
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Cyril Thomas Teer Hagen was the eldest son of Thomas Teer Hagen and his wife, Emma Frances, nee Fisher. He was born in Nerrandera, New South Wales c.1890. His father was a bootmaker who later in life was described as a ‘gold mining expert’. When he enlisted at Melbourne on 29 Sep...
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William Telford was born in Liverpool, England and enlisted on the 16 March 1916 at 39 years and 8 months of age into the 23rd Battalion William was single, being 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing 137 lbs with tattoos on both forearms and chest and was a Stevedore Williams parents w...
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Newspaper cuttings about plans to overhaul the tennis centre. Margaret Court Arena to have a retractable roof, and Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Arena to be refurbished. This will ensure that Melbourne hosts the Australian Open until at least 2036. From January 2010.
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Newspaper editorial about security measures that will be put in place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in response to increased fear of terrorist attacks. Also a letter to the editor in response.
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Photocopies of photographs of early East Melbourne buildings taken from That was Melbourne, View Productions, 1984.
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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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Newspaper clipping about a block of apartments to be built behind the old grocer's shop at 17 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. As a way of working around height restrictions some developers are finding extra floor space underground. This block of apartments will be 7.8 metres high b...
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Rosemarie will take us on a walk demonstrating the changes in Melbourne's domestic architecture over 100 years as represented in East Melbourne. The walk will start at Bishopscourt, built between 1849 and 1853, and move forward. But it will not be a talk simply about architecture...
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Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
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Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
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In her Royal Historical Society of Victoria award-winning book The Art of Being Melbourne, Maree Coote creates a clever history of Melbourne as seen through artworks of Melbourne's urban landscape. Art meets History as she tracks the Melbourne zeitgeist through 20 decades of art...
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Publicity material for Rupertswood, the country home of the Clarke's of Cliveden, East Melbourne. Includes leaflet giving origin of The Ashes and the story of Ivo Bligh and Florence Morphy, briefly residents of East Melbourne. Photos of Rupertswood.
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Newspaper clippings about Ivo Bligh's and Florence Morphy's role in creation of The Ashes. They lived at 121 Powlett Street Photos. December 2002 to January 2003.
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A collection of essays contributed by a variety of museums, galleries, historical societies etc. each depicting family life in the past. Includes a chapter contributed by the Old Treasury Building about the Maynard family who lived at the Old Treasury as caretakers. Photos.
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A collection of short essays and poems written by local identities. Their memories and stories cover a wide variety of subjects relating to East Melbourne.
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Describes an early cure for alcoholism and drug addiction. An institution practising this cure was established by Dr. Wolfenden in Jolimont. It was later bought by the Wesley Central Mission. Victorian Historical Journal March 2000 pp 43-51.
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Family saga set over three generations in Melbourne and England. Based on the lives of the a'Beckett and Boyd families of Melbourne. Contains some references to East Melbourne, and Bishopscourt in particular.