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The Grand Hotel and Cabman's Shelter - 1890c
View of The Grand Hotel and the Cabman's Shelter and a queue of horse drawn cabs
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The Grand Hotel Cabman's shelter in Yarra Park
A story by Jenny Brown published in The Age newspaper Saturday 13 August 2011 about cabbies in the early days of Melbourne. A picture is shown of the Grand Hotel cabman's shelter which is now in Yarra Park. It was originally in Carpentaria Place opposite the Grand Hotel, now the...
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The Grand Rank cabman's shelter
Newspaper article about the history of the cabman's shelter in Yarra Park. Photos.
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The Halfway House to Infidelity: A History of the Melbourne Unitarian Church 1853-1973
A history of the church, its buildings, clergy, congregation, doctrine. Photos. Index.
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The house that beer built
Historical article about 140 Jolimont Road, Jolimont and it first owner, Thomas Joshua Jackson, founder of Young & Jackson's. Information supplied by present owner, Peter Fielding. Photos. [Herald Sun, 24 July 2004, Weekend, p.11]
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The influence of environmental thought in Melbourne's nineteenth-century public gardens
An article on Clement Hodgkinson's place in the history of Victoria's public parks and gardens. Photos. In Australian Garden History, Vol. 20 No. 1, July, August, September 2008.
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The Interface betweeen Public and Private Territories in Residential Areas
A study by University of Melbourne architecture students under the supervision of Jan Gehl, School of Architecture, Royal Academy, Copenhagen in 1976. It compares and analyses soft and hard interfaces between public and private space across a variety of Melbourne's suburbs, and t...
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The Invention of Melbourne: A Baroque Archbishop and A Gothic Architect
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Old Treasury Building Museum 31 July 2019-March 2020. The exhibition 'celebrates the partnership of an ambitious archbishop and an architect of genius in the creation of some of the most celebrated and enduring buildings in Melbourne'. The e...
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The Johnston collection
The Johnston Collection is a museum of decorative arts. This book is an elaborate guide to the collection. It covers the life of the collection's benefactor and its history, as well as describing many of the items on show. Many colour photos.
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The Ladies Came to Stay
History of Presbyterian Ladies College 1875-1960. Photos. Index.
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The Life of Constance Stone - Australia's First Woman Doctor
Article in EMHS newsletter Sept. 2003. Biography of Constance Stone (1856-1902), Australia's first woman doctor. She lived for a time at 179 Gipps St. She worked at the Free Medical Mission in Collingwood founded by Dr. John Singleton, also a resident of East Melbourne; she found...
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The Lodge, Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne. Electoral Rolls 1909 and 1934
1 x A4 pages of typed notes being the names of residents living at The Lodge, Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1909 and 1934.
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The man who brought abortion out of the dark
Newspaper clipping: A life of Bertram Wainer by his widow, Jo Wainer.
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The Man Who Carried the Nation's Grief
Carol Rosenhain’s moving book describes the extraordinary work of James Lean. During WW1 it was his role in Base Records to receive and answer the correspondence of distressed families seeking news of missing loved ones, and it was he who personally wrote a condolence letter to t...
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The man who saved women
Article featuring Dr. Bertram Wainer, the leading abortion law reformer, who founded the Fertility Clinic in Wellington Parade. The article also refers to Dr. Jim Troup, a doctor conducting illegal abortions at his rooms in Hoddle Street while paying the police protection money,...
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The Men Who Went to War
In 2014, Major-General Mike O’Brien gave us a list of men with a connection to East Melbourne who had volunteered for the 1st World War.
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The Mercy Hospital in East Melbourne
Helen Monkivitch started her association with the Mercy Hospital in 1965 as a religious sister at Mercy Private. She is now the Director of Mercy Health and Aged Care. She has a thorough knowledge of the hospital's history, its work, and of the life and people within it.
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The Mercy Maternity Hospital
Publicity brochure gives overview of the new hospital. Photos. Plans. Costs. (3 copies).
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The Midwife, the Bishop and an Assassin; three degrees of separation in nineteenth century East Melbourne
Peter Andrew Charles O’Farrell is but a dot in the history annals of East Melbourne. At some point in the mid-nineteenth century, he owned two plots of land on Powlett Street. A property speculator and a solicitor of Victoria’s Supreme Court, O’Farrell was a volatile and obstrepe...
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Best selling crime novel set in Melbourne of the 1880s. Part of the action takes place in Powlett Street and Fitzroy Gardens.
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The never-ending battle for heritage
An article about heritage protection and the groups that are leading the battle: the East Melbourne Group, the National Trust, the Carlton Association and more recently Melbourne Heritage Action.
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The New Age Economy and Society: What it implies for East Melbourne
A talk given by Phillip K Ruthven, Executive Chairman of Ibis Business Information Pty Ltd, given on the occasion of the East Melbourne Group's Christmas cocktail party at the Hilton on the Park on 28 November 1996. File contains notes and graphs.
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The new Parliament Gardens - a walk
This will be a guided walk conducted by one of the regular specialist guides. The gardens promise to be full of interest as we follow a meandering path from the rooftop garden of wildflowers down to the sunken garden of shade loving exotics. The walk will take about an hour.
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The Organ at Holy Trinity
The History of the organ at Holy Trinity. It was originally built for a private owner, Henry Boom of 'Yarradale', Hawthorn. Possibly Boom constructed the organ himself with the help of neighbours, Alfred Fuller and Fred Taylor. 2 versions: (1) A4 typescript (2) A5 flyer on blue p...