East Melbourne Historical Society
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Beryl May Tucker was born in 1890 in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury to Robert Octavius Tucker (1852–1937) and his wife Mary Eleanor (‘Ella’) (1859–1941). At the time of Beryl’s birth, her father Robert was a teacher at the Brighton Street School in Richmond, the Melbourne inn...
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Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens Public Consultation Report by City of Melbourne in response to public reaction to their draft masterplan [see VF 288]. Original intention to demolish Tudor Village is overturned. Other items refer to proposed restoration of the Model Tudor Village. Ph...
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Subjects WW1 Family name TURNBULL Given names Harry Henry Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 85 Powlett Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 486 Rank Pte Military units 6th Battalion, D Company
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Newspaper clipping - presentation by the Melbourne City Council of an award to the Turners for their contribution to the East Melbourne community. Melbourne Yarra Leader, 9 September 2002.
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Photocopy of article about the work done by architect Geoffrey Borrack to the two cottages at 93 and 95a Simpson Street to convert them to one house. Some historical notes. The house was scheduled for auction on 3 October 1981.
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Edward Frederick Victor Tymms was born in Melbourne in 1889. He was the son of Albert Edward (known as Edward) Tymms and Agnes Elizabeth Ohlenrott. Edward Snr was a pastry cook, confectioner and caterer and he shared premises at the top end of Bourke Street with his brother-in-la...
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A paper given at the Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australasia. A study of an outbreak of typhoid which spread from a dairy in Jolimont in 1879. Descriptions of Jolimont include rubbish tips, sewage, drainage. Detailed description of the house and dairy, and day to day proced...
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Newspaper clipping about a controversial plan to build a university campus on land next to the Vodaphone arena.
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Newspaper clipping reporting on the unexpectedly high price gained at auction for an apartment described as unliveable at 126 Albert Street, East Melbourne
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Newspaper clippings about Model Tudor Village in the Fitzroy Gardens. Report that restoration is about to start on the Village which is in a state of disrepair. Some suggest that it is irrelevant and should be removed. Readers invited to comment. Results. Further report about com...
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Hugo James Unverhau was born in Auburn in 1897 to Joseph Hugo Unverhau and Catherine (nee Connolly). James was of German descent, his grandfather immigrating to the Western district of Victoria in the 1840's. James met and married his wife Catherine in Geelong in 1885. Electoral...
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Updates put out by the East Melbourne Group to notify members of current planning issues. April 2001 - November 2004.
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Pamphlet gives background to conservation controls and guidelines to owners of graded bullrings. Lists graded buildings and gives map showing streetscape levels.
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Conservation and restoration guide published in 1985 by the City of Melbourne. Many photos of East Melbourne buildings and streets. Page 9: Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street - A terrace of three units, central one has full height corinthian columns, other two are unadorned....
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The Melbourne Cricket Club Library has recently received some new material, including photos, dating to the Second World War when US military forces were based at the MCG. Alf Batchelder will present an illustrated talk.
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Small card folder with 12 photographs. Each photo has its title printed on reverse in handwritten style. Valentines snapshots were made of many places in the world, and packaged in a convenient size to be posted. They were printed in Great Britain. The photos are of landmark buil...
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East Melbourne’s first crown land sales were held on 16 June 1852. Prior to this the area had been a popular place for local Aboriginal groups who were attracted to its swamps and lagoons as fishing grounds. Then came Captain Lonsdale in 1836 and Superintendent La Trobe in 1839,...
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Newspaper clipping reporting that Planning Minister, Richard Wynne, has issued a repair order on the owner of Valetta, 206 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. Valetta is on the State heritage list but has been allowed to fall into a state of dereliction.
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This grand old mansion built in 1856 has been crumbling for years. Recently it has had homeless people living in it resulting in broken windows and doors. Galvanised iron, boarded up windows and security wire are now its most prominent and saddest features.
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This grand old mansion built in 1856 has been crumbling for years. Recently it has had homeless people living in it resulting in broken windows and doors. Galvanised iron, boarded up windows and security wire are now its most prominent and saddest features.
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Newspaper clipping about vandalism to Cook's Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens. The vandals sprayed the cottage with an anti-Australia day message.
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Robert was born in 1894, the son of George Alexander Albert Vanderzee (aka George Alexander), livery stable proprietor, and wife, Annie, hotel licencee. On his enlistment papers Robert states that he was born in East Melbourne. A search of the Sands & McDougall Post Office direct...
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Harold Frederick Vawdon was 23 when he enlisted. He was a Commercial Traveller; so perhaps was his father, who wrote several times enquiring after him from various addresses, one a hotel in Ballarat (in fact, Electoral Rolls confirm this occupation). He enlisted on 13 March, 1916...
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Order of Service for the funeral of Hon. Vernon Thomas Hauser (1928-2015) held at Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne on 17 September 2015. It includes several photos from childhood to late in life.