East Melbourne Historical Society
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Booklet published by the East Melbourne Historical Society, November 2008. Quotation from the Introduction: East Melbourne’s lanes are an integral part of its historic character. Their bluestone cobbles lead us back to the nineteenth century in a way smoothly tarmacked roads cann...
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Robyn Annear was awarded a State Library Creative Fellowship from 2003-2004 to research Whelan the Wrecker and was elected to the State Library Board in September 2006. She has served as a judge in the Age Book of the Year and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards since 2001.
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Subjects WW1 Family name WHELAN Given names Martin Thomas Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 161 Grey Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 5435 Rank Lcpl Military units 22nd Battalion
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Myles William Whinfield was born in 1886 in Echuca, Victoria. He was the son of James Chapman Whinfield and Mary Jane (nee Watt). His father, a farmer and sheep-breeder of Bamawm, near Echuca, died in 1895 when a dray he was driving hit a tree and overturned. Only two years later...
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Scanned glass lantern slide of white swans and ducks on the Lagoon, Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, by East Melbourne photographer, John Henry Harvey.
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Notes by Janet Scarfe additional to material below. The essay by Perdita McCarthy on Jessie McHardie White published in the Australian Dictionary of Biography is highly recommended (Perditta M. McCarthy, 'White, Jessie McHardy (1870–1957)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Nat...
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One of three children and only son of Rev. Benjamin Newport White, M.A., vicar of Holy Trinity, East Melbourne 1905-1928, and his wife, Sarah Ann; born 27 February 1893 at St. Peter's Vicarage, Mornington. He moved to East Melbourne with his family in 1905 where they lived at the...
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Rupert William White was the son of Harry White and his wife, Emily Nutting, nee Gardner. The couple had married in Maffra and had had children there, but Rupert was born in East Melbourne. Later the family moved to Maldon. Both Harry and Emily were hotel licensees. Emily died in...
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Private Thomas Wilson White, 5 Machine Gun Battalion AIF. White, a 27 year old dredge hand, born 3 November 1888 at Forbes, NSW, was living at 61 Powlett Street, East Melbourne when he enlisted on 9 July 1915. He embarked for overseas service aboard the transport Port Lincoln, wh...
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photo of his bugle, at AWM
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Subjects WW1 Author Sue Larkin Family name WHITEFORD Given names Robert Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 111 Gipps Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 2013 Rank Cpl Military units Convalescent Depot, Harefield Park, Lo...
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born East Melbourne
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Discusses the establishment and benefits of making local history catalogues available on the internet Victorian Historical Journal September 2000 pp 124-128.
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Copy of a letter to the occupant of 74 Simpson Street relating to his ancestors who had lived in the house. Accompanying the letter are very poor quality photocopied family photos.
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Rebecca and her daughter and dog demonstrate a popular form of local transport used by parents to convey their small children between East Melbourne and Melbourne Girls Grammar School in Anderson Street, South Yarra.
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Newspaper article talks about East Melbourne's history, conservation problems, recent renovations.
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Brief biographies of leading Australians.
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Australian biographical dictionary. Short biographies include birth, death, marriage and children; education; achievements; recreation; current address.
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A short speech given by Richard Blandy on the occasion of a Christmas Drinks party held at the Hilton Hotel, Wellington Parade, by the East Melbourne Group for its members on 15 November 1994. Richard Blandy and his wife, Ros, lived at 90 George Street for nearly three years befo...
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4 x A4 pages of typescript being a talk given by Richard Blandy on living in East Melbourne
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Autobiography of Peggy Berman and in particular her pivotal role in the Public Inquiry into police abortion graft. She worked for Dr James Troup whose practice was at 1087 Hoddle Street and lived for a time at 11 George Street, across a lane from the practice.
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Review written by Arthur Streeton of botanical paintings by Frances Jackson. Streeton was a member of the Victorian Artists' Society.
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Archer Stalham Wilkinson was born on 15 January, 1895 at Bright, Victoria. His father John Wilkinson, after graduating as a doctor from the University of Melbourne in 1886, had moved to Bright to become a General Practitioner. John married Celia Eileen Harmer on 20 September 1887...
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Subjects WW1 Family name WILKINSON Given names Robert Neil Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 22 Brunswick Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 818 Rank Pte Military units 22nd Battalion, 6th Reinforcement