East Melbourne Historical Society
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Two articles appearing in the same issue of Royal Auto about the Eureka Stockade. The first, "Victoria's Bloody Sunday" by Professor Geoffrey Blainey, tells the story of the rebellion. The second, "The Flag was Stolen ... It Must Return" by Jenny Brown, tells of the fight to have...
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Obituary for Eve Esnouf. The Esnouf family had a long connection with East Melbourne with Ernest Phillip Esnouf purchasing 1229 Hoddle Street in 1922 living there with his family until the mid 1930s when it was rented out. In 1947 his son, Stuart, commenced his medcal preactice t...
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Copy of article in The Victorian Historical Magazine c. 1955. A history of Jolimont from 1838-1955.
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Newspaper clipping about proposal that Eye and Ear Hospital move across the road. Photo of tunnel linking the Eye and Ear with St. Vincent's.
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Newspaper clipping reporting on plans to renovate and modernise the Eye and Ear Hospital on the corner of Victoria Parade and Gisborne Street, East Melbourne. Work expected to start in 2017.
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Newspaper clipping about The Fairies' Tree, Fitzroy Gardens, sculpted by Ola Cohn in the years 1931-1934.
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James was born in England. Has no real connection with East Melbourne except as listing a forwarding address of 'a friend' in Powlet street East Melbourne.
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Henry Falkingham was born in 18813 at Tallarook, Victoria, the son of Henry Falkingham and hsi wife, Mary Elizabeth, nee Bolin. By 1915, he was 33 years old, married to Ethel Maud Levin since 1905 and had a job described on his embarkation roll as an 'Electrical Insulation Worker...
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William Falkingham enlisted early, on the 14 October, 1914. He was then eighteen years old and had the consent of his father, Henry Falkingham. He had had 12 months in the School Cadets and a further 3 years Compulsory Military Training. He was not employed. He did four months tr...
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A series of photos af East Melbourne families getting together in Darling Square (1970s) and Powlett Reserve (1982?)
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THE EMG, EMHS AND EMNN INVITE FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS OF ARCHBISHOP PHILIP FREIER AND JOY FREIER TO A FAREWELL TRIBUTE AS THEY SET OFF FOR THEIR NEXT LIFE ADVENTURE BYO FOOD, DRINKS TO SHARE AS WELL AS YOUR OWN GLASSES AND SEATS
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Dr Ross McMullin is an historian and biographer whose major interests are Australian history, politics and sport. He has written extensively on the impact of involvement in World War 1 on Australia. His prize winning biography on one of Australia's outstanding military leaders, P...
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John Henry Farley, a 36 year old railway employee, enlisted on 8/9/1914. He was then a railway employee and a widower. The next day, he married Clara Elizabeth Turton, the Rev. W.S. Rollands conducting the ceremony at Toorak, probably st St. John's, as Farley records his religion...
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Born at Prahran, Victoria, John Henry Farley was a grocer by trade. He enlisted in East Melbourne, and was killed in action on 1 July, 1916, France at Armentieres. While he listed his religion as Presbyterian, a rosary was among his effects, returned to his next of kin. Farley wa...
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Mick O' Farrell was 25 and 5 months old when he enlisted on 12 August, 1915. He described hmself as a horse trainer and had already had marked success with his horse, Zephuron, who own the Grand National Steeple in 1914. He enlisted as Michael Farrell, though at least one of his...
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George Fawcett was English by birth, born in Lewisham, England, he went to school at Cheltenham College, where he served eighteen months with the Cadets, then went to Charters Towers School of Mines for a year. In 1916, he was working as an accountant with the Falkiner Electrical...
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James Guy Fawkes was born in Peckham, Surrey, England, the son of Charles and Ellen Catherine Fawkes, nee Davies. He was born in 1885 and when he enlisted on 18 July, 1915, he was 30 years and seven months old, a single man, working as a Draper's Assistant, and living at 144 Powl...
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Mrs. Frances Marie Fay, who lived at various addresses in East Melbourne, 38 and 42 Albert St., 151 Hotham St.,and Brunswick St. South (now Morrison Place), had been widowed for eight years in 1914, when the war began. She had to wait as her three sons enlisted; only one of them...
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Catherine Agnes (Katie) Fegan was born in 1879, the second of Sergeant John and Mary Anne Fegan's two children and sister to Mary Sarah (b1875, later Sister Mary Xavier of the Religious Sisters of Charity, Fitzroy). On her enlistment form, she gave East Melbourne as her place of...
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Arthur William Fenton enlisted on 15 July, 1915. He was a clerk by occupation, 5' 9" tall, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. he gave as his next of kin his father, Arthur Fenton of Bank St., Ascot Vale. Arthur Fenton was sent to Seymour, Victoria, to train with D Company, No. 1...
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Review of the book, "Blockbuster: Fergus Hume & The Mystery of the Hansom Cab" by Lucy Sussex. Also article about up-coming television series of The Mystery of the Hansom Cab Fergus Hume's book is partly set in East Melbourne and he lived in East Melbourne while writing it. He li...
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Ernest Oscar Ferguson was born in Richmond Victoria in January, 1893, the son of Albert Ernest Ferguson or Furguson and his wife, Eleanor Louisa, nee Green. He names himself on different documents as a clerk or alternatively, a labourer. On his enlistment form, he states his addr...
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Harry Ferguson was 39 years old, married to Edith, with two children and working as a clerk when he enlisted on 17 August, 1918. He gave his permanent address as Trenery Crescent, Abbotsford and it is possible thta this was his workplace. He was sent to Broadmeadows Camp for trai...
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Ferries on the Yarra by Colin Jones tells the story of ferry travel on the Yarra from the earliest days of white settlement and covers the stretch of river from Studley Park to the Docks. Many of the ferries travelled along the East Melbourne section of the river and Brander's Fe...