East Melbourne Historical Society
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A newspaper article about Dr Susie Allanson's fight for legally enforced buffer zones around abortion clinics. The article covers a string of horrifying incidents between protestors and patients at the East Melbourne clinic, including the murder of a security guard.
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A collection of flyers produced to advertise the Festa which was part of the East Melbourne Group's jubilee celebrations in 2004. Newspaper clipping about 2007 Festa.
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File contains images used for East Melbourne Festa display in 2008. The display was intended as a case study of how to research the history of your house. Henry Cooke's house in Clarendon Street was used as the example. Images include: Mr. Cooke's House 1853, drawing by Jane Cann...
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Newspaper clippings about a proposal to build over the railway line between Vale Street and Jolimont Station. A letter to the editor in response from Lotte Mulligan. No date but c.1998. Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee...
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Victor Henry Field wass eighteen years and ten months old when he enlisted on 1 July, 1915. He was one of five children of Frederick James Field and his wife, Septima, He was the middle child in his family, with brother Frederick Fern (1893-1959) asnd sister Myrtle Hazel (1894-19...
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Wife, Mary Valantina Fielding Profession, Solicitor Enlisted at Prahran on the 9th March 1916 at the age of 42 Partener in legal firm of Rigby and Fielding 60 Market Street, Melbourne Had previous military career as a reserve officer [Lt.] in the AGA in severalal postings.1900-19...
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Letter from East Melbourne Group to its members seeking support against proposal by Council of Adult Education to change the terms of Ola Cohn's will. Asks members to write to the Attorney-General.
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Two items pertaining to the planned sale of the Ola Cohn Centre which would have meant the loss of the building to its occupiers, The Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters. 1. A letter to members of the East Melbourne Group seeking support in fighting the sale. 2. A n...
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English author, Douglas Johnstone, tells the story of his research and discoveries concerning the life of his grandfather, Australian Thomas Johnstone. Johnstone snr fought in WW1 with the 8th Battalion. He met and married his wife in England and had children, but wanted to retur...
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Stuart Barham Findlay was already a war veteran when he joined enlisted to fight in World War 1. In 1900, he had been in Paget's Horse, in 1901/02 in the Imperial Light Horse and in 1906, in the Transvaal Rifles, all in South Africa. When he joined up on 30 July, 1915, he was one...
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Eastern Hill Fire Brigade Station and Lookout Tower, corner Victoria Parade and Gisborne Street.
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Newspaper clippings about the destruction by fire of the Cairns Memorial Church in Hotham Street (15/8/1988). Photos. Also Yarra Valley Newsletter from the Presbytery of Yarra Valley, the Uniting Church in Asutralia, which includes brief biography of Dr. Adam Cairns. Envelope of...
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1 x A4 pages of typed notes being the names of residents living at the Eastern Hill Fire Station, East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1934 and 1936.
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On the 2 March 1968 a grass fire broke out in Alphington, near Melbourne. Two fireman, Sub-Station Officer Gordon Bruce Adams, and Senior Fireman Eric Jamieson, suffered severe burns. Both later died in hospital. Jamieson on 3 March and Adams on 23 March. The funeral for Adams wa...
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Newspaper clipping about Marco Economedes and Thelma Johnson who were married at the Greek Orthodox Church in East Melbourne in 1939, the first Macedonian wedding in Melbourne.
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Order of Service for first mass and blessing of Mercy Hospital.
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A brief history outlining the beginnings of the first Sunday lunch group, a popular institution in East Melbourne since 1976.
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Arthur Firth was 22 years old and a tailor by trade when he enlisted on 24 December 1915. He had already served a five year apprenticeship with tailors R.T. Lloyd of Bourke St. Melbourne and had two and a half years' training in the 64th Infantry of the citizens' forces. He lived...
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George Fish was the son of Robert Fish and his wife, Hannah, nee Taylor. One of eleven children, he was born in 1877 at Pleasant Creek, near Stawell, Victoria, and was by trade, a trapper. When he enlisted he gave his address as 4 George Street, East Melbourne, the home of his mo...
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William Robert Fish was the older brother of George Henry Fish (see entry). He was one of eleven children of Robert Fish and his wife, Hannah, nee Taylor. William Fish was born at Pleasant Creek, Stawell, Victoria in June, 1971, and was 44 and 10 months old when he enlisted at Le...
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John Fitzgerald was unusually tall for his generation, just over 6' 1". He was the son of John Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Travers Fitzgerald, born in Lilydale, Victoria. He was 29 years old when he enlisted, marrying his sweetheart, Eileen Mary Bascombe, the eldest daughter of Herb...
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David Fitzpatrick was the son of Bartholomew Fitzpatrick and his wife and Mary Anne, nee O'Brien. At the time he enlisted, on 6 June, 1918, he was twenty three years and eleven months old, single and working as a train examiner, an occupation he remained at for most of his life....
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Includes history, photos, plans, plantings, features as well as conservation and maintenance program. A City of Melbourne Production.
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Aerial view of the Fitzroy Gardens, Treasury Gardens and part of Government Buildings