East Melbourne Historical Society
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Robert Arthur Jacomb came from a well established East Melbourne family. Robert Elwall Jacomb and his wife, Anne, had first lived in Victoria Parade and then, as their family grew, at 53 Powlett St from the 1860s. Robert Arthur Jacomb was born to their son, Robert Ker Jacomb, and...
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Newspaper cutting with a short article about former footballer, Chris Judd, leasing 66-68 Jolimont Street, Jolimont, as headquarters for the online sportwear company, Jagged, of which he is part owner. The cutting has been cut and re-formatted from the orginal, larger, article fo...
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Obituary for James Bolton Leslie, former managing director of Mobil Oil Australia, director of Qantas, chancellor of Deakin University, life governor of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of NSW. Also an accomplished equestrian. A resident of East Melbourne. Als...
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Our speaker, Dr Liz Rushen, currently has an exhibition showing at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria entitled, Hoddle Grid: the great land grab. The exhibition features 29 first purchasers of land from the Crown, one from each block.
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In the centre of the Fitzroy Gardens is a cottage almost invisible behind its overgrown garden but it is an interesting little house and worth a more careful look. It was designed in 1866 by Francis Maloney White as the gardener’s cottage. Its first occupant was James Sinclair an...
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Newspaper clipping about the history of the Fitzroy Gardens. Includes author's own memories of seeing school children cutting through the gardens to the various schools and the many sculptures which adorned the gardens. The article mainly centres on the establishment of the garde...
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Charles Frederick James was born on 17 March, 1885, and was baptised at St. Peter's Anglican Church, Eastern Hill. He was the son of Lewis James and his wife, Sophia, nee Friedlein. At the time of his enlistment, Charles James was 31 and 11 months old, working as a Public Servant...
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George Edwin James was born in Birmingham, England c.1886. He arrived in Melbourne shortly before the war broke out and took up residence in East Melbourne. At the time of his enlistment on 17 August 1914 he was living at 125 Gipps Street, where at that stage one could rent furni...
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Robert Gibton Jamison, known as 'Skipper', enlisted late in the war and never got to serve at any of the battle fronts. The son of John and Ellen, nee Eades, Jamison. Robert was a clerk, living at 8 Lisson Grove, Hawthorn. On 26 June, 1907, he had married Rita Pilbeam at the Rowe...
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Janet Lady Clarke’s efforts set the benchmark for a culture of philanthropy which continues today. Her public contribution draws natural comparison with the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, born in the year of her death. Janet Clarke successfully mixed traditional approaches to phila...
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Frederick Jenkyn had two lives as a volunteer and gave 874 days of service to Australia in World War 1. He first enlisted on 16 July, 1915, and gave his occupation as Hospital Assistant. He was at that time 30 years and eleven months old, single, with his next of kin his father,...
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Newspaper clipping reporting on the renovation of architect JJ Clark's 1869 house on the corner of Gipps and Powlett Streets, East Melbourne. SJB Architects reworked and extended the home.
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Order of service for Joan Dunning's funeral, includes several photos.
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Three portrait photographs of Joan Mercer in colour, taken shortly before her death.
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The photo shows Joan Mercer c.1960s-1970s. She is wearing a pale suit, floral hat, gloves. In an interview for the East Melbourne Historical Society she is recorded as saying, 'I can't bear mixed things. I must have all one colour, or mixed colours but matching.' Joan was married...
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Copies of Order of Service for funeral of Joan Mercer, includes photo. Eulogy given by Canon John Stewart on occasion of Joan Mercer's funeral. Death notices from The Age. Also includes transcript of oral history interview with Joan Mercer.
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Promotional brochure for Joanna Pace when she stood for election to the Melbourne City Council in 1999.
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On 17 August 1914 Arthur Mueller ‘Joe’ Pearce enlisted to fight in the Great War. He was the eighth man from Essendon to sign up and the first VFL footballer to volunteer for the war. He had played 152 games for the Melbourne Football Club from 1904-1913, and in a game where play...
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Henry (Harry) Neimen Johannsen was the second son of John and Mary Anne Johannsen and one of a large family of eleven children. He was born in Allendale in c. 1889. At the time he enlisted on 6 October 1916 he gave his occupation as a tailor. According to newspaper reports he had...
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A scanned copy of a photo of John and Jane Conway at the rear of 340 Albert Street. An accompanying email from Joanne Miller gives details: 'My grandparents names are John and Jane Conway. They were employed by the Rombergs in the early sixties through to the early seventies as c...
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Photos provided by John Wykes family and friends to celebrate his life.
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My father John Wykes passed away on 28th April, at the height of the corona outbreak but as a result of an operation conducted shortly before the clampdown that offered hope of relief from chronically painful, crippling rheumatoid arthritis in the knees.
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Part of a letter from J.C.J. Cooke talking of connection between John Curtin and Ovenden family of 94 George Street, East Melbourne.
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Newspaper clipping about John Ernest Plowman who died in March 2004. He owned the last remaining, unrenovated boarding house in Canterbury Terrace, Powlett Street.