East Melbourne Historical Society
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Biography of Emily Childers, wife of Hugh Childers. The Childers rented the cottage generally known as Upper Jolimont from Governor La Trobe after Bishop and Mrs. Perry vacated it in 1853. The Childers called the cottage Normont but this name did not survive their occupancy. The...
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Newspaper clippings about new plans for sporting precinct. Gosch's Paddock to be used by Collingwood and Melbourne Football Clubs for training; new rugby league and soccer stadium (temporarily known as the rectangular stadium) to be built near Olympic Park. Includes an associated...
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A collection of photographs taken during Melbourne's first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Gavin John, an established landscape photographer, turned his talents to scenes closer to home. Well-known sites around Melbourne, normally buzzing with people, are shown deserted. The forms and...
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Colour photo shows three blue and white transport vehicles clearly labelled as belonging to ABC Channel 2. They are parked outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Information about aboriginal tribes from the Melbourne area.
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Newspaper clippings about the East Melbourne Fertility Clinic, and others, and a bill to be brought in that will ban protesters to a 150 metre exclusion zone around the clinics. Age editorial, 3 September 2015 Safeguarding women by Miki Perkins, The Age, 5 September 2015. Rank an...
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Laws past in 2015 that make illegal to harass people within 150 metres of abortion providers came into effect on Monday 2 May 2016. Anti-abortion advocates produced a flyer which was circulated throughout East Melbourne in protest against the new laws. This was picked up by The S...
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Leo Abramam was Jewish by birth, born in Goldingen, Latvia, part of the Russian Empire. He was the son of Philip (Feisel) Oberman and his wife, Rachel Chauka Greenblat and brother to Sara, Maxim and Jacob. The family arrived from Russia on board the Koningen Louise on 13 December...
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List of accommodation options, some in East Melbourne.
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William Francis Acton was a salesman at Paterson, Lang and Bruce, the firm of future Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce. The firm guaranteed him employment on his return from war service. He was 20 years and 10 months old when he enlisted on 19 July 1915 and taken on strength...
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Newspaper article about Adam Lindsay Gordon and his statue in Gordon Reserve.
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Ernest Adam was trained as a dentist, but was not working at the time he enlisted on October 30, 1917, giving his occupation as 'previously a dentist'. He was then 36 years old, married to Beatrice Mayflower Adam and living at 115 George St., East Melbourne. He had had previous m...
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Ian Shears, Manager, Urban Landscapes, City of Melbourne leads the City’s climate change adaptation program for urban landscapes. Over the past three years, Ian and his award winning, multi-disciplinary team have delivered a $30 million climate adaptation program focused on strat...
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Newspaper clipping advertises The Hilton's facilities as a conference and seminar venue. One of its attributes was the ability to wheel an aeroplane into its Grand Ballroom. The Hilton is now The Pullman on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
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Aerial map of Melbourne and southern inner suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial map of Melbourne inner eastern suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial map of Melbourne inner northern suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial view of Cliveden Mansions on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, Fitzroy Gardens on left, mansion in Jolimont Terrace visible in right foreground.
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Aerial Photo of Yarra Park and MCG looking west from a point above Punt Road Oval. Taken in 1928 by Charles Daniel Pratt.
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Detail of large aerial photo in colour shows inner Melbourne from Edinburgh Gardens in North Fitzroy in the north to Port Phillip Bay in the south, and from Abbotsford in the east to the docks in the west.
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Aerial view of Melbourne looking west-south-west from a point approximately above the intersection of Hoddle and Gipps Streets. Visible are significant parts of East Melbourne, the Yarra River, the Jolimont railway yards, and the city of Melbourne fading into the distance. The or...
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BW photo. Aerial view of city looking east, East Melbourne in distance. Circa 1938. Digital image from glass negative approx. 10.0x12.5 cm. Original is very faded. Contrast has been adjusted digitally. (State Library of Victoria, picture collection accession no. H91.160/536).
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Postcard of aerial photograph of St Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne circa 1945. Scanned by the State Library of Victoria from a glass negative.