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Afternoon Tea at Bishopscourt
Enjoy tea and company in the glorious gardens of East Melbourne’s stateliest home. Helen Botham, an expert on the garden and its history, will conduct a tour at 4.15 p.m.
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Agent to call in lawyers as squatters take over
Photocopied newspaper clipping about squatters occupying Eastbourne House on the corner of Wellington Parade and Simpson Street and the four houses next door in Simpson Street, all under the one ownership. It was the first occupation of private premises by the Squatters' Union si...
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Agents of Change: women's social reform networks in Melbourne 1890-1940
An occasional paper given to the Friends of the Library (Queen's College). Vida Goldstein is one of the women mentioned. She was a pupil at PLC.
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AGM - followed by - Woman's Christian Temperance Union - Exposing Melbourne's Shameful Secrets
Dr. Anna Blainey Warner will tell us how women in the 1890s alerted the public to the sexual assault and prostitution of young girls and of the controversy that followed. Anna is an East Melbourne resident and freelance historian whose PhD was on the Australian Woman's Christian...
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AGM and Mystery Photographs: an unveiling
In 2022 the East Melbourne Library was given a collection of old glass plate negatives. The donor did not have any information about the photos. They simply looked old and interesting. Fiona Campbell, our local history librarian, and a band of loyal volunteers have spent every We...
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AGM followed by "Melbourne in the 1850s"
Presenter(s) Dr. Miles Lewis Start Wednesday 17 Oct 2007 - 8:00pm Finish Wednesday, 17 October 2007 - 10:00pm Location Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne Entry fee Free for members; guests $5.00
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AGM followed by 'Geoffrey Blainey's East Melbourne'
In his inimitable way Geoffrey Blainey will present us with a collage of tales from East Melbourne's past.
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AGM followed by Bruce Trethowan- Cliveden Mansion
Notice of Annual General Meeting, nomination form and proxy form are attached to this newsletter. All financial members of the EMHS are eligible to nominate for the committee.
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AGM followed by East Melbourne Less Glorious
Following our AGM architect, Geoffrey Borrack, who has lived and worked in East Melbourne since the early 1960s, will tell us of his memories of the suburb before gentrification took hold. Geoffrey has been instrumental in saving some of our most notable houses from demolition an...
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AGM to be followed by Archbishop Philip Freier: 5:00pm Wednesday 21 October 2020
This is a notice to members of the EMHS Annual General Meeting to be held via Zoom at 5:00pm on Wednesday 21 October 2020. Archbishop Philip Freier will talk to us after the AGM. The Zoom link will be provided in advance by email to financial members.
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AINSLIE, Margaret
The Ainslie family were natives of Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland. [1] The family was made up of Margaret (nee Brodie), her husband James, and if the passenger list is to be believed, five children, although only four have been identified: Archibald, James Brodie, Anne Brodie...
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Air Vice-Marshal William Hopton Anderson, C.B.E, D.F.C., C. de G. (Belgium)
1 x A4 page of typed notes relating to William H. Anderson. Lists his address as 32 [now 20] Jolimont Terrace, Jolimont. Gives a description of the stained glass window in his memory at Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne.
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Alain Mimoun heads to the finish line in the Melbourne Olympics marathon, 1956
Digital copy of a colour slide. The photo shows French runner, Alain Mimoun, racing along Brunton Avenue towards the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the finish line of the Melbourne Olympics marathon, run on 1 December 1956. He crossed the line before anyone else had entered the are...
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Albert Street 109, Burnell
Photos of Burnell taken by John Collins in 1962 prior to demolition for Freemasons Hospital car park. The second photo is used in one of the EMHS bookmarks published in 2012. The bookmark print-ready pdf file is attached. The file includes trim and bleed margins. Original dimensi...
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Albert Street offices to become hotel
Newspaper clipping about plans to refit the office building at 314-320 Albert Street, East Melbourne as a hotel.
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Alert and ready
Newspaper article featuring the work of the Emergency Co-ordination Centre which houses the Department of Sustainability and Environment's fire and emergency management team.
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Alix Lamande, music teacher, resident of 115 Hotham Street - 1913
Photograph taken in 1913 of Alix Lamandé with her hand resting on a piano stool. Alix was a music teacher residing with her father, Ambrose Lamandé at Amorique, 115 Hotham Street, East Melbourne. Ambrose lived there from 1906 until 1919. The Argus of 11 October 1913 reported on a...
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ALLDAY, Henry (Harry) Robert
Harry Allday was 26 years and 2 months old when he enlisted on 25/11/1916. By profession, he was a clerk, with his next of kin his mother, Mrs. Amelia Allday of 1031 Punt Rd. East Melbourne, later of Pleasant Rd. , Geelong. His wife was then living at 1 Pleasant Rd., Newtown, but...
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AMBROSE, Clarence
Clarence Ambrose was born in Woolich (probably misprint of Woolwich) NSW, but was living with his mother, Mrs. Nellie Ferrier Ambrose, at Simpson St, East Melbourne when he enlisted on 20/1/1916. According to his enlistment record, he was eighteen years old and had done 4 years o...
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AMES, Herbert Lawrence
Herbert Lawrence Ames joined the 1st AIF on 8 July, 1915. He was nineteen years' old, 5'8", with blond hair and a fair complexion. He was a bootmaker by trade, and had been apprenticed to Lavlon Austin, J.C., of Abbotsford, but probably at the time of enlistment, was working at t...
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Amorique, 115 Hotham Street, East Melbourne
Colour photo of Amorique, a timber framed weatherboard house at 115 Hotham Street. The building was demolished in 1979 to be replaced by a block of flats called Amourique (note the change in spelling).
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Amourique
Brochure advertising auction of Unit 5, Amourique,115 Hotham Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 19 February 2005.
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AMPHLETT, James Henry
James Amphlett described himself on his enlistment document as a transport worker, and on another, later, document as an ironpress worker. He enlisted on 13/1/1915. At the time, he had previous experience in the Citizens' Military Forces and was still serving. He was 20 years old...
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An almighty nightmare
Article about East Melbourne residents, led by Siusan MacKenzie, protesting against development by Catholic Church of a site on the corner of Albert Street and Hoddle Street because of inadequate parking. The new building will accommodate 400 people in its dining room but only pr...