East Melbourne Historical Society
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Booklet produced for a walk conducted by Rosemarie Smith on behalf of the East Melbourne Historical Society for members of the Friends of the Sydney Historic Houses Trust on 18 June 2012. The booklet was compiled by Rosemarie Smith. It gives brief notes on the 34 buildings featur...
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by Nan Hutton From The Age, 19 May 1977 Beyond its beautiful façade, Clarendon Terrace may be a mouldering wreck today. But it was a sound and gracious building when my grandmother lived in it. In the comparatively short history of our city, this was a long time ago. It was 1909...
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The origins and development of Jolimont. In The Victorian Historical Magazine, May 1965.
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A flyer inviting members of the East Melbourne Group to a get together. The East Melbourne Group, as well as fighting inappropriate development, acts as a focal point for community interaction.
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Historical article publicising National Trust's Open Heritage 'Behind Closed Doors'. Main subject is the building at 2 Treasury Place and the old Cabinet Room within it. Designed in 1873 by Michael Egan; refurbed in the 1930s; refurbed again in the 1990s by Peter Ellliott. Photo....
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Three newspaper articles in interstate papers regarding a very unfortunate incident in East Melbourne in 1947. Apart from a very brief mention there was nothing found in the Melbourne papers, possibly because of local suppression decisions or orders. Clipping from The Brisbane Co...
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Clifford Harry Anderson was born in March 1882 He enlisted in the AIF at Broadmeadows on 21 September 1914, Service number 985. He was allocated to the 2nd Field Artillery 4th Battery. On enlistment he was 32 years old, single, C of E, and listed his profession as Insurance Broke...
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Killed in action 20 July, 1916, at Fromelles Edward Handfield Anderson attended Melbourne Grammar School from 1901-1903. He was an active student, on the Rifle team and First XVIII. He became First Honorary Secretary of the Old Melburnians' Football Team and was employed by the N...
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Harold was born in Halifax Nova Scotia on the 13 November 1881. He enlisted in Melbourne on 6 December 1917 as a private. He was allocated to the 57 Battalion, 10th reinforcements. On enlistment he lists his occupation as a 'rubber worker', he is 36 years old, 5'8'' tall, and mar...
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Wilbur Anderson was just one month off 25 years old when he enlisted on 1 March, 1916. He had been educated at South Melbourne College, then Scotch College, East Melbourne, before attaining at Bachelor of Laws at the University of Melbourne. When he enlisted, he was a Barrister a...
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William Hopton Anderson was a professional soldier. He had served three years in the Voluntary Service Cadets while at Melbourne Grammar School, and, on finiishing his Senior Public Exams in 1910 with outstanding results, including an exhibition in Greek and Latin, he was immedia...
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Basil John Andrew was born in East Melbourne and went to school at Scotch College, Launceston. While at school, he trained with both the Junior and Senior Cadets and went on to the Citizen Military Forces. At the time he enlisted, he had completed nearly three years at the Milita...
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Clement Serle Andrew enlisted on 8 June, 1917. He was then just over 31 years old, a clerk, living at home with his father at 90 Vale Street, East Melbourne. He was sent to the Australian Flying Corps at Laverton, Victoria, where he was enrolled as a 2nd Class Air Mechanic. On 30...
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F. Joseph Andrew, as he signed himself, was just over twenty when he enlisted on 5 October, 1915. He was then a commercial traveller, unmarried, and gave his father, F.J. Andrew, living in Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, as his next of kin. His father, Frederick John Andrew, w...
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Arthur Angrave was only eighteen when he first enlisted on 10 February, 1916, to serve in the AIF. He trained for three months and was given the rank of Lance Corporal on 10 May, before being discharged as medically unfit, with a chronic cough, on 15 May. Ill-health was to plague...
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Newspaper clippings reporting on Ann Blainey's winning of the National Biography Award 2009 for her book, I am Melba".
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To be followed immediately by Dr. Anna Blainey speaking on the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and its campaign against exploitation of woman and children in the late 1800s.
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The AGM of the East Melbourne Historical Society. The President and Treasurer will report to members and elections will be held for new officers and committee members.
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Newspaper clipping about Kathleen Clubb, the first person to be charged under new laws that prohibit protesters within 150 metres of abortion clinics. She will fight the charge on grounds of her constitutional right to free speech.
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Roy Brockfield is seen leading the Metropolitan Fire Brigade contingent at the Anzac Day parade in 1970. He was chosen to lead as he was by then the only surviving WWI veteran in the MFB. Brockfield worked at the Eastern Hill Fire Station for 45 years, many of them as foreman of...
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Newspaper clipping reporting on rejection by Heritage Victoria of proposal to build sixteen storey apartment block on Mosspennoch site. The Leader 18 Feb 2002.
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Newspaper clipping featuring the book, 'Homes in the Sky, Apartment Living in Australia', by Caroline Butler-Bowden and Charles Pickett. The article describes early apartment buildings in Australia and their part in the history of apartment living. Cliveden Mansions which once st...
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Two cards. One advertises the private sale of 1203/166 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, the other advertises the auction of Kingslea, 9/110 Albert Street, East Melbourne.
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Newspaper clipping about Archbishop Freier and his appointment as primate of the Anglican Church