East Melbourne Historical Society
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Presenter(s) Meyer Eidelson Start Wednesday 21 Feb 2018 - 2:00pm Finish Wednesday, 21 February 2018 - 4:00pm Location East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne Entry fee Members free; non-members $5.00 Meyer Eidelson will take us on a Virtual Tour of early Melbour...
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Samuel Beatty was originally from Northern Ireland. He was 33 years old, a Sanitory Inspector, living at 1 Charles Street in Jolimont. He appears to have had no realtivesin Australia, naming as his next of kin a friend, Mrs. Linda Dallimore, of 129 Powlett St., East Melbourne. Sa...
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Article reporting on the career of Max Beck who with Michael Buxton founded the property development firm of Becton. Becton was the developer behind Wellington Gardens, East Melbourne.
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John Beckett was one month off 28 years old when he enlisted on 21 December, 1915. He was then single and a painter by trade, living at 53 Gipps St., East Melbourne. He had been working for the last five years at W. Smith in Hamilton before moving to Melbourne. He later changed h...
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Daniel Bedggood arrived in Melbourne in 1854. Almost immediately he set up a boot and shoe factory in Richmond. A successful business from the start, succeeding generations kept it going and his son, John, oversaw the transition to a new and bigger factory in Jolimont, at 22 Agne...
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Brochure advertising sales of units at 155 Powlett Street in the block known as Belgravia Square. Photos. Plans. 2003.
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Magazine includes article on the house at 110 Hotham Street, renovated by Wynne McGrath. Many photos.
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Photocopy of title page and chapter 28, 'Sir Benjamin Benjamin and the Imperial Bank' from The Land Boomers by Michael Cannon.
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George Bentley was 49 when he enlisted in 1915, having been born in England on 14 February, 1866. He was not to be returned to the retired list ontil 1926. What made him so valuable was that he was already a seasoned soldier, having served for twelve years in the Dragoon Guards,...
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Alexander Stanley Bergmeier was born on 8 January, 1889, to Henry and Annie Bergmeier, of Bass, Victoria. He grew up on a farm and, on enlistment, gave his occupation as farmer. He was 26 years and 7 months when he signed on 15 July, 1915, 5' 8", with brown hair and brown eyes, l...
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William Henry Berkeley was aged 18 years and 6 months when he enlisted on 13 July, 1915 and was attached to the 8th Battalion, 1oth Reinforcements. he was by trade a joiner and had served a six year apprenticeship with H. Beauchamp, Lonsdale St., Melbourne. He had also trained wi...
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Newspaper clippings and obituary about Margaret (Peggy) Berman's role in the abortion issue which resulted in legalisation of abortion. She worked as receptionist at a clinic in East Melbourne. Photos. November to December 2002.
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Margaret (Peggy) Berman (1923-2002) Peggy Berman was a strong, intelligent and determined woman. She had a tough start to life, an illegitimate child at a Catholic Children’s Home in Broadmeadows. From there, she was taken in by her Irish grandparents and was sent to the Sisters...
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Historian, Alicia Cerreto, will take us on a journey through the history of Berry Street. Initially known as the Victorian Infant Asylum and Foundling Hospital it has had many name changes since. Founded in 1877 in Fitzroy the organization moved into the old police hospital in Va...
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A history of Berry Street, formerly Berry Street Babies Home. Numerous photos, mostly unidentified, which show life inside the Home. One photo of particular interest to East Melbourne (p.22), and which is not identified, is the old Police Hospital that was part of the Richmond Ba...
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A facsimile edition reproducing the original 4th edition printed in 1938. As well as recipes the book contains gardening and household hints, and a child welfare section with advice to the prospective mother. There is a brief forward describing the work of the Berry Street Foundl...
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Newpaper clipping about new premises for the Alliance Francaise in St Kilda. The Alliance Francaise was founded by Madame Berthe Mouchette who when she first arrived in Melbourne lived at 128 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, where she taught art in a studio behind the house.
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Scan of inside cover of a copy of the Arabian Nights awarded to Bessie Cornwell for drawing in 1887 while she was a student at Claremont, 342 Albert Street, East Melbourne. The school ran for ten years between 1881 and 1891. The principal was Mrs W K Muir, the widow of Rev Willia...
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Newspaper article on Melbourne's best 10 hotel rooms. Magnolia Court and Park Hyatt both featured. Photo said to be of Magnolia Court is actually of Eastern House (apartments), 174 George Street, East Melbourne. Herald Sun, Weekend, 6 Sept. 2003.
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Born East Melbourne, however no connection with East Melbourne after this event.
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Richard Betteridge was born in London in 1882. He moved to Australia in 1911 and described his occupation as Wireless Operator. He was a single man, aged 23 years and eight months old, 5'5" tall, with black hair, brown eyes and a 'dark' complexion. He enlisted on 18 July, 1916, h...
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A photo of Betty Hall late in life. She was a retired solicitor and resident of East Melbourne for many years, living at 74 Simpson Street.
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2008 Newspaper clippings about proposed new bicycle lanes in Albert Street.
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First of two volume memoir by Fairlie Taylor. Taylor started work as a teacher in regional Victoria. In 1933 she became Victoria's first full-time teacher-librarian at Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne and later at Methodist Ladies' College. This volume covers the peri...