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Bridge hits troubled waters
Newspaper clipping about delays to the upgrading of Swan Street Bridge. The work will provide an extra east bound lane and wider footpaths. The delay is said to be due to inaccurate original drawings.
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Bridges
In house newsletter put out by Mercy Health & Aged Care. Mentions 70th anniversary of laying the foundation stone of Mercy Private, and Time to Move ball held by Mercy Hospital for Women.
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Brief History of Rivers Beechcroft Dickinson
Brief biography of Rivers Beechcroft Dickinson, clergyman, who was curate at St. Peter's, Eastern Hill from 1855 and who performed the marriage of W.A.C. a'Beckett and Emma Mills, whose elopement caused a minor scandal.
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BRIESE, Arthur Oswald
Arthur Oswald Briese's story is an interesting one: he was the grandson of Johann Ludwig Briese, born in Posen, Prussia, who migrated to South Australia in 1855 as part of a group of German farmers funded by the South Australia Corporation. Johann, a blacksmith by trade, first wo...
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BROBERG, Carl Albert
Carl Albert Broberg was born in Richmond, Victoria on 2nd November to Carl Niels Johann Broberg and Eda Margaret Broberg (nee Frees). Carl Senior was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, attending the Grammar School in Copenhagen before qualifying as a Manufacturing Chemist. He came to M...
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BROCKELBANK, Lilla
Lilla Brockebank, cricketer and architect, was the fifth of the six daughters of Duncan Brockelbank, actuary and accountant, and his wife Bessy Jemima, née Westmore .[1] Lilla was born in Hackney, London in 1883.[2] The family left London for Australia in August 1885 aboard the M...
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BROOKE, Katie Winifred
Katie (Kate) Winifred Brooke (1876-1939) Introduction Katie Brooke served in India from 1917 until 1919 after training at the Homeopathic Hospital in Melbourne. Following the war, she was matron and/or owner of several private hospitals around Victoria. She also spent fours years...
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BROOKS, Chassie Winton
Chassie Winton Brooks was born in 1884 at Williamstown, Victoria. He was the brother of Constance Jessie Brooks. (see separate biography on Master List) His father was Yates Brooks and his mother was Emma Brooks, nee Mullen. He was living with his mother at 144 Clarendon Street E...
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BROOKS, Constance Jessie
Constance Jessie Brooks (1888–1966), who served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in India from 1917 to 1919, was the daughter of Yates and Emma Brooks (nee Mullen). Constance’s father Yates had come to Victoria at the age of 13 with his parents John and Eliza and five sib...
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Browne Family and Park House, 124 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne
Photo shows single house of terrace type. A carriage, possibly a landau, with a pair of horses, and driver aboard, waits in front. The house was on the site of the current Post Office (2008) at 124 Wellington Parade. At the time the photo was taken it was owned by Hugh Junor Brow...
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BROWNLEE, Robert
Robert Brownlee was born in Glasgow in 1886. He was an apprentice at Harvey Engineering in Glasgow for five years, listed as an Engineer. He left the UK on SS Dorset from Liverpool on 3 August 1912 and arrived in Melbourne on the 21 September 1912, where he is listed as living at...
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Browsing the aisles of serendipity
Review of an exhibition held at the State Library of Victoria entitled Velvet, Iron, Ashes. Many of the apparently disparate items have a greater or lesser connection with Janet, Lady Clarke, wife of Sir William Clarke of Cliveden, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. The article s...
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Bruce McBrien OAM
1 x A4 page of typed notes on the life of Bruce McBrien, 0AM, author of Marvellous Melbourne and Me.
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BRUNT, Archibald Andrew
Archie was born Parhran in 1894, son of William Brunt and Sarah Buckland nee Brunt Enlisted on the 11 Jan 1915 in Melbourne, aged 21 and listed as a farmer Spent several month 11 Jan 1915 to29 March 1915 at the 13th Light Horse Training depot at Broadmedows Embarked on A34 ss Per...
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BRUNTON, Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander Brunton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in December 1878. He was from a family of 5 brothers and 5 sisters. His father, Thomas Brunton, was in the British Army and possibly fought at the relief of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny in 1858. He is listed as a private i...
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BUDDON, Frederick Phillip
Frederick Buddon was 36 years old, 5' 9", 11 stone, 8 lbs., with fair hair and blue eyes when he enlisted on 27/1/1915. He listed his occupation as Commercial Traveller and gave his next of kin as his sister, Sister Laura Buddon, 150 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. He had had...
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Built to Last: A History of the Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist, Albany Western Australia 1848-1998
The first incumbent of St. John the Evangelist was John Ramsden Wollaston, the father of Henry Wollaston who became the first incumbent of Holy Trinity, East Melbourne.
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BUNJILAKA ABORIGINAL CULTURE CENTRE
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre contains a permanent exhibition, created by a shared enterprise between Museum Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Community. It brings together the knowledge, culture, stories, objects and images from the Koorie peoples of Victoria and the w...
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Burchett index cards
A box of index cards used by Winston Burchett to record his basic research on East Melbourne. There are 1,954 cards containing handwritten and typed notes as well as photographs taken by Burchett. There are some panoramic photographs taken from the top of the Hilton Hotel and the...
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Burchett Winston
Newspaper clipping - obituary of Winston Burchett, East Melbourne historian. Photo. The Age, The Culture, 27 September 2002.
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Burchett's East Melbourne
A documentary about East Melbourne made and narrated by Winston Burchett in 1977. Re-taped on video in 2004.
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BURFORD, Lionel
Lionel de Vere Burford was born in Moonee Ponds on 25 June 1894,the second of two sons. His parents, Aubrey John Burford and Annie (nee Edwards) had married in 1892. Annie had been married previously and had a small daughter. Her husband died soon after and Annie took on life as...
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BURKE, Patrick Thomas
Patrick Thomas Burke was born in Launceston, Tasmania, the son of Patrick Burke and his wife Ellen, nee Vaughan. At the time he enlisted he was working as a salesman at Dimmeys Model Stores, 150-162 Swan St., Richmond. he must have been well-liked, because, hearing that he had be...
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BURLEY, Rexford
Rexford Burley or Burleigh was born in Stanley, Tasmania. He was the son of Louisa Agnes Burley. b.1881,but no father is listed on the certificate of birth. On his death certificate, his grandparents are listed as his parents, William Matthew Burley, while the mother was recorded...