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C.J. La Trobe: A Study in Heredity and Character
Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
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Cadzow, 154 Hotham Street, East Melbourne
The photo shows a two storey, double fronted house, with front door and portico slightly off-set, the result of extending the original single fronted house sideways. At the time the photo was taken it was owned by the Dougharty family who owned it from 1883-1952. The two children...
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Cafe Balzac
Kendrah Morgan, curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art since 2003, will shortly have her book on Cafe Balzac, once on the site of Tippler & Co in Wellington Parade, ready for publication. In her talk she will present the story of the restaurant's beginnings at the hands of Georges...
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Café Culture
Newspaper article and review about George Street Café. Photo. Herald Sun, 10 June 2003, Citystyle,.
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Cairns Apartments
Collection of brochures advertising auctions of various apartments at 131 Hotham Street, East Melbourne. From 2004 and ongoing. Photos. Plans.
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Cairns Apartments Finial Repair
On 1 July 2015 two large cranes and a team of men removed the finial from the top of the southern steeple of the Cairns Apartments. This series of photos shows the action. The finial is to be rebuilt by a stonemason using Geelong sandstone.
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Cairns Memorial Church, East Melbourne
Scan of glass lantern slide of the Cairns Memorial Church, East Melbourne by John Henry Harvey.
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CAMBRIDGE, Ernest George Henry
Ernest Cambridge enlisted in June, 1914. He was then just over 18 and an assistant in the Mail Branch of the Melbourne GPO. He had some previous experience, having served with the Senior Cadets 51 Battalion at Albert Park for two years. Following initial training, he embarked on...
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CAMERON, Edith Clare
For many of the Great War nurses linked with East Melbourne, the connection was primarily a professional one, that is they trained or nursed in one of the suburb's hospitals. Some, however, were brought up and/or lived in East Melbourne for a number of years. Edith Clare Cameron...
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CAMERON, Henry Gervais Lovett
Henry Gervais Cameron was the son of Verney Lovett Cameron, a solicitor practising at 30 Collins St.East, Melbourne, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, nee Fraser. He was born in Kew and educated at Melbourne Grammar School. In 1915, when he enlisted, Henry Lovett Cameron was 35 y...
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CAMERON, John
John Cameron was one of a family of eight boys and one girl, of whom three brothers had died before John Cameron. He gave as his next of kin his sister, Violet May Cameron, living in Vale St. East Melbourne. He himself lived at 46 Hocking St. Footscray, while his elder brother, W...
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CAMERON, Robert Ewen
ROBERT EWEN CAMERON Born 27 October 1890 at Portarlington Victoria, the son of a Presbyterian Minister Educated at Geelong College, University of Melbourne and Adelaide, Graduating with Bachelor of Arts degree Teacher at St Peter's College in 1912 in the Prep School then transfer...
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Campbell, Jean (1901-1984)
Bitter Honeymoon front coverMelbourne author Jean Campbell (1901-1984) was the writer of five novels for William Hutchinson, publishers, in London, and also produced magazine style romance novels for New Century Press, 3 North York St., Sydney. These booklets, sold for 4d, were d...
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CAMPBELL, John
John Campbell's origins would have remained a mystery, were it not for his descendents. Although he claimed as his address C% James O'Grady at Grant St., East Melbourne, there is no Grant Street in East Melbourne. Luckily, in 2020 and 2021, two connections, one of John O'Grady an...
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CAMPBELL, John McNeil
John Campbell was born in Melbourne in 1897. His father was the Victorian Manager of the London Bank, based at 90 Bourke Street, Melbourne, and John lived at this address. He enlisted on the 30 September 1914 and entered his age as 19 years, six months. He was in fact only 17. It...
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Cancer hospital's move creates development opportunity
Newspaper clipping about the forthcoming move of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital to Parkville and the development opportunities this will become available for the site on the corner of Landsdowne Street and St Andrews Place, East Melbourne.
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CANTWELL, Philip Sylvester
Philip Sylvester Cantwell was born at Ballan in country Victoria on the 15th January 1882. His father was Philip Cantwell and his mother was Alice Leahey. Phillip Snr and Alice were married in 1880 and Phillip Jnr was the first child. HIs brother, John Patrick Cantwell was born i...
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Canvases a testament to a life's work
An article about the life and work of Joyce Meier. Joyce Meier and her family lived at 73-75 Grey Street, East Melbourne for nearly 60 years. She had trained as an artist but did not pursue a professional career after her marriage, but continued to paint for her own pleasure. She...
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Capital City News April/May 1999
Copy of Capital City News with a photograph and article about new lord mayor, Peter Costigan, a resident of East Melbourne. Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.
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Captain Lonsdale's Cottage
Documentation pertaining to Captain Lonsdale's Cottage 1. From the Archives, 1981: Lonsdale's doors rescued from a lavatory. Reprinted in The Age, 9 August 2021 2. Captain Lonsdale's Cottage: Victorian Heritage Database Report. Documents sourced by David Wark
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Car parking row looms
Newspaper clippings about proposed reduction of car parking in Yarra Park. From 8 May 2003.
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CARDWELL, James Pearson
James Cardwell was born at Blackpool on the 1st March 1877. He was living with his parents in Blackpool in 1891 according to the 1891 census. He marries Elizabeth Hannah Duxbury at the Holy Trinity Church south Shore Blackpool in 1897 His first child Margaret Ellen Knoles Cardwel...
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CARINE, John William
John William Carnie embarked from Melbourne in October 1917, however there is no service record available.
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CARMODY, John Patrick
John Patrick Carmody was born on 19 January, 1890 in Carlton to John Joseph Carmody and Elizabeth Culhane who was born in Limerick Ireland. His sister Jane Marguerite was born in 1895 in Carlton. At the time of enlistment on 15 october, 1917, John was working as an Electrician ha...