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Two photographs. One shows Clare Hicks with her niece and nephew outside apartment buildings at 25 and 27 Powlett Street. The buildings are a matching pair, two storeys with rounded openings, early 20th century. The second photo shows Clare's sister with her children and eastern...
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Auction brochure and newspaper clippings about forthcoming auction of 1/58 Clarendon Street scheduled for 11 Sept. 2004. Photos Plan. Owner's comments.
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A collection of articles on Clarendon Terrace and the Menzies Foundation from a variety of sources.
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Clarendon Terrace, once home to the Menzies Foundation and venue for our lectures, has recently been reinvented as Her Place Women’s Museum. Her Place Women’s Museum Australia is a not-for-profit organisation that celebrates the social, civic and entrepreneurial achievements of a...
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Booklet based on the inaugural lecture at Clarendon terrace for Her Place Women's Museum given by Dr Liz Rushen on 9 May 2019 as part of the National Trust Asutralian Heritage Festival 2019. Clarendon Terrace was built in 1857 and the talk focuses on its history and its neighbour...
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Pamphlet gives a brief history of the building and its restoration for use as the headquarters of The Menzies Foundation. Also gives a brief outline of the work of The Menzies Foundation. Before and after photos.
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Leslie Henry Charles Clark was the second son of Samuel Clark, a railway employee, and his wife Charlotte. He enlisted at age 18 years 6 months on 8 April 1916 at Melbourne, making his birth date around November, 1897. His brother, Percy Victor Clark, enlisted the same year, on 1...
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Percy Victor Clark was the eldest son of Charlotte and Samuel Clark and brother to Leslie Henry Charles Clark. Like his borther he was born in Balmain Street, Richmond, and went to school at Brighton St. State School, Richmond. He served in the Senior Cadets and had continued his...
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William Clark was 34 years old when he enlisted on 28 July, 1915. He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, but living in Melbourne and was a draper by trade. He appears to have had only a sister,who was still living in Scotland, because he nominates her as his next of kin, Mrs Anne T...
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Son of Archbishop Henry Lowther Clarke of Bishopscourt, Melbourne. At the outbreak of the war he had a medical practice in Peterborough, SA and was married to Constance Anderson, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Anderson of Riverina. He enlisted on 16 August 1916 and left on SS Karool...
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Herbert Clifford Clarke was born on 23 May, 1879, to William Clarke and Jane Teresa Clarke, nee Jordan. He enlisted on 24 July, 1917, aged 38 years and two months. He was , at the time, a pastry cook and was to go on to become a master baker. He had married Daisy Rachel Gifford i...
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Janet Marion Clarke was born on 4 June 1851 at Doogallook Station on the Goulburn River, Victoria, the eldest of nine children of the affluent landowner Peter Snodgrass and his wife Charlotte. In 1869 Janet became governess to the four children of the Hon. William Clarke the land...
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Clement Hodgkinson designed the Fitzroy Gardens and lived at 157 Hotham Street.
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Sydney Clement was born on the 4 March 1873 at Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. He was the second son of Reynold Clement of Snarestone Lodge in Snarestone, Leicestershire. The Clement family has an extraordinary history, Sydney's grandfather, Hampden Clement was the owner of several l...
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Frederic Toon Cleverdon was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, but spent much of his life both before and after the war as a Methodist clergyman in Tasmania, first at Queenstown, then post-war to Burnie, Hobart and Launceston. He did his clerical training at Queen's College, Melbourne a...
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An album of a collection of material relating to the home of Sir William Clarke, Cliveden, 192 Wellington Parade, which was demolished in 1968 to make way for the Hilton Hotel. Items include copies of original plans, copies of photos of elaborately furnished interiors and copies...
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Information for patients.
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Bruce Trethowan, heritage architect, followed up on his earlier talk on Cliveden as the family home of Sir William Clarke with the story of its conversion into luxury apartments and its new inhabitants.
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A hand-written list of names of residents at Cliveden Mansions detailing their dining room bookings. There are columns for Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner, Trays and Syphons. Only surnames are given. The list can be dated to the early 1950s. It has been pasted to a plywood backing. T...
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Several copies of a typed list of names of residents at Cliveden Mansions prepared for dining room bookings. There are columns for Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner, Trays, D/Room Extras and Aerated Waters. Only surnames are given. The list can be dated to the 1960s, the final years of...
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Two items: a breakfast menu and a card (business size) giving times for meals.
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Scanned photo of the interior of a drawing room in Cliveden Mansions taken circa 1901.
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A collection of photos taken just prior to the demolition of Cliveden Mansions which once stood on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. The house was demolished to make way for the Hilton on the Park, now the Pullman Hotel. It is pictured devoid o...
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Scan of watercolour painting by Len Annois in 1930 of a view towards Cliveden Mansions looking from the western end of Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. The picture shows the railway tracks, an electric train heading towards Princes Bridge railway station, and Cliveden Mansions...