East Melbourne Historical Society
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Born East Melbourne, enlisted 24 January 1916 at Melbourne, embarked 20 May 1916, disembarked at Plymouth 18 July 1916, died of disease (scarlet fever) at Isolation Hospital, Salisbury, England 28 December 1916, his 19th birthday. Buried Stratford sub Castle Churchyard near Salis...
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Norman Seth Culliver was born in 1894 to Eli Culliver (1866-1903) and his wife Margaret Moore Culliver (1866-1943). The family lived in Drysdale, Victoria on the Bellarine Peninsula, but probably moved follwinging Eli Culliver's death in 1902. In 1914, Seth and his mother were li...
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John CUREL was the second son of Emily Bragg and Henry Edward Curel, and stepson of Arthur Bragg (see entry). Like his brother Archibald Charles Curel, he had been born at Cloncurry, North Queensland. In 1914, He was a 22 year old and single, a miner by occupation, 5' 9" tall, wi...
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Photo below: Studio portrait probably of 4159 Private (Pte) Robert Kingsley Currie, 5th Battalion, of East Melbourne, Vic, and another unidentified soldier. Pte Currie enlisted on 2 September 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He returned to Australia...
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Newspaper clippings start with proposed redevelopment of Dallas Brooks Hall and the National Trust's fight to save it. Later clippings with updated news.
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Newspaper clipping reporting on plans for development of the Dallas Brooks site in Albert Street, East Melbourne. The site is to be developed by Mirvac into luxury apartments, with Bates Smart as architects.
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Very little can be written about Patrick Daly. His name appears both on the 14th Battalion lists form the Australian War Memorial and on the Embarkation Roll, but the National Archives have no Service Records for him. On the Electoral Rolls, he appears in 1912 as a labourer, livi...
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Photos of indiscriminate parking at Yarra Park during the summer of 2012. A call to the MCC improved the situation around the plane trees to some extent but after a couple of weeks the situation reverted. Still, long lines of cars and trucks drive and park over tree roots well un...
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Obituary for Dame Beryl Beaurepaire. Dame Beryl was of the Bedggood family of shoe manufacturers whose factory was in Jolimont. She and her husband, Ian, had 124 Powlett Street as their town house during the 1970s.
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Note card with reProduction of portrait of Dame Nellie Melba by Rupert Bunny in the National Gallery of Victoria, c. 1902. Melba attended Presbyterian Ladies College in East Melbourne.
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6 x A4 pages photocopied from Patchwork, the school magazine of Presbyterian Ladies College. File includes two short articles about old girl, Dame Nellie Melba, "Melba, the Singer" by Mary Campbell and "Melba and the Old School" by Frances Fraser. The pages also include snaps tak...
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Our speaker, Harriet Edquist, is Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT, and Director of the RMIT Design Archives. In this lecture she will look at the connections between a number of prominent East Melbourne women and Melbourne's 20th...
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Daniel Mannix: His Legacy is about a controversial Irish-born twentieth-century Catholic archbishop of Melbourne. Twelve writers offer fresh views of Mannix's religious and political activities and of his influence in both Australia and Ireland. Contributors are: Patrick Morgan a...
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Photograph of Darling Square taken by John Henry Harvey in 1916. Simpson Street is to the right, Gipps Street in the background. Queens Bess Row can be discerned in the distance through the winter's mist. A large birds nest can be seen in one of the bare elm trees.
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Five colour photos of Darling Square, East Melbourne. Two, taken in the summer of 2002, show a glimpse of the Lombardy poplar growing in the central circular garden bed. The next three show the poplar after if fell in September the following year.
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Information circulated by Melbourne City Council to local residents about the proposed stormwater harvesting system to be built under Darling Street. Includes draft plans.
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Edward Ernest Darling was born on 30 September, 1893, the son of Richard Stuart Darling and his wife Sophia, nee Cook. In 1903, he married Elizabeth Annie Agnes Kemp, known as Eliza, in South Melbourne, the daughter of Henry Kemp and Agnes Uglow Kemp. Their son, Reginald Ernest D...
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Article on the work of architect Daryl Jackson, especially the MCG.
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Biography of David Penman, Archbishop of Melbourne.
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Gilbert Heneage Davies was born in 1879 in Jolimont, to George Schoen Davies, a clerk, and his wife, Sarah Annie, nee Staples. Gilbert was born on 27 April, and Sarah died on 4 May, 1879, so it would seem that she died of complications followinf childbirth, Geogre Davies married...
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Percival Naunton Davies was the son of John Davies and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Auguste Fischer. John Davies owned an iron foundry, Davies and Baird, and his son followed in his father's trade. Born in 1883, he married Irene Myra Scott in 1916, and they were to have three childre...
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John George Walker Davis was born in East Melbourne in 1897, but was orphaned at the age of three and raised in Western Australia as her adopted son by Mary Skene, of 157 Claisebrook St., East Perth. He was just over twenty when he enlisted on 21 February 1917, working as an appr...
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Mark Davis was the son of David and Florrie Davis. He was born in East Melbourne, and his address may have been at 36 Clarendon St., East Melbourne, where his mother was living in 1903. He was a railway employee, married to Lillian May Davis, nee Fielding, in 1915. In 1916, when...
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William Davis was 45 years old when he enlisted. He was a single man, a dentist with a Doctor of Dentistry qualification from the University of California, USA. He already had extensive military experience, as a Lieutenant with the 63rd and 62nd Infantry, as well as the Automobil...