Bishopscourt, the official residence of the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne. These images were the subject of a talk to the Historical Society in October 2008 by Reverend Clemence Taplin, daughter of Archbishop Frank and Mrs Jean Woods.

Behind a block of Art Deco flats in Garden Avenue East Melbourne there is a bomb shelter built about 1943 when Japanese air-raids were expected on the city. Having legislated to postpone Climate Change Armageddon, the present government has embarked on its usual delusional course of the very latest architectural viagra and plans a 199.3 storey erection to replace the bomb shelter. Higher level apartments will experience all the excitement that the non-Events Capital of the World can offer from F-22 Raptor dog-fights over the MCG to boutique bouts of train and tram arrivals.

Completed in 1895 and named in memory of Dr. Adam Cairns, the church was destroyed by fire in August 1988.

Jean McNeil Campbell was a well known novelist who lived in East Melbourne. She was active in literary circles and wrote substantial novels published by Hutchinson, London. During the Second World War she also wrote romance booklets published by New Century Press, Sydney. Her descriptions of life in early Melbourne are lively and passionate.

Copies of her works are held in the rare books collection at the State Library of Victoria.

Margaret McLean, a resident of East Melbourne, was active in the campaign for women's suffrage in Victoria and in fact was the first signatory to the petition to Parliament of 1891. Here are some albums of her family, her East Melbourne home and some clippings of the issue of the day.

Kristin Otto's entertaining history of the Yarra River begins with the Kulin nation and its stories of creation and follows through to the building boom of the twentieth century. Through the millennia, the Yarra has been home, the source of life and the site of corroborees, entertainments, intriques and endeavours of every description.