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Welcome

2007 07 East Melbourne Google EarthWelcome to the East Melbourne Historical Society.

East Melbourne is a tiny suburb adjoining the city of Melbourne bounded by Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens to the west, Victoria Parade to the north, Hoddle Street to the east and Yarra Park to the south, home of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground. East Melbourne was included in Robert Hoddle's original 1837 plan for the city but the first private house was not built until 1853. The suburb today reflects a history of Victoria with its beautiful gardens, grand houses of the gold rush era and workmen's cottages. Cast iron lacework adorns the houses, bluestone cobbled lanes lead to old coach houses and brick dunnies. Artists, scientists, politicians, judges, educators, priests, explorers, entrepreneurs, courtesans, philanthropists and social activists lived here and many a tale is told of characters wild and exotic.

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Joe Pearce - Informant Saw Him Killed

On 17 August 1914 Arthur Mueller ‘Joe’ Pearce enlisted to fight in the Great War.  He was the eighth man from Essendon to sign up and the first VFL footballer to volunteer for the war.  He had played 152 games for the Melbourne Football Club from 1904-1913, and in a game where players had fixed places on the ground, had kicked five goals.  The Argus newspaper nominated him as ‘a

Arthur Mueller ‘Joe’ Pearce, 1912.  MCC
Memorial plaque, Holy Trinity Church.  Photo Graham Shepherd
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Vernon Ransford: the elegant left-hander

The holiday season is with us, and top level cricket at the MCG makes its seasonal appearance in the East Melbourne area, the high point being the Boxing Day Test, this year being an Ashes series against England. The MCG was of course the place where Test cricket was born in 1877, and was also the venue of the first One Day International in January 1971. 

Vernon Ransford
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That was Then, This is Now

If you stand on the corner of Powlett Street and Wellington Parade looking east, there’s the 7-Eleven store, the dry cleaner, a couple of cafes, the Il Duca restaurant and, at the end of the line, the Post Office, an unassuming, utilitarian modern building.

Park House, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, c.1878
Hugh Junor Browne and sons. National Library of Australia
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Former Yarra Park School

The East Melbourne Historical Society is undertaking a project on the history of the former Yarra Park State school.

Yarra Park School, c.1907. State Library of Victoria
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Spotted: a Spotted Pardalote in Jolimont

This tiny Spotted Pardalote was recorded in a cottage garden in Agnes Street, just up the road from a huge demolition taking place on Jolimont Street. It was nervously flitting between a branch and a small verandah ledge. The noise from the jack-hammers and diggers was too great to hear or record its call. We were quite concerned that its habitat had been destroyed, but a couple of days later we saw it again in the same garden before it flew next door into a much more protected bushy garden. We can only hope that it lives and thrives with its family without further disturbance. See a video at: https://emhs.org.au/catalogue/emdf0455

Spotted Pardalote
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Forthcoming activities

Women Artists over 400 Years

Presenter(s): 
Krystyna Campbell-Pretty
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Feb 2023 - 2:00pm
Location: 
National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Local resident, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, has donated several portraits to the NGV which demonstrate the long-overlooked talent of women artists. She has arranged a guided tour of some of these works for us.
Following the tour we will have Afternoon Tea as her guests, during which she will talk
about her work in philanthropy.

Numbers strictly limited

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Recent acquisitions

Aerial Photograph of Yarra Park and MCG 1928

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Aerial Photo of Yarra Park and MCG looking west from a point above Punt Road Oval. Taken in 1928 by Charles Daniel Pratt.

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Mercy Private Hospital under construction, 1935

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Shows Mercy Private Hospital, Grey Street, East Melbourne, under construction in 1935.

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Mercy Private Hospital, 1948

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Postcard. The Rose Series P.49. Real photograph

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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade, c.1905

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Postcard, BP Series, colour print. The reverse is divided into a space for a message and a space for the address.  This format first appeared in Australia in 1905.

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 64, 66, 68, 70

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A photographic postcard published by Valentine's. 

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