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East Melbourne

  • 2-12 Parliament Place
  • Presbyterian Ladies' College, Albert Street

Jolimont

  • 11 Palmer Street

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  • Chequers
  • Presbyterian Ladies' College
  • Tasma Terrace
  • The Hermitage

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  • La Trobe
  • Taylor

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Acquisition number: 
1378
Catalogue number: 
embk0095
File name: 
BK0095
File location: 
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The second of two volume memoir by Fairlie Taylor. Taylor started work as a teacher in regional Victoria. In 1933 she became Victoria's first full-time teacher-librarian at Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne and later at Methodist Ladies' College. This volume covers the period 1920-1978. It has an account of her time at PLC (1933-1943) including the names of many teachers. When she first arrived in East Melbourne she rented a wooden cottage at 11 Palmer Street, Jolimont, which was known as The Hermitage. At the time it was said to be the cottage that Governor La Trobe had rented to Bishop Perry on his arrival in Melbourne in 1847. However It is now believed that Perry rented another cottage that was on the corner of Jolimont Terrace and Wellington Parade South. Fairlie found the cottage when an article about it appeared in The Age [see link below] The Hermitage was demolished in 1937 and Taylor and her daughter moved to a boarding house known as Chequers which was three houses of Tasma Terrace in Parliament Place.
Item type: 
Book
Building name: 
Presbyterian Ladies' College
Building name: 
The Hermitage
Building name: 
Chequers
Building name: 
Tasma Terrace
Subject address: 
11 Palmer Street, Jolimont
Subject address: 
2-12 Parliament Place, East Melbourne
External reference: 
Melbourne's Historic Homes, The Age, 14 Jan 1933, p.7
Number of pages: 
155
Author: 
Fairlie Taylor
Date of publication or creation: 
1978
Publisher: 
Alpha Books
Publication place: 
Sydney
ISBN: 
0 85553 007 3
Year acquired: 
2017
Donor: 
Sylvia Black
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