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We of the Never-Never with a Memoir by Margaret Berry
This edition of the book contains a memoir about Mrs Gunn by her niece, Margaret Berry. Mrs Aeneas Gunn lived for many years at 179 George Street, East Melbourne with her two sisters, Lizzie Taylor and Carrie Templeton. Photos
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Victorian Historical Journal June 2018
Essays on various aspects of Victoria's history
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 188, The Deanery (first): documentation relating to its construction
Documentation, which together shows the builders of the first parsonage, 25 Hotham Street, East Melbourne and the first deanery, 188 Hotham Street, East Melbourne, to be Parry and Lainson, not Perry and Wilson in the first instance, or Parry and Lawson in the second, as previously recorded in the Burchett Index, City of Melbourne Intents to Build [microfiche]
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Jolimont, Jolimont Road 122
The photo shows a single fronted two storey house with cast iron verandah. It was built 1868 for Howard Willoughby, editor of The Argus. In this photo John Donaldson, donor’s great grand-father, stands at the front gate with a dog.
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East Melbourne, George Street 122
The photo shows a large two storey, double fronted house with a cast iron verandah. Although it is hard to see, the accompanying detail from the MMBW plan of 1898 shows the windows to the right hand side of the photo to be bay windows.
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Victorian Historical Journal December 2018
Essays on various aspects of Victoria's history
- 1418 reads
Victorian Historical Journal June 2019
Essays on various aspects of Victoria's history
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 087
Sale brochure for auction of 87 Grey Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 28 November 2017. Colour photos. Plans. House sold later for $5.65m.
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 006
Sale brochure for 6 Grey Street, East Melbourne, December 2018. Colour photos. Plans.
Also a newspaper cutting giving a report on the result of the auction. The house was passed in. Article by Jim Malo [The Sunday Age, Domain, 19 Dec 2018, p.37]
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East Melbourne, Darling Street 024
Sale brochure for 24 Darling Street, East Melbourne, 2018. Colour photos. Plans
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East Melbourne, Berry Street 040
Sale brochure for auction of 40 Berry Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 14 October 2017. Colour photos. Plans. House sold for $4.55m.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 053
Sale brochure for auction of Apartment 20, 53 Powlett Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 25 August 2001. Colour photos. Plans. Sold for $196,000.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 053
Sale brochure for auction of Apartment 20, 53 Powlett Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 6 September 2008. Colour photos. Plans. Sold for $387,000
- 1431 reads
East Melbourne, Gipps Street 077
Sale brochure for auction of 77 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 13 April 2019. Colour photos. Plans.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 168
Sale brochure for 168 Hotham Street, East Melbourne with expressions of interest closing 20 November 2018. Colour photos. Plans.
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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 133
Sale brochure for auction of 133 Simpson Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 12 April 2014. Colour photos. Plans. The house sold for $1.565m.
- 1388 reads
Easat Melbourne, Simpson Street 139
Sale brochure for 139 Simpson Street, East Melbourne, October 2018. Colour photos. Plans.
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East Melbourne, George Street 142
Sale brochure for auction of 142 George Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 28 October 2017. Colour photos. Plans. House sold for $2.85m.
- 1367 reads
East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 488
Sale brochure for auction of 488 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, scheduled for 16 March 2019. Colour photos. Plans.
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East Melbourne, George Street 032
Sale brochure for auction of Apartment 6, 32 George Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 23 November 2013. Colour photos. Plans.
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East Melbourne, George Street 020
Sale brochure for 20 George Street, East Melbourne, expressions of interest closing 8 December 2015. Colour photos. Plans on separate insert.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 010
Sale brochure for 10 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, expressions of interest closing 19 September 2017. Colour photos. Plans on separate insert.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 160
Sale brochure for 160 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, expressions of interest closing 15 May 2017. Colour photos. Plans on separate insert.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 153
Sale brochure for 153 Hotham Street, East Melbourne, expressions of interest closing March 2016. Colour photos. Plans on separate insert.
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Jolimont, Agnes Street 025
Sale brochure for auction of 25-27 Agnes Street, Jolimont, scheduled for 25 November 2017. Colour photos. Plans. House sold for $3.87m.
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 038
Sale brochure for auction of 38 Grey Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 28 April 2018. Colour photos. Plans. House sold for $3.87m.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 121
Sale brochure for 121 Hotham Street, East Melbourne, expressions of interest closing 30 October 2018. Colour photos. Plans on separate insert.
Historical note: Property sold on 19 Aug 1989 for $531,000. Noted at the time by David Ellison.
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Kay & Burton, Comparable Sales Report
Comparable Sales Report produced by Kay & Burton, real estate agents, in preparation for sale of 121 Hotham Street, East Melbourne. The report gives data on ten comparable properties, including description, thumbnail photos, plans, number of rooms and sold price.
The properties included in the report are:
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Cricket HQ, city tower hit market
Newspaper clipping about the forthcoming sale of 86-90 Jolimont Street, Jolimont, currently the headquarters of Cricket Victoria.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 131
Newspaper clipping about forthcoming auction of apartment 1, 131 Hotham Street, East Melbourne.
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My Grandmother's Secret
Author, Kath McKay, writes about the legal case surrounding the rape of her grandmother, Ethel Wilkinson, as a nine year old child in 1895. The accused rapist was Edwin Worrall, a family friend who looked after Ethel and her two brothers while Harry Wilkinson, their father, a sole parent, was at work.
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Eve Esnouf (1919-2017)
Obituary for Eve Esnouf. The Esnouf family had a long connection with East Melbourne with Ernest Phillip Esnouf purchasing 1229 Hoddle Street in 1922 living there with his family until the mid 1930s when it was rented out.
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Sullivan sells seven-floor block
Article reporting on the sale by Brendan Sullivan of Sullivan Properties of the building at 122-130 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne.
Also mentioned is the forthcoming sale of 96 Wellington Parade, described by Barry Humphries in 1995 as the 'ugliest building in the city'.
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Dame Beryl Beaurepaire (1923-2018)
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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Clarendon Terrace and her neighbours
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 neighbours at that time, particularly women, including:
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Jolimont Station: submission
Part of East Melbourne Historical Society's nomination to Heritage Victoria for Jolimont Station to be added to the Heritage Register. It is the EMHS's own assessment of the station's significance. It includes historical, architectural and aesthetic information.
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Cricket in Long Skirts: Women's Cricket 1905-1916
A history of the first eleven years of women's cricket as an organised competition. The Victorian Ladies' Cricket Association was formed in 1905. This ceased to function after the 1915-16 season largely due to the war and the need for women to expend their energies elsewhere. A new association was formed in 1924 - The Victorian Women's Cricket Association.
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Mummy's the One in Slacks
A memoir in the which the author, Virginia Hill, recounts her experience as a child of the British Raj sent away to board at Melbourne's Merton Hall at the age of five. It was an unhappy experience, and although the story has nothing to do with East Melbourne directly it highlights earlier attitudes to child raising generally, and in particular the question of education over family l
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The Wisewould Chronicles
A history of the Wisewould family. James Wisewould, solicitor and his wife, Sophia lived with their six small children at 99 Hotham Street in the late 1860s. During this time at least two of the children attended Mrs Roberts School, Sydenham House, across the road at 80 Hotham Street. Adeline, the eldest child, as a twelve year old wrote a diary for a period of just
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Dr Gweneth Wisewould
The poetry of Dr Gweneth Wisewould plus some information about her life. Gweneth Wisewould was the grand-daughter of James and Sophia Wisewould. [See link below]
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Yarra Park School Grade VI 1941
Four images:
The first is a class photo of the 1941 Grade VI at Yarra Park School. The only student identified is Glenice Hopgood (later Nicholls) standing in second back row, five from the left.
The second is a detail of the above showing Glenice Hopgood.
The third is the medal awarded to Glenice Hopgood as dux of the class and presented by Mrs L Epstein.
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Yarra Park School Grade V 1940
Yarra Park School, class photo of Grade V 1940. The only student identified is Glenice Hopgood (later Nicholls) standing in the second back row, three from the right.
The school on the corner of Wellington Parade and Punt Road, East Melbourne, has been dicontinued and converted to apartments.
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Yarra Park School Grade IV 1939
Yarra Park School, class photo of Grade IV 1939. The only student identified is Glenice Hopgood (later Nicholls) standing in the back row, three from the right.
The school on the corner of Wellington Parade and Punt Road, East Melbourne, has been dicontinued and converted to apartments.
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Yarra Park School Grade III 1938
Yarra Park School, class photo of Grade III 1938. The only student identified is Glenice Hopgood (later Nicholls) standing in the second back row, three from the right.
The school on the corner of Wellington Parade and Punt Road, East Melbourne, has been dicontinued and converted to apartments.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 181-189. Grounds for objecting to the VCAT appeal
A document prepared by neighbour Richard Williams, for VCAT hearing in the case of 181-189 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. The Applicant had been refused a permit by the Council to build three three-storey apartments on the site in 2014.
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Reopening of St Peter's Plaza Eastern Hill
On 10 November, St Peter’s Plaza and the restored ‘Cross of Sacrifice’ were re-opened to the public. Dating from 1924, the cross is a memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War 1, modelled on wayside crosses in France and is the only one of its kind in Australia.
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Victorian Historical Journal December 2019
Articles and reviews on aspects of Victoria's history
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 064, 066, 068, 070
Scanned copy of a business card advertising the boarding house at 68 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. The photo shows four terrace houses, No 68 is second from the left. The two houses on the right have been demolished and replaced by an apartment building.
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Muriel Ismay Smith - a remarkable life
The eventful, rags to riches life story of Muriel Ismay Smith who lived at Victoria House, 220 Clarendon Street between 1954 and 1988 when she died. The author is her grandson, Paul Lawrie. Includes photos.
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Reminiscences of East Melbourne
Typed transcript of a meeting held by the East Melbourne Historical Society on 16 April 2003. The event entailed Alan Basham chairing a panel of six long term residents of East Melbourne who, in turn, spoke of their memories of living in the area. Memories included stories of decrepit houses, neighbours, changing streetscapes and personal anecdotes.
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