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Marvellous Melbourne: Queen City of the South - Australia circa 1910
A documentary film made in 1910 about the City of Melbourne, then the interim capital city of Australia.
The director, Charles Cozens Spencer, was famous for his bushranger films: "Captain Starlight" (Robbery Under Arms), "Captain Midnight - The Bush King", "The Life and Adventures of John Vane, The Notorious Australian Bushranger", "Dan Morgan, The Terror of the Australian Bush" (Mad Dog Morgan). He also made the 1915 Film "The Shepherd of the Southern Cross." He introduced Australia's greatest silent film-maker, Raymond Longford, to the business.
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Recollections of East Melbourne by Richard King
A short, hand-written piece giving the personal recollections of Richard King, owner and occupier of 125 George Street during the 1960s and 1970s. He mentions Robin Cuming, 'Black Jack' McEwen, Mrs Clark, Ian Gardiner, Ben Marriner and Peter and Di Renou. Most of the people mentioned were Richard's immediate neighbours.
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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade and south east corner of Lansdowne Street
Photo shows on the left hand side a terrace of six houses facing Victoria Parade. These were known as Elmbank Terrace. On the right hand side two houses can be seen. These are part of a terrace of four houses which were known as Lansdowne Terrace. The houses are now the site of a modern office building known as 200 Victoria Parade.
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View from Government House tower
This photo was taken from the tower of Government House towards the north east. It was taken before the Yarra River was straightened to reduce flooding.
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Betty Hall
A photo of Betty Hall late in life. She was a retired solicitor and resident of East Melbourne for many years, living at 74 Simpson Street.
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East Melbourne, 154 Hotham Street, Cadzow
The photo shows a two storey, double fronted house, with front door and portico slightly off-set, the result of extending the original single fronted house sideways. Six small children are pictured in front of the house.
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It's goodbye to Cliveden
Newspaper clipping about the sale and imminent demolition of Cliveden Mansions to make way for what is described as a multi-storey motel. This became the Hilton on the Park Hotel, and is now the Pullman Hotel.
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Burnell
Watercolour painting by William Tibbits of Burnell, the house which originally stood at 109 Albert Street, East Melbourne, now part of the Epworth Freemasons' Hospital site. Burnell was built for John Speechly Gotch, a partner in the firm of Gordon and Gotch, newsagents.
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Halloween, 99 Hotham Street, East Melbourne
Painting by Lynne Deans of the house at 99 Hotham Street, East Melbourne known as Halloween
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Punt on the Yarra 1845,
Lithograph of a punt on the Yarra near the site of Prince's Bridge. The punt is carrying a cart and six oxen carrying a load of wood. Another cart is waiting on the bank. Lithograph by Ham Bros from a sketch by Charles Norton.
The original lithograph is in the collection of the State Library of Victoria. Its record is as follows:
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Dr Adam Cairns
A paper on the life and work of Dr Adam Cairns (1802-1881), clergyman and theologian, and founding father of the Presbyterian Church in Melbourne. He established Chalmers Church, its first place of worship, on Eastern Hill. After his death Cairns Memorial Church in Powlett Street, East Melbourne was built in his memory.
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58-60 Gipps Street, East Melbourne - rubbish day
Rubbish bins out for collection outside 60 Gipps Street, East Melbourne
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115 Grey Street, East Melbourne
Two photos showing the house at 115 Grey Street, East Melbourne. A symmetrical bluestone house with verandah
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 119, 121
Photo showing the pair of houses at 119-121 Grey Street, East Melbourne
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 120, 124 - chimneys
Photo shows chimneys of the houses at 120 (right) and 124 (left) Powlett Street, East Melbourne.
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 123, 125, 127
Photo shows a terrace of three houses, distinctive because of their upper level cast iron balconies while the lower balconies take the form of a timber arcade.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 130 - chimneys
Photos show chimney of the house at 130 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The chimney itself is cement rendered with broad horizontal mouldings at its rim, typical of its time. The chimney bears three chimney pots cylindrical in form with a ring turning below a castellated rim.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 132, 134, 136, 138
Photo shows on the left 138 Powlett Street, known as The Opera House because of its unusual curved balcony. On the right is a terrace of three houses numbered 132-136 Powlett Street. The frieze to the upper balcony of No 136 has been removed. It has since been restored.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 138, 140, 142
On the left of the photo is a pair of houses numbered 140-142 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The facade of No 140 has been covered in the once fashionable concrete breeze blocks, since restored. On the right is 138 Powlett Street, known as The Opera House because of its unusual curved balcony.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 157
Photo shows the house at 157 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. It focuses on the front door which is recessed well beyond the front wall of the house. The large room with bay window on the right of the photo was added at a later stage.
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 171
Photo shows detail of cast iron balcony at 171 Powlett Street, East Melbourne
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 175
Two similar photos show house at 175 Hotham Street, East Melbourne known as Hotham House. It is a symmetrical house with balconies supported by a pair of centrally placed columns of the Tuscan Order.
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East Melbourne, George Street 188
Photo shows large single house at 188 George Street, East Melbourne. It is one of East Melbourne's grandest remaining mansions and is richly decorated with an elaborate cast iron balcony and lead-light glazing,
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East Melbourne, Powlett Street 082, 084, 086, 088, 090, 092, 094, 096, 098, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112
Three photos showing two different views of Canterbury Terrace. This row of terrace houses is made up of sixteen units and is unusual for this reason. The terrace is broken into five bays. The two end bays and the wide central bay are arcaded, while the two other bays are deorated with cast iron balconies.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Place
Photo of the lane which runs between 164 and 168 Hotham Street, East Melbourne
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Jolimont roundabout
Photo shows a traffic roundabout at the junction of Wellington Parade, Wellington Parade South and Clarendon Street. It was constructed in 1956 as a result of traffic congestion in Wellington Parade.
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Simpson Street intersection
Photo shows the intersection of Simpson Street and Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. Across Wellington Parade is Vale Street. On the left hand corner of Vale Street is a modern building constructed as an extension to St Ives Hospital behind. It has now been demolished and the old house has been restored as a private residence.
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Stanford Fountain
Two photos of the Stanford Fountain in Gordon Reserve, which lies at the junction of Spring Street and Macarthur Street. The Stanford fountain is named for its creator, William Stanford. [For a full history and description see link below]
- 1880 reads
Ormiston Ladies' College advertisements
Photos of two advertisments for Ormiston Ladies' College. The school was first established c.1861 by Mrs Ainslie in George Street, East Melbourne. In 1862 she moved the school to 40 (now 101) Powlett Street as shown in the first advertisement. In 1868 Mrs Ainslie sold the school to Miss Nimmo who moved it to what is now kown as 179 Gipps Street, as shown in the second advertisement.
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Eastern Hill residents listed in Sands & McDougall Post Office Directories 1858
Photo of the two pages of the 1858 Sands & McDougall Post Office Directory which list residents of Eastern Hill
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Holy Trinity choir c.1945
Group photo of the Holy Trinity choir in 1945/46.
Names, where known, left to right
Back row: Frank Brett, Len Masters, *, Mr Tonkin (choir master), *, Clive Hill, - Callinan
Second back row: *, *, *, *, Betty Sprague, *, *, *, Leonie Masters
Second front row: *, *, Esme -, Marj -, George Gilder, *, Mavis de Vergier, *
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St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir School 1926
Photocopied group photo of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, 1926. Classes were held in Holy Trinity Hall from 1910 to 1929. The headmaster during that time was Mr W E P Austin. The choirmaster was Dr A E Floyd who was also the organist at St Paul's. The boys were paid a salary of 7s (70c) per year.
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Trinity Hall School 1905
Group photo of Trinity Hall School, East Melbourne, 1905. The teacher shown in the photo is Etta Stoddart. A pupil with the initials 'I J H A' is standing in the second row, second from the right. This is undoubtedly Isabelle Josephine Handfield Andersosn (1894-1984) who lived all her life at 20 Jolimont Terrace. The school was run by Miss Dougharty.
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Trinity Hall School c.1911
Group photo of Trinity Hall School c.1911. The reverse of the photo indicates that 'I J H A' (Isabelle Josephine Handfield Anderson) was the original owner of the photo. She has written that she was not present, nor 'L B R', nor 'C O W'. The head mistress was Miss Dougharty.
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Rev C L Crossley
Newspaper articles from a page in a scrap book. In the main article Rev C L Crossley, incumbent at Holy Trinity, East Melbourne, gives his views on Christ's second coming.
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Holy Trinity Church
Photo of Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne. The spire shown here was removed in 1956 when seen to be unstable. The original photo is in the collection of State Library of Victoria and its rcord appears below:
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Sketch for gasolier
Sketch for gasolier proposed for the first Trinity Church, George Street, East Melbourne. The first church was completed in 1864 to a design by Leonard Terry and was burnt down in 1905.
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146
Photo of Fitzroy Terrace, Clarendon Street, East Melbourne shortly before it was demolished to make way for the Mercy Maternity Hospital, which has now become apartments known as 150 Clarendon Street.
- 1964 reads
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 150
Two photos of Clarendon Terrace during its demolition to make way for the Mercy Maternity Hospital, which has now been converted to apartments known as 150 Clarendon Street. The original photos are in the collection of the State Library of Victoria and its record is as follows:
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 080
Plans for conversion of house at 80 Vale Street into four flats, dated 18 September 1933. Client is Miss J B Clelland. No architect's name is given.
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Smith, George Alexander James
This photo was provided by Eileen Mina Cormick with the suggestion that he was possibly the subject of one of our WW1 biographies: George Joseph Dunkling.
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John Barrie Wykes
Photos provided by John Wykes family and friends to celebrate his life.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 180, Verona
A pencil sketch of Verona, on the corner of Gipps and Clarendon Streets. It is viewed from the Fitzroy Gardens across Clarendon Street. The sketch is from an album of 24 sketches from around Melbourne and Victoria by K Kennedy and dated 1876. It is inscribed 'Mr Ramsden's East Melb from Melb' and signed K Kennedy.
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1847 Plan of North Melbourne by Charles Laing
The map shows the city of Melbourne with names of orginal purchasers marked. Public buildings are also marked. The western edge of the proposed East Melbourne is shown with streets marked with a set of names very different from the eventual names used.
The map is in the collection of the State Library of Victoria and its citation is below:
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1859 Plan of East Melbourne
A map of East Melbourne showing original purchasers' names, land granted to churches, land reserved for public use. Capt Lonsdale's house is shown, as is Latrobe's Jolimont. It shows an early scheme for the Fitzroy Gardens and old street names such as Fitzroy Street for Hotham Street.
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1856 Plan of Eastern Hill
Map shows Eastern Hill marked with churches and public buildings. The map shows some buildings which have been all but forgotten such as the Police Barracks, the Reservoir and Apsley Place.
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1848 Plan of Parish of Jika Jika
The map shows Richmond subdivided into allotments with names of first purchasers inscribed. To the west of Richmond lies the as yet undeveloped East Melbourne, south of Wellington Parade. The edge of the Government Paddock is shown.
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1843 Plan of Richmond by Robert Hoddle
The map shows Collingwood and Richmond subdivided into allotments. The Richmond allotments are inscribed with the names of the original purchasers. To the west of Richmond the part of East Melbourne south of Wellington Parade is shown.
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1859 Geological Survey Map
The map shows the central city grid and suburbs to the south and east, including East Melbourne. The caption beneath the map reads 'Surveyed, Engraved & Published under the direction of Alfred R C Selwyn, Govt Geologist'.
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