St Patrick's College school magazine. Contains news of the year's activities. Notes of past and present students. Photos.

New print 

The information accompanying this photo was given simply as Two Women Outside Family Home, East Melbourne, 1918.

The house can be identified as one of four in Canterbury Terrace, Powlett Street, either numbers 86, 90, 102 or 106. 

Photo of large red brick house in the Queen Anne style, with terracotta roof and pebble dash panels.

The house was built in 1902 for Mrs Tabitha Ball, one of the founders of Ball and Welch, department store. 

Sales brochure for 205 George Street, East Melbourne.  The house was to be sold mid-renovation.  Permits had been obtained and permitted demolition taken place, but no building work yet started.  

The brochure contains proposed plans only. 

This booklet is a reproduction of the 1898 orginal commemorative booklet published to record the consecration of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, on Sunday 31 October 1897, and the events that surrounded the occasion. 

A historical guide to St Patrick's Cathedral, with photos and plans.

3 copies

"May I write to you ... ?"  The correspondence between Daniel Mannix and F.W. Head (1929-1934).

Daniel Mannix was Catholic Archbishop and F.W. Head was Anglican Archbishop. The correspondence concerned the Eucharistic Procession Controversy,

The letters are given in their original form, as well as transcriptons. With commentary. 

This double edition celebrates the 125th Anniversary of the Consecration of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, 1897 and the Development of the Cathedral site from 1848.

A wealth of information about the founding and development of the site.  Includes many photos and plans. 

2 copies.

Black and white photo (new print) showing the Victoria Parade facade of the Victoria Brewery.  An extensive fleet of delivery trucks is lined up in front of the building. 

Sight and Sound, a Bi-Monthly Journal of the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital.

This issue includes articles on building development, hospital administration, medical advances, work of the auxilliary, and short social notes.

Annual Report of the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital for year ending 31 March 1954.

Includes photos of children, unnamed, playing and undergoing hearing tests.

A biography of George Robertson of Melbourne. (Not to be confused with George Robertson of Sydney (1860-1933.)  Robertson arrived in Melbourne aboard the Great Britain in 1852. He quickly opened a shop in Russell Street before moving to Collins Street, between the Athenaeum and the Baptist Church.

On the 2 March 1968 a grass fire broke out in Alphington, near Melbourne.  Two fireman, Sub-Station Officer Gordon Bruce Adams, and Senior Fireman Eric Jamieson, suffered severe burns.  Both later died in hospital.  Jamieson on 3 March and Adams on 23 March.

Brochure advertising Magnolia Court as boutique hotel, c.2000. The property has a long history as a guesthouse/private hotel and is noted as a place where visiting stage performers would stay.  Since then it has become run down.  A planning permit for an upgrade has been granted, however work has not started and the property is on the market. 

Rebecca and her daughter and dog demonstrate a popular form of local transport used by parents to convey their small children between East Melbourne and Melbourne Girls Grammar School in Anderson Street, South Yarra. 

An interview with Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs about their new book Frances Burke, Designer of Modern Textiles. The article provides an extensive overview of Burke's work as a textile designer.

Frances Burke lived in East Melbourne for all of her adult life. 

Robert Outhwaite was a passenger on the Stag, the same ship which in 1847 brought to Melbourne its first bishop, Charles Perry, and his wife, Frances.  Frances Perry wrote about the voyage in her journals, in his diary Outhwaite gives another view.  

Framed drawing of Presbyterian College, East Melbourne viewed from Albert Street 1956 by Herbert Moore.  Moore was an architectural draughtsman who was known for his pen and ink drawings of old buildings. 

by Nan Hutton
From The Age, 19 May 1977

Beyond its beautiful façade, Clarendon Terrace may be a mouldering wreck today. But it was a sound and gracious building when my grandmother lived in it. In the comparatively short history of our city, this was a long time ago.

A folder containing a collection of photos, auction brochures and newspaper clippings relating to East Melbourne and in particular to real estate.  

Myra Sutton, the donor of the collection, was on the committee of the East Melbourne Group and there are some items which relate to the work of the EMG, such as correspondence, newspaper clippings and flyers.

A series of five photographs taken at 17 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. Four of the photos are different views of the front facade of the house.  Two of these show the then owners of the house, Jim Nielsen (in white shirt) and Trish Nielsen (in white top) and their visitors, Myra and Bill Sutton.

Nina Stanton gives a local resident's view of living in East Melbourne.  Nina was diector and curator of The Johnston Collection, a house museum in East Melbourne.

Photo of Queen Bess Row, 72-76 Hotham Street, East Melbourne, taken from the rear of 88 George Street.  

In the foreground on the left is 81-83 Hotham Street and on the right is the rear of 77-79 Hotham Street.

Colleen Meldrum talks about her life prompted by some favourite possessions.  Colleen was Lady Mayoress 1991-1992. She lived at 92 George Street, East Melbourne.