Gardens
Powlett Reserve and Darling Square
Notification to residents of plans to upgrade Powlett Reserve and Darling Square. Includes schedule and plans. 1996.
- 2620 reads
Precinct Tree Planting Design
An overview of City of Melbourne's planning strategy for planting new trees and replacing old in East Melbourne and Jolimont (2002).
- 2185 reads
Proudly Provincial
Newspaper clipping about the garden behind 165 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. Then owners, Pat and Graham Martin gave it a makeover with the help of The City Gardener in Richmond.
- 719 reads
Push to add police site to Yarra parkland
Newspaper clipping about proposal by Melbourne City Council to demolish old police station and add the land to Yarra Park, along with former army barracks site on Swan Street, as compensation for land lost in re-development of MCG. Report that old police station to be used by Big Brothers Big Sisters.
- 2662 reads
The Alienation of Melbourne Parks
Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
- 2462 reads
The Beautiful Hill: an Anthology of Writing from East Melbourne
A collection of short essays and poems written by local identities. Their memories and stories cover a wide variety of subjects relating to East Melbourne.
- 4877 reads
The influence of environmental thought in Melbourne's nineteenth-century public gardens
An article on Clement Hodgkinson's place in the history of Victoria's public parks and gardens. Photos. In Australian Garden History, Vol. 20 No. 1, July, August, September 2008.
- 2328 reads
The Planning of East Melbourne
Article in The Victorian Historical Journal, May 1979.
- 2242 reads
Trapped possums
Newspaper clipping about possums being stranded in tree tops because of the banding of tree trunks. Tthe trunks of palm trees have been banded as it is believed that the possums spread a virus which is killing the trees. Photos. The Herald Sun 10 Oct. 2004.
- 3149 reads
Tudor Village
Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens Public Consultation Report by City of Melbourne in response to public reaction to their draft masterplan [see VF 288]. Original intention to demolish Tudor Village is overturned. Other items refer to proposed restoration of the Model Tudor Village. Photos.
- 2929 reads