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Hospitals

Berry Street 140 Years: Restoring Trust and Hope

A history of Berry Street, formerly Berry Street Babies Home. Numerous photos, mostly unidentified, which show life inside the Home. One photo of particular interest to East Melbourne (p.22), and which is not identified, is the old Police Hospital that was part of the Richmond Barracks and was the building the institution first moved into in 1881 after leaving Fitzroy where it was founded.

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Cancer hospital's move creates development opportunity

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Newspaper clipping about the forthcoming move of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital to Parkville and the development opportunities this will become available for the site on the corner of Landsdowne Street and St Andrews Place, East Melbourne.

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Cliveden Hill

Information for patients.

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146

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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. 

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 072, 074, 076, Queen Bess Row

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Three four storey houses of red brick with sandstone dressings built in the Queen Anne Revival style. Elaborate facade details (for further, see Australian Heritage Place Inventory, website below).

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The land on which Queen Bess Row was built was bought in the original land sales of 1853 by WJT Clarke. In 1895 his son, Joseph Clarke (brother of Sir William Clarke, bart. of Cliveden), is listed as the owner. He died the same year and the property was held by the Clarke Trustees.

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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 154, 156, 158, 160

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A wide freestanding Victorian Villa of substantial proportions. It incorporates bracketed eaves, with returns under a gently pitched hipped roof over a sober facade composed symmetrically around a generously proportioned entrance doorway. A substantial fence and gracious steps lead to the building.

History: 

This impressive house was designed in 1882 by Alfred Friedrich (Fritz) Kursteiner for Dr Alexander Buttner and completed in 1883. The builder was William Muller.

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Eye and Ear Hospital

Newspaper clipping about proposal that Eye and Ear Hospital move across the road. Photo of tunnel linking the Eye and Ear with St. Vincent's.

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Eye and Ear Hospital update

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Newspaper clipping reporting on plans to renovate and modernise the Eye and Ear Hospital on the corner of Victoria Parade and Gisborne Street, East Melbourne. Work expected to start in 2017.

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First Mass and Blessing of the Hospital

Order of Service for first mass and blessing of Mercy Hospital.

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Freemasons Hospital in 1951

Copy photograph of Freemasons Hospital with building on corner of Grey Street still standing. Corner building was demolished to create parking area. The photo is taken from the Fitzroy Gardens and shows Grey Street fountain surrounded by iron picket fence. Florrie and Keith Mackenzie are standing in the foreground.

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