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867 | Public nuisance in Gipps Street | 28 Jun 2008 - 5:04pm |
On 6 December 1876 Charles Barthing was summoned under common law to answer a charge that “on the 28th October at Gipps-street, East Melbourne, and on divers days and hours between that day and the date hereof (29th ult.) he did keep and maintain a certain common dancingroom near the dwelling-... |
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874 | Holy Trinity Centenary 2007 | Fr. John Stewart | 29 Jun 2008 - 8:44pm |
A Talk in Commemoration of 150 years of Anglican presence and the centenary of the consecration of Holy Trinity ChurchBy Father John Stewart, Vicar, Holy Trinity Anglican Church East Melbourne |
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1897 | 19th century MMBW plans of East Melbourne published | 22 Jun 2009 - 11:44am | |||
1900 | EMHS web site is being upgraded | 29 Jun 2009 - 1:55pm |
Our website is undergoing a major upgrade. During the next few days a number of changes will be made which will improve the appearance of the site, accessibility of information, functionality, speed and security. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience during this process. If you... |
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5261 | EMHS catalogue is now on-line | 4 Aug 2009 - 9:24pm |
The East Melbourne Historical Society catalogue is now on the web site. Just click on the Catalogue menu item at the top right or follow this link: http://emhs.org.au/catalogue. You can browse the catalogue, search for any terms or look for... |
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8467 | Hole plugged in MMBW plans | 20 Sep 2009 - 4:48pm | |||
8544 | The East Melbourne Historical Society Receives a Special Grant | 25 Oct 2009 - 2:12pm | |||
8858 | Yarra Park added to Heritage Register | 30 Apr 2010 - 12:53pm | |||
8933 | Change of scheduled speaker | 4 Jun 2010 - 12:55pm |
Greg de Moore was to speak to us on 16 June 2010 about Tom Wills, the co-founder of Australian Rules Football. Unfortunately Greg has had to reschedule. However, John Briggs, a heritage architect, known to many in East Melbourne, has agreed to speak to us on 16 June about heritage conservation,... |
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8934 | Missed the quiz? Don't worry, John Clarke provides the answers. | 4 Jun 2010 - 1:08pm |
And the answer was ... Punt Road. The other photo shows the Franz Joseph Glacier, where some actual movement has been detected by scientists over the past 600 years. Also of interest to East Enders ... The Windsor Hotel. The Buddhist... |
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8995 | Lost, Stolen or Strayed - Yarra Park - Forty Shillings Reward | 10 Jun 2010 - 12:41am |
Has anyone noticed? Yarra Park has gone the way of James James Morrison's Mother. She has disappeared! One wonders, was it despite or because of repeated warnings from the National Trust (commonly known as Jim) about green wedgies at the end of Town? In any case, Yarra Park donned her golden... |
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9213 | City of Melbourne Development Strategy 2010 | 30 Jul 2010 - 12:42pm | |||
9263 | Yarra Park at its Lowest Point? | 4 Aug 2010 - 2:56pm | |||
9290 | Melbourne Heritage Action | 10 Aug 2010 - 2:44pm |
Melbourne Heritage Action is a new group created to provide a forum of people dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting the ongoing use of significant heritage places such as buildings, streetscapes, laneways and interiors in Melbourne. The group wants to encourage... |
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9405 | Quote of the week | 5 Sep 2010 - 5:34pm |
"Widening roads to solve traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity,"says Walter Kulash, a traffic engineer from Orlando, Florida - something to keep in mind when contemplating the planned roadworks on Hoddle Street. This is quoted from... |
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9702 | Premier of Victoria passes the buck on Yarra Park | 16 Sep 2010 - 6:07pm | |||
9797 | Pandora's Box | 22 May 2011 - 3:43pm |
Pandora's Box is to acquire some new contents. And it relates to you! The East Melbourne Historical Society has agreed to a request from the State Library of Victoria for our website to be periodically archived on PANDORA... |
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9839 | EMHS and Planning Applications | 6 Sep 2011 - 5:41pm |
EMHS members are invited to contribute their thoughts on the Society's involvement in planning and heritage issues. Follow this link to join the forum. See ... |
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9848 | Military History and Heritage Victoria | 17 Oct 2011 - 1:25pm |
If you have a strong interest in military history you may be interested in joining Military History and Heritage Victoria which currently has two vacancies on its executive committee. MHHV provides a forum for people and groups... |
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9897 | Protection of Yarra Park | 14 Mar 2012 - 4:00pm | |||
9910 | Yarra Park - MCG Responds | 29 Mar 2012 - 3:14pm | |||
11087 | Help East Melbourne commemorate WW1 | 12 Jan 2013 - 2:19pm |
In 1914 the world will begin centenary commemorations of the First World War. Along with many of their fellow Australians people from East Melbourne flocked to enlist. Many were heroes. Many lost their lives or suffered horrific physical or mental injuries. Many at home worked, endured... |
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11105 | Snapped: Melbourne in a moment exhibition at East Melbourne Library | 19 Jan 2013 - 2:16pm |
All shortlisted and winning entries from the biennial amateur photography competition, Snapped: Melbourne in a moment, are now on display upstairs at East Melbourne Library. Drop in and be inspired by the work of our talented entrants. ... |
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11231 | Marvellous Melbourne - Queen City of the South | 13 May 2013 - 10:00pm |
A documentary film made in 1910 about the City of Melbourne, then the interim capital city of Australia. The director,... |
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11283 | Joyce Meier: Exhibition of Paintings | 30 Oct 2013 - 11:38am |
An exhibiton of paintings by Joyce Meier will be held at the Bridget McDonnell Gallery, 130 Faraday Street, Carlton, from 9 to 30 November. Joyce Meier lived in East Melbourne for over... |
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11307 | Help needed for Boer War research | 30 Jan 2014 - 4:04pm |
Rob Droogleever has written to us seeking help with research for his new book which is a regimental history of the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles Contingent in the Boer War. The book will include short biographies of the men involved and he is looking for any information, photos, letters,... |
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11559 | BUNJILAKA ABORIGINAL CULTURE CENTRE | 2 Feb 2015 - 4:21pm |
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre contains a permanent exhibition, created by a shared enterprise between Museum Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Community. It brings together the knowledge, culture, stories, objects and images from the Koorie peoples of Victoria and... |
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11560 | DOCKLANDS LIBRARY | 2 Feb 2015 - 4:34pm |
If you're looking for somewhere new to visit, why not head down to see the new Docklands Library at 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade? Catch the 48 tram down to its final stop, get off and spend a pleasant time exploring this new addition to our library network. It's an exciting place to spend a... |
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11561 | Dr. Ross McMullin ANZAC Lecture, Wednesday 22 April 2015 | Jill Fenwick | 2 Feb 2015 - 5:00pm |
Dr. Ross McMullin is an historian and biographer whose major interests are Australian history, politics and sport. He has written extensively on the impact of involvement in World War 1 on Australia. His prize-winning biography on one of Australia's outstanding military leaders, Pompey... |
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11570 | Melbourne City 1931 | 14 Feb 2015 - 9:01pm |
Directed by F.W. Thring, father of the famous Australian actor Frank Thring. |
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11586 | Richard Wynne, planning minister, states East Melbourne 'spectacular' | 18 Mar 2015 - 11:33am |
On Monday, March 9 2015 The Age ran an article by Clay Lucas under the headline 'Towers make city hostile. says minister'. In the article Mr Wynne said to have significant concerns over the levels of density that been approved for Melbourne's CBD. Asked about his favourite... |
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12021 | Phil Ruthven Slides Available | 28 Jun 2017 - 8:36am |
There was an excellent attendance at our event on Wednesday 21 June 2017 when Phil Ruthven took us on a trip down Memory Lane looking back to Australia, Melbourne and East Melbourne in 1853 and 1953 to the present day. He also had the courage, audacity some might say, to predict what the... |
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12254 | Jolimont Station: submission | 13 Aug 2019 - 2:47pm |
The East Melbourne Historical Society has recently nominated Jolimont Station for inclusion on the Heritage Victoria register. The station has been a long overlooked part of our history. It does not appear even on the City of Melbourne's Inventory of Heritage Places. ... |
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12286 | Reopening of St Peter's Plaza Eastern Hill, 10 November 2019 | 10 Nov 2019 - 4:00pm | |||
12395 | Streets of fear in city's wealthy enclave | 25 Aug 2020 - 3:02pm |
Article in the Australian 24 August 202 midst covid-19 |
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12427 | President's Christmas Letter & Membership Renewal | 27 Nov 2020 - 2:39pm |
Dear Members, It has been a topsy turvy year for us all but thankfully we seem to be headed in the right direction in managing the spread of the COVID virus. Our traditional end of year Party is not able to proceed due to the Covid-19 restrictions, but we intend to bring our... |
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12648 | Valetta - an East Melbourne story | Sylvia Black | 18 Nov 2021 - 1:50pm |
East Melbourne’s first crown land sales were held on 16 June 1852. Prior to this the area had been a popular place for local Aboriginal groups who were attracted to its swamps and lagoons as fishing grounds. Then came Captain Lonsdale in 1836 and Superintendent La Trobe in 1839, but... |
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12690 | Marching for Justice | Jill Fenwick | 23 Jul 2022 - 2:01pm |
On 15 March this year more than 5,000 people gathered in East Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens, many dressed in black, many carrying banners. They streamed up the steps from Parliament station, alighted from trams which had come from all over the city, and walked with determination from the nearby... |
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12691 | Reach for the Sky | Jill Fenwick | 24 Jul 2022 - 2:59pm |
Ask those who live in East Melbourne about the different styles of local architecture and they will identify the rare houses still existing from the 1850s and 1860s, the beautiful long lines of terraces in Powlett St and the iron lace-trimmed free standing mansions which are the pride of... |
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12692 | Harold Parsons Memorial | Tim Holland | 24 Jul 2022 - 3:06pm |
In mid-May I was crossing the wedge of green space on the north west corner of the intersection of Hoddle Street and Wellington Parade/Bridge Road known as Weedon Reserve. In that small park is a monument to someone who has slipped out of the public memory, but who in his day was a... |
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12693 | Dr Samuel Peacock of Eastbourne House | Malcolm Howell | 24 Jul 2022 - 3:14pm |
Eastbourne House stands on the corner of Wellington Parade and Simpson Street in East Melbourne. It is a two-storey building of 16 rooms, with a large balcony overhanging Simpson Street, and is classified by the National Trust. It was built for Dr Samuel Peacock in 1902. He... |
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12694 | East Melbourne at Work | Sylvia Black | 24 Jul 2022 - 3:20pm |
East Melbourne in the past was generally regarded as a purely residential suburb with little commercial or industrial activity except for the large and very visible enterprises of the Bedggood shoe factory in Jolimont and the Victoria Brewery in Victoria Parade. But there were a number of... |
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12696 | Remembering the Great War | Jill Fenwick | 9 Aug 2022 - 4:09pm |
On November 11 every year we remember the dead of the Great War and especially our Australian dead, those young men who, in loyalty to England and with a sense of adventure joined up in their thousands, leaving behind families, jobs, friends and thinking they’d be ‘home by Christmas’. It was not... |
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12697 | Queen Bess Row and Madam Midas | Sylvia Black | 9 Aug 2022 - 4:19pm |
Queen Bess Row, 72-76 Hotham Street, is possibly East Melbourne’s most remarked upon building. Its three red-brick, four-storey houses exhibit a rich decorative scheme of gables and arches which single it out among the smaller and more conservative houses around it. The notice of... |
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12706 | Spotted: a Spotted Pardalote in Jolimont | Graham Shepherd | 23 Aug 2022 - 11:38am |
This tiny Spotted Pardalote was recorded in a cottage garden in Agnes Street, just up the road from a huge demolition taking place on Jolimont Street. It was nervously flitting between a branch and a small verandah ledge. The noise from the jack-hammers and diggers was too great to... |
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12707 | "Art making and art collecting are vitally intertwined and mutually dependent." | Kayla Flett | 23 Aug 2022 - 12:12pm |
Hello fellow East Melbourne community members, I am seeking a community of people in East Melbourne who love art, and chose to collect art objects for their homes. My name is Kayla, and I live locally on Gipps Street. I am studying Art History and Curation at Monash University. Currently... |
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12711 | Former Yarra Park School | Ian Hind | 24 Sep 2022 - 10:38am |
The East Melbourne Historical Society is undertaking a project on the history of the former Yarra Park State school. The school, which was closed in 1987, and converted in the early 1990s into residential apartments, was opened in July 1874 and was one of the first large urban state schools... |
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12713 | Vernon Ransford: the elegant left-hander | Tim Holland | 12 Oct 2022 - 10:35am |
The holiday season is with us, and top level cricket at the MCG makes its seasonal appearance in the East Melbourne area, the high point being the Boxing Day Test, this year being an Ashes series against England. The MCG was of course the place where Test cricket was born in 1877, and was also... |
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12714 | That was Then, This is Now | Jill Fenwick | 12 Oct 2022 - 10:48am |
If you stand on the corner of Powlett Street and Wellington Parade looking east, there’s the 7-Eleven store, the dry cleaner, a couple of cafes, the Il Duca restaurant and, at the end of the line, the Post Office, an unassuming, utilitarian modern building. It’s hard to believe that, in the... |
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12724 | Joe Pearce - Informant Saw Him Killed | Jill Fenwick | 26 Oct 2022 - 10:15am |
On 17 August 1914 Arthur Mueller ‘Joe’ Pearce enlisted to fight in the Great War. He was the eighth man from Essendon to sign up and the first VFL footballer to volunteer for the war. He had played 152 games for the Melbourne Football Club from 1904-1913, and in a game where players... |
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12742 | Salad Days | Sylvia Black | 2 Feb 2023 - 3:02pm |
In the Victorian era when architectural style leaned heavily towards the Italianate one East Melbourne house stood out. It was beautifully depicted by artist, William Tibbits, in 1879. Burnell, as it was later known, at 109 Albert Street, was built for John Speechly Gotch, founder of the... |
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12743 | George Page Cooper - Art Collector | Tim Holland | 2 Feb 2023 - 3:15pm |
East Melbourne Historical Society is researching the lives of the names that were on the World War 1 Honour Roll of the old Yarra Park State School that was situated on the corner of Wellington Parade and Punt Road between 1874 and 1987. There are many interesting stories that have come out of... |
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12744 | Kalingra: a story of firsts | Sylvia Black | 2 Feb 2023 - 3:26pm |
East Melbourne is rightfully known for its Victorian era streetscapes. However, between the wars it went through a period of re-development resulting in a scattering of buildings that are markedly different in style. One of these is a small block of six flats at 109 George Street.... |
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12761 | Oscar Oeser - Man of Mystery | Jill Fenwick | 6 Mar 2023 - 3:29pm |
In 1946 Oscar Oeser, like many men who had fought in World War 11, migrated to Australia. His arrival had already been announced in an ‘Age’ article of 24 November 1945. The Council of the University has approached Wing Commander O.A. Oeser of the Royal Airforce and lately of St... |
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12762 | Dr Bertram Wainer and the Struggle for the Right to Abortion | Jill Fenwick | 6 Mar 2023 - 3:39pm |
On 24 June 2022, in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling, made as result of the now famous Roe v Wade case, that gave a fundamental right to women to access abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Alito determined ‘Roe... |
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12771 | Old Men's Shelter | Sylvia Black | 12 Apr 2023 - 4:36pm |
We usually think of public buildings as large and imposing structures such as town halls or railway stations but in Powlett Reserve, East Melbourne there is situated possibly one of the smallest public buildings in Melbourne. The building is known as the Old Men’s Shelter and is on... |
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12772 | Died due to War Service | Sylvia Black | 12 Apr 2023 - 4:41pm |
With Remberance Day coming up it seems a fitting time to acknowledge one of East Melbourne’s many residents who enlisted to serve their King and Country in the Great War. Shown here is Henri Joseph Lamande, in one of the more diverting photos in our society’s collection. For him perhaps there... |
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12773 | J W H T Douglas: Gentleman Cricketer | Tim Holland | 12 Apr 2023 - 4:48pm |
With the coming of summer a major event in the East Melbourne area is the Boxing Day Test at the MCG. This year’s match will be between Australia and South Africa. The MCG has been an iconic venue in world sport over a long period. It is the place where Test cricket was born, the very... |
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12786 | A Tale of Two Sisters | Sylvia Black | 22 May 2023 - 1:42pm |
Ball and Welch was once one of Melbourne’s landmark department stores, along with others such as Buckley and Nunn. History tells us that the store was founded by Charles Ball and his nephew, William Henry Welch. But perhaps there is more to the story. It is likely that their... |
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12787 | Gone, But Not Forgotten | Sylvia Black | 22 May 2023 - 1:51pm |
"Some months ago the parks and gardens committee decided to make the Fitzroy gardens more attractive by erecting a rustic kiosk, where tea coffee and light refreshments might be dispensed. Aided by the Government, a suitable structure was erected in the park and after arrangements had been made... |
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12812 | Ormiston Educational Establishment for Young Ladies | Sylvia Black | 20 Aug 2023 - 5:21pm |
East Melbourne from its earliest days was full of schools. The larger, purpose-built church schools eventually grew too big for the small parcels of land available and moved to more spacious suburbs; and the smaller privately run schools generally died a natural death when their principals... |
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12813 | Remembering Joyeux | Jill Fenwick | 20 Aug 2023 - 5:34pm |
366 Albert St., East Melbourne, lies on the north side of the street between Lansdowne and Clarendon Streets. The house was built in 1909 for the Rev. Llewelyn David Bevan on the land which had once been the garden of the neighbouring house, No 364, which Bevan also owned. The house is built to... |
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12831 | The Early Days of Women's Cricket | Sylvia Black | 3 Oct 2023 - 3:47pm |
With the MCG within its boundaries East Melbourne has more than its fair share of sporting stories. One that is probably not so widely known is the foundation of women’s cricket as an organised sport. Women's cricket had been played sporadically since 1874 as a social game, often as a... |
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12848 | Grand Rank Cabman's Shelter | Sylvia Black | 29 Nov 2023 - 2:20pm |
Cabmen’s shelters had been a feature of London streets since 1875. These little buildings provided much needed shelter for cabmen while they waited for customers. But it was not until 1898 that an anonymous benefactor put up the money to erect the first of Melbourne’s shelters.... |
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12849 | ‘Better to have a loaf on the table than a loaf in the Pub’ | Jill Fenwick | 29 Nov 2023 - 2:32pm |
The Band of Hope was formed in England in 1847, with a more formal organisation set up in 1855. It was seen by many as a way to develop self-reliance in working men who could use temperance as a means to self-improvement by renouncing alcohol. It was a non-denominational movement, with branches... |
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12883 | Dr Julian Smith: surgeon and photographer | Sylvia Black | 1 May 2024 - 4:12pm |
One of East Melbourne’s more notable residents was Dr Julian Smith: a remarkable man, famous in two very different fields, surgery and photography. Born in England in 1873, he arrived in South Australia with his family three years later. He studied medicine at Adelaide University but had... |
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