Activities
Walking tour: Fitzroy Gardens and its Vanished Statues
Presenter(s):
Monique Webber
Academic in art, architecture and design, Dr Monique Webber will take us on a walk through the Fitzroy Gardens. She will explain exactly where some of the old statues stood and will iden
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AGM followed by 'Geoffrey Blainey's East Melbourne'
Presenter(s):
Professor Geoffrey Blainey
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The Man Who Carried the Nation's Grief
Presenter(s):
Carol Rosenhain
Carol Rosenhain’s moving book describes the extraordinary work of James Lean.
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Eucharist, Lunch and Recital of new Holy Trinity Organ
Presenter(s):
Ian George
Rhys Boak
The Parish Council and the Parishioners of
HOLY TRINITY EAST MELBOURNE
invite
The Members of the East Melbourne Historical Society
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Dr Adam Cairns
Presenter(s):
Max Griffiths MBE
Max Griffiths will take us through the
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Bearbrass: discovering early Melbourne
Presenter(s):
Meyer Eidelson
Meyer Eidelson will take us on a Virtual Tour of early Melbourne, once known as Bearbrass. We will travel past early settlers’ homes, Batman Hill, gaols, pub, church, docks, woolstore, ware
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The Midwife, the Bishop and an Assassin; three degrees of separation in nineteenth century East Melbourne
Presenter(s):
Dr Madonna Grehan
Peter Andrew Charles O’Farrell is but a dot in the history annals of East Melbourne. At some point in the mid-nineteenth century, he owned two plots of land on Powlett Street.
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Home and Heritage: East Melbourne 1850s to 1930s
Presenter(s):
East Melbourne Historical Society
A display of photographs at the East Melbourne Library East Melbourne coinciding with Heritage Week.
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