Home

East Melbourne Historical Society

Drop-down menu

  • Articles
  • People
    • Notable Women
    • WW1 soldiers and nurses
    • WW1 nurses
  • History
    • Milestones
    • Buildings
    • Community
    • People
  • Gallery
    • Maps
    • MMBW plans
    • Abortion battles
    • Bishopscourt
    • Bishopscourt garden
    • Bomb shelter
    • Buildings
    • Cairns Memorial Church
    • Early Melbourne
    • Football
    • Jean Campbell
    • Lanes
    • Margaret McLean
      • Family and home
      • Female suffrage
      • Clippings - Australia
      • Clippings - Britain
      • Clippings - USA
    • Personalities
    • Yarra Park
      • History
      • Desecration
    • Yarra River
  • Catalogue
    • Browse and Search
    • Catalogue table view
    • Site images
  • Images
  • Society
    • Activities
    • Newsletters
    • Tributes
      • John Barrie Wykes
      • Wynne McGrath
    • Publications
    • About
Home Society
    • Home
    • Search
    • Forum
    • Contact

Activities

Midsummer Murders - A walk

Presenter(s): 
Rosemarie Smith
Start: 
Wednesday 19 Feb 2014 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Meet outside 110 Jolimont Road, Jolimont
Entry fee: 
$10.00

Join us on a walk (approx. 2.5km) featuring some of the darker apsects of East Melbourne's history, and afterwards have coffee and cake at GG, 150 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne.

  • 1332 reads

East Melbourne's First Residence: Bishopscourt

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Elizabeth Rushen
Start: 
Wednesday 16 Oct 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Our Annual General Meeting will start at 8.00 p.m.  Following the AGM Dr.

  • Read more
  • 1310 reads

Janet, Lady Clarke and Women's Philanthropy in Australia

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Barbara Lemon
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Aug 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Lady Janet Clarke - 1880c

Janet Lady Clarke’s efforts set the benchmark for a culture of philanthropy which continues today. Her public contribution draws natural comparison with the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, born in the year of her death. Janet Clarke successfully mixed traditional approaches to philanthropy – supporting hospitals and charities, for example – with bold, public contributions to the education and political awareness of Melbourne women. Punch magazine suggested that “most of the big charitable works which had been carried through to a successful issue in Melbourne… had their origins in Janet Lady Clarke’s ballroom”, and the Leader pronounced that she "stood at the head and front of almost every philanthropic movement". 

  • Read more
  • 1790 reads

Lowe Kong Meng of Valetta

Presenter(s): 
Paul Macgregor
Start: 
Wednesday 19 Jun 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Lowe Kong Meng was born in Penang and spoke English and French fluently. He arrived in Australia with the gold rush in 1853 and a year later had established an importing business in Little Bourke Street.

Lowe Kong Meng became a very successful businessman with interests in mining, trading, banking and insurance. His business activities extended from China, Singapore, Queensland, Victoria and New Zealand. He lived at Valetta House, on the corner of Clarendon and Albert Streets, East Melbourne.

  • Read more
  • 2639 reads

Menzies Foundation AGM

Presenter(s): 
The Hon. Fred Chaney AO
Start: 
Friday 24 May 2013 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, Vic 3002
Entry fee: 
No charge but registration is essential

Remembered lessons from the time of Menzies

  • Read more
  • 8153 reads

East Melbourne and the First World War

Presenter(s): 
Major-General Mike O'Brien
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Apr 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

We will soon arrive at the 100th anniversary of the Great War. This talk will look at how the war affected East Melbourne and Jolimont, those who participated in it and their fates, some famous participants and ask if and how they might be commemorated. It will also include a guide to further research.

Mike O'Brien will table a tentative list of those who enlisted with details of addresses, honours & awards and those killed and wounded (where the information is available).

  • Read more
  • 2655 reads

Visit to Old Treasury

Start: 
Wednesday 20 Feb 2013 - 3:00pm
Location: 
Old Treasury, Spring Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Full: $7.90. Concession: $5.90

The Old Treasury was built in 1862 and is regarded as one of Melbourne's finest buildings.  This guided tour will be cover all areas of the building, starting with the gold vaults where gold bullion was stored during the gold rush era. 

  • Read more
  • 1258 reads

Moments Musical

Presenter(s): 
Monica Edwards: cello
Mary Knights-Rutten: piano
Laurence Moore: baritone
Sabine Watkins: recorder
Veronica Westcott-Kirsch: piano
Start: 
Sunday 18 Nov 2012 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Entry fee: 
$15 adults, $10 concession (includes afternoon tea)

 

  • Read more
  • 1211 reads

Chamber Music at Holy Trinity

Presenter(s): 
Corda Trio
Start: 
Sunday 21 Oct 2012 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Holy Trinity Church, Cnr. Clarendon & Hotham Streets, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Adults: $20. Conc: $15. Students: $10.

Richard Keuneman, Violin; Julia Monsbourgh, French Horn; and Anna Carson, piano together make up the Corda Trio.  These three classically trained, experienced, and highly regarded musicians wi

  • Read more
  • 1198 reads

AGM followed by East Melbourne Less Glorious

Presenter(s): 
Geoffrey Borrack
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Oct 2012 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Following our AGM architect, Geoffrey Borrack, who has lived and worked in East Melbourne since the early 1960s, will tell us of his memories of the suburb before gentrification took hold.  Geoffrey has been instrumental in saving some of our most notable houses from demolition and has played a significant part in re-shaping the homes of East Melbourne for modern living.   He has vivid memories of our area’s less salubrious days.

  • Read more
  • 1208 reads
  • « first
  • ‹ previous
  • …
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • next ›
  • last »
‹ Society up Newsletters ›
  • PrintPrint
  • 183039 reads
  • Share this
  • EmailEmail

User login

  • Join EMHS
  • Request new password
  • Privacy
  • Membership
  • About
  • Contact
  • Guidelines