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Activities

Heritage Conservation

Presenter(s): 
John Briggs
Start: 
Wednesday 16 Jun 2010 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Fitzroy Town Hall - 1874Fitzroy Town Hall - 1874Conserving the Heritage of East Melbourne is the one of the principal aims of our Society. Whether it is the renovation of our own home or a public building, the depredations of time create many challenges for the heritage architect many of which can't be anticipated.

John Briggs is an architect and a conservation advisor to the City of Melbourne. He has been involved in many major projects including in East Melbourne. Using his recent experience in restoring the Fitzroy Town Hall John will share with us some of the challenges and solutions.

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US Military Forces at the MCG

Presenter(s): 
Alf Batchelder
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Apr 2010 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

The Melbourne Cricket Club Library has recently received some new material, including photos, dating to the Second World War when US military forces were based at the MCG.  Alf Batchelder will

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Tour of Abbotsford Brewery

Start: 
Wednesday 17 Feb 2010 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Abbotsford Brewery
Entry fee: 
$20 per person

Breweries once dotted many of Melbourne's inner suburbs including East Melbourne.

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Yarra - A Diverting History of Melbourne's Murky River

Presenter(s): 
Kristin Otto
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

1845 Yarra River PuntKristin Otto's entertaining history of the Yarra River begins with the Kulin nation and its stories of creation and follows through to the building boom of the twentieth century. Through the millennia, the Yarra has been home, the source of life and the site of corroborees, entertainments, intrigues and endeavours of every description.

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Annual General Meeting

Start: 
Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 - 7:30pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free

The AGM of the East Melbourne Historical Society. The President and Treasurer will report to members and elections will be held for new officers and committee members.

The AGM will be followed immediately by a History of the Yarra River presented by Kristin Otto.

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The Fight to Legalise Abortion

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Jo Wainer
Start: 
Wednesday 23 Sep 2009 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Your body, your life, your choicesYour body, your life, your choices[This talk has been rescheduled as shown above.] Dr. Jo Wainer will talk about the history of the fight to decriminalise abortion.

Dr. Wainer and her husband, Dr. Bertram Wainer, were the leaders of the movement, and founders of the Fertility Clinic in Wellington Parade.  East Melbourne has long been a place where someone in need could find an abortionist, and abortion and the fight to legalise it are now very much part of the suburb's history.

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Dr. Cairns and Cairns Memorial Church

Presenter(s): 
Lawrence Moore
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Jun 2009 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Lawrence Moore told us about the life and times of Rev. Dr. Adam Cairns and the history of the church named in his memory.  Lawrence was organist and member of the congregation before the church was destroyed by fire and is an authority on Presbyterian church history.

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Melba

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Ann Blainey
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Apr 2009 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Dr. Ann Blainey, author of I am Melba, spoke about the life of the opera singer.  Dame Nellie Melba's main connection with East Melbourne is as a school girl at Presbyterian Ladies College, which was built by her father, David Mitchell.

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Bishopscourt tour

Presenter(s): 
Bishop James Grant
Helen Page
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Feb 2009 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

094 Kookaburra November 2006094 Kookaburra November 2006An informal tour of Bishopscourt generously hosted by Archbishop Philip and Mrs. Joy Freier and guided by Bishop James Grant and Helen Page.

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Life at Bishopscourt

Presenter(s): 
Rev. Clemence Taplin
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Oct 2008 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

BishopscourtBishopscourtFollowing our AGM, Rev. Clemence Taplin, daughter of Frank Woods, Archbishop of Melbourne 1957–1977, and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia 1970–77, will talk of her memories of growing up at Bishopscourt.

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