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Activities

Winston Burchett: a life remembered

Presenter(s): 
Stephanie Alexander
Start: 
Wednesday 16 Apr 2008 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Stephanie Alexander shared memories of her father Winston Burchett, well known to all East Melbourne residents as local historian and author of East Melbourne, People, Places Problems 1837-1977 and East Melbourne Walkabout. His Conservation Reports and Index to City of Melbourne Notices of Intent to Build are still the basis of much local and architectural history research today.

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Visit to Goold Museum and MacKillop Museum

Start: 
Wednesday 20 Feb 2008 - 11:00am
Location: 
24 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, then 398 Albert Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free for members; guests $5.00

The Goold Museum 24 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, houses a collection relating to the history of the Catholic Church in Victoria.

The MacKillop Museum, within the newly established MacKillop Heritage Centre in the old St. Joseph's Hostel, at 362 Albert Street, East Melbourne, focuses on the remarkable life of Mary MacKillop.

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Members' Christmas Party

Presenter(s): 
Geoffrey Borrack
Start: 
Wednesday 5 Dec 2007 - 6:30pm
Location: 
Braemar, George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

This year our annual Christmas function will be held at Braemar, one of East Melbourne's most notable houses.  Architect, Geoffrey Borrack, will tell us a little of the house's history and his own involvement in saving it from the wreckers.  We are asking visitors to wear flat shoes in order to minimize damage to the timber floors - all the better to enjoy the usual extensive array of refreshments.

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Holy Trinity - 150 years

Presenter(s): 
John Stewart
Start: 
Friday 19 Oct 2007 - 8:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library - 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

A Talk in Commemoration of 150 years of Anglican presence and the centenary of the consecration of Holy Trinity Church.

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AGM followed by "Melbourne in the 1850s"

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Miles Lewis
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Oct 2007 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free for members; guests $5.00
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Eugène von Guérard: his life and work

Presenter(s): 
Ruth Pullin
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Aug 2007 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free for members; guests $5.00

Ruth Pullin shared research from her PhD thesis on Eugène von Guérard, the Austrian born landscape painter who lived at “Little Parndon” in Gipps Street East Melbourne for twenty years.

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Dr. Howitt's Circle

Presenter(s): 
Caroline Clemente
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Jun 2007 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free for members; guests $5.00

Caroline Clemente's M.A. thesis at the University of Melbourne was "The Private Face of Patronage: The Howitts, Artistics and Intellectual Philanthropists in Early Melbourne Society."

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Whelan the Wrecker

Presenter(s): 
Robyn Annear
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Apr 2007 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free for members; guests $5.00

Robyn Annear was awarded a State Library Creative Fellowship from 2003-2004 to research Whelan the Wrecker and was elected to the State Library Board in September 2006. She has served as a judge in the Age Book of the Year and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards since 2001.

On 18 April, she will speak about the lost landscape of East Melbourne - the buildings demolished by Whelan the Wrecker. Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of Victoria's foremost historians.

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East Melbourne Festa

Start: 
Sunday 25 Mar 2007 - 11:00am
Location: 
Powlett Reserve, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free

The historical society will have its own stall where we will be on hand to give out information about the society and promote interest in our local history.

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East Melbourne Synagogue

Presenter(s): 
Elizabeth Morris
Dennis Martin
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 - 6:00pm
Location: 
Synagogue, 488 Albert Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free for members; guests $5.00

Visit East Melbourne Synagogue for talk and tour.

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