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Bearbrass: discovering early Melbourne

Presenter(s): 
Meyer Eidelson
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Feb 2018 - 2:00pm
Finish: 
Wednesday, 21 February 2018 - 4:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00
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, warehouses, auction house, market, customs, newspaper office, Melbourne Club, Yarra Yarra falls, Aboriginal camp etc.
He will pursue the political, social and economic reasons that created this village and who were the personalities that shaped it, from the larrikins and battlers to the gentrified speculators.  
 
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