Welfare Institutions
Berry Street 140 Years: Restoring Trust and Hope
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embk0100 Content or description:
A history of Berry Street, formerly Berry Street Babies Home. Numerous photos, mostly unidentified, which show life inside the Home.
- 1150 reads
East Melbourne, Berry Street
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emvf0040 Content or description:
Newspaper cliipping - historical. Photos The Age, 1 November 2002. Also clipping announcing that Berry Street will move out of East Melbourne. 19 October 2005.
- 2713 reads
East Melbourne, Old Men's Shelter
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emvf0133-p6 Content or description:
Tells of the background leading up to its establishment and the history of the Old Men's Shelter in Powlett Reserve. EMHS Newsletter September 2002.
- 2518 reads
East Melbourne, Old Men's Shelter, Powlett Reserve
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emvf0137 Content or description:
Source material for article in EMHS newsletter September 2002. Includes photos, Heritage Victoria report to Heritage Council, MCC minutes, Heritage Victoria statement of significance.
- 2576 reads
For the Upholding of Womanhood.
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emrp0001-199911-p116-127 Content or description:
Discusses the rise of hostels providing accommodation for the growing number of young girls coming to Melbourne in search of work during the inter-war years.
- 1971 reads
Looking back Looking forward
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embk0097 Content or description:
The story of 'Berry Street' Child and Family Care 1877-1977. Berry Street was founded in 1877 in Fitzroy as 'The Victorian Infant Asylum'.
- 1154 reads
No Longer by Gaslight: The First 100 Years of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria
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embk0004 Content or description:
History of the Deaf Society from 1884-1984. Includes much information about Jolimont Square and conversion work undertaken. Photos.
- 2923 reads
Push to add police site to Yarra parkland
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emvf0336 Content or description:
Newspaper clipping about proposal by Melbourne City Council to demolish old police station and add the land to Yarra Park, along with former army barracks site on Swan Street, as compensation for land
- 1742 reads
Shelter protected
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emvf0349 Content or description:
Newspaper clipping reporting that Mary MacKillop House in Albert Street, East Melbourne, has been added to the register of Heritage Victoria.
- 1464 reads