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
      • Heritage Matters
      • What's in a Name
    • About
Home
    • Home
    • Search
    • Forum
    • Contact

Sport

ABC-TV at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Image

Colour photo shows three blue and white transport vehicles clearly labelled as belonging to ABC Channel 2. They are parked outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Read more ...
  • 1681 reads

Alain Mimoun heads to the finish line in the Melbourne Olympics marathon, 1956

Image

Digital copy of a colour slide. The photo shows French runner, Alain Mimoun, racing along Brunton Avenue towards the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the finish line of the Melbourne Olympics marathon, run on 1 December 1956. He crossed the line before anyone else had entered the arena. It was the first time he had competed in a marathon.

Read more ...
  • 3224 reads

Australian Open

Newspaper articles give background to decision to build new tennis centre. Includes plan of Melbourne Park.

Read more ...
  • 2959 reads

Dip in sporting history

Image

Historical article by Jenny Brown about the old Olympic Swimming Pool and other sporting arenas in the sporting precinct of East Melbourne. Includes some quotes from Professor Blainey on the origins of Australian Rules football.

Read more ...
  • 2503 reads

East Melbourne Cricket Club in Warrnambool

East Melbourne Cricket Club players listed on page with letterhead of The Royal Hotel, Warrnambool. Proprietor A.W. Walsh. Cricketers listed are A. Seitz, E. Healey, J. Healey, E. Gourlay, Geo. Horsburgh, S.T. Howlett, Wm. Gallery, F. Smith, A. McNaughton.

Read more ...
  • 3084 reads

East Melbourne Cricket Club medallions

Image

The photo shows two East Melbourne Cricket Club medallions. The earlier, 1912-1913, is on the right. The medallion on the left is for the Hawthorn-East Melbourne Cricket Club. The two clubs merged after the closure of the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1921.

Read more ...
  • 3399 reads

East Melbourne Historical Society Newsletter: February, June, September 2005

Vol. VI, 2005. Three issues a year. Newsletter gives news of Society's activities and short articles relevant to the history of East Melbourne and Jolimont.

Read more ...
  • 5601 reads

History of Football

Articles on history of football. Including Melbourne Football Club.

Read more ...
  • 2982 reads

Kelvin Club

Image

Newspaper clipping the about Kelvin Club. The article states that the club's genesis was the Fitzroy and East Melbourne Bowling Club established in 1868 on the median strip in Victoria Parade. The site is marked on the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works map detail plan 1028, 1029, 1036, dated 1899. It lay between Lansdowne Street and Eades Street.

Read more ...
  • 2998 reads

Kick for Demons

Image

Newspaper clipping reporting on plan by the Melbourne Football Club to build a training ground in Yarra Park with associated office building over the adjacent railway line.  Residents, led by the East Melbourne Group, strongly opposed the plan.

Read more ...
  • 1394 reads
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • next ›
  • last »
more

User login

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