Sport
Melbourne Football Club eyes off Yarra Park for training ground
Newspaper clipping reporting on action by the East Melbourne Group and local residents to thwart the Melbourne Football Club's ambition to have part of Yarra Park for its training ground. With a State election imminent candidates will want to keep the electorate onside.
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Melbourne Football Club looks for new home
Newspaper clipping reporting on the proposal by the Melbourne Football Club to use part of Gosch's Paddock for its new headquarters. The Club had previously tried to obtain the use of part of Yarra Park.
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Monument to Harold Parsons
Information and photographs about Harold Parsons, champion motor cyclist who was killed in an accident. A monument in his memory stands in Weedon Reserve, corner of Wellington Parade and Hoddle Street, East Melbourne.
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Parking in Yarra Park could be abolished
Newspaper clipping reporting that it is likely that football parking in Yarra Park will soon be a thing of the past, except for disabled parking and parking for emergency services. The decision will be based on increasing security concerns.
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Reflections
Selected images reproduced from the book, Reflections, 150 Years of The Age, published by Transworld Publishers, 2004. Includes photos of city by James Noone in 1871 from a high point, possibly Parliament House roof. Sporting identities at East Melbourne sporting grounds. Pope Paul VI's visit at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Sausages and memories
Newspaper article by Paul Daffey about Holy Trinity Church and its connections with Australian Rules football, particularly with Arthur Mueller 'Joe' Pearce, a member of the congregation, star footballer and WW1 hero.
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Shire link to cricket's Ashes
Newspaper clipping about the life of Janet, Lady Clarke and particularly about the story of The Ashes which took place at Rupertswood, her home near Sunbury. A cricket match was played between the Clarke household and the visiting English team. The English team lost and Lady Clarke, as a joke, is said to have presented the captain, Ivo Bligh, with the little urn containing some
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Swimming in Rod Laver Arena
Newspaper clipping about the World Swimming Championships to be held in a temporary pool constructed inside the Rod Laver Arena. Preliminary troubles included leakage. After the Championships most of the water in the pool was to be piped to the lake in the Royal Botanic Gardens, and the rest to water distressed elms.
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The Glasshouse: a new building for the Collingwood Football Club
Newspaper clipping gives description of the newly completed building constructed for the Collingwood Football Club to provide additional function facilities to those already available in the Club's main building, the old Olympic swimming pool. The building was designed by Croxon Ramsay Architects with interiors by Hecker Guthrie.
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