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Sport

Shire link to cricket's Ashes

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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

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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 Ashes

Publicity material for Rupertswood, the country home of the Clarke's of Cliveden, East Melbourne. Includes leaflet giving origin of The Ashes and the story of Ivo Bligh and Florence Morphy, briefly residents of East Melbourne. Photos of Rupertswood.

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The Glasshouse: a new building for the Collingwood Football Club

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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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The Paddock that Grew: The Story of the Melbourne Cricket Club

Covers all aspects of the history of the Melbourne Cricket Club. Photos. Index.

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Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall

Book by Greg de Moore entitled "Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall"
This is the story of Tom Wills - flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules Football.

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Warne to be cast in bronze

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Newspaper clipping announcing that Shane Warne's will be the next statue to take its place in Yarra Park. It will be the first of the Australia Post Avenue of Champions. Louis Laumen will be the sculptor as he has been for the previous statues.

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Who needs a car?

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Rebecca and her daughter and dog demonstrate a popular form of local transport used by parents to convey their small children between East Melbourne and Melbourne Girls Grammar School in Anderson Street, South Yarra. 

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