Queen Bess Row
East Melbourne rooftops from Burchett Lane
BW photo. View over rooftops to Queen Bess Row, Hotham Street. Taken from Burchett Lane. Reprint. C. 1974.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 072, 074, 076 - Burchett
1886. Vacant land. Owner: Miss Cornwall.
1886. MCC BR: A.J. Muller of Hawthorn to build terrace of three 3 and 4-story houses, corner Simpson Street. Messrs. Tappin, Gilbert and Dennehy - architects.
1887-89. Owner - Miss Cornwall. 1889 occupier mentioned: Miss McCartney.
1888. Described in the 'Building and Eng'g Journal' as 'Royal East Melbourne Coffee Palace'.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 072, 074, 076, Queen Bess Row
Three four storey houses of red brick with sandstone dressings built in the Queen Anne Revival style. Elaborate facade details (for further, see Australian Heritage Place Inventory, website below).
The land on which Queen Bess Row was built was bought in the original land sales of 1853 by WJT Clarke. In 1895 his son, Joseph Clarke (brother of Sir William Clarke, bart. of Cliveden), is listed as the owner. He died the same year and the property was held by the Clarke Trustees.
East Melbourne, Queen Bess Row, Hotham Street
Newspaper clipping - letters to the Editor - about closure of Queen Bess Row and loss of cheap accommodation in East Melbourne due to demolition or conversion. Photocopy (2). The Age 25, November 1986.
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East Melbourne, Queen Bess Row, Hotham Street
Auction brochure for Queen Bess Row, 76 Hotham Street scheduled for 23 March 2002. Interior and exterior photos. Plans.
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Madame Midas
Copy of the book, Madame Midas, Fergus Hume's second book after his best-selling The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, with an introduction by Simon Caterson. The book was first published in 1888. It is a story of crime set in the Ballarat goldfields.
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Queen Bess Row - Advertisement for Nursing Home 1892
Advertisement which appeared in the Australian Medical Journal on Feb. 15, 1892.
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