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Bishopscourt

Bishopscourt - Jean Beck photo album

Selected images from a photo album loaned to Joy Freier by Jean Beck, daughter of the maid serving Bishopscourt under Archbishops Lees and Head.
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Bishopscourt book published

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Newspaper articles about the publication of a book on the history of Bishopscourt, titled "Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home" by Elizabeth Rushen. The book was commissioned by Mrs Joy Freier, wife of Archbishop Philip Freier, who wanted it to be a social rather than a church history. The book was launched on 7 October 2013 by Professor Geoffrey Blainey.
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Bishopscourt garden

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Newspaper clipping about the garden at Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, its history, its fall into neglect and its revitalisation under the direction of The Australian Garden History Society (Victoria) with volunteer labour from the local community.
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Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home

A social history of Bishopscourt Melbourne. It starts with the arrival of Bishop Perry and his choosing of the site for Melbourne's episcopal residence and works through the trials and tribulations that he and his wife experienced in the establishment of a house and a tradition that had to serve both their public and private lives.
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Bishopscourt Open Day, 30-31 July 2011

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Photos and documents relating to Bishopscourt Open Day. Bishopscourt took part in "Melbourne Open House" on 30 and 31 July 2011. Guides provided historical perspectives of the building and its occupants since Bishop Charles and Mrs Frances Perry first took up residence in 1853.
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Bishopscourt Refurbishment Appeal

Publicity material for appeal for funds to support the refurbishment of Bishopscourt.
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Bishopscourt Social History

Publicity material for appeal for funds to support the writing of a social history of Bishopscourt, 2010-2011
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Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. Electoral Rolls 1903, 1906, 1913 and 1919

1 x A4 pages of typed notes being the names of residents living at Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1903, 1906, 1913 and 1919.
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Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. Nine trees registered 2012

1 x A4 typed notes referring to listing of 9 trees in the garden of Bishopscourt being listed on the new City of Melbourne Exceptional Tree Register. Also newspaper clipping about the new Register from The Age, 5 July 2012.
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East Melbourne Group - Bishopscourt subdivision 1998

Memo regarding proposed subdivision at Bishopscourt Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.
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