Stone
Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War
Catalogue of exhibition of the same name held at University of Melbourne in 2015. Many images reproduced and accompanied by extensive text. The East Melbourne connection is slight. There is a short paragraph on Dr Rachel Champion who married Dr Charles Shaw, an East Melbourne resident. Also a group photo including Clara Stone, sister of Constance who was an East Melbourne resident.
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Constance Stone, her family and colleagues
Newspaper cutting spread across two pages entitled 'Our Marvellous Medical Women'. An article about Melbourne's first women medical graduates. Clara Stone of East Melbourne was one of them. Composite photo includes a portrait of Clara.
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East Melbourne, Morrison Place 020, 022 - Burchett
Originally called Brunswick Street.
1887. Michael Kelly to build two 2-storey houses for Mr. R. Stone. Architect: Mr. Dunn.
1888. R. Stone - listed as owner/occupier both properties. Each of brick, 9 rooms.
1889. Names mentioned: No.20. Rev. William Cuttle and No.22 Frederick W. Pleydell.
National Trust Classification. Citation: 1974. Part of Eye and Ear Hospital.
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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 019
Unusual combination of high Victorian house with projecting bay and Art Nouveau detail. Heavy render triglyph course under balustraded parapet. Simple corrugated iron verandah with tessellated tile surface and slate flags. Elaborate render and brick chimneys. Asymmetrical garden. [i-Heritage database]
The house was built by builder and contractor, Charles Osborne Luff, for himself in 1903. At the same time Luff built the house next door at number 17 for the Rev David Meadowcroft. Both houses occupied land previously the site of a large wooden house. Luff was at one time a member of the Richmond Council.
East Melbourne, Simpson Street 019
Unusual combination of high Victorian house with projecting bay and Art Nouveau detail. Heavy render triglyph course under balustraded parapet. Simple corrugated iron verandah with tessellated tile surface and slate flags. Elaborate render and brick chimneys. [City of Melbourne i-Heritage database]
The house was built in 1903 by Charles Osborne Luff for himself and wife, Charlotte. They lived there for about four years before selling to William Henry Pither, investor, and later, gentleman. Pither died in 1943 and Annie, his widow, remained there until her own death in 1948.
East Melbourne, Vale Street 080
1933 plans show a red brick single fronted two-storey house with hipped slate roof and two tall chimneys. The balconies are also of red brick supported by a central brick pillar, and with pierced brick balustrades. The house is now hidden behind a more recent foward extension which looks to have once been balconies but now built in.
The house was built in 1895 by John Stone for Edward Henry Newing, an oil and colour merchant. He lived there with his wife, Elizabeth, and family until approximately 1909 when he and Elizabeth moved to Brighton and the house was put up for sale. It was then advertised as follows:
My Grandmother's Secret
Author, Kath McKay, writes about the legal case surrounding the rape of her grandmother, Ethel Wilkinson, as a nine year old child in 1895. The accused rapist was Edwin Worrall, a family friend who looked after Ethel and her two brothers while Harry Wilkinson, their father, a sole parent, was at work.
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