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Cycling track at Exhibition Building
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, cycle racing was one of the most popular sports in Melbourne.
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Carlton’s Olympic cyclist
On the corner of Lygon and Grattan streets in Carlton is a building with a distinctive neon sign featuring a man on a racing cycle.
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Early days of cycling in Melbourne
In the 1890s, the riding of bicycles became a popular activity for Melbournians. Unlike the earlier and rather dangerous high-wheeled “penny farthing” bikes, the newly introduced “safety bicycles” with their pneumatic rubber tyres and chain drives could be ridden by almost anyone.
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An early Grand Final
This photo shows what a football grand final match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground looked like in 1907.
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Carlton Football Club’s early uniform
While most clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) identify themselves with an animal or object (for example, the Swans, Bulldogs, Bombers) the Carlton Football Club identifies itself solely with a colour – the Blues.
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Origins of the Carlton Football Club
Carlton’s famous football club, the “Blues”, has been in existence for more than 150 years.
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Petrol rationing and charcoal burners
In recent decades much attention has been given to alternative ways of powering cars, other than through the use of petrol, in order to minimise emissions.
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Carlton’s citizen soldiers
Up until 1948, Australia had no permanent standing regular army. Instead, it relied on “citizen soldiers”; young men who lived at home rather than in a barracks and held regular civilian jobs, but who donned a uniform to parade and train in military skills in their spare time, after work and at weekends.
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American soldiers in Royal Park
During the Second World War, Royal Park in Melbourne became a massive US Army base, which at its peak housed thousands of American troops.
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Jewish Carlton continued
The Jewish population that first settled in Melbourne in the 19th century were mainly from England, that is, they were English speaking and well adapted to living in a predominantly British cultural environment such as that in Melbourne at the time.
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Wedding crasher charged after stealing gifts
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