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Vernon Ransford: the elegant left hander
The holiday season is with us and top level cricket at the MCG makes its seasonal appearance in the East Melbourne area. The high point is the Boxing Day Test, this year being an Ashes series against England. The MCG was the place where Test cricket was born in 1877 and was also the venue of the first One Day International in January 1971.
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Queen Bess Row and Madam Midas
Queen Bess Row, 72-76 Hotham St, is possibly East Melbourne’s most remarked-upon building.
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Remembering the Great War
On November 11 every year we remember the dead of the Great War and especially our Australian dead, those young men who, in loyalty to England and with a sense of adventure joined up in their thousands, leaving behind families, jobs, friends and thinking they’d be “home by Christmas”.
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East Melbourne at work
East Melbourne in the past was generally regarded as a purely residential suburb with little commercial or industrial activity except for the large and very visible enterprises of the Bedggood shoe factory in Jolimont and the Victoria Brewery in Victoria Parade.
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Melbourne’s first buses were horse-drawn
In the late 19th century, the only forms of public transport available to people living in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne were horse-drawn cabs and omnibuses. Suburban rail lines and cable trams to those suburbs were not established until the late 1880s.
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Dr Samuel Peacock of Eastbourne House
Eastbourne House stands on the corner of Wellington Parade and Simpson St in East Melbourne. It is a two-storey building of 16 rooms, with a large balcony overhanging Simpson St, and is classified by the National Trust.
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In mid-May I was crossing the wedge of green space on the north-west corner of the intersection of Hoddle St and Wellington Parade/Bridge Rd known as Weedon Reserve.
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Reach for the sky
Ask those who live in East Melbourne about the different styles of local architecture and they will identify the rare houses still existing from the 1850s and ‘60s, the beautiful long lines of terraces in Powlett St and the iron lace-trimmed free-standing mansions which are the pride of the neighbourhood. But East Melbourne has another claim to fame; the 1955 ICI now Orica, building, the first skyscraper in Australia.
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Marching for justice
On March 15 this year more than 5000 people gathered in East Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens, many dressed in black, many carrying banners.
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Valetta – an East Melbourne story
East Melbourne’s first Crown land sales were held on November 18, 1852.
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Mouse matchmakers bring native back from the brink
Peter Doherty given behind-the-scenes look of Parkville Station
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