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Greening Melbourne
North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTalk by Ian Shears – Greening Melbourne. Melbourne’s historic urban forest includes approximately 20,000 trees in the private realm. These trees help keep our landscape resilient, our city liveable and sustainable and maintain Melbourne’s character and heritage.
Alphonsus Vincent (Phonse) Tobin – Irish (and North Melbourne) to his core.
North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTalk by Des Tobin – ‘A. V. (Phonse) Tobin – Irish (and North Melbourne) to his core. Alphonsus Vincent Tobin (1905–1993), funeral director and football administrator, was born on 23 August 1905 in Melbourne, third of six surviving children of Irish-born Thomas Tobin, labourer, and his Victorian-born second wife Alice, née O’Dowd. Phonse’s twin brother,
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Vandemonians in North Melbourne: our Local Convict Past.
North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaGuest Speaker: Professor Janet McCalman AC – Vandemonians in North Melbourne: our Local Convict Past. Janet is an eminent scholar in her field of Australian social history, with particular expertise and reputation in the history of health and medicine. Janet is a superb communicator and scholar whose most notable accomplishments have been in making the
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Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp.
North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTalk by David Sornig – Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp. In Blue Lake, David Sornig examines how the 8km-square zone to the west of central Melbourne became the city’s blind spot. Once a fertile wetland with a large blue saltwater lagoon, it passed through various incarnations: from boneyards and rubbish
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In the Footsteps of Nicholas O’Donnell: doctor and community leader in Hotham 1869-1919.
North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaSaturday 12 October 2.00pm. A walk lead by Val Noone – In the Footsteps of Nicholas O’Donnell: doctor and community leader in Hotham 1869-1919. Dr Nicholas O’Donnell (1862- 1920) was a prominent medical practitioner and Irish scholar who lived and worked in North Melbourne during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His remarkable manuscript
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Hotham History Project presents a talk by Professor Miles Lewis on Victorian Paint
City of Melbourne Bowls Club 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051., North Melbourne, victoria, AustraliaHeritage paint colour controls in Victoria, and to a large extent in Australia, are based mainly upon a document prepared 45 years ago by Miles Lewis and his then research assistant Alison Blake (now Bishop Alison Taylor). Today those controls are substantially unchanged, except for the cumulative inaccuracies which have crept in over time. But
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Talk – Ornamental Cast Iron Lace
City of Melbourne Bowls Club 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051., North Melbourne, victoria, AustraliaHotham History Project invites you to a talk on Ornamental Cast Iron Lace – by Robin Vowels. In the 1860s and 70s one of Hotham’s mayors, William Hutchison, operated a foundry in Little Bourke Street where he made some of the ornamental iron lace that still graces houses around North and West Melbourne today. Although
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Tour – Along the Maribyrnong River to the Port of Melbourne
Hotham History Project invites you to a cruise on the Blackbird to the Port of Melbourne. Join Peter Somerville for a two hour cruise on the Blackbird exploring the Port of Melbourne. Peter will cover the geography and history of the river and its importance to the development of Melbourne. We will view the largest
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Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton
City of Melbourne Bowls Club 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051., North Melbourne, victoria, AustraliaA Hotham History Project event ... Learn from the true journals of the story behind an early land surveyor of what colonial Australia was like in the 1830s. Chetwynd Street in North and West Melbourne was named in Granville's honor. Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton (1800-1840), surveyor and explorer, was, in November 1828, appointed an assistant
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Guided walking tour along Chapel Street
North and West Melbourne have streets that are made for walking; During the Covid pandemic as we walked the streets for the good of our health (and the health of our dogs) many of us came to a fresh appreciation of the life around us. We became familiar with the diversity of building shapes and
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