Latest articles by Felicity Jack
Coffee Palace
As North Melbourne developed and expanded so did the number of pubs.
Read MoreThe Lort Smith Animal Hospital
The Lost Dogs’ Home was founded in 1913. It was the beginning of a difficult period, with the outbreak of war the following year, followed at its ending with the Spanish flu, and then the beginning of the Depression.
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The founding of North Melbourne’s Lost Dog’s Home - 1913
Community dissatisfaction with the handling of Melbourne’s lost dogs came to a head in 1910 with the following article in Melbourne’s Argus newspaper …
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Errol St’s Town Hall Hotel
The Town Hall Hotel was ordered to close its doors in 1904 because of a Liquor Licensing Board assessment of all the pubs in North Melbourne. Somehow, and there is no record of how this occurred, the pub survived and today it is one of the area’s most popular drinking spots.
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Laurie Shipp – a childhood in North Melbourne in the depression years
The following article is based on memoirs that Laurie Shipp completed in 2011. He died in April 2020.
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