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At home on Hotham Hill
The Hotham History Project holds regular talks and walks on topics of local interest. Our next presentation will be given by Guy Murphy who has 20 years’ experience as a heritage consultant.
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Brettena (also known as Bridgetena) Smyth – a passionate crusader for good
She was large in stature, nearly six feet tall, and her heart and generosity were enormous.
Read MoreTale of a swashbuckling hero
What was actor Charlie Hunnam, of Sons of Anarchy fame, doing running down Errol Street at 2.30pm on a Tuesday afternoon in November with a gun and a paper bag?
Read MoreCoffee 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.
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreErrol 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.
Read MoreLaurie 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.
Read MoreLocal history grants open
One of Victoria’s biggest opportunities for local history buffs has opened for another year running out of the Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV) based in North Melbourne.
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