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Ninety years young: Lorna Margaret Hannan OAM
It’s hard to believe that Lorna turned 90 on October 7, an event that was celebrated by many friends, neighbours and ex-colleagues at Gardiner Reserve.
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Rationing for our times
Governor of the Reserve Bank Philip Lowe, desperately fighting a war against inflation, has suggested that financially stressed Australians could try to cut back spending.
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Delving into the history of West Melbourne
The Hotham History Project is currently putting together a volume of chapters on the history of West Melbourne
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Ellen Mulcahy
Ellen was born in County Cork, Ireland, in December 1859. Her parents, John Mulcahy and Bridget Connell, had two subsequent children, Catherine and Timothy, and the family of five set off for Australia in September 1864. Sadly, five-month-old Timothy died during the voyage.
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Shirley Andrews: 1915-2001
Shirley was born in Sandringham and completed her secondary schooling at St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda before enrolling in a science course at the University of Melbourne in 1934.
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Education in North and West Melbourne
This year celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Victorian Education Act 1872 that established free, compulsory and secular education for children aged between six and 14.
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Victorian iron lacework
North Melbourne still has some magnificent buildings with iron lacework that takes us back to the days of its early settlement.
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Freeman Manuel and the Eight Hour Movement
My past two articles were about people whose graves in the Melbourne General Cemetery had been renovated by the now defunct Labour Graves Committee, particularly men who had been involved in the 19th century Eight Hour Movement.
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The Eight Hour Day movement
The Melbourne General Cemetery is a treasure store of Victoria’s history, and it was one of my favourite walks during lockdown.
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Hotels of North Melbourne
Standing at the corner of Arden and Abbotsford streets, the British Hotel was licensed on June 29, 1865. Four years later, in 1869, the Prince Charlie opened on the diagonal corner of the same streets.
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New pedestrian crossings coming to North Melbourne, but residents concerned about safety at large intersection
The Kensington Association – “taking stock”
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