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Errol St’s Town Hall Hotel

June 17th, 2021 - Felicity Jack

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

June 17th, 2021 - Felicity Jack

The following article is based on memoirs that Laurie Shipp completed in 2011. He died in April 2020.

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Local history grants open

February 18th, 2021 - Sean Car

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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Freeman Manuel and the Eight Hour Movement

Freeman Manuel and the Eight Hour Movement

September 14th, 2022 - Felicity Jack
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