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1880s

A Christmas Story

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Journalist, Stewart Cockburn, writes of doing up his house in East Melbourne in 1950.  The address of the house is not given but has been identified as 121 Gipps Street. Cockburn shortly afterwards became Robert Menzies' press-secretary. A photo of the front of the house shows that the ground floor verandah then had a wooden frieze, which has since been replaced.

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Games guru Gosper quietly pockets a festive $7m

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Report on sale of Kevan Gosper's house at 54 Powlett Street, East Melbourne

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Jolimont, Jolimont Road 140. Title document

Original Certificate of Title Vol 1386, Fol 277076 printed on vellum.

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