East Melbourne Group
Shadow looms over Treasury Square plan
Newspaper clipping about the controversy over the proposal for a major development of the land newly named Treasury Square which lies between Wellington Parade South and Batman Avenue. Greg Bisinella, planning spokesperson for the East Melbourne Group, puts a strong case against.
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The Planning of East Melbourne, article by Winston Burchett
Photocopy of 'The Planning of East Melbourne' by Winston Burchett, published in The Victorian History Journal (Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Victora).
Stuck to it is a membership card for the East Melbourne Group, not filled in.
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Treasury Square project
Newspaper clipping about the controversy over the proposal for a major development of the land newly named Treasury Square which lies between Wellington Parade South and Batman Avenue. Greg Bisinella of the East Melbourne Group is critical of the plan.
- 1325 reads
Trinity Church Herald June 1954
Photocopy of newsletter of Holy Trinity Church, Hotham Street, East Melbourne for June 1954.
One paragraph congratulates the committee of the East Melbourne Group on persuading the Melbourne City Council to plant ash trees in Gipps and George Streets, after cutting down the original elms, the event which led to the birth of the Group in 1953.
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Walking Tour of East Melbourne
Photocopy of 'Walking Tour of East Melbourne' published by the National trust (Victoria) in association with the East Melbourne Group. First published 1982, copyright Winston Burchett.
Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.
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Who'll stop the architectural rape of our dowager suburb?
Newspaper article talks about East Melbourne's history, conservation problems, recent renovations.
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