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3002 Insider

3002 Insider: a magazine for the 3002 community.  Produced by Gus and the team at Tippler. 

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East Melbourne Group - menu 1995

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A menu for a dinner hosted by the East Melbourne Group for its members in May 1995. The function was held at Syd's Restaurant in the space now occupied by Il Duca Restaurant, 132 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne.

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East Melbourne Group flyers 1994-1999

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A collection of 14 flyers printed by the East Melbourne Group as invitations to its members to social functions held from 1994 to 1999. Some illustrated with pen and ink sketches by Patricia Broadbent.

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East Melbourne, Albert Street 392

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One of an unusual terrace of 16 houses which is built around a corner site, with some of the houses in Albert Street and others in Lansdowne Street.

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To come.

Personal memory of Kathlyn Gibson:

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Herald Outdoor Art Show, c.1954

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Digital copies of coloured slides. Two photos taken during the Herald Outdoor Art Show which was held annually in the Treasury Gardens for a week each December from 1953. One photo shows patrons enjoying refreshments on the lawns; while the other shows the crowd filing past past the paintings which are attached to cyclone wire fencing.

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Pope's visit

Series of seven small colour proof photos of the visit by Pope John Paul II to the Mercy Hospital in 1986.

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Way we were

Newspaper clipping showing a series of old photos from Melbourne's past. Included is photo of MCG during Billy Graham's visit in 1959; and Ola Cohn working on The Fairies Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens.

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Why East Melbourne is Special for Ros and Me

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A short speech given by Richard Blandy on the occasion of a Christmas Drinks party held at the Hilton Hotel, Wellington Parade, by the East Melbourne Group for its members on 15 November 1994. Richard Blandy and his wife, Ros, lived at 90 George Street for nearly three years before returning to Adelaide. Richard talks of daily life in East Melbourne and why it is such a good place to live.

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