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Fitzroy Gardens

Cottage's 70th birthday

Newspaper articles written for the 70th and 75th anniversaries of the re-location of Cook's Cottage to Fitzroy Gardens. Give historical background and photos.

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Demolition of Public Toilet

Newspaper clippings about controversial demolition of a toilet block in the Fitzroy Gardens. Photos. 2006.

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Down the Garden Path

Newspaper article about the conservatory in the Fitzroy Gardens especially as a tourist destination with Wilma Saunders as guide.

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Drought takes its toll on City's trees

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A series of newspaper clippings about the loss of many trees in the city area, particularly the Fitzroy and Treasury gardens, due to drought. Plans to replace them and plans to minimise damage in the future. Comments by Lord Mayor Robert Doyle and Council's chief arborist, Ian Shears

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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - April, September 1999

April, September 1999.

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East Melbourne Group Newsletter - March, August, December 1998

March, August, December 1998.

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East Melbourne News 2003

March, May (update), June, September, November 2003.

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East Melbourne, Fitzroy Gardens old kiosk

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Photo shows the old kiosk in the Fitzroy Gardens in the 1950s.  Originally built in 1908 with an octagonal bandstand at the corner which has been built in.  At the entrance is a weighing machine which a customer could use by inserting a penny in the slot provided.

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East Melbourne, Fitzroy Gardens, Poplar Avenue - 1930c.

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BW photo. Fitzroy Gardens, poplar avenue. 1920c. Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H32492/7449.

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Fairies' Tree

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Newspaper clipping about The Fairies' Tree, Fitzroy Gardens, sculpted by Ola Cohn in the years 1931-1934.

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