Gardens
Parks and Recreation: our commitments
MCC strategy plan for parks and recreation, 1996.
- 3776 reads
Powlett Reserve and Darling Square
Notification to residents of plans to upgrade Powlett Reserve and Darling Square. Includes schedule and plans. 1996.
- 3223 reads
Precinct Tree Planting Design
An overview of City of Melbourne's planning strategy for planting new trees and replacing old in East Melbourne and Jolimont (2002).
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Proudly Provincial
Newspaper clipping about the garden behind 165 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. Then owners, Pat and Graham Martin gave it a makeover with the help of The City Gardener in Richmond.
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Push to add police site to Yarra parkland
Newspaper clipping about proposal by Melbourne City Council to demolish old police station and add the land to Yarra Park, along with former army barracks site on Swan Street, as compensation for land lost in re-development of MCG. Report that old police station to be used by Big Brothers Big Sisters.
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Railways. January 1978
Railways was a monthly newsletter published by the Vic Rail Board. In the January 1978 issue an article appeared which described the creation of a garden behind the Jolimont Workshops. A small group of workers clubbed together to create the garden. It struggled until the Moscow Circus set up in nearby Yarra Park. The workers were able to obtain an abundance of elephant m
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The Alienation of Melbourne Parks
Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
- 3106 reads
The Beautiful Hill: an Anthology of Writing from East Melbourne
A collection of short essays and poems written by local identities. Their memories and stories cover a wide variety of subjects relating to East Melbourne.
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The influence of environmental thought in Melbourne's nineteenth-century public gardens
An article on Clement Hodgkinson's place in the history of Victoria's public parks and gardens. Photos. In Australian Garden History, Vol. 20 No. 1, July, August, September 2008.
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The Planning of East Melbourne
Article in The Victorian Historical Journal, May 1979.
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