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Recreation

Birrarung Marr

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Newspaper cutting reporting on Birrarung Marr's original designers' disapproval of the Melbourne City Council's failure to implement their design in totality. 

The designers of the park were landscape architects Ronald Jones and Helena Piha, and consultants Taylor Cullity and Lethlean and Paul Thompson.

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East Melbourne Historical Society Newsletter: March, June, September 2008

Newsletter gives details of the Society's activities, and has short articles relevant to the history of East Melbourne and Jolimont.

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Who needs a car?

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Rebecca and her daughter and dog demonstrate a popular form of local transport used by parents to convey their small children between East Melbourne and Melbourne Girls Grammar School in Anderson Street, South Yarra. 

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