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Memories of East Melbourne by K.A.D. Smith

A scanned copy of typescript entitled Memories of East Melbourne by K.A.D.(Keith) Smith. The author writes of his memories growing up in East Melbourne in the 1930s. He and his family lived at 108 Powlett Street.

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Muriel Ismay Smith - a remarkable life

The eventful, rags to riches life story of Muriel Ismay Smith who lived at Victoria House, 220 Clarendon Street between 1954 and 1988 when she died. The author is her grandson, Paul Lawrie. Includes photos.

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Smelling History

Smells trigger memory just as effectively as old photos or objects.  Think of some of Melbourne’s more famous smells such as tomato sauce from the old Rosella factory in Richmond, or baking bread from the Capitol Bakery in South Yarra, or even roasting coffee from Quists in Little Collins Street.  East Melbourne had its own famous smell emanating from the Victoria Brewery in Victoria

Bates Cocoa Factory. The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil, 11 Apr 1883,
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Smith, George Alexander James

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This photo was provided by Eileen Mina Cormick with the suggestion that he was possibly the subject of one of our WW1 biographies: George Joseph Dunkling. 

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Still Here

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A book by Laurie Carew with Diane Masters, it is a memoir of Laurie's life from early childhood in Deniliquin and then moving to the city and becoming a window dresser for Georges, and later its Visual Merchandising Manager and Exhibitions Display Manager, through to his battle against melanoma and the amputation of his leg.

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View from Parliament House towards Fitzroy - 1865c

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BW photo. View from Parliament House over Albert Street towards Fitzroy. Carlton Gardens are in the distance. Shows 6 terrace houses, C & J Smith Collingwood Saw Mills and Timber Yard, C. White & Co. Brassfounders and Gasfitters, R. Hyde & Co. Marine Storemen, Baptist Church without portico. c.1865.
Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H88.22/4).

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