Woods
Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home
A social history of Bishopscourt Melbourne. It starts with the arrival of Bishop Perry and his choosing of the site for Melbourne's episcopal residence and works through the trials and tribulations that he and his wife experienced in the establishment of a house and a tradition that had to serve both their public and private lives.
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Bishopscourt Open Day, 30-31 July 2011
Photos and documents relating to Bishopscourt Open Day.
Bishopscourt took part in "Melbourne Open House" on 30 and 31 July 2011. Guides provided historical perspectives of the building and its occupants since Bishop Charles and Mrs Frances Perry first took up residence in 1853.
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 070 - Burchett
Date 1883. Norman Hitchcock built a 7 room villa for J Woods - owner.
(this could have been James Woods - architect - practising in Collingwood in 1877)
Occupied 1885 by James Travis.
Villa noted for cast iron lace ref. "Ornamental Cast Iron in Melbourne"
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 070, Strathroy
The building possesses an asymmetrical plan with a bayed front room and a verandah fronting the balance of the façade. Most of its decorative impact is confined to the parapet entablature. Both portions of the façade's parapet have central pediments which surmount a balustraded parapet, atop a cornice mould with scrolled console brackets and rosettes under.
John Woods, named most appropriately for his occupation as timber merchant, built 70 Albert Street in 1884. At the time he died in 1900 he owned 40 properties, mainly in the inner suburbs including his large timber yard in Fitzroy, but also some in regional Victoria, however Albert Street was not among them.
East Melbourne, Bishopscourt, Open garden days 2002, 2003, 2006
Newspaper clippings and pamphlets about open garden day and other visits at Bishopscourt on 12 October 2002, 29-30 Nov. 2003 and 26 April 2006. Photos.
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Holy Trinity Centenary 2007
A Talk in Commemoration of 150 years of Anglican presence and the centenary of the consecration of Holy Trinity Church
By Father John Stewart, Vicar, Holy Trinity Anglican Church East Melbourne
Director, The Living Well Centre for Christian Spirituality
Friday 19 October 2007
No Glory in the Saga of the Wren Family Feud
Newspaper cutting about Jenny Kurg, grand-daughter of John Wren, infamous entrepreneur, and family feud.
Jenny and her new partner, David Anthony (Tony) Woods, artist, lived in East Melbourne, with their children. From about 1971 they lived at 52 Gipps Street which was orignally two houses, 50 and 52. In 1979 Jenny bought Halloween at 99 Hotham Street.
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Power House or White Elephant
A review of the book, Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home by Elizabeth Rushen (Mosaic Press 2013). The author of the review is David Woods, the son of Sir Frank Woods KBE, Archbishop of Melbourne 1957-77. Published in The Melbourne Anglican, February 2014, page 25.
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