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SUMMARY:Gotcha! Concrete Prints from the McEwans Celebrity Pavement
DESCRIPTION:Who remembers the McEwans celebrity pavement? \nBetween 1972 and 1994\, scores of celebrities had their hand- and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance of the McEwans hardware store in Bourke Street. Shopping for a hammer or a hair-dryer\, you’d step in the prints of actors\, musicians\, sportspeople\, writers\, dancers\, politicians\, an astronaut\, a racehorse – even an operatic dog. \nCurated by Robyn Annear\, ‘Gotcha!’ presents 40 of the surviving prints from the McEwans pavement\, together with stories of the celebrities who made them and newspaper images that capture the mood of the times. \nNote: enter City Gallery via Customer Relations\nMonday to Friday: 9am to 5pm
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/gotcha-concrete-prints-from-the-mcewans-celebrity-pavement/
LOCATION:City Gallery\, 110 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:South Yarra Water Works Company (1854 – 1863)
DESCRIPTION:Our first co-presentation with Engineering Heritage Victoria in 2024 will be by Ken McInnes who will explore the history\, the entrepreneurs\, the engineers\, the operations\, the expansion and the demise of the short lived South Yarra Water Works Company (1854 – 1863). \nIn 1854\, 170 years ago\, Yan Yean Reservoir was completed. Over the following ten years water was progressively reticulated to the houses and businesses of Melbourne and its suburbs. \nBefore Yan Yean\, water was supplied from the Yarra River above “The Falls”\, pumped into water carts and delivered around town. A large elevated cast iron tank was also built on Eastern Hill\, filled by a steam pump on the north bank of the Yarra River\, and provided reticulated water around the city area. \nTo provide water to Prahran and South Yarra\, the ‘South Yarra Water Works Company’\, pumped water into water carts\, from the south bank of the Yarra River\, upstream near Chapel Street. Once the Company was incorporated in 1855\, it established a steam pump on Forest Hill and pumped water from the Yarra River to a tank on the corner of Chapel Street and Gardiner’s Creek Road\, South Yarra\, and provided reticulated water to nearby establishments. Later on the scheme was extended with another water tank near St.Kilda Junction. \nThe engineers initially associated with the Company were Alexander Kennedy Smith\, George Holmes and Edward Richardson. The initial local entrepreneurs progressively gave way to later investors. There was lobbying\, intrigue\, and politics over granting land\, financing\,  constructing of its tanks\, laying of pipes in Central Roads Board reserves that later became municipal roads\, ‘scuffles’ over the removal by council of pipes laid in ‘their’ streets.  Once Yan Yean water mains were laid to the suburbs south of the Yarra River\, the demise of the Company was inevitable\, leading to its dissolution in 1863\, and the gradual disappearance of all physical traces of its existence. \nThis presentation will provide a fascinating narrative for all who have an interest in the history of Victoria. \n  \nHOUSEKEEPING \nThis event will be offered in person at the RHSV and via Zoom. Those purchasing a Zoom ticket will be sent the log-in details 24 hours before the event. And the Zoom log-in is for 6pm. \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/south-yarra-water-works-company-1854-1863/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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