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603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051.
North Melbourne, victoria 3051 Australia

Dudley Street, West Melbourne. enter via Williams street doorway.

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May 2022

Hotham History Project presents a talk by Professor Miles Lewis on Victorian Paint

May 25, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Free
City of Melbourne Bowls Club, 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051.
North Melbourne, victoria 3051 Australia
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Heritage paint colour controls in Victoria, and to a large extent in Australia, are based mainly upon a document prepared 45 years ago by Miles Lewis and his then research assistant Alison Blake (now Bishop Alison Taylor). Today those controls are substantially unchanged, except for the cumulative inaccuracies which have crept in over time. But much more research has been undertaken by Lewis and others. In this presentation Lewis will discuss both aspects – the fundamental principles underlying the original…

August 2022

‘Re-Living the Early Days’: Memory, childhood and self-indigenisation in Hotham/North Melbourne.

August 3, 2022 @ 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm
City of Melbourne Bowls Club, 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051.
North Melbourne, victoria 3051 Australia
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This talk will analyse an archive of letters, written in 1934–5 during the centenary celebrations of Melbourne, by adults who were children in the 1860s and 70s in Hotham. Through these letters we can uncover a narrative of self-indigenisation of the settler residents, that is their positioning of white colonial-born children of Hotham as natural inhabitants of the area. Several themes in the letters evidence this narrative: conquering the space through play; local personalities positioned in the settler space; pride…

November 2022

Talk – Ornamental Cast Iron Lace

November 29, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Free
City of Melbourne Bowls Club, 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051.
North Melbourne, victoria 3051 Australia
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Hotham History Project invites you to a talk on Ornamental Cast Iron Lace – by Robin Vowels. In the 1860s and 70s one of Hotham’s mayors, William Hutchison, operated a foundry in Little Bourke Street where he made some of the ornamental iron lace that still graces houses around North and West Melbourne today. Although he was well known at the time Hutchison’s work does not carry a maker’s name so Robin Vowels from RMIT decided to work out (if…

February 2023

Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton

February 28, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
City of Melbourne Bowls Club, 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051.
North Melbourne, victoria 3051 Australia
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A Hotham History Project event ... Learn from the true journals of the story behind an early land surveyor of what colonial Australia was like in the 1830s. Chetwynd Street in North and West Melbourne was named in Granville's honor. Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton (1800-1840), surveyor and explorer, was, in November 1828, appointed an assistant surveyor in New South Wales. He carried out a number of difficult surveys near Sydney and in 1831 was with a party which traced the…

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