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Double Gold: 1870s Mining and Farming Diaries with a History of Mount Franklin
Author: Janet MacDonald & Garry Powell.
Published: 2008.
ISBN: 9780980453621.
Extent: 266 B5 pages.
Price: $34.95 + p&h.
Available from:
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Eleven years in the writing, and many more in the research, Double Gold is centred around the extraordinary 1870s farming diaries of Henry Prichard Parry, who settled at Mount Franklin, Victoria, Australia and farmed with his cousin William Roberts. The authors have provided much supporting material about the lives of the two cousins and the history of the district.
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A Butcher's Tale
Author: Bill Raymond.
Published: 2008.
ISBN: 9780980453614.
Extent: 110 A5 pages.
Price: $20 + p&h.
Available from:
- Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Victorian History Library, 140 High Street, Prahran
- or print out an order form and follow the instructions.
This is the very charming story of a young lad’s start in life as an apprentice butcher. It provides an insight into Prahran Market and butchering practices in the mid 1940s.
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Sydenham Memorial Moments: a Discovery Tour of Local Places and People
Author: Alie Missen.
Published: 2008.
ISBN: 9780980453607.
Extent: 173 B5 pages.
Price: $30 (inc. GST) + p&h.
Available from:
- Sydenham & District Historical Society - print out an order form and follow the instructions.
Located 25km north-west of Melbourne, in an area of relatively recent residential development, there is much more to Sydenham and the surrounding areas than meets the eye. Alie Missen of the Sydenham & District Historical Society traces the early history, exploration and European settlement of the area, and highlights prominent people, events and landmarks.
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Fine Tunes: a Tribute to Melbourne Jazz Pioneers
Author: Mark Whitty
Published: 2007.
ISBN: 9780975600092
Extent: 120 A5 pages + CD
Price: $30 (inc. GST) + p&h
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From the ritzy night spots of the well-heeled to the somewhat less than salubrious haunts of the ’other half’, Mark has not only ’seen it all’ but has also seen plenty of things that he probably shouldn't have seen. (Bruce J. Patience, Foreword)
Mark Whitty is a skilled multi-instrumentalist who began his career in jazz in 1956 singing in Melbourne and Sydney.
Fine Tunes is full of stories of some of the people he met in the Melbourne jazz scene along the way - ranging from the influential to the notorious. The book is accompanied by a CD of musical tributes written especially for the main characters.
Prepare to be transported to another era in Melbourne and musical history.
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Design for living: a History of ‘Prahran Tech’
Author: Judith Buckrich
Published: 2007.
ISBN: 9780975600085.
Extent: 276 B5 pages.
Price: $35 (inc. GST) + postage
Available from:
- Prahran Mechanics' Institute Victorian History Library (10% member discount)
- or print out an order form and follow the instructions.
Prahran Tech began in 1915 as a combined secondary and tertiary school set up, and largely paid for, by the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute and Prahran Council. By the 1960sit had grown, from undistinguished but always respecable beginnings, to become Australia’s most innovative art school.
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Malvern Special Needs Playgroup: A Short History of the First 30 Years
Author: Lesley Kerr.
Published: 2007.
ISBN: 0975600078.
Extent: 80 A5 pages.
Price: $10 (inc. GST + postage).
Available from:
- Malvern Special Needs Playgroup, 22 McArthur Street, Malvern VIC 3144
- or print out an order form and follow the instructions.
This is a collection of informal style notes compiled by Lesley Kerr from the minute books, annual reports and other material of the Malvern Special Needs Playgroup, Victoria, Australia which has provided three decades of professional respite care for young children with special needs.
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Eliza's Vision: a History of Wattle Park 1838-2006
Author: Ray Peace.
Published: 2006.
ISBN: 0975600061.
Extent: 207 B5 pages.
Price: $29.95 (inc. GST) + postage. Discounts for libraries and booksellers.
Available from:
- The Railfan Shop, Melbourne
- Prahran Mechanics' Institute (10% member discount)
- or print out an order form and follow the instructions.
Wattle Park is a jewel of the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Adorned by
wattle it combines man made landscape and historic buildings with natural bushland containing much
remnant indigenous flora and fauna.
Eliza’s Vision puts on public record for the first time the complete story of this tramway park
from the colourful early days of its settlement to the present day. The story also comprises the
construction of the Wattle Park tramway, the development of the public facilities, the effects
of economic depression and war and community groups closely linked with the park such as
the Melbourne Tramways Band and the Field Naturalists’ Club.
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Frontier French Island.
Author: Ruth Gooch.
Published: 2006.
ISBN: 0975600044.
Extent: 320 B5 pages.
Price: $50 (inc. GST) + postage. Discounts for libraries and booksellers.
Available from:
- Prahran Mechanics' Institute (10% member discount)
- Information Victoria, 356 Collins Street, Melbourne
- J P and M G Ellis Newsagents, Thompson Avenue, Cowes
- Angela Borelli, Bookmark Cafe, Shop 1, 34 Thompson Avenue, Cowes
- Maurice and Glenys Ralph, General Store, Tankerton
- Rod Johnstone, French Island Eco Tours, Tankerton
- Mornington Peninsula Visitor Centre, 359B Point Nepean Road, Dromana
- Foster's Little Bookshop, 4 Station Road, Foster
- Hasting's Newsagency, 56 High Street, Hastings
- or print out an order form and follow the instructions.
Frontier French Island is the most comprehensive history of French Island, Victoria, Australia, written to date. It is the culmination of ten years research and writing and is accompanied by almost 200 photographs and drawings, most never before published.
Ruth Gooch has ... skilfully located many of those isolated references which are often only found by happenstance or serendipity. The stories which are told in the actual words of the participants and informants means that we are brought into the immediate presence of those who lived on or visited French Island. Niel Gunson, Foreword
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Flood, Fire and Fever: a History of Elwood.
Author: Meyer Eidelson.
Published: 2006.
ISBN: 0975600052.
Extent: 115 A5 pages.
Price: $20 (inc. GST) + postage. Discounts for libraries and booksellers.
Available from:
- Prahran Mechanics' Institute (10% member discount)
- St Kilda Library, Carlisle Street, St Kilda
- fill in an order form and follow the instructions.
Author Meyer Eidelson tells the fascinating Elwood story from Koorie hunting ground to quarantine station, from swamp to Squizzy bolthole, from rifle range to Poets Corner, from graveyard to boom settlement, from wasteland to modern village. Recorded here also is the heritage of Elwood’s buildings, memories of older residents, an art deco walk, and a range of essential photos. This book is an indispensable guide for all those who have fallen in love with, lived in, or just visited this delightful suburb on the crescent of Port Phillip Bay.
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Author: Helene Jacoby Swieca. Transcribed, compiled and edited by Cecily Parris.
Published: 2006.
ISBN: 0975600036.
Extent: 240 A5 pages.
Price: $29.95 (inc. GST) + postage. Discounts for libraries and booksellers.
Available from:
- Prahran Mechanics' Institute (10% member discount)
- Amazon online bookstore
- Chronicles Bookshop (91 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda), Victorian Arts Centre bookshop (100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne)
- fill in an order form and follow the instructions.
Helene Jacoby was born in St Kilda, Victoria over ninety years ago. She began singing in public at the age of 3, and her career in Australian theatre, radio and television spanned over six decades. No Shops in Acland Street is her story, as told to Cecily Parris. She tells with spirit and humour about her early life, and her travels and adventures in theatre, radio drama, country radio and the fashion industry all woven around family and three marriages - revealing a highly entertaining lady.
She was there when movies learned to talk, when radio was at its best, and when television started its flickering progress. And Helene knew everybody, socially and professionally. Her extraordinarily far-reaching memory is a unique treasure house of people and places. (Frank Van Straten, Foreword)
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Published: 2005, 2nd edition.
ISBN: 0975600036.
Extent: 430 A4 pages.
Price: $77.00 (inc. GST) + postage. Discounts for libraries and booksellers.
Available from:
- Prahran Mechanics' Institute (10% member discount)
- PMI Press - fill in an order form and follow the instructions.
In September 2004 the first international conference of Mechanics’ Institutes was held at Swinburne University, Prahran Campus. A first edition of the proceedings Buildings, Books and Beyond: Mechanics’ Institutes Worldwide Conference 2004 contains over 50 papers (430 A4 pages) about mechanics’ institutes, athenaeums and schools of arts from within Australia and abroad – their buildings, histories, activities, libraries and heritage issues.
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