This file contains four items: 1/Two page description of the house with colour exterior and interior photographs downloaded from realestate.com.au website in May 2014, after its sale in March 2013. 2/Two pages of handwritten notes dated 27/06/2014 by Peta Darke containing information about the former occupants of the house. 3/Handwritten list of directory entries for ‘Ponsonby’ from 1923 to 1970. Also, a page downloaded from Kendall Want Associates on 21/03/2014 describing Michelle Scheibner’s position there. 4/Nine brief articles copied from ‘The Argus’ over the years from 1916 to 1940 concerning various events and activities in the life of Flora Ponsonby Thompson.‘ponsonby’, booran road, caulfield south, ormond, north road, moore street, frederick street, brick houses, architectural styles, californian bungalows, ‘ormese’, munday audrey, munday j.r, narrawong road, thompson flora louise ponsonby, grocers, agg janette, thompson daphne ponsonby, thompson catherine ponsonby, garratt j, garratt catherine (kate), garratt ormee, garratt esme, st. agnes anglican church ormond, boxshall john, boxshall jack, boxshall ormee, scheibner carl h, scheibner esmee, scheibner michelle, mclaren andrew, whitby george, booksellers, shelford anglican girls school

This file contains 3 items: 1/A copy of a colour photograph of the exterior of 7 Elster Avenue, taken in 1982 by Peta Darke. Includes Richard and Caroline Darke. 2/Resarch notes concerning 7 Elster Ave. dated 30/05/2014, handwritten by Peta Darke. Briefly describes history of the house. 3/A list of directory entries dated 30/05/2014. By Peta Darke.elster avenue, gardenvale, magnolia road, gardenia road, mason walter, poole elliat, turvey clifford p., hrd e. j. miss, harding ian k., harding janet, harding susan, harding mark, harding murray, city of caulfield, gardenvale park, shels nell, darke richard, darke caroline, darke peta, parks and reserves, land use, brick houses

This file contains one item: 1/A sheet of A4 paper to which is attached a clipping from the Melbourne Weekly Bayside, dated 01/09/2010, advertising a property located at 5 Maysbury Avenue, Elsternwick. Listed are the property’s size, number of rooms, orientation and nearby amenities, as well as the viewing dates, auction date, and contact details for Biggin Scott real estate agents. Included are two colour photographs of the property’s living room and backyard. On the other side of the sheet of paper is a larger colour photograph of the property’s front yard.houses, brick houses, maysbury avenue, elsternwick, lounges, fireplaces, clothes lines, front yards, biggin scott, real estate agents

This file contains 1 item: 1/A clipping from the Leader newspaper (titled ‘House offers refuge for women’, by Lorna Swinstead, dated 10/08/1988) about Clara House, a facility in South Caulfield designed to accommodate women in the early stages of mental illness without separating them from their children, as conventional facilities tend to. The remainder of the clipping consists solely of unrelated advertisements, which nevertheless are retained due to revealing the provenance.clara house, south caulfield, geroe clara dr, women’s refuges, caulfield south, malvern-caulfield progress, welfare establishments, woods anne, swinstead lorna, office of psychiatric services

This file has two items about the Morris Family: 1/Nine typed pages taken from Trove – includes social history on John Morris and his family from 1890 to 1937. Subjects range from the letting of ‘Maysbury’ family weddings, his will and resulting auction of ‘Maysbury’ after his wife died. Source documents are from newspapers, reports and magazines. 2/Eleven pages of typed and photocopied photographs sourced from Trove regarding the divorce of son, Maesmore Morries and wife Gertrude, her subsequent marriage and the grandchildren’s weddings and social achievements.‘maysbury’, orrong road, elsternwick, house names, mansions, morris john, iron merchants, ‘glenmayne’, murray william, eddington george, morris constance, eddington constance, willmot gertrude, morris gertrude maesmore, billiard rooms, coach houses, eddington leonore authors, stables, morris maesmore, maesmore actors, wilmott dr. julius, divorce, morris ethel, morris kate, stuckey kate soames, stockey mortimer, morries james jackson, sutor mcdonald robert, sutor gertrude mrs, auctions, mcdonald sutor betty, mcdonald suttor john allan, morris jackson mrs, smith jessie murray, smith alexander, poetry, morris ethel jackon, artists, authors, ‘the white butterfly’, morries colin maesmore captain, doyle miss maesmore, morris mrs, tea and coffee merchants, elliott madge, overton john captain, morris elizabeth alice margaret mrs, morris gertrude, actresses, maesmore morris mr, miners, accountants, morries thomas wiltshire, morris eliza k, st mary’s caulfield, greenaway kate, wedding dresses, weddings, wills, eddington leonora, ‘maysbury mansions’, flats, springfield avenue, morris jackson, morris steve

This file contains two items: 1/ A photocopied 3 page article on 46 Queen’s Avenue, Carnegie taken from the ‘Australian Home Beautiful’, 01/11/1938. Describes home interior design features and exterior building character features, designed and built by W.L. Fritzlaff for Mr. and Mrs. Norman Meyers, veterinary surgeon. 2/Handwritten document from Sands and McDougalls gives owners of number 46 from 1938 to 1960, researched by Claire Barton dated 18/02/2014.the australian home beautiful, caulfield, queens avenue, queen’s avenue, meyers norman, caulfield racecourse, physicians, fritzlaff w.f., builders, brick houses, leek miss j.m., lolagis m.n., leek horace, trainers, cooke murray, harrison ida r mrs, meyers chas. l., veterinary surgeons