Historical information
Six items about the Glen Eira Mansion.
Letter dated 2/06/2012 from the St Kilda Historical Society to Glen Eira Historical Society asking for further information as well as providing some items on Glen Eira’s history
Attachment to above letter of information about Glen Eira printed from Melbourne Mansions Database on 30/05/2012 about Glen Eira House referencing the Argus newspaper for 10/03/1865 and 25/07/1881, ‘Sand, Swamp and Heath’, ‘Caulfield’s Building Heritage and Pioneer Families’. Entry is dated 27/06/1997.
Second attachment to above letter of a memo detailing information about Glen Eira mansion form History and Heritage Officer at City of Glen Eira together with an image extract of birth notices from the Argus 22/5/1863 re the birth of a daughter to W.Lamborn Esq on 20/05/1863 at Glenalry house Caulfield
Third attachment to above letter of questions and parish plan image re properties including area occupied by Glen Eira from Heritage Officer St Kilda Historical Society
Southern Scenarion quarterly newsletter of the Royal Southern Memorial Hospital Issue No. 7 Winter 1988. It contains a black and white photograph of Glen Eira with a brief history of the residence and owner on P 2 plus an article on P 3 about the bequest from the late Rudolph Ashley Ricketson for the Ashley Ricketson Centre in the hospital. Demolition of the mansion occurred in 1965.
Newspaper article (source & date unknown) about the bequest from Ashley Ricketson of $10.5 million to the Southern Memorial Hospital in Caulfield. It is on the site of Glen Eira, demolished 4 years prior. A sketch and photo of the hospital.
Subjects
- glen eira,
- glen eira house,
- ricketson henry,
- lamborn william,
- kooyong road,
- caulfield,
- alison road,
- seymour road,
- beemery park,
- elsternwick,
- watts thomas,
- mansions,
- sargood frederick,
- rippon lea,
- australian general military hospital no. 11,
- southern memorial hospital,
- architects,
- staniforth georgina,
- were edith alice mary,
- were jonathon binns,
- fulton thomas,
- caulfield district crown land,
- glen huntly road,
- glen eira road,
- hawthorn road,
- military hospitals,
- ricketson rudolph ashley,
- towers,
- jacka albert captain vc,
- the white house,
- soldiers,
- hospitals,
- caulfield geriatric hospital,
- glenalry,
- caulfield roads board,
- foot henry boorn,
- surveyors,
- southern scenario,
- ashley ricketson centre,
- royal southern memorial hospital,
- best joan mrs,
- caulfield grammar school,
- the white house,
- barrata,
- house names