Historical information
Fourteen stories of people who migrated to Australia, landing at Station Pier, Melbourne and settling in the Banyule area.
Physical description
122 p.paperback, col. and black and white photographs
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Fourteen stories of people who migrated to Australia, landing at Station Pier, Melbourne and settling in the Banyule area.
122 p.paperback, col. and black and white photographs
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67 p., illus., maps. Plastic spiral binding.
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City of Banyule map, including clubs, leisure, cultural & heritage facilities and other features.
Colour map, street index on verso.
city of banyule, maps
Request by Banyule City Council for information about heritage places which should be considered for protection.
Colour leaflet, printed on one side, with col. card, printed both sides
heritage places, banyule city council
The Moomba Festival and Parade is held on what was originally called Eight Hour Day, now Labor Day. This memoir by GHS member Rosie Bray tells of her experiences at the first Moomba Parade in 1955.
3p. black & white typescript with illustrations, with 2p. col. photocopy of 1955 Melbourne Moomba Festival leaflet
moomba
Victorian Collections acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.