Collection: Local History Vertical File

The newsletter focuses on Stanley Street redevelopment and the rights of residents still squatting. Possibility of registering the West Melbourne People for Homes group.

Various items about the proposed car park at West Melbourne (King Street) Primary School. Items include correspondence from the West Melbourne Action Group, NMA, and politicians, objections, a landscape architect's report, articles, plans, and motions carried.

The inner area needed some solution to the volume of traffic in the area. This report is a complete investigation, including detailed maps of accident areas.

This issue features an article on the old Boundary Road Primary School and the need for a replacement for the building. There are several photographs showing the poor conditions.

Copy of a book produced by Brotherhood of St Laurence discussing the housing conditions in Victoria. Includes a chapter on Camp Pell.

This hotel operated from 1871-1904, from the northeast corner of Courtney Street and Harcourt Street. Copy of page from Blair Gardiner's survey of Hotels of Hotham. This includes a listing of publicans. Also copy of page from Dr. Blanchard's notes on the history of the hotel.

Father Gerard Dowling, a North Melbourne Football Club historian, is interviewed by Age journalist, Vin Maskell.