Collection: Local History Vertical File

The report proposes that no pool be located in the Holland Park redevelopment as the old pool, prior to closure, was not well attended.

File includes list of houses in Jolimont which in 1977, are wholly or in part original, list of architects who have designed buildings in East Melbourne, list of existing East Melbourne and Jolimont buildings of which the archirects are known (to the author), East Melbourne buildings known to hav...

Biographical and career information relating to Sydney Charles Arnold, auctioneer. He started his business in Errol Street, North Melbourne. Includes an original letter from his grandaughter, June Mullins, written in 1971.

Newspaper clippings relating to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions in and near the local area. Galleries mentioned are the Cato Gallery, ABC Gallery, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne Arts Club.

Items relating to "Jack Carroll" Arthur Ernest Hardwick (b.1906-d.1976), a boxer of Kensington.

Items relating to Arthur Machen Hill (b.1861-d.1936), a doctor born in North Melbourne.

Items relating to Arthur Whinyeates Fitts, a proprietor of the Kensington Glue, Oil, Tallow, and Bone-dust Manufactory.