Andy Lanskis The latest issue of the RHSV newsletter has a story about the Fairy windows at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy.
See pages 12 & 13.
Here’s the link – https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/History-News-Oct-2021-Digital.pdf
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New FHS Newsletter is now available – published 25 August 2021.
Go to Publications tab – and then click on Newsletters to see this and also previous newsletters.
Or follow this link to go direct to the newsletter –>> 2021.2-FHS-Newsletter-August
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A compilation of photos of Fitzroy’s Gas Lamps
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Welcome to the first two issues of your free community newspaper, The Rotunda. Throughout Covid, we have all depended more on our own neighbourhoods. Lockdown put the emphasis back onto village life – seeking and finding everything we need in close proximity to home.
North Fitzroy has always had a great sense of community, but has never had a newspaper to grow, record and celebrate it. Hence this initiative. It’s been created by a North Fitzroy resident – a first year university student who has decided to give it a go.
Links to the first two issues are below.
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The Fitzroy History Society invites you to attend our forthcoming event
Fitzroy History Society Event at 2pm on Sunday, 19 September 2021
Charles Joseph LaTrobe and early Fitzroy
Charles Joseph LaTrobe arrived in Melbourne as Superintendent of the Port Phillip District in 1839 and left as Governor of Victoria in 1854.
In this time Melbourne flourished and Fitzroy grew into Melbourne’s first suburb.
Tim Gatehouse, Peter Yewers and Mike Moore will speak on LaTrobe the person and his relations with the Melbourne City Council of which Fitzroy became a ward in 1850.
LaTrobe laid the foundation stone for our venue St Peters Eastern Hill in 1846.
He and his wife were regular worshippers at the Church and the present vicar, Dr Hugh Kempster, will offer a tour of the church focusing on the links with the couple.
Date: Sunday, 19 September at 2pm.
Venue: St Peters Eastern Hill Church Hall
15 Gisborne St, East Melbourne
RSVP bookings at
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/charles-joseph-latrobe-and-early-fitzroy-tickets-166004069641
Donations of $10 per head are requested when booking.
Tea, Coffee and biscuits will be available.
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The Fitzroy History Society 2021 Annual General Meeting – Awaiting a new date. It has been deferred due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Plan is to still have it at a later date at the Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room. Guest speaker will be Prof. Julie Cliff AO.
Life and Death at Charles Street, Fitzroy, in the 1870s
A talk by Dr Julie Cliff, AO
Meeting will be held at Fitzroy Town Hall in the “Reading Room”, start time is 7pm.
Julie Cliff has a family history which extends back to Charles Street, Fitzroy, in the 1870s. Her talk will commence from the family home just 150m south from the Town Hall Reading Room. Julie will explain her discoveries about life and death issues in the nineteenth century, with attention to infectious diseases, and an interesting sequel in the 1940s. She will draw on her life experience in Public Health and Epidemiology on a global scale.
JULIE CLIFF: Julie graduated MBBS from the University of Melbourne in 1967 and has London postgraduate qualifications in internal medicine, tropical medicine and community health. For almost forty years now, she has lived and worked in Mozambique, helping to build both the health system and its medical workforce. Julie Cliff has also made important contributions to the establishment and development of the Mozambique health system as a physician and epidemiologist at Maputo Central Hospital and with the Ministry of Health, and as a professor in community health at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. Since her arrival in Mozambique, the medical workforce has increased more than tenfold; over a thirty year period most doctors were taught by Julie Cliff.
International recognition for her achievements in epidemiology and public health is widespread. She was an International Epidemiologic Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, USA, and has given the Annual Pumphandle Lecture to the John Snow Society in London. In 1996, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia and has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University, and an Honorary Doctor of Medical Science from University of Melbourne.
More details -= > FHS 2021 AGM Julie Cliff
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An essay on the History of King William Street, FITZROY by Peter Woods.
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The City of Yarra Library – Local History Resources
We welcome all interested persons to visit the Local History Collection housed securely in a dedicated room within the Fitzroy Branch Library, Moor St, Fitzroy.
For additional and easily accessible resources within the local History Collection you can visit the following website address: https://library.yarracity.vic.gov.au/research/local-history/
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https://library.yarracity.vic.gov.au/whats-on/fitzroy-walking-tour
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