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When Southbank was a canvas town!
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society Television news regularly confronts us with images of large refugee camps around the world
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The NGV entrance and Coat of Arms
Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society After many years of planning, deliberating, and negotiating, the new National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) opened in 1968 in St Kilda Rd, Southbank on the former Wirth’s circus site
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Southbank and Sennitt’s Ice Cream
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society One of the enduring memories for older residents of Southbank was the milk bars that were located on many corners in the streets of Melbourne
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ASPRO in Southbank
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society The headache remedy called ASPRO has probably been used by all Australians at some stage and it has a strong link to Southbank
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President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society One of the major industries in 19th century South Melbourne (in what is now Southbank) was timber yards
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Shooting on St Kilda Rd
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society The Henley on Yarra and the Prince Henry’s Hospital have both been the subject of previous articles about Southbank
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Brooklands Accessories
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society By the end of the 1930s, traffic on the streets of Melbourne had been transformed as horse-drawn traffic was replaced by motorised transport
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Waiting for a tram in Southbank
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society Melbourne boasts a tramways network. Multiple lines to the south and east run through Southbank along the beautiful tree-lined boulevard of St Kilda Rd. A major part of the network is the tram shelters
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Christmas lunch in Southbank – 1944 style
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society There has been a long tradition in workplaces in Southbank (as across Melbourne) of Christmas lunches where many of the workers gather to enjoy good food, drinks and enjoy each other’s company, generally in a restaurant, café or function space.
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Southbank and the Olympic Games
President, Art Deco and Modernism Society 2020 was supposed to be an Olympic year, due to be held in Tokyo – but the COVID-19 virus forced the games to be deferred
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Forward Surge
President, Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society One of the pleasant aspects of living in Southbank is the range of sculptures in the streets and gardens.
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BANKING on it in Southbank!
Australian Art Deco & Modernism Society One of the characteristics of today’s Southbank is the adaptive re-use of some buildings from previous eras and incorporation into multi-level apartment blocks
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Red Cross and Southbank
The Red Cross, a renowned international organisation, has long played an important role in Southbank and other parts of South Melbourne
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Shrine of Remembrance
Aus Art Deco and Moderism Society On Anzac Day this year, the Shrine of Remembrance was eerily deserted due to COVID-19 restrictions
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Southbank and the PMG
These days it is hard to imagine how one government department could be responsible for postal delivery, telephone and telegraph services, and radio and television networks (including issuing of viewer licenses, at £5 each)
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Pandemic in Southbank
The recent outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) comes just over a century since the worldwide pandemic called the Spanish flu, which cost an estimated 20 to 40 million lives, more than the Great War
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Building with Wunderlich
No other company played such a key role in providing building materials (across Australia) as the Wunderlich company.
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Melbourne goes wild about Harry!
By the middle of another hot February day in 1910, the crowds along Princes Bridge, the main thoroughfare to the south of the city, were starting to grow and soon would become three-deep
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Beulah’s Hanover House acquisition a win for Southbank
Tackling the cost of living in Macnamara
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