Cambridge University Press 0521842344 - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain Frontmatter More information the encyclopedia of MELBOURNE Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known Andrew Brown-May is a Senior Lecturer in the Department by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its of History, University of Melbourne. He has written ways of life. ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ symbolises the achieve- extensively on the city of Melbourne and his books include ments of Australian urbanisation and suburbanisation. The Melbourne Street Life, Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories Encyclopedia of Melbourne reflects and encompasses the and (with Norman Day) Federation Square. city’s historical position as one of the world’s pre-eminent nineteenth-century metropolises, and as one of the twenty- Shurlee Swain is a Reader in History at Australian Catholic first century’s most liveable cities. Alphabetical entries range University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department from short factual summaries about places, institutions and of History, University of Melbourne. She has published events, through to extended survey articles on key topics widely in historical, child welfare and women’s studies such as Architecture, Aboriginal Melbourne, Economy, journals and co-written a number of books, the most recent Foundation and Early History, Law and Order, Literature, of which are Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights and Con- Science, Sporting Culture, Suburbs and Suburbanisation, fronting Cruelty. Theatre and Transport. Although Australia has long ranked amongst the world’s most urbanised countries, no comparable reference work exists on any Australian metropolis. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842344 - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain Frontmatter More information MELBO © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842344 - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain Frontmatter More information the encyclopedia of OURNE edited by Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain associate editors Graeme Davison Tony Dingle David Dunstan John Lack Alan Mayne © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842344 - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain Frontmatter More information CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521842341 © Monash University 2005 This book is copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2005 Reprinted 2005 Typeset by Midland Typesetters, Maryborough, Victoria Printed in Australia by Ligare Pty Ltd A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication data Brown-May, Andrew, 1963– . The encyclopedia of Melbourne. Bibliography. Includes index. ISBN 0 521 84234 4 ISBN-13 978-0-521-84234-1 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-84234-4 hardback 1. Melbourne (Vic.) – Encyclopedias. I. Brown-May, Andrew, 1963– . II. Swain, Shurlee. III. Title. 994.51003 ISBN-13 978-0-521-84234-1 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-84234-4 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842344 - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain Frontmatter More information CONTENTS Illustrations vii Preface xiii Funding xv Acknowledgements xvi Conversions xvii Cross references xvii Place names xvii Contributors xviii The Encyclopedia of Melbourne 1 Eating Melbourne Stephanie Alexander 50 The Lady Mayoress’ Jumble Sale Robyn Annear 98 A Christmas Story Tony Birch 147 Queen Victoria Carmel Bird 205 Summers in Melbourne Jennifer Byrne 255 John Cain 307 St Paul’s Cathedral Barry Dickins 363 Larino, Safe Haven George Dreyfus 409 The Six O’clock Swill Keith Dunstan 461 Childhood Memories Dame Phyllis Frost 533 Collins Street Kerry Greenwood 590 Running for the Tram Ivan Southall 651 A WASP’s-eye view of ‘The Hill’ Marjorie Tipping 710 The Treasure Arnold Zable 761 Barry Humphries 794 Index 796 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842344 - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain Frontmatter More information ILLUSTRATIONS Figures John Mather’s ceiling decoration at Mandeville Hall, Toorak 96 ICI Building, September 1958 99 An Aboriginal cricket match at the Melbourne The Burke and Wills Monument in its original Cricket Ground 5 location 101 Removing the wounded after the railway accident Bushrangers on St Kilda road 104 at Prahran 7 The first tram, Moonee Ponds, 1906 106 Skipping girl vinegar sign 9 Ned Kelly on the scaffold 110 A market gardener cultivating his broad beans crop 12 Satirical frescoes for the new Houses of Parliament 114 The Alfred Graving Dock, Point Gellibrand 15 Archbishop Daniel Mannix 117 St John Ambulance Association horse-drawn cart 18 Conway grave at the Brighton Cemetery 119 Dr Jim Cairns addressing a Hiroshima Day rally 23 Centenary commemorative stamp 121 Stanley Arms Hotel archaeological site 28 Myer, Chadstone shopping centre 124 One of Melbourne’s oldest surviving workers’ Henry Glover’s 1857 lithograph 11 o’clock 129 cottages 29 Members of Melbourne’s Chinese community Hand-hewn bluestone building, William Street 30 study a poster in Little Bourke Street 132 Christopher Cowper’s designs for the Grace Park Chloe 133 estate, Hawthorn, 1884 31 Wirth’s Park, St Kilda Road 136 Federation Square, Australia Day 2003 34 The suburban frontier passes through Ringwood The Ian Potter Museum of Art 37 in 1968 138 Astronomers at the Melbourne Observatory Save Our Suburbs continues the long tradition of observing the Transit of Venus, December 1874 41 resident action in relation to planning issues 141 First TAA 727 Jet, 1965 52 Hector Crawford conducts a Music for People Backyard wading pool 53 concert 145 Commemorative medal thought to have been Average daily maximum and minimum sold to people who viewed the public ascent of temperature during each month 148 George Coppin’s balloon 55 Average monthly rainfall 148 The banking chamber of the National Bank, Trend in maximum temperature 149 279 Collins Street 60 A storm passes over the city 151 Copy of John Batman’s 1835 ‘agreement’ with the Federal Coffee Palace 158 Kulin 64 The Olderfleet Building in Collins Street’s The Harris family and friends in front of the baths financial precinct 161 on St Kilda Beach 66 John Brack captures the alienation of city office Dismantled bells lying on the old site of St James’ workers 162 Cathedral, William Street 68 Italian mothers and sisters watch a soccer match at The totalisator at the Sportsman’s Club, Bourke Bulleen’s Veneto Club 166 Street 72 Opponents of conscription march through The Australian 4000 m cycling pursuit team at Melbourne 169 the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games 72 Coop’s shot tower before the construction of One of the novelty displays that amused customers Melbourne Central 173 in Cole’s Book Arcade 80 The Melbourne Magistrates’ Court building 178 Tom Roberts captures the bustle of Bourke Street 83 Richmond’s Cremorne Gardens 180 Carlton & United’s Empire Pale Ale label 87 Supporters at the Boxing Day Test, Australia Old Princes Bridge and St Paul’s by moonlight 89 versus India, December 2003 182 Watercolour capturing Brunswick Street before its Press coverage of the robbery of the National commercial development 94 Bank in Simpson’s Road, Richmond 184 vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842344 - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain Frontmatter More information Race between rival cruisers 187 A group of Chinese heading through Flemington Cyclorama of early Melbourne 190 on their way to the goldfields 308 Dancing the jitterbug in the streets to celebrate State Parliament Building showing preparation for the peace 194 opening ceremony 311 Coastal defences at Fort Franklin, Portsea 199 Carlton Football Club’s Alex Jesaulenko takes a Foy & Gibson’s Melbourne store 204 spectacular mark in the 1970 Grand Final 316 The mill at Dights Falls 208 Melbourne’s Greek community gathered at a Children from the diphtheria ward 212 fundraising ball during World War II 319 The Block Tart postcard parodies ‘Doing the Map showing the site of Melbourne, surveyed Block’ 215 and drawn by Robert Russell, 1837 322 View of East Melbourne 221 A scene from Melbourne’s ladies’ gymnasium 323 The Eastern Market 222 Governor Hotham Hotel, Hawthorn 328 Engraving of the Centennial Exhibition 226 Mothers and children at a smallpox vaccination Ringwood State School pupils assembled for their session 331 class photo 228 Celebratory arch on Princes Bridge 334 Eight Hours’ Day march 233 Crowds rally at Rippon Lea,