Malvern Historical Society

Glenferrie Road Malvern looking south 1915

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High Street 1911

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Stonington, Government House Malvern 1904

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Chadstone Shopping Centre 1960

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Glenferrie Road, Malvern c1910

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Flood waters Chapel Street, South Yarra 1907

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Glenferrie Road, Malvern 1910

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Greville Street level crossing, Prahran 1867

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Chapel Street, Prahran c1911

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Woodmason's Dairy, Malvern Road, Malvern c1915

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The Society, founded in 1972, promotes and shares the history of Stonnington, Victoria, Australia.

The Society encourages an interest in the history of the Stonnington municipality located in Melbourne’s inner south-east including the suburbs of Armadale, Glen Iris (part), Kooyong, Malvern, Malvern East, Prahran, South Yarra (part), Toorak and Windsor.

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The Malvern Historical Society actively supports the Stonnington History Centre.

The Stonnington History Centre is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of the City of Stonnington and the former cities of Malvern and Prahran.

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Northbrook, High Street., Malvern 1929

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View of the punt over the Yarra, looking south from Richmond up Punt Rd c1861

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The Centre is a branch of the Stonnington Library and Information Service.

Its collection includes books, photographs, building plans, maps, subdivision plans, Council rate records, newspapers, and general local history information.

You can search for archive material on the Stonnington History Centre catalogue.

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In 1937 John Landy moved with his family to Central Park Road, opposite Central Park. The oval became Landy’s daily training venue throughout the period leading to his setting new world records in 1954 and his participation in the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.Landy won the Australian Mile Championship three times (1953, 1954, 1956), the 3 mile title in 1956, set world records for the 1500m and the mile, and won two Games medals - a Silver in the 1954 Empire Games for the mile and a Bronze for the 1500m in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Landy read the Olympic Oath at the 1956 Games and retired from running the following year. In 1997 a ceremony was held to unveil the plaque naming the Central Park Oval the “John Landy Oval”. John Landy was inaugurated as Govenor of Victoria on January 1, 2001.Lon Spurrier was the world record holder for the 880 yards at the time of his visit to Australia. Landy and Spurrier raced against each other at Olympic Park, Melbourne in 1956.Photo is of Landy and Spurrier jogging in Central Park in 1956Stonnington History Centre#stonningtonhistory #johnlandy #centralpark ... See MoreSee Less

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