Mentone

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21Films / Garryowen / Mordialloc /  Victoria

The horse trough in the gardens near this station commemorates a heart-rending Mentone tragedy. During the 1920s and early 1930s Violet Murrell was Victoria’s best equestrienne. She won showjumping, dressage and other

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:31:37
22Education in Australia / Mentone Grammar School / Victoria / States and territories of Australia

Though it did not have a tower like some other Mentone mansions, Eblana was a large solid building which occupied the central portion of a substantial property on the Naples Road-Mentone Parade corner. Originally it had

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:26:24
23Davies / Lasallian educational institutions

Home of This large house with its impressive tower was built in about 1885 for Joseph Davies, the brother of Sir Matthew Davies, Mentone’s founder. It was erected on the present site of the St Bede’s College Assembl

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:27:01
24Harry Hawker / Moorabbin Airport / Moorabbin /  Victoria / Hawker / Test pilot / Mentone /  Victoria / Hawker Pacific Aerospace / Melbourne / States and territories of Australia / Victoria

Harry Hawker was born in 1889 at Moorabbin, his home being in Wickham Road. He began his schooling at Moorabbin but attended several suburban schools before leaving to take a job when only 12. Harry was fascinated with m

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:24:05
25Geography of the British Virgin Islands / The Baths / Bathing

Mentone had a large sea baths for over seventy years. The structure was located on the beachfront near the end of Mentone Parade, below the Mentone Hotel site. In 1891 pile drivers rammed large supporting posts into the

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:25:48
26Mentone /  Victoria / Mordialloc /  Victoria / Menton / Political history

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:29:01
27Million Dollar Mermaid / Kilbreda College / Esther Williams / Film / Sports / Annette Kellerman / Swimming / Swimsuit

Born in Sydney in 1886, Annette Kellerman came to Mentone in 1902 with her music-teaching parents. She had polio as a child and swimming became part of her rehabilitation. Mentone was ideal for this, with a sea baths jus

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:23:48
28Victorian Heritage Register / Melbourne / Kilbreda College / Warrigal Road / Mordialloc /  Victoria / Mentone /  Victoria / States and territories of Australia / Victoria / Mentone railway station

In August 1888, during the heady days of Marvellous Melbourne’s land boom, Lord Loch, Victoria’s Governor, came to Mentone by steam train. He walked over to the Mentone Coffee Palace (now Kilbreda) for a sumptuous lu

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:33:35
29Protestantism / Anabaptism / Bruderhof Communities / Christianity

"Life, Family and Freedom” A World Congress of Families Regional Event in Melbourne, Australia, Free Admission, All Welcome Saturday, 30th August 2014 at St. Patrick’s Hall, 16 Childers St., Mentone, Vic[removed]00a

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Language: English - Date: 2014-08-20 04:39:17
30Suburbs of Sydney / Killara /  New South Wales / Ghost

One of several tower houses in Mentone, Killara was built in[removed]Its owner, Percy Dobson, was heavily involved with land speculation and the foundation of Mentone. As a solicitor connected to Sir Matthew Davies, Dobson

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Language: English - Date: 2012-09-10 06:27:36
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