About 1,200 patients were housed at the facility at its peak, about double its proposed capacity.
Boroondara
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A pocket full of papers deflected the bullet, providing Thomas Berriman a two-week reprieve.
The “astonishingly cosmopolitan population” included people from Australia, England, Germany, Italy, Finland and the former Yugoslavia.
Yarra Ranges
A lake, a town, a woman and a song.
The garden includes pieces spanning close to 60 years of work.
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The five-bedroom house recently sold for $760,000.
“The house is part of the environment and the environment is part of the house.”
Property
Regular maintenance jobs include St Paul's Cathedral and the Melbourne Town Hall.
The locomotive at Marie Wallace Park hasn't moved an inch in more than 60 years.
Knox
The house is a unique example of Prussian architecture - complete with "communication holes" connecting each room.
Whitehorse
A Mooroolbark business has re-energised the idea of what a corner store can be.
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Did you know Warrandyte was the site of Victoria's first gold discovery?
Manningham
A new pool has to be on ground level, not the first floor.
Open from 1980 to 1999, the theme park had helicopters, trams, mini golf and even a flight simulator inside a real plane.
One of Australia’s deadliest aviation disasters sparked drastic reforms across the industry.
A growing push to preserve local landmarks is turning heritage-listed buildings into modern destinations.
History
The former enemy alien “smoked a fearsome meerschaum pipe with a pepper pot lid”.
The heyday of open-air theatres ran from the mid-50s until about 1990.
Eastern Melbourne was home to the first Village theatre.
Couples with multiple children were given $40 a week, inflation adjusted, for food.
Way up there on the mountaintop...
How did Lilydale's limestone quarry become the second-largest housing development in Victoria?
In the mid-1970s this magnet for creatives was saved from a developer's wrecking ball by local activists.
Maroondah
Whitehorse Council is set to approve a plan for Tally Ho’s development over the next 15 years. But how did Tally Ho come to be?
From being the town's postmaster to the builder behind the suburb's iconic old pubs, Silas Padgham was a true pioneer of Box Hill.
