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chiarula · 3 months

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melbmemories · 2 years

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This is Mabernoul House, in Mentone in the 1940s, the final residence of Sir Matthew Davies, a politician, who served as Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, and who can rightly be considered as the Father of Mentone. He was a leading figure in the Victorian Land Boom, but that ended with his bankruptcy in 1894 and subsequent trials on fraud charges. The coloured illustration shows ”Bracknell” which was built for Davies on Lansell Rd, Toorak, in 1882, and massively extended five years later. He was mayor of the City of Prahran from 1881 to 1882. Davies represented St Kilda in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1883 to 1889. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Transfer of Land and Titles to Land in 1885, and, from 1886 to 1887, held a portfolio in the Gillies–Deakin Government as a minister without office. He was knighted in 1890. In 1877, Davies had become a major land speculator, taking advantage of the spectacular increase in land values in Victoria during the boom decades that followed the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s. Ten years later, he controlled a network of 40 companies, in which Victorian and overseas interests had invested millions of pounds. Like many other public figures, he was caught in the crash of early 1892, and his companies suspended payments in March. Davies resigned from Parliament and sailed to London to try to arrange finance to rescue his business empire, but was unsuccessful. He returned to Melbourne to face insolvency. In January 1893, Davies was committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud by means of a false balance sheet. The charges were later dropped but on the orders of a new Attorney-general, Isaac Isaacs, he was arrested in Colombo and brought back to Melbourne. After several trials, he was acquitted of the charges, but was declared bankrupt in 1894, with personal debts of 280,000 pounds. The losses of his companies totalled over 4 million pounds — one of the largest corporate defaults in Australian history. But Davies returned to his legal practice, and gradually restored his reputation through community service. He died in November 1912. Mentone Mansions had been another of Davies’ homes and when it was demolished in 1971, another link with Mentone’s land boom origin vanished. Davies was a high profile local power-broker in the 1880s but he lived in Mentone for scarcely a decade before leaving his grand home which began a role as a number of schools, a function that lasted for about seventy five years.

#1880s #Mentone #mansion #Davies #Mabernoul House #1940s

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alanrosestuff · 18 days

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Smart Bin 6

Smart Bin 6 No 6 in the brainiacal “Smart Bin” series. A wet and coldish day at Mentone market 7/4/24.Under cover anyway.

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#cartoon books #comics #country and western music #market #mentone #The Fabulous Bush Pigs

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pietroalviti · 2 months

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Amaseno Marching Band, sabato 2 marzo a Nizza per la battaglia delle arance

Nuovo appuntamento di prestigio per la Amaseno harmony show band che il 2 marzo si esibirà nella battaglia dei fiori, a Nizza, alle 14,30 e per la sfilata serale alle 20,30. Nella piazza saranno presenti oltre 40000 spettatori paganti situati sulle tribune. L’11 ottobre scorsi era stati chiamati a Sanremo e in febbraio a Mentone. Complimenti a tutti i ragazzi di Amaseno e al loro maestro,…

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#amaseno marching band #mentone #nizza

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aigle-suisse · 3 months

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Francia...Mentone...Lungomare ... par Pascal GUERCIO

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nomadic247 · 9 months

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adrianomaini · 1 year

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Tosti facilitò l’arrivo nel dipartimento delle Alpi Marittime di diverse migliaia di perseguitati di religione ebraica

L’assessore alla Cultura del Comune di Campobasso, Paola Felice, ne aveva parlato circa un anno fa pubblicamente, nel corso della presentazione del libro del giornalista e saggista Giuseppe Altamore “A testa alta. Massimo Tosti, il carabiniere che salvò 4000 ebrei”, preannunciando la volontà dell’Amministrazione cittadina di intitolare una strada all’eroico carabiniere, il Capitano Massimo Tosti,…

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bagnabraghe · 1 year

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Tosti facilitò l’arrivo nel dipartimento delle Alpi Marittime di diverse migliaia di perseguitati di religione ebraica

L’assessore alla Cultura del Comune di Campobasso, Paola Felice, ne aveva parlato circa un anno fa pubblicamente, nel corso della presentazione del libro del giornalista e saggista Giuseppe Altamore “A testa alta. Massimo Tosti, il carabiniere che salvò 4000 ebrei”, preannunciando la volontà dell’Amministrazione cittadina di intitolare una strada all’eroico carabiniere, il Capitano Massimo Tosti,…