Address Book




Singer John Farnham spent his first ten years in England before his family emigrated to Australia in 1959 to live in Melbourne. His first school was Yarraman Park State School (above), followed by Lyndale Primary School and Lyndale High School.



The Seekers, Australia's world-conquering folk-pop quartet played their first gigs at South Yarra's Treble Clef coffee lounge, which was in Toorak Road, South Yarra, a few blocks east of the South Yarra railway station. The night the four first sang together in December 1962, Judith Durham recalled they earned 12 pounds, which they split between them.

Once d the home of Dame Nellie Melba, Coombe is a 7 acre property featuring extensive gardens, a motor house and even a clock tower. Coombe is at 673-675 Maroondah Highway, Coldstream in the Yarra Valley.



At the age of 22, Ronald Ryan, who would become one of Australia's most notorious criminals, married Dorothy Janet George at St Stephen's Anglican Church in Richmond on 4 February 1950. Ryan's life of crime came to an end after he and fellow prisoner Peter John Walker escaped from Pentridge Prison on 19th December 1965 and robbed the ANZ bank in North Rd (cnr Hawthorn Rd), Ormond, 4 days later. Within 3 weeks, Ryan was re-captured in the Sydney suburb of Concord. He was hanged in 'D' Division at Pentridge Prison at 8:00 am on Friday 3rd February 1967, being the last criminal to be hanged in Australia.


7 Toorak Avenue, Toorak was the home of Essendon Football Club coach, James Hird. The classical home, named Swinford, was owned by his wife, Tania. Comedian Dave Hughes lived at 'Farheham', 49 Robe Street, St Kilda. The house has been a famous address within Melbourne's arts and bohemian community for many decades. Sydney Swans'AFL player Lance Franklin until recently lived at 55 Hodder Street, Brighton East.

The humble two bedder at 3491 Maintongoon Road, Bonnie Doon is sacred in Australian pop culture as this was the getaway home of the Kerrigan family in the much-loved Australian movie, The Castle. It sold recently for a bargain $240,000.



323 St Kilda Street, Brighton served as accommodation for the 2015 series MasterChef tv show contestants. The sprawling beachside property, designed by architect Peter Carmichael, has six bedrooms, four bathrooms, a cellar, crescent-shaped swimming pool and, appropriately, a gourmet kitchen.



Flight Centre founder and former Hawthorn Football Club chairman Geoff Harris lived at 69 St Vincent Place, Albert Park.



Rubra, an iconic manion at 7 Watts Parade,Mount Eliza, was purchsed by Sir Laurence Hartnett, CBE, in 1936. Hartnett was an Australian automotive pioneer who, as the Managing Director of General Motors in Australia, was the driving force behind the Holden motor car. The home was built sometime between 1886-7 for Dr George Teague, a resident surgeon at Melbourne Hospital for many years.



Pioneer tv entertainer Graham Kennedy was born at 32 Camden Street, Balaclava to Cyril William Kennedy and Mary Austen Kennedy on 15th February 1934. When Kennedy was two years old, his parents moved to Carlisle Street, St Kilda, for two years. Kennedy was educated firstly at Euston College (which no longer exists) on the corner of Chapel and Carlisle Streets, secondly at Caulfield North Central School (now Caulfield Junior College) and finally at Melbourne High School, South Yarra. As a younth Kennedy Kennedy worked in his uncle's hairdressing shop at 475 Collins Street,South Yarra. During the 1950s and 60s he lived in his own home at Olivers Hill, Frankston.

Sir Daryl Lindsay - artist and Director of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1942-1956, lived at "Mulberry Hill" in Langwarrin South.



Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, AC, DBE - philanthropist and mother of international media magnate Rupert Murdoch, Lived at "Cruden Farm" in Langwarrin.