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Cooks' Cottage

East Melbourne, Melbourne · History

Cooks' Cottage

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Captain Cook's parents' house, shipped from Yorkshire in 253 packing cases in 1934 as a centenary gift. Cook may never have lived in it, which nobody mentions on the sign.

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