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Election Results in Gateway Ward

News and NoticesNovember 3, 2016
The successful candidates in the Gateway Ward, which includes Port Melbourne, are Bernadene Voss, Marcus Pearl and Ogy Simic. The new Council will be sworn in at a Council meeting to be held in St Kilda on Monday 7th November. The results for every voting place and for the other wards are available on the Victorian Electoral Commission website.

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Malcolm Moore Pty Ltd

Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 15, 2016
Only a fragment of the presence of the massive engineering firm of Malcolm Moore Pty Ltd survives in Bertie St, Port Melbourne. Remnant of the extensive Malcolm Moore factory in Bertie St - note the logo at top right Malcolm Moore set up his firm's manufacturing centre in Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne in 1927. Branches were later opened in every State capital…

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Mr Todd

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 5, 2016
One of my favourite words is accrete – the way things gather together to create something bigger – the way the beach grows as sand drifts in a particular direction. And that's what I love about local history. You start with a fragment, and then other fragments emerge and seem magnetically drawn to it. A picture emerges. So it was with one…

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Pickles Street

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryMay 10, 2016
The earliest streets named on the Street Plan of Sandridge 1849 were those clustered around the foundation place of the early settlement - Bay, Dow, Rouse, Stokes, Graham. They were named from Sydney. Garryowen made this unflattering assessment about some of the later names:   ‘the nomenclature (street names) was distributed amongst a batch of local mediocrities.' He adds   ‘Certainly they have amongst…

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Growing up in McCormack St

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryFebruary 26, 2016
In April 2013, John Gilchrist walked the places where he grew up. The walk triggered these memories: John's family came to live in Port Melbourne from Warburton following the devastating Black Friday bushfires of January 1939. His father was a forester, but it was his mother who brought up the three boys - first from a small house on the south eastern corner of Bridge St…

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An Extreme Day in Port

Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 14, 2016
It was a dramatic end to a record breaking hot day when the Spirit of Tasmania broke from its moorings in high winds at around 6pm on Wednesday 13 January. Winds of up to 100 kph accompanied a cool-ish change from the day's top of 41.9 degrees. The Spirit looked in danger of running aground and the beach was evacuated. It took two…

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Walking the War in Port

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 23, 2015
This week, PMHPS received a commendation for its Port Melbourne First World War Centenary Project at the Victorian Community History Awards.  This article draws on the resources created by the project. Chance, rather than conscious choice, led to a walk on Port Melbourne and the Great War coinciding with the 21st October – the final day of the departure of the first convoy from all…

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Loss of a tree

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 9, 2015
Tasmanian blue gum on Liardet Street, December 2007 Not a trace remains of the huge Tasmanian bluegum that was such a presence on Liardet Street for many years. Tasmanian bluegums are not indigenous to this area, of course. Perhaps the tree was planted in the eighties when there was renewed interest in Australian trees. Earlier this year, I spoke with the arborist who…

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Rootes Update

Planning & PreservationAugust 7, 2015
The PMHPS joined with the National Trust (Victoria) and the Art Deco and Modernism Society to commission a more detailed study of the former Rootes car manufacturer in Salmon St. These three organisations are concerned that there is no heritage protection for any part of the site, not even the administration building. Many features remain intact inside the administration building The detailed study…

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The Leading Lights

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 10, 2015
'I think that there’s a whole lot of symbolism—iconography even—about what a lighthouse means and we use that as a metaphor in all sorts of language: beacon, lighthouse, navigation aid and so forth.' Peter Marquis-Kyle, Heritage Architect The Port Melbourne Leading Lights were built in 1924, and in conjunction guided ships by marking the centre of the Port Melbourne Channel from…

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.