Our 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held on 22 August commencing at 7.30pm.
To give a sense of occasion we invite members to wear some of 'the red & the blue '.
Our guest speaker will be Phillip Cohen who will speak on the subject of "From Liardet to Winteringham - Frames of Reference". Phillip worked on the Liardet Memorial project…
PMHPS member, Peter Quinlivian, will speak on the subject of 'Alfred Graving Dock in Williamstown'.
The meeting will be held upstairs at the Port Melbourne Town Hall (access via stairs or lift) and online, via Zoom using the following link.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86966645825?pwd=c1d2dDllRWV6bHBJeTBydjcvQjRFdz09

Dr Norm Darwin, President of the President of Automotive Historians Australia will be guest speaker at our June meeting commencing at 7.30pm on 27 June.
Dr Darwin will talk on the "Automotive History of Fishermans Bend".
Standard Motors, Bertie St, 1952. RMIT University Design Archives
Biography
In 1969 Norm began working at GM-Holden Engineering, progressing to become the company’s Sourcing Co-ordinator…

Between the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay is where the story of Melbourne began. Our first Port. The first point of contact for our city’s first arrivals. A place of sailors and labourers, industry and innovation. And now, the site of Melbourne’s first innovation hub.
At the heart of this multi-purpose precinct stands a new purpose-built, multi-level, vertical campus.…

ANZAC Day Port Melbourne, 2021
As the fourth Tuesday of April this year coincides with ANZAC Day the Society will not be holding a meeting that evening.
Instead we encourage everybody to attend the ANZAC Day Commemoration at the Port Melbourne War Memorial in Beach Street. Sue Leong and John May will lay a wreath on behalf of the Society.
The…

We pleased to have one of our own as guest speaker for the Society's March meeting. Ben Piper's talk will be titled "A History of the SouthPort Community Legal Service, 1987 - 2016"
Ben has provided a teaser for his talk including this intriguing photo. [That's Ben standing on the left]
For the last 35 years the residents of Port…
Our February monthly meeting will feature guest speaker Sandra Nicholson who will speak on the History of the Police Force.
Sandra served in the Victoria Police for 35 years attaining the rank of Assistant Commissioner by the time she retired in July 2010. She fulfilled a long held dream in 2011 when she attended a writing course at Oxford University…

Our first meeting for 2023 will be another look at some of the items in the Society's collection. Volunteers will present some favourites from the archives and some recent acquisitions.
The meeting will be held in-person upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall and on Zoom.
We are planning our end of year break up picnic at Edwards Park on Sunday 11 December 2022, 12.00pm to 3.00pm (weather permitting). BYO food, chairs, sunscreen, etc.
Hope to see you there and see off 2022 in style.
The Society's November meeting will feature our annual trivia quiz where John May Esq will put us through our paces. As the trivia format does not easily fit with a presentation on Zoom, the meeting will be an in-person event only.
Could attendees bring a simple gift (up to $5 value) that can be used as a prize. It's…