Meetings – Page 8 – Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

Meeting 22 October @ 7.30pm

MeetingsOctober 1, 2018

The War in Port Melbourne 1914 -1918 Janet Bolitho will present to the October meeting on the War in Port Melbourne 1914 - 1918. Drawing on photographs of familiar Port Melbourne places, she will reflect on some of the themes that have emerged from the research undertaken by several members of the Society, research which has given a much…

Meeting – Mon 24 September @ 7.30pm

MeetingsAugust 30, 2018

Elizabeth Hore from Friends of St Kilda Cemetery with be our guest for the September meeting. Elizabeth will be speaking on the Cultural Significance of Cemeteries to our Community, including a history of the growth of cemeteries from the churchyard to the public, their historical, social and architectural significance, examples of significant cemeteries in UK and Europe, and conclude with a…

AGM – Mon 27 Aug 2018

MeetingsAugust 1, 2018

Our Annual General Meeting will be held Monday 27 August 2018 at Port Melbourne Town Hall, 7.15pm for 7.30pm. We will be celebrating our FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS with a video and exhibition launched by our Patron, Ms Liana Thompson. Doors open 6.30pm for viewing the ground floor exhibition. Following a brief business meeting, historian/author Assoc. Prof. John Lack will speak on Port in a…

Meeting – Mon 23 July at 730pm

MeetingsJuly 6, 2018

The July meeting of the Society will be a members participation night. Three Society members who have very long family connections to Port Melbourne will present material about their family histories. After each short presentation the audience will have the opportunity to comment and contribute from their own family stories. Glen Cosham, long time member of our Society, former President and…

Monday – 25 June 2018 at 7.30pm

MeetingsJune 8, 2018

Convict hulk 'Success' at Williamstown C. 1890-1900. Photographers Webb & Webb. Courtesy State Library of Victoria Geoff Dougall and Alf Pelns will speak on the subject of prison hulks at our June meeting at Port Melbourne Town Hall. Geoff Dougall By the middle of the 19th century the exisiting prison facilities in Victoria were overcrowded so the Government turned to the use of…

Meeting – Mon 28 May 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsApril 26, 2018

At our May meeting we'll hear from Andrew Calleja, co-coach of the inaugural Port Melbourne Football Club Women's Team. Port Melbourne Football Club was founded in 1874 and in 2018 will field its first women's team in the South Eastern Women's Football League with the aim of obtaining a VFL license in the near future. Andrew will go over the recent…

Meeting – Mon 23 April 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsApril 9, 2018

John Briggs, Architect and Conservation Consultant, will be the guest speaker for our April meeting on the subject of Challenges and Issues of Heritage in 2018. John has broad experience in all aspects of heritage architecture including historical research, preparation and production of conservation reports and conservation plans for projects at all scales, as well as the preparation and presentation of submissions…

Meeting – Mon 26 March 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsFebruary 27, 2018

Our guest speaker in March will be Jim Penaluna, "A Port Melbourne Boy". Jim was born and bred in Port Melbourne. He worked and played sport in Port all his life. In his early years he lived in Clark Street close to the Graham Street Primary School then went to South Melbourne Technical School. He joined General Motors Holden’s as a apprentice…

Meeting – Mon 26 February 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsJanuary 22, 2018

Grazing cows between the St Kilda Road military barracks and Emerald Hill, c 1874. Our February Guest speaker will be Adair Bunnett OAM who will look at the ways in which the settlement and history of South Melbourne and Port Melbourne are both similar and different in her talk 'Same But Not the Same'. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month,…

Meeting – Mon 22 January 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsDecember 6, 2017

As is usually the case, our January meeting will feature members talking about a particular item from our collection or the work they do with the Society. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month, bar December, in the Council Chamber at Port Melbourne Town Hall in Bay Street.

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