Meetings – Page 9 – Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation SocietyPort Melbourne history

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.

Meeting – Mon 27 November 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsOctober 23, 2017

Professor May will put us through our paces with our annual Trivial Quiz. It's always a lot of fun and remember ... the questions are only hard if you don't know the answer. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month except December in the Council Chamber, upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall, 333 Bay St, Port Melbourne.

Meeting – Mon 23 October 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsSeptember 26, 2017

Tumult at Montague Dr John Lack will speak to us about the attack on the Dunlop Rubber Mill on 19 September 1917. John is an Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in the School of History and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Formerly Victorian section editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (to which he has contributed more than 40…

Double Bill

MeetingsSeptember 16, 2017

September meeting Launch of Port Talks & guest speaker Jim Sinclair Bulloughs May Jasper has produced three short audio stories (10 minutes each) using voices from the Society's archive. You will hear from former Port residents Tom Hills and Myrtle Richardson about how they managed through the Depression. A 'taster', or trailer if you like, will be presented at the meeting to…

After Glow of the AGM

MeetingsSeptember 4, 2017

The Society's well attended Annual General Meeting was underpinned by meticulous organisation and support from members. Many people commented on the warm atmosphere - 'like a family gathering' - observed one of the guests. The business of the AGM attended to, guests reveled in the stories told by guest speaker Jan Soldatos. Jan began by opening her late husband Phil's small…

AGM – Mon 28 Aug 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsAugust 3, 2017

The 23rd Annual General Meeting of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society and the official launch of PASSAGES by Cr Bernadene Voss, Mayor of the City of Port Phillip will be held at Port Melbourne Town Hall on Monday 28th August 2017. The Spring Street South door will be open from 6.30pm providing the opportunity to view the exhibition before moving…

Wool washing on the Yarra. Photograph by Charles Nettleton, courtesy State Library of Victoria.

Meeting – Mon 24 July 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsJuly 5, 2017

Society member Margaret Bride will speak at our July meeting on the topic of "Melbourne and its Suburbs". Between 1851 and 1891 Melbourne experienced an amazing growth in population and wealth.”Melbourne and its Suburbs” will explore five factors that shaped this development: geography, land occupation, land sales, transport and municipal government. The period ends in 1891 when the depression of the…

Meeting – Mon 26 June 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsMay 24, 2017

Speedway John Peck will take a brief look at the origins of sport, specifically trotting, at Fishermans Bend followed by a comprehensive history of the Speedway from its inauguration in 1918 to its zenith in the early 1930's when three Victorian Harness Racing Hall of Fame members trained their horses at the Speedway, to its ultimate demise due to World War…

Meeting – Mon 22 May 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsApril 24, 2017

Chart of Hobson's Bay by H L Cox (1864) The landscape of Port Melbourne has been hugely changed by human intervention since white settlement. The shape and course of the Yarra River has been changed, the swampy terrain is now covered with roads and other hard surfaces, and there is a new land mass at the mouth of the river. Janet Bolitho's presentation, Mapping…

Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians