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 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…

Meeting – Mon 24 April 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsMarch 27, 2017

Our April guest will be John Hoskins. John, as a young boy, lived in Howe Parade for a short time and the view of the ships at Station and Princes Piers sparked a lifelong interest in all things maritime. John will speak about life in mid-1960s Port as a 10 year-old. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month except…

Meeting – Mon 27 March 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsMarch 6, 2017

Tony Hill of McClusky's Lawyers will be guest speaker at our March meeting. Tony will speak about the old Port Melbourne Police Station and Lock-up which he purchased in 1998 and restored as offices for McClusky's. He will also talk about the Port Melbourne Business Association which he started in 1990. McClusky's Lawyers was established by John McClusky in Bay Street…

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