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George Samuel Walter Memorial Garden after refurbishment, 29 March 2016.

George Samuel Walter Memorial Garden, 2016

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 28, 2016

At our July meeting we presented the entries to the My Port Melbourne photograph competition, announced the winners and made our selection for the People's Choice Award. Christine Griffith's entry, "George Samuel Walter Memorial Garden, 2016", was judged the overall winner. In the coming months we'll be presenting several entries on this website but it's only fitting that we start with the…

Well Represented at the Front

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 21, 2016

'Well Represented at Front.', Port Melbourne Standard 15 May 1915 Our First World War Centenary project has uncovered many incredible stories of Port men volunteering for active service such as this one from The Standard newspaper on 15 May 1915. The first part of the article talks about four cousins, all born in Port Melbourne, who were serving at the Front.…

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…

The Man in the Photo

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 6, 2016

Members of the Port Phillip Stevedores Association, 1905 Recently I spoke at a seminar at the Victorian Genealogical Society on the topic “Port Melbourne 1839-1880". As I wanted to mention the formation of trade unions in Port Melbourne I showed this photo of ‘Members of the Port Phillip Stevedores Association’ from 1905. You will notice that all of the men in the…

Miss Jago’s Corner Shop

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 1, 2016

Annetta (Joy) Phillips writes about the former shop on the corner of Heath and Ingles Streets: Irene ('Rene') was the elder of two Jago sisters. In 1937 she opened a grocery and bakery shop at 101 Ingles Street. Irene Jago outside the shop, corner Ingles and Heath Sts Rene was in charge of the shop and her sister Bette worked with her. They lived behind…

Family Memories of Jennie Baines

People, Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 18, 2016

Lyn McLeavy shares her aunts' recollections of Jennie Baines, and of her grandmother Mary McLeavy Mary McLeavy, children & friends at Waterside Workers Federation picnic 1932 - Lyn McLeavy Millie Jennie Baines was only that high (5’1”) The biggest thing about Jennie was her mouth. Didn’t she give us a bit of curry. Alice In the depression she went around with women from the Labor Party getting…

Albert Jacka VC and Port Melbourne I

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 15, 2016

Albert Jacka was the first Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War 1. He was recognised for his most conspicuous bravery at Gallipoli and also on the western front. He later served as a Councillor and Mayor of St Kilda - an office he used to support the unemployed, many of whom were former soldiers. Albert Jacka…

Brian Cleveland – Artist

PeopleDecember 6, 2015

In his spare time while teaching art to Swinburne students throughout the nineteen seventies, eighties and nineties, artist Brian Cleveland spent many an hour out and around Melbourne with his pencils and paint brush, sketching, recording those iconic areas of his city that was scheduled shortly to vanish, or soon to be seriously altered beyond recognition. Included in his hundreds…

An Almost Forgotten Man

People, Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 17, 2015

Margaret Bride writes: This is a story told to me by my Grandmother and also by my Mother. The period is some time in the ten years before the First World War, perhaps about 1910. Johnny was a young man with a moderate intellectual disability who lived with his mother in Port Melbourne, I think in Graham Street. Johnny was paid…

Port’s Woman Test Cricketer

People, Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 14, 2015

Peggy Antonio was born in Port in 1917. Her father, Francis Antonio, died when she was 15 months old. He was a Chilean docker of French and Spanish parentage. She learned to play cricket with boys in the streets around her Port Melbourne home. In 1930 after completing a shorthand and typing course, she got a job making boxes in Raymond’s shoe…

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