Places – Page 8 – Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

Liardet Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 7, 2019

LIardet? or Lee-ar-day? There may be some uncertainty over the pronunciation but anyone living in Port Melbourne would know this street running between Pickles St to the east and Princes St to the west. Liardet St has two quite different characters: heavily trafficked east of Bay St and quietly residential west of Bay St. W.F.E. Liardet Liardet St is named…

Sea Baths in Sandridge and Port Melbourne

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 24, 2019

Pier Hotel Baths Sandridge had only been settled a few years when the first sea bath was opened as one of the many facilities offered by Wilbraham Liardet at the Pier Hotel. In 1843 he advertised in the Port Phillip Patriot that there was a spacious and convenient swimming bath, and shower, warm bath if required. The bathing facility is…

Walter Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 3, 2019

Walter St, Port Melbourne in 2019 image Rebecca Moore Walter Street Port Melbourne runs north-east to south-west between Graham and Poolman Streets along the north boundary of the Port Melbourne Primary School. It was named to commemorate Councillor George Samuel Walter who served on the Port Melbourne Council for 40 years from 1897 until his death in 1937. George Walter…

Albert and Alfred Streets

Places, Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 5, 2019

Albert and Alfred Streets are two narrow streets formed west of the railway in the 1870s. Both streets run from Farrell Street towards Graham. Alfred stops mid-block after Union Street while Albert is split by Graham Street and continues to Poolman Street. Albert Street. Photo by David Thompson Albert Street was named for Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Consort and due…

Plummer Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 8, 2019

Plummer Street near J L Murphy Reserve. Photo by David Thompson Plummer Street runs between Bridge Street and Prohasky Street with a section running the length of J L Murphy Reserve. Andrew Plummer was born in 1812 in Dalkieth, Scotland. He came to Australia in 1853 and established a medical practice in Bay Street having qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University.…

Cambridge Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 4, 2019

Cambridge Street (highlighted). MMBW Map, 1894 Passers-by today would find it difficult to identify the street highlighted in the above 1894 MMBW map. That's because it doesn't exist, although that is not strictly true. Part of the street is still there but it no longer intersects with Farrell Street. This is Cambridge Street. The origins of the name are unknown, but…

Seisman Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 6, 2019

Seisman Street runs between Dow Street and Esplanade West near Liardet Street. Originally known as Clark Street, but unproclaimed as an official street, Sandridge Council at their meeting on Thursday 22 November 1883 approved that it be renamed Seisman Street, after the immediate past Mayor, Cr Frederick Seismann. The reasoning being that a Clark Street, already proclaimed, existed in the west of…

Tarver Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryMay 23, 2019

Tarver St is a short street - only 500m long - between Prohasky and Salmon Sts in Port Melbourne. William Richardson Tarver was born in Daventry, Northamptonshire and came to Australia on the steamship Great Britain in 1857 aged 12. His brother, Thomas, had preceded him, arriving the year before on the Royal Charter. Their father, James ,established the Vulcan…

Catherine Terrace

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 17, 2019

Ray Jelley writes An enquiry from Julie Peck of Drouin about her grandparents, Herbert and Emma McConnell, was the spark that ignited a warming fire of historical research on a cool autumn night into the cottages at 53 – 63 Bridge Street, currently nearing the completion of an extensive renovation. Julie’s great grandparents William and Winifred Bolitho lived in 57…

What’s in a name? Quinn St, Quinn Ave, or Quinn Rd?

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 4, 2019

As was the custom of the time, many streets in Port Melbourne were named after prominent citizens, including mayors and councillors. In this tradition you will discover a small roadway, Quinn Road, tucked away in a new housing development, 164 Ingles Street, at the northern boundary of the borough. Other names of roadways amongst this cluster of townhouses include; Velvet,…

Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians