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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Memories of North Port

Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 6, 2018
Mary Guise (nee Foy) writes: The area around North Port Station, on the Evans Street side, was a real hive of activity in the 1950's and 1960's - especially the 1950's. Early on week-day mornings, scores of people, mostly men, would appear from the subway under the railway line (now gone) having caught the Port Melbourne train from the city. They would…

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PMHPS 2018 AGM

Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 30, 2018
On Monday 28 August around 140 members and guests attended the 2018 Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society Annual General Meeting at Port Melbourne Town Hall where the Society celebrated its 25th Anniversary. All Photos by John Kirby PMHPS Patron, Liana Thompson PMHPS Patron, Liana Thompson, addresses the 2018 AGM PMHPS President, Sue Leong addresses the 2018 AGM Janet Bolitho pays tribute to PMHPS…

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Anzac Day in Port Melbourne 2018

Port Melbourne HistoryMay 2, 2018
On this warm Anzac morning, the crowd swelled and swelled, almost filling the Beach St roadway between Bay and Nott Street. A bearded Perce White attended the Anzac Service to acknowledge and thank all those who had supported the commemoration over many years. Perce White took on the role of MC of the service when the RSL handed in its commission and…

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Anzac Day in the fifties

Collection, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 22, 2018
From the Collection - two photographs packed with interest  Catalogue No: 2622 Anzac Day in Port Melbourne in the 1950s image George Joostens Ron Joosten and his two sisters, Vera and Yvonne, observing the crosses laid on the grassed area of Sinclair Parade, Port Melbourne,  for Anzac Day, shortly after their arrival in Australia in 1956. Catalogue entry 2622 invites further exploration of…

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Women’s Welcoming Committee

Port Melbourne HistoryApril 20, 2018
It is unfair to say that 1918 marks the pinnacle of the work of the Women's Welcoming Committee (WWC) because they welcomed all but the first troopship returning to our piers right through the war until 1920. They did much more besides including the erection of the Band Rotunda on the foreshore as "there is no sweeter commemoration than music", as…

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The War in Port – 1917

Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 19, 2017
As we make final preparations for Christmas . . . On the 20th December 1917 men and women in Port Melbourne voted in a referendum on this question "Are you in favour of the proposal of the Commonwealth Government for reinforcing the Australian Imperial forces overseas?" This question, although it does not use the word conscription, came to be known as the…

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.