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More Fishermans Bend Migrant Hostel Memories

Port Melbourne HistoryJune 22, 2017

This week's story comes to the PMHPS from Bill Hankin: Fishermans Bend Migrant Hostel. Entry in Hall St off Lorimer St. courtesy of Allan Marshall "I arrived at Fisherman’s Bend hostel in November 1952 aged 5 with my parents Cliff and Josy Hankin and my younger brother, John. We came to Australia on the New Australia from Southampton with stops at Suez,…

My Shed and its Five Pals

Port Melbourne HistoryJune 15, 2017

The shed Suzy shares with her five neighbours. My rectangular house block meets up with five others at the back left hand corner, one rectangular and four triangles. So our six sheds were a shared building with a shared internal wall when I moved into Port Melbourne in 1994. Diagram of Suzy's Shared Shed Unique? I wonder. The shed Suzy shares with her five…

William Cann’s Kitchen

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 8, 2017

William Cann (centre) with his soldier son Harry sitting to his right c 1915-19. Courtesy Geoff Lister. Feeding the hungry children of Nott Street School in the 1930’s was a far cry from William Cann’s former life as a British soldier who had served in both the Zulu and Boer Wars. However, he did know what it was like to be…

Esplanade West

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 1, 2017

Esplanade West, Port Melbourne Little did I know that buying our house in Esplanade West, would change the direction of my life. Esplanade West is an intriguing name for a street, and it led to an early interest in how it had come to be so named. I learned about the shaping influence of the Sandridge Lagoon on Port’s history and development.…

The Last Milk Horse

Port Melbourne HistoryMay 18, 2017

The Last Milk Horse I moved to Farrell Street in Port in 1986. Coming from the suburbs I was amazed to hear the milkman’s horse clopping past each morning. One morning in November 1988 I thought that I must take a picture of something that seemed unique to Port at that time. Little was I to know that it was to be the…

Post War Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne HistoryMay 4, 2017

Port Melbourne children from the Albert Street area posing in Poolman Street, 1947. Jim Power is far right in the front row. Photographer: Jack Gould. This photo was taken in 1947. These children lived in the neighbourhood of Albert Street. Jim Power is on the far right of the front row. The photo was taken by Jack Gould in front of…

Port Melbourne War Memorial

Port Melbourne HistoryApril 20, 2017

Sue Leong writes: This is the snap that I took of the war memorial on that wet and grey ANZAC centenary in 2015. (Not a great photo but I liked having the people in it to show how bleak a day it was!) Our PMHPS red and blue flowers can be seen. My Dad served in the air force in WWII…

Anzac Day in Port Melbourne 2017

Port Melbourne HistoryApril 18, 2017

The crowd grows year on year, the perspective of the speakers image Bernadene Voss The Port Melbourne Anzac Day Commemorative Service took place at the Beach Street Memorial next to the Port Melbourne Yacht Club at 9.45am on Tuesday 25 April. Guest speakers included Mayor of the City of Port Phillip, Councillor Bernadene Voss The Hon Michael Danby MHR, Federal Member for Melbourne Ports The…

Who Needs a Chair?

Port Melbourne HistoryApril 6, 2017

John Beaumont, sitting on the footpath in Bridge Street, Port Melbourne circa 1943. My cousin John Beaumont, sitting on the footpath in front of his home at 43 Bridge Street Port Melbourne around 1943. John’s father Freddie, commenced his war service in Singapore, escaping from there when the city fell to the Japanese on 15th February 1942. Freddie subsequently was transferred…

Garden City Reserve

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 23, 2017

Garden City Reserve. This is a photo of Garden City Reserve taken early Autumn 2016 at about 7 am. I always make a cup of tea in the morning and go out the front in my dressing gown and look eastwards towards the park. There is always a difference in the horizon. It can be the sun breaking with the clouds bright…

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