Port Melbourne History – Page 24 – Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

Greater Port Melbourne – 1939 Centenary Celebrations

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 17, 2016

Greater Port Melbourne: Official Souvenir of the 1939 Port Melbourne Centenary Celebrations Committee From October 28 to November 25, 1939 the City of Port Melbourne celebrated the landing of the Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet and their children on The Beach on November 15, 1839. The Centenary Committee produced a souvenir booklet entitled Greater Port Melbourne and it gives a glimpse into the…

St James Cottage circa 1870

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 10, 2016

St James Cottage (c 1870), Heath Street. In 2012, 11 years after first moving to Port Melbourne, my husband Zeno and I together with our beautiful boy Luke then just 6 years old, made the move north across the borough from Beacon Cove to Heath St to bring back to life St James Cottage. The previous owner had detailed our new homes’…

Kitchen’s Picnic

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 3, 2016

Myrtle Mott and Bill Hegarty in the Thread Needle Race at Kitchen's Annual Picnic. My Father, Bill Hegarty, along with the Mott sisters, Myrtle, Ida and Alice who married Bill, were all employed by Kitchen & Sons. This picture was taken at one of Kitchen's annual outings, a picnic at Frankston. Here Bill is teamed with my Auntie Myrtle, dressed in their Sunday…

Allan Whittaker Commemoration 2016

People, Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 2, 2016

Legacy of 1928 On a (rare) sunny evening, former Supreme Court judge Frank Vincent offered these reflections on the legacy of 1928 at the Allan Whittaker commemoration held on Princes Pier on Friday 28 October. He spoke without notes. "The question I was going to pose is 'What is the thread that joins Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Pauline Hanson and Boris Johnson?' And…

Joy of Living in Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 27, 2016

Robyn Blackmore's Chloe Dog with her friend Vera Hume at Edwards Park Not long after I moved to Port I had an injury which meant I was on crutches! I was outside my house one day trying to give my beautiful Chloe Dog a little shuffle/walk!!! as I held her lead. I was approached by a person who has now become a great…

Anti-conscription in Port

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 19, 2016

Had you been living in Port in October 1916, you would have been very aware of the referendum on conscription that was looming on 28 October. Campaigning was intense. The question to be put to electors was: Are you in favour of the Government having, in this grave emergency, the same compulsory powers over citizens in regard to requiring their military service,…

Recalling Before and After – The West Gate Bridge

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 13, 2016

West Gate Bridge from Williamstown Road/Webb Dock area, a day or so before the collapse. Looking from the Williamstown Road/Webb dock area towards the West Gate Bridge, just a day or so before the bridge collapsed. Contrast the sky in this photo to the blue of the later photo – such a grim threatening portent over the unhappy bridge. West Gate Bridge…

Better than a Horse on a Merry-Go-Round

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 6, 2016

My grandfather Bert Cosham, with my cousin Barry Bond, in the lane, Princes Place, at the rear of his house at 94 Princes Street Port Melbourne in 1948. Along the lane is the wall at the rear of St Joseph’s Priory in Stokes Street, while the church hall in Rouse Street seems to be impaled by the chimney of Swallow…

Representing Port

Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 29, 2016

On October 22nd, elections will be held for the Port Phillip Council. Port Melbourne will no longer have a dedicated representative and the ward of Sandridge will cease to exist. Instead, three councillors will represent the new Gateway Ward. These arrangements were put in place following a Victorian Electoral Commission review of representation in Port Phillip. The PMHPS argued strongly for…

My Mum, Joan Dawson

People, Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 22, 2016

Joan Dawson with her Graham Street School Grade Prep class, 1939. Young Teacher Graham Street Port Melbourne 1939 My mum was just 18 when she began to teach this class at the Graham Street School. She lived nearby at 174 Buckhurst Street. Her father was a carter and they lived in a double fronted timber home with stables at the back where…

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