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

Diggers’ Weekly Dances

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryFebruary 18, 2020
Notice for Weekly Diggers' Dances at the Anzac Memorial Hall, Standard Newspaper, 7 February 1920. After the war, weekly dance evenings known as Diggers' Dances were held in the Anzac Memorial Hall.  The Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Cricket Club advertised the dances in the Standard, 7 February 1920.  The dances would commence on Wednesday 18 February and in preparation, the club also…

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Final Welcome Home

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryFebruary 14, 2020
Programme (photocopy) for the Final Welcome Home in the Graham Street Methodist School Hall on Saturday 14 February 1920. PMHPS Collection. At 8pm on 14 February 1920 the Graham Street Methodists conducted the Final Welcome Home to their Returned Soldiers in the Graham Street Methodist School Hall. Under the chairmanship of the Rev J Trathan, the programme opened with the doxology and…

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War Memorial

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryJanuary 12, 2020
One of the issues raised at the meeting of the Port Melbourne branch of the Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Fathers’ Association on Monday 12 January 1920 was the intention of the branch to erect a memorial to the local men who were killed in the war. Cr Owen Sinclair suggested Edwards Park on the land reclaimed from the lagoon would make…

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Mrs E A Collins, OBE

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryNovember 30, 2019
Calling card of Mrs Elizabeth Ann Collins, OBE of 74 Nott St, Port Melbourne. PMHPS Collection. A jewell amongst the scraps of paper found when the Nott Street School "Old Boys" Memorial was moved from the school to the Port Melbourne Town Hall was a visiting card belonging to Mrs E A Collins, OBE. Mrs Elizabeth Ann Collins was appointed as an Officer…

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A Poignant Note

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryNovember 30, 2019
Amongst the many papers found in the recess of the Nott Street School "Old Boys" Memorial is one very poignant note. While all the papers bar one bear the name or names of Nott Street "Old Boys" who enlisted and some include a date of birth, the unit they served in or their residence in Port.  Many note that the soldier…

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Sandridge Marine Lodge Honour Board

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenarySeptember 10, 2019
The Sandridge Marine Lodge established their Freemasons' Hall in Stokes Street in 1858 and remained there until just before the outbreak of the Great War.  In July 1914 they sold their Masonic Hall to Swallow and Ariell Pty Ltd.  It made perfect sense for the biscuit company to acquire a neighbouring building for their ongoing business needs.  The Freemasons had…

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Nott Street School WWI Anzac Service

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryApril 25, 2019
Order of Service, Nott Street State School. PMHPS Collection This order of service, presumably from an Anzac Day commemoration, was found within a recess of the Nott Street School Old Boys Honour Board along with many other pieces of paper bearing the names of soldiers to be included on the school's Honour Roll. It gives an insight into how the school commemorated…

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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.