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

Meeting – 25 June 2024 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsMay 29, 2024
Nayda Kelly will be guest speaker at our June meeting where we will learn about "A Day on the Bay: The Port Philip Bay Excursion Paddle Steamers 1870 - 1940". Nayda has sent us the following bio Past Port Melbourne resident – I grew up in Ross Street, attended Nott Street School, followed by Middle Park Central and MacRobertson Girls’…

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Growing up in Port Melbourne – Leisure

Growing up in PortMay 29, 2024
From a young age most children spent their free time unsupervised by adults. Sometimes an older sister or brother would be put in charge of their siblings, the one ‘in charge’ sometimes only seven or eight themselves. The freedom enjoyed by children even involved them going to the beach to play, although they might be forbidden from going in the…

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Ozone, Hygeia and Weeroona Sts

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 7, 2020
These three streets in Port Melbourne are named after the Bay excursion paddle steamers that traveled from Station Pier down the Bay to Mornington, Sorrento, Queenscliff and Portarlington from the turn of the 20th century to the Second World War. There are only 8 houses in Ozone St, 8 in Hygeia St and 11 in Weeroona St. The short streets…

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Captain Gray, Master of the Paddle Steamers

Collection, PeopleOctober 1, 2014
From the collection Scrapbook of Captain Harry Gray: Master of the Paddle Steamers PS Hygeia and PS Weeroona Captain Gray kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of various shipping events and stories on Port Phillip Bay from 1888 to 1976 which was donated to the PMHPS by Joyce Gray of Swallow St in 2004. The clippings include newspaper articles which…

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Princes

Port Melbourne HistoryApril 17, 2014
Today's post is prompted by the royal visit to Australia and the approach of Anzac Day. The Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VIII, visited Melbourne in May 1920 on board the British warship HMS Renown. He came to represent his father King George V to thank Australia for its part in the war. His visit was eagerly anticipated with crowds…

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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.