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Now and Then 2021 – Bertie Street

Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 2, 2021
Starward Distillery now produces whisky at 50 Bertie Street in a building where, previously, Malcolm Moore Industries fabricated large cranes. Starward Distillery, Bertie Street (2021). Photo: David Thompson. PMHPS Collection Bertie Street is named after Joseph (Joe) Bertie, a stevedore, World War One veteran, and long term Port Melbourne councillor who served as Mayor in 1943-44. At its intersection with…

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Bertie Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 10, 2020
Portrait of Mayor Joe Bertie Bertie St is named after Joseph Bertie but he was always known as Joe. Bertie's family originally came from Teglio in Italy near the border of Switzerland. Bertie was born in Bendigo in 1885. His father was killed in a mining accident there. Bertie had been working as a stevedore in Port Melbourne for seven years…

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Malcolm Moore Pty Ltd

Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 15, 2016
Only a fragment of the presence of the massive engineering firm of Malcolm Moore Pty Ltd survives in Bertie St, Port Melbourne. Remnant of the extensive Malcolm Moore factory in Bertie St - note the logo at top right Malcolm Moore set up his firm's manufacturing centre in Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne in 1927. Branches were later opened in every State capital…

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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.