Of all the accounts of children’s work in the Society’s collection that of Sam Littlepage stands out. This account was sent to his grand-daughter who was doing a school project It is dated 30th June 2000. Stan’s daughter, Judith Theobold, typed up the account from her father’s dictation because his literacy skills were limited. This is not surprising when you read…
Bay Street at Beach Street (2021). Photo: David Thompson, PMHPS Collection.
For more than 150 years Morley’s Coal Depot has stood on the south-east corner of Bay and Beach Streets. William Morley was a prominent local merchant in Port Melbourne in the years of the gold boom. In 1860 he was elected as the first chairman of the Sandridge Council. The…
Bay Street at Spring Street (2021). Photo: David Thompson, PMHPS Collection.
Bay Street has always been both a route and a destination. Vehicles now, as then, travel north and south, but in 1840 it was no more than a dusty track leading to Melbourne.
Port Melbourne Town Hall (1883). City of Port Phillip Collection.
By 1900 it was a broad thoroughfare lined…
Cable Tram Shed, Port Melbourne, September 1997 by Brian Cleveland
Port Melbourne, cable tram shed & original sail makers factory, September 1997 by Brian Cleveland
Cable Tram Shed, Port Melbourne, September 1997 by Brian Cleveland
View of the old cable tram sheds in Port Melbourne looking towards Beach Street.
Cable Tram Shed, Port Melbourne Beach Street, August 1997 by Brian Cleveland
View of the old cable tram shed in Port Melbourne looking towards Beach Street.