Caroline Liardet – Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

Liardet Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 7, 2019

LIardet? or Lee-ar-day? There may be some uncertainty over the pronunciation but anyone living in Port Melbourne would know this street running between Pickles St to the east and Princes St to the west. Liardet St has two quite different characters: heavily trafficked east of Bay St and quietly residential west of Bay St. W.F.E. Liardet Liardet St is named…

Those Creative Liardets

News and Notices, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 31, 2019

180th Anniversary In celebration of Port Melbourne's founding father Capt Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet, the Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society exhibits a selection of works from some of his creative descendants. This showcase commemorates his arrival in 1839 and honours the creative legacy that Wilbraham left behind within his many descendants. Port Melbourne Town Hall Thursday 14 November -…

Adventuring Liardets & Celebrating the Landing

News and NoticesNovember 11, 2014

Pamela Horsley's Adventuring with the Liardets and the PMHPS complementary exhibition Celebrating the Landing open on Friday 14th at 7 pm at Gasworks Arts Park. Most of the images of the Liardets we see are black and white, and yet we know from every account that their lives were full of colour and flair. Pamela Horsley brings the words of recollection to…

Celebrating the Landing – 175th Liardet Anniversary

EventsOctober 27, 2014

Complementing Pamela Horsley’s ‘Adventuring with the Liardets’, the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society presents ‘Celebrating the Landing’ – an exhibition detailing how Port Melbourne has commemorated other anniversaries of the Liardet family’s 1839 arrival on The Beach. Events include the momentous, month-long Liardet Centenary of 1939 as well as the 160th and 170th celebrations in 1999 and 2009. Panorama photograph…

This is Where the Story Ends

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 26, 2014

In the story of our first settlers we often focus on the arrival in November 1839, their subsequent settlement at the Beach and those early years during the establishment of Sandridge but what of their later life? By 1853 Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet were living at the Chusan Hotel in Bay Street, which was owned by their sons, Frank and Hector. A…

International Womens Day

People, Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 8, 2014

Today's post honours all the women who have shaped and formed Port Melbourne from the indomitable Caroline Liardet onwards. Anna Robieson PMHPS acknowledges the first woman elected to Port Melbourne Council and the first woman mayor, Anna Robieson. She was elected in August 1976 and served until August 1982 and was mayor in 1978-79. Her portrait stands out from the sea of dark…

Random post about dogs

Collection, People, Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 4, 2013

There is something in the Society's collection for every interest. A leather bound alphabetical index book lists all dogs registered in Port Melbourne in 1892 by owner surname. Even in 1892 there were dogs large and small - from Newfoundlands to poodles. The names of the dogs are not recorded - that would have been revealing. Register of Dogs 1892. PMHPS…

Liardet brings news of Separation

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 3, 2013

On 1 July 1851, the Port Phillip district formally separated from New South Wales to become the colony of Victoria. From the 1840s onwards there was growing discontent in the Port Phillip district. People complained of being in 'the thrall' of New South Wales and that insufficient resources were directed towards the urgent and growing needs of Melbourne and the Port…

Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians