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

Growing up in Port Melbourne – Sport

Growing up in PortMay 29, 2024
Baseball: The club was formed in 1929, originally known as The Port Melbourne Baptist Baseball Club. It has been a constant competitor in the sport ever since. Tennis: This is also one of Port’s oldest sporting clubs formed in 1884. It has been in its present location since 1903. Ladies at Graham St Tennis Club, 1920s. PMHPS Collection. Cat…

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A Triumvirate of Test Cricketers by Terry Keenan

Free DownloadsOctober 17, 2023
Biographical details on Robert McLeod, Charles McLeod and James Kelly, three members produced by the PMCC who played for Australia. (PDF 1.4 MB) Compiled by Terry Keenan, President PMCC 1990-1993, to accompany a presentation to the Port Melbourne Cricket Club, 28 July 1993. With excerpts from Jack Pollard's Australian Cricket, The Game and the Players, Hodder and Stoughton 1982. Download…

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Meeting Monday 23 September @ 7.30pm

MeetingsSeptember 6, 2019
Port Melbourne Sports Clubs Port Melbourne has had and still has a proud history of hosting many different sporting clubs. On Monday 23rd September, we will hear about the history and the members’ commitment behind three of these clubs - the cricket, tennis and bowling clubs. Come along and hear Ron Stranks speak about  the “1950 Graham Street Boys, The Great…

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Go Port: Port United Boys Cricket Team

Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 12, 2017
Port United Boys Cricket Team at JL Murphy Reserve, 1952. The photo was taken in 1952 at JL Murphy Reserve, corner of Williamstown Road and Graham Street. The area was Port Melbourne Municipal Council’s depot for electric light and bluestone. This local junior boy’s cricket team was organised by ourselves without adult help and was successful as undefeated premiers. The boys lived in…

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Port’s Woman Test Cricketer

People, Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 14, 2015
Peggy Antonio  was born in Port in 1917. Her father, Francis Antonio, died when she was 15 months old. He was a Chilean docker of French and Spanish parentage. She learned to play cricket with boys in the streets around her Port Melbourne home. In 1930 after completing a shorthand and typing course, she got a job making boxes in Raymond’s shoe…

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Meeting – Mon 22 Sep 2014, 7.30pm

MeetingsAugust 27, 2014
Our guest,  Kevin Mooney will talk about his  role as a founder of the Bradman Foundation and his relationship with Sir Donald Bradman.  He will also be discussing the lessons we can learn from establishing such an enterprise and the great qualities of Sir Donald. PMHPS meet on the fourth Monday of each month except December in the Council Chamber …

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All England Eleven Hotel

Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 10, 2014
All posts on this site must pass the Port Melbourne connection test. PMHPS suggests that it is not straining this test to say that Port Melbourne has a connection with the history of the Ashes. Read on. Over Christmas 1861, the colony of Victoria was in a fever of anticipation for the arrival of the All England Eleven - the…

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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.