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

Meeting – Mon 23 October 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsSeptember 26, 2017
Tumult at Montague Dr John Lack will speak to us about the attack on the Dunlop Rubber Mill on 19 September 1917. John is an Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in the School of History and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Formerly Victorian section editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (to which he has contributed more than 40…

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Finding

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 29, 2014
The difference between joy and frustration in local history research is being able to find things. This was a theme of Monday's meeting. Further integrating the Society's computer records, catalogue database and paper files will make it easier for researchers to find what they're looking for in the fascinating PMHPS collection. Steve Tserkezidis, guest speaker,  brings a particular tenacity to finding.…

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Meeting – Mon 27 Jan 2014, 7.30pm

MeetingsDecember 19, 2013
Aerial view of Garden City from "Melbourne - Plan for General Development", Report of the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission, 1929 Steve Tserkezidis will present some stunning material from the PROV archives on housing developments in and around Port Melbourne. Steve has spent some years in the archives researching not only the 'Bank Houses' of Garden City, but also of Montague, plus other…

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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.