Nott Street Primary School, Grade 5, 1972
This photo will give you a clue. This is my second class in my second year of being a teacher at Nott Street Port Melbourne. These kids represented the wonderful tapestry of the then cultural melting pot of multiculturalism of Port Melbourne in the 1970s. Many of the kids families came from migrants from…
Bay Street, Port Melbourne.
As I drive around Melbourne
Along its freeways and across its bridges
Through its endless suburbs
When I round this bend, I’m home
Back in Port
David Thompson
Looking south along Port Melbourne beach from Station Pier.
Looking south along Port Melbourne beach from Station Pier.
See the intact but aged starch factory. One can almost see how quiet everything is. The sky generates warmth. I understand that in those days only twelve thousand people lived in the city of Port Melbourne. On the other hand, not too far behind…
The beach and the bay here in Port-
always a magnet.
Whether windy and cold, or still and hot,
the kids are there.
I think this one's having a good time-
not too sure!
David Nicholas
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…
George Tsingos with his father at Lagoon Pier, 1968.
The Year 1968
Location "Hook Pier"
This is a series of photos of me at the beach with my father.
Innocent, quiet times in an unspoilt era.
Clearly visible in the background are the chimney stacks of the Gasworks, the Life Saving Club building and the milk bar on the corner of Beach street and Pickles…
Port Melbourne foreshore (at Princes St) around 1947. PMHPS Collection.
This image from the PMH&PS collection shows the foreshore at the foot of Princes Street, Port Melbourne, taken from the jetty that covered the main drain outlet around 1947.
As a boy, I lived further along Princes Street and this was "my" beach. By the late 1950s, much of the planking on…
St James Cottage (c 1870), Heath Street.
In 2012, 11 years after first moving to Port Melbourne, my husband Zeno and I together with our beautiful boy Luke then just 6 years old, made the move north across the borough from Beacon Cove to Heath St to bring back to life St James Cottage.
The previous owner had detailed our new homes’…
Myrtle Mott and Bill Hegarty in the Thread Needle Race at Kitchen's Annual Picnic.
My Father, Bill Hegarty, along with the Mott sisters, Myrtle, Ida and Alice who married Bill, were all employed by Kitchen & Sons.
This picture was taken at one of Kitchen's annual outings, a picnic at Frankston.
Here Bill is teamed with my Auntie Myrtle, dressed in their Sunday…
Robyn Blackmore's Chloe Dog with her friend Vera Hume at Edwards Park
Not long after I moved to Port I had an injury which meant I was on crutches!
I was outside my house one day trying to give my beautiful Chloe Dog a little shuffle/walk!!! as I held her lead.
I was approached by a person who has now become a great…