by David Thompson
In April 1924, the South and Port Thistle Cricket Club won the premiership in the Victorian Scottish Association for the third year in succession, the first time such a feat had been achieved in that association.[1]
The cricket club was part of the well-established South and Port Melbourne Thistle Society, a social organisation formed on 31 August…
by David Thompson
Letter, The Record, 14 November 1931
A letter to the editor from someone identifying themselves as RRR appeared in The Record on 14 November 1931 bemoaning the lost opportunities of not staging a Back-to-Port Melbourne event to coincide with the visit of the ocean liner, “Strathnavar”, to Station Pier and the visiting warships berthed at Princes Pier.[1]
The letter opened, “Port Melbourne…
On Saturday 12 January 1918, during the South and Port Melbourne Thistle Society monthly concert at the South Melbourne Town Hall, the President of the society, Cr Tom Smith, made an important announcement. The society intended to enrol lady players in the pipe band. The committee had agreed to fill up the ranks in the band which had been…