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The Whitaker Family: Montague to Port

People, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 17, 2025
by David F Radcliffe The Whitaker Family: Braidwood to Montague introduces Joseph Whitaker and Alice McFarlane who married in rural NSW in 1892. It tells the story of Alice being widowed aged 27 with four young children to support, the family’s move to Montague, an industrial area in South Melbourne, her second husband Ormas Towers deserting them and the impact on…

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Meeting – 25 Feb 2025 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsFebruary 2, 2025
At our February meeting we're pleased to present the official launch of the film An Ordinary Life. The story of Allan Whittaker.  Janet Bolitho will introduce the film which is dedicated to Perce White and all those who have sought to keep Allan Whittaker's memory alive. The film includes interviews with Margaret Bride, former Supreme Court judge Frank Vincent and historian…

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Now and Then 2021- Beacon Cove Towers

Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 2, 2021
Shrouded in Controversy Apartment Towers at Beacon Cove (2021). Photo: David Thompson, PMHPS Collection. This peaceful waterfront has been a centre of controversy many times since it was first occupied by Europeans in 1836. Surveyor Darke’s Camp, Sandridge. Watercolour by W.F.E. Liardet (1875) State Library of Victoria William Darke was one of the surveyors given the task of surveying the district…

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Whittaker, Allan (468)

Enlistments, WWI Centenary, ~WAugust 7, 2014
Place of Birth: Melbourne, VIC Age: 23 years Enlistment Details: Thursday, 27 August 1914 - Sydney, NSW Service Number: 468            view online service record Address: Westbourne Street Drummoyne, NSW Next of Kin: A Whittaker 43 River Street Yarraville, VIC Embarkation Details: Date: Sunday, 18 October 1914 Ship: HMAT Afric A19 Port: Sydney, NSW Unit: 1st Infantry Battalion Fate: RTA: Thursday, 29 July 1915 Discharged: Wednesday, 12 January 1916 Allan Whittaker suffered a gun shot…

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Meeting – Mon 23 Jun 2014, 7.30pm

MeetingsJune 1, 2014
The 1923 Police Strike will be the subject of Ralph Stavely's presentation at our next meeting on Monday, June 23rd at 7.30 pm. PMHPS meet on the fourth Monday of each month except December in the Council Chamber Upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall Bay Street

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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.