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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Salt on the Windows by Janice C MacDonald

Free DownloadsOctober 12, 2023
Author Janice Christine MacDonald neé Morton was an active PMH&PS member in our foundation decades, Jan authored Thomas Edwards & Family – Farriers and Yachtsmen of Sandridge/Port Melbourne, and Monkey for a Yacht, the story of her grandfather, noted yachtsman Dick Edwards. For some time in the 1940s and 50s, the family lived in ‘Irvine’ at 42 Beach Street next to the Pier Hotel. Jan wrote these evocative…

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Liardet Street

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 7, 2019
LIardet? or Lee-ar-day? There may be some uncertainty over the pronunciation but anyone living in Port Melbourne would know this street running between Pickles St to the east and Princes St to the west. Liardet St has two quite different characters: heavily trafficked east of Bay St and quietly residential west of Bay St. W.F.E. Liardet Liardet St is named…

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Pubs in Port – a snapshot from the nineties

CollectionApril 9, 2015
From the Collection - Ron Laing’s Pub Photos (catalogue no 1287) Ron Laing was born in Scotland in 1920. During the war he was a flying instructor and in 1950 he migrated to Australia where he worked as a forklift driver and a machinist for the Melbourne Harbor Trust. After containers were introduced he worked unloading containers for an importer/exporter company. When…

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Skalberg, John (518)

Enlistments, WWI Centenary, ~SAugust 11, 2014
Place of Birth: Petrograd, Russia Age: 21 years 10 months Enlistment Details: Tuesday, 5 December 1916 - Melbourne, VIC Service Number: 518            view online service record Address: Pier Hotel cnr Beach and Bay Streets Port Melbourne, VIC Next of Kin: Joseph Skalberg (father) 14 Marins Street Petrograd, Russia Embarkation Details: Date: Monday, 19 February 1917 Ship: HMAT Ballarat A70 Port: Melbourne, VIC Unit: 10th Machine Gun Company - 7th Reinforcements Fate: RTA: Saturday,…

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Liardet brings news of Separation

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 3, 2013
On 1 July 1851, the Port Phillip district formally separated from New South Wales to become the colony of Victoria. From the 1840s onwards there was growing discontent in the Port Phillip district. People complained of being in 'the thrall' of New South Wales and that insufficient resources were directed towards the urgent and growing needs of Melbourne and the Port…

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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.