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The Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial

EventsAugust 10, 2015
The relationship between Australia and Greece has deep roots in the island of Lemnos. A hundred years ago, a piper welcomed the first Anzac nurses ashore onto that island. Conditions were harsh and chaotic at first -  ‘too awful for words’. Over time conditions improved and survival rates were impressive. The dedication of the 130 nurses who served on Lemnos, the men they…

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Emerald Hill Heritage Centre Program

News and NoticesAugust 7, 2015
The Emerald Hill Heritage Centre at 195 Bank St, South Melbourne offers a wonderful program for anyone seeking to research their family history or the history of their house. Here is the program for August and September. This workshop may also interest Society members. Beginning Oral History - Workshop SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 10 AM – 4PM Presented by Sarah Rood, professional historian from consulting…

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Barry’s Ideal Dairy

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 6, 2015
Helen Barry writes: "My father’s family dairy was at 68 Ingles Street, Port Melbourne from about 1931 to 1972. The property consisted of a two-storey dwelling with a milk bar in the front where Dad’s mother Nellie Barry and sister Bernice sold milk into jugs customers brought with them. The dairy was at the rear of the long lane that separates…

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Ibis

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 23, 2015
Geoff Deed, who grew up at 41 Nott Street, offers this story from his boyhood in the fifties: 'There was a family called Fletcher that lived in Rouse St - just the mother and the son. His name was Jeffrey - with a 'J'. There was no father. (Maybe he was killed in the war?) Through the window of their place you could…

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AGM – Mon 24 August 2015, 7.30pm

MeetingsJuly 22, 2015
The Society's Annual General Meeting will be held in the Auditorium, Upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall, 333 Bay St, Port Melbourne at 7.15 pm for a 7.30 pm start on Monday 24 August 2015. The guest speaker will be the Hon Dr Barry Jones AC on Australian History Revisited.  

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Biscuits in boxes, butter in pats

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 16, 2015
Judi Groves (Rose) writes about her grandfather ‘R.T.' Rose (Roland Thomas) My grandfather – or ‘R.T.’ as he was commonly known – owned the licensed grocer at 168 Ross Street. He was born in Brunswick in March 1893 and signed up for World War 1 in July 1915.  At the time he was a carpenter living at 105 Graham St.  He served on…

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Meeting – Mon 27 July 2015, 7.30pm

MeetingsJune 27, 2015
Photo: National Trust of Australia The guest speaker at our July meeting, Laura James, will talk about Avenues of Honour. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month except December in the Council Chamber,  Upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall, 333 Bay St, Port Melbourne.    

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Meeting – Mon 22 June 2015, 7.30pm

MeetingsMay 26, 2015
The PMH&PS Pop-Up Museum will be reprised at our June meeting. Every member should be able to bring something. All you need to do is look through your house and choose some item that you are able to bring to the meeting and place on display for the duration of the meeting. The item should have a connection to the history of…

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The Railway Reserves

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryMay 21, 2015
Sandridge was lucky. It was because of its significant position on the bay that the Melbourne and Hobsons Bay Railway was opened, and favoured with so generous a grant of land on which to lay its tracks. Along that short rail route between Flinders Street and the bay, a strip of Crown land one hundred yards wide was set aside as…

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Sign of the Swallow

Port Melbourne HistoryMay 14, 2015
This Port Melbourne story is reproduced with permission from Stephen Banham's wonderful book Characters: Cultural stories revealed through typograpy . 'Real estate development can be unkind to signage. The urgency to convert a site from industrial to residential often promotes a 'scorched earth' approach - complete erasure of what once occupied a site. However, amid the crashing bricks and billowing dust there often lie…

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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.