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Adventuring Liardets & Celebrating the Landing

News and NoticesNovember 11, 2014

Pamela Horsley's Adventuring with the Liardets and the PMHPS complementary exhibition Celebrating the Landing open on Friday 14th at 7 pm at Gasworks Arts Park. Most of the images of the Liardets we see are black and white, and yet we know from every account that their lives were full of colour and flair. Pamela Horsley brings the words of recollection to…

Allan Whittaker Commemoration 2014

People, Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 2, 2014

Former Supreme Court Judge Frank Vincent Reflections on 'entitlement' Here is a transcript of Frank Vincent's address to those gathered to remember the life and times of Allan Whittaker, shot by police at Hogans Flat, close to Princes Pier on 2 November 1928. He died on Australia Day 1929. 'There is a tendency to talk about Allan Whittaker and the period that he…

The Dog Collar Act

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 30, 2014

Jill Dawson, descendant of Bernt Aanenson writes: After arriving from Norway in 1886, Bernt Aanensen and his brother Adolph "Dolph" married two sisters, Grace and Edith Perrett from Geelong. Both families lived in Port Melbourne. Bernt and Edith had ten children, with five generations of descendants, some of whom are still living in Port Melbourne today. Bernt and Edith Aanensen with eight of their…

Meeting – Mon 24 Nov 2014, 7.30pm

MeetingsOctober 28, 2014

It's November and that means our annual trivia quiz with Professor John May. We'll keep the formal part of the meeting brief and get onto the fun as soon as we can. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month except December in the Council Chamber Upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall Bay Street

Celebrating the Landing – 175th Liardet Anniversary

EventsOctober 27, 2014

Complementing Pamela Horsley’s ‘Adventuring with the Liardets’, the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society presents ‘Celebrating the Landing’ – an exhibition detailing how Port Melbourne has commemorated other anniversaries of the Liardet family’s 1839 arrival on The Beach. Events include the momentous, month-long Liardet Centenary of 1939 as well as the 160th and 170th celebrations in 1999 and 2009. Panorama photograph…

Wings over Fishermens Bend

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 24, 2014

The aerodromes of Fishermans Bend and Port Melbourne are no more. Graham Street Aerodrome disappeared under industrial buildings, Garden City covers Port Melbourne Aerodrome, Coode Island Aerodrome is part of Swanson Dock, while roads fragment the site of Fishermens Bend Aerodrome. Aviation first arrived at the Bend when aviation pioneer R Graham Carey, with financial backing from the Mayor of…

This is the place

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 19, 2014

Address by Ted Baillieu, chairman of the Anzac Centenary Commemoration Committee at the commemoration of the departure of the first convoy from Port Melbourne's piers on 19 October 2014 "This is the place Where streamers were thrown to loved ones. It was here that the cheers turned to tears. It was here, where the warmth of the farewell turned into the chill of the…

Commemoration at Princes Pier this Sunday

News and NoticesOctober 16, 2014

Commemoration at Princes Pier All three piers at Port Melbourne were used for the first convoy: Town Pier, New Railway Pier (later Princes Pier) and Railway Pier (later Station Pier). This Sunday, 19th October, Princes Pier will be the focus of the commemoration of the first convoy to leave Victoria in World War 1. A detailed programme for the event is…

Remembering the Westgate Bridge disaster

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 9, 2014

photograph Doug Smallpage On 15 October, people will gather at a memorial at the Westgate Bridge to honour 35 workers who were killed when a 120-metre span of the bridge collapsed on that day in 1970. Another 18 were injured, with many crippled for life. The day before Victoria’s worst industrial accident, a worker, hearing creaks in the structure, commented:…

19 October 2014 – First Convoy Embarkations Commemoration

News and Notices, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 5, 2014

One hundred years ago, thousands of Victorians embarked from Port Melbourne bound for the battlefields of World War One. By the end of October 1914, 17 troopships had left Victorian shores carrying almost 8,000 troops as well as nurses, technicians, horses, supplies and weaponry. This was Victoria’s First Convoy. To mark the centenary of this historic departure, the State Government of…

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