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On the Beach

Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 17, 2014

For these hot days, a summer photo. This is a favourite picture from the PMH&PS collection. While charming in itself, there is much to be gleaned from the background. It is taken approximately where the Life Saving Headquarters at Sandridge is today. You can see a house in the immediate background with Princes Pier and the chimney of the Starch Factory…

All England Eleven Hotel

Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 10, 2014

All posts on this site must pass the Port Melbourne connection test. PMHPS suggests that it is not straining this test to say that Port Melbourne has a connection with the history of the Ashes. Read on. Over Christmas 1861, the colony of Victoria was in a fever of anticipation for the arrival of the All England Eleven - the…

Cottage on the corner

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 19, 2013

PMHPS has observed a notice of application for a planning permit for this house on the corner of Nott and Farrell Sts, Port Melbourne. Morley's Cottage: cnr Nott and Farrell Streets This is where William Morley lived. Morley was the the first chairman of Sandridge when it became a municipality in 1860. He was Mayor in 1867 and remained a Councillor until…

Meeting – Mon 27 Jan 2014, 7.30pm

MeetingsDecember 19, 2013

Aerial view of Garden City from "Melbourne - Plan for General Development", Report of the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission, 1929 Steve Tserkezidis will present some stunning material from the PROV archives on housing developments in and around Port Melbourne. Steve has spent some years in the archives researching not only the 'Bank Houses' of Garden City, but also of Montague, plus other…

Port Melbourne Railway Station

Places, Planning & Preservation, Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 12, 2013

This week a Planning Panel has been meeting in Port Melbourne to hear submissions on the planning future of 1 - 7 Waterfront Place. The relationship between the proposed development of that site and the Port Melbourne Railway Station is one of the matters being considered. The building is on the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) which lists places of significance to the…

Beginning and ending: Holden

Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 11, 2013

Today, after weeks of uncertainty but with an increasing sense of foreboding, Holden announced that it will cease to make cars in Australia from 2017. Holden, Port Melbourne, Fishermans Bend - inseparable. This is where Australia began its journey into automobile manufacture and where it will end. There will be much more said, but PMHPS wanted to mark this sad…

More Tales from the Bend

Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 5, 2013

showing the location of the abattoir Whenever PMHPS speaks with people who grew up in Port, tales from the Bend emerge. It seems that the Bend offered the best kind of adventures a boy could have. (Girls seldom went down there). Boys roamed about in a way that would not be permitted in our safety preoccupied times. Many of these stories start…

My Time at Engine Works

Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 2, 2013

The Commonwealth Government Marine Engine Works was a recognisable landmark on Port Melbourne foreshore since it was built during World War II until the development of the Beacon Cove residential area.. In My Time at Engine Works, Glen Stuart details the making of marine engines during his 29-year career at the works. My Time at Engine Works is available for purchase…

‘A sodden expanse’ – Fishermans Bend

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 28, 2013

Rootes Factory in Salmon St. Harold Paynting Collection, State Library of Victoria In the late 1930s Fishermans Bend was on the cusp of a major transformation to industrial development - a change that was anticipated with excitement and optimism. Charles Daley in The History of South Melbourne says: "The once-despised Fishermen's Bend - a no-man's land - under the pressure of economic…

Fishermans Bend – the past and the future

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 20, 2013

Victoria-Australia Port Phillip Henry L. Cox, State Library of Victoria PMHPS's head is spinning with thinking about its submission to the Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area Draft Vision, so this week's post is about .... Fishermans Bend! PMHPS will argue that an understanding of the environmental/natural history of Fishermans Bend is fundamental to planning for its future. So lets look at this…

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