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Sydney Sims Anderson

Collection, People, Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 16, 2018

We came across this curious item on eBay featuring a photo caricature montage of our long-serving Town Clerk, Sydney Sims Anderson. We'd never seen it, nor the book it came from. The page is numbered 197 at the bottom (not shown in the image above) and enquiries to the seller proved fruitless as the book had already been split-up prior…

Anzac Day in the fifties

Collection, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 22, 2018

From the Collection - two photographs packed with interest Catalogue No: 2622 Anzac Day in Port Melbourne in the 1950s image George Joostens Ron Joosten and his two sisters, Vera and Yvonne, observing the crosses laid on the grassed area of Sinclair Parade, Port Melbourne, for Anzac Day, shortly after their arrival in Australia in 1956. Catalogue entry 2622 invites further exploration of…

Port Talks – Listening Party

CollectionOctober 22, 2017

Earlier today at the Port Melbourne Trugo Club we gathered around the radio as City of Port Phillip Mayor, Cr Bernadene Voss (left) officially launched our latest project Port Talks. Port Talks distills highlights from the Society's audio-archive into three ten minute podcasts covering the theme of the Depression - a time of great hardship in Port Melbourne. Port Talks brings voices…

A Visit from the Conservators

CollectionAugust 14, 2017

Victorian Municipal Directories - PMHPS Collection We are lucky to have in the Society’s collection a large number of editions of the annually produced Victorian Municipal Directory. In the days before the world wide web, these directories provided a snapshot of each municipality in the State including a brief description of the city, town or shire, its area and population, details of…

Port Melbourne Festival Posters

CollectionSeptember 10, 2015

From the Collection - Port Melbourne Festival Posters (various catalogue nos) A selection of posters from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s promoting the Port Melbourne Festival Port has a long-standing tradition of an annual community festival usually held over a weekend in summer. At times it has been held in JL Murphy Reserve, Bay Street and Edwards Park. The poster for…

Saucy Postcards from Swallow & Ariell

CollectionJuly 30, 2015

From the Collection - Swallow's Art Deco postcards from the 1930s (catalogue no 2929) A set of postcards from the 1930s was presented to the Society by George Derham, a descendant of Frederick Derham. Frederick Derham was Managing Director of Swallow & Ariell Limited, manufacturers of biscuits etc. in Port Melbourne for well over 100 years. Thomas Swallow established the firm with…

J. Kitchen & Sons, The Candle Kings

Collection, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 11, 2015

From the Collection - items from the J. Kitchen and Son collection Following the sale of Symex's Port Melbourne operation and their relocation to Shepparton, records and items from their museum were donated to PMHPS. The Society is delighted that a collection so important to the industrial history of Port Melbourne will be retained within the suburb where the company operated for…

Constructing the Port of Melbourne

Collection, PlacesMay 7, 2015

From the Collection - Charles Wynn Kiver Allison’s photo album c1920 (catalogue number 2197) Sixty-six tiny but beautifully photographed views of piers and wharves under construction are treasured in this small album. It belonged to New Zealand-born Charles Wynn Kiver Allison MIEA, who in the 1920s was the head engineer with the Melbourne Harbor Trust. Many major developments in the Port…

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…

Preventing plague in Port

CollectionMarch 12, 2015

From the Collection - Rats Cash Book June 15 1903 to May 3 1904 (catalogue number 2534) This wonderful document in the PMHPS collection records action taken between 1903 and 1904 in Port Melbourne to prevent the spread of bubonic plague by paying people for dead rats. A rat bonus of 3d and later 2d a head was paid at the Town Hall…

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