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Meeting 27 June 2023 at 7.30pm

MeetingsMay 28, 2023
Dr Norm Darwin, President of the President of Automotive Historians Australia will be guest speaker at our June meeting commencing at 7.30pm on 27 June. Dr Darwin will talk on the "Automotive History of Fishermans Bend". Standard Motors, Bertie St, 1952. RMIT University Design Archives Biography In 1969 Norm began working at GM-Holden Engineering, progressing to become the company’s Sourcing Co-ordinator…

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Meeting 23 May @ 7.30pm

MeetingsApril 28, 2023
Between the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay is where the story of Melbourne began. Our first Port. The first point of contact for our city’s first arrivals. A place of sailors and labourers, industry and innovation. And now, the site of Melbourne’s first innovation hub. At the heart of this multi-purpose precinct stands a new purpose-built, multi-level, vertical campus.…

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ANZAC Day 2023

MeetingsMarch 31, 2023
ANZAC Day Port Melbourne, 2021 As the fourth Tuesday of April this year coincides with ANZAC Day the Society will not be holding a meeting that evening. Instead we encourage everybody to attend the ANZAC Day Commemoration at the Port Melbourne War Memorial in Beach Street. Sue Leong and John May will lay a wreath on behalf of the Society. The…

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Meeting 28 March 2023 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsMarch 1, 2023
We pleased to have one of our own as guest speaker for the Society's March meeting. Ben Piper's talk will be titled "A History of the SouthPort Community Legal Service, 1987 - 2016" Ben has provided a teaser for his talk including this intriguing photo. [That's Ben standing on the left] For the last 35 years the residents of Port…

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Meeting – 28 February 2023 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsJanuary 25, 2023
Our February monthly meeting will feature guest speaker Sandra Nicholson who will speak on the History of the Police Force. Sandra served in the Victoria Police for 35 years attaining the rank of Assistant Commissioner by the time she retired in July 2010. She fulfilled a long held dream in 2011 when she attended a writing course at Oxford University…

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Meeting – 22 November 2022 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsOctober 26, 2022
The Society's November meeting will feature our annual trivia quiz where John May Esq will put us through our paces. As the trivia format does not easily fit with a presentation on Zoom, the meeting will be an in-person event only. Could attendees bring a simple gift (up to $5 value) that can be used as a prize. It's…

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Meeting, 25 October 2022 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsOctober 5, 2022
The Lagoon, 1870s. Original photograph by Charles Nettleton. Greg Ades will be our guest speaker on the topic of The Lagoon. Greg has been a practicing artist for over 40 years. For a number of years he was artist in residence at Port Melbourne Primary School. At one stage, with Artists in Schools funding, he created a large painting with the…

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Meeting, 27 September 2022 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsAugust 29, 2022
Bruce Gooley will speak on the topic of 'Men and Ships Driven by the Wind' at our September meeting. Bruce is a graduate of Melbourne University and a researcher, presenter and self-published author with a special interest in maritime history. He is a volunteer tutor at the Hawthorn University of the Third Age (U3A). He has presented over 120…

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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.