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Meetings Cancelled

MeetingsMarch 2, 2020
With the Port Melbourne Town Hall closed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, the Executive Committee of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society has cancelled the Society's monthly meetings until further notice. For up to date information on the Coronavirus please visit www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus

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Meeting Tuesday 25 February @ 7.30pm

MeetingsFebruary 6, 2020
Aerial view of Catani Gardens, St Kilda. Photograph by David Brand. The guest speaker at our February meeting will be Cr David Brand who will take us on a slide tour through the Mediterranean sources of Carlo Catani’s landscapes, and chat about their significance to Melburians. Carlo Catani, Italian born Victorian Government engineer and landscape designer, did more than almost anyone else to…

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Meeting Tuesday 28 January @ 7.30pm

MeetingsJanuary 17, 2020
Our January meeting will be the first at our new regular meeting date of the fourth Tuesday each month (bar December). Come along and hear from fellow members about some of the items in the Society's collection. We meet in the Council Chamber, upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall, Bay Street. Please enter via Spring Street South and take…

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Meeting Monday 25 November @ 7.30pm

MeetingsOctober 29, 2019
As is tradition, our last general meeting of the year will be our annual trivia quiz. Professor May will test us on all manner of obscure things he has dreamt up over the past twelve months. We ask people to bring a small gift (no more than $5 worth) that we can use as prizes and that's not…

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Meeting Monday 28 October @ 7.30pm

MeetingsSeptember 24, 2019
Our guest speaker, Beris Campbell OAM will present The Homeshare story – in Australia and internationally  (with particular reference to the connections with the City of Port Phillip and Port Melbourne in particular!) Community Services Manager for Port Melbourne Council for 21 years, Beris, will speak about her passion of the last 20+ years – the Homeshare Program. Homeshare programs bring…

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Meeting Monday 23 September @ 7.30pm

MeetingsSeptember 6, 2019
Port Melbourne Sports Clubs Port Melbourne has had and still has a proud history of hosting many different sporting clubs. On Monday 23rd September, we will hear about the history and the members’ commitment behind three of these clubs - the cricket, tennis and bowling clubs. Come along and hear Ron Stranks speak about  the “1950 Graham Street Boys, The Great…

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AGM Monday 26 August, 2019 at 7.00pm for 7.30pm

MeetingsJuly 23, 2019
Robin Grow, PMHPS Member and President of the Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia will be the guest speaker at our Annual General Meeting this year. Robin's presentation will provide an illustrated analysis of how Melbourne and Port Melbourne changed in the Art Deco era – between the wars. It provides details of the changes to design aesthetics,…

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Meeting 22 July @ 7.30pm

MeetingsJune 24, 2019
Our special guest will be Tracey Pahor who will speak on the topic of Making locals while preserving Port: The powerful use of pictures and stories in Port Melbourne. Tracey has this to say about her talk ... Tracey Pahor at the announcement of funding for the restoration of Princes Pier. Photo by Janet Bolitho I think that preserving what people…

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Meeting – Mon 24 June 2019 @ 7.30pm

MeetingsJune 6, 2019
Our June meeting will feature Family Stories from Port. Three members of the Society will tell their own and their family story about living in Port Melbourne. Jill Dawson’s family could have the longest continuous record of living in Port Melbourne, Jill will tell us the story from its earliest beginning. Marilyn Allport grew up in Heath Street and has…

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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.