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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Meeting – Mon 28 May 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsApril 26, 2018
At our May meeting we'll hear from Andrew Calleja, co-coach of the inaugural Port Melbourne Football Club Women's Team. Port Melbourne Football Club was founded in 1874 and in 2018 will field its first women's team in the South Eastern Women's Football League with the aim of obtaining a VFL license in the near future. Andrew will go over the recent…

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Meeting – Mon 23 April 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsApril 9, 2018
John Briggs, Architect and Conservation Consultant, will be the guest speaker for our April meeting on the subject of Challenges and Issues of Heritage in 2018. John has broad experience in all aspects of heritage architecture including historical research, preparation and production of conservation reports and conservation plans for projects at all scales, as well as the preparation and presentation of submissions…

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Meeting – Mon 26 March 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsFebruary 27, 2018
Our guest speaker in March will be Jim Penaluna, "A Port Melbourne Boy". Jim was born and bred in Port Melbourne. He worked and played sport in Port all his life.   In his early years he lived in Clark Street close to the Graham Street Primary School then went to South Melbourne Technical School. He joined General Motors Holden’s as a apprentice…

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Meeting – Mon 26 February 2018, 7.30pm

MeetingsJanuary 22, 2018
Grazing cows between the St Kilda Road military barracks and Emerald Hill, c 1874. Our February Guest speaker will be Adair Bunnett OAM who will look at the ways in which the settlement and history of South Melbourne and Port Melbourne are both similar and different in her talk 'Same But Not the Same'. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month,…

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Meeting – Mon 27 November 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsOctober 23, 2017
Professor May will put us through our paces with our annual Trivial Quiz.  It's always a lot of fun and remember ... the questions are only hard if you don't know the answer. PMH&PS meet on the fourth Monday of each month except December in the Council Chamber, upstairs at Port Melbourne Town Hall, 333 Bay St, Port Melbourne.

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Meeting – Mon 23 October 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsSeptember 26, 2017
Tumult at Montague Dr John Lack will speak to us about the attack on the Dunlop Rubber Mill on 19 September 1917. John is an Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in the School of History and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Formerly Victorian section editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (to which he has contributed more than 40…

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Double Bill

MeetingsSeptember 16, 2017
September meeting Launch of Port Talks & guest speaker Jim Sinclair Bulloughs May Jasper has produced three short audio stories (10 minutes each) using voices from the Society's archive. You will hear from former Port residents Tom Hills and Myrtle Richardson about how they managed through the Depression. A 'taster', or trailer if you like, will be presented at the meeting to…

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After Glow of the AGM

MeetingsSeptember 4, 2017
The Society's well attended Annual General Meeting was underpinned by meticulous organisation and support from members.  Many people commented on the warm atmosphere - 'like a family gathering' - observed one of the guests. The business of the AGM attended to, guests reveled in the stories told by guest speaker Jan Soldatos. Jan began by opening her late husband Phil's small…

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AGM – Mon 28 Aug 2017, 7.30pm

MeetingsAugust 3, 2017
The 23rd Annual General Meeting of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society and the official launch of PASSAGES by Cr Bernadene Voss, Mayor of the City of Port Phillip will be held at Port Melbourne Town Hall on Monday 28th August 2017. The Spring Street South door will be open from 6.30pm providing the opportunity to view the exhibition before moving…

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PMHPS acknowledges the generous support of the City of Port Phillip.

 

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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.