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Go Port: Port United Boys Cricket Team

Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 12, 2017
Port United Boys Cricket Team at JL Murphy Reserve, 1952. The photo was taken in 1952 at JL Murphy Reserve, corner of Williamstown Road and Graham Street. The area was Port Melbourne Municipal Council’s depot for electric light and bluestone. This local junior boy’s cricket team was organised by ourselves without adult help and was successful as undefeated premiers. The boys lived in…

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The Year 1968

Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 15, 2016
George Tsingos with his father at Lagoon Pier, 1968. The Year 1968 Location "Hook Pier" This is a series of photos of me at the beach with my father. Innocent, quiet times in an unspoilt era. Clearly visible in the background are the chimney stacks of the Gasworks, the Life Saving Club building and the milk bar on the corner of Beach street and Pickles…

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Why Bother Going to the Riviera?

Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 1, 2016
Port Melbourne foreshore (at Princes St) around 1947. PMHPS Collection. This image from the PMH&PS collection shows the foreshore at the foot of Princes Street, Port Melbourne, taken from the jetty that covered the main drain outlet around 1947. As a boy, I lived further along Princes Street and this was "my" beach. By the late 1950s, much of the planking on…

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Greater Port Melbourne – 1939 Centenary Celebrations

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 17, 2016
Greater Port Melbourne: Official Souvenir of the 1939 Port Melbourne Centenary Celebrations Committee From October 28 to November 25, 1939 the City of Port Melbourne celebrated the landing of the Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet and their children on The Beach on November 15, 1839. The Centenary Committee produced a souvenir booklet entitled Greater Port Melbourne and it gives a glimpse into the…

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St James Cottage circa 1870

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 10, 2016
St James Cottage (c 1870), Heath Street. In 2012, 11 years after first moving to Port Melbourne, my husband Zeno and I together with our beautiful boy Luke then just 6 years old, made the move north across the borough from Beacon Cove to Heath St to bring back to life St James Cottage. The previous owner had detailed our new homes’…

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Kitchen’s Picnic

Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 3, 2016
Myrtle Mott and Bill Hegarty in the Thread Needle Race at Kitchen's Annual Picnic. My Father, Bill Hegarty, along with the Mott sisters, Myrtle, Ida and Alice who married Bill, were all employed by Kitchen & Sons. This picture was taken at one of Kitchen's annual outings, a picnic at Frankston. Here Bill is teamed with my Auntie Myrtle, dressed in their Sunday…

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Allan Whittaker Commemoration 2016

People, Port Melbourne HistoryNovember 2, 2016
Legacy of 1928 On a (rare) sunny evening, former Supreme Court judge Frank Vincent offered these reflections on the legacy of 1928 at the Allan Whittaker commemoration held on Princes Pier on Friday 28 October. He spoke without notes. "The question I was going to pose is 'What is the thread that joins Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Pauline Hanson and Boris Johnson?' And…

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Anti-conscription in Port

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 19, 2016
Had you been living in Port in October 1916, you would have been very aware of the referendum on conscription that was looming on 28 October. Campaigning was intense. The question to be put to electors was: Are you in favour of the Government having, in this grave emergency, the same compulsory powers over citizens in regard to requiring their military service,…

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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.