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‘The Food of Great-grandmothers’ 2

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 17, 2013

Margaret Bride continues on the theme of 'The food of Great-grandmothers' As a further step in debunking the myth about our foremother’s healthy diet I hunted up the reports made by the Port Melbourne Health Inspector to the Central Board of Health in 1887. Let us be grateful for the campaigns that resulted in the regulation of food sales and the…

Biscuits, puddings, cakes and more: Swallow & Ariell in Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 17, 2013

This week’s post has got to be about Swallow & Ariell. The Age Epicure devoted this week’s edition to iconic Australian biscuits without mentioning Swallow & Ariell. Swallow & Ariell operated continuously in Port Melbourne from 1858 to 1991. PMHPS feels the need to talk biscuits. The former Swallow & Ariell’s factory buildings, now The Anchorage, continue to add interest and…

‘The Food of Great-grandmothers’

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 11, 2013

An article in The Age, Epicure of 25 June 2013 prompted this response from member Margaret Bride: In an article on how to eat a healthy diet, I recently read the advice, Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise as food. I think this advice is part of the romantic myth that our grandparents ate a more healthy diet than we…

Fishermans Bend – do the maps

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 11, 2013

On Sunday 7 July, several members of the Society attended a forum on the Future of Fishermans Bend convened by the Community Alliance of Port Phillip. To follow this discussion into the future, it is probably necessary to become familiar with the acronym FBURA for Fishermans Bend Urban Renewal Area. Background On 5 July 2012, the Minister for Planning rezoned a large area…

Liardet brings news of Separation

Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 3, 2013

On 1 July 1851, the Port Phillip district formally separated from New South Wales to become the colony of Victoria. From the 1840s onwards there was growing discontent in the Port Phillip district. People complained of being in 'the thrall' of New South Wales and that insufficient resources were directed towards the urgent and growing needs of Melbourne and the Port…

Water according to Walter

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 28, 2013

George Samuel Walter Memorial Garden Picking up on last week's watery theme, this post turns to Councillor Walter's connection with metropolitan water supply. This week, price increases for water were approved by the Essential Services Commission. The increases were largely attributed to the desalination plant. The Argus of 28 March 1936 contains an article Story Behind the Tap: Our Water Supply cost millions…

Watery names: A cluster of Floodgate, Pool and Spring

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 19, 2013

It is shaping up to be our wettest June in many years. It prompted a look at the place names that reveal Port Melbourne's watery foundation. A particularly flood prone spot was, and remains, the area around Ingles and Crockford St. In December 1863 "... a flood of unexampled severity occurred, which overwhelmed the low-lying land along the river course…

Fishermans Bend Migrant Hostel

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 12, 2013

Mike Brady's huge contribution to Australian life has been recognised in the Queens Birthday Honours with an AM. A less well know part of his story is the time his family spent in the migrant hostel in Fishermans Bend after their arrival in Melbourne in the '50s. The experience of life in the hostel is described in a colourful way by…

Beacon views

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJune 4, 2013

Do you remember that a previous post on the beacons mentioned that the off shore beacon used to have a timber walkway connecting it to the shore? These two great images from the City of Port Phillip's collection show this perfectly. view to the shore, Commonwealth Engine Works (left) and the Mission to Seamen (right) The citation says the photos were taken…

Farams

Planning & Preservation, Port Melbourne HistoryMay 29, 2013

This is not the place to tell the tale of Farams because it has been done with so much care by Kevin Anderson in his film The Last of the Independents. People often mention having seen it when you say you come from Port. 'Farams' has become the word that seems to capture the feeling about the changes in Port over…

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