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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Back-to-Port Melbourne Preparations 1932

Port Melbourne HistoryApril 21, 2023
by David Thompson Letter, The Record, 14 November 1931 A letter to the editor from someone identifying themselves as RRR appeared in The Record on 14 November 1931 bemoaning the lost opportunities of not staging a Back-to-Port Melbourne event to coincide with the visit of the ocean liner, “Strathnavar”, to Station Pier and the visiting warships berthed at Princes Pier.[1] The letter opened, “Port Melbourne…

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Barlow Street

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryApril 6, 2023
by David F Radcliffe Barlow Street is one of those “internal” roadways that provide access to houses located off the main streets in Port Melbourne. Its entrance is on the eastern side of Nott Street between Liardet and Graham Streets.  Access to Barlow Street off Nott Street. Photograph by David Radcliffe. Like Florence Place, Barlow Street is a consequence of the way…

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Pat Grainger 1930 – 2023

People, Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 24, 2023
Pat Grainger neé Herman was born in Spokane, WA in north-west USA in 1930. After attaining a BA in fine art and music theory from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA she moved to Los Angeles, CA to study and practice commercial art. In LA, Pat worked with Art Director Les Mason and they married in 1956. In the early…

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Miss Elsie Holmes

People, Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 9, 2023
Miss Elsie Holmes was a forewoman at Swallow and Ariell, the biscuit manufacturing company, during the First World War. Her father also worked for the company, as did many other people in Princes St where the family lived. Her exceptional administrative and organisational abilities came to the fore during the First World War. She brought together a group of…

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Florence Place (& Britain Street)

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryFebruary 3, 2023
by David F Radcliffe When I first came across Florence Place it grabbed my attention as my mother’s name was Florence. Running between Stokes Street and Nott Street just south of Liardet Street, it affords access to the northern side of the large apartment complex that occupies most of this block. Strolling down it, I wondered why it was straight…

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Picturing Bessie Ross

People, Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 9, 2022
by David F Radcliffe After we bought our Victorian era place on Esplanade East in 2017, I wondered when it was built and who had lived here previously. This led to the discovery that the allotment on which our house now stands was purchased by Elizabeth Ross and Simon Patience at a Crown Land auction in December 1883. Who were they…

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Church Street

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 2, 2022
Church St (highlighted), MMBW Map (detail), 1895. State Library of Victoria Church Street is the Z-shaped laneway running from Stokes Street to Nott Street highlighted above on an MMBW map from 1895. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, MMBW Map (detail), 1895. State Library of Victoria. The Stokes Street end of Church Street is opposite St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church which was…

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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.