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

A streetcar named desire?

Port Melbourne HistoryMay 23, 2025
by Albert Caton I was leafing through a copy of the December 2023 ‘Costco Connections’ magazine when a photograph at page 48 reminded me of the donut van that parked of a weekend between Station and Princes piers during the 1950s when I was a kid. Lo and behold, glancing at the author, Lisa Goldberg’s, text, I noticed ‘Port Melbourne‘!…

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‘Roar Like a Bull!’

People, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 20, 2023
Growing up in Port Melbourne in the middle of the 20th Century by Albert Caton I was born in 1942 in the maternity ward of the Women’s Hospital in North Melbourne, the son of Edward Harold (‘Ted’) Caton and Muriel Lily (Reed) Caton. Soon afterwards, my mum and I moved to Sydney where my father was stationed in the Navy…

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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.