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

This is the place

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 19, 2014
Address by Ted Baillieu, chairman of the Anzac Centenary Commemoration Committee at the commemoration of the departure of the first convoy from Port Melbourne's piers on 19 October 2014 "This is the place Where streamers were thrown to loved ones. It was here that the cheers turned to tears. It was here, where the warmth of the farewell turned into the chill of the…

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Commemoration at Princes Pier this Sunday

News and NoticesOctober 16, 2014
  Commemoration at Princes Pier All three piers at Port Melbourne were used for the first convoy: Town Pier, New Railway Pier (later Princes Pier) and Railway Pier (later Station Pier).  This Sunday, 19th October, Princes Pier will be the focus of the commemoration of the first convoy to leave Victoria in World War 1. A detailed programme for the event is…

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Remembering the Westgate Bridge disaster

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 9, 2014
photograph Doug Smallpage On 15 October, people will gather at a memorial at the Westgate Bridge to honour 35 workers who were killed when a 120-metre span of the bridge collapsed on that day in 1970. Another 18 were injured, with many crippled for life. The day before Victoria’s worst industrial accident, a worker, hearing creaks in the structure, commented:…

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19 October 2014 – First Convoy Embarkations Commemoration

News and Notices, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 5, 2014
One hundred years ago, thousands of Victorians embarked from Port Melbourne bound for the battlefields of World War One. By the end of October 1914,  17 troopships had left Victorian shores carrying almost 8,000 troops as well as nurses, technicians, horses, supplies and weaponry. This was Victoria’s First Convoy. To mark the centenary of this historic departure, the State Government of…

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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.