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

Final Welcome Home

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryFebruary 14, 2020
Programme (photocopy) for the Final Welcome Home in the Graham Street Methodist School Hall on Saturday 14 February 1920. PMHPS Collection. At 8pm on 14 February 1920 the Graham Street Methodists conducted the Final Welcome Home to their Returned Soldiers in the Graham Street Methodist School Hall. Under the chairmanship of the Rev J Trathan, the programme opened with the doxology and…

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Sandridge Marine Lodge Honour Board

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenarySeptember 10, 2019
The Sandridge Marine Lodge established their Freemasons' Hall in Stokes Street in 1858 and remained there until just before the outbreak of the Great War.  In July 1914 they sold their Masonic Hall to Swallow and Ariell Pty Ltd.  It made perfect sense for the biscuit company to acquire a neighbouring building for their ongoing business needs.  The Freemasons had…

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Graham Street School Honour Board

Home Front Stories, WWI CentenaryNovember 6, 2015
An article in the Standard under the headline "Answered Country's Call - Roll of Honor - Graham Street State School Old Boys" published on 6 November 1915 lists 61 names, Graham Street pupils who had enlisted for the Great War. The piece concludes by asking parents or friends of other "old boys" who have enlisted to send the soldiers' names, rank, dates of…

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