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Why Bother Going to the Riviera?

Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 1, 2016

Port Melbourne foreshore (at Princes St) around 1947. PMHPS Collection. This image from the PMH&PS collection shows the foreshore at the foot of Princes Street, Port Melbourne, taken from the jetty that covered the main drain outlet around 1947. As a boy, I lived further along Princes Street and this was "my" beach. By the late 1950s, much of the planking on…

A Brief History of the London Hotel

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 25, 2016

The London Family Hotel held the best position of all Port Melbourne's waterfront pubs, next to the Station and nearest to Railway/Station Pier. Meet me at the London 1930 image - Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society There was a time when this 28 room hotel was the most grand in Sandridge, which can be attested to by valuations of over twice as…

First Flush at the All England Eleven

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 29, 2015

corner Princes and Rouse Streets, Port Melbourne, October 2015 This unprepossessing corner was once the site of the All England Eleven Hotel. The hotel was demolished in 1953 according to this account in The Herald of this week's date: "If you stand in Princes Street, Port Melbourne and look in through the windows of the derelict All England Eleven Hotel, you…

Redevelopment sites in Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 24, 2015

Sandridge Motors, near the Graham Street overpass, is for sale by Exrpession of Interest. According to the board, the land is zoned General Residential with a maximum height limit of 18 metres (6 storeys). The Clare Castle Hotel on the other side of the overpass is also for sale. It too is on land zoned General Residential "offering excellent future development…

A crazy, crowded green pub in Bay Street

Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 17, 2015

Molly Blooms* was the place to be on St Patrick’s Day in the ‘nineties. Transformed into a ‘traditional’ Irish pub in the late ‘80s with its Joyce’s Restaurant, live Irish music, Guinness on tap and walls hung with Dublin memorabilia, it was one of the most popular Irish pubs in Melbourne. So popular did it become that on St Patrick’s Day Rouse…

The Graham Street Rockeries

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryMay 15, 2014

This is the briefest beginning of stories associated with the Graham St overpass. Before the West Gate Bridge was built, access to the other side of the river at Newport was via a ferry at the end of Williamstown Road. The Graham Street overpass was built in the late 1970s in anticipation of the growing number of cars that would pass…

All England Eleven Hotel

Port Melbourne HistoryJanuary 10, 2014

All posts on this site must pass the Port Melbourne connection test. PMHPS suggests that it is not straining this test to say that Port Melbourne has a connection with the history of the Ashes. Read on. Over Christmas 1861, the colony of Victoria was in a fever of anticipation for the arrival of the All England Eleven - the…

A bit early?

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 30, 2013

Robert Gooding at Olive's corner in Port Melbourne Walking through Olive's Corner earlier this week, saw a person reading the PMH&PS book 'Chartered Scoundrels: A Brief History of Port Melbourne Hotels'. Couldn't let this go unremarked and stopped for a chat. Robert Gooding enjoys visiting Port. By 9 am he had already taken two buses and a train to get here. With…

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…

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…

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