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Strathnaver: Luxury liner and Migrant Ship

by Peter Munro Our love affair with P & O's Strathnaver began in February 1931 when she was christened with a magnum of Australia's finest burgundy.[i] Later that year, and with a population of just over one million, Melbourne shrugged off the Wall Street panic, and a world economic depression to welcome this gleaming white, three funnelled, nine deck luxury liner: the largest ship to have ever berthed at the Port of Melbourne. Her long association with these waters, bringing many “New Australians” here in the post-war period, lasted…

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Ellinis Mews

Pedestrian access to Ellinis Mews from Beacon Road, Photograph by David Thompson Ellinis Mews is a short residential street in Beacon Cove but I'm not sure where the connection with stables is other than in the developers' minds. To me it is a Court or what we would have called in Ireland a Close or, if we wanted to be…

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A Migrant Story

Postcard showing the Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Station Pier and the ship Johan van Oldenbarnevelt have something in common.  Both were completed in 1930 and both often met during and after the Second World War. During the war, the JvO was used as a troop ship and ferried many Australian and American soldiers from their shores to and from England. It survived the…

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Jack’s journeys

Journey no 2 Here is an account of some research recently completed by member Jack Bolt. Jack says in summary: 'Read a book, find an item interesting, go to the book's references and web, do more personal research closer to home, find some more information/data, and inadvertently meet a PMHPS member who is part of the story. It only took about a week. …

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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.