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Salt on the Windows by Janice C MacDonald

Free DownloadsOctober 12, 2023
Author Janice Christine MacDonald neé Morton was an active PMH&PS member in our foundation decades, Jan authored Thomas Edwards & Family – Farriers and Yachtsmen of Sandridge/Port Melbourne, and Monkey for a Yacht, the story of her grandfather, noted yachtsman Dick Edwards. For some time in the 1940s and 50s, the family lived in ‘Irvine’ at 42 Beach Street next to the Pier Hotel. Jan wrote these evocative…

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Now and Then 2021- Beacon Cove Towers

Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 2, 2021
Shrouded in Controversy Apartment Towers at Beacon Cove (2021). Photo: David Thompson, PMHPS Collection. This peaceful waterfront has been a centre of controversy many times since it was first occupied by Europeans in 1836. Surveyor Darke’s Camp, Sandridge. Watercolour by W.F.E. Liardet (1875) State Library of Victoria William Darke was one of the surveyors given the task of surveying the district…

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Rev Charles Lavender mends a flag on the roof of the Mission to Seamen building with Station Pier beyond. PMHPS Collection

New finds at Seafarers

Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 12, 2017
Rev Charles Lavender mends a flag on the roof of the Mission to Seamen building with Station Pier beyond. The flag now forms part of the Mission to Seafarers archives. Photo: PMHPS Collection When Jay Miller, Curator at the Mission to Seafarers in Flinders Street, and her volunteer Ros Fletcher were tackling the Mission’s closetful of old, unsorted photos, documents, scrapbooks…

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Tall Ships Festival: 6 to 15 September

Collection, EventsSeptember 6, 2013
The Tall Ships Festival starts today with ships coming through the Heads and arriving in Williamstown tomorrow. The Tall Ships came to Port Melbourne in 1988 for the Bicentenary Celebrations which were launched nationwide on New Year's Eve at Princes Pier by Prime Minister Bob Hawke. A quarter of a million people visited the Tall Ships over the week they were…

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