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

Constructing the Port of Melbourne

Collection, PlacesMay 7, 2015
From the Collection - Charles Wynn Kiver Allison’s photo album c1920 (catalogue number 2197) Sixty-six tiny but beautifully photographed views of piers and wharves under construction are treasured in this small album. It belonged to New Zealand-born Charles Wynn Kiver Allison MIEA, who in the 1920s was the head engineer with the Melbourne Harbor Trust. Many major developments in the Port…

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Station Pier Welcomes Liners

Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 25, 2014
Crowds welcome the Empress of Britain Imagine an MCG Grand Final crowd thronging around Station Pier. That is what occurred 6 April 1938 when one of the Golden Age of ocean liners, the Empress of Britain, berthed there. This crowd estimate was published in The Argus the following day. At 42,500 tons (43,181 tonnes), it was the biggest vessel ever to…

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Birthday photos

News and NoticesJuly 31, 2014
  Calling for entries to Station Pier photographic competition - due 22 August To celebrate Station Pier’s 160th birthday in September, the Port of Melbourne Corporation is holding a photo competition. Capture your vision of Station Pier in its context on the Port Melbourne foreshore and send it in - note those words "in its context on the Port Melbourne foreshore". Or, if…

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The Ron Laing collection

CollectionJuly 14, 2014
Documenting change PMH&PS is fortunate to have in its collection an impressive number of photographs taken by Ron Laing (1920 to 2003) Ron Laing spent the years between his retirement in 1984 and the end of his life documenting the massive change that was taking place in Port Melbourne through that time.  ‘I’d heard that things were going to change round…

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Movement at the Station (Pier)

Collection, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 8, 2014
From the PMHPS collection A place of “Welcome and Farewell”  - Early settlers, cargo ships, soldiers going overseas to fight in the wars, new migrants and travellers embarking on an overseas holiday would throw coloured streamers to family, friends and departing soldiers on the pier. streamers sold at the Eastern kiosk, Station Pier Station Pier was originally Railway Pier, built in 1854…

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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.