Stokes Street – Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

Church Street

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryDecember 2, 2022

Church St (highlighted), MMBW Map (detail), 1895. State Library of Victoria Church Street is the Z-shaped laneway running from Stokes Street to Nott Street highlighted above on an MMBW map from 1895. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, MMBW Map (detail), 1895. State Library of Victoria. The Stokes Street end of Church Street is opposite St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church which was…

Stokes (and Wickham) Street

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 7, 2022

by David F Radcliffe When the first allotments of Crown Land in Sandridge (now Port Melbourne) were sold in 1850, the settlement comprised just six streets – Graham, Rouse, Stokes, Nott, Bay and Dow. While Bay Street is obvious, the origins of the names for the other five streets remains something of a mystery. Margaret Bride has written about the…

The Mystery of Dubbeldan’s Lane

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryAugust 4, 2021

Research by David Radcliffe and David Thompson In July 2021, Allan Marshall posted a photograph of Doubledan's Lane, Port Melbourne from Building and Real Estate magazine, February 1916 (above) on the Born and Bred in Port Melbourne Facebook page stating that he had checked period maps but couldn’t find any mention of the location. Allan posts old photographs of Port on…

The Freame Families of Port Melbourne

People, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 24, 2020

by Ray Jelley ‘there was a sheep dressed up to represent Carbine II with his jockey; Bunny Hare all ready to run for the Port Melbourne Cup; saddles of mutton in fanciful designs; poultry and geese formed from the shoulders of mutton; pigeons, made of suet, flying about the windows …’ proclaimed the Standard on 18 May 1895 when describing the display in…

Family secrets

People, Places, Port Melbourne HistoryFebruary 20, 2019

Margaret Bride writes: Are there any secrets in your family? Do you even know whether or not there are any? We are all aware that many families have their mythologies, based sometimes on fact, but myths never the less. Families pass on their stories from one generation to the next. Many of us were brought up from a young age…

An afternoon in the Park

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryJuly 27, 2017

Molly Lowrie, aged about 8 with her younger sisters Nancy, Betty, Patsy and Lorna in Crichton Reserve, Port Melbourne, 1929. My mother Molly Lowrie, aged about 8, with her younger sisters Nancy, Betty, Patsy and Lorna taken in the Crichton Reserve, opposite their home at Princes Street Port Melbourne, in 1929. While the two-storey Nott Street School building in the background…

Edith – 26 Stokes St

Planning & PreservationJanuary 3, 2017

September 2017 Permanent heritage controls for 26 Stokes St through Amendment C132 were gazetted on 28 September 2017. June 2017 A Planning Panel has supported the heritage significance of 26 Stokes St even though "there were robust and well‐argued reasons presented to the Panel for why the Heritage Overlay should, and should not, be applied to 26 Stokes Street. This made the…

Sign of the Swallow

Port Melbourne HistoryMay 14, 2015

This Port Melbourne story is reproduced with permission from Stephen Banham's wonderful book Characters: Cultural stories revealed through typograpy . 'Real estate development can be unkind to signage. The urgency to convert a site from industrial to residential often promotes a 'scorched earth' approach - complete erasure of what once occupied a site. However, amid the crashing bricks and billowing dust there often lie…

Pike, Sydney Percival (3450)

Enlistments, WWI Centenary, ~PAugust 15, 2014

Place of Birth: Port Melbourne, VIC Age: 28 years 6 months Enlistment Details: Monday, 19 July 1915 - Melbourne, VIC Service Number: 3450 view online service record Address: 216 Albert Street Port Melbourne, VIC Next of Kin: Mary Elsie Pike (wife) 216 Albert Street Port Melbourne, VIC Embarkation Details: Date: Monday, 11 October 1915 Ship: HMAT Nestor A71 Port: Melbourne, VIC Unit: 7th Infantry Battalion - 11th Reinforcements Fate: RTA: Sunday, 12…

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