Historical information
Collection of files from Beris CAMPBELL; Port's first Social Worker. Includes local newspapers, flyers and reports
Physical description
Port Melbourne Community Centre Project 1989
From the collection of
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Port Melbourne Comminuty Centre Project, Beris Campbell Collection, 1974 - 1993
Other items from this collection
7442 items
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Photograph of Archibald McArthur, 1864 - 68
Digital copy of a full length photograph of Archibald McARTHUR.
archibald mcarthur
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Photograph of Archibald McArthur, c.1871
Copy made in 1871 of original photograph.
Digital copy of a photograph of Archibald McARTHUR.
archibald mcarthur
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Wedding Catherine Barlow & Thomas Jewell 1921, c.1921
Digital copy of a photograph of Catherine (Rene) BARLOW and Thomas Jewell taken in 1921.
celebrations- weddings, catherine (rene) barlow, thomas jewell
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Myttons Ltd factory workers c.1941, c.1941
Myttons was an engineering firm with premises in South Melbourne and Port Melbourne. They made objects as diverse as cutlery sets to sinks and larger industrial stainless steel products.
Digital copy of a photograph which shows shows two rows of male workers standing outside Myttons Ltd factory. The photograph dates from c.1941.
myttons ltd, industry - manufacturing
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Re-opening of Port Melbourne Speedway, September 1947
In September 1947 thousands attended pre Night Trotting Trials at the Port Melbourne. Speedway that was specially revived for that purpose after laying idle since 1941. After the first Night Trotting meeting at the Melbourne Showgrounds in November 1947, the Speedway closed once again
The copy of a newspaper photograph shows two competing jockeys and their horses at the Port Melbourne Speedway, Fishermens Bend.
port melbourne speedway, sport - horse racing
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association (BCNA) records, Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association, 2002 - 2004
Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association is a successor organisation of the Swallow Street & Beacon Cove Residents Association.
Box 3 contains historical records of the Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association (BCNA) including meeting notes, Princes Pier & MIRVAC.
beacon cove neighbourhood association, bcna, swallow street & beacon cove residents association, mirvac, princes pier
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association (BCNA) records, Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association, 1985 - 2008
Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association is a successor organisation of the Swallow Street & Beacon Cove Residents Association.
Box 2 contains historical records of the Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association (BCNA) including correspondence between City of Port Phillip, Port of Melbourne Corporation, Princes Pier & MIRVAC.
beacon cove neighbourhood association, bcna, swallow street & beacon cove residents association, local government - city of port phillip, port of melbourne corporation, mirvac
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Memoir of 'The Flat' between Lt Bay and Lt Dow Streets, Port Melbourne, 1936
Memoir written by Ed Whiting about "The Flat", Bay St and Litle Bay St, during the 1930s.
social activities, engineering - roads streets lanes and footpaths, domestic life, built environment, edwin whiting, violet wood, thelma trembeth, lionel wood, micky clezishen, alf wood, leo 'doc' wood
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association (BCNA) records, Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association, 2006 - 2014
Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association is a successor organisation of the Swallow Street & Beacon Cove Residents Association.
Box1 contains historical records of the Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association (BCNA) including minutes of Annual General Meetings, newsletters, budgets, correspondence, Princes Pier restoration, Sandridge Beach master plan & Station Pier crane restoration.
beacon cove neighbourhood association, bcna, swallow street & beacon cove residents association, princes pier, station station, sandridge beach
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Port Melbourne Football Club 1901, 1901
Digital copy of photograph of 1901 Port Melbourne Football Team
sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Port Melbourne Football Club 1897, 1897
Digital copy of photograph of 1897 Port Melbourne Football Team
sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Port Melbourne Football Club 1896, 1896
Digital copy of a newspaper photograph of 1896 Port Melbourne Football Team
sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Port Melbourne Football Club 1896, Port Gazette, 1896
Digital copy of Port Gazette newspaper photograph of 1896 Port Melbourne Football Team
sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Footwear - Child's boot, c.1920
Found in the wall cavity of a house in Princes Street.
Child's leather boot with part of a bootlace made out of string.
built environment - domestic, footwear
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Container - Bryant & May matchbox, Bryant & May, c.1940
Found in house in Princes Street, Port Melbourne.
Small oblong metal matchbox. The hinged lid has the raised inscription Bryant & May, London.
Bryant & May London
bryant & may, matchbox
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Account of Nash family's voyage to Australia, c.1955
Account of the Nash family's voyage from England to Australia c.1955. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, nash family
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - 21st birthday party in Princes Street house, c.1960
Shirley & Stan GRIFFITHS at Muriel's 21st birthday party in Princes Street, Port Melbourne. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street, shirley griffiths, stan griffiths
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Helen Wolfenden in Princes Street garden, c.1960
Helen WOLFENDEN lying on the grass in garden in Princes Street, Port Melbourne. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street, helen wolfenden
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Plan of Nash family hut Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel, c.1955
Hand drawn plan of the Nash family hut Fishermen's Bend Migrant Hostel. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Car outside Nissan hut Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel, c.1955
Two females sit on the bonnet of a card outside the Nissan hut Fishermen's Bend Migrant Hostel. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Female & child with fire hose Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel, c.1955
Female & boy with fire hose posing outside Nash family hut Fishermen's Bend Migrant Hostel. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Garden area outside Nash family hut Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel, c.1955
Girl in garden outside Nash family hut Fishermen's Bend Migrant Hostel. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Garden outside Nash family hut Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel, c.1955
Girl weeding garden outside Nash family hut Fishermen's Bend Migrant Hostel. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Laundry Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel, c.1955
Hostel laundry with female figure using the laundry tub. One of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Hut interior Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel, c.1955
Hut interior which is one of eleven digital images of the Nash family's migration to Australia & their time at the Fishermens''s Bend Migrant Hostel & their home at 319 Princes Street.
immigration, fishermens bend migrant hostel, nash family, princes street
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Booklet, Pat Grainger, Railway Rockeries -Tales of the Melbourne & Hobsons Bay Railway Reserves, Port Melbourne, 2003
Launched in August 2003 at the Hotel Albion overlooking the Reserves, this project was assisted by the City of Port Phillip Cultural Programs Board through its cultural Development fund, and by the City of Port Phillip Community Grants Scheme
'Railway Rockeries -Tales of the Melbourne & Hobsons Bay Railway Reserves, Port Melbourne', a 16 page booklet produced as the first of an A5 series on Port Melbourne's public places
transport - railways, melbourne & hobsons bay railway company
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Functional object - Door mat, Port Melbourne Town Hall, Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society Annual Report 2024 'Growing up in Port Melbourne', c. 1990
Door mat used at entrance to Port Melbourne Town Hall: Green and black; PMCC enscripted on centre, punctuated with lattice patterned cut-outs
port melbourne town hall
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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document, Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society Annual Report 2024 'Growing up in Port Melbourne', Aug 2024
The PMHPS 31st Annual Report was presented at the Annual General Meeting held in August,2024
Booklet with a beige background and a 1949 B & W photograph of ten children in a boat at the Presbyterian Kindergarten in Bridge Street, Port Melbourne.
port melbourne historical & preservation society, pmhps
