Penny post to NBN
We continue where we left off last week, at Swallow & Ariell in Port Melbourne. When Ariell died, founder Thomas Swallow went into partnership with his son-in-law, Frederick De
A Ginger Nut Bakehouse
One of the most fondly remembered but most tantalisingly elusive of Port memories is the smell of gingernuts baking at Swallow & Ariell. Over more than one hundred and thirty y
Kicking on
Shortly after that fateful re-zoning of Fishermans Bend in 2012, a for sale sign appeared on the Australian Furniture Timbers building in Plummer St, Port Melbourne. I could not im
Feeling the heat
I just couldn’t settle on a topic for Port Places this week. Ideas arose only to be dismissed like tennis balls at the Australian Open. None would do. Then I realised what wa