Conventionally, avoiding that complicated word 'normally', I post a summary of Port Places at the end of the first quarter of each year. Such an arbitrary marking of time is less useful when life as we know it has been ruptured by the impact of the coronavirus. A State of Emergency was declared …
Fishermans Bend & Montague
Soap
Port people are out walking, walking. And walking further - getting to know their place, their local-ity, as they would the overseas cities they once explored. I walk into Fishermans Bend down Ingles St, past the Port Footy ground and the former Kitchen and Son factory where soap and candles were …
#Stayathome reading
Staying at home, the pile of library books is calling. They must be read before we are released from isolation, though that uncertain time undermines my determination to read them all. an array of titles Top of the pile? Sir Laurence Hartnett's Big Wheels and Little Wheels. I retrieve this …
Murphy’s
The $4.3m upgrade of the Murphy Reserve Pavilion has been completed. It was to have been opened on Sunday 22nd March. The plaque announcing its opening has been removed - awaiting an uncertain future time when people are free to gather again. The purpose of the upgrade was to facilitate the …
Making it
Malcolm Moore Engineering Works started manufacturing in Port Melbourne in 1927. The factory covered 2.5 hectares and operated over several sites, the largest of which was on Williamstown Rd. Malcolm Moore made massive machinery - cranes, locomotives, and mechanical handling equipment for the mining …
Nature in the City
In April 1949, fifteen year old Len Robinson and some friends caught the bus from Flinders St to Garden City and walked towards the Yarra River where Westgate Park is today looking for birds. It was on that excursion that Len spotted two little green parrots he hadn't seen before sitting on a …