Heritage listed Goods Shed No 5 is on the cusp of renewal. It will soon be incorporated into Seafarers - a Riverlee development designed by Fender Katsalidis. About time, say some. restoration work on the Malcolm Moore crane at North Wharf is now complete But there's something about that …
History & Heritage
Princes Pier to Bonegilla
Anticipating Refugee Week 2019, 16 to 22 June HMAS Kanimbla tied up at Princes Pier on 7 December 1947. On board were 839 people from displaced persons camps in Europe: 727 men and 112 women. All of them had all been carefully chosen, hand picked, for their youth, vigour …
More than meets the eye
a brief investigation finds there is more to a former car showroom than meets the eye The former Carlins buildings are being demolished to make way for the first tower of Fifteeen85 in Montague, South Melbourne. Carlins signature red, only louder, has been taken up by Sydney Tools down the road …
Another anniversary
Cars, planes and now ships: heading towards the Port Some anniversaries are so significant because of their unfolding ramifications they are worth recording even though the date has passed. In March 1969, Melbourne's first container dock was completed, in time for the arrival of the first …
Taking flight
On 27 March 1939, the first Wirraway took flight in Fishermans Bend. Australian War Memorial - not the first Wirraway but conveys the sense of the place Wirraway was the name given to the most westerly precinct of Fishermans Bend when Matthew Guy rezoned 240 hectares to Capital City Zone in …
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 years Swallow & Ariell's operations expanded to occupy a whole Port Melbourne block - apart from the London Hotel. …