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Soap

April 9, 2020 by JanetBolitho Leave a Comment

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 …

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Making it

March 12, 2020 by JanetBolitho Leave a Comment

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 …

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A story of urban change

June 5, 2019 by JanetBolitho Leave a Comment

This photograph tells a big story. In the foreground, the Port Melbourne baseball team of 1961 on Lagoon Reserve (and doesn't the woman with her face obscured invite curiousity?) In the background, the gasholder storing gas from the Gasworks and the Knox Schlapp factory. Knox Schlapp is not as …

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The First Quarter 2019

April 25, 2019 by JanetBolitho Leave a Comment

State of play in Fishermans Bend Montague For the first time since observing Montague on Port Places, businesses are moving in to the area, rather than out. Telleish Hair Studio, (followed by 25.4k people on instagram), has created an elegant two level salon in the long untenanted ground …

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A Ginger Nut Bakehouse

February 20, 2019 by JanetBolitho Leave a Comment

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. …

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Kicking on

February 13, 2019 by JanetBolitho Leave a Comment

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 imagine how such a modest building could survive the lure of its Capital City Zoned development potential. It was …

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