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Emerald House
Occupying this prominent corner opposite North Port Station, this unusually large house with its distinctive design make it a local landmark. The house is notable for its transitional design,...
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Liquid gold
You too can have this distillation of sunshine in your garden. The Shiny Everlasting is flowering even as we write in Lagoon Reserve and Gill Reserve. Skinc – the indigenous nursery – is having its...
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Pier comes to life for Theofania
Catching the moment I’ve always wanted to observe Theofania – the annual blessing of the waters. Holding the celebration on Princes Pier enabled it to be a more public event. The Pier made a fabulous...
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Growing local
SKINC, the St Kilda Indigenous Nursery, invite people down to talk about using coastal sandbelt plants from this region – focusing on native foods, habitat plants, wildflowers/grasses and pond life....
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Where Beach meets Bay
Entrance to Port Melbourne The Pier Hotel and Morley’s coal depot* are strong anchors at the entrance to Bay Street. Each building embodies a strong story of Port Melbourne. A hotel has been on this...
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Theofania
Port Melbourne’s Princes Pier comes into its own in January each year with two festivals of a multicultural nature – Theofania and the Piers Festival. Theofania marks the the baptism of Christ in the...
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It’s where we connect
Celebrating the ‘vast tapestry of cultures’* that make up contemporary Australia at the Piers Festival for Australia Day was an antidote to flag fervour. What happened at the Pier? In the shelter of...
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Legacy
Might Port Melbourne’s Railway Reserves be a model for Fishermans Bend? Too easy to take the wonderful Railway Reserves in Port Melbourne for granted. Land for this linear Park was reserved at the...
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The Red & The Blue
Official Opening of the North Port Oval redevelopment project*, Saturday 30 May ‘It is a significant day in the life of our Club’, said President Peter Bromley. Not since 1928 when the grandstand was...
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Prefab in Port
The innovation and possibilities of the prefabricated building industry to meet future housing challenges were showcased at a Conference in Melbourne this week. The industry acknowledges that...
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Folly and Modesty
H House in Port Melbourne was featured in The Age on Saturday 16 August. It’s tucked away in a corner of Port Melbourne that you would be unlikely to walk past unless you lived there. I feel...
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Old and New – Your View?
An international Conference in Melbourne last week took stock of the status of heritage conservation in Melbourne. Melbourne’s heritage is facing intense pressure similar to the situation in the 1970s...
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‘King of the Lagoon’
Peter Syrkiadis outside his house at 145 Esplanade West shortly before it was demolished ‘Nineteen sixty five I came by plane’ Worked for Kraft Now retired Good friend to all at Lagoon Reserve A new...
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Site of Protest
Has this cactus ever flowered before? No-one round here can remember seeing it bloom. This determined plant has grown through decking and verandah. A phenomenon, yes, but until now you would hardly...
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Big on Solutions
Port Places caught up with Brendan Condon at Red Star’s espresso bar on Bay St Port Melbourne. Brendan Condon creates solutions to the ‘megachallenges that are coming at us like a freight train’ – of...
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Port and Liveability
Port Melbourne ranked 56 out of 321 suburbs on the liveability scale – up from 132 in the previous 5 year period, according to Liveable Melbourne, a research project commissioned by The Age undertaken...
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The Beach
A beach is natural, right? Well, no. Sandridge Beach (between Todd and Beacon Road) was created as recently as 1996 as part of the Beacon Cove development in Port Melbourne. The state government,...
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Port Houses in 2015
Here are some observations about Port Houses in 2015 Median house price In 2015 the median house price in Port Melbourne was $1,145,500.* In 1975, it was $21,500. In December, the sale of a bank house...
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Looking ahead in Port Places
At the close of 2015, the stage is set for profound change in Port Places in the immediate and long term future. Fishermans Bend In 2015, the Fishermans Bend urban renewal project has gone from...
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The snapper were running off Port Melbourne this week. On Monday, ninety boats at a casual count hovered just off the piers. Going into the 2014 election, Labor promised to grow recreational fishing....
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