Guided walks in Port Phillip
Buttons, Bonnets and Bottlecaps
Sunday 11 April from 2 to 4 pm
Join Meyer Eidelson to seek out traces and stories of historic local industries through Middle Park’s leafy streets and lanes.
Bookings are essential at Trybooking.
This walk will follow COVID-safe guidelines.
P J Esmonde Bakery, Armstrong Street, Middle Park. Port Phillip City Collection sm2716
The People's Gardens
Saturday 1 May from 10 am to 12 midday
Marilyn Rudd leads this walk to explore how St Kilda locals have used gardens over time from Indigenous, botanic, guerrilla, recreational, community, street and commerce.
Bookings are essential at Trybooking.
This walk will follow COVID-safe guidelines.
Centre beds, Blessington Street Gardens, St Kilda, 1930. Port Phillip City Collection sk0039
Property in Port (online)
Sunday 2 May from 2 to 3 pm
Join Janet Bolitho on this virtual tour to explore the historic ups and downs of Port Melbourne land sales – colonisation, property, estate agents and developers - from the first land auctions until today.
Charles Nettleton, Bay Street, (Central View), 1876 -1891. Port Phillip City Collection pm0445
The Spirit of South Melbourne (online)
Sunday 23 May from 2 to 3 pm
Tobias Nash leads this virtual tour exploring the surprising variety of past and present places of belief and faith in South Melbourne and Albert Park.
Presbyterian Mission Hall, Gladstone Street, South Melbourne, c1905. Port Phillip City Collection sm2739
The Lost Schools of St Kilda (online)
Sunday 6 June from 2 to 3 pm
Meyer Eidelson virtually traces early private St Kilda schools that existed for ‘young ladies and gentlemen’ before Victoria’s free education system of 1872.
The Hofwyl School, St Kilda, c1862. Port Phillip City Collection sk0692
Engineered on the Bend (online)
Sunday 27 June from 2 to 3 pm
Janet Bolitho virtually pursues engineering and design stories of Fishermans Bend from cars and cranes to coffee roasting and whisky distilling. With guest presenter David Radcliffe.
'The record shipment' - three hundred hogsheads (thirty wagon loads) of 'Boomerang' brandy leaving Joshua Brothers Distillery in Pickles Street Port Melbourne for the ship Illawarra, for London, 13 March 1903. Port Phillip City Collection pm1624