VOICES FROM THE WATERFRONT ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Voices from the Waterfront is a new National Trust project funded through a $10,000 grant from the Victorian State Government's Local History Grants Program.

The project aims to record the history and culture of Melbourne’s ports and merchant navies to provide both a valuable community resource and material for displays in the exhibition spaces of the new the Polly Woodside visitor centre. It will record on video the past experiences, memories and anecdotes of seafarers, port officials, dock workers, unionists, residents and their families.

For more information about the project, please contact education@nattrust.com.au

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SURVEY OF POLLY WOODSIDE

BMT Defence Ltd have been awarded the contract to undertake the survey of the Polly Woodside. The survey includes a structural survey, lines plan, inclining experiment and a conservation strategy to guide future planning. The image shown here is the result of high resolution laser scanning which formed the basis of the lines plan.