Evolving Port

Port Melbourne and Fishermans Bend change. Houses are changed or demolished and new forms of housing take their place. Port Houses records some of these changes.

10 December 2019

21 Alfred St, Port Melbourne

The water tank house

December 2019

Grand Designs re-played their 2014 programme which featured this house. After viewing it, some people wondered how the house is looking today. The following photographs show the house in December 2019.

from the corner of Alfred and Unions Sts December 2019

Alfred St west of Union St December 2019

The Alfred St streetscape on the eastern side of Union St
December 2019

2 November 2015

Something's up with the waterwall house.



29 July 2014

The H house was designed by Howard Raggatt & Peter Charles. It was a project of Ashton Raggatt Mcdougall, For my thoughts on the H house, visit Port Places


7 April 2013


June 2012

The site is cleared.
21 Alfred St, June 2012 

20 July 2012

The waterwall house replaced this modest dwelling. 

Union St frontage of Folly cottage

Folly Cottage, cnr Alfred & Unions Sts, Port Melbourne

A very rich, full life was led at 21 Alfred St. Home to Janne Ray and her family and to Norma Barnett in the last months of her life.

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Peter Charles H-House 2011