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Publications for Sale

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Port Fairy Buildings 1843-1889

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$20.00 AUD + P&H

A Natural History of Port Fairy and District   

By Jodie Honan


A Natural History of Port Fairy and surrounding District including a collection of photographs, documents and topics on Indigenous flora and fauna. Published by Port Fairy Historical Society.

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$ 5.00 AUD +P&H

Historic Buildings of Port Fairy A Guided Walk

Port Fairy Historical Society


A delightful book exhibiting 58 wonderful examples of architecture, buildings, government offices, cottages and churches and the buildings comprising Port Fairy.


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$ 25.00 AUD +P&H

Port Fairy’s Wars Three Conflicts at Home and Abroad  

By Richard Patterson


Port Fairy’s Wars explores Port Fairy during three wars and details the lives lost by 34 local men and one woman. The book is vividly illustrated with letters from servicemen and women and from civilians caught up in these momentous events.

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$ 25.00 AUD +P&H

Three Men and a Boat DVD


The three men are pioneering boatbuilding brothers Bill, Alan and Hughie Haldane and the boat is the MFV Tacoma, built on the banks of the Moyne River

Port Fairy Buildings 1843-1889

$ 20.00 AUD +P&H

Port Fairy Buildings 1843-1889 Photographs by Peter Grenfell


This book contains the buildings listed in "The Belfast Fantasy : James Atkinson in the Antipodes" by Marten Syme. Documented is the existing structures, the builder and/or owner and the date of erection. 

Published by the Port Fairy Historical Society. 




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$10.00 AUD +P&H

A Vernacular Cottage Collection

 By Marten Syme and Contributors


The history of Market Street/Wishart Street documenting the history of the houses and reminiscences of Market/Wishart Street,
Port Fairy 1849 – 2004.



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$10.00AUD +P&H

Time Gentlemen Please : An History of Western District Inns 1840-1915 

By Pamela M. Marriott


“People today will wonder why there were so many pubs in the 1800s. Allowances have to be made for the slow speed of a bullock team, horse, or just plain walking. It was hot, dusty and definitely thirsty work.”

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$15.00 AUD +P&H


The Boy Who Owned the World & Captain Mills’ Secret 

By J. Forbes & H Wood


Join Lorien and Anika on their holiday adventures in Port Fairy and follow the search for treasure around Port Fairy.


Set of 2 Picture Books

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$5.00AUD +P&H

Icons of Port Fairy 

Compiled by Richard Patterson


Not generally known individuals born in the town included an Australian cricket captain, a State Premier, a highly decorated Brigadier-General, a world famous mathematician and the list goes on.

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$5.00AUD +P&H

An Historic Graveyard

 By P. Frazer Simons 


Some early records of Port Fairy Cemetery with brief notations & references to the sculptor Walter McGill.

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$2.00AUD +P&H

Some Shipwrecks of Port Fairy Bay:

A Guided Walk

Described by Stan Evans


This guided walk details locations of the shipwrecks of the area and is accompanied with diagrams showing rigging of the ships described on the walk.

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Port Fairy Museum and Archives

30 Gipps Street, Port Fairy Victoria 3284, Australia

03 5568 2263

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