OBJECT TITLE / NAME

The Pier, Mornington c1900

DATE1900

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.843

HISTORY

A view of the Mornington Pier c1900
Mornington began as a jetty, its main purpose was for work not pleasure and serviced boats carrying cargo and passengers, but in the 1890’s cargo and passengers switched to faster modes of transport, first the railway and then to motorised transport
Slowly, the jetty transformed into a pier, a place of entertainment and a point of transfer for holiday-makers onto and off excursion steamers and the great paddle wheelers, ‘Ozone’, ‘Hygiea’ and ‘Weeroona’

DESCRIPTION

The image is of a paddlesteamer docked at the Mornington Pier, smaller boats tied to the jetty

SUBJECTS

Jetties and Wharves, Paddlesteamers

KEYWORDS

Bay Excursion Steamers, Hygeia, Jetties and Wharves, Mornington Pier, Ozone, Paddlesteamers, Weeroona