PAWN BROKING IN GEELONG
160 YEARS AGO IN GEELONG (From the pages of the Geelong Chronicle) Daryl Wight’s 1864 piece on pawn broking opens a rare window onto a Geelong caught between respectability and hardship, where the quiet traffic (more…)
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1863 and the Geelong Industrial Exhibition
PHOTOGRAPHY CAPTURES GEELONG’S EYE The 1863 Geelong Industrial Exhibition captured Geelong’s attention with thousands attending. One of the exhibits captured the attention by improving the quality of photographic images. It also served to draw attention (more…)
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Geelong celebrates Prince of Wales 1863
Geelong celebrates as it gets a day off work! In 1863 the Geelong community embraced the celebrations of the future Edward VII’s marriage: with a day off work, flowers, marches and in the evening fireworks (more…)
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1863 Opera in Geelong
Two nights of grand operatic entertainment. The Geelong Chronicle of February 1863 was very supportive of a local musician’s efforts to bring a program featuring the latest works to Geelong. First performed at the Theatre (more…)
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Prince Albert Bridge
On New Year’s Day 1863 Geelong bridged its differences. In 1862, as it is today, it is not always possible for a community to pull together on important issues, even when common benefit is at (more…)
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Francis Jones: Barber
BARBER SHOP OR WELLNESS SPA? Daryl Wight continues to intrigue us with his choice of articles drawn from the 1860s pages of the Geelong Chronicle. This article’s unnamed author eschews the prosaic and favours a (more…)
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MR KREITMAYER’S MUSEUM OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MR KREITMAYER’S MUSEUM OF ILLUSTRATIONS. In this article Daryl Wight highlights an amazing travelling show that comprised a number of wax figurines depicting points in the history of European exploration and exploitation of our continent. (more…)
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Hurling in 1863
HURLING IN GEELONG: From the pages of the Geelong Chronicle Hurling became hugely popular in Geelong in 1863. The sport had been played in Ireland for many years. A similar game, shinty, was played in Scotland. (more…)
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TIGHTROPE-WALKING WONDER
HERR CHRISTOFF THE TIGHTROPE-WALKING WONDER 160 YEARS AGO IN GEELONG: From the pages of the Geelong Chronicle Herr Christoff, the renowned tightrope walker, was one of the star attractions when Gardiner’s American Circus came to (more…)
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Geelong Beer 1863
In 1863, there were two main breweries in Geelong: Volum’s Geelong Brewery, in Corio Street and Powell’s Corio Brewery, in Little Malop Street. Other breweries had come and gone over the previous twenty years or so (more…)
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On this day – June 19 1841
On this day – June 19 1841. Society member, Daryl Wight has selected these two extracts from the pages of The Geelong Advertiser from June 19, 1841 . They give the reader a glimpse into (more…)
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Barwon Bank – Investigator – Sept 2022
BARWON BANK In 2021 the then sale of the 1850s house, ‘Barwon Bank’, in Newtown, overlooking the Barwon River, piqued my interest in both its first owner and also its architect. I already had a (more…)
