Key Dates August 5 Monthly Meeting August 15 Excursion – Noel Sharkey’s Heritage Vehicles Collection September 2 Monthly Meeting – at the Virginia Todd Hall. October 7 Monthly Meeting – at the Geelong Club October (more…)
Key Dates May 6 Monthly Meeting — Carolyn Stok: The Geelong College’s 50 Years of Co-education June 3 Monthly Meeting – Jim Happ: Geelong’s public health and engineering history July 1 Monthly Meeting – Ben (more…)
Key Dates Hello, fellow Society members. Happy New Year! I hope you are well, and the recent festive season was a happy time for you. That time now feels like the distant past, with our (more…)
Hello Members, In 2025, under the leadership of our President Harry Roberts, the Society set a new direction captured by the phrase Looking Forward and Outward. This vision rests on three pillars: Communication, Community, and (more…)
Hello fellow members. I hope you are well. The end of the year is approaching quickly and it has been a busy year for our Society and memorable for many reasons. There is now considerable (more…)
In the early 1890s, amid the rise of amateur sport across colonial Victoria, Geelong made a spirited, if short-lived, attempt to establish itself as a centre for organised athletics. Harry Roberts’ meticulously researched article, Geelong (more…)
Charles Brownlow: the man, the legacy All members in attendance enjoyed the conversational style of presentation Tony and Bob used to illuminate different aspects of Charles Brownlow’s life and character. We read about and view (more…)
Hello fellow members! I hope you are well. As usual, there are many topics on which to report about the work of your Society. I am pleased to report that many activities and innovations we (more…)
Lara’s Story An original letter from a farm girl at Kirk’s Point in the late 1940s was a valuable personalaccount of Avalon Airport’s beginning. That’s one of the interesting stories that Jean Reesfrom the Lara (more…)
The Ford Motor Company Legacy One hundred years ago, the Ford Motor Company of Australia Pty Ltd was founded in Geelong. The story of how Ford Australia came into being, started in 1923 when North (more…)
Hello, fellow Geelong Historical Society members. I hope you are well. Welcome to another edition of the President’s Pen. I am pleased to report that I was installed as President for another 12 months and (more…)
A Society transformed by GOLD! By Harry Roberts The year 1854, just three years after Victoria became an independent Colony, was one of growth. The gold rush brought prosperity to Melbourne and the rural towns (more…)