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From the President’s Pen Feb 2025
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Geelong Historical Society members may well be interested in attending a National Trust event scheduled to celebrate World Refrigeration Day on June 26. The following article comes from the National Trust website. Very cool – on World Refrigeration Day, 26 June 2024, celebrate 170 years since James Harrison invented an ice-making machine. In 1854 James…
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