August Speaker Report
You can listen to a reading of this article by clicking the link below: Viv Lewis on Geelong’s pioneering ambulance service A gathering of 35 members and guests enjoyed one of the most memorable presentations (more…)
20th Century Geelong
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Geelong’s Evolving Heritage
Geelong’s industrial landscape has never been static. It has shifted, adapted and reinvented itself across generations, leaving behind a layered built environment that tells the story of a city shaped by enterprise, ingenuity and change. (more…)
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Soccer since the war
Geelong Soccer Since the War – by Roy Hay Geelong’s post‑war soccer story is far more than a record of clubs, scores and competitions. It is a social history of the city itself: a history (more…)
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June Jigsaw Puzzle
For the June Jigsaw Don has selected this icon image of bus made in Geelong by Humble & Sons. It was built with a 2 cylinder De Dion Bouton engine from 1905. For those wanting (more…)
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Geelong Soccer between the Wars
Geelong’s soccer story has always been a story of people: of newcomers finding their footing, of workplaces and ship crews forming teams, and of a city learning to welcome a game that arrived with its (more…)
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Images of Geelong
Over recent weeks the Society has been fortunate to receive several intriguing photographic collections, each with its own mystery, each offering a fresh window into Geelong’s past. One arrived from Toowoomba via the Ballarat Historical (more…)
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All Saints Honour Board: Tom Hawkes
Among the many names carved into the All Saints World War I Honour Board, few carry a story as unexpected and far‑reaching as that of T.B. Hawkes. At first glance, his entry looks like any (more…)
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Tracing Elsie Olive Evans — A Geelong Story Rediscovered
A century-old trophy leads to the rediscovery of a young woman’s life along Cowies Creek. An email from New Zealand and the photograph of a single silver cup, awarded at a school fair in 1916, (more…)
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November 5 2025 Speaker Report
You can listen to a reading of this article by clicking the following link: Enlisting and Resisting At our November Society meeting, we were privileged to hear from Dr Bart Ziino of Deakin University, whose (more…)
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Rolf’s Baldwin War Service
You can listen to a reading of this article by clicking the link below: Geelong Historical Society Remembrance Day Feature As we commemorate Remembrance Day, the Geelong Historical Society is proud to re-publish Lana Capon’s (more…)
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Those Foreigners
Lou Lane’s article “Those Foreigners”, from Investigator, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 1996), pages 85–94: In this richly textured memoir, Lou Lane departs from her usual focus on Aboriginal history to offer a vivid, affectionate (more…)
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An Incinerator for Municipal Garbage in Geelong
This article by Jim Happ, a committee member of the Walter Burley Griffin Society, explores a chapter in Geelong’s public health and engineering history, the development and operation of the city’s municipal garbage incinerator in (more…)
