AGM 2025
Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting of the Geelong Historical Society Inc. will be held on Wednesday April 2, 2025 at 7:30pm. The venue for the meeting is the Virginia Todd Hall, 9 Clarence (more…)
Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting of the Geelong Historical Society Inc. will be held on Wednesday April 2, 2025 at 7:30pm. The venue for the meeting is the Virginia Todd Hall, 9 Clarence (more…)
Last month the Society was set a challenge. Who was behind the memorial placed in Moorak Park, Newtown on Remembrance Day 1988? Society Member & Parishioner of All Saints Newtown, Stephen Yewdall, was seeking information (more…)
“Don’t focus on the obstacles rather look for the opportunities around them“. Andrew Caddy and Graham Harrison gave a most engaging talk on the history of the Western District Car Club. Both men are long-time (more…)
Solomons – Do You Remember? In the same year that the Geelong Historical Society was formed – 1944 – the owners of the big Geelong Department Store, Solomons Pty Ltd created the first volume of (more…)
Hello everyone. Happy New Year! I hope you are well and looking forward to many exciting and interesting events in 2025. I am pleased to inform you that Michael O’Donnell has been appointed to fill (more…)
To start the new year Don Patterson has selected an iconic photograph from Geelong’s automotive and transport history – a bus made in 1905 by Humble & Sons, Geelong, using a 2 cylinder De Dion (more…)
A review of Hamilton Hume Sketch Maps: Origins and Modern Treatment by Martin Williams Following Hamilton Hume and William Hovell’s first overland journey of exploration from southern New South Wales into Victoria in 1824 a (more…)
On September 30, 2024 William Wood, from the Foyle Special Collections Library at King’s College London, published an interesting article on the exploration of Hume and Hovell following an intriguing request from a researcher. The (more…)
Hume and Hovell: ‘Knowing the Past, but not captive to it’ As its 200th anniversary draws near Michael O’Donnell reflects on Hume and Hovell’s epic exploratory journey, which reached the shores of Corio Bay near (more…)
A touch of Geelong Christmas Don Patterson has snuck in another puzzle in celebration of the Christmas season. His photo is another iconic Geelong subject … not one rooted in seasons past but very much (more…)
J.T. Windsors’ Carriage Factory Don Paterson once again leads on a walk down Geelong’s old streets and leads us to another time. Long before Ford and his T-model Ford people needed coach builders so we (more…)
How to search the Investigator by Article Title, Author, Year and other fields. The original index, which was published in 2009, has been updated to July 2024 and is available online on our website. Only (more…)