May 7 Lecture Report
Les Sanderson gave the members attending the May Meeting a masterclass in lived local history. Les seemed to know every one of the 1353 people who call Little River home and had an anecdote ready (more…)
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1830s Geelong | Barwon Heads | Indented Head | J T Gellibrand | Latest News | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Robertson
Mr J.T. Gellibrand’s Memoranda of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836.
The author of Memoranda of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836 was Joseph Tice Gellibrand, a former Attorney General in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) and one of the 15 members of the Port Phillip (more…)
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Moorak Park Mystery Solved
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…)
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Little Scotland – Investigator – Vol 3 No 1
Little Scotland: its borders, people and stories. On April 5 1967 LJ Keavy was the speaker at the Geelong Historical Society’s monthly meeting. He had been a resident of Little Scotland, a small pocket of (more…)
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1830s Geelong | Barwon Heads | Indented Head | John Helder Wedge | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Torquay | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
Wedge, Thomson and William Buckley – Investigator Vol 2 No 2
This is the seventh instalment of the Investigator’s series ‘The Story of Geelong’, published in May 1967. Using John Wedge’s journals and a subsequent map of his explorations the writer takes the reader along on (more…)
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1820s Geelong | Hamilton Hume | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Hovell | You Yangs
Hume and Hovell – Investigator Vol 1 No 5.
Hume and Hovell The fifth instalment of The Story of Geelong was published in the Investigator magazine during November 1966. It covers the overland exploration undertaken by Hume & Hovell during 1824 and it provides (more…)
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1800s | David Collins | Indented Head | Lieutenant Tuckey | Port Phillip | Sullivan Bay | Swan Bay | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement – Investigator Vol 1 No 4
Listen to the article (10 minutes) David Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement In the fourth issue of Investigator magazine in 1966, the Story of Geelong featured an account of the ill-fated settlement at Sullivan (more…)
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Grimes and Flemming – Investigator Vol 1 No 3
Grimes and Flemming – the Story of Geelong. In the May edition of 1966 the Investigator magazine continued its ‘Story of Geelong’ with the following account of the five week expedition to Port Phillip mounted (more…)
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1800s | George Bass | Indented Head | Matthew Flinders | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong
Flinders in the Investigator – Investigator Vol 1 No 2
Flinders in the Investigator. This article on Matthew Flinders was the second in a series called ‘The Story of Geelong’ and originally published in the first volume of the Geelong Historical Society’s magazine ‘Investigator’. It (more…)
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1800s | Lt. John Murray | Port Phillip | Swan Bay | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung
Murray in the Lady Nelson – Investigator Vol 1 No 1
The Story of Geelong. The first edition of Investigator, the Geelong Historical Society magazine, was published in September of 1965 and it included a series of articles it described as ‘the story of Geelong’. The (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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Bygone Days: Geelong – Jan 1923
Bygone Days: Geelong in January 1923 In this, the first of a series of articles on life in Geelong as it was experienced just over 100 years ago, Harry Roberts uses the pages of The (more…)
