Shaping Memory: How Archives Reveal the Story of Change You can listen to a reading of this article Our guest speaker last night was Carolyn Stok, Archivist at The Geelong College, who also had worked (more…)
Lou Lane’s article, Waurn Ponds National School, was published in Investigator Magazine Vol 26 No 3 in September 1991 Pp 116-119. In this short article, Lou Lane traces the little-known story of the Waurn Ponds (more…)
Mr Grove’s Academy Daryl Wight has researched the life of one of the founder of one of Geelong’s early schools. The schoolmaster, Edmund Deane Grove, was a man of some academic promise but his endeavours (more…)
Did you know that Queenscliff had a Grammar School in the 1860s? It was certainly operating in 1864 when an advertisement in the Geelong Advertiser announced that the Queenscliff Grammar School would be re-opened after (more…)
The Wesleyans Arrive in Stieglitz In 1865, Steiglitz was in the midst of its latest gold rush. The locality was home to over 2,000 inhabitants (predominantly male), many mining claims, at least five hotels, a (more…)