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The Regent Theatre Geelong
A ‘facelift’ for the 102 year old Regent The Regent was not King Charles’ representative, but one of Geelong’s oldest theatres. Do you remember when the Regent Theatre was showing movies? It was a prominent Geelong landmark at the corner of Little Malop and Union Streets. Peter Fogarty, a current Committee and longtime member of our Society,…
Logging into the website
Video Instructions for First Time Users Here is a detailed video that takes you through the process of registering for access to the website. It takes a first time user through the process of registering, validating their registration and then receiving their initial password.
Hubcaps to Creative Hubs – Part 1
Hubcaps to Creative Hubs – Part 1 The RS&S Mill, at the river end of Pakington Street, provides a classic example of the opportunities that the buildings left behind by industrial decline can provide communities, that are creative enough to invest in them, with dynamic and vital spaces. The Mills were opened in 1921 to…
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Flinders and Port 16
Port 16 … is this Matthew Flinder’s most important discovery? In 1802 when Matthew Flinders began his journey that resulted in the first circumnavigation of our continent he made one discovery that he prosaically labelled as Port 16. We know it better as Port Phillip. Following maps and guides provided by George Bass, Flinders at…
‘Knowing the Past, but not captive to it’
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 present-day Lara on 17 December 1824. Michael examines changing attitudes to significant colonial endeavours, expansion and settlement, acknowledging their destructive…