Bygone times: Geelong in 1923
Exploring the fabric of our region’s life 100 years ago
On this page Harry Roberts is planning to take you back to just over 100 years ago. In a series of articles and videos he will highlight the changes and continuity of life in our city. He will explore what the fabric of life was like and how people met its challenges and celebrated its success. Keep checking into this page as new articles will be published fortnightly.
Geelong in 1923
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 Geelong Advertiser to highlight the amazing similarities and differences in the rhythms and routines of daily life of our city’s …
How Geelong had fun in 1923
Geelong in 1923 was a busy place and technology was beginning to challenge traditional ways. Modern was “in” and tradition was on the way out. Motor transport challenged the horse and cart, buses challenged trams and trucks challenged trains. Radio was about to take off with the first broadcasting stations about to be granted licences …
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, opens a window onto a world now largely vanished: the rural settlements along Cowies Creek, the wartime communities of North …