Grant’s Secret Discovery
In this well researched and produced video, GHS member Harry Roberts, provides the viewer with the background and intrigue behind the secret discovery of Port Phillip in the early 1800s.
In this well researched and produced video, GHS member Harry Roberts, provides the viewer with the background and intrigue behind the secret discovery of Port Phillip in the early 1800s.
Harry Roberts is the 2024 President of the Geelong Historical Society. He has worked in the education sector and has an abiding interest in Australian history.
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 by Charles Grimes and James Flemming in early 1803. Despatched from Sydney, Grimes’ party completed a thorough survey of Port…
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 interesting detail on their journey and their interactions with the Wadawurrung, which included the names of important natural features such…
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 Court-house, a Public Library and Mechanics’ Institute, a Manchester Unity Lodge and a cricket team. There was a school, formerly…
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 Bay in 1803. The article focused on the survey work done by Lieutenant Tuckey as he explored Port Phillip Bay. It touches on, but does not…
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 that first recorded exploration of our region. Included amongst his party was William Buckley and some other Wadawurrung men, and…
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