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ANOTHER LOCAL HERO: ALBERT ‘POMPEY’ AUSTIN, A MAN OF MANY TALENTS
First published in Investigator Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, June 2018 A couple of years ago our editor, Lana Capon, wrote an article for The Investigator on Tom Wills, the charismatic and wayward cricketer who was one of the pioneers of the Australia’s domestic code of football in the mid-nineteenth century. In recent times books,…
A new tool to explore our history
The Investigator Assistant: A New Way to Explore Geelong’s History For more than sixty years, the Geelong Historical Society’s Investigator magazine has been the backbone of local historical research in Geelong. Generations of volunteers have indexed, catalogued, and preserved an extraordinary archive of scholarship. In 2010, the Society released a CD‑ROM containing over 75,000 index…
Customs House Geelong
On Wednesday, October 2 the Geelong Historical Society will be hosting a presentation about Customs in Geelong from former Customs Officer, Mr Andrew Caddy and Society member, Don Patterson. Both men worked in the Customs House at different periods last century. They will tell stories about the building, Customs in Geelong and their work in…
From the President’s Pen Feb 2026
Key Dates Hello, fellow Society members. Happy New Year! I hope you are well, and the recent festive season was a happy time for you. That time now feels like the distant past, with our February Monthly Meeting being conducted this week. This is my first newsletter for the year, and in a reflective mood,…
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The Robertsons of Colac
You can listen to a reading of this article by clicking the link below: Ambition and Inheritance: The Making of the Robertson Legacy In January 1836, William Robertson — a Hobart businessman and farmer — crossed Bass Strait to inspect the land provisionally allocated to him as an investor in the newly formed Port Phillip…
