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June Jigsaw Puzzle
For the June Jigsaw Don has selected this icon image of bus made in Geelong by Humble & Sons. It was built with a 2 cylinder De Dion Bouton engine from 1905. For those wanting some background you can read a review Weickhardt, C. G. T., ‘Pioneer engineers, Part 6: Humble and Sons of Geelong’, Victorian…
2026 AGM
The Geelong Historical Society Welcomes the 2026 Committee The Geelong Historical Society held its Annual General Meeting on 1 April 2026, with 30 members gathering at the Virginia Todd Community Hall for a positive and forward‑looking evening. The meeting confirmed the minutes of the previous year and received both the President’s and Treasurer’s Reports, each…
Latest News | Newtown | WW1 | WW2All Saints Honour Board: Alan & Doris Green
Across the western wall of All Saints, Newtown, the WW1 Honour Board has long stood as a quiet ledger of sacrifice. Many parishioners know its polished timber and gilt lettering by sight, yet few know the full stories behind the names it carries. Among them are two siblings, Alan and Doris Green, an unusual pairing…
THE WATHAURUNGS
ByLou LaneLouis N. Lane’s article “The Wathaurungs” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 3 (September 1988) Pages 96 -109. Members can read the original from that month’s issue online. You can now also listen to a reading of the article by clicking the following link: This article was written nearly forty years ago, and some of the…
An Incinerator for Municipal Garbage in Geelong
ByJim HappThis article by Jim Happ, a committee member of the Walter Burley Griffin Society, explores a chapter in Geelong’s public health and engineering history, the development and operation of the city’s municipal garbage incinerator in the late 1920s. Designed by pioneering sanitation engineers John Boadle and Vasilie Trunoff, the incinerator offered a low-cost, hygienic alternative…
From the President’s Pen August 2025
Hello fellow members! I hope you are well. As usual, there are many topics on which to report about the work of your Society. I am pleased to report that many activities and innovations we have begun, have now come to fruition and you are the beneficiaries. Diamond Jubilee for Investigator! Our Society is on…


