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Customs House Geelong
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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…
June 3 Speaker Report – Jim Happ
Speaker Report — Jim Happ on Geelong’s Municipal Incinerator You can listen to a reading of this article by clicking the link below: At our 3 June meeting, Jim Happ delivered a rich and absorbing exploration of a largely forgotten chapter in Geelong’s civic history: the development, operation and legacy of the city’s 1928 municipal…
The Ford Legacy
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John Frederick Mulder
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