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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.
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THE STRANDING OF THE S.S. BANCOORA In June of 2022 the Investigator published this article by Brian Latter. Brian is a member and recent contributor to the magazine on the search for Benito Bonito’s buried treasure, and here he has another sea-faring story to share. There are many shipwrecks along the Victorian coast, in the…
The Geelong Chronicle – Investigator September 2021
The Geelong Chronicle By Daryl Wight This is an edited version of an address to the Geelong Historical Society given by the author in November 2019. It was published in the Investigator in September 2021. The first issue of the Geelong Chronicle newspaper hit the streets of Geelong on 23 March 1861. The newspaper was…
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National Trust Event
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Geelong’s First Marathon Man
This article is a reprise of a story that the author, Harry Roberts, wrote and had published in 1976. It introduces the story of Mack Connor that unfolds in four short videos. Jaded and weary Geelong’s first marathon runner Adrian Ambrose Connor stood accepting the applause of the 1000 strong crowd. He just completed the…
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The Regent Theatre Geelong
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ROBERT MUIRHEAD – Investigator December 2021
of Yarram Yarram and Osborne House By Daryl Wight Robert Muirhead (1813? – 1862), shepherd and squatter, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, son of John Muirhead. He was already ‘accustomed … to the management of sheep’ when he boarded the ship Rajah, at Leith, in April 1838, for the long journey to Australia. The ship arrived in…