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Old Geelong Grammar School: 55 Maud Street 1857–58 [38] Old Geelong Post Office: 83 Ryrie Street 1889–90 [39] Railway Tunnel: Geelong–Warrnambool railway line 1874–75 [40] Sailors Rest Electric Sign: 3 Moorabool Street 1926 [41] Scottish Chiefs Hotel: 99 Corio Street 1848 [42] St Giles Church and Free Church School: 72–80 Gheringhap ...
Dr. Alexander Thomson (1800 [1] – 1 January 1866) was elected as the first mayor of Geelong and held the position on five occasions from 1850 to 1858. Thomson was the first settler in the area known as Belmont, a suburb of Geelong and called his homestead Kardinia, a property now listed on the Register of the National Estate.
Opened in 1987, it contained copies of Geelong and Melbourne newspapers of the time, as well as reports from the Geelong City Council. The northern Fenwick Street building was added in 1916, and the Hitchcock art studio in 1910. In November 1921, the college changed its name to the Gordon Institute of Technology. It was also at this time that ...
The first schools in Geelong were established when the town was settled from the 1850s, among them were the historic private schools The Geelong College and Geelong Grammar School. [97] Geelong is also home to the oldest state secondary school in Victoria, Geelong High School (est. 1910 [167]), which has been serving the community for over 100 ...
1925 – Retail chain Target opens first store in Geelong; 1926 – Geelong suburb Highton gets struck by tornado; 1930 – 3GL radio station opens; 1931 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership; 1937 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership; 1940 – Manning Clark begins teaching at Geelong Grammar School; 1951 – Geelong Football Club ...
Fyansford is a township on the western edge of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, named after Captain Foster Fyans who came to Geelong as a Police magistrate in October, 1837. It is located at the junction of the Barwon and Moorabool rivers. At the 2016 census, Fyansford had a population of 196. [1]
The first schools in Geelong were established when the town was settled from the 1850s. Many of these schools remain open today, now joined by a number of new schools opened from the 1950s when the population of Geelong grew after World War II. King Charles III spent two terms at the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in 1966.
The Geelong Library and Heritage Centre is a regional library, archive and resource facility in the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. [1] Geelong Free Library was begun in 1858. [2] The Geelong Historical Records Centre was established in 1979 as a depository for significant historical records and archives from the district. [3]