Naming Moggs Creek
Is Mogg’s Creek named after Sir Samuel Mogg? Read all about Sir Samuel in our current edition of History Matters.
The Foam Shipwreck
In the early days of European settlement, often the only way to travel between our coastal towns and major ports was by ship. These ships were the ‘backbone’ of our …
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Trove is a world-ranked web platform of digitised newspapers, books, magazines, photographs, and archived websites. It serves as a research resource for education and display purposes too. We can’t afford …
Celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Each year NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate the history, achievements and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The acronym NAIDOC stems from the National Aborigines and …
Education Week
Torquay State School This year’s theme for Education Week ‘150 Years of Public Education’ is about Victoria’s public education journey. Our participation in Education Week, starting on Monday, showcases Victoria’s …
Torquay Winter Olympian: Oslo, 1952
The 1952 Winter Olympics was held at Oslo in Norway with athletes from 30 nations competing. The Australian delegation consisted of nine athletes, three in the figure skating and alpine …
Six O’Clock Swill
Before the Torquay Coffee Palace, built-in 1888, held a liqueur licence the following year, Felix Rosser and James Follett were two cheeky fellows who were often prosecuted for sly grog. …
Buckley’s Chance
Willliam Buckley, the ‘wild white man’ who lived with the local Aboriginals in our area for more than thirty years, died this day in 1856 due to falling from his …
Scammell Shipwreck
Today is an autumn day not much different to that 129 years ago. We have warnings of damaging winds. I bet the Captain of the Scammell wished he had such …
Farewell Margaret
With sadness we note the passing of a Torquay treasure, Margaret Ganly.Margaret, who was 104 was the descendant of one of our earliest settlers, William Pride and we doubt there …
Arthur Leonard Long crossing Bass Strait 100 years ago
Wonderful time today celebrating 100 years of the first air crossing over Bass Strait by Arthur Leonard Long.Joining us was Pirrie Shiel who has researched Arthur Leonard Long and the …
First flight across Bass Strait
100 years ago on Monday 16 December, Lieut. Arthur Leonard Long left Stanley in Tasmania and was the first to fly across Bass Strait. His first stop was Torquay on …
Surf Culture in Torquay during the seventies
There is some fabulous footage of Torquay in the seventies from an ABC weekend Magazine that appeared in 1972, up on our webpage. A few familiar faces here !! Click …
100 Year Price Family Album Found
A Christmas present was a piece of gold for Torquay/Geelong. It was the Price family album containing photos of Col. John Longville Price, family members and images from back home in …
The Country Party wins Corangamite
Chester Manifold won the of Corangamite seat back from James Scullin in 1913, this time standing for the Commonwealth Liberal party. The CLP was a merger of the two non- …
May 14th 1970 World Surfing Titles
May 14th 1970 saw the final day of the first World Surfing Titles held in Australia. This was a big event for little Torquay and while the surfing started at …