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HISTORY MATTERS ARTICLE LIST
PUB DATE | EDITN | PAGE | ARTICLE | AUTHOR | CATEGORY |
Mar-2016 | 1 | 1 | Launch TMWW | Baulch, Cheryl | News |
Mar-2016 | 1 | 2 | Torquay Pioneers | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Mar-2016 | 1 | 3 | Sea View Villa | Baulch, Cheryl | Houses |
Mar-2016 | 1 | 5 | Smith Family | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Mar-2016 | 1 | 11 | Interrupted Lives | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Mar-2016 | 1 | 15 | Mt Duneed History Group | Threlfall, Gwen | News |
Jun-2016 | 2 | 1 | Joseph H Scammell shipwreck | Thoernberg, Carleen | Shipwrecks |
Jun-2016 | 2 | 5 | Scammell House: A Family Home | Thoernberg, Carleen | Houses |
Jun-2016 | 2 | 7 | Streets Old Torquay | Baulch, Cheryl | Streets |
Jun-2016 | 2 | 11 | Maie’s Memorabilia | Baulch, Cheryl | News |
Jun-2016 | 2 | 15 | Mt Duneed Reserve | Threlfall, Gwen | Parks |
Jun-2016 | 2 | 19 | Spotlight on Conrangamite | Barr, Chris | Governance |
Sep-2016 | 3 | 1 | Nairn’s Dairy | Barr, Chris | Commerce |
Sep-2016 | 3 | 7 | Robert Zealley | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Sep-2016 | 3 | 11 | 130 Years Torquay History | Baulch, Cheryl | Local History |
Sep-2016 | 3 | 13 | Legacies of the Great War | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Sep-2016 | 3 | 15 | Dick Garrard, Olympian | Barr, Chris | Olympics |
Sep-2016 | 3 | 21 | Nathanila Brown: Monumental Mason | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 4 | Summer holidays | Barr, Chris | Holidays |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 6 | Our Beaches | Barr, Chris | Beaches |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 10 | Go Cart Track | Barr, Chris | Holidays |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 12 | Taylor Park History | Baulch, Cheryl | Parks |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 17 | Taylor Family | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 20 | Dairy Farming – Torquay | Baulch, Cheryl | Local History |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 22 | Origins Charles Lane | Stewart, John | Streets |
Dec-2016 | 4 | 24 | Robert Smiths Tuffs | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 4 | Gathering of the Tribes -Bells Beach | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 7 | Bell’s Belle – Gail Couper | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 8 | Peter Troy | Baulch, Cheryl | Surfing |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 9 | Vic Tantau | Baulch, Cheryl | Surfing |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 10 | First to Surf Bells | O’Donnell, Mick | Surfing |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 13 | Jericho Poppler | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 16 | First Bells compettion | Baird, Craig | Surfing |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 18 | Springside Surfers House | Barr, Chris | Houses |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 20 | Early Jan Juc & Bells Beach | Baulch, Cheryl | Land |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 24 | Girlie Bell | Barr, Chris | Family |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 27 | Max Stevens | Baulch, Cheryl | Reflection |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 30 | Our Beaches: Jan Juc to Bells Beach | Barr, Chris | Beaches |
Mar-2017 | 5 | 32 | William Batten | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 4 | Ray Wilson | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 8 | Cooee, the house | Baulch, Cheryl | Houses |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 10 | Jarosite Mining | Barr, Chris | Industry |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 14 | Early Jan Juc | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 18 | Pursuit Hindenburg Line | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 20 | Torquay Football club | Baulch, Cheryl | Sport |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 22 | Peter Burns | Hutchinson, Col | Sport |
Jun-2017 | 6 | 24 | Jane Walker | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 4 | Cobb & Co story | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 7 | Bellbrae Carriage Museum | Barr, Chris | Museum |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 10 | Jan Juc story pt 3 | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 14 | Blinkbrae South | Baulch, Cheryl | Houses |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 16 | Bob Pettitt – Man Who Owned Jan Juc | Pettitt, Bob | Pioneers |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 20 | Light Horse Charge Into History | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 24 | Sonny Bell Remembered | Barr, Chris | Military |
Sep-2017 | 7 | 28 | William Underwood | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Dec-2017 | 8 | 4 | Bathing Box history | Baulch, Cheryl | Beaches |
Dec-2017 | 8 | 8 | Summer Memories – White family | Ramsay, Sallie | Holidays |
Dec-2017 | 8 | 10 | Beach names: Bells to Red Rock | Barr, Chris | Beaches |
Dec-2017 | 8 | 12 | Ghazeepore – MacKenzies | Gawler, Sharron | Houses |
Dec-2017 | 8 | 16 | Great Ocean Road Memorial Arch | Spring, Peter | Memorial |
Dec-2017 | 8 | 20 | Torquay Bathing Beauty contest | Baulch, Cheryl | Beaches |
Dec-2017 | 8 | 24 | Mt Duneed Rifle Club | Threlfall, Gwen | Sport |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 4 | Perfection: Fred Pyke | Smith, Bob | Surfing |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 10 | Bells: A Place of Power and Spirit | Willcox, Kirk | Surfing |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 13 | Surfer Girl: Micha Mueller | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 16 | Convict Footprints: Isabella Rosser | Baulch, Cheryl | Convicts |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 19 | Rosser Family Connections | Williams, Carollyn | Family |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 22 | The Summerhouse | Barr, Chris | Commerce |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 26 | Wagons & Pans: Grasstree Park | Baulch, Cheryl | Parks |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 29 | Grasstree Park history | Deakin Uni | Parks |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 32 | We Will Never Forget Australia | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Mar-2018 | 9 | 36 | George Gardiner | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 4 | By George: The George McCartney Story | Barr, Chris | Family |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 8 | First Township Land Sales | Baulch, Cheryl | Land |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 11 | Early Land Holders | Baulch, Cheryl | Land |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 13 | Francis Edward Gilbert | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 16 | Gilbert Street – Look Through Time | Barr, Chris | Streets |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 22 | Iliffe Anderson | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 26 | Convict Footprints – John Goodall | Baulch, Cheryl | Convicts |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 29 | Together They Served | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 32 | Tait’s Point | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Jun-2018 | 10 | 35 | Buckley’s Well | Baulch, Cheryl | Monument |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 4 | Celebrating end of WW1 | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 6 | Fighting for Life in the Trenches: Harold Rosser | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 10 | From the Trenches | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 15 | Boocock Butchers | Barr, Chris | Commerce |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 18 | 25 Years History Spring Creek Community House | Baulch, Cheryl | Community |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 22 | Surfing the Stone | Deakin Uni | Fossils |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 26 | Bancoora Shipwreck | Baulch, Cheryl | Shipwrecks |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 28 | Convict Footprints – Robert Betts | Baulch, Cheryl | Convicts |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 30 | Enest Henry Klemke | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Sep-2018 | 11 | 32 | Mt Duneed Post Office | Threlfall, Gwen | Public Service |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 4 | Mr Parker’s Passions – James Parker | Gawler, Sharron | Family |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 10 | Happy Days | Baulch, Cheryl | Houses |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 14 | Our Holiday House | Ramsay, Sallie | Holidays |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 18 | Women Vote | Baulch, Cheryl | Governance |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 20 | Town for Sale – Breamlea | Baulch, Cheryl | Land |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 22 | South of the river – Alexander Thomson | Gardiner, Lyndsay | Pioneers |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 24 | Convict Footprints: Joseph Thorogood | Baulch, Cheryl | Convicts |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 27 | Coastal Guardians | Barr, Chris | Military |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 28 | Earl of Charlemont Shipwreck | Mitchell, Jo | Shipwrecks |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 30 | Charlemont, the house | Rossack, Marilyn | Houses |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 32 | Ewing Blyth – Charlemont Shipwreck survivor | Threlfall, Gwen | Family |
Dec-2018 | 12 | 35 | Fagg family album | Fagg family | Family |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 4 | Cutting Bells Track | Blunt, Colin | Surfing |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 10 | Remembering Boong | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 11 | Butchers Shop | Baulch, Cheryl | Commerce |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 12 | 50 Years Rip Curl | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 16 | History of the Westuit | Serong, Jock | Surfing |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 16 | Changing Fabric of Torquay: Sybil Stock | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 24 | Anzac Day: A Time to Remember | Sceney, Helen | Military |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 26 | Victoria Tower Shipwreck | Baulch, Cheryl | Shipwrecks |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 28 | Melbourne General Cemetery | Atkinson, Jeff | Cemeteries |
Mar-2019 | 13 | 32 | William Bickers | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 4 | Drilling for Oil in Torquay | Deakin Uni | Industry |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 8 | Local volunteering | Baulch, Cheryl | Volunteering |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 10 | Apex Club of Torquay | Baulch, Cheryl | Olympics |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 12 | Friends of Taylor Park | Baulch, Cheryl | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 14 | Jan Juc Coast Group | Hynes, Luke | Organisations |
Jul-2019 | 14 | 16 | Ian and Roma Edwards | Baulch, Cheryl | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 18 | Story of SANE | Stockton, Graeme | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 20 | Take a Breath’ Playgroup | Faris, Rosemary | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 22 | Torquay SES | Baulch, Cheryl | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 26 | Torquay Food Aid | Baulch, Cheryl | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 28 | Torquay Fire Brigade | Baulch, Cheryl | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 32 | Torquay Surf Life Saving Club | Greenhough, Richard | Surf Life Saving |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 35 | Rotary Club Torquay | Baulch, Cheryl | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 38 | Torquay RSL | Thomas, Peter | Military |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 42 | More Front Lines: D Day | Baulch, Cheryl | Military |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 44 | Red Cross | Baulch, Cheryl | Organisations |
Jun-2019 | 14 | 46 | Waurn Ponds Hotel | Threlfall, Gwen | Commerce |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 4 | Story behind the road | Baulch, Cheryl | Memorial |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 6 | Reflecton on the Great Ocean Road Vision | Hitchcock, Howard | Memorial |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 10 | Howard Hitchcock | Wynd, Ian | Pioneers |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 12 | Barwon Heads: the start of the GOR | Baulch, Cheryl | Memorial |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 14 | The men behind the road | Spring, Peter | Memorial |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 16 | Entertainment saved the day | Morris, Jan | Memorial |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 18 | Felix Rosser | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 22 | Convict Footprint: John Bright | Baulch, Cheryl | Convicts |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 24 | Electricity comes to Torquay (part 1) | Smith, Cathy | Public Service |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 28 | Torquay Post Office | Barr, Chris | Public Service |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 32 | Living on the road – Alexander Butler | Threlfall, Gwen | Family |
Sep-2019 | 15 | 34 | Living on the road – George Helyar | Threlfall, Gwen | Family |
Dec-2019 | 16 | 4 | Crossing Bass Strait | Shiel, Pirrie | Event |
Dec-2019 | 16 | 6 | 50 Years Torquay Lions Club | Thomas, Peter | Organisations |
Dec-2019 | 16 | 10 | Electricity to Torquay (part 2) | Smith, Cathy | Public Service |
Dec-2019 | 16 | 12 | Don Loveless: Our first surf shop | Barr, Chris | Commerce |
Dec-2019 | 16 | 14 | Molyneux Hot Water Depot | Merritt, Alwyne | Commerce |
Dec-2019 | 16 | 16 | Living on the Road – John Croft | Threlfall, Gwen | Family |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 4 | Monument to Airman | Baulch, Cheryl | Monument |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 7 | Everest Of The Sea | Baulch, Cheryl | Story |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 8 | 1970 World Surfing Titles | Barr, Chris | Surfing |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 18 | Crossing Paths – Harrison and Hughes families | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 24 | Vic Tantau | Brett @Rare Surf Tees | Surfing |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 27 | 1970 World Surfing Titles Poster | Sutherland, Barrie | Surfing |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 28 | Margaret Ganly | Thoernberg, Carleen | Family |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 29 | Anzac Day, Point Danger poem | Ganly, Margaret | Military |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 30 | Norman Burn | Ganly, Margaret | Family |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 32 | Bellbrae Post Office | Hooper, Martin | Public Service |
Mar-2020 | 17 | 38 | Belmont High School | Threlfall, Gwen | Schools |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 4 | Fight for the town: 1940 fire | Baulch, Cheryl | Event |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 10 | Bird Man of Torquay: Jack O’Mara | O’Mara, Mick | Family |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 14 | John Pettigrove Story | Pettigrove, Gary & Clare | Family |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 21 | Our Holiday House: Bessie McIntyre | McIntyre, Bessie | Holidays |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 24 | Convict Footprints: Henry Bubb | Baulch, Cheryl | Convicts |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 28 | Craigburn Shipwreck | Baulch, Cheryl | Shipwrecks |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 30 | In Quarantine in Torquay | Barr, Chris | Event |
Jun-2020 | 18 | 32 | Breamlea Streets | Threlfall, Gwen | Streets |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 4 | Torquay Golf Centenary | Barr, Chris | Sport |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 10 | Local Government | Baulch, Cheryl | Governance |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 12 | Birth Surf Coast Shire | McCormack, Toni | Governance |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 18 | Cr Noel Bates, Rirst Shire Mayor | Baulch, Cheryl | Governance |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 20 | History Victorian Education | Baulch, Cheryl | Schools |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 22 | Bellbrae PS | Baulch, Cheryl | Schools |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 28 | Connewarre Flour Mill | Stewart, John | Commerce |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 32 | 75th Anniversary end WW2 | RSL, Torquay | Military |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 33 | WW2 Veteran – Roy Cummings | RSL, Torquay | Military |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 34 | WW2 Veteran – George Oxley | RSL, Torquay | Military |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 34 | WW2 Veteran – Cec Browning | RSL, Torquay | Military |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 35 | WW2 Veteran – Joan Sparkes | RSL, Torquay | Military |
Sep-2020 | 19 | 36 | Samuel Johnson, pastoralist | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 4 | James Follett: A man of vision | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 10 | Loveridge Lookout | Morris, Jan | Military |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 12 | Pooks of Bellbrae Cemetery | Hooper, Martin | Cemeteries |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 16 | King Billy | Baulch, Cheryl | Indigenous |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 20 | Barwon River Ovoid Sewer Aqueduct | Baulch, Cheryl | Local History |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 24 | Story of Kevin “Mumbles” Walker | Walker, Jacquline | Family |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 28 | PABS, A Tavern for Jan Juc | Barr, Chris | Commerce |
Dec-2020 | 20 | 32 | Bluestone Cottage, Marshall | Threlfall, Gwen | Houses |
Mar-2021 | 21 | 4 | Herb, of Voss Lookout | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Mar-2021 | 21 | 10 | Catherine Tait: Invisible Guardian | Baulch, Cheryl | Women |
Mar-2021 | 21 | 14 | Stories from Bellbrae Cemetery: Romuald Prokop | Smith, Vicki | Cemeteries |
Mar-2021 | 21 | 18 | Rex ‘China’ Gilbert | Baulch, Cheryl | Surfing |
Mar-2021 | 21 | 24 | Vale Maie Zorica (Stock) | Barr, Chris | Family |
Mar-2021 | 21 | 26 | Vale Myrle Tantau (Hughes) | Barr, Chris | Family |
Mar-2021 | 21 | 28 | Emanual Read: Crime & Punishment | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Jun-2021 | 22 | 4 | Richard Daintree around Jan Juc | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Jun-2021 | 22 | 7 | Andrew White, Pastoralist | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Jun-2021 | 22 | 11 | Stretton Park | Baulch, Cheryl | Pioneers |
Jun-2021 | 22 | 13 | Joe Briody – to a tee | Baulch, Cheryl | Family |
Jun-2021 | 22 | 20 | Bellbrae Cemetery Centenairans | Smith, Vicki & Hooper, Martin | Cemeteries |
Jun-2021 | 22 | 24 | John Ford – 5 generations of farming | Threlfall, Gwen | Pioneers |
Jun-2021 | 22 | 26 | Blowing Bubbles – Bruce Stephens | Barr, Chris | Fishing |