When was geelong established

The Sailors' Rest was an evangelical temperance organisation designed to provide welfare services to sailors; to attempt to divert them away from alcohol and other temptations of the town and to encourage them to return to or continue to practice Christianity.

In order to attract more sailors to the 'Rest' an electric bulb sign was installed in The animated sign operated with flashing letters and words and was intended to be very noticeable from Yarra and Cunningham piers as the sailors disembarked.

The sign is understood to have ceased operation from the s until when it again operated but without animation. Barcode Fountain Located in the Customs House Forecourt Park and commissioned by the City of Greater Geelong in , this very unusual art work comprises a barcode reproduced on stainless steel panels.

Also worth a look at night time as it features blue strip lights that really bring it to life. The art works are a series of brass and glass boxes containing sculptures and artefacts — fruit, rabbits, vegetables, shackled feet — which were the early imports to Geelong. Each box features relates specifically to a ship which carried the goods. They are especially impressive during the night when the Cargo Boxes are lit.

Cornish, in as a three storey ashlar sandstone and rubble basalt structure. It is the finest mid nineteenth century public building in western Victoria. This distinctive georgian composition clearly reflects the influence of earlier N.

It was restored in and is now offices and a restaurant. Geelong Club Located at 74 Brougham Street, the Geelong Club is a symbol of the money that swirled around in the upper echelons of the Geelong elite. It was intended to be a men only, exclusive social group, which took its ease over fine dining, billiards, cards, cigars and conversation.

The Club house was designed by Charles Douglas Figgis, the building is an unusual example of transitional Queen Anne style. National Wool Museum Located at 26 Moorabool Street, the impressive three-storey Dennys Lascelles Woolstore, with its fine windows, was built of bluestone and completed in although later additions to have resulted in three separate buildings behind a single facade.

Drays once unloaded their wool here and was taken inside to the wool show floor where buyers inspected the produce. The building now houses the National Wool Museum which is dedicated to the history of the Australian wool industry which has played such a vital part in Geelong's development. It chronicles the beginning of the wool industry in Geelong in the s and continues up to the present day.

The foyer is now an orientation area and there are changing exhibitions, souvenirs and sales of Australian-made wool and wool-related products. A ramp leads past a working carpet loom which still produces the Manor House Rug for purchase to the first gallery which looks at the pastoral aspect of wool in Australia, focusing on the human effort involved in breeding appropriate sheep for the new conditions and producing quality fleece.

It includes a reconstructed shearing plant and shearer's quarters, utilising backdrops and sound effects to recreate aspects of the past. Displays deal with the arts of shearing, wool cleaning, classing, pressing and despatching. The second gallery is concerned with both the people involved in the textile industry and the processes - scouring, carding, combing, spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, mending and finishing.

The relevant industrial machinery is on show and a separate display examines the changing fortunes of the Australian textile industry and the influences upon those fortunes.

There is also a recreated mill worker's cottage, the Reminiscence Cottage - with an audio-visual display on the lives of mill workers and the industrial events which affected their lives.

The third gallery is located on the top floor which, with its innovative saw-tooth skylight roof, was once the Dennys Lascelles wool show floor. It houses changing temporary exhibitions. The museum is located at the corner of Moorabool St and Brougham St. It is open seven days a week from It has a state-of-the-art, seat concert auditorium which has become a premier concert and music venue in Geelong. Ford Discovery Centre Now Closed. The prominent Geelong firm Laird and Buchan were the architects of the building which survives, highly intact … it is one of Geelong's major public buildings from the inter war period and as a late example of the renaissance revival the facade reflects the generally conservative character of the wool industry.

Roofed with a barrel vault, the main sales room has a striking interior decorated with Neo-Greco detail. The statue commemorates those who served in World War One. City Hall Located at 30 Gheringhap Street, the gracious and impressive City Hall is reputedly the oldest extant municipal hall in the country. The foundation stone for the new town hall was laid on 9 April and construction of the first stage, which included the southern frontage facing Little Malop Street and the central hall, commenced.

It is ideal for a picnic or a pleasant wander. Geelong Baywalk Bollards One of the highlights of the waterfront is that, in , the artist Jan Mitchell was commissioned by the City of Greater Geelong to take old timber pier pylons and turn them into works of art. The Geelong Bollard Trail features 48 sites and will take around two hours to inspect the "more than " bollards which stretch along the waterfront from Limeburner's Point to Rippleside Park.

There is a list of all the bollards, starting in the south and moving past the swimming pool, Steampacket Gardens and Cunningham Pier and ending at Rippleside Park. It can be accessed at the City Council website.

Former Prime Minister John Howard is depicted wearing glasses that are tied on with elastic. It is an area of swamps, marshes, lakes and rivers which has a boat ramp; a pleasant picnic location at Taits Point; good opportunities to fish for bream, redfin, mulloway and yellow eyed mullet; and important migratory bird habitats which are havens for bitterns, swamp hens, ibis, spoonbills, egrets, cormorants and herons. It is also a " significant habitat for a number of endangered migratory bird species.

It is recognised as a hilly route which passes through farmland, native vegetation and along the edge of Swan Bay. Set in parkland it has a wide range of activities for families, including ten water-based activities including a metre raft waterslide and a jumping jets water park; mini golf - Fortress Falls and Skeleton Creek; a little buggy speedway; a grand carousel and ferris wheel.

Facilities include a kiosk and cafe, undercover seating and wheelchair access. Gas barbecues and VIP cabanas are available for hire. Opening hours are from A site map is available from the admission centre and can be downloaded from the website. Wineries in the Area In areas like Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula, where there are more than 40 vineyards and cellar doors, it is best to refer to the specific knowledge provided by the local winery sites.

The Wine Geelong website notes: "Geelong is home to three diverse sub-regions — the Surf Coast, the Moorabool Valley and the Bellarine Peninsula — each with differing soils, conditions, wine styles and charms Now the secret is out and people flock to enjoy the perfect maritime climate of warm days and cool nights.

The shelter of Port Phillip Bay is perfect for producing cool climate wines in the rich black basalt soil laid over limestone. Geelong retains an oil refinery and a major grain terminal. Geelong is only one hour on the train from central Melbourne, so its affordable housing makes it attractive to some Melbourne workers. The CBD has been rejuvenated with Deakin University, established in on an outer suburban campus at Waurn Ponds, taking over a number of the otherwise redundant warehouses overlooking the port.

Hume and Hovell, explorers, recorded the Aboriginal word 'jillong' in , thought to mean land or cliffs, when they came to Corio Bay. The name 'Geelong' was derived from the Aboriginal word, and was given to the area by Governor Bourke in when he visited Port Phillip to also formally name Melbourne and Williamstown.

The Manifold brothers landed sheep at Point Henry two months later. Early in a pioneer Geelong citizen, Dr Alexander Thomson, settled at the future Geelong suburb of Belmont, and established his Kardinia estate overlooking the Barwon River. In shipping activity caused a customs house to be constructed. A town survey was made and land sales were conducted in February The sandbar blocking access past Point Henry was successfully passed over, and cargo movements were henceforth shared between Point Henry and the Geelong waterfront.

During the late s churches and schools were established and local industries such as flour mills, tallow works and vineyards were established. The Geelong town council was incorporated in October Outwards traffic also increased with wool from the Western District pastoral properties. It thereupon stabilised, not reaching 30, for another sixty years. The resulting patchwork became the obvious first candidate for municipal reform in In the Geelong football club won its first local premiership.

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Murray returned a few days later and claimed the entire region for Britain. But it is thought Murray might not have been the first European to sail into Corio Bay, others including the Dutch, Portuguese or Spanish might have been in the region centuries earlier.

There is a bit of a legend that Charles La Trobe in found a set of Spanish keys in an excavation near where Limeburners Point stands a few hundred meters to the east of Eastern Beach.

The keys if they ever no longer exist and details are a bit sketchy but there are some other stories in the region that help back it up including a story of a large mahogany ship wreck near Warrnambool, again to this day only a myth and never found.