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25.01.2022 Day two in our Seniors Festival podcast series. What it was like to attend - and leave - school in Geelong during the 1930s Depression

25.01.2022 All four of our History Alive! tours of Geelong's Eastern Cemetery for next Saturday Feb 22, are fully booked. The next scheduled cemetery tour is April 4. But if you want to catch up with the characters - in the flesh and in costume - they're on stage in CoGG's 'Meet The Ancestors' Morning Showtime at the Potato Shed 10.30am Tuesday March 3. For details of the $15 Cemetery tours call 5249 3939, for the $17 Morning Showtimes - 5251 1998.

24.01.2022 Now updated with a review of TTT's Parramatta Girls

24.01.2022 Two new and different tours of Geelong's Eastern Cemetery 11.00am and 2.00pm Sunday November 10. $15. Book on 5249 3939.

23.01.2022 Here's the first podcast in our Seniors Festival 2020 series which has memories of past Geelong read by our city's celebrities.

21.01.2022 If you would like to catch up with all the past podcasts in our Geelong's Past, Today's Voices series, you'll find them all on CoGG's Seniors Festival website, The Geelong Cemeteries Trust website - and at entertainmentgeelong.com

20.01.2022 Now updated with a review of CenterStage's Urinetown - The musical. That's a relief!

18.01.2022 Now updated with ALL Drop Of A Hat's 2020 shows - with a New Year bargain bonus - Choose any Five shows for $75.

14.01.2022 Now updated with the effects of the coronavirus restrictions on Geelong's theatre scene

13.01.2022 Now updated with a review of the Geelong Symphony's superb Beethoven 250th Celebration concert.

12.01.2022 From Meet Geelong's Ancestors to an all-Beatles Singalong to the history of Music Hall with Ronnie Sudden and The Elvis Presley story... How about the chance to meet the strong and graceful women who helped shape Geelong? They're all part of our Morning Showtime series for 2020. Find details on the year-long diary at entertainmentgeelong.com

12.01.2022 It’s a windy day for a lockdown exercise walk and today’s bollard character would have liked the conditions. He's the significant sailor standing close to Limeb...urners Point. It's the explorer, navigator and cartographer, Captain Matthew Flinders, who was the first white man to set foot on the place that became Geelong. He landed here with a small boat party in May, 1802, from his ship The Investigator, which was on a a circumnavigation voyage that identified our country as an island and a continent. It was Matthey Flinders who mapped the place and named it Australia. Here, he and his party trekked to the You Yangs and climbed to the highest point (now Flinder’s Peak. He wrote in his log that he saw ‘fine pasture for sheep as far as can be seen’. Once that was reported to the Governor in Sydney, it set the wheels in motion for squatters to move in and begin our European-settlement some 30 years later. The Bollard Captain was missing from his position for several years, under repair, but he’s now fully restored and resplendent in his bright painted uniform. See more

10.01.2022 For all those who remember Catherine wheels, Penny crackers - and billy-cart races down LaTrobe Tce.

10.01.2022 Number 10 has a very different early view of Eastern Beach.

10.01.2022 Todays bollard target for exercise walkers is Elsie and Lydia, who are taking a swim at Western Beach not far from Rippleside. They’re both student teachers wh...o would have been staying at Lunan House, in nearby Lunan Ave, Drumcondra. It’s a bit more than a house, having been built in 1851 as a mansion for the successful Scottish woolbroker James Strahan. He named it after the Muir of Lunan, near Montrose, Scotland, where he was born. Long after his death, the house was sold to the Victorian Education department which used it as a live-in teachers training college for 35 years, from 1949 to 1984. Today it’s a private residence again. Quite clearly our two trainee teachers have come for a swim and sunbake with a little quiet study time using the training books they're carrying. See more

08.01.2022 Are you interested in Geelong’s history? There’s a large chunk on view at the CoGG’s upcoming Morning Showtime. Titled Geelong - Meet The Ancestors III, the s...how is built around the latest characters discovered during Geelong’s ‘History Alive’ tours of the city’s Eastern Cemetery. With a little bit extra. Because some of the characters will be singing their favourite songs, while the presentation has free morning refreshments. Researched, written and presented by Colin Mockett, the show introduces such well-known Geelong figures as footballer Charles Brownlow, mill-owner Godfrey Hirst, pioneer medico Dr Mary de Garis, businessman Alfred Douglass, writer Ellen Davitt, publican and seaman Capt Francis Ormond, cricketer Bransby Cooper and more. Geelong- Meet The Ancestors III is at The Potato Shed 10.30am Tuesday March 3. All tickets $17, book through CoGG or phone 5251 1998. See more

08.01.2022 Now updated with a review of CenterStage's 'must-see' Sound Of Music.

08.01.2022 Today, with the reopening of Eastern Beach to walkers, our bollard target for locked down isolation exercisers is the two wooden figures who greet visitors to t...he attraction. They are, on the left, Geelong’s long-time town council engineer Ian McDonald, who oversaw the works during the early decades of the 20th Century. Eastern Beach was reclaimed from the sea with most of the work carried out by returned diggers from the Great War. You’ll recognise Ian by his McDonald tartan tie and that he has the plans to Eastern Beach tucked under his arm. He kept a proprietorial interest in the place - originally called ‘The People’s Playground’ - to the extent that he oversaw the organisation of annual ‘Miss Geelong’ contests there. The Mayor who accompanies him never could have done so in life. He’s Robert de Bruce Johnstone, after whom Johnstone Park is named. He was known as Geelong’s ‘Parks & Gardens Mayor’ because he was determined to see that the wealth Geelong was making from the gold-rushes would not be squandered. He wanted to leave a lasting legacy of green spaces for future generations and reserved the spaces for Eastern Park, the Botanic Gardens, his park and many more. He died in 1881, well before the Eastern Beach project was built. See more

07.01.2022 Tomorrow, Tuesday November 12, we (the Drop of a Hatband) are presenting a show for CoGG's Morning Showtimes at the Potato Shed. It's called 'Golden Hits of 20t...h Century' and it explains the reasons and stories behind 20 absolutely beautiful songs - from Lili Marleen to John Lennon's Imagine. 10.30am at the Potato Shed, tickets $17 include refreshments. Book at CoGG outlets or on 5251 1998 See more

06.01.2022 I’ll be again dressed as General Gordon to conduct tours of the Gordon Institute every Wednesday during October for Geelong Seniors Festival 2019. I’ll also con...duct a walking tour of all bollards and waterfront artworks starting at Rippleside (free parking) and ending at Limeburner’s Point, where a chartered bus will return the walkers to Rippleside. That’s on Thursday October 24. See more

05.01.2022 Our 'Geelong's Past, Today's Voices' daily podcast series for Geelong Seniors Festival 2020 has really taken off! After the first week, October 7, we'd clocked up 100 downloads. Two days later it was 200 - and today, day 10 - it's 300! Thank you all, from everyone involved.

03.01.2022 Now updated with a review of APA's current Two Plays production.

03.01.2022 Up to date with news of two forthcoming productions - The Last Five Years and Urinetown.

03.01.2022 Now updated with a review of the GSO's excellent New York To Norway concert