C. Ganly

Queen Victoria Over the years I’ve had the chance to spend a lot of time in Hong Kong both on business and holidays. Of late I’m there...

Monday 8 & Tuesday 9 May In my last post I wrote about my discoveries on foot in my local suburb of Newtown, Geelong. In this edition...

Sunday, 7 May 2017 As some of you will know I’ve been a bit sidelined for the past couple of weeks. The bikes are away and I’ve been on...

As we all know, technology has made our lives a lot easier but we didn’t always have lasers or GPS. What did we do before these things?...

Renamed places in the State of Victoria, Australia.

Some plaques, cairns, gates and remnants First of all let me wish all of you a Happy New Year. I hope that those that have been able to...

A couple of years ago I came across a Gentleman who used to live in Geelong in the 1840’s and 50’s. His name was William Drummond Mercer...

So you want to “do” your family history? In the past few years I’ve spent a fair bit of time in various libraries and historical facilities

That’s what we used to call the girls from the High School. Not a great name I know, but that’s what we called them when I went to school...

I’ve had a theory for some time now. Whoever named a lot of towns in the Western districts of Victoria liked the letter “C.” I have no...

The rail trail This week is my second part of what will now be my three (maybe four…) part series on forgotten railways in Victoria. This...

This week I’m going all nautical on you. For the past couple of weeks, in my spare time, I’ve been helping my father on a project of his....

This week I had the white shorts on. I was in Sydney. I had the chance to spend some time at the NSW State Library, Parliament House and...

A newly acquired “skill” of mine is title searching. Now, I will be the first to admit that it’s a pretty obscure and low demand skill...

The lost tracks A little while back one of my now regular readers asked me if I took requests. So, happy to please the readers I...

Fyansford The Wannon No I’m not referring to the motor vehicles with the blue badges that used to be made here. I’m referring to Fords,...

This week I’m going to veer off into an area that I’m guessing a lot of people will have heard of but won’t quite know what it is or...

In the past two weeks a couple of my now regular blog readers asked me “what’s the main source for your research?” So this week I thought...

This week we’re heading North. Not as far as Sydney, or Brisbane or Port Douglas, while that does sound nice. No, we’re heading to the...

This week I was in one of my favorite places – the Geelong Heritage Centre (known as the red room) in the new and quite impressive...