Newsletters
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June 2014 – Bryan Brothers windmills.
September 2014 – Bryan Brothers windmills.
November 2014 – Colac butter for Japan; Lake Colac early boating.
January 2015 – Lake Corangamite early boating; Swimming in Lake Colac; the West Coast Railway story
March 2015 – Colac P & A Society Heritage Festival; The Firewood Trade; Colac's Clarke Windmills; Cream Boating.
June 2015 – World War 1 – A letter from the Front from Richard Bassett to Irene Sitlington; At the Drive-In.
August 2015 – From the wartime letters of Richard Bassett; The 'Troc' (Trocadero); Remembering some early times of seasonal harvesting, Part 1.
November 2015 – Further extracts from the letters of Richard Bassett, 1915; History of the apron; Remembering some early times of seasonal harvesting, Part 2.
May 2016 – The first Kanyana Festival; The 'Big Anchor' and the drying lake adventure; The Victree Waste Burner.
August 2016 – Richard Bassett – From Fromelles to Colac; The Life of VR Steam Locomotive J536.
November 2016 – Ernest Jones – Colac windmill-maker; Everard Browne – The Cororooke Squire.
February 2017 – Memorial Square; Colac P & A Society Heritage Festival; Vanished Wetlands.
May 2017 – William Frederick Marks (windmill manufacturer); South Dreeite.
August 2017 – Indian hawkers; Gordon Colbrook Chapman; The box factory.
November 2017 – Memories of Nerah, Dreeite, 1920–1923; Train Dash to Safety in 1919 Fire; A Look at the Rates.
February 2018 – From the Cataloguers’ Drawer – McLennan Diaries; The Colac Heritage Festival 2018; Animal Stories from the Colac Herald, part 1; Milk for Schoolchildren.
May 2018 – Colac Show Needlework of 100 years; Peter the Brolga – an unusual pet of the 1920s; Reflections of Old Colac, part 1; Animal Stories from the Colac Herald, part 2; Dillon’s Murray Street Service Station.
August 2018 – Lindsay Hulm – A Lifetime as a Baker; Recollections of Old Colac, part 2; Colac’s Memorial Square Lawn Bowls.
November 2018 – Trip to the Western Front; Lewis Jones of Beeac – Engineer/Machinist & Windmill Maker; Recollections of Old Colac, part 3.
February 2019 – Cr. E.N. Thomas’ general business; The Rag Trade – A history of the Colac Clothing Factory, Part 1.
May 2019 – Lasseter’s Lost Gold Reef and its Colac Connection; The Rag Trade – A history of the Colac Clothing Factory, Part 2.
August 2019 – 100 Years Since World War One – Soldier Settlement at Dreeite; The Robertsons of Alvie in Van Diemen’s Land.
November 2019 – Butchers J.E.J. Hills & Co. and others; The Robertsons, Part 1.
February 2020 – The Robertsons, Part 2.
May 2020 – Dr Foster’s New Residence; How Colac coped with an earlier influenza epidemic; A William John Lasseter watercolour painting of Lake Colac and surrounds, 1894; Doctors and their contribution to Colac.
August 2020 – Opposing butchers of Gellibrand (Gravesend) Street, Colac; The Memoirs of William Ower, Original Settler at Beeac, Part 1.
November 2020 – My Family Connection to the Larpent; Mabel Margaret Vaughan Whitehead – A Grandmother I never knew; The Memoirs of William Ower – Original Settler at Beeac, Part 2; The butchers of 139 Murray Street, Colac.
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