History

  • ‘Secret’ time capsule contents still safe

    COLAC’S Bluewater Fitness Centre staff have “no idea” what’s inside a time capsule which was buried when the centre opened in 1992.

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  • 100-million-year-old fossil found at Cape Otway could re-write history

    THE DISCOVERY of a 100-million-year-old fossil at Cape Otway this week could hold the key to the history of Australian prehistoric mammals.

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  • Crowds flock to annual event

    COLAC Heritage festival co-ordinator Alan Billing says he was pleased with the “excellent” crowds at the annual event.

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  • Machinery exhibition for heritage festival

    COLAC’S Heritage Festival organisers say this weekend’s transport industry display will give people an insight into a bygone era.

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  • Family restores bike from 1940s

    A COLAC family has restored a piece of history for former professional Colac cyclist Harry Salmon.

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  • Childhood memory helps solve war mystery

    A CHILDHOOD memory has helped solve a decades-long mystery surrounding a missing tree at a Colac district avenue of honour.

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  • Gardens a fertile story source

    COLAC’S Helen Paatsch can retell the story of a lakeside swing large enough to seat 30 children and an explosion that destroyed Lake Colac’s rotunda in the 1950s.

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  • Remembering meeting Hitler

    MEMORIES of meeting German dictator Adolf Hitler flashed back to life for Colac’s Erika Olney while watching a documentary.

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