Bass Coast Council has named Gilmour Track in Cape Paterson in honour of Annie Gilmour, a legend to generations of Cape holiday makers.

Cassandra Pybus's haunting story has special meaning to us, writes Ian Hayward Robinson, because one of the most fateful episodes of Truginini’s life occurred in Bass Coast.

The renaming of a Wonthaggi street honours an extraordinary family with a classic immigrant story, writes Carolyn Landon.

A piece of Wonthaggi Hospital’s history has been brought back to life with some local know-how.

Reports from Wonthaggi’s Court of Petty Sessions in 1911 make the place sound like a frontier town from the Wild West, writes Carolyn Landon.

One hundred and one years ago, Wonthaggi schools and businesses were closed and the town hall set up as a hospital as the town prepared for the deadliest epidemic of all. Carolyn Landon reports

We are living through interesting times, writes Libby Skidmore, and we should record what we see and hear.

As Wonthaggi Secondary College moves to a sparkling new campus, the old tech school still holds a special place for many, writes Carolyn Landon.

The first barber, the first club, the first funeral, the first beer licence ... as seen by the man who opened the first shop in Wonthaggi.

Visiting a remote Phillip Island beach in 1926 in search of nautilus shells, Raymond Grayden could not have imagined that one day this beach would draw thousands of tourists each evening to view the little penguins.

Railway locomotive construction, a canning and dehydration factory, an aluminium smelter, clothing factory and farm co-ops ... such were the dreams of Wonthaggi’s post-war reconstruction committee.

Phillip Island historian Pamela Rothfield’s history of the Phillip Island cemetery has been shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards.

Before the State Coal Mine Farmer, postmaster, slaughterman ... Wonthaggi’s first settler Llewellyn Rhun Davies-Griffith was a man of many parts.

THE Criterion was Wonthaggi’s short-lived first newspaper. These front-page editorial cartoons by Cyril Dobbs were published during 1910. Little is known about Dobbs. According to a citation on Design...

His friends jokingly called it The Wilderness but Mr Bonney made a wise choice when he selected land at The Gurdies.

In the midst of the flu season, health advertisements from the local papers of early Wonthaggi make cheering reading.

Cal Wyeth’s grand vision for an American-style lodge brought Victorian society to the seaside town of Inverloch.

Racing pigeons was considered a working class pastime, just right for the working men of Wonthaggi. And Rod Churchill has some mighty stories about the local club.

Every day when the mine whistle blows in Wonthaggi to signal midday, Fred Webb’s presence is felt. Carolyn Landon describes a clever energetic man whose lateral thinking helped to shape Wonthaggi.

By Florence Guilfoyle I WAS born at the Gurdies in 1897. My father, Henry Edwards Cole, a surveyor who later worked on the Wonthaggi line, had a property which backed on to the Hurdy Gurdy creek. I...