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Archer

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Bent

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Bourke

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Railway Hotel

British Royal Family

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Various series in the Heritage Centre collection feature members of the royal family. Geelong has hosted a number of visits by royal family members including:

1850 - Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein (in cognito) (Source: The Investigator 2008, Vol. 43, No. 1, p.30)

1867 - HRH Alfred the Duke of Edinburgh (Source: The Investigator 2008, Vol. 43, No. 1, p.30)

14 May 1901 - Duke and Duchess of York (Source: Trove)

1 June 1920 - Edward, Prince of Wales (Source: GRS1218/1 Geelong City Council Visitors Book) (Source: The Investigator 2001, Vol. 36, No. 3, p.108)

7 May 1927 - Albert and Elizabeth, Duke & Duchess of Cornwall (Source: GRS1218/1 Geelong City Council Visitors Book) (Source: The Investigator 2001, Vol. 36, No. 3, p.108)

3 November 1934 - Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Source: GRS1218/1 Geelong City Council Visitors Book)

22 November 1945 - Henry and Alice (Source: GRS1218/1 Geelong City Council Visitors Book)

6 March 1954 - Queen Elizabeth (Source: Trove)

21 September 1959 - Princess Alexandra of Kent (Source: GA)

16 June 1966 - Charles, Prince of Wales (Source: GRS1218/1 Geelong City Council Visitors Book)

29 October 1974 - Charles, Prince of Wales (Source: GRS1218/1 Geelong City Council Visitors Book)

28 April 1988 - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (Source: GRS1218/1 Geelong City Council Visitors Book)

Brophy

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Conran

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Dalton

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Hamilton

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Woolbrook, Teesdale and Leighview, Inverleigh

Hirst

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Hooper

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Little

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Long

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Lynch

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Mackin

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Martin

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Rix

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Ross

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Sasse

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Sefton

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Stock

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Tait

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Trait

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Turner

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Vigar

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Walton

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Wilks

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Wilson

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Shelford

Woodward

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  • 1892 - 1982

Stephen Thomas Woodward (1858-1935) and Florence Elizabeth Woodward (1861 - 1946 nee Hopton) were married in Geelong in 1885 and had three children: Florence Agnes Woodward (1886 - 1946 married Wilmot), Violet Louise Woodward (1887 - 1951 married Portch) and Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward (1892 - 1982).

Stephen Thomas Woodward was a coach builder in Corio Street, Geelong. His son Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward attended Flinders State School and studied engineering at Geelong Gordon College from 1908-1911. After graduating, he worked at R.W Hill Engineer’s in South Geelong. In 1916, Hubert Woodward travelled to England and worked in an ammunitions factory in Sheffield during the First World War. He married Kate Buttery (1891-1974) and returned to Geelong to work in the engineering firm, Humble & Sons Vulcan Foundry in Little Malop Street.