GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL FORESHORE PRECINCT

FORESHORE ROAD CORIO, GREATER GEELONG CITY

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    GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL FORESHORE PRECINCT - History

    The Geelong Grammar School moved to Corio in 1914. A boat called the Avalon was used to ferry children from Corio to school. A baths complex is shown at the site around the 1920s, with a shed mounted over the water on a pier. A boatshed mounted over the water at the end of a pier was located to the adjacent west (Hawthorne and Reid, 1988:114).

    Interpretation of Site

    GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL FORESHORE PRECINCT - Interpretation of Site

    The former boathouse has been moved from the boathouse pier and rotated. It now stands on the Geelong Grammar School Boat Shed Hard. The area has been extensively reclaimed (see photos), and most of the area of the former piers is now under the hard reclamation. The former baths structure may still lie on the seabed further offshore. The baths are shown on Australian Hydrographic Chart AUS 157 as ruins, but it is likely that the ruins are further inshore than indicated, based on photos from around the 1920s (Hawthorne and Reid, 1988:114).

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Victoria - Maritime Infrastructure Assessment Project

    Author: Heritage Victoria
    Year: 2005
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