Andrew Mathieson
SPINNING yarns has taken a slight twist since Charles J Dennys opened his famous Geelong woolstore 144 years ago.
The woolstore traded the spinning wheel for the gift-of-the-gab 20 years ago when it became Geelong’s National Wool Museum.
The Moorabool Street museum’s tour guides, now the human face of the Dennys Lascelles site, talk visitors through Geelong’s rich wool history.
Museum manager Gordon Johnston said the volunteers – many of who are retired wool growers, buyers, brokers and mill workers – were the museum’s greatest “cultural asset”.
“From life as a shearer to life working in the textile industry, each has a different yarn and their passion for the industry, and this museum, is infectious,” he said.
Organisers plan an appearance by a mock Charles J Dennys – the father of Geelong’s wool industry – to greet a giant birthday cake to commemorate the museum’s 20th anniversary on Sunday.
The celebration will include the launch of late Geelong artist Jan Mitchell’s A Bollard of a Life exhibition.
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