Our story

How it started

As we understand it, the land was bought by the Cook family, and Peter Farmer had a hand in what followed. For most of its life the place was the bowls club, and the green still carries the Cook family’s name on the fence.

The honour boards are still on the wall and the memorial cabinet is still in the room, and they are staying. Ninety-odd years of a club that kept this building standing long enough for the rest of us to need it.

We’re still filling in the details, and we’d rather say so than print a tidy version that isn’t true. If you know how it actually went, or you have a photograph, we’d like to hear from you. Tell us what you remember.

  • A timber sign fixed to the fence at the Hub reading 'Cook Family Green', with the green and the Gippsland hills behind
  • Timber honour boards inside the hall listing past presidents and secretaries of the bowls club
  • A glass memorial cabinet holding engraved bowls trophies, mounted on the hall wall

The next bit is yours

Ninetieth birthdays, dance classes, wakes, market stalls, committee meetings. It’s a working hall, and it stays that way by being used.

Check your date

Or see what’s on at the Hub. Some of it you can just turn up to.