TOTT 28 March 2019
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<strong>March</strong> <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2019</strong> ADVERTISING / NEWSDESK: (046) 624 4356 Find us on Facebook<br />
Talk of the Town 15<br />
Historical society celebrates year<br />
of achievement<br />
60th birthday celebrations among highlights<br />
This has been a year of<br />
achievement for the Lower<br />
Albany Historical Society<br />
(LAHS).<br />
The organisation recently<br />
celebrated its 60th birthday and<br />
refurbishment of the Toposcope<br />
beacon in Bathurst is almost<br />
completed.<br />
As outgoing chairman Heather<br />
Howard reported at the recent<br />
AGM, this restoration has been a<br />
remarkable community effort,<br />
with funding from the LAHS<br />
itself, Rotary Port Alfred, Historic<br />
Bathurst, the Lions and a family<br />
of settler descendants.<br />
Not only has the original<br />
design been followed, but extra<br />
cairns now display the names of<br />
chiefs and a king who were in<br />
the region at the time of the<br />
1820 Settlers’ a r r i va l .<br />
Howard paid special tribute to<br />
Dave Hawkins “whose hard<br />
work, enthusiasm and faith in<br />
this huge project never<br />
wav e r e d ”.<br />
LAHS members, whose<br />
numbers increase each year,<br />
have enjoyed regular outings<br />
including a trip to historic sights<br />
of Grahamstown, a visit to<br />
Bathurst to inspect the new work<br />
at the Toposcope and at the<br />
Agricultural Museum as well as<br />
at a Christmas picnic. There was<br />
also a fascinating weekend in<br />
Cradock led by the redoubtable<br />
Bugs Wilmot. Speakers have<br />
talked on old wrecks, Clumber<br />
Church restoration, Rhodes<br />
University history, a trip from<br />
Hogsback to Healdtown, and a<br />
favourite speaker Bartle Logie<br />
ser ved Toasted Marshmallows<br />
and Obies, the title of one of his<br />
popular books.<br />
After the AGM’s elections,<br />
having served three years in the<br />
chair, Heather Howard handed<br />
over the baton to the new chair<br />
Gwynn Crothall who will head<br />
the same team of executive<br />
committee members: Delia Bava,<br />
Joy Billing, Sue Gordon, Suzette<br />
Grist, Dave Hawkins, Heather<br />
Howard, Avonne Pickering, Sally<br />
Poole, Margaret Snodgrass,<br />
Yvonne Surtees and Doug<br />
Sutherland.<br />
After the meeting, in the guest<br />
spot was a “regular”, Professor<br />
Pat Irwin, who is writing a book<br />
about the very significant Battle<br />
of Grahamstown.<br />
With illustrations, he filled in<br />
the background and then<br />
described in graphic detail the<br />
two hours of fighting which took<br />
place there almost 200 years<br />
ago to the day, in April 1819.<br />
Members of the LAHS meet<br />
monthly on the third Thursday of<br />
each month, either in the Don<br />
Powis Hall at Settlers Park to<br />
hear a guest speaker, or to enjoy<br />
an historical outing.<br />
FISHERS<br />
RETURN:<br />
Having bagged<br />
fish during<br />
their fishing<br />
expedition<br />
aboard the<br />
Blackfish<br />
Charters on<br />
Sunday<br />
morning, from<br />
left, Jenny<br />
Moodie greets<br />
her husband<br />
Pat, son<br />
Graham and<br />
grandson<br />
David Moodie<br />
as they<br />
stepped to<br />
shore<br />
Picture: ROB<br />
KNOWLES<br />
PASSING THE MANTLE: At the AGM of the Lower Albany Historical Society, new society chair Gwynn<br />
Crothall, left, is pictured with Professor Pat Irwin, and with retiring chair (2016-19) Heather Howard.<br />
Irwin’s talk at the occasion covered the Battle of Grahamstown whose 200th anniversary will occur<br />
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