The Church of St Luke (Anglican) – Trafalgar by Fr Edward Doncaster Trafalgar townsite was gazetted in 1899 and is mentioned in the Boulder service register in 1902 and evening services were commenced in May 1903 by lay reader Mr A E Nadebaum. A building committee of messrs Ginbey and Monkhouse formed in early 1904, […]
Canon Collick – A Hero and a Saint
06/08/2016 By 5 Comments
The following story is reproduced with permission from the writer, Rev Father Ted Doncaster, further details by the writer on Canon Collick can be read at Canon Collick Back in 1894 there was an advertisement in a London newspaper which read “Wanted – a priest for 10,000 Miners” and when a young Anglican priest in Hoxton, […]
A Church a Long Way From Home
19/06/2016 By 1 Comment
I recently received a very unusual email as follows:- Gnowangerup has a bit of Boulder History in the form of a Church, Presbyterian/Methodist/Uniting. In 1922 this church was dismantled in Boulder, transported and re-erected here in Gnowangerup. About 2 years ago the Church was decommissioned and sold which included a large block of land, it is now […]
