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
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 […]
Anzac Service – St George’s Church Boulder
This photograph shows the St George’s Presbyterian Church in Moran Street, Boulder, ready for the Anzac Service on the 26th April 1931. In the far right, you will see displayed the Honour Board, which is today in the keeping of the Goldfields War Museum. It has the names of 114 servicemen and members of the […]