Historical Society of Sorell Inc in Sorell, Tasmania | Non-profit organisation

Historical Society of Sorell Inc

Locality: Sorell, Tasmania

Address: PO Box 285 7172 Sorell, TAS, Australia

Website: http://sorellhistory.org

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24.01.2022 Thank you Peter for your many contributions to our community through history and music. Thank you Rob for the link.

24.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who joined the ANZAC Day commemoration to light up the dawn from our homes as we remember all those from the Sorell district who served and the contributions made in war time and in many other ways. Lest we forget. #lightupthedawn #lestweforget #stayhomesavelives... http://sorellhistory.org/sorell-remembers-1914-1919/

23.01.2022 Sorell Tennis Club team

22.01.2022 Yesterday long serving SHS member and advisor, Peter MacFie, was presented with the University of Tasmania's special Distinguished Service Award and Medal for his contribution to history. Congratulations and well done Peter! Professor Kate Darian Smith, Executive and Pro-Vice Chancellor, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania presented the awards to Peter via FaceTime video link.... Peter has several articles in Pitt Water Chronicles Vol 1 and Vol 2 and many members will have participated in history walks, concerts and other history themed events with Peter over the years.

21.01.2022 It's only $20 to join.

18.01.2022 How wonderful to hear music from Sorell’s early colonial days. You can learn more about Alexander Laing (17921868) in our Pitt Water Chronicles journals Vol 1 & 2 and we also sell ‘On the Fiddle’ (2010), a compilation of Laing’s tunes co-written by Steve & Marjorie Gadd and Peter MacFie.

14.01.2022 A community meeting at Forcett Community Hall today discussed the history of the Forcett Cemetery, the background to the Anglican Diocese proposal to sell to a local funeral business as cemetery manager and options for more directly involving the community in the change. Forcett Cemetery in Quarry Rd was established on land gifted to the people of the district and administered by volunteers. Carole Dodge and her late husband Darryl managed the cemetery for around 40 years. In 1982 the land title was transferred to the Anglican Church and in recent years the Sorell Parish has managed the cemetery plots, maintenance and burials.

11.01.2022 A fabulous example of how maps and charts can tell us so much about the past.

10.01.2022 According to Google maps, driving from Launceston to Dunalley today takes two hours 40 minutes., a long drive today but a longer and more difficult trip in 1937... when Robert Tanner and his family undertook that journey to visit the Spaulding family. Join us to hear Robert tell the story of that journey at our regular free monthly public talk on Tuesday 20 August 2019 at 7:30pm. The venue is the Sunday School at St Johns Park, New Town. Find it by turning off Main Road, New Town, into St Johns Avenue, left at the end, then first to the right. The talk is based on a story to appear in the next edition of the Pitt Water Chronicles, a series of publications from the Historical Society of Sorell Inc. All are welcome. No charge. Join us and the speaker for a cuppa after the talk. For more information about the Pitt Water Chronicles go to [http://sorellhistory.org/pitt-water-chronicles/].

08.01.2022 Thank you to our committee members and volunteers for your dedication and all the work you do to research and champion our local heritage. Congratulations to the 2020/21 committee elected at our AGM on 18th Sept: President - Graeme Evans... Vice President - Ted Rigby Treasurer - Peta Kelly Secretary - Saakia Itchins* Public Officer - Christopher Cowles Committee members - Kevin Alomes, Angela Broughton, Jeannette Goss, Robert Hughes See more

07.01.2022 We hope everyone is well and staying connected. Our committee will be planning a way forward for meetings and events to begin again when appropriate. For the latest details on Tasmania's roadmap to recovery see https://www.coronavirus.tas.gov.au/fami/roadmap-to-recovery #stayhomesavelives... #stayhealthystayconnected #livinghistory See more

07.01.2022 https://www.churchesoftasmania.com//no-624-dunalley-st-mar. The church at Dunalley was built as a memorial to the men who fought in the Great War. It is const...ructed from stone taken from the UNESCO World Heritage Coal Mine convict site near Port Arthur. The church has been recently sold and will soon be converted into a house. More photos and history on this link: See more

05.01.2022 https://www.churchesoftasmania.com//no-753-sorell-st-thoma. A short history of the establishment of St Thomas' at Sorell. More photos are on the linked article.

05.01.2022 Our next edition of the Pitt Water Chronicles will include transcripts from the diary of farmer and former Warden of Sorell, Don Gatehouse. We'd love to include this photo from the Society's collection of Don and fellow students of Wattle Hill School in 1914. Back: Keith Wiggins, Eph Newitt, Alf Hodgson, Don Gatehouse, Keith Madsen, Vern Wiggins... Second: Ida Wiggins, ? Jones, ? Jones, Evelyn Madsen, Gladys Madsen, Jean Newitt Front: ? Jones, Ted Jones, Elvie Jones, Mrs Lloyd, Geoff Swan, Athol Newitt, Joyce Newitt Can anyone tell us the names of the three Jones children?

03.01.2022 Exciting to see this theatrical telling of Neil Davis’ life in production for August this year and the NBC clip too. Tim Bowden wrote of his memories of Neil in You can’t take Sorell out of the boy for our local history journal, Pitt Water Chronicles Vol 2.