Olive Pike (nee Dugmore) recently celebrated her 100th birthday with family and a few friends. The originally planned celebration, like many other important events including the 1820 Settler bi-centennial reunion this year, had to be…
For anyone interested in the 1820 settlers, Saturday at Clumber Church was the place to hear the hopeful but often harrowing tales of the Nottingham Party that arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1820 and were finally transported to…
There was a special service at the Clumber Methodist Church yesterday after which the classroom at the old Clumber School was named in honour of long-time teacher, Olive Pike, who is now nearly 99 years old. Two former pupils of the rural…
Church members at Clumber were devastated on Tuesday morning to find the historical settler church had been broken into and anything of value stolen. The church featured in the news in 2017 when members celebrated its 150th anniversary…