By NICK COWLEY It came as an almost physical shock to many Bathurstians to wake up one morning in February this year and find that the Centenary Hall, one of the village’s iconic landmarks, had burnt down during the night. A decision is…
A family’s legacy to the Eastern Cape ROB KNOWLES When I first sat down to read Cock Tales on the Kowie, I was unprepared to be drawn into the world of the Honourable William Cock and his family but, from their beginnings in Cornwall the…
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 were quite a number of people who turned up for the U3A parkrun talk held at the Settlers Park retirement village last week Thursday, a very insightful talk about the history of parkrun. Martin Neethling, the Port Alfreds parkrun…