Contents of Gollan Hall time capsule to be revealed during celebrations
Dubbo Regional CouncilDubbo Photo News - 29 Mar 2018
GOLLAN HALL celebrates its centenary on Easter Saturday and has organised a 10am morning tea, with locals and former residents expected to flock to the event from across the state and beyond.
Attendees will enjoy the morning tea and barbecue lunch, but it’s the time capsule that’s got the community buzzing.
The existing time capsule will be dug up, opened and the contents examined, with those contents put back in with artefacts from 2018 and reburied.
Chairman of Gollan Hall Trust, Cameron Tomkins, said formalities will be kept to a minimum, with the day focusing on casual catch-ups.
“It will be purely a social day to reminisce,” Mr Tomkins said.
“We’ll be welcoming all people that resided in the Gollan district or competed against the cricket team.”
There’ll be 100 years of memorabilia on display and locals are anxious to see what pictures, if any, are unearthed from when the hall was blown off its foundations about 60 years ago.
It was a sign of simpler times that, instead of spending a year of planning and engineering assessments, the hall was somehow dragged back onto its stumps by a bulldozer.
“Gollan Hall was built by the community to celebrate the return of their first world war soldiers. It was completed in 1918,” Mr Tomkins said. Gollan Hall will celebrate its 100th birthday on Easter Saturday. A highlight of the “day of reminiscing” will be when the hall’s time capsule is dug up. The hall’s cenotaph, pictured in the foreground, hosts the area’s Anzac Day ceremony each year. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
“It’s a rare hall site featuring a marble cenotaph and we conduct a commemorative Anzac Day service on site each and every year.
“The hall has had major upgrades in recent years and current activities include monthly
meetings by a proactive Gollan Branch of the CWA which celebrated its centenary two years ago. It also serves as a venue for wedding parties and 21st birthday parties,” he said.
Gollan Fire Brigade uses the site for training purposes, showing the diversity of this community hub.
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