ST. THOMAS' CHURCH
This picture was just titled
'An old timer', no date, but shows St. Thomas Church on the top of the hill.
April 13th 1928, marked the centenary services of St. Thomas' Church. Archdeacon Forster, in a stirring address, found his opportunity for eloquent but appropriate digression: "We think of all the advance, all the uplift, all the progress that has taken place in the phenomenally short time of three generations. Also those brave spirits to whom this progress is due. We think of those determined, intrepid men, and those equally brave and splendid women who were used by God to bring about this development. .........
........Especially it behoves us here to remember John Oxley, who died just 100 years ago; John Oxley, who in 1818 made that tremendous journey across the Liverpool Plains, over the New England tablelands, and from the heights of Mount Seaview looked down for the first time on the beautiful panorama of the Hastings Valley and named this harbour 'Port Macquarie' after the Governor of the time"
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