GRACE DARLING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1938, Page 4

GRACE DARLING

ENGLISH MEMORIAL FUND. At a meeting of the committee of the Grace Darling Memorial Fund, held recently at Bamburgh, the chairman, Major C. M. Forster, stated that instructions had now been given to the contractors to proceed wtih the erection of the building for housing Grace Darling’s famous boat. It was now just 100 years since Grace and her father rowed this small coble from the Longstonc lighthouse, on the Fame Islands, to the Harker Rock to rescue the survivors of the Forfarshire. Major Forster said that for the moment the available funds did not allow the committee to proceed with the building of the additional room required for the many Grace Darling relics which have been offered for permanent housing in this National Museum, but that it was hoped that the cost of this extra room, amounting to £lOO, and another £l5 for three bronze plaques to be fixed to the cottage in which Grace was born, the house where she died (now the Bamburgh Post Office), and the National Memorial Building itself, would be subscribed before the opening ceremony. Lord Armstrong had promised to open the list with a subscription of £2O.