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| ST AILBE'S HALL |
Most of us who have lived in Launceston
for a while have had cause to visit St Ailbe's Hall in Margaret
Street, be it for the Library Book Sale, one of the Garden Society's
shows or for one of the numerous other events and exhibitions that
are regularly held there. It is, therefore, somewhat embarrassing
toconfess that I only just realised that there was an “i” after the a in the
title!
The hall was built by the Catholic
Church and was opened by the then Archbishop of Hobart, Dr W Hayden,
on Sunday 22 May 1932. The cost of construction eventually totaled
around five thousand pounds, most of which came from bequests from
William Dargan, and Miss E. Bourke. The hall was built with the
social and recreational needs of the Catholic community. H East was
the architect, and H Quinn, the contractor.
Just by the by, St Ailbe was a 6th
century Irish Bishop. The English version of his name is “St
Elvis”!!
