Lauderdale Eco – History Walk

Lauderdale has an amazing history, from colonial tramways through to the horse and steam powered  construction of the Canal, a colossal engineering feat that didn’t quite work. And in more recent times, we have the conversion of the old Lauderdale Tip from a fly infested wasteland into a place of considerable beauty through careful regeneration of the Lauderdale Saltmarsh System, the largest of its type in the Derwent Estuary. And if that’s not enough, we’ve also got the colonial era correspondence between Robert Mather and the wife he left to run his farm at Lauderdale which gives us an insight into this amazing place.

To guide us we will have Council’s official history nerd Alan Townsend and the unstoppable Phil Watson, Clarence’s Natural Areas Planner and ecosystem guru.