William Batt - Nowra, NSW, Australia
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Grahame Cookie
S 34° 52.333 E 150° 36.046
56H E 280703 N 6138501
At the corner of Bridge Road, and North Street, Nowra, is a small garden with commemorative plaque, for councilman, William Batt.
Waymark Code: WMY9M3
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 05/15/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
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While walking around Nowra finding quite a bunch of Waymarks I noticed small garden, and the plaque for William Batt. The plaque reads:

	    WILLIAM BATT
	  MEMORIAL GARDEN

This garden is dedicated to the memory of William C Batt
 who greatly contributed to the development and welfare
of the Shoalhaven Region both personally and as a former
  Shire Clerk of the Shoalhaven from 1948 to 1966.

As I am not a local to the Nowra or Shoalhaven region I hadn't heard of this Councilman, or his contribution to the community. The name, "The William Batt Memorial Garden" adopted by the Shoalhaven City Council in 1992.

The raised island, between two arms of Bridge Road was built by the Moore Brothers "stone from the Illaroo Road Quarry and was designed by W.C. Batt."

Monuments Australia: William Batt
Conservation Management Plan: Batt's Folly, March 2004
South Coast Register: Who was William Batt? 14/3/2015
South Coast Register: Bill Batt Folly, 27/9/2016

Visited:

1333, Monday, 2 October, 2017

Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link]

Location: Corner garden, at intersection of Bridge Road and North Street, Nowra

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