IT WAS a nostalgic diamond jubilee when members of St George & Sutherland Shire Anglers Club met to mark their anniversary.
Some of those who took part in the celebrations helped establish the club.
This included the club's oldest members Clem Smith 93, of Blakehurst, and Eric Russell, 87, of Gymea.
Club president Bill Lee said sometimes organisations waited for people to die before they honoured them but their club was different.
"We decided to name the area around the cleaning tables after Clem for his engineering design of the tables," Mr Lee said. "There's 's electricity and running water there."
Gymea Amateur Fishing Club and Hurstville Amateur Fishing Club amalgamated to form the club.
An Anglican minister from St Mark's at Miranda heard 60 years ago that the new club was looking for a clubhouse and he offered a church building that was not needed.
Club members were given three weeks to move the church and cut the building in half after organising a low loader from Ultimo Power Station to transport the building, which dates back to at least 1901.
The clubhouse is at the end of Alexander Avenue, Taren Point.
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