Men’s Shed donates memories

TORQUAY Men’s Shed recently donated a unique gift to Star of the Sea Torquay’s aged care centre.

The shed assembled a collection of antique tools to create a memory board.

The idea for the memory board came from shed member Trevor Sawyer, who the project was particularly dear to, as both his parents are in the aged care centre.

Mr Sawyer said he got the idea from a different aged care centre he and his wife visited.

“I’d been with my wife to see an aunt of hers up the country and they had these things that they called memory boards that had a similar idea there.”

Mr Sawyer primarily put the board together with the held of fellow Men’s Shed member Ron Moore.

Many of the tools on the board were donated to the Torquay Men’s Shed. With some tools likely almost a century old, they had little practical use but plenty of historic value.

They include some old shears, and a bark spud, used to remove bark from felled timber.

Mr Sawyer said many of the tools would have specific significance for Star of the Sea residents.

“Some of the blokes down there might remember using them in the past. It’s just something to give back to the community.”

He said making it at the Men’s Shed even sparked a few memories for some of the members.

“Many of the older guys remember them from their uncles on farms and that sort of thing.”