farewell to Dora Tarrant Dora Tarrant, the last of the Tristan da Cunhans to remain in Calshot, has died at the age of 84. In October 1961 the entire population of 268 residents was evacuated from the isolated island of Tristan da Cunha when the volcano on their island began to erupt. Dora, a young woman at the time, was among those evacuees who were picked up and brought to the UK, being taken first to a disused army camp in Surrey, and later brought to live in more permanent homes at Calshot. Although many of them islanders returned to their homeland within two years when the island was deemed safe again, and others relocated elsewhere in the UK, Dora had met and married a Surrey man, Keith Tarrant, and so stayed on with him in her Calshot home. She became very much part of the local community, and worked tirelessly for more than 50 years looking after the village’s St George’s Church and Hall. Such was Dora’s contribution to her adopted Calshot community that in 2010 Fawley Parish Council presented her with the Chairman’s Cup in recognition of her many years of voluntary work. With Dora’s passing, there are no longer any Tristan da Cunhans living at Calshot, but they will not be forgotten as the road in whichthey lived is still called Tristan Close.