About Us

LEW & MARGARET DOWDELL extend a warm welcome to all guests and will do their utmost to ensure their stay is an enjoyable one.

LEW has spent most of his life on his farm at Harrismith (in the Upper Great Southern part of WA) and still has farming interests there. He has been involved inall Community activities including football, cricket & golf. He is very well known in WA for his success in Lawn Bowls having won and played in finals of Country Week Bowls in Perth. He has played pennants for Wickepin, Emu Point & Middleton Beach as well as being a regular member of both the Upper Great Southern and Great Southern League squads for many years.

MARGARET emigrated from England in 1966 and has resided in Melbourne, Adelaide but has spent most of her life in Perth. Following a successful career in Perth as a Shopping Centre Manager & Property Manager, she married Lew in 1998 and a year
later retired and left the city to live on the farm for a couple of years.

LEW and MARGARET bought Albany View St Lodge B&B 10 years ago & have turned it into an extremely successful Bed & Breakfast. Reception forms part of Margaret’s Art Studio and Gallery and is the other part of the business. Both Lew and Margaret love watching sport (nowadays mostly on TV because of the business). Margaret swims regularly and occasionally they enjoy a game of golf together.