Looking back at Gawler’s history through the columns of the Bunyip Newspaper with Editor, Sara Gilligan from Wednesday 17th February 2021.

• 150 years ago the paper reported on a destructive fire at Freeling,
• 100 years ago a story with the headline council decides “no further action” was printed,
• 50 years ago 4800 students were recorded in school enrolments,
• 25 years ago an article on a 20-year fight to slow traffic was published,
• 10 years ago a story on the state needing $70m for a health facility ran in the paper.

https://www.gawler.nowandthen.net.au/Memories_of_Gawler_1949-1958_by_John_H_Chambers

Read more local news at the Bunyip Website here https://bunyippress.com.au/

Opening and closing music taken from A Tribute to Robbie Burns by Dougie Mathieson and Mags Macfarlane

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dougie_Mathieson__Mags_Macfarlane/A_Tribute_to_Rabbie_Burns