Looking Back with the Bunyip: Wednesday 17th February
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
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