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 cou
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Show Notes
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