Gawler Bathroomware

The town of Gawler is the first country town in the state of South Australia, and is named after George Gawler,the 2nd Governor and British Vice-Regal representative of the colony of South Australia. It is situated 44 kilometer or 25 miles north of the SA state capital, Adelaide City, and is very near to the major wine manufacturing area of the Barossa Valley. Gawler topographically lies at the confluence of two tributaries of the Gawler River, the south and North Para rivers, where they emerge from a range of low hills.

A Vibrant Culture

Gawler prospered early with the discovery of copper elements nearby at Burra and Kapunda, which consequently in Gawler becoming a resting stop to and from Adelaide city. Afterwards, it developed industries including flour milling and manufacturing steam locomotives. With prosperity came a modest cultural flowering, the high point of which was the holding of a competition to compose an anthem for Australia in 1859, 4 decades before nationhood. The result was the Song Of Australia, composed by Caroline J Carleton to music by Carl Linger. This became a strong candidate in a national referendum to choose a new National Anthem for Australia to replace God Save the Queen. Gawler had a horse street tram service from 1879 to 1931.

Gawler is a commercial centre for the Mid-North districts of state of South Australia and also an increasingly, a dormitory town for the city of Adelaide. The hit Australian TV show about the McLeod sisters, McLeod's Daughters, is shot at "Kingsford", a property outside Gawler's northeastern fringe. Also, the former Australian cricketer Lehmann was born in Gawler in year 1970.

History

South Australia, being a British colony, was established as a commercial venture by the South Australia Company through the sale of land to free settlers at £1 per acre . Gawler was first established through a 4000 acre "special survey" applied for by Henry Dundas Murray and John Reid and 10 other colonists. The town plan was devised by the colonial surveyor William Light, and was the only town planned by him other than Adelaide. William Jacob used Light's plans and laid out the town. Adelaide city became a model of foresight with wide streets and very ample parklands. After Light's death, it also became a model for numerous other planned towns in South Australia (many of which were never built).

As the only other town planned by Light, Gawler is unlikely as to Adelaide's one square mile (2.6 km²) grid; the heart of Gawler is triangular rather than square, a form dictated by the topographical features. The parkland along the riverbanks and a Victorian choice for public squares are present, but Light was aware that he was actually planning a village, not a metropolis. Gawler had a first horse street tram service from 1879 to year 1931.

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