Gartrell Edwin
| Type of person | Individual |
|---|---|
| Principal occupation | Butcher |
In the mid-1860s Mr Edwin Gartrell established a butcher business in the main street of Willaston, near the original Willaston Hotel. Then Hodgson & Clements ran the business until 1868 when E.Gartrell returned. In 1907 the Gartrell’s butchering establishment was regarded as the largest in the colony, with the shop, yards, stables and outhouses covering an acre of land. Not without issues, however. The Bunyip reported on the 16th January 1874 that at the Mudla Wirra South Council meeting, held on the 10th January – “H&E Gartrell, butchers, Willaston, to re-requested to abate nuisance arising from the offensive smell from their yards”.
Gartrell was an entrepreneur of his time. With the Barossa Goldfields rush in 1887, Gartrell and Hodgson opened a ‘shop’ at the goldfields (in the Cockatoo Valley area). It consisted of an overhanging branch from which two sheep, newly slaughtered, were suspended. It was reported that the two did intend to erect a more business-like premise.
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