Murray Street 156

**Fast Facts**
Place type:	Building
Address:	156 Murray Street
Town or Locality:	Gawler

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In the late 1940’s no objection was raised to Council giving approval to interested bodies to erect a rest room centre with toilets for the Country Women’s Association with kitchen and adequate facilities for The Mothers and Babies Health Associations on the Market Allotment. This land had never actually been a market place. Attempts to establish a market in the 1870’s were abortive. Tenders had been called for the erection of a market building, but the tender received was not taken up. The allotment had been fenced and trees planted in the early 1900’s, and a lawn planted later. Legal difficulties concerning the use of the land for the purpose were encountered and other problems arose. The nucleus of a fund for the Rest Rooms project had come from profits of the 1949 Back to Gawler celebrations.

In 2002 the original building was demolished and a large new building was erected in 2003. [When the plans were submitted to a Council meeting, there was concerns that no verandas existed to give protection from the sun and rain and this issue was addressed by the builder. Further, the view of the building from the north facing south was also improved by the creation of a higher northern facia so that many of the airconditioning units were hidden.] This was originally a bedding store and is now a Sportspower store.

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References

Murray Street 156 cnr Cowan Street c1877 -Piles Building [not shown] was built in 1878

Murray Street 154 Arthur T. Hewett c1923

Murray Street 157 area - the field gun was situated outside the old CWA clubroom building which was demolished c2001 and is now Sportspower. It is the field gun that is now positioned in Pioneer Park.