Tod Street
| Place type: | Locality |
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| Town or Locality: | Gawler |
This street has buildings contained on the Town of Gawler's State, Local and Contributory Heritage lists.
- Tod Street 10 - original Wesleyan Church, built in 1850
- Tortola House - 12 Tod Street
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Tod Street Residents & Businesses
- Tod Street - location unknown - John Harvey, founder of Salisbury's autobiography states he built the first house in Tod Street and sank the first well.[1] "Besides my farm near Walkerville, I also acquired land in the main area of Gawler Town. I built the first house in Tod Street, which I later leased to Mr. Golding, and while living there I sank the first well....I was growing wheat where Bassett Town is, on the site near the Gawler Railway Station."[1]
- 1 Tod Street [heritage building] was the Taylor & Forgie Undertakers building. Later tenants have included Aussie Health & Tony's Bazaar secondhand store (c1985, proprietor Tony Willcock), Bake & Brew Shop (incl 2005), Become You Salon (incl 2013) and Imprint Flowers Florist (2025+).
- 5-7 Tod Street was the location of the Tod Street Plaza, it was demolished in 2025 to make way for the Aldi Store and carpark, which opened on 17 December 2025. Businesses operating from the Plaza prior to demolition included Getta Bargain, Lifeline Op Shop and Animal Welfare League Op Shop. Crestline Meats had the store "hidden" in the back corner of the plaza from about the 1980s until 2019. [see Butchers in Gawler & Willaston] In 1972 the site had been occupied by "Tod Street Motors", which was replaced with "Edinburgh Car Sales", a British Leyland and used car dealership.[2]
- 6 Tod Street was the location of the Marchant family home and garden, which was demolished to make way for the 'new' Post Office, which opened October 1973.
- 10 Tod Street [heritage building] is the location of the original Wesleyan Church, built in 1850 - the oldest surviving church building in Gawler.
- 21 Tod Street [heritage building] Uniting Church (originally Methodist Church, built in 1869).
- 22 Tod Street has long been and in 2026 still is the location of the Para Pine Girl Guides Hall.
- 25 Tod Street was the residence of Mr Alfred J Brown when his wife Emily passed away in 1934.[3]
- 29 Tod Street is the location of the South Australian Country Women's Association Gawler Branch in 2026 (since at least 2003).
- Tod Street - western end - was the location of the McKinlay & Jubilee Cottage Homes, demolished September 1980.
- Tod Street - location unknown - in 1929 E J Noack had his Gawler to Adelaide Carrier business depot in Tod Street.[4]
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Tod Street Maps & Assessment Book Records
Todd Street in map 1, 2 and 3.
Tod Street 1858 to 1890-91 rates books (but Tod and Todd both appear in the 1861 rates book)
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MAPS USED
1. “Plan of Gawler Town and its Suburban Townships, showing routes examined for the proposed railway to Angaston; Plan Nº 2.; Taxation department”. Original located at State records, [C506] Neg GRG 21/24/32. Handwriting has been added in red pen, including the wording “Alternative line November 1889” and “Line examined for railway November 1889” and dotted lines denoting the proposed railway routes
2. “Frearson’s Plan of Gawler Town and its Suburban Townships”
This map has no date but was probably done sometime in the 1890s or first decade of the 20th century.
3. “Plan of Gawlertown and its Suburban Townships; compiled by George Warren 1863; Taxation Department”.
RATES BOOK INFORMATION
Dr Helen Wilmore, Coordinator, Gawler Historical Rates Assessment Database
Gawler Environment & Heritage Assoc. Inc.
C/- 42 Finniss St
Gawler SA 5118
Please note: The rates book information provided represents records as they were entered in the original rates assessment books, as best as we could ascertain. However, we cannot guarantee that mistakes have not been introduced. So, for strict research purposes, the original rates assessment books held at State Records must be taken as the most definitive source of information
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harvey, A P (Aileen Patricia)(1990) "I called it Salisbury: a biography of John Harvey the founder of Salisbury", Salisbury and District Historical Society, Salisbury, South Australia. [ISBN 0 9588286 1 X], pg 34.
- ↑ (Bunyip 1 Dec 1972) https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/50827678352
- ↑ (The Advertiser 18 Jan 1934) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36471547
- ↑ Advertisement (Bunyip 18 Jan 1929)
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