The Gawler Camera Club was founded on 8 December 1904 with the following officers and members: Patron, Hon. John Warren M.L.C. (q.v.); President, Rev. T. Geddes White; Vice-Presidents, Dr E.V.R. Fooks and Mr S.H. McMillan; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Mr G.F. Rogers; members, Messrs P. Potter, R. Sheedy, J. Creighton, F. Barnet, M.W. Forgie, A.A. Johnson, J.S. McLean, F. Rippin and N. Wilkinson.

In 1905 amateur photographers living in or visiting Gawler had free access to two well-equipped darkrooms. One was provided at the Gawler Pharmacy by the pharmacist, S.H. McMillan, who was also a club member, and included the free use of chemicals. The other was at the stationery shop of J. Fletcher Rogers, who may have been a relative of the secretary, and both places stocked photographic equipment and offered instruction free of charge.

In  November 1906 the Bunyip reported that the local camera fiends (camera club members) had held an excursion to One Tree Hill, arriving there in time to photograph the laying of the foundation stone of the One Tree Hill Institute. The report said that one member had secured six pictures on one plate, probably using a repeating back (q.v.) The members then moved on to the cricket ground, then to Smithfield, where R.E. Sheedy and P. Potter, 'the club's celebrated flashlight members', took flashlight photos of the Smithfield Hotel. The members arrived back at Gawler 'in the smallest hour of the morning.'

The club was listed in the directory of photographic societies published in the Australasian Photo-Review for November 1916 and may have been active after that date.

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