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Toodyay Club was the name used for the
gentlemen's club A gentlemen's club is a private social club of a type originally established by males from Britain's upper classes starting in the 17th century. Many countries outside Britain have prominent gentlemen's clubs, mostly those associated with the ...
in Stirling House on Stirling Terrace in
Toodyay, Western Australia Toodyay (, ), known as Newcastle between 1860 and 1910, is a town on the Avon River in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, north-east of Perth. The first European settlement occurred in the area in 1836. After flooding in the 1850s, ...
that operated, between 1908 and 1975. The same club name was also used in 1905 for what was described as a social club.


Similar named organisations

However, the name also applied to a range of other organisations, where the sport or hobby was often omitted in newspaper story headlines and abbreviated to ''Toodyay Club'': * ''Toodyay Amateur Swimming Club'' * ''Toodyay Cricket Club'' * ''Toodyay Cycle Club'' * ''Toodyay Garden Club'' * ''Toodyay Golf Club'' * Toodyay Historical Society 1980 (as Toodyay Society), started in 1994. * ''Toodyay Hockey Club'' – in reality the ''West Toodyay Hockey Team'' * '' Toodyay Naturalists Club'' * ''Toodyay Race Club'' * ''Toodyay Rifle Club'' * ''Toodyay Sports Club'' * ''Toodyay Swimming Club'' * ''Toodyay Veterans Cricket Club'' * ''Toodyay Whippet Club'' * ''Toodyay Young Men's Reading Club''


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{{reflist, 2 Toodyay, Western Australia Gentlemen's clubs in Australia