Toodyay Club was the name used for the gentlemen's club in Stirling House on Stirling Terrace in Toodyay, Western Australia that operated, between 1908 and 1975. [1]
The same club name was also used in 1905 for what was described as a social club. [2]
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:
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