 After merging with a Riverton newspaper, the "Gilbert Valley News" (1 July 1965 - 27 July 1967), the newspaper's numbering was restarted as the "Junction and Gilbert Valley News" (4 August 1967 - 30 January 1969).It was then merged into "The Bunyip", located in Gawler.Hamley Bridge is the Hometown of the band "From Dusk Till Dawn (AU)"

Hamley Bridge had a cricket team named for the Break-Of-Gauge.