Canberra
Ginninderra Blacksmith's Workshop
Hearth of the village
Off Barton Highway
Gungahlin
Canberra, ACT 2912
Nearest Train: Buses 51, 52, 251, 252
Phone: +61 2 6239 5222
This is the only known village blacksmith's workshop remaining in the Australian Capital Territory. The site is reached from a right turn off the highway into the Deasland entrance, just 300 metres south of Gold Creek Road junction. The workshop, opened in 1859 but is now a derelict timber framed, earthen floored building clad with corrugated iron over earlier slab walls. Serving the rural Ginninderra community until 1949, the workshop was an integral part of village life. Not only a working area, it was also a common gathering place for village people and local Aborigines, especially in winter.
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