Doddridge+Forge,+Angaston

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This old blacksmith shop near the school crossing sign in the main street was built about 1873. Three generations of the Doddridge family worked the forge after the family had migrated in 1836, the year that the colony of South Australia began. Hardy Doddridge, the last of the blacksmiths in the family, shod the horses for the mail coach run to the railway at Freeling early in the twentieth century. It is one of only four remaining forges in South Australia.

The Angaston & Penrice Historical Society, custodian of this historic site, has made a movie of the forge in action. Please click here to watch it. The forge is open weekends and public holidays from 1 p.m. till 4 p.m. and entry to the public is via a gold coin donation. Phone 8564 2349.
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