The Blacksmith Workshop at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement c1930

1930 — A Blacksmith’s workshop is established near the sawmill. The work carried out by the men who worked there include, shoeing the draught and stock horses, making new yokes for the bullock teams and making repairs to the drays and under-carriage of the sanitary wagon. Bows for the bullock yokes, straightening and threading water pipes, making hooks for the butcher shop and sharpening the picks and mattocks. The sulky is used for travelling to Murgon. The buckets and garbage bins in photograph are made by the Tinsmith who also make the sanitary pans.

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