With a free day up our sleeve on the great
road-trip north to teach in Toowoomba, David and I found ourselves in this
lovely little village of Nundle.
Nundle is an historic gold mining town in the
foothills of the Great Dividing Range.
After the typical Australian drive through the cattle
of the long paddock, a cup of coffee was refreshing at the local gold mine with
Hanging Rock just up the road a bit we then visited Nundle Woollen Mill.
After all my years of knitting … and who
hasn’t knitted … I have never been into a woollen mill and watched as a ball or
cone of wool is being created. All the
machinery you see here in my pics are vintage and in perfect working
order. In support of our Australian
textile industry there was a little shopping to be done in the wool store … of
course.
Next, lunch in the pub did the trick before
we finally sauntered our way back to Tamworth on this steamy and very hot (37
degrees C) day.
Nundle, a fascinating find. If interested you can visit their website for more information.
The Dandy Rover - where 8ply wool is reeled on.
Promotional poster
Shot of the main workshop area.
The Dye House
4 comments:
ooo my idea of a great day out!
Mmmm 37C sounds lovely compared to 1F here this morning.
I just loved watching the machines (operated by a human) at work and how they whip off 20 odd balls at a time ... in seconds! Each ball was weighed to check that there was no anomalies between them.
I think the name Nundle is enough of a reason to stop! But the added benefits are clearly fascinating...
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