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Roving Eye - Inveresk Blacksmiths
Episode 35, Friday 10 October 2008
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Gordon steps into the historical heart of Tasmanian heavy engineering, the original Inveresk railway workshop which is now part of the Museum campus. From 1868 in this huge building over 100 men at any one time toiled at spitting furnaces and hammered at massive anvils. The Industrial revolution had begun.
In 1993 the railway workshop closed, and so began an amazing remediation process, because it was toxic with heavy metals. Every object was removed and washed, the entire earthen floor was dug out, and the decades-worth of dust was extracted. Then everything was put back, and now it looks as if the sweating workers walked out just yesterday. It’s a fabulous museum in itself.
