| Address | Gallipoli Grove,
Adelaide
South Australia, 5010, Australia | | Enquiries : | Send an enquiry to Enfield Heritage Museum | | Telephone Enquiries : | 08-8340 0966 |
The Enfield Heritage Museum is located within the two and a quarter hectares of historic, tree studded Sunnybrae Farm. The museum extends over three of the farm's many buildings, the 1882 Machinery Shed, the 1883 Stables and the recently built Sunnybrae Farm Federation Pavilion. Town and country life in South Australia from the 1880's to more recent times is on display.
The displays are educational, interesting and quite often humorous, ranging from blacksmiths to household items, typewriters to tradesmen's tools and leather harness to the corner store and bicycles to Gepps Cross Abattoirs memorabilia. A photographic display depicts the first flight from England to Australia by Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith in the Vickers Vimy in 1919, which finally landed at Northfield Aerodrome. A nine minute video of the actual flight can also be seen.
Outside exhibits are ploughs, carts, a one tonne butter churn, seed grader pickler, crop stripper, hay cutter, a working winnower and smaller farm implements. On display is the giant twenty feet (six metre) dia Flywheel weighing fifteen tonnes, and it's massive seventeen tonne Compressor, that supplied refrigeration to the Gepps Cross Abattoirs from 1924 until 1984, and professed to be the largest in South Australia.
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| Accreditation | National Trust. | | Activity | Self-Guided. | | Entity Facility | Access With Assistance for the Disabled, Car park, Coach Parking, First aid equipment, Parking for the Disabled, Shaded Area, Sheltered Area, Toilet facilities for the Disabled. | | Experience | Cultural, Historic/Heritage. |
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