Daffodils at Hart’s Black Horse Brewery - Lawrence
Central Otago - New Zealand
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Guardian of the Daffodils- presents -
Daffodils at Hart's Black Horse Brewery
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NEWSLETTER 2011
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It’s time to join us for our
Daffodil Dayze Gala on Sunday September 25th, 2011
10am – 5pm.
We are offering a bus service from Dunedin for the day at only $10 return – leaving the Dunedin Railway Station at 10am & 11am.
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Visit the tranquil ruins of Otago’s most successful provincial brewery.
Springtime heralds flowering fields of golden daffodils and 100-year-old rhododendrons.
Sample the New Generation Black Horse Brew - Buy bunches of blooms for charity -
Taste traditional girdle scones and saveloys -
Quench your thirst with Darlings juices or billy tea - Buy Rawleighs Remedies and Wild Walnut Preserves - Postcards and Souvenirs - Sing along to old time music - Baby Animals, Teddy Bears Picnic,
Old Fashioned Games - And More......
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Come along with
Dusty - your Lusty, Busty Barmaid
Visit Bell View Farm where our heritage is being preserved.
Look over Gabriel’s Gully - where it all started -
from the Ghost town of Blue Spur.
Travel past Munro’s Gully & the Chinese Camp
Site open from September 3rd & throughout Spring .
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We invite you and your families to the Back Horse Brewery
while once again it is resplendent with colour.
We honoured to be involved in the REAL NZ Festival and Spin It Wide Campaign – showcasing New Zealand’s heritage & culture from September 3rd – November 30th.
Join us for Carnivale Dayze on Sunday September 25th,
when the crew dress in costume creating an atmosphere of olde world charm
that will leave an unforgettable impression on all who visit.
Offering assorted activities and entertainment to satisfy a diverse range of interests.
We are joined this year by Magician Jonathon Usher, Can Can Girls, Fortune Teller,
Belly Dancers, Bagpipes & Banjo, Tailed Poi Dance, and other diverse entertainment.
We have Beer Tasting, Girdle Scones, Hot Potatoes, Souvenirs, Historic Displays,
Local Art & Photography, Music, Stalls, Real Leaves Dipped In Gold, and of course –
The Wenches of Weatherstons.
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Our volunteers have made a huge contribution to our programme this year and we can’t thank them enough for their commitment
to this magnificent estate and the values it stands for.
Special lighting of the ruins, walkways and waterfall after dark have created a magical ambiance amongst the inherent majesty and tranquillity of the site and captured every aspect that we love about this place, which was a delight to share with our guests. |
(My favourite comment was that it was like walking into the gypsy scene from the movie "Chocolat")
Contact us if you would like to book an evening function.
We again host the walk/run section of the Lawrence duathalon on November 7th – so get your entry in quick
for this unique & challenging event.
Volunteers are essential to projects like ours, without them the site would still be strangled with gorse and blackberry
fading into the realms of myth and legend.
Come and take time out to absorb the magic that is awakening.
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Tour around the town of Lawrence - rich in stories.
Enjoy a meal and sample the New Generation
BLACK HORSE BREW
Amongst the ruins of the brewery at Weatherstons
(Group Tour POA)
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 “Hart's Black Horse Brewery"
Remaining in the Hart Family since 1884, when in a partnership with J.K. Simpson (who was later County Council Chairman & Mayor of Lawrence), they ran Otago’s most successful provincial brewery - throughout prohibition!
Even after NZ Breweries closed the brewery in 1923 it was still a popular destination in the spring - attracting more than 1500 people by road and rail in 1937.
This enormous feat required 3 trains from Dunedin.
These excursions ended in the mid 1950’s.
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Although only ruins remain of this once grand site, they provide a stunning backdrop to a spectacular woodland garden featuring a 110 year old rhododendron forest.
Originally planted in 1895, uncounted varieties of daffodils on 25 acres have
cross pollinated over the last 110 years into a truly unique showing.
Historically the daffodils on the brewery site were picked for charity.
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For people celebrating spring and travelling through to Central Otago,
the brewery ruins with the daffodils and rhododendron forest will be a point of interest on the way.
Group tours are available with ‘Dusty’, creating an atmosphere of days past -
when Weatherstons was known as the ‘Fun Capital of the Goldfields’
Entry Only:
$5 Adult; $3 Concession/Senior
$2 Child (Under 5 Free)
All proceeds toward the resurrection of the brewery as a tourist site
Group Tours Available - POA
EFTPOS is available on site all season
All proceeds towards the resurrection of the brewery as a tourist site..
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( All Photography © JK LightCreations)
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Brewery Tour Options: (Group Tours - minimum 10 people)
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30 min Guided Tour:
Afternoon Tea:
Buffet Luncheon:
Buffet Dinner:
Tea & Coffee:
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$10 Adult; $5 Child
$18 Adult; $12 Child
$38 Adult, $18 Child
$50 Adult; $25 Child
$3 pp
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Directions:
Turn right at the petrol station in Lawrence, opposite the corner store
- follow the road about 2 km and what a glorious sight you will see
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Your Host: Kim “Dusty” Murtagh
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Address:
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Hart’s Black Horse Brewery, Weatherstons
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Postal address:
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11 Lismore Street, Lawrence, Tuapeka 9532, Otago, New Zealand
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Telephone:
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+64 3 485 9968
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Mobile:
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027 687 8641
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Fax:
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+64 3 485 9968
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E-mail:
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blackhorsebrewery@xtra.co.nz
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Website
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www.hbhb.co.nz
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Private property - Access by Arrangement Only.
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Pageviews from 5th Sept. 2008
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ODE TO THE MINERS
To a land, rich and plentiful, full or potential they came.
To these valleys eleven thousand and more,
Struggled their way from distant shores.
Over hill, through mud and rain,
With a cart and tent, possessions few
The miners came with determination too.
In search of elusive gold, they toiled and strived.
Water was run form mile after mile,
To blast away hillsides, making them unrecognizable .
In the cold hard ground they labored
Frozen fingers, bodies steaming
Starving, cold and tired
Initiative, courage and strength in plenty.
The key for many an inspired idea
Right here our Anthem was wrought,
New Zealand’s first bike and hydraulic elevator.
Not a sign is left of where they all lived.
But for one little town that stayed to survive.
A town rich with stories,
History alive,
A constant reminder of a time gone by.
The legacy that the miners left?
Community spirit a conscience, a heart,
Where each and every person can play a part.
Where people from all over the world
Come to find a relation
In the miners registration.
Kim ‘Dusty’ Murtagh
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