A rare find, 870 m2 flat block in the small country town of Birdwood. Power and water connected
Escape to the country and enjoy the quiet life, home of the great Birdwood to bay car rally.
Birdwood is a small, attractive town in the Adelaide Hills and on the banks of the River Torrens which achieved importance as a major attraction when the Blumberg Flour Mill was converted into the National Motor Museum. Today it is a pleasant place to stop, have a meal, explore the charming old buildings and soak up the ambiance of a quiet area removed from suburban Adelaide.
Birdwood is located 44 km east ( 52 Minutes ) of Adelaide in the heart of the Adelaide Hills
Birdwood is an interesting example of a town affected by intense anti-German feeling during World War I. When it was settled in the 1840s by German/Prussian refugees fleeing religious persecution in Silesia it was known as Blumberg. During World War I it was renamed Birdwood after Sir William Birdwood who had commanded the Anzac’s at Gallipoli
Blumberg Mill – the National Motor Museum
Located on the Main Street in the old Blumberg flour mill is the State-run National Motor Museum which was started in 1964 by Jack Kaines and Len Vigar. It now has a collection of over 300 vehicles including such valuable items as a 1910 Daimler, a 1929 Bentley and an 1899 Shearer Steam Car. Outside the Museum is a road engine which was hauled by road on temporary wheels by a horse team from Mannum to Gumeracha in 1911. It was used in the Gumeracha sawmill until the sawmill was burnt down in 1939.
Blumberg Inn
Built in 1865 as a single storey hotel named, amusingly, the Napoleon Bonaparte reputedly because some of the local citizens had fought with Bonaparte. It has changed many times (note the car in the front) but by the 1880s it had been turned into the two storey blue stone building with impressive ironwork and a charming upstairs balcony which can be seen today. It is now a central part of the town’s main street