Just outside Sydney, a small town from the turn of the 19th century has been recreated. Here you feel like you’ve been transported back to another world.
The small village of Sydney has been recreated in the historic style of the Wilhelminian period. Several old buildings, furnished with furniture and objects from this period, give an impression of the difficult living conditions that the inhabitants of the time had to deal with.
The interior of the houses is spartan and equipped only with the most necessary things, such as a bed, table and chairs as well as an open fireplace in which cooking and heating was done. At that time, the means of transport was of course the horse. Old replica covered wagons from the time of settlement in Australia can be admired here.
At pre-announced times, the warlike conflicts between the French and the British over the occupation of Australia in the 18th century are re-enacted on the village grounds. Old cannons are brought up and in their uniforms the extras look almost like real soldiers.
With a loud roar, the grenade mortars explode. A real spectacle for the actors and the spectators. The scenery is accompanied by musicians who mingle with the people in old traditional costumes.
The laws were extremely harsh at that time. Anyone who stole a horse or cattle, for example, was executed with a guillotine or shot. Minor lawbreakers were publicly pilloried.
