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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Michael Burge

Time is a traveller: the Tenterfield Saddler is up for sale

The Tenterfield Saddler, a heritage-listed 153-year-old saddlery made world-famous by a song, is up for sale, in Tenterfield NSW.
The Tenterfield Saddler, a heritage-listed 153-year-old saddlery made world-famous by a song, is up for sale, in Tenterfield NSW. Photograph: SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE

The Tenterfield Saddler, immortalised by Peter Allen, is up for sale, and fans of the Australian songwriter are calling for government intervention to preserve its history.

This modest, two-room building was raised in hand-cut local blue granite, timber and tin on the high street of the northern New South Wales town in 1870. Word was that bush poet AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson was a regular customer.

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