The heritage registered London Bridge homestead, located near Googong Dam, will be open to the public on Sunday (November 20).
He says: “While many locals will be familiar with the striking limestone land arch that gives London Bridge Homestead its name, less well known is the range of onsite buildings made in distinct architectural styles.”
“The McNamaras had 13 children and lived on the site from 1857 until 1928, during which time they built a number of buildings, all of which are still standing.”
The oldest building dates back to the 1860s and is a stone cottage built from a random assortment of rocks quarried from a hill close to the homestead.
Freeman says: “The cottage has 40cm thick walls made up of a random assortment of rocks mortared together in a best fit and then rendered.”
Parking at the end of London Bridge Road, off Burra Road. 10am-2pm, November 20. Free entry.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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