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25 Sep
Tasmanian Restoration – luxury hotel in Historic House
It is not every day that someone reimagines an historic house restoration as a luxury Tasmanian hotel. Captain Roadknight constructed Woodbridge in the early 1800’s and it was completed in 1825. To understand the building, one first must understand the building techniques of the time. Convicts built Woodbridge using handmade low-fired […]
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23 Aug
The Nightingale the movie came to the Woodbridge
Back in 2016, the cast of The Nightingale the movie (2018) stayed at Woodbridge during filming. The film is set in colonial Tasmania and this scene was filmed largely in the Derwent Valley. It was shot in the wilderness surrounding nearby Mount Field and in the isolated farmland in the hills behind us. […]
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