Built in 1850.

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Looks like a converted garage?

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Looks like a converted garage?

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Heritage listed.

Alexander W. Loveday settled at Mount Pleasant in 1885. He established the blacksmith shop pictured, a business which diversified as a wheelwright, enamelling, sign writing, paint & varnish manufacture and coach & waggon construction. He was also an undertaker and provided a veterinary service. He also became a gold buyer for the alluvial gold discovered in the neighbourhood and made a properly labelled collection of Australian gemstones collected on regular prospecting safaris. The Loveday business premises became the booking office and terminus for Hill & Co's coach line.

In 1918 the business was sold to his son-in-law, Mark Talbot, who gradually turned the premises into a motor garage.

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