Step inside the workshop
Hidden inside the Wheelwright’s Shop at Sovereign Hill is one of the most extraordinary pieces of machinery in our collection.
This is how the goldfields rolled
No shortcuts. No power tools. Just skill, patience and centuries-old know-how.
Watch our wheelwrights and coachbuilders build a wheel by hand and discover why this trade was essential to keeping the goldfields moving.
Today, Sovereign Hill's wheelwrights are among the few craftspeople still practising this rare trade, helping to preserve skills that have all but disappeared from the modern world.
