Tour Highlights
Group Tours operate at Rocking Horse Lodge with the following features:
Chris will show you his workshop and tell you how he came to be a rocking horse maker; show you the stages in making a horse; show and tell you things you didn’t know about Carousel Horses and talk to you about our special 3 Day Rocking Horse Making Classes.
Viktoria will tell you about fitting out
modern rocking horses; show you old horses by the major Australian & English makers; teach you how to date & identify them; followed by a Homestead, Loft and Hobby Farm Tour.
A Country Retreat
Rocking Horse Lodge is a country retreat set on 10 acres. Enjoy the peace and serenity, clean fresh country air and hospitality.
Take time off from the fast lane. Only 52 kms from Sydney in the
picturesque Hawkesbury.

Your Hosts
Experience traditional country hospitality at its best. Viktoria & Chris will welcome you to their lovely home. Chris & Viktoria are
Australia’s only full-time Rocking Horse Makers & Teachers and will happily provide you with every thing you wanted to know about antique rocking horses and their making.
Things to Do
- Tour the Rocking Horse Maker’s Workshop and learn how
modern
rocking horses are made in production quanitities by one couple
- Learn about Antique & Vintage
rocking horses and how to identify and
date Australian and English rocking horses
- Tour the Antique & Vintage Pram,
High Chair, Basinette collections. See some lovely hand made
porcelain dolls. See the antique decked Loft Bed & Breakfast
Accommodation
- Have Old Fashioned Morning/Afternoon Tea of tea/coffee
pumpkin or
friut scones with home made jams and lashings of cream.
- Collect the Chook and Duck Eggs
- See the many varieties of chooks, ducks and geese - chicks
in tow
depending on the season
- See & Hand Feed the Black Face Suffolk Sheep flock
Collections
Viktoria & Chris collect
Antiques of Childhood and Rocking Horses. The Loft has two antique bassinettes with Viktoria’s handmade porcelain babies.
The Homestead houses a growing antique pram & high chair collection and features an ornate American Reed Victorian pram circa 1890
in the bay window.
|