Heritage Passport Key

The Heritage Passport Key provides you with a key and guide book to an historic 11 kilometre long trail around Burra. The book provides information on around 60 interesting buildings and sites while the key allows you to access the following 8 locked sites along the route:
	Monster Mine site: Between 1845 and 1877 this mine produced 50,000 tonnes of copper metal and saved the fledgling state of South Australia from bankruptcy		Power Magazine: Explosives used at the mine site were stored here. Built in 1847, this is also the oldest surviving mine building in Australia.
Police Lockup and Stables: See the cells and stables built in 1847 to control the criminal element in Burra and surrounds.		Redruth Gaol: After its days as a gaol it became the site of a girls’ reformatory. Learn about the inmates from 1856 to 1922. It was also one of the locations used in the filming of Breaker Morant in 1979.
	Hampton: This village was built around 1857 and contained about 30 miners’ dwellings complete with a Bible Christian Chapel and its own quarry. The last inhabitant left the village around 1960.		Smelts Paddock: The site of the smelting works that accompanied the Monster Mine and at which predominantly Welsh smelters worked between 1849 and 1868.
Unicorn Brewery Cellars: Explore the tunnels and learn about the brewing process for the beer that was brewed here between 1873 and 1902.		Miners’ Dugouts: ‘Creek Street’ as it was affectionately known was once the home of up to 1,800 people between 1850 and 1860. Two reconstructed dugouts show what life was like for many of Burra’s early inhabitants.
How long will it take? To do the trail justice you will need the best part of a day. If you have longer, you will be able to spend longer at each site and really soak up the ambience and history. Keys can be purchased from any of Burra’s four Museums, the Burra Visitor Centre and Bulls In A China Shop.