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  • The Shed

    HAMMERING HISTORY

    Aug 10, 2018 5 minutes
    By Nathalie Brown
    Photographs: Derek Golding

    You can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of Kiwi women who have become blacksmiths in their 60s. Judy Waterston of Livingstone, inland North Otago, is one of them.

    As a child Judy spent hours in her engineer-father’s workshop sorting nuts and bolts, tidying away his tools, sweeping up, and watching him make things. She says her love of tools and machinery came from her dad.

    The blacksmithing seed was sown in 1972 when Judy first saw Nicol’s Blacksmith Shop in Duntroon, some 40km from Oamaru up State Highway 83. The building was being devoured by periwinkle planted 100 years before to act as a fire retardant. Most of the windows were smashed and it was draped in cobwebs.

    It took her 20 years to escape the city and return to North Otago, near Duntroon

    “I looked through the broken windows and when

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