Suburb #7 Gilmore

We were not intending to go to Gilmore but were unable to find food for sale in the centre of all things (i.e.Fadden), hence, we had a lovely late brunch at the Rose Cottage in Gilmore and decided to check out the suburb while we were there.

Gilmore, still in Tuggers, is named after poet (see below) and journalist Dame Mary Gilmore (aka the lady on the $10 note) - and hence the streets in the suburb are also named after female journalists.

My garden was a wilderness
Of weeds that mimicked woes;
And then love came, and at a touch
Each weed became a rose.

 

Rose Cottage turned out to be the highlight of our Gilmore visit really. It is rather like Old Canberra Inn. Built in 1870s. It is a lovely cafe/pub/nursery and surrounded  by lovely roses (funny that). Long way to go for a beer from Braddon, but certainly worth a visit for a milkshake :)

Gilmore seemed quite similar to Fadden except they haven't even tried to maintain any local shops. It is also much flatter with less fancy houses. It had lots of basketball hoops everywhere, a house with a weird fence and a house with a tire in the front yard - and the Canberra classic of a shopping trolley dumped in a park.

  

And just because not including a photo with a basketball hoop wouldn't be right...