Shot Tower - Visit

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Mt Eden Shot Tower

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Location: Normanby Rd, Mt Eden, City (The Colonial Ammunition Company building is preserved on the street front. The tower is behind it partly obscured by modern apartments.

What: Shot tower used to form shotgun pellets by letting molten lead fall through air.

What else to do there: Mt Eden is a short step away. Drive past the forbidding Victorian Mt Eden Prison and the Spanish Mission style Auckland Grammar School.

Web info: http://www.historic.org.nz/Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=87

http://www.youreden.org.nz/ShotT/ShotTowerHome.htm