The bakery at Newrybar 
was built in 1900, on the site that was originally a milk factory built in 1893. Now part of Harvest, the over 120-year-old wood-fired bakery supplies the Harvest Deli with sourdough bread.
The oven was made by Metters Limited, first established in 1891 in Adelaide. The oven must have been installed later in the life of the bakery as the oven’s casting above the oven door has “Sydney Adelaide & Perth” written on it. Metters expanded to Sydney in 1902, two years after Newrybar Bakery had been built.
An interesting observation of the casting showing “Sydney Adelaide & Perth” is that it differs from the Miller Bakehouse Museum in Western Australia. Its casting shows the cities in reverse order, as “Perth, Adelaide & Sydney”. The Newrybar Bakery oven was possibly manufactured in Sydney, with that city put first. I don’t know if that is what Metters Limited did, but it explains the different ordering of the city names in the casting.
Metters popular domestic ovens used an enclosed wood fire to heat a hob above with the oven below it. The wood fire for the Newrybar Bakery has the fire to the right of the oven, which appears to be used for the commercial ovens, the same as used in the Millers Bakehouse oven.
The historic bakery at Newrybar was operating as a restaurant, deli, and cafe, as Harvest Newrybar. They operated for 23 years until the unfortunate closure in December 2024, around 5 months after I visited Harvest Newrybar.
You can’t visit a bakery and not get any baked goods, so I looked for a pie to sample. The pastry was amazingly flakey and the filling tasty. Fresh-made tomato sauce was served beside the pie, which was given without asking.
For a full baked pastry taste test, a sweet had to be selected also. I opted for a raspberry Danish, filled with custard and topped with a raspberry sauce and a raspberry. The pastry had a similar flakiness as the top of the pie.
Alas, there will be no tasting of other flavours next time I’m down this way. We can only hope that a new owner will revive the historic bakery. Whether it is used to make the same type of pies and pastries or a new style of pies and pastries, it will need to be checked out. Vincenzo’s at the Big Apple reopened years after it closed, hopefully the same will happen in Newrybar.
