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National Mutual Life Building, Hobart, Tasmania
Completed in 1906, the elaborate National Mutual Life Building in Hobart, Tasmania, was designed by Hobart-born architect Alan Cameron Walker (1864-1931). It is a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic architecture and features semi-circular windows with…
‘The Towers’ building, Hobart
‘The Towers’ building is in the Hobart suburb of Newtown and lends its name to Tower Road. It was designed by English-born convict architect James Blackburn in c. 1845 as a grand domestic building built around an internal courtyard. The…
Castle Zayee, Hobart - Interior
Castle Zayee is an Asian restaurant in Lenah Valley, Hobart. The brick exterior has been built to look like a very solid castle, with low towers topped with crenellation. The medieval theme is carried through to the interior, where the walls are…
Tags: Asian cuisine, castle, Castle Zayee, coat of arms, crenellation, heraldry, Hobart, restaurant, shield, sword, Tas, Tasmania, tower
Castle Zayee, Hobart - Exterior
Castle Zayee is an Asian restaurant in Lenah Valley, Hobart. The brick exterior has been built to look like a very solid castle, with low towers topped with crenellation. The medieval theme is carried through to the interior, where the walls are…
Tags: Asian cuisine, castle, Castle Zayee, coat of arms, crenellation, heraldry, Hobart, restaurant, shield, sword, Tas, Tasmania, tower
'Fictions of History' Unit
Undergraduate unit ‘Fictions of History’ offered at the Hobart campus of The University of Tasmania (Coordinator: Dr Rosemary Gaby). The unit investigates how the past is represented in literature and includes Sir Walter Scott’s…
‘The bride wore… a sword’
The article ‘The bride wore… a sword’ by reporter Hannah Martin appeared in the online version of the Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury. The article reports on a medieval ‘Celtic’-style wedding of two members of the…
Warrior and dragon sign, Cascade Brewery, Hobart, Tasmania
This photograph of a sign was taken at the rear of the Cascade Brewery. The sign features a warrior on horseback killing a dragon with a lance. The similarity of the sign to the original St George logo used by the Launceston brewery Boag’s,…
Tags: Boag’s Brewery, Cascade Brewery, dragon, Hobart, knight, lance, Launceston, sign, St George, Tas, Tasmania, warrior.
Government House, Hobart, Tasmania
The current Government House of Tasmania, the third in Hobart, was designed by the Director of Public Works William Porden Kay and built between 1855 and 1857 in the Gothic Revival style. Governor Henry Fox Young took up residence on January 2, 1858.…