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Domestic Crenellation & Machiolation in Unley Park, Adelaide, South Australia

A photograph of domestic architecture in Unley Park, South Australia, featuring crenellation and false machiolation. Crenellation is an architectural feature that was commonly employed in the design of medieval castles and military structures. Cut…

Doorway Detail: St Peterâ€™s Cathedral, Adelaide

A close-up of the detailed stonework surrounding a doorway at St Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia. Construction of this Victorian Gothic style Cathedral began in 1869. Its gothic features include lancet arches, blind arcading and…

Entrance Porch, Mitchell Building, The University of Adelaide

An image of the entrance porch to the Mitchell Building at The University of Adelaide. Large lancet openings surrounded by decorative hood moulding lead from all three sides to entrance, which consists of a wooden door topped with a rose window and…

Friendly Society Picnic March at Belair National Park

Men, women, and children marching with Ancient Order of Foresters banners prior to arriving at the Belair National Park. About the Ancient Order of Foresters: The Ancient Order of Foresters originated in England in the mid-eighteenth century, with…

Tags: Ancient Order of Foresters, banner, banners, Belair, Foresters, Foresters Friendly Society, friendly societies, friendly society, procession, processions, SA, South Australia

How Sir Bedivere cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur.…

In and Around Adelaide

A page of engravings depicting notable landmarks and monuments in Adelaide at the end of the nineteenth century. One notices a strong gothic influence in the appearance of Colonel Light's monument and some of the buildings in Victoria Square.

Tags: Adelaide, architecture, Colonel Light's monument, engraving, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, gothic buildings, Gothic Revival, monument, monuments, neo-Gothic, SA, South Australia, Victoria Square

Maxwell Mead

The McLaren Vale, South Australia, company Maxwell Wines produce three varieties of Maxwell Mead. Their website explains that although mead was first drunk much earlier than the medieval period, it has a particularly strong association with…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Beowulf, beverage, honey wine, honeymoon, king, label, Maxwell Mead, Maxwell Wines, McLaren Vale, mead, poetry, SA, Scandinavia, South Australia, stained glass, sword, Viking.

Maypole dancing around Australia

Maypoles and the folk dance associated with them are a popular event, often involving children, at festivals throughout Australia. The origins, and possible symbolism, of Maypole dancing are uncertain but they can be traced back at least as far as…

Tags: ACT, Australian Capital Territory, dance, festival, folk, folk dance, maypole, New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Northern Territory, NSW, NT, Qld, Queensland, SA, South Australia, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, WA, Wales, Western Australia

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