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(Former) Town Hall, Bothwell, Tasmania
Bothwell (Tasmania) Town Hall was built in 1902. The building also served as the towns Police Station and Court Room. It is now used as the local library. The stone building features three semi-circular arches supported by columns with decorated…
Tags: Bothwell, capitals, column, Court Room, library, Police Station, Romanesque, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania., Town Hall
(Old) State School, Launceston, Tasmania
(Old) Launceston State School is on Paterson Street in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The brick building is in the Gothic Revival style and features a bellcote, lancet windows, tracery, and buttresses. The building is now a Launceston College…
38 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania
This building is at 38 Davey Street in central Hobart. It is at the rear of Parliament House and is part of the proposed Parliament Square redevelopment. The building adjoins the former St Mary’s Hospital building and early photographs show…
Tags: crenellation, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Hobart, lancet windows, parapet, Romanesque, Tas, Tasmania, tower.
59 Cameron Street, Launceston, Tasmania
This building at 59 Cameron Street in the Tasmanian city of Launceston was formally occupied by the landscape artist Frederick Strange (1807-1873) in the mid nineteenth century, and later became the headquarters of the Launceston Equitable Building…
A Viking Funeral Ship
An article on page 2 of the Launceston newspaper the Examiner on September 2, 1908. The anonymous public interest article reports on the recent excavation of the Oseberg ship in Norway. The article describes the ninth-century burial ship, found under…
Tags: Examiner, funeral, grave goods, grave robbers, Launceston, Norse, Norway, Oseberg, ship, Tas, Tasmania, viking
‘Celtic’ Cross, Longford, Tasmania
This memorial cross can be found in the churchyard of Christ Church in Longford. It is a ring-headed ‘Celtic’ style cross. The 1899 cross commemorates James Appleyard who designed the churchyard and planted its trees. Free-standing…
Tags: Celtic, Celtic cross, Christ Church, churchyard, James Appleyard, Longford, memorial, Tas, Tasmania.
‘Gallantry is back’ St George beer commercial
This advertisement is for the Launceston, Tasmania, brewing company James Boag’s ‘St George’ beer. The slogan of the commercial is ‘Gallantry is back’, which plays on one of the attributes associated with St George, that…
‘Home-made medieval war machine goes off with a bang’
This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth…