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â€˜Gale rejects Lethalâ€™s â€˜serfsâ€™ claimâ€™ online article

An online article on June 25 reporting comments made by Brendon Gale, Chief Executive of the AFL club Richmond on air at Melbourne radio station 3AW. He was responding to earlier comments by AFL commentator Leigh Matthews that pay claims of …

Tags: 3AW, AFL, Australian Football League, Australian rules football, Brendon Gale, feudal, Jennifer Witham, Leigh Matthews, Melbourne, online, pay dispute, radio, Richmond, sport, Victoria, website

â€˜Heraldicâ€™ domestic pattern window, Front entrance, Longerenong homestead, Longerenong, Victoria

This â€˜heraldicâ€™ pattern transom hangs over the doorway at Longerenong homestead in Victoria. Central to the design is a golden Celtic harp on blue shield (c. 13th century) representing owner Samuel Wilsonâ€™s Irish roots. This is…

Tags: Celtic, Ferguson & Urie, floral grid pattern, flowers, harp, heraldry, John Lyon, Longerenong homestead, medieval design, Samuel Wilson, stained glass, Vic, Victoria, window

â€˜St Georgeâ€™ Stained Glass Window, Tolarno Hotel, St Kilda

This elaborate staircase window in a converted St Kilda mansion is probably by Ferguson & Urie and dated c.1884. The window depicts a red-cloaked and fully armoured St George standing on the head of a dragon. Images of St George and the Dragon were…

Tags: Armor, Armour, border, dragon, Ferguson & Urie, knight, Melbourne, rose, saint, Saint George, saints, St George, St Kilda, St. George, St. Kilda, stained glass, staircase, Tolarno Hotel, Tudor Rose, Union Jack, valour, Vic, Victoria

â€˜The Seasons window,â€™ Mandeville Hall, Toorak

This staircase â€˜Seasonsâ€™ window at Mandeville Hall in Toorak was designed by David Relph Drape and created by Ferguson & Urie for the original owner, millionaire Joseph Clarke, in 1877. The circular medallions in the centre of the window…

Tags: autumn, country, cupid, David Relph Drape, Diana, Ferguson & Urie, foliage, frieze, harvest, Joseph Clarke, landscape, nature, nostalgia, Romanesque, Saint George, seasons, spring, St George, stained glass, stairwell, summer, Toorak, Vic, Victoria, window, winter

Adam and Eve (Adam et Ãˆve)

This work by French sculptor Albert BartholomÃ© was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria with funds from the Felton Bequest in 1922. It is a bronze sculpture depicting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. It has been dated to 1905,…

Tags: Adam, Albert BartholomÃ© (1848-1928), art, biblical, Brancacci Chapel, bronze, cast, Eve, exile, expulsion, Expulsion from Paradise, Florence, Masaccio (c.1401-1428), paradise, sculpture, Vic, Victoria

Alfred the Great

An article on page 5 of the regional Victorian newspaper The Broadford Courier and Reedy Creek Times on June 20, 1902. The anonymous article is about the will of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex in southern England. In…

Tags: Alfred of Wessex, Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Broadford, England, entail, law, primogeniture, The Broadford Courier and Reedy Creek Times, Vic, Victoria, Wessex, wills

Ancient Order of Foresters Hall, Digby, Victoria.

Link to photograph taken at the opening of the Ancient Order of Foresters Hall at Digby, Victoria in September 1873. The link also provides extracts from the Hamilton Spectator regarding the establishment of the Hall. About the Ancient Order of…

Tags: Ancient Order of Foresters, court, courts, Digby, Foresters, Foresters Friendly Society, friendly societies, friendly society, hall, Hamilton Spectator, Victoria

ANZ Gothic Bank Interior, Melbourne, Victoria

This branch of the ANZ Bank is inside what is known as the ANZ Gothic Bank on the corner of Queen and Collins Streets in Melbourne, Victoria. The building was designed by William Wardell (1823-1899) and built as the English, Scottish & Australian…

Tags: Allom Lovell & Associates, ANZ, bank, capital, column, English, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet window, Melbourne, Scottish & Australian Bank, tracery, Vic, Victoria, William Wardell

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