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Highlands Warrior painting, Sheffield, Tasmania

The northern Tasmanian town of Sheffield is known as the â€˜Town of Muralsâ€™ due to the large number of publicly displayed artworks in its streets, especially on walls. Although the majority of the artworks are about Tasmanian, especially…

Tags: art, Highlander, Highlands, Highlands Warrior, kilt, painting, Scotland, Sheffield, shield, sporran, sword, tartan, Tas, Tasmania, warrior.

Jousting at Kryal Castle, Ballarat

An image of a Kryal Castle knight preparing for a Jousting display at Kryal Castle in Ballarat, Victoria. Jousting was a popular medieval and Renaissance sport from the thirteenth century, and is often associated with the chivalric ideal.

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Tags: Ballarat, battlements, castle, crenelation, drawbridge, entertainment, functions, games, gate, horse, joust, jouster, jousting, Keith Ryall, knight, knights, Kryal Castle, lance, leisure, lists, medieval sport, Melbourne, moat, porticullis, re-creation, recreation, sport, tourism, tower, Vic, Victoria

â€˜Game of Thronesâ€™ inspired chalk board

This chalk board drawing advertises The Burger Bistro in Shafto Lane in central Perth. The drawing is based on posters and the dvd cover for Season One of the television series â€˜Game of Thronesâ€™, based on the fantasy book series A Song…

Tags: advertising, chalk board, chalk drawing, drawing, fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Perth, sign, sword, television, The Burger Bistro, throne, tv, WA, warrior, Western Australia.

Sir Walter Buffalo Lawn

The variety of Buffalo Lawn known as Sir Walter was developed in 1996. The logo for the associated company features a medieval knight wearing a helmet and armour riding a horse. The knight carries a lance and a shield, and the appearance of the horse…

Tags: advertising, Armour, helmet, joust, jousting, knight, lance, lawn, logo, shield, Sir Walter Buffalo Lawn, tournament, website.

The Winthrop Singers

The Winthrop Singers is a choir formed in 2007 following collaboration between the School of Music at The University of Western Australia and St George’s College. The choir are led by Dr Nicholas Bannan and regularly perform at St…

Tags: choir, Gregorian chant, Guillaume Machaut, Hildegarde of Bingen, Nicholas Bannan, performance, Perth, School of Music, St Georgeâ€™s College, The Winthrop Singers., University of Western Australia, WA, website, Western Australia

Fortress Risk Insurance Services, Launceston, Tasmania

Fortress Risk Insurance Services are based in the Tasmanian city of Launceston and were established in 2011. The logo for the company, as seen in the photograph, is the outline of part of a medieval fortress. It gives the appearance of a castle tower…

Tags: castle, crenellation, fortress, Fortress Risk Insurance Services, insurance, Launceston, logo, parapet, sign, Tas, Tasmania, tower.

Newcastle Knights rugby league club

The Newcastle Knights are a team in Australasia’s National Rugby League based in the New South Wales city of Newcastle. They joined the competition in 1988. The logo for the club is a side profile of the helmet of a medieval knight. The helmet…

Tags: Blackletter, Gothic script, helmet, knight, logo, National Rugby League, New South Wales, Newcastle, Newcastle Knights, NRL, NSW, plume, rugby, rugby league, visor.

The Card Castle, Launceston, Tasmania

The Card Castle is a card and gift shop in the Old Brisbane Arcade in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The two signs for the store feature a castle. Whilst one provides merely the outline of a castle wall and tower with crenelated parapets, the…

Tags: advertising, castle, crenellation, draw-bridge, Launceston, moat, Old Brisbane Arcade, parapet, pointed arch, shop, sign, Tas, Tasmania, The Card Castle, tower.

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