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  • Collection: Medievalism at the Foundations

Old-Swan-Barracks.jpg
Images of the Old Swan Barracks Hotel in Perth, Western Australia. The Swan Barracks was originally used as a military training facility. A Volunteer Drill Hall was built in 1896 and this rusticated stone building was added in 1897 to house the…

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Image of the Old Swan Barracks Hotel in Perth, Western Australia. The Swan Barracks was originally used as a military training facility. A Volunteer Drill Hall was built in 1896 and this rusticated stone building was added in 1897 to house the…

A Bereaved Empire_West Australian Sunday Times_27 January 1901_p6.pdf
In this article upon the death of Queen Victoria (on 22 January 1901), her reign is described as a period in which “we took a sudden step from medieval darkness to the metaphorically blinding brilliancy of the dawn of the twentieth…

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Image of Barracks Arch, Perth. What remains was the entrance to a much larger three storey building built in 1866 to house the retired Enrolled Pensioner Force and their families. Architect Richard Roach Jewell created an entrance reminiscent of a…

redcastlehotel1.jpg
Image of the Red Castle Hotel (now Motor Inn) in the Perth suburb of Rivervale. The red brick building gains its name from a medieval castle-like tower with crenellation, arched windows and arrow slits.

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The Red Castle Hotel (now Motor Inn) in the Perth suburb of Rivervale. The red brick building gains its name from a medieval castle-like tower with crenellation, arched windows and arrow slits.

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Images of the St George woodcarved statue in St George’s Cathedral, Western Australia. The statue was purchased from Oberammergau in 1970. Oberammergau is a town in Bavaria known for its woodcarvers and, perhaps more famously, it’s…

st-george-001.jpg
Images of the St George woodcarved statue in St George’s Cathedral, Western Australia. The statue was purchased from Oberammergau in 1970. Oberammergau is a town in Bavaria known for its woodcarvers and, perhaps more famously, it’s…
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