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‘Viking Song’, The Bulletin, 25 August 1910
David McKee Wright draws inspiration from the journeys of the Vikings across the North Sea in this poetic martial ‘ditty’ that brims with national pride:
Australia with her bright hair glowingHas her eye on the furrows of the deep [...]…
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.
‘‘Thingless Names’? The St George Legend in Australia’
‘‘Thingless Names’? The St George Legend in Australia’ is an article by Andrew Lynch from The University of Western Australia. It appeared in the La Trobe Journal (No. 81, pp. 40-52) in Autumn 2008. The article briefly…
‘Tasmania’s Historic Towers’.
The 1949 article ‘Tasmania’s Historic Towers’ by M.S.R. Sharland appeared in the Hobart, Tasmania, based newspaper The Mercury. The article discusses a number of stand-alone towers in Tasmania, including two medieval-styled…
Pigeon Tower, near Cressy, Tasmania
This pigeon tower, or dovecote, is located on the banks of Macquarie River on a property owned by Burlington Farming Pty Ltd near the northern Tasmanian town of Cressy. The tower was originally part of the adjoining Panshanger Estate and was built in…
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.
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…
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.