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Government House, Hobart, Tasmania
The current Government House of Tasmania, the third in Hobart, was designed by the Director of Public Works William Porden Kay and built between 1855 and 1857 in the Gothic Revival style. Governor Henry Fox Young took up residence on January 2, 1858.…
Minerva’s Tower
Minerva’s Tower is a Perth-based band who performs medieval and neo-medieval folk music, including some original compositions. The band consists of two multi-instrumentalists, Alana Bennett and Dylan Kerr. The photograph shows the band…
St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Evandale, Tasmania
St Andrew’s Anglican Church was built in 1871 using bricks from an earlier demolished church on the site, and it was consecrated in May 1872. St Andrew’s was built in the Gothic Revival style, including buttresses, lancet windows, and a…
Tags: Anglican, buttresses, Church, Evandale, folly, Gothic, Gothic Revival, hall, John Whitehead., lancet window, spire, St Andrew’s Church, Tas, Tasmania, tower
Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table Children's Cartoon series
Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table was an animated Australian cartoon series written by Melbourne playwright Alex Buzo with Rod Hull, Lyle Martin, John Palmer and M. Robinson. It was produced between 1966 and 1968. Based on Arthurian…
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
A view of Flinders Street Station, located at the intersection of Flinders Street and Swanston Street in Melbourne’s CBD. Flinders Street station was designed by architects James Fawcett and HCP Ashworth, who won a competition to re-design the…
Tags: arcade, arch, architecture, blind tracery, Brunelleschi, competition, cupola, dome, Edwardian Free Style, false machiolation, French Renaissance, HPC Ashworth, James Fawcett, Melbourne, neo-Romanesque, parapet, public building, railway station, Railways Department, Romanesque Revival, The Duomo, Vic, Victoria
‘Alfred Was Great King’
‘Alfred Was Great King’ is an anonymous article that appeared in the Charters Towers, Queensland, newspaper The Northern Miner in 1954. The article is about the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon/English king Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the Great.…
City Baptist Church, Launceston, Tasmania
Baptist City Church in the Tasmanian city of Launceston was built as Christ Church Congregational Church between 1883 and 1885. The brick and cement building was designed by Melbourne architects Grainger & D’Ebro. It is in the Gothic style…