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Four Seasons Gutter Protection
The website and advertisements for Four Season Gutter Protection feature four cartoon medieval foot soldiers wearing helmets and brandishing shields and weapons – flails (a type of mace) and spears or pikes. The heads of the weapons are in the…
Tags: advertisement, cartoon, flail, foot soldier, Four Seasons Gutter Protection, helmet, mace, pike, shield, soldier, spear, Vic, Victoria, website.
Framed coat of arms - General Sir John Monash
Hand drawn and coloured picture of the Monash coat of arms, which has been signed vertically 'R K PEACOCK'. The image shows a blue shield divided horizontally by a gold band. Above the band are five eight pointed gold stars. Beneath the band is a…
Franklin Village Chapel, Franklin Village, Tasmania
Consecrated and renamed St James Anglican Church in 1926, this building is in Franklin Village, Tasmania, was originally known as Franklin Village Chapel and is on what used to be the main road between Hobart and Launceston. The rendered brick chapel…
Fremantle Prison Gatehouse, Fremantle, Western Australia
A view of the Fremantle Prison Gatehouse in Fremantle, Western Australia. The Gatehouse was constructed by convict labour between 1854 and 1855. It was built according to the design of Royal Engineer Edmund Henderson from limestone quarried on…
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Friendly Society Picnic March at Belair National Park
Men, women, and children marching with Ancient Order of Foresters banners prior to arriving at the Belair National Park. About the Ancient Order of Foresters:
The Ancient Order of Foresters originated in England in the mid-eighteenth century, with…
Fringes and Tassels. Medieval Fashion Revived.
This newspaper article suggests that a renewed interest in Renaissance fashions and medieval handicrafts can be seen in the elaborate cord trimmings, satin embroidery, coloured fringes and tassels that were being incorporated into home decoration…
Front and rear of the former Fremantle Synagogue
The first purpose-built synagogue in Western Australia, Fremantle Synagogue was built by J. McCracken in the Romanesque style (architectual firm Oldham and Eales) in 1902 but services only continued in the building until 1910. Constructed in brick,…
Front Corridor of the Catholic Education Centre, West Leederville
Photograph of the front corridor of the Catholic Education Centre, on ruislip street, West Leederville in Perth Western Australia. The semi-circular arches are in the Romanesque style, which as the style of ecclesiastical architecture popular in much…