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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.

Eslite dâ€™ Corps: Premier 14th C Reenactment

Eslite d’ Corps: Premier 14th C Reenactment are a living history group based in the outer Brisbane suburb of Redcliffe North. The group were founded in 2006 and are headed by ‘Sir Justyn Webb’. Eslite d’ Corp is based on a…

Tags: Archery, Armour, art, axe, Brisbane, combat, costume, craft, dance, Edward III, Eslite dâ€™ Corps, feast, food, Guillaume de Machaut, gunnery, halberd, helmet, jousting, living history, music, performance, Philip VI, Qld, Queensland, re-creation, re-enactment, Redcliffe North, shield, Sir Justyn Webb, spear, sword, tournament, website.

Esk Festival

The Esk Festival, also known as the Brisbane Valley Festival, is an annual single-day event held in the Queensland town Esk. A major component of the festival are displays of ‘Living History & Medieval Re-enactments’ which take place…

Knight Stained Glass, Perth, Tasmania

One of four photographs of a castle-like building on the Midland Highway in Perth, Tasmania. This one shows domestic stained glass/leadlight beside the front door featuring an armoured knight on horseback. The knight has an early medieval style…

Tags: architecture, Armour, castle, chivalry, domestic, domestic architecture, helmet, house, knight, knighthood, knights, leadlight, Perth, residence, shield, stained glass, Tas, Tasmania

Knight Letterbox, Perth, Tasmania

One of four photographs of a castle-like building on the Midland Highway in Perth, Tasmania. This one shows the letterbox in the guise of an armoured knight. The knight has a helmet, full body armour, and wears a quiver (arrow holder) to hold…

Tags: Armour, castle, domestic, helmet, knight, knights, letterbox, metalwork, Perth, quiver, Tas, Tasmania

Citadel Medieval Society

Citadel Medieval Society is a living history group based in Queensland. The group were founded seventeen years ago and focus on two time periods and locations: the port of La Rochelle, France, in c. 1370 during the Hundred Years War; and the German…

Viking Statue, Miss Maud's

An image of the giant Viking head statue located outside Miss Maud's Swedish restaurant and bakehouse on Fitzgerald Street in Perth, WA.

The figure has a long, bushy beard and is wearing a horned helmet. It appears to be made of limestone.…

Tags: bakehouse, bakery, dining, eating, figure, figures, Fitzgerald Street, food, helmet, horned helmet, hotel, limestone, Miss Maud, Perth, restaurant, Scandinavia, sculpture, statue, statues, Sweden, Swedish, viking, vikings, WA, Western Australia

Miss Maud's Viking Statue

An image of the giant Viking head statue located outside Miss Maud's Swedish restaurant and bakehouse on Fitzgerald Street in Perth, WA.

The figure has a long, bushy beard and is wearing a horned helmet. It appears to be made of limestone.…

Tags: bakehouse, bakery, dining, eating, figure, figures, Fitzgerald Street, food, helmet, hotel, limestone, Miss Maud, Perth, restaurant, sculpture, statue, statues, Sweden, Swedish, viking, vikings, WA, Western Australia

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