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Vaulted Ceiling in Earlsferry House, Guildford, Western Australia
Image of a vaulted ceiling inside the heritage-listed Earlsferry House Bed and Breakfast on the Swan River in Guildford, Western Australia. The building is of typical late nineteenth century style, embodying elements of the Victorian gothic…
Valhalla Icecream
Valhalla Icecream is made in the Hobart suburb of Moonah. As seen on this advertising sign, the company’s logo features the side profile of the head of a Viking warrior on a red shield. The warrior wears a helmet with wings, a notion popular in…
Tags: advertisement, helmet, Hobart, horned helmet, icecream, logo, mythology, Norse, Odin, Old Norse mythology, shield, sign, Tas, Tasmania, Valhalla, Valhalla Icecream, Valkyrie, viking, warrior, winged helmet.
Vacuum Entertainment: Enjoyable Evening at the Y.A.L.
This newspaper article from the Sunday Times reports on a function hosted by the Vacuum Oil Company at the Y.A.L. Hall on 1 June 1932. In addition to an address Major Norman Brearley, the managing director of W.A. Airways, the programme for the…
Ut Si Café, Perth, Tasmania
Ut Si Café is in the Tasmanian town of Perth. It is in a renovated brick church built in the Gothic Revival style. The Gothic pointed arch windows and doorway in the porch have been highlighted by the use of contrasting colours in the new paint…
Tags: Church, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Perth, pointed arch, porch, Tas, Tasmania, Ut Si Café.
Upper vestibule window, ‘Narrapumelap,’ Wickliffe, Victoria
An image of a stained glass window at the Narrapumelap homestead in Wickliffe, Victoria. The panel’s outer edge is framed by an eye-catching ‘floral-rod’ pattern in spiral form. The window is divided into three segments (l, m, r)…
Untitled article: “the medieval barbarities of our state criminal factoriesâ€
In the second half of this article, an excerpt from the Geraldton Express discussing the Royal Commission into the penal system in Western Australia is reprinted. The Commission, it asserts, had already succeeded in awaking public opinion to the need…
Tags: crime, criminal, criminal justice, Fremantle, Fremantle prison, gaol, Geraldton Express, imprisonment, incarceration, innocence, just, justice, medieval barbarity, parliamentary enquiry, penal system, prison, prison reform, prison sentence, punishment, reform, Royal Commission, violence, WA, Western Australia
University’s Coat of Arms
Following a request from the University of Melbourne for a coloured copy of its coat of arms to incorporate into a stained glass window, this article informs readers that the University of Western Australia had commissioned George Kruger Gray, an…