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Entrance, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne
These two photographs show the entrance to St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, Victoria. The elaborate porch has an arched entrance and includes sculptures of human heads as well as a tracery grill. St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral was designed…
Interior, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne
Two interior photographs of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne. Features include stained glass windows, including the Great Window installed in 1867 (photograph 3), a vaulted ribbed ceiling, window tracery, and internal arches featuring…
Castle, Dog Swamp, Perth, Western Australia
This derelict castle building in the Perth suburb of Dog Swamp used to be part of The Land of Make Believe display centre. It was created by the brick and roofing tile company Wunderlich and featured small buildings based on fairytales. The castle…
‘The Rule of the Many’, The Bulletin, 15 November 1890.
This poem provides a vigorous denunciation of “the English caste system†and “celebrates the decay of feudalism,†at least in the Australian rural locale (Louise D'Arcens, Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in…
Water Tower, Evandale, Tasmania
The Water Tower in the Tasmanian town of Evandale was part of the Evandale Water Supply Scheme designed by Robert Gould. The 12 metre high tower opened in 1896 and was in operation until 1968. The brick water tower has the appearance of a fortified…
‘Melbourniana’, The Bulletin, 23 February 1895
This is another cheeky comment from Bulletin cartoonist Tom Durkin, directed at the reputedly self-important chairman of the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, E. G. Fitzgibbon. In the cartoon Fitzgibbon is throwing a temper tantrum over…
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
The present St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral was designed by English architect William Wardell, with minor changes made by local architects Hennessy, Hennessy and Co. Although the foundation stone was laid in 1868, the cathedral was not completed…
‘An I.O.G.T. Idyll’
This amusing temperance ‘ditty’ describes the adventures of “a burly Templar chief†whose carefree night of drinking turns out to be more than he expected or bargained for. The I.O.G.T. was a temperance society (The…