Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything made from wood
Tag: old building
Bricks and stones of sorts
A Police Station from the past
A bit of heritage in Grafton
Debbie’s One Word Sunday : Heritage
I went to town yesterday and did a drive around but it was raining and overcast, not the best for photos. I decided to find a few older items that may disappear one day. I found an old sign on the side of a building for Archie Schafer. I did a bit of research but turned up nothing and of course some sites that wanted me to pay for the information, one a newspaper which had some scant information.
From memory I know that Archie was a cyclist and the store where the sign is was the cycle shop. The building is known as the Robinson Bros building and is listed in the Heritage Register but the Architect and details are unknown. When I first came to Grafton, the building was Pullens Produce Store and is now a job centre and meeting place for those in our disabled community.
I am glad that this building will be preserved, well at least the facade.
You can just make out the Robinson Bros name on the top of the building
The door has changed a bit over time but I love it as it is now
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A bit of ancient art
A Photo a Week Challenge: Ancient
Marsha’s Photographing Public Art Challenge#17
One of my favourite ancient sites is Pompeii. Among the ruins is pieces of art that have remained intact since the fateful eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. Take a bit of a scroll with me and have a poke around the houses and buildings of Pompeii.
Mt Vesuvius in the distance
One of the grand buildings
The courtyard of a wealthy citizens house
Birds figured in a number of designs on the walls
Repeating patterns on many of the walls decorating the houses
Some included figures
Some fresco’s were colourful
My last view of Pompeii
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Buildings – some old, some new
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Buildings
Bren’s Mid-Week Monochrome #57
The old Sheriffs office in Grafton
Sunset from my hotel room in Sydney a while ago
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Weathered with age
Terri’s Sunday Stills: A Weathered Look
The few things I have found that have that weathered look
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Back in time
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things Made from Wood
A while ago we went to a town over the mountains, Inverell and went to the Pioneer Village. Many of the buildings have been saved and transported to the village for a living exhibition of the life and times in the 1800’s.   “The Inverell district is in a fertile agricultural region which produces a wide range of crops, including wheat, barley, oats, sorghum, wine grapes and maize. There are also some mining activities with tin, sapphires, zircons and diamonds (mainly industrial) being found.[12] Inverell is known as the ‘Sapphire City’ because of the sapphires that found throughout the local district, contributing to a major part of Australia’s sapphire production.” source Wikipedia
Here is a few of the things I found.
The Miners Store – Inverell has a mining history since Diamonds were discovered in 1875 and later Sapphires
Inside the old church
The back of the house
One of the many wagons on display
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Abandoned
Thursdays Special: Juxtaposition
Lost in Translation photo challenge – Juxtaposition
In Sydney Australia, you can see many example of where the old meets the new. The old building, Scots Church has a new building built above it which has 148 apartments which allows the new to hover above the old.
In another part of Sydney, the inner city suburb Newtown has a range of eclectic people and shops. Here we have an outdoor/indoor room on the awning of the building.
One of the contentious issues in Australia is that refugees are kept in detention until their applications are processed. It is believed that children should not be held in these camps. I found this protest in the street in Ballina. a town not far from my place. It is a sad photo when you think about the meaning.
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