Willow Court: Ward C

This is one of series of photos of Willow Court. The main post is here. This was Ward C, aka Carlton House. There was an information panel near this building, which said: The “Criminal Block” was built in 1908-09, abutting the Barracks and the Pillar Block and facing the original A and B wards. It…

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Willow Court: Barracks

This is one of series of photos of Willow Court. The main post is here. This the building they call the barracks, constructed in 1830 as an Invalid Depot and later extended for use as an asylum. (Above photo is from 2004 but I didn’t get a good overview photo this time, on account of…

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Willow Court: Nurses Quarters

This is one of series of photos of Willow Court. The main post is here. These are the Nurses Quarters, constructed c.1911 Are now Nurses Quarters Shopping   Around the back.

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Walk Together Launceston, 2015

Walk Together: We believe Australians are a welcoming, generous and compassionate people. On Saturday, October 31 you’re invited to #SayWelcome in cities and towns across the nation. The Launceston event, organised by Walk Together in Launceston, organised by Safe Asylum, started at Princes Square, went through the Mall–

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Tailrace

This afternoon, because it was a nice day & a public holiday, I walked down to the Tailrace Park to read for a bit. Also tried to take some photos of the cormorants, pelicans, blue wrens and– that’s a bit big to be a duck.

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1904, Launceston

(Above) Opening Alexandra Bridge over the Cataract Gorge, 1904 (Weekly Courier, 3 December 1904) (Below) Insides Birchall’s store, 1904 (Weekly Courier, 10 December 1904)

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Mentors who want SF or F

This is a quick list I made up for myself. I haven’t checked the links yet (to see if they work). If there are any errors, tell me! Ren Hutching: Adult Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction Anna Kaling: SF (& other genres), not fantasy G.L. Jackson: Urban fantasy & soft SF Kristen Lepionka & Ernie…

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Stripes Banned On Bullseyes

(Adelaide) News, 3 April 1944 SYDNEY.-The stripes are to disappear from the popular red and-white and black-and-white sweets known as bullseyes. This War Organisation of Industry decision has been conveyed to the manufacturers. The department has further decreed that Sydney’s only sugar pig maker–Mr. Wilton, of Chippendale–must cease making this line and turn to jube-making,…

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Well-groomed horses doing things

Joee gave me the topic “Horses”, which reminded me of these photos from 2004. The National Trust house Clarendon has an annual fair, and in 2008 we held a stall there. (Selling coins, stamps, things in frames, collectable cards & whatever else we could get, as we did then.) Behind us, the Australian Carriage Driving Society…

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Phrenology

PHRENOLOGY “Men’s brains consist originally of a sheet of thin towel of integuments, and the characteristics of an individual are wholly determined by the manner in which mother nature folds or collapses it up in the cavity of the skull, exactly as a washerwoman, after scrubbing a shirt perfectly clean, huddles or crams it in…

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