Birds of a feather
Each year hats are featured at the Melbourne Cup 1 but none more stunning than the 2006 Melbourne Cup, fashion stakes with a ‘sculptural bird cage hat’ with extended plumes taking first prize.
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Spring is in the air
Falling in love again1
Just when you think you’ve left it too late, that your use by date has expired (in fact long, long gone) something comes along that turns you upside down and you go head over heels feeling as light as a feather and as silly as sunshine.
Three Mayors named ‘Land’
Edwin, Henry and Frederick
The Christian names of the three different Mayor Land’s of Queanbeyan, along with the dates of their terms of office, may separate and also help identify the different generations of Mayors with the surname Land.1
Sydney Wild Men
Francis Adams (1862-1893)1
“Something of convictism and the convict still shows itself in Sydney”, said Francis Adams after he had first seen the “sprawling seaport” of Sydney in 1884 with its “288,000 people and 3,167 pubs”.2
Juggler Murder 1861
Harp of Erin Inn
Indian Jugglers were performing at ‘The Harp of Erin Inn’ located in Macquoid Street, Queanbeyan, when one of their juggling team went missing in November 1861. 1
Catherine & Alberto Dias Soares
Dark side of life 1860
“Mrs Soares has lately given birth to a boy but his palate is split into three and he has no roof to his mouth”. 1 “She has no milk and the child is a most pitiable object”, continued Emily Wilson Hutchison in her letter of March 7, 1860, from her home in Queanbeyan, to her family in England. 2
Medieval Outcome
Christ Church 18601
Perhaps the old Christ Church Parish Hall2 on the corner of Rutledge and Crawford Streets, was sold to the Home in Queanbeyan project to provided the dollars to replace, with new shinning armour, the roof and steeple of historic Christ Church, which is estimated to have cost around $150,000.3
Denis Mortimer (1955- )
Pre-empting nine-eleven
Dennis Mortimer 1 was using a drawing of portion of a telescopic head, from the New York Twin Towers Buildings, as a symbol of sadness in his paintings before the 2000 disaster when terrorists stole two planes and crashed them into the New York Twin Towers causing them to collapse on day, nine-eleven. 2
Postman Queen’s Servant
Billy Roohan (1802-1874) 1
PICTURE: Rutledge Street looking towards Christ Church. In this copy of a photo taken in 1870, John Gale’s home and business is on the right and Billy Roohan’s timber slab home was opposite. Photographer: Henry Beaufoy Merlin, 1870.2
Caryatid Nude
George Zacharewicz (1951-2004) 1
The buttocks of George’s women are beautiful. He really had a love of the human form especially women. The arms, the breasts, every muscle showed his technique and modeling skills as the clay was moved under his caressing hands.