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The Academy
Continuing a theme we started yesterday with the old gasworks. We are here in the old wharf district of Launceston. It is early in the morning and overcast. This building has quite a history going back to 1926 with the founding of Australia's first tyre company.
www.examiner.com.au/story/6384130/new-tyre-venture-falls-...
In 1929 the greatest floods in Launceston's history seriously damaged the property. With the onset of the Great Depression the Rapson Tyre company went into liquidation. In 1938 the buidling was bought by wool merchant L.W. Smith, but in 1942 was all but destroyed by fire.
It has been many things since then. It is now a welding company. The sign "The Academy" belongs to a now defunct fitness firm. Not a location with the best of luck it seems.
This next series of photos is straight monochrome. We are finished with the infra red for the time being.
The Academy
Continuing a theme we started yesterday with the old gasworks. We are here in the old wharf district of Launceston. It is early in the morning and overcast. This building has quite a history going back to 1926 with the founding of Australia's first tyre company.
www.examiner.com.au/story/6384130/new-tyre-venture-falls-...
In 1929 the greatest floods in Launceston's history seriously damaged the property. With the onset of the Great Depression the Rapson Tyre company went into liquidation. In 1938 the buidling was bought by wool merchant L.W. Smith, but in 1942 was all but destroyed by fire.
It has been many things since then. It is now a welding company. The sign "The Academy" belongs to a now defunct fitness firm. Not a location with the best of luck it seems.
This next series of photos is straight monochrome. We are finished with the infra red for the time being.