School's out.
It's no secret that I love shooting the old classic buildings in Australian towns, particularly those in the country. The state of Queensland features probably a greater proportion of the oldies made from timber. In other states you find more of brick or stone.
Hardwood timber from Eucalypt (Gum) Trees was very commonly available and also enabled the construction to include features for cooling, more amenable to our hot climate. This building in particular has many touches of the typical "Queenslander" style house.
This old place is the School of Arts in the small Fassifern Valley town of Harrisville south west of Brisbane. Schools of Arts are basically community halls which also focussed on learning such as dancing, singing etc...otherwise they tend to be used for community events of all types to this day.
I give them points for continuing to use either Old English or Germanic characters on the sign over the door. I haven't used them since primary school and I dare say they have been totally dropped from the curriculum for many years.
School's out.
It's no secret that I love shooting the old classic buildings in Australian towns, particularly those in the country. The state of Queensland features probably a greater proportion of the oldies made from timber. In other states you find more of brick or stone.
Hardwood timber from Eucalypt (Gum) Trees was very commonly available and also enabled the construction to include features for cooling, more amenable to our hot climate. This building in particular has many touches of the typical "Queenslander" style house.
This old place is the School of Arts in the small Fassifern Valley town of Harrisville south west of Brisbane. Schools of Arts are basically community halls which also focussed on learning such as dancing, singing etc...otherwise they tend to be used for community events of all types to this day.
I give them points for continuing to use either Old English or Germanic characters on the sign over the door. I haven't used them since primary school and I dare say they have been totally dropped from the curriculum for many years.