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More from the construction near the cultural precinct in Perth. I loved the long elegant lines of the cranes and the roof.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is 'Perth Pink'. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
I was passing through Perth Central Train Station. Although it was around 10 am I found many of the train platforms were very quiet. The long lines of the platform with the dark ceilings and rail tracks made for a pleasing frame for the platforms and trains. I have several shots to post in this series.
Perth, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
East Perth Cemeteries is a significant historical and heritage site located in the heart of Perth, Western Australia. Established in 1829, it served as the first official burial ground for the Swan River Colony. It is, in fact, seven distinct cemeteries representing various religious denominations (including Anglican, Catholic, Jewish, and Presbyterian). An estimated 10,000 people were buried here between 1829 and 1919, though only around 800 headstones remain. They reflect the harsh lives of early colonists, with many graves of children and disease victims. St. Bartholomew's Church (1871), a former mortuary chapel, stands at the site's center. Now managed by the National Trust, it offers an oasis of tranquility and a tangible link to the city's colonial past. It serves as an important genealogical archive and a place for reflection.
Perth (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt) is a city in central Scotland, on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county town of Perthshire. It has a population of about 47,180. Perth has been known as The Fair City since the publication of the story Fair Maid of Perth by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott in 1828. During the later medieval period the city was also called St John's Toun or Saint Johnstoun by its inhabitants in reference to the main church dedicated to St John the Baptist. This name is preserved by the city's football teams, St Johnstone F.C.
There has been a settlement at Perth since prehistoric times, on a natural mound raised slightly above the flood plain of the Tay, where the river could be crossed at low tide. The area surrounding the modern city is known to have been occupied since Mesolithic hunter-gatherers arrived more than 8,000 years ago. Nearby Neolithic standing stones and circles also exist, dating from about 4000 BC, following the introduction of farming in the area.
46115 'Scots Guardsman' seen storming south on the Perth-Glasgow leg of "The Great Britain V" in splendid light on eve of 24th April 2012.
Perth Town Hall.
Corner of Hay Street and Barrack Street. Perth Western Australia.
The only building built in Perth by Convict labour.
Heading south of Perth for a change. We didn't know what to expect when we headed for this region and were surprised at how the shorescape had changed from the coast of Perth in just 40 km. The pathways through the dunes were mostly paved to keep them from deteriorating and also to encourage visitors to stay on the paths and avoid bumping into venomous snakes which seems a widespread concern along this shoreline.
Sony ILCE-7RM4
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The Perth Royal Mint.
On the corner of Hay Street and Victoria Avenue. Perth, Western Australia.
(Wikipedia)
The Perth Mint is Australia's official bullion mint and wholly owned by the Government of Western Australia. Established on 20 June 1899, two years before Australia's Federation in 1901, the Perth Mint was the last of three Australian colonial branches of the United Kingdom's Royal Mint (after the now-defunct Sydney Mint and Melbourne Mint) intended to refine gold from the gold rushes and to mint gold sovereigns and half-sovereigns for the British Empire. Along with the Royal Australian Mint, which produces coins of the Australian dollar for circulation, the Perth Mint is the older of Australia's two mints issuing coins that are legal tender.
History Swan Perth Mint...
Perth Mint, as a business entity, was established during the 1890s, as a subsidiary of the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom.
The foundation stone of the Mint building was laid in 1896 by Sir John Forrest. The building was officially opened on 20 June 1899. At that time, the population of Western Australia (WA) was growing rapidly (23,000 in 1869 and 180,000 in 1900) due to the discovery of rich gold deposits at Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie and the Murchison region.
The Mint initially served two purposes. Firstly, it minted coins for circulation in WA – this had previously been done externally, and as a result, there had often been insufficient currency in circulation. Secondly, the Mint bought the vast majority of gold mined in WA; at the time, a large proportion of mining was done by "diggers" (prospectors and/or small-scale, independent miners), who had migrated to WA in thousands from other parts of Australia and overseas. Mining businesses were able to sell their raw gold directly to the Mint, where it was made into gold coins and bullion.
Although WA took part in the Federation of the Australian colonies in 1901, the Mint remained under the control of the UK government for a further 69 years. On 1 July 1970, ownership was acquired by the state government of Western Australia, as a statutory authority.
In the 32 years up to 1931, the Perth Mint struck more than 106 million gold sovereigns, and nearly 735,000 half-sovereigns (intermittently between 1900 and 1920), for use as currency in Australia and throughout the British Empire. The Mint stopped making gold sovereigns when Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931. Nevertheless, the refinery remained busy as staff turned their skills to making fine gold bullion bars. But it was not long before the Perth Mint was involved again in the production of coins. During World War II, the Perth Mint began minting the Australian coinage from base metals. Up until the end of 1983, the Perth Mint also manufactured much of Australia's lower-denomination coin currency.
The Perth Mint achieved "arguably the purest of all gold" in 1957 when the mint produced a 13-troy-ounce (400 g) proof plate of almost six nines. It was verified by the Goldsmiths’ Company and deemed to have results of “nearly 999.999 parts per 1000”. 58 The Royal Mint was so impressed that it ordered some of the gold as the benchmark for its own standards.
The Mint's new direction was formalised in 1987 with the creation of Gold Corporation by a State Act of Parliament. Under a unique agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia's Department of the Treasury, the Perth Mint's new operator was empowered to mint and market gold, silver and platinum Australian legal tender coinage to investors and collectors worldwide. Prime Minister Bob Hawke launched the Australian Nugget Gold Coins Series in 1987. The first day's trading yielded sales of 155 thousand troy ounces (4.8 tonnes) of gold worth A$103 million, well above the sales target of 130 thousand troy ounces (4.0 tonnes) to the end of June.
Up to 2000, the Perth Mint's refined gold output totalling 4.5 thousand tonnes (9.9 million pounds), representing 3.25% of the total weight of gold produced by humankind. This is about the current holdings of gold bullion in the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
In 2003, the Perth Mint officially opened an 8,400-square-metre (90,000 sq ft) state-of-the-art manufacturing facility next door to its original limestone building.
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After Nino H's suggested crop, I thought that I'd post this one that was sitting in my file of discarded photo's.
I liked the rainbow effect on the water, but the shot itself wasn't quite sharp enough.
Perth City from South Perth ove the Swan River.
Just some of Perth's war heroes...
From such a small Perth population of approximately 280,000 (466,000 in the whole of Western Australia 1940), a great sacrifice indeed. They were, of course, mostly volunteers....
Perth War Cemetery. Perth, Western Australia.
The Perth War Cemetery contains 497 war graves, including 16 from World War One and four from the Vietnam War. A Cross of Sacrifice is part of the landscaped area.
The Perth War Cemetery is adjacent to the Western Australian Garden of Remembrance. It was established by the Army in 1942 for those who died on service during World War Two of wounds in the Hollywood Military Hospital after returning from operational areas. The remains of many casualties were also brought in from civil cemeteries and temporary military cemeteries so that they might lie among their comrades.
The cemetery was taken over by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in February 1949. The writing desk in the Records Building at the main entrance was the gift of the Government of Western Australia on behalf of the people of the State. It holds the register of those buried or commemorated in the cemetery, and the visitors' book. In this building, too, is the Western Australia Cremation Memorial commemorating seven members of the Australian Forces who were cremated at Karrakatta Crematorium
London Court, Perth, Western Australia.
(Wikipedia)
London Court is a four-level mock Tudor open shopping arcade located in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It was built in 1937 by wealthy gold financier and businessman Claude de Bernales for residential and commercial purposes. The arcade runs between the Hay Street Mall and St Georges Terrace and is considered an important tourist attraction in the Perth CBD. It received a National Trust of Australia classification in 1978 and was recorded in the Register of the National Estate in 1982. The Heritage Council of Western Australia included it in the State Heritage Register in 1996.
London Court was owned by de Bernales until 1950, when it was sold to pastoralist brothers Henry and William Butcher for £210,000 (equivalent to $12,000,000 in 2022). It remained in the ownership of the Butcher family until 2021, when it was sold to Singaporean property developer Fragrance Group Ltd for $28,388,100.
Description
The distinctive mock-Tudor/Elizabethan façade and architectural features include ornate entrances with large wrought-iron gates at each end. At the Hay Street end at the first storey level, a large clock chimes every quarter-hour, half-hour and on the hour. Four mechanised knights appear from a castle door and move in a semicircle each time the clock chimes as they apparently joust with each other. At the St Georges Terrace end, a window above another clock face depicts a mechanised miniature Saint George doing battle with the dragon. The clocks were made by the Synchronome Company of London at a cost of £5,000 ($8969.35 in Australian dollars).
The two interior ends include statues of Dick Whittington and his cat (north end) and Sir Walter Raleigh (south end), each in bastion towers and gazing down on the shoppers below. Other distinctive features include gargoyles, masks, shields, crests and wrought iron signs and brackets. Gabled roofs, weather cocks and lead lighting add to the Tudor style. The arcade floor is laid with terracotta tiles.
Originally, the arcade included 24 residential flats in the upper levels as well as 53 shops and 55 offices. Most of the residences have now been taken over for commercial purposes. The arcade currently houses mainly small speciality retail shops and cafes.
Design influences
Whilst the court itself is a late arrival in the Tudor Revival, the northern entrance is influenced by the Liberty Clock that was constructed as part of the Liberty department store over 10 years previously on Great Marlborough Street in Central London. The London Court clock bears a similar mechanised animation above, as well as the same warning against "squandering time" that sits below.
View of Perth from Kings Park, construction of the Kwinana Freeway. Taken on Kodachrome on 7 Sep 1966.
An unidentified IC liveried HST power car leads the 1Z17 Llandudno to Perth 'North Wales Pullman' return leg as it heads north past Garstang on 02 Jul 22. 43046 is on the rear of the train.
It should be called Pelican Island for all the penguins you see. There is supposed to be a colony of 1000 but today zero were sighted except for the group I accidentally came across while tracking pelicans in flght. See third shot in series
Sony ILCE-7RM4
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I'm uploading some old photos that I didn't get around to earlier. This is the only time I have really had a crack at skylines.
Perth Bridge (also known as Smeaton's Bridge, locally, the Old Bridge and in the local dialect of Scots, "the Auld Brig") is a toll-free bridge in the city of Perth, Scotland. It spans the River Tay, connecting Perth, on the western side of the river, to Bridgend, on its eastern side, carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of West Bridge Street (the A85). It is a Category A listed structure.
The bridge was completed in October 1771, which places it in the Georgian era; however, its plaque states the year in which construction began, 1766, as its "built" date. The engineer of its construction was John Smeaton, after whom the bridge is named.
Perth, Australia.
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