Town Hall Tuesday

This is Caulfield Town Hall, or City Hall as it is named at the front. It dominates the corner of Hawthorn and Glen Eira Roads. It has a nice clock tower and portico, alas not a balcony above the portico. A basic brick building was completed in 1885 and added to over the years including the second storey, the clock tower and the portico.

It is correctly known know as the Glen Eira Town Hall after 1990s council amalgamation of the City of Caulfield and parts of the City of Moorabbin. It's not bad at all, but not my favourite.

Interesting sculpture in front and everything is so well maintained.

I'll be away for a few days and hopefully keeping up with what you post. Ciao. 

Monday Mural

For my spinal xray we took the car to Balaclava and had a bite to eat somewhere and as we were leaving, R piped up and said, 'Let's go past our old house', and we did. The names of our neighbours across the road did not come instantly but the names Helen and Ross we did eventually remember. They were a lovely couple who we interacted with socially at times and now there is a mural on the side of their probably former house as they were about ten years older than us and have probably moved on in someway, to put it kindly. 

But what to make of the mural? It's dramatic.

Some questions for US and perhaps Canadian readers. Do you know the two letter abbreviated name of all of the United States? Is it a formal system, which I guess it is as it appears on car number plates? Most are obvious to me, but not all. Can you guess what would not be obvious to a foreign type? 

I know Canadian provinces but if asked to list them, I would forget one, maybe two, but no one really lives in them so it doesn't matter.

For Australia they are quite simple.

South to north on the east coast are Tasmania, TAS.

Victoria, VIC.

New South Wales, NSW but within that is a territory where Australia's capital city Canberra is located, Australian Capital Territory, ACT.

Then to our northern most state, Queensland, QLD.

Travelling west is South Australia, SA.

To its north is another territory, Northern Territory, NT. If you are wondering, the territories are governed by the Federal Government in Canberra, but they do still have the own local territory governments.

Our really large state is Western Australia, WA. Now I say Western Australia but it could be West Australia. I think at some point it was changed and I am not really sure which it now is. Grace? Sami? Jan? Marie? 

Here's a map with the capital cities of each state marked by a red dot and it says Western Australia. 

Sunday Selections

Joining with Elephant's Child and River for Sunday Selections, this week quite random.

My grandparents house in North Road South Oakleigh is of a similar vintage and was built with cream bricks. My grandparent's house also had a port hole window near the front door. I think there was a sand blasted bird on the glass and it was too high to see out of, so purely decorative and for light. 

An untimely Halloween photo that became lost. 

Melbourne Grammar fence shadows.

The fence changed styles.

 

Where I buy coffee at times at Kettle Black.

The Yarra Trams officer found a nice shady grassed spot to park while there was nothing requiring his attendance, and his work car was bogged and had to be winched out. I can imagine the radio chatter about that.

 

R loves his new Samsung S21 and bought a phone case for it at a shop in Chapel Street, and a screen protector. At the last minute for $19 I bought a new clear case for my phone. You can have some Lego play in the shop.

I assume these are phone repair tools for use at the shop. Clever and amusing.