Launceston: Other bits
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xenithContinuing with Victorian-era Launceston from the other day, but I'll start with something other than a photo. I shall start with a print from the State Library of Victoria of the exhibition buildings stretching back into the city park.
The Tasmanian International Exhibition in Launceston opened in 1891 (because everyone else is having International Exhibition and we have to get in before Hobart.) There's a bit more about it here, but note the attendance figures given there: 262,000 visitors, for a new city of 17,000 people.
Hobart's International Exhibition was held a couple of years later, in 1894/1895. You can see their exhibition building. There, over the back. It's obvious one you find it. Closer view :) It's not there now. All gone. Of course, Launceston's main building still exists.
The Albert Hall, obviously built in 1891, sitting on the edge of the City Park.
That's the City Park. Actually lots of interesting stuff in there once you start poking around, so I'll just mention it and move on.
Back into the middle of the city, along the Cameron St, past the Batman Fawkner Inn. Although the facade is a bit later than Victorian.
A little further along are this pair: the rather lovely but usually overlooked AMP building and the old Post Office. The Post Office was built in 1889, but the clock tower was added later to celebrate the city's centenary. It's just celebrated its own centenary, being completed in 1910. It's no longer the main post office (although there is a small one in there still) but the city runs on Clock time. The occasional time it's off, things get a bit confusing.
Just beyond, is the white of the Town Hall.
Built 1864, and in 1906 extended... sideways.
See! That's the original building. (Print from State Library of Victoria)
I have some photos of the interior. Not sure if they're interesting enough to put up though.
George St, around the corner from the scene of my previous post.
The Quadrant Mall. This bit of it is really a bit late for my Victoriana theme but I won't tell if you don't.
Charles St can make up for it, with its long stretches of late-Victorian and slightly later facades. Even that flat white thing has something older hiding behind it.
More adventurous colour schemes definitely bring out the features of older buildings much better than the "traditional" all white.
This almost-waterside hotel was pink and purple not that long ago. It's gone upmarket now, but all-white is not an improvement. Once it was the Terminus Hotel. Possibly something else before that.
I don't have any good photos of the Custom House, but I do have interior photos! Built 1880s. it used to overlook the wharves but the wharves are gone.
And to finish, another grand old lady from 1891.
The Tasmanian International Exhibition in Launceston opened in 1891 (because everyone else is having International Exhibition and we have to get in before Hobart.) There's a bit more about it here, but note the attendance figures given there: 262,000 visitors, for a new city of 17,000 people.
Hobart's International Exhibition was held a couple of years later, in 1894/1895. You can see their exhibition building. There, over the back. It's obvious one you find it. Closer view :) It's not there now. All gone. Of course, Launceston's main building still exists.
The Albert Hall, obviously built in 1891, sitting on the edge of the City Park.
That's the City Park. Actually lots of interesting stuff in there once you start poking around, so I'll just mention it and move on.
Back into the middle of the city, along the Cameron St, past the Batman Fawkner Inn. Although the facade is a bit later than Victorian.
A little further along are this pair: the rather lovely but usually overlooked AMP building and the old Post Office. The Post Office was built in 1889, but the clock tower was added later to celebrate the city's centenary. It's just celebrated its own centenary, being completed in 1910. It's no longer the main post office (although there is a small one in there still) but the city runs on Clock time. The occasional time it's off, things get a bit confusing.
Just beyond, is the white of the Town Hall.
Built 1864, and in 1906 extended... sideways.
See! That's the original building. (Print from State Library of Victoria)
I have some photos of the interior. Not sure if they're interesting enough to put up though.
George St, around the corner from the scene of my previous post.
The Quadrant Mall. This bit of it is really a bit late for my Victoriana theme but I won't tell if you don't.
Charles St can make up for it, with its long stretches of late-Victorian and slightly later facades. Even that flat white thing has something older hiding behind it.
More adventurous colour schemes definitely bring out the features of older buildings much better than the "traditional" all white.
This almost-waterside hotel was pink and purple not that long ago. It's gone upmarket now, but all-white is not an improvement. Once it was the Terminus Hotel. Possibly something else before that.
I don't have any good photos of the Custom House, but I do have interior photos! Built 1880s. it used to overlook the wharves but the wharves are gone.
And to finish, another grand old lady from 1891.
