tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48089246402264007442024-03-13T11:17:38.216-07:00Judy-Joy Bell's URBAN SKETCHESI am a member of Urban Sketchers.org
I am a passionate urban sketcher, and have made many, many like minded friends. Life is good!JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.comBlogger392125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-16816943152802151282019-02-09T03:32:00.005-08:002019-02-09T03:32:59.063-08:00Fun sketching with a friend A lovely friend and I went for an impromptu sketch today, in her neck
of the woods. Great to be back sketching, after an eight week break.<br />
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-67749248758431640912018-12-15T02:30:00.000-08:002018-12-15T02:30:44.773-08:00Christmas Lunch and Sketchout<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Gardens Club is the former Curators Cottage at the Botanic Gardens Brisbane.<br />
In 1855 Walter Hill was appointed as curator of the Botanic Reserve, a
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experimental program. Some of the older trees planted in the Gardens
were the first of their species to be planted in Australia, due to
Hill's experiments to acclimatise plants. The first cultivated macadamia tree is still living there as is the first cultivated Bunya Nut Pine.<br /> By 1866 Hill had succeeded in having the extent of the Botanic Gardens enlarged to approximately 27 acres. </div>
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I did this sketch in my handmade 8" x 7" sketchbook Lamy pen and watercolour..</div>
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The following sketches, I did in my Post card pad, while waiting for the ladies to arrive.</div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-85625159371694131962018-12-13T03:38:00.002-08:002018-12-13T03:38:20.502-08:00Christmas tree in King George Square<div style="text-align: justify;">
I was early for my "Greet" this morning, so I sat at my favourite cfe on the Square and had a go sketching the Christmas Tree. This tree has different light patterns and is very beautiful at night. It is totally run by Solar power..</div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-18549153960386069972018-12-11T00:57:00.000-08:002018-12-11T00:57:21.601-08:00Historic Melbourne Street, South Brisbane.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I found a good seat outside Jo-Jo's restaurant. Jo-Jo's is owned by Stefan <span>Ackerie, one of Queenslands Billionaires, in fact he was one of the first.</span></div>
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<span>My first sketch was looking up Melbourne Street towards the city, in my handmade sketchbook with pen and watercolour.</span></div>
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<span>This is The Bach Living, a homewares store attached to Jo-Jo's it is now owned by the store.</span></div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-17003735209186682182018-12-03T23:17:00.000-08:002018-12-03T23:17:23.442-08:00Brisbane City Sketchers at GOMA<br />
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It was a wonderful morning, seven of us came out urban sketching, coffee and show and tell was fun!<br />I was sitting in the GOMA Bistro Cafe looking across river..</div>
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Sketched in my watercolour postcard pad, 4" 6" pen and watercolour </div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-37904862815137332532018-11-20T02:43:00.000-08:002018-11-20T02:43:55.577-08:00Brisbane City Sketchers at the Queensland MuseumThe Queensland Museum was founded by the Queensland Philosophical
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years.. the present building since 1986. The museum is also a world-class research facility in the fields of biodiversity, geoscience and cultural history.
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I sat on the Museum Green in the sun to draw this. :-)<br />Handmade Sketchbook 8" x 7" pen and watercolour.</div>
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A very fun morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers in South Brisbane. The Fox Hotel is a gem!</div>
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A very fun morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers in South Brisbane. The Fox Hotel is a gem!</div>
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The four storied Fox Hotel was originally constructed in the late
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It was beautiful this morning on the
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It is Melbourne Cup day, the famous horse race, so I suspect the majority of our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrisbaneCitySketchers/" target="_blank"><b>BCSketchers</b></a> were at Cup Day parties. John H and I were the only two who ventured out. I had a really good morning, doing what I love. </div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-15933848280998097362018-10-30T04:35:00.000-07:002018-10-30T04:35:29.210-07:00Sketching a heritage listed building in the City.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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It was a super fun morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers, sunshine and great company today! </div>
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I chose to sketch the BAFS Building, a heritage-listed former pharmacy at 331 & 333
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Drawn in my handmade sketchbook 8"×6" pen and watercolour</div>
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Brisbane City Council using money donated by James O'Neil Mayne and his
sister Mary Emelia Mayne to replace the less spacious city campus. The
city campus is now home to the Gardens Point campus of the Queensland
University of Technology. Construction of the new university at St Lucia
began in 1937, and at its centre is the heritage-listed Great Court – a
2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) open area surrounded by Helidon sandstone
buildings with grotesques of great academics and historic scenes, floral
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The
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over 6000 trees on campus, and early this month hundreds of volunteers
turned out to turn sod, planting more than 5000 trees on the banks of
the Brisbane River, with plans top plant another 5000 in coming months.</div>
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The jacarandas are all out in full bloom. We chose one of the smaller lakes to sit and sketch by, and I chose jacaranda lane.</div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-62435537815803919522018-10-16T01:49:00.000-07:002018-10-16T01:49:51.972-07:00Dockside Kangaroo Point<div style="text-align: justify;">
What a delightful morning I had. A
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Let me tell you a little history of this area, it is one of the oldest suburbs in Brisbane, and was occupied by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrbal" title="Turrbal">Turrbal</a>
people first. In 1844, the first house in the Kangaroo Point was
built by Surveyor James Warner. The Church of England opened the first
school in Kangaroo Point in 1861. In 1901, the main storage facility
of Queensland Navy was located in the Kangaroo Point. In 1903, the
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Yungaba House started out as an immigration house in 1887 It was
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accommodation centre for workers on the Story Bridge and later as a
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This building was a boat club in the 1930's/40s During the war years,
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This is a beautiful walk from the Medley Cafe to the Dockside Ferry
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-50913676181326257982018-10-09T20:50:00.000-07:002018-10-09T20:50:42.142-07:00Brisbane City City Sketchers at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens<div style="text-align: justify;">
Such a lovely Tuesday morning with the
Brisbane City Sketchers. I really love this bunch of people, they are
good hearted people and so much fun.</div>
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The <span class="st"> Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha is a huge rambling place, loads of water features, and wildlife. It is </span><span class="ggV7z" data-ved="2ahUKEwjMufe49PrdAhWDdd4KHeoRCvwQrTUoADASegQICxAr"><span>56-hectare, subtropical gardens featuring native & exotic plants.</span></span><br />
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gardens, which were originally called the Mount Coot-tha Botanic
Gardens and were established by the Brisbane City Council in 1970, and
officially opened in 1976</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="ggV7z" data-ved="2ahUKEwjMufe49PrdAhWDdd4KHeoRCvwQrTUoADASegQICxAr"><span><span class="ILfuVd"> The gardens feature more than 200,000 plants representing approximately
5000 species from around the world. Plants are displayed in subtly
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In 1985, work commenced on the 27 hectare <a href="https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/parks-venues/parks/brisbane-botanic-gardens-mt-coot-tha/attractions/australian-plant-communities">Australian Plant Communities collection</a>.
This area, starting with the magnificent Bunya Forest, offers visitors a
wonderful opportunity to view Australian native plants.<br />
The newest edition to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha opened
in May 2015. Delivered as part of the Legacy Way tunnel project, this
four hectare area includes a conservation walk, kitchen garden, new
lagoon and children's playground.<br />
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The dome provides a climate close to the natural growing conditions for range of shrubs, climbers, epiphytes and small trees that wouldn't normally grow in Brisbane. </div>
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birds. This one had a class of school children and their teacher doing
nature lessons. It was delightful to sit there drawing and listening to
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-46428269916792160582018-10-02T00:49:00.000-07:002018-10-02T00:49:10.857-07:00A little Hideaway<div style="text-align: justify;">
I had an amazing morning with the
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beautiful little spot that is tucked away. I love going there to sketch
and paint, it is peaceful, and so much to see, from an artists point of
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Looking at the Gateway Bridge and the Former Co-operative Sugar Mill, on
the left, which commenced operation in Commenced in 1872 Wilmar Gavilon
converted the former mills to a Bulk Storage Wharf. I am pretty sure it
is now a River Gravel Depot. The Royal Queensland Golf Club is across
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-80006997528950146382018-09-25T02:25:00.000-07:002018-09-25T02:25:00.549-07:00Gotham Towers<div style="text-align: justify;">
I had a lovely morning with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrisbaneCitySketchers/" target="_blank">Brisbane City Sketchers</a>, sketching in King George Square. I chose the Law
building this morning, because I really loved the shapes between the
Town Hall and the Law Building. </div>
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The Law building was built over 40 years ago, and the facade we Brisbanites affectionately call "Gotham Towers" or "The Batman Building" was built in 1995.</div>
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Sketched in my handmade 7" x 8" sketchbook pen and watercolour</div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-74782151173537653282018-09-18T03:11:00.000-07:002018-09-18T03:11:03.482-07:00Brisbane City Sketchers in Roma Street Parkland<div style="text-align: justify;">
What a wonderful morning, sketching at the Roma Street Parklands with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrisbaneCitySketchers/" target="_blank"><b>Brisbane City Sketchers..</b></a></div>
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<span class="st">In 1825 the Roma Street Parkland area was part of the original Brisbane settlement. </span><span class="st">In
1875 a terminal station in Roma Street was constructed as part of the
main western railway to Brisbane linking Ipswich and Toowoomba. </span><span class="st">Local Indigenous people used the area for thousands of years conducting meetings and ceremonies.
</span>Construction began of the current Parkland in 2000 and the parkland opened to the public in 2001.</div>
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In past lives, this 140-year-old building on Windsor Road was once a
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The New Farm park Ferry Terminal is
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Three of us sat in the End of the Road cafe, sipping coffee whilst we sketched. It was a lovely morning. </div>
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<br />JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-16113969627177434732018-09-04T00:02:00.000-07:002018-09-04T00:02:24.463-07:00The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<br /><br />The Brisbane Australia Temple is the 115th operating temple
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Brisbane
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A groundbreaking ceremony and site dedication for the temple were held
on May 26, 2001. Construction began in November of 2001, and it took
eighteen months and eleven million dollars to complete its construction.
Despite the high price, the temple was built without any debt and was completely funded by members of the Mormon Church.</div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-7190219195099877772018-08-28T02:26:00.000-07:002018-08-28T02:26:07.106-07:00Brisbane City Sketchers in North Shore Hamilton<div style="text-align: justify;">
North Shore Harbour Brisbane;<br /> This area was formerly home to
Brisbane’s working wharves, which were established in 1923. Hamilton was
developed extremely early in European settlement when Brisbane was still
a penal colony, the women's prison was moved to Hamilton in 1833.
Hamilton Road (now the airport thoroughfare, Kingsford Smith Drive) was
originally built by convict labour as an access road to the prison.</div>
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From where I was sitting at North Shore harbour, I was looking across river at Colmslie Beach, and Raptis Fishing Trawlers Raptis started in Australia in the 1950s They are now one of Australias largest privately owned fishing companies.</div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-58629906498127510572018-08-21T00:36:00.000-07:002018-08-21T00:36:17.235-07:00Brisbane Arcade in Adelaide Street <div style="text-align: justify;">
We have a wonderful morning sketching in Adelaide Street and the Arcade this morning. Brisbane Arcade has a scandalous History....</div>
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Brisbane Arcade was opened in March 1924. It was built for Dr James
Mayne, and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne, their brother Isaac having
purchased the site in 1892. Builders: J & E L Rees, Forsyth &
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Irish immigrant and
slaughterman Patrick Mayne arrived in the fledgling colony's Kangaroo
Point in 1844 and married Mary McIntosh. Five years later, to the great
surprise of friends, he invested sudden and unexplained wealth in a
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and upstairs residence in a prime block on Brisbane's smart Queen St.
The amount was paid in cash, and was the equivalent of about five years'
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there, Mayne set about acquiring a further 400ha of prime inner-city
real estate. Despite the Maynes' affluence however, they were
increasingly shunned by Brisbane's "more polite" society as Patrick's
fits of insanity and alcohol-fuelled violence (he had a fondness for
attacking perceived enemies with his stockwhip) grew more frequent.</div>
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Shockingly, in 1865, on his deathbed, more or less where the Colorado
store sits on an arcade corner today, Mayne confessed that 17 years
earlier he murdered a man and that someone else had been hanged for it.</div>
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The dead man was a drunken timber-gatherer named Robert Cox who'd
foolishly boasted of his earnings from a big cedar find. Police
maintained it was one of the most savage slayings they'd seen.</div>
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The man's legs and torso were found in the Brisbane River; his entrails
were dumped in a well; and his severed head was propped up quite
deliberately in a shed to gaze at whoever found it.</div>
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After Mayne's and Mary's deaths, their children became generous benefactors to churches and charities.</div>
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None of them married – some say fearing to pass on their father's
madness – and they promptly tore down their parents' butcher shop and
their childhood home.<br /> In 1923, they built the Brisbane Arcade on the scandal-ridden site.</div>
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Three years later, in another apparently redemptive quest, Patrick's
offspring bought land at St Lucia and donated it to the University of
Queensland, with all profits from the Brisbane Arcade Trust going to
support the university.</div>
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Today, Brisbane's most historic shopping
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James Mayne and Mary Emelia Mayne (Patrick's youngest two children),
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There are five light posts along Adelaide Street, starting outside
Office Works, that have bronze sculptures in the. Next time you are
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Possum - Flying Fox - Snake - Goanna - Birds.<br /> Same sketchbook and lamy pen.</div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-48537293960917819652018-08-14T23:18:00.000-07:002018-08-14T23:18:27.545-07:00Brisbane City Sketchers at The Mansions<div style="text-align: justify;">
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What a wonderful morning, sketching with
the Brisbane City Sketchers at Gardens Point. We sketched the
magnificent Mansions, or part thereof. Such a beautiful building, but
very intimidating. I started with graphite, then inked it then
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THE MANSIONS; designed by G.H.M. Addison and built in 1889 by RE Burton.<br />
By 30 November 1889 two of the villas were occupied by members of
parliament, William Pattison and the Hon. Hume Black. Advertisements in
the Brisbane Courier for tenants to let both the "George Street Mansions
and Harris Terrace" on the opposite corner of Margaret Street appeared
in the Brisbane Courier during December 1889. Other early residents were
doctors - in 1890 Dr Fourness Simmons and a Dr Bennett.<br /> In December
1891, Dr Lilian Cooper, Queensland's first woman doctor and Australia's
first female surgeon, established her consulting rooms in The Mansions
and resided there for several years after the 1893 floods. </div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-17928508695412111512018-08-14T04:56:00.000-07:002018-08-14T04:56:04.335-07:00Sketching Angles..<div style="text-align: justify;">
I had a lovely afternoon sketching with a friend in her complex gardens. This corner with all the angels appealed to me, so I decided to give it a go. </div>
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-4022775855881449342018-08-06T22:08:00.000-07:002018-08-06T22:08:27.802-07:00Church Sketching with fellow Urban Sketcher.<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="fwn fcg"><span class="fcg">I had a lovely morning with fellow <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrisbaneCitySketchers/" target="_blank">Brisbane City Sketcher</a> John, sketching this magnificent church. It was a tad cool, with a nasty westerly wind blowing on us in our exposed position outside the South Brisbane Train Station..</span></span></span></span></span><h5 class="_14f3 _14f5 _5pbw _5vra" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}" id="js_17">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">History of the Church;<br />
The congregation of the South Brisbane Congregational Church first met
in 1865 in the Mechanics Institute, Stanley Street, but they built a
fine wooden building in Grey Street, which was opened in January 1867.
It was dismantled following the 1893 floods, and rebuilt in Vulture
Street. The congregation moved to the rebuilt building on Sunday 23 July
1893. The wooden church was gutted by fire on 16 October 1931, and the
congregation repaired in the short term to the Hall for services. A new
octagonal church, designed by T.B.F. Gargett of Brisbane, was opened and
dedicated on 9 September 1933. The congregation ceased to worship at
this location in 1975, and the building was sold to the Serbian Orthodox
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tingalpa Pioneers' Chapel, Christ Church, was founded by the Anglicans founded in 1868 <br />It
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JJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16887267456749263715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808924640226400744.post-26222628962533661822018-07-31T05:26:00.001-07:002018-07-31T05:26:51.383-07:00Brisbane City Sketchers on the river<div style="text-align: justify;">
Biomechanical Pelicans sculpture created by <a href="http://trotter.com.au/trotter/artist_statement.html">Christopher Trotter</a> in 1995.<br />
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These pelicans are made from found metal from all sorts of things,
machinery of all kinds. Christopher Trotter is a prominent local metal
artist. They sit upon an historic pylon from the early days when the
river was a thriving shipping trade. This was in the 1860s All along
kangaroo Point Cliffs there were wharves for the ships.</div>
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early 1860s the river was not deep enough for these big sailing and
steam ships to enter up river, so it was dredged. The dredging was
extensive, and changed the river considerably. They had to dredge all
the way up to Brisbane Town, no mean feat in those days. It took many,
many years to dredge the river to make it deep enough for the big ships,
and when it was suitable of course wharves were needed.</div>
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The history of wharves along the Brisbane River can be categorised into a number of stages:<br />
Stage One - A tree trunk at South Brisbane to which ships were moored in the 1840s. <br />Stage
Two - The erection of wharves for commerce. These eventually extended
along the river bank at South Brisbane (eg. South Brisbane Coal
Wharves), along the Town Reach to Customs House and then downstream
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Stage Three - The opening of a dock and the further development of
docks. This did not occur in the Brisbane River as the river is not wide
enough for ships to swing into transverse berths at jetty peninsulas.<br />Stage Four - Specialised quayage developed early in the river's history, with
some examples as follows: New Farm Sugar Refinery Wharf (1893),
Pinkenba Wharf for meat exports (1902), Amoco and Ampol Oil Terminals
and more recently, the specialised facilities for the Port of Brisbane
at the mouth of the river.</div>
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The largest ship built on the river was the Robert Miller, a 66,000 tonne vessel.</div>
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From 1862 the Brisbane River has been dredged for navigation purposes.
The river served as an important carriageway between Brisbane and Ipswich
before a railway linking the towns was built in 1875. By the late
1920s, water quality in the river had significantly deteriorated. Dredging was banned in the river in 1967.</div>
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