Launceston, Tasmania
I was back down under after a flight from Singapore via Melbourne to Launceston in Tasmania. It was a great place to just walk around the city centre and take in the architecture.
There are so many well preserved buildings from the turn of the century from the late Victorian era to the early Edwardian era.
Many classic buildings...
...built to impress...
...with some fancy artwork...
...a local church...
...a grand facade if you avoid the first level shop fronts and names above the front...
..plus some classics...
...a later addition to cater for the explosion in car ownership.
A house with verandahs on two levels on two sides to catch whatever breeze there was to cool off in summer.
Not exactly a road train but it was a tanker pulling a tanker trailer.
Another historical building with a high entrance on the far right hand side ti allow horses pulling coaches to reach the stables at the rear of the building.
And there were more buildings to see...
...and nearby, the Blue Building.
Some buildings have been in the same occupation since being built, such this chemist.
There were plenty of other buildings around the centre worthy of note...
...many on corners...
...and some beautiful buildings but built asymmetrically and not quiet to the earlier architectural Georgian sense of symmetry.
Another grand building...
... and the Cornwall Hotel, a magnificent Art Nouveau structure way ahead of its time as th date on the building is 1824. Maevellous building but sadly, not where I was staying.
A surprise building, the same era as the others but with statues gracing several alcoves along the front.
A former meeting house with a grand facade, now occuppied by an agricultural business.
A 1930's built cinema, now converted into two shops.
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