… or perhaps that should be Parliament Houses. Looking down ANZAC Parade, in the front is Old Parliament House opened in 1927. Behind it is the current Parliament House on Capital Hill. Construction started in 1981 and it was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988, during the bicentennial celebrations.
The UNESCO World Heritage Listed Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney. Governor Macquarie ordered the barracks built to house convicts in an attempt the improve law and order. The design was the by convicted forger Francis Greenway, which earned him a pardon.
Looking across the Pool of Reflection to the Sydney ANZAC Memorial.
The 1891 Warrnambool Town Hall in 2008. The building has since been refurbished and reopened as the Lighthouse Theatre.
The Manifold Clock Tower in Camperdown. The tower was built with a bequest from T.P. Manifold, Esq, and donated to the town of Camperdown in 1896.
The Camperdown Post Office was built in 1863 from local bluestone, and remodelled a number of times up to 1940. The Post Office is now protected by heritage listing. Unfortunately I can’t identify the interesting pillar box.
Camperdown’s art deco Picture Theatre – the Theatre Royal.
The Melbourne Arts & Entertainment Centre Spire in splendid isolation against a bright, blue sky.
Sydney’s Government House nestles in the Royal Botanical Gardens, we caught a glimpse through the fence.
A view a the Sydney Opera House showing the monumental podium that the prominent shells rest on.
A case of spot the family from behind at the Sydney Opera House. At a guess Mrs Walker got cropped out on the left.
