River joins me for Sunday Selections, along with others.
I found seriously good Portuguese tarts and excellent coffee here. I must take R there.
I remember this curved apartment building. It was replaced by the commercial building BP House, which was then converted to apartments for rich people, such as politicians and chief executives, The Domain.
I took this from the Punt Road bus. I must return to have a proper look at what I think is a church of some kind associated with the school Wesley College.
The Rob Roy Hotel in Fitzroy was a rough hotel in the 70s, 80s into the 90s. I don't know about now. It had many Aboriginal patrons, local to the area, but there were plenty of rough white people too.
This doesn't look like it is my photo. I was there a few months ago and warned off by a guard for trespassing when a ship was in port at Station Pier, our cruise ship terminal. There wasn't a barrier or any indication where I should stop. I clearly have problem with my terrorist like appearance.
Queens Bridge, built in 1889. It carried cable trams to Port Melbourne, and now carries modern electric trams, buses, motor cars and pedestrians. The 135 year old bridge is doing well.
Along the Yarra river bank.
The river was wide at this point, giving sail powered ships in the 1800s space to turn around.
I'm under the newer railway viaduct looking towards the older railway viaduct.
A somewhat phallic scene.
I expect this is a seldom used public barbeque. Travel a couple of kilometres or so upriver, there are more barbeques and they are so busy.
I am not sure if City of Melbourne is responsible but along the north bank of the river at the western edge of the city, a rather nice space has been created. Give 'em some grass and trees (and public seating with back rests), and they will be happy.
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Terrorist-like appearance. Heh. Coffee and tarts sound awfully good right now. Have a great weekend, Andrew. Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteSadly Sandra, I can't see a shop surviving by just selling tarts and coffee. Perhaps they make tarts for other businesses to on sell.
DeleteI find that church curious. That big window makes me wonder if the services are held on the second floor.
ReplyDeleteIt's not far away Kirk. I will investigate.
Deletethecontemplativecat here. Melbourne has so many spots to visit! Elelphant's Child has me hooked on her Sun. photos.
ReplyDeleteIt does indeed CC and I mostly stick to the inner areas. There is much more. We all enjoy EC's ever changing weather photos.
DeleteYou just remind me to go for a stroll on south bank again. The sceneries clearly changed again.
ReplyDeleteRoentare if you haven't done so for a while, I really like the less busy north bank, right down to the Seamen's Mission.
DeleteWow! These are some awesome photos and the public grills are beautiful. I would never use any around here without aluminum foil protecting my food. lol Be well, Andrew, and do take R to that wonderful place. :D
ReplyDeleteDarla, generally people leave them clean. Waiting until they really heat up would kill germs I guess, a wipe over with olive oil and all is good.
DeleteGood point. :D
DeleteWhy were public bbqs built in the city? For families to drive into town on weekends or for city workers rushing out of the office for lunch?
ReplyDeleteHels, office workers do use them for celebrations. Some would be used by locals but yes, most probably drive to use them. Those along Alexandra Avenue are very popular indeed.
DeleteBBQ under a bridge??? Um, nope.
ReplyDeleteBob, I can't tell in the photo but I think it is away from the viaduct, and it is only for trains. The days of train toilets dropping waste on to the track below have now gone, thankfully.
DeleteThe public grills are very nice. Much more posh than any local public barbecues here.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading about the Constellation display too.
Debby, they are a fairly standard design. Such barbeques used to be coin the slot, which made the them expensive to maintain as they frequently broke down resulting in revenue loss and repair costs, along with cost of coin collection, and perhaps staff thinking they might cream a bit off the top of the coin stacks, it was cheaper to just make them free.
DeleteYou found the name of the river bank sculptures and details. You know more than I did.
Grass and trees always needs seats with back supports and plenty of them. What are those things along the riverbank? Art installations? Or do they serve some other purpose? The old bridge is holding up very well.
ReplyDeleteRiver, we just need to convince young people about public seating. They don't understand.
DeleteThe Rob Roy does look a bit on the sketchy side.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, I don't think it has been turned into a Gastro Pub, as they are called here, which is fine. Not everywhere should be expensive and upmarket.
DeleteLovely selection Andrew. Good to see Station Pier once again!
ReplyDeleteMargaret, looking closer, it is an old photo but hard to date.
DeleteI do like your Sunday photos. It helps me to visualise your home town.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marie. I recently looked at your photos of Melbourne and you did see some parts.
DeleteStyle of architect is so different round the world, sometimes I think it is so stiflingly overbearing in England but then give me an old church any day. It is good to look at other people's day to day buildings though.
ReplyDeleteThelma, a couple of afternoons last year I went out for walk to look at local housing and the variety, and it was just so boring. The houses were all much the same and most had neglected front gardens, if they had one at all. I know it was a lower socio-economic area but even so, it was quite disappointing. It is an older area, but in older areas here, there is such a variety of buildings and things of interest to see. Yet where my partner's family live in all directions, it is more interesting. Just the area I was in I suppose. I wish I had the energy to walk down to the Tyne. I think I would have liked a river bank walk.
DeletePortugese tarts and coffee were a favourite after church treat for me. I need to work them back into my routine!
ReplyDeleteKylie one small tart can do too much harm, surely.
DeleteIt's a mixture of architecture ! Looks nice !
ReplyDeleteGattina, variety is the spice of life.
DeleteThe notion of public barbecues is new to me. They're probably a lot safer than disposable barbecues.
ReplyDeleteJB, I don't know about disposable barbeques, but they don't sound too safe. Public barbeques are quite a thing here. The weather perhaps? But not today with 37 degrees. A couple of decades ago we had a family gathering at a public barbeque, subsequently named 'Soggy sausage day'. It poured rain, but that didn't stop our barbeque.
DeleteTo add, they are all electric now.
DeleteIt is always nice to see more pictures of Melbourne from a Melbournian but please don't refer to Portuguese women as "tarts"!
ReplyDeletePortuguese born Sami who lives in the Australian capital city of Perth and hosts tomorrow's Monday Mural might be disappointed in your comment, YP. I forgive you. That was what I thought as I was writing the reference.
DeleteThere is a line from an Adams Family Movie, it is Halloween and Wednesday is going as a serial killer, she says, "because they look just like everyone else." Kind of like that for terrorists.
ReplyDeleteTP, but the worst terrorists of the present time don't look like everyone else. "There, that grey haired old white women with beads around her neck rather than a cross, pull her for an shoe explosive test". This has happened to someone I knew who was the male equivalent. It is absurd and such a waste of resources. Maybe it is good propaganda though.
DeleteOnly somewhat phallic. Took me a moment to see it! (Them?)
ReplyDeleteThe Rob Roy still looks a bit rough but at least there's a rainbow flag!
I really, really, dislike self-important security guards.
Steve, I wouldn't read too much into the rainbow flag. There was a bit of a gay pride festival on around the time and everyone wants their share of the pink dollar.
DeleteI especially dislike such guards when harassing people about taking photos when in a public space.
I love a good Portuguese tart and may have to stop at a bakery tomorrow for a few. We don't have public barbecues here but it sounds like a good idea especially along the lakeshore.
ReplyDeleteThe snow drops look short since they are poking up through all the leaves that had fallen in autumn but they are not tall flowers like tulups of daffodils.
Oh dear Pat. I feel to blame about you feasting on tarts.
DeleteWe do have snowdrops here but they don't have to push up through snow, so their full stems are uncovered. Thanks.