Thursday 16 April 2009

A short walk from home...

I live in Richmond, Victoria, Australia and it has an interesting history.

Richmond used to be quite an industrial area and this shows in the old buildings in the area. Not to mention the small terrace "workers" houses that are now trendy and very close to the city (read: expensive). There are also numerous pubs (to cater for all of the "workers") and one of them was frequented by a notorious gangster from the early 1900's, Squizzy Taylor. I just can't remember which one...

I have been meaning to take some photos around home for quite a while and went for a short walk this morning and these are a couple of the results...

This building has been coverted into residential units but they kept the old frontage...




And not far from there is a large painted sign letting people know that their orders for wood, coal and coke from T. W. Blundy will be attended to next to the hotel...


The last one a shot of the autumn colours I found on the way...

1 comment:

Ish said...

Great Mal. Keep up the god work.
So much to photograph so near to home,
and lots of opportunities for creativity.