Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Royal Australian Field Artillery Barracks, West's Road, Maribyrnong

This turned out to be more difficult to photograph than I envisaged.  The building is set back from West's Road.  Quite a few of the local volunteers were either stationed here with the Australian Field Artillery, or trained here after volunteering.   Built in 1911, it is on the Victorian Heritage Database.      A very interesting heritage study of the Maribyrnong Defence Industries sites can be downloaded in pdf format from here.
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  1. Beautiful building - and winter is the ideal time for photographs, everywhere these days. Trees do get so much in the way, good though they are.

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  2. If you click on the photo you will see there is a dirty big post in the way as well, though I cropped a good bit out. AND I wrecked my leg walking over there, and am still hobbling. :-( There are quite a few interesting defence establishment red brick buildings in the vicinity - I'll have to go over for a closer look. This building was said to have overlooked the parade ground, but I haven't worked out whether that meant from the front or back of the building. There are probably maps if I go hunting.

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