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Shearing the Rams is an 1890 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts.It depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed.Distinctly Australian in character, the painting is a celebration of pastoral life and work, especially "strong, masculine labour", and recognises the role that the wool industry played in the development of the country.
Geelong West contains a number of heritage listed sites, including: 22 Pakington Street, Harp Inn [5] 95 Pakington Street, Donaghy's Rope Walk [6] 233 Pakington Street, Reformed Church of Geelong [7] 9 Gertrude Street, Residence [8] 202 Aberdeen Street, Shearers Arms Hotel [9] 127 Elizabeth Street, St Elmo [10]
The Geelong Gallery, formerly known as Geelong Art Gallery, is a major regional gallery in the city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia.The gallery forms Geelong's Cultural Precinct, along with the adjacent Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (Geelong Regional Library and Geelong Heritage Centre), Geelong Arts Centre, and the Geelong Courthouse (housing Back to Back Theatre and Platform Arts).
In 2003, Shell refinery had 63 spills to the bay up until September 8 of that year. [12] in 2004 Shell Australia was ordered to pay $75,000 towards an environmental project near its Geelong refinery after it was convicted of polluting Corio Bay during three oil spills in 2003. In 2009 Shell Australia was fined over oil leaks into bay and on land.
The name of the area is officially gazetted as Geelong. [ 4 ] The Geelong city centre is the oldest part of Geelong and includes many of the city's historic landmarks such as the Geelong City Hall , St. Mary of the Angels Basilica , the T & G Building , Johnstone Park , Geelong railway station , and the old Geelong Post Office .
A temperance hall was located on the corner of Little Malop Street and Aitchison Place. It was erected in 1858/59, the foundation stone being laid on 15 November 1858. This distinctive conservative classical building with Barrabool freestone facade, ornate central parapet entablature supported on Tuscan Doric pilasters and matching entrance portal was designed by an unknown architect for the ...
See Market Square, Geelong for the history of the site before the centre.. The 1980s saw the first of many urban renewal proposals floated for the central Geelong area. The Geelong Regional Commission on 6 November 1981 released a plan that would see a massive shopping centre extend from Little Malop Street through to the waterfront. [1]
The founding of Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum was preceded by four other public regional galleries in the state of Victoria: Ballarat in 1884, Warrnambool in 1886, Bendigo in 1887 and Geelong in 1900, but its significance, by comparison, was that it was in a small town, not a regional city like its forebears.