restorations

The Trocadero in Newtown was the first electrified public building in Oz. An abandoned Victorian ice rink, left derelict for decades by its owners the Anglican Church.


The church must have finally seen its commercial value, as it opened last summer.

Also last year, I posted that one of the 1920s lamps at the Anzac Memorial's Pool of Remembrance in Hyde Park had been attacked by vandals. Eventually the city council did a risk assessment and some impact reports before taking it away, and even more eventually it was redeemed. Aged patina intact and all.

And the neighbour's lovely old terrace that burnt down rather tragically.



was given a bit of lick and spittle



and scrubbed up all right.



All ends well.