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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1986 W: 89 N: 2619]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (9851) | Yesterday a young friend from France told me that when he went to the St Kilda and Port Melbourne area of Melbourne he thought it 'was some kind of Miami place' because of all the palm trees. In the strong sunshine of a Spring day last year, one could be forgiven for thinking one was in the sub-tropics.
From the promenade at the new housing development in Port Melbourne, I took this photo of Station Pier, Melbourne's passenger ship terminal. Behind me are new streets and houses that all look the same - does anyone remember that Pete Seeger song from the 1960s about 'little boxes... made of ticky tacky'? These are big boxes. A few people were walking along the promenade, but the streets behind seemed devoid of life.
Anyway, this is Station Pier, first built in 1854, only 20 years after Melbourne began its existence, and in the middle of the great gold rush that saw Melbourne become the fastest growing city in the world during the early 1850s. Originally this area was called Sandridge, and the pier was known as Railway Pier. The railway line connecting it with the centre of the city, 5 kilometres away, was the first important railway in Australia.
The pier was rebuilt early in the 20th century to accommodate longer passenger vessels, and today it can berth even the world's biggest ships, as my friend Klaudio's photo of the Queen Victoria shows. This pier holds great symbolic and sentimental importance for so many migrants who came to this country from Europe in the post-war period, principally from Italy and Greece, and the British Isles.
The lighthouse is one of the two Port Melbourne lighthouses, built in 1924. The other of the pair is 600 metres inland, preserved as part of the Beacon Cove housing estate. |
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macondo
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Hello Andrew,
Using Photo Shop:
cropped,
cloned out edge of tree
Hope you think it's okay.
Regards,
Bev :-) |
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