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St John’s: ‘A Queensland Masterpiece’ St John’s Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Brisbane, which was created in 1859. It was the vision of Bishop William Webber, the third Bishop of Brisbane, to build an Anglican Cathedral here and for this purpose, he engaged as architect John Loughborough Pearson (1817—1897). Pearson had already designed Truro Cathedral in Cornwall. St John’s Cathedral emerges as a mixture of French and English Victorian Gothic Revival styles – and, interestingly, evokes many features of Barcelona Cathedral. All internal walls and ceilings are built of sandstone from Helidon, west of Brisbane. Sandstone from Pyrmont on the shores of Sydney Harbour was used externally for part of the first stage of construction only. The distinctive pink and lavender-toned stone used for the external walls is known as ‘Brisbane Tuff’. St John’s Cathedral has the distinction of having the only fully stone-vaulted ceiling in Australia. After the Foundation Stone was laid in 1901, the building work proceeded in three stages: 1906—1910, 1964—1968, and 1989—2009. Today the Cathedral houses the Cathedra, the Archbishop’s official seat, and also serves many other functions. It is a Parish Church for the local congregation, a gallery space, a venue for musical performance, a historic building, and a space for quiet reflection within a busy capital city. Source: www.stjohnscathedral.com.au/discover-st-johns/

Great car! Modern "aerodynamic" cars have lost some of their charm.

Any minute now the keystone kops will come running out of the tower...jump on and race off into the distance!

£360 was quite a lot back then. Lovely old truck.

"Vulcan, based in Southport, England, made cars from 1902 until 1928 and commercial vehicles until 1953." This model had pneumatic tyres, yet still retained a bulb horn and acetylene lamps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28motor_vehicles%29

SHOUT, SHOUT, SHOUT!!! Now that I've got that out of my system that's a terrific setting for a demonstration of a new machine, the old and the new or as we see it today the old and the very old. Terrific shot of a lovely old truck!

But it looks like he got to keep the watch.