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City Hall workers tried to use locally-sourced materials and were proud to handcraft the finer details of the building. The building's exterior is built from ashlar coursed sandstone from the Helidon district near Ipswich. Inside the building, Queensland maple and silky oak timbers were used. It was a proud time for Brisbane’s citizens, when this elegant sandstone building, inspired by the architects’ passion for New York’s art deco stock combined with interwar academic classical references, suddenly rose well above all surrounding structures. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/90th-anniversary-opening-brisbane...

Writing on the photo: Photograph of site of City Hall & Municipal Offices taken at p.m. 3:30 by Award for Poulsen February 14, 1923

I have a family photograph of this day and always wondered where it was. Thank you.

Anita Martell was a famous juggler. Her name on her marriage certificate is down as Nita Janette Davidson her father was John Davidson stage name Jack Martell. Most likely he was a Music Hall Artist as well but was never as famous as his daughter. She was a juggler and told jokes during her act. She was in shows in Australia, America and the UK. She married twice once in 1940 to Len Young and then in 1951 to Roger Price they got divorced in 1951 she was on his radio show called "How To" during 1951. She appeared in two films called: The Private Wore Skirts or Never Wave at a WAC (1953) Botany Bay (1953). She came back to London in 1957 and was planning on staying for a year but i can't find anything about her after her arrival or even if she went back to America. Source: www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=586489.0#:~:text=....

Anita Martell (birth name Nita Janette Davidson) was an English talking comedy juggler in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. She was the daughter of the English Music Hall comedian Jack Martell and Irish singer Mona O’Leary. She appeared in two films called ‘The Private Wore Skirts or Never Wave at a WAC’ (1953) and ‘Botany Bay’ (1953). She also appeared in a British Pathe film, which you can view below. She was a cousin of Veronica Martell, who was also a juggler. Source: www.juggle.org/11-more-female-juggling-stars-of-the-past/