Saturday, June 20, 2015

Heritage Walk around Brisbane

Brisbane - We walk to Brisbane City Hall to meet our Brisbane City Greeter, Teryn.  We were introduce to the Grand dame 'Brisbane City Hall' which in years gone by was the tallest building in Brisbane.  Brisbane City Hall is the civic seat of the city and is the home of the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor.

Brisbane City Hall

 We walk through the Museum of Brisbane which was within the Brisbane City Hall and they had interesting exhibits of Brisbane.   Photo negatives taken by amateur photographer Alfred Elliot was discovered buried and the City of Brisbane made a photo exhibits of bygone Brisbane.

Foundation stone of Brisbane City Hall

Museum of Brisbane
I participated at the 10:30am Brisbane City Hall tour and was brought up to the tower via the oldest cage lift in Brisbane.  Old and still working...

Inside the cage lift
Telstra tower seen from the tower

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