supermarket history...

An old long wall at the side of Ritchies Super IGA, Dromana - a supermarket-
has long looked drab and plain 'wallish'...
Now it has a black and white image + a framed bit of history of the supermarket...
(Sadly, I had to stand on this angle to get the full effect of the wall...
To stand in front meant to stand in front of cars entering the car park
- bit dangerous -
or
to stand on the other side of the incoming car park road
and cars - parked - blocked the lower elements of the wall...)


Frankston is a little north of Dromana on my Mornington Peninsula...
My Dromana Super IGA is quite an attractive supermarket - floral displays + cane baskets and wine barrels of goods...
It is the only supermarket I would call appealing...
Tourists love it...

scenic historic Heronswood...

Heronswood is a grand old lady overlooking Dromana...
This is a view of the outdoor dining courtyard...
(The old building is now being used as a restaurant
since the separate restaurant was engulfed in flames from a grass fire in 2014.)

The first law professor at Melbourne University, William Hearn, employed Edward Latrobe Bateman to design Heronswood house in 1866. The property's name was probably derived from Hearn's family motto, the heron seeks the height, or his family crest, on a mount vert, a heron. Or it could be a contraction of 'Hearn's wood'. The architectural style of the house, which was completed in 1871, is Gothic Revival. It is made from coursed, squared granite blocks quarried at Arthur's Seat. The windows, doors and corners are dressed with limestone from the southern end of the peninsula. It features many medieval-inspired elements such as the bell-cast roofs covered in Welsh slate, pointed lancet windows, and buttressing on the front porch.
- source HERE 


fires and rains
and weathering time
polish her spirit


More detail of Heronswood is HERE 


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