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PHOTOGRAPH (DIGITAL): FALLEN SOLDIERS MEMORAL CLOCK TOWER, 1986

1986
Overview

Black and white photograph showing the Fallen Soldiers War Memorial Clock Tower in Subiaco's Rankin Garden's. Several tall trees and a rose garden are to the right of the photograph.The tower was constructed in a Neoclassical style, with a three stepped base which rises to an octagonal entablature, where two of the clock faces are visible and is crowned by an octagonal pointed roof with a spire. The clock tower features a singular framed doorway, and two slit windows can be seen in the two visible sides of the tower.

Several trees line the nature strip and three vehicles including two vans are parked on the road. In the middle of the photograph is a white lined frame on the gass next to a driveway. On the far right of the photograph the corner of a trailer can be seen with the partial words 'Blu...Gum...Came...Farm.'

Reverse: Handwritten in pen 'Clock Tower Subiaco 1986'.

Historical information

The foundation stone laid 17 December 1922, by the Governor, Sir Francis Alexander Newdegate, for a memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War One and was unveiled in November 1923. Additional tablets of names ere added after World War Two.

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Registration number
cwa-org-43-2024.213.3
Item type
Width
102 mm
Height or length
152 mm
Year
Statement of significance

Photograph taken of the Fallen Soldiers War Memorial Clock Tower in Rankin Gardens in 1986.

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