These monuments are located in a small reserve along Powell Street, in the inner city suburb of Waterloo, beside a new residential development called Mondrian Apartments. Waterloo was developed by small businesses in light industry such as tanning and wool scouring in the late nineteenth century. It remained an industrial suburb throughout the twentieth century. Luke Muras and Company, a blacksmithing and engineering firm, built a factory on this site in 1915. The elements of a truss roof from this building, which was demolished in 2001, are displayed here to commemorate the association of light industry with the suburb.
A really interesting post for the day, Jim, and as always your photos are superb. Hope your week is off to a great start!
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That's nice to have the link back to the industrial past in such an elegant way. Those apartments look very smart.
ReplyDeleteA monument to light industry. What a good idea. People decry multi-national industry, and probably for good reason, but to remember the people who established small factories and gave employment to many people - well done, Waterloo.
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glad to see you are continuing the art theme in this blog.
ReplyDeleteInteresting monuments, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHow great it must be to spend time walking around, getting lost into art, peace and calm sights.
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Interesting post Jim.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots.
ReplyDeleteenjoyable tour!
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The art has an interesting tory behind it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos...I enjoyed the unique design of these monuments. Thank you for sharing your world.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good idea to keep some of the past architecture in this way.
ReplyDeleteA bit on the rusty side, which is nice.
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interesting sculptures.
ReplyDeleteGood to see some quirkiness in a modern development
ReplyDeleteGreat post. The sculptures are interesting.
ReplyDeleteyou made me laugh because I live in the original Waterloo in Belgium where Napoleon lost the battle ! In our museum is a world map with all Waterloo towns there are 53 in total. Your Waterloo and mine definitvely don't look the same ! Lol !
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update on Bunch of Benches, Jim. Interesting that the block is called Mondrian, because I did think the apartments looked rather Dutch! Nice...
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