Yesterday, Wednesday 5 August 2015, we had the great pleasure, between bursts of heavy rain, to wander around in Caulfield Park in Caulfield North, a south-eastern Melbourne suburb.
Park figures
At the entrance were these, called rather prosaically, according to the plaque nearby, Park figures.
The plaque says, in full:
Park figures
In 1975 the Council of the City of Caulfield commissioned sculptor Phillip J. Cannizzo to create a landmark of some significance in Caulfield Park.
The 7 statues that make up this group include the ‘Paper boy’, ‘Mother & child & ‘Climbing boys’.
The group was completed in 1980.
This is Mother and child:
Mother and child.
Mother and child.
Paper boy:
Paper boy.
Paper boy.
And Climbing boys:
Climbing boys.
And, of course, climbing boys would expect someone to be watching their prowess [a girl, of course]:
Watching Climbing boys.
War memorial
The Caulfield war memorial is here too:
War memorial.
War memorial.
War memorial.
War memorial detail.
The plaque on the war memorial is:
Plaque on war memorial.
The text on this is:
This memorial was erected in honor of those citizens of Caulfield who volunteered their services in the Great War 1914 – 1918 — May it forever remind us that we enjoy a liberty maintained and enriched by the sacrifice of many noble lives.
Upon this stone is now inscribed our gratitude to those citizens of Caulfield who defended the cause of freedom in the Second World War 1939 – 1945
Monument Australia talks about this at Caulfield war memorial.
Memorial stone
The joys of road widening led to the removal of an original Avenue of Honour on North and Nepean Roads in the 1960s. The plaque with the names of Caulfield dead from the First World War was relocated to Caulfield Park:
Roll of honour.
Monument Australia talks more about this at Caulfield Memorial Stone.
Memorial to the 1917 Battle of Beer Sheba
This memorial plaque was dedicated on Anzac Day 1995:
Beer-Sheba Memorial Plaque.
Monument Australia has more details at Beer-Sheba Memorial Plaque. There is no explanation of the fact that the text is in both English and Hebrew.
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