The Volunteer Rifle Band Bollards - Geelong Waterfront Esplanade

These five brightly painted bollards in the Steampacket Gardens near Geelong\'s famous Victorian carousel represent a Victorian and Edwardian Geelong staple: the Volunteer Rifle Band. The band are playing “The Geelong Polka”, and if you look closely you will see that they are even holding real pre-loved instruments that have found a new lease of life as part of this tableaux of bollards. The band are dressed in their smartest red and black uniforms and wear white topees. This group represents players in Geelong’s first band concerts which were held in the Geelong Botanic Gardens in 1861.

This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.

This week the theme, “music” was chosen by Di, PhotosbyDi.

I thought these colourful characters along the Geelong corniche were a perfect choice for the theme. I hope that you do too!

Artist Jan Mitchell was commissioned by the City of Greater Geelong in 1995 to transform reclaimed timber pier pylons into works of art. What was created became far more iconic than the commissioners hoped for, and they are the most photographed attraction in the Geelong district.

There are more than one hundred of these huge painted icons guiding visitors along the foreshore walking and cycling track from Rippleside Park, through the Waterfront Esplanade of Geelong, along Eastern Beach to Limeburners Point and finally to the Geelong Botanic Gardens. They represent a fascinating and fun chronicle of the city\'s past, focusing on some of the unique characters who played a part.

Geelong is a city southwest of Melbourne, Australia. Lining its bay, The Waterfront Esplanade has a Nineteenth Century American carousel, a curved art deco boardwalk and sea bath at Eastern Beach, and scattered along the waterfront are more than one hundred bollards painted as colourful sculptures chronicling city history by artist Jan Mitchell. The Geelong Botanic Gardens lie at the eastern end of the bay. The central National Wool Museum hosts changing exhibitions, concerts and entertainments.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Geelong (show map)

Taken on: November 16, 2020

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