This is the Methodist Church in the small town of Allora. Allora is about 80km from Stanthorpe and was first settled in 1840. This church was built in 1896. From the 1870s, red cedar, pine and beech were logged from the forests of the valley and milled at Allora.
In 1886 the first fossil evidence of early human occupation in the area was found in a nearby creek. Radiocarbon dating suggests the skull is between 9,000 and 11,000 years old. It is believed to be the skull of a boy of approximately 15 years of age who had been killed by a massive blow to the side of the head.
That is fantastic, instant fav, though quite a violent story!!
PS check out my image today. Someone familiar in there! Your hubby will appreciate it to methinks.......
@casablanca LOL Casablanca - it's little Errol - and how at home does he look! Still trying to catch that wretched mouse though. :) Doesn't time fly - it really doesn't seem that long ago that we wandered around those markets and visited the Royal Albert Hall.It was such a lovely day and the start of a wonderful friendship. So much has happened in both our families since then and I'm sure both our Christmas celebrations will be lovely family times - on both sides of the world. Thanks for putting up the great photo - it did make both of us smile to see him there! XX
@pusspup Thnsnk so much for your kind response. I'm afraid I can't take much credit though - it was taken with an IR camera so is pretty much sooc. It's good fun to experiment with. :)
@sangwann Hi Dione. Thanks for your kind comment. Your comment about the church not having the frills often seen on other churches prompted me to do some research - it was quite interesting.:
The Methodist Church is the fourth largest Christian Church in Britain, after the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches and the Church of Scotland.
The Methodist Church is traditionally known as non-conformist because it does not conform to the rules and authority of the established Church of England.
Methodism has its roots in eighteenth century Anglicanism. Its founder was a Church of England minister, John Wesley (1703-1791), who sought to challenge the religious assumptions of the day.
Methodism has been linked to the formation of reformist groups and trade union movements. John Wesley's practice of encouraging working people to become lay-preachers, alongside their paid jobs, gave them valuable experience of public speaking. Later some of these went on to become trade union leaders and were instrumental in the formation of the Labour Party in the late nineteenth century.
@fbailey Thanks FB - The IR camera has been such a success from my point of view. It just gives such a different perspective to images and you never know quite what's going to actually appear. It's been interesting to play with the processing too - although this one is pretty much soooc except for an automatic exposure correction that seems to be always required.
It's also been nice to have a camera that actually focuses itself so well.... Thanks for introducing me to it! Cheers Rob
@golftragic Hi Marnie I'm still having fun with the IR camera - it gives such interesting results. It was also quite enlightening to read about about the Methodist Church - my Great Aunt was a Methodist til the day she died aged 96 - never a Uniting Church person! :)
@robz I went to MLC in Melbourne back when it was headed by the Moderator-General of the Methodist Church so imbibed/absorbed a lot of Methodist thinking during my 6 years there. Never thought much about it all until I studied (and later taught) Industrial Revolution at Deakin University. Some prominent Methodists and their views on life played some important roles in the British IR.
@golftragic No worries Marnie - I knew nothing about it until Dione's comment started me thinking about my no-nonsense Aunt and how she was a dyed-in-the-wool Methodist. You must have found it fascinating to realise it's historic effects and then teach your course after attending MLC. :)
@shutterbug49 Hi Shutterbug - thanks for your lovely comment. I'm afraid I can't claim much credit for processing this - it was taken with an Infra Red camera which generally depicts trees with that colouration. You can edit the images to give them different tones but this one is pretty well SOOC. The IR camera is quite fascinating to play with.
@taffy Thanks for your kind words on the IR image. I'm finding it quite interesting to have a real camera that actually does the focusing for you - it's images are so much more defined than the ones from my little camera. This one is pretty much SOOC - those are its generic tones without any processing. I actually find them really appealing but it can produce a wide range of results, either from within or after processing. It's lots of fun but heavy to carry so it usually only gets used from the car. :) Thanks again - cheers Rob
December 3rd, 2019
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PS check out my image today. Someone familiar in there! Your hubby will appreciate it to methinks.......
The Methodist Church is the fourth largest Christian Church in Britain, after the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches and the Church of Scotland.
The Methodist Church is traditionally known as non-conformist because it does not conform to the rules and authority of the established Church of England.
Methodism has its roots in eighteenth century Anglicanism. Its founder was a Church of England minister, John Wesley (1703-1791), who sought to challenge the religious assumptions of the day.
Methodism has been linked to the formation of reformist groups and trade union movements. John Wesley's practice of encouraging working people to become lay-preachers, alongside their paid jobs, gave them valuable experience of public speaking. Later some of these went on to become trade union leaders and were instrumental in the formation of the Labour Party in the late nineteenth century.
I wondered if anybody else was interested also:
@777margo @rosie00 @onewing @peadar @casablanca @pusspup @etienne @fbailey @jgpittenger @golftragic @fr1da @moonbi
Cheers Rob
It's also been nice to have a camera that actually focuses itself so well.... Thanks for introducing me to it! Cheers Rob