Old Canberran’s Old Photos - Part 6 - Bellona, Canberra's itinerant Goddess of War

Very nice to see the Molesworth reference!

ramblingted said :

Hadn’t picked you as a fellow Molesworth fan, Johnboy

+1

And now I’ve missed the literary hookup thing. chiz chiz

She’s a bit incongruous anywhere, which is probably why she keeps having to couch surf. Her friends are all like, “What are we going to do about the Bellona problem?”

Interesting. I remember her (rather incongruously I thought) at the Albert Hall, I didn’t realise she’d moved around that much.

I’m a renaissance man.

Hadn’t picked you as a fellow Molesworth fan, Johnboy

She certainly looks a lot safer where she now is. Tks for the pics JB and all the links p1. Her location in my photo was at the start of the split in Commonwealth Avenue. You used to come off the old Commonwealth Bridge heading South into an “S” bend which took you into the left lane. The right lane heading North went in a straight line onto the old bridge which was only 2 lanes, one each way. Poor old Bellona had some very near misses when cars had trouble negotiating the “S” bend at speed.

Yeah, thanks Old Canberran. I really enjoy these old photos, comparing the them to the modern Canberra. I enjoy it even more when we are invited to guess the location portrayed in an old 1948 snapshot.

Now, someone should post shots of The Private Bin.

From the wikipedia article:

‘Politically, all Senate meetings relating to foreign war were conducted in the Templum Bellonae (Temple of Bellona)….’

I wonder if they had plans for world domination!

*hehe*

Heck, I didn’t even know there was a goddess of war! I thought that Mars dude had the gig sewn up ….

Anyhow, she looks kind of lonely out there. I had seen the plaque about her outside of Albert Hall and wondered about the story. An odd purchasing decision indeed! You’d think they’d be wanting some goddess of peace or prosperity, but maybe war was more appropriate given the political nature of the city.