Wednesday 19 July 2017

DESKTOP 1450 - BRIGHTON

Brighton is an affluent beach-side suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Bayside. At the 2011 Census, Brighton had a population of 21,257. Brighton is named after Brighton in England. Brighton houses some of the wealthiest citizens in Melbourne with grand homes, and the development of large residential blocks of land. As of June 2016, Brighton has a median house price of AU$ 2,287,500.

Brighton is also well known for its Dendy Street Beach with its 82 colourful beach boxes. Built well over a century ago in response to very Victorian ideas of morality and seaside bathing, the bathing boxes remain almost unchanged. All retain classic Victorian architectural features with timber framing, weatherboards and corrugated iron roofs, though they also bear the hallmarks of individual licencees' artistic and colourful embellishments. 

Thanks to these distinctive decorations, the boxes turn the Brighton seaside into an immediately recognisable, iconic beachscape that can transform by the hour according to season, light and colour. Although these are nothing more than glorified change rooms, they are very much sought after and can fetch prices close to AU$ 300,000.

This post is part of the ABC Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Outdoor Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme.

10 comments:

  1. Colorful beach houses and great composition ~ for B ~ ^_^

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  2. A totally other view then I 'know' ... what a brightness of colours.

    Have a wonderful ABC-day / -week
    Melody (team ABC-W)
    http://melodymusic.nl/21-b

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  3. I adore all the colors and the beautiful blue sky as background.

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  4. Bright in Brighton! I love it!

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  5. Love the colourful beach huts. At first I thought you were going to write about Brighton in England, but good to know there's one in Australia too!

    Leslie
    abcw team

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  6. I need me one of those!!!
    Ann

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  7. I like colours and composition --> first one with flag:)

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