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Black and white (not black and blue)

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 This post covers our visit to the Melbourne home of black and white birds.  Yes, we have been to Collingwood and survived!  The catalyst for the outing was a tour of a building at 47 Easey Street which has been converted from a warehouse to a set of creative enterprises. This is part of design Week (DW).  The Post begins with the tour and then shows some of the street scenery around this part of Collingwood: it will initially be mainly photos, with text being added later. The tour of the building was supposed to be led by folk from the NGV but they didn't front so one of the Director of the Sarah Stuart Gallery took us round.  This turned out to be excellent, as she knew the owners/operators of the various subsites and, as will be described below, we ended up getting talks from and with the senior people.   The tour began by our guide explaining how the building was set up, keeping much of the look and feel of its past as an industrial warehouse....
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Scienceworks etc

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 We took ourselves over the Westgate Bridge to visit Scienceworks.  We had sort of seen the building on our boat tour of the port of Melbourne .  On getting into the building my attention was grabbed by an exhibit which too a photo of me and added a range of cyborg attachments. This was then animated, which I won't include as the gif is 7.3Mb!  Much fun.  We then went outdoors and checked our watches against this large sundial (they agreed). Going out a door we could see the Bridge over the Pumping Station This was what had stood out on the boat trip! The access ramp was modern and atmospheric! They were very good with notices. Two boilers. Reading this sign I thought about Frank Hardy's book "The Outcasts of Foolgaraugh" in which night-soil men were mentioned as well as the garbos who were the main characters, This might explain to those of a mechanical mind how the pumps worked! We then saw a sign about the Great Melbourne Telescope, of which we had never hear...
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