The Saint on Castle Hill, Townsville

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02/09/2012

A 'unqualified' Timeline of the creation of the Castle Hill Saint:-

1961: Townsville University College science students paint a 3m-high question mark on Castle Hill cliff-face during Commemoration Week celebrations. Later RAAF men from Ga
rbutt air base cover the question mark with green paint.

1962: Seven university college students identified as Mackay district boys paint a 6m version of The Saint on top of the RAAF men's green paint. Another RAAF group, said to be mountaineers, obliterated it with black paint.

1963: The Saint reappears, painted by engineering students.

1965: Another group of engineers decorates The Saint during Commemoration Week with a huge letter U, created by nearly 300 paint tins slung on a rope looped from the clifftop.

1969: Shane Flynn and other students repaint The Saint, which had been erased by persons unknown.

1970: Two other groups reportedly painted The Saint. In 1991, mechanic Maurice Smith told the Townsville Bulletin he had lowered a paint brush-wielding mate down the cliff-face in a bosun's chair strung from a Land Rover winch. In 2001, an anonymous caller said he was among a group of students who took seven hours to depict the famous stick man, using winches borrowed from a local engineering firm.

2001: Queensland Heritage Council gives Townsville City Council approval to remove The Saint.

2003: Council votes to save The Saint and removes pink paint splattered in 2002. A Bulletin readers' survey finds 54 per cent see The Saint as an icon and 25 per cent as graffiti.

Exert from: http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2012/01/16/297991_news.html

WHEN Shane Flynn was dangling in the middle of the night more than 200m from the ground in a car tyre with a paintbrush in hand, he never thought his artwork would be a Townsville icon 42 years later.

02/09/2012

Peter Higgins and friends who painted ME (The Saint) on Castle Hill 50 years ago have vowed to keep one last secret.

The brand of paint they used? How long it actually took them? Who do the touchups every few years? Lots of questions...

PETER Higgins and friends who painted The Saint on Castle Hill 50 years ago have vowed to keep one last secret.

23/06/2012

Castle Hill is an isolated pink granite monolith standing in the heart of the north Queensland city of Townsville. It rises to a height of some 286 metres above sea level and dominates the city skyline.[1] It is one of the most distinctive natural features on the Queensland coast. There are a number of vantage points from which to view the city below and also across Cleveland Bay to nearby Magnetic Island.

Castle Hill is an isolated pink granite monolith standing in the heart of the north Queensland city of Townsville. It rises to a height of some 286 metres above sea level and dominates the city skyline.[1] It is one of the most distinctive natural features on the Queensland coast. There are a number...

23/06/2012

In 1962 eight students from James Cook University in Townsville painted a picture of Leslie Charteris' Saint on Castle Hill. This is the story of that incident and the subsequent history of the image that remains painted on the side of Castle Hill. This is a Storylines Q150 digital story. This digital story was made by the State Library of Queensland with funding from the Queensland Government. It is a legacy of the Q150 celebrations in 2009.

In 1962 eight students from James Cook University in Townsville painted a picture of Leslie Charteris' Saint on Castle Hill. This is the story of that incide...

23/06/2012

If you live in Townsville, you’ve no doubt seen a saint.

No, not a saint like the newly appointed Mary MacKillop. I’m talking grafitti here. In this case, a graffiti saint painted on the side of Castle Hill, which towers 280 metres high over Townsville. Gazing up at the ‘holy’ white figure, complete with halo, you can’t help but wonder how on earth someon...

23/06/2012

http://rednomadoz.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/aussie-icons-4-saint-castle-hill.html #.T-XCTvVCrPo

LOL!!!!I have always felt most human marks on the planet are graffiti, its just circumstances that make them monuments and part of history.I'd leave it, I'm sure a hundred years from now people will call it an important piece of the local heritage. Like that damn eyesore called the Hollywood sign ou...