WalkaboutWithRob is my place to explore history, visit new places, and share what I find and learn with you!
I love filmmaking (because that's my career), walking, travel, any kind of history, and humour - my comedy influences are, but not limited to, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Monty Python and Hawkeye Pierce.
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I always enjoy your videos and you making me laugh😂 As someone who lived in East Sussex England for over 40yrs, your picture of the White Cliffs Dover is in fact the Seven Sisters cliffs in East Sussex. Some 76miles away from Dover. I know your Australian viewers probably couldn’t care less🤣but I do!!!🤣. Sorry about that!!🤣
Hey, I'm not a Drongo's fan but Kevy's doing what he can with a lot of big boofheads......love watching them lose too! Harry's and The Windmill served some excellent fine food.....after a big night on the piss! They were opposite the police barracks! Cheers Rob...Great stuff. Oh, i was in a play at La Boite a very long time ago (as a background extra) the star of the play went on to read the sports for channel nine.
Thanks for this Rob, love learning the deeper history of Bris through your videos. My partner and I often ride along kedron Brooke on the e bike, all the way up to Redcliffe sometimes, through chermside and kedron, but often through the wetlands in boondal and nudgee. It’s so beautiful out there at sunset, and I feel lucky to be so close to such hidden gems in my opinion. This is great history to finally learn about an area I’ve lived in most of my life.
As mentioned in the video, Kingsford Smith Drive was originally an Indigenous pathway. Its original European name was the Eagle Farm Road. Later it became Breakfast Creek Road, and then finally Kingsford Smith Drive.
Great stuff as always Rob. You should head west sometime. I think Toowong, Taringa, St Lucia and Indooroopilly offer a lot of very interesting history.
Yep the bridge has an interesting history with families living in it, and the development of Shoppingtown in the ‘70s was a big change to the area. Look forward to it.
I lived in Albion from 1972 to 1982. Bale St - and my Dad continued to live there until he passed in 2018. I remember the shops next to the station and the kids my age (ish) who lived there. The Salvos were on the corner of Albion Rd and Lane St until 2003
Love your videos so much! I love learning about local history :) If it is at all possible, could you please do a video about Caboolture/morayfeild? The whole area gives me weird haunted vibes, like something bad once happened there. Ive always wondered if there is any reason to that, I can't find anything personally. Keep doing what your doing! Thankyou so much!
I love your videos Rob, you are incredibly funny and entertaining. I was hoping you would mention the Rebels club house that was burnt down and rebuilt. A piece of our colourful history. That in itself could give you enough content for an entire episode.
My introduction to Breakfast Creek was in 1958, when I was 11 years of age. My family moved from NSW when my dad was transferred here with his job at Ansett Transport Industries. I remember seeing horse trainers rowing dinghies up and down the creek with horses tethered behind, swimming. And the horses loved it. Albion Park racetrack was always referred to as "the creek". It had a sand track, where Doomben and Eagle Farm had turf tracks. Our first residence in Brisbane was in Cintra Road, Bowen Hills. I went to school at the Fortitude Valley school but I also had new mates who went to the Breakfast Creek school. I have wonderful memories from Breaky Creek days.
Great video and history Rob.....the Breakfast Creek (the creek itself) hasn't changed much in 100 years...just some concrete embankments near the pub. Better story than those poncy suburbs like Fig Tree Pocket.
I've just discovered footage of me at the opening of Dreamworld. We were there on opening day, yet don't remember the TV cameras panning into the crowd. Spotted myself and my mate. Who knew I'd end up in one of Rob's videos?
