Wow! What a find!?! Wish i knew where it was...im thinking maybe an old military ground that had student housing but is all gone now, north north west suburbs of melbourne. These are actually rare. Theres a couple around but hard to find
Hauntingly beautiful. 40 years...i cant imagine in first person. Did you do any digging? I hope you did and got to experience the further connections from memory of lost but found. Like an instant tangible powerful connection to the past. Very weird. This ust have been very tough to film and edit. You didnt need to put up with the misplaced anger of the fu<kwit on the job. That was bunk
I was actually living there for about 25 years, at 19 i went bush and came back when i was around 22 and stayed for a few years and then moved interstate, so 40 was a bit over but it does not matter much. The early black and white footage dates from the first year of the second world war so who knows what they thought was instore for them, a few moments of joy in a very dark period. You could not get personal film developed then so it was home developed in the bath room so sometimes looks a bit off. I have been meaning to put it up for a while as it is unique to have footage from 1939 to 1998 of a house and residents. Thanks for the comment.
@vk3ase I left home a couple years earlier but went bush -of the grid full untouched bush for over 10 years b4 making it back. I understand the pull. Developed in the bathtub! That's unreal! Makes perfect sense as the only room in the house to set up as a dark room though doesnt it. Although I live in the city these days(but live as I did in the bush)I seem to have developed a hobby of digging old ground thats been exposed for the first time in ages from demolition. The objects I've found are incredible. That's why I asked about whether you did any digging. Thanks for your response and have a great weekend
Can anyone here tell me about the crumbling -I'm guessing- goods platforms just before the maintenace yards? Was that part of a now gone line? It looks like it had a shop on it, no, not the goods shed thats closer to the maintenance yards...
What a sad day for shortwave broadcasting and Australia in general. Even here in the United States we often listened to Radio Australia and to get the international perspective but also to hear about Australian news. Internet Radio, Satellite and such just isn't the same. We would get about 16 hours of Radio Australia during the day. Seemed that it would start coming in about 5 pm local time Eastern which is 2100 UTC in the summer or 2200 UTC in the winter. You could hear frequencies such as 21740, 17795, 15365, 13605, 11880 mostly during the evenings into the overnight hours say at 2 am. Then at around 3 am local we would get 9580, 9700, 12065, 6020 etc which would generally last until around 1400 UTC. Sadly those days are gone because I grew from 1985 at 10 years old until I was 42 years old listening to Radio Australia. Listening to the local ABC Melbourne or Brisbane or Sydney just isn't the same and totally different than turning on the Shortwave. Even more exotic for a lot of us here in the United States was being able to listen to the various Outback stations which I could receive very well in our fall to spring seasons especially those on 2325, 2410, 2485 and 4835 etc from Alice Springs, etc. In fact they were often well heard at my location due to the fact that I had up a 2000 foot long wire antenna strung through a couple of trees and going to the edges of the property my family still lives on even though I am long gone from there. It was quite interesting to hear shortwave broadcasts not only from Australia and the Outback but also Papua New Guinea, dozens of Indonesian stations, Philippines, Chinese provincial stations, Vietnamese provincial stations and even a few times the various iterations of the Khmer Rouge genocidal stations out of China or the Thai Cambodian border with their various harangues. That's not even including the various radio wars between the two Koreas. They should have kept Radio Australia running because to me it was one of the better news stations out there as well.
I have heard recordings of bomber command aircrew and it seems strange to me as they sound like a group of old men, whereas I know from the records that the average age of the aircrew was 21 with their ages generally ranging from late teens to early twenties (I know there were exceptions, some much older men served but they were rare). I guess I remember the men my father associated with when I was very young (I am now 70) and they spoke in a similar way. It is strange to me to realise that these men spoke this way in their youth.
There were local hams that i used to listen to up to the early 2000's and they sounded like very old men as they were. Disc recordings of them exist from the 1930's when they were twenty somethings and they sounded the same. The bomber recordings are amazing and i thought they were fake but that is not the case as the people involved in them have talked and written about it.
I had to sell a home with 33 years of great/good/sad memories. The buyer tore it down in days and removed every tree...Time will heal your heartache a little but this are your memories. I have photos and the memory of our beautiful garden smelling of lilies, roses, lilacs and narcissus. You miss the house and your youth...we all do.
I wasn't lucky enough to have what I would cal a family home. We moved when i was 2, then 7, 10, 12, 14, and 16. Then nothing but rentals after that. Even today at 64 and after living where I am for 8 years I may have to move again after the summer. Guess I'll finally settle down when I die. :-(
A haunting and sad affair but awesome you have the old video footage of Family and House, I just have photos of my childhood homes. I sometimes use google maps to see how they look today and in fairness they look better now than they did when I lived in them. My 1st & 3rd home in Dublin, Ireland and my 2nd home in Maidenhead, England. Both my Grandparents homes where my parents grew up in central Dublin still exit and have become gentrified but look great and have become high end properties and well out of my price range.....Thank you for sharing this/your story with us.
I found this a bit hard to watch. Dad grew up in Ormond in a home of similar vintage, which was demolished to make way for retail development in the early 90's. I remember how upset he was along with his siblings at the time. Such a shame to see homes of that period make way for boring townhouses and the like. And that ranting entitled flog at the start was a walking heart attack !
@@vk3ase thanks for writing back 🙏 looked like great times 📈🔭🐥 i hope you have somewhere to live now 🙏 it’s pretty tough out there .. the economics of owning a home is beyond me 😔 barring a miracle 🙏 you might like “house detective” channel from brisbane here also ❤️ i love your channel 👍🏻 you do some great videos, loved the music on this one ☝️
I wonder if you've seen the development of First Amendment Auditors in America. They stand on public property, which is completely legal, and they film. Sometimes to exercise their rights, sometimes to harass for clicks, likes and subscribers. They do this in front of homes, private businesses, and government offices. What's fascinating is that you knew your rights even in 1997 and filmed it. And you're a decent and civilized man. The aggressor here would have had his jaw broken by anyone in 2024 the minute he raised his voice. Damned be the consequences. And that's what those videos online today are about. They've become the NEW Westerns, like in Hollywood of old. Two men standing their ground.
Interesting, yes back in the day not so common to walk up with a video cams and record stuff but now every one is doing it on their phones and dashcams so a lot of people don't care and except that in public be careful as you are most likely on candid camera.
August 1986 is the year I joined the railways and earlier that same year I worked in glenhuntly at a roofing and gutter manufacturer called mack brothers I also on the city platform was rugby 🏉 tackled by a co worker who I upset by making a smartass comment we got into a wrestling match where he was trying to push me onto the tracks whilst a silver Hitachi train was approaching the platform I managed to survive that only to board that very same train and have this crazy 🤪 passenger stare at me with one eye 🤨 looking like he wanted to stab me it was not a good day 😀
A shame. I'm getting into HAM, and AM is seriously amazing tech, not old, not useless. This was a bad move. It will be powered back up... at some point
James George Nicol (Londres, Inglaterra; 03 de agosto de 1939), mundialmente conocido como Jimmie Nicol, es un músico británico que logró fama al convertirse en el baterista de The Beatles por un breve lapso, mientras Ringo Starr se recuperaba de una infección en 1964.
How sad. As a kid living in London I used to listen to the morning broadcast from ABC. Once I rigged a better aerial in the garden reception was excellent considering the distance. Thanks ABC.
Those worth listening to don't rate vintage on a scale of "good" to "bad", but rather find the niche use case for every variation as they were intended. If you're gonna keep this stuff up, expect your audience to already know a thing or two when they tune in, or all you're gonna get is know-nothings who don't really care, and there's plenty of low-quality channels dedicated to those kind of people already. Be better than that, you have interesting things to say that deserve better than to be squashed into flat, vapid "content" parameters.
Active shortwave present should be considered a matter of national sovereignty, not unlike embassies and consulates. National identity and sovereignty over shortwave radio should not vary because of new technologies, because SW is the only thing that survives a total internet/satellite infrastructure blackout.
