Buried beneath Brisbane's premiere sporty place thing, is a once large cemetery that held up to ten thousand bodies. #walkaboutwithrob #brisbanehistory #suncorpstadium
What a great historian you are.. this is a very interesting and substantial piece of information . We need more people like you telling Brisbane historical tales like these. Thank you Rob!
My first job working for Brisbane City Council at Toowong Cemetary was painting this church, the Sexton at the time gave myself and Don the job of painting the church as it took a few months to finish the job, the paint was supplied by the church we did it with ladders and a trestle, what you have said in your video is what i was told while painting the church, i was told a few bodies or remains were buried at the church not sure if this is correct as it was in early 70's when i was there and pleased to see the headstones are still there as the grounds are now smaller than i remember. I was employed as a Grave Digger at Toowong Cemetary i also worked at Lutwyche, Dutton Park or South Brisbane Cemetary, also dug graves at Nundah Cemetary.
I've known this for a while and done my own research on it in the past. As a footy fan and Brisbane Broncos tragic, I've always found it facinating I attend games over the top of a cemetary. Great to see a video on it!
Thank you for such an informative talk on the history of the cemetries and burials that were once around Brisbane before a lot were exhumed and moved. So sad learning about the 3 little children.
Nearly 7000 are still there only a around 300 were exhumed and reburied . There were 4 little children but one got washed away in the floods before 1881 and the other 3 with their headstones are now in Toowong Cemetery
thumbs up number 1k or something 👍🏻 great video 🙏 thank goodness we don’t live back then☝️ i appreciate a guy that can do his own research 👉 seems to be getting harder and harder to find.. these days .. when it should be getting easier and easier 😳 they had it tough back then .. it’s where a lot of the local queensland spirits comes from , not to mention the xxxx brewery just up the road .. God bless you 🙏
That first burial ground probably explains why I’ve picked up many people from the hostel (ex service station) opposite that plot of land that describe the hostel as haunted… people seeing shadow figures and furniture move
Poltergiest the Movie comes to mind.... I visited the milton Church with its small Graveyard before the Stadium was Built.. Lots of very Old Graves were there from the 1865s backwards
My daughter has handled, lace from dresses that others' were buried in from this massive North Brisbane burial ground. Please - as I have seen on other social media, I hope Paranormal Investigators and associated, leave this area of Christchurch and the surrounding burial ground alone and not make a mockery of this historic place. Brilliant doco, as always, Rob!
Interesting chat. As always thanks for taking the time to put it all together. There may be some future stories from historic cemeteries about the place, Bald Hills/Bracken Ridge, Nundah and no doubt others looking back at the early settlers and settlement of these places.
I have always found the cemetery on Cemetery Road Upper Kedron to be the most fascinating. So tiny and many were killed in the famous train crash that happened between ferny grove and samford.
Was it difficult to refrain from saying how the grounds ended up being the 'dead centre of Brisbane'? I'm both sad it wasn't used but also happy that the seriousness of the documentary was preserved.
Actually I wasn't aware that it was the dead centre of Brisbane. I'm glad the tone of the show came across - I wanted to keep the humour down for this one and really just cover the story. Thanks!
Thanks Robert - its was a great story - I knew a bit about subject too + PDT Architects were part of LANG PARK -STADIUM DEVELOPMENT WITH HOK ARCHITECTS (now POPUOLOS)
One person who was moved from there to South Brisbane cemetery is Thomas Mowbray, He would of been in the Presbetaryian section as he was known as the father of Presbetaryian in Brisbane. He was reinterred at South Brisbane with his wife after she passed away As mentioned in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vB_c2NzRDi0.htmlsi=MvfEG_KiJN3PTiuA
This video would have to be my favourite so far, very interesting history and I particularly enjoyed seeing inside the beautiful Anglican memorial church, which is a very fine building (thanks to Lars Anderson!)
Rob you always provide very informative and interesting historical content of the city and the area surrounding the city we love and live in good job and keep it up
I grew up not far from Lang Park, had interschool sports days there, tennis round the corner, school books, ice & swimming across the road, as was my kindy and the boot factory. It might have been not much known about elsewhere but us kids from Paddington, Milton, Bardon, Red Hill, The Gap etc knew the story of the grave yard & the many generations on rather non pc stories and jokes (goats came into a few of them...) Enjoyed seeing what some of the quieter corners look like now.
Great work as always, Rob. There's also talk that many of the gravestones from this site were also used to pave an early iteration of Hale Street. Do you happen to know any truth to this? Looking forward to what you have to offer for "Twisted Visions"!
No 505 perfect headstones were removed and broken up in 1930 by orders of William Jolly and secretly buried in Toowong Cemetery. We have found their location and have been unearthing them since 2013.
Thankyou Rob thanks for showing us the meaning when they say Suncorp Stadium or Lang Park Stadium is a Cemetary its not because of State of Origin and Qld win most years ts because literally the area is a former burial ground, and It be assumed that when they mean relocations back then 100 years ago I would assume that the head stones the things you see up top are relocated not the coffins, I too would gather there be hundreds if not 1000s of coffins and bodies in that area that weren't properly excume and relocated making the area a spirit filled experience. cheers for the history mate.
Really interesting, and adds colour to the family history. One day I will write it down, whether it’s ever read is another thing! RIP Kate Spilsbury who was exhumed from the Baptist portion to Toowong.
SPILSBURY Kate 21.4.1862 22y B 13.5.1913 Toowong 13.23.2 M Demolished Qld 1862/ B000775 George Reed Leonora On the 21st inst. At her residence, George street, the wife of Mr Thomas Spilsbury aged 23 years. (The Brisbane Courier 22.4.1862)
Been following since you had like 1k subs, mate you've only gotten better each video. Great to see this one revisiting some old spots pun unintended) and some new ones too, with additional research! Only comment is it would be great to see you collaborate more with the local historian you had on for the walk through Queen St, she was an absolute gem - maybe a sit down interview, or longer form content idea ;)
Thanks Rob for following up on my suggestion, so much more than the tales from my construction work colleagues and the security guy told me, obviously hearsay is not always reliable, again thanks for enlightening me.
Great documentary. Well done. In my view the whole concept of redeveloping a site for sport on top of Brisbane’s early pioneers final resting places is an absolute travesty. My G-G-G-Grandfather is one of these victims among the many thousands of others 😔
Hi, what was your ggg grandfather's name as I would like to compare it with the database I have of all who were buried in the 7 NOrth Brisbane Burial Grounds to give it it's proper name.
It was in investigating Paddington cemetery I came across an article from the Truth on Sunday the 29th of December, 1907 where the author goes through a number of those interred in the cemetery, who they were and their connections. In this article the author tells a very interesting tale about the murder of Robert Cox and its true perpetrator/s that I still have never heard repeated in any other discussion of the matter. The author claims it was relayed to them by the son of a man present that night (and a co-conspirator). It explains the holes in the prosecution of Fyfe and makes far more sense than the Mayne Inheritance, though Patrick Mayne was involved
@@Lisa-x3n5x Look on the website Trove. To find it again I searched Paddington Cemetery Barrett. It was part of a series over a number of weeks in the Truth as part of the 'Bygone Brisbane' section
It was not a murder rather an accidental death. Two men named Cox and playing cards at the Bush Inn with Patrick and a pollie whose name was not revealed but my research suggest a man named Sutton. Robert Cox accused the other chap of cheating at cards and the accused picked up a brass candle snuffer and threw it at Robert. Sadly it had a brass wick pricker on the end and it entered Robert's head and killed him. Aghast and very afraid of the police at that time the Pollie suggested they put the blame on Will Fyfe. Patrick being a butcher by trade was given the job of dismembering Robert. Fyfe got hung. Some months later the other Cox was on his way to the gallows at Darlinghurst for a completely different offence when he opened up about what really happened. The hanging of Fyfe was what weighed on Patrick's mind the rest of his life.
What interesting history about different sites for different religions and sad that they moved them but progress happens. Shame they never thought of a cemetery for the future and a little further out. I suppose it was just tough and rough in those early days. Great video again. Thank you.
The gatekeeper and security officer that inducted my employees and myself told me there were ghost pictures, and he had more tales but he didn’t get time to tell me more , but apparently he had a few, he was a Pom from memory, nice guy
Great video!..... got to meet Darren lockyer drunk one night top of Caxton St at a take away.... he signed my shirt haha. State of origin 2006!, will never forget it
The leading cause of death in the 25-45yo age group in 1860 were accidents. The second was respiratory TB. It's a little bit of a myth about poor sanitation being a primary reason for early deaths.
@@walkaboutwithrob I posted a couple of links which as host of the site you should be able to see despite YT blocking them. If not search "Death registration and mortality trends in Australia 1856-1906" it's a PhD thesis by Michael de Looper for ANU.
Was there on Friday to watch the reds game. Wish I knew all this information before I went. Love finding out history in areas you’ve been millions of times. And my company also maintains Toowong cemetery so tell your mate to stop doing ghost tours please 😅
hahaha , yeah my cousin just found out that there is a church buried or gone from that area in brisbane then i told him that the cemetary is under lang park football field and could not believe it ,,,took me a few years to get over it but its the truth and there you have it ...
when I was completing a first aid course, the trainer said there are some elements of the Lang Park redevelopment that memorialise the cemetaries. Something references shrouds, but I am not sure what.
Have you ever mentioned where "Milton" comes from Rob? I ask because it is also used for a Parish up on the Downs along the old Railway to Cooyar. Contains the now nearly defunct towns of Kulpi and Peranga along that line and the old Evergreen Pioneer Cemetery.
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Thanks Rob. I love your vids. You've inspired me to dig further into the history here. I'm in Gordon Park and had no idea how much of this area was a quarry or what Eildon's hill actually was. (turns out i was also an "inmate" at Wilson Hall but never knew where it was. Now i live down the road.) I've spent time in all the places you show without realising the people who had been there before me. It's really cool, actually. so thanks again, mate.
Thanks! And yes it is a precarious place to be along North Quay. I didn't linger either, I filmed what I needed then was immediately moving away from the area.
There are definately still burial sites at Lang Park. The only ones that were removed by the UQ archaeologists in 2001 were where the new development of the stadium was built - mainly on the Eastern side of the stadium. It was a salvage dig only. There is also a piped creek down the centre of the field that comes out into the Brisbane River - after rainfalls you can see the water gushing out into the river.
I grew up in nearby Auchenflower. I lived on the cnr Fortitude St/Lang Pde. Dunmore Tce was at the other end of Fortitude St on the ridge above overlooking the Brisbane River. Lima St and Chasely St were nearby. Fortitude, Chasely and Lime were the names of the ships which transported Lang's immigrants to Australia.
Great video- I really appreciate just how much work would have gone into this, given trying to cross those roads there are a killer! Add to this however- I think there's a corner wedged somewhere in the Stadium itself where you can still see part of the old Boggo Road jail? I might be wrong & it may even be gone now with the CRR construction, but I seem to remember this little tidbit when I did a tour back in 2003!
@becsterbrisbane6275 thanks indeed! I haven't heard of any remnants of the old Boggo Road gaol being placed here. I'm wondering why someone would have transported a stone from that goal to Paddington. Keen to learn more if you find some info about it...
