A brief history of Brisbane focusing on the city area. Broadcast 16/01/2000. The very beginning of this feature has been cut off.This footage remains the property of Nine Australia.
Oh my goodness, was watching this when at 8.23 I saw myself and my husband walking past the Myers entrance behind the presenter. That was quite a surprise! Great video. 😊
My great grandfather and his brother, Richard and John Thomas, came to Brisbane on the City of Brisbane, in 1860, before proceeding to Petrie where they lived on the North Pine river and ran the Cobb and Co to Maryborough. They then moved to Mt Mee, North of Dayboro.
There was much more to Brisbane than this! As for entertainment, there was plenty! Not one mention of His/Her Majesty's Theatre and the plays and ballets we saw there in the 40's - also English films. I had more fun as a teenager in Brisbane than I've ever had since - dancing, going to films and the theatre, Jack Busteed's Jive Club, Cloudland, the dances at the Brisbane Town Hall, picnics on the weekend, holidays at Southport or just fish and chips at Sandgate on a hot night. Brisbane always had it all - and the weather to go with it. As for culture, we had the Ballet, the Symphony Orchestra at Brisbane Town Hall, the Art Galleries, the Brisbane Film Society and visits by the Oliviers and others to Her Majestys. We also had the smaller amateur Brisbane theatres which are still going strong. We had the lovely Regent Theatre and the Metro with its glamorous usherettes, The Casa Mara coffee lounge after the ballet and we could have our fortune told from teacups downstairs in Brisbane Arcade.
I know Queen St City to be far more appealing in 1965 than 2020. Actually the whole city area was just amazingly very busy. Oh the trams so great to jump on and off at your destination.
I did security in 1999 at the depot on the corner of George and Turbot streets for the materials for the refurbishment. There's a huge building there now.
James, Emma Leeds Marston, Reuben and William Milliner arrived in Brisbane on the Light Brigade on the 16 May 1863 where we settled in Victoria Street, Red Hill but James died in George Street in January 1879 subject to magisterial inquiry and Reuben was the witness who helped clear land for the Queen Street Mall. James and the other passengers would write a thank you letter to the captain and crew for their kindness and hospitality.
The original site at Redcliffe was selected by surveyor John Oxley but was poorly chosen even though Henry Millar was blamed for this. The replacement site in Brisbane near the XXXX brewery was also chosen by Oxley but over-ridden by Lt Henry Millar because it was indefensible. Instead Millar preferred nearer Garden's Point as the settlement's flanks and rear were protected by the river. Millar was a veteran of the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsula campaign and had a more practical idea of locating a settlement than did Oxley who was a navy man.
i was walking last night with my group and a guy from another group, looking at his phone, started to follow us across the road. Not your group mate. Zombies.
Pat Kennedy he use to Driving his venerable FX Holden around Brisbane's CBD each weekend, Rock 'n' Roll George became a Brisbane identity. Brisbane may have changed over that time - growing from a country town to a modern city - but Rock 'n' Roll George stayed the same, representing the styles and mores of an earlier era.Good old days
I met him a few times in the early 80s when I worked at the new York hotel in Queen St He was a nice old bloke Soon after I heard he was bashed badly, leading to his death on account he was an alleged police informer. Its probably just a rumour but Brisbane was a violent place
so sad and shit to think about how the area was being used by aboriginals and they had it stolen and taken by force. people talk down about them congregating are musgrave park but that was actually where they have been gathering since long before invasion. to hear that they had ceremonies at woolloongabba, now there are no remnants. very depressing, i just wish i could see what it was like then
Your opinion is based upon what? Prisoners were used in the construction of public buildings as labour was cheap, and it was hard labour as they were sentenced to. If the prisoner made substandard work it would be reworked till it was suitable for use after a flogging. I'm a Brisbane born 70 year old and have knowledge of much of this information since childhood.
Well they didn't pull it all down but I share your sentiment that far too many historically important buildings were lost in the bad old days of the 70's, 80's and 90's. Brisbane by the late 60's did need a lot of improvement particularly in the suburbs but the council/government went about "improving" the city, in many cases the totally wrong way.
@@paullewis2413 Let's face it; most (not all) of the people pining for the "old Brisbane" voted for the Bjelke-Petersen government that was responsible for the destruction.
@@davidhoward4715 Of course you´re right. In those days there was a feeling that everything new had to be better but time has told us that´s far from the case. There were people fighting for the preservation of the better buildings but they were usually ignored. Of course Brisbane was not alone in destroying much of its heritage, it was happening all over the World but some cities suffered more than others.
