Thank you for making this video. It brought back some lovely memories when I was lucky enough to work on the district clinic for six months which took us, six staff in all, from the RBH to Cribb Island once a week, & Sandgate and Wynnum twice a week. It was a fantastic job for someone new from the UK back in 1971. The clinic at Cribby, an old converted house, had an outside dunny which needed jacking up which, when repaired, was found to have a nest of nine brown snakes underneath; something amazing to write home to family and friends back in the in UK. ❤
Thanks 💓 for the amazing video my heart my home. Thanks for acknowledging the Bee Gees living there not many do. Born and bred Cribbie kid thanks for the happiest memories and tears of lost for my forever home. Mostly keeping Cribb Island memories alive.💓💓💓
Great stuff! I haven't seen that many videos of this style with such a specific local focus before, and even less so for Australia. Well done to you and anyone who worked on it!
As someone that is only young and working at Brisbane Airport, it really shows what people had to go through at Cribb Island during the construction of the airport. I do wish that there was more of Cribb Island left but compared to the old Eagle Farm Airport, I certainly was important to construct the new airport. Also another video on the construction of Brisbane Airport would be great and a little known fact is that the domestic terminal particularly is actually build on jacks that is retractable due to the ground being a former mud flat.
Great short doco of Cribby. My Mother grew up there. My Grandmother and Great Grandmother lived in Cribby from the 1940's till the mid 1970's. I had a few holidays there as a young child visiting extended family's. I remember all the old car tyres on the beach to stop erosion. Mum always referred to the area as the Chocolate Coast because the water was always brown. I will always treasure the memories of Cribb Island. Thanks for a wonderful documentary on the area, it bought a tears to my eyes seeing what was lost, so the airport could be expanded. It reminds me of the movie The Castle. Where people were fighting to keep there homes also.
Great historical information and doco thanks. I had forgotten about this lost suburb, even having lived in Brisbane North all my life since the 70's. I often cycle along the Jim Soorley bikeway and had no idea that the remnants of the main road still exist today?!
Well Done, as a former New South Welshmen, who moved here in the sixties I was always interested in the history of CRIBB ISLAND. Good to know about it's history
Geez i wish we’d kept our Gregory’s from the early 80’s. Brisbane was so different back then. We sometimes lose sight of the fact that more than half of present day Brisbane wasn’t there 40 years ago. Our city is remarkably young.
Thank you for making a wonderful presentation of my home. Whilst I can show this to my parents when I visit I would love to be able to leave a copy with them to watch at their leisure. Is there anyway of obtaining an mp4 copy to allow this as they do not have the internet at home. My mother was born at Cribb Island with her parents and grandparents living there. When she married my parents then bought a home at Cribb Island and we were born there as well. We only moved when the airport took over.
Thanks Rob. Some of it. The beach shots are stock footage as the Cribb Island area isn't easily accessible. The shot of the duck was filmed at QUT Gardens Point though, not Nudgee... but don't tell anyone that.
I ride the Kedron Brook bikeway all the time to Nudgee Beach and stopped many times at the broken pathway down to the water.... I always thought it might have been a old boat ramp!! Thanks for the info. I guess if it was still around today it would be full of Victorians and Overseas Investors like the rest of Brisbane
