This video contains 16 images taken in and around Elizabeth by Elizabeth Original Christopher Duncan in 1975, at a time when industry was King and Elizabeth still young.
Wow great memories of my brothers crash repairs Elizabeth west crash repairs. It was just around the corner from the West garden centre. I worked there with him for a few years and it gave me the bug for working for myself. After I got married my wife and I started our own small business cleaning houses. We had our wedding reception in the Barkuma hall. Thanks for the memories mate. 👍🏻
Remember some of the old buildings... How time flies! I remember playing in the open fields at Elizabeth West, Now Andrews Farm area. Way back in the seventies there was very little beyond Stebonheath Road, except wheat grass and open plains.
I remember all the wheat grass and open plains too Terri-Marie. Made for a magical childhood - though I didn't realise it at the time. Just seemed normal to have all that open space then return to the comforts of suburbia in time for dinner...lol. Thank you for watching, much appreciated 🙏
I think so too. I think if there had been some foresight and caring about heritage it would be different. The lack of both have seen either the dereliction or demolition of nearly every original public building and/or icon (such as Windsor Green, the Octagon, Hotel Elizabeth etc). As a consequence, there is a huge disconnect between Elizabeth today and yesteryear - rather than a sense of continuation and heritage and something young people could feel connected to as part of their own history, instead, it just feels like two completely different worlds. As soon as Thomas Playford and his original team handed the baton over to the next generation of leaders, it's just been a steady, and then (once Munno Para and Elizabeth amalgamated) rapid decline. Playford must be spinning in his grave. Thank goodness we have people such as Chris Duncan and all the wonderful Super 8 footage that has been sent in to keep the memory of what once was alive. And people such as yourself who appreciate it
Thanks for sharing your pics. I was born in 78 and I remember a great deal of this even though we grew up in CLG. The time of hard working families doing it tough but still enjoying life. Now we all still working hard, doing it tough, but the enjoyment is not the same. ❤🥹 Amazing pics!
I love watching this channel reminds me of my childhood in elizabeth with my grandparents being 10 pound poms and getting to see the old pics reminds me of them and there lives with my grandfather owning zenith wheel alignment in salisbury and i think he had another opposite gawler race course and my
More memories.. Before Mitre10, before Bunnings...it was Wadlows for Wood! Dependables recently shut down. I used them occasionally. Camsal Avaries is still there...we buy magpie food there. Monarch Engineering is long gone. Bill Drinkwater was the owner. I bought a Mark10 Jaguar off him. He also had an old Rolls Royce, I think. My next door neighbour in Eliz East worked for Cell-Tic all his working life. A mate in the 70s worked at the printers and another guy I met had a concrete fishing boat built at that concrete casting place!
Wow - Woolworths old parcel pick up, remember it very well. My first job after leaving Fremont High School. Started in the bakery working along side Roy Wademan & Mrs Glodie ( so sorry for spelling) Some more names I can remember are : Debbie Banks, Debbie Smith, Kevin Swain, John Marr store manager Steve Kreig, Mrs Cranny
