I just discovered this video now… how beautiful put together, I live in Australia for 36 yrs fascinated with cemeteries old buildings anything to do with history and those who built this country… amazing!!!
What a fantastic video! I had the privilege of spending more than a month in Australia in 2015, including 10 days in Sydney. What a great country and what a great city! I absolutely love Sydney and walking to Central was a daily pleasure. In fact, as I took public transit every day in Sydney, Central looms large in my wonderful memories of the city. One memory has to do with boarding the light rail at Central. I had an opal card for Australian seniors ($2.50 for unlimited travel for 1 day) and, when I boarded the train, I was told to keep my mouth shut so the inspector would not realize I was a Canadian and hence ineligible to use this deeply discounted pass for Australian seniors. So I would just smile at the inspector. Thanks so much for sharing this incredible video.
Thanks very much for your kind comments...so glad you enjoyed your time in Sydney......and you worked out the Opal card system?!?! Real history is quite -often more captivating than fiction.....
Wonderful documentation of our history. Well done. I found it interesting to see very little in the way of steam shovels and mechanisation at the construction sites. Lots of manual labour in those days with evidence of manual hand carts. Still they got the job done and seemingly did not take that much more time than we are seeing currently with the Metro work around Central. It's also interesting to note comments re people who lost track of family members moved from the cemetary. Certainly would not happen today after seeing a local pioneer cemetary relocation. Archeologists were first on scene to document everything and gave special consideration to any older indigenous burials.
I knew that my Grandfather 7th generation was buried in Devonshire Cementry, but could not find where he had been moved to & what a find at the end of this video is the headstone for George Howe.....thank you for this amazing bit of history, I now know his resting place
Thank you Debbie. You may be interested to know that at the Metro construction on platforms 13-15 they have found 60 more bodies including a gravestone or two. They are seeking relatives of those they identify......
They found several graves there this week with metal name tags whist digging for the new metro. Any kind of excavation around town hall seems to disturb burials from the St Andrews Graveyard near the present day town hall.
I’ve lived here in Sydney most of my life and didn’t know about that part of our local history thanks for the interesting and informative story of the ghosts of out past !!
My great grandparents were evicted from Windmill Road The Rocks to Balmain foreshores next the Darling St wharf Their sewage system at The Rocks was throwing excrement over the fence to back lane and wait for rain to wash away
Thank you! I love our history, and so much is not available without extensive research! You are brilliant to have given your time and skills to this! Hope you do more!
Thank you so much really appreciated ...i couldnt agree more and when you look into our history there are amazing stories that would out rival most Hollywood movies! I am working on the next video now......
Thank you for the excellent video Steve. I have fond memories of Central station and remember it from the early fifties. The history of this area is very interesting.
You''re welcome Tony, you may be interested to know at the Metro construction at Platforms 13-15 they have found 60 more grave sites including headstones
Well done Stephen - an excellent background history of Central Railway Station. My First Fleet ancestor, Hannah Pugh (nee Smith), was on the 12 First Fleeters moved from Devonshire St Cemetery to the Pioneer Park at ESMP where there is now a fabulous monument to the First Fleet.
Hi Steve, finally watched it! Awesome effort putting this together, it's an amazing compilation of the history of our city. I like your choice of music throughout too. Great to see another of your hidden talents coming to the fore!
@@stephentennant3019 It's great to have those two tram lines back. And they pass through Central exactly where the old ones were. Hopefully this will continue, the buses have to go. Buses should never be in a city like that. It makes the city less livable. Here in Melbourne, the city is a thriving place full of milk tea's and laneways.
I knew a fair bit about Devonshire St Cemetery as I had a few early settler ancestors buried there, but had never seen the double decker trams - that was a completely new one for me, thanks!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="724">12:04</a> Interesting point as you noted some of these people had been buried alive,there was at the time a medical condition that brought the body to a state of catatonia indistinguishable by the medicine of the time from death.Sad but true but I digress an excellently researched and presented video
Thank you Sil, you may be interested to know at the Metro construction on platforms 13-15 they have discovered 60 more bodies and gravestones so many may have shifted in the sand........
Wow ...5 family member!! One of the problems I found in my research was the bodies had been buried in sand....in the sand hills obviously so they shifted.....and frequently nothing was found beneath the headstone.! There have been a number of people that have done intense research into the body counts names etc. There were years of neglect at Bunnerong Cemetry during which headstones were damaged and/or disappeared....maybe some of these researchers can help. As I said in the video the bodies went to a number of cemeteries so good luck in your quest !!
I have work at Cleveland road sat and have lunch at prince Alfred park and walk the tunnel of Devonshire but I never knew the history of this places until now.
Yes ..its even now an evolving history Frederico as they have found 60 bodies that have shifted in the excavations going on at Platforms 13-15......including grave sites and grave stones....
@@stephentennant3019 wow. It's interesting. I work for land and housing corporation and have learn so much historical places like this. It amaze me and wonder the life in that era. Anyway thanks for replying back
The Sydney rail construction would be on par with construction of the Harbour Bridge. Away from trains I think another doco on the telecommunications system in Sydney. There are 17 kilometres of tunnel under the CBD, mostly brick, which can be walked through by maintenance crews.
Trish Mckenzie cause there trying too rub out white history. Now it’s all about the Asian’s & middle easterner’s. have a good look around & tell me I’m wrong. 😔
The filth & muck was what made our forefathers strong. All this antibacterial, sanitised, helicopter parenting is why the current gens are experiencing allergies & sicknesses that didn't exist in times gone bye
