I didn't like the music drowning out the commentary because that is part of the history of Mounts Bay then the building of the Narrows Bridge. I am grateful that my Daddy got to see this before his passing. Perth is still the most beautiful city in the world.
Bloody bewty crew. My family's been here for 5 generations and ive watched Perth change since the 60's. Brings back some good memories of when i was a little fella and going to the Boans cafeteria with mum hahaha.
As someone who’s born in the early 90s I’m really starting to appreciate the city we live in and it’s history. Thanks for sharing your memories with us!
We lived in Newman until 1979 and then went back to the UK so I have fond memories of Perth. I went back in 2005 and was hugely surprised at the difference. I'm heading back there this year to see what another 19 years of change will have brought
Thank you Steve. I was born in Perth 76 years ago. Schooled, worked, and only moved to work locations and National Service Army commitment. 1967/ 1969. Lot’s of travelling throughout Australia. Up the Old Red Rooster,,,,,, Nifty.
Brilliant compilation.Thanks for doing this stuff.I arrived in Perth in 1968, whilst all the Mounts Bay Road area was a huge sandpit.I thought at first it was the start of the Nullabor.
Extraordinary. Perth is Home for me and Family. The Narrows was built as I was going through my Secondary schooling. No television but I knew something was changing. Too young to understand. Lots of memories. And I’m still here.
My dad wired all those original lights over the narrows bridge and the parks and roads around it. He couldnt believe his luck - a young man from London up there in the sun having jousts with all the pelicans that had already decided the lights were perfect observation points. Seeing this makes me miss my dad more.
A resident of Perth since the mid-90s, I find these windows to the past amazing. Everything is changing all the time, and while change is unstoppable (except for a 12 Monkeys event) it's good to see where we came from.
I can imagine plucking someone out of one of those photos and showing them the Perth skyline as it looks now....just need to tell them not to roam the streets, especially at night..they would quickly want to go back to the 50s 😬
I'd love to have been able to hear the voice commentary which is unfortunately drowned out by the music, is there any valid reason it was done this way? I did enjoy seeing the changes, thank you
Blast from the past.. born in Perth in early 1950's. So the building of the Narrows Bridge was a reminder of my early life watching that happen; I remember mum and dad going on about the bridge opening and how it would open up the south side of the river to more development. Perth seems to grow more beautiful with each generation adding their own layer of flavour. From the Causeway Bridge to the Narrows to Subiaco and Northbridge each decade has left it's stamp on the face of the city. Some venerable old buildings have been lost, some not so venerable, but the pastiche of a lovely city is continually enhanced to make it better than ever. Thank you for the video.
Grew up north of Perth in the 80’s. Didn’t know that the foreshore that mounts bay road was built on was artificial….youd be spewing if you owned one of the previous ‘water front’ properties!
If only they kept it intact as nature intended....I mean who would stick a freeway next to a River? They could have made a nice river Promenade or a Riviera like in Europe! But instead a dirty polluting freeway
It's the Australian way to spoil a place by building a road between the Foreshore and homes/businesses. Much nicer to walk off a beach and into a cafe or restaurant.
Consider this - it took 166 years (from 1829 - 1995) for Perth to grow to a population of @ 850,000. It’s taken only another 26 years (1995 - 2021) to grow to over 2,000,000. The addition of @ 1.2 million people - in only 26 years - has been an unmitigated disaster. And Sydney and Melbourne are even worse. No surprise that many people can’t even afford rent less alone own a house, that so many poor souls are homeless, we are now hostage to two desal plants, people are parked on the freeway all day, road rage, ambulances are queued up, the prisons and hospitals are chockers, more people need to live like ferrets in high rise flats (‘apartments’), billions of dollars are needed to build new infrastructure to satisfy an ever increasing population, loss of biodiversity ... So no wonder the increasing wave of refugees who are deserting our once beautiful cities and seeking a ‘sea/tree change. Unbridled human population growth, and especially in this, the driest of continents, and in the face of global warming, is a path to disaster - an upward spiral to a downward staircase. We have fast killed the goose that laid the golden egg .... and now live in a fool’s paradise.
Cast blame upon the many faceless bureaucrats who advance the cause of mass immigration into our nation against the wishes of our citizens. Regardless of which bunch of incompetent dumb-nutted lackwits, whether it be the ALP or Coalition, are in power, these bureaucrats hold the power. There will never be a referendum presented to the Australian people to determine immigration numbers.
Some comment below surrounds the filling in of part of the river to build the bridge and the Kwinana Freeway which runs off on it's southern end. There were reasons: The bridge was deemed essential to opening up the south side of the river for development. Before that, for connection to the south and east side of the river, there was only the causeway bridge, a congestion nightmare during the week, and the Fremantle bridge to the west and the Garret Road and Guilford bridges to the north. There was the rail bridge through East Perth but it was for trains only. So, apart from corridors of development which followed the Great Eastern Highway, the Albany Highway and the Canning Highway there was not much happening. With the introduction of the Narrows bridge and the Kwinana Freeway growth in the southern suburbs exploded, a much needed development for the ever growing population of Perth. So, yes, urban pressures dictated that the Narrows Bridge be built. And that's pretty much how a lot of the arguments for it went at the time.
This is amazing to see, I’m studying urban planning and we’re looking parliament and the freeway and it’s so interesting to see the development of Perth
For future reference can you please never again stick a freeway next to a River but build a Riviera instead so people not cars enjoy the river and nature! So dumb
The bridge was deemed essential to opening up the south side of the river for development. Before that there was only the causeway bridge, a congestion nightmare during the week, and the Fremantle bridge to the west and the Garret road bridge to the north. There was the rail bridge through East Perth but it was for trains only. So, apart from corridors of development which followed the Great Eastern Highway, the Albany Highway and the Canning Highway there was not much happening. With the introduction of the Narrows bridge and the Kwinana Freeway growth in the southern suburbs exploded, a much needed development for the ever growing population of Perth. So, yes, urban pressures dictated that the Narrows Bridge be built. And that's pretty much how a lot of the arguments for it went at the time.
also funny how probably the worst part of the whole river was selected to build a city on....a marshy, swampy area that had to be further dredged out...the Applecross peninsula would have been better, just an opinion :)
As you know Fabian, Applecross and later Heathcoate was the second option for the settlement. The headland of Mt Eliza I guess was a point for fortifications if ever required and the narrow neck at Milsons Point.
There was a sketch of what Perth might look in a century done in 1929 with a massive bridge attached to Mt Eliza and a Freeway running throughout Kings Park.
I think the Narrows Bridge is a modern looking, attractive bridge. It doesn't need to be iconic! Everyone in Perth knows they live in the best city in Australia. We don't need flashy icons. We have quality!
