I've just finished driving the old hume hwy. The history hit's you around every corner and straight. The towns and countryside were amazing. When I was younger, I used to travel it on a regular basis, visiting family and friends, plus work. If you ever get the time, it's worth the trip. It is no wonder the trip front Sydney to Melbourne took so long. Unlike today's Hume. Safe travels..
3:25 am I the only commenter to draw an analogy between the first NSW turnpikes and today's NSW tollroads? "Unpopular with the colonists", and the first roads of their quality & speed, connecting to the major directions out of Sydney, and yet the government unable to build them for decades.
I made an effort go to Holbrook and celebrate in 2013, because those last decades of "FORM ONE LANE" were atrocious. Whenever the freeway section ended and returned to highway, you got stuck in a queue for 30 minutes. Returning from Thredbo or Canberra at the end of a holiday period was always torture - and no, not because of double demerits.
A nice video Stephen, my Mum, Dad, my self and 2 sisters travelled the Old Hume Highway many,many times from Bowral visiting my grand parents at Croydon, it was usually around a 2 to 3 hour drive to Croydon in the 1950s from Bowral in those days, i still recall as a boy the winding Razor Back range and that rough bumpy concrete section along the old Narellan way to the cross roads. My father always fill up the car on our return home with petrol at the Ampol Station on the Narellan way, with a sign saying " The last at City prices " I still have a book The Motorists Official Road Guide 100 miles around Sydney, dated by my Grand father 1936 👍
Imagine the blood, sweat, tears and the leadership of the European settlers that went into building this highway to infinity! Today, it is choked with almost 24-hour steady vehicular traffic. Most drivers and passengers who use it night and day seem to be immigrants from the middle-east. Who would have thought that they would be the inheritors!! Myself, I live in a flat by the side of the highway, looking down on Prospect(?) Creek in front and the Georges river about an hour if I were to actually reach its banks on foot behind me, beside Liverpool Railway station, which I can reach in 20 minutes, by foot. Whew, what scholarship you embody! You are a national treasure.💐
Great introduction to the book i enjoyed that and learnt more about the people i always wondered about or heard about. just ordered the first volume great stuff.
Ohhh wow. I live in Bargo so I know the Macarthur Region pretty well, this is so interesting. So, I know that the Old Hume Highway is the Remembrance Drive that goes past the train station and petrol station in Bargo, but then there is a "Great Southern Road" on the other side of the railway which goes past the school. Is the Great South Road different to the Great Southern Road?
They are the same. The Great South Road ran past the school and the pub until the railway came through in 1919. Then the road shifted west, but the Bargo folks demanded bridges over the railway to reach the other half of their town. So there were two Great South Roads, but one got a name change to distinguish it. Glad you enjoyed the video!
As a kid in the 70’s we lived in Liverpool & would travel to Leeton & Griffith maybe 6 or 7 times a year to see relatives. We’d get to what us kids thought were the sticks & ask Dad are we nearly there yet ? Dad would say have a sleep for a bit . We were only at Picton .
It died, although there were mutters that it had been poisoned. Another tree has been planted across the road, with a memorial sign, and yet another on the site of the original tree is now growing nicely. Take a gander next time you drive over the Razorback.
Mr Gard - Your comment that Mrs Gorrie ‘glossed over’ something is harmless, by itself. Unfortunately the context in which you describe Mrs Gorrie as having ‘glossed over’ some of the circumstances of her life imputes to her disingenuous intent. You may do a lot to protect your reputation as a social commentator by removing those statements contained in your monologue which un -necessarily attribute petty motives to Mrs Gorrie.
@@TheBlueDaweStudioThirlmere Your response to my objection to your very clumsy reference to Mrs Gorrie is not that of a man who is descended from native English speakers. Don’t play dumb. Raise your standards. Your reference to Mrs Gorrie was simply that of a low type - Your subsequent responses confirm it. The people who resided in Redfern in earlier times would not have spoken of anyone in the way you spoke of Mrs Gorrie. Are you ashamed to admit that you have non-English speaking forebears?
