Wonderful video. Thanks for the memories that I enjoyed in my 80 years. Born in Cooks Hill but now a Lake Macquarie girl. Shame about having to alight from train to light rail. I still enjoy the Newcastle foreshore, greatly improved. Shame about the lack of good shopping. I imagine inner city becoming solely residential in the future.
Olivia does have a connection with Newcastle her father was a lecturer at Newcastle Universality she may be UK Born but she was Aussie raised RIP and thanks for the great hits over the years
That song bookending the doco is quite awesome and proud but evocative of the (outdated) studio tools available at the time you'd think it was 1988 all over again. Doco could have easily gone for 1 hour+ possibly including a nod to the regions railways a bit more and now/then comparisons of the CBD/shopping districts.
Let's stop arguing about the founding dates & do something about potentially catastrophic Sydney levels of traffic in Newcastle! Seriously, it's not just around the John Hunter Hospital.
IWe used to make steel. We used build ships. We used build trains. We used to build lamps. Until the government thought it knew best. Fully dependent on overseas imports now.
Actually, Newcastle's *REAL* Bicentenary was 2004. The 1797 settlement was aborted within two years of its establishment, and William & Mary Bryant *DID NOT* come ashore near Nobby's, they landed in the Lake MacQuarie area at what is now Glenrock Lagoon.
@@top40researcher31 Newcastle is a laid-back society. We(I'm from Stockton, originally) don't get "carried away" with the pomp and razz-a-ma-tazz. Oh sure, there are some decorations but that's just so the city's *powers-that-be(council)* can feel like they're doing something to celebrate. For the rest of the population, they just get on with their normal routine. But choosing to celebrate 200 years since an aborted effort? Like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
This show was made 7 years too early! Newcastle was established *properly* as a settlement in 1804. Newcastle in 217 years old in 2021. The settlement of 1797 cannot be counted or even recognised as it was aborted well before the turn of the 19th century which began on 1st January, 1801.
@Neil Forbes you heard that Melbourne was hit by an earthquake this morning 5.6 the largest to ever hit the state of Victoria and yes i felt the earth move and I believe it was felt far away as Newcastle
@@top40researcher31 Actually it was reported as 5.8 on the Richter Scale. Newcastle's quake of 1989 was 5.5 and this Melbourne quake spooked the Newcastle residents because the Newcastle quake is still within living memory for many Novocastrians.
37:38 Olivia Newton-John *WAS NOT EVER* from Newcastle! She lived in Melbourne for much of what time she spent in Australia after migrating to Australia in her pre-teen years. Her *ONLY* brief(blink-of-an-eye) connection with Newcastle was that her father was, for a few years connected with Newcastle University. Her *ENTIRE* recording career was spent *OUTSIDE* Australia, first in Britain where she recorded for *PYE Internatonal* then *EMI* before moving to the USA where she signed to the *MCA* label. *AT NO TIME* did Olivia Newton-John *EVER* set foot in *ANY* Australian recording studio!
@Neil Forbes at the time she was on a televison kids program called The Happy Show that was only shown in Melbourne and Brisbane at the time and appeared in a television series called a funny thing happened down under
@@top40researcher31 Brief TV appearances didn't go anywhere for her. She didn't score any recording contract with EMI, Festival, Astor, W. & G. or any other label. It wasn't 'til she got to England that she was picked up and signed to PYE International Records that her recording career started in the very early 1970s.
@@neilforbes416 she did record her first single with a song called Till' You Say You'll Be Mine from 1966 at the age of 17 on the Decca label the record in good condition would cost you $1,716 I can buy a sound system at that price LOL
