Sydney’s Tank Stream, From Lifeblood of the Colony to Sewer, Tank Stream Tour.

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The Tank Stream in Sydney was the lifeblood of the colony supporting the first European settlers back in 1788. It was also a sustainable water source for the Gadigal people before them. In fact, the Tank Stream is the reason why the city of Sydney is in the location where it is today and served at Sydney's water supply for 38 years.
As the years when on the Sydney’s Tank Stream became the first sewer in Sydney and it was later covered over using the now famous brick oviform shaped pipe. Today the Tank Stream servers as a storm water drain and sections have been cut out and can be seen in a Tank Stream Tour.
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00:00 Intro
00:23 First Fleet Landing 1788 Sydney Cove
00:52 What was the Tank Stream
01:30 Tank Stream geographic & tank creation
02:22 Tank Stream environmental protection
03:16 Stone Bridge on Bridge Street
03:51 Pollution & conversion to Sydney Sewer
04:58 Covering the Tank Stream & Oviform Tunnel
06:00 The Tank Stream Today & Tour
07:16 Conclusion and Outro

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12 июл 2024

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@SydneyHistory Год назад

It's amazing to know that after centuries of change that a small, but arguably the most important part of Sydney's past still exists hidden underneath our city. Have you seen the ovuform section at the GPO or been on a Tank Stream tour?

@stephanieyee9784 8 дней назад

I have seen it and am so glad it has been preserved. Its eerie down there abd I couldn't help but feel sad and sorry for the poor convicts who had to work there.

@Mark-wv6sg 8 дней назад

I’ve seen the tank stream when CentrePoint was being built

@robertthomson1587 5 дней назад

I did the Tank Stream tour many years ago when I was in my teens.

@Tokentools-weldersAu 2 дня назад

Fun fact. As you drive into the basement of 20 bond street (OLD ASX before 2000) if you look up you will see a square concrete tube suspended in the air passing over the spiral driveway. This concrete encases a section of the tankstream.

@SydneyHistory 2 дня назад

That's awesome information. Thanks for sharing.

@Simon.the.Likeable 5 дней назад

I used to work in the old Supreme Court building on the corner of King and Elizabeth Streets. In the basement of the building there is a plywood panel covering a recess in the wall facing St. James Road. I used to hear water constantly dripping behind the panel when I went down there to retrieve files. One day I peeked behind the panel and there was a 3 inch brass pipe in an S-bend shape. The water was dripping inside the pipe. I went upstairs and asked the Registrar what it was. He told me the pipe went directly into the sandstone and that was the spring at the head of the Tank Stream.

@SydneyHistory 4 дня назад

Wow that's amazing. To think such remanence of the spring still exist today and not many people know about it. If I'm not mistaken, the old supreme court building opened in the 1820 along with St James church next door.

@Simon.the.Likeable 4 дня назад

@@SydneyHistory Yes, the building was originally designed to be a schoolhouse but Commissioner J.T. Bigge recommended it be repurposed as a courthouse. The first Chief Justice, Registrar and Prothonotary were appointed in 1824. However, the building was not completed until 1829. By 1845, the building was deemed inadequate and the Court moved to Taylor Square.

@craiga7907 Год назад

I remember as a child in the 70’s being in an underground mall and looking down through a window into the Tank Stream. Sadly it looked like a sewer with a trickle of water, but I did understand the importance. It was around Martin Place (MLC?)

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Thanks for sharing your story. Yes I'm pretty sure the Tank Stream Arcade was on the corner of King & Pitt Street. The MLC Centre is a block to the east of that location so would have looked really close and brand new in the 70's. I didn't know they had an open viewing section of the stream in there. I would have loved to see that.

@jasondoust4935 8 дней назад

I remember that, too! And yes, it was in the Tank Stream Arcade.

@whythesadface 7 дней назад

Great information, I've been fascinated by the Tank Stream since I learnt about it in school. During the preparations for the 2000 Olympics a friend and I worked under the Circular Quay pedestrian deck for three months. We went under in a small aluminium boat every day and night at low tide. Under the central section of the deck is a sand and gravel beach but where the Tank Stream comes out at the western end it has gouged a deeper channel. The job was hard but quite an adventure and opportunity to see the historic stream. That friend and I still go adventuring in the same beat up aluminium boat, we recently did a five day trip exploring another Australian lake and river system.

@SydneyHistory 7 дней назад

Wow what a rare experience that must have been to have seen such a culturally significant relic from our past. Thank you for sharing and keep exploring. 👍

@originalsusser 11 дней назад

Back in the late 80s for a short while Tank Stream tours were conducted. My wife worked for the Old Sydney Inn as it was called then at The Rocks so was privy to these obscure tours. We entered via a lane near Australia Square through a small gate at the bottom of a narrow stairway then along a narrow passage & came into a smallish room that was one of the tanks. They gave us hardhats to wear & when we entered the tank it had a low ceiling, I couldn't stand fully upright. The oval tunnel you featured was on one side. The floor was the carved bottom of the tank. It was truly a fascinating experience. We've still got the brochure & a few photos somewhere. Cheers for the flashback

@SydneyHistory 11 дней назад

Wow thanks for sharing your experience. Indeed a rare opportunity. I wasn't sure if the tanks were preserved or destroyed when the high rise was built. The chiselled out sandstone you seen was done by convicts in 1790 if I remember correctly. What an amazing bit of history to see in person. 👍

@originalsusser 11 дней назад

@@SydneyHistory I must confess I stopped your vid to write my comment. You are right about the chiselled out sandstone according to our guide. I even took a pic of the floors surface after being told about it, we are frantically searching our shoe boxes of photos looking for these pics. You are obviously a true blue proud Sydneysider 💙 If you can get a chance to see it in person you should. We were lucky, you are deserving. We've been watching your vids for a while now & will continue to do so. You are articulate, accurate & entertaining. Keep it up

@SydneyHistory 11 дней назад

Thank you for watching and your kind words. I'm working on another video at the moment, but it's still a few months away.

@whatilearnttoday5295 День назад

Sydney Cave Clan used to have a lot of great info on the Tank Stream, Transgrinder (Tunnel which goes under Opera House), Bankstown Bunker and other underground curiosities. Unfortunately think someone got to them post 9/11 and a lot of the content vanished forever. Oh wow. You only had 1 photo underground. They went down through the tanks themselves from what I can gather from memories of the photos.

@tamphex 3 дня назад

Getting into the Tank Stream was a lot easier and a LOT less riskier before 9/11 - now the entrance in the lane next to the ASX has motion trackers/infra red camera up the wazoo. Don't even THINK of popping that manhole..

@sarcasmo57 6 дней назад

History is neat.

@SydneyHistory 5 дней назад

Yes it is. Thank you for watching.

@shanepieper1086 3 дня назад

This is an excellent, highly informative piece, with graphics and maps that taught me more about the Tank Stream than ever before. Right from the beginning, access to clean water was always made easier for the rich, and harder for the workers and the poor. I appreciate the hard work that clearly went into this video.

@craigpayne5500 Год назад

Your videos are fantastic. Thank you

@SydneyHistory 11 месяцев назад

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed them. More will come in the future, no time atm. 😞

@PeachyFlyFishing 8 дней назад

Wonderful local history, thanks!

@SydneyHistory 8 дней назад

Thanks for watching glad you liked it.

@northislandguy 5 дней назад

Man….lived in Sydney all of my life and I learn more and more about it great video 🤙🏽

@SydneyHistory 4 дня назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@videolosss Год назад

I walked the way for years wondering how it came to be named as such. Thank you!

@SydneyHistory Год назад

It was a pleasure making this video and the Tank Stream is a story worth telling. Thanks for watching.

@flamingfrancis 9 дней назад

An interesting and fascinating article. Very well researched. We all tend to forget what these areas would have looked like before back in those times.

@SydneyHistory 8 дней назад

Thank you for watching. Yes i find it fascinating how it once was and they are great stories that need to be told. 👍

@roballen3281 10 месяцев назад

excellent production

@SydneyHistory 10 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@cheekyMarc Год назад

Great insight! Lots of information i didnt know about nor about the museum at martin place GPO! Thank you

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Yeah it's a great tour goes for about an hour and a half. Very informative and best of all its free, but you have to book on the GPO heritage tours website. They run them at 11.45 am Tuesday to Saturday.

@cheekyMarc Год назад

@@SydneyHistory Oh wow thank you!

@fittipaldi7326 Год назад

Love you informative videos!! I thought I recognised some of your early Tank stream imagery. It looks like some of the creeks near me on the upper reaches of Darling Mills creek at Castle Hill. Then I saw the track closed shot at 2:48 and it was taken near Eric Mobbs Reserve. It is a great area to walk. Plenty of early history down near Pye Avenue and the quarries in Northmead which were used to build Parramatta Jail.

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Yes, you are spot on. When I was writing the script and doing my research the walk near Eric Mobbs Reserve came to mind. It was the only area that I know of that could portray the green lush fresh water stream and moss covered rocks. I agree it's a great walk and a hidden Sydney gem. I was wondering if anyone would recognise it and you got it.

@bethsheeba1198 Год назад

Well presented.

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Thank you. 😊

@Divadosaurus Год назад

Amazing. Thank you!

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Thank you for watching.

@shauncooper9942 9 дней назад

Very interesting, thanks!

@SydneyHistory 9 дней назад

Glad you liked it.

@jasonmcmillan4373 7 дней назад

Great video!

@SydneyHistory 7 дней назад

Thank you for watching, glad you liked it.

@midnightkiteflight6333 4 дня назад

So, from the very foundation of the city, the eastern suburbs were self-excluding.

@japanesetrainandtravel6168 Год назад

Great to hear your voice again Mike!

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Thanks Ken. Hope your doing well mate. 👍

@barrybristow4646 28 дней назад

Love the history.

@SydneyHistory 21 день назад

Thank you it's a great history.

@fredsalfa 13 дней назад

Thanks for that was really very interesting. I always wanted to know what happened to the tank stream exactly like your video showed

@SydneyHistory 13 дней назад

Glad you liked it. Yes fortunately they made detailed maps back then and we are able to track it down. The internet has made all this possible too making many different sources of info available.

@frankus54 4 дня назад

There is a section of the Tank stream that was accessible from under the State theater.

@randomyoutubebrowser5217 5 дней назад

Opps I thought this was going to be a video streaming a water tank associated with the Sydney water supply. Interesting video nonetheless!

@SydneyHistory 4 дня назад

😂 sorry to disappoint. Glad you got something out of it.

@shane2026 9 месяцев назад

as a wild teenager we used to pop the lid in the road that led to the tank stream in the lane right next to the official entrance in australia square searched it all the way to the harbour ,very low...

@SydneyHistory 9 месяцев назад

Wow, that would have been wild to go down there. Did you see the natural sandstone base cut into a V shape. That was made like that in 1790, only 2 years after the first ships landed.

@chuckselvage3157 4 дня назад

Fascinating place from old Sydney town. They didn't muck around with litterers back then a public flogging. They should bring that back lol the city is disgusting with maccas wrappers and drink containers.

@thetraveller3577 10 месяцев назад

Mike that is a great video. Do you know anything about busby's bore ?

@SydneyHistory 10 месяцев назад

Yes a little. Busby's bore was Sydney's second water supply starting operation from about 1830. The water was piped in from a Centennial Park swamp and distributed in Hyde Park where Park Street is today.

@Its_just_me_again 7 дней назад

cant believe u caught the earthquake on video @03:07

@SydneyHistory 7 дней назад

🤣

@adiaus Год назад

Thank you for uploading again. Your videos are so informative and high quality and I love learning about Sydney from you!

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Thank you for your kind words, adiaus. I wish I could make more, but with work and other commitments our videos will be irregular in timing and we hope to publish about 6 to 10 a year. Thanks for watching.

@beneltonturkeyslap 3 дня назад

wow what a messed up story - fantastic work telling the story. I was gripped the whole time. Must of been hard work finding this info?

@SydneyHistory 2 дня назад

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the vid. Yeah some of them take months of researching and double checking and verifying against multiple sources. There's a lot of crape sources out there I can tell you. I do enjoyed making them very though.

@beneltonturkeyslap День назад

@@SydneyHistory A crape source? It sounds kind of delicious really haha

@djdeliboy 9 дней назад

Getting pretty desperate to do that tour… I’ve been trying for years!!!!!!😢

@SydneyHistory 9 дней назад

I hear ya. Luck of the draw. Got to be in it to win it.

@GC-zu7yp 6 дней назад

How do you enter now i used to have access to the lottery but now i cant find it@@SydneyHistory

@saltyXrice 5 дней назад

I feel like they haven't run it for some years now ?

@markcostello5120 9 дней назад

05:36 footage from No1 Martin Place & Fullerton Hotel tank stream display.

@SydneyHistory 9 дней назад

Spot in. I did a tour of Sydney GPO at the time of filming this video which included part of the stream and some reminents.

@handymanr4729 4 дня назад

the tanl stream bar is inside of on the old tanks.... see you did your reearch bro

@SydneyHistory 4 дня назад

Thank you. The tanks were about 100 metres to the south of the Tank Stream Bar location marked with a plaque on the wall. The Tank Stream itself is under the laneway in front of the entrance of the Tank Stream Bar where it then transitions under Pitt Street and out into the Quay.

@johnellis6462 8 месяцев назад

I lived in Sydney from 1968 to 71 , then went back to NZ my regret is wish i was still there what a great place

@SydneyHistory 6 месяцев назад

Yes it is an amazing place. Has changed a lot since then. You should come back for a visit I'm sure you would love it.

@aquamonkee Год назад

Great to see some more content highly informative as always

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Thank you. I try to make as many as I can. It's really enjoyed from research to filming and producing. Thanks for watching.

@nightowldickson Год назад

Learnt a lot from your video, very well put together! I once had a relative who stayed at the Tank Stream hotel (shown in 7:35) and I had no idea why it was called that - now I know, obviously a nod to the Tank Stream.

@SydneyHistory Год назад

Yes the Tank Stream Hotel I'd appropriately names because it's on a site that is pretty much in front of where the three tanks large tanks we're cut into the bedrock. A lot of people walk through this spot everyday and have no idea of the significance of the location.

@jockwar 5 дней назад

I think U can C part of it in the tank stream bar

@SydneyHistory 4 дня назад

Oh wow, I didn't know. Might have to go and check it out one day.

@johncavar2914 14 дней назад

🎉excellent 👌 great factual history 👏 winner 🏆 is Sydney!!

@SydneyHistory 13 дней назад

Thank you glad you enjoyed.

@joannekarcz4034 7 дней назад

As a Sydney Greeter, I often take visitors on a walk along the route of the tank stream. You mention the ballot. Is it still happening and if so how do I enter? Thanks

@SydneyHistory 7 дней назад

That would a have been a fine walk. The tours still happen about once a year, but you have to go into a lottery. I think 1000s register and only a 100 or so are chosen. I think you can register at the Sydney Water website.

@cameronmenegoni2406 3 месяца назад

Does anyone remember the blue lights that were installed to mark where the stream was?

@SydneyHistory 3 месяца назад

Yes, I think there was five or so in the pavement are they the ones you're talking about? I tried to find them but I think they are all gone now. There was one near the cenotaph in Martin Place but that ones gone now.

@cameronmenegoni2406 3 месяца назад

@@SydneyHistory When I was at Uni, I created an 'audio tour' that was a 10 minute piece, tracing Tank Stream above ground through the current CBD. I used those lights as a guide and still keep my eye out for them when I'm in town, but I do think they're mostly gone. From what I remember there maybe be one in lobby of the Angel City Recital Hall, and one in a Hunter Street building. Any on the main footpath would be been removed thanks for continuous construction.