Yay incinerators ! Ours were always old 44 gallon drums with the top chopped off. Best of all with cardboard boxes was drawing windows and doors and pretending it was a house. Oh yeah and drop an Eveready battery in and wait for the KafrigginBOOOM!.
Mt Coot-tha would make for an interesting video. The Botanic gardens, the Quarry, Slaughter falls, the old Freers chips factory, the TV stations, the summit restaurant, the old gold mine, and the cool old building at Stuartholme school. Then not far to the Toowong Cemetary... Epic!
@@walkaboutwithrobdo you realise what you stand on top of ? Have you gone into the tunnels of the City ? If you have you would understand.. I dont mind showing you myself...Just stop denying it and open your mind... THERE ONCE WERE GIANTS ✝️
I remember the York. It had a basement bar as well. Flashback to the late 70s. I worked for a clothes manufacturing company down the bottom end of Albert Street, opposite the carpark. It was a three-storey, timber and iron building. The top floor was the sewing room, the second was cloth storage, and the first were the offices. I was told by long-term employees that their original factory was in Queen Street. When the owner bought the building in Albert Street, rather than have a removals company move all the equipment, he had his employees move the sewing machines, Roneo copiers, cloth, and all their stock to the new site on wooden trolleys that were used to move the cloth around. He used to park his Rolls Royce out the front of his ancient factory. We supplied businesses such as Sportsgirl and all those other fashion shops in Brisbane. The site is now an apartment block. I also got to see Dr Hook at Her Majesty's before it got demolished.
@walkaboutwithrob I've ordered a vouce recorder because I want to tell my life story to my kids. I don't often think I've done much, but compared to my peers, I've seen and experienced a far bit of not only Brissie, but many other places in Queensland. And I'm still relatively young at 60.
Hey Rob, been loving your work and like yourself, I'm an immigrant from Sydney but this year marks my 40th anniversary as a Qlder. My family moved to Toowoomba in 1984 and in later years, owned the oldest service station in Toowoomba. So if you want heaps of Darling Downs history, Toowoomba and Drayton are the places to go mate!
@@walkaboutwithrob Born in Marrickville 1972 (at the Bethesda Salvation Army Hospital - love to know more about it's history if you happen to know), lived in Petersham until about 1980, then Berala out in the Burbs (well it was back then). Dad had decided that NSW was not a good place to keep living under the "Nifty Nev" government and thus his dream of moving his family to Paradise was born. We made it by 1984 and arrived in Toowoomba. It was so NOT the image of Paradise that a 12yr old city girl had Dad!!!! Anyway you learn to appreciate things more as you get older don't you?? Toowoomba is a really beautiful city. Which is why I have lived on the Gold Coast for 30+ years.
you mentioned Beak House, corner of Albert & Queen Sts. I worked in Ranald Simmonds Studio there for over 10 years and with the studio when it mover to under the Irish Club. i can say that the inside of Beak House, does not match the outside. the window sills of the first floor, you have to stand on a chair to reach, while the top floor the windowsills were at shin height. and there was small mesanine floor inbetween the main hallway entrance and the first flor. records say that it was built in 1898, bit I firmly believe that it was just Re-built in 1898. and am sure the building itself was a lot earlier. there were still Gas light fitting in the studio even n the 1970's (I have one of them) and my job first thing int the morning was to open the main doo on the ground floor and run up all the stairs to the door to the roof and open it to let all the gas out. no one could find where the gas lines went into the building and the led pipes were all cracking and leaking. it had a Gian glass wal day light studio lighting which was facing the lane way behind. and I believe it was rebuilt as a daylight photo studio from an older building. Henry Ranald Simmonds started his studio there in 1928, and before him was Mason, and in the early 1900's was Ada Drivers studio. (have a few of he Lenses)
@@walkaboutwithrob also one of the very funny incidents in Beak House, because of the gas, Mrs Simmonds would sack on the spot any of the girls working in the framing section (that was in the larger room over the studio) where the Jewellery sellers are now. and one day the girls were smoking out on the top of the wooden fire escape, and heard mrs Simmonds coming up the stairs. and they threw their cigs down, and they fell into the dry rotted runs on the studios level landing, and started a fire. I was about to go out to lunch, and i smelt smoke. i went to look out the studio door to the fire escape, and saw small flames, i shouted to Paul Simmonds about the fire. the only water available was on the top floor (there were toilets on the roof), so I ran upstairs, grabbed a bucked, and filled it, ran to the back top door, and threw it out and almost doused the fire, second bucket put it out. in the mean time paul did his best chicken little impersonation, and grabbed a bucket and ran into the dark room scooped the bucked though the fixer bath, scooping up some of the days pas port photos i printed and ran out throwing there every where. and then the fire brigade arrived. (the people in the T&G building across had phoned). the funny part is, because it was a heritage listed building, they could only replace the runs that had completely burnt through. those badly cahred had to stay. national trust rules.
there was an extreme cloud burst over the central city one day, an the front roof of Beak House filled up with water. the first i knew was the wall inside turned to rivers streaming down. the drain pipes were filled up with dead pigeon bodies. (you dont see dead pigeons in the city often, because they die on the roofs and fall into the roof gutters and their feathers dont rot, so they form perfect waterproof dams) when i ran up to the roof and look over to the front it looked like a swimming pool.the groaning noise of the rafters mean the roof was as if it would cave in. seeing where the blockage was, i grabbed a claw hammer, and hung out the window above albert street and bashed of the end of the down pipe. which ten formed a full burts water fall out into albert st, but let the flood on the roof down. someone in the T&G building actualy reported my mad actions, and it was printed in the newspaper.
So that UniQlo place you mentioned is a Japanese clothes business that mum & I both have been to purchase some pretty decent quality clothing, would definitely recommend. And thank you heaps for yet another lovely walkabout video that had plenty of information to learn about that i previously was unaware of having been here ny whole life. Extra thanks for having Sharon along with you, it made it great to hear some of the perspectives of a different person - keep on going woth the solid work, and I look forward to your next walkabout video!¡! 🎉🎉
@@WHDRWN I disagree, I do have clothes from them now that have lasted many years. Your comment is definitely your opinion, so you can think whatever you want to - I was just answering a question in the video.
I done heaps of work in the bank of NSW building for about 6 months in 2017-2018 we had digger and all in there and a makeshift floor over the marble because we couldn't damage it wish I still had all the photos of inside in the actual bank area and basement and the safes before alot got gutted
I remember the Tram depot burning down. We could see the smoke, so Dad piled us all in the car to go have a look. Dad sed that's the last of the trams now
I could spend (have spent) hours looking at old maps and photos of Brisbane and comparing them with today. Your videos save me the effort of recording my walkabouts.
One more great doco Rob, do Luv the intricate details within your info. I used to work in the 'Old Myer Store' '75-78'. Most Friday lunches were had at th 'Carlton Lounge', a Shandy and a Chicken breast/salad sandwich, with butter and salad dressing, before the Mall and when 'Rock n Roll Bob' was riding up and down Queen St in his 'Old Holden' beautifully restored. Those were the days 😊.
I remember the Chalton Hotel was a cinema for a short while, and later a Live Music venue with the stage set high in a wall. "White Chairs" on the Elizebeth St side, was a beer garden before the Myer Cntr was built. It had an indoor roller coaster!
A lot of famous early pioneers names on the list there.. I thought it was a great idea to introduce protection for the facades of the old historic buildings.. WOW!!!... That goes back a few years for me.. Thanks for the interesting and well researched videos and with the woman who had the knowledge to GUIDE YOU on this one.. LOL
Imagine the blood and the stench of internal organs on the street by the butcher. Thank you Rob an informative video and enjoyed coming along with you on this walk in Brisbane. ❤👍🏽
It pretty much comes from the fact that they were all built mostly in wood. With a lack of available water and lax building regulations, fire was inevitable.
@@walkaboutwithrob do some more research mate ahha you really are not informed. These “great fires” around the world targeted the same kind of buildings that are not just wood as you say ahaha.
@@harrybowes9617 I love it when I get comments like this. They all say the same thing, which is to command me to do research. Of course they never say what that research should entail or what sources to go to. And they never, ever provide any research of their own. (The reason being of course that they have none). To the person who posted the above comment, I am assuming you are mud flood/ tartarian believer who thinks that evil elites have deliberately set fire to buildings to hide the evidence of the former tartarian empire and the existence of giants. Am I right or am I right?
Thanks Rob it will be slow pace and looking up next time im walking in that Mall i just never notice, i mean i know the famous Old Brisbane Arcade but i would of never thought Hungry jacks would be housed in z very old building
Hi Rob, if you go back to 9.39 in your story Where the building is in the red circle just a little to your right is the Cobb & Co building whose actually entrance was around 60 feet this side of the building itself off Albert Street. It ran parallel to Elizabeth Street . My point is the building on the corner part of which is standing is on the corner of Albert and Queen. In the 40s it is where my ancestor Thomas Grenier had his butcher shop and diagonally across was Patrick Mayne's butcher Shop.
Very interesting Rob, did not know any of the details of the fire. Drapery stores, you said how many would a small town need, remember drapery could be used for the making of clothing not just drapes and I guess there was a lot of making your own clothes going on, I am sure you could not, even back then run around with no clothes and as their was no Zara, H&M or DJ's to buy your clothes from, sewing was it.
I think you might be referring to the KFC that used to be underground at the Brisbane Arcade. I used to go there sometimes in the late 90's. I'm not aware of one directly in the Mall. With that said, I probably wouldn't do an entire video just on a KFC outlet. It'd need to be part of some larger story of the area.
@charlessale409 I think you are referring to a few conspiracy theorists who emerge from the woodwork to rant and yell about history being fake and a lie. They never provide any evidence because they have none. It's all make believe and nonsense.
Rob, do you ever get sad or indignant at historical buildings of Brisbane lost to bad governance or developer greed? Sure it's interesting when you point out where things used to be but it's far better to be able to point to actual historical structures.
@Ducayneau Good question. Though I am by heart a stoic, I do however lament old buildings being pulled down that didn't have to be, usually due to greed or just bad planning. There's enough space for both old and new.
It's maroon as in moon. Just like you don't look up at the moan, you don't pronounce it maroan because... oo is always pronounced ooh like boo, and foot.
@walkaboutwithrob why do you delete comments and fail to look for yourself. We didn't even have an established Brickworks when "we" claim we built bluestone Melbourne.. bluestone from where ? AUTODIDACTIC Channel AUSTRALIA HISTORY IS FAKE
I can’t help but comment your videos are informative however was amused you actually found someone to do a video a with you who was even less lively than you. So Aussie….
It's maroon as in moon. Just like you don't look up at the moan, you don't pronounce it maroan because... oo is always pronounced ooh like boo, and foot.
@@walkaboutwithrob for some reason we do in Queensland too. And yet, from what I've been able to determine, this is the only English speaking place in the world that uses this mispronunciation. Often words have common pronunciations rather than a "correct" pronunciation, but the "oo" is always pronounce one of three ways: /uː/ as in "food" or "moon" /ʊ/ as in "book" or "foot" /ʌ/ as in "blood" or "flood" At no point is "oo" ever /oʊ/ as in moan. Except in Coolangatta and Woolloomooloo. That was meant to be a joke....
