Tony Robinson's Time Walks | S1E2 | Melbourne 

Paul Smith the place has real issues at present, I hope you don’t have the misfortune of finding yourself here anytime soon.

@@inkdreams5113 Get a grip

@@inkdreams5113 The don't have any issues any more other around the world

@@montecarlo1651 He has...ON REALITY...!!!

jecos jecos the issues I speak of stems from the government and the way they are “dealing” with this public health problem. Heavy handed tactics have never worked in the past, I think they’ve blown this whole thing out of proportion. Early this year we had misinformed boarder security which lead to a quarantine scandal. Then in July we started a lockdown because a dramatic increase in cases, perfectly justified in my opinion. Now that cases have fallen equally dramatically we are risking livelihoods to not stress a healthcare system that should have been reinforced when the lockdown started. Now with an average of twelve new cases a day (or there abouts) with fewer than thirty patients in intensive care Australia wide. We are still not permitted to go more than 5km from our place of resistance. Yes we do have issues like the rest of the world but we also have an oppressive government making it just that bit worse.

IJK yep welcome to Dans CCP city

@Dave I bet if the liberals in were in power and the current chain of events still happened you wouldn't blame them so hard now would you?

@Dave what the hell are you on about! the Liberal and national party are so right wing that they could be mistaken for a 1940's Italian government. Ironically some people who buy into the whole murdoch media propaganda don't see that it was the Victorian right wingers that caused all of the issues and spread of covid 19 by failing to wear marks and abide by the rules of social distancing but then in the same breath blame anyone that is a "leftist" for the increased lockdowns.

Stop sperging out guys

Look at where the hipness is taking us... 1930s economic depression

if that is a true story it is a beauty, if not even better

i love that shop but never been in.

Thanks for sharing this story.

Your dad was a legend.

Her name was Chloe.

Ssshhhh.... ;-)

Timestamp?

@@sanbornolsen must...not...dob...people to authority.

@@Jaiysful Timestamp dude, not a question

@@sanbornolsen ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wAizZvig8Lc.html

Mate we have the best city in the world 😆

We're so lucky

@@MissAnathemaDevice people who don't travel out of Melbourne wouldn't understand that how good they got it.

@@MEETGILLtheMAN I agree left Melbourne for Sydney and returned within a month. 😂

Trust your first instinct.

Bahahah

Bumble Douche I had a copy of it as a kid too. My Nan gave it to me. Like you I had no idea of the history behind it. I really wish I had it now!

@@planetdisco4821 It's funny in life, the obscure, random things that bring people together. 🙂

I've seen the Coles books in op shops. I had no idea. If I see one, I'm going to buy one.

Without these bloody masks.

You voted for communism, deal with it.

Abrahamic Religions Bow Before Nate nothing communist about it.

@@matthewwilderbrokemystride2972 >labor = leftist >authoritarian >friendly with chinese COMMUNIST party checks out

@@abrahamicreligionsbowbefor3585 Labor is centre right in practice and you wouldn't know a communist if they came up and socked you in the face which one can only hope happens however unlikely

You wouldn't like it at the moment, mate. Trust me.

@Dave spotted the RWNJ

Cultural sure. Australian culture - hardly.

Cultural, sporting, live music and entertainment, I think it’s taken a back seat to Gold Coast as fastest growing city but still; far more than just cultural, mate. I’ve lived in every city in the east coast. The only thing it doesn’t have is the weather and beaches that the northern neighbours are famous for. Bloody hell the weather is so perfect up north I’m farken sick of seeing sky blue and crystal clear ocean every single day. It honesty gets annoying. I want some rain! I miss it! The weathermen on every channel up here whine like little babies every time it rains (not often). And I’m sitting here like; ‘we NEED the rain, you git!’ If we don’t get that rain then we’ll be back to water restrictions again. Queenslanders love to go for a surf and get wet, but 1/100 days it might rain then they all cry like it’s the end of the friggen world.

None other than Black Adder's man slave Baldrick, though I prefer his recent role in Time Team. Tony is brilliant!

Sydney better you tax less and there beaches

@@coopsnz1 Melbourne is a shithole now this comment was put up a year ago before all this corona. Right now I would love to be in Sydney

Herbert Moon me too Dan needs to go vote Liberal

OH YEAH YEAH Labour is better at economic recovery. It’s proven in the past. Why would you ask the Liberals for this?

Yep dan fkd it.. melb won't ever be the same

Now we've just got to get our spencer street station back

The clocks the went back only look similar - the new ones are electrically set where the old ones were manually set by hand after each train departed.

Onya!

S Manns man I miss wandering those old halls

Allan Gibson I did not know that. Thanks for the cool info

Forgive me as I'm too young to remember, but what did Jeff do?

I hate Kennett

I've been there twice - in early 2014 and late 2018, and the downtown area had changed a lot in terms of new skyscrapers, either finished or under construction. Photos from recently show that the trend has continued. I wish I'd been there to see the Australia 108 building. Hopefully you guys open your borders in the near future.

Along with the lack of skyscrapers, they still have Ford Falcon Taxi cabs!

Oh yes you can - at Starbucks.

Agreed, and agreed.

It's an embarrassment how proud they are of it.. Graffiti and homeless people sleeping in the doorways..

Manage your expectations: it's just a small lane with some occasionally very cool graffiti.

False - most overrated tourist attraction is the big banana

Melbourne would have been such a wildly different place then!

I'd give up the cell phones a laptops, iPads and crap any day... I liked the old red telephone boxes everywhere. Teenage girls going out on a date were instructed by father's to always carry enough correct change in your purse in case the date turned bad or thecarbrokedown and you needed to use a public street phone to call dad for help or call Police, ambulance, taxis etc. Sound advice and even I followed it, though I had no dad to call (died)andmum liveda few hundred miles away in the bush. But I did use my emergency coins once to call the RACBV when my date's car got trapped in dirty murky floodwaters under a bridge one dark stormy winter's night in Melbourne and we were at wits end, our nice stylish clothes covered in city greasy road sludge and mud. It was our first date and the way we handled this drama so well convinced us we should get cleaned up and dry out and try to have a second date, when, hopefully, it won't rain, again!?! I made sure I carried the necessary phone boxmoney, just incase and told him to bring his sparephone coins, too, just in case the phone box stole my coins without putting me through to emergency help. I also stuffed two towels, soap, two rain coats and some spare underwear and men'ssox in abigger handbag, just in case... It popped open and all the contents skilled onto the pavementashepicked me up in his dad's car. "Just like my mum... Carrying the kitchen sink everywhere...."he commented. "Well,that's fantastic. It means we are made for each other since every son adores his mother...And it means your mum and I will get along just fine..." I replied. "Not my dad, though... He hated mum's stuff she takes everywhere..."he replied. I was running out of conversation and refused to discuss Melbourne's notoriously rotten weather. "How long has he been married?"I asked, for something to say. "Longer than me... About 40 years..." he replied. "The if he stayed that long with your mum and all her stuff you say he hates, he will get along with me, too..." I commented. "Yeah, that's what I'mworried about... And where do I fit into all this?" He mused,as it started to rain again... "Ah, don't go under that bridge again... Remember last time... But, I've brought towels and stuff this time, in case we get caught in another downpour...". And we pulled out a Melways paper street directory that I, with typical female bad sense of direction, unable to figure out North, tried to read to direct him, going all over the place because I wasn't sure where we were going but I just wanted to make sure that wherever it was,there'd be a red telephone boxwithin reach. "Ah... There it is!" I finally screamed in glee when Ispotted the red phone box . "What? Where? I can't see what you're talking about...." He asked, confused. Not surprising, with mysort of navigation skills. "The red telephone box... Bet you didn't know there was a red telephone box there, did you? They must have recently built it. It doesn't show on my Melways map..." He grabbed the map. It was the wrong map... "I thought you agreed to go out to dinner with me, not red telephone box spotting... Close the Melways. I know where we'll go and how to get there... Don't worry about anything... " And he went straight to where he had wanted to go all along, without my navigational "help" and asked if I liked it,but I really didn't care where he took me because it was him I liked, not wherever he took me and red telephone box spotting as we crossed Melbourne City Streets was as good a date idea as any.. But it was a nice place, with fine food and good service,nice peaceful, stylish decor etc and this second date wasn't as bad as the first one whenwegot caught in dirty murky black city floodwaters and road sludge.

@IJK usually always the case with gang morons. But I was a 5 to 8 year old.

My brother and I were threatened with knives and robbed by sharpies on the Frankston line. It was in the mid-70's and I was about 13 years old.

It’s now owned by Dan the dictator and Chinese communist party

@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ know anything about what you just said

Been watching much sky news?

@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 Dan must be the shittest dictator in history given he just eased a ton of restrictions. Do you people even listen to yourselves, or are you just full of hate about everything? You want to see what it's like to actually live under a dictatorship? Move to North Korea.

Hell, say anything negative about the CCP...you'll end up in a tiger chair by the end of the day. You don't have a clue mate.

Ever done the Mitre 10? 10 pots for lunch! Liquid lunch.

@@BEEER000 not the lunch. An avo session for sure, finishing at the Irish pub around the corner.

@@danielburke9881 Was that called The Times?

@@BEEER000 that's the one. All down hill from there😀

Go and get it!

i'll just put S.Baldrick :)

Name a major city that does not have rough sleepers.

@@TheMarkhopper melbourne has a very high rate. Each major city has

@@ghs7714 Exactly. It's not a negative, just a fact of life.

@@TheMarkhopper yes still a negative of life

Curtin House probably the most notable example - 252 Swanston St