Probably because all of the tree's have been decimated and it makes the area very hot, this means the cloud rises with the heat island effect and is pushed up above the dew point, it doesn't get close enough to land again until it runs up a ridgeline..then it meets dew point and drops it's load :(
The last few seconds touched my heart. I spent many a shift as an ambo at Jimboomba station. It started off in about 1985 as a sub centre of Beaudesert District Ambulance back in the days of the QATB. It wasn't a 24/7 station until many years later, and even when it was it wasn't uncommon to start night shift and not turn a wheel all shift. The original station was built on the current site, but for about 12 months in about 2008 we worked out of a rented house at the end of Green Ridge Rd. Nowadays the new station is still at its Johanna Street site and workload has exploded with the growth of surrounding housing estates.
This where my family settled, originally coming from the second fleet. We owned thousands of acres, including Jimboomba House. Our family lived in Jimboomba House until it was sold to Japanese investors in about 1992 and Hills College was built on the property. The house is now the restaurant onsite. It was moved in the 90s.
@WalkaboutWithRob I'm certain my grandmother would have known where that pub was! I've got a family history book that has a lot of info on Jimboomba (currently in storage however). My grandmother left a lot of historical items to the school who were meant to make a museum, they never did though and we have no idea where the items and information ended up. My parents were married on the verandah of Jimboomba House. Bitter-sweet memories that's for sure.
@@melissahenderson5576 is there a chance you could contact the school and see if they have the items, or know where they were put? It’d be a terrible shame to lose such valuable resources.
@@walkaboutwithrob I will try actually, but this was the early 90s and being overseas investors basically I wouldn't expect they kept anything if they didn't keep their word on showcasing the items.
Nice walk about! After moving here last year I can safely say I love this town! You even featured my car at the very beginning of the video! Learnt some very interesting information, thank you for making this
If my Father was alive today, I am sure he could tell you where the Norfolk Tavern was located. My best guess is the old Cobb and Co stop at the corner of Teviot Road and Pub Lane, closer to Greenbank and opposite our former family home at The Meadows ... Which is now 3000 home residential estate. FYI, my great grandfather married a girl named Alice MacLean (MacLean's Bridge fame), and pioneered the area around Greenbank. Thank you for the video ... well worth the effort, Cheers
We’ve just bought a house on Cross street and we are told that apart of our house (separated from the house) was the old butcher’s shop/general store. It was situated at the front of the property, but when they moved this house here in 2001, they move the shop to the back of the property and made it like a granny flat. It basically looks the same with the old weatherboards and the old timber floors are still in tact. Very special piece of history
Thank you for this video! I spent the first 20 years of my life in Jimboomba, and this bought back SOO many memories! I left 23 years ago, and have never been back, and while it looks like it has changed a lot, it is still easily recognisable! I have since moved to Tassie, and was stoked to be able to point things out to my husband, such a throwback! Also, just as a little tidbit of information, my sister was the first bride to be married in the little brown church after its relocation, and its also where I went to church as a very small child in the 80s 😊 What a flashback this was! Thank you !
i went to school in beenleigh in the 80s with heaps of kids bussed in from jimboomba .. it’s an awesome place .. still have friends that live in Jimboomba 🤠
As teenagers we'd sometimes drive down to Jimboomba from Brisbane on a Saturday night for the 'country' dances at the old hall. Great atmosphere, no fights, everyone happy and we learned all the old favourites like the progressive barn dance and so on. You could even "cut in" on dancing partners and it was accepted as just fine. It also seemed a very long drive - not so today.
Fun little tidbit, 14:04 over on the left that four pointed BBQ area there is a Litterbug sign. There was a completion for kids back in the 90s IIRC? mine was the winner, still there now (well I check Google street view which is from Jan 2021).
One of the great things about the present mania for walking trails will be that they preserve the right of way for when growth in those areas and the green thumb coming down hard on cars makes rail commuting viable again. Unlike the shambles down to the Gold Coast. Lovely to see those old buildings get a new life and the timber interior of the little church building. It would be nice however if the Local Authority required each new house block to have a couple of the old endemic Hoop Pines planted as food for the Koalas displaced. 😉
@theoztreecrasher yes for sure regarding the reintroduction of Hoop Pines. They look beautiful and will bring back, in a small way, the old character of the place.
Hi Rob.back in the old days in Qld you could get a beer on a Sunday if you were a traveller so Dad would take the kids and Mum to different places and the Jimboomba hotel was one of those places we went to. Apparently you were considered a traveller from Salisbury to Jimboomba!
@jennycampbell5236 I've heard of similar strange Queensland laws. Coming from Sydney we didn't have was many odd things like that law. Fancy not being able to get a beer on a Sunday unless you were a traveller! Boggles the mind.
Just watched that video. It made me sad how we have turned a nice country town into an overpopulated city :( seen it change so much in the last 25+ years.
Thanks for this. My ancestors were Hinds and their property was up near the Maclean Bridge. Hinds Rd starts up there. I believe they arrived from England in 1896. It was great watching the history. We caught a train from that station around 1960 when I was about 7 years old but I remember it really clearly. It was a steam train back then of course.
thank you Rob for another great local history lesson. it is truly amazing the history we have around us here in Brisbane, and than you for bringing this to our screens with your humor too. much love and have a wonderful day 🤗💕🙏
@lisa topham thanks! Wish I was in Cornwall! Love it there. Some ancestors of mine have the surname of Bolitho, so I guess they come from the village of the same name.
Don't disturb the mullets!! Haha Hey mate really appreciate the trouble you go to with these videos. So much history on our doorstep yet it's not often talked about. It's so much more interesting when I think I know where he is, I've been there myself, thanks again:)
Hi Rob... from 4:45, Jimboomba House was moved from the east, closer to the highway and Henderson Creek where the original Concrete Grain Silos and sheds still are. The location that you see from Riverside Esplanade is our old farm which my Dad bought in 1958. It was a back paddock of the Jimboomba House property. It was our Dairy Farm until around 2000 then we just ran cattle until we sold it in 2015.
@Rabs65 thank you indeed for your polite and invaluable feedback. (Makes a nice change from some other people's comments). I'm guessing you would have some fascinating family photos of the area going back many years.
In the sixties my Dad would take my Mum (and the kids) from Brisbane to the dances at the hall, the Pub was close by and he could get beer after 6.00pm.
Jimboomba used to be really well known for it's geological formations too. Gilgai's and also stone formations near the creeks that form great big round holes that bore vertically down into the rock face. You could put a hole leg down there all the way up to your hip joint and it still wouldn't touch the bottom (yes I'm speaking from experience!). We lived in Woodridge but we used to love swimming in the waterholes around here in the 70's, lost many a shoe and thong that way!
This was great, I grew up in Jimboomba and recognised where you were in almost every shot, but I still learned a lot about my hometown I didn't know. I went to school at Hills College, near where Jimboomba House is located now. The school was built by a Japanese businessman who bought the land from the Henderson family and used most of it to build a golf course that used to be the longest 18 hole golf course in the Southern Hemisphere. In high school, I had to walk the length of that long driveway you were filming on twice a week to get to the sports facilities at the front of the property for PE lessons, and there was a really aggro magpie that took the intrusion very personally.
I not long ago discovered your videos Rob and have been eagerly devouring one a night since. I’ve a great passion for history (my first degree was a BA (Hons) in Australian history) and am pleased to see that both yourself, and others, share it. Like you I’m also originally from Sydney and notwithstanding having lived in SE QLD for almost two decades, my knowledge of local history here is reasonably slim. You’ve helped ignite a passion to learn more. Thanks for this video. I’ve only been to Jimboomba once and that was to a farm on the outskirts to pick up my Kelpie cross Border Collie pup. I didn’t visit the township. I now know a lot more about the area in which Roy (my dog) was born. That can’t be a bad thing 😊
First real country town i went to in Australia. Dated a guy from Jimboomba back in the early Naughties! I am from Sweden so Jimboomba felt pretty exotic then.
@JennyEkberg I can imagine how much of a pleasant, even sublime culture shock Jimboomba must have been to you back then. And I think you are the first person to ever use the word exotic to describe Jimboomba!
I was raised in Jimboomba. Went to Jimboomba State School in the late 80s/Early 90s. My sport group house was called Henderson (green team). I did my primary school dance graduation at the Jimboomba hall. My Father still lives in Jimboomba near McLean and Logan Village. I did the brickwork under the Colonoal village. I think there is a sihohette of me standing under one of the houses in the picture. I lived on Matt Court, which was right off Mary Street and that little Brown Church.
Ay I was Henderson too!!! I grew up on Meadow Rd, off Camp Cable Rd. We moved away when I finished highschool during the bikie era due to a significant rise in violence and crime in the area. Our graduation was at Beenleigh, I only went there not long after you as we moved before VLAD.
Jimboomba house wasn’t moved until about 2008. The original site was east about 200 yards, not west, and the site is still visible, with an old Nissen hut, sheds, and barn.
The Norfolk pub originally was located down near the train station with the Hall. But after some serious flooding it was uprooted and hauled up the hill using Bullock teams to where The Jimboomba Country Tavern is located today. Shortly after the Hall was relocated between the Pub and the School. The Hall was then moved to Honoura St in 1985 to make way for the Jimboomba Shopping Centre. The area around the train station was originally the Jimboomba township.
@Wayne Williams Thank you for your feedback. Yes, most of that is covered in the video. However do you have a source for the location of the Norfolk Hotel? In other words, where did you get that info from?
@WalkaboutWithRob got that info from my school teacher, Mr Gary Begley when I was a student at Jimboomba State School. Infact, it was because the hall was being relocated to Honoura St that the topic came up about the original township location. The pub was moved first so the locals could resume drinking.
@@waynewilliams5530 Ah ok, thanks. It's curious though. I mean, the Norfolk Hotel was built in 1875, however the train station wasn't built until 1888. I wonder why the hotel would have been built down there, away from the main road (Mt. Lindesay Highway) when the main road was the main form of land transportation.
@@walkaboutwithrob Gary Begley was a teacher at Jimboomba School as Wayne Williams has mentioned. Now retired and in his mid 70s? is a wealth of knowledge due to his forebears having lived in the area since early days, I'm sure it would be beneficial for you to contact him.
@@raygregg6686 Mr Begley was an awesome teacher! He was a good friend of my mums (she was also in education) so we knew him quite well as kids. Definitely a good source of information, and yep, would be in his early/mid 70s now, he was around the same age as my mum.
My understanding was that Jimboomba meant "where the echo ends"...as in the valley opens up to floodplains here, so the echo's from the mountains "run out" when they reach Jimboomba.
@Brooke Hynch well that's another interpretation of the meaning of the name. Gosh, that makes five now! I wonder what the truth is? Thank indeed for the info!
I lived in the area when the heritage group were running the train. Unfortunately at that time there was a terrible drought and almost every time the train ran, a bushfire started. So the locals were obviously angry about this. I always assumed the burnt bridge was an ‘own goal’ from one of the bushfires they started.
Thankyou, very interesting! I live at cedarvale & didn't know all this, please keep going with these videos, most of us Australians aren't informed of this very important history ❤️
There is a preserved parcel of land - maybe several hectares - at the corner of Cedar Vale Road and Bluff Road that is representative of the sort of forest that covered much of this area. It is a very dense, dry forest and from tall trees dangle large vines similar to those that abound in thee Bunya Mountain region.
@walkaboutwithrob Yes true, it wasn't exactly "the place to be," so to speak, for many, many years. It didn't really have a good reputation, which I never understood.
@@shellebelle53 It's no better or no worse than pretty much anywhere else. I think it's just another case of a small, loud, anti-social group ruining the reputation of an otherwise fine town.
@walkaboutwithrob having grown up in Kingston with the tag of being from the wrong side of the freeway or being called a bogan from logan, I can totally relate. Small-minded people living in their small-minded ideals without really having any clue.
Um. Isn't that the track switch at 9:36? Or were you just showing an example of what you were looking for? At 9:47 you say you couldn't find it, but the video you show is only a single track, so you must have already passed the switch.
Imbil... my mother's side is Horne, Zillmann and Beckmann. That be my mother's family history there! I have many family stories of incest (just what happened back then), bean and pineapple farming, the train and how it was back in the day.... I love Gympie, compared to Jimboomba and the entire area including Beaudesert, it's much, much nicer. The entire Mary Valley is my home in my eyes. I still have family there. 8th generation. Most of us moved closer to Gympie or to Brisbane which is why I grew up at Jimboomba, but we returned. Would love to see an Imbil/Gympie video! Brooloo is fascinating too, especially the old train ruin site and all those awesome abandoned mines in amongst the hoop pines.
@@dingobonza apparently Brooloo was once a booming town. I met an older park ranger in Noosa who said his father ran the bank at Brooloo back in the day. They actually planned to have the rail line extend all the way to Kenilworth but they only got as far as Brooloo and then stopped the project. It’s a fascinating area.
Thise is very cool.. Love to know more re north maclean/Greenbank.. . We have train tracks behind us on lance rd which is only used now at nights for I think container company it be interesting why when etc it was built as different to the jim/beau line .. and we can be either greenbank or north maclean..feels neither !! I have one those trees in middle of paddock now I know what it is
The oldest "house" was the women's prison house, next to St Stephen's church, behind the GPO in Brisbane. Most of the towns in Queensland were named by the "mail drop" transports, Cobb & Co. They just asked "What's the name of this place"? Usually the reply was, "Well the local aborigines call it....".
Fun Fact: the original Camp Cable Road was built in a zig zag to make it harder for enemy bombers to hit trucks resupplying the camp if the war ever came south. At least that's what I was told by my parents, it's so hard to find sources about small town histories online, which is why videos like this are so valuable.
Was amazed to have this come up on my RU-vid as I live in JIMBOOMBA. This was so interesting and full of facts I didn’t know. Very sad that the pine forests were never replenished, and right now developers are destroying all the remaining ones in the area of yarrabilba, 10 mins east for more housing developments. I think if I had seen this when that started I would have rallied against it. Sorry to say but you do have a big part wrong, as Jimboomba is actually in Queensland about an hr and a half north of the border of NSW. Great video thanks so much from all us Jimboombarians….👍🏻😀
@Arch Angel thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated indeed. 😃 I hope you'll like my other videos. Yes, I do know that Jimboomba is in Queensland. If you watch the start of the video you will see why the town is described as being in NSW.
RE Railway Hotel that's not the history we were taught being a kid that grew up in Jimboomba. Railway Hotel at Beaudesert was originally at Jimboomba Junction, across the road from the country tavern.
I here they are looking into building a botanical gardens here in Jimboomba Brisbane city has many botanical gardens but Logan city dose not so its good council is looking into building a gardens here
Thanks Rob, I’ve been living here for nearly 3 years now and you’ve really given a great insight into this wonderful town. I really had no idea about it’s history.
