Albion in Brisbane has such a historical duality about it. Okay, this sort of thing happens sometimes. But just how did it actually occur here? #albion #brisbanehistory #walkaboutwithrob
I’ve lived in Brisbane all my life and you’ve changed my entire perception of it. I also now annoy all of my friends by telling them stories abouts the buildings we walk past on our way to the pubs.
It was lovely to meet you walking to make this video and thanks for stopping to have a chat with myself James and Petrea. Keep up the good work and we will keep liking. Cheers
I miss the flour mill. We lived at Albion in a shop/house directly next to the train station. I got to know all the train announcements by heart. Sadly the house was resumed to expand the train overpass.
@@lillisaski5310 dustin dollin filmed some skate footage there, he ollies off a roof there or something, and I miss the graffiti art pulling into the station there was always something different there.
I grew up around Albion ,my grandfather had a boatyard on the creek he did his apprenticeship at wrights boat yard on the creek in1910 , we lived at ascot & my second job was at the Albion flower mill in 70,s . I left Brisbane in 80,s so it’s all different now.
I used t live in Brisbane 30 yrs ago, n still love visiting. But it’s a big spread out city that I never saw all of it. So your videos are very interesting. Love that you’ve woven history and Aboriginal history into the walking tour ❤
always had a interesting vibe in Albion, whether its traversing the suburb on the way from someplace to another, it was the hub of many a cross river 20min old school drive which once was the norm from point a to point b in the city travels.. living in Windsor in the mid 90's showed me a working class soul to it.. holds many secrets does Albion from the old TAB building to the !st clubhouse of the Rebels MC, greyhounds & trotters, to the current home of womens cricket with a swinging deck and many a gripping cricket match at ABF & spiritual home of soccer here, Perry Park.
Interesting fact about the house 'Whytecliffe' - I went to St. Columbans College Albion (now moved to Caboolture) which is now the site of the big retirement estate on Sandgate Road on the hill. The building that served as the reception and Principal's office was Whytecliffe. As it, among quite a few other buildings at the college, was heritage listed, if yiu wander in there, you'll see it still stands to this day.
I also went to st columbans the first year in 1997 when it first opened and went coed. I was in Malloy building. Apparently they shifted the whole school brick by brick. Sadly st columbans has gone downhill from what I've heard.
My great grandfather, Olaf, came out from Norway in the late 1890's (1898?) and started a shop on what is now Hudson Road and was there for 40 years or so.
Something I always find fascinating and would love to see you do a video on eventually is how the local aboriginals and settlers lives mixed with each other. You've touched on it a few times and it's something I've never learnt about in school until watching your videos.
My introduction to Breakfast Creek was in 1958, when I was 11 years of age. My family moved from NSW when my dad was transferred here with his job at Ansett Transport Industries. I remember seeing horse trainers rowing dinghies up and down the creek with horses tethered behind, swimming. And the horses loved it. Albion Park racetrack was always referred to as "the creek". It had a sand track, where Doomben and Eagle Farm had turf tracks. Our first residence in Brisbane was in Cintra Road, Bowen Hills. I went to school at the Fortitude Valley school but I also had new mates who went to the Breakfast Creek school. I have wonderful memories from Breaky Creek days.
I was born in Brisbane in 1957 and grew up mainly in Ascot, yet I had never heard of the Frontier Wars, nor about the aboriginal encampments around Breakfast Creek. So much of Brisbane's history was never taught and probably still isn't taught to school children of the City. My brothers and I used to row along Breakfast Creek in an old tub pair during the mid-1970s. Thanks Rob, for another great history tour.
There is a video on RU-vid about the qld frontier wars it’s quite disturbing viewing but definitely worth a watch to understand the brutality of the British empire and they say the Vikings were brutal, it’s nothing compared to what they did in Qld
@@walkaboutwithrobmy grandmothers, great grandparents had a sheep run at what’s now called heritage park here in Logan in 1865, Joseph Shirley, a descendent from the Ettington park manor in England a lot of family history in that name and land it’s featured in the doomsday book and have had knights fight along side kings and also sheriff of Nottingham in 1420, as a history buff I really enjoy your channel especially the local history. Thankyou you
Besides the requisite fury at the treatment of Indigenous people (unavoidable chapters of every story) this was fascinating. I've wondered about the e gineering of those structures at Breakfast Creek, and now I know why they were built...imports! A bridge, no less. And what a connection to mother England in the name Albion. These things do reflect the length of time places have been settled, the homesickness was raw. And, my mother's mother's maiden name is Crosby so that was special to hear. Final note... so so true about the Bike! I went flying over my handlebars as if launching off a wall onto pavement... not fun, and I haven't cycled since. I do plan to get back I to it tho, and I hope you do too.
Thanks for another interesting video. Back in the late '80s working my first full time job at Bowen Hills, it was my 1st duty of the day to drive to the TAB building in Albion to pick up the form guides hot off the press so the boss could study it for the days races... Thanks again.
Nice walkabout around my old manor. From early 1974 to '83 we lived on Crosby Road. Dad and mum bought a house at the western end of the s-bends -- a small road that runs parallel to the main road, which I suspect used to be the original Gaythorn Road. You mentioned a series of different Albions -- where we lived is Albion Heights. Maybe just a wanky name that stuck. Our house fence line bordered Ascot on at the east and Hamilton at the south. Not sure if that's true but it might explain the "heights' added to Albion. We were teens in the 70's -- we used to buy our 'vegetation' in the Stradbroke Bar at the Albion Hotel, then partied at the Brekky Creek Hotel. Terrific memories I cannot recall haha. Thanks also for the graphics you showed. Quite a few I've not seen before.
I always knew the Chinese temple by the name "the Joss House". Which is how my father referred to it. Spent a lot of time in the area as a kid in the boaties precinct at the end of Argyll St around Tripcony's boat builders. There were some wartime structures around that area. Including a shed and wharf which I heard serviced american patrol boats. It survived until 74. After that the council came through and demolished a lot of stuff on the creek banks for flood mitigation works. Never knew there was a school near the pub. Thanks Rob.
Excellent video as usual. However, you might have missed the century old saddlery, C A Stephan & Sons, that was located on the Sandgate Rd & Frodsham St cnr of the Albion 5 Ways. You may remember they had a LifeSize horse statue mounted to the top of the building. Again thank you for your excellent content on RU-vid. Cheers.
Yes I did miss it. And the reason being is that I was not aware of the existence of this company at all, nor of the horse on top of the building. Albion is not an area I was familiar with. With that said, it is not possible for me to include everything that adds to the history of an area. I have to make harsh decisions about what to include, and what to omit. Otherwise, my videos would run for hours, and I'm sure no one wants to watch me for that long! 😂
This was really interesting Rob! Bonus about the quarry and fossils found- I literally just got back from the Outback yesterday and visited Winton & the fantastic dinosaur museum out there. When I simply could have looked in my own backyard here, lol!
I Rode some of that section a couple of weeks ago, as I used to live in Wooloowin. I was amazed how clean Breakfast Creek is now, compared to the 60's and 70's. It was nice to meet you on the Riverside bikeway today!
Loving the proper stuff, bro!!! Your growing inclusion of info about the indigenous people into these stories is most excellent, IMHO 👍😎👍 All this info about how this town has changed over the years is absolutely awesome!!!! Thanks for what you do, sir 👍
I always enjoy your videos and you making me laugh😂 As someone who lived in East Sussex England for over 40yrs, your picture of the White Cliffs Dover is in fact the Seven Sisters cliffs in East Sussex. Some 76miles away from Dover. I know your Australian viewers probably couldn’t care less🤣but I do!!!🤣. Sorry about that!!🤣
Went to school at the old Columbans college. Under the Whytecliffe building where the brothers lived was the old ammunition tunnel that fed the gun all the way down at the storey bridge.
My Great Grandfather A.D.Campbell owned Albion Bakery which was next door to the Albion Hotel around 1900. A mural of it features on the walls of the Wooloowin Station and often shows up in historic Albion photos.
The old TAB a building was purchased by the new Queensland Fire Department (former QFES) because they are leaving the Kedron Emergency Service Complex as their new Headquarters.
Thanks Robert that was a great one. Im gonna visit Breakie hotel more often instead of bypassing the area. But yeah wasnt the hotel on the Midnight oil song your dreamworld and it was up for sale.
Across the road from the adult shop my grandad patrick osullivan ran a butcher shop ,it was demolished in the late seventies to make way for a bigger road which never happened,(you can stoll see the stairs leading into the shop partof the shop foundationncan still be sern)my mum worked at theTAB for 20 years
I love your videos Rob, you are incredibly funny and entertaining. I was hoping you would mention the Rebels club house that was burnt down and rebuilt. A piece of our colourful history. That in itself could give you enough content for an entire episode.
In the late 90's there was a unofficial brothel in the then rented flats at the old Albion fire station. We had one mate that always needed a lift home from their, it was even known as the "fire" station lol
I lived in Albion from 1972 to 1982. Bale St - and my Dad continued to live there until he passed in 2018. I remember the shops next to the station and the kids my age (ish) who lived there. The Salvos were on the corner of Albion Rd and Lane St until 2003
I could have called out to you & said hello out of my window during this walkabout if I'd seen you 😂 I'm 45 & lived Northside my whole life, & this was a great reminder of things I'd forgotten. Like I remember when that little road that runs beside maccas was called Old Sandgate Road. Now it's just Sandgate road. I often walk/drive around & notice how many lovely old buildings there are in Albion & now I know a little of the history! I didn't realise that I could walk to the Brekky Creek if I wanted to as well. Seeing you walk it, I realise it's not a huge walk lol. I couldn't walk back, but I could earn my wines by walking there! The old post office building is similar to the old post office building on sandgate road at clayfield too. There must have been an accepted style. Thanks for this! So interesting as always!
Its pretty awesome to watch your videos and see the history behind the area's that ive grown up and travelled through and never had second thoughts about said area.
Great stuff as always Rob. You should head west sometime. I think Toowong, Taringa, St Lucia and Indooroopilly offer a lot of very interesting history.
Yep the bridge has an interesting history with families living in it, and the development of Shoppingtown in the ‘70s was a big change to the area. Look forward to it.
Hi Rob I lived in Albion wooloowin for 10 years orso it was very nice and handy to everything, im currently in scrappy auckland returning soon tho as I love brissy so much thanks Rob.
Great video and history Rob.....the Breakfast Creek (the creek itself) hasn't changed much in 100 years...just some concrete embankments near the pub. Better story than those poncy suburbs like Fig Tree Pocket.
i'm not even 5 mins in and i've already learnt something new. i'd assumed that Aboriginal aquaculture complexes weren't limited to Budj Bim in Victoria. i had no idea that there'd been one in Brisbane! it'd be awesome if the council commemorated it (and other sites that definitely exist around the city).
oh, just had a thought: have you read/heard about The Last Gundir? it's a historical fiction novel set in the years before the europeans arrived. the author, Nayef Din, isn't Aboriginal, but he did a lot of research and consulted extensively with the Turrbal people and it's apparently really accurate. i can't attach links to youtube comments, but if you google "The Last Gundir" you'll be able to find it. it's also in the brisbane libraries.
in a way my life was kind of centred around that pub the breakfast creek hotel but i never knew how that ghost person died ,,well use hear all kinds of stories but now i actually know .
Amazing work Rob, would you consider doing New Farm and the Fortitude Valley with its history including the sugar refinery, New Farm Park and the history of the Fitzgerald Inquiry?
Love your videos so much! I love learning about local history :) If it is at all possible, could you please do a video about Caboolture/morayfeild? The whole area gives me weird haunted vibes, like something bad once happened there. Ive always wondered if there is any reason to that, I can't find anything personally. Keep doing what your doing! Thankyou so much!
Hey rob, found your channel a while back and now I can’t stop watching it aha, I was wondering if you could maybe do a video about the history around the Ormeau/Pimpima area as I would be very intrigued to learn more about around the area I live in. Love the work you do and keep it up
Ya- wah- garrah is how it is pronounced , I see you have Ray Kerkhoves book as well. I believe the larger camp was up at Crosby Park where the fresh water lagoons were at Albion Park. The Turrbal ppl were initiates of the Jagera not a seperate nation.
very good document history. I wonder why australian television dont educate australians programes like this about australia? Many countries in europe they show a lot of history of thier own country and towns and they always have done that for years and years to educate the locals and to let them learn the history. if brisbane ever did shows and programes like this on the local channel they teach locals and people of brisbane the history of suburbs and everything. Last time i ask someone whos an australian and i ask you remember World Expo 88 ? and the reaction was they dont no nothing about it nor they dont no what it is.. this is how you can see many australians are not very educated about the truth of australia and your suburbs and cities... Maybe the attitutes are kind of like they only knows whats might happen tomorow. BUT THEY DONT NO the past history which is a missing point Again another issue for low educated on australian television. By the way australian television covers 80% everything to do wtih UK and American programing with very little made and to do with made in australia. Think about it!
