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Sydney History
Australia
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2021
Sydney History is a TH-cam channel looking at events, culture, icons and technologies that have come to shape Sydney into what it is today. There are many stories in this great city of our that are worth telling. Here I hope to tell a few and relate them back to the modern day.
Centrepoint Tower, Sydney Tower, TV Commercials from the 1980s.
Sydney Tower or Centerpoint Tower is the second tallest tower in the southern hemisphere. Standing at 309 metres Centrepoint Tower opened it's doors to the public in 1981.
To coincide the opening and advertise it's observation deck there have been several entertaining TV commercials from the 1980s. The first one features a catchy song by Petula Clarke called I know a place although it has been adapted.
Sydney Tower is seen as the centre piece of the Sydney skyline.
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To coincide the opening and advertise it's observation deck there have been several entertaining TV commercials from the 1980s. The first one features a catchy song by Petula Clarke called I know a place although it has been adapted.
Sydney Tower is seen as the centre piece of the Sydney skyline.
🚀 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ON PATREON
◆ Patreon - www.patreon.com/sydneyhistory
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City Of Millions, NFSA, Sydney History, 1964 Construction of Modern Sydney, AMP Tower.
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City of Millions was a NSW Government film in 1964 used to promote the development and construction of the city of Sydney. The documentary covers a time in Sydney's history where the birth of the construction of modern high rise building and skyscraper had just begun. In this documentary we are lucky enough to see "Sydney life" in full colour with automobiles, computer technology and a full man...
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...
Queen Victoria Building Sydney, Shopping Arcade, QVB Sydney
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Sydney’s Queen Victoria building has stood majestically for over 120 years. The QVB's Romanesque style of architecture stands as a testament to the level of detail and craftsmanship of a by gone era. The heritage listed Queen Victoria Building stands three stories tall, with it’s great central dome rising 60 metres into the air, which stood proud against the late 19th century Sydney skyline. In...
John Bradfield, Sydney Harbour Bridge, City Circle, the Father of Modern Sydney.
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John Job Crew Bradfield was a engineering genius who left his mark on the city of Sydney in the early 20th Century. His visionary schemes and leading roles in iconic projects like the Sydney Harbour bridge and the city underground railway has firmly cemented his place in history, as the father of modern Sydney. But who is the man behind the engineering legend? PART 1 - City Circle Sydney CBD - ...
John Bradfield's City Circle Underground Railway Sydney, Sydney Trains.
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The City Circle was a transport plan ahead of it time, and the brainchild of visionary transport planer John Job Crew Bradfield who became known as the father of modern Sydney. Everyday 10s of thousands of Sydney sider benefit from John Bradfield's railway legacy as they’re shuttled by underground railway beneath the city streets. PART 1 - City Circle Sydney CBD - th-cam.com/video/TfAKWIb9-MI/w...
State Rail Authority TV Commercials from the 1980s & 90s, Sydney Trains.
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State Rail Authority during the 1980s and 90s deployed a TV advertisement campaign focused on the modernisation of the Sydney Trains network, value for money and convenience when compared to personalised motor transport and safety utilising the New South Wales Crimestoppers hotline. Retro TV advertisements from the 1980s and 1990s 🚀 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ON PATREON ◆ Patreon - www.patreon.com/syd...
The Eastern Suburbs Railway...A reality 1979 Sydney Trains
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The Eastern Suburbs Railway or ESR cost 168 million dollars and ushered in a new era of public transport for the people of the eastern suburbs of Sydney. The underground railway starts at Redfern and goes through Central, Town Hall, Martin Place, Kings Cross, Edgecliff and Bondi Junction Station and is now operated by Sydney Trains. The new state of the art system uses "space age" signaling and...
You could tell the difference between men and women in those days
🎉excellent 👌 great factual history 👏 winner 🏆 is Sydney!!
Lucky it's on film we that remember are almost gone ,
Any video that advocates the destruction of heritage is to be questioned.
The car centricity shown here is absolutely disgusting...short and narrow-minded. What dumbass thought following the example of the Americans was a good idea. For those of you who complain about traffic in sydney today...you only have yourselves and your addiction to cars to blame Invest in better public transport.
What happened to our booming country? Greed.
🎉😂sounds daggy cool 😎 but I love it❤
Nice railway history.
Love the history.
Thank you it's a great history.
Nice to remember the old days in Sydney .I Love it.❤
I remember waiting on a platform with my mum in the early 1980's at town hall station and seeing that ther were no tracks layed beside the other side of the platform. I asked my mum what that side of the platform was for and she said it was for a new rail line that would service the eastern suburbs of sydney. On a seperate issue, i think that Circular Quay station and the bradfield expressway buily above it forms a major visual block between the city and the harbour. I hope a future govt rebuilds this section for rail at ground level or underground and just deletes the now underused roadway.
In 1955 my Dad was promoted to a new role in Sydney from his hometown Perth and took up a new office in Unilever House located at 1 Macquarie St. Its the very tall building next to where the Opera House was built. I wasn't born yet but Dad came home from his first day and told Mum how his new office was on the 10th floor looking at the Harbour Bridge !! Dad was aged 27yo. and was the Australian Sales Manager of Rexona Ltd a Unilever company. In 1970 I was 10yo and the 200year anniversary of Capt Cook meant a huge firework night on the harbour. My family watched it from within Unilever House.
Sorry to say, but when you show the picture of the men who made these things happen and left real legacies for us all - and then compare that to footage of modern times - yikes I feel's that we have lost some spirit and or passion ❤🙏 Oh, and a Great well-researched video too mate! well done!! 💪
Excellent 🎉
It made me sad to see how much manufacturing we have lost 😞
1964, I was 5y.o korean boy Seoul sth korea Now, I am 65y old Australian Sydney Australia
2024, not one Sydney Trains advert !?
3:48 I remember that ad.
My sympathies go out to the survival environment.
If John Bradfield was still alive today, he would be building a tunnel through the Blue mountains starting at Lapstone and exiting at Lithgow. This would include a 4 lane expressway and 2 railway lines
Shame they didnt keep going. Bondi Beach, Coogee, Maroubra . As the buses to these areas are being cut , some other option is needed. Not sure the lightfail will be extended. It solves no public transport issues. If it terminated at La Perouse and East Gardens then yes. Hopefully Metro is an option..
Maybe Hunter Street terminal station will be extended in the 2023s as a solution.
Does anyone remember the blue lights that were installed to mark where the stream was?
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.
@@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.
These videos are brilliant, keep them coming!
Thank you. Will do my best. 👌
glad they didn't eventially raze the crown jewel of Sydney's historic buildings.
Agreed. But there were many others that we lost. Might do a video on them one day. 🤔
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What's the bridge street connection?
The stream flowed out to the harbour, so to cross it they built a bridge which became known as bridge street.
How & Why did they build it?!?!?!?! Horse & cart 😂 No electricity! Where did they get the stone from?!?!?!?! How did they get the stone to the site?!?!?! How did they cut the stone with no power tools?!?!?! How did they get the massive stones that high?!?!?! There was hardly any people here?!?!?! Cmon peeps LETS USE SOME CRITIAL THINKING! WE DID NOT BUILD THEM! THEY WERE FOUND!
The stone came from a quarry in Pyrmont and was brought to site with horse and cart. There may not have been power tools, but there were tools, large stream powered digging machines etc.
@@SydneyHistory That the indoctrinated horseshit we all learned in primary school! Enough with the lies! A tiny amount of critical thinking and you will understand none of what you said it possible! Stop with the indoctrination/lies!
@@SydneyHistory You cant honestly believe the bs you just wrote?!?!?! Have a look at modern machines trying to move 100000 tonnes of stone and pillars! A horse and cart! Seriously! Wake up! Lies! Clearly! Critical thinking! Try it!
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Longer than 120 years 🤪😂🤪😂🤪😂🤪😂🤪😂🤪
I attended a wedding reception in the tea room up the top of the building, 3 years ago. I’m from the central coast between Sydney and Newcastle so I’d never been to the Queen Victoria building before then. Or done much exploring around Sydney city. I can’t even imagine council wanting to rip down such a rich building. I really did feel as though I had stepped back into another time. They don’t make buildings like that nor have they in my life time. Thank goodness it wasn’t demolished and I got the chance to experience it! ✨
The reception must have been quite the experience. We are very lucky to still have it today.
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What a great Australian. Thankyou for your amazing contributions to my beautiful home town Mr. Bradfield. When they had Could Do Thinking .
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
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.
Modern stations with bright spacious surroundings @2:05 - looks like a cheap 1960'5 sci fi movie set
I see your point, but I like it. It was the style of the day much the like bridge of Enterprise.
So Jol Sol
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...
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.
love the free car park for commuters lol
LOL
Those magnetic tickets were not introduced for the rest of the line for ages after
True, maybe 20 years later.
I'm a South Aussie, but I can remember the red/green double arrow... Mostly because of some graffiti... Someone had realised the top (red) arrow looked like a capital "L" & the bottom (green) arrow looked like a "7" so they sprayed a sign with *ate//days a week* And the sign now read: _Late_ _7 days a week_
As for those who wish to dispose of the Circular Quay structure, pull your heads in. I've heard about it a lot in other railway vids. There is nothing wrong with that structure. When I occasionally get to Sydney, I make a beeline by train for circular quay and know when I'm looking through the carriage windows at the 'coat hanger', I know I'm in Sydney, about to board one of the real Manly ferries, the Freshwater class vessels. Forget those junks called the Emerald. I went on one last trip to see what all the fuss was about, and was very disappointed. Was lucky to return on the Collaroy...one of those wonderful real Manly ferries. Nothing romantic about those Emeralds but there certainly is about the Freshies...but that is getting away from the City Circle. But the Quay system works. No idea the idiots want to get rid of the highway on top. Must be a horrible bee in their bonnets. When I get to Sydney from Adelaide, I drive to my brother's house and he will drop me at Campbelltown station, and have a nice ride from there to the Circle. It's almost like a pilgramage...lol. Being born in Sydney, I've seen a lot of changes everytime I go back. Stuff that people in Sydney and suburbs take for granted. I do drive back to Dulwich Hill, my town as a lad for a look see, especially my old high school as well. Now a school for performing arts. Which was originally a high school at the top end near Seaview St. and Primary School at the Fairfowl street end. I went to those same buildings all my school life, due to the fact, the property changed to a co-ed school in 1965 (contrary to the school's website saying it was 1966. I should know, I was one of the first 1st year students there in '65. Ahhh. Memories.
It's all talk, it will never go underground. If it did it would all be for looks and zero transport benefit. Putting it underground wouldn't bring anymore tourists to the Quay anyway. But I would have been nice if they implemented the 1900 Circular Quay station design. That would have looked like the jewel in the crown for the Quay. Also due to that design the expressway above would likely not have been built.
If opening up the old tunnels stopped the damned graffitti..it was a great idea. Otherwise it is wasted space. I remember the days the city circle running underneath the Mark Foys building where my grandmother worked.
Yes the disused tunnels should be put to use even if it is just an underground pedestrian walkway connecting St James and Martin Place Stations. Imagine in 2030 being able to walk from Barangaroo all the way to Hyde Park underground. It would just need a few minor 10 or 20 metre connections.
Mike that is a great video. Do you know anything about busby's bore ?
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.
Thanks Gladys Berejiklian for actually accomplishing the job no other NSW Premier had accomplished. Sydney's transport system and the city of Sydney are world-class.
If you are referring to the metro, yes it will be great once it opens next year.
Sydney's public transport is on the way to being "world class" but it still has a long way to go! From my experience I would put London, Moscow, Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, St Petersburg, and Istanbul much further up the list than Sydney. I'm old enough to remember catching trams from the underground platforms at Wynyard to Chatswood.
I wouldn't call it world class just yet, we absolutely need a better tram system, considering what Sydney used to have, and some bus accessibility issues that need to be sorted out before we can call anything world class (like actually showing the stops on the screens rather than a useless logo)
excellent production
Thank you.
Shame that they haven’t done any significant upgrades to the line since it opened…it can’t even take the Waratah trains because the transformers aren’t rated for it!!
Agree, they should have extended it to the beach in the year 2000 plan or further on to Coggee.
Back when Sydney actually had a train network to be proud of. Back when everyone was positive, forward thinking and future proofing. Nothing like today.
factory work is honorable work for anyone, The Lima agreement sent these jobs to Asia
the commo Jack Mundey saved the rocks and in this case he was correct.
Loved the transport in Sydney. I haven’t been to Sydney since 2009. Is Town Hall still really confusing for a visitor? Back then it was paper thickets and being able to get one ticket for trains and ferries was great. I assume contactless (card/Apple/Google) is now a thing.
Yes, contactless or Opal card tap on tap off. The station concourse has change significantly, much more clearer, removed clutter like shops in there and opened it up for pedestrians. I would say it has improved greatly.
050.9 c/litre 0:19
4:30 WOW!
Yeah, Wynyard Station looks pretty crazy like that. Both Wynyard and Town Hall Station were built to look like a New York Subway station. Where as St James and Museum were based off London Underground.