This documentary explores not just the history of Chermside, it also looks at the role Gympie Road has played in its development #chermside #brisbane #queensland
Correction: At 12:36 I mention I am approaching the site of the old Brisbane Cash and Carry. That building was actually on the other side of Gympie Road.
Thank you i grew up in the area of Chermside West. i am of the age to know 3 quarters of what you chat about i lived other side of the roundabout until my 20's. there was a tannery in that area near the roundabout till 1967 I think. .i remember the trams and steam trains in town as well and the green buss that you could catch to school. my early life there . and I worked at prince charles hospital for 8 years.
In 1958, my mother was admitted to the Chermside Hospital, as it was then, for Tuberculosis, and spent about 6 months there before transferring to the old South Brisbane Hospital, that became the PA. Every weekend, my father would take my brother, two sisters and I out to Chermside by tram, and we would play in the playground while he went up to the hospital to visit mother. At the end of his visit he would come back to the playground and get us to look up the hill, to see our mother up there, waving wildly down at us. That episode in my family's history had a profound affect upon us all.
I grew up in Chermside - 1950's, 60's and 70's. A bit sad to see how it's ended up, a barren concrete high rise jungle. Unrecognisable to me today. Kittyhawk Drive with its souless multi storey apartments was all bushland when I was a kid.
Thanks for this Rob, love learning the deeper history of Bris through your videos. My partner and I often ride along kedron Brooke on the e bike, all the way up to Redcliffe sometimes, through chermside and kedron, but often through the wetlands in boondal and nudgee. It’s so beautiful out there at sunset, and I feel lucky to be so close to such hidden gems in my opinion. This is great history to finally learn about an area I’ve lived in most of my life.
Chermside has a big hole in my heart as my sister and my self went every weekend to the Chermside Chest Hospital to see our mum but children under 16 years old weren't aloud in hospital grounds, my mum spent 7 years in hospital there about ,Mum past away there in 1963 i was 13 years old my sister was 12 years old , have photos of her now. Am 75 years old now
I`ve just discovered your channel today. It was wonderful seeing all the old photos, and hearing the history of Chermside. I was born in Nundah in 1942, and grew up in Wavell Heights. I had my first job in the drive in shopping centre on weekends and school holidays in 1956. I just can`t believe the changes in the area, I moved away from Brissy in 1974. I really didn`t recognize it at all. Thank you so much for your research, and for making this video. I`m looking forward to watching all of your videos.
Excellent video, refreshing to see some intelligent content on this platform! Would like to see a part 2 on the hills district, particularly my suburb Arana Hills 👍 keep up the great work Rob. I imagine there is significant time spent researching and editing, from a pleased viewer, you should know it is well worth the effort.
Fabulous documentary Rob, thank you so much. Moved to the area nearly 5 years ago and have always wondered about the history. 7th Brigade park on Murphy rd is absolutely beautiful. Huge playground, nice tracks and lots of wildlife. Lots of complaining on here 😂 I'm from Darwin and you all have no idea how good you have it. There are so many fantastic parks here, so many playgrounds, puplic toilets, always fun for families. Darwin has hardly any parks, and the ones they do have are constantly vandalised, full of broken glass, litter and drunks.
Hi Rob.That was interesting to see Chermside in the old days. That beautiful home, Bernie Bray, should never have been demolished. The architectural style was amazing. You are absolutely right about needing more trees.
Thanks Rob, really interesting. I’ve lived in Chermside West for 14 years on land that was once Basnett’s dairy farm and subdivided mid to late 50’s. There are some remnants of an old Cobb & Co site to the rear of Vellnagels blacksmith shop. It’s in the bush, you have to go looking, council used to have small sign there for the nerdy history buffs like me 😂
Thanks Rob for your comment at the end about the trees. Chermside is an awful commercial hotbox! Council knows about 'heat maps' of areas, and rather than make areas habitable for people, they do nothing!
I worked for Myer and my first boss was working at Chermside when, in 1972, a Woolworths employee left a record player going overnight which started a fire that burnt the place down.
The PMG Technicians Training School used to be in Banfield Street, but it got swallowed up by the shopping centre expansions. Another great video Rob. Thanks for all the effort you put into producing them. They have so much interesting historical info.
Catnip for criticism : The first supermarket was opened in Memphis, Tennessee in 1916 by Clarence Saunders. As the groceries were bought on a cash-only basis (a cash and carry) the incentive to shop there was cheaper prices due to self-service .The Chermside Shopping Centre was the first car-centred shopping mall to open outside the United States. I did not know about George Marchant's critical funding of the temperance Canberra Hotel. So this video is full of interesting social history. Thank you for your efforts. You are not lazy, Rob. I am appreciative.
……the first BCC ie Brisbane Cash & Carry ‘supermarket’ was opened at West End in the mid-1950’s. We lived at Highgate Hill, & went there to shop. It was soooo different taking items’ from shelves’ yourself, & putting them into a wheeling basket, to go to the cashier, & pay. Mum had string bags’ to put groceries’ in, if not, large paper bags’ were supplied. It meant we didn’t have to shop across the road, from home………
Loving you looking at some of the old bridges in Brisbane along your travels. 25 years ago i use to work for BCC and was the northside inspector of Bridges. If you look under bowan bridge near the royal brisbane you can see how they have expanded it over the years to accommodate more lanes. The bridge/s on Gympie road running over Downfall creek shows the different styles of bridges used over the past 80 odd years. If you get up to the gap check out the arch bridges on waterworks road and how they have added to them.
I grew up just up the road in Bald Hills and our company. We've been working out. There as one of the contractors on the road. There's a tramline under the ground and a bridge and even an old horse carriage were found. Very interesting place.
1. The roundabout at Hamilton and Webster was the first roundabout in Brisbane. 2. Gympie Rd is a declared road, which means it’s up to the Dept of Transport and Main Roads to plant trees along it, not Council.
7th brigade park before it was made into an army camp was part of Alonzo Sparkes paddock, I think it was for his slaughter yard as he was a butcher. There was another camp i think located near to where Prince Charles Hospital is now that was responsible for receiving and translating enemy radio broadcasts during the war. And the work there was only recently recognised due to the secrecy surrounding it finally being lifted.
Thanks Rob, great video, learnt a lot. What a tragedy that Burnie Brae wasn’t preserved for its historical value. We live in West Chermside and it’s really terrific- so close to everything. Our house would have been built around the time of that roundabout photo. We are five minutes or less to Westfield, the hospital, Qld transport, etc etc, whilst not too far into the city (just 15 mins), and only a few traffic lights to the Bruce Highway so very easy to “escape” to the Sunny Coast … (as long as it’s not peak hour.) Having said that, this constant increase in population and high rises along Kitty Hawk drive etc is rather sad. They call it progress, but is it really?
What a great video. Apparently I have a 94 year old aunt living on Hamilton Road who has been there for about 70 years. It looks like such a barren landscape with no trees around. Just awful. On another note, Merry Christmas to you and yours Rob and a wonderful, prosperous New Year 😊🎉
@shellebelle53 thank you Shell! It was a long hot day of filming for this one, but I'm more or less happy with how it turned out. Best wishes for a happy and safe Xmas to you. Any plans for New Years?
@walkaboutwithrob it must have been scorching but it was a great video. Thank you for an enjoyable year of watching your videos. No plans for me for New Year...I figure if I wake up in the morning of January 1st...it's a good year 🤣 How about you?
Woooooowwwww! I used to go guppie hunting on the bridge on the roundabout. Had a friend that lived further up Webster Road and we would get chased by bulls :). Thank You ROB :)
Thanks for your work Rob. As a Brisbaneite I appreciate your efforts in identifying sites I visit regularly but have had no appreciation of their history. Please keep up the good work!
I grew up going to the old brick Chermsiede Uniting Church on the corner of Hamilton and Rode. One of the parishioners was a descendant of the Hamiltons. I remember climbing up behind the old organ after sunday school. The church was amalgamated with the Kedron Uniting Church and took over the old Chermside State School site, which the church outbid McDonalds for. The church's thrift shop was the only remaining school building (if its still there). The two churches organs were amalgamated into a new organ in the new church.
Isn't it funny, as a kid in school I absolutely hated history but now I'm a bit older ........ I love these remarkable history lessons you are uploading. Thanks Rob! 😃❤✌ Now if only my school teachers had your sense of humour, I might have learned something. 📚
I grew up in lutwyche but moved to chermside 5 years ago. I love chermside. Im very familiar with the area now. I live just near merchant park. Enjoyed learning about the history of chermside.
The missing history is that there was a housing commission camp where the WW2 camp was. People lived in the huts and under canvas until their house was built. This was around 1948.... My mother lived in that camp as a 5 yo. Somehow this history seems gone from the record ....
Chermside is flush with history. As a we called it in our teens "Germside" it is far from that now just like you said needs trees and a bit more gentrification. Great video Rob!!!
A interesting area to look it is around Warner , Joyner from my understanding there was a lot of usa bases in this area including long range listening station
After the round about was built, for a time the old straight road on Hamilton was still there, and my boyfriend and I would drive across it, avoiding the roundabout.
Good work Rob, so interesting! However just a few incidentals need qualifying with Chermside Historical Society to be really correct. (I'd love to know why it was called Deadman's Gully tho! There's a small Deadman's Gully Park near Aldi's, and from there it crosses Gympie Rd and heads over towards under the Shopping Centre before entering Downfall Ck).
Ah. The Canberra Hotel. Opposite "The People's Palace" and "Central Station". There was a solicitor working in that building and was the last to leave before it was demolished. He had a long lease, and refused to leave without compensation. They turned off the power and elevators, and an extra suit was issued to the new developer. In its dieing days, "Sensoria" (a punk rock venue) was hosted on the top floor after moving from the "Curry Shop" in George Street. It was the only gig at the Canberra to ever serve alcohol.
Lived in Sydney almost all my life. Been here in Redbank Plains going on 5yrs now, and I've learnt so much about Brisbane already, in only 5 months. Some of your quips crack me up. It's like dry humour 10:38 "where babies could sing arias" - 15:34 "Amblience" 🤣😭 Also, loving the Xmas balls hanging from the trees. Thanks Rob, you're a treasure to the internet. Wishing you the merriest Xmas with many more to come. Have a wonderful day tomorrow mate.
Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback and kind words. Not sure if you've seen it yet, but I did a video on the small town of Esk. I think you might enjoy it.... and merry Xmas to you as well!
I wonder if the Milne Bay Memorial Library & Research centre at 12:02 relates to Milne Bay In PNG? Unusual to locate it in Chermside? Another great video. Keep them coming.
Another great video, thanks. It is always infuriating to hear how major heritage structures such as Burnie Brae were demolished by those who had no sense of history.
Yes, the tram lines were visible in 2023 during Gympie Rd construction works. As the works move closer to the Hamilton Rd intersection, one might see tram lines unearthed during construction in 2024.
Duly noted Brisbane City council Chermside needs more Streetscaping, i agree with Rob, thx for the tour i didnt know the roundabout had a part off road history i will have to check it out nowa days i think we wont less traffic lights on Gympie road i would even hasard a guess that like all highways that went thru towns chermside was a popular shops by the road now with everything under one roof at Westfields maybe allot of roadside buildings can be demod for street scapeing
I saw someone comment that Gympie Rd is a "declared" road and tree planting is up to the Department Of Main Roads. Might explain why council is only planting along minor streets.
I have fond memories of the old Chermside library (and its musky smell!)... Thinking back to my childhood in the 80s, there used to be a Salvation Army Thrift Store in that area behind the library you describe as a "School of Arts" hall, so I suppose that's what became of it, before it was demolished entirely. Thanks for the historical insights into my old neighbourhood. Edit: @15:13 - I can remember my teacher in Grade 4 and 5, Tess Quilter, saying that the old bridge in the middle of that roundabout used to be the cause of many accidents. Apparently, it was not uncommon to see a car flipped up on its side.
Hey Rob, I could not agree with you more about the need to plant more trees, hot, noisy place with too much traffic. If it was not for the well maintained parks, the area would be a lot worse.
👋🏻 thankyou for this very informative vid 😊 Have a great day and Merry Christmas and happy new year 🎄🌆 my cousin got married in that brick church on the corner of Hamilton and Gympie Rds 😊 And in the "70's my dad used to play cricket on Marchant Park Used to love going to the Dawn cinema 😞 its gone
great video, sent link to Sen Rennick suggesting his office address should be thunder bolt vs kittyhawk, and chat to local councillors plenty, about trees, they did massive plantings along kedron brook as park of millions plant by BCC, will send this re last suggestion, and reckon the empty post office could be the creatives collective location i was looking for, but probably dreaming vs doing..
Thanks again Rob for such an informative walk. Used to work opposite Marchant Park and was lucky enough to overlook the park from the my fifth floor office cubical but tore down the pine trees and made a larger parking area. I still had a desk with a view across the The road and to the entrance gates for at least five years. Have an amazing Christmas and New years Rob, take a relaxing break. We look forward to 2024's new adventures. Cheers Sheila 🤶🎄🍻
Now that you posted this, I actually remember living just north of the corner of Webster and Gympie Roads for a few weeks. There was a Service Station on the corner, and we lived next door on Gympie Road
Had the same thought after watching this one. That's my stomping ground. The history of Tom Petrie is really interesting. He was born in Brisbane and was friends with the aboriginals. One of the few successful peaceful cohabitation stories in Australia. There's a statue memorial to him in the local Catholic Primary School. That's the site of his original home. It's on top of the hill opposite the station. Catholics make me laugh. They find the highest hill in a locality, buy it, and build a church on it. I always used to think they didn't believe God when he said he wouldn't flood the world again. Rob taught me in this video that it was for visibility. 😂
@@Lisa-x3n5x hey hey neighbourino!! Quite the same here, grew up around here. Got my head stuck in the fence on beeville rd when I was a little tacker waiting for the old man to come home from work. 🤣 but yes. The history is rich within Petrie. 🤙🏽
Self-service back in those days meant you picked it off the shelf yourself and put it in a trolley, as opposed to a staff member gathering your goods for you. Staff still took your money.
That was called the Slacks Creek lion park and for many years a concrete TEE PEE was all that was left, then in the early 80s it became a water park with a big tap at the top of the hill and slides coming down the hill..
Another interesting video. In Barakula State Forest there is a Cuthroat Creek and a Hellhole Creek. There must be some storey behind this but I soppose it is probabily lost to time. Whoever named them can't have been too impressed with the place.
Ok, now someone PLEASE help settle this (internal) debate that I am having- is it pronounced "Road" Road, or "Roadee" Road? Some really interesting history there Rob, really enjoyed that- and safe & merry Christmas to you!
Thought you could post a picture of the miles of parked cars stretching from Aspley right up to the Gateway merge every afternoon, oh hang on that's just traffic we have to put up with every afternoon..
Correction: At 12:36 I mention I am approaching the site of the old Brisbane Cash and Carry. That building was actually on the other side of Gympie Road.
Thank you i grew up in the area of Chermside West. i am of the age to know 3 quarters of what you chat about i lived other side of the roundabout until my 20's. there was a tannery in that area near the roundabout till 1967 I think. .i remember the trams and steam trains in town as well and the green buss that you could catch to school. my early life there . and I worked at prince charles hospital for 8 years.
The smell of that tanneree wafted throo my high school Wavell and put the head master in a cane cutting viscious mood.kevin patrick oconnor the c word
I'd love to see a history video of Gympie
In 1958, my mother was admitted to the Chermside Hospital, as it was then, for Tuberculosis, and spent about 6 months there before transferring to the old South Brisbane Hospital, that became the PA. Every weekend, my father would take my brother, two sisters and I out to Chermside by tram, and we would play in the playground while he went up to the hospital to visit mother. At the end of his visit he would come back to the playground and get us to look up the hill, to see our mother up there, waving wildly down at us. That episode in my family's history had a profound affect upon us all.
I would love to see history of Toombul some day too!
The site where maccas is on Hamilton road was originally a large saw mill then became Byrne ford
These docos are getting better and better! JUST FANTASTIC = Thanks Rob
I grew up in Chermside - 1950's, 60's and 70's. A bit sad to see how it's ended up, a barren concrete high rise jungle. Unrecognisable to me today. Kittyhawk Drive with its souless multi storey apartments was all bushland when I was a kid.
But that’s supposedly “progress”. It’s happening everywhere.
Thanks for this Rob, love learning the deeper history of Bris through your videos. My partner and I often ride along kedron Brooke on the e bike, all the way up to Redcliffe sometimes, through chermside and kedron, but often through the wetlands in boondal and nudgee. It’s so beautiful out there at sunset, and I feel lucky to be so close to such hidden gems in my opinion.
This is great history to finally learn about an area I’ve lived in most of my life.
@@AlisonReacts thanks!
Chermside has a big hole in my heart as my sister and my self went every weekend to the Chermside Chest Hospital to see our mum but children under 16 years old weren't aloud in hospital grounds, my mum spent 7 years in hospital there about ,Mum past away there in 1963 i was 13 years old my sister was 12 years old , have photos of her now. Am 75 years old now
You need to come up and show everyone 'Where the hell is Burpengary?' 😂 Keep it up. Love your videos rob.
I`ve just discovered your channel today. It was wonderful seeing all the old photos, and hearing the history of Chermside.
I was born in Nundah in 1942, and grew up in Wavell Heights. I had my first job in the drive in shopping centre on weekends and
school holidays in 1956. I just can`t believe the changes in the area, I moved away from Brissy in 1974. I really didn`t recognize
it at all. Thank you so much for your research, and for making this video. I`m looking forward to watching all of your videos.
Excellent video, refreshing to see some intelligent content on this platform! Would like to see a part 2 on the hills district, particularly my suburb Arana Hills 👍 keep up the great work Rob. I imagine there is significant time spent researching and editing, from a pleased viewer, you should know it is well worth the effort.
Fabulous documentary Rob, thank you so much. Moved to the area nearly 5 years ago and have always wondered about the history.
7th Brigade park on Murphy rd is absolutely beautiful. Huge playground, nice tracks and lots of wildlife. Lots of complaining on here 😂 I'm from Darwin and you all have no idea how good you have it. There are so many fantastic parks here, so many playgrounds, puplic toilets, always fun for families. Darwin has hardly any parks, and the ones they do have are constantly vandalised, full of broken glass, litter and drunks.
Hi Rob.That was interesting to see Chermside in the old days. That beautiful home, Bernie Bray, should never have been demolished. The architectural style was amazing. You are absolutely right about needing more trees.
Thanks! Had fun making this one, despite the heat.
Thanks Rob, really interesting. I’ve lived in Chermside West for 14 years on land that was once Basnett’s dairy farm and subdivided mid to late 50’s.
There are some remnants of an old Cobb & Co site to the rear of Vellnagels blacksmith shop. It’s in the bush, you have to go looking, council used to have small sign there for the nerdy history buffs like me 😂
It's still there.
Excellent! -- and yes - new tree planting is needed!
Hi Rob, another great video,I live in Chermside myself, 👍🍺
Thanks Rob for your comment at the end about the trees. Chermside is an awful commercial hotbox! Council knows about 'heat maps' of areas, and rather than make areas habitable for people, they do nothing!
I worked for Myer and my first boss was working at Chermside when, in 1972, a Woolworths employee left a record player going overnight which started a fire that burnt the place down.
The PMG Technicians Training School used to be in Banfield Street, but it got swallowed up by the shopping centre expansions.
Another great video Rob. Thanks for all the effort you put into producing them. They have so much interesting historical info.
Thank you!
Catnip for criticism : The first supermarket was opened in Memphis, Tennessee in 1916 by Clarence Saunders. As the groceries were bought on a cash-only basis (a cash and carry) the incentive to shop there was cheaper prices due to self-service .The Chermside Shopping Centre was the first car-centred shopping mall to open outside the United States. I did not know about George Marchant's critical funding of the temperance Canberra Hotel. So this video is full of interesting social history. Thank you for your efforts. You are not lazy, Rob. I am appreciative.
Thanks indeed for your comment. Always great to know that someone, somewhere is watching.
……the first BCC ie Brisbane Cash & Carry ‘supermarket’ was opened at West End in the mid-1950’s. We lived at Highgate Hill, & went there to shop. It was soooo different taking items’ from shelves’ yourself, & putting them into a wheeling basket, to go to the cashier, & pay. Mum had string bags’ to put groceries’ in, if not, large paper bags’ were supplied. It meant we didn’t have to shop across the road, from home………
Loving you looking at some of the old bridges in Brisbane along your travels. 25 years ago i use to work for BCC and was the northside inspector of Bridges. If you look under bowan bridge near the royal brisbane you can see how they have expanded it over the years to accommodate more lanes. The bridge/s on Gympie road running over Downfall creek shows the different styles of bridges used over the past 80 odd years. If you get up to the gap check out the arch bridges on waterworks road and how they have added to them.
I grew up just up the road in Bald Hills and our company. We've been working out. There as one of the contractors on the road. There's a tramline under the ground and a bridge and even an old horse carriage were found. Very interesting place.
1. The roundabout at Hamilton and Webster was the first roundabout in Brisbane.
2. Gympie Rd is a declared road, which means it’s up to the Dept of Transport and Main Roads to plant trees along it, not Council.
Brilliant yet again Rob. Thank you so much for this insightful tour. As a Kedron local and history buff I love your tours!
Another excellent video Rob. I believe Chermside is the second largest shopping centre in Australia after Chadstone in Melbourne.
7th brigade park before it was made into an army camp was part of Alonzo Sparkes paddock, I think it was for his slaughter yard as he was a butcher. There was another camp i think located near to where Prince Charles Hospital is now that was responsible for receiving and translating enemy radio broadcasts during the war. And the work there was only recently recognised due to the secrecy surrounding it finally being lifted.
I loved Chermside back in the late 70s ..had a great shopping centre
Yes, there is a huge need for shade trees along the main drag in Chermside.
I was wondering if you could do a walk around on Bribie Island and the surrounds, show off the old world war bunkers on the beach etc
If that's the new camera, it looks great!
That's the new camera. I'm really happy with it.
Thanks Rob, great video, learnt a lot. What a tragedy that Burnie Brae wasn’t preserved for its historical value.
We live in West Chermside and it’s really terrific- so close to everything. Our house would have been built around the time of that roundabout photo.
We are five minutes or less to Westfield, the hospital, Qld transport, etc etc, whilst not too far into the city (just 15 mins), and only a few traffic lights to the Bruce Highway so very easy to “escape” to the Sunny Coast … (as long as it’s not peak hour.) Having said that, this constant increase in population and high rises along Kitty Hawk drive etc is rather sad. They call it progress, but is it really?
What a great video. Apparently I have a 94 year old aunt living on Hamilton Road who has been there for about 70 years. It looks like such a barren landscape with no trees around. Just awful. On another note, Merry Christmas to you and yours Rob and a wonderful, prosperous New Year 😊🎉
@shellebelle53 thank you Shell! It was a long hot day of filming for this one, but I'm more or less happy with how it turned out. Best wishes for a happy and safe Xmas to you. Any plans for New Years?
@walkaboutwithrob it must have been scorching but it was a great video. Thank you for an enjoyable year of watching your videos. No plans for me for New Year...I figure if I wake up in the morning of January 1st...it's a good year 🤣
How about you?
@@shellebelle53 my partner and I are staying in a nice hotel for New Years and going out for dinner at a fancy restaurant.
@walkaboutwithrob sounds lovely, I hope you and your partner enjoy your night out 😊
Woooooowwwww! I used to go guppie hunting on the bridge on the roundabout. Had a friend that lived further up Webster Road and we would get chased by bulls :). Thank You ROB :)
Thanks Rob I frequent various Chermside areas quite a bit so it was very interesting.
Very interesting,i come from Aspley. Like a trip down memory lane.❤
Thanks for your work Rob. As a Brisbaneite I appreciate your efforts in identifying sites I visit regularly but have had no appreciation of their history. Please keep up the good work!
I grew up going to the old brick Chermsiede Uniting Church on the corner of Hamilton and Rode. One of the parishioners was a descendant of the Hamiltons. I remember climbing up behind the old organ after sunday school. The church was amalgamated with the Kedron Uniting Church and took over the old Chermside State School site, which the church outbid McDonalds for. The church's thrift shop was the only remaining school building (if its still there). The two churches organs were amalgamated into a new organ in the new church.
Isn't it funny, as a kid in school I absolutely hated history but now I'm a bit older ........ I love these remarkable history lessons you are uploading. Thanks Rob! 😃❤✌ Now if only my school teachers had your sense of humour, I might have learned something. 📚
Merry Christmas Rob, and best from an expatriate Aussie in Poland ( BTW its just started to snow!)
I grew up in lutwyche but moved to chermside 5 years ago. I love chermside. Im very familiar with the area now. I live just near merchant park. Enjoyed learning about the history of chermside.
Great video and history, thanks. At 3:00 some would say nothing has changed since 1867, there is no decent road between Brisbane and Gympie!
Really enjoying your series Rob! As a Brisbanite, I'm finding this all super interesting and entertaining. Thanks!
Surely Gympie and the gold rush years need to be revisited, love your thorough uploads
Yes for sure, am keen to explore Gympie one day soon
The missing history is that there was a housing commission camp where the WW2 camp was. People lived in the huts and under canvas until their house was built. This was around 1948.... My mother lived in that camp as a 5 yo. Somehow this history seems gone from the record ....
Chermside is flush with history. As a we called it in our teens "Germside" it is far from that now just like you said needs trees and a bit more gentrification. Great video Rob!!!
I came to Australia for a holiday and stayed 8n 1975.
I lived lon Newman road for a while.
Such fond memories
Cheers mate.
Love the videos. Could you possibly do Petrie/Pine Rivers please? Keep up the great work 👍
I second this request.
A interesting area to look it is around Warner , Joyner from my understanding there was a lot of usa bases in this area including long range listening station
After the round about was built, for a time the old straight road on Hamilton was still there, and my boyfriend and I would drive across it, avoiding the roundabout.
Good work Rob, so interesting! However just a few incidentals need qualifying with Chermside Historical Society to be really correct. (I'd love to know why it was called Deadman's Gully tho! There's a small Deadman's Gully Park near Aldi's, and from there it crosses Gympie Rd and heads over towards under the Shopping Centre before entering Downfall Ck).
Ah. The Canberra Hotel. Opposite "The People's Palace" and "Central Station". There was a solicitor working in that building and was the last to leave before it was demolished. He had a long lease, and refused to leave without compensation. They turned off the power and elevators, and an extra suit was issued to the new developer. In its dieing days, "Sensoria" (a punk rock venue) was hosted on the top floor after moving from the "Curry Shop" in George Street. It was the only gig at the Canberra to ever serve alcohol.
Lived in Sydney almost all my life. Been here in Redbank Plains going on 5yrs now, and I've learnt so much about Brisbane already, in only 5 months. Some of your quips crack me up. It's like dry humour 10:38 "where babies could sing arias" - 15:34 "Amblience" 🤣😭 Also, loving the Xmas balls hanging from the trees.
Thanks Rob, you're a treasure to the internet. Wishing you the merriest Xmas with many more to come. Have a wonderful day tomorrow mate.
Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback and kind words. Not sure if you've seen it yet, but I did a video on the small town of Esk. I think you might enjoy it.... and merry Xmas to you as well!
Great video rob love these history videos
Chermside shopping centre was awesome for a kid in the sixties and early seventies
I wonder if the Milne Bay Memorial Library & Research centre at 12:02 relates to Milne Bay In PNG? Unusual to locate it in Chermside? Another great video. Keep them coming.
Thanks Rob. Have a merry Christmas!
Ambliance. Funny stuff Rob.
Another great video, thanks.
It is always infuriating to hear how major heritage structures such as Burnie Brae were demolished by those who had no sense of history.
That’s really interesting to learn about Chermside
Another great video 🤗🌏 Thankyou Rob 👏 👍 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 🎁🎄
Another great video. loving the new camera footage. You kind of forget that you are not doing this with a cameraman.
Awesome Rob👍
The tram lines are still under gympie road, both the wooden sleeper 1900ish and the later concrete ones.
Yes, the tram lines were visible in 2023 during Gympie Rd construction works. As the works move closer to the Hamilton Rd intersection, one might see tram lines unearthed during construction in 2024.
Duly noted Brisbane City council Chermside needs more Streetscaping, i agree with Rob, thx for the tour i didnt know the roundabout had a part off road history i will have to check it out nowa days i think we wont less traffic lights on Gympie road i would even hasard a guess that like all highways that went thru towns chermside was a popular shops by the road now with everything under one roof at Westfields maybe allot of roadside buildings can be demod for street scapeing
I saw someone comment that Gympie Rd is a "declared" road and tree planting is up to the Department Of Main Roads. Might explain why council is only planting along minor streets.
I have fond memories of the old Chermside library (and its musky smell!)... Thinking back to my childhood in the 80s, there used to be a Salvation Army Thrift Store in that area behind the library you describe as a "School of Arts" hall, so I suppose that's what became of it, before it was demolished entirely. Thanks for the historical insights into my old neighbourhood.
Edit: @15:13 - I can remember my teacher in Grade 4 and 5, Tess Quilter, saying that the old bridge in the middle of that roundabout used to be the cause of many accidents. Apparently, it was not uncommon to see a car flipped up on its side.
Yeah I did work experience in the Chermside library for a week back in 84 and I remember that smell.
Dear Rob, I think you will find that the BCC supermarket building still exists, on the other side of the road, cheers... loved the video..
@divarachelenvy thanks for the heads-up about this. I have pinned a correction in the comments.
i grew up in chermside in the 70s. and it was good back then.im glad i lived there back then..now part of history
Used to work at Chermside Westfield. Thanks for telling the history of Chermside.
I loved going to the movies at the Dawn theater. There were still old canvas chairs and tickets were really cheap.
Love your channel mate! So fascinating! Would love to see more Gold Coast content
Loving all this history,,thanks Rob 👍..
Hey Rob, I could not agree with you more about the need to plant more trees, hot, noisy place with too much traffic. If it was not for the well maintained parks, the area would be a lot worse.
Thank you Rob for the Chermside tour - love it keep it coming - its great to learn about history on the northside of town - merry xmas
👋🏻 thankyou for this very informative vid 😊
Have a great day and Merry Christmas and happy new year 🎄🌆 my cousin got married in that brick church on the corner of Hamilton and Gympie Rds 😊
And in the "70's my dad used to play cricket on Marchant Park
Used to love going to the Dawn cinema 😞 its gone
great video, sent link to Sen Rennick suggesting his office address should be thunder bolt vs kittyhawk, and chat to local councillors plenty, about trees, they did massive plantings along kedron brook as park of millions plant by BCC, will send this re last suggestion, and reckon the empty post office could be the creatives collective location i was looking for, but probably dreaming vs doing..
Thanks again Rob for such an informative walk. Used to work opposite Marchant Park and was lucky enough to overlook the park from the my fifth floor office cubical but tore down the pine trees and made a larger parking area. I still had a desk with a view across the The road and to the entrance gates for at least five years.
Have an amazing Christmas and New years Rob, take a relaxing break. We look forward to 2024's new adventures.
Cheers Sheila 🤶🎄🍻
Now that you posted this, I actually remember living just north of the corner of Webster and Gympie Roads for a few weeks. There was a Service Station on the corner, and we lived next door on Gympie Road
Interesting as always, lovely vision..
love your work keep it up going to get my kids to start watching
Cool as always
Awesome.
Please do one on Carina, Camp Hill . Thanks.
I just moved here 2 months ago. :)
Nice video, cool to know the history.
Great Work again Rob, excellent.
Love to see more about the area...
Hey Rob! Love the videos. Question, are you gonna drop a video on Petrie or Old Petrie Town?
Had the same thought after watching this one. That's my stomping ground. The history of Tom Petrie is really interesting. He was born in Brisbane and was friends with the aboriginals. One of the few successful peaceful cohabitation stories in Australia. There's a statue memorial to him in the local Catholic Primary School. That's the site of his original home. It's on top of the hill opposite the station. Catholics make me laugh. They find the highest hill in a locality, buy it, and build a church on it. I always used to think they didn't believe God when he said he wouldn't flood the world again. Rob taught me in this video that it was for visibility. 😂
@@Lisa-x3n5x hey hey neighbourino!! Quite the same here, grew up around here. Got my head stuck in the fence on beeville rd when I was a little tacker waiting for the old man to come home from work. 🤣 but yes. The history is rich within Petrie. 🤙🏽
Amazing as always mate ^_^
Self-service back in those days meant you picked it off the shelf yourself and put it in a trolley, as opposed to a staff member gathering your goods for you.
Staff still took your money.
How are the parks looking? My company Maintains all the grass in the parks and roadsides in that area
From the few I saw they look very good!
That was jolly interesting! The only thing that could have been added was the original K Mart in 1970.
Oh yes, the Super K-Mart
Was expecting you to mention the old shoe.
The Old Shoe is back in public display, in Braun St Deagon. It's changed colour though.
Would love to see a video on the history of what is now the Loganholme area and what used to be where the Hyperdome is now.
That was called the Slacks Creek lion park and for many years a concrete TEE PEE was all that was left, then in the early 80s it became a water park with a big tap at the top of the hill and slides coming down the hill..
Another interesting video. In Barakula State Forest there is a Cuthroat Creek and a Hellhole Creek. There must be some storey behind this but I soppose it is probabily lost to time. Whoever named them can't have been too impressed with the place.
Ok, now someone PLEASE help settle this (internal) debate that I am having- is it pronounced "Road" Road, or "Roadee" Road? Some really interesting history there Rob, really enjoyed that- and safe & merry Christmas to you!
My family on my dads side all come from around there they all called it "roadee" road
I've lived in Brissy all my life and as far as I know it's always been 'Roadee' Road 0:02
Row dee road
Roadee
Its pronounced as Row-dee Rd.
Thanks for the insight. Always interesting.
My pleasure!
Nice video, thanks!
Thought you could post a picture of the miles of parked cars stretching from Aspley right up to the Gateway merge every afternoon, oh hang on that's just traffic we have to put up with every afternoon..
7:54 "...and his dopey wife!"
🤣 Brutal
Merry Christmas Rob!
Thanks! And Happy New Year to you
@@walkaboutwithrob thanks Rob! Do you have any New Years resolutions?