What really stands out is the enormous amount of growth Sydney must have experienced in the first 100 years of colonisation. The whole of Sydney must have been one long continuous construction zone. Imagine the logistics of hauling sandstone blocks from quarries, timber, roofing materials etc. The labour required to build houses, churches, shops, schools, roads, bridges and everything else to make a settlement work. Continual noise, dust and disruption. Just amazing what people achieved in the first 100 years.
Yes. Or alternatively, Sydney wasn't "founded", by the British, it was found? Read the description of Sydney from the 1818 journals of the Freycinet visit to Sydney. The description was not of a struggling penal colony, but of a substantial and impressive city. Is our history a lie? Was there a reset in the 19th Century and history rewritten? I don't know, but there is enough to suggest that might be a real possibility.
@@gregoryjohn4no, you’re a victim to those that want to erase history and get us to question everything for the purpose of destabilising our society. Look up Anatoly Fomenko, and do a deep dive into Soviet and Russian Federation Hybrid Warfare, Active Measures and the four stages of demoralisation as discussed by Yuri Bezmenov. This may equip you with a sense of skepticism regarding ‘alternative history’ theories but may also make you extremely paranoid and realise how far demoralisation has actually eroded western civilisation already.
Fantastic stuff. Most of this is unrecognisable, it's all gone, but this amazing set of images has preserved it all for everyone to see. Thank you for putting this together for everyone.
I grew up in Glebe from the late 50s..Lived at 248 Glebe Point road for 25 years. I am now 67. My mates & I use to play on the logs down near Jubilee Park on the Bay. I witnessed many a beautiful building demolished in the 70s for flats. Watched a beautiful big fig tree cut down on 254 Glebe Point Rd. I still love Glebe and remember the demo's to preserve its heritage and felt proud to be part of that heritage. Once a suburb of colourful characters and working class people. Us kids made Billy carts, ran through new flats underconstruction& lamented the loss of the old buildings. Vale Jack Mundey and I salute the Glebe society.
How cool the old days were. I grew up in Harris Park in the late 60s early 70s and did the same, ran Billy Carts down the hill on Harris Street towards Duck Creek, explored the creek, and also explored new flats being built and marveled at the large two story homes surrounded by large ancient trees. I am only 64. Cheers to you Greg.
@@darioburatovich2240 Have you driven down the Westgate freeway to get into Melbourne recently? It's a dystopian nightmare. Also, paying for the use of roads that were paid off at least a decade ago so that corporations can endlessly fill their pockets? No thanks. Melbourne, like Sydney, is overcrowded.
Have you seen that recent image of the land owner is western Sydney refusing to sell and surrounding his acreage a development goes up with all these pittifull, small, closely built houses with grey and white roofs, all the while this guy has a massive yard and everyone is commenting how jealous everyone would be of his massive yard and how annoying it would be to have neighbours... That development took 5 years.
@@clydesimpson1462 wtf are you talking about .. an entire continent of 1000s of varieties of never seen before animals birds reptiles fish .. you must be insane .. 😳
Sydney today would be a much more charming place if all this wonderful architecture was preserved. I don't think architects nowadays know how to design classical buildings of all types instead today we have concrete and steel ugliness and Meriton west bank settlements.
Australians as they evolved from colonialism lost value aesthetics. I gave up being angry about it when I realised if people don’t value it why have it? A reflection of who we are, as the colonial era was who we were.
Thanks for posting. Glebe is still a special place with many grand and historic houses that have escaped the wrecking ball, often thanks to the Glebe Society.
Thanks for making this and publishing it; it's excellent. It interests me how Sydney became such a 'green' city ... so many older cities around the world filled every square inch with buildings long before anyone thought a park might be a nice idea. Cities like London and Paris are the exceptions because they were the 'seat of empire' ... showing off their wealth. Sydney was also lucky that fear of the French kept a lot of the harbour foreshore reserved for the military ... and it was then later available for public access rather than sold off.
born in Sydney. I have watched this over and over and over, paused and even printed some stills to take with me on my trips back into the big smoke when I get away from where I live in regional NSW. Absolutely fascinated and grateful you made the effort. Thank you.
Awesome video. I love seeing old photos of Sydney. I prefer it back then to what it is now. Even though I wasn’t alive I still feel nostalgic seeing this. I’m 62 and even going back to the 1960s and 70s, Sydney was different and better. I loved those days. Maybe because I was young but it’s not all that. Sydney and Australia WAS better then.
It's staggering the building they achieved in just a few decades, the museum, churches, homes, government buildings, bridges, railways, they were a very different breed back then, tough, determined, energetic and big dreamers. Really impressive people when you look back and see their achievements. Thankyou for your efforts here in putting this clip together and posting it, it's good for the soul to get reminded of what our forebears were like, their brilliance, real go getters and doers
So glad I found this video. What a glorious look into Sydney & Glebe's past. I have walked past some of these surviving homes many times. Now I know the history. Thank you.
Amazing video and history. In the 80's I lived at the end of Glebe Point Rd in one of the last Boat sheds on the waterfront. I still remember the sound of Buoy Bells and Seagulls during the night.
Wonderful compilation. The wide views of Glebe show a skyline bristling with Norfolk Island pines! it seems that every mansion had to have at least one, if not several. Glebe would certainly have a different character if so many NI pines were present today.
It's so sad to see Sydney in its current state with the most hideous modern buildings and skyscrapers. Completely decimates the charming old stone buildings. Sydney would have looked so much nicer if the architecture was persevered. And why can't we build these quaint stone buildings today instead of the modern ones. Surely we have the technology to recreate the stone carving details etc.
@@EpicCorn0 Space - I wouldn't exactly shed a tear if we replaced modern buildings with stone buildings Money, time - Its a well worth investment that attracts people, whether for work or leisure, including tourists - a boon for business. Cities like Paris and London are timeless, constantly drawing people from around the world for generations.
In your world, there would be a population in Sydney of a few thousand .......... some kind of Disneyland for zillionaires. And there would be a ghetto where all the workers live outside the boundary, probably in "hideous modern buildings and skyscrapers".
@@skki4691 I think most sane people with heart would prefer the buildings ended up like that, than being torn down. And yes, plenty of room for the ugly stuff to be built next door to the location of the nice stuff, not on top of. There's a bit more to the fabric of a community than 'tearing down' the good to accomodate more & more 'average' - or less than!
As a previous resident of Glebe in the 1980s I found this fascinating, as I have a love of history and Sydney. Well done! Wouldn't it be interesting to climb the Town Hall tower like Francis Robinson did and do a 360% today, comparing like for like. Would make for a fascinating series.
We've got an old panorama photo of Sydney harbor. (8 individual photos roughly covering 100 degrees). From Late 19th early 20th century. It's about 6ft long. You can see the harbor full of dozens of tall ships. Its an amazing photograph.
Fascinating. Thank you for that. It’s interesting to know as much as possible about Sydney the place I was born and have always lived in. What happened all the decades and centuries before I was born.
Why is the 2nd oldest house in Sydney in disrepair? Is it in a bad neighborhood? Just curious why it wouldn't be preserved. Watching from the US. Great video. Thank you.
the architecture has changed since ww2 with that brutalist form . and no longer designed in golden ratio proportions.. the fibonacci.. i cant explain it.. the architecture today is soulless. almost satanic. definatly not a reflection of God as the earlier architecture was intended to represent..
A few things stood out, my ancestors were born, lived, worked and walked those streets, there sure was a lot of churches for all those sinners, sad to see those beautiful homes destroyed for ugly, polluting industrialisation and were did all those folks buried where Central Station is today went, where they exhumed, who where they, is there a record...glad the pictures still survive, because they are all we have left of our past
People could claim their relatives, and have them moved to another cemetery. Most were not claimed, and were removed by the government to a new cemetery 25 acres in size set apart especially in La Perouse. There is the Devonshire Street Cemetery reinterment index available online. It has 9,559 records, showing where a lot of the deceased ended up.
Yes, I remember the timber yards at the end of Glebe rd and the rabbits. Also, the small timber yard near the Glebe post office. When the bus stopped out front of the yard, we would try and spot the rabbits. Vanderfield and Reid , Hudsons Timber and National Plywood were three timber yards, I remember.
What many don't realise while being nostalgic for these image of old Sydbey is that most of those beautiful old houses pictured such as the ones on the glebe foreshore were only affordable by the rich. Most average wage people lived in tiny dumps of houses that would barely be considered fit for habitation by today's standards.
Grew up in Sury Hills, we used to play cricket and touch football in Golbourn Street on week ends. It's not Glebe but part of Sydney history. The era was 1960.
I have a painting of Sydney circa 1880 (guess) aerial view north of harbour back looking south. I stare at it often trying to work it all out. Wonderful picture. Don’t know how the height was gained for the view.
Probably some old world tech that’s been since removed or possibly from an AirShip (Zepellin). Another part of our HiStory they like to erase & manipulate.
Astonishing how many major buildings in Sydney were completed around the 1850's - so much construction, almost a coordinated instant city of business, culture and faith.
The panorama of Sydney in 1873 allows modern computer imaging to reconstruct an accurate 3D picture. This could be used in adding veracity to any movie using the city at around this time.
I'm from Perth but i doubt there'd be any of these buildings still standing there, with the price of real estate and high density developments the norm there....😮
Great Eora people much respect, now how about paying respect to the thousands of convicts, dragged kicking and screaming in the hulls of death ships, away from their families, who actually built all this magnificent architecture?
Yes! My poor Irish convict great, great Grandfather was one of those, who landed in Port Jackson - now Sydney Harbour- in the 1830s. You can see from the early design of the simple houses, just how desperately homesick for Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, these poor convicts were, by the houses they built, once they got their conditional 'pardons' and were considered free citizens, at last. The simple cottages they built to house their young Aussie families looked exactly like the cottages they left behind in the Mother country - very celtic in design.
@@pollywaffledoodah3057 yes the inner city, including Surrey Hills, Paddington and the like were suburbs built on the pride of living through the enormous struggles, not unlike Black American slaves, and forging a life after been given their freedoms.
I enjoyed this video very much. Just a small tip for the person editing the voiceover. I could be wrong, but I suspect de-ess has been applied in post. If it has, it just needs to be pulled back a little bit. Otherwise a good job.
Saddest thing about Sydney today I think is that the Casino lobby seems to have worked extra hard to move all traffic and attention away from the Sydney Opera House to the new Casino by adopting the most destructive city planning measures.
I think this may due to the long exposure times required for the plates to register an image.Moving things like horses & people would not have shown up.Correct me if I’m wrong.
@Michelle-kw2sp might it have something to do with orphan trains, empty European cities, a reset of sorts?... i watched briefly something on the " mud floods " very strange history, or should i say our altered history. Some are now suggesting 1000 yrs have been added to our calendar , have you heard of this ?
Fantastic.
We have so much to owe this bloke.
What really stands out is the enormous amount of growth Sydney must have experienced in the first 100 years of colonisation. The whole of Sydney must have been one long continuous construction zone. Imagine the logistics of hauling sandstone blocks from quarries, timber, roofing materials etc. The labour required to build houses, churches, shops, schools, roads, bridges and everything else to make a settlement work. Continual noise, dust and disruption. Just amazing what people achieved in the first 100 years.
Yes. Or alternatively, Sydney wasn't "founded", by the British, it was found? Read the description of Sydney from the 1818 journals of the Freycinet visit to Sydney. The description was not of a struggling penal colony, but of a substantial and impressive city. Is our history a lie? Was there a reset in the 19th Century and history rewritten? I don't know, but there is enough to suggest that might be a real possibility.
@@gregoryjohn4no, you’re a victim to those that want to erase history and get us to question everything for the purpose of destabilising our society. Look up Anatoly Fomenko, and do a deep dive into Soviet and Russian Federation Hybrid Warfare, Active Measures and the four stages of demoralisation as discussed by Yuri Bezmenov. This may equip you with a sense of skepticism regarding ‘alternative history’ theories but may also make you extremely paranoid and realise how far demoralisation has actually eroded western civilisation already.
@@gregoryjohn4so the locals whove been here for 20000, no 40000 no 60000, no 65000 years should be able to verify your conclusions?
@@darryllspalding9680 I made no conclusions. I asked questions.
@@gregoryjohn4 go ask the fukrs then!
Fantastic stuff. Most of this is unrecognisable, it's all gone, but this amazing set of images has preserved it all for everyone to see. Thank you for putting this together for everyone.
I grew up in Glebe from the late 50s..Lived at 248 Glebe Point road for 25 years. I am now 67. My mates & I use to play on the logs down near Jubilee Park on the Bay. I witnessed many a beautiful building demolished in the 70s for flats. Watched a beautiful big fig tree cut down on 254 Glebe Point Rd. I still love Glebe and remember the demo's to preserve its heritage and felt proud to be part of that heritage. Once a suburb of colourful characters and working class people. Us kids made Billy carts, ran through new flats underconstruction& lamented the loss of the old buildings. Vale Jack Mundey and I salute the Glebe society.
How cool the old days were. I grew up in Harris Park in the late 60s early 70s and did the same, ran Billy Carts down the hill on Harris Street towards Duck Creek, explored the creek, and also explored new flats being built and marveled at the large two story homes surrounded by large ancient trees. I am only 64. Cheers to you Greg.
Amazing what our ancestors were able to achieve in less than 100 years!
And without a HR, DEI or OH&S department to be seen. Necessity is the mother of invention.
What a fantastic video. The old panorama photos hold an eerie sense of familiarity combined with echos of ghosts, long gone.
Fabulous. Thank you for securing and protecting our history
Sydney was once beautiful
So was Melbourne. Sadly, now both are hell holes.
@@bluewren65 Melbourne a hell hole?....
@@darioburatovich2240 Have you driven down the Westgate freeway to get into Melbourne recently? It's a dystopian nightmare. Also, paying for the use of roads that were paid off at least a decade ago so that corporations can endlessly fill their pockets? No thanks. Melbourne, like Sydney, is overcrowded.
@@bluewren65 You don't know what you're talking about.
@@emmett3067 Enlighten me on the delights of Melbourne 2024 Vs Melbourne 1988. I'd love to know how it's still a great place to be.
Fantastic presentation, the way all the photos were joined at the end to form the panoramic view was seamless.
Thank you, I really enjoyed it.
Sydney looked much nicer back then, and those old buildings are timeless.
Its a pitty how these colonies are never sustainable.
Wonderful! What a beautifully presented piece of history.
Sydney Town Hall completed less than 100 years after the First Fleet. Astonishing.
Why would a fledgling colony need such a grandiose Museum, it's not as if there was anything to put in it.
Have you seen that recent image of the land owner is western Sydney refusing to sell and surrounding his acreage a development goes up with all these pittifull, small, closely built houses with grey and white roofs, all the while this guy has a massive yard and everyone is commenting how jealous everyone would be of his massive yard and how annoying it would be to have neighbours...
That development took 5 years.
@@clydesimpson1462In fact it is a natural history museum- so there is plenty to put in it.
Lol!
@@clydesimpson1462 wtf are you talking about .. an entire continent of 1000s of varieties of never seen before animals birds reptiles fish .. you must be insane .. 😳
Well researched and utterly fascinating
Sydney today would be a much more charming place if all this wonderful architecture was preserved. I don't think architects nowadays know how to design classical buildings of all types instead today we have concrete and steel ugliness and Meriton west bank settlements.
This wouldve died out when suburbanism boomed, still tho you could build like this in suburbs starting to densify
Australians as they evolved from colonialism lost value aesthetics. I gave up being angry about it when I realised if people don’t value it why have it? A reflection of who we are, as the colonial era was who we were.
It's not healthy to only look backwards. Everything is better today than it was then.
what makes you think everything new is a step forward?
@@MmeDesgranges a lot is true, modern dentistry for example ,but a lot isn’t, including architecture.
A wonderful pictorial survey full of useful information.
Thanks for posting. Glebe is still a special place with many grand and historic houses that have escaped the wrecking ball, often thanks to the Glebe Society.
Breathtaking and magnificent.
Thanks for making this and publishing it; it's excellent. It interests me how Sydney became such a 'green' city ... so many older cities around the world filled every square inch with buildings long before anyone thought a park might be a nice idea. Cities like London and Paris are the exceptions because they were the 'seat of empire' ... showing off their wealth. Sydney was also lucky that fear of the French kept a lot of the harbour foreshore reserved for the military ... and it was then later available for public access rather than sold off.
Thank you very much for putting that together. Great stuff!
born in Sydney. I have watched this over and over and over, paused and even printed some stills to take with me on my trips back into the big smoke when I get away from where I live in regional NSW.
Absolutely fascinated and grateful you made the effort. Thank you.
Really interesting , Thanks.
Awesome video. I love seeing old photos of Sydney. I prefer it back then to what it is now. Even though I wasn’t alive I still feel nostalgic seeing this. I’m 62 and even going back to the 1960s and 70s, Sydney was different and better. I loved those days. Maybe because I was young but it’s not all that. Sydney and Australia WAS better then.
It's staggering the building they achieved in just a few decades, the museum, churches, homes, government buildings, bridges, railways, they were a very different breed back then, tough, determined, energetic and big dreamers. Really impressive people when you look back and see their achievements. Thankyou for your efforts here in putting this clip together and posting it, it's good for the soul to get reminded of what our forebears were like, their brilliance, real go getters and doers
we are still this industrious
@@shriekingbushpigshrieking Yes, at building ugly crap that no-one can afford.
I love Sydney history. I wish you could include picture of places as they are now straight after showing us the way it was.
Thanks Francis Robinson. I wish we keep more of these buildings. Funny seeing the city as a residential place.
Does anyone else remember the timber yard in Glebe Point Rd that was still there in the '80s? The owner liked rabbits - they were everywhere!
Excellent presentation. Papa Paragi's La Vera Pizza shop! Best pizzas in Sydney.
Fantastic viewing, thank you
Fascinating! Thank you for creating this.
What a tremendous program.Thank you.I am picturing it now,while looking back at it then!Wonderful show, & pictures.😁
Well done! Amazing that the Glebe Society still exists. I was a member 1969-75. And what a great project to celebrate its 50th anniversary
So glad I found this video. What a glorious look into Sydney & Glebe's past. I have walked past some of these surviving homes many times. Now I know the history. Thank you.
70 years of wonering and I finally know what the Egyptian looking column is. Kind of a utilitarian end to a mystery. Thanks for a wonderful video.
Beautiful. Every cottage had a family and memories., We don't forget you.
Amazing video and history. In the 80's I lived at the end of Glebe Point Rd in one of the last Boat sheds on the waterfront. I still remember the sound of Buoy Bells and Seagulls during the night.
It’s all nice and one was able to make a real living
Wonderful compilation.
The wide views of Glebe show a skyline bristling with Norfolk Island pines! it seems that every mansion had to have at least one, if not several. Glebe would certainly have a different character if so many NI pines were present today.
Used to be in Johnston Street, Annandale in the 60's.
Loved this. I was kind of hoping my old home of The Abbey on Johnston in Annandale would make the cut. 😉
It's so sad to see Sydney in its current state with the most hideous modern buildings and skyscrapers. Completely decimates the charming old stone buildings. Sydney would have looked so much nicer if the architecture was persevered.
And why can't we build these quaint stone buildings today instead of the modern ones. Surely we have the technology to recreate the stone carving details etc.
Money, time, space
@@EpicCorn0 Space - I wouldn't exactly shed a tear if we replaced modern buildings with stone buildings
Money, time - Its a well worth investment that attracts people, whether for work or leisure, including tourists - a boon for business.
Cities like Paris and London are timeless, constantly drawing people from around the world for generations.
feel this
In your world, there would be a population in Sydney of a few thousand .......... some kind of Disneyland for zillionaires. And there would be a ghetto where all the workers live outside the boundary, probably in "hideous modern buildings and skyscrapers".
@@skki4691 I think most sane people with heart would prefer the buildings ended up like that, than being torn down. And yes, plenty of room for the ugly stuff to be built next door to the location of the nice stuff, not on top of. There's a bit more to the fabric of a community than 'tearing down' the good to accomodate more & more 'average' - or less than!
Less than 100 years to build this! Amazing.
12 hour days. no soy boys playing video games or watching conspiracy theory nutjob channels. (see other comments to see what im saying) ☝️🤎🙏
How sad to hear that Sydney’s second oldest house is in a state of disrepair.
As a previous resident of Glebe in the 1980s I found this fascinating, as I have a love of history and Sydney. Well done! Wouldn't it be interesting to climb the Town Hall tower like Francis Robinson did and do a 360% today, comparing like for like. Would make for a fascinating series.
Excellent idea !
Mind you, the view today in some directions would be blocked by highrise - still it would be a great comparison, and do it in B/W like the original.
Wonderful video. I used to live at the Blackwattle end of Ferry Road, love the suburb and it’s history
Glad i found this, very interesting, so sorry to see so much finery gone.
We've got an old panorama photo of Sydney harbor. (8 individual photos roughly covering 100 degrees). From Late 19th early 20th century. It's about 6ft long.
You can see the harbor full of dozens of tall ships. Its an amazing photograph.
Fascinating. Thank you for that. It’s interesting to know as much as possible about Sydney the place I was born and have always lived in. What happened all the decades and centuries before I was born.
Why is the 2nd oldest house in Sydney in disrepair? Is it in a bad neighborhood? Just curious why it wouldn't be preserved. Watching from the US. Great video. Thank you.
Very good thanks ..I'm a lover of old buildings ..
Absolutely fascinating video. Well done!
So much beauty in those old buildings , Seems very odd how we don't make anything close these days.
the architecture has changed since ww2 with that brutalist form
. and no longer designed in golden ratio proportions.. the fibonacci.. i cant explain it.. the architecture today is soulless. almost satanic. definatly not a reflection of God as the earlier architecture was intended to represent..
Most interesting thankyou.
Marvelous! Thank you.
How much for property then per yearly wage?
EXCELLENT
A few things stood out, my ancestors were born, lived, worked and walked those streets, there sure was a lot of churches for all those sinners, sad to see those beautiful homes destroyed for ugly, polluting industrialisation and were did all those folks buried where Central Station is today went, where they exhumed, who where they, is there a record...glad the pictures still survive, because they are all we have left of our past
People could claim their relatives, and have them moved to another cemetery. Most were not claimed, and were removed by the government to a new cemetery 25 acres in size set apart especially in La Perouse. There is the Devonshire Street Cemetery reinterment index available online. It has 9,559 records, showing where a lot of the deceased ended up.
Unfortunately a, "church" won't save a sinner
Imagine if heritage certifiers existed back then. It would look the same now.
Very good 👀👍❗️I love the aerial perspective ❗️
Just incredible what they achieved so soon after settlement.
Yes, I remember the timber yards at the end of Glebe rd and the rabbits. Also, the small timber yard near the Glebe post office. When the bus stopped out front of the yard, we would try and spot the rabbits. Vanderfield and Reid , Hudsons Timber and National Plywood were three timber yards, I remember.
Glebe was considered a 'rural escape'!
What many don't realise while being nostalgic for these image of old Sydbey is that most of those beautiful old houses pictured such as the ones on the glebe foreshore were only affordable by the rich. Most average wage people lived in tiny dumps of houses that would barely be considered fit for habitation by today's standards.
Fascinating!
Thank you, I really enjoyed that. Very interesting.
At this time Sydney was only 85 yrs old!
As a Sydneysider , Thankyou so much
Grew up in Sury Hills, we used to play cricket and touch football in Golbourn Street on week ends.
It's not Glebe but part of Sydney history. The era was 1960.
Back when sewer vents had style, very different times now
when a house cost a weeks wage.. well not quite but im sure it was more affordable than it is now
Love the old terraced houses.
fascinating!!
Wow!
All these people are no longer with us.😢
I have a painting of Sydney circa 1880 (guess) aerial view north of harbour back looking south. I stare at it often trying to work it all out. Wonderful picture. Don’t know how the height was gained for the view.
Probably some old world tech that’s been since removed or possibly from an AirShip (Zepellin). Another part of our HiStory they like to erase & manipulate.
In those days on the foreshore well to do dwellings gradually disappeared and were replaced by industry whereas today its the opposite .
Astonishing how many major buildings in Sydney were completed around the 1850's - so much construction, almost a coordinated instant city of business, culture and faith.
Such a huge city,where are all the people?
Love it
The destruction of these magnificent buildings is a sin.
fascinating
The panorama of Sydney in 1873 allows modern computer imaging to reconstruct an accurate 3D picture. This could be used in adding veracity to any movie using the city at around this time.
What about the corner of Harris Street and Pyrmont Bridge Rd in 1995s ? 😊
“On the corner of George and Clarence Street”….???
George and Clarence Streets both run parallel with each other.
I'm from Perth but i doubt there'd be any of these buildings still standing there, with the price of real estate and high density developments the norm there....😮
The poor horses looked miserable. Always tied up and made to work. So glad they invented the automobile.
It is us humans that are often miserable, always tied up and made to work.
20 years in Millers Point and 10 years in Glebe ♥️
2000 girl who morphed into 2037 girl.
☺️
We will never it this good again
Great Eora people much respect, now how about paying respect to the thousands of convicts, dragged kicking and screaming in the hulls of death ships, away from their families, who actually built all this magnificent architecture?
Yes! My poor Irish convict great, great Grandfather was one of those, who landed in Port Jackson - now Sydney Harbour- in the 1830s. You can see from the early design of the simple houses, just how desperately homesick for Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, these poor convicts were, by the houses they built, once they got their conditional 'pardons' and were considered free citizens, at last. The simple cottages they built to house their young Aussie families looked exactly like the cottages they left behind in the Mother country - very celtic in design.
@@pollywaffledoodah3057 yes the inner city, including Surrey Hills, Paddington and the like were suburbs built on the pride of living through the enormous struggles, not unlike Black American slaves, and forging a life after been given their freedoms.
Well said!
Great video thank you! Wonderful to see those magnificent old houses, so few of which remain today.
Always will be (and should be) Aboriginal land.
Stonemasons were amazing then.
12 hour days, 1 break .. we must acknowledge their efforts and achievements ☝️🤎🙏
Unbelievable buildings.
I remember often walking past the shell of St Barnabas in The Glebe, and it is a total shame what they have replaced it with.
His story
More class and style with the older and previous architecture. At least places like Paddington and Leichhardt still look pretty good.
The streets are empty in all those panorama photos, where are all the people that built all that in 85 years?
A fine question indeed. It's simply 'unbelievable' in my view.
I assume it would have been a long exposure and very bright to the point that people moving around wouldn’t even show up as a blur.
I enjoyed this video very much.
Just a small tip for the person editing the voiceover. I could be wrong, but I suspect de-ess has been applied in post. If it has, it just needs to be pulled back a little bit. Otherwise a good job.
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Saddest thing about Sydney today I think is that the Casino lobby seems to have worked extra hard to move all traffic and attention away from the Sydney Opera House to the new Casino by adopting the most destructive city planning measures.
Love this stuff (I do before and after comparisons!)...but George St & Clarence St are parallel - no 'corner'🤔 just saying 🤗
That had me somewhat confused.
I don't think a city is really complete without an obelisk in the middle of it. 😀
Fascinating. There is a Wigram-Allen prize to this day at Sydney Grammar School.
where the hell is everyone , not one soul on the streets , very strange
I think this may due to the long exposure times required for the plates to register an image.Moving things like horses & people would not have shown up.Correct me if I’m wrong.
@@Zog696 interesting....i learned something thankyou
@Michelle-kw2sp might it have something to do with orphan trains, empty European cities, a reset of sorts?... i watched briefly something on the " mud floods " very strange history, or should i say our altered history. Some are now suggesting 1000 yrs have been added to our calendar , have you heard of this ?
@Michelle-kw2sp 🐧🚿
It could have been Sunday?