I just discovered this video now… how beautiful put together, I live in Australia for 36 yrs fascinated with cemeteries old buildings anything to do with history and those who built this country… amazing!!!
I knew a fair bit about Devonshire St Cemetery as I had a few early settler ancestors buried there, but had never seen the double decker trams - that was a completely new one for me, thanks!
What a fantastic video! I had the privilege of spending more than a month in Australia in 2015, including 10 days in Sydney. What a great country and what a great city! I absolutely love Sydney and walking to Central was a daily pleasure. In fact, as I took public transit every day in Sydney, Central looms large in my wonderful memories of the city. One memory has to do with boarding the light rail at Central. I had an opal card for Australian seniors ($2.50 for unlimited travel for 1 day) and, when I boarded the train, I was told to keep my mouth shut so the inspector would not realize I was a Canadian and hence ineligible to use this deeply discounted pass for Australian seniors. So I would just smile at the inspector. Thanks so much for sharing this incredible video.
Thanks very much for your kind comments...so glad you enjoyed your time in Sydney......and you worked out the Opal card system?!?! Real history is quite -often more captivating than fiction.....
Wonderful documentation of our history. Well done. I found it interesting to see very little in the way of steam shovels and mechanisation at the construction sites. Lots of manual labour in those days with evidence of manual hand carts. Still they got the job done and seemingly did not take that much more time than we are seeing currently with the Metro work around Central. It's also interesting to note comments re people who lost track of family members moved from the cemetary. Certainly would not happen today after seeing a local pioneer cemetary relocation. Archeologists were first on scene to document everything and gave special consideration to any older indigenous burials.
They found several graves there this week with metal name tags whist digging for the new metro. Any kind of excavation around town hall seems to disturb burials from the St Andrews Graveyard near the present day town hall.
I knew that my Grandfather 7th generation was buried in Devonshire Cementry, but could not find where he had been moved to & what a find at the end of this video is the headstone for George Howe.....thank you for this amazing bit of history, I now know his resting place
Thank you Debbie. You may be interested to know that at the Metro construction on platforms 13-15 they have found 60 more bodies including a gravestone or two. They are seeking relatives of those they identify......
My great grandparents were evicted from Windmill Road The Rocks to Balmain foreshores next the Darling St wharf Their sewage system at The Rocks was throwing excrement over the fence to back lane and wait for rain to wash away
I’ve lived here in Sydney most of my life and didn’t know about that part of our local history thanks for the interesting and informative story of the ghosts of out past !!
Thank you! I love our history, and so much is not available without extensive research! You are brilliant to have given your time and skills to this! Hope you do more!
Thank you so much really appreciated ...i couldnt agree more and when you look into our history there are amazing stories that would out rival most Hollywood movies! I am working on the next video now......
Thank you for the excellent video Steve. I have fond memories of Central station and remember it from the early fifties. The history of this area is very interesting.
You''re welcome Tony, you may be interested to know at the Metro construction at Platforms 13-15 they have found 60 more grave sites including headstones
Well done Stephen - an excellent background history of Central Railway Station. My First Fleet ancestor, Hannah Pugh (nee Smith), was on the 12 First Fleeters moved from Devonshire St Cemetery to the Pioneer Park at ESMP where there is now a fabulous monument to the First Fleet.
Hi Steve, finally watched it! Awesome effort putting this together, it's an amazing compilation of the history of our city. I like your choice of music throughout too. Great to see another of your hidden talents coming to the fore!
@@stephentennant3019 It's great to have those two tram lines back. And they pass through Central exactly where the old ones were. Hopefully this will continue, the buses have to go. Buses should never be in a city like that. It makes the city less livable. Here in Melbourne, the city is a thriving place full of milk tea's and laneways.
12:04 Interesting point as you noted some of these people had been buried alive,there was at the time a medical condition that brought the body to a state of catatonia indistinguishable by the medicine of the time from death.Sad but true but I digress an excellently researched and presented video
Thank you Sil, you may be interested to know at the Metro construction on platforms 13-15 they have discovered 60 more bodies and gravestones so many may have shifted in the sand........
Wow ...5 family member!! One of the problems I found in my research was the bodies had been buried in sand....in the sand hills obviously so they shifted.....and frequently nothing was found beneath the headstone.! There have been a number of people that have done intense research into the body counts names etc. There were years of neglect at Bunnerong Cemetry during which headstones were damaged and/or disappeared....maybe some of these researchers can help. As I said in the video the bodies went to a number of cemeteries so good luck in your quest !!
The filth & muck was what made our forefathers strong. All this antibacterial, sanitised, helicopter parenting is why the current gens are experiencing allergies & sicknesses that didn't exist in times gone bye
The Sydney rail construction would be on par with construction of the Harbour Bridge. Away from trains I think another doco on the telecommunications system in Sydney. There are 17 kilometres of tunnel under the CBD, mostly brick, which can be walked through by maintenance crews.
I have work at Cleveland road sat and have lunch at prince Alfred park and walk the tunnel of Devonshire but I never knew the history of this places until now.
Yes ..its even now an evolving history Frederico as they have found 60 bodies that have shifted in the excavations going on at Platforms 13-15......including grave sites and grave stones....
@@stephentennant3019 wow. It's interesting. I work for land and housing corporation and have learn so much historical places like this. It amaze me and wonder the life in that era. Anyway thanks for replying back
Trish Mckenzie cause there trying too rub out white history. Now it’s all about the Asian’s & middle easterner’s. have a good look around & tell me I’m wrong. 😔
I just discovered this video now… how beautiful put together, I live in Australia for 36 yrs fascinated with cemeteries old buildings anything to do with history and those who built this country… amazing!!!
I knew a fair bit about Devonshire St Cemetery as I had a few early settler ancestors buried there, but had never seen the double decker trams - that was a completely new one for me, thanks!
What a fantastic video! I had the privilege of spending more than a month in Australia in 2015, including 10 days in Sydney. What a great country and what a great city! I absolutely love Sydney and walking to Central was a daily pleasure. In fact, as I took public transit every day in Sydney, Central looms large in my wonderful memories of the city. One memory has to do with boarding the light rail at Central. I had an opal card for Australian seniors ($2.50 for unlimited travel for 1 day) and, when I boarded the train, I was told to keep my mouth shut so the inspector would not realize I was a Canadian and hence ineligible to use this deeply discounted pass for Australian seniors. So I would just smile at the inspector. Thanks so much for sharing this incredible video.
Thanks very much for your kind comments...so glad you enjoyed your time in Sydney......and you worked out the Opal card system?!?! Real history is quite -often more captivating than fiction.....
Great video, and well put together. I really enjoyed this little bit of history. Many thanks!
Wonderful documentation of our history. Well done. I found it interesting to see very little in the way of steam shovels and mechanisation at the construction sites. Lots of manual labour in those days with evidence of manual hand carts. Still they got the job done and seemingly did not take that much more time than we are seeing currently with the Metro work around Central.
It's also interesting to note comments re people who lost track of family members moved from the cemetary. Certainly would not happen today after seeing a local pioneer cemetary relocation. Archeologists were first on scene to document everything and gave special consideration to any older indigenous burials.
They found several graves there this week with metal name tags whist digging for the new metro. Any kind of excavation around town hall seems to disturb burials from the St Andrews Graveyard near the present day town hall.
This was a very interesting video thank you from New Zealand
I am sure you have some amazing rail history in New Zealand as well..........thank you for watching ....
I knew that my Grandfather 7th generation was buried in Devonshire Cementry, but could not find where he had been moved to & what a find at the end of this video is the headstone for George Howe.....thank you for this amazing bit of history, I now know his resting place
Thank you Debbie. You may be interested to know that at the Metro construction on platforms 13-15 they have found 60 more bodies including a gravestone or two. They are seeking relatives of those they identify......
My great grandparents were evicted from Windmill Road The Rocks to Balmain foreshores next the Darling St wharf Their sewage system at The Rocks was throwing excrement over the fence to back lane and wait for rain to wash away
Watched and thoroughly enjoyed it. thank you for sharing.
Thanks Alan glad you enjoyed it.....
I’ve lived here in Sydney most of my life and didn’t know about that part of our local history thanks for the interesting and informative story of the ghosts of out past !!
Thank you Colin ! Yes the history is unique and as I said, who needs fiction when you have such amazing real stories from our past ??......
Only just saw a news item tonight on Channel 9 Australia covering this subject
Thank you! I love our history, and so much is not available without extensive research! You are brilliant to have given your time and skills to this! Hope you do more!
Thank you so much really appreciated ...i couldnt agree more and when you look into our history there are amazing stories that would out rival most Hollywood movies! I am working on the next video now......
Hello Steve, Brilliant, brings our History alive
Thanks Robert...glad you enjoy...stay tuned for the next one !!
Thank you for the excellent video Steve. I have fond memories of Central station and remember it from the early fifties. The history of this area is very interesting.
You''re welcome Tony, you may be interested to know at the Metro construction at Platforms 13-15 they have found 60 more grave sites including headstones
Well done Stephen - an excellent background history of Central Railway Station. My First Fleet ancestor, Hannah Pugh (nee Smith), was on the 12 First Fleeters moved from Devonshire St Cemetery to the Pioneer Park at ESMP where there is now a fabulous monument to the First Fleet.
Thank you Robert I am glad you enjoyed the video its fascinating history I think. I agree its good that it has now been preserved.......
Fantastic Stephen, very well put together & researched.
Colin Borrott-Maloney thank you ur too kind for me it's fascinating so it's a labour of love !!!
Hi Steve, finally watched it! Awesome effort putting this together, it's an amazing compilation of the history of our city. I like your choice of music throughout too. Great to see another of your hidden talents coming to the fore!
Thank you Tanya...you are too kind....
Well done to all those pioneers “
Thank you for your video and excellent Sydney history
You're welcome.
Occupational health may not have been a priority but common sense was!
It should fill people with sadness to see those tram lines, and realise how much of a bad decision it was to remove the tram network.
Yes I agree.......what a waste!
@@stephentennant3019 It's great to have those two tram lines back. And they pass through Central exactly where the old ones were. Hopefully this will continue, the buses have to go. Buses should never be in a city like that. It makes the city less livable. Here in Melbourne, the city is a thriving place full of milk tea's and laneways.
I really enjoyed your history lesson. Thank you
Horace Rush You’re welcome , thanks for watching!
Wow, I've never seen these pics. The backyard with children looks clean to me.
thanks. im making a csgo map on central this really adds this suspence and a creepy feeling as well as a historical feeling. :) XD
haha done yet?
Awesome, thank you.
You're welcome!
Awesome I enjoyed it heaps very interesting
Thanks...glad you enjoyed it!
awesome video, well researched , thank you :)
Glad you liked it! Thank you
12:04 Interesting point as you noted some of these people had been buried alive,there was at the time a medical condition that brought the body to a state of catatonia indistinguishable by the medicine of the time from death.Sad but true but I digress an excellently researched and presented video
Thank you Sil, you may be interested to know at the Metro construction on platforms 13-15 they have discovered 60 more bodies and gravestones so many may have shifted in the sand........
I was shocked to learn that the second sydney terminal was built on a grave yard ! 😳
"Anthony Horden and (ma)Sons" on that iconic building. A lot of deception about our past is slowly being revealed.
I'm often driving through Oxford and liverpool St intersection, now Whitlam Square.
Great video 👏🏻 very informative
Thanks Gareth
George Howe was my 3 x Great Grandfather
I had 5 family members buried in Devonshire cemetery., still cant find were they ended up.
Wow ...5 family member!! One of the problems I found in my research was the bodies had been buried in sand....in the sand hills obviously so they shifted.....and frequently nothing was found beneath the headstone.! There have been a number of people that have done intense research into the body counts names etc. There were years of neglect at Bunnerong Cemetry during which headstones were damaged and/or disappeared....maybe some of these researchers can help. As I said in the video the bodies went to a number of cemeteries so good luck in your quest !!
devonshire is/was amazing....cameray is one of the best....a bit thin now but still full of amazing folk.
The filth & muck was what made our forefathers strong. All this antibacterial, sanitised, helicopter parenting is why the current gens are experiencing allergies & sicknesses that didn't exist in times gone bye
The Sydney rail construction would be on par with construction of the Harbour Bridge. Away from trains I think another doco on the telecommunications system in Sydney. There are 17 kilometres of tunnel under the CBD, mostly brick, which can be walked through by maintenance crews.
Yes its amazing how much of our history is not covered very widely......
I have work at Cleveland road sat and have lunch at prince Alfred park and walk the tunnel of Devonshire but I never knew the history of this places until now.
Yes ..its even now an evolving history Frederico as they have found 60 bodies that have shifted in the excavations going on at Platforms 13-15......including grave sites and grave stones....
@@stephentennant3019 wow. It's interesting. I work for land and housing corporation and have learn so much historical places like this. It amaze me and wonder the life in that era. Anyway thanks for replying back
Why didn't we learn this at school?!
Trish Mckenzie cause there trying too rub out white history. Now it’s all about the Asian’s & middle easterner’s. have a good look around & tell me I’m wrong. 😔
@@melissalove2463 i know what you mean, i use to live in the Western suburbs of Sydney. It would be quite interesting if we were taught this aswell.
These are the headstones but where would the buried body end up
Because of the sand the bodies would shift......and many bodies have been discovered during the current metro construction under platforms 14-15!!
Rookwood cemetery at Homebush??????
Maybe rare shot of Benevolent Asylum in 5:28?
Yes there are not many shots of the asylum at all.
buried alive??????
Yes...this was not uncommon as the medical technology of the time was basic so people could be in a coma and declared deceased....
Beautiful clarity at 8:55. The surveyors are well dressed. I'm often driving through Eddy Av.
Yes well history of railways is fascinating....glad you enjoyed...