Statham's Quarry - Supplying Perth’s First Roads
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- Statham’s Quarry (also known as the Darling Range Quarry) was significant to the history of Perth since it supplied materials for Perth’s original paved roads, platforms at the Perth railway station and the City Beach groyne. It was connected by railway where the now famous Zig Zag scenic route is. While it’s situated in the Gooseberry Hill National Park these days (on the Darling Scarp) its operational history spans decades. Because of that, there are plenty of abandoned remains to explore like a rock-crushing plant and an explosives magazine.
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The only Perth Historian on TH-cam??? Hope you go big mate
Curtin's geology department uses this quarry for field trips. I lived around and went to school near here but had never known it was there until I went on the field trip. Quite a fascinating place to learn about the geology of the Darling Ranges and was great for putting theory into practice.
Hi Brendan
Another great piece.
FYI the embankment of a railway line is called a “formation” and the rail line and formation is referred to as the “per-way”.
Thanks for the info!
Love your videos man. I grew up in Gooseberry Hill and know Stathams Quarry well. We used to abseil and rock climb there in high school. I also make content mainly an the Armadale Train Line upgrades.
Cool video, Will definitely check this place out. Thank you!
Good content. Panning is too frequent or too fast. Makes me giddy!
Yes, it was hard to edit, too. I've reduced these in more recent videos
This is gold
There's a road into the quarry from the bottom road just along from the zigzag exit, and you can drive into the quarry if they have the gate unlocked.
the track/road you mention , well, i used to drive my Fairmont wagon down there to the bottom, and then walk my Labradore upto the quarry, this was in the early 1980s.
This is awesome Brendan,
Been here many times, keep it up
Kinda sad we live in a time were you wish there's not cars 😢 not safe out these days
If I may respectfully suggest that you make your pans much slower and pan in one direction instead of back and forward.
Ha, yes. This video was early days for the channel. Everything is shot from a tripod now!
Your videos are interesting. As someone who has grown up in Perth I love all the historical information you provide. As for your camera work. SLOW the sweeping panoramic shots down. You move your camera too fast. As you talk, slowly pan your camera so we get a clear look at all the interesting things you are filming. Its like being on a choppy ocean....
I worked there in 1995 on a work for the dole program. We built a toilet block, steps from the bottom to the top. We also built a gazebo and steps down into the pond. On our lunch break we sat in the old crusher. There is a lot more graffiti now days. Great place to work and taught me a lot of skills
Wow, what a stroke of luck that you had a key for the gate 😂 and you did the right thing and locked it behind you 😂
@rolly4x4 Must have been under the mat.😄
There were many car club cruises that did a run down the zig zag in the early 2000's with some questionable driving. It was also used for Targa West in uphill form. You would often see a fogged up car or two parked along the side of the road at night as well. The view is still sensational though
Yeah cars used to get fogged up windows a lot. I don't think the window demisters were very well designed back in the old days. Oh, do you mean while parked ? Yeah I guess, might be another cause for the fogged up windows, I guess !
@@KiwiCatherineJemmaProbably enjoying some Dominos with the view. The hot, steamy food always fogs up the windows.
You talkin the view in through the foggy windows ?
@@MrOlgrumpy They're just parked, enjoying the view of the city while eating Dominos
Name @ 11:48 I suspect the name is Giacomo Guidice. In which case if you said Yukk-omo Jew-de-see you would be close.
Engagement comment!
Interesting but it's 'DARbyshire', not DERbyshire. Went abseiling there with The Boys' Brigade in the mid 70's and drove my [2WD] car up there somewhere around 1980.
Thanks for the video and information; another site of interest close by is in Kalamunda, Whistle Pipe Gully.
Great video. Learning lots about Perth 👍
I literally went to that old structure with mates to mess around. And also did abseiling at the quarry for school camp. Didn’t actually know how important that place was!
I love your videos.as I also am a proud west aussie & love to learn more about our state. However one small request, could you please not turn around so quickly when filming as the images flashing past are not at clear & a lot of information is missed. Keep up the great work I love it.
Love these videos. So much historical stuff right in front of the door. Thank you for sharing, pal.
Swan State Emergency Service did rescue exercises there in the early 1990s, well they did when I was with them
The amount of Billy’s I’ve smoked in that bunker hahahah
In 1996 or 1997 I saw a First Nations dance troupe use the quarry as an amphitheatre/backdrop at sunset. It was part of the then, Festival of Perth.
Loving these videos and the local history, thanks Brendan.
Liked, Subscribed and greatly appreciated. Brendan, I live near you. If you ever want a coffee at Dog Swamp, (My Shout) I'd like that. I'm a Virtual Tour 360° photographer and former Photojourno.
I lived in Helena valley as an early teen. Just down the road from the quarry. Easy walk. Me and a mate hand climbed up the huge cliff to the left of the main sheer cliff. The more jagged one. No ropes ha ha. Also used to do abseiling there when I was in army cadets. Very cool spot
Great vid, thanks. I did an abseil course up there in 1987. It was a fun day with an ex-SAS guy and my friends. There was a flying fox on the north end that went from the top across and down maybe 50 or 60 metres, pretty hairy. Cheers.
It's actually against the Geneva convention to use POWs as 'free labour'. (Think Nuremberg). POWs may be used for labour, but it must be voluntarily, paid, under the same conditions as local labour and not be in direct support of a military activity.
That's probably why they were not used. Not worth the effort.
Reminds me a little bit of Ellis Brook Valley Reserve old quarry!! I had a good friend in primary school in Kenwick whose last name was Statham and it is pronounced Stay-Thum.
Fifteen shillings and six would have been a huge daily wage,maybe a good weekly ?
My father carted crushed "blue metal" from there in the 50/60s,the hard climb out was tough on trucks.
Go do the complete train line. Behind Karragullen church is the beginning. Go visit some of the families of Karragullen and Pickering Brook.
I would love to catch up and have a good chin wag with you. I lived in Karragullen for 40 years
Maybe you can do a video on Blackboy Hill Camp, used in WW1 to train the first AIF.
You can access this of ridge hill road
You can park and walk down yhe drive then up to the quarry.
Abseilers use this quarry and get car access from the shire council
Great videos bro.
Been in a few of the old quarries around Armadale Gosnells hills area etc.
Its just a hole or chunck out of a hill but its strange almost creepy.
Gosnells gun club site is one.
Nothing whatsoever about gun club just the hole.
On your train vids as a kid there was no Armadale rd just a raised
Clay wall
On whats now the centre medium strip
That had train rails
Karragullen was the lumber train line joined with Pickering Brook was the fruit line through Bickley Brook to Kalamunda then to the Zig Zag.
The train built Fremantle wharf Perth and most of the Perth metro
I'm pretty sure I went absailing there though school about 1997
I used to play here in the seventies. No graffiti back then. People used to push cars over the edge of the quarry
Good to see these sights and thankful for your efforts , but if you slow your video panning down a quarter, we might be able to focus on the scenery that you are attempting to show us.👍
Did you ever get a chance to explore the Claremont Asylum, was a cool spot before it was renovated and put back in to use
They even put a boom gate on the zig zag 😢 in 10 years the youth will have nothing to do or places to go, suppose they can put there ai goggles on and pretend lol
the shire put a gate on the zig zag road because of idiots trashing the place with rubbish, and doing burnouts everywhere ! residents living nearby had trouble sleeping from the inconsiderate yobbos.
My family comes from Midland there is a photo at the clock with my great grandfather on the bike he was a Police man my Nana is little girl this photo was taken for Armastay day
I've repealed off that rock when i was army cadet, back when they did cool stuff
I've walked my dogs there a few times and your video answered some of my questions and gave some detailed history of the area. Thanks !
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Run into anyone dodgy? in WA? Impossibru.
What a excellent video. I'm living in Perth and I'm very interested in its history
I remember reading about poor Lina in the news at the time - didn't know it was later upgraded to suspected homicide 😢
Dolorite I believe. Also used by Aboriginal craftspeople to make their kodj (stone axes)
Hey I found your video a few days ago and it inspired me to go to the quarry today it was amazing thank you keep uploading
It's a sad state of affairs when you feel scared to use words correctly.
A chute is a chute.
Stand up for yourself.
Nice work keep it up
Allow old photos to stay up a bit longer during video
Stath Ham there is a lot you missed including his wife - there are a number of connections with other listed sites
Remember the ..DIAMOND,RIO, Trucks, that came down this hill,,
Nice bit of history there Brendon that nobody knows about 😂😂
The track you walk in on is called a "formation".
A Perth historian is a surprise to be sure, but not unwelcome!!
Thanks for this, I grew up playing here as a child and also attended the Helena valley school it was one long building with an office splitting up the two class rooms. Both class rooms had a fire place hung on each fire place was our school creed and a picture of the queen in her very early days.
One of those really interesting places I've driven past a hundred times but somehow never visited.
Compulsory 'Small Perth' moment: I knew Frank Mansfield, back in the 90s. :)
i just fund you an love it man hec i love my home town an sate an be more then happy to be your camera guy
I love this channel I love watching the videos when im stoned
Hey man, great to see this video, if you ever need a drone pilot, hit me up
Did a lot of absailing there in the late 80s and early 90s
thanx!. these things need archiving. it's even better with the overgrowth and graff
cool video, i live in perth but have never seen this part of it
I thought zig zag road was just for dogging
Was there any gold found at that quarry
There was a Statham's brickyard.
🛋 wild Perth hills
'Statham' or 'Stratham'?
Good on you Brendan .. Great topics along with narration.
Perth mentioned??
Very interesting ✅
Excellent.
My grandfather ran several perth quarries when he was young, and also in Kalgoorlie. Interestingly, he built many roads in Kalgoorlie, and afterwards they found gold in one of his quarries, so the streets of Kalgoorlie are literally paved with gold! (Well, not really)
He ran "Perth quarries" in Kalgoorlie somehow and single handedly built many roads in Kalgoorlie? Sounds too good to be true.
@@ryan266846 luckily I didn't say anything like that, but you do you.
abseiled of that in high school, long before my Gloucester tree accident that left me afraid of hights
What happened at the tree?
I think i heard they're closing one or two of them.
Shame, it's a beautiful view from the top
@@bushratbeachbum would be 1995 maybe hmm but went there with Mum and dad, i am a short bloke 5"4 time I was there they had chicken wire but only in few spots was not maintained at all, had rebar hammered in, so I started to climb it not thinking about anything, was easy till about 2 story's up the rebar came further apart and further away, stupid me I pulled myself up then grabbed one by that point my arm where fully out stretched I had no upper body strength left my feet came off the bar and I was hanging there, I could not get my feet back on the rebar I was free hanging, Dad started climbing and I was slipping. He manged to get to me and I have no idea how but got me back down to the bar, he a giant to me 6 foot. From that point on i get light headed and freak with height's. I was about to drop of that bar 0 thoughts in my head just fear. I found out later from my uncle that was a park ranger that people have died climbing that tree. In fact way back then they where going to close it, odd says no one has fallen and died googling but was told two from memory did.
I not been back there since, I really need to go and just look. I wondered if they fixed and changed it to the rebar days.
These videos are amazing. I love that he narrates live in the spot! Some serious natural talent there!
Abseiled and climbed here a few times with a few groups. I don't actually remember the ruins though
Same! I saw the quarry in the opening and was like, omg that's where i used to go abseiling as a young teenager. It looks identical to how it was back then.. and that was over 20 years ago!
I can even vividly remember what each side was used for, south was the beginner 'sloped' line, west was the intermediate 'vertical' line and east was the advanced 'overhang' line.. going down that face forward was an adrenaline rush like no other!
I had no idea about the ruins there though or that it was so close to the zig zags.. i didnt know about them until i was a bit older and had a car, so up until now i thought they were two entirely different locations 🤣
Man I'm getting so old i have a growing number of back in my day stories... urgh! 😛
@@sirtra I climbed up one of those faces with a shattered finger joint, the finger is permanently crooked now 🤣
Cool
Nice work. Very interesting.
that fence was full of holes 😶🌫
Hope to check out that bushwalk one day
We tried to do the trail a few weeks ago, but got lost at the start (despite printing out the guide) and ended up doing 7.2km overall. Take care at the start just after you leave the Zig Zag tarmac.
Hey mate, do you have any photos of the old map?
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very interesting cheers!
sick
THere is only one perth and it is in Scotland the rest are 2 3 4 5 6 7. got it Australia.
And Tassy
Scottish Perth and Scotland generally has failed while actual Perth has grown and grown and grown.
Very nice Brendan! Fascinating history.
Local Perthie who needs to get out more. Subscribed! ☺️
I grew up down the road and spent many days cruising down (and UP) the zig zag. My brother and I used to walk to the opposite side and watch sun rise over the scarp We often did some Abseiling and rock climbing.
This is great ❤😂
I live in Byford and there are some really wonderful places around the hills.
I'm fascinated by local history .
Good for you .
Wow. You've done a lot of research. Thanks heaps. We've been to this quarry a couple of times, once from the zig zag and once from the road in front. The video and details you've given were very interesting.
Many thanks a place for us to explore on our mountain bikes. Mic O’D Albany
Super interesting! I live close to the primary school mentioned, our kids went there, and in winter it's a great walk up to the top. Oh, and our Labrador loves swimming in that pond when it's go any water in it!
Yep driven pass the quarry plenty of times and never thought to go have a look, there's other old quarries in the hills, theres a hidden one at Parkerville, which was used for the railway, at the corner of Riley Rd and Kintore Rd.
I've driven past this so many times and had no idea about any of this. Pretty dope to learn.
Mate, great vids and history content, i have subscribed👍
i did a surveying prac at zigzags and did not know that this was even here!
It’s called formation. I’m going to have to go and have a look around there. Great video! 👍🏻
seeing this is making me want to climb short circuit again
I used to go here and blow shit up, good times!
Would have made Thomas Statham proud!
Amazing to see the jaw crusher sitting in the pond in the old pic near the end of the video.