I've lived in Lower Jordan Hill Road and the W Hobart end of Warwick St. My son went to Lansdowne Cres PS and skated in that skate park. So much history in that part of Hobart, both personal and on a larger scale. Thank you.
Most interesting for me is the old street signs you asked your 'old man' to get from council. This tells us a lot about you, Angus. You've got a life long enthusiasm for the history and evolution of this city and your videos are more than a few weeks of research plus some filming. It's a life long passion. I'm learning much about my adopted home from these videos and it makes every drive through the suburbs more fascinating. Thanks for your contribution to telling the story of the past. I hope to see you out filming one day. I will interrupt whatever you're doing to say G'day.
Thank you for this tour, Angus & Dog. We lived in Mellifont St in the mid-90s (ran the corner shop). I've often wondered about the history of the area, fascinating to consider the changes over the years. Pete.
Pacific Vista, Hobart Pacific or one of the several names it was known as also had a nice restaurant up there called Lofty's. Was such a lovely place to visit. Operated from 1968-2000, and was just left to rot by its owners. I believed it's now owned by an Asian investor. On a side note, I did an inspection on the place about 10-11 years ago and it was in a truly shambolic state at the time. I found stairwells collapsed, dead possums in baths, motel room doors wide open and each room filthy, hot water cylinders ripped from walls, the pool was slime covered and dark green, weeds everywhere. It's a disgrace it hasn't been repurposed.
I love your voice and they way you tell a story. I’m transported back to my childhood in West Hobart. I could almost smell the chickens in the backyard. Thank you.
@@angusthornett Agh, sorry Angus, my bad. SKATE central ,not SKEG central! I thought you were paying homage to some 70s / 80s Australian culture....I live in hope....
Thanks Angus and Harry. That boundry stone is apparently one of the corners of the "100 Acre farm". Other corner stones are on the Brooker outside the old Hobart Highschool and the corner of Macquarie and Darcy St Sth Hobart. Maybe worth a video on it's own. Thanks for the continuing history of Hobart. Boy those drone shots flatten poor old Mellifont St and Hill St.
I also found 3 other boundary stones: outside 3 Lower Jordan Hill, outside 25 Elphinstone Rd , and the last one is set in the footpath outside 352 Argyle st.
@@angusthornett No worries Angus- we're in Poland, and its currently a nightmare to get anything bigger than a match box past customs, I kid you not! Really appreciate your videos, please don't stop and I'd rather put my money where my mouth is! Stay well!
Used to hang out most days at the Skateboard Bowl! My two best friends lived in the house right beside it at 41 Lochner Street back around 1982-1986. I lived just down the road in Franklin Street until we left in early 1984. Had some of my most fun times in my childhood there, being BMX bandits and hanging out doing stunts and listening to the older kids skating and talking shit. Was always very popular back then. I would guess it's close to 40 years since I last set foot in it, hasn't really changed much other than it being covered in graffiti!
Another great video Angus, as west Hobartians we really e appeciate finding out about some of the history of the place we call home. We spent the rest of the evening trolling through Trove looking a the all too few pictures of west Hobart at the time our house was built. Many thanks for your chanel.
Well done Angus, a grreat summary of the last 200 years of the zinc works, and education to a local. Only improvement that I'd make is an aduststmet to the audio levels of the recording which are a bit quiet at times. Excellent walk through history and the impact of the local site. I loved the touch of your pooch joining you on the journey. Well done!!
I just love your videos. Thank you for continuing to share your extensive knowledge and historical research with us about our Hobart region. I really enjoy your relaxed presentation style, too - such a refreshing change from the usual in-your-face loudmouths screaming doom and gloom - and seeing you in all of these fascinating locations with your wee dog is a lovely, added bonus. Best wishes. TJ
@@angusthornett Thank you for reply. I would really love to see your channel really take off and I will share your videos as best I can. You really deserve every success for your endeavours. Best wishes to you and wee Harry. TJ
Knocklofty, at the top of Forest Road, is always an interesting place to visit. People used to collect firewood from there, and today it’s popular with casual walkers and enjoys its own fan club; “The Friends of Knocklofty”. Four sub-transmission power lines that feed South Hobart and Sandy Bay have coexisted with the flora there since 1952. The many tracks and rough roads up there add to the charm, somehow.
Got a few vids on my channel I hope you like....man the bowl....Tony hawk came down in 1990s and dropped the r on thrasher steepest part of the bowl was mad when I was a kid skating back there in the day...🍻😉😎
Yeee-a, I can do stunts...watch (proceeds to break nose in 0.5 seconds) Did you see did you see??? ...oh they're over there... I guess they've got some cooler stunts, but I can...er
I really love this history history Angus, thank you! I can tell you that the tower in the old quarry at the end of Arthur St is an Optus station. From memory the address is 100 Arthur St.
Yes the tower used to have something to do with Telecom back in the early 90s, one of my good friends from College, "Buff" Marney lived just opposite it for a number of years in the 80s and 90s with his parents, and some of us used to cruise up for a visit quite often. Unfortunately he died aged only in his mid 20s in 1999.
Thanks for another wonderful episode. Again, it’s a pity to see historic buildings being neglected, but a fair number have been converted to residential houses.
Can’t help but think Hobart sh-t traffic system is not helped by interference by councils planning logical roads then deciding not to complete them fully. That road along the ridge line would have been great.
Excellent
Well done Angus and canine bestie. It was great to casualy walk though the history of West Hobart, without the normal hype of network TV.
Thank you.
I've lived in Lower Jordan Hill Road and the W Hobart end of Warwick St. My son went to Lansdowne Cres PS and skated in that skate park.
So much history in that part of Hobart, both personal and on a larger scale.
Thank you.
Most interesting for me is the old street signs you asked your 'old man' to get from council. This tells us a lot about you, Angus. You've got a life long enthusiasm for the history and evolution of this city and your videos are more than a few weeks of research plus some filming. It's a life long passion. I'm learning much about my adopted home from these videos and it makes every drive through the suburbs more fascinating. Thanks for your contribution to telling the story of the past.
I hope to see you out filming one day. I will interrupt whatever you're doing to say G'day.
Man I love the history of Hobart
Thanks!
Thank you, Richard. Cheers, mate.
Thank you for this tour, Angus & Dog. We lived in Mellifont St in the mid-90s (ran the corner shop). I've often wondered about the history of the area, fascinating to consider the changes over the years.
Pete.
Your overhead drone shots give a lot of perspective to your narration. Cheers mate.
Another brilliant doco from Dog and Angus. Quality and informative. Keep it up boys, this is the best channel on YT.
Dog did a good job on this one.
Featuring Angus was cool too I guess
Thank you for all the ongoing support, Rod. It makes a difference, sincerely.
Pacific Vista, Hobart Pacific or one of the several names it was known as also had a nice restaurant up there called Lofty's.
Was such a lovely place to visit.
Operated from 1968-2000, and was just left to rot by its owners. I believed it's now owned by an Asian investor.
On a side note, I did an inspection on the place about 10-11 years ago and it was in a truly shambolic state at the time.
I found stairwells collapsed, dead possums in baths, motel room doors wide open and each room filthy, hot water cylinders ripped from walls, the pool was slime covered and dark green, weeds everywhere. It's a disgrace it hasn't been repurposed.
I love your voice and they way you tell a story. I’m transported back to my childhood in West Hobart. I could almost smell the chickens in the backyard. Thank you.
Thank you, Gail
SKEG CENTRAL!!!!!! Have not heard that word for a loooong time, thanks again Angus!
SK8
@@angusthornett Agh, sorry Angus, my bad. SKATE central ,not SKEG central! I thought you were paying homage to some 70s / 80s Australian culture....I live in hope....
@@ronti2492 No, I said Skeg alright.
@@angusthornett ok , I just cancelled my hearing test appointment!
loving your content mate . as a old hobartian i love the citys history
Thanks Angus and Harry. That boundry stone is apparently one of the corners of the "100 Acre farm". Other corner stones are on the Brooker outside the old Hobart Highschool and the corner of Macquarie and Darcy St Sth Hobart. Maybe worth a video on it's own. Thanks for the continuing history of Hobart. Boy those drone shots flatten poor old Mellifont St and Hill St.
The South Hobart one I've seen, is the other right out the front of the old high school? I've never noticed it.
I also found 3 other boundary stones: outside 3 Lower Jordan Hill, outside 25 Elphinstone Rd , and the last one is set in the footpath outside 352 Argyle st.
@@rosscameronsmith On the Brooker
Thanks
Angus, I Know that is around the price of one of your calendars but it would be a right P In the A getting it over to me, so all good!
Thank for the ongoing support of the channel, Ron. It's been great of you.
@@ronti2492 If you decide you want one in the future, let me know, for you I'm sure I can post it to you somehow.
@@angusthornett No worries Angus- we're in Poland, and its currently a nightmare to get anything bigger than a match box past customs, I kid you not! Really appreciate your videos, please don't stop and I'd rather put my money where my mouth is! Stay well!
Thanks Angus learning a lot about my adopted home.
Glad you're enjoying them, Kevin
That's a cool skatepark
It is.
By the way I like your videos
Heritage Forest at Invermay in Launceston is build on a former tip. It's become a really nice spot. So clever what they can do.
I never knew that bowl existed. My GF lived 2 blocks from there for 4 years.
Thanks again for another great vid, keep ‘em coming mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Generous of you, Peter. The support you give the channel does help me.
@@angusthornett no worries mate, I wondered who was replying just before 😂😂
@@FAR_CUE_TOO ya
Used to hang out most days at the Skateboard Bowl! My two best friends lived in the house right beside it at 41 Lochner Street back around 1982-1986. I lived just down the road in Franklin Street until we left in early 1984.
Had some of my most fun times in my childhood there, being BMX bandits and hanging out doing stunts and listening to the older kids skating and talking shit. Was always very popular back then.
I would guess it's close to 40 years since I last set foot in it, hasn't really changed much other than it being covered in graffiti!
Wonderful information presented in your signature style. I always look forward to your videos Angus. Thankyou.
Thanks, Michael.
Another great video Angus, as west Hobartians we really e
appeciate finding out about some of the history of the place we call home. We spent the rest of the evening trolling through Trove looking a the all too few pictures of west Hobart at the time our house was built. Many thanks for your chanel.
Thank you.
I think you are doing wonderful things for local history, your videos are always well researched, well thought out and very entertaining.
Thank you!
Thanks, mate.
As always your work is exceptional.
Love these videos . I look for to each one you put out. Thank you Angus.
Thank you for watching.
Great!
Cheers.
Good to see your subs increase. You and Harry are doing a sterling job. A sense of history and the relling of it , is never lost on the enlightened.
Cheers, Danny.
Spent many many hours at the bowl skating when i was at EC
Great photography always Angus. I'm enjoying catching up and learning so much about my birthplace.
Cheers
Awesome!
Any chance of a hobart pubs episode ? And the underground tunnels? :)
Good call!!
Maybe one day.
Enjoyed your walk and historical commentary.
Thank you for taking us along Angus and dog 🐶 Have a great weekend 👍🏽
Cheers, mate.
I’ve been looking forward to the West Hobart series
That’s it. One off episode.
@@angusthornett Just a one-off episode...followed by a few more one-off episodes 🙃
I love the bowl.. Many memories and injuries.
Another very interesting video Alex great work 👏👍😀
Well done Angus, a grreat summary of the last 200 years of the zinc works, and education to a local. Only improvement that I'd make is an aduststmet to the audio levels of the recording which are a bit quiet at times. Excellent walk through history and the impact of the local site. I loved the touch of your pooch joining you on the journey. Well done!!
"Hobart: City of Rivers"
Where? Underground
I just love your videos. Thank you for continuing to share your extensive knowledge and historical research with us about our Hobart region. I really enjoy your relaxed presentation style, too - such a refreshing change from the usual in-your-face loudmouths screaming doom and gloom - and seeing you in all of these fascinating locations with your wee dog is a lovely, added bonus. Best wishes. TJ
Thank you. Hopefully the channel can grow and I am able to continue to make more videos. Don't be afraid to share them. That helps a lot.
@@angusthornett Thank you for reply. I would really love to see your channel really take off and I will share your videos as best I can. You really deserve every success for your endeavours. Best wishes to you and wee Harry. TJ
Nice!
Thanks, Jacob.
Great to learn so much about places I walk every day. Keep it up mate!
Thanks for the donation, David. Hopefully the channel will continue to grow.
Excellent. I never spent much time in west hobart but its still so familiar.
Cheers, Sam
what a great video.. Mate ive lived in Hobart nearlly all my life and i always learn something new every video..
Z in the house!
Your videos are awesome! Look forward to the next one!
Thanks, Sally
Top stuff, Angus. The blend of colonial history and more recent built-heritage is extremely informative and enjoyable. Thank you.
Thanks, Rob.
Another masterpiece! Thank you
Thanks, mate.
Knocklofty, at the top of Forest Road, is always an interesting place to visit. People used to collect firewood from there, and today it’s popular with casual walkers and enjoys its own fan club; “The Friends of Knocklofty”. Four sub-transmission power lines that feed South Hobart and Sandy Bay have coexisted with the flora there since 1952. The many tracks and rough roads up there add to the charm, somehow.
Cheers
Got a few vids on my channel I hope you like....man the bowl....Tony hawk came down in 1990s and dropped the r on thrasher steepest part of the bowl was mad when I was a kid skating back there in the day...🍻😉😎
Yeee-a, I can do stunts...watch (proceeds to break nose in 0.5 seconds)
Did you see did you see???
...oh they're over there... I guess they've got some cooler stunts, but I can...er
When I visited Bath in early 2000s there was no E on the end of Lansdown. Call me a pedant!
I live in Hobart as well and it is fascinating to learn about the history of where I live
Thanks, mate
Best vid yet! Well done Angus!
Thanks, Thomas.
Another very interesting show 👍👏👏
Thanks, Leanda
The boundary marker is from 1857.
Cheers
As always Angus, great informative content! 🙌🏻👍🏻
Watch out for the Shaq Attack
@@angusthornett followed by the Minute Bol block 😂
Another awesome video. Keep up the good work.
Cheers, John.
Gotta say that's 1 cool snake run skate bowl
It's pretty gnarly.
Still love ya work .
Thanks, mate.
I really love this history history Angus, thank you! I can tell you that the tower in the old quarry at the end of Arthur St is an Optus station. From memory the address is 100 Arthur St.
Cheers.
Yes the tower used to have something to do with Telecom back in the early 90s, one of my good friends from College, "Buff" Marney lived just opposite it for a number of years in the 80s and 90s with his parents, and some of us used to cruise up for a visit quite often.
Unfortunately he died aged only in his mid 20s in 1999.
Gday Mark and Jason
Thanks for another wonderful episode.
Again, it’s a pity to see historic buildings being neglected, but a fair number have been converted to residential houses.
Thanks, mate.
@@angusthornett 👍😀
Great watch as always!
You should do Port Arthur :)
Another great video Angus. Obviously your interest in Hobart history goes back a fair way. Say hi to Harry.
Cheers, Jon
Thankyou for another great video
Thanks, mate. Appreciate it.
Your videos are wonderful, thank you Angus.
I love your dog...can I ask where you got it from? I want one!
Cheers
Native flora is boneseed a weed
What ever happened to the Doghouse pub? Seen some awesome bands there back in the day...
It's a hostel now.
What was the hotel called you could see it from the broker highway with the redline of lights along the skyline.
Good job Angus. Love ya work. Interesting to think what else could end up at the tip. Noticed you wisely avoided the C word (ends in car)
Thank you for the donation, Brett. It really does help the channel. Especially now while it's still in its infancy.
What's the story with the house with the pitched roof missing @angus??
I belief it was fire damaged and replaced with a flat one about 30 years ago.
Angus I reckon you went to friends or hutchins private school iam I close eh❤
Can’t help but think Hobart sh-t traffic system is not helped by interference by councils planning logical roads then deciding not to complete them fully. That road along the ridge line would have been great.
Hobart has been under funded for decades. All the money for roads gets spent in the north, in the swing electorates.
So what do you plan on doing Arfter you have done all the history in Hobart
Marry a Victoria Secret model.
@@angusthornett i have no idea what you mean but alright
@@angusthornett understandable have a good day
@@angusthornett bahahaha, see if she has a sister for me mate 😂😂
Yeah who know's?
I want to know how you get away with flying a drone over houses 🤔
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
@@metricstormtrooper words to live by!
He is not Tassie.
I gotta say there are way too many pointless trees in Hobart.. they are always in the way of a great view of the city.
Chop em down.
Dog Thornett
Gone backwards since the old days
Disrespect
Thanks!
Thank you, Richard. Cheers, mate.
Thanks
Thanks heaps, Jon. This donation does help a lot.