Abandoned- A grand old federation Villa erased from historic Glenelg. Another victim of location
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Hey house lovers and explorers!
This episode I will take you through a grand old statesman home from the early 1900`s federation period that was built by a local prominent family already established in the the suburb of Glenelg North which was formerly St Leonards.
Provided is some cool information for those not familiar with Glenelg also another interesting look back to trace the history of the street and how it took shape and who lived here.
By the title you probably already realize this od gem has now recently been demolished and it certainly could have stood for another 100 plus years without a doubt.
With that said come and take the walk through with me and see this old home for yourself.
Thanks for watching :-)
What a beautiful and obviously well built home. Back when people took pride in what they created. Thanks for the tour! ✌️
Such a beauty! What a treat!
The drape fabric you pointed out looked like raw silk to me.
The story and his-story behind these old homes is amazing. Thanks for the tour, Paul. ❤ ❤ ✌
I agree, the luster of the fabric of the drapes is beautiful. They have to be silk. Very special. Thank you for another fascinating, albeit sad, visit to a great house.
Nice one, thanks for sharing this great explore! 👍🏻👍🏻
The sharpness and detail to the stonework is an absolute credit to the mastery and dedication of Mr Laycock.
Despite it having become an overall smaller sized property than when it had all its surrounding land, it is still a family size.
A lovely house with a great layout. Such a shame it is no more. Thank you for the historical background to the Laycock Family, quite a remarkable history indeed.
Absolutely Tim, skilled craftsman at work with these homes! :-)
Great explore as always!!! Love your narration! 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much Robin! And for watching :-)
WHAT.A.LOSS. That just breaks my heart. Thank you for the amazing history. Houses of character to non-descriptive.
Yes another classic oldy gone Sharon. Thanks for the support and for watching :-)
This beautiful original lime stone Federation home is what made the suburbs of Adelaide unique compared to other cities across Australia. Such a pity that such charming old gems are being demolished for concrete jungle high rise buildings. If only we could save our historic buildings. Again a fantastic explore thanks Urbex Indigo. 🏡
Hi Julz :-) Yes these homes certainly do represent Adelaide very well. Luckily for now many still remain but the ones visible to the non locals that are on main streets and roads are vanishing rapidly. Cheers for watching again :-)
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Great find as always. Thanks for sharing....
Thanks for watching Lab rat :-)
How do you get a house on the historic register? This place is so charming. How can you just wipe out these homes in favor of new and hideous structures? Of course the answer is money. Just breaks my heart. Thank you again for a wonderful explore.
Hi Susan, it can be nominated for a heritage assessment by the public or the owner I think. Sad loss, thanks for watching :-)
You put so much time and effort into these fantastic videos ... I just hope you realise how much it is appreciated ... delving into the owners and their stories adds to the brilliant presentations ... it is so sad knowing that all these magnificent old homes are going to be lost forever and replaced with concrete monstrosities... stay safe out there.
The features in the older homes were stunning! Thank you for sharing!
In its day, this would have been a lovely and gracious home. The size of the rooms, the ceilings, the drapes at the windows, it was all wonderful. I do love looking at old homes, thanks for sharing.
Beautiful home and sandstone facade. This one has to be my favourite! Craftsmanship like that is rare these days.
The wood panelling on the shed reminds me of Tudor panelling seen in the UK
Loved this! 💕 you uploaded a video about Kathy's overgrown home in Queenstown near Port Rd and it was AWESOME! lol one of my favourites! I love it when you add history to it 😊👍 btw I tried to show my sister that one but noticed it was gone! :(
A very beautiful home built with love and pride back when everyone actually looked after what they owned. Glenelg holds many happy memories for me visiting great Aunt's, hot summers, the beach, icecream.
Cheers for the walkthrough 😊👍
What a beautiful house and what a shame to have it demolished. I really enjoyed your history of this house and the neighborhood. The contrast between this house and the high rise building is very troubling. I wish they could save or move these beautiful homes. Thank you for sharing this amazing video.
Thank you for the tour. I loved hearing the history involved and the photographs. Another great explore.
Those ceilings were Devine. What a beautiful sandstone home
Thanks, Paul. You commented earlier that I would enjoy this one and of course, I did, but with sadness. A great history back story which added to the video. Cheers, Ken
Hi Ken, did you see the one last weekend? The 2 hour doco? I had to take it down for privacy reasons as a relative of the former resident contacted me.
@@urbexindigo5164 No, Paul I didn't get to see it. When we messaged you were in negotiations hoping to be able to put it back up. What a pity, it looked like a ripper.
Thank you so much for this house tour...I grew up at 11 Mary Street which parallel to Sturt Street...our home is directly in line with this house...I wondered about the cracking in the walls as we had cracks on our southern side... apparently there are underground streams from the Pat...i also know number 5 Canning street very well.
The little workshop on the right always caught my eye....the skinny room I believe is a cloak room.
I used too sneak down that adjacent laneway to pinch a couple of bottles from the St Leonards inn's weekly order of "Loys" soft drinks.
I watched the building next door being built as I did the Buffalo replica ship.
The Roundhouse was already built when we moved in..1972..it sat vacant for many years before completion.
There's a plaque in Melbourne street where the first house was built in Glenelg...it's near the corner of old Tapleys hill rd on the north side.
Much more I could tell you of course.
So thanks again for bringing up so many memories of my formative years.
Thanks again Paul. What a lovely old home. Such a shame, that another piece of history will soon to be gone forever.
beautiful craftsmanship and great history loved it. Sad to see her go. great job thankyou.
another one bites the dust and, as you said, so well built - much appreciate all the work you do in digging out the details, these details add so much to the overall story
I certainly hope the beautiful features...stained glass, ceiling tiles, the tiled from the outside....were salvaged. Too beautiful to think abt them being destroyed. Thanks also for the history. Greetings from Oklahoma, USA.
Great home, thanks for the back story.
Imagine how much money was spent in renovating that house & then seeing it demolished! Whew! 😬
What a shame that it is gonna be demolished! Why don't they declare those villa's as being monuments? And preserve this part of your history. You cannot preserve everything. But this one was worthed to be saved. But sadly, there is decided otherwise. What a shame, so beautifull, now gone forever. Glad you filmed it on time. Thanks for that!
Hi Anita :-) I wish they would do that as do many others but money talks and without heritage protection they get bulldozed.....cheers for watching :-)
Another informative video, thank you for sharing. What a shame to see the loss of such a place in time. Thanks again for keeping memories alive.
What a beautiful and so well-maintained home. You could envision the furniture as you went through the home- obviously these people had some money. Thank you so much for the history- I love things like that, and I'm sure the tenants hated having to leave. The bird was amazing. I so hope they save the tree, and the ones in back as well. That high-rise is an ugly piece of cement. The sod was even thatched, what a shame to lose it. Hey- I assume you get no snow there? I am in Colorado- we already have it here. Thanks for a fabulous explore!!!!!!!-SDK
Stunning Paul. I imagine this dwelling must be gone now, so sad😥money the root of all evil.
Thankfully you are documenting our precious history! It is being wiped out,quicker than ever before!
Take care & Cheers!
What a epic explore Paul, I enjoyed the rose chandelier in the yellow room fantastic mate, would of been good to see what the mantels looked like. Wow look at the deco toilet and the toilet roll holder and that lead glass door im amazed the demolition hasn't snapped them up yet. What an awsome bathroom thanks again for another epic video, ill see you again on the next one happy house hunting.
Breaks my heart to see this grand beauty torn to pieces, so cavalier and hateful. Wonderful history backstory, which makes this even more tragic though…superb explore and thank you.
I hope they also save the windows. Such a pity. That place has a very good vibe. I can imagine there were many happy memories made in that home.
Love your work Paul. Thaanks for all you do, to document our history. Lok for2ard to every new post 💓
Another WELL DONE Documentation of a house that should be still standing ….👍🏽
Makes me want to cry 🥲😭
Paul, this was a nice home , love the yellow and the kitchen was nice. Very sad but a great tour really love the history glad you was able to document this home.
One of your best videos, thank you!!!
Hi Paul! What a shame and such a beautiful old house. As always thanks for sharing. Take care
That was my grandparents house...a sad day...25 years of memories in that house...
Hi Lia :-) What an amazing house it was too. Sorry for you to have to see it`s demise here but it is always great to hear or see past residents commenting or sharing info :-) Was your family any of the names I mentioned ? Thanks for watching
Not sure if you did mention them- Peter and Rosa Delfino, they bought it in the 90s....and my mum took out the mantle in the loungeroom before it could get demolished...its in her house! The little shed was used to dry out their Italian sausages!
That beautiful, old palm tree...sigh... I keep thinking of the parrot. Sad to see the bare lot afterwards. And so, on it goes. Thank you for another great explore.
A Rainbow Lorikeet, I think - shame it's lost its tree ☹️
I wonder what would have happened if the owners had refused to sell. I suppose developers had just made it more and more unpleasant to live there.
😢 it breaks my heart to see these old beauties destroyed ... thanks for preserving the memories
OH MY GOSH! WHAT A SHAME! That home was gorgeous and had such personality. Thank you for sharing! Take care and stay well,safe and happy. :-)
Omg my old stomping ground. Remember the amusement park on the fore shore. I remember pushing my brother off that bridge and he lost his glasses. It is a shame to see these old houses knocked down for characterless buildings that replace them.
Hi Anne! Yes there was SO much extra stuff I could have added in this video about Glenelg but it was have turned in to a tourist video! haha. My old stomping ground also! :-) Thanks for watching
@@urbexindigo5164 I live near Glenelg and have watched the character of the bay vanish over the decades. In fact my mum and dad when they were first married used to live in an old boarding house on the corner of Adelphi Terrace and George Street demolished in the early 1950s- but that place was just about falling down back then. And I didn't realize you were a Tiger! Makes your videos even better.
Go the tigers. I lived near the old gum tree and my husband near the morphettville racecourse. I love watching your videos and keep up the great work of recording the history.
@@TheZodiacz Awesome info, that boarding house can be seen in that old photo from 1928 on the corner there. Yep much has changed even in my time in Adelaide mate. Yeah I came across and had a crack in the SANFL also spent a couple years at Westies, only played about 20 league games though :-)
Magic Mountain?
This was a beautiful and intrictly made home. Sorry to know that it is gone. It must have been a beauty during it's heyday. Thank you so much for taking us through this one.
I just love all the info you come up with. You really go all out for us.👍Much appreciated.🥰. I knew I loved art deco and bungalow but never thought I'd get to see so many. Unfortunately a lot of details have been taken down but at least I've totally got to enjoy looking at the outside. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️. I'm 71years old now and have never seen so many
GOD BLESS!
Cathy🌻 Ohio, 🇱🇷
Another beautiful home gone waste. Sad. I enjoyed hearing the history behind this house, it is such a beautiful area.
Excellent cellar. Great history..
Awesome video! Thank you!
A great old place and nice story..........................................................and now for completely something different, a big shiny high building in full color what everybody needs and wants, in city hall..............
Hi Paul what happened to last Sunday download I never received it that home was so awesome it saddened me to see homes and building's taken away. You are so awesome for your documentation of our history THANKYOU 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥📹📹📹📹📹📹📹📹📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬
Unfortunately privacy issues were sighted regarding the in depth family info I had in it. So I agreed to take the video down. Cheers for watching :-)
Thanks Urbex Indigo for sharing this video about Abandoned- A grand old federation Villa erased from historic Glenelg. Another victim of location it was a very beautiful home it is tobad it is going to be gone soon my frien i am from the U.S.A. and i really enjoy your channel because i like your channel and you are a great host keep up the great work you do my friend and i can't wait to see your next video and GodBless and thanks again.
The drapes are Satin. :) Velvet is fuzzy. :)
Hello !!! I loved the into music n old house. Well done. Beautiful to hear n see. Thank you for this Video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Mary! :-) Thanks for the support and for watching :-)
OMG...The drapes are beautiful an I'm sure cost big$$$,I think the material is Satin with lace...WOW. 😀💋🇺🇸
What a shame... terrible to see such beauty and quality completely disregard like this. I hope they leave a few standing as they will never be reproduced like this again. History being erased.... thanks for another great and informative video. 👍
Oh no, real shame to lose this one. I love the info of the owners and possible builders, especially the WWI soldiers. It’s this that bring the building back to life. Thanks Paul.
That just hurts my heart! What a gorgeous old home it was!
wonderful ceiling and that lace is special lace very expensive.Italian lamp with flowers.
I could not keep from tearing up from seeing the empty lot.
Wonderful old home and interesting history! I love the base of the columns on the front porch, they look like they are help up by iron open box like structure? I’ve never seen tat design before. Have you? If you have, is it of a specific period or design style? Also, have you ever considered buying any of the homes you’ve seen? As usual, it throughly enjoyed this one!!
Thank you Paul for all the time and effort researching this property's history!! I was on the edge of my seat when you entered the cellar being tall myself and a little claustrophobic. Very sad ending but another amazing episode. Well done 👏
OMG I used to know the boy who lived in that outside room. They were a very wealthy family. I was intimidated as a young man going into that house. It was beautiful.
Cheers mate 😊 always great to hear first hand stories about these old homes. It def was a grand old home 👍😊
Absolutely beautiful home!
I am always sad to see such beautiful homes demolished for no reason other than it is in the wrong place when developement takes over. There is no pride over historic homes, where loving care was put into every stone laid. Modern concrete junk replaces beauty. Thank you for showing this beaty to us.
Scarlet O Hara could make a beautiful dress out of those drapes and lace!
Gday Paul these beautiful homes must be becoming few and far between in Adelaide There was a 1990s movie Muriels wedding her father kept saying you can’t stop progress that may be true but it would be great if in this so called progress they could leave some of these beautiful homes for the future thanks again for another great explore cheers
Only houses in certain locations are at risk like this one, houses on arterial roads and near intersections or foundation issues.
Keep in mind that 80 to 90% of the suburbs are in tact and still have all the original housing stock.
So it's not as grim as you'd think.
That was a beautiful big home and it made me sad that it was demolished. Like you said they definitely don’t build homes like that anymore.
That was a beautiful house. Such a shame to knock it down. Great video.
This would be something most of us would hope for to restore. Gorgeous! And very 😔
Glenelg.. What a beautiful suburb!
Hi Paul pat again from UK .Used to live in Glenelg at one time and loved the historic and lovely houses in the area. Why cannot local Councils and the Government stop the destruction of history and heritage from being lost. It seems pure greed etc from the developers without a care for history. Keep up your wonderful and newsy videos.
There does need to be some new developments in the suburbs because our suburbs aren't dense enough for the future.
Adelaide's average house land size is a quarter of an acre...the problem is we have large footprint cities with small population...and to buy a new built house you need to drive a long way away to get to the new areas.
The law changed a while ago to prevent the spread of the suburbs on the fertile farmland surrounding Adelaide and to prevent badly serviced far out suburbs...so high density infill of inner suburb areas was encouraged.
Subdivisions of blocks, highrises on main roads and near transport hubs have become the main goals.
Don't worry too much though...most of the houses in the suburbs like many shown on this channel are still there...85 to 95% of the villas, bungalows and first original houses built are still standing strong...like the guy said it's mainly the houses on main roads and prominent positions that are at risk...when these houses were built many were built in a prominent position to show off or to be near transport back in the day when all roads were still dirt and horse and carriage the main transport.
As time went cars and increased traffic made many of these houses undesirable...a bit different having a few horse and carts going past to thousands of noisy cars flying past all day and night.
Yes it's a shame that some of the finest specimens were built in these areas subject to future demolition due to location...there are still plenty left that will never be at risk because the builders chose sites in nice quiet areas where it will always be safe unless foundation problems get really bad...these areas will either have a new house built by someone who has money and wants a larger block of land or most probably be replaced by higher density town houses to fulfil housing shortages.
But the majority of these houses are still here.
Its been a nice house. Sad its gone. Thanks for posting this video. My grandparents also had a palm tree outside their house. By the time I was a child it had become enormous, and was very messy. Of course it went when their fine federation house was torn down to be replaced by an ugly McMansion type dwelling.
nice doco paul thnx
FYI, my uncle was a Glenelg footballer, hall of famer and tiger legend, B Colbey. His Guernsey hung in the foyer at the footy club for years until his work colleagues bought it from the club and presented it to him on his retirement from "the feds".
Hi Jodeofoz :-) That is so cool! I used to have to dust those photos at the club when I was doing cleaning and maintenance back when I was playing there! B Colbey indeed an absolute club legend!!! :-) Thanks for sharing that info. Go the Tig`s :-)
Good old Glenelg,one if those rare words that pronounce same way backwards...great video thanx mate xxx
A Grand Beauty indeed..The workmanship of the house is superior compared to today's builds .
So Sad .Thank you for the tour of this magnificent Villa.
Glad you enjoyed it Talk Talk :-)
Makes me want to cry. Built at a time when quality took precedence and builders along with land owners cared about design and attention to detail. Each house had it's own personality that stood apart from the rest of the neighborhood. I just don't understand how some damn developer can rape society of an important part of the areas history. It's an absolute travesty that local government needs to address. I live in the United States where this goes on all the time. I thought the importance of saving historical monuments and places was taken more serious over seas. I didn't expect to see this happen in Australia. What a shame. Thank you for sharing this with the world as we all need to be enlightened by what is happening around the world today.
Such a beauty I love living in Glenelg east it’s full of these kinds of homes sadly the modern cardboard homes are slowly taking over I used to live next door to the old dry cleaners on Cliff street Glenelg east I think the old ice works was opposite now I live on Anzac Hwy
Hi Paul bro! Awesome vids my man! Have you gone through the 3 side by side homes on Marion rd looking at being demolished? ….
What a stunning old house 🏚. Such a shame that it will be torn down. A lot of work 💪went into this house.
Paul, that was a beautiful home. i could live there so sad that they torn it down for new development.
What a beautiful home! What a pity! And the poor parrot lost its home too. That was a great catch finding the parrot in the tree. That too was a sad reminder of how all the species are affected by one another. Demolish our human homes and they often lose theirs too.
What an interesting shape of a tree!!!
Great video again thanks Paul. And the bird was a lorikeet.
It makes me so sad to see a place like this knocked down just HISTORY SO UPSETTING.
It was really beautiful, so sad!
The history of this home that belonged to was very interesting , the street sign was named Laycock Street was it named from the family and what a great home and what a shame it got demolished , what a shame about last week's video that was deleted from TH-cam
What a stunning house!! 😍
Lovely way to begin my Sunday morning as always ☺️
Good morning Braveheart 10 :-) Thanks for the support and for watching :-)
I grew up in Santa Monica California and an old friend of mine and I used to go exploring in condemned houses on her street. The ended up building condos in their place.
I guess I was before my time!!
Beautiful house indeed!
It makes me so mad that houses like this are being demolished whilst to high rise is still standing!!! Something needs to be done to protect such heritage...why wasn't this house heritage listed?!
Unfortunately the home was never nominated and assessed for heritage as far as I know. :-(
This house is so nice. Close to water can't get any better than that. Thank you for history.
Do they salvage the ornate ceilings, crown molding, and wood designs like in hallways? That 80s built monstrosity is an eyesore, even from a skyline perspective...U...G...L...Y. Very good video. The homes set for demolition are better than my current place.
Hi Paul, I feel very sad that this old beauty is no more, almost as sad as I felt when the Tigers were defeated! My old stomping ground, used to party at the Bay Disco, now I clean the Bay Discovery Centre, so I know lots about the history of Glenelg, live near the Holdfast hotel and Glenelg oval. My favourite room in this Federation Villa is the yellow room, my favourite colour. Thanks so much for your tour and the time you took to look into the Laycock family history, so very interesting and moving, you demonstrate empathy, care and compassion for the homes and their previous family residents. Just beautiful :)
I remember this house. I lived on Adelphi Tce for a time. It is tragic watching these elegant stately old homes disappear for a cold boring concrete block. No matter how new these are they can never ever replace these types of buildings.
It is all about money. Greed and money 🧐
Cheers Ella 😊 always great hearing from locals and I actually filmed one on Adelphi tce in early 2021. Nice old Queen Anne style number 22 it was. 😊 Cheers for the support and for watching 👍😁
Oh my gosh, why won't someone just move the home to a better place? It's beautiful. I would love to have a home just like that. It's perfect. It hurts my heart to hear it will be torn down. That's so wrong. Where are the people who save old, beautiful n historic type homes ?????
Hi Mary, yes that is a question many ask but it is not seen as viable here. Too many permits and safety issues relocating a home in the city. Especially stone built homes. Thanks so much for watching :-)
Are any of these wonderful villas ever moved to a different location if someone would want to buy it? Who actually would be the owner of the villa if, in fact, someone wanted to buy it and relocate it before it was demolished? Thank you. I enjoy your videos very much. It's sad to see history destroyed! 😫
Well taken care of. I'm shocked.
And btw, those curtains were made of a heavy 'satin' material. Velvet has a nap and isn't smooth and shiny like that.
What a beautiful old house! I'm very sorry ...