The last few seconds touched my heart. I spent many a shift as an ambo at Jimboomba station. It started off in about 1985 as a sub centre of Beaudesert District Ambulance back in the days of the QATB. It wasn't a 24/7 station until many years later, and even when it was it wasn't uncommon to start night shift and not turn a wheel all shift. The original station was built on the current site, but for about 12 months in about 2008 we worked out of a rented house at the end of Green Ridge Rd. Nowadays the new station is still at its Johanna Street site and workload has exploded with the growth of surrounding housing estates.
Probably because all of the tree's have been decimated and it makes the area very hot, this means the cloud rises with the heat island effect and is pushed up above the dew point, it doesn't get close enough to land again until it runs up a ridgeline..then it meets dew point and drops it's load :(
If my Father was alive today, I am sure he could tell you where the Norfolk Tavern was located. My best guess is the old Cobb and Co stop at the corner of Teviot Road and Pub Lane, closer to Greenbank and opposite our former family home at The Meadows ... Which is now 3000 home residential estate. FYI, my great grandfather married a girl named Alice MacLean (MacLean's Bridge fame), and pioneered the area around Greenbank. Thank you for the video ... well worth the effort, Cheers
Nice walk about! After moving here last year I can safely say I love this town! You even featured my car at the very beginning of the video! Learnt some very interesting information, thank you for making this
This where my family settled, originally coming from the second fleet. We owned thousands of acres, including Jimboomba House. Our family lived in Jimboomba House until it was sold to Japanese investors in about 1992 and Hills College was built on the property. The house is now the restaurant onsite. It was moved in the 90s.
@WalkaboutWithRob I'm certain my grandmother would have known where that pub was! I've got a family history book that has a lot of info on Jimboomba (currently in storage however). My grandmother left a lot of historical items to the school who were meant to make a museum, they never did though and we have no idea where the items and information ended up. My parents were married on the verandah of Jimboomba House. Bitter-sweet memories that's for sure.
@@melissahenderson5576 is there a chance you could contact the school and see if they have the items, or know where they were put? It’d be a terrible shame to lose such valuable resources.
@@walkaboutwithrob I will try actually, but this was the early 90s and being overseas investors basically I wouldn't expect they kept anything if they didn't keep their word on showcasing the items.
Thank you for this video! I spent the first 20 years of my life in Jimboomba, and this bought back SOO many memories! I left 23 years ago, and have never been back, and while it looks like it has changed a lot, it is still easily recognisable! I have since moved to Tassie, and was stoked to be able to point things out to my husband, such a throwback! Also, just as a little tidbit of information, my sister was the first bride to be married in the little brown church after its relocation, and its also where I went to church as a very small child in the 80s 😊 What a flashback this was! Thank you !
i went to school in beenleigh in the 80s with heaps of kids bussed in from jimboomba .. it’s an awesome place .. still have friends that live in Jimboomba 🤠
HI Rob I'm Andrew Webb. I went to Jimboomba State School from 1980 - 1985. I was the Junior Boys champion in athletics there in Henderson House and can remember them moving the hall you mentioned in your video from next to the pub on Mt Lindsey Hwy. before that that there was really very little in the Town but chicken farmers and the post office where we would put out tuck shop money in a brown paper bag write on it what we wanted and it would get delivered for our lunch from the Post Office. I remember having sports days or playing on the oval behind the school and seeing Flinders Mountain etc. The school had in the front of it a ring road car park with a huge bamboo grove in the middle that us students would tell story's about the Head Master of the school walking into the Grove and cutting a piece of bamboo for a cane, to discipline us boys with, 'Which did happen'! Any how I have picture of my classes still there and athletics ribbons if you would ever like a copy for your research. Kind Regards Andrew Webb
As teenagers we'd sometimes drive down to Jimboomba from Brisbane on a Saturday night for the 'country' dances at the old hall. Great atmosphere, no fights, everyone happy and we learned all the old favourites like the progressive barn dance and so on. You could even "cut in" on dancing partners and it was accepted as just fine. It also seemed a very long drive - not so today.
We’ve just bought a house on Cross street and we are told that apart of our house (separated from the house) was the old butcher’s shop/general store. It was situated at the front of the property, but when they moved this house here in 2001, they move the shop to the back of the property and made it like a granny flat. It basically looks the same with the old weatherboards and the old timber floors are still in tact. Very special piece of history
Fun little tidbit, 14:04 over on the left that four pointed BBQ area there is a Litterbug sign. There was a completion for kids back in the 90s IIRC? mine was the winner, still there now (well I check Google street view which is from Jan 2021).
thank you Rob for another great local history lesson. it is truly amazing the history we have around us here in Brisbane, and than you for bringing this to our screens with your humor too. much love and have a wonderful day 🤗💕🙏
This was great, I grew up in Jimboomba and recognised where you were in almost every shot, but I still learned a lot about my hometown I didn't know. I went to school at Hills College, near where Jimboomba House is located now. The school was built by a Japanese businessman who bought the land from the Henderson family and used most of it to build a golf course that used to be the longest 18 hole golf course in the Southern Hemisphere. In high school, I had to walk the length of that long driveway you were filming on twice a week to get to the sports facilities at the front of the property for PE lessons, and there was a really aggro magpie that took the intrusion very personally.
Hi Rob.back in the old days in Qld you could get a beer on a Sunday if you were a traveller so Dad would take the kids and Mum to different places and the Jimboomba hotel was one of those places we went to. Apparently you were considered a traveller from Salisbury to Jimboomba!
@jennycampbell5236 I've heard of similar strange Queensland laws. Coming from Sydney we didn't have was many odd things like that law. Fancy not being able to get a beer on a Sunday unless you were a traveller! Boggles the mind.
Hi Rob... from 4:45, Jimboomba House was moved from the east, closer to the highway and Henderson Creek where the original Concrete Grain Silos and sheds still are. The location that you see from Riverside Esplanade is our old farm which my Dad bought in 1958. It was a back paddock of the Jimboomba House property. It was our Dairy Farm until around 2000 then we just ran cattle until we sold it in 2015.
@Rabs65 thank you indeed for your polite and invaluable feedback. (Makes a nice change from some other people's comments). I'm guessing you would have some fascinating family photos of the area going back many years.
I was raised in Jimboomba. Went to Jimboomba State School in the late 80s/Early 90s. My sport group house was called Henderson (green team). I did my primary school dance graduation at the Jimboomba hall. My Father still lives in Jimboomba near McLean and Logan Village. I did the brickwork under the Colonoal village. I think there is a sihohette of me standing under one of the houses in the picture. I lived on Matt Court, which was right off Mary Street and that little Brown Church.
Ay I was Henderson too!!! I grew up on Meadow Rd, off Camp Cable Rd. We moved away when I finished highschool during the bikie era due to a significant rise in violence and crime in the area. Our graduation was at Beenleigh, I only went there not long after you as we moved before VLAD.
Thanks for this. My ancestors were Hinds and their property was up near the Maclean Bridge. Hinds Rd starts up there. I believe they arrived from England in 1896. It was great watching the history. We caught a train from that station around 1960 when I was about 7 years old but I remember it really clearly. It was a steam train back then of course.
Just watched that video. It made me sad how we have turned a nice country town into an overpopulated city :( seen it change so much in the last 25+ years.
Jimboomba used to be really well known for it's geological formations too. Gilgai's and also stone formations near the creeks that form great big round holes that bore vertically down into the rock face. You could put a hole leg down there all the way up to your hip joint and it still wouldn't touch the bottom (yes I'm speaking from experience!). We lived in Woodridge but we used to love swimming in the waterholes around here in the 70's, lost many a shoe and thong that way!
@lisa topham thanks! Wish I was in Cornwall! Love it there. Some ancestors of mine have the surname of Bolitho, so I guess they come from the village of the same name.
One of the great things about the present mania for walking trails will be that they preserve the right of way for when growth in those areas and the green thumb coming down hard on cars makes rail commuting viable again. Unlike the shambles down to the Gold Coast. Lovely to see those old buildings get a new life and the timber interior of the little church building. It would be nice however if the Local Authority required each new house block to have a couple of the old endemic Hoop Pines planted as food for the Koalas displaced. 😉
@theoztreecrasher yes for sure regarding the reintroduction of Hoop Pines. They look beautiful and will bring back, in a small way, the old character of the place.
I not long ago discovered your videos Rob and have been eagerly devouring one a night since. I’ve a great passion for history (my first degree was a BA (Hons) in Australian history) and am pleased to see that both yourself, and others, share it. Like you I’m also originally from Sydney and notwithstanding having lived in SE QLD for almost two decades, my knowledge of local history here is reasonably slim. You’ve helped ignite a passion to learn more. Thanks for this video. I’ve only been to Jimboomba once and that was to a farm on the outskirts to pick up my Kelpie cross Border Collie pup. I didn’t visit the township. I now know a lot more about the area in which Roy (my dog) was born. That can’t be a bad thing 😊
In the sixties my Dad would take my Mum (and the kids) from Brisbane to the dances at the hall, the Pub was close by and he could get beer after 6.00pm.
Jimboomba house wasn’t moved until about 2008. The original site was east about 200 yards, not west, and the site is still visible, with an old Nissen hut, sheds, and barn.
Don't disturb the mullets!! Haha Hey mate really appreciate the trouble you go to with these videos. So much history on our doorstep yet it's not often talked about. It's so much more interesting when I think I know where he is, I've been there myself, thanks again:)
Thankyou, very interesting! I live at cedarvale & didn't know all this, please keep going with these videos, most of us Australians aren't informed of this very important history ❤️
The Norfolk pub originally was located down near the train station with the Hall. But after some serious flooding it was uprooted and hauled up the hill using Bullock teams to where The Jimboomba Country Tavern is located today. Shortly after the Hall was relocated between the Pub and the School. The Hall was then moved to Honoura St in 1985 to make way for the Jimboomba Shopping Centre. The area around the train station was originally the Jimboomba township.
@Wayne Williams Thank you for your feedback. Yes, most of that is covered in the video. However do you have a source for the location of the Norfolk Hotel? In other words, where did you get that info from?
@WalkaboutWithRob got that info from my school teacher, Mr Gary Begley when I was a student at Jimboomba State School. Infact, it was because the hall was being relocated to Honoura St that the topic came up about the original township location. The pub was moved first so the locals could resume drinking.
@@waynewilliams5530 Ah ok, thanks. It's curious though. I mean, the Norfolk Hotel was built in 1875, however the train station wasn't built until 1888. I wonder why the hotel would have been built down there, away from the main road (Mt. Lindesay Highway) when the main road was the main form of land transportation.
@@walkaboutwithrob Gary Begley was a teacher at Jimboomba School as Wayne Williams has mentioned. Now retired and in his mid 70s? is a wealth of knowledge due to his forebears having lived in the area since early days, I'm sure it would be beneficial for you to contact him.
@@raygregg6686 Mr Begley was an awesome teacher! He was a good friend of my mums (she was also in education) so we knew him quite well as kids. Definitely a good source of information, and yep, would be in his early/mid 70s now, he was around the same age as my mum.
My understanding was that Jimboomba meant "where the echo ends"...as in the valley opens up to floodplains here, so the echo's from the mountains "run out" when they reach Jimboomba.
@Brooke Hynch well that's another interpretation of the meaning of the name. Gosh, that makes five now! I wonder what the truth is? Thank indeed for the info!
First real country town i went to in Australia. Dated a guy from Jimboomba back in the early Naughties! I am from Sweden so Jimboomba felt pretty exotic then.
@JennyEkberg I can imagine how much of a pleasant, even sublime culture shock Jimboomba must have been to you back then. And I think you are the first person to ever use the word exotic to describe Jimboomba!
There is a preserved parcel of land - maybe several hectares - at the corner of Cedar Vale Road and Bluff Road that is representative of the sort of forest that covered much of this area. It is a very dense, dry forest and from tall trees dangle large vines similar to those that abound in thee Bunya Mountain region.
@walkaboutwithrob Yes true, it wasn't exactly "the place to be," so to speak, for many, many years. It didn't really have a good reputation, which I never understood.
@@shellebelle53 It's no better or no worse than pretty much anywhere else. I think it's just another case of a small, loud, anti-social group ruining the reputation of an otherwise fine town.
@walkaboutwithrob having grown up in Kingston with the tag of being from the wrong side of the freeway or being called a bogan from logan, I can totally relate. Small-minded people living in their small-minded ideals without really having any clue.
Um. Isn't that the track switch at 9:36? Or were you just showing an example of what you were looking for? At 9:47 you say you couldn't find it, but the video you show is only a single track, so you must have already passed the switch.
I lived in the area when the heritage group were running the train. Unfortunately at that time there was a terrible drought and almost every time the train ran, a bushfire started. So the locals were obviously angry about this. I always assumed the burnt bridge was an ‘own goal’ from one of the bushfires they started.
Imbil... my mother's side is Horne, Zillmann and Beckmann. That be my mother's family history there! I have many family stories of incest (just what happened back then), bean and pineapple farming, the train and how it was back in the day.... I love Gympie, compared to Jimboomba and the entire area including Beaudesert, it's much, much nicer. The entire Mary Valley is my home in my eyes. I still have family there. 8th generation. Most of us moved closer to Gympie or to Brisbane which is why I grew up at Jimboomba, but we returned. Would love to see an Imbil/Gympie video! Brooloo is fascinating too, especially the old train ruin site and all those awesome abandoned mines in amongst the hoop pines.
@@dingobonza apparently Brooloo was once a booming town. I met an older park ranger in Noosa who said his father ran the bank at Brooloo back in the day. They actually planned to have the rail line extend all the way to Kenilworth but they only got as far as Brooloo and then stopped the project. It’s a fascinating area.
Thise is very cool.. Love to know more re north maclean/Greenbank.. . We have train tracks behind us on lance rd which is only used now at nights for I think container company it be interesting why when etc it was built as different to the jim/beau line .. and we can be either greenbank or north maclean..feels neither !! I have one those trees in middle of paddock now I know what it is
The oldest "house" was the women's prison house, next to St Stephen's church, behind the GPO in Brisbane. Most of the towns in Queensland were named by the "mail drop" transports, Cobb & Co. They just asked "What's the name of this place"? Usually the reply was, "Well the local aborigines call it....".
Fun Fact: the original Camp Cable Road was built in a zig zag to make it harder for enemy bombers to hit trucks resupplying the camp if the war ever came south. At least that's what I was told by my parents, it's so hard to find sources about small town histories online, which is why videos like this are so valuable.
RE Railway Hotel that's not the history we were taught being a kid that grew up in Jimboomba. Railway Hotel at Beaudesert was originally at Jimboomba Junction, across the road from the country tavern.
I here they are looking into building a botanical gardens here in Jimboomba Brisbane city has many botanical gardens but Logan city dose not so its good council is looking into building a gardens here
Thanks Rob, I’ve been living here for nearly 3 years now and you’ve really given a great insight into this wonderful town. I really had no idea about it’s history.
Was amazed to have this come up on my TH-cam as I live in JIMBOOMBA. This was so interesting and full of facts I didn’t know. Very sad that the pine forests were never replenished, and right now developers are destroying all the remaining ones in the area of yarrabilba, 10 mins east for more housing developments. I think if I had seen this when that started I would have rallied against it. Sorry to say but you do have a big part wrong, as Jimboomba is actually in Queensland about an hr and a half north of the border of NSW. Great video thanks so much from all us Jimboombarians….👍🏻😀
@Arch Angel thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated indeed. 😃 I hope you'll like my other videos. Yes, I do know that Jimboomba is in Queensland. If you watch the start of the video you will see why the town is described as being in NSW.
@rogerschanel7640 If you had bothered to actually watch the video, you would have quickly learnt that Jimboomba was in NSW before separation in 1859. See what happens when you comment before getting all the facts?
@@walkaboutwithrobI did watch it. Probably because the title was wrong. Marketing gimmick? So your title was correct before 1859. It is not now. I am sorry if I upset you by mentioning it.
@@rogerschanel7640 Yes indeed, marketing gimmick. Absolutely! And obviously it is not in NSW anymore. (Did I even need to type that?) Believe me, I don't get 'upset' by random comments. I merely set them straight.
The last few seconds touched my heart. I spent many a shift as an ambo at Jimboomba station. It started off in about 1985 as a sub centre of Beaudesert District Ambulance back in the days of the QATB. It wasn't a 24/7 station until many years later, and even when it was it wasn't uncommon to start night shift and not turn a wheel all shift. The original station was built on the current site, but for about 12 months in about 2008 we worked out of a rented house at the end of Green Ridge Rd. Nowadays the new station is still at its Johanna Street site and workload has exploded with the growth of surrounding housing estates.
Thank you for your service, I have alot of respect for The Ambulance service.
I’m liking the meaning thunder with little rain. I have watched many rain clouds gather and completely pass Jimboomba only to drop over the ridge. 😢
Probably because all of the tree's have been decimated and it makes the area very hot, this means the cloud rises with the heat island effect and is pushed up above the dew point, it doesn't get close enough to land again until it runs up a ridgeline..then it meets dew point and drops it's load :(
We moved to Jimboomba in 2001, the growth in that time has been incredible.
Thankyou for your great work.
If my Father was alive today, I am sure he could tell you where the Norfolk Tavern was located. My best guess is the old Cobb and Co stop at the corner of Teviot Road and Pub Lane, closer to Greenbank and opposite our former family home at The Meadows ... Which is now 3000 home residential estate. FYI, my great grandfather married a girl named Alice MacLean (MacLean's Bridge fame), and pioneered the area around Greenbank. Thank you for the video ... well worth the effort, Cheers
Nice walk about! After moving here last year I can safely say I love this town! You even featured my car at the very beginning of the video! Learnt some very interesting information, thank you for making this
This where my family settled, originally coming from the second fleet. We owned thousands of acres, including Jimboomba House. Our family lived in Jimboomba House until it was sold to Japanese investors in about 1992 and Hills College was built on the property. The house is now the restaurant onsite. It was moved in the 90s.
@Melissa Henderson I hope my documentary did justice to your family's importance to the Jimboomba area and its history. Thanks for the comment indeed.
@WalkaboutWithRob I'm certain my grandmother would have known where that pub was! I've got a family history book that has a lot of info on Jimboomba (currently in storage however). My grandmother left a lot of historical items to the school who were meant to make a museum, they never did though and we have no idea where the items and information ended up. My parents were married on the verandah of Jimboomba House. Bitter-sweet memories that's for sure.
@@melissahenderson5576 is there a chance you could contact the school and see if they have the items, or know where they were put? It’d be a terrible shame to lose such valuable resources.
@@walkaboutwithrob I will try actually, but this was the early 90s and being overseas investors basically I wouldn't expect they kept anything if they didn't keep their word on showcasing the items.
@@melissahenderson5576 Are you talking about Hills College or Jimboomba State School?
I have lived here in Jimboomba for 10 years and I had no idea about any of it! Pretty cool thanks!
Thank you for this video! I spent the first 20 years of my life in Jimboomba, and this bought back SOO many memories! I left 23 years ago, and have never been back, and while it looks like it has changed a lot, it is still easily recognisable! I have since moved to Tassie, and was stoked to be able to point things out to my husband, such a throwback! Also, just as a little tidbit of information, my sister was the first bride to be married in the little brown church after its relocation, and its also where I went to church as a very small child in the 80s 😊
What a flashback this was! Thank you !
i went to school in beenleigh in the 80s with heaps of kids bussed in from jimboomba .. it’s an awesome place .. still have friends that live in Jimboomba 🤠
HI Rob I'm Andrew Webb. I went to Jimboomba State School from 1980 - 1985. I was the Junior Boys champion in athletics there in Henderson House and can remember them moving the hall you mentioned in your video from next to the pub on Mt Lindsey Hwy. before that that there was really very little in the Town but chicken farmers and the post office where we would put out tuck shop money in a brown paper bag write on it what we wanted and it would get delivered for our lunch from the Post Office. I remember having sports days or playing on the oval behind the school and seeing Flinders Mountain etc. The school had in the front of it a ring road car park with a huge bamboo grove in the middle that us students would tell story's about the Head Master of the school walking into the Grove and cutting a piece of bamboo for a cane, to discipline us boys with, 'Which did happen'!
Any how I have picture of my classes still there and athletics ribbons if you would ever like a copy for your research.
Kind Regards
Andrew Webb
As teenagers we'd sometimes drive down to Jimboomba from Brisbane on a Saturday night for the 'country' dances at the old hall. Great atmosphere, no fights, everyone happy and we learned all the old favourites like the progressive barn dance and so on. You could even "cut in" on dancing partners and it was accepted as just fine. It also seemed a very long drive - not so today.
We’ve just bought a house on Cross street and we are told that apart of our house (separated from the house) was the old butcher’s shop/general store. It was situated at the front of the property, but when they moved this house here in 2001, they move the shop to the back of the property and made it like a granny flat. It basically looks the same with the old weatherboards and the old timber floors are still in tact. Very special piece of history
@Guy Hazelwood fascinating. Do you have any old photos of what it used to look like?
I have lived here since 1977, Jimboomba has changed a lot since then
hey mate u remember me Shaun Docherty? I remember ur name
Enjoyed it.
Ever thought of doing Killarney? They had a tornado in 1968 that flattened half the town. Lots of history there. Queen Mary Falls nearby.
What's happening to the "Head road", do you know anything, please?
Great round up of what we call....The Lazy J. Nice work Rob!
I've lived in Jimboomba for 28 years. So much has changed since I first moved here in 1995
Fun little tidbit, 14:04 over on the left that four pointed BBQ area there is a Litterbug sign. There was a completion for kids back in the 90s IIRC? mine was the winner, still there now (well I check Google street view which is from Jan 2021).
My hometown, think i've explored every inch of this place 10 times a didn't know half this information, thanks mate!
That was awesome Rob and agree so much history in our area, very informative
thank you Rob for another great local history lesson. it is truly amazing the history we have around us here in Brisbane, and than you for bringing this to our screens with your humor too. much love and have a wonderful day 🤗💕🙏
@happy joyjoy thanks! I'm always amazed at how much there is to discover.
Awesome Rob, some interesting information and history on my town I didn’t even know, can’t wait to check out your other videos
That was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Ive been living here 6 years now, and know all the spots you were at. Loved the Mullet joke too.
This was great, I grew up in Jimboomba and recognised where you were in almost every shot, but I still learned a lot about my hometown I didn't know. I went to school at Hills College, near where Jimboomba House is located now. The school was built by a Japanese businessman who bought the land from the Henderson family and used most of it to build a golf course that used to be the longest 18 hole golf course in the Southern Hemisphere. In high school, I had to walk the length of that long driveway you were filming on twice a week to get to the sports facilities at the front of the property for PE lessons, and there was a really aggro magpie that took the intrusion very personally.
Thank you for your memories of this fascinating town. I find every tid-bit of info to be invaluable.
Hi Rob.back in the old days in Qld you could get a beer on a Sunday if you were a traveller so Dad would take the kids and Mum to different places and the Jimboomba hotel was one of those places we went to. Apparently you were considered a traveller from Salisbury to Jimboomba!
@jennycampbell5236 I've heard of similar strange Queensland laws. Coming from Sydney we didn't have was many odd things like that law. Fancy not being able to get a beer on a Sunday unless you were a traveller! Boggles the mind.
Loving your videos, thank you for the time and effort that you put in to them.
Hi Rob... from 4:45, Jimboomba House was moved from the east, closer to the highway and Henderson Creek where the original Concrete Grain Silos and sheds still are. The location that you see from Riverside Esplanade is our old farm which my Dad bought in 1958. It was a back paddock of the Jimboomba House property. It was our Dairy Farm until around 2000 then we just ran cattle until we sold it in 2015.
@Rabs65 thank you indeed for your polite and invaluable feedback. (Makes a nice change from some other people's comments). I'm guessing you would have some fascinating family photos of the area going back many years.
@@walkaboutwithrob We sure do... our family settled in the Greenbank are in 1865 so we've seen a lot of changes.
I was raised in Jimboomba. Went to Jimboomba State School in the late 80s/Early 90s. My sport group house was called Henderson (green team). I did my primary school dance graduation at the Jimboomba hall.
My Father still lives in Jimboomba near McLean and Logan Village.
I did the brickwork under the Colonoal village. I think there is a sihohette of me standing under one of the houses in the picture.
I lived on Matt Court, which was right off Mary Street and that little Brown Church.
Ay I was Henderson too!!! I grew up on Meadow Rd, off Camp Cable Rd.
We moved away when I finished highschool during the bikie era due to a significant rise in violence and crime in the area.
Our graduation was at Beenleigh, I only went there not long after you as we moved before VLAD.
@@dingobonza How old are you. I was raised off of Stockleigh Road. Hawkins Road. I was born in 1978. We may have gone to school together.
Thanks for this. My ancestors were Hinds and their property was up near the Maclean Bridge. Hinds Rd starts up there. I believe they arrived from England in 1896. It was great watching the history. We caught a train from that station around 1960 when I was about 7 years old but I remember it really clearly. It was a steam train back then of course.
Just watched that video. It made me sad how we have turned a nice country town into an overpopulated city :( seen it change so much in the last 25+ years.
So we had better public transport in 1888
Massive decline in standards once we started pursuing globalism.
Quite literally aye hahah
Typical
i went to sunday school many moons ago in the little brown church ... good to see its still looked after and not been left to fall apart
Jimboomba used to be really well known for it's geological formations too. Gilgai's and also stone formations near the creeks that form great big round holes that bore vertically down into the rock face. You could put a hole leg down there all the way up to your hip joint and it still wouldn't touch the bottom (yes I'm speaking from experience!). We lived in Woodridge but we used to love swimming in the waterholes around here in the 70's, lost many a shoe and thong that way!
Thanks Rob very interesting and love the walkabout .watching from St Just Cornwall UK 🙃
@lisa topham thanks! Wish I was in Cornwall! Love it there. Some ancestors of mine have the surname of Bolitho, so I guess they come from the village of the same name.
Your a hidden charm Robbo, thanks for the local history as usual
@Gleiriane Paula De Souza thanks so much, what a lovely comment!
That was interesting, I am in the UK, but my cousin and her family live in Jimboomba
One of the great things about the present mania for walking trails will be that they preserve the right of way for when growth in those areas and the green thumb coming down hard on cars makes rail commuting viable again. Unlike the shambles down to the Gold Coast. Lovely to see those old buildings get a new life and the timber interior of the little church building. It would be nice however if the Local Authority required each new house block to have a couple of the old endemic Hoop Pines planted as food for the Koalas displaced. 😉
@theoztreecrasher yes for sure regarding the reintroduction of Hoop Pines. They look beautiful and will bring back, in a small way, the old character of the place.
@@walkaboutwithrob I prefer Bunyas for towns. Adds a bit of the excitement of Russian Roulette to urban parking/walking. 😜😁
Koalas don't eat hoop pines? Wt?
@@brookehynch6358 Yair? No flies on you hey, Mrs Sherlock??!! 😜😂😂
I not long ago discovered your videos Rob and have been eagerly devouring one a night since. I’ve a great passion for history (my first degree was a BA (Hons) in Australian history) and am pleased to see that both yourself, and others, share it. Like you I’m also originally from Sydney and notwithstanding having lived in SE QLD for almost two decades, my knowledge of local history here is reasonably slim. You’ve helped ignite a passion to learn more.
Thanks for this video. I’ve only been to Jimboomba once and that was to a farm on the outskirts to pick up my Kelpie cross Border Collie pup. I didn’t visit the township. I now know a lot more about the area in which Roy (my dog) was born. That can’t be a bad thing 😊
In the sixties my Dad would take my Mum (and the kids) from Brisbane to the dances at the hall, the Pub was close by and he could get beer after 6.00pm.
Jimboomba house wasn’t moved until about 2008. The original site was east about 200 yards, not west, and the site is still visible, with an old Nissen hut, sheds, and barn.
Don't disturb the mullets!! Haha Hey mate really appreciate the trouble you go to with these videos. So much history on our doorstep yet it's not often talked about. It's so much more interesting when I think I know where he is, I've been there myself, thanks again:)
Love the video, been in Cedar Grove for 15 years and never knew the history. Wish they would turn the old railway into a walking track.
This is great. I used to live there, my family and I moved to just south of there in 1988. It's changed a hell of a lot since then.
Very interesting. Well researched. Thanks.
Rob , Jimboomba looks pretty place to meander I gotta get myself there on a lazy Sunday arvo thx for the tour and end-the-week ideas.
Thankyou, very interesting! I live at cedarvale & didn't know all this, please keep going with these videos, most of us Australians aren't informed of this very important history ❤️
Loved this. Thank you 😊
The Norfolk pub originally was located down near the train station with the Hall.
But after some serious flooding it was uprooted and hauled up the hill using Bullock teams to where The Jimboomba Country Tavern is located today.
Shortly after the Hall was relocated between the Pub and the School. The Hall was then moved to Honoura St in 1985 to make way for the Jimboomba Shopping Centre.
The area around the train station was originally the Jimboomba township.
@Wayne Williams Thank you for your feedback. Yes, most of that is covered in the video. However do you have a source for the location of the Norfolk Hotel? In other words, where did you get that info from?
@WalkaboutWithRob got that info from my school teacher, Mr Gary Begley when I was a student at Jimboomba State School.
Infact, it was because the hall was being relocated to Honoura St that the topic came up about the original township location.
The pub was moved first so the locals could resume drinking.
@@waynewilliams5530 Ah ok, thanks. It's curious though. I mean, the Norfolk Hotel was built in 1875, however the train station wasn't built until 1888. I wonder why the hotel would have been built down there, away from the main road (Mt. Lindesay Highway) when the main road was the main form of land transportation.
@@walkaboutwithrob Gary Begley was a teacher at Jimboomba School as Wayne Williams has mentioned. Now retired and in his mid 70s? is a wealth of knowledge due to his forebears having lived in the area since early days, I'm sure it would be beneficial for you to contact him.
@@raygregg6686 Mr Begley was an awesome teacher! He was a good friend of my mums (she was also in education) so we knew him quite well as kids. Definitely a good source of information, and yep, would be in his early/mid 70s now, he was around the same age as my mum.
Awesome work rob, I enjoy your videos
My understanding was that Jimboomba meant "where the echo ends"...as in the valley opens up to floodplains here, so the echo's from the mountains "run out" when they reach Jimboomba.
@Brooke Hynch well that's another interpretation of the meaning of the name. Gosh, that makes five now! I wonder what the truth is? Thank indeed for the info!
I love watching your show. Very informative & entertaining. Thank you.
Fantastic Vid and I have just subscribed... I would love to see you do a vid on Beaudesert
@rogermace4516 thanks! You'll be pleased to know that my next video will be about Beaudesert.
be great if you could do the suburbs between jimboomba and beaudesert. i've lived in cedar vale for over 25 years and don't know much about it
First real country town i went to in Australia. Dated a guy from Jimboomba back in the early Naughties! I am from Sweden so Jimboomba felt pretty exotic then.
@JennyEkberg I can imagine how much of a pleasant, even sublime culture shock Jimboomba must have been to you back then. And I think you are the first person to ever use the word exotic to describe Jimboomba!
Outstanding, mate.
Is the pre-decimal money something of interest to you as that ended in 1966-ish. The last of the circulated silver in Australia
Thanks for this. I'm inspired to check out the colonial village. I've driven past it many times but didn't know what it was.
@Tina Jenkins well worth a look!
Awesome Rob, Changed my perception of Jimboomba 😎
Nice work Rob.
There is a preserved parcel of land - maybe several hectares - at the corner of Cedar Vale Road and Bluff Road that is representative of the sort of forest that covered much of this area. It is a very dense, dry forest and from tall trees dangle large vines similar to those that abound in thee Bunya Mountain region.
Looking at it from google maps, it’s extremely dense isn’t it!
Jimboomba used to be in the middle of nowhere, very hot and dry in Summer. So crazy how developed it is becoming, much like everywhere I guess.
@shelleigh5993 It was a real frontier town for a long time, and even up until the mid 20th century there wasn't much there.
@walkaboutwithrob Yes true, it wasn't exactly "the place to be," so to speak, for many, many years. It didn't really have a good reputation, which I never understood.
@@shellebelle53 It's no better or no worse than pretty much anywhere else. I think it's just another case of a small, loud, anti-social group ruining the reputation of an otherwise fine town.
@walkaboutwithrob having grown up in Kingston with the tag of being from the wrong side of the freeway or being called a bogan from logan, I can totally relate. Small-minded people living in their small-minded ideals without really having any clue.
Um. Isn't that the track switch at 9:36? Or were you just showing an example of what you were looking for? At 9:47 you say you couldn't find it, but the video you show is only a single track, so you must have already passed the switch.
Jimboomba has a similar past to Petrie, and the land is very similar.
I live at North Maclean have done for over 10 years and always wondered about the history of the area , thanks Rob 😊
You're welcome. I think it's a great town.
Great job video was brilliant
Hi Rob. Any plans to do more videos in NSW/Victoria?
G’day Rob. Have you done a video on Nanango. Great little town.
I lived in the area when the heritage group were running the train. Unfortunately at that time there was a terrible drought and almost every time the train ran, a bushfire started. So the locals were obviously angry about this.
I always assumed the burnt bridge was an ‘own goal’ from one of the bushfires they started.
I think you’d be fascinated by a funny little town called Imbil and it’s neighbour Brooloo. Great history.
Also Gympie. Fascinating town.
Imbil... my mother's side is Horne, Zillmann and Beckmann. That be my mother's family history there! I have many family stories of incest (just what happened back then), bean and pineapple farming, the train and how it was back in the day.... I love Gympie, compared to Jimboomba and the entire area including Beaudesert, it's much, much nicer. The entire Mary Valley is my home in my eyes. I still have family there. 8th generation. Most of us moved closer to Gympie or to Brisbane which is why I grew up at Jimboomba, but we returned.
Would love to see an Imbil/Gympie video! Brooloo is fascinating too, especially the old train ruin site and all those awesome abandoned mines in amongst the hoop pines.
@@dingobonza apparently Brooloo was once a booming town. I met an older park ranger in Noosa who said his father ran the bank at Brooloo back in the day. They actually planned to have the rail line extend all the way to Kenilworth but they only got as far as Brooloo and then stopped the project. It’s a fascinating area.
@@dingobonza on a more serious note, incest should never be normalised.
@@ThePostmillennial I agree. The results in the younger generations of my aunty and uncle specifically are very sad medically.
Hey Rob, is there anything interesting in outer Northside suburbs you'd consider doing? I.e. samford-caboolture, we love your videos!
@SheriBerixx yes absolutely, many places over there I'd love to explore. Have been looking at a few places these past couple of days.
Thise is very cool.. Love to know more re north maclean/Greenbank.. . We have train tracks behind us on lance rd which is only used now at nights for I think container company it be interesting why when etc it was built as different to the jim/beau line .. and we can be either greenbank or north maclean..feels neither !! I have one those trees in middle of paddock now I know what it is
@Witch yes I'm keen to further explore that area. AM on the lookout for interesting stories and quirky tales.
as a kid in greenbank 1980 s accidently set fire to the bush burnt to park ridge army helped put it out big trouble!!
Track switch is at 9:37 isn’t it???
indeed...🙃 not sure what he thought he was looking for. That's plainly a switch. Or "point" as one might prefer.
a great eye opener to how there is no history or story to the new towns/estates. just housing
I lived in the units now on the corners of cross street
The oldest "house" was the women's prison house, next to St Stephen's church, behind the GPO in Brisbane. Most of the towns in Queensland were named by the "mail drop" transports, Cobb & Co. They just asked "What's the name of this place"? Usually the reply was, "Well the local aborigines call it....".
Would be really cool if you did the history around camp cable road, too. From my understanding, it was the location of an army base at some point.
@Haze yep already done it. Camp Cable existed where Yarrabilba now is and it's included in my Yarrabilba video 🙂
@@walkaboutwithrob I'll check it out!
Fun Fact: the original Camp Cable Road was built in a zig zag to make it harder for enemy bombers to hit trucks resupplying the camp if the war ever came south. At least that's what I was told by my parents, it's so hard to find sources about small town histories online, which is why videos like this are so valuable.
RE Railway Hotel that's not the history we were taught being a kid that grew up in Jimboomba. Railway Hotel at Beaudesert was originally at Jimboomba Junction, across the road from the country tavern.
I here they are looking into building a botanical gardens here in Jimboomba Brisbane city has many botanical gardens but Logan city dose not so its good council is looking into building a gardens here
I've been thrown out of the Jimboomba pub. Twice.
Rob, you must be well known at the state archives….
Not yet but working on it
Thanks Rob, I’ve been living here for nearly 3 years now and you’ve really given a great insight into this wonderful town. I really had no idea about it’s history.
Have you done a video on cunungra?
Jimboomba is booming nowadays
So if Jimboomba was a big noise, what is Toowoomba?
Nobody knows. There are many theories as to the etymology of the name, but none are official.
If only they had maintained the railway.
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It was just bush ten years ago not much of a story there
870th thumbs up 👍🏻
I learnt it meant loud thunder little rain
About the most Aussie way to build shops.
Bolt together some old houses 😂 👍
Was amazed to have this come up on my TH-cam as I live in JIMBOOMBA. This was so interesting and full of facts I didn’t know. Very sad that the pine forests were never replenished, and right now developers are destroying all the remaining ones in the area of yarrabilba, 10 mins east for more housing developments. I think if I had seen this when that started I would have rallied against it.
Sorry to say but you do have a big part wrong, as Jimboomba is actually in Queensland about an hr and a half north of the border of NSW. Great video thanks so much from all us Jimboombarians….👍🏻😀
@Arch Angel thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated indeed. 😃 I hope you'll like my other videos. Yes, I do know that Jimboomba is in Queensland. If you watch the start of the video you will see why the town is described as being in NSW.
@@walkaboutwithrob ok got it, thanks for your reply😇
@@Aangel452i might know you
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 No as I dont know you.
Be nice if a few people decided to replant some Hoop Pine.
Absolutely! I'd love to see a hoop pine forest.
Is Jimboomba in Nsw. I don’t think so. So the video title is wrong.
@rogerschanel7640 If you had bothered to actually watch the video, you would have quickly learnt that Jimboomba was in NSW before separation in 1859. See what happens when you comment before getting all the facts?
@@walkaboutwithrob Had to have a laugh at this one, Love the stuff you do mate hope to see you out and about one day
@@walkaboutwithrobI did watch it. Probably because the title was wrong. Marketing gimmick? So your title was correct before 1859. It is not now. I am sorry if I upset you by mentioning it.
@@rogerschanel7640 Yes indeed, marketing gimmick. Absolutely! And obviously it is not in NSW anymore. (Did I even need to type that?) Believe me, I don't get 'upset' by random comments. I merely set them straight.
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Sounds more like Jimboomba Queensland
@Gordon Pilcher if you watch the video you'll see why the title has the name it does.
Dry snitching on folks at whatever St.
it is in qld
@Nathan Boyle Yes that is correct. However, if you watch the video, you'll see why it has the title that it does.
I am leaving here
The jimboomba you are filming at is in Queensland, not new south whales. We do not associate with those gutter rats
Duh! 🤦🏻♀️ He did explain it in the video.
whales 🐳 or rats 🐀
Always a good idea to watch a video before commenting.
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt - Mark Twain