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Awesome work Brendan. Thank you.

I just realised this video is over a year old and I can't work out why I didn't see it before. Oh well I got there in the end :)

It is such a shame that the mill was allowed to deteriorate so badly. I would have loved to have seen it when it was operating as a sort of museum. For reference a super foot is a volume of timber 12 inches wide, 12 inches long and 1 inch thick.

The venue for miss universe 1979

With the Joondalup line having extended to and become the Yanchep line making a lot easier for anyone to get to for a day from anywhere in Perth it wouldn’t be a bad idea to try restoring the old theme park but I’d be shocked to see that happen

Have you been to Shannon mill townsite

Pass by this often and I’ve waited for the council to develop it as a park for kids or even move it all to somewhere it can be played on, but I doubt it will happen. The council is hell bent on letting every last inch of land be made into housing or other developments, so the idea of giving time to something that’s free to the public is a fantasy. Yes there’s a history of places going up in smoke since the old boat hire business was conveniently gutted to make way for the canals to the left of the old bridge way back when, whenever something is in the way of land development, there’s a fire that takes care of things. 😉

This showed up on my feed and I almost had a heart attack. My parents still live around the corner so I see it's sad degraded form all the time, and I have plenty of friends who went through high school emo phases and took brooding photographs inside it. Great job!

This was another great video. I'm looking forward to the next one

Saw so many wonderful concerts & movies at PEC , such great memories. Not forgetting Kiss , Wings , Abba , Rod Stewart , Jethro Tull , Robert Plant , The Cure , Oasis . . . on and on . Thanks for the history . PS , I did see Tool in 2022 . What a waste of a brilliant venue . Bloody kovid eh ?

That’s cool mate! I remember visiting when I was quite young in the late 90s (32 now) Another cool fun park type thing was “The Whistle Stop” down near Busselton. Miniature train theme park

I live in perth and my grandfather lived just past Mandurah so i went there a few times as a kid, no i drive to Mandurah to visit my parents and drive past and see all in ruin and its so sad to see something that was made so beautifully just abandoned like it was trash , the local government should have preserved this site 😢

All the bush in this video around this camp is about to be bulldozed and the Munda Biddi and Bibbulmun trails have already been re-routed because Alcoa are moving in and mining all the bauxite out of the ground (Myara North)

I have some video footage from about 1985-86

I have a old family picture there as well

took our young sons there and took our grandkids there in the ruined state it is now in need restoration maybe men shed guys could do it

i just snuck in their wish i could still swin in the pool

Please please restore this. We don't need more heritage torn down or should I say burnt down deliberately!

I've lived in halls head for about 15 years. Was always funny seeing the castle and wondering what it once was. My mates and I had a nice drunken evening in there on my 18th. Never knew that pool was in the shape of Aus...

It's wild to see a place ive driven past every day of my life and wandered into after one particularly drunken night in town appear in my UA-cam recommended.

I remember that place so well. Glad I got to "Swim around Australia" before the place closed down.

What a cool place it used to be! My heart breaks to see it all destroyed 😢

Love the videos mate. Just happy to hear the og intro music back. What a banger!

Fantastic video Brendan! Definitely the best and most informative I’ve ever seen on Castle Fun Park. Your research is so impressive and it’s very accurate. I didn’t know about the last development plan you mentioned, I only knew about the childcare centre. I’ll definitely post this video on the Perth History Database page listing! Lastly, thanks for the shoutout! Mark will be thrilled too!! Keep up the awesome work.

anyone remember "It's a Small World" in perth in the 80s/90s? it was like a house full of minatures, like doll houses and train sets and stuff. you payed like a dollar and could walk thru the house and check it all out. my grandfather took us a few times when we were kids but my memories are a little vague.

😡 I got excited thinking why have I never heard of this castle 🏰 🤔 😢and then I see what it looks like now? That's so sad man I would have loved to go there for a trek with the fam

We actually drove past the castle two days ago and wondered what it's story was! Then pops up your video today, thanks for the info!!

Troode the Peter bibby shirt

Lucky you got in with this one before they started building the McDonald's next to King Neptune's ear hey Brendan..! 😮

I have passed it so many times and always wondered what it was. Thanks for this video.

My high school gf lived just down the road from here in 2014 we used to walk around the grounds most days after school. Sad to see so much of it gone.

Isnt it sad they just let it turn to shit.. typical of anything in Methandurah

Great work Brendon all the time it was there I have driven past many times and never went in

The madman actually did it. Mandurah represent!

The good old sesh spot of yesteryear.

Do one on the "Futuro House" on Pinjarra Rd..

That Loch Ness monster was so pissweak lmao.

Oh my god, I had almost forgotten Nessie. Personally I think it was the increasing cost and need for insurance, that killed the place. Things like public liability and the demand from parents that playgrounds be safe enough that not even a toddler could hurt themselves. Plus the law that stated every pool should be watched by a lifeguard and all workers should have a working with children's check. Litigation and red tape preventing kids from doing what they did best, playing.

Great to hear it’s been repainted. Hopefully someone totally restores it soon.

Great episode, I remember going there about 1988.

The walkway / cycleway was not installed by the rail tunnel developers even though it was on the drawings

Drive past that going to the pub always wondered what it was

Great video mate. This is how the time felt. Up to. The 1987 stock crash everything was possible. The day after the 1987 stock crash nothing was possible.

So THAT is the story behind the castle at Hammond Park in Kalgoorlie! I had never heard of the Halls Head castle park, but as a Kalgoorlie kid the Hammond Park Castle is LEGENDARY! We used to climb all over it as kids, until it was fenced off when I was a teenager.

I visited the real Neuschwanstein Castle recently and I can say that is a very good replica! I had no idea there was a model of it right here in Perth!

You don't post alot but when you do its a cracker of video.

Who would win in a fight between King Neptune and Castle Fun Park?

I think Castle Fun Park was one of those places I begged my parents to take me to but we never got there before either it closed or I became a teenager and didn't care anymore. I did visit the remains sometime in the early 2000s, it was in a pretty sorry state then. In 2016 I visited the actual Oberammergau and Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria - both places are pretty spectacular.

Surely the local council could re-do it and make it a little park or playground for minimal cost.

Wow, I was just thinking today about when your next video would be. This brings back many happy childhood memories. Thank you!