Fantastic stuff. Most of this is unrecognisable, it's all gone, but this amazing set of images has preserved it all for everyone to see. Thank you for putting this together for everyone.
What really stands out is the enormous amount of growth Sydney must have experienced in the first 100 years of colonisation. The whole of Sydney must have been one long continuous construction zone. Imagine the logistics of hauling sandstone blocks from quarries, timber, roofing materials etc. The labour required to build houses, churches, shops, schools, roads, bridges and everything else to make a settlement work. Continual noise, dust and disruption. Just amazing what people achieved in the first 100 years.
Yes. Or alternatively, Sydney wasn't "founded", by the British, it was found? Read the description of Sydney from the 1818 journals of the Freycinet visit to Sydney. The description was not of a struggling penal colony, but of a substantial and impressive city. Is our history a lie? Was there a reset in the 19th Century and history rewritten? I don't know, but there is enough to suggest that might be a real possibility.
@@gregoryjohn4no, you’re a victim to those that want to erase history and get us to question everything for the purpose of destabilising our society. Look up Anatoly Fomenko, and do a deep dive into Soviet and Russian Federation Hybrid Warfare, Active Measures and the four stages of demoralisation as discussed by Yuri Bezmenov. This may equip you with a sense of skepticism regarding ‘alternative history’ theories but may also make you extremely paranoid and realise how far demoralisation has actually eroded western civilisation already.
Sydney today would be a much more charming place if all this wonderful architecture was preserved. I don't think architects nowadays know how to design classical buildings of all types instead today we have concrete and steel ugliness and Meriton west bank settlements.
Australians as they evolved from colonialism lost value aesthetics. I gave up being angry about it when I realised if people don’t value it why have it? A reflection of who we are, as the colonial era was who we were.
Have you seen that recent image of the land owner is western Sydney refusing to sell and surrounding his acreage a development goes up with all these pittifull, small, closely built houses with grey and white roofs, all the while this guy has a massive yard and everyone is commenting how jealous everyone would be of his massive yard and how annoying it would be to have neighbours... That development took 5 years.
Thanks for posting. Glebe is still a special place with many grand and historic houses that have escaped the wrecking ball, often thanks to the Glebe Society.
born in Sydney. I have watched this over and over and over, paused and even printed some stills to take with me on my trips back into the big smoke when I get away from where I live in regional NSW. Absolutely fascinated and grateful you made the effort. Thank you.
It's so sad to see Sydney in its current state with the most hideous modern buildings and skyscrapers. Completely decimates the charming old stone buildings. Sydney would have looked so much nicer if the architecture was persevered. And why can't we build these quaint stone buildings today instead of the modern ones. Surely we have the technology to recreate the stone carving details etc.
@@EpicCorn0 Space - I wouldn't exactly shed a tear if we replaced modern buildings with stone buildings Money, time - Its a well worth investment that attracts people, whether for work or leisure, including tourists - a boon for business. Cities like Paris and London are timeless, constantly drawing people from around the world for generations.
Thanks for making this and publishing it; it's excellent. It interests me how Sydney became such a 'green' city ... so many older cities around the world filled every square inch with buildings long before anyone thought a park might be a nice idea. Cities like London and Paris are the exceptions because they were the 'seat of empire' ... showing off their wealth. Sydney was also lucky that fear of the French kept a lot of the harbour foreshore reserved for the military ... and it was then later available for public access rather than sold off.
A few things stood out, my ancestors were born, lived, worked and walked those streets, there sure was a lot of churches for all those sinners, sad to see those beautiful homes destroyed for ugly, polluting industrialisation and were did all those folks buried where Central Station is today went, where they exhumed, who where they, is there a record...glad the pictures still survive, because they are all we have left of our past
We've got an old panorama photo of Sydney harbor. (8 individual photos roughly covering 100 degrees). From Late 19th early 20th century. It's about 6ft long. You can see the harbor full of dozens of tall ships. Its an amazing photograph.
As a previous resident of Glebe in the 1980s I found this fascinating, as I have a love of history and Sydney. Well done! Wouldn't it be interesting to climb the Town Hall tower like Francis Robinson did and do a 360% today, comparing like for like. Would make for a fascinating series.
Wonderful compilation. The wide views of Glebe show a skyline bristling with Norfolk Island pines! it seems that every mansion had to have at least one, if not several. Glebe would certainly have a different character if so many NI pines were present today.
Why is the 2nd oldest house in Sydney in disrepair? Is it in a bad neighborhood? Just curious why it wouldn't be preserved. Watching from the US. Great video. Thank you.
I grew up in Glebe from the late 50s..Lived at 248 Glebe Point road for 25 years. I am now 67. My mates & I use to play on the logs down near Jubilee Park on the Bay. I witnessed many a beautiful building demolished in the 70s for flats. Watched a beautiful big fig tree cut down on 254 Glebe Point Rd. I still love Glebe and remember the demo's to preserve its heritage and felt proud to be part of that heritage. Once a suburb of colourful characters and working class people. Us kids made Billy carts, ran through new flats underconstruction& lamented the loss of the old buildings. Vale Jack Mundey and I salute the Glebe society.
Amazing video and history. In the 80's I lived at the end of Glebe Point Rd in one of the last Boat sheds on the waterfront. I still remember the sound of Buoy Bells and Seagulls during the night.
Fascinating. Thank you for that. It’s interesting to know as much as possible about Sydney the place I was born and have always lived in. What happened all the decades and centuries before I was born.
Great Eora people much respect, now how about paying respect to the thousands of convicts, dragged kicking and screaming in the hulls of death ships, away from their families, who actually built all this magnificent architecture?
Awesome video. I love seeing old photos of Sydney. I prefer it back then to what it is now. Even though I wasn’t alive I still feel nostalgic seeing this. I’m 62 and even going back to the 1960s and 70s, Sydney was different and better. I loved those days. Maybe because I was young but it’s not all that. Sydney and Australia WAS better then.
I have a painting of Sydney circa 1880 (guess) aerial view north of harbour back looking south. I stare at it often trying to work it all out. Wonderful picture. Don’t know how the height was gained for the view.
I think this may due to the long exposure times required for the plates to register an image.Moving things like horses & people would not have shown up.Correct me if I’m wrong.
@Michelle-kw2sp might it have something to do with orphan trains, empty European cities, a reset of sorts?... i watched briefly something on the " mud floods " very strange history, or should i say our altered history. Some are now suggesting 1000 yrs have been added to our calendar , have you heard of this ?
The panorama of Sydney in 1873 allows modern computer imaging to reconstruct an accurate 3D picture. This could be used in adding veracity to any movie using the city at around this time.
I enjoyed this video very much. Just a small tip for the person editing the voiceover. I could be wrong, but I suspect de-ess has been applied in post. If it has, it just needs to be pulled back a little bit. Otherwise a good job.
I'm from Perth but i doubt there'd be any of these buildings still standing there, with the price of real estate and high density developments the norm there....😮
Saddest thing about Sydney today I think is that the Casino lobby seems to have worked extra hard to move all traffic and attention away from the Sydney Opera House to the new Casino by adopting the most destructive city planning measures.
There is always one , and your it . Congratulations , make sure you keep up this attitude , it will serve you well . When are you bringing something to the table ? Then we can all scrutinize your efforts . WHAT ? Your not bringing anything ? What a surprise 🤡
What's with the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of the video? Why don't we acknowledge our war heroes and those who worked hard to build Glebe in the first place?
That's a statist prayer, and the state is run by the left. The left think that Aborigines are the underdog, and that west is the world's oppressive hegemon. So you've got to pay homage to the superior virtue of the oppressed 🙂
I have no idea how things work. But we done great to build some of those beautiful buildings in less than 100yrs. The industry we must have created, like we had no china to import from. Don't know how they done it but they done it. So we're told😮😅😢
i would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the white people who brought civilization, education, architecture, the wheel, modern farming and education to australia, it is upon this wealth that the aboriginals can continue to exist
A Non-Woke addendum. The Glebe Society acknowledges and respects the achievement of Captain James Cook RN who discovered this barbarous continent and brought civilisation to it 😂 😂
Take away all the things brought to Australia from other continents and see just how quickly our society reverts back to what you refer to as "primitive".
Hahaha riiiiiight, have read anything about history? Europeans were some of the most barbaric people in history. Atleast Indigenous only fought between themselves and not travel the world raping and killing others for resources.
While there were a few nice bits, that panorama depicts a mostly squalid, and extremely ugly and unexciting city. We are fortunate that the city has changed as much as it has. I live in a tower, just 10 minutes walk from the Sydney Town Hall, so this is my neighborhood. I love walking these streets now, but if it looked like the city of that panorama, I would have migrated. Probably to a south European city, maybe Mexico City, Paris, Beunos Aires. So many cities that were already architecturally exciting back then, but Sydney, I could not have loved if it looked like that.
Fantastic.
Fantastic stuff. Most of this is unrecognisable, it's all gone, but this amazing set of images has preserved it all for everyone to see. Thank you for putting this together for everyone.
What really stands out is the enormous amount of growth Sydney must have experienced in the first 100 years of colonisation. The whole of Sydney must have been one long continuous construction zone. Imagine the logistics of hauling sandstone blocks from quarries, timber, roofing materials etc. The labour required to build houses, churches, shops, schools, roads, bridges and everything else to make a settlement work. Continual noise, dust and disruption. Just amazing what people achieved in the first 100 years.
Yes. Or alternatively, Sydney wasn't "founded", by the British, it was found? Read the description of Sydney from the 1818 journals of the Freycinet visit to Sydney. The description was not of a struggling penal colony, but of a substantial and impressive city. Is our history a lie? Was there a reset in the 19th Century and history rewritten? I don't know, but there is enough to suggest that might be a real possibility.
@@gregoryjohn4no, you’re a victim to those that want to erase history and get us to question everything for the purpose of destabilising our society. Look up Anatoly Fomenko, and do a deep dive into Soviet and Russian Federation Hybrid Warfare, Active Measures and the four stages of demoralisation as discussed by Yuri Bezmenov. This may equip you with a sense of skepticism regarding ‘alternative history’ theories but may also make you extremely paranoid and realise how far demoralisation has actually eroded western civilisation already.
@@gregoryjohn4so the locals whove been here for 20000, no 40000 no 60000, no 65000 years should be able to verify your conclusions?
@@darryllspalding9680 I made no conclusions. I asked questions.
@@gregoryjohn4 go ask the fukrs then!
Sydney today would be a much more charming place if all this wonderful architecture was preserved. I don't think architects nowadays know how to design classical buildings of all types instead today we have concrete and steel ugliness and Meriton west bank settlements.
This wouldve died out when suburbanism boomed, still tho you could build like this in suburbs starting to densify
Australians as they evolved from colonialism lost value aesthetics. I gave up being angry about it when I realised if people don’t value it why have it? A reflection of who we are, as the colonial era was who we were.
It's not healthy to only look backwards. Everything is better today than it was then.
what makes you think everything new is a step forward?
@@MmeDesgranges a lot is true, modern dentistry for example ,but a lot isn’t, including architecture.
Fabulous. Thank you for securing and protecting our history
What a fantastic video. The old panorama photos hold an eerie sense of familiarity combined with echos of ghosts, long gone.
Sydney was once beautiful
Sydney Town Hall completed less than 100 years after the First Fleet. Astonishing.
Why would a fledgling colony need such a grandiose Museum, it's not as if there was anything to put in it.
Have you seen that recent image of the land owner is western Sydney refusing to sell and surrounding his acreage a development goes up with all these pittifull, small, closely built houses with grey and white roofs, all the while this guy has a massive yard and everyone is commenting how jealous everyone would be of his massive yard and how annoying it would be to have neighbours...
That development took 5 years.
@@clydesimpson1462In fact it is a natural history museum- so there is plenty to put in it.
Breathtaking and magnificent.
A wonderful pictorial survey full of useful information.
Fantastic presentation, the way all the photos were joined at the end to form the panoramic view was seamless.
Thank you, I really enjoyed it.
Well researched and utterly fascinating
Thanks for posting. Glebe is still a special place with many grand and historic houses that have escaped the wrecking ball, often thanks to the Glebe Society.
Really interesting , Thanks.
Fantastic viewing, thank you
born in Sydney. I have watched this over and over and over, paused and even printed some stills to take with me on my trips back into the big smoke when I get away from where I live in regional NSW.
Absolutely fascinated and grateful you made the effort. Thank you.
It's so sad to see Sydney in its current state with the most hideous modern buildings and skyscrapers. Completely decimates the charming old stone buildings. Sydney would have looked so much nicer if the architecture was persevered.
And why can't we build these quaint stone buildings today instead of the modern ones. Surely we have the technology to recreate the stone carving details etc.
Money, time, space
@@EpicCorn0 Space - I wouldn't exactly shed a tear if we replaced modern buildings with stone buildings
Money, time - Its a well worth investment that attracts people, whether for work or leisure, including tourists - a boon for business.
Cities like Paris and London are timeless, constantly drawing people from around the world for generations.
feel this
Well done! Amazing that the Glebe Society still exists. I was a member 1969-75. And what a great project to celebrate its 50th anniversary
Thanks for making this and publishing it; it's excellent. It interests me how Sydney became such a 'green' city ... so many older cities around the world filled every square inch with buildings long before anyone thought a park might be a nice idea. Cities like London and Paris are the exceptions because they were the 'seat of empire' ... showing off their wealth. Sydney was also lucky that fear of the French kept a lot of the harbour foreshore reserved for the military ... and it was then later available for public access rather than sold off.
A few things stood out, my ancestors were born, lived, worked and walked those streets, there sure was a lot of churches for all those sinners, sad to see those beautiful homes destroyed for ugly, polluting industrialisation and were did all those folks buried where Central Station is today went, where they exhumed, who where they, is there a record...glad the pictures still survive, because they are all we have left of our past
70 years of wonering and I finally know what the Egyptian looking column is. Kind of a utilitarian end to a mystery. Thanks for a wonderful video.
Thank you very much for putting that together. Great stuff!
Thanks Francis Robinson. I wish we keep more of these buildings. Funny seeing the city as a residential place.
Wonderful! What a beautifully presented piece of history.
We've got an old panorama photo of Sydney harbor. (8 individual photos roughly covering 100 degrees). From Late 19th early 20th century. It's about 6ft long.
You can see the harbor full of dozens of tall ships. Its an amazing photograph.
As a previous resident of Glebe in the 1980s I found this fascinating, as I have a love of history and Sydney. Well done! Wouldn't it be interesting to climb the Town Hall tower like Francis Robinson did and do a 360% today, comparing like for like. Would make for a fascinating series.
Excellent idea !
Mind you, the view today in some directions would be blocked by highrise - still it would be a great comparison, and do it in B/W like the original.
Loved this. I was kind of hoping my old home of The Abbey on Johnston in Annandale would make the cut. 😉
“On the corner of George and Clarence Street”….???
George and Clarence Streets both run parallel with each other.
Beautiful. Every cottage had a family and memories., We don't forget you.
Glad i found this, very interesting, so sorry to see so much finery gone.
Wonderful compilation.
The wide views of Glebe show a skyline bristling with Norfolk Island pines! it seems that every mansion had to have at least one, if not several. Glebe would certainly have a different character if so many NI pines were present today.
Used to be in Johnston Street, Annandale in the 60's.
Wonderful video. I used to live at the Blackwattle end of Ferry Road, love the suburb and it’s history
Why is the 2nd oldest house in Sydney in disrepair? Is it in a bad neighborhood? Just curious why it wouldn't be preserved. Watching from the US. Great video. Thank you.
I grew up in Glebe from the late 50s..Lived at 248 Glebe Point road for 25 years. I am now 67. My mates & I use to play on the logs down near Jubilee Park on the Bay. I witnessed many a beautiful building demolished in the 70s for flats. Watched a beautiful big fig tree cut down on 254 Glebe Point Rd. I still love Glebe and remember the demo's to preserve its heritage and felt proud to be part of that heritage. Once a suburb of colourful characters and working class people. Us kids made Billy carts, ran through new flats underconstruction& lamented the loss of the old buildings. Vale Jack Mundey and I salute the Glebe society.
Glebe was considered a 'rural escape'!
Amazing video and history. In the 80's I lived at the end of Glebe Point Rd in one of the last Boat sheds on the waterfront. I still remember the sound of Buoy Bells and Seagulls during the night.
Such a huge city,where are all the people?
Fascinating. Thank you for that. It’s interesting to know as much as possible about Sydney the place I was born and have always lived in. What happened all the decades and centuries before I was born.
What a tremendous program.Thank you.I am picturing it now,while looking back at it then!Wonderful show, & pictures.😁
20 years in Millers Point and 10 years in Glebe ♥️
2000 girl who morphed into 2037 girl.
☺️
Great Eora people much respect, now how about paying respect to the thousands of convicts, dragged kicking and screaming in the hulls of death ships, away from their families, who actually built all this magnificent architecture?
EXCELLENT
when a house cost a weeks wage.. well not quite but im sure it was more affordable than it is now
Very good 👀👍❗️I love the aerial perspective ❗️
Love the old terraced houses.
Awesome video. I love seeing old photos of Sydney. I prefer it back then to what it is now. Even though I wasn’t alive I still feel nostalgic seeing this. I’m 62 and even going back to the 1960s and 70s, Sydney was different and better. I loved those days. Maybe because I was young but it’s not all that. Sydney and Australia WAS better then.
Fascinating. There is a Wigram-Allen prize to this day at Sydney Grammar School.
Imagine if heritage certifiers existed back then. It would look the same now.
Marvelous! Thank you.
Absolutely fascinating video. Well done!
Stonemasons were amazing then.
I have a painting of Sydney circa 1880 (guess) aerial view north of harbour back looking south. I stare at it often trying to work it all out. Wonderful picture. Don’t know how the height was gained for the view.
Love this stuff (I do before and after comparisons!)...but George St & Clarence St are parallel - no 'corner'🤔 just saying 🤗
That had me somewhat confused.
We will never it this good again
where the hell is everyone , not one soul on the streets , very strange
I think this may due to the long exposure times required for the plates to register an image.Moving things like horses & people would not have shown up.Correct me if I’m wrong.
@@Zog696 interesting....i learned something thankyou
@Michelle-kw2sp might it have something to do with orphan trains, empty European cities, a reset of sorts?... i watched briefly something on the " mud floods " very strange history, or should i say our altered history. Some are now suggesting 1000 yrs have been added to our calendar , have you heard of this ?
@Michelle-kw2sp 🐧🚿
It could have been Sunday?
The destruction of these magnificent buildings is a sin.
The panorama of Sydney in 1873 allows modern computer imaging to reconstruct an accurate 3D picture. This could be used in adding veracity to any movie using the city at around this time.
fascinating!!
Thank you, I really enjoyed that. Very interesting.
Fascinating!
I enjoyed this video very much.
Just a small tip for the person editing the voiceover. I could be wrong, but I suspect de-ess has been applied in post. If it has, it just needs to be pulled back a little bit. Otherwise a good job.
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I'm from Perth but i doubt there'd be any of these buildings still standing there, with the price of real estate and high density developments the norm there....😮
Wow!
Love it
When Sydney was British. Glorious.
I'm glad its Australian now.
British and American is the fabric that keeps it from being a hellhole.
Can you absolutely know that’s true?
@@Degjoy yes It's the truth.
No trees! Rubbish 🗑️
I remember often walking past the shell of St Barnabas in The Glebe, and it is a total shame what they have replaced it with.
In those days on the foreshore well to do dwellings gradually disappeared and were replaced by industry whereas today its the opposite .
Saddest thing about Sydney today I think is that the Casino lobby seems to have worked extra hard to move all traffic and attention away from the Sydney Opera House to the new Casino by adopting the most destructive city planning measures.
fascinating
I don't think a city is really complete without an obelisk in the middle of it. 😀
What about the corner of Harris Street and Pyrmont Bridge Rd in 1995s ? 😊
Just incredible what they achieved so soon after settlement.
Commentary`s fine but lose the music.
There is always one , and your it . Congratulations , make sure you keep up this attitude , it will serve you well . When are you bringing something to the table ? Then we can all scrutinize your efforts . WHAT ? Your not bringing anything ? What a surprise 🤡
His story
Regardless. I appreciate the photos
Shriner city and all those block institutions - so much better now with trees and parks.
Great memories, but I am wondering George st and Clarence st are parallel to each other. They don’t meet to create a corner.
Second greatest city on Earth. No question.
St Barnabas is on the corner of Mountain Street, not Bay.
Lot of money around back then.....privilege....
And not an Indigenous person, in sight. So much for the promises in the "Letters Patent"
Most of the great buildings have “founded” on their plaques - not built or completed 🤔
What's with the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of the video? Why don't we acknowledge our war heroes and those who worked hard to build Glebe in the first place?
I agree, they have not contributed anything to Sydney
That's a statist prayer, and the state is run by the left. The left think that Aborigines are the underdog, and that west is the world's oppressive hegemon. So you've got to pay homage to the superior virtue of the oppressed 🙂
Lovely to the people of Venezuela fighting for their future away from the fascist neocon neoliberal forces!
Perhaps the freedom-loving leaders of Russia and China can help you and Maduro with your quest for freedom 🫡
The streets are empty in all those panorama photos, where are all the people that built all that in 85 years?
Was it taken from a drone?
From the clock tower of the Town Hall, as explained in the first minute of the voiceover.
I have no idea how things work. But we done great to build some of those beautiful buildings in less than 100yrs. The industry we must have created, like we had no china to import from. Don't know how they done it but they done it. So we're told😮😅😢
Where is the scaffolding on the church if it is under construction?
No kiwi's in australia back then. Therefore no scaff
There is something seriously wrong with the history we have been told.
i would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the white people who brought civilization, education, architecture, the wheel, modern farming and education to australia, it is upon this wealth that the aboriginals can continue to exist
Don’t forget to pick up your white cloak and hood from the dry cleaners, will you.
As with indigenous peoples on other continents, I suspect their civilisation was doing just fine before the whites came along!
The Aboriginals had been living quite happily for who knows how long without any of the things that you mentioned .
@@Dan-cl3md is that why we had to take their kids to stop them being abused?
@@davidengel6688 im not a democrat
A Non-Woke addendum.
The Glebe Society acknowledges and respects the achievement of Captain James Cook RN who discovered this barbarous continent and brought civilisation to it 😂 😂
I find it very strange that people think it is woke to say that the Gadigal people lived in Glebe.
Egyptian style synagogue?
Why play baroque music which is almost 200 years earlier than the pictures?
Amazing photo’s but the chamber music is too much
All built for a couple of people with a horse and carriage...
Life sux in 2024
Respect is not required for the primitive Aboriginal people that were always fighting against everything and anyone even there own Aboriginal people
Of course we never fight amongst ourselves!
Take away all the things brought to Australia from other continents and see just how quickly our society reverts back to what you refer to as "primitive".
Hahaha riiiiiight, have read anything about history? Europeans were some of the most barbaric people in history. Atleast Indigenous only fought between themselves and not travel the world raping and killing others for resources.
Worst design city ive ever visited
While there were a few nice bits, that panorama depicts a mostly squalid, and extremely ugly and unexciting city. We are fortunate that the city has changed as much as it has. I live in a tower, just 10 minutes walk from the Sydney Town Hall, so this is my neighborhood. I love walking these streets now, but if it looked like the city of that panorama, I would have migrated. Probably to a south European city, maybe Mexico City, Paris, Beunos Aires. So many cities that were already architecturally exciting back then, but Sydney, I could not have loved if it looked like that.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,and towers are so exciting.