UPDATE: I have discovered that Beaudesert-Beenleigh Road was gazetted as a Main Road in either 1929 or 1930. This means it is probable that the rock cutting mentioned in this documentary @11:17 was made in the early 1930's.
My Dad built the family home and was the second house in Mt Warren Pk in 76. Our family moved in to the home January 77. This bush land was our playground . There was an old road that traveled from top end of Mt Warren blvd straight to the top of the Mt Warren ridge turned Right and was then the original Dump Road but on the Mt Warren side of Beenleigh/Beaudesert Rd. This I believe was the first track/ road. Originally the natural terrain beyond where Beenleigh/Beaudesert intersects the dump road was impassable. They had to turn either right or left , the Mt Warren ridge trail was a lot shorter trek into Beenleigh.
You’re a man after my own heart Rob. As a youngster my grandparents lived in the Blue Mountains and I, like you, lived in Sydney. During my mountain holidays I’d drive my grandparents crazy by wanting to see “old roads”, i.e. bypassed sections of the Great Western Highway. I recall finding all manner of old roads, including the occasional bridge. That’s over 50 years ago now and I wonder how much of that is still visible. Keep up the great work!
This is one of your best Rob. The bit with the wine glass made me laugh! It's fascinating to see the remains of the old roads. I'm with you, I stick to the path. No bush bashing for me. So thanks very much to John for the on the ground help. John's channel is here www.youtube.com/@jelbuilderfilms
Great video! It reminds me a bit of Old Cleveland Road near the intersection with Creek Road. OCR originally a very steep route a little bit south of where it currently is. A short section of the original route (between Chris' IGA and 925 OCR has been maintained and upgraded over the years for local access, but the remainder of the road is now little more than a narrow track through the bush, mostly visible on aerial photos. In early 20th century, OCR was diverted north around the high ground. The power poles mark where the edge of the diverted roadway veered through the park on the corner of Narracott St. It then continued up Narracott St before curving south and crossing Creek Road just south of the Carindale Park n Ride carpark. Most of the pavement survives, and the powerlines follow the old road alignment for it's full length. Then, in the 1970s, OCR was straightened by cutting most of the high ground out entirely. This is the route followed by the road today.
Just had to watch this again as I was intrigued to see Windaroo and Mt Warren on a 1916 map. I always just assumed they were new estates and new names. So interesting.
This was a great collaboration, Rob. I enjoyed every minute. I started to watch it yesterday but got sidetracked. So, after a productive day installing my mobile 12/240 solar system, I sat down to watch. I've hitch-hiked up and down the highways between Brisbane and Cooktown, and along the way, there are some really pretty patches of the abandoned old highway that are a pleasant diversion from trudging the main highway with your thumb out. There is a nice stretch on the northern side of Gympie. It's only about 400 metres or so but is enveloped by rainforest, with the highway running at a higher level but hidden by the canopy. On my bucket-list is to revisit a section of highway between Laura and Palmer River up in FNQ. Back in 1982, before the new, wide bitumen, gently sloped (relatively) highway was constructed, the Cooktown Development Road, as it was known, was little better than a goat track, and wound its way steeply up the mountain range. I walked from Lakeland to Palmer River back in those days, and the new highway was being constructed. None of the truck could stop to pick me up on the way up the range if they wanted to because it was so steep in parts that it would be hard to get started again. And the bulldust the gravel truckks were generating was insane! I'd like to camp somewhere and walk the old road again, just to remember what it was like when I was a lad of 18.
Absolutely brilliant, you guys. Love, love, love that you are concurring with each other. Another interesting and informative post. Another awesome history lesson.
@@walkaboutwithrob just a question Rob, have you by chance walked along the Kedron Brook bikeway from say Enoggera to Toombul, taking in Stafford, Kedron, Lutwyche, Kalinger.?? I'd really love to see that.... just a thought. 🤔🤞🤞❤
@@shelliesavoie1397 I once did a walk from Sandgate to Browns Plains over two days, and may have walked through some of those areas, but would have to go back to the video and remind myself. It's an area I don't really know so could be good!
Absolutely loved this video Rob. I'm a real history buff and lived in Beenleigh/Bahrs Scrub/Windaroo for the past 20 years. I'm in Tamborine now but you ever need a drone operator for your next video give me a hoy. Would love to meet you one day.
@Don Coleman thanks very much for your feedback. Glad you enjoyed the show. And yes, I might just take you up on your drone offer one day. Really appreciate it 🙂
Very enjoyable to watch, great project. This road passed the refuse station which is on the site of a gold mine once owned by George Fischer a German immigrant who operated an early Brisbane pottery at Breakfast Creek in 1865.. Fischer sold his pottery to James Campbell, built a house in Beenleigh which is still standing and regrettable lost his money in the mentioned gold mine. I am fortunate to have a chimney pot on my home from Fischer’s pottery.
Accurate Rob ... I remember this when I grew up in Beenleigh the road works. Later on they had the Trinity College to Windaroo Fun Run Which ran from Trinity College in Beenleigh to Windaroo Golf Club around the round about and back to Trinity College. Was a nice fresh road back then and those tracks and roads where visible.
I think your 'old road' was in fact the route for the water pipe from luscombe weir to the old water reservoir between james st and hammel rd(directly below phillip st) created by damming the gully through there just west of the train line. From there the water for beenleigh was sourced prior to beenleigh getting hooked up to Somerset dam water. Also saratoga st wasn't the route the road took, the road actually used to have a dog leg that went 50m-100m over on the mt warren side of the current road opposite from saratoga st. the road veered towards mt warren side then bent back towards the cutting on top hill. At about 13:05 you point down to what used to be the dog leg route the road took prior to the late 70's. Saratoga st was created when the road was straightened from the route i'm talking about. Back in the day there was no development in the catchment of the gully above where the reservoir was located, development was only permitted after the towns water began being sourced from somerset. You can see a gap in the trees when you point at 13:05, that is where the road used to go. the aerial sgot you show from 1978 at 13:25 has the dog leg i'm talking about clearly visible. It was the straightening of the road which enabled tallagandra and saratoga st to be built. That aerial shot explains why saratoga st has the kink in it too, beenleigh-beaudesert road had a small dog leg over that side of the current road before it cut back over to the dog leg on the mt warren side of the current road, that is why saratoga street was built with its kink, before beenleigh-beaudesert road climbed the grade of the hill by having those bends. Hopefully i have conveyed what i'm saying adequately for you to get what im descibing... I grew up in beenleigh, we were the first residence in the "chapman drive" estate, between boundary and spanns road. 15 Oddie Rd. Spent all my school years at beenleigh from' 78-'89.
@The Paedophile Profit The 'old road' is marked as being a road on the 1870 map survey. The whole point of the map and survey was to find a workable route over the hills to link Beenleigh with Waterford, apart from the previous track that lead to the Davy and Gooding sugar cane farm. No mention is made on that map of a water pipe being installed between the weir and natural body of water at the end of Phillip and Reservoir Streets. As for the road you cite over Mt Warren; there have actually been at least two of them but both were used for foot traffic and post date the map of 1870. I have seen maps and aerial photos of the old track you mentioned, but they were never designed nor used my machine traffic.
Fantastic Video Rob. my wife and I have lived at Windaroo for nearly 40 years and have seen so many changes. Might we suggest the Bahrs Scrub, Bannockburn area as another interesting area to walkabout in. I read somewhere that the Cobb and Co coaches used to ford the Albert River at Bannockburn.
Oh! It was you I saw walking along Beaudesert Beenleigh road!! Sadly I was driving but thought it was you and wanted to say hi! Thank you for your videos I've learnt so much about places around me. Any chance you could do Logan Central?
Thanks for sharing this history of how the roads came be in existence. I’m slowly exploring suburbs near me. I need to research more about some buildings an areas. My starting point was the BCC heritage listing by suburbs. Thanks also to John for exploring the bush land to find all of these roads. What’s your next project? Have you explored Eight Mile Plains through to Loganholme where the old Cascades Water Park. This area is also hard for me to navigate by food. Before the M1 motorway which connects the Gateway was not how motorists had to travel from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. I think Logan Rd was how travellers made their way down to the Gold Coast, this journey used to take over three hours. I’ve heard stories of my parents stopping where the Pimparma Strawberry Farm once stood before continue travelling down to Coolangatta. Another project would be the train line that once was in existence from Beenleigh through to Coolangatta (where the car parking is behind the Griffith Street Shopping strip is. I think I have some old photos of this site as my mums cousin would take this journey down to visit family when this train was in operation. It’s such a shame that they never kept this in place. I’m not sure if it runs along the same track as the current Beenleigh to Varsity Lakes train line. On my walks along Currumbin creek there are remnants of the trains journey near the Currumbin RSL club. I miss getting out an exploring parts of Brisbane, I’m hoping to get back to this soon. Please keep me posted when your next adventure is.
Driving in this area every day I have always wondered about the dead end roads that you can see have been old tracks and the cut away part up from Janine Drive. Liked how you 2 guys worked so well together. Another good one, thank you.
That was incredibly interesting, I have lived on Saratoga Street for 14 years and never knew it’s history, I just assumed it was just another road, had no idea it was once the main road into Beenleigh
it wasnt, robs mistaken. beenleigh beaudesert rd used to have an S shape as it climbed the grade out of beenleigh with a small dog leg towards saratoga st then a larger dog leg on the mt warren side going up to the cutting at the top, look at the arial photo from 1978 and you can see both dog legs, it was because of the dog leg on the saratoga st side that caused saratoga st was built with the kink in it. look at the photo from above from 1978 in the video and you'll see how the main road was aligned before it was straightened in the late 70's.
I can remember dodging road works on that road early 70's as they were cutting the hill and then going left at the roundabout to miss the horrible 6 way junction in the middle of town haha 👍
@@walkaboutwithrob try this link it is looking south and the roundabout wasn't always there either queenslandplaces.com.au/sites/queenslandplaces.com.au/files/imagecache/watermarked/exhibits/postcards/B0161.jpg And this oldie too where you can just make out the sixth road i.pinimg.com/236x/7f/ee/94/7fee946cc81d22c508b2dc8f1eecb01a--history-the-ojays.jpg good luck
@@lesneilson5632 thanks very much for these. I have a vague memory of the roundabout in the centre of town, though I wasn't living here then. (Though visiting a lot). Really appreciate you posting these here.
That was back when the Beenleigh train station was behind The Imperial Hotel. I have heard the state government is planning on moving it back to the original site and under the "new" town square.
Hey Rob! Love your videos, I live in Coorparoo now, previous in Woolloongabba, and loved your recent video of Kangaroo Point... but I grew up in Windaroo so love these too. I was wondering if you have any info on what Mount Waldron is/was and who it was named after? I know there's a Waldron road out towards Tamborine and Im curious!
@Zane Taylor The Waldron Brothers settled on the east side of the Albert River in the early 1860's and had a farm; most likely sugar cane but I cannot be certain. The name Mt. Waldron was given to that tall, pyramid type hill in Bahrs Scrub today (I don't know its modern name though).
if you google queensland globe it gives you a great few overlays with a mix of satellite imagery and aerial, but also includes topographic stuff. however I dont think there is any lidar stuff on there.
@Prince of Saiyans I'm compiling research for a documentary about Loganholme, and that old building will be included in it. I've managed to dig up some info about it...
I know a family who owned the BP servo that used to be located where the logan motorway/m1 interchange is now. I remember they used to say it was built as some sort of tax rort/money laundering scheme. it was built mid-late 80's and never seemed to have any purpose... Thats if it's the same building i'm thinking of, very big brick place just nth of logan river on the service road.
That was a outlet for copy antique furniture that was built in Indonesia by the guy who built the building John a Polish fellow .. I had met him a few times way back when.. can't remember his last name ..he had two factories in Indonesia and made and imported it here... He now lives in Stanthorpe The brick work was done by two local Beenleigh guys Terry and John Hood.. it took months and months to build . John Hood was a good friend of mine.. Ironically he also now lives in Stanthorpe..
@@thepaedophileprofit3062 It wasn't a tax rort money laundering scheme,... lol... So funny... That was a outlet for copy antique furniture that was built in Indonesia by the guy who built the building John a Polish fellow .. I had met him a few times way back when.. can't remember his last name ..he had two factories in Indonesia and made and imported it here... He now lives in Stanthorpe The brick work was done by two local Beenleigh guys Terry and John Hood.. it took months and months to build . John Hood was a good friend of mine.. Ironically he also now lives in Stanthorpe..
If you travel further down veivers rd and drive down the s bends to your right you can see old log cutters bridges crossing gully’s not sure if there still there but they were not that long ago
Hi Rob. You used the word "Ledge" to describe a human formed geotechnical feature - I feel a better word would be "Benching" as is used in the earth moving industry.
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UPDATE: I have discovered that Beaudesert-Beenleigh Road was gazetted as a Main Road in either 1929 or 1930. This means it is probable that the rock cutting mentioned in this documentary @11:17 was made in the early 1930's.
My Dad built the family home and was the second house in Mt Warren Pk in 76. Our family moved in to the home January 77. This bush land was our playground . There was an old road that traveled from top end of Mt Warren blvd straight to the top of the Mt Warren ridge turned Right and was then the original Dump Road but on the Mt Warren side of Beenleigh/Beaudesert Rd. This I believe was the first track/ road. Originally the natural terrain beyond where Beenleigh/Beaudesert intersects the dump road was impassable. They had to turn either right or left , the Mt Warren ridge trail was a lot shorter trek into Beenleigh.
You’re a man after my own heart Rob. As a youngster my grandparents lived in the Blue Mountains and I, like you, lived in Sydney. During my mountain holidays I’d drive my grandparents crazy by wanting to see “old roads”, i.e. bypassed sections of the Great Western Highway. I recall finding all manner of old roads, including the occasional bridge. That’s over 50 years ago now and I wonder how much of that is still visible. Keep up the great work!
You never fail to crack me up..yr videos are awesome ..history and humour xxx
@raindog thanks! I love making them!
This is one of your best Rob. The bit with the wine glass made me laugh! It's fascinating to see the remains of the old roads.
I'm with you, I stick to the path. No bush bashing for me. So thanks very much to John for the on the ground help. John's channel is here www.youtube.com/@jelbuilderfilms
@uzetaab thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it. Was fun to make.
Just Watched Jel Builders Video Of You 2 Guys, And Now Checking Out Your Version.
Very interesting, great video. Love it.
Nice video Rob! Was a crackup to see Jel doing his thing up in the bushes from an outsiders perspective.
Great video! It reminds me a bit of Old Cleveland Road near the intersection with Creek Road. OCR originally a very steep route a little bit south of where it currently is. A short section of the original route (between Chris' IGA and 925 OCR has been maintained and upgraded over the years for local access, but the remainder of the road is now little more than a narrow track through the bush, mostly visible on aerial photos.
In early 20th century, OCR was diverted north around the high ground. The power poles mark where the edge of the diverted roadway veered through the park on the corner of Narracott St. It then continued up Narracott St before curving south and crossing Creek Road just south of the Carindale Park n Ride carpark. Most of the pavement survives, and the powerlines follow the old road alignment for it's full length.
Then, in the 1970s, OCR was straightened by cutting most of the high ground out entirely. This is the route followed by the road today.
What an awesome collaboration. Looked like just the right ambience to enjoy your reward for the hard work 😂 🍷
Just had to watch this again as I was intrigued to see Windaroo and Mt Warren on a 1916 map. I always just assumed they were new estates and new names. So interesting.
This was a great collaboration, Rob. I enjoyed every minute. I started to watch it yesterday but got sidetracked. So, after a productive day installing my mobile 12/240 solar system, I sat down to watch.
I've hitch-hiked up and down the highways between Brisbane and Cooktown, and along the way, there are some really pretty patches of the abandoned old highway that are a pleasant diversion from trudging the main highway with your thumb out. There is a nice stretch on the northern side of Gympie. It's only about 400 metres or so but is enveloped by rainforest, with the highway running at a higher level but hidden by the canopy.
On my bucket-list is to revisit a section of highway between Laura and Palmer River up in FNQ. Back in 1982, before the new, wide bitumen, gently sloped (relatively) highway was constructed, the Cooktown Development Road, as it was known, was little better than a goat track, and wound its way steeply up the mountain range. I walked from Lakeland to Palmer River back in those days, and the new highway was being constructed. None of the truck could stop to pick me up on the way up the range if they wanted to because it was so steep in parts that it would be hard to get started again. And the bulldust the gravel truckks were generating was insane! I'd like to camp somewhere and walk the old road again, just to remember what it was like when I was a lad of 18.
Hi Rob, back in the day as a young man I was part of the Albert Shire Council crew that built the cutting past the xfer station.
Awesome Guys, Great Map work. T-Rocks 😎
I'm exhausted watching both of you! Thanks very much for your work, Rob and John.
i love these, drive this road all the time. always wonder about these roads and how they all connected.
Very interesting and entertaining, loved it.
Great collab, hopefully many more to come! 🍷🕷
👍🏻 great stuff Rob .. i used to live at windaroo in the 80’s . would ride my bike over that hill to school at Trinity College
Fantastic video 👍
Fascinating as always, thanks!
Absolutely brilliant, you guys. Love, love, love that you are concurring with each other. Another interesting and informative post. Another awesome history lesson.
@Shellie Savoie thanks indeed! We had a great time working together on this.
@@walkaboutwithrob just a question Rob, have you by chance walked along the Kedron Brook bikeway from say Enoggera to Toombul, taking in Stafford, Kedron, Lutwyche, Kalinger.?? I'd really love to see that.... just a thought. 🤔🤞🤞❤
@@shelliesavoie1397 I once did a walk from Sandgate to Browns Plains over two days, and may have walked through some of those areas, but would have to go back to the video and remind myself. It's an area I don't really know so could be good!
Old road history: love it.
Another interesting video. Quick question, where do you find that Lidar image?? Is there a website for it?
Absolutely loved this video Rob. I'm a real history buff and lived in Beenleigh/Bahrs Scrub/Windaroo for the past 20 years. I'm in Tamborine now but you ever need a drone operator for your next video give me a hoy. Would love to meet you one day.
@Don Coleman thanks very much for your feedback. Glad you enjoyed the show. And yes, I might just take you up on your drone offer one day. Really appreciate it 🙂
Great video Rob, interesting and informative - and fun collaboration with John from JEL 🙂
Great stuff. Thanks.
Cool video Rob. Nice Collab with John
To quote BlackAdder " love the beard gives me something to hang onto "👍
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Very enjoyable to watch, great project. This road passed the refuse station which is on the site of a gold mine once owned by George Fischer a German immigrant who operated an early Brisbane pottery at Breakfast Creek in 1865.. Fischer sold his pottery to James Campbell, built a house in Beenleigh which is still standing and regrettable lost his money in the mentioned gold mine. I am fortunate to have a chimney pot on my home from Fischer’s pottery.
@beenbarn thank you! So is the modern refuse station the site of the old gold mine?
Loved this one Rob and glad to "meet" John... I have often thought to do a tour of all the old gympie roads..
Accurate Rob ... I remember this when I grew up in Beenleigh the road works. Later on they had the Trinity College to Windaroo Fun Run Which ran from Trinity College in Beenleigh to Windaroo Golf Club around the round about and back to Trinity College. Was a nice fresh road back then and those tracks and roads where visible.
I can confirm that John wrestles bears
I think your 'old road' was in fact the route for the water pipe from luscombe weir to the old water reservoir between james st and hammel rd(directly below phillip st) created by damming the gully through there just west of the train line. From there the water for beenleigh was sourced prior to beenleigh getting hooked up to Somerset dam water. Also saratoga st wasn't the route the road took, the road actually used to have a dog leg that went 50m-100m over on the mt warren side of the current road opposite from saratoga st. the road veered towards mt warren side then bent back towards the cutting on top hill. At about 13:05 you point down to what used to be the dog leg route the road took prior to the late 70's. Saratoga st was created when the road was straightened from the route i'm talking about. Back in the day there was no development in the catchment of the gully above where the reservoir was located, development was only permitted after the towns water began being sourced from somerset. You can see a gap in the trees when you point at 13:05, that is where the road used to go. the aerial sgot you show from 1978 at 13:25 has the dog leg i'm talking about clearly visible. It was the straightening of the road which enabled tallagandra and saratoga st to be built. That aerial shot explains why saratoga st has the kink in it too, beenleigh-beaudesert road had a small dog leg over that side of the current road before it cut back over to the dog leg on the mt warren side of the current road, that is why saratoga street was built with its kink, before beenleigh-beaudesert road climbed the grade of the hill by having those bends. Hopefully i have conveyed what i'm saying adequately for you to get what im descibing... I grew up in beenleigh, we were the first residence in the "chapman drive" estate, between boundary and spanns road. 15 Oddie Rd. Spent all my school years at beenleigh from' 78-'89.
@The Paedophile Profit The 'old road' is marked as being a road on the 1870 map survey. The whole point of the map and survey was to find a workable route over the hills to link Beenleigh with Waterford, apart from the previous track that lead to the Davy and Gooding sugar cane farm. No mention is made on that map of a water pipe being installed between the weir and natural body of water at the end of Phillip and Reservoir Streets. As for the road you cite over Mt Warren; there have actually been at least two of them but both were used for foot traffic and post date the map of 1870. I have seen maps and aerial photos of the old track you mentioned, but they were never designed nor used my machine traffic.
Fantastic Video Rob. my wife and I have lived at Windaroo for nearly 40 years and have seen so many changes. Might we suggest the Bahrs Scrub, Bannockburn area as another interesting area to walkabout in. I read somewhere that the Cobb and Co coaches used to ford the Albert River at Bannockburn.
I would like to report a suspicious sign on the side of the road. Someone seems to be "gate keeping" the area. Probably someone named Karen.
😂 🍷❤😂 nearly spat my tea out through my nose....😂😂 cheers Rob and Jel.
Oh! It was you I saw walking along Beaudesert Beenleigh road!! Sadly I was driving but thought it was you and wanted to say hi! Thank you for your videos I've learnt so much about places around me. Any chance you could do Logan Central?
@Hannah Cividin thank you very much. I do enjoy making them. Yes, I am keen to do a documentary about Logan Central/ Woodridge.
Thanks for sharing this history of how the roads came be in existence. I’m slowly exploring suburbs near me. I need to research more about some buildings an areas. My starting point was the BCC heritage listing by suburbs. Thanks also to John for exploring the bush land to find all of these roads.
What’s your next project? Have you explored Eight Mile Plains through to Loganholme where the old Cascades Water Park. This area is also hard for me to navigate by food. Before the M1 motorway which connects the Gateway was not how motorists had to travel from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. I think Logan Rd was how travellers made their way down to the Gold Coast, this journey used to take over three hours. I’ve heard stories of my parents stopping where the Pimparma Strawberry Farm once stood before continue travelling down to Coolangatta.
Another project would be the train line that once was in existence from Beenleigh through to Coolangatta (where the car parking is behind the Griffith Street Shopping strip is. I think I have some old photos of this site as my mums cousin would take this journey down to visit family when this train was in operation. It’s such a shame that they never kept this in place. I’m not sure if it runs along the same track as the current Beenleigh to Varsity Lakes train line. On my walks along Currumbin creek there are remnants of the trains journey near the Currumbin RSL club.
I miss getting out an exploring parts of Brisbane, I’m hoping to get back to this soon. Please keep me posted when your next adventure is.
Driving in this area every day I have always wondered about the dead end roads that you can see have been old tracks and the cut away part up from Janine Drive. Liked how you 2 guys worked so well together. Another good one, thank you.
@Sandra Mackin thank so much. Like I always maintain, there is so much history about, one just has to look a little deeper.
Rob: I have a phobia of............. spiders,.....
Crossover ep!! love it!
That was incredibly interesting, I have lived on Saratoga Street for 14 years and never knew it’s history, I just assumed it was just another road, had no idea it was once the main road into Beenleigh
it wasnt, robs mistaken. beenleigh beaudesert rd used to have an S shape as it climbed the grade out of beenleigh with a small dog leg towards saratoga st then a larger dog leg on the mt warren side going up to the cutting at the top, look at the arial photo from 1978 and you can see both dog legs, it was because of the dog leg on the saratoga st side that caused saratoga st was built with the kink in it. look at the photo from above from 1978 in the video and you'll see how the main road was aligned before it was straightened in the late 70's.
I can remember dodging road works on that road early 70's as they were cutting the hill and then going left at the roundabout to miss the horrible 6 way junction in the middle of town haha 👍
@Les Neilson that must have been a nightmare, that old 6 way intersection. Would love to see any photos of it if you have them
@@walkaboutwithrob try this link it is looking south and the roundabout wasn't always there either queenslandplaces.com.au/sites/queenslandplaces.com.au/files/imagecache/watermarked/exhibits/postcards/B0161.jpg
And this oldie too where you can just make out the sixth road
i.pinimg.com/236x/7f/ee/94/7fee946cc81d22c508b2dc8f1eecb01a--history-the-ojays.jpg
good luck
@@lesneilson5632 thanks very much for these. I have a vague memory of the roundabout in the centre of town, though I wasn't living here then. (Though visiting a lot). Really appreciate you posting these here.
That was back when the Beenleigh train station was behind The Imperial Hotel. I have heard the state government is planning on moving it back to the original site and under the "new" town square.
@@Mattski_83 I've heard something similar too. Would be nice to have a train station that didn't flood every time we got some heavy rain!
man that was a great vid..
Hey Rob! Love your videos, I live in Coorparoo now, previous in Woolloongabba, and loved your recent video of Kangaroo Point... but I grew up in Windaroo so love these too. I was wondering if you have any info on what Mount Waldron is/was and who it was named after? I know there's a Waldron road out towards Tamborine and Im curious!
@Zane Taylor The Waldron Brothers settled on the east side of the Albert River in the early 1860's and had a farm; most likely sugar cane but I cannot be certain. The name Mt. Waldron was given to that tall, pyramid type hill in Bahrs Scrub today (I don't know its modern name though).
Hey Rob how do you find LIDAR images? I'd like to find some similar images of the Moonbi mountain range?
if you google queensland globe it gives you a great few overlays with a mix of satellite imagery and aerial, but also includes topographic stuff. however I dont think there is any lidar stuff on there.
Can u do that abondoned building next to the m1 on the way to shailer park from eagleby? Ive always wondered what that was.
@Prince of Saiyans I'm compiling research for a documentary about Loganholme, and that old building will be included in it. I've managed to dig up some info about it...
@@walkaboutwithrob awesome ile be keeping an eye out for it.
I know a family who owned the BP servo that used to be located where the logan motorway/m1 interchange is now. I remember they used to say it was built as some sort of tax rort/money laundering scheme. it was built mid-late 80's and never seemed to have any purpose... Thats if it's the same building i'm thinking of, very big brick place just nth of logan river on the service road.
That was a outlet for copy antique furniture that was built in Indonesia by the guy who built the building John a Polish fellow .. I had met him a few times way back when.. can't remember his last name ..he had two factories in Indonesia and made and imported it here... He now lives in Stanthorpe The brick work was done by two local Beenleigh guys Terry and John Hood.. it took months and months to build . John Hood was a good friend of mine.. Ironically he also now lives in Stanthorpe..
@@thepaedophileprofit3062 It wasn't a tax rort money laundering scheme,... lol... So funny... That was a outlet for copy antique furniture that was built in Indonesia by the guy who built the building John a Polish fellow .. I had met him a few times way back when.. can't remember his last name ..he had two factories in Indonesia and made and imported it here... He now lives in Stanthorpe The brick work was done by two local Beenleigh guys Terry and John Hood.. it took months and months to build . John Hood was a good friend of mine.. Ironically he also now lives in Stanthorpe..
If you travel further down veivers rd and drive down the s bends to your right you can see old log cutters bridges crossing gully’s not sure if there still there but they were not that long ago
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Hi Rob. You used the word "Ledge" to describe a human formed geotechnical feature - I feel a better word would be "Benching" as is used in the earth moving industry.
@v6hilux ah cool, thanks for that! Will know for next time.
Am told just in around the vetinary area there was a slaughter yards
@anitaand jim L oh that's interesting, I didn't know one had been there. Thanks!
@@walkaboutwithrob Yes it was owned by the Veivers family and later Fred Otto. Was closed early 70's.
Who else came from Gelbuilders video
I think it's the other way around.
Hi rob
I thought it was because of climate change 😆
Ahh yes climate change..previously known as Global Warming... . THEY ARE CHANGING THE NAME AGAIN LATER THIS YEAR TO>> The Sky is Falling...
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