Ryde District, Sydney, N.S.W.
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2022
- The Ryde district was the third area of European settlement in New South Wales. Two well known names today, Granny Smith and James Squires, had their origins there.
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City of Ryde Library and Information Services
Dictionary of Sydney
Wikipedia
Google maps
State Library of N.S.W.
Trove Digitised newspapers
Strict Baptists, Australia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Cinema Treasures
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Thanks for this amazing history of Ryde. When the School of Arts was demolished, various shops took its place over the years. During the 90s it was Con's Pizza. The area was known locally as 'Con's Corner'.
Thanks for your complimentary remarks, but even more so for your comments on what you remember of the past. We are contemplating, creating play lists of our UA-cam videos. At present there are sixty one videos chronologically ordered. Some have been up for more than four years, and one less than a month. One thought is to link them geographically, that is suburbs that butt on to one another. Why am I asking you to comment? Because Ryde lies in isolation, its nearest neighbours, that we have done videos on are across the Parramatta river. Is it purely by chance, that you have discovered our channel. Some of our suburbs have more views than there are people now living in the area. We would have thought after over four years we might have understood our demographic but we don’t. Apart from UA-cam analytics telling us that, four out of five are male and all are over forty five years old. I hope I haven’t overwhelmed you. It’s always very encouraging when we receive comments like yours. I hope others might care to join in the conversation.
Thank you, as always, for such a fascinating, interesting and informative presentation of the history of Ryde. I look forward to your History on Cronulla in the coming months. BRAVO ZULU once again.
Thought you might be able to explain why there has been a spike on people watching our videos on Ryde and Concord?
That was great, thank you. Great history of Sydney and surrounds
Thanks for your comments. Please read the comments we've made to Warren Hunt, whose comments you'll find above. Apart from what we said to Warren, we have an interest in knowing what a person's connection is with the suburb, if any. We would like to think that we are providing information to those who have recently moved into the suburb, such that they can feel some sort of identity, nostalgia for those who remember times past in the suburb, or for those, who simply delight in walking suburbs, and know having watched our video, that what is a housing development once was a factory, the shop or office block that was once a cinema, and churches that are now used for other purposes.One of our disappointments is that, the suburbs that have been taken over by universities or hospitals have considerably less viewers than perfectly ordinary suburbs. Others, that focus on purely history, are likewise not as well patronised as we had hoped. For us finding our audience is still a challenge, but we still enjoy doing it!
Thought you might be able to explain why there has been a spike on people watching our videos on Ryde and Concord?
Lots of memories
Awesome
Thanks for your comment, we dearly would like to know what you, and anyone else found,
“awesome “ in the video on Ryde? As with many videos what the creative team thinks is, an interesting video, turns out not to be with our audience. What with our number of views, the average time of viewing, subscribers and viewers comments, we must be doing something right, but what is it?
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 will let you know , I'll go back over it. Would be cool to get a detailed video on tarban Creek lunatic asylum.
@@pyne13 We hope we have created, a consistent style with all of our videos, such that our viewers will know what to expect. We also know courtesy of UA-cam analytics that our viewers are predominately male, and most are over forty five years old. We have no idea what percentage of our viewers no longer live in the the area they are viewing, yet are nostalgic about it. We are beginning to see that there are a group who are particularly interested in industrial history, such that suburbs that have been reinvented and gentrified have a degree of popularity. A few of our viewers, delight in recognising certain buildings in their suburb that had a previous life, cinemas, hall, large homes, the latter, now nursing homes. Some comments also point to a past, where people never moved far from there place of work. What, we do grieve , is the lack of interest in history videos, about particularly buildings and events. Particularly of the 19th century. We began thinking, like yourself, that such things are truly worth doing something with. I’ve just had lunch with the creator, and she tells me that the reason we haven’t done anything with Tarban Creek lunatic asylum is that she sees it as being in Gladesville. So perhaps you should be giving us some ideas as to why we should do one on that suburb. Truly pleasing and encouraging to read your comment. We are surprisingly happy with the views Ryde has, just aren’t sure why! Look forward to hearing from you.
Another Great Video team. Well done.
It is very satisfying to receive a comment from someone like yourself, who we remember from other comments. The comments we've made in reply to Warren Hunt, see above, equally apply to you, regarding choosing a suburb to do a history of. Habberfield may well be the only suburb, whose beginnings in the 20th century, the vision of one man, make it not only unique in N.S.W. but worth presenting in video format.Having used the word unique, I am quite happy should anyone prove me wrong. Thanks for your comment.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 Love you Guys.... If you ever need a hand, let me know and I can see what I can do. Ciao Bello and Bella
@@ruidean72 I think this may be outside your field of expertise, though one never knows in the big city. So here goes! We had high hopes of our video on Manly, but in spite of some encouraging comments, it appears to have ground to a halt. Briefly, we thought Manly had an interesting history, had not only residents, but visitors, who had fond memories of it. We’ve already had a very civilised discussion with you regarding, why we should make a video on Habberfield. We thought we had chosen well, in Manly, in that ‘every one knows the name, and location’ not to mention the rugby league team. This may be so, but few appear interested in it’s history or perhaps I should say our video. I perhaps should add, that we are loath to use social media, for much as our comment’s page has only a modest response, we do have correspondents who are capable of putting together meaningful and to the point sentences, and being perfectly civilised about it. In this day and age this is something very precious. I’ve left, perhaps more fulsome comments on the Manly comments site, which may more clearly show why we are disappointed. In short our recent thoughts on picking a suburb, have not borne fruit. As always thanks for your encouragement.
@@ruidean72 Thought you might be able to explain why there has been a spike on people watching our videos on Ryde and Concord?
I made signs for the. "Strict and Peculiar" Baptist church in Ryde in the 1980s, the people in charge of the church called it that.
Ryde may have an interesting past, but increasingly we suspect our viewers are recapturing, something of their past or even their grandparents’, but why we ask are you watching