Thanks for keeping the memories alive Will. Not too many of us left sadly. I often drive around the old area of Munno Para...and Smithfield Plains on my way to see family still living there. All the 'open spaces' that where between Smithfield and Dalkeith is starting to fill with housing, roof to roof ( ugly). Sometimes it's hard to recognise the places we knew. Progress I guess. But I wonder...where does everyone work?
Yes, Susan. Those housing estates were my old playgrounds. And I agree, roof to roof is ugly. Those poor sardines :-) What a great question. I imagine most have to commute. There is great irony in that. Thomas Playford would weep. Thank you, again, for supporting the channel. Much appreciated.
Glad I stumbled across your channel last month...have binged most of your stuff and liked and subscribed! Great insight into the past Sir, Looking forward to the next one👏👏
Hi Will your videos always take me back in time with so many memories. Thoughts lads looking at the model of GMH are from my old school Freemont Boys High School, I remember that uniform well I still have the tie somewhere. My first job was in a factory along Peachy Rd I think it was spelt kromini floor tiles and lino? I think in your video it was called something else back then. But I remember working in the back of the factory making floor tile samples for salesmen listening to the radio as ABBA was setting foot in South Australia. My next job was in the GMH paint shop in the first colour booth. On and off I was there for 10 years and then I left to go tour Australia and New Zealand in a band I was in back then called The Beat Makers Doing a Beatles and Sixty's cover band act . We supported many overseas acts as a warm up band and I can honestly say it was the most amazing time in my life. Great vid as always I totally loved it! 👍🏻
Hey Geoff. I sourced that photo and info from the Playford's Past Recollect website - they are uploaded by the public however, so if it's Freemont the uploader must have mistaken it for EBTH. My bad. It's dated 1964 on the site. looking at the model though, the factory definitely did not look like that at that point. It was still a lot smaller with less buildings completed. I assumed they were looking at a model detailing the future of the factory. Thank you for the info. Touring with a band opening for overseas acts must have been a great ride. I can see why you remember that time so warmly. Thanks again for watching and sharing with us.. Much appreciated.
There is a lot to unpack from all the information provided by Will. Exploitation by overseas companies comes to mind. That's the first thing. An excellent analysis of the many competing challenges facing a naive SAHT and the reliance on coddling overseas corporations to invest in Elizabeth. Ill need to watch this video again.
Thanks mate. This and the final episode in this series (final ep coming next month) are based in part on the book Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and future in Elizabeth, written by Mark Peel and published in the early to mid-nineties, before Elizabeth and Munno Para amalgamated. You can still order copies of it if you're interested in reading that. It is a very dense read and analysis of what went wrong in Elizabeth., but worth the read. Thank you for watching. Much appreciated.
Thanks Will, great to see this time now past. Can't help feel a sad at the state of current affairs and the deliberate attempt to dismantle the good. It appears Jacques Ellul's prophetic works are just that. Be good and all the best.
I appreciate that Deidre. Thank you. One more in this series to go, which will take us right through to 1997, when Elizabeth City Council was dissolved and merged with Munno Para and become Playford. It's a sad end for those who were here at the beginning. Thank you for all your support. Always appreciated.
Yes it was sad for my dad as he worked for Munno Para Council. He did a lot of the footpaths and parks and gardens work in the area. After the amalgamation it seemed that the Elizabeth area got all the attention and the old Munno Para areas fell into decline, especially Smithfield Plains
@@deidreevans1791 Yes, I was shocked when I visited Smithfield Plains in 2018 after years of not being there. Almost every home of my childhood friends were no longer there, knocked down with no new houses yet built. I was disoriented for a bit, thinking I was on the wrong street until it finally dawned on me. The old shops in a dilapidated state, as well as both primary and high schools - boarded up and vandalised. I was in shock for a bit. Very sad to think my childhood, and the childhood of all my old friends, was being erased as if we had never been there. What terribly weak leadership. Ah, well. At least we have this channel to remind us. We really were there. It did really hap[pen 🙂
@@elizabeththatwas You could push out another, to where Holden left and the ramifications of that. And it's hardly a "sad end" when the Elizabeth area gets all the benefits of the Playford council.
It certainly got Elizabeth on her feet very quickly, and for a time was a huge boost to the state economy, as well. Thanks for watching, and for sharing your thoughts. Much appreciated. Will :-)
GMH was only a renter and 99% of machinery was leased .....when federal subsidies ceased it was easy a to move to a pre buit factory in Thialand with workers guaranteed by the Thai Military at a cheap price. Yet the price of buying a holden never went down.
another amazing video. I love your content and love my town. please keep them coming. Anyone interested I am at Hopestreet in Davoren Park. come in for a chat.
Thanks, mate. Much appreciated. Thank you for watching. There is one more ep in this series to come next month. Not sure what I'll work on after that, but something will come to me. I will be taking a break first though. This channel is a side project while I work three other jobs...lol. Take care mate, and thanks again :-)
Thank you for watching. If you would like to support this channel please subscribe and give the video a thumbs up. Warmest, Will 🙏
Excellent, well crafted series. Thank you for uploading.
My pleasure, mate. Thank you for watching :-) Will
Thanks for keeping the memories alive Will. Not too many of us left sadly.
I often drive around the old area of Munno Para...and Smithfield Plains on my way to see family still living there. All the 'open spaces' that where between Smithfield and Dalkeith is starting to fill with housing, roof to roof ( ugly). Sometimes it's hard to recognise the places we knew. Progress I guess.
But I wonder...where does everyone work?
Yes, Susan. Those housing estates were my old playgrounds. And I agree, roof to roof is ugly. Those poor sardines :-) What a great question. I imagine most have to commute. There is great irony in that. Thomas Playford would weep. Thank you, again, for supporting the channel. Much appreciated.
Glad I stumbled across your channel last month...have binged most of your stuff and liked and subscribed! Great insight into the past Sir, Looking forward to the next one👏👏
Thank you, Megan. That is much appreciated. I love it when people find the channel unexpectedly. Enjoy :-)
Hi Will your videos always take me back in time with so many memories. Thoughts lads looking at the model of GMH are from my old school Freemont Boys High School, I remember that uniform well I still have the tie somewhere. My first job was in a factory along Peachy Rd I think it was spelt kromini floor tiles and lino? I think in your video it was called something else back then. But I remember working in the back of the factory making floor tile samples for salesmen listening to the radio as ABBA was setting foot in South Australia. My next job was in the GMH paint shop in the first colour booth. On and off I was there for 10 years and then I left to go tour Australia and New Zealand in a band I was in back then called The Beat Makers Doing a Beatles and Sixty's cover band act . We supported many overseas acts as a warm up band and I can honestly say it was the most amazing time in my life. Great vid as always I totally loved it! 👍🏻
Hey Geoff. I sourced that photo and info from the Playford's Past Recollect website - they are uploaded by the public however, so if it's Freemont the uploader must have mistaken it for EBTH. My bad. It's dated 1964 on the site. looking at the model though, the factory definitely did not look like that at that point. It was still a lot smaller with less buildings completed. I assumed they were looking at a model detailing the future of the factory. Thank you for the info. Touring with a band opening for overseas acts must have been a great ride. I can see why you remember that time so warmly. Thanks again for watching and sharing with us.. Much appreciated.
There is a lot to unpack from all the information provided by Will. Exploitation by overseas companies comes to mind. That's the first thing. An excellent analysis of the many competing challenges facing a naive SAHT and the reliance on coddling overseas corporations to invest in Elizabeth. Ill need to watch this video again.
Thanks mate. This and the final episode in this series (final ep coming next month) are based in part on the book Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and future in Elizabeth, written by Mark Peel and published in the early to mid-nineties, before Elizabeth and Munno Para amalgamated. You can still order copies of it if you're interested in reading that. It is a very dense read and analysis of what went wrong in Elizabeth., but worth the read. Thank you for watching. Much appreciated.
@@elizabeththatwas where might I access this book Will?
Thanks Will, great to see this time now past. Can't help feel a sad at the state of current affairs and the deliberate attempt to dismantle the good. It appears Jacques Ellul's prophetic works are just that. Be good and all the best.
My pleasure, mate. Thank you for watching. Much appreciated :-)
Great video as always Will
I appreciate that Deidre. Thank you. One more in this series to go, which will take us right through to 1997, when Elizabeth City Council was dissolved and merged with Munno Para and become Playford. It's a sad end for those who were here at the beginning. Thank you for all your support. Always appreciated.
Yes it was sad for my dad as he worked for Munno Para Council. He did a lot of the footpaths and parks and gardens work in the area. After the amalgamation it seemed that the Elizabeth area got all the attention and the old Munno Para areas fell into decline, especially Smithfield Plains
@@deidreevans1791 Yes, I was shocked when I visited Smithfield Plains in 2018 after years of not being there. Almost every home of my childhood friends were no longer there, knocked down with no new houses yet built. I was disoriented for a bit, thinking I was on the wrong street until it finally dawned on me. The old shops in a dilapidated state, as well as both primary and high schools - boarded up and vandalised. I was in shock for a bit. Very sad to think my childhood, and the childhood of all my old friends, was being erased as if we had never been there. What terribly weak leadership. Ah, well. At least we have this channel to remind us. We really were there. It did really hap[pen 🙂
@@elizabeththatwas You could push out another, to where Holden left and the ramifications of that. And it's hardly a "sad end" when the Elizabeth area gets all the benefits of the Playford council.
Can only be a blessing. No one can predict the future. It at the time provided jobs, security and prosperity.
It certainly got Elizabeth on her feet very quickly, and for a time was a huge boost to the state economy, as well. Thanks for watching, and for sharing your thoughts. Much appreciated. Will :-)
GMH was only a renter and 99% of machinery was leased .....when federal subsidies ceased it was easy a to move to a pre buit factory in Thialand with workers guaranteed by the Thai Military at a cheap price. Yet the price of buying a holden never went down.
another amazing video. I love your content and love my town. please keep them coming. Anyone interested I am at Hopestreet in Davoren Park. come in for a chat.
Thanks, mate. Much appreciated. Thank you for watching. There is one more ep in this series to come next month. Not sure what I'll work on after that, but something will come to me. I will be taking a break first though. This channel is a side project while I work three other jobs...lol. Take care mate, and thanks again :-)