Just read the article in the Sunday Mail Paul. Great job, thanks for documenting these for us all…..these developers have no care for heritage, just an unhealthy desire for money. Our architectural heritage is being destroyed in the name of greed. We live in a country with plenty of space, now I understand that some places are beyond help but surely all lot of them are worth saving. Aesthetically the buildings these developers put up are lifeless……dead cookie cutter boxes to dwell in. Our forefathers built houses and homes that have a beauty that will never be replaced by modern designs. Keep up the great work. I look forward to each new video.
Couldnt agree more. Monstrous bland glass and concrete constructions dumped into classic streets. $$$$ all the way. The blandness is such a poor reflections on the architects. Cheap construction methods but with all builders its take the money and run
I love them all, nice bathroom colours, window glass, beautiful facade’s I could definitely live in all three very vibrant wall colour in the third house. Such a shame they are all gone now beautiful character lost forever. Thank you 😊:-) :-)
Back in the early ‘90’s, I was doing up old Lead Light Kitchen Dressers like that one. Detailed work, especially stripping off non original paint, but making them better than new saw them selling for $800 at Antique Actions, which was equivalent to a weeks wage in the Construction Industry. So many lovely features still to be found in all 3 houses, especially the 3rd house kitchen cabinets. Nice walk thru & share. 👍
Another awesome episode, thank you Paul for all your efforts in researching the history of these homes. I was heartbroken over number 2 house, so disrespectful. Hope all the glass windows and doors were salvaged from all properties.
You never know what you will find when entering abounded homes.Often unexpected surprises. I love the antique kitchen cupboard/dresser in the first home. Such a sad waste of three Adelaide suburban homes, each with lovely facades depicting the characteristics of the specific eras. Thanks again Paul for a great explore and providing footage of three old homes before being lost for ever.
Thanks for another Sunday morning treat, UI. My parents used to buy briquettes to burn in the lounge room fireplace in the 1960s before they invested in a large electric radiator. I'd forgotten about them until you mentioned them. That bungalow had the faux attic windows that seem to have been an optional extra. Judging by the amount of steel grille in the last house I'm guessing that large amounts of cash were held on the premises.
That 3rd home. I love the fencing up front. Love the leaded glass windows. Do not love the green color.....I would so love one of those stainless steel sink units.
I look forward to your videos every week! Loved, loved, loved how you showed all 3 of these houses. Thank you for taking to time to research and share with us. I have learned so much from you. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge as you explore these places. I do have one question though...what are those sink looking things on the ground of the older back porches? I see them a lot in your videos, but I don't remember you ever talking about them.
Really enjoy watching your exploring videos and the information you share. Ps they mentioned you and your channel in an article in the Saturday advertiser.
Once again,so sad to see these beautiful homes demolished to make way for construction that resembles dollar signs more than class and beauty. So glad you find opportunities to explore and document the architecture and class of days gone by… Sometimes your videos bring tears as you inform that they have already been demolished.., Thank you for saving the images of their existence. P.S. When you show grow houses and what has been done, I feel like the character of the homes has been raped! It is sickening 😢
Oh love the colour of that first bathroom! And the walls as you walk into the third house in Pt Adel. but too much of the same colour throughout the whole house. Crikey.
The second home looked like it could have been really nice in its prime. Third home, love the stained glass windows and the front porch columns. Have a great week my friend!
I enjoyed all those houses, bet they were nice in their day. sorry they have been demolished. could still have made good homes. Look forward to the next video. take care.
I really liked the outside of the 2nd home before it was showed signs of decay. I also liked the house that had the curved doorway. Thank you so much for showing the 3 houses. I really enjoyed watching because I love some bungalows.
It’s so interesting to me to see these homes and the difference from western US buildings. It’s still odd to me that you have to go out to the back porch in order to find the toilet. Even the older homes here have all of the bathroom/toilet in one room accessible from inside the house. My home was built before 1915, but not by much as the whole area burned in a forest fire in 1910, has the current bathroom inside the original section of the house. I know it started out with an outhouse as electricity and running water didn’t make it here until the 1940’s but with northern Montana winters you have to have it all in the main heated building. At one point our house served as a home, store, and Post Office but has been remodeled and added on to quite a bit so there isn’t a lot of original features left.
That’s an interesting read, Martha. You awakened some memories for this great-gran of adult great-grand kids. This old Scot can say that the toilet of a 1880-1900s house where we came from in Scotland 🏴 was an outhouse in the long rear yard. Folk had chamber pots inside when the snow was deep and had a tin bath to place near one of the open fires in the rooms for the bairns. The small bathroom was a cold place in winter. My Da’s Mam had died when he was eight and he started sleepwalking for a while. My Grandfather said that my Da would walk out barefooted through thick snow to the outhouse, and then stop by the kitchen fireplace where he’d warm his hands, turn about and warm his back before going back to bed. He never caught a cold, and the adults could even have a conversation with him without him waking! Grandfather said that “the snow would be “up to his oxters” (Scottish = armpit) and he’d still go out!”. The situation was the same in Australia 🇦🇺 in the 1920-1930s houses when the family migrated here prior to WW2. No snow where we we migrated to but the same outdoor toilets in the suburbs which were serviced by the “nightcart” replacing the sanitary cans every week. Aren’t we blessed these days?! Now it seems only Aussie farms don’t have normal sewerage these days. However, many have moved on from the ‘long drop dunny’ to sophisticated, ecologically based composting toilets and grey water systems. Your family home having been home, store and Post Office was interesting to me. I had a couple of holidays in a rural area here in Australia where there was a similar setup which had been in place after a mining boom in the area a hundred plus years before. Over time there’d been 5 churches, 2 schools, and 9 hotels which dwindled down to only 2 churches (1 permanently locked and the other only serviced once a month), no schools, and 1 hotel. The only constant was that store & post office. It only changed about 15 years ago when it closed, and a posting box put on the pavement outside. These days you buy your stamps at a post office 20 kms away where you can access a couple of gigantic supermarkets and all the other stores we expect to find these days. In this big town there are so many beautiful, grand old two storeyed houses from the mining era which have been locked up and are slowly deteriorating. No doubt, as it’s a very picturesque area, these will eventually be demolished to make way for some new real estate development. The miner’s cottages although single level and quite small (and sometimes quaint) have been snapped up, renovated and are now very pricey. Their new additions usually include an inside toilet but separate to the bathroom. The back is extended to a bigger kitchen, dining, and ‘al fresco’ courtyard area with a barbecue and pizza oven. As there’s usually no room for a clothesline the laundry becomes a washer, and dryer in a cupboard. As a visitor I’ve watched it change over the past 35 years. Further north from this area is another great area where Mr. Michael Kuebler explores. You may like some of his explorations. They’re not as urban as this channel to which I was introduced by Michael when he recommended it to his subscribers. Some of the outdoor toilets he finds are mind boggling. You’d be looking out for snakes. (See mkuebler5 if you’d like to check it out.) Edit: I’m sorry, I obviously have had too much time in lockdown to be typing all this!
@@aliciarobertson4979 here the outhouses were a small building that had a boxed in area with a hole cut out and a toilet seat over it. There are still some around. When the pit filled up they dug a new one and moved the building. Wood fire ash generously sprinkled in the hole would keep odor down. Then came the septic system, which has a tank that the plumbing emptied in to and then when the liquid reaches a certain height it flows out into a drain field of gravel and perforated pipe. Good bacteria in the tank digest solids so they flow out in the liquids. Lots of times if you had to dig up the tank for repair you found that it it was actually one or more car bodies buried with piping. We are still on a septic system here but we did verify that it was a tank before we bought it. There was a town in our pastures from 1915 until 1935 and we are still finding all kinds of old stuff buried out there. A couple of the old buildings are still here but they are small storage buildings. I have a hard time figuring out how they managed to fit everything into the original house but I think they must have lived on the upper floor with the store and post office downstairs. It certainly couldn’t have been very big as upstairs only fits 3 bedrooms up there but it was a couple with no children. Our closest town is about 250 people and the next closest is 20 miles away. It is the county seat and has a population of about 1200. We are quite rural but our road is a main highway, although only 2 lanes, and as a school bus route it gets plowed first in the winter so we have that going for us. We do have to plow our own driveway to get out to the road but it isn’t bad. I think we are about 70 miles south of the Canadian border so we do get snowy winters.
@@marthamitchell9452 Thanks for your reply. Interesting to read of your place. Your home sounds wonderful. A rural paradise. Filled with just enough folk to make your happy place in this fast moving world. Your description of the toilet, and moving it, is what the Aussies call a ‘long drop dunny’ even to using the wood ash. Family friends had a farm where, when we were younger, I remember the toilet was out past the backyard in the home mixed orchard area. As it was moved, a fruit tree was planted over the filled in hole. Folk here, in my younger years, also had septic systems on new build estates in outer suburbs, or sanitary cans and sullage pits until the district had sewerage connected so the houses had indoor toilets but for a few years with seats labelled..”Do Not Use - Not Connected’! Nowadays even new housing estates in outer suburbs have the sewerage already connected. I don’t think folk would buy the houses otherwise! You’re having autumn now heading towards winter as we have spring heading towards summer. As I think of my family still in Scotland and their winter snow, I’ll imagine you in your place and having the road ploughed so you can get to town. Thanks for the chat.
Texan here and I agree with your first statement, I’m fascinated by the differences. One thing I’ve noticed is the difference in hallways. Aside from “shotgun” style homes in America, most 100 yr old homes (in my area) don’t have lots of hallways or dedicated entryways, you usually walk into the main living area and the rooms are all connected with doorways. You can make a full circle through the house without needing a hallway.
Love everything about the homes each one has something about them I try and picture what they looked like and I’m sure they were beautiful. Now that last one wow all of that green it was a lot. Something about the older homes I love thank you for sharing Paul you have a great day 😊
Some houses, especially older ones, have the toilet in the bathroom, but if you have the room why not make it a separate room, I much prefer having it separate.
Thanks for the three great explores, such a sad end to such lovely homes 😔 some very nice features, love the stained glass cabinet in the first bungalow and the 40s kitchen in the last one. Must have been beautiful in there heyday
I reealise it's sad to see old places knocked down but it's a good idea if they're haunted. Also, don't forget that in probable realities they're still very much lived in and loved.
interesting video, seems like the cost of converting a place into a grow house would exceed the profits, loved the kitchen in the third house but no place for a fridge, I love the color green but that was a bit too much. The color must have been a part of the company recognition they even put it on the stonework outside. As always thanks for your videos and the hard work that goes into bringing them to us
I love to watch your videos and I look forward to them every week. About that third house, they must have gotten a deal on that paint color 😲 lol I have come to accept that the toilets are frequently not in the bathroom but in a small room elsewhere. But why don't they put a sink in there as well? Without a convenient sink people might just go on to the next thing after they are finished in there and that would be unsanitary! Just a thought that keeps rolling around in my head. Actually I love the bathrooms and that kitchen in the third house could have been so cute if not for that paint color. Anyway, love what you are doing, very enjoyable viewing.
Anne. Hi Paul I loved that kitchen dresser in the first house. We had one in our house when I was a child I have looked around to perches one but are hard to find. I like the new layout of your videos to be able to see what they looked like and what ugly new look building they put in its place. Keep rolling those great videos and thanks
93 Marian Road Firle (the first house) I delivered pizzas to regularly circa 2000 - 2005. I vividly remember the lady and her daughter who lived there. Such pleasant people. It was such a pretty and well kept home. Certain address' and customers stuck in my mind. This was one of them.
More of South Australia's history being erased but the reality is that all 3 homes have suffered various landlords whom have not been proactive with maintenance, a continuance requirement for older homes. A infinitive point is reached where sale and demolition is the only viable option. All beautiful homes that have deteriorated with time. The business next to house 3, Gaugeworxs, still exists at Prospect, the business owner living on property, a substantial slice of the house converted to office/workshop/storage . Another great series Paul. 👍👍🇭🇲
Another video which did not disappoint. With the damage to the homes ie wall cracks and the one having been a drug grow op I can see why they where demoed . As one there is significant damage to the walls for whatever reason ( most likely shifting on its foundation) there is no real remedy . First house made me feel so sad especially after you went out back to the shop . Looks like a young couple purchased or had this home constructed and lived tHere until one passed or both passed . In the shop I could just see some’s Pop puttering around fixing something . The house must of been beautiful. Second home wow . Again this home had its point’s and is a real sham cannabis’s growers got their hands on this home . Wow the height of those ceilings and the detail on the ceilings wow was absolutely beautiful. The stained glass ( which I hope was salvaged) was quite pretty . The archway , fire place and the one original light fixture so pretty . Again probably an estate sale or house passed down and just sold because the property became valuable or it was converted to a rental. Last place . Well even though it had been converted to a business some of the original charm still remained . Windows, hardwoods bathrooms and the kitchen . Because the house was so heavily converted was hard to imagine the layout as a home other then that one area being a front porch. All of these places the bathroom’s wow I would love , love , love to have a true comfortable soaker tub like that . Each place also had a nice sized back yard considering their location. Sad now what is there is just cookie cutter without any style at all . I notice in most of the videos you post there are always birds and is so beautiful. Thank you for having documented these holes .
@@urbexindigo5164 It’s terrible how with progress they destroy everything good like style and comfort for cheep stuff allot made in Asian countries . Keep the videos coming . Hope you had a chance to enjoy some of the summer .
#1-Who in their right mind would take that lovely cottage and replace it with such an ugly ugly house?!? Honestly people. Wise up. So glad you captured the original. Breaks your heart. #2-what a grand dame she was in her prime! The doors, plaster work, archway, skirting, so gorgeous. Even after all the cracks from settling and drug house destruction her beauty shown thru. TFS.
Interesting... The condition of the second home looks as if it may have been used as a grow house to me. LOL I wrote this as the vid was playing and then you said it yourself! Looking forward to the upcoming explores you mentioned.
Great stuff, can't wait for the history of the homes. But such a shame a home has to go and be knocked over to put up 10 in its place, over here in UK they just use green belt land. Thank you,👍👍🥂
Hey mate , still catching up on last week’s episode n gonna have to savour these later in the week when I get to ADELAIDE 👌,, currently spending all my free time organising border passes,Covid-19 tests,and studying each states requirements for truckies .But I absolutely can’t wait to get into these ones when I get there. I love these informative ones you put heaps into ,,, can’t wait 👍
Hi. I live in the clare valley, and have just found your channel, so watching on catchup. Have you ever gone to the clare and gilbert valleys for abandoned cottages? There are some. Especially around Burra
Thanks for the explore. I can't believe anyone would be brave enough to grow weed or whatever or however they do it, in a home. Especially in a residential area? Poor old house. Place had a sad vibe to it. So many of these old homes have great features to them. The old floor boards, window frames...ECT. The bathrooms look creepy in most of those places tho, with the long narrow entryway to the toilet. Wouldn't want to get caught out, sitting there, on a dark cold night, and realize an intruder has got in the house. Guess if you had enough toilet rolls, you could fight your way out. Love the kitchen sink and counter in the last house. I would incorporate that into my kitchen. I didn't like the layout of the house tho. And, the bars on the windows? I'll be looking through the comments for answers. Stay safe and happy exploring👍
Sandy, I have to agree with you about the grow houses, and also the creepy bathrooms etc. This former nurse had a chuckle at your typo of ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy - a psychiatric treatment) when you obviously meant ETC (Et cetera) but those colours in the three houses would be enough to send me bilious, if not “spare”so therapy may be needed! ;-) I’m a great grandmother of adult great-grandkids so I’ve seen some jarring colour schemes in my time. The colours in those houses would not be relaxing to live with, imho. I think neutral shades are best as it’s easy to have all the colours you want in your furnishings. Kalsomine was the go-to for walls before, during, and after WW2. Usually cream and pale green. Then the mid to late 1950s saw paint arrive in vibrant colours.
@@aliciarobertson4979 haahaa..Love your comment. Definitely a hideous color and way too much. Must have been a big sale on it..or they were trying to give it away. I remember as a kid, my mom was still clinging to her old avocado green appliances the whole lot of them. They were puke worthy. Everyone called them puke green. Fortunately they gave it up before the next decade rolled in. Take care😊
@@sandypritchard6216 Thanks for the chuckle. You take care too. 😊 (My darling dad said that the colours of that time were “bile green and nappy yellow”!!)
The first house was my favorite. It has beatiful lines and loads of character. I would have gutted the rooms and found period fixtures to bring it back to former glory with modern conveniences. Too bad they replaced it with a box. What we see over and over is those houses start to look shabby after about ten years. The business house looks like the office was in back. There was a new door and dead bolt on that room. I like that the loo is separated from the bath. Only one thing bothers me, no wash basin. It kind of creeps me out. Like the revisit stories.
@@urbexindigo5164 lol carton of eggs was on the cupboard as you came in, beer on cupboard across the kitchen. You missed out on a great snack, (or just yuck)? I wonder how long they were sitting out there. ;p
with rentals here in Queensland our realtors do inspections every 3 to 6 months depending on the real estate so no way you can cover that up and if you refuse the real estate can enter after 3 notices
What a shame that they ruined the beauty of the second house. I bet it was a charm in its day. The 3rd house all that green paint would give me a headache 🤢
I get the previous owners of these properties realise their houses will be demolished, but it still astounds me the junk they leave behind. I would be too embarrassed to leave this rubbish expecting it to be dealt with by someone else.
Sometimes there are circumstances where people can’t get to remove belongings. In cases like these, where the house has been sold to a developer to be knocked down, what difference does it make? It’s ALL going to be rubbish to be cleared away anyway.
What happens to these homes I call moving down market, from the owners to the renters and the repurposing to other uses. The old cabinet in the first house was I would estimate at 1920's and was probably a dining room equivalent to a Welsh dresser. The Grow op, well, here the Government is now in the business, so, the growers are fading out now.or on to more lucrative drugs, Business for the third, and that's usually the death Knell for a home. Thanks for the effort to show these, Cheers.
All I can say about the new house is..barf! Don't people like older , "quaint" houses anymore? Too far gone or upkeep too much? Probably bigger sections so more money can be made by demolishing and putting multiples on. Sigh.....
LMFAO, i love that there was no mention of the eggs & sauce on the bench, must be old... Obviously some-one is living there.. It makes so mad when you see these beautiful homes & wanker's get in and bust shit up.. Id love to catch them & bust them up.... That was some-one's home, so sad to see it like this.. I could see a family there sitting around the dinning table sharing stories as they ate, sitting in the lounge room watching T.V... kids in the garden playing with their dog.. One stage it would of been filled with so much love... so sad..
Hey Paul,,,,, great posting yesteryear when the pace was a darn slower than it is today,,,, but its" horses for coerces " time n tide waits for no man" yeah it was a elegant era in buildings,, clothes people in general,,,, but i for one like progress new fangle gadgets my car for instance (crazy but the darn thing answers me when i quote its makers name "it replies "how can i help you" in a female sexy voice,,, Paul it can phone and reserve a table booking in a restaurant,,,, guide you from doorstep to doorstep "tecno is above my old head ,,,, im still in the time of square wheels and candle light,,, ok paul seeya next time Ed
I live Canada (Ontario) and the street I use to live on was all residential houses. The guy who bought the house across the street from us, decided to rent . There was a phillopino family living there (yes and with kids) , and they turned this bungalow into a grow house. One day I was sitting with my son and helping him with hishomework, and all of a sudden there was a hydro truck, a fire truck and police car sitting in front of it. Wasn't sure what was going on at first, but found out later. They can tell if the hydro bills are high in Ontario and will check it out. I think they were only there less than a year. (It was a long time ago).
Might be a private rental. I once rented a house directly through the owner (referred by his mate who was a real estate agent). In the 2 or so years I lived there I never had an inspection. He would come in every now and then if I called him about maintenance issues but made a point it wasn’t a house inspection.
P.s old homes people live before we came back around another changing everything Alba culture homes why did you do this not cool I think old homes are pretty cool pretty awesome shows you what they houses used to be like before coffee and smokes, round fancy homes
Just read the article in the Sunday Mail Paul. Great job, thanks for documenting these for us all…..these developers have no care for heritage, just an unhealthy desire for money. Our architectural heritage is being destroyed in the name of greed.
We live in a country with plenty of space, now I understand that some places are beyond help but surely all lot of them are worth saving. Aesthetically the buildings these developers put up are lifeless……dead cookie cutter boxes to dwell in. Our forefathers built houses and homes that have a beauty that will never be replaced by modern designs.
Keep up the great work. I look forward to each new video.
Couldnt agree more. Monstrous bland glass and concrete constructions dumped into classic streets. $$$$ all the way. The blandness is such a poor reflections on the architects. Cheap construction methods but with all builders its take the money and run
These dudes don't even live Down under.
I look forward to your videos every Saturday! They are Top Notch!!
Glad you like them GBRH :-) Thanks for the support, many more videos on the way :-)
I love them all, nice bathroom colours, window glass, beautiful facade’s I could definitely live in all three very vibrant wall colour in the third house. Such a shame they are all gone now beautiful character lost forever. Thank you 😊:-) :-)
Nice job.. l really enjoyed ☺ these 3 today.
Love the history, keep'em coming👍
I can't tell you how much i look forward to my Sunday coffee and Adelaide explores - thanks so much for these videos! Chris from Maine, USA
Glad you like them! Chris and cheers for the support :-)
Good Sunday morning 😊
For some crazy reason I think number two house was the best imagine that house fixed up properly but sadly not to be
I could see my younger self living in that first and last home as a kid. Reminds me of the beautiful easy way of living back then.
Back in the early ‘90’s, I was doing up old Lead Light Kitchen Dressers like that one. Detailed work, especially stripping off non original paint, but making them better than new saw them selling for $800 at Antique Actions, which was equivalent to a weeks wage in the Construction Industry.
So many lovely features still to be found in all 3 houses, especially the 3rd house kitchen cabinets. Nice walk thru & share. 👍
Another awesome episode, thank you Paul for all your efforts in researching the history of these homes. I was heartbroken over number 2 house, so disrespectful. Hope all the glass windows and doors were salvaged from all properties.
Very welcome Maria :-)
You never know what you will find when entering abounded homes.Often unexpected surprises. I love the antique kitchen cupboard/dresser in the first home. Such a sad waste of three Adelaide suburban homes, each with lovely facades depicting the characteristics of the specific eras. Thanks again Paul for a great explore and providing footage of three old homes before being lost for ever.
Great videos, but at the same time a sad testimony to the surge in development that is destroying Adelaide.
Thanks for another Sunday morning treat, UI. My parents used to buy briquettes to burn in the lounge room fireplace in the 1960s before they invested in a large electric radiator. I'd forgotten about them until you mentioned them. That bungalow had the faux attic windows that seem to have been an optional extra. Judging by the amount of steel grille in the last house I'm guessing that large amounts of cash were held on the premises.
That 3rd home. I love the fencing up front. Love the leaded glass windows. Do not love the green color.....I would so love one of those stainless steel sink units.
Way too much ugly green.
Great explore! You always pick great homes! 🥰🥰🥰
I look forward to your videos every week! Loved, loved, loved how you showed all 3 of these houses. Thank you for taking to time to research and share with us. I have learned so much from you. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge as you explore these places. I do have one question though...what are those sink looking things on the ground of the older back porches? I see them a lot in your videos, but I don't remember you ever talking about them.
Thank you so much Mr M :-) They are the old laundry troughs for washing clothes in :-)
Really enjoy watching your exploring videos and the information you share.
Ps they mentioned you and your channel in an article in the Saturday advertiser.
Awesome, thank you Mathew :-) Yes I saw the article, pretty cool. :-)
Once again,so sad to see these beautiful homes demolished to make way for construction that resembles dollar signs more than class and beauty.
So glad you find opportunities to explore and document the architecture and class of days gone by…
Sometimes your videos bring tears as you inform that they have already been demolished..,
Thank you for saving the images of their existence.
P.S. When you show grow houses and what has been done, I feel like the character of the homes has been raped! It is sickening 😢
Im addicted to watching your videos 😂 love them!
Hi Emily :-) So glad you like them, thanks for watching, many more videos to come! :-)
I just love your videos such beautiful homes that are now gone sadly. Watching from the US
Glad you like them Pam :-) Thanks for watching and the support :-)
Somebody really liked green in that last home!
P.s I love seeing old houses so AWESOME to what life we
Oh love the colour of that first bathroom! And the walls as you walk into the third house in Pt Adel. but too much of the same colour throughout the whole house. Crikey.
The second home looked like it could have been really nice in its prime. Third home, love the stained glass windows and the front porch columns. Have a great week my friend!
I enjoyed all those houses, bet they were nice in their day. sorry they have been demolished. could still have made good homes. Look forward to the next video. take care.
I just love walking back in time through these beautiful homes. They bring back so many childhood memories.
The house I live in now was built in 1945.
I really liked the outside of the 2nd home before it was showed signs of decay. I also liked the house that had the curved doorway. Thank you so much for showing the 3 houses. I really enjoyed watching because I love some bungalows.
These teal, aqua, and turquoise hues are my favorites! Nice find, Paul!
My birthday is on September.17.1987 34 year old and I love your UA-cam videos channel all time I'm am from ROY UTAH USA
Hi Rashelle :-) Glad you are enjoying , thanks for watching :-)
It’s so interesting to me to see these homes and the difference from western US buildings. It’s still odd to me that you have to go out to the back porch in order to find the toilet. Even the older homes here have all of the bathroom/toilet in one room accessible from inside the house. My home was built before 1915, but not by much as the whole area burned in a forest fire in 1910, has the current bathroom inside the original section of the house. I know it started out with an outhouse as electricity and running water didn’t make it here until the 1940’s but with northern Montana winters you have to have it all in the main heated building. At one point our house served as a home, store, and Post Office but has been remodeled and added on to quite a bit so there isn’t a lot of original features left.
That’s an interesting read, Martha. You awakened some memories for this great-gran of adult great-grand kids. This old Scot can say that the toilet of a 1880-1900s house where we came from in Scotland 🏴 was an outhouse in the long rear yard. Folk had chamber pots inside when the snow was deep and had a tin bath to place near one of the open fires in the rooms for the bairns. The small bathroom was a cold place in winter. My Da’s Mam had died when he was eight and he started sleepwalking for a while. My Grandfather said that my Da would walk out barefooted through thick snow to the outhouse, and then stop by the kitchen fireplace where he’d warm his hands, turn about and warm his back before going back to bed. He never caught a cold, and the adults could even have a conversation with him without him waking! Grandfather said that “the snow would be “up to his oxters” (Scottish = armpit) and he’d still go out!”.
The situation was the same in Australia 🇦🇺 in the 1920-1930s houses when the family migrated here prior to WW2. No snow where we we migrated to but the same outdoor toilets in the suburbs which were serviced by the “nightcart” replacing the sanitary cans every week.
Aren’t we blessed these days?! Now it seems only Aussie farms don’t have normal sewerage these days. However, many have moved on from the ‘long drop dunny’ to sophisticated, ecologically based composting toilets and grey water systems.
Your family home having been home, store and Post Office was interesting to me. I had a couple of holidays in a rural area here in Australia where there was a similar setup which had been in place after a mining boom in the area a hundred plus years before. Over time there’d been 5 churches, 2 schools, and 9 hotels which dwindled down to only 2 churches (1 permanently locked and the other only serviced once a month), no schools, and 1 hotel. The only constant was that store & post office. It only changed about 15 years ago when it closed, and a posting box put on the pavement outside. These days you buy your stamps at a post office 20 kms away where you can access a couple of gigantic supermarkets and all the other stores we expect to find these days. In this big town there are so many beautiful, grand old two storeyed houses from the mining era which have been locked up and are slowly deteriorating. No doubt, as it’s a very picturesque area, these will eventually be demolished to make way for some new real estate development. The miner’s cottages although single level and quite small (and sometimes quaint) have been snapped up, renovated and are now very pricey. Their new additions usually include an inside toilet but separate to the bathroom. The back is extended to a bigger kitchen, dining, and ‘al fresco’ courtyard area with a barbecue and pizza oven. As there’s usually no room for a clothesline the laundry becomes a washer, and dryer in a cupboard. As a visitor I’ve watched it change over the past 35 years.
Further north from this area is another great area where Mr. Michael Kuebler explores. You may like some of his explorations. They’re not as urban as this channel to which I was introduced by Michael when he recommended it to his subscribers. Some of the outdoor toilets he finds are mind boggling. You’d be looking out for snakes. (See mkuebler5 if you’d like to check it out.)
Edit: I’m sorry, I obviously have had too much time in lockdown to be typing all this!
@@aliciarobertson4979 here the outhouses were a small building that had a boxed in area with a hole cut out and a toilet seat over it. There are still some around. When the pit filled up they dug a new one and moved the building. Wood fire ash generously sprinkled in the hole would keep odor down. Then came the septic system, which has a tank that the plumbing emptied in to and then when the liquid reaches a certain height it flows out into a drain field of gravel and perforated pipe. Good bacteria in the tank digest solids so they flow out in the liquids. Lots of times if you had to dig up the tank for repair you found that it it was actually one or more car bodies buried with piping. We are still on a septic system here but we did verify that it was a tank before we bought it. There was a town in our pastures from 1915 until 1935 and we are still finding all kinds of old stuff buried out there. A couple of the old buildings are still here but they are small storage buildings. I have a hard time figuring out how they managed to fit everything into the original house but I think they must have lived on the upper floor with the store and post office downstairs. It certainly couldn’t have been very big as upstairs only fits 3 bedrooms up there but it was a couple with no children. Our closest town is about 250 people and the next closest is 20 miles away. It is the county seat and has a population of about 1200. We are quite rural but our road is a main highway, although only 2 lanes, and as a school bus route it gets plowed first in the winter so we have that going for us. We do have to plow our own driveway to get out to the road but it isn’t bad. I think we are about 70 miles south of the Canadian border so we do get snowy winters.
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Thanks for your reply. Interesting to read of your place. Your home sounds wonderful. A rural paradise. Filled with just enough folk to make your happy place in this fast moving world.
Your description of the toilet, and moving it, is what the Aussies call a ‘long drop dunny’ even to using the wood ash. Family friends had a farm where, when we were younger, I remember the toilet was out past the backyard in the home mixed orchard area. As it was moved, a fruit tree was planted over the filled in hole. Folk here, in my younger years, also had septic systems on new build estates in outer suburbs, or sanitary cans and sullage pits until the district had sewerage connected so the houses had indoor toilets but for a few years with seats labelled..”Do Not Use - Not Connected’! Nowadays even new housing estates in outer suburbs have the sewerage already connected. I don’t think folk would buy the houses otherwise!
You’re having autumn now heading towards winter as we have spring heading towards summer. As I think of my family still in Scotland and their winter snow, I’ll imagine you in your place and having the road ploughed so you can get to town. Thanks for the chat.
Texan here and I agree with your first statement, I’m fascinated by the differences. One thing I’ve noticed is the difference in hallways. Aside from “shotgun” style homes in America, most 100 yr old homes (in my area) don’t have lots of hallways or dedicated entryways, you usually walk into the main living area and the rooms are all connected with doorways. You can make a full circle through the house without needing a hallway.
Thanks for the explore. Interesting. I’d like to think that the stained glass from the homes was salvaged.
Some great finds there, thanks for sharing still a lot of charm despite their eventual end. Great vids Cheers MM :)
A very nice video and info again loved watching it.
Love everything about the homes each one has something about them I try and picture what they looked like and I’m sure they were beautiful. Now that last one wow all of that green it was a lot. Something about the older homes I love thank you for sharing Paul you have a great day 😊
You have probably explained this before but could you tell us again why the toilets are not in the bathrooms? Such cool old homes though!
Some houses, especially older ones, have the toilet in the bathroom, but if you have the room why not make it a separate room, I much prefer having it separate.
Love the vintage light shades.
We had the sme screen door at the back.
Great videos thanks Paul. See you on the next one.
Thanks for the three great explores, such a sad end to such lovely homes 😔 some very nice features, love the stained glass cabinet in the first bungalow and the 40s kitchen in the last one. Must have been beautiful in there heyday
I reealise it's sad to see old places knocked down but it's a good idea if they're haunted. Also, don't forget that in probable realities they're still very much lived in and loved.
Some abandoned houses refuse to give up their treasures until they crumble to dust. Sad the amount of antiques that are lost to old mother nature.
Always sad that old homes have to go, but I DEFINITELY don't think I could have lived with so much blue like the last one!
interesting video, seems like the cost of converting a place into a grow house would exceed the profits, loved the kitchen in the third house but no place for a fridge, I love the color green but that was a bit too much. The color must have been a part of the company recognition they even put it on the stonework outside. As always thanks for your videos and the hard work that goes into bringing them to us
I love to watch your videos and I look forward to them every week. About that third house, they must have gotten a deal on that paint color 😲 lol I have come to accept that the toilets are frequently not in the bathroom but in a small room elsewhere. But why don't they put a sink in there as well? Without a convenient sink people might just go on to the next thing after they are finished in there and that would be unsanitary! Just a thought that keeps rolling around in my head. Actually I love the bathrooms and that kitchen in the third house could have been so cute if not for that paint color. Anyway, love what you are doing, very enjoyable viewing.
Hi Deborah :-) Glad you enjoy these videos, thanks for watching and for the support :-)
Anne. Hi Paul I loved that kitchen dresser in the first house. We had one in our house when I was a child I have looked around to perches one but are hard to find. I like the new layout of your videos to be able to see what they looked like and what ugly new look building they put in its place. Keep rolling those great videos and thanks
93 Marian Road Firle (the first house) I delivered pizzas to regularly circa 2000 - 2005. I vividly remember the lady and her daughter who lived there. Such pleasant people. It was such a pretty and well kept home. Certain address' and customers stuck in my mind. This was one of them.
@JWOLDING thanks for sharing, it was a nice little home for sure :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 please check your messenger inbox about a couple of houses I sent you on Monday. They will go eventually.
More of South Australia's history being erased but the reality is that all 3 homes have suffered various landlords whom have not been proactive with maintenance, a continuance requirement for older homes. A infinitive point is reached where sale and demolition is the only viable option. All beautiful homes that have deteriorated with time. The business next to house 3, Gaugeworxs, still exists at Prospect, the business owner living on property, a substantial slice of the house converted to office/workshop/storage . Another great series Paul. 👍👍🇭🇲
Another video which did not disappoint. With the damage to the homes ie wall cracks and the one having been a drug grow op I can see why they where demoed . As one there is significant damage to the walls for whatever reason ( most likely shifting on its foundation) there is no real remedy .
First house made me feel so sad especially after you went out back to the shop . Looks like a young couple purchased or had this home constructed and lived tHere until one passed or both passed . In the shop I could just see some’s Pop puttering around fixing something . The house must of been beautiful.
Second home wow . Again this home had its point’s and is a real sham cannabis’s growers got their hands on this home . Wow the height of those ceilings and the detail on the ceilings wow was absolutely beautiful. The stained glass ( which I hope was salvaged) was quite pretty . The archway , fire place and the one original light fixture so pretty . Again probably an estate sale or house passed down and just sold because the property became valuable or it was converted to a rental.
Last place . Well even though it had been converted to a business some of the original charm still remained . Windows, hardwoods bathrooms and the kitchen . Because the house was so heavily converted was hard to imagine the layout as a home other then that one area being a front porch.
All of these places the bathroom’s wow I would love , love , love to have a true comfortable soaker tub like that .
Each place also had a nice sized back yard considering their location.
Sad now what is there is just cookie cutter without any style at all .
I notice in most of the videos you post there are always birds and is so beautiful.
Thank you for having documented these holes .
Great comments again Charlene :-) Yes those bath tubs of yester year are deep and long enough to relax in for sure. Many more old homes to come! :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 It’s terrible how with progress they destroy everything good like style and comfort for cheep stuff allot made in Asian countries . Keep the videos coming . Hope you had a chance to enjoy some of the summer .
The led light glass and the facades were still quite nice. A few unfortunate alterations inside them but always worth the look around. Cheers!!
#1-Who in their right mind would take that lovely cottage and replace it with such an ugly ugly house?!? Honestly people. Wise up. So glad you captured the original. Breaks your heart.
#2-what a grand dame she was in her prime! The doors, plaster work, archway, skirting, so gorgeous. Even after all the cracks from settling and drug house destruction her beauty shown thru. TFS.
These are great ,, love ya work mate . Nearly caught up👍
Thank you for sharing, as always, beautiful homes, are they being torn down, I hope not
Interesting... The condition of the second home looks as if it may have been used as a grow house to me. LOL I wrote this as the vid was playing and then you said it yourself! Looking forward to the upcoming explores you mentioned.
Great stuff, can't wait for the history of the homes. But such a shame a home has to go and be knocked over to put up 10 in its place, over here in UK they just use green belt land. Thank you,👍👍🥂
Damn these developers. Sorry for not posting as soon as I get the alert but chemo drains all the energy out of ya and I sleep most of the time lately.
Hello..hope you feel and get better ASAP..😔👍
Hope things improve for you soon. Best of luck to you.
@@sandypritchard6216 Thanks
@@Lucinda_Jackson Thanks.
Hey mate , still catching up on last week’s episode n gonna have to savour these later in the week when I get to ADELAIDE 👌,, currently spending all my free time organising border passes,Covid-19 tests,and studying each states requirements for truckies .But I absolutely can’t wait to get into these ones when I get there. I love these informative ones you put heaps into ,,, can’t wait 👍
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I'll be writing more but didn't want to forget on how much I love bungalows. 😍
Were those eggs on the counter of the first house in the kitchen?! Lol
I am not sure Kara, I will re watch and have another look! :-)
Yup a whole Dozen 🐥
Hi. I live in the clare valley, and have just found your channel, so watching on catchup. Have you ever gone to the clare and gilbert valleys for abandoned cottages? There are some. Especially around Burra
Thanks for the explore. I can't believe anyone would be brave enough to grow weed or whatever or however they do it, in a home. Especially in a residential area? Poor old house. Place had a sad vibe to it. So many of these old homes have great features to them. The old floor boards, window frames...ECT. The bathrooms look creepy in most of those places tho, with the long narrow entryway to the toilet. Wouldn't want to get caught out, sitting there, on a dark cold night, and realize an intruder has got in the house. Guess if you had enough toilet rolls, you could fight your way out. Love the kitchen sink and counter in the last house. I would incorporate that into my kitchen. I didn't like the layout of the house tho. And, the bars on the windows? I'll be looking through the comments for answers. Stay safe and happy exploring👍
Sandy, I have to agree with you about the grow houses, and also the creepy bathrooms etc. This former nurse had a chuckle at your typo of ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy - a psychiatric treatment) when you obviously meant ETC (Et cetera) but those colours in the three houses would be enough to send me bilious, if not “spare”so therapy may be needed! ;-)
I’m a great grandmother of adult great-grandkids so I’ve seen some jarring colour schemes in my time. The colours in those houses would not be relaxing to live with, imho. I think neutral shades are best as it’s easy to have all the colours you want in your furnishings. Kalsomine was the go-to for walls before, during, and after WW2. Usually cream and pale green. Then the mid to late 1950s saw paint arrive in vibrant colours.
@@aliciarobertson4979 haahaa..Love your comment. Definitely a hideous color and way too much. Must have been a big sale on it..or they were trying to give it away. I remember as a kid, my mom was still clinging to her old avocado green appliances the whole lot of them. They were puke worthy. Everyone called them puke green. Fortunately they gave it up before the next decade rolled in. Take care😊
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Thanks for the chuckle. You take care too. 😊
(My darling dad said that the colours of that time were “bile green and nappy yellow”!!)
@@aliciarobertson4979 😁😝..what a combo!
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The last house... the security in the kitchen/ dining room is similar to some disability homes.
The first house was my favorite. It has beatiful lines and loads of character. I would have gutted the rooms and found period fixtures to bring it back to former glory with modern conveniences. Too bad they replaced it with a box. What we see over and over is those houses start to look shabby after about ten years. The business house looks like the office was in back. There was a new door and dead bolt on that room. I like that the loo is separated from the bath. Only one thing bothers me, no wash basin. It kind of creeps me out. Like the revisit stories.
These houses had already seen better days unfortunately. The second house had some pretty details in the ceilings.
I like the colours of the 1st place
Did you scramble yourselves some eggs in beer in the 1st house? ;p Thanks for the tour of these 3 houses, it was a great adventure again, with you. :}
Haha I missed the eggs all together! :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 lol carton of eggs was on the cupboard as you came in, beer on cupboard across the kitchen. You missed out on a great snack, (or just yuck)? I wonder how long they were sitting out there. ;p
Hey Urbex Indigo great did you have a chance to video Lecornus Anzac hwy or Lecornu house on sturt road Brighton ?
nice home
Hi Ian, thanks for watching :-)
with rentals here in Queensland our realtors do inspections every 3 to 6 months depending on the real estate so no way you can cover that up and if you refuse the real estate can enter after 3 notices
What a shame that they ruined the beauty of the second house. I bet it was a charm in its day. The 3rd house all that green paint would give me a headache 🤢
I really liked the 2nd house until you went inside and I saw what the El Chapo wannabe did to it. I loved the last house.
I get the previous owners of these properties realise their houses will be demolished, but it still astounds me the junk they leave behind. I would be too embarrassed to leave this rubbish expecting it to be dealt with by someone else.
I suppose it saves them paying for it to go to the tip.
Sometimes there are circumstances where people can’t get to remove belongings. In cases like these, where the house has been sold to a developer to be knocked down, what difference does it make? It’s ALL going to be rubbish to be cleared away anyway.
What happens to these homes I call moving down market, from the owners to the renters and the repurposing to other uses. The old cabinet in the first house was I would estimate at 1920's and was probably a dining room equivalent to a Welsh dresser. The Grow op, well, here the Government is now in the business, so, the growers are fading out now.or on to more lucrative drugs, Business for the third, and that's usually the death Knell for a home. Thanks for the effort to show these, Cheers.
really good video
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Hey Snake! :-) Cheers for stopping by mate :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 👍!!!
Geez,must have been a sale on green paint! Ugh 🤣💋🇺🇸
It’s called progress I rather have old Myself
I can just smell chocolate chip cookies baking in the kitchen!
OMG DEMOLSHED? ZND HERE I AM HOMELESS AND WOULD LOVE TO LIVE IN ONE OF THEM
Do you ever come upon snakes and other critters???
I have done but not often :-)
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Hi Elaine :-)Thanks for watching again
could've made an omelet in the first kitchen mate! 🤣🤣🍳🥚
All I can say about the new house is..barf! Don't people like older , "quaint" houses anymore? Too far gone or upkeep too much? Probably bigger sections so more money can be made by demolishing and putting multiples on. Sigh.....
Great work bringing 'back to life' these old girls....such a shame :(. ps...reported ya spam commenters...dipsh**ts lol
Before they demolish these home does any body remove the Art Deco lights and stained glass?Be a shame to see them wasted.
LMFAO, i love that there was no mention of the eggs & sauce on the bench, must be old... Obviously some-one is living there.. It makes so mad when you see these beautiful homes & wanker's get in and bust shit up.. Id love to catch them & bust them up.... That was some-one's home, so sad to see it like this.. I could see a family there sitting around the dinning table sharing stories as they ate, sitting in the lounge room watching T.V... kids in the garden playing with their dog.. One stage it would of been filled with so much love... so sad..
Hey Paul,,,,, great posting yesteryear when the pace was a darn slower than it is today,,,,
but its" horses for coerces " time n tide waits for no man"
yeah it was a elegant era in buildings,, clothes people in general,,,, but i for one like progress new fangle gadgets
my car for instance (crazy but the darn thing answers me
when i quote its makers name "it replies "how can i help you" in a female sexy voice,,, Paul it can phone and reserve a table booking in a restaurant,,,, guide you from doorstep to doorstep
"tecno is above my old head ,,,,
im still in the time of square wheels and candle light,,,
ok paul seeya next time Ed
Why isn’t the toilet in with shower and sink? Why is it off the back porch?
How do you get away with a grow house unless you own it because surely being rented they would inspect the place every 6 months
I live Canada (Ontario) and the street I use to live on was all residential houses. The guy who bought the house across the street from us, decided to rent . There was a phillopino family living there (yes and with kids) , and they turned this bungalow into a grow house. One day I was sitting with my son and helping him with hishomework, and all of a sudden there was a hydro truck, a fire truck and police car sitting in front of it. Wasn't sure what was going on at first, but found out later. They can tell if the hydro bills are high in Ontario and will check it out. I think they were only there less than a year. (It was a long time ago).
Might be a private rental. I once rented a house directly through the owner (referred by his mate who was a real estate agent). In the 2 or so years I lived there I never had an inspection. He would come in every now and then if I called him about maintenance issues but made a point it wasn’t a house inspection.
I enjoyed this but that paint is awful.
P.s old homes people live before we came back around another changing everything Alba culture homes why did you do this not cool I think old homes are pretty cool pretty awesome shows you what they houses used to be like before coffee and smokes, round fancy homes
Desperately sad they did this for drugs and $$$.
Ye ol carbon filters aren't all that cheap 🤗 they'd have made a killing off it
I wager you began doing break and enters, then started griftng on this sick platform
Ok Chief Wiggum lol 🙂