This is the history of Windsor in Brisbane. Hills. Water. Magpies. Great Views. Cracks. Traffic. Quarries. Politics. Youth Detention. Floods. #brisbane #australianhistory #windsor
@WalkaboutWithRob Another informative video Rob - you need to come visit me one day for a coffee; you can hand feed my Magpie family, and it will cure you of your fear of them.
do they really need to be 4k? 4k storage uses up so many resources and i cant help but think that if it wasnt free it wouldnt even be considered an option for most youtubers.
@@tosh_is_me942 but you’re not storing it. You are just streaming it. If the resolution is too high, then you can manually set it to a lower one. You have that option.
@@walkaboutwithrob and i do keep it to 1080, hd is fine for me. That doesnt change the size of the file on the server,... its a small point, splitting hairs to some, but while so much energy still comes from fossil fuels, it all adds up. Its not even something most people consider.
Wow! That was really interesting! I went to Winsor State School from Preschool to y3, and lived at Lutwyche untill 1990 when I was 12 years old. Mum and Dad thought that Gods Must be Crazy was so funny that they went back to the Crystal Theater with my brother and I to see it. All those buildings and places that were once part of my little world, and that I occasionally drive past now, I never thought of the history behind them. Thanks!
Hey great video about the place i spent my first 25 years of life in. Did you notice the tiny house on the corner of Rosemount Tce at all when you walked by? It's the old station master's house and is Brisbane's smallest legal plot of land ( or was for many many years ) even featuring in several commercials for channel 7 back in the 90s. Anyways i digress, Just wanted to say thanks for making this video Rob all the best.
My family and some friends have a bit of history with Windsor. When I worked as a grocery delivery guy from 2017-2020, the Windsor town area (as in Lutwyche, Grange etc etc) was part of our delivery area. I really enjoyed that job because I hadn't lived in Brisbane for over 30 years, so I got to relearn all the roads, as well as all the new roads, and got to see how much the northside of Brisbane had changed.
I grew up in lutwyche, a few hundred meters from the windsor school of arts. I went to wooloowin primary school and Kedron High. I know every one of the places you visited. In all of my 30 yrs in lutwyche i never once saw inside the old council chambers..finally i know whags inside..thanks for this upload.
Interesting once again but such a shame the old Council Chambers are cracking up a bit. Such an interesting old building, just sitting there. Thanks for another good Walk About..
Thank you Rob this brought back so many fond memories as I grew up there, my nextdoor neighbour use to take me as a child and my friends for a walk onto Eilden Hill at night, went to the old Council Chambers as a child learning about nursing, talk about a ghost well I always felt it had a strange smell in there 😊, that brothel well my friend from Windsor State School her parents use to rent upstairs in that building, I lived in Fifth Avenue, my grandmother use to take me to the Palace theatre on Saturday nights still remember the great old movies, then my parents and I moved to Stafford. Once again thank you for taking me down old memory lane x
I spent 2 nights @ Wilson Youth Centre (as it was named between '83-'93) in '89 due to my sister(and temp. guardian) having a warrant for an unpaid fine she refused to pay, I was 16 but the judge said I couldnt be at home alone without a carer so locked me up over the weekend. I remember watching Roxettes 'She got the look' video for the first time whilst there. My dad paid my sisters fine so she was free hour or two after I was locked up, but I was still held @ Wilson as ordered by the judge.
Fitzgerald enquiry (Royal commission pre WEF , pedo Fabians coming out now in open like Tet offensive Vietnam current now commies same) Qld politics & police corruption , had a bit to say about Brisbane, the royal commission . . like not long after the Winchester commission across border police & politico corruption NSW . . then Vic & Harkin drug squad co & partridge in pear tree , underbelly . . point being , if rot not fixed = third world
It would be great for you to be rewarded for all the time and effort you put into these videos which are free for us to watch ..hope your hard work pays off in this world of you tube in some way
@gillianfahey6464 thank you very much for that thoughtful comment. My reward is the enjoyment others get in watching these shows. But I wouldn't be adverse to getting a few bucks here and there. Thank you again.
Rob, love your stuff. I drive BCC buses and see all of these amazing things daily without the benefit of getting to know their history. Thankyou!!! Kym
I went to Windsor SS for a year...I used to go up to Eildon Hill (it was a very eerie feeling and I really didn't like to stay there for long). I used to walk all along the road to Downy Park and come through a fence, then down the rock wall to get into the park area. That was the main area the dumping grounds were...(It also just didn't feel right to be there)... They knew it was a brothel! A stain glass business ran from there too. The Legyt St theatre had canvas chairs and was one of the cheaper cinemas to go to. Not many ppl liked to go there and preferred to travel a distance and go to the drive-ins. The power hardly ever went out due to all the electricity strikes because we were on the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (RBWH) (also, known as 'The General') power grid line. Windsor was regarded as a lower middle class area compared to St. Lucia, Auchenflower/Toowong...The Wilson Boys home was TERRIBLE for those poor souls. They used to try run away often. One of the boys got out and got to his home, which was about 2 km away, filled his bath tub with petrol, got in and set it alight. Suicide. POOR boy... No wonder it eventually was closed down. That place was a nightmare for those kids. HIDDEN THRUTHS.The family and friends were devistated. I've got some bad memories of the Windsor area and some good. The Karuna Hospice was known for war victims. Repat but had bad cases who really found life very difficult due to their injuries and it was always a place of unspoken consequences due to the war. My mum used to say, "Leave the outside light on, you never know who might need a place to go to and if our light was on outside, they'd know to try our place". She used to always have extra food for any kids who needed a meal at night.
Love hearing the history in your videos Rob. I spent my teens in Windsor. Our family would often walk up Eildon Hill, and Brisbane City Hall stood out clearly. It was the tallest building in Brisbane back then.
Hey Rob, Great Vid Mate, I had a wander through the grounds of Rosemont a few months ago, there is a really old Camphor laurel tree in there. I shot a sunset Vid from that lookout, its a wonderful place at night. T-Rocks😎
Dont quote me on this but I also heard that there was an above ground burial along breakfast creek where the bowen hills train yard is. From Petrie's Reminisces.
Rob i bet River fire would look awesome from Eildon hill and you dont have to contend with the crowds. Thanks for the tour Windsors boundaries are all higgletypigglety with zig zags so for example a house on Fuller st can be both in Lutchwytch and In Windsor instead of making the boundary fuller road they made peoples back yards the boundary its all very confusing. And man made river cuttings and the filling over old river paths wow i never would believe the breakfast creek was a controversial creek
Another wonderful production Rob. Thoroughly enjoyed it once again. And of course I've learned so very much about the very suburbs I grew up in the late 60s, 70s and 80s. Can remember trearing down Eildon Hill with my school friends as fast as we could out onto Constitution Rd on our "Tom Wallace Special" bicycles. Couldn't possibly even imagine trying that feat like that nowadays. Lol. Thank you so much for this one Rob. I knew you'd find this district interesting. Great job. Much appreciated too😊
Hi Rob! I've been thoroughly enjoying watching your vids, and as a kid who grew up near the Redcliffe Jetty, with an old man who worked on a ship that would dock on Fishermens Island, lived on the top of the Windsor/Lutwyche quarry cliffs, and fished at RAN Station 9 Myrtletown a lot, I've found your vids very interesting and my kinda pace. 2 P-39s collided above my school, with one crashing off the end of our Redcliffe street in ww2, and as a kid in the 80s I played on the Bofors gun at the jetty and RSL. Great spot. I'd personally love to see a Hervey Bay vid, and Stanthorpe where we live now, but ultimately you just keep doing what you do! Don't go changing!
IT's a small world - a few years back, my late dad had a stroke (at 88) and was recuperating in the Geriatric Care Unit adjacent to Karuna Hospice - one day while sitting in the gardens he said "I remember this place" - I told him he hadn't been there before, but he corrected me, and said he had visited his Dad who had stayed at the place when it was a repat hospital - My Grandad had returned (wounded) from serving in the 2nd light horse in Egypt, which would have made it around the mid 1930s. Dad was mainly brought up by his grandparents, his grandfather was an early Headmaster at Gatton College, later the head of the dept of agriculture, and chairman of the Agricultural Bank of Queensland, which eventually morphed into Suncorp. We took dad for a drive after his stroke to one of his childhood homes at Manly - we asked for the address to put it into the satnav - he navigated perfectly instead - when we got there, he said the house looked similar but that big tree wasn't in the front yard - I pointed out that he had lived there 80 years prior...
24:19 the main old building on that site was an Officeworks for many years (not sure if it was private property or if it was leased from the government at the time). It’s moved to Newmarket are, just down from Winston train station.
My Unit Block in Rosemount Terrace, built in 1983, is named ‘Swan Hill Courts’ after the original estate, the owners of which named it after Swan Hill in Victoria where they had previously lived.
We explored this area only a couple of months ago and I was frustrated I couldn’t at the time quickly find info on Windsor House so thanks for the info 😁 Great doco as always.
Hi Rob, thanks for the video - just wanted to mention since you said there is no rock climbing in Windsor that behind the Freedom furniture outlet on Lutwyche Rd (below Rosemount Terrace) are some cliffs that I assume are from some old quarry (?). While I never climbed there myself they certainly are climbable if you avoided the shopping centre security. I'm not sure the state of them now but in the 2010s they were in use.
Ahhh my husband just found your channel and showed me your videos. I’m the President of Growl Theatre which now performs at the Windsor school of arts hall. If you ever want to check out the hall some more, let me know. I believe the position of the hall was a few hundred meters north of current location. It got moved back once during the widening of Lutwyche road, but it was the development of the busway which took the hall offsite (in 2 pieces!!) and when it was returned, it was in this new and current location.
Yes that's correct, the hall was moved due to roadworks et al. I managed to slip inside the hall when I was filming there but I think the two ladies I encountered there weren't to happy about my presence. So I only stayed a few moments. As someone who has acted in many local repertory theatre productions, I can see that your venue is just perfect for local shows.
@@walkaboutwithrob Apologies, I can only blame pre-show nerves :) But if you're ever back Windsor way and want to check it out again, I'd gladly show you around. she's a lovely old hall, with lots of quirks, but yes it's a great home theatre.
Hi Rob, interesting stuff. There are also signs of old quarries at Albion (the end of Burdett street), also Kingsford Smith Drive east bound near the aptly named Quarry street. The original foundations for the bridge across Breakfast/Enoggera creek are still there opposite the pub. May be a good video of the Breakfast creek/Albion/Hamilton areas, you touched on Bartleys Hill. Cheers.
i ride here from lutwyche regularly, and learned alot from this, thanks, also Ascot, St Margartet's/ Andrew petrie's Old house is fascinating, Church on racecourse road great first wed of month for cheap clothes a good time to go if you need a bonus reason.. st augustine's .. looked forwardto Windsor, and not disappointed.. hoping they spend a little the bonus billions from mining royalties to build the bandstand on eildon tower top, but for massive proximate 5Gtower
You forgot to mention there used to be a fuel/ oil storage facility for the RAN up till 1972. This was on the corner of lutwyche road and Newmarket road.
I'm an ex traffic controller I can tell you now that most of the tram tracks are still in the roads just been paved over ripped many tram lines up over the years
Airport link tunnel also goes under the corner of Lutwyche Central shopping centre. If you walk around the shopping centre you can see a lot of survey marks where the subsidence is being monitored. The car park also has a lot of goal post type structures to stop the whole thing caving in on itself.
This was very interesting, thank you. There used to be a mural of the Windsor Picture House on the bridge abutments 100m to the north where the Lutwyche Road goes under the train lines. It was painted over only a year or two ago with something that looks like a cross between aborigine art and contour lines. Brisbane sadly seems to have more money than it knows what to do with when it comes to destroying its heritage.
@bushpig6837 I passed that mural you talked about when I was shooting this video. I wish I had seen the previous artwork as it sounds absolutely lovely.
13:44 airport link, runs under there towards wooloowin, and toombul. I was living at wooloowin when they were building it, you can hear them tunnelling through to the airport.
24.44 near that bcc tramway substation there were military fuel tanks from ww2 in the old quarry still there in the late 70's the area where the cliffs are was filled in you could stand at the steel pipe chain wire fence and look down onto the top of these massive fuel tanks.
Thanks for your time spent and effort with your video's. It must take a bit of time behind the scenes. I presume you get your info by Wikipedia, but I want to point out the Tramways Substation red brick building is actually Sub No 15, not Sub 6. The person who make the Wiki got confused as Sub 6 is about 200 metre's northbound, and the Sub 6 brick building has been added to by a new building and it's stone lintel still marks it as the Sub 6. The Bus sign for 'District'. did go down a small street out onto Lutwyche Rd, but the BCC Council closed the road and made it all landscaped to add to the vista of the Windsor Town Hall. There once was a small timber building fronting this now gone little street which was on the South side of the Sub 15 wall. It was owned and operated by the BCC Electricity Dept, as Sub 3, and got power from the Tramways to run the series high voltage street lights on Lutwyche, Albion and nearby streets. In the shed was the regulating transformer and that machine lowered the voltage as the bulbs burn't out. When a bulb went out, little bit of paper in the base of that street light would burn up as the high voltage of 6, 000 volts would puncture though the paper and the daisy chain of the other 240 volt lamps could still work. The was a stone house on the north east side of Lutwyche and Albion Roads corner. I think that was Stone Leigh Cottage, as when it was demolished for a used car yard, there was huge Public outcry. But it was not on a Council heritage protection list or a State Gov one. Someone else here said oil tanks were on the old quarry site. Perhaps so, but the main site was at Lutwyche and Newmarket Road corner. That site today has Shops there, and the very deep hole in the rock was filled in. I think there were also fuel tanks on the eastern side of the Lutwyche Rd opposite Newmarket Rd too, and it was once said in a Newspaper article a few years back, that a pipe was run from here to the wartime US submarine pens down at the now closed HMAS Moreton at NewFarm. The present Queensland Newspaper site at Bowen Hills was also a oil tank storage in the war years too.
@frednerks1379 thank you very much for taking the time to share this important and fascinating information. Much appreciated indeed. With regards to your presumption that I get my information from Wikipedia... while that is a good starting point for research, I cast a much wider net and consult local historical societies, the Queensland State Archives, professional historians etc etc.
You didnt mention the old gas work reservoirs that used to be there.... I do remember the old US buildings for many years they were QLD dept of education storehouses
Hey Robo. Can you please do Salisbury. I grew up here and my Grand father actually went to Salisbury primary school as did I. I am 55 now and I actually still live in Salisbury, in a different house though
I lived exactly under Eildon Hill for several years a few years ago. In Hooker St. And I know that statue I drove past it nearly every day. I had to leave the area due to the horrific train horns 22 hours a day with 3am - 5am the only time they don't blow those INCREDIBLY LOUD horns due to the level walkway crossing over the railway track. I petitioned for years for a bridge overpass to be put up like the other end of the station to stop the need for the train horns but no council, members of parliament nor Qld Rail person would do it. Those poor people living near that station, the train horns are deafening all hours of the day and night. I currently live in Redcliffe, Woody Point on the waterfront. I'm First Nations, I did not know the history of Eildon Hill. I still visit my old neighbour there a 75 year old Macedonian man, I'm going to take a walk up that hill I always said I was going to but never did. I'm blown away.
@@73kristilee thanks for your interesting feedback. I wonder if the trains still sound their horns like they used to. If I lived there I too couldn't cope with such sudden noise day and night. I really do hope you'll take a walk up to the top of the hill. The views of the City are wonderful though to the north the trees obscure most of the views. Please let me know your thoughts about your journey up there... I'm sure you'll absolutely love it.
@@walkaboutwithrob yes I definitely will. I'll take my old neighbour up for a walk with me when I visit him again. I'm currently watching your walk from Sandgate to Woody Point jetty. Where you saw the Viking rune stone, you're basically outside my home across the road. I have Viking descent also lol as well as First Nations People aka Aboriginal 😉
@@73kristilee Ah yes that walk. It was a chance for me to exercise me recently busted knee. Really enjoyed that one. I've done my DNA test - all ancestry from the British Isles, no Viking. Did your test specify a region of Scandinavia that your ancestors came from?
@@walkaboutwithrob I haven't done the test yet but my grandmother told me that we descend from the Vikings. I mean, her name is Thora (my grandmother that is) I do want to do the test because I'm a mixed bag. Viking & Scottish on my mother's mother's side. Irish Tuatha De Danann descent on my mum's father's side. Irish on my dad's mother's side and Aboriginal on my dad's father's side. Mixed bag, so I'd like to get it done
@@walkaboutwithrob yes I was and I know u do,I was just wondering if yr curiosity takes u down the rabbit hole so to speak?I often find my curiosity takes me to places I never intended to go...like asking silly and or personal questions.I know there's a professional way to research things,nonetheless my curiosity continues to get the better of me and indigenous history is also fascinating
lol freemason brisbane mayor office beside a quarry, wonderring if there were little tunnels below before big bus tunnel moved in by campbell newman who i guess is in some secret societies
Hey mate. Do you have a parcel locker or post office box at all? I own a business and would love to send you a couple of free gifts to help you on your journeys of beautiful Brisbane.
@IanF-px3cg That is most kind of you, thank you. At the moment I don't have a locker or PO Box, though I'm thinking I should get one. Perhaps we can work out some other way??
@@walkaboutwithrob it is free to set up a parcel locker but I'm not sure if you have one close enough to you. If you have any other suggestions just let me know. I'm not sure exactly where you are or what's around you and I can tell you have quite a few admirers so I don't think giving out your home address is a good idea lol. Maybe there is a newsagent near you that accepts parcels too? There is one near me that does.
@@MiloTheChonkyKitty I've never heard of parcel lockers but will definitely make an enquiry today and find out what the deal is. I really should get something like that. I'm in Beenleigh so my local PO should be able to help me out with that.
might bew rong about dental school beingold medical school bit.. note old police station opp lego church, seems like a very close circle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Dental_Hospital_and_College
This video has been uploaded in glorious 4K, so make sure your viewing settings are set to 4K!
@WalkaboutWithRob Another informative video Rob - you need to come visit me one day for a coffee; you can hand feed my Magpie family, and it will cure you of your fear of them.
especially the drone shots, spectacular!
do they really need to be 4k? 4k storage uses up so many resources and i cant help but think that if it wasnt free it wouldnt even be considered an option for most youtubers.
@@tosh_is_me942 but you’re not storing it. You are just streaming it. If the resolution is too high, then you can manually set it to a lower one. You have that option.
@@walkaboutwithrob and i do keep it to 1080, hd is fine for me. That doesnt change the size of the file on the server,... its a small point, splitting hairs to some, but while so much energy still comes from fossil fuels, it all adds up. Its not even something most people consider.
Love it Rob lots of great old photos as well
Wow! That was really interesting! I went to Winsor State School from Preschool to y3, and lived at Lutwyche untill 1990 when I was 12 years old. Mum and Dad thought that Gods Must be Crazy was so funny that they went back to the Crystal Theater with my brother and I to see it. All those buildings and places that were once part of my little world, and that I occasionally drive past now, I never thought of the history behind them. Thanks!
Hey great video about the place i spent my first 25 years of life in. Did you notice the tiny house on the corner of Rosemount Tce at all when you walked by? It's the old station master's house and is Brisbane's smallest legal plot of land ( or was for many many years ) even featuring in several commercials for channel 7 back in the 90s. Anyways i digress, Just wanted to say thanks for making this video Rob all the best.
Many thanks Rob. I learned so much. Driven through there for years and didn't know the history.
The skills involved in negotiating that island cause most to never notice it, great video mate Thankyou.
My family and some friends have a bit of history with Windsor. When I worked as a grocery delivery guy from 2017-2020, the Windsor town area (as in Lutwyche, Grange etc etc) was part of our delivery area. I really enjoyed that job because I hadn't lived in Brisbane for over 30 years, so I got to relearn all the roads, as well as all the new roads, and got to see how much the northside of Brisbane had changed.
yet another clear and concise video of a location and it's history, well done Rob.
I grew up in lutwyche, a few hundred meters from the windsor school of arts. I went to wooloowin primary school and Kedron High. I know every one of the places you visited. In all of my 30 yrs in lutwyche i never once saw inside the old council chambers..finally i know whags inside..thanks for this upload.
Great history lesson as usual Rob
Wilston and Windsor are awesome suburbs 😊
Eildon hill has amazing views and plenty of bird life around the suburb with Whip birds and eastern Koels
Interesting once again but such a shame the old Council Chambers are cracking up a bit. Such an interesting old building, just sitting there. Thanks for another good Walk About..
Great video as always Rob! Can't wait to see where you walk next 😊
Thank you Rob this brought back so many fond memories as I grew up there, my nextdoor neighbour use to take me as a child and my friends for a walk onto Eilden Hill at night, went to the old Council Chambers as a child learning about nursing, talk about a ghost well I always felt it had a strange smell in there 😊, that brothel well my friend from Windsor State School her parents use to rent upstairs in that building, I lived in Fifth Avenue, my grandmother use to take me to the Palace theatre on Saturday nights still remember the great old movies, then my parents and I moved to Stafford. Once again thank you for taking me down old memory lane x
I spent 2 nights @ Wilson Youth Centre (as it was named between '83-'93) in '89 due to my sister(and temp. guardian) having a warrant for an unpaid fine she refused to pay, I was 16 but the judge said I couldnt be at home alone without a carer so locked me up over the weekend. I remember watching Roxettes 'She got the look' video for the first time whilst there. My dad paid my sisters fine so she was free hour or two after I was locked up, but I was still held @ Wilson as ordered by the judge.
Thanks very much for another great video and all the hard work you do to research the topic.
Thank you so much Rob for your Brisbane and suburbs history lessons. They are much appreciated and very informative.
Fitzgerald enquiry (Royal commission pre WEF , pedo Fabians coming out now in open like Tet offensive Vietnam current now commies same) Qld politics & police corruption , had a bit to say about Brisbane, the royal commission . . like not long after the Winchester commission across border police & politico corruption NSW . . then Vic & Harkin drug squad co & partridge in pear tree , underbelly . . point being , if rot not fixed = third world
I think it would be extremely interesting to get one of these videos of redcliffe
Mate If your from reddy you either a retiree,homo or stupid
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Excellent work.
It would be great for you to be rewarded for all the time and effort you put into these videos which are free for us to watch ..hope your hard work pays off in this world of you tube in some way
@gillianfahey6464 thank you very much for that thoughtful comment. My reward is the enjoyment others get in watching these shows. But I wouldn't be adverse to getting a few bucks here and there. Thank you again.
Rob, love your stuff. I drive BCC buses and see all of these amazing things daily without the benefit of getting to know their history. Thankyou!!! Kym
You're more than welcome! Thanks!
I went to Windsor SS for a year...I used to go up to Eildon Hill (it was a very eerie feeling and I really didn't like to stay there for long). I used to walk all along the road to Downy Park and come through a fence, then down the rock wall to get into the park area. That was the main area the dumping grounds were...(It also just didn't feel right to be there)... They knew it was a brothel! A stain glass business ran from there too. The Legyt St theatre had canvas chairs and was one of the cheaper cinemas to go to. Not many ppl liked to go there and preferred to travel a distance and go to the drive-ins. The power hardly ever went out due to all the electricity strikes because we were on the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (RBWH) (also, known as 'The General') power grid line. Windsor was regarded as a lower middle class area compared to St. Lucia, Auchenflower/Toowong...The Wilson Boys home was TERRIBLE for those poor souls. They used to try run away often. One of the boys got out and got to his home, which was about 2 km away, filled his bath tub with petrol, got in and set it alight. Suicide. POOR boy... No wonder it eventually was closed down. That place was a nightmare for those kids. HIDDEN THRUTHS.The family and friends were devistated.
I've got some bad memories of the Windsor area and some good. The Karuna Hospice was known for war victims. Repat but had bad cases who really found life very difficult due to their injuries and it was always a place of unspoken consequences due to the war. My mum used to say, "Leave the outside light on, you never know who might need a place to go to and if our light was on outside, they'd know to try our place". She used to always have extra food for any kids who needed a meal at night.
A most interesting read, thanks for taking the time to share all this.
Love hearing the history in your videos Rob. I spent my teens in Windsor. Our family would often walk up Eildon Hill, and Brisbane City Hall stood out clearly. It was the tallest building in Brisbane back then.
I gotta say, your walk abouts have been very informative and fantastic.
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Thanks! I love doing these
Hey Rob, Great Vid Mate, I had a wander through the grounds of Rosemont a few months ago, there is a really old Camphor laurel tree in there. I shot a sunset Vid from that lookout, its a wonderful place at night. T-Rocks😎
@t-rocks1960 Thanks! Would love to see Windsor at night with all the all lighted trees, plus of course the top of Eildon Hill to see the city lights.
Dont quote me on this but I also heard that there was an above ground burial along breakfast creek where the bowen hills train yard is. From Petrie's Reminisces.
Your videos continue to entertain and amaze mate. Well done.
Thanks Rob, love your work. 👍
I saw “The Gods Must Be Crazy” at the Crystal Theatre, remember it well. 😊
Great research, and video Rob.
Rob i bet River fire would look awesome from Eildon hill and you dont have to contend with the crowds. Thanks for the tour Windsors boundaries are all higgletypigglety with zig zags so for example a house on Fuller st can be both in Lutchwytch and In Windsor instead of making the boundary fuller road they made peoples back yards the boundary its all very confusing. And man made river cuttings and the filling over old river paths wow i never would believe the breakfast creek was a controversial creek
Another wonderful production Rob. Thoroughly enjoyed it once again. And of course I've learned so very much about the very suburbs I grew up in the late 60s, 70s and 80s. Can remember trearing down Eildon Hill with my school friends as fast as we could out onto Constitution Rd on our "Tom Wallace Special" bicycles. Couldn't possibly even imagine trying that feat like that nowadays. Lol. Thank you so much for this one Rob. I knew you'd find this district interesting. Great job. Much appreciated too😊
@shelliesavoie1397 Really pleased you liked it! Had fun making this one.
Don't attempt similar feats with the turbo cancer needle later life
Brilliant. Spent 1979 to 2001 in Windsor area. Great video.
always a pleasure to watch your video's
I've been waiting for this...totally enjoyed this one...lots of interesting info and plenty of humour 😊
Oh and I loved The Gods must be crazy!
@shelleigh5993 It's on Disney+!
@@walkaboutwithrob awesome 😁
I forgot to mention, I caught the little whisper around the 22:26 mark and figured someone must have been in the way of your shot 😁
2:42 I feel compelled to jump in and say Sir Edmund Barton
Great video Rob. Thanks! Keep it up!
Hi Rob! I've been thoroughly enjoying watching your vids, and as a kid who grew up near the Redcliffe Jetty, with an old man who worked on a ship that would dock on Fishermens Island, lived on the top of the Windsor/Lutwyche quarry cliffs, and fished at RAN Station 9 Myrtletown a lot, I've found your vids very interesting and my kinda pace.
2 P-39s collided above my school, with one crashing off the end of our Redcliffe street in ww2, and as a kid in the 80s I played on the Bofors gun at the jetty and RSL. Great spot.
I'd personally love to see a Hervey Bay vid, and Stanthorpe where we live now, but ultimately you just keep doing what you do!
Don't go changing!
IT's a small world - a few years back, my late dad had a stroke (at 88) and was recuperating in the Geriatric Care Unit adjacent to Karuna Hospice - one day while sitting in the gardens he said "I remember this place" - I told him he hadn't been there before, but he corrected me, and said he had visited his Dad who had stayed at the place when it was a repat hospital - My Grandad had returned (wounded) from serving in the 2nd light horse in Egypt, which would have made it around the mid 1930s. Dad was mainly brought up by his grandparents, his grandfather was an early Headmaster at Gatton College, later the head of the dept of agriculture, and chairman of the Agricultural Bank of Queensland, which eventually morphed into Suncorp. We took dad for a drive after his stroke to one of his childhood homes at Manly - we asked for the address to put it into the satnav - he navigated perfectly instead - when we got there, he said the house looked similar but that big tree wasn't in the front yard - I pointed out that he had lived there 80 years prior...
Another BRILLIANT doco
My man!
Rob, you mentioned that you thought a Brothel was a soup kitchen for the poor! Well, it is sort of like a "Soup Kitchen"!! 😅
Kids born there were known as brothel sprouts.
20:22 My old street! The apartments in Thondley st were knocked down in 2021 and replaced by that new apartment block behind the war memorial.
24:19 the main old building on that site was an Officeworks for many years (not sure if it was private property or if it was leased from the government at the time). It’s moved to Newmarket are, just down from Winston train station.
Great video as usual. Visit Woodford/Daguilar some time. .
Keep it up
Thanks mate this was a bewdy. I live at Ferny Hills not far from here
My Unit Block in Rosemount Terrace, built in 1983, is named ‘Swan Hill Courts’ after the original estate, the owners of which named it after Swan Hill in Victoria where they had previously lived.
Very interesting!
I used to work in Herston.
I get what you're feeling about this building laboriously staying put. What a great little treasure of a building.
It's so unique and confident.
I'd love to check out the books for sale.@@walkaboutwithrob
Love these videos
We explored this area only a couple of months ago and I was frustrated I couldn’t at the time quickly find info on Windsor House so thanks for the info 😁 Great doco as always.
Hi Rob, thanks for the video - just wanted to mention since you said there is no rock climbing in Windsor that behind the Freedom furniture outlet on Lutwyche Rd (below Rosemount Terrace) are some cliffs that I assume are from some old quarry (?). While I never climbed there myself they certainly are climbable if you avoided the shopping centre security. I'm not sure the state of them now but in the 2010s they were in use.
Ahhh my husband just found your channel and showed me your videos. I’m the President of Growl Theatre which now performs at the Windsor school of arts hall. If you ever want to check out the hall some more, let me know. I believe the position of the hall was a few hundred meters north of current location. It got moved back once during the widening of Lutwyche road, but it was the development of the busway which took the hall offsite (in 2 pieces!!) and when it was returned, it was in this new and current location.
Yes that's correct, the hall was moved due to roadworks et al. I managed to slip inside the hall when I was filming there but I think the two ladies I encountered there weren't to happy about my presence. So I only stayed a few moments. As someone who has acted in many local repertory theatre productions, I can see that your venue is just perfect for local shows.
@@walkaboutwithrob Apologies, I can only blame pre-show nerves :) But if you're ever back Windsor way and want to check it out again, I'd gladly show you around. she's a lovely old hall, with lots of quirks, but yes it's a great home theatre.
@@reanon Absolutely, definitely the pre-show nerves ... 🙂 lol
Hi Rob, interesting stuff. There are also signs of old quarries at Albion (the end of Burdett street), also Kingsford Smith Drive east bound near the aptly named Quarry street.
The original foundations for the bridge across Breakfast/Enoggera creek are still there opposite the pub. May be a good video of the Breakfast creek/Albion/Hamilton areas, you touched on Bartleys Hill.
Cheers.
Very interesting. I have made a note of this info for a future video I am planning
I agree Redcliffe is so old there should be some good stories
Enjoyed this, thanks. 👍
i ride here from lutwyche regularly, and learned alot from this, thanks, also Ascot, St Margartet's/ Andrew petrie's Old house is fascinating, Church on racecourse road great first wed of month for cheap clothes a good time to go if you need a bonus reason.. st augustine's .. looked forwardto Windsor, and not disappointed.. hoping they spend a little the bonus billions from mining royalties to build the bandstand on eildon tower top, but for massive proximate 5Gtower
You forgot to mention there used to be a fuel/ oil storage facility for the RAN up till 1972. This was on the corner of lutwyche road and Newmarket road.
Yep. I used to throw stones down into it as boy.
Good work Rob
Very good as usual
My mate used to call knee high boots on women 'Windsor boots' because from where he lived, Windsor was about half way to The Gap. 🙂
I love these videos thank you
Could please go to Tasmania and tell the world some of its history
I'm an ex traffic controller I can tell you now that most of the tram tracks are still in the roads just been paved over ripped many tram lines up over the years
Airport link tunnel also goes under the corner of Lutwyche Central shopping centre. If you walk around the shopping centre you can see a lot of survey marks where the subsidence is being monitored. The car park also has a lot of goal post type structures to stop the whole thing caving in on itself.
This was very interesting, thank you. There used to be a mural of the Windsor Picture House on the bridge abutments 100m to the north where the Lutwyche Road goes under the train lines. It was painted over only a year or two ago with something that looks like a cross between aborigine art and contour lines. Brisbane sadly seems to have more money than it knows what to do with when it comes to destroying its heritage.
@bushpig6837 I passed that mural you talked about when I was shooting this video. I wish I had seen the previous artwork as it sounds absolutely lovely.
@@walkaboutwithrob I found a picture of it here... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windsor_mural_under_railway_bridge.jpg
13:44 airport link, runs under there towards wooloowin, and toombul. I was living at wooloowin when they were building it, you can hear them tunnelling through to the airport.
24.44 near that bcc tramway substation there were military fuel tanks from ww2 in the old quarry still there in the late 70's the area where the cliffs are was filled in you could stand at the steel pipe chain wire fence and look down onto the top of these massive fuel tanks.
Pipes ran from the tanks to the birth outside the wool stores at Newstead to fuel U.S submarines and warships.
@@paulraadschelders1550 believe the pipes used to run down Albion RD
24:38 oh that's what that is. 😮
I have an incredible update on Windsor house - it’s now being used as an event space for children’s birthday parties 😂
Still has the statue out the front too!!
There was a tram on chalk St lutwyche.
Thanks for your time spent and effort with your video's. It must take a bit of time behind the scenes.
I presume you get your info by Wikipedia, but I want to point out the Tramways Substation red brick building is actually Sub No 15, not Sub 6.
The person who make the Wiki got confused as Sub 6 is about 200 metre's northbound, and the Sub 6 brick building has been added to by a new building and it's stone lintel still marks it as the Sub 6.
The Bus sign for 'District'. did go down a small street out onto Lutwyche Rd, but the BCC Council closed the road and made it all landscaped to add to the vista of the Windsor Town Hall.
There once was a small timber building fronting this now gone little street which was on the South side of the Sub 15 wall.
It was owned and operated by the BCC Electricity Dept, as Sub 3, and got power from the Tramways to run the series high voltage street lights on Lutwyche, Albion and nearby streets. In the shed was the regulating transformer and that machine lowered the voltage as the bulbs burn't out. When a bulb went out, little bit of paper in the base of that street light would burn up as the high voltage of 6, 000 volts would puncture though the paper and the daisy chain of the other 240 volt lamps could still work.
The was a stone house on the north east side of Lutwyche and Albion Roads corner. I think that was Stone Leigh Cottage, as when it was demolished for a used car yard, there was huge Public outcry. But it was not on a Council heritage protection list or a State Gov one.
Someone else here said oil tanks were on the old quarry site. Perhaps so, but the main site was at Lutwyche and Newmarket Road corner.
That site today has Shops there, and the very deep hole in the rock was filled in.
I think there were also fuel tanks on the eastern side of the Lutwyche Rd opposite Newmarket Rd too, and it was once said in a Newspaper article a few years back, that a pipe was run from here to the wartime US submarine pens down at the now closed HMAS Moreton at NewFarm.
The present Queensland Newspaper site at Bowen Hills was also a oil tank storage in the war years too.
@frednerks1379 thank you very much for taking the time to share this important and fascinating information. Much appreciated indeed. With regards to your presumption that I get my information from Wikipedia... while that is a good starting point for research, I cast a much wider net and consult local historical societies, the Queensland State Archives, professional historians etc etc.
there's still a abeautiful stone house on stoneleighsta few meters down from tree
I've sensed your phobia of magpies in your video's Rob! Watch Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds", that'll crank up ya Maggie Phobia's for ya! 😅
You didnt mention the old gas work reservoirs that used to be there.... I do remember the old US buildings for many years they were QLD dept of education storehouses
19:22 wow intresting.
Good job mate. So much more to be covered though.
Like what did he miss?
11:17 that's really interesting and funny
Ha! Always wondered as a kid why they named the bus company skinners..someone famous
Hey Robo. Can you please do Salisbury. I grew up here and my Grand father actually went to Salisbury primary school as did I. I am 55 now and I actually still live in Salisbury, in a different house though
Ps you'll love the old NAB blding cnr creek and Queen
I lived exactly under Eildon Hill for several years a few years ago. In Hooker St. And I know that statue I drove past it nearly every day. I had to leave the area due to the horrific train horns 22 hours a day with 3am - 5am the only time they don't blow those INCREDIBLY LOUD horns due to the level walkway crossing over the railway track. I petitioned for years for a bridge overpass to be put up like the other end of the station to stop the need for the train horns but no council, members of parliament nor Qld Rail person would do it. Those poor people living near that station, the train horns are deafening all hours of the day and night.
I currently live in Redcliffe, Woody Point on the waterfront.
I'm First Nations, I did not know the history of Eildon Hill. I still visit my old neighbour there a 75 year old Macedonian man, I'm going to take a walk up that hill I always said I was going to but never did. I'm blown away.
I'd love to go walkabout with you! I love history!
@@73kristilee thanks for your interesting feedback. I wonder if the trains still sound their horns like they used to. If I lived there I too couldn't cope with such sudden noise day and night. I really do hope you'll take a walk up to the top of the hill. The views of the City are wonderful though to the north the trees obscure most of the views. Please let me know your thoughts about your journey up there... I'm sure you'll absolutely love it.
@@walkaboutwithrob yes I definitely will. I'll take my old neighbour up for a walk with me when I visit him again.
I'm currently watching your walk from Sandgate to Woody Point jetty. Where you saw the Viking rune stone, you're basically outside my home across the road.
I have Viking descent also lol as well as First Nations People aka Aboriginal 😉
@@73kristilee Ah yes that walk. It was a chance for me to exercise me recently busted knee. Really enjoyed that one. I've done my DNA test - all ancestry from the British Isles, no Viking. Did your test specify a region of Scandinavia that your ancestors came from?
@@walkaboutwithrob I haven't done the test yet but my grandmother told me that we descend from the Vikings. I mean, her name is Thora (my grandmother that is)
I do want to do the test because I'm a mixed bag.
Viking & Scottish on my mother's mother's side. Irish Tuatha De Danann descent on my mum's father's side.
Irish on my dad's mother's side and Aboriginal on my dad's father's side. Mixed bag, so I'd like to get it done
Just subscribed. Only 3 mins into my first video. 🙂
@nancycurtis7315 I hope you enjoy the other 25 minutes! Thanks for subscribing.
@@walkaboutwithrob My pleasure. 🙂
Rosemont was also the mental hospital spent time in there in 92
close to wher i grew up , at the grange
hope you do the wilston / grange area one day
i think the statute was from when it was a relationship counsellor, hence embrace vs erotica
Yea that was a cracking video rob thanx again for that.I wonder if in your researching does your personal curiosity take u beyond colonisation?
@raindog428 Are you referring to Indigenous history? If so I try to include elements of Indigenous history in all my videos where possible.
@@walkaboutwithrob yes I was and I know u do,I was just wondering if yr curiosity takes u down the rabbit hole so to speak?I often find my curiosity takes me to places I never intended to go...like asking silly and or personal questions.I know there's a professional way to research things,nonetheless my curiosity continues to get the better of me and indigenous history is also fascinating
@@raindog428 what rabbit holes do you have in mind?
@@walkaboutwithrob 😂 LOL yr a scream,umm the ones where ya heads down and ya bums up😆
@@raindog428 Sorry, not following.
lol freemason brisbane mayor office beside a quarry, wonderring if there were little tunnels below before big bus tunnel moved in by campbell newman who i guess is in some secret societies
Hello Rob. I've emailed you about sponsorship. Kind regards. Jack
Hmm Jack? Sim? Jack Sim? Could it be? This could be very interesting indeed to have 2 Brissy legends collaborate.
0:24 doesn't a politician live above that hill there.
Hey mate. Do you have a parcel locker or post office box at all? I own a business and would love to send you a couple of free gifts to help you on your journeys of beautiful Brisbane.
@IanF-px3cg That is most kind of you, thank you. At the moment I don't have a locker or PO Box, though I'm thinking I should get one. Perhaps we can work out some other way??
@@walkaboutwithrob it is free to set up a parcel locker but I'm not sure if you have one close enough to you. If you have any other suggestions just let me know. I'm not sure exactly where you are or what's around you and I can tell you have quite a few admirers so I don't think giving out your home address is a good idea lol. Maybe there is a newsagent near you that accepts parcels too? There is one near me that does.
@@MiloTheChonkyKitty I've never heard of parcel lockers but will definitely make an enquiry today and find out what the deal is. I really should get something like that. I'm in Beenleigh so my local PO should be able to help me out with that.
@@walkaboutwithrob awesome Rob. I'll get a few things together for you and you can just let me know where to send it when you figure it out :)
@@MiloTheChonkyKitty I have got a parcel locker number. Is that what I give others so they can send me things?
Pronouncing mayor as it is written. Unheard of.
Walking challenge.. Tweed heads to Byron bay 😊
might bew rong about dental school beingold medical school bit.. note old police station opp lego church, seems like a very close circle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Dental_Hospital_and_College