I’m glad to find this channel Brendan. Years ago, working in the railways and refurbishing an old government building in Wellington Street (which is still there and I believe, heritage listed, being 605 Wellington) we found, beneath the floorboards in a “basement” a plugged artesian bore, believed to be a part of Perths early water supply. The redevelopment left this alone, and as memory serves, there was no visible or obvious way into this location.
I love this channel- as someone who grew up and lives in Perth I’ve often passed these landmarks and wondered about them - it so cool to see someone unravel our local mysteries:)
I grew up in Mount Lawley, so am really appreciating your insights into the mysteries of the surrounding areas. I rode everywhere as a youth, and those curtained windows at the foot of the tower were just another place i desperately wanted to see behind. I do hope you can film a tour - and even climb inside the tower.
I know this area very well. I’d love for you to do a deep dive on Perth Oval. I still find the streets nearby lined with the Morton Bay Fig Trees incredibly seedy (so to speak lol). A definite dodgy vibe around there still.
"Art deco, sewer and antenna enthusiasts"? Niche 😊 A fascinating video. It's a beautiful structure and I'm surprised I didn't know about it. I'm very glad to have found a channel of this sort which is specific to Perth and W.A. (and even Boyup Brook, where I was born...)
The 'hill' it was constructed on is barely a rise, but yeah, it's a prominent landmark you could see from the old footy ground, Walcott Street and parts of Northbridge. I work part of the year at Tallison's so the abandoned rail line at BB is on my list. BB's museums are pretty good. The Freemason's Hall more great architecture.
I’ve stumbled across this channel randomly, thanks algorithm, and appreciate the effort and accuracy of this very niche content. Could be a short story in Floreat Drain if you’re interested.
I wasn't aware of that one! Thanks, I'll add it to my list. I'm sure there are plenty of treasures hiding around there - it's not an area I'm too familiar with!
I drive past so many of the things in your videos every day without noticing them. It's been really cool having those little pieces of old infrastructure pointed out so i can admire them in person.
I always loved the look of this structure (and other similar classic tall things like the Ascot kilns). Never knew that it hasn't had sewerage connection for decades!
About a year ago I was driving in the area to run some errands. While trying to find my way back home (very far away), I saw this tower and immediately stopped to try to find out what it was. An hour of photo taking, online searching and rabbitholes about ventilation stacks followed. 😂
I bought a old 80's Honda & spent afew school holidays driving it & tge kids around Perth exploring. We spotted this tower & drove over & checked it out, was interesting seeing the armoured car at the nearby Police museum building. Also not far away is a big old steamtrain at the Mt Lawley station.
As a young teen I had the opportunity to occupy a spare rear seat in the 6PR morning show traffic report chopper. In the front seat was obviously the pilot and to his left was radio personality, Des Austin. The station would regularly cut to Des for the morning traffic updates.The seat next to me was always occupied by a police officer who was always holding and talking on a VHF hand held police radio. I remember on one particular flight, we flew over this so called ventalation shaft/tower realy low and the copper in the chopper told me that the police had all there latest hi tech gear stashed in that tower and if it was ever destroyed the entire police comunications whould be whiped out and how vuneable it was to attack and hence the reason for regular fly overs. I remember it being not very far from Mount Lawley TAFE collage.
I never thought I’d be a sewer enthusiast but here we are, also there’s another pole like the one in Hyde Park on the corner of Thomas St and Cook St in West Perth. I always wondered what it was for.
Love your videos, you should check out the abandoned dunreath drive road below the main perth airport runway. It has a section of road abandoned in 1981 before tonkin highway was built, and another abandoned in 2015.
I went to an Open Day here in 2014 or so, and was surprised to meet a retired Brian Bull. Interesting place! I have been into the room you mention .. it's not super interesting :)
Love these videos man, keep them coming! Please do a video on the Red Hill Quarry and its history would really love to get more insight on that place, cheers man.
Yes, I found it interesting. Thanks again for your efforts. Lots of research in your vids, well-presented. They're appreciated. For my first 20 years in Perth I wondered what it was. Some locals called it a Cenotaph. Pre-internet days I researched in the library, finding out far less than you. A friend of a friend testified in a trial over an episode of graphic 90's violence in Northbridge and was then on a gang's hit list. He could never get a lease in his name and had a silent number. Then one day the police came a-knocking at his Smith Street apartment, telling him to move, sharpish. Apparently Ferret, street hustling, drug-addled ne'er-do-well, saw him and sped to the baddie's hangout in Leederville. Sold the info to the wanna-be ganstas, and playing both sides of the fence, also told the cops. Ferret reported "_______ is livin' in Highgate, near that war memorial thingee". Cops arrived and warned ______ to vacate, quickly. That war memorial thingee is a prominent and useful landmark. And a nice example of between war architecture.
They should really do something with this space; put up a plaque, make a small green space with benches etc. It’s such a point of visual interest and it seems odd for the city to kinda of ignore it.
Many years ago someone told me this thing was used to hang-dry fire hoses! Haha sounded perfectly logical to me at the time 😂 Thanks for sharing your research!
Thanks for the video! I’ve always loved our small smattering of art deco heritage in Perth. I’ve often thought of how cool that tower would be as a private turret for the odd soirée!
Growing up in my Lawley, I always knew that it was a police radio tower, and also passed you on my way to Perth Oval. My family also had a property in Mundaring and on our journey back down Greenmount Hill it would be clearly visible, this I add was the mid too late 60s.
I’ve just found your videos and wow! They’re incredibly interesting, and I’m so impressed by the lengths you go to in your research. As a future video suggestion- about 15 minutes south of Geraldton there is a large bright blue abandoned hotel(?) in the middle of the bush that I stumbled upon while hiking near the greenough river. I’m so curious to know the history of this building and why it was abandoned! Whether you explore it one day or not, keep up the great work!
Thanks Brendan ... I remember looking out from the observation deck of the WA Museum back in the 70s and 80s and wondering what it was ... Now I know :)
Tunnels under Rottnest Island. Went through them In the late 70s on a school trip . Came out through the big gun in the middle of the island ..wouldn't fit through now tho 😅
I doubt I could find the tunnels myself since the rumours have been floating around for decades, but I'm sure the rumour itself could make an interesting video
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s eventually also used as a 5G tower before of it’s hight and hilltop location which would be extremely ideal geography conditions for a phone tower! :)
I rode past this the other week and really enjoyed learning about these everyday things. I also passed Stirling towers nearby and would be interested if you did a video on that.
Fascinating! I really appreciate the quality of your videos, it's great to get a peek into the history of Perth, and so few people are filling that niche... Keep it up! ✨
Interesting and it would be great for a video of the tower inside. I also managed to get permission to climb the Perth Town Hall up to the top. It opens up to a small platform for the flag mast. Thats another fascinating location to video if you have the time.
Hell yes i want to see inside that little room building thing! Before you even mentioned it i was already curiously wondering fr... it looks so small, what on earth could be going on inside that it's getting so much use over the decades.. is it related to the location? Function? Ownership?Is it still connected to the sewer system? How deep? 😅 So many questions, rhetorical of course, i eagerly await the follow up video 😉
Theyve never caught my eye or attention before, but youve certainly made this stuff interesting, great watching a loacl do vids on our local history and landmarks Keep up the great work man
Interesting. I always heard it was for police training. So cool that rumor was confirmed. The other rumor was that it had access to secret tunnels. I’d be curious if there was any truth to that. Obviously it’s connected to the sewer system but if it was part of a secret military operation not outside the realm of possibility. Enjoying the videos m8
You should do an episode on the WWII military operations bunker in Belmont. It's currently used by DFES as a control and training centre. Thanks for sharing.
I've been trying to locate the upper swan airfield (just using google earth) and an approximate (hand drawn) map from around ww2, i haven't been able to find a location as of yet
The Caversham airfield was also a part of the racetrack for the Australian GP in 1956 and 1962. Part of it was earmarked for residential development in 2018. Mabe contact the WA Vintage Sports Car Club, from the article i read they seem to know of its location. I think it would be a good one for @brendansodyssey to make a video on.
That's an easy one -31.837868, 115.971731 . To the east is the N/S strip which was used as the main straight for the racetrack. In there is/was also a radio club.
you should find white horse trail, 16y ago there was still bits of ww2 stuff there, also yanship inn, that has conflicting stories and i cannot dig up the truth on the lake or the inn. lakes dry sad to say water rats are endangered again, that lake was there and not swamp as the ranger will tell you, yes it was dredged to make it deeper but was never like it is now as clammed also the bs the last it was full was 2003 as i have photos 2006 and it was full, little bird told me that new train line they had to pump out and lower the water table 4 years ago, between development there and that now there is no lake, yet last 2022 wa government said to Sydney press it was going to fix and put 60% of water back in in 2023, but it will never be as it was. government did not do that its dry for 90% some mud and small puddle. was there recently to see dead roo's in the mud. its a disaster and environmental catastrophe via UWA
Im one of those sewer, art deco and antenna enthusiasts.. We're a small but formidable group.
Thanks for making Perth that bit more interesting.😊
Perth has always been more interesting. People just dont get out of their comfort zones or open their eyes.
I’m glad to find this channel Brendan.
Years ago, working in the railways and refurbishing an old government building in Wellington Street (which is still there and I believe, heritage listed, being 605 Wellington) we found, beneath the floorboards in a “basement” a plugged artesian bore, believed to be a part of Perths early water supply. The redevelopment left this alone, and as memory serves, there was no visible or obvious way into this location.
I love this beautiful piece of Artdeco history and have been lucky enough to go inside it.
How did you get access? Simply asked?
I’ll message you on Facebook
I love this channel- as someone who grew up and lives in Perth I’ve often passed these landmarks and wondered about them - it so cool to see someone unravel our local mysteries:)
I went and checked this out for myself last week! You’re inspiring me to go and check out more places around perth for myself :)
Glad to hear it!
Yes. Definitely interested in old Perth infrastructure.. that still exists today.
I grew up in Mount Lawley, so am really appreciating your insights into the mysteries of the surrounding areas. I rode everywhere as a youth, and those curtained windows at the foot of the tower were just another place i desperately wanted to see behind. I do hope you can film a tour - and even climb inside the tower.
Remember that thing from when I was a kid living in Mt Lawley - never wondered what it was, actually.
Im starting to get hooked on these videos, great effort in there research and development. 👍
I love old weird infrastructure.
Thanks for sharing some of the history. I knew it was constructed as a sewer vent but didn't realise that its service life was so short!
I lived on Lincoln street for like 5 years and I always wondered what it was
I know this area very well. I’d love for you to do a deep dive on Perth Oval. I still find the streets nearby lined with the Morton Bay Fig Trees incredibly seedy (so to speak lol). A definite dodgy vibe around there still.
I would love to see a video of art deco in Perth ! One of my favourite styles
Mine too!
"Art deco, sewer and antenna enthusiasts"? Niche 😊
A fascinating video. It's a beautiful structure and I'm surprised I didn't know about it.
I'm very glad to have found a channel of this sort which is specific to Perth and W.A. (and even Boyup Brook, where I was born...)
The 'hill' it was constructed on is barely a rise, but yeah, it's a prominent landmark you could see from the old footy ground, Walcott Street and parts of Northbridge.
I work part of the year at Tallison's so the abandoned rail line at BB is on my list.
BB's museums are pretty good. The Freemason's Hall more great architecture.
I’ve stumbled across this channel randomly, thanks algorithm, and appreciate the effort and accuracy of this very niche content. Could be a short story in Floreat Drain if you’re interested.
I wasn't aware of that one! Thanks, I'll add it to my list. I'm sure there are plenty of treasures hiding around there - it's not an area I'm too familiar with!
I drive past so many of the things in your videos every day without noticing them. It's been really cool having those little pieces of old infrastructure pointed out so i can admire them in person.
Great channel mate…
Can you do a video on the Armadale to spearwood line?
It would be amazing if you could get a look inside
I'm still yet to attempt to go in myself, but if you check out my Community Tab, several viewers have sent me photos
Amazing! Thanks!
I always loved the look of this structure (and other similar classic tall things like the Ascot kilns). Never knew that it hasn't had sewerage connection for decades!
About a year ago I was driving in the area to run some errands. While trying to find my way back home (very far away), I saw this tower and immediately stopped to try to find out what it was. An hour of photo taking, online searching and rabbitholes about ventilation stacks followed. 😂
You should check out "Garden Island Highway".
Wasn’t aware of that. Thanks!
@@brendansodyssey Yeah it's one of the world's shortest highways. It's quite the anomaly.
I bought a old 80's Honda & spent afew school holidays driving it & tge kids around Perth exploring. We spotted this tower & drove over & checked it out, was interesting seeing the armoured car at the nearby Police museum building. Also not far away is a big old steamtrain at the Mt Lawley station.
Really needs to do Fremantle
There's a lot of different things I could cover there!
@brendansodyssey will leave that in your creative hands mate 👍
I always wondered what the story was behind this oddity. Thanks for enlightening me.
As a young teen I had the opportunity to occupy a spare rear seat in the 6PR morning show traffic report chopper. In the front seat was obviously the pilot and to his left was radio personality, Des Austin. The station would regularly cut to Des for the morning traffic updates.The seat next to me was always occupied by a police officer who was always holding and talking on a VHF hand held police radio. I remember on one particular flight, we flew over this so called ventalation shaft/tower realy low and the copper in the chopper told me that the police had all there latest hi tech gear stashed in that tower and if it was ever destroyed the entire police comunications whould be whiped out and how vuneable it was to attack and hence the reason for regular fly overs. I remember it being not very far from Mount Lawley TAFE collage.
I would like footage of what it’s like inside the tower!
How lucky are we to finally understand "old' Perth history
Yes bro we want to see inside.
I never thought I’d be a sewer enthusiast but here we are, also there’s another pole like the one in Hyde Park on the corner of Thomas St and Cook St in West Perth. I always wondered what it was for.
Love your videos, you should check out the abandoned dunreath drive road below the main perth airport runway. It has a section of road abandoned in 1981 before tonkin highway was built, and another abandoned in 2015.
I've ridden my bike down it, although I got a flat haha
Great informative videos Brendan
I went to an Open Day here in 2014 or so, and was surprised to meet a retired Brian Bull. Interesting place! I have been into the room you mention .. it's not super interesting :)
The training/meeting room, or into the tower itself?
I always imagined it was some secret Masonic symbol. I knew it wasn't but always seemed more exciting than a sewer stack.
Love these videos man, keep them coming! Please do a video on the Red Hill Quarry and its history would really love to get more insight on that place, cheers man.
Yes, I found it interesting. Thanks again for your efforts. Lots of research in your vids, well-presented. They're appreciated.
For my first 20 years in Perth I wondered what it was. Some locals called it a Cenotaph. Pre-internet days I researched in the library, finding out far less than you.
A friend of a friend testified in a trial over an episode of graphic 90's violence in Northbridge and was then on a gang's hit list. He could never get a lease in his name and had a silent number. Then one day the police came a-knocking at his Smith Street apartment, telling him to move, sharpish.
Apparently Ferret, street hustling, drug-addled ne'er-do-well, saw him and sped to the baddie's hangout in Leederville. Sold the info to the wanna-be ganstas, and playing both sides of the fence, also told the cops. Ferret reported "_______ is livin' in Highgate, near that war memorial thingee". Cops arrived and warned ______ to vacate, quickly.
That war memorial thingee is a prominent and useful landmark. And a nice example of between war architecture.
Great research and something I had never heard of.
Walked past this this morning lmao.
Killer video boss!
A friend used to live nearby and they nicknamed it ‘the monument to shit’ lol
They should really do something with this space; put up a plaque, make a small green space with benches etc. It’s such a point of visual interest and it seems odd for the city to kinda of ignore it.
Many years ago someone told me this thing was used to hang-dry fire hoses! Haha sounded perfectly logical to me at the time 😂 Thanks for sharing your research!
Thanks for the video! I’ve always loved our small smattering of art deco heritage in Perth. I’ve often thought of how cool that tower would be as a private turret for the odd soirée!
Rode my bike past this for years and never really paid any attention to it. Next time I’ll stop and have a look.
great stuff
Growing up in my Lawley, I always knew that it was a police radio tower, and also passed you on my way to Perth Oval. My family also had a property in Mundaring and on our journey back down Greenmount Hill it would be clearly visible, this I add was the mid too late 60s.
I’ve just found your videos and wow! They’re incredibly interesting, and I’m so impressed by the lengths you go to in your research. As a future video suggestion- about 15 minutes south of Geraldton there is a large bright blue abandoned hotel(?) in the middle of the bush that I stumbled upon while hiking near the greenough river. I’m so curious to know the history of this building and why it was abandoned! Whether you explore it one day or not, keep up the great work!
Nice inclusion of the radio callsign.
Thanks Brendan ... I remember looking out from the observation deck of the WA Museum back in the 70s and 80s and wondering what it was ... Now I know :)
There's also another similar vent to the one in Hyde Park in East Perth on Royal St on the West side of the Education Dept building.
Not many of these guys exist in Australia. Great video.
Keep doing what you are doing. It all works. I like the way you think. The passion for interesting finds. Great Stuff.
Thank you Brendan. Great video!
I had no idea it only worked for around 4 weeks.
Also if you're looking for ideas, there are rumoured to be tunnels under King's Park.
Tunnels under Rottnest Island. Went through them In the late 70s on a school trip . Came out through the big gun in the middle of the island ..wouldn't fit through now tho 😅
I doubt I could find the tunnels myself since the rumours have been floating around for decades, but I'm sure the rumour itself could make an interesting video
Can we bid on the bicycle?
How much you got?
@@brendansodyssey a flat bottle of coke and a bunch of good intentions?
~laughs~
Love your vid’s just subscribed 😀😃
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s eventually also used as a 5G tower before of it’s hight and hilltop location which would be extremely ideal geography conditions for a phone tower! :)
I rode past this the other week and really enjoyed learning about these everyday things. I also passed Stirling towers nearby and would be interested if you did a video on that.
Fascinating! I really appreciate the quality of your videos, it's great to get a peek into the history of Perth, and so few people are filling that niche...
Keep it up! ✨
Interesting and it would be great for a video of the tower inside. I also managed to get permission to climb the Perth Town Hall up to the top. It opens up to a small platform for the flag mast. Thats another fascinating location to video if you have the time.
Thanks for solving a mystery that I drive past every day! Love your videos.
Yeah I like the old stuff better than the new stuff.
Glad you're making these videos.
Cool channel mate. Really enjoying it thanks 👍
Hell yes i want to see inside that little room building thing!
Before you even mentioned it i was already curiously wondering fr... it looks so small, what on earth could be going on inside that it's getting so much use over the decades.. is it related to the location? Function? Ownership?Is it still connected to the sewer system? How deep? 😅
So many questions, rhetorical of course, i eagerly await the follow up video 😉
Theyve never caught my eye or attention before, but youve certainly made this stuff interesting, great watching a loacl do vids on our local history and landmarks
Keep up the great work man
Very suspect, i think it's the Perth office of the Men in Black 👍😁
It always reminded me of their headquarters! They actually used a ventilation building building for filming too, although for a tunnel.
@@brendansodyssey I know 😁👍
And I thought it was a Anzac monument 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
What a duncoff I am 😂😂
Dude, this is awesome. Keep it up.
Hod do you access the old maps
In this video I use the Landgate Map Viewer and some old sewer maps: mapping.sro.wa.gov.au/
I found you only yesterday. So stoked to see a new upload that takes part only a couple metres from my house! Awesome stuff :)
More like this would be great 👍
Haha i was going to ask out the Hyde park strutcture but you covered it :) Awsome to get some perth content. Love your work.
Unique content, loving all of it. Keep it up!
The stink stack
Interesting. I always heard it was for police training. So cool that rumor was confirmed. The other rumor was that it had access to secret tunnels. I’d be curious if there was any truth to that. Obviously it’s connected to the sewer system but if it was part of a secret military operation not outside the realm of possibility. Enjoying the videos m8
I have video of inside the tower
I would love to see it. How did you go about getting access?
@@brendansodyssey I do pest control and have been there a bunch of times
I can see this from my window.
I can see you from your window too
You should do an episode on the WWII military operations bunker in Belmont. It's currently used by DFES as a control and training centre.
Thanks for sharing.
Good idea as there are at least two locations in Belmont, having grown up there.
@@richiepaddick9261 I have spent a few years in the bunker, and have a very good understanding of the layout, and whats in there
dude these videos are sooo good. and boy do i have a doozey for ya look up Lot 130 hamersley road caversham and be biwildered
I've been trying to locate the upper swan airfield (just using google earth) and an approximate (hand drawn) map from around ww2, i haven't been able to find a location as of yet
The Caversham airfield was also a part of the racetrack for the Australian GP in 1956 and 1962. Part of it was earmarked for residential development in 2018. Mabe contact the WA Vintage Sports Car Club, from the article i read they seem to know of its location. I think it would be a good one for @brendansodyssey to make a video on.
@@mugzmugz7252 caversham airfield still (physically exists) the upper swan is a different airfield
@@mugzmugz7252 Caversham airfield is still around and accessible, upper swan airfield is different
That's an easy one -31.837868, 115.971731 . To the east is the N/S strip which was used as the main straight for the racetrack.
In there is/was also a radio club.
@@FelixMeister yeah the upper swan airfield is different to the Caversham one
Brendan is for the punks
Know it well. I love Art Deco ..
I always thought it was some sort of a Masonic/illuminati thing..
Mt dad used to call it a monument to poo 😅
On the way to the footy in about 1959 I asked Dad what it was. He told me it was "a monument to poo" 😅
you should find white horse trail, 16y ago there was still bits of ww2 stuff there, also yanship inn, that has conflicting stories and i cannot dig up the truth on the lake or the inn. lakes dry sad to say water rats are endangered again, that lake was there and not swamp as the ranger will tell you, yes it was dredged to make it deeper but was never like it is now as clammed also the bs the last it was full was 2003 as i have photos 2006 and it was full, little bird told me that new train line they had to pump out and lower the water table 4 years ago, between development there and that now there is no lake, yet last 2022 wa government said to Sydney press it was going to fix and put 60% of water back in in 2023, but it will never be as it was. government did not do that its dry for 90% some mud and small puddle. was there recently to see dead roo's in the mud. its a disaster and environmental catastrophe via UWA
the shit tower!!!
Hahaha only you would find a boring random creation in Perth and find a interesting story behind it.
Nothing is ever what it seems.
lol... ;)
I love this beautiful piece of Artdeco history and have been lucky enough to go inside it.