Its adorable and awesome to see someone so wrapped up in stuff they find interesting. I may not be a nerd of buildings, buts it awesome to see someone just living their own nerdiness.
Thank you for highlighting the need to save our heritage convent in Rosalie. It’s heartbreaking to see the condition of Our Lady Help of Christians Convent. The 190 or so Sisters of Mercy (not including boarders) who had their home here over nearly 80 years would either be horrified to see this and for those no longer with us turning in their graves. The Sisters while teaching at the school kept this building in pristine condition with their limited funds and the gardens around the convent were beautifully maintained and thrived. As a part pupil of Sacred Heart School Rosalie, I had the privilege of having music lessons in the front parlour and was in awe when I entered that beautiful room. Now it is in shambles sadly.😪😔
A few decades ago, my father redeveloped a property on 24 Mcnab Street, Paddington. They installed the balustrading from the former Bellevue hotel that once stood on the corner of George and Alice Street in Brisbane city. The hotel was erected in 1885, and demolished in 1979. The balustrading has these distinctive bell shapes laced throughout.
Interesting that this area was once regarded as in need of handouts. Having only lived here 26 years I have only seen it as Yuppieville. Like West end was industrial, re zoned, now expensive. I worked at Bulimba that had industry. Re zoned while I worked there. All apartments now. Rosalie had the bakery for employment. Gone. The trend is to get rid of the working class by getting rid of any industry that they can work in. And replace with high end housing they can't afford. Brisbane is going like London, the domain of the mega rich or 10 in a house sharing the rent. Where there were streets filled with people that worked together and knew each other, now they are full of people that don't know their neighbour. I preferred the old days.
great comment. 👍 brisbane now. like london in the 1970s constructing all those horrible high-rise appartment tower blocks .. and good point about industry. we used to have shoe factories and blanket manufacturers and all sorts of businesses going. now all gone.
@davetaylor4741 I don't think it's a case of trying to get rid of the working class by deliberately removing various industries from their area. Most inner-city industries have moved away simply because the land they were on was to small to for them to expand. As businesses grow they often need larger premises, so they simply shift to an area that has more land. Or some businesses are no longer required.
This had a very different energy to the normal videos, it was quite entertaining. I hope there are more collaborations with The House Detective in the future!
I did my driving licence test at the Rosalie test centre in the 70s. I remember those steep hills, having to do a hill start on one of them. I like the collab with Mariane, i follow her channel as well.
Great video, Rob! Lived on Annie Street (part of Auchenflower now but used to be part of a small locality named Torwood) from around mid 1980's to early 1990's - I love that part of Brisbane, so many memories. Thank you.
I attended Marist ( pronounced Mar rist) brothers Rosalie in the 70s. When the queen was in attendance staying at government house, us students would form a guard of honour on Fernberg Rd.
Class just got exponentially increased on this episode 😂 On a more personal note, I flew with an Army aerial survey team which captured the 2011 floods. Anna Bligh was the premier at the time, and was supposed to visit us and award us a commendation. She never came, instead, a public servant came and we gave the Qld 100s of thousands in dollars worth of data (we flew as far North as Bundaberg, and as far west as Miles which is a mining site and didn’t get a drop of rain during the floods). So, if you see aerial flood imagery it’s courtesy of the Army 4 man ADS40 team.
It was after the amalgamation of all the various councils into the Brisbane City we know today in 1925 that they started changing the street names due there being so many streets named the same.
I scored 3 out of 3 of the places I rented. Bernhard St, then Stevenson, and Nash. I never wondered once about that derelict former bakery, or the old police house.
Great stuff as always Rob. Thanks again for you hard work. Always very interesting content. Glad someone is looking into and researching Brisbane and SEQ's history. 🙂🖖
Thanks again Rob for another fascinating video. I do love some of the old homes around Rosalie. I remember it was badly flooded in 2011. Love the old bus shelter opened by William Jolly….this was wonderful as usual. Sending you sunshine from Oz 🌞🦘🌏
Loving this - do more with The House Detective and give her more lines. This one had been a lot less dry than usual. Not that I don't like your normal stuff just both of you work together. This was grouse.
Mark Lythall here, also attended Marist Brothers Rosalie, quite a few of us catholic boys trained in from what was then brisbane outer suburbs - chelmer, graceville, Sherwood, Oxley , bit of a walk up there hill every morning. In some ways it was a good high school, but there was not a lot of room with everything crammed in on tiers, swimming pool, library, tennis courts.
@@clementulcoq5440 started grade 8 in 1975, finished grade 12 in 1979, remember coming to school in grade 10 to hear that Elvis had died and also cheering on valiant chargers that drove past on Fernberg Road. I reckon I was too young to really comprehend every thing that happened at High School, and I didn’t really get a grasp on life till I was 21. I can remember you as one of the people that made school a bit more bearable. Since moving into adult hood, I have developed an interest in early Australian History and am finding “walkabout with rob” quirky and engaging. He has developed a very “niche” product that people seem to enjoy.
12:00 That school building reminds me of the school that was out the back of the Children's hospital years ago. I spent some time in the old hospital as a kid.
Great tour, thanks Rob and Marianne! Unless I missed it - did you cover Augustus Gregory's 1860s house 'Rainworth', now at 7 Barton Street (and nicely renovated!)? Gregory lobbied for the pipe drainage and filling of the Red Jacket Swamp in the early 1900s. When it was suggested that they name the new park after him, he was horrified, as he considered it was an eyesore. He died a year or two later (1905) and they named it for him anyway
@petereedy6092 Thanks indeed for your comment. We didn't cover the house, mainly because it is in Bardon and that is quite a distance from our subject area of Rosalie. Nice bit of historical info though that we should have mentioned.
That house you guys stopped at with the fake shingles @830 - a few years ago when I used to walk my dog past it, there was a border collie who had its own chair by the window !
👍 great video , interesting stuff. it's a nice part of brisbane. with the crazy housing situation i could only imagine house prices in Rosalie are around $2million ..
@walkaboutwithrob My sister lived at Rosalie for a while when I was a kid; fond memories of tearing down the very steep street on a go-kart, almost killing ourselves...I refuse to acknowledge that I wasn't there! 🤣 Catch up again soon at our subscribers meet up. 😉👍
Oh, I'n so glad those beautiful stained glass windows & doors aren't smashed in that convent! Something really should be done with it, , like a community space or meeting rooms/ small theatre or something! Also, interesting that we have so many Victorian place names here in Brisbane (these in the video, along with Dandenong Rd where the Westfield is).
yes Rob, I discovered when I was doing ancestry seaches for my wife who was born in Queensland. there are lots of roads that had there names changed between 1930 and the 1960's. keep walking.
Great collab, Rob. Rosalie is such a gem of (former) suburb. One of my favourite locales in Brisbane. I assume you were living in those flats as a uni student sometime in the 90s?
I'm sorry Rob. I'm an architectural nut, and The House Detective has been part of my life before you. Not that I wish to disparage your wonderful rovings. I used to live in Torwood, up the hill from the Milton School. Just a few streets with a name. Lots of workers cottages, and very hilly.
Great video the mix of your personalities was entertaining, oh the end sounds like Rob hasn’t been doing much walkabout lately 😂😂😂 a little out of breath
Well I've visited Sydney (my home town), Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris. Plus lots of towns and localities in south east Queensland. But yes, I plan to visit lots more other towns and cities. Some quite far away...
You never made it to the Old License testing Centre. Got my car and M/C licenses there. I currently have grandkids going through the log book and other fairly time consuming stuff to get a license. Back in my day, you only had to show up under .08 to get a paper license.
Another very informative video, thank you very much. I have lived in Queensland for over 50 years and am learning so much about Brisbane from your adventures.
Do that again Marianne brought a [atch of color into the mix complete with humour. Your tongue turning was interesting. Which of your parents could do that also? That is the one who/s genes are dominant. I can roll my tongue and only my mother could do it also.
It's really good and unusual to see someone so interested in their work and no it's not unprofessional to say she's so excited she might pee her pants it's a little stroll around an interesting suburb of Brisbane not a documentary
Is there a way that someone can be contacted about the convent? Otherwise it is going to end up looking like "Glamis Private Hospital" ...look it up! I made a video on it, it is completely ruined, and was beautiful once.
@@walkaboutwithrob Lol the anti-vax, Qanons who used to hang outside on Fernberg Rd outside the driveway at Gov house! Would write in chalk on the driveway and had sprouted nonsense via a megaphone! Haven't seen them in ages!
You two are the perfect team ! Love to see more ..thank you
Our pleasure!
Its adorable and awesome to see someone so wrapped up in stuff they find interesting. I may not be a nerd of buildings, buts it awesome to see someone just living their own nerdiness.
😂 thanks!
Thank you for highlighting the need to save our heritage convent in Rosalie. It’s heartbreaking to see the condition of Our Lady Help of Christians Convent. The 190 or so Sisters of Mercy (not including boarders) who had their home here over nearly 80 years would either be horrified to see this and for those no longer with us turning in their graves. The Sisters while teaching at the school kept this building in pristine condition with their limited funds and the gardens around the convent were beautifully maintained and thrived. As a part pupil of Sacred Heart School Rosalie, I had the privilege of having music lessons in the front parlour and was in awe when I entered that beautiful room. Now it is in shambles sadly.😪😔
I'm loving this collaboration.
Love the combination of you two. Great seeing the House Detective out in the field again.
This is a heavy hitting team up. Nice one.
My driver license test was at Rosalie on the day of the Commonwealth games men’s marathon. De Castella won and I got my license.
I did licence test at rosealie
A few decades ago, my father redeveloped a property on 24 Mcnab Street, Paddington. They installed the balustrading from the former Bellevue hotel that once stood on the corner of George and Alice Street in Brisbane city. The hotel was erected in 1885, and demolished in 1979. The balustrading has these distinctive bell shapes laced throughout.
Rob i really love your sense of humour 😂 thank you so much for your accurate account of Brisbane history….just so well presented 👍
@onpointmetaldetecting2158 aww thank you! I just love making these shows.
Love a collaboration. Another fantastic video, Rob. Look forward to watching your video, Maryanne.
Best collab ever
This is true.
@@walkaboutwithrob yes but you and the author of the great fire of Brisbane is a close second and you and jelbuilders a close third
Interesting that this area was once regarded as in need of handouts. Having only lived here 26 years I have only seen it as Yuppieville. Like West end was industrial, re zoned, now expensive. I worked at Bulimba that had industry. Re zoned while I worked there. All apartments now. Rosalie had the bakery for employment. Gone. The trend is to get rid of the working class by getting rid of any industry that they can work in. And replace with high end housing they can't afford. Brisbane is going like London, the domain of the mega rich or 10 in a house sharing the rent. Where there were streets filled with people that worked together and knew each other, now they are full of people that don't know their neighbour. I preferred the old days.
great comment. 👍 brisbane now. like london in the 1970s constructing all those horrible high-rise appartment tower blocks .. and good point about industry. we used to have shoe factories and blanket manufacturers and all sorts of businesses going. now all gone.
@davetaylor4741 I don't think it's a case of trying to get rid of the working class by deliberately removing various industries from their area. Most inner-city industries have moved away simply because the land they were on was to small to for them to expand. As businesses grow they often need larger premises, so they simply shift to an area that has more land. Or some businesses are no longer required.
@@walkaboutwithrobSorry Rob. I think they are trying to erase the middle class.
@@lonnie224 they’re trying to get rid of the working class and the middle class?
@@walkaboutwithrob I believe it’s the middle class. Then there will only be the haves and the have nots. Easier to control the masses that way.
I lived in the area about 30 years ago. Walked up and down those hills everyday like it was nothing. Learnt so much from this video.
@MultiDonna99 History LITERALLY is everywhere.
Looking foward to another collaboration
Loved this vid Rob. You and Maryanne should do more collabs. Love Paddington and old historic buildings etc. ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
This had a very different energy to the normal videos, it was quite entertaining. I hope there are more collaborations with The House Detective in the future!
I did my driving licence test at the Rosalie test centre in the 70s. I remember those steep hills, having to do a hill start on one of them. I like the collab with Mariane, i follow her channel as well.
Great video, Rob! Lived on Annie Street (part of Auchenflower now but used to be part of a small locality named Torwood) from around mid 1980's to early 1990's - I love that part of Brisbane, so many memories. Thank you.
My 86 year old mother’s old stamping ground, all those hills, she lived in Beck street too, she was actually born in the house 1937-1950
That’s a very long labour.
Great to see use both working together,,thoroughly enjoyed it ,more please
@blakeshannon2083 So glad you enjoyed it. Yes, happy to do another
I saw a fox near Albion train station a few years ago! Trotting along the footpath like it was the most normal thing in the world.
I attended Marist ( pronounced Mar rist) brothers Rosalie in the 70s. When the queen was in attendance staying at government house, us students would form a guard of honour on Fernberg Rd.
You had me at "what a dick". 🤣
Rob, your work documenting the history of Brisbane is such important work .... thank you!
Class just got exponentially increased on this episode 😂
On a more personal note, I flew with an Army aerial survey team which captured the 2011 floods. Anna Bligh was the premier at the time, and was supposed to visit us and award us a commendation. She never came, instead, a public servant came and we gave the Qld 100s of thousands in dollars worth of data (we flew as far North as Bundaberg, and as far west as Miles which is a mining site and didn’t get a drop of rain during the floods). So, if you see aerial flood imagery it’s courtesy of the Army 4 man ADS40 team.
@honestpat7789 I agree!
This was brilliant - thank you for bringing back some memories. Although we lived closer to Bardon, we just sold the family home after 90 years.
Last time I was in Rosalie was at the testing centre when I got my manual driver's license back in 78. (Hilly!!)
It's still there! Vacant - has been for sale for years!!
Great vintage footage of the bakery .. looks like it's been through some hardship in its day.
Technically you could drill a hole down to Legacy Way tunnel and drain Gregory Park permanently 🤣
You guys make a good team. Really enjoyed this video 😊
@shellebelle53 thank you very much!
Thank you both so much for a fantastic entertaining video
Our pleasure!
It was after the amalgamation of all the various councils into the Brisbane City we know today in 1925 that they started changing the street names due there being so many streets named the same.
That was a fun video, you both did well and it was really interesting..
I scored 3 out of 3 of the places I rented. Bernhard St, then Stevenson, and Nash. I never wondered once about that derelict former bakery, or the old police house.
Great stuff as always Rob. Thanks again for you hard work. Always very interesting content. Glad someone is looking into and researching Brisbane and SEQ's history. 🙂🖖
Thanks again Rob for another fascinating video. I do love some of the old homes around Rosalie. I remember it was badly flooded in 2011. Love the old bus shelter opened by William Jolly….this was wonderful as usual. Sending you sunshine from Oz 🌞🦘🌏
No wonder that school could be mistaken for a factory, its the same style as the XXXX brewery in Milton...
Like the House Detective channel too
Loved the 2 for 1 Rob..
Loving this - do more with The House Detective and give her more lines. This one had been a lot less dry than usual. Not that I don't like your normal stuff just both of you work together. This was grouse.
@enothewonderdog Thank you! However, we did our own videos. Please watch Marianne's video as she takes centre stage in that.
@@walkaboutwithrob I watched the two of them.. I just found the two of you at once amusing
The school was a factory Rob, churning out good catholic boys!!
Mark Lythall here, also attended Marist Brothers Rosalie, quite a few of us catholic boys trained in from what was then brisbane outer suburbs - chelmer, graceville, Sherwood, Oxley , bit of a walk up there hill every morning. In some ways it was a good high school, but there was not a lot of room with everything crammed in on tiers, swimming pool, library, tennis courts.
@@marklythall8712hey Mark. How are you? Nice to see you here. How long has it been? 45 years?
@@clementulcoq5440 started grade 8 in 1975, finished grade 12 in 1979, remember coming to school in grade 10 to hear that Elvis had died and also cheering on valiant chargers that drove past on Fernberg Road. I reckon I was too young to really comprehend every thing that happened at High School, and I didn’t really get a grasp on life till I was 21. I can remember you as one of the people that made school a bit more bearable. Since moving into adult hood, I have developed an interest in early Australian History and am finding “walkabout with rob” quirky and engaging. He has developed a very “niche” product that people seem to enjoy.
12:00 That school building reminds me of the school that was out the back of the Children's hospital years ago. I spent some time in the old hospital as a kid.
The was the Mater, wasn't it?
@@becsterbrisbane6275 The Royal Brisbane Children's Hospital. It was on Herston Road, up the hill from the current main entrance to the hospital.
Stop pulling faces Rob, she knows her stuff...😁
@tanyaogrady2240 She sure does! And I will continue to pull faces.
Amazing how many abandoned places there are in one of the most expensive suburbs in Brisbane. Imagine how valuable that old bakery land is in 2024.
Hey Rob & House Detective 🌻🍃🌸Didn’t know Rosalie wasn’t a suburb anymore ✌️💚😎🌈🌊🌺☀️🌴
Great video once again both of you!
Great tour, thanks Rob and Marianne!
Unless I missed it - did you cover Augustus Gregory's 1860s house 'Rainworth', now at 7 Barton Street (and nicely renovated!)?
Gregory lobbied for the pipe drainage and filling of the Red Jacket Swamp in the early 1900s. When it was suggested that they name the new park after him, he was horrified, as he considered it was an eyesore. He died a year or two later (1905) and they named it for him anyway
@petereedy6092 Thanks indeed for your comment. We didn't cover the house, mainly because it is in Bardon and that is quite a distance from our subject area of Rosalie. Nice bit of historical info though that we should have mentioned.
That house you guys stopped at with the fake shingles @830 - a few years ago when I used to walk my dog past it, there was a border collie who had its own chair by the window !
Never realised that Rosalie had disappeared as a suburb 🫤
Used to score on fernburg Rd.
I did as well back in 2003. I worked in maintenance and meet lots of lovely people renting inner-city and surrounding suburbs 🤙
Happy to see the cinema is still going.
The governor should have invited you in for tea.
I'm sure I would have made a nuisance of myself in there.
👍 great video , interesting stuff. it's a nice part of brisbane. with the crazy housing situation i could only imagine house prices in Rosalie are around $2million ..
@walkaboutwithrob My sister lived at Rosalie for a while when I was a kid; fond memories of tearing down the very steep street on a go-kart, almost killing ourselves...I refuse to acknowledge that I wasn't there! 🤣 Catch up again soon at our subscribers meet up. 😉👍
Hhmmm yes we will...
Hi Mez, great to see you back on UA-cam again
I’m guessing you know me, since you know my bogan nickname, but I’m sorry, I don’t know who you are? 🤔😊
fantastic video guys..cheers..
The Mics own all the good hills in Brisbane.
Who are the “Mics”
@@jamesdurham2590 Micks = Catholics. Thank you Archbishop Duhig.
Also in Paddington is Ithica. Is it a suburb?
good point. stones corner is similar .....
No, it's now a former suburb.
Oh, I'n so glad those beautiful stained glass windows & doors aren't smashed in that convent! Something really should be done with it, , like a community space or meeting rooms/ small theatre or something! Also, interesting that we have so many Victorian place names here in Brisbane (these in the video, along with Dandenong Rd where the Westfield is).
The mash-up nobody knew they wanted but everybody needed
😂
All peaks and hilltops were significant places to indigenous culture. They were not permanently occupied by tribes.
Much like people today like the views up high
yes Rob, I discovered when I was doing ancestry seaches for my wife who was born in Queensland. there are lots of roads that had there names changed between 1930 and the 1960's. keep walking.
I'm seeing chemistry ...
Yeah me too! You need more “instructions”
Great collab, Rob. Rosalie is such a gem of (former) suburb. One of my favourite locales in Brisbane. I assume you were living in those flats as a uni student sometime in the 90s?
The mobile computer geeks logo looks like the duo lingo owls nerdy cousin
A lot of history in that area
Total crack-up! Can I join next time? I will bring a hammer and bolt-cutters. (Chuckle.)
...VERY GREAT SHOW...REALLY INTERESTING....THANKS....I LIVE IN DARRA...HAVE A GOOD NIGHT...
Another great video Rob very interesting and funny watching you turn your tongue upside down had me laughing at 6 am this morning thank you again.
I'm sorry Rob. I'm an architectural nut, and The House Detective has been part of my life before you. Not that I wish to disparage your wonderful rovings. I used to live in Torwood, up the hill from the Milton School. Just a few streets with a name. Lots of workers cottages, and very hilly.
Great video the mix of your personalities was entertaining, oh the end sounds like Rob hasn’t been doing much walkabout lately 😂😂😂 a little out of breath
With the size of those hills around there it's not surprising!
Most interesting. I learned a lot of an area close to where I grew up. I'll spare you the stories.
Love the dry humour.
Surprised Rob didn't mention the Huge organ in the church
Given the Mt Cootha butterfly story I was expecting Rob to say the fox ran across the road and got hit by a car 😮
Hey Rob I would love to see you visit other cities/towns. Is this possible?
Well I've visited Sydney (my home town), Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris. Plus lots of towns and localities in south east Queensland. But yes, I plan to visit lots more other towns and cities. Some quite far away...
Awesome video
Don't let her get hit by a car rob 😉
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Norrrr it's been uploaded for an hour!!! I'm late 😢
can you please do a history of geebung
You never made it to the Old License testing Centre. Got my car and M/C licenses there. I currently have grandkids going through the log book and other fairly time consuming stuff to get a license. Back in my day, you only had to show up under .08 to get a paper license.
We did walk near it, and I mentioned it to Marianne, but we kept going.
Got my licence there too back in '76
Another very informative video, thank you very much. I have lived in Queensland for over 50 years and am learning so much about Brisbane from your adventures.
You two did a great job, I'm going to have to "this gals" channel as well.
@darrenxw3495 Marianne's channel is brilliant. Everyone should subscribe.
I always hit like at the start. I don't think you've a shit vlog yet.
@stewartlee8858 I have made a few, but they are now private.
@@walkaboutwithrob For the best
Do that again Marianne brought a [atch of color into the mix complete with humour. Your tongue turning was interesting. Which of your parents could do that also? That is the one who/s genes are dominant. I can roll my tongue and only my mother could do it also.
Robert you should have been nicer to Maryanne and at least given her a piggyback up the hills 😮.
Just Loved this production good work guys
@whalan4509 I did offer, but Marianne is much fitter than I.
@@walkaboutwithrob😂
A trip along amnesia lane😮
I want my flying Sorrento brother
It's really good and unusual to see someone so interested in their work and no it's not unprofessional to say she's so excited she might pee her pants it's a little stroll around an interesting suburb of Brisbane not a documentary
The second house shown is undergoing a 4M dollar renovation.
It’s basically being entirely rebuilt so I’m actually surprised it’s not more!
5:54 cancer man xfiles, that's funny az.
Magpie or crow?
😊😊😊😊😊
Is there a way that someone can be contacted about the convent? Otherwise it is going to end up looking like "Glamis Private Hospital" ...look it up! I made a video on it, it is completely ruined, and was beautiful once.
When will you do a video on the mud flood?
@WHDRWN The day I do a mud flood video will be the day I lose my mind and become a lunatic. That's what it takes to do mud flood videos.
@@walkaboutwithrob haha just trollin as usual
@@WHDRWN Why? Why not just be cool and contribute something meaningful?
@@walkaboutwithrob Cos it's really funny that the mud flood loonies got under your craw
@@WHDRWN No, I think I got under theirs. Evidence - here YOU are.
Theme park 🤣😂🤣
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Have the cookers left Govt house? 🙃
You're going to need to talk me through this one.... cookers??
@@walkaboutwithrob Lol the anti-vax, Qanons who used to hang outside on Fernberg Rd outside the driveway at Gov house! Would write in chalk on the driveway and had sprouted nonsense via a megaphone! Haven't seen them in ages!
@@janemacintyre9801time for your booster champ
William Davis and Cancer man. 😂
“Original” landholder… 😒
@@davidbeazley1958 why not just say what’s on your mind?
Cute couple 😉
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Here's my comment 😉