Видео

Brings a tear to my eyes some of these scenes. Because it’s only a heartbeat between those times and our own and only last week was standing in the exact same locations as many of those photos. Wondering if the ghosts of the past were walking round me.

Thank you the most noticeable thing about then compared to today was the amount of jobs around, today we do all these things, but with only a handful of staff for each. I am talking generally not specific to Bendigo.. as lots of these businesses will have moved on.. ❤

Australia before the Alien non-white invasion

I USE TO LIVE THERE

👍🏻 beauty mate , grand old place

Tks Jack great work

Cool 🐊

Seems cars in Aus didn’t really take off until the 70’s..❤

There was one milk bar/grocery store not shown in that series of photos and it was Millers’ shop on the corner of Olinda and Russell Streets in Quarry Hill, just across Russell Street from the Queens Arms pub. I recall that shop was run by two brothers (Jack and Albert Miller) and their sister Gladys. I lived (and grew up) in a house just up Olinda Street. That shop was a going concern in the 1960s early 1970s from memory. There was a public phone box just outside the shop in Olinda Street. During the period when the Health Department were running the xray caravan program to detect tuberculosis, the van would be parked in Olinda Street, adjacent to the shop. Thanks for triggering those memories. Those were great days to be a child. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.

Thanks for that video. As an Old Maristian, educated at Bendigo, I was not aware of the sacrifice of other Old Maristians. I am so sorry for that. Lest We Forget. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.

@ 3:15. Wonder if that cycle race is going up the old (not current) highway on the way out of Axedale towards Heathcote (on the bend on the left near the phone pole today are the ruins of an old house/pub covered in trees and undergrowth).

As with all the cinescope videos , flashing through at a million miles an hour, too much info rammed into 9 minutes , but still interesting 👀

Thanks for the “walk down memory lane”. I was born and grew up in Bendigo, left early 1975 for work in Melbourne. Still have lots of family up in Bendigo. I fondly remember walking passed Gillies on cold days after school, smelling the warm, friendly aromas from that shop. Also catching the tram out Quarry Hill way. I also spotted Monsieur Murphy on the Sacred Heart Cathedral build. Great memories!!!!! Grüße aus Australien.

1857, the year my great grandfather arrived at the Sandhurst diggings from Germany. After the Gold Rush, he went back to farming. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.

Can you please slow it down a bit so we dont have to keep pausing the video. Love the content its just to quick.

Thank you this is such a lovely tribute

The comments are way too fast to read, please login down

You also missed Chewton station which only close in the 1970’s (demolished now of course). And Carlsrue which is still there (bluestone). Golden Square. There was also a station at Ravenswood just before the Big Hill tunnel originally (not sure when that closed).

Rupertswood actually had its own platform (not a siding). Initially built for the rich folk at the mansion, it was latter used by a morning and evening train for the the private school campus (which the mansion became).

Building the Bridge was Double the estimate ?? What a surprise, not much has change in all these years 😅👍

Great history. Thanks for making it available. We all drive past these monuments and seem to take them for granted.

I'd love to know how long the train took to do the entire journey. I have a booklet from the Princess Theatre/Tivoli from February 1917 that shows 4 trains daily between Melbourne and Bendigo but it doesn't give the duration.

Interesting and really well done. Some may be intetested also in two RUclips short documentaries by Jeff Jennings, Tasmania . 1. The North East Rail Trail, Tullendeena to Scottsdale, 2. Denison Gorge on the North East Railway a lost and forgetten popular picnic area owned and operated by Tasmanian Government Railwsys up until the 1920's. Enjoy and thanks.

That was certainly interesting and got me thinking about how much of the country I don't know. Know nothing of the work that went on. Thanks for the video.

Immense pride and admiration for the work and skill devoted to the construction of this remarkable feat of engineering. We tend to take it for granted, forgetting about the many obstacles and risks this project would have presented.

The time frame on these cars is way out. Honestly if we weren't there we have no idea of what year it was??

There is a small granite monument on the south side of the Big Hill Tunnel dedicated to the men who died during the construction of the line. It has been very hard to find as it is only about 18 inches high and set back from the line.

G'day, thanks so much for the video, l love riding on the part of the Victorian rail system and think it's one of the best rides in the Country, sad that in modern times they stuffed up the duel rail lines system that was layed down, and reduced too single line because someone didn't check the width of the new express trains and they couldn't fit two side by side in our historical tunnels and under the blue stone bridges, those that did all that hard work must be spinning in their graves, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

A kind of mini Lake Wendouree

Where in Bendigo did Sydney Myer live. Was it at the end of Myers Street opposite Bendigo Drycleaners?

Excellent story of Sidney Myer and his brother. Well done

Don't remember Cohn soft drinks, only Tarax, Marchants and BCX when I was a wee lad in the 1960's at Castlemaine. Remember "G. J. Coles & Coy" back then. Great video, full of memories...thank you.

I remember the family driving from Castlemaine to Bendigo to try Kentucky Fried Chicken in the week it opened! Sad to see our once proud local industries all gone, all we get now is imported second rate rubbish from China. Still fondly remember a good Gillies Brothers pie drenched in tomato sauce at the footy! Was expecting to see Mayfair meat processors, my family had a connection with Trevor Matthews transport that hauled the Mayfair smallgoods. Remember "BCX" soft drinks too back in the 1960's? Cracking video.

Really enjoyed that, the town of my birth, and following the tradition of the Magpies I am a diehard Collingwood supporter today...😉

Shame it was too fast would have liked more time to enjoy the locations and recognising the old icons. Slow it down so we can enjoy it

Really enjoyed that, got anything on Castlemaine VIC? The way we were, and better off back then, not in the stinking mess the country is in now...Back then 10 cents worth of mixed lollies at the corner store was a bonanza!

It's amazing how the locations are so easily recognisable despite the changes. Like the building next to the Colonial Mutual Life Building at 0:24, then with balconies and festooned in advertising.

Bob Rechter passed away 1996, not 1976.

born and raised - mum owned a milk bar corner shop = i worked all my life with chores and duties = up at 5 - to greet the milkman and baker = mop floor open up shop - 18 years . with great memories of the valve radio bashing out = NORMIE ROE - and the wild one , johnny o`keef

Very interesting, I lived in Bendigo until I was 21. Both my grandfathers were goldminers and died of miner's phthisis, one in the 1930s and one in 1944.

Really interesting video but I found it too fast and it was hard to keep up. I remember Tarax soft drinks from when I was a child in the 1950s so this was very nostalgic. Thank you.

Cut the music,annoying.

Amazing thanks you Jack

I think you mean Huntingdale not Huntingale at 9:29. But what happened to Tarax? When and why did it go out of business?

Great idea , but flick scenes too quickly 😡😡😡

Did my apprenticeship at Clogs under Martin Van Haandel. Great boss.

love the backwards green onions

#32 @4:47 An 'John Goss Special' in the botton right of the picture doing a left hand turn....and what looks like a 'Lairy' yellow XAGT coupe parked off the side.

Thank you for sharing. Better times.

G'day, l started my Apprenticeship in 1974 in Bendigo and l have just retired this year, and l have loved every minute living in this wonderful City, problem is l don't know where the time went, thanks for the video, hope too see the next one soon, keep safe, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.