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Thanks for that. I worked in Glebe from 1977 till 1982 Brings back some good memories and instilled some bad ones ie the amount of pubs that have shut down Back in the day when men were men the pubs were full of schooner drinkers. Now its the chardonay latte sippers mob. Progress. Dont you love it.
Perhaps I have it wrong in thinking that Glebe was almost on the same level as Balmain and Newtown? We shall say nothing regarding beer drinkers or latte sippers, but we note that we have significantly more viewers of our Newtown and Balmain videos than we have of Glebe. So we a glad you at leat have enjoyed it, and good to know that you place your nostalgia as from 1977- 1982. We welcome more of your memories.
A question for our viewers. Why have our most popular RUclips videos been on, Kingsgrove, Glebe, Parramatta’s an historical time line and discovering history, Manly, Ryde and Concord. We would like to hear your views, particularly if you are a resident, employed in the area, or were either of these in the past. Glebe and Parramatta have we suspect a great sense of identity. Having worked in Parramatta, a lunchtime stroll down to the Lennox bridge and to sit beside the river was one of life’s pleasures, but why we ask are you watching?
Thank you both for these fantastic videos , i wish someone out there would do something similar for liverpool and campbelltown and the suburbs in between .
You are probably aware that our strategy has been to do histories of suburbs with adjacent borders. Balmain was the first suburb that does not obey that, rule. In that the views of our videos, and particularly the Balmain, have not in any way suffered, suggests that we might drop this approach. Which just might mean there is a greater hope of doing Campbelltown and Liverpool, which we are very aware of both having a substantial history. We have taken Seniors ( we are both of that age group)to view both towns. I seem to remember that Liverpool has a magnificent custom built museum, the envy I assure you of anyone living in our council area. You have tipped us into thinking of Sutherland shire. At present, as you may be aware, working on Randwick, another that, doesn’t have an adjacent border with any other video area. Do read some of other comments we have recently replied to, they may help you understand the way we are thinking. Be assured, that your comment have made us re-evaluate our method of choosing a suburb for a future video. I assume that you are a former resident of Glebe, who now resides further out. Happy to hear from you again.
Another great addition to the series. I adore Glebe, and walk from my area (Marrickville) to Glebe to admire the old homes regularly. It's a shame so many beautiful homes were lost to apartments but also heartening to see so many preserved. Always wonderful information, I just love your videos!
Thanks for your encouraging comments. Do please read the comments we have left on other peoples comments on Glebe. The creator of the video was almost overwhelmed by what in Glebe is still standing, and all largely because the Anglican Church never thought to modernise, and governments and the people had the sense to see it was worth preserving. We assume that the video has enriched your viewing of Glebe. In a few words, how are you making use of the video? For example, do you walk with your ‘phone and use it to view the video, or is that all left at home? As you are probably aware we are not far from Marrickville. Sometime ago, when we first put up our videos of Marrickville and Industrial Marrickville, we were more than pleasantly surprised at how popular they were, though no one was leaving comments. A friend discovered that the Facebook Page, ‘We Love Marrickville,’ had posted a link, and were happily talking about our video on site. We don’t promote the videos on Facebook, but certainly ‘We Love Marrickville’ should pride itself in being the friendliest and perhaps the most inclusive site. You might be interested in that from 1.30 - 4.30 p.m this Saturday, 4th November we shall be at St. Peters Church, built 1839, doing history tours of both church and graveyard. Church and Graveyard both heavily Heritage listed, graveyard in fact an archaeological sit. Its free!
We are very conscious of the unique factors that have created Haberfield. That its very controlled development, during the Federation period, has lead to it being the only living museum in Australia, rivalling, in some small way Laycock in England. The contrast is,that as far as I know, Haberfield has never been the backdrop of any period piece drama on film or television, whereas much has been made of Laycock. The origins of our Sydney Suburban History RUclips Channel was to focus on history. That is still true, however we are now aware, that nostalgia, plays a big part, schools, churches, pubs, factories, houses, cinemas, halls, parks, baths, rivers and smell are all in that mix. Many no longer live in the suburb, they have memories of. Some live in an area and delight in discovering buildings that they suspect are no longer used for their original purpose. We shall keep Haberfield in mind, but, seen as a stand alone video, It doesn’t, at first glance, appear to have either, the population, or the diversity of activity. Thanks for your encouraging comment, do please stat with us.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 Thank you for your reply. I am very impressed with your work. I know Haberfield is small, but does have an amazing History. From the time it was owned by the Ramsays, interesting by-laws like No Pubs allowed to be built, many Churches which are all still standing, plus some amazing properties still standing, like the old Detention centre for Young girls on Parramatta Rd. The most interesting to me, is the Hawthorne Canal which was built over an original creek, and how for about 2-3 years, a ferry operated there until the buildup of sand and debris closed operations in 1910s. Plus the Bridge on Parramatta Rd under the Train track now carrying the Light Rail. Anyway, would be great to see a historical video on Haberfield. Probably would not be as long as the Glebe one or other suburbs you had done, but will be definitely unique to others. Keep up the Good Work, and maybe one day someone like myself or someone else, can continue your work and legacy, so we all do not forget the History of our Inner West Suburbs. Cheers. Rui D.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 By the way, they have filmed many sets in Haberfield. I think the one with the Red Headed Lawyer who drinks and womanises (Can't remember the name of the show). Growing up on Hawthorne Parade, Catering trucks and film crew were forever using Richard Murden Reserve, while filming in some majestic Federation Houses. In Fact we also had a Cricket Commercial filmed in our Backyard, due to the old style garage, and space. Paid my dad to do it, and we even had a huge satelite dish which they moved for filming and re-installed it back at their own cost. Plus, outside of the Rocks, it is the only Heritage Listed SUBURB. I love the Inner West, despite living in southwest Sydney now.
@@ruidean72 The film series, with the ‘red headed lawyer and womaniser,’ is we believe ‘Rake,’ - apparently based on the real life character Charles Water Street. Apart from that, ‘My Place,’ another A.B.C. series but this time for children, roughly based on the book by Nadia Wheatley. I say roughly for the book is solidly based on St. Peters-Tempe-Marrickville. Searching on the internet, has proved pretty fruitless. The Rake answer came from a younger relative. We have enjoyed your memories, hoping you can provide more unique insights into Haberfield’s past. Are you able to contact family and friends who might fill in the blanks. Thanks for being so civilised.
Trust it was worth waiting for. Researching the history of Glebe, presented problems, not seen in other suburbs. In part created by the land being given to the Church of England to support clergy. Rev. Richard Johnson, who came out with the first fleet, had a farming background, but seems to have preferred farming at Canterbury on the Cooks River rather than on the ‘Glebe.’ That the church seemed to give little thought, of knocking down the suburb, and redeveloping it, has in the end perhaps proved all to the good. For whatever reason, Glebe has within its boundaries, a great variety of historic housing stock, hotels, not to mention, the majesty of the former Grace Bros. building, and unlike much around us it is still with us. That there has been much more material to research, more than one house has the same name, changes to roads, and buildings have gone through changes as to their use. All have presented a challenge. Finally you have a much longer video, which we hope was worth waiting for.
@@markwilkins8314 Sadly I have to report that your desire to have a video on Darling Harbour has been vetoed, in that it is considered to be in the City of Sydney. We set out with the opinion that there is too much of a focus on the City, particularly culturally and historically, which drains a vital cultural life from the suburbs. Would like to see more stories, films, plays, poems and songs set in suburban Sydney.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 It's been many years since the figure was researched, but these would be relevent today: 80& of local (non-international) visitation to the AGNSW, Sydney Festival (then), and the Museum of Contemporary Art came from a few eastern Sydney suburbs and a couple around North Sydney. Hard to imagine, yet those grand cultural facilities, with that expenditure, fail to service the wider population. Yet that's how Australia has grown, itself a cultural outpost. It never really was culturally serviced, though pleasing some effort these days is a little more aware of the wider need -- and societal value. (One of the interesting things I've learned from your videos is how culturally active and attractive was Newtown in its early days.) But Australia has a long, long way to go. What a 'City' mindset fails sometimes, I think, is in grasping the magnificence in knowing every human being responds deeply to cultural activity, naturally. For decades, as the above figures show, cultural development, cultural life, was hijacked by a relative handful of people in Sudney City, who made it their own. In many ways, it became an industry, requiring its protection from the 'outside' as it were. That it had done so remains very sad. But understandable, too, for the way Australian "settlement" came into being rendered it extremely vulnerable to such a hijacking. Interestingly, First Nation culture, which for a devastatingly long period looked to be trodden on as Australia modernised, if it could be called that, has now, I think, taken a lead in growing in wider understanding and appeal. Nothing could be more heartening! Your videos and studies and efforts deserve a vast audience. There really can be no measurable value placed on what you're doing, and having watched and cherished every one, saying "Thank you" is embarrassingly insufficient. Please indeed take heart.
@@lukecasey3480 We thank you for your very encouraging remarks. I don’t think I should mention, that they interrupted a short break on the south coast. I managed to write three and a half pages of foolscap in longhand, as some kind of reply. Fortunately, on the way back in the car, I suddenly realised that what triggered your response, was our reason for not including Darling Harbour, was that it was in the city of Sydney. I’m inclined to agree with you regarding elites indeed on much that you write. The one regret I have in excluding the City of Sydney, disqualified ‘Five Bells,’ by Kenneth Slessor. Sounds and a vision of the harbour, come alive in my head, whilst reading it preferably aloud. Hopefully at some later date we might do ‘Moorebank in slab-dark.’ Seeking to gain greater insight into Slessor and the poem, I viewed on RUclips an academic talk. The comments that followed were more enlightening. ‘My dad said this was a great poem, I hated it then, then my school teacher told me the same and I hated it more, and this has’t changed my mind. On another academic attempt, the complaint was, ‘He didn’t even recite the poem!’ Our aim with the channel was to do history, so we asked people, who we respected and were involved in four different local history groups to join us. They refused for they were already busy. Now, with only two working on a script we have developed a style, that we hope is consistent, and see the advantage in that. When we started, our view was to promote history. Our demographic, rarely goes below aged 45 years, the ones with the most views are suburban histories, though we long for people to view, ‘St. Peters Child Brickmakers ,Tempe House, and St. Peters Church. etc..We do enjoy receiving our viewers comments, one, which we rarely pick up on in creating the videos, are the smells of jam factories, tanneries, to name but two. Much is of course nostalgia, but we have no problem with that. What we don’t particularly care for is talking heads with egos, and old pictures with nothing but a musical track accompaniment. RUclips analytics tell us that very few of our viewers move from them to us, that coupled with our non use of Facebook or Indeed any other social media platform, means that we are generating our own audience. I think it would benefit us if we had connectivity with a channel that shares our values but as such, within N.S.W. there isn’t one. There is much to draw from, regarding suburban history, without wandering into our niche or territory. Regarding culture within suburbs, what you say regarding Newtown, would be equally true of most suburbs. My opinion is that it was substantially driven by the efforts of the School of Arts movement, Churches of all denominations and the Friendly Society movement. Place in Trove your suburb name, couple it with concert, and search between 1850-1920, to find out what is happening. I have a collection of songs that were sung during this period. A good many are popular Irish and Irish American songs. Of course you will not for the most part find them in Australian repositories, but you will find them in the University libraries of the U.S.A. Don’t forget we have a web site whose address you will find at the end of any of our videos. I think you may be interested in our ‘Voices from the Graveyard,’ an audio presentation, which has an element of the theatrical in it. Be warned we do not do ghosts. Look forward to hearing from you.
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Love your videos! I’ve lived in Pyrmont for 4 years and love the history and detail your videos provide.. keep up the good work
Thanks for that.
I worked in Glebe from 1977 till 1982
Brings back some good memories and instilled some bad ones ie the amount of pubs that have
shut down
Back in the day when men were men the pubs were full of schooner drinkers.
Now its the chardonay latte sippers mob.
Progress. Dont you love it.
Perhaps I have it wrong in thinking that Glebe was almost on the same level as Balmain and Newtown? We shall say nothing regarding beer drinkers or latte sippers, but we note that we have significantly more viewers of our Newtown and Balmain videos than we have of Glebe. So we a glad you at leat have enjoyed it, and good to know that you place your nostalgia as from 1977- 1982. We welcome more of your memories.
A question for our viewers. Why have our most popular RUclips videos been on, Kingsgrove, Glebe, Parramatta’s an historical time line and discovering history, Manly, Ryde and Concord.
We would like to hear your views, particularly if you are a resident, employed in the area, or were either of these in the past. Glebe and Parramatta have we suspect a great sense of identity. Having worked in Parramatta, a lunchtime stroll down to the Lennox bridge and to sit beside the river was one of life’s pleasures, but why we ask are you watching?
Thank you both for these fantastic videos , i wish someone out there would do something similar for liverpool and campbelltown and the suburbs in between .
You are probably aware that our strategy has been to do histories of suburbs with adjacent borders. Balmain was the first suburb that does not obey that, rule. In that the views of our videos, and particularly the Balmain, have not in any way suffered, suggests that we might drop this approach. Which just might mean there is a greater hope of doing Campbelltown and Liverpool, which we are very aware of both having a substantial history. We have taken Seniors ( we are both of that age group)to view both towns. I seem to remember that Liverpool has a magnificent custom built museum, the envy I assure you of anyone living in our council area. You have tipped us into thinking of Sutherland shire. At present, as you may be aware, working on Randwick, another that, doesn’t have an adjacent border with any other video area. Do read some of other comments we have recently replied to, they may help you understand the way we are thinking. Be assured, that your comment have made us re-evaluate our method of choosing a suburb for a future video. I assume that you are a former resident of Glebe, who now resides further out. Happy to hear from you again.
Another great addition to the series. I adore Glebe, and walk from my area (Marrickville) to Glebe to admire the old homes regularly. It's a shame so many beautiful homes were lost to apartments but also heartening to see so many preserved. Always wonderful information, I just love your videos!
Thanks for your encouraging comments. Do please read the comments we have left on other peoples comments on Glebe. The creator of the video was almost overwhelmed by what in Glebe is still standing, and all largely because the Anglican Church never thought to modernise, and governments and the people had the sense to see it was worth preserving. We assume that the video has enriched your viewing of Glebe. In a few words, how are you making use of the video? For example, do you walk with your ‘phone and use it to view the video, or is that all left at home? As you are probably aware we are not far from Marrickville. Sometime ago, when we first put up our videos of Marrickville and Industrial Marrickville, we were more than pleasantly surprised at how popular they were, though no one was leaving comments. A friend discovered that the Facebook Page, ‘We Love Marrickville,’ had posted a link, and were happily talking about our video on site. We don’t promote the videos on Facebook, but certainly ‘We Love Marrickville’ should pride itself in being the friendliest and perhaps the most inclusive site. You might be interested in that from 1.30 - 4.30 p.m this Saturday, 4th November we shall be at St. Peters Church, built 1839, doing history tours of both church and graveyard. Church and Graveyard both heavily Heritage listed, graveyard in fact an archaeological sit. Its free!
Thank you for the History. Will you ever do one on Haberfield?
We are very conscious of the unique factors that have created Haberfield. That its very controlled development, during the Federation period, has lead to it being the only living museum in Australia, rivalling, in some small way Laycock in England. The contrast is,that as far as I know, Haberfield has never been the backdrop of any period piece drama on film or television, whereas much has been made of Laycock.
The origins of our Sydney Suburban History RUclips Channel was to focus on history. That is still true, however we are now aware, that nostalgia, plays a big part, schools, churches, pubs, factories, houses, cinemas, halls, parks, baths, rivers and smell are all in that mix. Many no longer live in the suburb, they have memories of. Some live in an area and delight in discovering buildings that they suspect are no longer used for their original purpose. We shall keep Haberfield in mind, but, seen as a stand alone video, It doesn’t, at first glance, appear to have either, the population, or the diversity of activity. Thanks for your encouraging comment, do please stat with us.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 Thank you for your reply. I am very impressed with your work. I know Haberfield is small, but does have an amazing History. From the time it was owned by the Ramsays, interesting by-laws like No Pubs allowed to be built, many Churches which are all still standing, plus some amazing properties still standing, like the old Detention centre for Young girls on Parramatta Rd. The most interesting to me, is the Hawthorne Canal which was built over an original creek, and how for about 2-3 years, a ferry operated there until the buildup of sand and debris closed operations in 1910s. Plus the Bridge on Parramatta Rd under the Train track now carrying the Light Rail. Anyway, would be great to see a historical video on Haberfield. Probably would not be as long as the Glebe one or other suburbs you had done, but will be definitely unique to others.
Keep up the Good Work, and maybe one day someone like myself or someone else, can continue your work and legacy, so we all do not forget the History of our Inner West Suburbs. Cheers. Rui D.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 By the way, they have filmed many sets in Haberfield. I think the one with the Red Headed Lawyer who drinks and womanises (Can't remember the name of the show). Growing up on Hawthorne Parade, Catering trucks and film crew were forever using Richard Murden Reserve, while filming in some majestic Federation Houses. In Fact we also had a Cricket Commercial filmed in our Backyard, due to the old style garage, and space. Paid my dad to do it, and we even had a huge satelite dish which they moved for filming and re-installed it back at their own cost. Plus, outside of the Rocks, it is the only Heritage Listed SUBURB. I love the Inner West, despite living in southwest Sydney now.
@@ruidean72 The film series, with the ‘red headed lawyer and womaniser,’ is we believe ‘Rake,’ - apparently based on the real life character Charles Water Street. Apart from that, ‘My Place,’ another A.B.C. series but this time for children, roughly based on the book by Nadia Wheatley. I say roughly for the book is solidly based on St. Peters-Tempe-Marrickville. Searching on the internet, has proved pretty fruitless. The Rake answer came from a younger relative. We have enjoyed your memories, hoping you can provide more unique insights into Haberfield’s past. Are you able to contact family and friends who might fill in the blanks. Thanks for being so civilised.
Being a while
Trust it was worth waiting for. Researching the history of Glebe, presented problems, not seen in other suburbs. In part created by the land being given to the Church of England to support clergy. Rev. Richard Johnson, who came out with the first fleet, had a farming background, but seems to have preferred farming at Canterbury on the Cooks River rather than on the ‘Glebe.’ That the church seemed to give little thought, of knocking down the suburb, and redeveloping it, has in the end perhaps proved all to the good. For whatever reason, Glebe has within its boundaries, a great variety of historic housing stock, hotels, not to mention, the majesty of the former Grace Bros. building, and unlike much around us it is still with us. That there has been much more material to research, more than one house has the same name, changes to roads, and buildings have gone through changes as to their use. All have presented a challenge. Finally you have a much longer video, which we hope was worth waiting for.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 yes worth the wait, Darling harbour would be interesting,thanks for all your work
@@markwilkins8314 Sadly I have to report that your desire to have a video on Darling Harbour has been vetoed, in that it is considered to be in the City of Sydney. We set out with the opinion that there is too much of a focus on the City, particularly culturally and historically, which drains a vital cultural life from the suburbs. Would like to see more stories, films, plays, poems and songs set in suburban Sydney.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 It's been many years since the figure was researched, but these would be relevent today: 80& of local (non-international) visitation to the AGNSW, Sydney Festival (then), and the Museum of Contemporary Art came from a few eastern Sydney suburbs and a couple around North Sydney.
Hard to imagine, yet those grand cultural facilities, with that expenditure, fail to service the wider population.
Yet that's how Australia has grown, itself a cultural outpost. It never really was culturally serviced, though pleasing some effort these days is a little more aware of the wider need -- and societal value.
(One of the interesting things I've learned from your videos is how culturally active and attractive was Newtown in its early days.)
But Australia has a long, long way to go.
What a 'City' mindset fails sometimes, I think, is in grasping the magnificence in knowing every human being responds deeply to cultural activity, naturally.
For decades, as the above figures show, cultural development, cultural life, was hijacked by a relative handful of people in Sudney City, who made it their own. In many ways, it became an industry, requiring its protection from the 'outside' as it were.
That it had done so remains very sad. But understandable, too, for the way Australian "settlement" came into being rendered it extremely vulnerable to such a hijacking.
Interestingly, First Nation culture, which for a devastatingly long period looked to be trodden on as Australia modernised, if it could be called that, has now, I think, taken a lead in growing in wider understanding and appeal. Nothing could be more heartening!
Your videos and studies and efforts deserve a vast audience. There really can be no measurable value placed on what you're doing, and having watched and cherished every one, saying "Thank you" is embarrassingly insufficient.
Please indeed take heart.
@@lukecasey3480 We thank you for your very encouraging remarks. I don’t think I should mention, that they interrupted a short break on the south coast. I managed to write three and a half pages of foolscap in longhand, as some kind of reply. Fortunately, on the way back in the car, I suddenly realised that what triggered your response, was our reason for not including Darling Harbour, was that it was in the city of Sydney. I’m inclined to agree with you regarding elites indeed on much that you write. The one regret I have in excluding the City of Sydney, disqualified ‘Five Bells,’ by Kenneth Slessor. Sounds and a vision of the harbour, come alive in my head, whilst reading it preferably aloud. Hopefully at some later date we might do ‘Moorebank in slab-dark.’ Seeking to gain greater insight into Slessor and the poem, I viewed on RUclips an academic talk. The comments that followed were more enlightening. ‘My dad said this was a great poem, I hated it then, then my school teacher told me the same and I hated it more, and this has’t changed my mind. On another academic attempt, the complaint was, ‘He didn’t even recite the poem!’
Our aim with the channel was to do history, so we asked people, who we respected and were involved in four different local history groups to join us. They refused for they were already busy. Now, with only two working on a script we have developed a style, that we hope is consistent, and see the advantage in that. When we started, our view was to promote history. Our demographic, rarely goes below aged 45 years, the ones with the most views are suburban histories, though we long for people to view, ‘St. Peters Child Brickmakers ,Tempe House, and St. Peters Church. etc..We do enjoy receiving our viewers comments, one, which we rarely pick up on in creating the videos, are the smells of jam factories, tanneries, to name but two. Much is of course nostalgia, but we have no problem with that. What we don’t particularly care for is talking heads with egos, and old pictures with nothing but a musical track accompaniment. RUclips analytics tell us that very few of our viewers move from them to us, that coupled with our non use of Facebook or Indeed any other social media platform, means that we are generating our own audience. I think it would benefit us if we had connectivity with a channel that shares our values but as such, within N.S.W. there isn’t one. There is much to draw from, regarding suburban history, without wandering into our niche or territory.
Regarding culture within suburbs, what you say regarding Newtown, would be equally true of most suburbs. My opinion is that it was substantially driven by the efforts of the School of Arts movement, Churches of all denominations and the Friendly Society movement. Place in Trove your suburb name, couple it with concert, and search between 1850-1920, to find out what is happening. I have a collection of songs that were sung during this period. A good many are popular Irish and Irish American songs. Of course you will not for the most part find them in Australian repositories, but you will find them in the University libraries of the U.S.A.
Don’t forget we have a web site whose address you will find at the end of any of our videos. I think you may be interested in our ‘Voices from the Graveyard,’ an audio presentation, which has an element of the theatrical in it. Be warned we do not do ghosts.
Look forward to hearing from you.