YARRABILBA before YARRABILBA
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2023
- Yes I know, it's a rather corny title, but this video is about what went on in the Yarrabilba area before the Yarrabilba suburban development began. BTW my busted knee is much better, nearly healed. I am ever so slightly limping in a few shots but I don't think anyone will notice.
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Have lived on the edge of this development for the last 18 years. Appreciate the history. Things sure have changed a lot around here. Agree about returning the memorial to the original location.
Watching this makes me sad, as used to go in before the development, & the wildlife that we used to see was amazing
Yup we moved away from Jimboomba because of gangs and all the proposed developments. Our logic was if they're building these huge developments but with inadequate public transport, we may as well move to Brisbane.
We live on a property owned by a Plunkett. the amount of history in this area is incredible. There are gravesites near Plunkett Road that were where Australian servicemen were buried when it was part of Camp Cable. The sites have since lost their markers, and will probably be built over or accidently dug up when Yarrabilba expands to Plunkett Rd.
My family used to operate a ferry service at Logan village, rowing people across the river.
The family left, but somehow we ended up a stones throw from their old house, near where the bridge went over.
I remember that pine forest from Logan village to what felt like Tamborine.
I left the area 20+ years ago, and would fall off my chair if I saw it again.
Very Interesting story, do you happen to remember coordinates of the ferry service dock?
Very interesting video Rob. Love the history. Nothing at all sus about a massive fire at the pine tree farm and developers moving in soon after.
I just want to cry knowing how all this beautiful land is being encroached upon by suburban developments. We were the last house in our street in JIMBOOMBA until an all new youbute suburb surrounded us! Love your videos…new sub.💕😇
@Arch Angel thanks for subscribing and your feedback. Personally, I would love to see some of the old hoop pine forests put back in that area. Would have been beautiful back in the day.
@@walkaboutwithrob Yep, it would have been like up around budrim.
@@walkaboutwithrobI'm passionate about bush regeneration and this stems from the stories of how Jimboomba used to be rainforest and growing up as a kid there! I'd love to see the hoop pines back but no one wants to plant them, I even offered stock for free to multiple people who declined saying they got too big :( now the area is disastrously dry scrub and terrible soil.
We lived on Dollarbird Drive for many years before construction of Yarrabilba began. From our verandah we could see over the entire area and it was nothing but trees and bushland. My parents sold up when development began around 2009-2010. Nowadays, from that same spot on the verandah the only thing you'd see his houses, houses and more houses.
There’s some sawmill history & old school history you could add in a future piece . As a generational local & our own street name is thought you might have come knocking. Excellent job never the less.
Yarabilba , we called it the pines great to go out there and trail bike ride, it was a great loss when they developed it. When I was a young teenager i lived on holtz rd at the sun leisure nudist camp, that must of been back in the early 80s.
Dirt bikes In the forest were illegal and from memory a major contributor to fires in the area. 2 types of people in that area, those who dirt bike and then us calling the cops on those dirt bikeing in the forest lol
Another really informative and entertaining video, Rob. Thank you. Your videos tempt me to re-explore the Narangba/Petrie/Lawnton/Strathpine area. I've also wanted to try and follow the old Samsonvale rail line. Unfortunately, most of the old path is on private land.
10:30 The pine was probably for the Petrie Paper Mill. The Pine forests at the back of Petrie where 'North Pine' is, and over where North Lakes now is were all Petrie Mill plantations. The Mill chewed a lot of Pine and recycled a hell of a lot of paper and cardboard in its prime.
Always informative. Points to add: Camp Cable Rd is twists and turns for protection of overhead bombings in ww2.
Found loads of rifle bullets all the way down the road opposite Pioneer Dr. L/V plus old concrete areas for latrines & mechanics.
I walk my dogs along the Rail Trail most mornings as I live only a few hundred meters away. Gets busy on the weekends, with the Village changing so much in the last few years, bringing McDonalds & KFC for example.
This is great! Could you do one for Chatswood Hills and Daisy Hill area? I'm a teacher and we do a unit about the changes that have occurred over time in our local area. This would be a great resource!
@s davidson will certainly consider it for sure.
Another great informative video, Rob. I recall stopping near the Cairn for the dog many times in travels with my parents in the 1950’s. It was fairly isolated in those days with a narrow road and the pine forests predominant. My brother and I loved getting out of the car and stopping in that little roadside park. I don’t know if I am getting confused but I thought my dad was speaking of this camp where my uncle used to deliver papers to as a teenager. As they lived at Coopers Plains it was quite possible that it was the camp at the beginning of Orange Grove Road. Whichever one it was the Yanks were pretty generous with American foodstuffs for him to bring home to my grandmother.
I metal detected at Camp Cable, found dozens of bullets but not much else. Also came across a bottle dump, pulled about 5 intact bottles from the ground dating from 1900-1940.
@Erica Lakatos please be extra careful if you find ordnance. Like, extra, extra careful!
@@walkaboutwithrob We took all the bullets to the police station to be disposed of. I’m still unsure what to do with the bottles because as much as I love them they deserve a better life now lol.
Interesting again learning about local history and seeing where it all started.
Love your videos! Keep them coming! Love from J&J in Beenleigh.
Thank you, I always wondered where those memorial went too.
Great work Rob, the level of development in Yarrabilba still blows me away
@Easy Tiger yes and it's getting bigger by the week. I just hope they can provide enough services and open spaces for the growing population there.
I always thought the Rail line went to Beaudesert, never knew it went to Canungra. Thanks for the info Rob.
@The_Aussie.transportfan the line splits just south of Logan Village. One track went to Beaudesert, the other to Canungra.
It used to branch off to the left about where anzac road intersection is, with the beaudesert section continuing straight along waterford road until it crossed over the start of stockleigh road and continued towards jimboomba.
Thanks cobber. We drive (or walk) through these areas and have absolutely no idea of what came before in most instances.
35 thousand is a sizeable army camp that, in its day, would have been in the middle of downtown Nowhere. Probably why the U.S. Army chose the location if they were training.
Thanks again.
Then you may find why Camp Cable Rd is built the way it was interesting. Apparently Camp Cable Rd (connecting Jimboomba to Logan Village) was built not directly straight to help cover American military transports.
Love this! I grew up in Chambers Flat in the 90s & am amazed at the development out there now. It was such a big deal when we got the bridge from Chambers Flat to Logan Village! I now live in Redland Bay, hope you consider coming out this way 😊
Very interesting story never new most about the area great work I do remember the pine trees though
Great video Rob. A mate of mine and I stood in similar locations along Plunket Rd to you to film an information video for my Prep/1 students discussing the history of the Yarrabilba area. I think you did it better. 😊
You dropped your crown king 👑
I don’t know what that means.
It means You truly are the best !
We love watching your bite size Docos of our home Towns.
Please keep the great content coming.
Love these video and the insights to areas that most have forgotten
Great stuff as always, Rob. Cheers
Brilliant as always, Rob.
Love your approach to history Rob, cheers.
Really enjoying your videos mate, thanks for taking the time.
Really enjoy your work mate keep coming.
Thanks, will do!
Thank you for the interesting video.
Great video, Rob ! Didn't know the history like u told it ! We r building in the parks, actually ! Keep the videos coming very interesting!!!
@Helenshaw35 So great to see you here, and thanks for your kind feedback! Hope you've been well and happy. Glad you enjoyed the video. Had fun making it.
Interesting and informative as always. Enjoyed watching it. 😊
Beaudesert history would be a cool one!
@ckhedges6486 It's in the planning stages now
Army camp and pine Forrest. I grew up in Logan Village and live in Yarrabilba now
Would be interested seeing Park Ridge, as they are now tearing it up for development.
I can give you a rundown. Sonter family (my dad's family) owned the property where the highschool and shopping centre now is. They ran a turf farm and nursery. QLD Gov offered them money for the land to build the school (also where the house was) and they sold up, part of the deal was they got to develop the shopping centre, that sent them Bankrupt initially but eventually they built a house (themselves) in Greenbank, moved the whole family there and the shopping centre was sold, allowing them to have enough money to become lifelong property developers (I don't say that with pride lol). There's not much more too that area unless my grandparents just are oblivious to what came before them. They haven't been back in the nursery or turf game since accepting the QLD Gov offer.
so cool - loved it
I have always wanted to buy a town house or a house in Beenleigh, or Yatata or Yarrabilba since I was born in 2001.
Great videos - have you done one on Coomera and Upper Coomera ?
Great video
Thank you
Hancock Pine Forest. I use to go chasing feral pigs in there back in the late 80’s early 90’s.
In my younger days, my 'Dad' told me that one of the elders of his Church delivered milk in a cart to Camp Cable. The details were a bit scarce. I believe 'Pop' Rodes was the guy's name.
Really interesting video, loved the Plunkett villa. Yarrabilba is such an eyesore. There used to be heaps of pine plantations and not much else many, many years ago. As part of a youth group back in the 80's we explored the pine forest and found an old abandoned house, at night...it was pretty eerie and lots of spiders.
I concieved my first child in the back of a Ute in Camp Cable Park.
Used to walk through the Pine Forests as a kid. I don't think the fire that took ot was accidental. Yarrabilba was convenientally constructed afterwards. I did the brickwork on many houses in there. My brother still lives there.
I placed the stonework that was used for the memorial plaque in Logan Village.
The fire was probably started by all the dirt bikes from memory. A lot of illegal dirtbikes going on in that forest. My memory is hazy but i recall seeing plans for Yarrabilba, Flagstone and some proposed cinema at Jimboomba back when Springfield was starting up so i dont think its a conspiracy.
We grew up forbidden from going into that forest as dad had found WW2 explosives when he used to go riding through there in his youth. Make of that what you will, not to mention the insane heat and droughts in the early 2000s, followed by huge flooding annually which caused increased fuel loads.
Also the firies in Jimboomba nearly burnt several houses down on Meadow Rd during their hazard reduction burns nearly 20 years ago so it wouldn't surprise me if it was them too.
Did anything of interest happen in the Bahrs Scrub area back in the day?
The area was pine until ~ 2013 (i grew up off Camp Cable Rd)
Urban development will keep on going till it reaches the foot of the Great dividing ranges.
Keep it up hero
Can’t believe you are covering yarrabilba, the stage of harvesting our last pine trees in the area, if only we knew this earlier I would have been harassing our local MP to stop the downing of these trees. So sad.
My daughter went to yugumbir primary!
Thats Really interesting! We used to live at Sheldon and in the 90s Dad and I reguarly drove through that area to go Hang Gliding at Mt. Tamborine , Canungra and Beachmont. It was all bush and farm land then. I've never heard of Yarrabilba untill this video:
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It's crazy how much development and housing is going on in that whole Logan Village, Tamborine, Jimboomba Beaudesert area. I couldn't recognise places last time I was in the area.
Lots of development, still 1 bus line lol. Leaving that area was the best thing we ever did!
18 Mile Rocks Jindalee good walk along River
Sounds good!
I am pretty sure the timber mill was at the beginning of Plunket Road before it was burnt down.
@Cameron Rice Interesting. I didn't know there was a timber mill in the area.
@@walkaboutwithrob I could be wrong but that's what I was always told. Apparently a bit further down the road towards Tamborine Village there was a make ship hospital as well for the military. If there was it would be great to know more about this.
You are right, it was on plunkett road.
The pine forrest was always a commercial enterprise. Hancock timber purchased the land from the plunkett family and set about establishing the pine forrest in the 60's. Fire in 2001 wasnt the cause of its closure though, it was essentially abandoned as far as milling goes by the mid 90's and they wanted to find another use for the land. Thats where the development applications came from and the eventual partnership with lend lease to develop the estate.
They milled pine for plywood production. The mill was cutting veneers to be sandwiched together to produce plywood, but the majority of the harvested timber went to their mill in ipswich.
That place Camp Cable place would be great to swing a metal detector
Dad found WW2 items and explosives in there in the 60s riding on horseback through there, plenty to find I'd say but as to the safety... that's to be seen.
I know of a fellow who's done that down the Plunkett Rd. end. Found dog tags that were returned to family plus other little treasures.
Lyons would be an interesting one too do aswell my family ran a dairy the other two huge dairy' was at pimpama they took thier milk to the kingston butter factory and were timber cutters at lyons and up near monsidale .
@takishaslife1557 that's quite a coincidence, I was looking at the Lyons area just the other day. A very quiet area but lovely. Is there much else there?
@@walkaboutwithrob just a cemetery with some of our family buried there ,most of Lyons has been taken over with flagstone development ,small population lived there ,but the logan city council has a short documentary on Lyons area ,my name is Chris Lyons I am using my daughters account I hope that info helps explain abit on Lyons happy too answer any other questions , we have a lot of history old photos of hauling timber with teams of bullocks and some of the very first trucks at Monsidale North of Brisbane
@@takishaslife1557 thanks for all that, really appreciate it. The area could be incorporated into a video about somewhere nearby. Will look into it.
Use to ride dirt bikes all through there (the Pino) by locals lots of wild pigs there too
Chambers flats next please 🙏
My friend her parents had a sugar cane field along Morwell road
Great job Rob,
You beat me by a week.😉
@G'day, it's Pete. Looking forward to seeing your version mate. Gotta be better than my stumbling efforts!
When will the sprawl end? What's the plan?
@Benny Cracka in terms of Yarrabilba, the area of further development is pre-determined and strictly controlled. They can only build in a certain area and not beyond.
@walkaboutwithrob my concern is urban growth boundaries will continue to be extended further into natural settings and arable land. Sustainable Population Australia has a brilliant newsletter i think you would enjoy if you haven't read it already.
Love the content Rob. Happy walkabout
Did that sign say to climb on the vehicle
No, it says Please Do Not Climb on Vehicle.
Then let to regrow until 2010
How to grab a home at $500 000 for a one bedroom in 2024. If only, there were an international investor with a Go Camera.
Ah well, look on the bright side. That poor bloody Koala who is forced by our Environmental Warrior Friends to endlessly hike down the road each night on our screens will at least have some good new bitumen roads to wear his paws out on. Terrible to see the devastation all those 1/4 acre "Farmers" are visiting on our Native Habitat. I thought the legislation stopped all that? 😱🙄