Shifting Old North Sydney: the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Local Community

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • A documentary exploring the impact of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, completed in 1932, on the community that lay in the path of its development. Some 3000 people were affected by the demolition of up to 500 houses and shops. The film includes archival photographs, maps, footage and letters from those evicted. The memories of local residents who grew up in the area from the 1920s provide insights into the changes that have shaped North Sydney.

Комментарии • 41

  • @francesblabey3055
    @francesblabey3055 Год назад +3

    Nothing changes. when government want your property, good bye , bad luck hope you survive.

  • @steveamurray59
    @steveamurray59 Год назад +5

    The same happened to People that lived near the rocks when the Southern Approach was built. Nice ? bit of History.

  • @LeeJahn-ih9xu
    @LeeJahn-ih9xu 3 месяца назад +2

    I lived two doors down from kirribilli house in 77, $60 a week 1 bed/ harbour views! Bliss, times were so much easier, no greed like now …. Lived in the 60’s in East Balmain, neighbours looked out for each other

  • @masteryoda498
    @masteryoda498 Год назад +6

    What a great documentary, thanks for sharing.

  • @64roo
    @64roo 2 года назад +8

    A nice bit of history chronicled....I used to fish at Jefferey St Wharf in the early 70's and I always wondered what all the old timber pilings were about

  • @Snaerffer
    @Snaerffer Год назад +7

    Very well done. I’m a child of the 60s and 70s so the Expressway was very new when I was a child. My father was carried across the bridge on his fathers shoulders the day it opened. Not entirely sure these days are any better than those.

  • @brad9529
    @brad9529 Год назад +3

    The video was produced by North Sydney council. Now it makes sense why they went on about how the council tried to have the local residents compensated, lol, total BS. More like the council permanently filed the compensation request letters away and later found them and used them to make this video.

  • @johngibson3837
    @johngibson3837 5 месяцев назад +1

    Some beautiful old pictures in this, shame they didn't look after the people they stole those house's from

  • @maxpowers5628
    @maxpowers5628 Год назад +3

    Brilliant documentary. ❤️❤️❤️ .

  • @krishender
    @krishender Год назад +11

    'Burst into Advance Australia Fair' ? Please, be careful re ALL of your historic detail/info...would have still been 'God save the King' in 1923 !!?

    • @axle2327
      @axle2327 4 месяца назад +2

      I don't think he said the anthem Advance Australia Fair, He said they burst into it. Advance Australia fair was written in 1878

    • @tobys_transport_videos
      @tobys_transport_videos 3 месяца назад

      @@axle2327 1878? Try 1978!!! It's dreadful!!! Think about the lyrics... No one talks like that!

    • @axle2327
      @axle2327 3 месяца назад

      @@tobys_transport_videos 1878 you drop kick
      www.pmc.gov.au/honours-and-symbols/australian-national-symbols/australian-national-anthem#:~:text=History,and%20was%20four%20verses%20long.

    • @chrisbarnes6312
      @chrisbarnes6312 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@tobys_transport_videos got to admire your confidence in being so wrong with such vehemence.. when quick and simple research shows that it was indeed first performed in 1878 as patriotic song. You tube comment section where facts dont matter huh?

    • @tobys_transport_videos
      @tobys_transport_videos 3 месяца назад

      @@chrisbarnes6312 Go away troll!!! 🤬🧌🤬

  • @Woodland26
    @Woodland26 Год назад +2

    Great history. I was reading about the tram line before Cahill express way. I walked from the Milson's Point side, checked out where the toll both located was the mirrored tram stop of Milson's Point station. Walked across the bridge and tracing where the tram would enter to tunnel and end up to Wynyard station platform 1&2. Also walked after Luna Park to see the Lavender Bay train site where the trains used to stop before there was a bridge.

  • @hcrun
    @hcrun 2 месяца назад

    The illustration at the start is a section of a lithograph done by Robert Emerson Curtis and published, along with 13 others, in the book "Building The Bridge" in 1933.
    Rare to find a first edition today but there was a reprint done in 1982. Beautiful drawings. Curtis also did a similar portfolio on the construction of the Opera House.

  • @annebutt4507
    @annebutt4507 2 года назад +7

    visionaries but felt sorry for those who had to move

  • @gerrib1633
    @gerrib1633 Год назад +1

    Advance Australia Fair sung?

  • @nicoledeloncrais5940
    @nicoledeloncrais5940 3 месяца назад

    Oh my giddy aunt... Flash backs 🥴🥲

  • @bisiilki
    @bisiilki Год назад +1

    Nice doco! Lived around mcmahons point

  • @conepiecechronicles
    @conepiecechronicles 3 месяца назад

    You wanna make an omelette

  • @tonymccarthy6713
    @tonymccarthy6713 4 месяца назад

    Very interesting. I lived the first six years of my life (1942-1948) at 1 Waruda st Kirribilli at flats called Braeburn later renamed to the Miami flats, about 10 minutes walk from the north pylon of the bridge.

  • @marknelson5929
    @marknelson5929 3 месяца назад

    Fascinating piece of history, most interesting. I was amazed but not surprised by the hardship faced by many when they lost their homes and business's - nothing has changed.
    Progress cannot be stopped to the detriment of many.

  • @NOYFB
    @NOYFB 8 месяцев назад

    The video was made in 2007.

  • @bazcar22
    @bazcar22 4 месяца назад +1

    Was "Advance Australia Fair" a thing then? I thought back then we were bashing out "God save the Queen".

    • @axle2327
      @axle2327 4 месяца назад

      I don't think he said the anthem Advance Australia Fair, He said they burst into it. Advance Australia fair was written in 1878

    • @bazcar22
      @bazcar22 4 месяца назад +1

      @@axle2327 How interesting i thought "Advance Australia Fair "was 1978

    • @axle2327
      @axle2327 4 месяца назад

      @@bazcar22 just having a look at Google adopted in 1974 as the anthem, 76 god save the Queen was reinstated, some other dates and then in 1984 it was officially used .

    • @bazcar22
      @bazcar22 4 месяца назад

      @@axle2327 Thank you for telling me. I feel a bit ashamed, after all this is our anthem. but all the emphasis was put on that shape shifting reptile known as Elizabeth

    • @tobys_transport_videos
      @tobys_transport_videos 3 месяца назад

      @@axle2327 He clearly says "burst into Advance Australia Fair" yet that mournful crap wasn't written yet.

  • @peterjones334
    @peterjones334 Год назад

    Unfortunately there's toxic heterosexual

  • @incrediblystupid8483
    @incrediblystupid8483 Месяц назад

    Music sucked, was to loud. Why? Tell me why? I didn't click for the music!