Kingsford Smith Drive - THE ROAD BUILT BY SEX

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  • Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024

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  • @DarkMatter1992
    @DarkMatter1992 2 года назад +24

    Those 1, 2, 3 marked concrete slabs on Quarry St look to be the perfect size for wheelie bins. There are 6 spaces and there are 6 bins across the street behind you, I'd say those spaces are where the bins would be put for rubbish collection.

  • @64mcrusader
    @64mcrusader Год назад +6

    Great video.....an additional fun fact is the Hamilton reach of the river was used for flying aircraft boats prior to WW2

  • @JGrandcourt
    @JGrandcourt Год назад +5

    Another brilliant video. Very enjoyable, learning more about Brizvegas through these videos. I appreciate that you are focussing on areas outside of the CBD

  • @davidwatson3921
    @davidwatson3921 10 месяцев назад +5

    Great video Rob your tours around Brisbane are really educational. Thanks mate

  • @vickyburgess162
    @vickyburgess162 Год назад +7

    I have just come across your channel today. I was born and raised in Brisbane and I did not know there was a woman’s prison there. I will be going to have a look for sure.
    And I will be subscribing to your channel 😊

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  Год назад

      @Vicky Burgess thanks indeed for your kind feedback. Yes I too didn't know the women's prison was there until not long before I began researching this walk. So many hidden gems here waiting to be rediscovered. I hope you'll enjoy my future walks. Off to The Spit on the Gold Coast this coming Sunday. Fascinating history there.

  • @ConnorsComedyClipsOffical
    @ConnorsComedyClipsOffical Год назад +4

    The door alarm joke had me in stitches

  • @dillieisawesome
    @dillieisawesome 3 года назад +4

    Just found your channel. Mate I'm nearly forty and grew up not far from here. Although I know the history of the area I didn't know that it had been transformed into this beautiful area. I'll be heading there as soon as the missus has a day off.

  • @danielcox4061
    @danielcox4061 11 месяцев назад +5

    Really enjoy learning about my local areas thanks rob love the delivery how dont you have a history channel on TV

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  11 месяцев назад

      I'd like to know that too!

    • @lordoffishtown4455
      @lordoffishtown4455 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@walkaboutwithrobyou having a tv channel would be the worst possible idea. You’d just end up losing your creative control to some mindless corporate drone.
      Keep making your videos how you want to. 👍

  • @gdhdi5339
    @gdhdi5339 9 месяцев назад +2

    These stories are always worthwhile, thanks Rob. Also, you have great taste in soundtrack music.

  • @ChrisCoxCycling
    @ChrisCoxCycling 3 года назад +5

    Fabulous video! I've ridden to that Trade Coast Central area near the womens prison and farm and never knew all that was there. There's long been a project on the books to connect that path to Viola Place at Brisbane Airport to make an easier way to walk and cycle to the airport. That will hopefully bring more people through and make this better known. But thanks so much for this video showing it. Motivates me to go back and take a closer look!

  • @BradGryphonn
    @BradGryphonn 2 года назад +3

    13:10 I remember when that house burnt down. Yep, Hamilton and surrounds is another area I spent my days delivering groceries to.

  • @maxsonthonax1020
    @maxsonthonax1020 Год назад +3

    4:20 - "This was all rainforest!"
    Now look at it. 😖
    Learning that fact more than blows my mind, as I know that whole area very well. Having used its hilliness for exercise, I have walked every street & alley (I have done care work there for almost 20 years). It actually makes me feel a bit ill to think of all that lost beauty & magnificence.
    You should hike Springbrook. It's unceasingly incredible.

    • @maxsonthonax1020
      @maxsonthonax1020 Год назад +1

      Those details about aboriginal settlements on this side of Breakfast Creek, especially around the end of Nudgee Road & their harrassment by the coloninals also leaves me queasy. You're very good with noting those aspects.

  • @FutureSystem738
    @FutureSystem738 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks Rob. I grew up in that area and used to ride my bike everywhere, uphill and downhill, including along Kingsford Smith drive. I also had to cross it, (with NO pedestrian crossing) every morning to catch the tram to get to school in the 1960s. Needless to say, there was a bit less traffic then.

  • @meganluhrs2377
    @meganluhrs2377 3 года назад +2

    Rob that was excellent, You are the perfect presenter/researcher for your inquisitiveness, knowledge academic training and knowledge. I always wonder about 'alarmed doors' too. :)

  • @jasonrivers7518
    @jasonrivers7518 7 месяцев назад +3

    First station you saw was Eagle Farm, mate, formerly Airport Station.
    The second one was Bunour Station, followed by Meandah, then Pinkenba.
    If you need any more info, I have lived in Ascot since 1982, and have watched it change, over the years.

  • @clubgus07
    @clubgus07 Год назад +4

    Rob the only time i ran / walk down that Hamilton Road whoops Kingsford Smith drive was when i once did the Bridge to Brisbane, It looks a great place to take a walk on a sunday, and heavens i wouldnt of known about that Womens Convict prison, now i gotta visit to see this history. perhaps those houses were abandon because of the floods? cheers for the tour.

  • @chaseadams5037
    @chaseadams5037 Год назад +3

    There's a whole lot of history in the Nundah/Northgate area, worth a look and a great episode for Rob to cover💯

  • @shellebelle53
    @shellebelle53 Год назад +3

    I'd have to agree about the Hamilton Hotel, should have kept the old timber one. Great video 👍Nice door alarm, Dad joke 😂

  • @straightedgeredhead
    @straightedgeredhead Год назад +6

    Another excellent video

  • @malcolmknowles9310
    @malcolmknowles9310 3 года назад +4

    The Quarry was used by Hamilton Council and later BCC and then later as a works depot till the late 1980s, then a work yard while the latest upgrade on the old Hamilton Rd (KSD) was being undertaken.The Trade Coast Interpretive centre above the Cafe is worth a visit as well, however like most of the shops Rob visits, closed on Public Holidays. It has a set of chains from the womens prison on the GPO site in Queen St as well and the centre also tells of Hangar 7 and the Test stands "Top Secret" Aircraft importance during WWW2.

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 2 года назад

      Thanks for the update. And yep, you can get a skewed view of things if the only time you visit a place is when it's closed. The curse of Australia actually - nothing is open when folks have the leisure time to visit. At least up until recent times, things are loosening up a bit now. Reminds me of the old days in Cairns when the Japanese tourists used to return from their day trips out to the Reef just as all the shops were shutting their doors! 🙄🙃

  • @francesball3142
    @francesball3142 3 года назад +6

    A very good book about the female prison at Eagle Farm to read is called 'Shackled - female convicts at Moreton Bay 1826-1839' by Jennifer Harrison.

  • @damianousley8833
    @damianousley8833 Год назад +4

    The old stations were on Pinkenba line for industrial workers to get to the industrial areas.

  • @SimonBand
    @SimonBand 3 года назад +10

    I very excitedly saw this being filmed while driving to Redcliffe and even more excitedly got to see myself drive past in the background. I can now say I appear in a Walkabout video.

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  3 года назад

      @Simon Band that's awesome. What timecode do you drive past at?

    • @SimonBand
      @SimonBand 3 года назад

      @@walkaboutwithrob when you're outside the Dan Murphys

  • @jimbo9030
    @jimbo9030 10 месяцев назад +4

    Missed opportunity to talk about the history of Hangar 7. It was the very reason the allies learned how to shoot down the Japanese Zeros and played a major part in the outcome of the war in the Pacific.

  • @romealone7153
    @romealone7153 3 года назад +2

    Thanks for your video. We did this walk today and it was great. Well done.

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  3 года назад

      @Rome Alone that's great! Really glad you took the walk and enjoyed the journey.

  • @dranthappens
    @dranthappens 2 года назад +3

    I have watched quite a few videos of yours now and very interesting hearing the history 👍

  • @ronsmith2241
    @ronsmith2241 Год назад +10

    An interesting bit of history. The first Qld Premier was Robert Herbert and the Attorney General was John Bramston in 1870. They were a gay couple and they combined their names and that is how the suburb of Herston got its name. (Brisbane History Museum). How special.

  • @dumpsterden
    @dumpsterden 3 года назад +3

    Nice one robbo ! Always a pleasure to learn from uuu

  • @zazzleman
    @zazzleman 3 года назад +2

    Another place you motivated me to go and visit Rob. Those rooms at the women's prison were cramped.

  • @1247rimini
    @1247rimini 2 года назад +3

    I never knew about this Brisbane history. I have ridden my bike over Gateway bridge along Kingsford Smith Drive but never headed up Nudgee Road. Once weather cools I’ll head over the bridge again to explore the women’s barracks.

  • @whiskysierra
    @whiskysierra 3 года назад +1

    I saw the old unit block I used to live at many years ago, 264 Kingsford-Smith Drive, hasn't changed much.

  • @lachlansmart2373
    @lachlansmart2373 Год назад +4

    Those abandoned stations are likely the remnants of either Bunour, Meeandah, or Whinstaines. They only electrified as far as Doomben, but the line ran out to Pinkenbah. I'm personally of a mind that the line could be useful again if it were electrified and upgraded for passenger use.

    • @Enthusiastic-Trainspotter-BNE
      @Enthusiastic-Trainspotter-BNE Год назад

      I think from my memory that the rail line was ditched because the passenger usage was too low.

    • @jasonrivers7518
      @jasonrivers7518 5 месяцев назад

      Do you, by chance, mean Whinstanes-Doomben, which got shortened to Doomben in the '90s?
      Whinstanes station was the original, about 150m from Doomben.
      It was replaced by Whinstanes Doomben, in the '60s (?),, mate.

  • @vv8134
    @vv8134 3 года назад +5

    So great to learn history through your walks I wish I could do such adventures. Maybe one day in the mean time I enjoy your videos . So sad the loss of interest in history .

  • @victorvanelsen7198
    @victorvanelsen7198 Год назад +6

    love your videos Rob 👍👍👍

  • @mariannarasmussen314
    @mariannarasmussen314 Год назад +3

    Thank you for making these videos. I’ve learnt soo much. I appreciate all the effort you put in. Have you done a video on the development of Springfield? Do you do Walking Tours?

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  Год назад +3

      @mariannarasmussen314 thanks! I'm doing my first walking tour tomorrow, so if it goes well I'll do more.

    • @brendanmichaelwelsh6260
      @brendanmichaelwelsh6260 Год назад

      Is there any interesting long term history before Springfield became nothing more then a sea of houses and crappy roads?

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  Год назад +2

      @@brendanmichaelwelsh6260 While I haven't done research into the history of Springfield, there would be land deeds, maps, maybe some early runs and selections.

    • @mariannarasmussen314
      @mariannarasmussen314 Год назад +1

      @@walkaboutwithrobgood luck and have fun. Hope all goes well 😊

  • @UsualmikeTelevision
    @UsualmikeTelevision 3 года назад +1

    Amazing video and you just got a new subscriber!

  • @BradGryphonn
    @BradGryphonn 2 года назад +2

    17:25 I think you're right, Rob. I had no idea that site existed.

  • @macquariepark
    @macquariepark 4 месяца назад +1

    always love your videos rob.. my family lived at st lucia and I am a churchie old boy

  • @MathewSmart
    @MathewSmart Год назад +4

    Hey Rob. I recently subscribed to your channel as it's good that someone is willing to share some history of Brisbane. If possible I would love to hear about Wynnum/manly and Bayside in general. And if you are interested in some penal history, you might want to check the history of St. Helena Island!

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  Год назад +2

      @Mathew Smart thanks indeed for your feedback. I've been to St Helena once but many years ago, long before becoming a RUclipsr. I really do intend to go back again. As for the Wynnum Manly area, yes for sure, am super keen to explore it. It's on my wish list!

  • @cinemaipswich4636
    @cinemaipswich4636 Год назад +1

    The porphyry stone walls were mined from the Water Street quarry (Spring Hill State School). A lot of the kerb stones in the New Farm area are made from the same.

  • @24inchchromes
    @24inchchromes 3 года назад

    Great stuff! Interesting and entertaining as always. Thanks Rob

  • @raylenepreuss1430
    @raylenepreuss1430 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is great, I love in Bowen Hills and had no idea it existed.

  • @stubbycooler3855
    @stubbycooler3855 2 года назад +5

    Ford had an assembly plant along there somewhere until the 1980’s, I understand the Fairlane was built there

    • @JGrandcourt
      @JGrandcourt Год назад +2

      They also assembled F100s and Broncos there in the 70s and early 80s

    • @MrDwayne0072
      @MrDwayne0072 Год назад +2

      Ford plant was behind the train station at Hanger 7. Fun fact: Holden factory was just down the road at brekkie creek and during ww2 they rebuilt the plane engines (allison's which were in the P-40 and early P-51's) that were tested at those testing stands. It was a 24/7 operation. Just imagine the sounds of that happening? I had goosebumps the times ive checked the place out. Yes im a bit of a ww2 nerd 🤓

  • @ronsmith2241
    @ronsmith2241 Год назад +3

    I never knew the women's prison was there either. But I went to the old airport many times. The greatest legacy of our British past is prisons. There must have been many heterosexual prisoners. Interesting video. Many thanks.

  • @AlphaGeekgirl
    @AlphaGeekgirl 3 года назад +2

    3:49 I couldn’t help but notice that grand staircase behind you, and wonder why it was built there?

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  3 года назад +2

      @Deb Taylor I think it's just for pedestrian traffic to get to the houses above. I wish I'd seen them on my walk as the view from there would have been wonderful.

  • @kbj2400
    @kbj2400 3 года назад +2

    Love the videos! Do you think the numbers on quarry street are just for the council bins? It is pretty common at dead end streets to line the bins up like that

  • @joanneellerby8703
    @joanneellerby8703 3 года назад +1

    Lovely video, thanks for sharing the history of Kingsford Smith Drive and the Trade Coast Central area where the Female prison was once. I’d love to visit but was wondering if it’s easy to get to by foot and were there many amenities after leaving the main road? Is it historical area run by the BCC? Where to next. Yesterday I did the Nundah historical trail.

  • @nikkneipp3534
    @nikkneipp3534 Год назад +2

    Hi Rob ,What about st helena island in morton bay, im told that shut somtime in the 1930's,wasn't that part of the penal system established early on ?

    • @Diggles67
      @Diggles67 Год назад +1

      Saint Helena Prison opened during colonial times in 1867 to alleviate overcrowding at the Petrie Tce. gaol. It was originally intended to be a quarantine station but plans changed due to the situation at Petrie Tce. The Island was given the name ‘Saint Helena’ due to an Aborigine dubbed ‘Napoleon’ being exiled there in 1827. The goal closed in the 1930s after having become a prison farm for low risk offenders.

  • @andersdottir1111
    @andersdottir1111 Год назад +1

    I remember my mother and I occasionally would have to pick my father up from Ansett where he worked (we were a one car family in the 60s).
    We would drive from the outer northern suburbs, along Nudged Rd then a left just before the train line.
    I remember the smell in the area - like hot weet bix.

  • @gordonoldfield403
    @gordonoldfield403 10 месяцев назад +3

    I was told by a friend's father , that there was alot of military stuff burried under the QLD golf course up near the Gateway bridge after WW2 !!!

  • @darynandersonproductions
    @darynandersonproductions 3 года назад +1

    Wow yeah I didn’t know this existed.

  • @tysonNmilo91
    @tysonNmilo91 Год назад +2

    hey Rob, long story short, i would like to see if you would like a uber tour of brisbane with me (30) yr old male who has been around the black a few times and some crazy stories. all reformed and simply think this could be and interesting video on some crime spots in brisbane and the history behind them. thanks Rob keep up the great work

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  Год назад +2

      @Ewan Gregory what a cool idea, thank you indeed for thinking of me for it. I'm pretty much focused on walking tours - I just love the exercise! But certainly, a crime tour is something I have been thinking of.

  • @HyperHorse
    @HyperHorse Год назад +1

    At least the bloody cruise ship terminal is now where the Hamilton ferry station is now. That should've been the case to begin with!!!

  • @johnbooth1110
    @johnbooth1110 Год назад +1

    Retaining wall is Phorphury could be from stafford quarry,

  • @Duskyplayinghisflute253
    @Duskyplayinghisflute253 5 месяцев назад +1

    I think they’re really built Portside wharf in the wrong place because they built it on the other side of the gateway bridge it’s horrible because the terminal used to accommodate cruise ships but due to the Gateway bridge restriction only smaller cruise ships can navigate through the Brisbane river and dock at the terminal only larger cruise ships can berth at the fisherman islands it was really really trash so they built that the terminal was homeported to the cruise ships Pacific dawn Pacific jewel sea Princess Sun Princess Dawn Princess sea Princess was a ship. I remember seeing when I was little when my dad had a concert he was performing. I saw it sailing by the ship by blasting its horn at me it was really horrible that port. I really wish Disney cruise line can do that too.

  • @geoffmccoll4640
    @geoffmccoll4640 Год назад +3

    It is not a wonder that the rich people always lived on Hamiltan Hill?

  • @jamescolindaley
    @jamescolindaley Год назад

    would u believe there was house beside the river just near the bridge i know coz i visited someone there one night and the house was a week or so away from being demolished then...

  • @jasoreed
    @jasoreed 2 года назад +2

    Breakfast creek - yah wah garrah

  • @scottnicholls7189
    @scottnicholls7189 3 года назад +1

    as you say, never knew that site existed

  • @Damen57
    @Damen57 3 года назад +2

    We went for a drive and walk around the womens prison area today - we used to live just around the corner and had no idea about it. Nice little spot - nobody to be seen.

  • @fbwqmyxd6j
    @fbwqmyxd6j 2 года назад +4

    thank christ you didn,t show the industrial bit...that bit is SHIT!..because i work there.

  • @OLICIT
    @OLICIT 2 года назад +1

    You could have reached the Old Womens prison if you continued on Kingford Smith Drive, but it would have been a longer walk and you would have had to crossed over Schneider Road bridge

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  2 года назад +3

      @OLICIT yes that was an option. I chose the path I did because it was more visually interesting and had more potential for other sights. Whenever I plan a walk I always try to include as many different locales as possible.

  • @colinscobie
    @colinscobie Год назад

    I wonder if the woman's factory in Ross in Tasmania has a link with this woman's prison... 1850

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  Год назад +2

      @Colin Scobie there's no link that I am aware of. The one at Eagle Farm was created due to conditions and events at Moreton Bay.

  • @johnbooth1110
    @johnbooth1110 Год назад +1

    when i was three years old i drank double sars at the bar of the old wooden pub. with my dad .

  • @servantofgod5642
    @servantofgod5642 Год назад +1

    As a frequent flyer at the old Bris airport and frequent motel user I recall a certain motel where the manager being a kiwi would say " we normally guv you sex when you stay dont we"?

  • @AlphaGeekgirl
    @AlphaGeekgirl 3 года назад

    Does anyone actually live in Queensland? Seems like you are the only person visiting any of these places.
    It’s good though, because you can go just about wherever you please without hindrance.

  • @ch64621
    @ch64621 2 года назад +1

    Interesting story

  • @craigroaring
    @craigroaring 3 года назад +5

    My best guess regarding the numbers on the ground would be that it's for wheelie bins.

    • @ChrisCoxCycling
      @ChrisCoxCycling 3 года назад +2

      Came here to say that. They're bin spots.

  • @Dougallism420
    @Dougallism420 Год назад +1

    I can tell you a very disturbing story about Breakfast creek from back in 2000-2001 ish When I used to live at the bottom of Frodsham street at the Albion 5 ways. It involves sex too, indirectly though, and mudcrabs.

  • @johnbooth1110
    @johnbooth1110 Год назад

    Queensland Maritime museum conversations at morning tea the women where housed in eagle farm in a ship called the eagle. Looking at the archives can't identify it

  • @aliciarowland1701
    @aliciarowland1701 3 года назад +1

    Great video Rob, thank you. Isn't it disgusting that even in current times we can not build a remembrance plaque at the camp site of the original owners of the land, and how about that old bridge when it was discovered, not even a sign for it, should have been kept as is instead of putting a garden there. What a loss of history. White supramacy continues to the day. :-(

  • @damianousley8833
    @damianousley8833 Год назад +1

    Old wooden pubs were often torched for the insurance money to then be rebuilt in brick and motar. The commercial pressures lead to a lot of pubs to be rebuilt to accommodate more patrons and also have function rooms.

  • @wehwoo
    @wehwoo 10 месяцев назад

    No we are not having the queens birthday in our shop

    • @walkaboutwithrob
      @walkaboutwithrob  10 месяцев назад +6

      I'm sure the King will be happy about that.

  • @gcr6420
    @gcr6420 11 месяцев назад +4

    It is sad to learn how the aboriginal tribes were treated in these regions

    • @garethjones4742
      @garethjones4742 11 месяцев назад +2

      Read some Henry Reynolds papers if you're brave enough. I studied my undergrads in history with him as my main lecturer. He documents the truth of the frontier wars.
      John Howard hated him.

    • @YuckFoutube-e1z
      @YuckFoutube-e1z 10 месяцев назад +2

      Not just these regions. Everywhere.

  • @jamescolindaley
    @jamescolindaley Год назад +1

    yeah the pub was better they it was.

  • @Ducayneau
    @Ducayneau 10 месяцев назад

    Walking on a 30C is good? 🥵

  • @davidsolomon1085
    @davidsolomon1085 Год назад +4

    It comes as no surprise that the old women's prison has a dedicated park, but the once largest Aboriginal camp has nothing to mark its significance in the regions history.

    • @Sensirebel
      @Sensirebel Год назад +1

      I thought the same thing, such a shame

    • @EvieRyder
      @EvieRyder 8 месяцев назад

      It definitely needs a lot more recognition

  • @YuckFoutube-e1z
    @YuckFoutube-e1z 10 месяцев назад +4

    I think the theft of a hat pales against the theft of an entire country.

    • @Pyjamarama11
      @Pyjamarama11 9 месяцев назад +7

      Quick, somebody get this person a waaaaambulance

  • @jackthelad9933
    @jackthelad9933 6 месяцев назад

    I find Brisbane's relentless sunshine can be oppressive at times. keeps me inside, not outside.

  • @louisehalsall1184
    @louisehalsall1184 7 месяцев назад +1

    I bet that heading got a lot of views lol

  • @MicahBell_1860
    @MicahBell_1860 Год назад

    Graffitists! No artistry about it

  • @charliepearce8767
    @charliepearce8767 Год назад +2

    QLD, Biggest mental hospital in Aust.

    • @chaffcutter58.
      @chaffcutter58. Год назад +5

      Don't know what that comment was about. Childish.

    • @damianousley8833
      @damianousley8833 Год назад +5

      That would be Victoria after Dan Andrews Covid 19 lock downs. Otherwise, a non related comment.