Collapse of a Convict Business Empire - Austins Ferry

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @davidcarr2649
    @davidcarr2649 Год назад +43

    Opening with, The dog and I, has got to be your signature line. Don't change and keep up the good work.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +12

      The dog and I appreciate your comment.

  • @peterholloway4812
    @peterholloway4812 Год назад +7

    "Organised transportation" as the person popping a wheelie goes past. Couldn't have planned it better! Thanks for the great video.

  • @mojogaucho
    @mojogaucho Год назад +31

    It was a bloody good day the day I stumbled upon your channel! Keep up the good work Angus.

  • @lukebremner159
    @lukebremner159 Год назад +6

    "A pretty trivial crime now... but it was a trivial crime back then too" such a banger of a line to open with, well done.

  • @pippacarron1861
    @pippacarron1861 10 месяцев назад +2

    Upstaged at 7.23 by that cool wheelie. So delighted you left it in.

  • @mrewan6221
    @mrewan6221 Год назад +9

    I appreciate that you answer the "why" questions.
    • Why is there a suburb called Austin's Ferry? Because one of the lucky ones landed on his feet, and found an empty niche.
    • Why was there a ferry? For goods transport to the north, before any bridges had been built.
    • Why is the other side called Old Beach? Because it was the ferry landing on the other side, and would have been the first beach of any commercial significance.
    Thanks much.

  • @milesellis2847
    @milesellis2847 Год назад +10

    My original convict ancestor arrived in VDL in 1830 and lived until 1890. He went through the harsh realities the penal system, got his sentences extended and sent to Port Arthur after stealing a waistcoat at Oatlands, presumably to keep warm while working in the Midlands Highway. I can only imagine what it meant to him and his family when the abolition stopped and Tasmania came to be. Whenever I think I’m rolling snake eyes I just think of him and his grandsons that were shipped off to WWI battlefields.

    • @CheekyKoala
      @CheekyKoala Год назад +4

      Oatlands is so bloody cold - who could blame him for stealing a waist coat!

  • @didreams969
    @didreams969 Год назад +6

    my mother , myself and my sister were born at Roseneath … it was a wonderful place for a child , I learnt to ride my tricycle on the verandas … my grandmother was devastated as she watched it burn and now I’m old, I understand how she felt, it had been part of her for all her life.. thanks for your video..

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад

      Interesting stuff. Seeing your home burn down would be devastating.

  • @phillipebrall9930
    @phillipebrall9930 Год назад +4

    Wow, 1809! Still standing. Thanks again for another great story. Appreciated.

  • @russellh24680
    @russellh24680 Год назад +2

    Seasons greetings. ❤

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад

      Thank you very much, Russell. Merry Christmas to you too.

  • @scanlonpat3433
    @scanlonpat3433 Год назад +3

    Wonderful reportage. Thank you!

  • @albertarthurparsnips5141
    @albertarthurparsnips5141 8 месяцев назад +2

    A pair of my paternal ancestors were transported to VDL in the 1830s, the male one ( from Devonshire ) for pinching a pair of shoes. The female ( Tipperary ), for the theft of a kerchief. I was reminded of that by your mentioning of the triviality of the offence committed by the chap you discussed. When I first discovered these things via some research I was utterly gobsmacked. I was tempted to conclude that this sort of extreme fetishism for ‘the sanctity of property ‘ thinly veiled a sort of Malthusian campaign to ‘thin out’ the ranks of the poor, disgruntled, marginal, unruly , etc., from throughout Great Britain & Ireland.

  • @Deadshotaud
    @Deadshotaud Год назад +13

    Excellent content. Never disappointed. I'm born Victorian, grew up in NW tas and now live in hobart with my family. I never knew of the history this place has.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +1

      It's all out there to visit in person, when you wish.

    • @albertarthurparsnips5141
      @albertarthurparsnips5141 8 месяцев назад +1

      The libraries & some of the better used bookshops ( ‘Cracked & Spineless’, for one ) have enormous amounts of fascinating literature on Tasmanian history. I’m currently working my way through a wonderful little work on Lindisfarne, entitled ‘ Before the Bridge’. The place was a turbo-charged hotbed of very conservative Protestantism for many, many years,…and teetotal, too…

  • @chriswhite6529
    @chriswhite6529 Год назад +5

    Thank you. Great work again Angus. I drove past you and the dog while filming in Austins-ferry and thought you beautie another video is on it's way. 📹👍🏻

  • @bmw_m140i_aus7
    @bmw_m140i_aus7 Год назад +5

    'It used to be a massive hive of activity at one stage'. So he got to keep the beehives he stole then? 😉
    Keep the quality videos coming, and remember: Don't pay the ferryman...until he gets you to the other side!

  • @peterbateman8018
    @peterbateman8018 Год назад +3

    Got my calendar of “then and now” pubs of Hobart today. A nice present for Chrissy. 🍻

  • @gavinadamson2891
    @gavinadamson2891 Год назад +1

    Thanks!

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад

      Thank you very much, Gavin. The channel and myself have had Christmas come early. Big help.

  • @brianpyle3839
    @brianpyle3839 Год назад +5

    Austin’s Ferry cabin, is on my list of places to visit when I visit Hobart. 🤠

  • @benjaminparkinson5255
    @benjaminparkinson5255 Год назад +4

    You are a legend angus

  • @ldnwholesale8552
    @ldnwholesale8552 Год назад +3

    My mother lived at Austins Ferry for many years. I never knew of the history.

  • @jessicahalliday22
    @jessicahalliday22 Год назад +10

    So well put. We can easily forget that things like convicts were stopped because people rose up against it in protest. Poor James Austin. You steal one bee hive... I'm glad he was a success in his new land, but still sad it happened. Great video. Thanks for the education, Angus!

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +4

      Thanks, Jessica. Yeah, he one name that's vaguely remembered. Most convicts, like most people, aren't remember for very long.

    • @shelleyoreilly3047
      @shelleyoreilly3047 Год назад +1

      To be fair, I think it was two bee hives? :-) Actually, one commentator says that he stole them on purpose because he wanted to be transported? Angus, have you heard anything like that?

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 Год назад

      @@shelleyoreilly3047it is easy to image.. people were literally starving at the time.. homeless.. definitely a little bit later in Ireland.. one of my family members was transported for stealing a few yards of taffeta .. we shall remember them. ☝️

    • @lanceduke3522
      @lanceduke3522 Год назад

      Unfortunately society has become to passive and cognitive dissonance affects 95% of population, the past 3 years proved this. I do wonder how a person steals a beehive🤔

    • @sidecarmisanthrope5927
      @sidecarmisanthrope5927 Год назад +2

      @@shelleyoreilly3047 The truth is that Austin was a convict by choice. It was his cousin who was a magistrate who sent him to Australia after they hatched a plot for Austin to "steal" his cousin's bee hives.
      Life in England at the time was crap and Australia was a good option and he got here for free.
      He only served a couple of years as a convict in a fairly easy role before he was given his ticket of leave.

  • @fatcontroller5352
    @fatcontroller5352 Год назад +14

    Absolutely love your insight and stories. Look forward to Sunday Nights. BUT tonight.... the dude dropping the wheelie at 7:23... what a legend....

    • @Kascaide
      @Kascaide Год назад

      You use that term ‘legend’ very loosely, this bogan’s brain cells are limited.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +1

      Cheers, mate

  • @NoName-ds5uq
    @NoName-ds5uq Год назад +7

    Thanks Angus! That explains where the old Roseneath Primary School got its name. There used to be a little one lane wooden bridge going over the train tracks near Austin’s Cottage too. I have no idea how old it was but it was demolished when that level crossing you were at was built next to it.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +2

      You got it, with the school. Interesting point on the bridge. Someone who knows more about the train line than me would know the year it happened.

    • @NoName-ds5uq
      @NoName-ds5uq Год назад +2

      @@angusthornett I think it maybe the late 90s. I’ve driven over it quite a few times so it has to have been after 1990.

    • @stephendaft9547
      @stephendaft9547 Год назад +3

      Brings back many memories Hi Angus when you run out of things to do cone to Queenstown plenty of history here especially Penghana the mine managers house

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +2

      I think it would be good if more Tasmanians did youtube. There's plenty fo room for it. @@stephendaft9547

  • @AnthonyRochester
    @AnthonyRochester Год назад +2

    The motorbike wheelie was perfect

  • @lanceduke3522
    @lanceduke3522 Год назад +3

    Another eye opening episode, it’s becoming extremely apparent that my knowledge of my home suburbs borders on ignorance

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад

      There's always more to discover if we look closer.

  • @shelleyoreilly3047
    @shelleyoreilly3047 Год назад +7

    Thanks Angus! I have just watched The Ferryman. I enjoyed it very much. I live nearby and there is a strange timeless quality to the silence around here. But underneath? Austin's inn is still throbbing with life. ... That's part of what I intend to write about. I have had a look at the wall a few times lately. It looks like the owners of the house on the point (site of the inn) are repairing part of it or making a kind of gate to their property. Do you know if the wall has any National Trust protection? Re the ferry - are you thinking of doing a sequel dealing with the ferry people after Austin? like Eliza Mollineaux? And the fate of Roseneath before 1967 - specifically, how the building was used for injured soldiers and those recovering from the Spanish Flu post WWI? My great great grandfather worked at Roseneath btw - he was a convict indentured to work there. And I live 600 metres from there. :-)

  • @Guvna947
    @Guvna947 Год назад +4

    Entropy is the natural order/disorder of our universe. That dude on his back wheel! Great timing 🤣. I enjoy your episodes, great job.

  • @anthonysmith434
    @anthonysmith434 Год назад +3

    Thanks again Angus for your Hobart history lessons. Keep them coming

  • @marcusluciani1620
    @marcusluciani1620 Год назад +3

    Enjoyed that thanks Angus.

  • @denisesavage2382
    @denisesavage2382 Год назад +2

    Fascinating - I loved hearing about all that. Now I know a bit more around Austin's Ferry.

  • @matt948
    @matt948 Год назад +2

    Another great video mate thanks

  • @christopherharvie8716
    @christopherharvie8716 Год назад +5

    Was not expecting Evil Knievel to turn up three quarters of the way through the video.
    Great sentiment at the end Angus. While intergenerational trauma in indigenous communities gets discussed, and is very important: don’t get me wrong. I believe if white Australia understood that we have our own through our convict ancestry, we could grow a lot as a country.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +1

      I think we would be better off if we focuses less on our differences and more on our shared interests into the future.

  • @catrionahall8435
    @catrionahall8435 Год назад +2

    Very true

  • @russellh24680
    @russellh24680 Год назад +1

    ❤very deep and thoughtful presentation. Thanks for the post and all the efforts 😊

  • @hobokingbilly
    @hobokingbilly Год назад +4

    So glad you don't whitewash history and give us the good and the bad of Hobart's history. I wouldn't know where to look for the history of Hobart so thanks very much for your work.

  • @captmulch1
    @captmulch1 Год назад +2

    Good one Angus!

  • @Alimck333
    @Alimck333 Год назад +1

    I love how you got the shot of the trail biker on the road.. fml 😂 love your work

  • @stujd1539
    @stujd1539 9 месяцев назад +1

    The burning down of Roseneath House in the '67 bushfires. Watching the fire brigade trying to put it out, from across the road on the corner of Main and Austins Ferry Roads at the age of 2 with my mother holding my hand, my oldest memory.

  • @dghoffful
    @dghoffful 26 дней назад +1

    Hey Angus,
    I'm a Tour Coach Driver here in Hobart. Many thanks to your hard work and dedication to bring out the amazing past of Hobart.
    I do mention you directly in my commentary and direct credit to your channel.
    I am a lover of History and Querky tales of the past. I had to work the day you were at Richmond recently, actually I was there and saw your A Frame but time wasn't on my side that day. Keep up the amazing work, this was my tip today and send it on to you, buy the dog some Shmacko's, lol. Thanks,
    Hugo
    P.S I do have a query if you know the answer, in Napoleon Street at the end of Sloane Street is a depression where apparently a huge steam engine was to haul ships in and out of the bay.
    When shipbuilding ceased, it was re-purposed and I surmised it to have been used in the Timber Industry. I have a lead it is now in a paddock somewhere down in the Huon Valley. If I do come across it, I shall certainly keep you informed.
    Keep up your Great Work.
    With Appreciation,
    Hugo 🤠

    • @dghoffful
      @dghoffful 26 дней назад +1

      P.S A Merry and Safe Christmas Angus

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  25 дней назад

      Thanks for the support, mate. I def don’t have a monopoly of the history of Hobart and southern Tasmania. I consider anything that I share to belong to everyone, to share as they please. The important thing is that people exchange information. I’ll look into your quarry and consult my archives. If you find anything, even it turns out to be a false lead, it’s worth discussing. Thanks, Hugo.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  25 дней назад

      @dghoffful and same to you, mate.

  • @abbigailthompson9455
    @abbigailthompson9455 Год назад +2

    ❤ thank you so much Angus, absolutely love your work .

  • @kyleroberts2651
    @kyleroberts2651 Год назад +2

    What a lovely surprise for Christmas .Another a great video. I appreciate how you set up the camera for the scene and walk towards it speaking, it adds gravitas . Btw the motorbike doing the wheelie added a bit of Tasmanian hooligan character to the piece. 😜

  • @blaxter101
    @blaxter101 Год назад +2

    Great video Angus. Whatever you do
    Don't pay the ferryman
    Don't even fix a price
    Don't pay the ferryman
    Until he gets you to the other side!

  • @shelleyoreilly3047
    @shelleyoreilly3047 Год назад +3

    I can't wait! I am currently researching this topic and related stuff. :-)

  • @stevejamesbailey7212
    @stevejamesbailey7212 Год назад +4

    Really enjoy watching your videos, mate. Keep them coming. 😃

  • @matthewparsons6496
    @matthewparsons6496 Год назад +2

    Bravo! So well put. Love your work.

  • @bigm383
    @bigm383 Год назад +2

    Thanks, Angus, excellent video plus great drone footage.

  • @nffremote
    @nffremote Год назад +2

    Another great episode, thanks

  • @kylestewart59
    @kylestewart59 Год назад +1

    Another fantastic episode

  • @vman7321
    @vman7321 Год назад +3

    That Moto rider most likely a Convict Descendant… like me

  • @christianstoermer
    @christianstoermer 10 месяцев назад +1

    thank you for this history, I was not aware of this,when I go by all this I have a deeper appreciation of this. and the social comments too. all is part of the history of this region.. keep going angus.

  • @NoName-ds5uq
    @NoName-ds5uq Год назад +2

    I already know where it is. Next suburb from where I grew up. Can’t wait to hear the story! 👍

  • @Void_And_Absent
    @Void_And_Absent Год назад +2

    You do a good job.
    We learnt a lot.
    Keep it up.

  • @jimallen199
    @jimallen199 Год назад +2

    Thanks Angus I really enjoy the history of this great place that you share with us. Merry Christmas to you & the dog

  • @栗-s4p
    @栗-s4p Год назад +1

    Thank you for this unexpected insight ~ I always feel my curiosity for the immediate world around me piqued by your content 💕

  • @brianpyle3839
    @brianpyle3839 Год назад +3

    Angus, is the cottage ever open to visitors, to see the interior?
    Runnymede is also a place I want to visit. Only open on Friday.
    Really enjoyed the video. 🤠

    • @honny1979
      @honny1979 Год назад +6

      The cottage is open every Sunday afternoon by a volunteer.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +1

      Yes

  • @MicahLambert
    @MicahLambert Год назад

    The motorbike mono is cinematic genius

  • @iaincaveney7162
    @iaincaveney7162 Год назад +2

    Nice, can you do one on dodges ferry please

  • @mattayres5147
    @mattayres5147 10 месяцев назад +1

    Very interesting.🎉🎉

  • @jardinmonet1923
    @jardinmonet1923 Месяц назад

    Thanks ❤so very beautifully presented. I get upset with cars and people doing the wrong thing to things and people in society. Eg the burnt cars and motorists & people doing illegal things. Take away the beauty of the stories however your story bring us back to beauty of old. Thank you for your research 🙏 ❤ so relaxing
    Regards Rebeccah

  • @fredeverett4340
    @fredeverett4340 Год назад +1

    Good one Angus, I was impressed when I saw the little park on the Roseneath site a few years after the bushfires. Not impressed with the rabbits in the park and on motorbikes now.😢

  • @MVeans
    @MVeans Год назад +1

    Hello Angus, very much like your talks and walks. Can I ask if it's possible to do a production on Shag Bay and the HMS Nelson (1816) of which the keel is buried there? Cheers

  • @carokat1111
    @carokat1111 Год назад +2

    My grandfather's birth certificate from 1909 records he was born at Roseneath. I still don't know what his parents were doing there, but believe his father was a gardener. I like your thoughts about the ending of transportation in Tasmania - we don't focus on it enough.

  • @cloudstreet8214
    @cloudstreet8214 Год назад +1

    Thank you.

  • @CowboyJojosAdventures
    @CowboyJojosAdventures 9 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoyed this vlog Angus, a pity that the beautiful building was destroyed in a bushfire.

  • @tonybruce
    @tonybruce Год назад

    Beaut vid as always !

  • @bennybnb
    @bennybnb Год назад +1

    Love your videos
    Angus. Are you familiar with the
    quarantine Station on north bruny? Fascinating spot. Happy new year.

  • @davidhunter9282
    @davidhunter9282 Год назад +1

    7:23 mono❤🤙🏽😂

  • @tassiegoat
    @tassiegoat Год назад +2

    Love how you didn't edit the bike out lol

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад

      An overly common sight in Hobart these days.

  • @glennhall8429
    @glennhall8429 Год назад +2

    Should have a crack at hydro infrastructure good place to start would be lake Margaret on the west coast lot of stuff there people will never get to see .

  • @sam_uelson
    @sam_uelson Год назад

    Im coming back in june; first tas trip since i left in 2008. Might have to take a walk around.

  • @Morrison_Haze
    @Morrison_Haze Год назад +1

    7:21 nobody gets shots like Angus Thornett.

  • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
    @jesusislukeskywalker4294 Год назад +2

    👍🏻 great video 8:30 i would say transportation wasn’t just unethical… it was inhumane ☝️ human trafficking… sentencing for a minimum of 7 years beyond the seas.. could put someone in a position of being legally dead.. Act of 1666… in about 1772 slavery was only “stopped” in England .. just a few years before 1788..

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 Год назад +1

      fact check 🤓 sorry slavery was still going on until about 1807 “after many failed attempts” . in the east india colonies until 1838..

  • @AWF1000
    @AWF1000 Год назад +2

    Pretty interesting that they get blokes to build houses with no form of qualification to plan and build. Maybe I'm wrong.. I know they are cons but they are basically my heroes. 😂

  • @CastorRabbit
    @CastorRabbit 8 месяцев назад

    Fear not Angus, the rich historical Tasmanian identity is secure. I hear "Fuck off, we're full" all the time.

  • @gayewebb943
    @gayewebb943 Год назад +1

    The dog looked a bit restless today. Lucky he isn't into chasing motorbikes!

  • @benjaminparkinson5255
    @benjaminparkinson5255 10 месяцев назад +1

    Can you do the iron pot

  • @AmandaWard-f6g
    @AmandaWard-f6g Год назад +1

    I like how you keep us suspended, premieres in 3 days😮 interesting title.....

  • @leandabee
    @leandabee Год назад +1

    There ya go, the GCC, always wanting to demolish things 😕🤦🏼‍♀️. You always make this content with such respect and reverence, but this one in particular was extra poignant for some reason 😢😢. 👌👏👏

  • @kyles5960
    @kyles5960 Год назад +1

    Interestinf

  • @mattburnett4185
    @mattburnett4185 6 месяцев назад

    Must be one of the oldest buildings left in Tassie

    • @jardinmonet1923
      @jardinmonet1923 Месяц назад +1

      Love the Austin's ferry viewing. It's ashame the dysfunctional boy in the motor bike was apart of the scene. My mother had Austin's cottage in the 80s and it was the Beatrix potter gallery. Was very sweet.
      When my mother closed the gallery. The ghost, this is true of James Austin shut the door and the lock locked and locked us inside. In the dark with no power and just getting the last of the books our hand heald light went out. This was when the door shut. Was very scarey. The door as suddenly as it locked un locked. Was very metaphysical.

  • @bigears4014
    @bigears4014 Год назад +2

    Just like America they got sick of the poms, then they used nsw as there dumping ground , following on to tasmania as the French were looking at tasmania closely

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 Год назад

      yes , many people were sent to America as indentured servants.. many not by choice, then Australia was practically the same thing.. what’s fascinating about Tasmania is it was found by the Dutch.. when bass straight was discovered by the British Admiralty they went and claimed New South Wales.. in 1803 the Prince of Orange wrote the Kew letters.. interesting timing that Hobart was the same year. 😳

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 Год назад

      1824 the Anglo Dutch Treaty. The British then settled further north.. Brisbane 1825.

  • @bigears4014
    @bigears4014 Год назад +2

    Many convicts were prosperous beyond their belief , never achievable in england or Ireland

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  Год назад +3

      Some did, yes.. Most had worse lives because of transportation.

  • @Murrangurk2
    @Murrangurk2 Год назад +1

    17 English gentlemen watched this video.

  • @ozhiphopbeats6185
    @ozhiphopbeats6185 Год назад +2

    Dude I love your videos, including this one but this is like reading Ecclesiastes..😅
    This history road seems to be taking a pessimistic direction.
    Must say though you described the against all odd defeated with grace as always
    Love your work bro
    Love you work bro

  • @ianfleck
    @ianfleck Год назад

    storhet!

  • @reneknaap1745
    @reneknaap1745 Год назад +1

    But who pays The Ferryman?

  • @benjaminparkinson5255
    @benjaminparkinson5255 10 месяцев назад +1

    Opossum Bay the Gellibrand family the potters