Collapse of a Convict Business Empire - Austins Ferry
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Exploring the history and mystery of Austins Ferry, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. James Austin was a convict transported to Van Diemen's Land. We wander around the ruins of his business empire, exploring things lost.
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Opening with, The dog and I, has got to be your signature line. Don't change and keep up the good work.
The dog and I appreciate your comment.
"Organised transportation" as the person popping a wheelie goes past. Couldn't have planned it better! Thanks for the great video.
Cheers, Peter
"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.
It was a bloody good day the day I stumbled upon your channel! Keep up the good work Angus.
Thanks, mate.
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.
The motorbike wheelie was perfect
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.
Oatlands is so bloody cold - who could blame him for stealing a waist coat!
You are a legend angus
Ha, thanks, Benjamin
Wonderful reportage. Thank you!
Thanks, mate
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.
It's all out there to visit in person, when you wish.
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…
Absolutely love your insight and stories. Look forward to Sunday Nights. BUT tonight.... the dude dropping the wheelie at 7:23... what a legend....
You use that term ‘legend’ very loosely, this bogan’s brain cells are limited.
Cheers, mate
'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!
Seasons greetings. ❤
Thank you very much, Russell. Merry Christmas to you too.
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!
Thanks, Jessica. Yeah, he one name that's vaguely remembered. Most convicts, like most people, aren't remember for very long.
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?
@@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. ☝️
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🤔
@@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.
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..
Interesting stuff. Seeing your home burn down would be devastating.
Got my calendar of “then and now” pubs of Hobart today. A nice present for Chrissy. 🍻
Good stuff, Peter
Austin’s Ferry cabin, is on my list of places to visit when I visit Hobart. 🤠
Wow, 1809! Still standing. Thanks again for another great story. Appreciated.
Thanks again, Phillip
Another great episode, thanks
Thank you
Entropy is the natural order/disorder of our universe. That dude on his back wheel! Great timing 🤣. I enjoy your episodes, great job.
Thanks, mate
Upstaged at 7.23 by that cool wheelie. So delighted you left it in.
Enjoyed that thanks Angus.
Thanks, mate
My mother lived at Austins Ferry for many years. I never knew of the history.
Another eye opening episode, it’s becoming extremely apparent that my knowledge of my home suburbs borders on ignorance
There's always more to discover if we look closer.
Another fantastic episode
Thanks, Kyle
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. 📹👍🏻
Ha. Cheers, Chris
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.
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.
@@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.
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
I think it would be good if more Tasmanians did youtube. There's plenty fo room for it. @@stephendaft9547
Bravo! So well put. Love your work.
Thanks, Matthew
Another great video mate thanks
Thanks again Angus for your Hobart history lessons. Keep them coming
Thanks, Anthony.
Really enjoy watching your videos, mate. Keep them coming. 😃
Cheers, Steve
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.
I think we would be better off if we focuses less on our differences and more on our shared interests into the future.
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.
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.
Good one Angus!
I love how you got the shot of the trail biker on the road.. fml 😂 love your work
Fascinating - I loved hearing about all that. Now I know a bit more around Austin's Ferry.
Thank you
❤ thank you so much Angus, absolutely love your work .
Thank you, Abbigail
You do a good job.
We learnt a lot.
Keep it up.
Cheers, dude.
The motorbike mono is cinematic genius
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. :-)
I can't wait! I am currently researching this topic and related stuff. :-)
Thanks, Angus, excellent video plus great drone footage.
Cheers again, mate
Very true
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.
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!
Thanks, mate.
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. 😜
Thanks, mate.
❤very deep and thoughtful presentation. Thanks for the post and all the efforts 😊
Thank you, Russel
Very interesting.🎉🎉
Thanks!
Thank you very much, Gavin. The channel and myself have had Christmas come early. Big help.
I already know where it is. Next suburb from where I grew up. Can’t wait to hear the story! 👍
Thanks Angus I really enjoy the history of this great place that you share with us. Merry Christmas to you & the dog
Merry Christmas to you too, Jim
Thank you Angus for another Historical Update.
I bought a House in Claremont moving from Tranmere after the Bridge went down in 1975 to avoid the Ferry Boat Shuffle.
Unfortunately I regret not visiting Austins Cottage whilst I lived there for 6 years which says we should check out our own back yard first especially given all the History on our doorsteps.
Isn't hindsight a great thing.😁
There's never enough time, Peter. Not enough time, money, and energy to do everything we want to.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
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.😢
The number of loud bikes has increased.
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.
Thank you for this unexpected insight ~ I always feel my curiosity for the immediate world around me piqued by your content 💕
Good stuff, mate.
Love how you didn't edit the bike out lol
An overly common sight in Hobart these days.
Enjoyed this vlog Angus, a pity that the beautiful building was destroyed in a bushfire.
It happens
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.
Interesting
7:23 mono❤🤙🏽😂
Beaut vid as always !
7:21 nobody gets shots like Angus Thornett.
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. 🤠
The cottage is open every Sunday afternoon by a volunteer.
Yes
Love your videos
Angus. Are you familiar with the
quarantine Station on north bruny? Fascinating spot. Happy new year.
I am. Interesting piece of history.
That Moto rider most likely a Convict Descendant… like me
Nice, can you do one on dodges ferry please
Im coming back in june; first tas trip since i left in 2008. Might have to take a walk around.
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
Perhaps in the future
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 .
Great video, what about the guy on the trail bike🤦🏻that was pretty funny.
Did you know the anti transportation league flag, is what became our current national flag.👍
The dog looked a bit restless today. Lucky he isn't into chasing motorbikes!
Haha
I like how you keep us suspended, premieres in 3 days😮 interesting title.....
Fear not Angus, the rich historical Tasmanian identity is secure. I hear "Fuck off, we're full" all the time.
Can you do the iron pot
Interestinf
👍🏻 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..
fact check 🤓 sorry slavery was still going on until about 1807 “after many failed attempts” . in the east india colonies until 1838..
Must be one of the oldest buildings left in Tassie
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
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. 😳
1824 the Anglo Dutch Treaty. The British then settled further north.. Brisbane 1825.
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 😢😢. 👌👏👏
Thank you.
Many convicts were prosperous beyond their belief , never achievable in england or Ireland
Some did, yes.. Most had worse lives because of transportation.
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. 😂
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
Thanks, mate
But who pays The Ferryman?
Opossum Bay the Gellibrand family the potters
17 English gentlemen watched this video.
storhet!