The Forest District
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- 'The Forest, an area west of Sydney's northern beaches, is the centre of natural features such as the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park and Garigal National Park.
Sources:
'Forest History', S & G Champion
Trove digitised newspapers
Daily Telegraph
State Library N.S.W.
Pittwater Online News
Google Maps
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Frenchs Forest News
'Story of Terrey Hills & Duffys Forest' , G Halstead
Monument Australia,
Aust. Historical Markers
Wikipedia
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Please do Camperdown next. It has a wonderfully interesting cemetery
This was fun. a new subscriber arrives!
Always keen to welcome a new subscriber. I don’t wish to sound disrespectful, but as the male voice on the video, I didn’t come across anything that caused me to be amused. Though the Creator, the female voice, thinks poorly of clearing one’s throat, mispronunciations and laughing during recording. Obviously you enjoyed the video and that, in truth is all that matters.
On a more serious note we have already done a video on Camperdown and also Newtown. The Newtown video includes Camperdown cemetery. The border being indistinct and although church of St. Stephen is close the cemetery is not a church graveyard, for it is run by a trust. St. Peters graveyard at St. Peters is linked to the church. The burial ground opened in 1838 and closed in 1896. So it is earlier than Newtown. St. Peters church and graveyard is open for viewing on the first Saturday of the month from 1.30 to 4.30. History tours are free. On our web site we have an audio tour of the graveyard entitled “Voices From the Graveyard.”
Another brilliant doco, thank you. Imagine the heartbreak of the family of the girl taken by a Bull Shark, especially the poor mother, her husband and son prisoners of the Japanese, and her daughter killed by a shark. Imagine the returned soldiers trying to exist on that barren, unfertile, rocky land? It seems that all the land given to, or offered at cheap prices were all worthles and unproductive plots, Governments don't change.
The Creator of this video is of the opinion that, sadly given the amount of idealism involved, few of the soldier settlements, if any were a success. One of our visits to a suburb, almost specifically to photograph street signs named after battlefields of the first world war, and where houses were built for soldiers, are now replaced by two storey mansions. Somewhat surprised and delighted, by the number of people watching our video on “The Forest.” We’ve gone through a period where, we’ve picked a number, close approaching ten, which have disappointed with their number of views. We don’t go searching for things sensational, “just the facts” as one detective once said, and written in, for the most part some sort of chronological order. The latter can only be seen, regarding “The Forest,” when each individual suburb is looked at. I doubt whether you’ll ever truly recognise how encouraging you remarks have been to myself and the Creator. Thank you once again.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 You mentioned that you are doing one on Picnic Point and surrounding areas. It was either in the "Historical Section" of the Daily Mirror in the 1960s or in the Leader, where my father read to me, a story of Spanish/Portuguese remains found in Picnic Point including tree-lined pathways from the river to stone foundations, to many artifacts like containers and coins dating from the 1500s. A plumber working in Liverpool found Portuguese / Spanish bottles buried 2 meters underground. There is no doubt that they were here, even Lawrence Hargraves knew that, even commissioning Norman Lindsay to sketch engravings of Spanish origins on Nth Head, and the huge steel anchoring rings on the rocks of Rose Bay, where Hargraves lived, that were there when Phillip arrived 250 years later. Yes, Cook was the last great explorer to see our shores, the hieroglyphics on the rocks above Gosford have been proven to be genuine, 2000 years ago. Your docos are wonderful, I enjoy all of them. Maybe you could use some spice to entice viewers, the Portuguese connection is real, Beyond Capricorn by Peter Trickett explains it all. Many years ago, I read a wonderfully written book about our mate Jimmy Cook. It was mentioned that, as he hit the reef off Cooktown, he wrote in his journal, "The was definitely not on my charts". What charts? Apparently, there is evidence that James had Spanish/ Portuguese charts on board. When he left Tahiti, he announced to the crew that their mission was to verify the existence of the Great South Land. The Polynesian men he took with him as translators for the visit to New Zealand said, " Just head West, it's over there". Everyone knew about Australia, but no one cared, it was too far away and too dry. I could go on for hours. Please follow up, you may find something exciting to lure the boring masses.
looking forward to the next vid as a revesby resident
great vid, keep them coming!
I feel I must ask the question, what’s great about it? It has the same chronologically ordered format. Inevitably it is a railway line which has the maximum impact on the development of a suburb. What essentially is the difference between say our video of “The Forest” and that of “North Sydney?” The answer is that after a few days the former has ten more views to have more views than “North Sydney, which went up eight or nine months ago. It would be easier to climb Everest than attempt the slope on the graph, which show our watched hours, and there are more people now watching other videos of ours. After over four years on RUclips we are only slightly the wiser as to which one will create an audience. Another factor is that suburbs which are adjacent to one another aren’t marching together as to views. So it is pleasant to hear of someone excited about a neighbouring suburb. Have a look at Botany and Botany Leisure and note the difference of views. Why it should be ignored by residents of Botany when in the Victorian era the Sir Joseph Banks Hotel and its athletic track was the place to be, and still ought to be. Thanks for showing enthusiasm for what we are doing. It means more to us than any remuneration.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 no problem, i enjoy well put together vids, i edit and do vids myself on other platforms, i know whats involved. most people post vertical vids on tik tok and facebook and instagram which i cant stand. i appreciate traditional videos.
Great work again 👍. I have no personal interest in this area, but I loved learning the history and development of the region.
I imagine you are one of our remarkable subscribers, after reading your comment. We would like to see more people using your phrase, “I have no personal interest in this area,etc.” Any reason for viewing our video is a good one. So we know of those, who are nostalgic for their long past happy childhood, or a search for the suburb their parents or grandparents waxed lyrical about, or discovering the industrial past of a suburb now gentrified, and of course some mysterious connection with real estate. With something of a minor success with the video on Kingsgrove, our next video will be Panania, Picnic Point and East Hills. Noting your RUclips name, I hope you aren’t disappointed that the Creator’s nostalgia is for her first car a Volkswagen.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 Yes, I am a subscriber. I kind of do fall into a couple of the categories you noted - industrial pasts is how I found your channel - the Concord video. I worked at Meadowbank for several years during the start of the Rhodes redevelopment, and I had memories of the area from the 80s too.
Then I spotted the Granville one. Same thing - I knew many of the old factories either from older colleagues, friends & relatives, or because of other history I'd come across. Liverpool was a good one - I spent a lot of time around Bigge Park in the 80s as my Dad worked nearby.
But your delivery is what captures me for other topics where I have no personal link or interest. Bouncing back & forth delivering facts is a great way to change the sub-topic subtley, and keep the momentum going. I often find myself watching one through in full, then going back a second time to pause and look at the images in more detail at my own pace. Some may suggest slowing it down, but I don't think so - the way it is now is perfect, and you can easily go back and pause it like I do if you want to dwell longer.
The way you cover such detail, yet be so concise as to fit it into a relatively short video is amazing. It clearly brings weeks, months, and maybe years of research together into a fantastic creation, that can interest many.
And regarding the cars - I like anything built in Australia, and many VWs were made here, assembled in Melbourne from CKD kits initially, but evolving into having 75% Aussie content at the peak (panels were pressed here, bodies assembled etc). My grandfather was a Dodge & Chrysler fan, but smart thinking saw him choose early Kombi vans as work vehicles for their businesses in the 50s & 60s, and my mothers first car was an Aussie-made Beetle.
@@commodorenut we are more than a little impressed by your reply. I can place myself in the category of minor celebrity, in that five people have at social gatherings, entirely of History Societies, identified me as a voice on Sydney Suburban History. The first to do so, I asked, “Do you look for suburbs with an industrial past?” He replied, “ No I’m not a rivet counter, I’m looking for remnants of design.” I don’t wish to know whether you are a rivet counter, but rather could you name the suburbs, which you think have a past that would attract such people to our channel. We thought our video of “St. Peters Child Brick Makers” should be of interest to such people, but the reality is that it is not. Being as it deals with brick making in 1876, is this outside the time span for people looking at industry? Certainly we are certainly very aware of our watchers scrubbing back and forth along a time line 1900-1975. Thanks for your remarks on our production. The last, and only other one to leave a comment, was happy with the female voice, but thought the male voice was doing a poor impersonation of a B.B.C. accent. My explanation was that I was born in Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands of England, of Scots mother and an English father from another county, and have been an Australian citizen since 1975. Perhaps if you care to we could hear from you, on a more relevant site. I suspect that our “ The Forest” viewers aren’t particularly interested in things industrial. But then again I could be wrong.
@@stpeterscooksriver1873 Don't ever, ever change male or female audio for what you do. To me it adds to the rich history you post because your voices could even resemble someone from that period of time whether it's 1900's to present, I know you're not dinosaurs! After all, we were British subjects up until 1983 {had to look that up}.
Thank you. I didn't know Simeon Pearce had property outside Randwick of which he was the first mayor. R&DHS. 🔱🏳🌈
Good to see someone from an Historical Society viewing our videos. Is that Randwick? Regarding Simon Pearse we also were unaware of the connection. We know many watch because it reminds them of their childhood, or that of their parents and grandchildren. A substantial minority group watch suburbs which have an industrial past, which is no longer. The Creator and I are both volunteers at St. George Historical Society’s Lydham Hall, which has recently reopened. It is now open on the first Sunday of the Month and Thursdays for tour groups. It has an innovative attitude to history. There are no barriers to appreciating the objects in each room. No areas roped of, or behind glass, as you stroll through kitchen, dining room and drawing room and hallway. If you haven’t already sat down in one of the rooms, perhaps sitting under the back verandah with tea/coffee and scones with jam and real cream, while seeing in the distance Botany Bay, might attract you. Views of other recent videos have been somewhat disappointing. “The Forest,” views to begin with have filled us with hope that things will get better.