Sandy Bay Breakdown Part I

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  • @angusthornett
    @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +6

    What do you think of Sandy Bay?
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    • @bigears4014
      @bigears4014 8 месяцев назад +2

      It must of been a amazing place , reading knopwoods diaries gives some insight into the beauty and bounties of tasmania

    • @blackdogRexy
      @blackdogRexy 8 месяцев назад +2

      Used to spend a lot of time fishing off the dilapidated jetty at Nutgrove as a young fella. There was a lot of sand on that beach back in the day.

    • @blackdogRexy
      @blackdogRexy 8 месяцев назад +2

      After looking on the map I think it was Long Beach but for some reason we used to call it Nutgrove.

    • @SteveMack
      @SteveMack 8 месяцев назад

      I haven't been there for years...I've driven around and through Tassie a few times - the only place I know of, with such rich history, and with (some) remnants still in place from the past. Amazing how far back 'toll roads' go!

  • @Seiskid
    @Seiskid 8 месяцев назад +13

    loved how you blended together the bullet story and the university.

  • @MatthewHarrold
    @MatthewHarrold 8 месяцев назад +6

    I've spent 20 years in Mt Nelson and more recently 9 years in South Hobart, shopped at Sandy Bay Woolies that whole time. I've gigged at the Mayfair, Trav's, the Caz, and Nickelby's. 3 of my kids have done the Mt Nelson Primary/Taroona HS/Hobart College/UTAS journey through education. Both my wife and I have studied at UTAS. Sandy Bay has been at the heart of all this.

  • @cloudstreet8214
    @cloudstreet8214 8 месяцев назад +16

    Top drone footage.

  • @alexbrosnan5474
    @alexbrosnan5474 8 месяцев назад +7

    Thought i'd add a couple of extra facts... Nutgrove Beach was once used for horse racing and the rock beach near Blinking Billy Point was used my sea smugglers to drop goods to avoid tax at the wharf in town.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +2

      Stay tuned for coming episodes.

  • @albertarthurparsnips5141
    @albertarthurparsnips5141 8 месяцев назад +10

    The…‘architecture’…of the Sandy Bay campus is a fairly good example of a very modest scaled version of what’s known as ‘ Brutalism ‘. Frowning upon ornamentation, any nods to symbolism,..plenty of exposed concrete,..very much an an adherent to the ‘ form follows function ‘ decrees of the Bahaus & Le Corbussier.

  • @catrionahall8435
    @catrionahall8435 8 месяцев назад +6

    This is my locality now, even saw my home fleetingly. Good to understand more about it. The University is a conundrum, buildings are one thing but the vitality of its intellectual life and purpose are equally challenged by more than 30 years of well meaning blunders.

  • @emilyandjamesyoutubechanne7419
    @emilyandjamesyoutubechanne7419 8 месяцев назад +11

    Sandy Bay was a fun place to grow up in. The university was my skateboarding park.

    • @seanworkman431
      @seanworkman431 8 месяцев назад +2

      I was a member of the university surf club, we never went to the beach once, it was a drinking club funded by the university. The rules were changed and grant funds were not allowed to be spent on alcohol so we made home brew instead, having a few chemistry students as members helped. Funny thing was, I have never attended a university in my life.

  • @TheVeganTravelShow
    @TheVeganTravelShow 6 месяцев назад +2

    We LOVE Sandy Bay! Such a peaceful neighbourhood, my favourite suburb in the whole country & we’ve been almost everywhere.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  5 месяцев назад +1

      It is a peaceful place for the most part.

  • @lanceduke3522
    @lanceduke3522 8 месяцев назад +12

    My great, great, great grandfather Thomas Lucas was the first land owner at Browns Rivulet which extended right up to Sandy bay, only his house remains now at Kingston beach golf course

  • @tristanpauljones
    @tristanpauljones 8 месяцев назад +4

    Excellent mate, as a resident of Battery Point it's cool to see streets I walk down, and things I pass every day, in a more clear context.

  • @simeracerhead3670
    @simeracerhead3670 8 месяцев назад +5

    My old stamping ground, covered pretty much every inch of it on foot as a kid and then lived in various parts of it while attending Uni, including a stint working at Nickelby's during it's dying throes. Another great video Angus, it's very nostalgic to watch these from Canada, thank you.

  • @stephenmcglone3878
    @stephenmcglone3878 8 месяцев назад +8

    I grew up in South Hobart in the 1960's . In the summer my brother and I would catch the bus to Sandy Bay beach for the day. As I have now lived in Darwin for the last 40 years I can't imagine swimming in Tasmanian waters now

    • @carrier411
      @carrier411 5 месяцев назад +2

      I had a quick dip at Long Beach on a 40 C day in Feb 2020, my goodness the water was icy even then!!! As a NZer accustomed to 18-21 C summer water temperatures I was shocked how cold the water was, lol!

  • @mcrazza
    @mcrazza 8 месяцев назад +8

    4:12 It’s pronounced “grovener”. 😊

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +3

      Speaker dependant

    • @Salutimondo
      @Salutimondo 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@angusthornett I agree with @mcrazza. It's a very old established surname belonging to a family of great wealth in the UK. The Duke of Westminster family name and is pronounced as per the original commenter. This is consistent with the other street names in Sandy Bay, e.g. Duke, Lord etc. There is a connection.

  • @Smokie1969
    @Smokie1969 8 месяцев назад +3

    Angus, you should really consider running history walks/talks for tourists! Your knowledge and presentation is a pure joy to watch......I'm sure lots of us would happily pay to be shown the history of Tasmania!

  • @pmacgowan
    @pmacgowan 8 месяцев назад +4

    Brings back memories of my Uni days at UTAS

  • @shazzabelle123
    @shazzabelle123 7 месяцев назад +3

    I grew up in Hobart, leaving at age 25 and residing in Sydney for over 30 years. Needless to say, my appreciation for the beauty, history, flora and fauna was almost absent. Returning has created a whole new me - this all so familiar yet so much more incredible place. I am actually consuming a lot of tourist videos and feeling as newly enamoured by Tasmania as the first timers. This channel is absolutely entrancing me at the moment. I am learning things I have never known, watching and listening to a fabulous and captivating person who is so much more than a host or narrator. Your voice, your manner of speaking and your style of presentation is as compelling as the stories you are telling. This is unique. The passion for the history and the telling of it is palpable. The drone footage and the quality of the videography, the skilful capturing of the sites and scenery. You and your little darling pooch popping up in seemingly inaccessible spots in an Attenborough-esque manner. Absolutely brilliant and much appreciated.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you. It’s good to see viewers geographically outside of Hobart seeing the channel. Hopefully it can grow to a more sustainable level this year.

  • @kyleroberts2651
    @kyleroberts2651 8 месяцев назад +3

    Totally agree the residents of Sandy Bay do not own the University…. But the drama and contention continues. Let’s just hope that the final outcome is the best for the future scholars of UTAS.

  • @peterbateman8018
    @peterbateman8018 8 месяцев назад +8

    I knew Grosvenor Street, Star Street and Fitzroy Park very well as a kid. Sandy Bay is a gorgeous suburb, as property prices reflect. I remember the plan to build an elevated road network, which thankfully died. I remember hearing the Mt StCanice laundry boiler explosion too, which killed a classmate of mine. RIP Terry Ratcliffe.

    • @blackdogRexy
      @blackdogRexy 8 месяцев назад +3

      I remember the explosion vividly as well. It must have been an almighty mess as we were in Taroona and the whole house shook even though we were at least 4 or 5 kilometres from the site with Mount Nelson in between.

  • @knocknapeasta
    @knocknapeasta 8 месяцев назад +2

    Nutgrove Beach is also a new name - whole thing was Long Beach until the seawall was built. Hope to see you highlight the erosion of the beaches and the foreshore, kreewer and the spotted handfish in the next one! Also the Riviera Hotel / Wrest Point and the baths at Marieville Esplanade. Some great history. Thanks Angus

  • @moibenson4616
    @moibenson4616 8 месяцев назад +2

    Again, memories! Although the scenes I saw both on Terra Firma but also via the drone the aerial scenes were excellent. So much has changed, and yet so much is as I remember it!
    Well done, young man. Well done!

  • @chaosstate4491
    @chaosstate4491 7 месяцев назад +1

    Clay mined from "Whitewater" at Kingston was used to make bricks for some of the University Campus building in Sandy Bay.

  • @carokat1111
    @carokat1111 8 месяцев назад +2

    Very interesting. Wonderful to see all the old photos, too.

  • @dirtbikedave9055
    @dirtbikedave9055 8 месяцев назад +2

    My Nan grew up in 'The Bay' and would often recall stories from her childhood; the rivulet featured on some occasions.
    You got me a good one when the rivulet was mentioned toward the beginning.
    Will never forget - love you Nan.
    P.s. Thanks for all your fantastic videos Angus. From this 'Bush Rat'. IYKYN

  • @sandrahealey6385
    @sandrahealey6385 8 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks Angus, another super interesting and informative video!
    It's always a treat when you upload a new Tasmanian history class 👍
    The dog is perfect as usual 🙂

  • @denisesavage2382
    @denisesavage2382 8 месяцев назад +2

    Love seeing the old images and getting a sense of what life might have like. Interesting to find out a bit more about some of the longer older story of Sandy Bay.

  • @blaxter101
    @blaxter101 8 месяцев назад +4

    Great research Angus. Sandy Bay has a lot of interesting history. I liked your other videos about Mt St Canice and Charles Darwin's visit. I look forward to the rest of this series. Good Job Thanks.

  • @melygo2130
    @melygo2130 7 месяцев назад +1

    Sandy bay...beautiful place.i'm lucky can stay there last year...

  • @anthonysmith434
    @anthonysmith434 8 месяцев назад +4

    Love Sandy Bay. Thanks again for your history lesson

  • @bigm383
    @bigm383 8 месяцев назад +6

    Thanks, Angus, for another excellent video. Could you imagine destroying Fitzroy Place? One of the prettiest streets in Hobart. I’m of two minds about what’s happening in universities. Our local university is in its own suburb, yet, it has outreach posts in various regional cities. It has facilities within the hospital precinct, but, like UTAS, is migrating into the CBD (with the help of government money). Most courses are available on line, except for proper science, engineering, etc, yet the uni seems to be ever expanding. Anyhoo, my musings problem don’t help.

  • @AlphaGeekgirl
    @AlphaGeekgirl 8 месяцев назад +3

    Great drone footage!

  • @annieclaire2348
    @annieclaire2348 8 месяцев назад +4

    Fascinating! Thanks Angus.

  • @nickcarlson2708
    @nickcarlson2708 8 месяцев назад +3

    Really looking forward to this series. Cheers Angus & The Dog.

  • @glennevans871
    @glennevans871 8 месяцев назад +4

    Excellent Angus as always and thank you for your sensible and accurately framed description of the University relocation back to the city. The dog was looking particularly heroic perched upon that water trough. Any chance we could reinstate the toll gate ?

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +1

      I’ll be setting up my own personal boom.

  • @misterjdodd
    @misterjdodd 8 месяцев назад +1

    The pic of the traffic study at 3:46 showing a stadium(?) just down the hill from the Cenotaph was a surprise! 😮

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +1

      That was actually part of the old train station.

    • @misterjdodd
      @misterjdodd 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@angusthornett I live and learn - thanks again!!

  • @viscash3606
    @viscash3606 8 месяцев назад +3

    Another brilliant episode

  • @dalemiller5893
    @dalemiller5893 7 месяцев назад +4

    Iam a hobartion from the 1950 and left there when I was 20 years old and still regard Hobart as my home town and my other twin lives in Berlin my neck scare has completely healed and only people in the southern part of Hobart know what iam talking about,only sip on cascade beer not that horrid boags beer take care my brothers ❤

  • @russellh24680
    @russellh24680 8 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoy your words and presentation. Your research is admired. 😊

  • @vman7321
    @vman7321 8 месяцев назад +2

    Former King St resident when I worked for Trust Bank Tasmania 👋👍 played a few AFL games for Uni too

  • @joshuataylor6087
    @joshuataylor6087 6 месяцев назад +2

    I’ve enjoyed your videos. I’m Australian but don’t really know anything about Hobart.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  6 месяцев назад

      Thanks, mate. Glad you’ve enjoyed the channel.

  • @alexlanning712
    @alexlanning712 8 месяцев назад +2

    Used to explore the rivulet from the Shell petrol station to Marieville Esplanade

  • @PWC67
    @PWC67 7 месяцев назад +1

    I love Sandy Bay. I hate to think your rainfall has been as bad as us in the Clare Valley of SA. We’ve had only 18mm in four months.

  • @dougcummings2563
    @dougcummings2563 8 месяцев назад +2

    Top class as usual, well researched and beautifully presented.

  • @nicholasgunson2945
    @nicholasgunson2945 8 месяцев назад +2

    I’d love to see a video on the golf link estate. Went from the top of proctors road all the way down to Sandy bay road. Lord, view, York and duke street were the fairways I believe, which is why they’re all lined with trees down the whole road. Was the longest fairway in the world at one point.
    Pretty sure the yellow cottage on lord street is the original clubhouse but not sure on this.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад

      Do you know the exact address of this yellow cottage?

    • @nicholasgunson2945
      @nicholasgunson2945 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@angusthornett 34 lord street. The whole house was renoe’d a few years ago but they kept the fascia.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +1

      @nicholasgunson2945 thanks

  • @peteshegog5916
    @peteshegog5916 3 месяца назад

    Man, I'm loving your channel; I stumbled across the ep about the old road through Mt Stuart & Lenah Valley so I dug a little deeper and came to this series about where I grew up. Really well done stuff but I have one little gripe... Grosvenor St is pronounced Grove-ner. Otherwise, a really fascinating lesson. Thanks Angus!

  • @phillipebrall9930
    @phillipebrall9930 8 месяцев назад +2

    Excellent work with thoughtful narration.

  • @therighttoremain
    @therighttoremain 8 месяцев назад +4

    Awesome

  • @johndarcey
    @johndarcey 8 месяцев назад +1

    Good job mate. I feel compelled to purchase a small dog and 80s warm up tracksuit, all the while having a deeper knowlegde of where my grandad likely learned to use a rifle.

  • @donttalkcrap
    @donttalkcrap 8 месяцев назад +3

    4:09 Is Grosvenor REALLY pronounced like that in Tasmania?
    Everywhere else in the world I've been (Sydney, UK, US, Canada), it's pronounced "Growvnah". The S is silent.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +1

      Speaker dependant

    • @andybarker5552
      @andybarker5552 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@angusthornett Yeah the only Speaker saying it that way being you Angus 🤣

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +2

      @@andybarker5552 Grosvenor is an Old French word. Originally pronounced phonetically. It means great or master hunter. From the Latin grossus.

    • @Salutimondo
      @Salutimondo 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@angusthornett Then it morphed into the current pronunciation (not yours) over a thousand years ago with the aristocratic Grosvenor family in the UK. It's a very old established surname belonging to a family of great wealth in the UK. It's The Duke of Westminster family name and is pronounced as per the original commenter. This is consistent with the other street names in Sandy Bay, e.g. Duke, Lord etc. There is a connection. 😄

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад

      @@Salutimondo Yep

  • @carrier411
    @carrier411 5 месяцев назад

    watching with joy from NZ. 👍 I used to live in Dynnyrne, so lots of walks on Nutgrove & Long beaches. I was living in Hobart at the time the Uni was being moved to the CBD - and it seemed strange and unnecessary. Surely the Uni needs the room for expansion that Sandy Bay provides???

  • @jadesmith6823
    @jadesmith6823 8 месяцев назад +3

    Brilliant again ✅

  • @Kellrox
    @Kellrox 8 месяцев назад +2

    Love your videos what’s the dogs name :)

  • @corinnecoombs2956
    @corinnecoombs2956 5 месяцев назад +1

    Having witnessed the demiae of Fremantle in WA when a university moved in, it showed the impact of poor planning and the destruction of small businesses and influx of short term student housing has on a previously active urban area. Already the impact of UTAS on Hobart has been to the detriment of small independent businesses and longer term residents of Hobart. I get free enterprise but it will come at a cost not just to Sandy Bay but also to Hobart.

  • @mattskalicky
    @mattskalicky 8 месяцев назад +10

    I think it's pronounced "grow-v-ner" Street

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +2

      Speaker dependant

    • @mattskalicky
      @mattskalicky 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@angusthornett Hahaha

    • @greenpixie1110
      @greenpixie1110 8 месяцев назад +3

      I must admit, I clutched my pearls when Angus pronounced 'Grovernor st' 😂

    • @kakou2003
      @kakou2003 8 месяцев назад +1

      Haha so did I.

  • @MicahLambert
    @MicahLambert 8 месяцев назад +2

    Very hard to get my head around the UTAS at Sandy Bay debate (being from Launceston) The uni's move up here from Newnham to closer to town certainly doesn't draw as much ire. Most have embraced it, or simply don't care. I feel like the Hobart move is only an issue for those who are very near to the existing site. Why has it got so much attention?

    • @Lady_Caster
      @Lady_Caster 8 месяцев назад +1

      Part of the reason is that it is already in an equivalent Invermay like position and it was proposed to be moves to lots of different locations over Hobart and not on a 'campus' any more.

    • @Salutimondo
      @Salutimondo 8 месяцев назад +1

      You have precisely hit the nail on the head. Entirely whipped into high dudgeon by resident Nimbys who don't want the area developed into extra housing which would have to also include housing for lower socio-economic types. The University should be allowed to decide what is right for the continued development and efficiency of the University and not be sidetracked by others consumed by self interest. The strategy was very poorly communicated by the Uni leadership IMHP.

  • @NoName-ds5uq
    @NoName-ds5uq 8 месяцев назад +1

    Ahh, the mention of Nickleby’s takes me back! 🤣

  • @gemblackwood3685
    @gemblackwood3685 8 месяцев назад +1

    Why doesn’t Sandy Bay have op shops? What is their deal? It’s the only suburb of Hobart with a shopping strip that doesn’t..

  • @justinwhite7680
    @justinwhite7680 8 месяцев назад

    Did you upgrade drone? Footage is amazing!

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes. Skills improved too. It was quite hard to capture because the weather needed to be perfect.

    • @justinwhite7680
      @justinwhite7680 8 месяцев назад

      @@angusthornett Lucky for you it doesn't rain anymore in Tasmania.

  • @alexlanning712
    @alexlanning712 8 месяцев назад +7

    Apparently, it is now called Sandy Beijing

  • @YoureNowOnTV
    @YoureNowOnTV 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for making and sharing these videos. 😊👍
    How do you fair navigating the drone use regulations and other rules on content creation on crown land? I saw another Tasmanian Gold fossicker on RUclips being called in for a chat with Parks and Wildlife and threatened with fines for doing what he thought was ok to do.

  • @Liminal88
    @Liminal88 8 месяцев назад +2

    i passed out on that field too 🧙‍♂

  • @SirRamone
    @SirRamone 8 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine if that motorway was built down what looks like Brisbane street and we still kept the train station.

    • @angusthornett
      @angusthornett  8 месяцев назад

      Yeah, Hobart could have been different in a thousand ways.

  • @carlbennett2417
    @carlbennett2417 8 месяцев назад +1

    I find the anti-UTAS move arguments unconvincing, and I think you're right there's a whiff of anti-mixed use housing snobbery underneath the flimsy arguments around parking in the CBD.
    As a staff member I have view which is more to do with the concern about the research capabilities of a new build, especially with no federal government money to complete the builds.

    • @nicholasgunson2945
      @nicholasgunson2945 8 месяцев назад +1

      I’m personally against it due to the lack of foresight. UTAS claims they want to add 2500 new homes to the area. That’s fine, except they’re not adding any parking whatsoever.
      I’m in Sandy bay and have people constantly parking over my driveway. 2500 extra homes means a potential 5,000 extra cars. UTAS has the idea that everyone will walk and ride bikes. But unless there is hundreds of millions spent on infrastructure to support this, as well as a 24/7 public transport system that can take people everywhere in the greater Hobart region (eastern shore, Brighton, Sorell, etc). I just can’t see it working.
      Then there’s the issue of UTAS taking over the city, which has already proven to have driven out many businesses.

    • @Salutimondo
      @Salutimondo 8 месяцев назад

      @@nicholasgunson2945 NIMBY alert...

  • @russellh24680
    @russellh24680 8 месяцев назад +1

    😊❤

  • @benjaminparkinson5255
    @benjaminparkinson5255 8 месяцев назад +4

    The toorack of Tasmania

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson 8 месяцев назад +3

      Toorak has dropped several notches in status. While it's still one of the posher suburbs in Melbourne, not that many of "the establishment" still live there. Instead it is reputed to full of ... (shock) ... "new money" !!!

  • @louiseyvette2261
    @louiseyvette2261 7 месяцев назад +1

    The Bay of Sands :)

  • @jonathanm9436
    @jonathanm9436 8 месяцев назад +1

    Whilst I'm unfamiliar with the arguments for and against the move to the city, my view is that not all change is progress. The uni contributes to the community and life of SB and provides valuable open space.

  • @samonsounds
    @samonsounds 8 месяцев назад +2

    :))

  • @ztrnch
    @ztrnch 5 месяцев назад

    Grosvenor Street is pronouned "Grow-venor"

  • @fortheloveofgod180
    @fortheloveofgod180 8 месяцев назад

    So are you suggesting that the friend of a friend passed out on the UTAS field was shot in the hand by a ghost of the past?

  • @frenchmarotiri8781
    @frenchmarotiri8781 8 месяцев назад +6

    its pronounced Grove ner

  • @MarkMiller-mj9cp
    @MarkMiller-mj9cp 8 месяцев назад +4

    I been binging your Chanel the last few day's. I've learnt more about the history of hobart than i ever did in school 40 years ago. Could you please do an episode of goodwood and prince of whales bay etc . My old stomping ground 👍

  • @mark-ni5fv
    @mark-ni5fv 8 месяцев назад +1

    Did you mean he had a live/unfired bullet in his hand or he was shot in the hand ?