Abandoned Oz - Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building Secrets & Mysterious Doors
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
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Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building Secrets & Mysterious Doors
In this video we explore Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building and its mysterious doors that were used as lift maintenance entry points. These lifts were used for horses & carriages and led down to the basement markets.
Another mysterious door is at the top of a tight spiral staircase and leads to the innards of the large dome on top of the Queen Victoria Building.
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For all the criticisms of the trade Union movement, this building and the Rocks and a number of other structures you see around the CBD would not be here today if it wasn’t for them digging their heels in and refusing to demolish them. Sir Robert Askin was in favour of demolishing the lot and building skyscrapers. Unions had different ideas. 😊
Such a beautiful building, it's a shame Sydney knocked down most of the older similar buildings to erect 1970's abominations , so glad they saved the QVB, it's such an icon for Sydney
Unfortunately - so many irreplaceable buildings were demolished all around the country, and for what can now be regarded as 'soulless crap' being then erected in their place.
Too hind the old world we used to live in, remember the first power tool was invented in 1895 an most of these beautiful buildings were built or under construction well before then, hense why we can never recreate them we just build square box's! Call me crazy but definitely built by someone with tartain
People protested but there was several well connected Jewish syndicates that pushed through the destruction and even got grants to do it .. pathetic. Sydney City was once impressive and grand
Door at 5:05 ..Prior to 1968 the top floor above Hobbyco was the control room for Sydney County Council. On the floor below the door led down a corridor to the relays etc associated with the display and control panels in the control room as mentioned.
I worked there for several years before the whole system was replaced with a new Control Room in the new building Cnr George & Bathurst Sts.
One day while was working there the System controller suggested that I return back downstairs as they were about to conduct a fire Drill.
The exit from the Control room was out a window along a walkway on the roof to the main dome. Perhaps it led to the spiral stairs as the walkway was on the York St. side of the roof.
...and to think that the QVB fell into disrepair and faced demolition during the 1960s.
That spiral staircase is a ripper, thanks for sharing. Cheers.
through one of the smaller mens bathroom's on (I think) the highest shop level (not the big ones with the stalls and old urinal) you could see out into a small alleyway that's inaccessible to the public and servers no purpose since a renovation blocked it off, it's really cool to see.
I’ve always wanted to go up that spiral staircase!!!
I’ve noticed the doors, especially the 1st one where the bottom is not level with the steps. Must visit the top floor on my next visit. That looked lovely.
The landing tiles at those stairs the enamel has literally worn through. I check it out everytime i go there.
That's alot of foot traffic.
Fascinating.
And to think the wanted to demo this beauty.🤦♂️
You should have gone up to the ballroom located at the northern end right at the top. I did a big lighting and audio job there for a dance ball (formal dance party) back in the early 1990's. It was very difficult to load in and out and we had to build a false floor to protect the original wooden floor. Very cool room.
Gorgeous building! One of my fondest memories of my visit to Sydney!
We used to go to the library there with school back in the seventies and early eighties.
There's some great hidden passages and doorways in that building as well as the the one above town hall station.
I remember one of the old lifts getting stuck halfway up a floor. We had to manually pull open the door and climb out. My mates and I had a lot of fun in that building. Including go up that stair case and finding ways to get on the roof at night. No cameras back then. The harbour bridge was the same. Many of us signed under the flashing red light on top of the coathanger. I was surprised just how easy it was to climb.
10 minutes in ....i have to live until 2085 only another 62 years that will make me 115 ...RIP QUEEN ELIZABETH
Thanks for sharing this. I grew up and lived in Sydney until about 1998. I saw the QVB change a lot over that time. It is one of my favorite buildings in the world. Thank you for allowing me to see this gorgeous sight again!
Around 1969 one Saturday afternoon, I was walking on George st past the QVB, shops were only open in the mornings in those days and coming the opposite way was Ross the skull May in his Nazi uniform, off with the fairies jumping in and out of the shop doors ways, I thought bloody hell here's a go but he walked past he as if I was not there. Nock & Kirby was a hardware store there and open to the street the general public could not enter the parts of the qvb shown today.
My 2006 visit to Sydney the Queen Victoria building was on my places to visit I was absolutely amazed by the architectural details throughout the building.
When it was still a library, the lift used to be big enough to get a horse into.
What a beautiful building, and it will be my purpose to visit SYDNEY and the QVB now. CHEERS from VICTORIA.
Would be nice if you could get someone to give you a tour of the hidden places plus up the dome.
I love this sort of thing as well. My mum and Aunty would take my cousin's and I to see the clock chime. I remember as a kid in the late 1980's going to a room upstairs that was done like a throne room with the Queen Victoria mannequin and there was a small museum. I'm not sure if it is there anymore.
Kate , that would be great to know if its still there.
Never noticed those doors near the lifts! I remember doing a behind the scenes tour where we got to see the dome. But I’m sure we didn’t go up that staircase, there was another side door somewhere. I think we might have looked out of the door at the top of those stairs though. The space above is amazing - it’s quite big and you can look up to the outer (stone) dome as well as see the whole of the inner (glass) dome which is what you look up to from inside the building.
There are also some function spaces up on the roof. Been to a couple of things there. “Sydney Open” (event in Nov where lots of places get opened up that aren’t usually available) had its media launch there at least once.
I did a Sydney Open a few years ago of the QVB and as my luck would have it they didn't do the dome as it was under maintenance at the time. They did take us up to the roof though, which is always interesting seeing parts of a building you don't normally get to see
I did wonder if the Sydney Open group used that staircase to get to the dome! Glad to hear there’s another way. Looking out for when that QVB behind the scenes is on again.
I remember the qvb from the early 1970s. There used to be a lending library at the end Phil entered (which I was a member of and borrowed mallier book). I remember, on the George Street side there was a record store. I remember buying Rick Wakemans Six Wives of Henry VIII on vinyl from there. There may have been one or two other shops still open but otherwise the whole building was more or less derelict. I've lived in the UK since 1974 but got the opportunity to take a holiday in 1996 when I visited the Queen Victoria Building, totally different!
I believe there was a plan to demolish the building at its low point and an Asian man stepped in and rescued this architectural gem…
… Would be nice to see some history about the wonderful Australia Hotel and its history and the quaint Rowe Street with its shops and coffee bars, now all gone thanks to greedy developers 😢
@@helenlesley5456 We all owe a BIG THANK YOU to the person that stepped in and saved that beautiful building.
I'm sure I can remember being a kid in the back seat of a car that drove into the QVB as a car park. Above ground level too. That would've been early 80's I guess.
Later as a teen, one night we were roaming the city and went right through the QVB while it was a building site during the restoration, probably around 86/87. The best bit was going up a fire escape and coming out on the roof. We could get inside the small domes and walk around the big one.
Many interesting facts I had no idea about, thank you. I will look more closely at hidden doors in old buildings in the future.
I remember seeing that spiral staircase when I visited QVB! Thanks for the interesting video :)
Gorgeous old building 😍
Dying over all the glasswork and wrought iron
She’s a beauty 😍
The staircase looks stunning.
Thank you for such an interesting video, i love the QVB and have never even taken the time to notice the Queens letter, such a beautiful building.
Thanks for sharing.
Awesome History
From memory the men’s toilets are bizarre. They have four urinals in a + formation so you can smile and feel very awkward taking a pee whilst trying not to make eye contact. In the olde worlde, a communal pee must have been quite the social occasion. How times change:)
Was i hearing things....lifts were for the horse and carts ???..... so maintence could be done !
Always enjoy visiting the QVB although several of my favourite shops are now gone.
" strand arcade" is operating " must see this " iconic arcade" with " old school shops " late 70s. ( celebrity hairdresser " Lloyd lomas was there " got my hair styled by him !"😊
I remember how the strand was before the fire started, I spent a lot of time in there, a real time capsule.
Oh dear :-(......I hope this beautiful building is not on the demolition list like the other beautiful buildings
horse and buggies and the local convict built these buildings without any trade. yeah right.
Literally the Resident Evil 2 police station
Best game ever!
Still has the most wonderful lifts
It was the office block for Sydney council before Sydney town hall house was built behind Sydney town hall,
Found rooms for 17 and 515 today at the QVB
OOOOO A NON ABANDONED BUILDING i love this building ......by the way i am only 1 minute in
Had no idea the letter was publicly viewable, never noticed - I'll have to have a look next time I go. If I'm still around I'll be 101 years old when its opened.
I have the first door a few times
The QVB looks recently repainted and the lifts look renovated.
Yes the lifts never were inclosed before, they used to be victorian style cages like the railing in the building, guess OHAS had their way.
hey what happened to the Sydney aquarium
Did you know this is connected to the Ghost off Town Hall to which was the first cemetery of Sydney and was dug up when they wanted to build Town Hall and I guess the Queen Victoria building. The ghosts are only hearsay but then again ?mmmm.
if they are used as electrical rooms, how do they open the doors? some of them are blocked by the rail.
The rail outside 417 had joints that I assume can be undone when required.
Don't know if they still have a LUSH soap store but the whole building smelt like lush soap.
Yes that’s true about the “lush” soap smell… I remember they had a shop in one of the main streets in Melbourne and the odour filled the outside entrance onto the pavement
Nahhhh that’s so old by the way I’m first!
I'd love to know the truth, are you a fellow mason? Would love to meetup at the local lodge and explore together! 🫣