Meeting the Truth in Pontville
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Exploring the history and mystery of Pontville, Tasmania. The dog and I discover a new meaning for ourselves while visiting the not quite holiday destination outside of Hobart.
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This chap should be nominated for Tasmanian of the Year. His affectionate, respectful, gentle mini-histories are excellent.
This is no dig to pontville more like a compliment. Just like Richmond, pontville is the area that feels like the 1800s.. I still imagine horse cariages going by on the road and it still suits it. And I like that about those places.
Big fan of your channel, Angus. I'm a Tasmanian who moved to Melbourne almost a year ago and I watch your videos whenever I feel homesick. Thanks for doing what you do, keep up the great work!
I am also a Tasmanian who moved interstate, myself to Qld 20 yrs ago. I am always homesick. Thank you for your videos Angus
Great reminder of how great Tasmania was and is. please keep up the great presentations as others have tried and fallen by the way side and thes stories need to be told
if not then our history will just fade away, thanks for your effort.
I loved that little scene with the pooch,…” No pound for you, pal. “
No doubt about those words…
Thanks Angus for another great video so much history to rediscover
Another stellar effort @angusthornett! I spent parts of 8 years at the Brighton Army Camp (and the Crown Hotel) but again learnt more from you than I had garnered myself.
Thank you for another great video Angus and dog!
Always thought provoking 👍
Thank you, Sandra.
Another fine performance by the dog. 5 stars.
I heard that cheeky RHCP reference, well played Angus.
As always, a bloody ripper of a mini-doco. Love your work!
Ha
Actually I retract everything, really liked that, really Court my attention just how much effort you put in to make a good video
Great work Angus. The Jordan River walk is a favourite of mine, always includes a beer at the Crown Inn. I loved your exploration of the broader history of the area. Many thanks Michael
Thanks, Michael. Cheers.
A great video thanks Angus. My mother grew up in Pontville and many of my ancestors lived there. I learned things from your video that I didn’t know.
Great video Angus!
Thanks again, mate.
I remember having to drive through Pontville to get to Hobart when I was a young boy from the north-west. Relatives are at the cemetery there and I will schedule to go visit them after viewing this. Fantastic video Angus! Thankyou.
Amazingly evocative, rich, and touching. Excellent work, Angus (and Dog). Thank you.
That was so interesting. Thank you. My forefathers the Crawns, sometimes spelled Crauhan came over on the 'Porpoise' settled in the area and were said to have built The Crown Inn
Thanks for your more regular posts and topics. Always a must see. Cheers.
Good onya Angus keep your great work going
Cheers, mate.
@ have you researched your family member who served at Gallipoli?
Great watch! Well spoken, well done
Another great video. Cheers Angus.
Thank you.
Another great one mate, love your work!
Nice one, Angus!
6:25 Harry Hodgman was my 1st cousin three times removed. He was killed at around 4.30pm on the first landing day (25 April 1915) at Gallipoli.
Good job Angus
Gee you are great at these videos ❤
I noticed your wording is broadening to include non Tasmanians, great work!
Love your vids
beauty mate 👍
3:50 is it my eyes or an optical illusion the second expansion joint is on tha piss( not parallel) to the other expansion joints.1945 year bridge deck.
Another Awesome and very informative video brother Angus 👌🏽 Love and Light to all of you 💙
It looked super shonk under there, mate.
Sound was a bit low this video compared to past videos Angus but excellent as always . 👌👍
Luv puppy
I can see my house at the start. XD
St Marks has an Italian predecessor also.
Pontville history mirrors change in my own lifetime.
The boarding of the Kosovo refugees reminds me of the kind of country we were when I grew up, welcoming people in need. Not always perfectly, but we tried our best. My family used to drive from one end of Mt Gambier to the other each morning, picking up children of Vietnamese refugees and taking them to school because they didn’t have their own cars. Community pulled together to produce kindness.
Now we have mandatory detention, and we garrison refugee families in jails behind razor wire. There’s no welcome, no kindness, no recognition of need. If Kosovo fell today, Pontville would not host foreign families commemorated on a mural. We’d tell them they couldn’t come and put them on Nauru if they came anyway.
Only a few short decades have passed, and we’re worse and meaner. Sometimes the people who look at the past with rose colored glasses are right: In some ways, we were better people in the 1990s.
I remember the Kosovars complaining it was cold dirt and uncomfortable and a Mate who had stayed there many times going off because it was far nicer than the majority of the rentals he had lived in.
Was good, Angus, but I would like to know bit more of the history of the buildings, we stayed in the one near the bridge, years ago..think it may have been an inn?
Don’t know.
The former Congregational Church in New Town looks quite a lot like St Mark's at the front.
Same architect.
Angus, who have triggered my curiosity to visit Pontville for a day out. Does the Crown Inn pub have a good counter lunch ? The locals should take up a collection to restore the bell tower and electric cross .
I don’t know.
The mural is very poignant.
While I definitely appreciate the east and speed of travel from the bypass, it almost seems a shame that these towns don't get seen anymore. Then again, maybe that makes them more special, as you have to go out of your way to find them.
The pub with its elbows on the road...
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Like your blogs would you be able to do a story on the closed Hayes Prison Farm
That’s a very good suggestion. I believe is privately owned now and getting access to the site would be hard.
There was a phone number on the front gate
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Cheers, Steve.
12:29 the great canibis cash grab😂
Ha. Big business is very wise.
@angusthornett you won't read about this but whilst camping at Mt Karputar in September we met a broad Irish backpacker young fella on a work visa even he was on big Pharma Tweed.
I know its good for kronic pain coz it is Kronic. And supply can't keep up with the demand its also being imported from Canada, they estimate a billion $$ turnover just in Oz. 3.9% in 2019 up to 30% in 24. Too strong 4 my liking brother.
Your evolutionary fatalism is a beautiful thing!
Nope thinking all I got of interest was the dog spinning around on the goal post
Wouldn't have thought a real lot of interest at Pontville, could watch anyway surpose little bored, maybe I'll be surprised