My father had a Beetle from 1967 made in Australia and later on ein VW Passat Station Wagen from 1975 also made in Australia. The Country Buggy was not just the same as the VW 181 or the Thing sold in other countries, but they look quite similar. Volkswagen started the producation in Australia because of a great demand and import fees. About 1970 the factory was not full at work. The cars from Japan, like Toyota, Honda and Mazda started there run to Australia. At the end Volkswagen germany had a big debit with this factory in Australia.

As a kid in in the 1970 i was at Spencer Street Station many times. There was a Café on the frist floor and you had a good look over the station. Today this station ist not a nice place to stay

Not abandoned more land bank by a property developer got to keep the price of sections up

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Great video, but just wondering why the later pics (1975 onwards) were in black and white, not colour?

When I was working on project in and around Melbourne’s West, near Tarniet there were a few still left. I even seen a sheep dip near the road side. That was around 2014. They would all have been knocked over by now?

UPDATE - There will be a new video every 2 days to April 1 2025 and not until the end of January (I didn't realise I explored so much while touring !)

The Puckle Street tram ran until about 1950 and went down Mount Alexander Road to Monnie Ponds Junction.

Thank you for your video. I lived in Forrest as a young child about late 1959 to 1961/62? The town mill was operating then. I will give you excerpts from my "story." Forrest has forever remained within me... most joyous memories. Part of my "story"... "I leave our old wooden house and walk out into a silent, crisp, icy morning in the mid 20th century. Where are the birds? Too cold for them i wonder. Walking along the gravel road i breathe in the fresh scent of the eucalyptus trees and dream of what the future may hold for me. Arriving at the place where crossing the fence is easier i see dew laden silky cobwebs hanging, glistening, like crystal tears off the rusty barbwire fence." Finally at the school crossing with the sun higher and warmer now my friend picks small colorful "Xmas" spiders off the "egg and bacon" shrubs. We let them walk across our hands and gently place them back on the branches. We are ready for a busy, yet fun day at our tiny schoolhouse in the Otway Ranges. Most of us children were very aware of nature and of ourselves in the the late 1950's. I remember with fondness those days of such innocent fun so very long ago..." Cheers to you Aerial Explorer. Peace.

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The background noise is anoying

The church across from the rockbank train station is Serbian and they have toilets. If you get desperate

I remember that, when you walked through the doors, the sounds of the city just faded away. And The Lady Chapel was my mother's favourite place...

thank you also . we r looking for a move from melbourne down the coast - this video was interesting informative - and yes Australia is a great place - go on and get out there ! 😊❤

I remember that Service Station very well. I used t stop there back in the late 1970s and 1980s when travelling for work in that area. Cheers

The Block arcade has one of my favourite chocolate stores, Haighs. The most delicious truffle chocolates and also great chocolate buttons. Unfortunately the tearooms are a victim of their own success and often have big queues to get in that I just can’t deal with any more. The Charles Dickens tavern under itis a good little pub for a feed.

Yep, you're definitely out west, somewhere either side of Hopkins Rd heading towards the western hwy, where all the mega warehouses are going up

I actually polish up and work on the 4401 😂

5:49 Mate, did you ever do the abandoned technical school next door before it was knocked over ? Cant recall when it was bulldozed. Directly bordered the railyards as you can see at this timestamp.

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Used to turn right at top of platform one cross flyover above siding (now the apartments) in 70/80s as went to school that way. Also there were gates at bottom of ramp where funnelled in to ticket collector/checker. Used to wake to diesels going thru and tooting at 5 am. Nice old station many memories thanks

The now closed toilets & store rooms at Hawksburn, Toorak, Armadale & Malvern are on the island platforms underneath the station masters/booking offices and ramp down to the platform. The goods yard was at street level, where the new apartment buildings are. The Yard Foreman's office is the brick structure above platform 1. The rail entrance/exit to the goods yard branched off the up Caulfield Through Line on the Toorak side of the High Street bridge. There was a small signal bay/box on the island platform which controlled the signals & points into/from the goods yard.

2:25, huon pine toothpaste!

The tanks are firefighting purpose.

Fantastic build, may there be many more 👍

Great to see it from the air, thanks for sharing! FYI bikes NOT allowed on the full 15 k walking path, only bits of it. And no water or shops in the park, so BYO

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Total eye sore in a pristine location. What a waste of natural land

Those stone walls are really only prevalent in a couole of areas in Melbourne. Mostly in the north to north west

Very interesting video footage definitely with the drone something that I wouldn't mind doing there at that particular spot as well but gonna be careful flying that type of drone around major Reservoir yeah last time I did something like that one of the workers said I cannot fly drone around but yeah very good footage

Now that's a solar farm I didn't know existed. Very interesting and formative footage. I shall check this location out next time through Victoria. Cheers Mate 👍🦘

Interesting, I had no idea there was a solar farm there!

I went to High School in Castlemaine, I love you visiting my old towns! I first watched your Elphinstone video as I grew up there. I live in the USA now so it's great to see high quality footage from my childhood towns 🙂

Great Video1 pity that steam engine J 549 wasnt operating on the day but a brilliant bit of footage of the area

I'm curious about the mansion at the foot of the old gaol at 0:27. I don't think it exists any more.

Loved this historical story and flight. Cheers for posting 👍🇦🇺🦘🚂🚊🚇

Good town lived there for 10 years & played cricket for Blackwood

You mentioned the oval and wanting to see it. Pity you were not there today the 30.11.2024. It was Kingston show.

It had A sizable railway station which was on the Creswick North - Daylesford branch line

@ 10:00. No that wasn’t a school although I agree it looks like a portable. It was offices for a government authority I think and now a home. The old school was up the road on the opposite side. The house right next door (white) is the house we looked at when for sale 10 years ago.

Kingston is a lovely town. It’s another place we checked out a house for sale when we were looking in the area. The hotel is a nice place for a meal sitting on the veranda. But only open certain days. The old Kingston railway station was near the oval. I believe in the 1970’s they burned old trains (red rattlers or Harris trains - can’t remember ) there.

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5:08, that looks like a sequoia. it gets a little bit hard to prune them when they are full grown. 16:17, note the wiring hanging out of the wall. that indicates that someone is or was intent on repairing this place. its rather old. i think that side room is an addition long ago because it has lining boards, not sheet plaster or other more modern material on the walls. 14:25 i'd put my money on that being a post office. i thought i knew the area within 160kms of melbourne very well yet this is yet another town you have done a video on that i didnt know of.

Asbestos shed ?

if you look at the population differences between Albury and Wodonga. population of Albury is 53,677 and Wodonga has 38,949

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I live in the area and I have a drone but unfortunately I can not fly my drone in area due to close proximity to the airport. What is the process of flying a drone in the area?

Yeah I filmed is couple years ago to fantastic place

No Cerberus? Is it still there? I used to swim out to it way back in the 60s. Cheers from Wagga.