Brisbane Australia 1891 to 1900 | Rare Unseen Historical Photographs of Brisbane Australia | Old Pic

[@davidboskett5581]

I really enjoy seeing these old photos and I have nostalgic feelings about the past as although we have advanced so far with our technology I feel we are as a people less gracious

[@56music64]

So greatly influenced by European architecture back then. People: if only we could be more relaxed as we are today, but still maintain our manners and graces of this bygone era. Wow that fire station, was really something, a little different to the colourbond versions of today!

[@thequeitone59]

Beautiful Architecture back then, Unlike the monstrosities of today. Especially the new Star Casino.

[@ultimobile]

Great history photos - thanks !

[@chaffcutter58.]

My Great Grandparents, welcomed Lord and Lady Lamington at our Family Property in 1897.

[@__7SEVEN7__]

Long live all that beautiful Tartarian Architecture!

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@__7SEVEN7__ There is no such things as 'tarlatan architecture'. It's a pointless and laughable conspiracy theory.

[@annehat4833]

Beautiful city...stolen from us !....thank you

[@thequeitone59]

Nothing was stolen

[@stuarth43]

loved the vid

[@larrywalker6105]

Were Lamington cakes named after the Governor Lamington.

[@stuarth43]

some substancial buildings now knocked down to make way for glass boxes

[@philipstevenson5166]

buildings aren't that different now, more the habits of people and their numbers

[@putikimike]

It's 2024 and I can almost smell the horsey poo. Great photos by the way.

[@LukeXMV]

Amazing. I always wonder about those English colonizers how cruel and low morale they had while occupying other people's land, massacring them and enslaving Very bad people.

[@davidboskett5581]

Man has always waged war on others ever since the Homosapiens met up with the Neathandals but the British colonisers were no worse and probably better in the way they treated the native populations in the countries they colonized compared to the other European colonizers. And the indigenous people were not all peace loving either as they used to fight and kill their neighbours often in more barbaric ways.I believe the British Empire did more good than bad I dont know where you live but I expect your ancestors were also killers

[@chriswatson7965]

You could argue that they occupied someone else's land, but in doing so also have to admit that the aborigines did that to each other, but killing of aborigines was illegal and done only by a small minority, and slavery was also illegal and not done to the aborigines. The people then are no different to the people now. Also it wasn't just the English, in fact in Queensland the development outside of Brisbane was disproportionately attributed to people from countries other than England, with the English tending to be less adventurous and sticking to established towns and cities. The fact of the matter is that in Qld, outside of the areas north of what is now Cairns, the aboriginals did not take particular exception to the settlement of the land by Europeans as they did not have a strong culture of land ownership with laws and customs built around other aspects of their lives.

[@philipstevenson5166]

habits of conquest and exploitation are hardly unique to individual nations, which are anyway recent inventions. it's more like people behave according to circumstance, especially population density and familiarity.

[@jpkiwi8744]

And yet... we still rank as a country most people would like to live in? Or should we had stayed a neolithic stone age hunter gathering nation?