Cribb Island - Brisbane's Lost Suburb

[@paulinehollywood9461]

Thank you for making this video. It brought back some lovely memories when I was lucky enough to work on the district clinic for six months which took us, six staff in all, from the RBH to Cribb Island once a week, & Sandgate and Wynnum twice a week. It was a fantastic job for someone new from the UK back in 1971. The clinic at Cribby, an old converted house, had an outside dunny which needed jacking up which, when repaired, was found to have a nest of nine brown snakes underneath; something amazing to write home to family and friends back in the in UK. ❤

[@Lionizeu21]

Great short doco of Cribby. My Mother grew up there. My Grandmother and Great Grandmother lived in Cribby from the 1940's till the mid 1970's. I had a few holidays there as a young child visiting extended family's. I remember all the old car tyres on the beach to stop erosion. Mum always referred to the area as the Chocolate Coast because the water was always brown. I will always treasure the memories of Cribb Island. Thanks for a wonderful documentary on the area, it bought a tears to my eyes seeing what was lost, so the airport could be expanded. It reminds me of the movie The Castle. Where people were fighting to keep there homes also.

[@StrangeAustralian]

Great stuff! I haven't seen that many videos of this style with such a specific local focus before, and even less so for Australia. Well done to you and anyone who worked on it!

[@VadaWestlake]

Thank you for putting this documentary together, the history will never be lost

[@rosemariechilds2033]

Thanks 💓 for the amazing video my heart my home. Thanks for acknowledging the Bee Gees living there not many do. Born and bred Cribbie kid thanks for the happiest memories and tears of lost for my forever home. Mostly keeping Cribb Island memories alive.💓💓💓

[@max_dee]

Great historical information and doco thanks. I had forgotten about this lost suburb, even having lived in Brisbane North all my life since the 70's. I often cycle along the Jim Soorley bikeway and had no idea that the remnants of the main road still exist today?!

[@scottie0001]

As someone that is only young and working at Brisbane Airport, it really shows what people had to go through at Cribb Island during the construction of the airport. I do wish that there was more of Cribb Island left but compared to the old Eagle Farm Airport, I certainly was important to construct the new airport. Also another video on the construction of Brisbane Airport would be great and a little known fact is that the domestic terminal particularly is actually build on jacks that is retractable due to the ground being a former mud flat.

[@elephantgiftstore]

Over the years I've seen many Cribbie vids and done my own research out of curiosity. This is the best. Well done.

[@SteveMack]

Outstanding! I remember going there as a kid (prior to the new airport extensions of course)

[@dicungDon]

Thank you for making the video. It is lovely to know more about Brisbane's history. I visit Nudgee very often and never knew there was an old suburb nearby.

[@madmunga]

Thanks again for another fantastic vid! Really enjoyed watching, your content selection is exceptional. Can't wait to see what's next!👍

[@JohnByrne-go7pd]

Well Done, as a former New South Welshmen, who moved here in the sixties I was always interested in the history of CRIBB ISLAND. Good to know about it's history

[@IBISChannel32]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@WeirdOneOz]

Well done, thanks for sharing the history of the area. I would never have known otherwise and always wondered.

[@craigroaring]

Great video.

[@liamthompson9342]

New to your channel. I wasn't expecting such a great and thorough report. Definitely a subscriber now. First rate.

[@jamessimpson2674]

I ride the Kedron Brook bikeway all the time to Nudgee Beach and stopped many times at the broken pathway down to the water.... I always thought it might have been a old boat ramp!! Thanks for the info. I guess if it was still around today it would be full of Victorians and Overseas Investors like the rest of Brisbane

[@ForeIpeaGoodGuy]

Thank you for this awesome video.

[@RobynRobinson-z9x]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for such a beautifully poignant and sensitive portrayal of where I spent the first 17 years of my life. There was such a cruel and snobby attitude to Cribb Island from others in Brisbane, cultivated by those in the media of the time, 'the paper', which could be very hurtful to residents, who by and large were as decent, law abiding and hard working as anybody else, anywhere else. To have your home ridiculed leaves an indelible mark. Thankfully, it would not be acceptable today. But, you can find a silver lining in most unpleasant experiences if you live long enough I guess. It help shape me into someone who has always tried to treat people how I would want to be treated. I was at school for a short time with the Gibb brothers, who were gentle, well mannered boys; who were very close to each other and truly marched to a different drummer. Music even then was their passion. They deserved every success they had. Years later on a return to Brisbane they were told by a news reporter on their arrival at Brisbane Airport that they were standing on Cribb Is. which no longer existed. A concerned Barry's comment was, "But whatever happened to the people?"

[@IBISChannel32]

My pleasure!

[@adamski-l5w]

Geez i wish we’d kept our Gregory’s from the early 80’s. Brisbane was so different back then. We sometimes lose sight of the fact that more than half of present day Brisbane wasn’t there 40 years ago. Our city is remarkably young.

[@onpointmetaldetecting2158]

Thank you for this amazing trip down memory lane 😊❤️

[@sandragerhardt2309]

Thank you for making a wonderful presentation of my home. Whilst I can show this to my parents when I visit I would love to be able to leave a copy with them to watch at their leisure. Is there anyway of obtaining an mp4 copy to allow this as they do not have the internet at home. My mother was born at Cribb Island with her parents and grandparents living there. When she married my parents then bought a home at Cribb Island and we were born there as well. We only moved when the airport took over.

[@matthewpocock4824]

I love these historical videos of my backyard.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Terrific little doco. Did you shoot the B roll footage?

[@IBISChannel32]

Thanks Rob. Some of it. The beach shots are stock footage as the Cribb Island area isn't easily accessible. The shot of the duck was filmed at QUT Gardens Point though, not Nudgee... but don't tell anyone that.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

legend dude 🚬🐨

[@trevorwenzel8266]

2 of my slides are at the 9.28 & 9.43 marks. Good to see an acknowledgement in the end titles.

[@IBISChannel32]

Of course!

[@walkaboutwithrob]

The next Twisted Visions KZbin challenge is coming later for later this month. Would you like to be involved?

[@IBISChannel32]

Shot you an email.

[@SidneyChan-hu2wu]

Rip as I watched this video as a brisbanite myself all of a sudden a plane flew over my house

[@Bims-t5b]

You should make some KZbin shorts via getting little clips from your videos and making them into shorts to reach more people

[@tmrwic]

How interesting.

[@rodneydrew9117]

what a waste I feel sorry for all the family's friends businesses

[@kcox3090]

In 1963, I met the girl who I would end up loving my whole life. Kathy Conder,, and she lived at Cribb Island and her dad was the laundry man for the Shingle Inn in Edward st Brisbane for years. If anybody knows Kathy, please tell her I love and miss her as I have done, all my life. Every chance I got, I would ride the Black and White buss too and from the Island to be with Kathy.

[@harrycopeland8322]

Kathy Conder was my aunt. She met a Frenchman, Ivan Duernick in the late 60’s early 70’s - They eventually married and had three kids. They lived in northern NSW during the hippie years then up around Nambour for a while - That’s where I lost contact. She passed away from lung cancer in the early 90’s. I went to her funeral with my mother. I’m not sure exactly how old she was but I know she was about 10 years older than me. I’m 73 and I lived in Cribby through most of my primary school years, moving to Stafford part way through year 7 - that was 1962. My grandmother (Kathy’s mother) lived in Elmslie St. She was three blocks from the ice works, next to the catholic school and two doors down from where the BG’s grew up. Cathy actually had a thing going with Barry Gibb for a while. She was going to Banyo High School about that time, so that’s maybe in the very early 60’s.