Melbourne 1896 to 1978

[@bernadettelanders7306]

My grandmother was born in Melbourne 1885. Lived in Carlton. We often went to the city when I slept at nana. Nan passed away in 1978, 2 years after I had my first child. She would have seen all of that. My great aunt was the family storyteller, she was born in 1900, passed in 1992, her mother was Irish, we drove her crazy begging her to tell us the same funny stories over and over lol. My parents lived great long happy lives with stories told. Dad passed 89 in his own bed in his sleep. But we knew he made up half off the stories 😂. Mum passed aged 95, only one hour in hospital, true stories from mum lol. I know I got the best parents and grandparents who were all wonderful story tellers of their past 💞

[@lilish25]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@bettysteve322716]

Perspective, Ned Kelly was hung in 1880.

[@paulwilliams-or8hq]

My mums dad was born in 1896 in Melbourne the same as the Melbourne Cup Footage at the beginning of the video,the oldest known Footage of Film in Australia, he passed in 1968 when I was 3 Months Old. I left Melbourne end of 75 to come to Perth geez Melbourne was once a beautiful looking city,now it's a concrete jungle

[@paulwilliams-or8hq]

​@@bettysteve322716100 years before I started high school

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@paulwilliams-or8hq Melbourne city is partly a concrete jungle, still got our big parks a few minutes walk from city. But yes over the years, more big buildings. My sister went on a holiday to Perth, met a wonderful man, married him over 30 years ago, she’s still there with him, he’s gorgeous lol. Only problem is the distance. But we are on phone or msging often.

[@WelcomeTooo]

As a kid in 1978 I dreamed of being a tram driver….in 1990 I became a tram driver 😊

[@moniquem783]

Cool!

[@NoTaboos]

I HATE trams. Never use them. They just ruin traffic flow. Trams stop in the middle of the road; buses pull over.

[@jinniubility]

Lucky you. The dream comes true

[@symon3003]

You still driving? I know few drivers been on the job 30 plus yrs...

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

i love melbourne and it's trams. so do my children. we lost our trams here in brisbane.

[@anthonywalsh785]

some great old footage thanks for posting. i was born in melbourne in 1949 and lived there until 1987 when i moved to cairns, where i still live.

[@MrPeculiar]

born there 1975 ....... been in cairns for 10 years now .........happy up here but this brings in some nostalgia for old times thats for sure ;)

[@1greenMitsi]

its been all downhill for melbourne since

[@Jesussaves-o3z]

What's it like in Cairns now without the tourist dollars

[@MrPeculiar]

@@Jesussaves-o3z Plenty of tourists escaping the south :)

[@anthonywalsh785]

@@Jesussaves-o3z hey there craig it certainly has been a struggle for many businesses up here. no real certainty from one week to the next re possible tourists. sadly there are quite a lot of vacant shops even in our cbd. we are all looking forward to improved fortunes sooner than later.

[@StarSwarm.]

You know there was a really poignant eeriness of the first couple of minutes when you realise literally every single person in the film is no longer living. You see them going about their lives not knowing the world would shortly be upended by two world wars. This is why history is so important. It’s not just then… it’s also now.

[@GlowingTube]

Beautiful and wise words, thank you

[@TheVaughan5]

Great footage. The images combined with the music make me very nostalgic and a bit sad being the last survivor in my family. Great memories of Melbourne in the 60’s come flooding back.

[@66secularist]

I was thinking exactly the same just then. The young in these collections of film will be forever young.

[@newbleppmore7855]

there was no Australian draft in ww1

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Yes, we ll what waits for us over the next couple of years? We have no idea.

[@charliegill2081]

It is amazing the way that ordinary everyday footage, when set to certain music, can make you feel so much

[@GlowingTube]

That was the idea. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@johnrusso1720]

Born in Melbourne at the Queen Victoria Hospital, 1967. Proudly raised here. ❤ What a fabulous video. Well done!

[@genb4016]

Such clear footage - great someone had the foresight to record these scenes. Back when Melbourne was classy.

[@ozboomer_au]

It's actually something I try to encourage my friends to do as much as possible... and to somehow pass it on... Sure, the 'special events' are important... but it's the everyday that will be more significant to more people down the track, when what we consider 'normal' is gone.. which is already happening, in a lot of ways... To those who can remember: Children swinging from a Hills hoist in the back yard.. when we used to play marbles around the drain points in a playground.. watching Mum & Dad almost breaking their backs digging in the Melbourne clays to build that fence that they couldn't afford to have someone build... when we used to climb trees and play with 'tins on strings' (as 'stilts' or a 'telephone')... the joy we felt when we finally heard that radio station broadcasting from Equador on the old kitchen radio that could pick-up shortwave... Tech is great... but it's the history that gives context to where we are now.. and where we're headed...

[@Doogsa-dl8sc]

Very true.

[@hodeesy]

you mean when there were no ethnics?

[@rogerigez21]

@@hodeesy Nah, just when there was no Dan Andrews. It was a much better place.

[@stevemurrell6167]

@@hodeesy There were plenty you racist drongo.

[@Adriana-vw8sz]

Priceless thanks 😊

[@Hongaars1969]

Thank you for assembling this seemingly timeless journey through the heart of Melbourne. Beautifully edited and assembled and I loved your choice of music too.

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you for the kind words

[@TheForbinExperiment]

Id like to echo Doc Martin here, thank you. Very well done, and surprisingly moving.

[@brucekilby9957]

Yes. This is a great look at Melbourne over the years. The fashions,cars,buildings and city itself changing decade by decade,from slow to much quicker. Nice music as well. 😊🇦🇺

[@teawithlilibet]

Wonderful, thank you! I emigrated to Melbourne from USA in 1980. So it was interesting to see the footage of all the years from before I arrived. ❤

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@tonyday7233]

Lovely film, i worked in Bourke Street 1967, when i was fifteen to about 1974, after a few job changes i i was back in the city in 1980 working for Vicrail as a train guard till about 85.

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you for sharing your story

[@EZ-viewing.]

Innocence of simpler years gone by. How nostalgic. It’s amazing how the streets seem almost deserted, due to low population of the times. A sadly missed time when honesty, dignity, civility and respect truely held their meaning. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more.

[@Tasmantor]

The honest, dignified and civil respect that kept the indigenous population out of the electorate and covered for member of the clergy who were sexual abusing minors. Oh if only you could still beat you spouse and children but been seen as a good bloke because you played footy well enough to almost go professional.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

@@Tasmantor Are you OK? Yes there were problems, as there always are , but without doubt the prevalence of mental illness and crime has greatly increased ( look it up )

[@DavidNotSolomon]

@@Tasmantor You really think things are better today? The number of kids abused in state care dwarfs whatever happened in the church - but it is all hushed up - still going on I am sure.

[@personofearth5076]

This is sheer beauty to me. I was born in Melbourne in 1958 and fret for the days that once were.. Thank you so much for the video.

[@GlowingTube]

My pleasure

[@TomMathesonColes]

What was the party scene like in your prime years?

[@personofearth5076]

@@TomMathesonColes Probably no different to today's, we just had a crazy way of dressing then.

[@queenofthebutterflies5212]

Wow, so magical going on that journey through the decades. Thanks

[@GlowingTube]

I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

[@SonapPlayz]

The music it self was a emotional journey

[@0Nadia1997]

I wish I could live through the old days. It seems so peaceful.

[@Harold_Flite]

Because it was homogeneous.

[@arisl2370]

@@Harold_Fliteit was just a simpler time and with less importance on wealth and more on lifestyle

[@Harold_Flite]

@@arisl2370 yes, the lifestyle our homogeneous ancestors built and left us to enjoy....not anymore thanks to mass immigration. Why is that so hard to comprehend.

[@sarcasmo57]

You're living in somebody's old days.

[@jonnawyatt]

​@@Harold_Flite Ya mean white?

[@spacewalktraveller1]

Thanks for putting this together. It was great to take a walk down memory lane. I was born in Melbourne in the late 60's, and it is amazing to see all the changes. This film is a real gem.

[@GlowingTube]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Giggler99]

8:04 Frenchman Alain Mimoun winner of the 1956 Olympic Marathon buying a newspaper!

[@GlowingTube]

He was a legend

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Thanks .. extra fine comment.

[@wian4946]

Wow

[@drsoccerkungfu4048]

@@wian4946 thank you for the info.

[@pauljackson3900]

Wonderful footage. Thankyou

[@ScottMorganINFJ]

When Australia was young and free.

[@lilish25]

❤❤❤❤

[@WJJ1961]

Superb music choice. 17 at the time it ended. Great city to have lived in

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you, a haunting piece.

[@andrewvoya5234]

Proud to be borne in Melbourne 1968. What a magnificent city . Like all great cities of the world it changes and evolves constantly. But each one of us holds special their own piece of time in our own memory, as that Never changes. . It’s eternal.

[@GlowingTube]

Beautifully put... so much better than some of the negative comments.

[@humanbeing8819]

@Bruce nah, you've just got a chip on your shoulder.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

I also was born that year - it is sh*it hole now - if you can even afford to live there.

[@remm952]

Stunning music choice GT. Absolutely sublime. For someone like me who was born in 1952, the images bring back fond memories of a more gentler time. The chaos of the modern world would do well to revisit older times from a global perspective as well. I sincerely thank you for opportunity to revisit this era. Blessings.

[@GlowingTube]

I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@peterbassett8647]

Fabulous footage from 1964 when I used to walk every week day to and from Flinders Street up to A.H.Enticott, Photo engravers in Little Lonsdale Street. Thankyou.

[@konkombotis5549]

I was born in Melbourne in 1967 next to Epworth Hospital & have lived here ever since. It's amazing to see buildings in Melbourne still standing as the Brits have built on tried n tested architecture. Over the decades, seeing fashion change n population growth with transport from horse n cart to cars. Myers a must shop for fashion & of course the famous trams still running. A most liveable city, you gotta love it. Thanks for uploading.

[@GlowingTube]

Ευχαριστώ Κώστα

[@Redhotrock]

Old footage with very soothing music It was treat to watch this Bringing inexplainable feeling out of me !

[@GlowingTube]

@@Redhotrock Thank you so much

[@laurencehyde2168]

Absolutely wonderful plus the music is so fitting.thanks for this

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it.

[@catalinagomez924]

I come from South America and I have been living in Victoria for 21 years. Melbourne was and still is a beautiful city. Change is part of everything. Beautiful footage, I love it! Thank You.

[@GlowingTube]

Muchas gracias or if you are from Brazil, Muito obrigado

[@catalinagomez924]

@@GlowingTube ☺From Colombia, but Australia is my country too💚💛

[@LHRTW]

@@catalinagomez924true and it is a universal country made for the world 🎉❤

[@TheAxelay]

Wonderful set right here right up to the year I was born (1978). Sadly Melbourne/Victoria will never be known for these historic elements anymore via 2020 beyond if you get my drift sigh...

[@GlowingTube]

I’m more upbeat about the future.

[@TheAxelay]

@@GlowingTube , that's great in spite with what's happening with the world right now. Nothing wrong with it. Hope never hurt anybody here.

[@seansingh8862]

@@TheAxelay Funnily enough I was also born in 1978, and I was just thinking the exact opposite thing: it's amazing how well many of these historic landmarks have been preserved and how recognisable so much of it is. I guess it's just a glass half full/empty situation.

[@TheAxelay]

@@seansingh8862 , great timeline year births think alike?! Well maybe just this once?! The glass is always open to interpretation by whomever until it's smashed! Cheers etc.

[@LadyOfShaIott]

Totally agree…

[@ambermay7032]

This is the aprox dates of when my grandmother was born and when she died. Its amazing to see the world she lived in and how it changed throughout the years.

[@willyates9176]

Loved watching this. Very well produced, thanks to all involved. ❤

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you. It’s just me doing the selection of material , editing and music selection. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Mikelowrey90]

The music goes so well with the video.

[@newbleppmore7855]

the extremely depressing music?

[@Mikelowrey90]

Well I don’t think it’s depressing at all. Each to their own.

[@leannedavies5864]

Beautifully done Keep them coming

[@GlowingTube]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rogercarter1265]

There is something special about Melbourne. I always love to visit.

[@vinorob]

That made me homesick. Cheers mate.

[@1greenMitsi]

dont be; its a socialist $hithole now

[@seralewanuya4600]

Yeah, me too.

[@OutPushing]

Look how much light and sunshine used to reach the steets and footpaths!

[@zoltrix7779]

Trees are so over rated.

[@osocool1too]

Really enjoyed this wonderful compilation ... Thank you for uploading. 👍😇

[@GlowingTube]

I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@georgie6733]

I think I just jumped timelines😂That was truly an emotional rollercoaster for so many reasons. Wondeful video, thankyou soo much. God Bless You😇🙏

[@GlowingTube]

You are most welcome… I’m glad you enjoyed the journey through time.

[@evolveausevolveaus]

Born at St Vincent's Fitzroy 1975, raised in Williamstown. Thanks for the memories, awesome footage.

[@mickwinters8484]

BLOODY AWESOME GUYS, NOW I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES, THANK YOU!!!

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[@bottlesbibs]

So beautiful but it makes me so sad. I miss those days. I don't like the world we live in today and each year it just gets worse.☹️

[@Doogsa-dl8sc]

Don't be sad. Hold onto your past memories. Remember everything the media feeds into your mind is designed to make you believe its getting worse. It's not getting worse, turn off your TV and stop reading newspapers and very quickly the joy will return.

[@Harkeilla]

complaining about it won't do any good - do something about it.

[@bottlesbibs]

@@Harkeilla if I alone could do something to change it I would but unfortunately it's not only up to me. I was more nostalgic than complaining. I don't understand why how I feel bothers you.

[@johnstimpson6834]

@@Harkeilla get off the lounge chair and get a job, stop scrounging off the taxpayers who are doing something worthwhile with their lives Hark!. You obviously don't understand Australia at all. Get out and help people instead of trying to stir up garbage all day long. What a party life you must follow

[@masterspark9880]

You miss the days when aboriginal people had no rights, child mortality was much higher than now, and Melbourne had literal slums?

[@kippen64]

Arrived in Melbourne in 1980. Enjoyed this video.

[@charmantbeaugarcon8306]

Beautifully done. Thanks for such quality editing. Great choice of music!

[@pattycake-gu6de]

I was born and have lived in Perth since 1957 but I tell you this made me cry as I thought of all my relatives who were born and passed in australia during these years, beautiful touching music choice.

[@hugocortes3680]

BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, THANK YOU FOR SHARING! :)

[@georgie6733]

Priceless🤗🙏

[@angelwings3128]

Incredible footage, wow!

[@francesblabey3055]

Melbourne in the 60s a d 70s was such a nicer place than now. Cars were less as well as people. More of a large country town. No graffiti, no drugs, no obesity just clean living folks. Of course there were the underbelly but not visible . Good bye marvellous Melbourne.😔

[@wem-c9f]

I am a migrant to Melbourne and have been living here for the past 13 years. Lovely too see how the past looks like. Thanks.

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you and welcome

[@georginashanti4605]

Amazing footage, thank you!

[@roddygogo7772]

Loved growing up in Melbourne.

[@petermcculloch4933]

All gone.Foys, George's, Archie and Jugheads, Tim the Toyman, the Tivoli, the grand old cinemas, the flea shops, Basement Discs

[@Detroit8V92tta]

That's bloody fantastic! I hope you have more to upload👍

[@GlowingTube]

Working on a few more... stay tuned

[@bowlingaz]

A wonderful video of my favourite city. Thank you for uploading. I'm surprised by how many cars there already were by the 1930s.

[@TerryGaskett]

Very well put together, basically as my memory.

[@mbond007]

how i missed melbourne so much.this place will always be in my heart. 😥

[@hasanergene2716]

Really enjoyed watching melbourne over the years

[@Lab4Official]

Australia is like a home from home for me, 21 visits so far, I love St Kilda, Melbourne, such an awesome country.

[@pioneerjatt93]

its amazing to see how men and women always dresss properly back in the days. amazing video

[@chainsawversustree]

108 years from first fleet landing to a bustling city so much achieved in such a short time

[@Cornerstanding]

That is a very short period of time.

[@Pius-XI]

Australia is a very, very young country

[@Harold_Flite]

And now it smells like New Dheli...

[@577niccy]

i wouldn't refer to it as achievement because of the iniquities towards the indigenous aussies

[@Nmaddog2313]

How has nobody called you out. Lol 108 years. Noooooooooooo

[@mish4164]

Magnificent.. Thankyou

[@gandfgandf5826]

That was wonderful to watch. Thank you.

[@jasonblake5576]

Brilliant!

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

1956 olympic games = tv just introduced in australia !

[@catecurl3790]

A terrific video to watch. Very enjoyable, I am also grateful for the exceptional music played throughout. So glad it wasn't a conglomerate of mismatched 'modern' pieces. Thankyou xxxx

[@peterdavey8348]

Fabulous stuff. The NFSA is a treasure trove.

[@jenniemortimermusic7572]

Amazing footage!

[@KatieMooo905]

Thank you, this shows me the Melbourne my family knew. From my Great Great Grandparents time (they arrived between 1850 and 1880) through to mine. Wonderful 😀

[@nocental1053]

its satisfying, watching your home city evolve

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Or devolve, as the case may be.

[@sappernz]

great video..you really nailed it with the music. Wonderful combination. Many thanks

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you

[@thevirginclanlee275]

Wow, back then it was so nice, and good thing is it continued today.

[@mightymike9353]

Amazingly beautiful Melbourne

[@kenzog5428]

The biggest stick out part for me as others pointed out is how classy people dressed back then. I work in the city now, you still have the large crowds etc. When we think of the past we always romance it because of nostalgia etc and one day in 50 years time other will be romancing 2021, even tho its been a horrible year. Memory tends to favor the positive. PS: Well done on the video, i loved the music too!

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you

[@StarSwarm.]

History will remember 2021 Victoria in a VERY, VERY different way. And it certainly won’t be romantic.

[@andrewbergman9315]

nobody will ever romance these days

[@j_edwards6075]

Even now I'm shocked by how well people in the city attire themselves. I used to live on the Gold Coast 6-7 years ago when I was studying and I recently had to travel back for a day to pick up car parts. I had to stop into the shops while I was there and I was surprised by how well people were dressed just out and about at the shops. It wasn't just some people, but it seemed everybody was dressed to the nines; I felt very underdressed wearing a t-shirt and shorts.

[@darioburatovich2240]

Only the rich were filmed, they wouldn't spend expensive film.on eevery day ordinary Joe Blog' s life. Although there are films of British workers coming out of factories. But there's mostly "events" for high society that got filmed.

[@johannusverhoeff4911]

very well made film...it was the Australia I loved. I almost cried. I do not know the Australia of today.

[@robinhoodsherwood2646]

Have you thought of moving to Victorian desert. Lot of crawling creatures like ya

[@chazburger100]

the city with no skyscrapers in the 50's was really cool, the city feels so dark all the time now

[@brucewilliams8714]

We kids used to love the front seat upstairs on the Bourke Street double-deck buses. All wonderful scenes and memories.

[@giuseppesavaglio8136]

We are passing through history. This is history.

[@johnrayes5973]

This is very well put together - well done! Thank you for the video.

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you for the kind words

[@fiamun]

WOW, that was such a nice video to watch. Good work.

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ellasscraps7734]

How easy going were people back then and respectful what a shame that’s all gone, people have more than ever now yet treat others like they don’t matter ❤❤❤

[@mrporsche4236]

Gone forever!

[@Lardenoy]

Merci ! J'ai songé à ma propre grand -mère, née en 1896 et décédée en 1987... Française ( Reims) dont la famille avait traversé les deux Guerres Mondiales, que de transformations techniques, artistiques, politiques, d'habitudes ou d'habitat en une seule génération !

[@GlowingTube]

Merci pour votre commentaire.

[@kezza138]

My home, l remember you like this.

[@somerandomindian9670]

Thank you for showing the Timeline of Melbourne I live there thanks bro.

[@jadethornton7975]

Melbourne is special. After traveling I always know I'm truely home when I first see a Yarra Tram. I don't know what it is about them. I'm in the skybus, I see the city skyline that we all know so well. Travel up Spencer Street still not feeling it. Get off the bus walk through the station still not feeling it. Step out in the street, see the 109 tram swing past and suddenly I feel safe. I feel relaxed. I know I'm home. I will never understand that.

[@jyeroberts1594]

Thank you

[@barrycrooks1856]

Very nice, thank you

[@arrowb3408]

Love Melbourne in 19th and the early stage of 20 century. Very relaxing and slow pace of western life. And we had Xmas tree decoration in CBD back then. Now the city features remain not much change, the human faces, walking speed and even the numbers of police increase hundred times. Can imagine that life at that time. It is really touching to see the OLD Mebourne like any big city in the US without violence, protesting propaganda group marching or sprawling on the street and no epidemic scene in the video. I wish I could Back to the Past at that time and old days.

[@darkangel2347]

I was born in Melbourne in March 1970 but I moved to SA at very short notice in January 1974. I still live in SA to this day. Since July 2019 I’ve been to Melbourne as a visitor 5 times with the last one in May 2023. I knew in those 5 visits I was never going to get to see the place in its pre 1974 glory but in a weird modern way. This extended to playing very modern music being played. By me.

[@drcmac]

🔹️ 2:07 So sad looking at all those faces. They are all now dust six feet under. Long gone & forgotten.

[@drcmac]

🔹️ Have numerous books on the history of Melbourne & other Victorian cities & towns, but it is so good to see history in the context of moving images ❗

[@peterlangdon4930]

As a kid so did I . Sadly I never did.

[@collectivesartori]

Surprisingly moving

[@Pulsed101]

So so interesting. Love it.

[@chappo4845]

Good choice of soundtrack.

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you very much

[@Adriana-vw8sz]

People had class

[@LadyOfShaIott]

Heartbreaking to see how this city, where I live, has been ruined - beautiful old architecture has been replaced by the same glass and steel monstrosities that have destroyed London. And the current Victorian Premier cheers on it’s demise…

[@GlowingTube]

I also like modern architecture, however, too much of our heritage has been trashed which is a shame.

[@theoduval1408]

Back when the opportunity was there, post World War Two, the architecture of the original grid of Melbourne should have been left intact and preserved and new skyscraper centre developed nearby. Although that said, the European cities that seem to survive without skyscrapers are so much more beautiful.

[@LadyOfShaIott]

@@theoduval1408 So true. When you visit London, you will see a beautiful building by Sir Christopher Wren then some appalling glass and steel construction beside it…it saddens me.

[@hiramhackenbacker9096]

Tell me of a modern city where this isn't happening. I don't know why you are blaming the current Premier for it. Go and have a look at Sydney and what's been knocked down there.

[@Tasmantor]

@@hiramhackenbacker9096 because they let the Herald Sun do all the thinking for them years ago and now exist as pure reactionary spite at what small progress that has been made.

[@leonardusgroenendyk6027]

1978 the year I joined the army. They were the best years of my life. I so remember Melbourne just as shown.

[@RiczWest]

Lovely

[@elijahfilmsofficial]

This is so interesting

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[@JeremyPowerGuitar]

Music is perfect

[@GlowingTube]

Thank you

[@redwandennaoui4508]

Beautiful Melbourne ❤️