I WALKED Brisbane NORTH to SOUTH. 2 Days/ 50+ Km's

[@Bejaminagai]

Awesome walk! The old shop you wondered about in Albion was from the 1920s. It used to be a bakery, and in building behind there's a heritage listed bread oven, which had to be preserved as part of the new apartment developments. I used to live in the old baker's house behind this shop, prior to it being redeveloped.

[@CaMaBella]

Ex Brisbanian living in Melbourne and I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos. Reconnects me to the city I love and your commentary and historical facts are fascinating. Thank you

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Cara Kent thanks for the awesome comment! Makes me feel my videos are worth the effort. Hope you'll keep watching :-)

[@Bejaminagai]

I'm in the exact same boat. I never thought I'd be homesick while watching youtube clips!

[@markeichler2225]

G'day Rob . I really enjoy the tour and the history of Brisbane. And I thank you for all your time and energy in making these doco's .

[@geoffmccoll4640]

The Beaudesert Road walk was fascinating considering its history as a link to New England and Sydney

[@juliamackintosh-keiller2631]

Congratulations on a really great video. Appreciate such tremendous effort you put into this walk. Well done!

[@nobikeman]

You walked a good portion of part of my life, currently live in nundah so I know Sandgate road from Virginia to Albion quite well. Used to work for quite a few years at the end of the road under the Beaudesert road overpass where you had trouble crossing the rail lines and lived just past Browns Plains at Hillcrest so know Beaudesert road really well!

[@BoodskiBro]

Love your work Rob!

[@nanniecath528]

Thoroughly enjoyed your walkabout Rob. Just after the 1974 Brisbane floods, Mum, Dad & us 4 kids moved from Sydney - fest 4 weeks at the Annerley Motel. Aren't we fortunate to live on the Southside - less road congestion and wide open Parklands with tremendous faciities.

[@gordyokeeffe361]

That’s an epic walk matey! I’d have to stay in the hotel for three days to recover! Great video! Well done.

[@atheistdominion6567]

@GORDY OKEEFFE thanks! Really glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching.

[@fionakinlyside]

The little old house is gorgeous

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Which house are you referring to?

[@fionakinlyside]

​ The little green house at the back of the old shop before you hit breakfast creek hotel if that makes sense @@walkaboutwithrob

[@baymanaustralia]

I was a bit disappointed that you walked right past Newstead House, one of Brisbane's most historic houses, without mentioning it. Among other things it was where Roald Amundsen stayed to recover from his expedition to the South Pole. His book about the expedition was actually written there.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Bay Man Australia I did consider dropping by Newstead House while on this walk, however I have visited it on a previous journey and I try not to repeat myself in the places I visit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWfTnZpnjMl8m80

[@BradGryphonn]

@@walkaboutwithrob My uncle lived for some time in a house in New Farm, arguably as big as Newstead House. I would have been maybe 11 at the time? It had been converted into a 'Single man' boarding house. The manager apparently lived in the servant quarters at the rear of the house. A few months after our first visit to the place, it mysteriously burned down. A very large apartment complex now sits on the remains of that place. Kinda like Cloudland, I guess.

[@vv8134]

Being a north side person, the Northside walk so familiar and brings happy memories for reasons I have been on same roads etc and how familiar etc the south side had some familiar and new sights . Very enjoyable . . Great work

[@zacglickman6376]

Hi Rob, great videos of the local areas of Brisbane. Man! you must love walking..... At 13:30 Sandgate road ended, the original road continued up right in front of the Breaky Creek pub then turned right at the Breakfast Creek bridge. The Hale street drama near Lang Park and the ICB was built about 2000/2001. The construction covered that section of Sandgate road and a plaza at the front of the pub and and underpass for traffic. Devil dodgers are a sensitive bunch.....(think like me or don't think at all).

[@adamburns1884]

Always enjoyable!

[@ch64621]

I lived on Beaudesrt road for 3 months in 2015 at Moorooka. It's good to see there are people still interested in doing adventerous things like this.

[@BradGryphonn]

4:05 That's a fair clip when you're carrying an umbrella, camera, and pack! Nice work, Rob.

[@BradGryphonn]

16:40 Not sure if you've been reading my comment floods but the Capri hotel is located on the same block as that building I worked in when I was 15. The dress factory supplied Sunnygirl, and many other fashion outlets in Brisbane and beyond. It was an old timber and steel, 2 (or was it 3?) storey firetrap. The owner and manager's offices were on the first floor, and the factory that was employing 50 or more seamstresses was on the top floor, as was the packing and despatch area where I worked. If you can imagine one of those photos from the 40s showing rows upon rows of girls working at sewing machines? This factory was as if the 40s had been warped into the late 70s. We brought our fabric deliveries up via an old wooden freight elevator. The only advancement made on the elevator was that an electric motor had been fitted to it probably at around the same time electricity came to Brisbane. The contrast was that it was an almost derelict-looking building and the boss parked his 1960s (read: newish) Rolls Royce out the front.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Brad Griffin yes indeed reading all your comments. Great to learn about your memories from so many different areas of Brissy. It's a wonder that old building you discussed here didn't catch fire.

[@BradGryphonn]

@@walkaboutwithrob You and me both, Rob. Our pattern copier was on the same floor. A giant Roneo(?) machine that spewed ammonia gas. It was in a room separated from the factory floor with a set of push out windows. The only ventilation. If the wind was blowing into the building, the ammonia fumes would drift into the factory. There was a no smoking rule on the floor that was ignored by newbies. The long term staff knew the danger. A room full of microscopic fabric threads and poorly maintained electrical systems. Yeah it was a powder keg. Apparently, before I started there, they had moved from Queen Street down near Edward Street. Rather than pay together the equipment moved, he had the girls wheel all the sewing machines on dolly's up Queen Street and down to the 'new' factory in Albert Street. We're talking around 50 industrial sewing machines plus all the associated equipment. I so wish home video was more popular back then. What a procession!

[@BradGryphonn]

@@walkaboutwithrob I am really enjoying your videos of Brisbane Rob. Thanks.

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

You could wear a big sombrero, that would double-up as a hat and an umbrella. I saw a guy last year, make a magpie deterrent out of the pool noodles 🤣

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Debi Taylor not a bad idea about the sombrero...

[@darynandersonproductions]

Big walk that one mate!

[@BradGryphonn]

10:36 I used to deliver groceries to a young couple who lived in one of those old churches. The entire ground floor was open plan, with a huge are where the kids could ride their toddler bikes and the dogs could run around. It was a really well-designed interior.

[@BradGryphonn]

20:00 When we came back from Perth in the mid-seventies, friends of mum and dad put us up at their place in Annerley while mum and dad went house hunting (we ended up at Strathpine). I went to school at the Junction Primary for a few weeks until they decided where they were buying. I then spent the next few months catching the bus from Roma Street to Strathpine and back every day for school. None of the kids at Strathpine believed I lived in Annerley and caught the bus to school from the city every day. I think they lived in Florence Street. He was a milkman but also had a bulk paper run for The Courier mail when the printery was still running in Bowen Hills. I got to get an inside look at the presses when they were running back in the mid-seventies. That place never stopped. No sooner was one paper run finished, the stencils would be swapped out and another paper had its run.

[@clubgus07]

Rob im more a Northside fan perhaps i love that Sandgate you could of walked down the cycleway that goes along the Gateway Mwy stop for the night at Brisbane Airport Hotel and then went over the Sir Leo Hielcher bridges but theres many ways to go south and see people along the way. Appartantly its the Butcher Birds that attack the most and he sets him self up outside Deagon Rececourse every spring . thanks for the journey it look interesting technically you could cheated and caught the cross river ferrry from the Woolstores to Bulimba we still waiting for that foot bridge to be built there.

[@BradGryphonn]

7:15 The old Sandgate Road went through the centre of Nundah there (as you'd have seen) and comes out beside Toombul shopping centre. There used to be a hardware store diagonally opposite the Prince of Wales Hotel. Some 'mates' of mine borrowed my car one day, and while stopped at the lights, jumped out and stole a petrol water pump from out front of it. I lived in a flat in Union Street, just down the road from there for a while. Mal Meninga's girlfriend lived downstairs. I used to freak out when a cop car pulled up until I saw Mal climb out, then it was all good LOL. I was only 17 at the time.

[@BradGryphonn]

Oh. That spaceship building behind you (they filmed some marvel movie scenes around there). I started flying down to Brissie around 2013 from Cooktown/Cairns before I moved back here in about 2015/16 (love does strange things to your headspace). On my trips down I'd always make a point to go into the city. I followed the construction of that building closely because hey, it is an interesting design.

[@peterblack1538]

As Eric says, love your work Rob! I reckon the state government should pay you for promoting south-east Queensland as you do a very good job at it. Have you ever walked any of the rail trails? A couple of mates and I recently walked from Lowood to Ipswich along the Brisbane Valley rail Trail. For someone who is interested in history as you are, you might enjoy something like that. The distance is about 36 km mate. We had a ball doing it and are thinking about walking the entire Trail next winter. Probably would take about a week we think. Cheers mate and I look forward to your next adventure.

[@atheistdominion6567]

@Peter Black thanks for your feedback. Would very much like to do the BVRT; it's just a matter of finding a week to do it. Am now going through my list of other walks to do.

[@peterblack1538]

@@atheistdominion6567 have you walked any of the rail trails yet? The one from Caboolture to Wamuran is a good start if you haven’t. It is sealed almost all of the way and is only 20 km return. As well as challenging walking, all of these rail trails provide interest from the historical perspective. Although I am disappointed when our government closes a train line, it is good to see that the corridor has been turned into something still useful rather than being sold off to greedy developers! Cheers, stay safe and look forward to seeing your next epic adventure Rob.

[@shellebelle53]

Great video again. You lived in Annerley? My uncle owned the home brew shop on Ipswich Road since the late 70's and his son, my cousin Craig now runs it. Small world. I remember waiting at the train station near Boggo Road jail in the 80's and seeing the armed guards.

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

My cat ran away from sheriff St Petrie terrace and was taken to Caboolture. 3 days later the cat arrived home with sore feet. He walked from Caboolture to Petrie Terrace in 3 days.

[@BradGryphonn]

14:40 I can remember the Hamilton/Teneriffe area when it was still industrial. The gas tanks were still there. The wool stores were almost derelict. You couldn't give land away down there apparently. I look at it now, and having delivered groceries into most of the apartment complexes in the area, it is astounding how it has become gentrified. Yet, in the middle of all that restored to opulence architecture, is a functioning sand dredging and gravel supply operation.

[@Jagermonsta]

17:45 oh there'll be a switch, but it'll be in the last place you'd think to look. i think it's a building guideline they have to follow cos every hotel room has that one light you can't find a switch for

[@jimtekkit]

It's pretty frustrating that Johnson Road (where you finished the video) is shared between Brisbane City and Logan councils. It's a VERY congested road, historically there's been many deadly accidents and yet both councils refuse to take any responsibility. Upgrades only happen when private land is developed so it's still only a single lane in both directions for most of its length, unfortunately.

[@servantofgod5642]

great journey!

[@jelbuilderfilms]

What a walk... Nice job. You rock those Tom Cruise glasses, btw! 😎

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Jel Builder Tom still wants them back. Not gonna happen.

[@BradGryphonn]

My uncle bought a derelict ferry that was moored in Brekky Creek many years ago. Dad was helping him refurbish it. I remember being there one night throwing bread into the water. The creek was a maelstrom of catfish fighting for the morsels I was throwing. They took it out into the river one day and it couldn't power against the tide. In fact, when they turned it, it almost swamped itself. They eventually got it onto a dry dock and found the hull was almost completely eaten by worms, and there was algae and other stuff growing on the hull that had metre long strands. Not sure what happened to that thing. They nicknamed it the 'African Queen'.

[@lis819]

Top job!

[@BradGryphonn]

'Paper Moon' and 'The Sting'. Two absolute classics. However, I remain a devotee of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'. I still remember going to the Regent in Brisbane to watch the Friday night screenings when the true fans would arrive in costume and carry their water and popcorn props.

[@AudioTones67]

Wow, a huge effort Rob. Day 2 had some personal points for me, 19:35 you walked right past my grandparents resting place. The railway at 23:08 carried the Story Bridge out of the Evans Deakin workshop that used to off to your left. That area of Salisbury (my suburb) isn't the prettiest I'll admit, and crossing that railway line is a bit of a nightmare.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Anthony Bowe That's fascinating about the old railway line carrying the parts for the bridge. Is the line still in use?

[@AudioTones67]

@@walkaboutwithrob not really, I think I've seen 2 or 3 trains use it in 30 years.

[@gavsphotography]

That line is still active it does get trains in and out

[@BradGryphonn]

Boggo Road. An infamous part of our history. When I lived in Rockhampton, we became friends with the partner of a prisoner who'd been in Boggo road for years. He was one of the boys who escaped in the laundry truck back in the day.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Brad Griffin did they ever get him back?

[@BradGryphonn]

@@walkaboutwithrob Yeah mate. They were all re imprisoned 'On Her Majesty's Pleasure'. He could well have spent the rest of his life in jail. As it was, he spent 13 years inside. He was a bank robber. Went to jail at 19.. When he got out and I met him, he was 33. He became a relatively big time heroin dealer before he went back in. His partner overdosed about 3 months after he went back inside for serious drug offences.

[@BradGryphonn]

I need to go outside and work on my new 'mobile home'. It's a ute. Can't afford to restore the bus I live in. Anyway, yes, I need to go out and do stuff, but I found this after watching the Tennyson/Chelmer one. Damn you, Rob! Just for that, I'm going to comment profusely and help the algorithm!

[@BradGryphonn]

Sandgate Road is a major Brisbane artery road. Reinforced by the fact that it was one of those roads that I spent a lot of time on when I delivered for the red thumb supermarket chain.

[@Luciferhelidon]

I lived on Waldheim st too. Or Blackett st, depending on if you asked energex or Telstra.

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

Doesn’t your arm get sore holding the camera up? What sort of gimbal do you use?

[@atheistdominion6567]

@Debi Taylor actually my arm doesn't get sore for the most part. I also don't use a gimbal as the DJI OSMO Action Camera I use has its own internal stabilisation. I have use gimbals before though but have worn them out.

[@stendecstretcher5678]

Superb.

[@darrenalbury6050]

Brilliant EYES!!

[@seankinnane12]

Kedron ,Nundah ,Gordon Park probably best area to live in Brisbane close to everything

[@lindabishop3445]

Hey!!! No commentary on Newstead House! Really

[@walkaboutwithrob]

I had covered Newstead House in a previous video and thus didn’t want to repeat myself.

[@BradGryphonn]

Trivia: That fancy car dealership get their groceries delivered by a certain supermarket chain. A certain 'green' hardware chain get their 'tradies brekky' groceries delivered by the same company. Tradies brekkys are free ...

[@louisehalsall1184]

For those people that got nothing nice to say about wot rob talks about, go watch something else.

[@phawkins-mi5pc]

Your hat is defence enough from the pies😂

[@fortunateson7852]

Don’t worry about magpies. Lived here my whole life and believe me have been outside plenty. Never been attacked. Seen other people swooped. A hat and sunglasses are more than enough if you’re worried. I understand a lot of women and children are afraid of them but there is really no need to be. Just enjoy your walks.

[@Robert-xs2mv]

Magpies are a great judge of character. If they attack, we’ll you draw your own conclusions. Magpies also have great memories, like an elephant.

[@auzanyoriginals1314]

I thought you lived in Logan. :-)

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@auzanyoriginals I do :-)

[@Bims-t5b]

I did my dance one time on TikTok and when viral wit it

[@jasminepillay9049]

Hey Rob if religion went away there would be no churches which you love to visit. The churches were built to glorify and worship God. Bless you.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@jasminepillay9049 If religion went away that doesn't mean the churches would automatically be bulldozed. Religions come and go, but the buildings put up in their name can last far longer.

[@Robert-xs2mv]

Churches, mosques temples are places of spiritual contemplation. Religion is just a false belief in the attempts to shape how one does this spiritual contemplation! It’s suggest doctrine, deity and prophets and all such nonsense.

[@SilkyS1LK1ESilk]

Magpies don't attack in tassie

[@disndat705]

Can definitely see the difference from north to south. The southside has alot more litter and rundown looking houses. Not as picture friendly as the Northside

[@keithcheney5343]

Very interesting videos for a European like me but not sure that I would like to live in Australia from these videos Brisbane appears to be very Americanized with endless Suburbs ?

[@chingymofo1]

Pretty much, however our public transport is probably better than the US. A lot of the population here has the "Australian dream" which is basically the same as the American dream, big house in the suburbs, sitting in traffic for hours to go to work and getting mad when a sky scraper is proposed, even for buildings with dense residential housing. Big American pick-up trucks are also getting popular here. There's even a new proposal to reintroduce trams to the Brisbane CBD and all the questions were, "Where are all the cars gonna drive?" like that's the point, get on the tram lol. I live in the Gold Coast (south of Brisbane) and the tram line here is awesome even for me who likes driving my car!

[@tosh_is_me942]

Keep in mind this is all one city,... which most of Australia refers to as Äustralias biggest country town"or ä cultural wasteland". I like these vids, (maybe not this exact one) because they highlight a lot of the hidden history and culture of the town.

[@iloveanimals1964]

I remember being attacked at school by magpies. Horrible

[@jackthelad9933]

Tax the catholics!

[@geoffmccoll4640]

It's too bad your studio apartment was not worth your walk through Brisbane.

[@jamesdurham2590]

Scard of magpies, wears a mask designed to be used in a surgical setting out side and can't change a light bulb 😅 I like your vids mate

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Wearing a mask during a pandemic is just common sense. Otherwise, thank you indeed for your feedback. I hope you'll enjoy my the upcoming documentaries.

[@stendecstretcher5678]

Scared

[@lindabishop3445]

I’m not a Christian however I don’t think it is clever to alienate potential viewers of your channel especially when your comments do not play a part in the relevant commentary. Silly choice on your part Rob. Be the better person.

[@jessheppell750]

I think you missed the joke.

[@louisehalsall1184]

Yep definitely missed the joke.

[@nanniecath528]

You missed the joke

[@Bims-t5b]

I’m Catholic and I don’t really care

[@Bims-t5b]

Get a life!

[@buckwilliams6600]

I used to enjoy watching your videos , not that I’m a practicing religious person at all but your personal opinion on it is utterly irrelevant .

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Buck Williams not irrelevant at all. Everything in my videos is my personal opinion whether it be religion, art, architecture or whatever. Certainly, I'm not alone in my opinion about religion and some of my previous videos also contain thoughts on the subject.

[@bw3128]

@@walkaboutwithrob hate speech breeds ignorance….no different to racism, but you think you can get away with it.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@@bw3128 please tell me where in the video there is "hate speech".

[@bw3128]

@@walkaboutwithrob ahhh the ugly head of righteousness and ignorance rears it’s head again. I’ll leave it at that.

[@buckwilliams6600]

@@walkaboutwithrob well you hate religion , understandable but thats ignorance and is hate speech really , if you were to rant about your personal opinion on other aspects of life and our community it would be deemed as hate speech, your diplomacy towards others beliefs is totally absent.

[@trapper9998]

I pray you shut up about religion, we have a constitutional right to choose religion in this country, its one of our few enshrined rights in this country. Especially as you are commenting on a religion thats doing nothing to you.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@trapper9998 why do religious people always get so angry whenever their religion is in any way challenged?

[@BradGryphonn]

@@walkaboutwithrob Because, Rob. God botherers get triggered when the fantasy they've been brainwashed into believing becomes logically untrue. It hurts them, so they double-down in defense of said fantasy. I promise not to enter into the discussion again. Unless of course, a god botherer decides to force a demonstrable fantastical opinion down someone's throat again.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@@BradGryphonn Religion certainly breeds aggression and makes people talk in dictatorial terms and demands. It only makes me want to talk more about religion.

[@BradGryphonn]

@@walkaboutwithrob I hear ya. But I've learned that brick walls don't listen and pigs can't learn to dance...

[@benjisworld3002]

The Catholic Church has done more harm in its history than anything ever designed by man - including nuclear weapons.