From The Film Australia Collection. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1959. Directed by Richard Mason. A description of the city of Newcastle, its industries and the life of the people generally.
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@26TptCoy5 жыл бұрын
I visited the steelworks as a school boy in the mid 1960's, in the early 1980's driving a truck collecting 'skulls' and taking them to Kooragang Island for fill, then in the 1990's cabling through the area for Telstra. In 2011 ended up driving a 40 tonne dump truck taking toxic sediments lifted from the Hunter River for processing on site which in turn was trucked to Kooragang containment cell. Overall Newcastle always fascinated me and yes it used to be a nice town. Main industries mostly gone now. Govt said we needed to drop tarriffs and import duties so our manufacturers could compete on the world markets. We don't even make a pair of shoes or a packet of biscuits anymore.
@dieseldavetrains89882 ай бұрын
I spent my teens in Newcastle NSW, great town, great people and I made a lot of great mates, thank you Newcastle!😉
@anniemorris58554 жыл бұрын
Oh my good god! The old Royal Newcastle Hospital when it was brand new! So many memories of things long gone.
@joshuapettigrew90509 жыл бұрын
Newcastle was so much better back then form the looks of it. such a simple lifestyle. The city of newcastle seemed like a much more vibrant and welcoming place back then.
@johnmcculloch57365 жыл бұрын
You can say that again
@jasoncarpp774210 жыл бұрын
I'd like to visit Newcastle Australia. This place reminds me of Tacoma Washington USA.
@johnmcculloch57365 жыл бұрын
Matey the place has changed
@geordiemark79018 жыл бұрын
I am from Newcastle upon tyne in the UK, this Newcastle in Australia is just like what my city was like that was until corrupt politicians ruined it by the looks of what people are saying its started there to, this is what happens when we have corrupt companies and politicians in there back pockets .............. ever heard the saying its like taking coals to Newcastle, we had steel works, ship building and lots of coal mines just like our sister city its a real shame its all gone now
@NFSAFilms8 жыл бұрын
Like peas in a pod.
@geordiemark79018 жыл бұрын
NFSA Films our countryside isn't like the Newcastle in Australia but its not to bad but the rest was just the same, its a terrible shame that both our governments have let these once very proud cities go to pot
@geoffwebber83174 жыл бұрын
God brings back so many memories of what newcastle was like before to much changed worst been manufacturing jobs gone it was so good to have a job at the old steelworks felt like you had a purpose in this material world now i can't wait to get out of it 🙏☯️
@sjfvideo950810 жыл бұрын
Interesting footage. Thanks.
@regaz1486Ай бұрын
You should see us now!
@simonpepper97212 жыл бұрын
How about one on Fort Scratchley.
@sutherlandA16 жыл бұрын
I remember visiting relatives over Easter if 1991, they were still getting over the damage caused by the earthquake about a year or so before. Their house backed onto a railway line and used to shunt a lot of wagons in and out of BHP, little did we know by the end of the decade it would be shut down still remember the whistle though
@NFSAFilms6 жыл бұрын
Such an evocative sound.
@alexevans38279 жыл бұрын
That Was Mrs Bakers Wedding Recpetion!!!!
@mitchywraps63738 ай бұрын
I drive through kooragang everyday. I love looking at the yellow coal machines - I always like to imagine the city back when its industry was thriving and how good we had it. Now its just exporting coal to china whilst Australia closes their coal fueled power stations and china slowly take over.
@stephenjames14432 жыл бұрын
Don't 4get people we all bought cheap crap from overseas, that's why there's no manufacturing jobs. Look at the car industry, when we made HOLDENS people were proud 2 buy one. I'm a NOVACASTRIAN & I still luv NEWY.
@aussiepaul4410 жыл бұрын
Where's all these once thriving industries now? Moved off shore where it's cheap to produce. Unburdened by the taxes and regulations that Australian business have to deal with. Soon there will be no industry in Australia. Good work Labour and Liberal parties. One says it looks after the worker the other supports business and industry both have failed. Australian jobs and industry gone at the expense of cheap imported goods and 'better' trade relations.
@paulnguyen89103 жыл бұрын
MS Princess of Tasmania was scrapped in India in March 2.005 after being launched in December 1958.
@xywolap10 жыл бұрын
Billy Connolly described Newcastle the best... he said " this place is %#*%#*# paradise".. lol. (in true Billy expressionism..). If only we could castrate some chronic vandals then a paradise it would be.
@minutemangangplank85999 жыл бұрын
man working in the steel works would have been so bad
@austfirst41405 жыл бұрын
This is what we had before the Politician created Ruin.
@ndingo3 жыл бұрын
Newcastle Australia >>>>>>>>>>>>Newcastle upon Tyne
@jakeytedesco30035 жыл бұрын
Newcastle and Wollongong are now urbanized and have lost their industrial vibe