HOBART (1957)

[@androidbox3571]

I was born 1948 and grew up there, what a wonderful childhood, post WW2 everybody was poor and helped each other. My father died when I was 2 years oldd and my mother had to feed to 5:50 and educate 4 children, I was the youngest , the amount of kindeness shown by equally distressed households astounds me to this day, when visiting a friends house, I was invarabily given food. The whole area was semi rural, with orchards and endless forest within walking distance. An idelyic childhood which seems like came from a fantasy novel.

[@marknelson5929]

My parents were £10 pound Poms to Tasmania, my mother in 1949 and my father in 1950. They didn't know each other then, but met later at a Hobart sailing club (mum was a bank clerk) and the rest is history. Not long after they moved to Adelaide, then Brisbane and finally Sydney due to dads employment in a growing senior role within CALTEX. My wife and I have made many frequent holidays to Tasmania in recent years, in one instance I bought an old Rover V8 in Kingston and drove it back to Sydney, an interesting trip but a great adventure! We love the Island and always look forward to another visit. My connection to the island is not just my parents, my dads brother emigrated in the late 1950s to work as a lighthouse keeper on Bruny Island. It was pretty isolated back then and his wife was none to keen with kids in tow so they moved to Low Head Lighthouse, still she wasn't happy so she demanded they went home to the UK, which they did.

[@katelyn3997]

This was filmed the year I was born. I loved seeing the old bridge & also Jones & Co (IXL jam factory). My grandparents had a raspberry farm at Lower Longley & sold all their raspberries to Jones & Co. this film brings back many pleasant memories of my early childhood in Tassy.

[@hoorootv7266]

Oh how things have changed so much since 1957....That baby 14:20 would be in her sixties now ( around the age of 62 or 63).... Her mother would now be in her eighties! Love the musique that accompanied these old films 🎥 & the style of the voiceover/ narrator.

[@piatpotatopeon8305]

I love old videos about ports! This is right up my alley.

[@CarolUndy]

This was filmed the year I was born. I was pleasantly surprised to see my maternal Grandfather Thomas Lipscombe at the 3:03 mark. The gentleman on the right. Thank you Libraries Tasmania.

[@rono7964]

Wow that's your grandfather cool to know

[@wombatcarey8628]

Is he one of the Lipscombes about whom Lipscombe Avenue was named. If so , then we are distantly related by marriage.

[@CarolUndy]

@@wombatcarey8628 Yes, he is. From Frederick's line

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Love these archives, good on Libraries Tas for sharing them. Been to Tassie and loved it, a world apart from the mainland, like being in Europe with all the scenic mountains and snow etc, recommend anyone to visit there.

[@peterjansen5498]

So much of our city has changed, yet so much is still the same :)

[@officialWWM]

Peter Jansen city councilmen still look the same, lol.

[@taniaheather3837]

I love how they never referenced convict built or how the majority of the first european settlers were convicts. It was such a taboo subject and rarely mentioned even in the 60's & 70's when I went to school. Luckily in the 60's I had a teacher at Rosetta Primary who told us to learn more of our real history and be proud if we found we were descended from convicts. Many, including me, would not be here had they not been transported to Van Dieman's Land. Their beautiful buildings and bridges remain to remind us of their hard labour.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

yes. they should be acknowledged. 20% were boys aged 10-14. they deserve to be recognised.

[@thomaselliott573]

I could not imagine a better referential comment on this clip. Thank you

[@haojuncui9384]

How lucky we can live in Hobart.:)❤️❤️❤️ Thanks for everything:)

[@ThePerson1959]

Lived in Tassie more than 16 years and seen big changes during that time but when I look at this old film you really notice things but so glad I came to Tassie to live. I know I made the right decision all that time ago. I don't think I would like to go and live on the mainland again.

[@thomaselliott573]

I would love to live there, but it is too cold and dark in winter

[@thomaselliott573]

So much charm. Thank you

[@alanthorne3921]

Love these old films of my hometown.I was born in 1962 and grew up in Sandy Bay/Battery Point. I now live in the country(Cygnet) and now that is changing.btw.What is with the pink FJ panel van at 2:25.Surely not in 1957!llol

[@krismacpherson-z8u]

I was there last week. It hasn't changed!

[@kerosene4751]

"The swimmers cluster just as thickly"... the language of these narrators! 14:30

[@louiseyvette2261]

Wonderful place

[@officialWWM]

Back in a time when Australia used to actually manufacture things :/

[@castorchua]

Imagine... so many jobs that actually meant something... actually contributed to local society. Imagine the sense of worth everyone must have had. I'd rather make chisels in that Hobart than do conveyancing in this one.

[@officialWWM]

Castor Chua and now, there are zero jobs here...

[@castorchua]

Just so some corporations can make billions selling iPhones and insurance. I hope this virus destroys the modern world and we go back to an older one.

[@jashugg]

@@officialWWM Apart from the 260,000 Tasmanians who have jobs of course.

[@officialWWM]

@@jashugg those numbers might have been accurate pre pandemic...

[@brettwilkinson9529]

I visited Tasmania in 2018 and thought it was a gem of a place. Hobart is also a very beautiful city. Could easily live in Battery Point with all it's charm and character. Tasmanian's need to look after their beautiful state and not allow to many immigrants to settle. Concentrate more in letting tourists to visit but send them home once they have viewed this very unique part of the world. Tasmanias lack of population, is it's biggest asset.

[@brettwilkinson9529]

Why would you say that ???

[@sk0kiE]

@@RealKynan most Tasmanians are immigrants so who is he supposed to be talking about?

[@wayinfront1]

@@brettwilkinson9529 Why would you ask such a stupid question?

[@lffit]

@@wayinfront1 because he was one of the lucky ones?

[@geoffbell166]

@@wayinfront1 Because more people does not equal better,quite the opposite,think of the climate change and pollution,do you think a higher population will make it better??!

[@RevantuZ]

3:41 Astonishing that only now, some 65 years later, the monarch mentioned here (the Queen), should change.

[@trevorward1690]

So many jobs back then . ALL GONE .

[@bigears4426]

There are more jobs now but not enough for the population, and very few in manufacturing

[@Igloo3471]

13:38 North Hobart vs Glenorchy TFL Grand Final

[@stagnation70]

As a North supporter and collector of Tas footy footage,I'd love that to be NH V Glenorchy 1957 Grand Final. It is however most likely the curtain-raiser match to the June 17th game TANFL V NTFA. So the game featured is a TANFL second side v the QFA or Queenstown Football Association. Att 11,776.

[@tomadeney8860]

The past is another place

[@again5162]

The mining an logging companies today send most of the profit offshore. We were once prosperous

[@edwardcat5247]

aaahhh.... the state reference library... many a shitty hour wasted there..... i need to know something 1974... an hour to get down the state reference library, read thru all the books trying to find references to my question... finally find it, hand-copy the page as "xerox" machines were only just arriving, not yet ready... go home... a whole day to find out the info. Now, i simply ask Google by voice, tells me in quarter of a second... ... three times just today... every day.... all my ref books long ago in the bin.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

My God times have changed blame the greens for all the problems of Hobart anti development