STAPYLTON - Beenleigh's Historic Neighbour

[@ronsmith2241]

Interesting how the economics of that area (and many others) have changed since the new highway was put through. Some businesses closed but now much larger different enterprises have started. As you suggested, watch this space in the future. It would make an interesting economics study as part of a business degree. Thanks Rob. Good video.

[@BradGryphonn]

Rob, your research and presentation is brilliant. I'm always fascinated by the way you tell the history of the South East and beyond.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Brad Griffin thanks indeed mate. Really appreciate your feedback. Just now deciding what my next place to explore will be.. Hope all is well at your end.

[@BradGryphonn]

@@walkaboutwithrob Making progress this end. Should be a wanderer on the road by April I hope. Have you considered Northside to explore? Petrie area? Or Strathpine and its association with the Airforce in WW2? Many streets are named after aircraft, and Spitfire Avenue was a former airstrip. Another is on land owned by Boral(?) I think. At the back of Petrie is a memorial site where a Spitfire crashed after a mid-air collision with another.

[@jelbuilderfilms]

Awesome stuff - really enjoyed this Rob. Love seeing the places around our city!

[@classicandclunker]

Another excellent video, Rob. Really enjoy hearing your stories about the local area as my mum grew up around Norwell. Her great-grandfather was the Heinrich Hester whose name is on the "Yattalla" map in the video. His grandson had to give up some of the farm when the highway came through, but the blow was softened by a roadside billboard company paying him handsomely for having a billboard placed by the new road.

[@24inchchromes]

Thanks for all the effort that you’re putting into these videos, Rob. It’s great to learn the histories of these areas that I’d otherwise be mostly ignorant of. Might we see some inner-city suburbs covered in the future?

[@MercyStreet113]

Hi Rob, if you want a glimpse into the future have a look at the brand new Tweed Hospital being built. It is huge . It currently sits alone surrounded by old cane fields , a true sign of things to come in that area. Near Tropical Fruit World. Love your channel mate.

[@honkytonk25]

Fantastic early photos and historical details!

[@darinhodge8015]

But never the less you make great documentaries please keep filming love your work

[@grantschmidt2617]

That's the most interested I've ever been of the area of Stapylton! Loving these recent videos

[@r2g218]

Really love your videos, very relaxing and informative, another Brisbane and surrounds walking aficionado, thanks for the great content! =)

[@BradGryphonn]

11:20 I'm old enough to remember, as a kid, driving to the Gold Coast when the highway went past the Yatala pie shop. I remember because my dad would always stop and get a pie and peas for him, mum, me, and my sister. I have fleeting memories of so many roadside pie shops or carts in the very early 70s.

[@tonyspiegel6771]

Thanks again Rob. I was an Alterboy at Saint Patricks church and remember it as a functioning Church. I also have fond memories of riding my Mongoose BMX bike to Yatala Pie's to meet up with the son's owners at the time David and Terry. I also remember going to the Beenleigh Drive-in many times and still refer to it as the Beenleigh Drive-In not the Yatala Drive-In. Funny how you get stuck with past naming conventions as you get older.

[@jamesherbst178]

Just to clear up any confusion, because a few people have asked me. Mount Stapylton HAS been referred to by TWO names. The lesser known Joongavin (with reference to plants on the mountain) and the more commonly known Yugambeh name: Bookinburra (meaning peak). If you travel over Quinns Hill you will see the Bookinburra Place industrial estate and as many young people know, we also have the multimillion dollar Bookinburra Learning Centre at Beenleigh State High School. There's also currently a proposal into the Department of Natural Resources to revert Mount Stapyton's name to the traditional name of Bookinburra. Personally, I hope that this is successful. The other name that the "locals" know the mountain by is Yellowwood Mountain, due to the native yellowwood tree that once grew on the mountain (Yellowwood Road is the southern road leading to it). Sadly, all of these trees were removed by timber cutters and used to make furniture. A huge table was made from the wood from the trees of this mountain and when they tried to install it into a home in England, they discovered that the door wasn't big enough: so had to cut the table in half and re-join it in the room (must have been big!) Thanks for the video Rob: well received and it just shows (to me), just how connected Beenleigh has been as a community, with both sides of the river for ever and a day and yet today, we are disconnected politically with one side of the river being Logan City and the other Gold Coast...I think Peter Beatie got the boundary wrong on that one.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@James Herst Thank you for your always valuable feedback and comments. There is still a remnant piece of rainforest on the mountain, as well as a grove of wild macadamia trees as well. And yes, I know of all the names for the mountain, both Indigenous and European and their relative veracity. Put simply, apart from Yellowwood Hill/ Mountain, the other names are relevant and can be used. As discussed in a previous video, the name Joongavin does specifically refer to this particular mountain. Bookinburra however can refer to any peak or high hill-top within Yugambeh-Bundjalung country. Perhaps there is a way to combine the two names if and when the mountain's name is altered.

[@jamesherbst178]

@@walkaboutwithrob yes, I think that hopefully there will be a renaming or at least a co-naming. I've been in the tourism industry for the last 15 years and first nations tourism is significant in the tourism market that I deal with: international. I know that if I were to market a cruise tour on the Dugulumba River, taking you around Bookinburra Mountain: I would get a lot more bookings than if I ran the same tour, but marketed it as a cruise on the Logan River, taking you around Mount Stapylton.

[@jamesherbst178]

@@walkaboutwithrob yes, my parents lived on the Mountain and my grandmother was born on it. So have walked over it a lot. If you venture up to those nut trees, watch out, for some reason there's like an ARMY of scrub turkeys there for some reason! Must be their zone? :)

[@angiecrawford9212]

Had no idea the Gem Hotel existed, definitely one to check out!

[@a.t2427]

I love your videos! I love it when you visit places that I know about but have never personally visited myself.

[@concernedaussie1330]

Thanks again rob , your doing fantastic work mate!

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Thanks!

[@wendybrealey8368]

Of course Mt Staplyton is also the BOM radar site for SEQ and the golf ball looking object (which until I watched this and looked it up I didn’t know...drrr... ) is the 30m high weather station. Found an interesting article about how it’s mostly automated with occasional maintenance. (Discovered as I was wondering could you walk up it and never put two and two together before). The rabbit holes your vlogs take us to! Brilliant!

[@jamesherbst178]

My grandmother was born on the mountain and parents retired to it. When they built the radar, they invited all of the people living on the mountain, to have a tour of the radar facility. It was cool. When they first started the radar up, they found a mass moving across the screen one way in the morning and then in the other direction in the afternoon. After a bit of head scratching, they worked out that it was large swarms of moths, moving with the winds: such was the sensitivity of the radar instrumentation.

[@wendybrealey8368]

@@jamesherbst178 great info thanks.

[@RangaTurk]

It is for Brisbane Airport, there is one at Kurnell for inbound flightpath approaches from the south. They could have built Brisbane Airport around Stapylton but it is too far from the CBD. Cane land is also pretty boggy being mostly ex-saltmarsh like Hope Island used to be and Jacobs Well or on the paperbark swamp parts and further inland there were the sub-tropical rainforest areas up the narrow creek valleys like Pimpama River and Hotham Creek.

[@mpkcleaningservices-cardet2835]

As much as the area is expanding with the enterprise area maybe Stapylton or yatala needs a train station again to alleviate car use for workers the traffic is horrendous at the best of times has taken me 40 minutes to get from the drive in to the M1 on a bad day, Love the video series of the area great work,

[@libbygenxmum]

Im new to Eagleby and enjoying all these videos 😊

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@Lisa Ellis thanks! Shot another one today.

[@Arxadiax]

Great video as always mate!

[@libsta85]

I'd love to see one of the ormeau area next!

[@markb3146]

Livingstone Christian collage has some original railway items in the foyer and collected history on the railway.. @rob it would be good for your Ormeau story

[@jamesherbst178]

Ormeau is the French word for "little elm" (as in tree). You might know of the Little Elm Cafe next to the Woolies? It wasn't a Frenchman that named it, but a military Englishman who had the area as Ormeau Estate.

[@markb3146]

@@jamesherbst178 also there is an Ormeau in Ireland

[@jamesherbst178]

@@markb3146 that's good to know. We have property in Mount Warren Park that used to be two farms. I not long found out that the name for one of the properties is Scottish (even though we're of German descent). It's really fascinating.

[@BARNESSHANE713]

Awesome video

[@divarachelenvy]

Always informative...

[@bringer456]

Hi Rob wasn't there a lion safari outlet across the highway at some stage now factories, I think the running joke was "Pommies can ride on there bikes but everyone else keep you arms & legs in the car " 😅

[@GdayitsPete]

Good job, Rob.

[@davidlove7825]

Quinns Hill was lowered again in very recent times. It had two peaks prior to the recent change.

[@lynndonharnell422]

Was the photo of the giant croc shout in Logan River still in the pie shop?

[@BradGryphonn]

I never had much to do with that area besides my childhood. However, in 1997 I visited the Powers Brewery (now owned by Carlton I think). I almost got lost trying to find the Yatala pie shop also. It was a weird experience having not seen the area since the 70s.

[@DVDMX]

That’s a challenge for jelbuilder. Find where stapylton station used to be near that area you mentioned

[@katndom]

8:33 Is that a huge fish as cargo?!?

[@adventureswithgrunt]

Looks like cod.

[@ifluro]

I remember watching Total Recall and The Burbs at that drive in

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

LOL. For a moment there I thought that the Chinese had bought up that hill for a balloon launching facility! 😜😁

[@shellebelle53]

I remember going to the Yatala drive in as a kid in our Kombi. It felt like it was in the middle of nowhere back then.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Do you recall what you saw there?

[@shellebelle53]

@walkaboutwithrob I think one of the movies was The Black Hole. I remember Maximilian. Probably not a movie for a child, but I think I fell asleep anyway. I don't remember what drive in it was, but I also remember Herbie the Love Bug being a drive-in movie I saw as well.

[@benwinter2420]

The Stapelton railway siding (had a hotel & siding building itself relocated & rebuilt not far off , by the Sargent family after war) . . the siding some 100kms south of Darwin was attacked by the Japanese a few times WW2 , those fights resulted in 2 shot down allied fighters one a Spitfire , in local area . . one of the Sargent family daughters on horseback on the then Stapelton station , found one of the wrecks not long after with pilot remains still inside , had a property not far from there for some time & found 20mm aircraft cannon shells on property . . thing was the Japanese never discovered that entire area norths main ammo storage complex as in Snake creek , bunkers many tucked away in gullies just to north west of Adelaide river township , was just 15 kms away

[@vxcmdr]

Would love to have that old BP Service Centre sign, ashame its been damaged overtime by the sun/weather.

[@RangaTurk]

It is from 1999 hence the old BP logo on it.

[@BasedinReality1984]

The fact Rob didn’t bother showing us his Yatla pie lead me to believe he didn’t rate it at that much. I too was also highly disappointed when I visited that place. Don’t believe the all the hype ladies and gentlemen.

[@ifluro]

Used to use the drive through at the old shop on the way to dreamworld, before the new highway was built

[@darinhodge8015]

You missed some history of the bullens African lion safari and the flying saucer service station

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Actually they were in Yatala and not Stapylton, hence I didn't include them in this documentary.

[@DarkMatter1992]

You mentioned a Father Enright being stuck by lightning in Beaudesert, Enright's Sawmill is in Beaudesert, I wonder if the two are related. I guess we'll get more information on that in a future Beaudesert video.

[@lorellemorris1391]

You missed that Bullins Lion park and a bakery

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@lorellemorris1391 The Lion park and bakery were in Yatala, not Stapylton. That's why they were not included in this video.

[@Bims-t5b]

It’s also we’re team Penske-shell V-power racing HQ is located

[@bobjackson4720]

The railway south of Beenleigh was damaged in a storm and someone made a decision based on the cost, it was not worth repairing.

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Actually, the railway line south from Beenleigh to the Gold Coast was ripped up because the belief then was that cars had become the dominant mode of transport, and as such the railways could no longer compete with them.

[@CrazyBulletShooter]

@ 14:48 what street are you on?

[@walkaboutwithrob]

@CrazyBulletShooter I believe it's Homestead Drive.

[@CrazyBulletShooter]

@@walkaboutwithrob ok, Thanks for the name :)

[@thripflorin2746]

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