The Jarrahdale Mills - What Remains?

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

That’s a very grim story and a real tragedy about his wife. Unfortunately it happens often enough when people get crushed by bureaucracy. I appreciate your efforts to shine light on local history. That conical structure is probably a dust-extraction cyclone. Those sheds would have been awful workplaces in winter and summer. The shed looks like a backup fire system. The architecture is similar because it’s usually built just well enough to get the job done everywhere. Subscribed!👍🏻

[@kellie6631]

Thank you for bringing back my memories from all the places I remember while travelling with my family as a kid!

[@Wigzy23]

Hi mate, im so happy to have discovered your channel. Keeping history alive!! The engine room you found would have been the fire fighting pump system.

[@Miclantechupi]

Another great bit of content. Fascinating. Thank you.

[@NfCTank]

Wow that is a sad state its in, i used to live across from the bunnings yard many years ago, $10 got a whole loader bucket full of wood offcuts and would last most of the winter. remember the tree logs stacked higher than the houses and ran about the length of the house block and wood chips for years, they were scattered everywhere. Almost died there one winter as a kid from the flu the houses didn't have any insulation you could see outside straight through the walls in some sections... been in Rockingham for the last 25 years so looks I'm going for a visit next weekend back to Jarradale to see if the deli/post office/servo is still there haha Thanks for sparking some fond memories.

[@simonscott1121]

I love how so much of it is built with jarrah. That'll still be standing long after we're gone.

[@simonscott1121]

Im 51, WA born and raised, and Ive never seen an echidna in the wild.

[@smackhead]

We visited this mill while it was still operating in the 80's as a primary school excursion and I still remember the noise - not just the grinding of the cutters but the logs being dropped into place and yelling... A lot of yelling. Also stuff being thrown all over the shop... even in the 80's it was a harsh place to work. No real safety standards so guys with arms and legs like tree trunks (no pun intended) pulling, pushing, lifting and prodding in their blue singlets and stubbies.

[@brendansodyssey]

Thank you for sharing your experience. Sounds like you needed to be a real gruff man to work there in those days!

[@smackhead]

@@brendansodyssey Yeah, the photos you showed were of the higher ups. Just like today you spot the engineers on any site a mile away with their brand spanking new hard hats and safety vests without a speck of dirt, wearing pressed trousers and business shirts while the workers just have to get on with it.

[@gemfyre855]

I went down to Jarrahdale to check out the mill and POW camp. There was a guy playing saxophone in the mill. Awesome acoustics, it was a nice little touch.

[@legtendgav556]

Wow, thank you for posting this! Very cool history.

[@brendansodyssey]

Thanks for watching!

[@mikewicked.x]

Had a primary school camp through Jarrahdale in the early 90s - there was at that time a still operational mill, but wasn't that one, but one on the main drag of Jarrahdale Road (i believe Miller Road looped around it). I used to also work on Rally Australia when that eas a Perth thing, and in the early 2000s there was a service park on the same land, which was a spinout at the time. I remember there was a large rotunda building, but looking at google maps and that also seems to have fallen down.

[@partymeeple5633]

Back in the day, all these mills would have been powered by steam. So loads of fires were started by the loads sparks made by the loads of fires in the loads of boilers that made the loads of steam. I read, many decades ago, that one big tree made enough profit for a mill owner to take his whole family for a Holiday back to England for a few months. So profitable that the cost of a mill burning down was almost insignificant.

[@TheAussieRepairGuy]

4:08 - red usually signifies fire services box. probably hose reel. - the knockouts at the bottom will be the best giveaway.

[@tankmaverick99]

We need a supplementary investigation of that tree dummy

[@brendansodyssey]

On it

[@josh29472]

Love your videos mate. You should take a look at the old site where the new Keralup development is, just off the Kwinana Freeway near Mandurah. Plenty to see on Landgate and in person, but unfortunately most of the old farm site has been demolished. There is also an old section of road that has been reclaimed by nature at Mandurah Road and Paganoni Road, promptly named as Old Paganoni Road. Look forward to your other videos. Subscribed!

[@Miclantechupi]

21:00 Pretty certain that is the pump room for the fire main which would be started if the hydrants needed to be pressured.

[@Marcuscalafatty]

Love the mullet

[@Nkettle791]

7:12 there was another Event recently Edit: some of the timber that was milled was sent to England and can still be found underneath the roads in London.

[@rolly4x4]

24:46 looks like a more recent circuit board on the wall

[@Nkettle791]

Too bad everyone breaks them (I live up here and go exploring every weekend)

[@iandenton1406]

worked with a guy named Doug 73/4 (i think) asked him what he did beforehand. drove the last steam engine up at the mill 🤔 should of picked his brain on the subject.. but girls we're more on my mind at the time 🙃

[@mishi144]

Poor fellow!

[@robbietren]

MY POP UEST TO WORK THRER HE GOT HIS FINGUR CUT OFF

[@shibibi1]

That man and woman were driven to utter desperation by the government and bigger corporations. Utter bs

[@pmcgee003]

"biodiversity"

[@sueandersen1123]

I wanted to watch the whole video but I couldn't because I was getting dizzy from the camera moving too fast!!!!