Tony Robinson's Time Walks | S2E1 | Kalgoorlie

[@redhammer9910]

Very enjoyable. Kal is the epicenter of multiculturalism in Western Australia. It's because so many people from so many countries found themselves stranded and isolated in one of the most remote regions on earth and all but forced to assimilate over a period of a hundred years. It shaped the core culture of West Australians, an influence so powerful it still effects the culture to this day. The whole region is just so rich in history in both the culture of the desert Aboriginie's, the story of colonization and today an oasis in a brutal landscape. Magic.

[@stephenvelden295]

Spent some of the best years of my life (9) in Kalgoorlie. A truly unique place!

[@kiniburk]

Appreciate the history lessons for parts of the world I would love to visit.

[@weldmachine]

Great to watch these stories of different towns of Australia. Some i have been to. Some hope to visit one day ????

[@jamesbushy9031]

Thanks sir tony im born and breed in kal and you taught me a few things i had no idea about

[@glenradford5988]

Very well done.

[@RT038]

kalgoorlie sure is a great place to visit i loved it !!

[@australiantruckspotting8883]

The Metropole Hotel was closed and for sale the last time I was in Boulder. I hope it gets reopened as a pub again, one of my favourites.

[@gtaveteran]

i live around the corner and it’s still closed mate

[@KirileeCosplay]

I've been to Questa Casa for the tour (amazing btw) - and I am very certain that is not Camille the owner.

[@Sh4dow682]

the farkin flies! Oh and Kalgoorlie.. my hometown.. 2 holes in 1 :P

[@corallewis3788]

Ty Tony 😁

[@bashartr4652]

I love your videos 😍

[@urbansafari147]

Always stop for supplies there, before heading out bush...nice to see it again,...

[@Sh4dow682]

Sad to see the Metropole is no more.. last time i was there a year ago.. it was all run down and closed

[@arned2493]

That's a horrific huge fly that went up Tony's right nostril @ 2:11 - aaaahhhh!!!!

[@merlinsgirl9311]

January 2022 update: the mine is not expected to be exhausted of gold until 2035 now

[@seanmcmullen4274]

thats great to hear for that town. i was just about to look this up. thanks

[@nathanroberts355]

Im related to Patrick hannan who found gold in Kalgoorlie 1893 and he is my great great uncle

[@nothere57]

Can I ask how you are related to Paddy Hannan ?? my grandmother maiden name was Hannan . Paddy arrived in Fremantle with his cousin

[@alch3myau]

Wooo Hay Street!

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

I have some seedy Kodachromes of the brothel "outdoor" suites from the late 1950s.

[@gregorythoman8281]

2 things, a lot of flies. And, Baily was smokin' hot.

[@WiFiWombat]

I was going to mention the Federation controversy but they covered it well. However the Western Australian separatist movement didn't go away. About 30 years later they petitioned Britain to become a colony again. But they were told effectively "go away, you bother us".

[@electronwave4551]

In the past I've looked into the "sacred nugget" event at Kanowna and read many so-called explanations, but none of them stack up with *all* the known facts. Young Father Long took the true details with him to the grave, as he said he would. Finding a photo of Father Long speaking to the masses from the balcony of the Criterion Hotel has long been known, and there are several more. I do not believe Father Long named the nugget 'sacred'; that came about from locals and newspapers, who had other name variations for it as well; sacred was used because it was said to have been discovered on a Sunday. Father's long statement from the balcony where the nugget supposedly was found was known as a poor alluvial site and therefore improbable. Although there was a huge stampede to the site, the few who knew better simply went into the hotels to continue drinking. By sunset the mob returned empty handed. Some were angry, but there was no real threat of rioting. Long immediately went to ground, and took his loss of face with the community very hard. Later he became ill and he said to his carers from the outset he would not survive, which he didn't. As a gold town, it did make it, but like many others, with a limited life.

[@becdewar3522]

Went when I was 14 from Perth 30 now i must go agaib went to the 2 up ring

[@nathanroberts355]

Im related to my great great uncle Patrick hannan found gold in Kalgoorlie

[@andrealves2210]

damn flies

[@nuberiffic]

Seems like the people of Kalgoorlie had a cunning plan to keep the town going...

[@lincthomas7178]

kibble is also food

[@rolandoruiz7659]

The Herbert Hoover? Of Hoover Dam?!!!!

[@electronwave4551]

Herbert Hoover was a young very capable mining engineer in the eastern goldfields of Western Australia from mid-1897 to late 1898. He was able to get mines under his control into a workable/profitable venture, but in doing so, by getting rid of lazy mine laborers, he got a 'reputation' with unions. He was fresh-faced so he grew a beard to look older and visually command more authority. Camels were often the means of transport to reach isolated mines in the eastern goldfields then. They have a peculiar gate that gives them the nickname 'Ships of the desert' for their rolling motion with a rider. Years later it was said Hoover became physically ill at the sight of a camel at a US zoo. He eventually was President of the United States.

[@anthonywhelan5419]

"I'll come with you!" Sorry, Tony, but that's just rank.

[@lincthomas7178]

why is it rank?

[@sarcasmo57]

I want my remains put in a XXXX bottle. But not til next Tuesday.

[@perthgirlwa2407]

🤣

[@lincthomas7178]

bushland? theres NOTHING in kalgoolie

[@jamesbushy9031]

Born n breed

[@samjones1954]

Tony... you really should walk the course for real and avoid the bars...

[@Enlight_Entertain]

ha ha WAXIT history repeats.

[@deborahnunn2394]

A women’s hormones estrogen decreases in your body with age that’s the key factor I’m in my 70s and I have tight skin my face my neck

[@deborahnunn2394]

Contrary I do use a few products and they do absorb through your skin I’m not want to listen to someone like this put a mask on etc. the main thing in my age you need to keep the skin moist and contrary to what others may say keeping your body hydrated is also like the key factor

[@anunmarkedgrave]

Patty's statue got decapitated the otherweek

[@perthgirlwa2407]

Fortunately only the replica & it's been fixed. The original is safe, locked up like everything in Kal needs to be.

[@anunmarkedgrave]

@perthgirlwa2407 there's definitely lots of things that need to be locked up in this town

[@OstblockLatina]

Saying that prostitution is still necessity today is like saying slavery is too. Great majority of women working in this trade are victims of trafficking and human trade, coming out of situation of extreme poverty pathological families, victims of addiction or even mental illness, many of them coerced by threats and violence to themselves and blackmailed with ones towards their families.

[@redhammer9910]

And the majority do it because the money is pretty damn good. Met many a young lass who work two jobs. After a year they buy a house nice car and just get on with life. Not all women are victims.

[@perthgirlwa2407]

No slavery out there. They fly-in, fly-out on FIFO money. The best money they can make without having to get out of bed.🤣

[@ghs7714]

Seems to be a lot of flies up there. Are.you filming around some abos who haVe not showered?

[@justinh1433]

T Tony lives on an imaginary spinning globe. Has a few cups of T with the T ranny queen

[@lincthomas7178]

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[@u888kkcom]

Yang pilih allah like.

[@lincthomas7178]

god doesnt exist...

[@stoopsyo]

This guys surely the jimmy saville of history

[@louiscoopergraves2268]

He does make weird horny comments all the time tbf