What a shame the town planners destroyed such a beautiful city.
@Dreamer10888
2 ай бұрын
The got rid of the trams a.. saddest part ever
@lindagardener855
Ай бұрын
Thank you for compiling this. I love old Sydney and suburbs.
@sadiasuleman1102
2 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful town Sydney was
@mspdu5536
2 жыл бұрын
I still find it sad to see the magnificent architecture be replaced with the ugliness of what we see today, i don't believe our horse and cart ancestors build those yesteryear masterpieces.
@Batman-wv5ng
2 жыл бұрын
No respect for amazing architecture today ,it’s all ugly concrete boxes just money hungry evil people.
@Nicklovesmw2
Жыл бұрын
I think ur gay !
@darioburatovich2240
Жыл бұрын
@@Batman-wv5ng I think you are right, but it's the same in my native Buenos Aires. No respect, no culture.Just greed.
@Batman-wv5ng
Жыл бұрын
@@darioburatovich2240 it’s all about money today no respect for anything.l am back home in Croatian for last 8 months 80% of people here are lies and crooks.
@seanlander9321
2 ай бұрын
@@Batman-wv5ng That’s what Town Planners do, they have destroyed cultures all over the world.
@dorothysullivan9151
4 жыл бұрын
What a marvellous collection of photographs.
@cindersmolloy6584
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, this brought back memories. Beautifully done.
@haroldmclean3755
Жыл бұрын
I like seeing those old stone Buildings as I am a Heritage Restoration Stonemason and I have Worked on them, Some of them more than once lol 👍😀
@annstar4306
11 ай бұрын
Wow , thats so interesting and well done for the work you have done ! A big fantastic to you , you would be full of stories on the subject etc . Hope you see my comment . Today is June 10th 2023. 🙋 Jen from Kendall NSW.
@haroldmclean3755
11 ай бұрын
@@annstar4306 Hey there Jen 👍 Thankyou for your kind praise, Yes I have many interesting and entertaining Stories about those Grand and Beautiful Old Stone Buildings , Some of the Giant Architectural and Freestyle Carvings are Top Notch 👍😉 I hope that your keeping Warm up there in Kendall, I've got my Heater pumping away down here in Sydney , Its Cool lol 👍😉
@weallmatteraustralia
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful Collection of photos...Cried when I saw the Grantham was demolished just for a high rise...What a building that would still be today. The view of that Bridge and the money that came with it must have been more important than the Grand old Historic Building 😭😭😭
@horationelson57
2 жыл бұрын
I have returned after 4 years; it's such a wonderful, engrossing compilation of my city that was once like an innocent, comely school-girl, but now looking quite haggard and spent (and riotously over-expensive) despite it's harbour and natural beauty.
@tonymccarthy6713
5 жыл бұрын
What a great nostalgic look a old Sydney. I grew up there in 40s 50s and 60s. Wonderful happy memories. Thank you. Very well done.
@bencornelius1620
3 жыл бұрын
Those convicts were some talented builders!!😲😲 Its almost like Sydney was found 🤔
@daveg2104
3 жыл бұрын
Sure, muddy flooder - aka people confused by basements, among many other things. lol One of the stupidest, most pointless conspiracy theories out there. Not to mention shitting on the hard work, ingenuity and deprivations suffered in the early years of the colony. There are some fairly meticulous accounts of the early days of Sydney (and drawings and paintings). If you were in any way interested in doing some actual research.
@bencornelius1620
3 жыл бұрын
@@daveg2104 haha ok Dave 😂😂👍🏾
@daveg2104
3 жыл бұрын
@@bencornelius1620 troll
@bencornelius1620
3 жыл бұрын
@@daveg2104 no Dave called me a troll 😫
@daveg2104
3 жыл бұрын
@@bencornelius1620 👍
@bigglesflysagain1749
6 жыл бұрын
Ahhhhhh...The Trocadero......danced with my first REAL girlfriend on a Saturday arvo......Julie........she and I learned much, in the back seat of my Dad's Holden FE, parked in the dark, in Centennial Park. Sailed away on SS CANBERRA in 1964...quickie trips back in '68 and '78...Sydney was still a village, compared to today. Ya can't go Home ! Suburbs was soooo quiet and gentle and boring and safe and wonderful in the 40s....................................so now I believe I will have a cuppa and a BEX and go lie down ! THANX soooooooooooooooo much for the "mixed" memories!!
@YesYesYoureRight
3 жыл бұрын
Bex was two medications (drugs) it was mix or aspirin and Paracetamol, it was changed to one medication only in the early seventies. . Doing that in Centennial Park was a gay-men thing to do. Were any men watching you(s) both or didn't you notice? You were probably thought of as two blokes, no one much had anywhere to go for a bit of private intimacy, in those days. Everyone was so unliberated. But it was a safe village-city, there were no such thing as security guards (or NIGHT WATCHMEN) as that was called in those days. I was born in Enmore but now live in Westminster. Have A Nice Day.
@BTW...
3 жыл бұрын
@@YesYesYoureRight NO, You're WRONG - Bex, Vincent's APC and Veganin powders contained a mixture of Aspirin (420mg) - Phenacetin (420 mg) - Caffeine (160mg). They were addictive and caused kidney failure. This was discovered in the 60's yet not banned until 1977.
@michaeljoshualewis538
2 жыл бұрын
In the late 70s I bought bed off the ice cream man for my mother, I have on this channel about 25 uploads of Sydney now,the old buildings,it sure as gone downhill
@keef78
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for putting this up, I'm only 40 but it is just great to see how it was in the old days before my day, makes me wish I was back in a simpler time, where people spoke and their was community, I was on the tail end of that, I still remember as a child going next door with a cup to borrow a cup of sugar or milk and going to the shops and leaving your doors unlocked. Things have certainly changed, some for the better but a lot for the worse.
@G-ra-ha-m
Жыл бұрын
Lovely. Interesting to see the old museum, clearly hundreds of years old, Sydney must have been a wonderful sight when we first discovered it, probably overgrown and full of mud, but with these magnificent buildings ready to be re-purposed.
@mrant750
Жыл бұрын
It’s amazing isn’t it. In less than 100 years after being settled we had a thriving city called Sydney. All built without so called modern technology 😂
@gregkhoury2559
4 жыл бұрын
This is a beautiful and moving compilation. Superb. The picture at 11mins 14 seconds is actually the Great Restaurant on the 7th floor of David Jones Elizabeth St Store. The Queen was given a reception there on 3rd February 1954. It was a wonderful place. It’s not the Royal Theatre.
@KJMudge
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Peter , What a beautifully presented selection of historical photos of Central Sydney and it's surrounding suburbs. It was most enjoyable to watch and very educational. Thank you 😊
@dansclassics
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing; right back to horse and carriage times; great job.
@JoLowden-oz9no
11 ай бұрын
Many thanks for sharing these pictures.
@tamascalderwood729
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic. Loved it. What a town, through all these years.
@Nicklovesmw2
Жыл бұрын
Ever had sex in this town ? 😂💪🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@Pendaws
5 жыл бұрын
A lot of these scenes are forever in my mind, I saw a few of them live when a boy. Ah, to be young and innocent again.
@aussieraver7182
3 жыл бұрын
What did people do those days in Sydney? And what would people do at the Sydney CBD apart from working?
@horationelson57
7 жыл бұрын
Delightful piano accompaniment. Thank you for uploading this marvelous piece of nostalgia.
@1935rmb
6 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories for this Yank in Sydney, 1962. Stayed at the Peoples Palace I seem to remember. Then moved to Brighton le Sands. Nice country but returned to America after 1 year due to homesickness. Never returned..
@emohruo7996
6 жыл бұрын
Mate its changed I can tell you that
@petersinclair3997
4 жыл бұрын
Hope you can make it back, from someone, who has been to the States three times since then.
@TenOrbital
2 жыл бұрын
10:31 Short S-23 Empire-Class Flying Boat
@albertweir5070
6 жыл бұрын
thank you i remember some of the old buildings as a kid when i visited sydney in the late50s and early 60s.
@kaz1578
10 ай бұрын
Great video. Lots of photos I have never seen before and so many beautiful buildings lost to progress.
@rosemarylynch7470
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much. You've brought back much of my childhood!
@stevecurry6066
6 ай бұрын
Very good Peter. Just one thing I noticed at the 5:49 mark, you have annotated George St. The picture shows Prouds Jewellery store which is in King St cornering Pitt St. Wonderful music as well.
@AJLangford
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Ill show this to the residents of a large nursing home. Cheers!
@peterbett7161
7 жыл бұрын
That's great. I hope they enjoy it!
@kiwaussiegirl
6 жыл бұрын
Anthony Langford..... What a lovely idea ☺️
@kiwaussiegirl
6 жыл бұрын
Peter Bett... So many I've never seen before. Cheers, Peter.
@GupshupCookingvlog
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful place 😍 thank you for great sharing have a good day take care 💖👌
@PLANETIA01
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for posting these amazing pictures. It brings back memories and a little insight of familiar areas in Sydney that I have not seen before.
@12121149
5 жыл бұрын
Luna Park "Just for Fun" and the Trocadero,spent many great times there, and all the rest,great memories,thanks.
@Timothy2963
4 жыл бұрын
At 12.08 in the slideshow you have the image as "Sydney Stock Exchange". It is in fact the Royal Wool Exchange, Sydney. You will see a statue in the foreground of Sir Thomas Sutcliffe Mort looking towards the Exchange. He was one of the most prominent founders of the Australian Wool Industry. When the building was demolished in the early 1960's (as was his wool store next to Custom's House in Circular Quay to make way for the ugly AMP building - ironic as he was one of the three founders of the AMP) his grandson Charles Mort wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald suggesting that his grandfather's statue be turned 180 deg to look away from the site.
@Timothy2963
4 жыл бұрын
At 13:52 you have it correct.
@petersinclair3997
4 жыл бұрын
Hope it’s not true, but heard the Alfred Street AMP building is under a preservation order. Though, Goldfields House is gone. Both lent balance to the Quay.
@ianneill1400
3 жыл бұрын
10.02 not Parramatta road but is Livingstone & cnr of New Canterbury Road!!
@markcampbell634
7 жыл бұрын
Awesome collection
@ayalarkin
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for compiling and posting. Fascinating.
@royburnell4169
4 жыл бұрын
A great collection - I really enjoyed it.
@cardinalpuffpuff547
10 ай бұрын
Shows, sadly, the city centre before it become so dark with the streets overshadowed by the tower blocks.
@tonyswietochowski2282
4 жыл бұрын
Great pictures. Shame they got rid of the trams.
@bustechvst3865
3 жыл бұрын
its back
@Steven_Rowe
7 жыл бұрын
thankyou. Really love the old photos and the music. Always wish i could put old photos in a time machine and go back to the exact moment when the cameras shutter operated perhaps not maybe imagination is better than reality
@peterbett7161
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback, Steven. I'm glad you enjoyed the compilation. Sydney seemed like quite a charming little city back then.
@horationelson57
7 жыл бұрын
Indeed it was charming. Now it resembles a burnt-out, old prostitute, like all large, western capital cities. It's called progress.
@Random_cam.
6 жыл бұрын
This was a great video. Ive only ever seen a couple of those pictures until now. I love Sydneys architecture and I love walking around there.
@MoreLocations
5 жыл бұрын
This is amazing beautiful ❤👍🏻
@petersmith9771
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for sharing these times
@cherylpurdue888
Жыл бұрын
Central station changed,they have done it all up, looks good🙂🌺
@paulwinfield5527
5 жыл бұрын
Outstanding presentation great photos.
@Pavanesound
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Mr. Bett. So interesting...
@worldseyes2022
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, some buildings are still there, lovely Sydney,
@judycolmer7937
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Photos.
@stevenhancock9429
6 жыл бұрын
Love the collection. I work where the Anthony Horderns building was, in a 50 story building that replaced it. A correction, at 5:56 is corner of George and Hay with Palace Hotel on left..
@paullewis2413
3 жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember Anthony Horderns shame it wasn’t preserved. I think the greatest loss to Sydney was the Hotel Australia the nation’s most famous and historic. I can just remember the restaurant with large windows overlooking Martin Place.
@ThePerson1959
2 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed looking at these old pictures or Sydney but I had to keep jumping on the pause to look at the detail. Just a touch to fast moving to next pics but lovely pics and really enjoyed seeing them all.
@MissMellyVee
6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this, fabulous collection of photographs :)
@MissMellyVee
2 жыл бұрын
@Henry Newton how lovely and kind of you … thank you ☺️
@zelly8163
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. When I lived in Sydney I'd walk every where from Bondi Junction to Newtown from the Rocks to Gelbe Point Road trying to piece together Sydney's history wish I would have seen this collection back then. Yet, strangely it is exactly how I imagined it would have looked except for the Rocks which by the 1980's looked and felt nothing like its old photos. Thanks again.
@pollybird7827
3 жыл бұрын
That was absolutely amazing Thank you 🐦💜🍒
@wellardsmith3629
2 жыл бұрын
Incredible. Thanks so much.
@paulb562
4 жыл бұрын
ancient Greek architecture what is doing in Australia ,,. The bridge. is very interesting. 1922. ? bridge construction in Australia. we see in the 1960s. don't forget West gate bridge , arivadetchi,
@JoshSamimi2024
Жыл бұрын
I love they got the music of Carnaval for piano, in there
@tedcullen7480
7 жыл бұрын
FABULOUS. Thanks for putting it together. I'm posting it on Facebook
@peterbett7161
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ted. Hope your Facebook friends enjoy it.
@SSK9s
6 жыл бұрын
AWESOME :) Thank you very very much.
@valziexuglyforehead3916
5 жыл бұрын
great video
@zwarst
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks really enjoyed that,
@tsegulin
6 жыл бұрын
Whoever shot this had a good eye and a great ethnographic sensibility. This would have been neither easy nor cheap in colour 16mm in 1940. Do you know if this was shot on Kodachrome or Ektachrome? Was it restored for colour? The transfer seems pretty good really. I grew up in Sydney and recognize much of the places in the film that have long since gone. Wonderful to see the old pontoons at the Manly harbour side beach. I used to play at Bobbin Head as a kid. Whoever recognized the value of this and took the care and expense to digitize it has my eternal gratitude. The Australian National Film and Sound Archive should fund a full digital restoration. This is a true piece of history. Thanks Peter!
@elvisbartoli6687
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@MrCodeerror
3 жыл бұрын
10:01, that photo was taken on the cnr of New Canterbury Rd and Livingston Rd Petersham.
@robertthomson2159
10 ай бұрын
What a beaut.
@masteryoda498
3 жыл бұрын
Sydney was nicer back then, less crowded, no crime, simpler life.
@PASTORBOYD11
11 ай бұрын
No 3rd world imports & A*!a?s
@juliesmith5567
Жыл бұрын
What a loverly lot of sights there were
@petersinclair3997
4 жыл бұрын
Great theatres have been lost, but the banks seem to have survived.
@kostadean2839
2 жыл бұрын
interesting
@gopinathanaugustinemunusam911
4 жыл бұрын
Magnificent pictures
@dvspeter
6 жыл бұрын
10:03 is actually cnr Livingstone and New Canterbury Rds Petersham. That view basically hasn't changed.
@umbertogalasso1280
4 жыл бұрын
Your spot on the money I used to live around the corner
@michealtom5453
2 жыл бұрын
Good stuff,,
@aaronblake7947
6 жыл бұрын
4.05 Telephone Box @ end of Tram is Cnr Wallis St & Edgecliff rd, Woollahra.
@petefoto3143
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant ... They should have kept those ornate buildings and modernize a different part of Sydney ... much like what they're trying to do with The Rocks; although somewhat too late.
@stigonutube
4 жыл бұрын
Glad to see parramatta rd "9.56" has not changed much since 1920s LOL
@roblox-vp1rq
3 жыл бұрын
lovely pictures, it is fantastic to see a collection like this. Where do the years go?
@aaronblake7947
6 жыл бұрын
10.00 IS Cnr New Canterbury Rd & Livingstone Rd Petersham. ( Note Benyon & Hayward in Background. )NOT Parramatta Rd.
@viviekazanili1077
5 жыл бұрын
yes that right i lived at Petersham i noticed it as well i wonder what yr it was?
@aaronblake7249
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Vivie , Ive been Busy, I can confidently Say 1954, if you look above the awning of the Livingstone Hotel. there is a promo for THE Vagabond King. I checked with Petersham Town Hall Archives! Regards Aaron Blake.@@viviekazanili1077
@mscorrell
Жыл бұрын
I received a large part of my education at the Windsor Castle Hotel, Paddo 9:40. Also visible is the fire engine used in tv ads.
@CoogeeMedia
3 жыл бұрын
Great!
@umbertogalasso1280
4 жыл бұрын
At 10:02 that is not Parramatta road it is the corner of New Canterbury road and Livingston road Petersham
@pitvondone
2 жыл бұрын
I lived in Riverwood in 1990 and they still had the elektrik kable over the road.
@grantmcauliffe3437
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. :-)
@aaronblake7249
5 жыл бұрын
@ 5.50 King St / Pitt st Looking east! NOT George st, Building in front of tram still there.
@JoshSamimi2024
2 жыл бұрын
Happy 90th birthday Sydney Harbour Bridge
@ALITISA78
7 жыл бұрын
12:18 A modern picture made back n white. You can see the sky scrapers, sky lights on the roofs oh and a Tv antenna lol. Sorry I notice everything.
@peterbett7161
7 жыл бұрын
Well spotted! Looks like a satellite TV antenna on one of the terraces.
@Olbucko
6 жыл бұрын
Aren't you just so so clever!, 50 years ago we did have sky scrapers, skylights, and TV antennas, and the Opera House was nearly finished. The dish was probably a microwave dish.
@petertaylor3600
6 жыл бұрын
They did say pictures of old Sydney. This can be photos shot of early buildings, taken much later. I can't see it mattering.
@petertaylor3600
6 жыл бұрын
Abnsolutely right, Olbucko. Well said.
@keef78
5 жыл бұрын
I first spotted the sky lights on the roofs, though this is titled old Sydney so by definitionit fits but is in contrast to the rest of the much older Sydney photos.
@aaronblake7249
5 жыл бұрын
@ 5.57 HaySt / George St Looking East Both Buildings Still there NOW a Light Rail Stop.
@phillipjohnryan7074
4 жыл бұрын
Just Thank you peter.
@climber222
2 жыл бұрын
@1:50 is that the ice skating rink?
@elainesoni7847
3 жыл бұрын
I wish they were arranged chronologically. I'm interested in the 1896-1903 period but it's difficult to follow.
@MrFadicuz
11 ай бұрын
sydney the most beautiful country in the world
@12121149
5 жыл бұрын
Harry's cafe de Wheels, so many times the mates and the girlfriends, went there for the best pie and peas ever,just sayin'
@casscumerford5886
4 жыл бұрын
I still old and innocent---I 76---but feel 20---from smoking, and eating lots of sugar----- and lots of coffee----lot of dope when young but stopped after 10 yrs----I like gals----my name pete too but I changed it to cass when I became actor---cass easy for castin folk to remember----I typin a lot today cause I stayin inside cause of new corona virus---aint trustin NO ONE to come near me---my life too good right now
@stigonutube
4 жыл бұрын
i can relate to that in the 90s.
@sketchessketches1074
3 жыл бұрын
fantastic shots of the biggest Electric Tram set up in the world in 1823. wow those convict bob the builders were faster than a speeding bullet in 35 years since colonized 1788 !! luvyawork...sketch
@sigmaoctantis1892
2 жыл бұрын
Funny how that happened in 1823 when electrification of the Sydney tram network started in 1898. Are we talking alternate realities or something?
@leonilladmitrieff5502
2 жыл бұрын
wow, only thing , bit fast , make it half as slow ... otherwise , I had to keep pressing the button to pause , lol
@misst1741
5 жыл бұрын
great pics...not much of it left now..butchered...pity current population influx aren't as handy with brick & trowel:))
@cezrok5405
4 жыл бұрын
A lot of these old buildings i think were made by an older more advanced civilisation i cant find any proper construction photos from around 1888 when supposedly a lot of these great buildings were built - how did they put in those massive marble one piece columns in the city ? Where was the quarry for them - there are no public records
@TheEarthHistorysConfusing
4 жыл бұрын
Cez rok Indeed you’re definitely correct!.
@paulb562
5 жыл бұрын
1909. thank those. convicts did great. Work. building. this great. City. thanks. boys. don't forget. mudflood. boys. hello.
@malcolmcanning548
4 жыл бұрын
U know
@TheEarthHistorysConfusing
4 жыл бұрын
Hello my fellow awakened soul!. So many people have no idea.
@TheEarthHistorysConfusing
4 жыл бұрын
Sydney had the Biggest Tram System in the Southern Hemisphere and had definitely been layered out well planned with for thought in the cities and suburban communities included within this system. Sydney did exactly every other country did around this time and it was a insurance claim in the end. Same with Brisbane both store sheds suddenly burning Down after the public said no to getting rid of trams and political issues eventually gave into the petroleum companies and scrapped all the trams. Several huge cities in USA had similar stories with trams being too big or not wide enough streets.
@TheEarthHistorysConfusing
4 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/lm5jzml6cIqenI4 Brisbane Queensland Australia
@06588275
2 жыл бұрын
looking at this the only decent thing done to sydney in the last 100 years was the refurbishment of the qvb everything else a disaster demolishing beautidul buildings
@joshuataylor6087
6 жыл бұрын
Sydney was so charming and quaint back then. What a shame they knocked it all down and replaced it with Surfers Paradise.
@TheEarthHistorysConfusing
4 жыл бұрын
Joshua Taylor wtf? Sydney and Queensland are two different states?.
@stevecallachor
3 жыл бұрын
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"..........l..........Joanne Mitchell, a world wide phenomenon!!! Stavros
@bert23337
11 ай бұрын
The glorious state of Sydney!
@georgeprokopenko3044
3 жыл бұрын
i saw a castle top of Williams street
@philipbrailey
8 ай бұрын
If it’s in England, they keep it. If it’s in Australia they pull it down.
@automandan3066
5 жыл бұрын
Car crashes were like how plane crashes are today , People would just freak out
@bluemarshall6180
5 жыл бұрын
What time does the Shops and Stores Closes During that time. 😄
@TheEarthHistorysConfusing
4 жыл бұрын
Blue Marshall probably 9:930 am? To 3pm? My mother said this . Thanks
@aussiejohn5835
4 жыл бұрын
I worked in a department store called Farmers. This was cnr George and Market st. Opening hours : 9am - 4pm Mon-Fri. 9am-12midday Saturday. Closed Sunday. Nothing opened on Sunday , not even the cinema. Closed Public Holidays.
@aaronblake7947
6 жыл бұрын
6.35 Is Capitol Theatre - Campbell St. NOT the Hippdrome.
@daveg2104
5 жыл бұрын
For anyone wondering. The Capitol Theatre was originally a market building (New Belmore Markets - 1892), then in 1916 the building was converted to a hippodrome designed specifically for the Wirth Bros circus. In 1927/28 it was converted to a theatre.
@valziexuglyforehead3916
5 жыл бұрын
the painting at the 10.56 mark has 1623 written on it.whats that all about
@daveg2104
5 жыл бұрын
I don't know why you think it is a painting, but anyway, I would say that 1623 is just a catalog/print number.
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