Discover the fascinating history of Australia through rare and stunning vintage photographs of Sydney, Melbourne, and other locations. Dive into a time when modernity was just beginning to take shape and explore the customs, architecture, and landscapes that helped shape the country we know today. A unique visual journey into the past! 🌏📸
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Not too many of Melbourne and Victoria !
This is a wonderful public service you have done. It would mean so much if you could identify photographs where the Aussie Whites and Indigenous people were caught in photos of those early years. There were many such photos in my family collections I have lost contact with now, but the captured the stories of unity in Australia that no one hears today, where the vast majority of Aussies – Aborignal and Whites had lived in the Colonies and many had worked alongside each other from the late 1700's, and by the time of self government in 1850 many had worked for 4 generations on the large sheep stations and later cattle stations and they were their own little communities. When the gardens failed, the aboriginals always knew where to hunt, and when children went "bush" and got lost the heroes were always the young Aboriginal trackers working with their grandfathers and uncles very often to pick up the skills.
That is the true story of Australia which is never told, and would do so much good to guard against the false history that has been invented by foreign dark skinned people, who are neither Australian Aboriginal Indigenous nor our Beloved Aussie TSI Indigenous but imposters.
I can't stand the AI voice! It got a bit confused halfway through.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
the unknown woman at 12:07 will be fanny durack again as seen at 6:26
What happens to the Ai narrator at 12:55? It suddenly develops a strange accent and then lapses into another language. Interesting. This as a whole is really good. Thanks
Some of these photos look suspiciously like AI generated stuff. Look at 3:55, the guy on the far right. His legs look completely unnatural.
You turned into a Pakistani at 13:00 ,haha..For everyone watching, it was the "Man in the Gorilla Suit"….get it?
Brilliant collection, though nothing for WA, NT or Tas. Typical.
However, 6:05 blonde lifeguard in the back, wow.
Old colonial Australia would have been a more fitting.
At 9.59 there is a great photo of men involved in the pursuit of a criminal in the Hunter Valley (not a remote region as the AI guy says). The presence of Aboriginal Mounted Police is a give away that the criminal (who was not a bushranger) was an Aboriginal – Jimmy Governor who murdered a white woman (for whom he worked) and her two children. The AI guy should have done more research before making his misleading commentary.
Everyone is just so ugly. Just goes to show what struggle does. Something to remember next time you judge people from a 3rd world country.
Thanks for sharing this ❤👏
nothing in melbourne, this is incomplete !!!
Good pictures well worth a watch. Unlike the USA, many of Australia's early buildings still survive, (especially away from the capital cities).
Great photos, but 6:42 isn't Manly. I live in Manly, and there has never been the level of development that you can see in the right side of the photograph here. In 1890 it was a quaint beach village, not a bustling city. Sydney City was the only place with that type of density in those days. You can see the Northern Beaches at 9:02 for comparison.
Love some of the pronunciation, e.g. Coogee, Toowoomba, "goal" yard (perhaps *gaol) and perhaps some of the commentary is off.
And Sydney, Melbourne?
interesting how a ship can connect to the Blue Mts, that's three hours drive west of the harbour….?
They purposely avoided taking photos of all the indigenous peoples that were backbone of this country and this society. The mining and building of roads and infrastructure was done with slave labour… stolen women and children too but noone took photos of them…
Sheeps were sheared and gold was dug by the native indigenous people too… not hust too but majority of them 😢
mine came in 1840s.
Wow great pictures and stories. keep going
Very cool pics, It's great to be able to look back, thanks for sharing.
01:27 December 1875, wooden shacks line Market street. Only 18 years later, Queen Victoria Building is commissioned a mere 100m away. Something doesn't add up here. Horse and carts and grandiose stone buildings do not go hand-in-hand
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Poor enslaved and tethered horses. Awful. A nation based on destruction to the environment and cruelty to animals. God help the animals!
If you've got time (or the inclination) it would be interesting to do a collation by year of the swimming costumes. It was interesting to see the changes
Beautiful old buildings in the background.
Wonder who built them. 🤔
Yea im at Hill End….looks great but its still a Hard life😢😢😢
Ps…still Depressing. Tc😢😢
how come there are more females in skimpy bathing suits than young men who are just about to go off to war and never return?
I love how the dialogue slips into an Indian accent then some language I don't know before reverting back to an English accent. 12:50
How about a video of the beautiful buildings in the background, getting built?
Wasn’t that long ago.
Absolute treasure of photographs
Mate, I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Seeing the old photographs & your narrative accompanying them was well done. I’m a proud Aussie & you are enabling people from around the world a glimpse into our past. My Mum was 3 years old in 1954 when her family came out from England. This is my heritage!
Stephen 🇦🇺
Great pics but nothing of Melbourne ?
3:33 So there people lived in shacks and tents, but the 1st thing they do is build a giant cathedral, multistorey houses and extremely wide roads. For their horse carriages.
Rundle St hasn't changed at all
This captures a time around when my family were in chains, being raped, beaten, separated and killed. Nice to see all those Indigenous Australian photos in the mix…
If you look at the head dress of these men then compare it to their flag of Torres Strait Island you'll see the inspiration for the flag design.
I love these old photos, warms the heart ❤
Tough times tough people..
4:47 The photo of people standing on the sea turtles is truly bizarre. The woman at the top right is just standing on it and looking around, the bloke at the far left is trying to surf it,
the woman at the bottom left looks like she's trying to pile drive the turtle's face into the sand. I wonder if these turtles have just come to shore to lay their eggs?!
11:31 "In the far north west of south east Queensland"! Don't go there!!
At 12.03, I think you may have misidentified the swimmers.
Such a incredible time in history. It's a shame now we have corrupt dumbass Prime Ministers such as Albanese, who is a traitor/dictator that is not only banning free speech, monitoring civilians, banning vaping, banning tobacco etc etc
The thing is, nobody in Australia has given a sh*t about Sydney since the 2000 Olympics.
look at all that white privlage…. jokes, thankyou for the share excellent content.
Really beautiful video¡¡Thank you mates¡¡