The GREAT FIRE of BRISBANE - The Complete Story

We had some great fires in our back yard when I was a kid, Dad loved the incinerator... Flames shooting up into the sky🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mt Coot-tha would make for an interesting video. The Botanic gardens, the Quarry, Slaughter falls, the old Freers chips factory, the TV stations, the summit restaurant, the old gold mine, and the cool old building at Stuartholme school. Then not far to the Toowong Cemetary... Epic!

Thank you Sharon for your help with the history of the great fire. Well done Mr Rob for finding Sharon, great show ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊

Amazing how we walk through here every day to work and take it for granted- thanks for the history lesson, Rob!

Never knew such a fire was in that area. How many walk around Queen St Mall and not know about the fire. Fascinating ...

I remember the York. It had a basement bar as well. Flashback to the late 70s. I worked for a clothes manufacturing company down the bottom end of Albert Street, opposite the carpark. It was a three-storey, timber and iron building. The top floor was the sewing room, the second was cloth storage, and the first were the offices. I was told by long-term employees that their original factory was in Queen Street. When the owner bought the building in Albert Street, rather than have a removals company move all the equipment, he had his employees move the sewing machines, Roneo copiers, cloth, and all their stock to the new site on wooden trolleys that were used to move the cloth around. He used to park his Rolls Royce out the front of his ancient factory. We supplied businesses such as Sportsgirl and all those other fashion shops in Brisbane. The site is now an apartment block. I also got to see Dr Hook at Her Majesty's before it got demolished.

3 cheers for Sharon. She added a lot to your already cool videos.

Hey Rob, been loving your work and like yourself, I'm an immigrant from Sydney but this year marks my 40th anniversary as a Qlder. My family moved to Toowoomba in 1984 and in later years, owned the oldest service station in Toowoomba. So if you want heaps of Darling Downs history, Toowoomba and Drayton are the places to go mate!

Cheers to you both indeed. Loving people like you, keeping history alive. Thankyou :D

Great video Rob. The story of the great fire of Brisbane should be made into a film some day!

Wow, I never knew about the fire. How cool to have a guest with you 😊

Woohoo! Love these videos, Rob!

Thanks Rob another interesting video love the history!

Fasinating history. Love your vid's, Rob. Learning heaps on Brissy history.

No fire brigade? I would love it if you were to do a history of Brisbane's early fire brigades and the locations of the stations.

I'd love to see Rob do a show on the Northgate/Nundah area👍

So that UniQlo place you mentioned is a Japanese clothes business that mum & I both have been to purchase some pretty decent quality clothing, would definitely recommend. And thank you heaps for yet another lovely walkabout video that had plenty of information to learn about that i previously was unaware of having been here ny whole life. Extra thanks for having Sharon along with you, it made it great to hear some of the perspectives of a different person - keep on going woth the solid work, and I look forward to your next walkabout video!¡! 🎉🎉

you mentioned Beak House, corner of Albert & Queen Sts. I worked in Ranald Simmonds Studio there for over 10 years and with the studio when it mover to under the Irish Club. i can say that the inside of Beak House, does not match the outside. the window sills of the first floor, you have to stand on a chair to reach, while the top floor the windowsills were at shin height. and there was small mesanine floor inbetween the main hallway entrance and the first flor. records say that it was built in 1898, bit I firmly believe that it was just Re-built in 1898. and am sure the building itself was a lot earlier. there were still Gas light fitting in the studio even n the 1970's (I have one of them) and my job first thing int the morning was to open the main doo on the ground floor and run up all the stairs to the door to the roof and open it to let all the gas out. no one could find where the gas lines went into the building and the led pipes were all cracking and leaking. it had a Gian glass wal day light studio lighting which was facing the lane way behind. and I believe it was rebuilt as a daylight photo studio from an older building. Henry Ranald Simmonds started his studio there in 1928, and before him was Mason, and in the early 1900's was Ada Drivers studio. (have a few of he Lenses)

I could spend (have spent) hours looking at old maps and photos of Brisbane and comparing them with today. Your videos save me the effort of recording my walkabouts.

Good history. I’ll be buying that book