WARWICK: The Lost Shopping Trolley Capital of QLD
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Despite the herds of shopping trolleys, Warwick is a fascinating town and one I truly enjoyed visiting. And the night time explorations were something I'll never forget.
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Those are wild free range trolleys. They tend to roam in small herds. Sadly, some of their kind end up trapped in watercourses where they eventually perish, much like mammoths in tarpits in days gone by. They can be stubborn and willful and frequently resist being penned up in the evenings. Whereas in many places, trolleys have been tamed and even domesticated, the wild trolleys of Warwick proudly roam free. Almost worth the trip just to see them in the wild.
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01 12 2022
I've only been to Warwick twice. Once when towing a trailer up from the NSW Central West to the Sunshine Coast, and the second time to pick up the trailer after it was repaired. A wheel fell off and rolled into a paddock of long grass, never again to be seen. Also, there's nothing wrong with a spot of train spotting :) Great video Rob.
wow! it is amazing to see Warwick with no graffiti! So clean! good job for the locals who live there and respect their town.
Thats because there all grown up thay never throught of doing that thay rather steal a car
I lived in Warwick for two years. As you drive into town from the north east you drop down a hill and you can see the town. I called it, "the hill of despair"!
A very very hard place for business with a population stuck in their ways. And a city council that does not want progress.
The majority of locals are either pensioners waiting to die or younger people with heavy drug use. The favourite past time for 12 year old girls is getting knocked up!
Did your business fail?
Hi Rob. We lived in Tenterfield many years ago and remember when Glengallon Homestead was a ruin. Money was raised to restore it but I never got to see the finished home. Nice to see how some of it has been restored to it's early beginnings. We never liked Warwick and were always glad to pass through!
@jennycampbell5236 thanks for your feedback, most interesting. As someone who has only lived in cities, I never really thought about how country town and rural dwellers saw other country towns and regions.
Those shopping trollies are breeding down in the creek near my place. There are more of them every day.
The under pass was built after child from St Marys school was killed. There was another death decades before that. There use to be traffic lights for walking on the ally way. It was removed. About 30 years ago there was a huge social problem in Warwick, first up go back to beginning of centry the federal police was created at Warwick train station . In the early 90's a man was bashed to death in the town hall allyway, then another was bashed down near the pub across from lesie park, years ago on a weekend the town was packed. Now it's dead no work. Chamber of commerce stops groth. That's why they put camera up on every street and it sorted the people problem. I grew up in Warwick and it's totally changed. There was always a problem of nothing to do. I used to clean those motel rooms too. ;) should be careful walking around the ally's of Warwick by self at night. They do have a drug and bikie problem.
I'm working back through your videos and enjoying your perspective on the places you visit. Regarding your observation that country towns need diversity in their dining options and should stay open after dark, what I found years ago is that they tend to be geared for travelers, not the locals, unless they are a place with a foodie reputation like Kingaroy (!) or Stanthorpe. Then there are more interesting dining options on weekends, but everything still centers on the pub or RSL during the week. Motels would fill with white Falcons during the evenings (OK it was a while back now) and they would be gone again at the crack of dawn. It tends to be invisible to the locals, but that's how it was. A dining rule from those days, never order seafood more than 100km from the coast. It will be a disappointment at best and may have adverse effects at worst.
Keep up the flaneuring and thanks for sharing. Happy trails.
Thanks Mate, born in 4370. Many years back, I spent most of my School Holidays with my Gran in Her flat in Carmondy Lane. You did say chilly, I remember scraping ice off my car window on 17 Dec 80.
Thank you for doing a walkabout of Warwick. I grew up in Killarney, 30klm south-east of Warwick until I was nine, when my family moved to Brisbane. I had a wonderful childhood in Killarney and travelled to Warwick often for shopping, doctors and school sports. I returned to Warwick to visit my cousin who now lives in Sweden. While watching your footage, I realised that he and I are not built for that quiet lifestyle. Thank you again😊
WARWICK YES MY HOME
Love your work
I went for a day drive around the Southern Downs and Scenic Rim sometime last year, pulled up in Warwick for lunch. Just checked the photos I took and sure enough I can see shopping trolleys in them.
Grew up in a country town called Warrack (for short) in Victoria and use to love walking around all night as a teen
First time I’ve ever seen someone on CZcams travel my home town love your work. The under pass was because a kid got run over trying to cross the road and there’s a lot of kids who walk from assumption to st Mary’s church so they made this to make it easier to get across the road. Yes people in the country do just want to go to a pub we aren’t like people from the city. And I’d be keeping those religious views to yourself if I was you
Always wanted to see inside Glengallan Homestead, for years Gelengallen lay in ruins the perfect haunted house at the edge of town. Thanks Rob am making way through all of your walks. Please do an historic walk in Toowoomba. The Swamp deserves more than just Harlaxton House well then, maybe ,not.
As a denizen of 4 QLD country towns (Yarraman, Nanango, Stranthorpe, Murgon) I call tell you that the locals are more then happy with the various pubs offering meals & the RSL. Cafes etc do start up but quickly go out of business if they think they can attract customers once the sun has gone down. We like the quiet and we like to spend the nights at home.
Warwick is an interesting place. People that live around there (like Stanthorpe) go to the movies there. But yeah late at night (and a cold winters night at that) there is going to be nothing going on. People are at home with the fire going.
But Warwick has a lot of old buildings that are quite grand. There must have been some money there in the early days.
Since Covid these places are even quieter than usual. Also country towns are pretty dead on the weekends. For most people, it’s their days off.
My Grandfather and Dad worked on Glendon Station (Thanes Creek) for many years, in the 40s to early 60s. A grand town.
It is very nice to see this kind of rural town. Your video is great. Thanks!!
My mum grew up in Warwick in the 1940s. Certainly wasn't much around in those days. She hated the place.
You may find that most of those trolleys were left at bus stops. The lovely Warwick people haven't learned that there are
no trolley buses in their quaint Darling Downs city. But it is a lovely, although sleepy Queensland country location.
That house with the dead cat was looking pretty good for its age, maybe they were onto something?
That’s as silly as the sin virus 😂
I used to live there ages ago, this video brings back so many memories
@Shoel Howlett I think it's a terrific town and I really enjoyed my visit there. Thanks for stopping by!
Wats your take on Warwick ? How long did you live there
Very beautiful little town
Its nice to see people going to warwick
Magpies eat evil spiders of course.
I believe the underpass was build because St Mary’s school have two parts, one on each side of the highway. Therefore there are young school kids that need to cross the highway a lot to get to the church etc
@Tegan Bailey I recently heard that a young child was killed trying to cross the road there many years ago, and so the underpass was built for safe transit.
Its not used much anymore as St Mary’s has sold or doesn’t use the lower campus anymore
Haha love your videos mate.
What a weird underpass. Then again, I've encuntered an even weirder one in the town of Nowa Nowa. Absolutely tiny town of less than 200 people, yet an underpass... Minor detail, underneath the prices highway which might explain it
Also no lift, however it was a flat approach on the path. So probably a lot cheaper to install
it has a lift on both sides. The church he passes walking towards it was part of the Primary school and the other part of the school is across the highway. the council built it so the kids didn't have to walk across the highway to attend church.
The dogs name is Guinness and he lives at the pub O’Mahoneys the publican Joanne is a lovely lady and it’s a nice historic and cheap place to stay and drink
I really liked your comments about the baptists church sign. I couldn’t agree with you more.
We just purchased land to build there. Great little town 💖
Is it good to live there? I heard that it is very cold in winter and hot in summer. The land is cheap?
Lovely old buildings
Needed trolley boy Warwick area .no emails apply in person......
I was up there a couple of months ago to get some work done on my Falcon there at Mal Woods Automotive backing onto the train line..... unfortunately Ive broken the Falcon again the other week and this time shes gotta be towed up this time.
Effen Fords😂😂😂😂
I've owned both a Holden Torana and a Ford Falcon. I prefer the Torana.
Good video. Thanks. Agree with your comments about the Baptists.
Warwick shops close early on the week end it is really quiet there of a night time but it is nice to have a look at i uset to work at the light house thay help alot of people there
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Hi to everyone out there.
Warwick is much more busy now
yeah after covid it's gotten much more lively again
When you dont see a.train for a good long time you get happy to sè it again i was
"it's the 21st century and we're still believing in that kind of nonsense" loving the videos but also loving the realistic outlook that makes me laugh because I know stupid people would be offended by comments like that, keep up the good work.
Thanks!
The L is silent in Palmerin Street, as in Palm Tree. Pronounced as Parmer -in
Some nice old buildings in Warwick, but burying the poor kitty is awful. You've got the Condamine River running through there. There's actually a 4wd track crossing the Condamine 14 times just out of Killarney in Cambanoora Gorge, which is a really nice spot.
the underpass was built there because a girl died on that street
one of my parents friends ute was in your video the silver ute the first one when it went past at the church/where the religous sign was
the steam engine was so elegant but after that I got lost with what you were trying to convey and you ended in Kalbar? haha
Me like da one eyed doggo
Looks like I know where the Hogwarts express ends up after it drops of its students.
3:28 Saturday night ! ! ! 💤 💤 💤
4:13 TROLLEYS ! ! !
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People dont take the trollies back people get them the next day
I was living in warwick till i had to leave check the tiver that where youll find it
Warwick is the perfectly sized town, if something is available it's 10 minutes, if not then there is always Toowoomba or the internet. It gets busy during the day and there are plenty of sports grounds including a popular car race track, religion is well catered for, let's put it that way. The climate is great, much better than stuffy Brisbane. It's a conservative place but in a good way.
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Thanks for the video.
Very cool. ✔
01 12 2022
Obviously lots of commission houses there and people that don’t respect anything or anybody
Ok cats have some useful traits after all..
They collect the trolleys the next day 😂
Can't afford the overtime for the trolley wranglers. 😜😂😂
Warwick is the most conservative electorate in Australia, it's NOT good, we have door to door religions nearly every week talking crap... There's a lot hiding in Warwick and I don't mean that in a good way and I live here.....
Children of the Corn eh?
@@BradSmits 2 words, Vincent O'Dempsey. He has admitted at least two are buried in Warwick surrounds, they found a 20ft container 6ft underground of his a couple years back and 40 blue 40 gallon plastic tubs buried with tons of shit, but the bodies are still out there with a $1,000,000 reward...
yep the Maranoa electorate is pretty conservative includes a lot towns from out west as well not just Warwick
I think they were saying that the virus is sin itself, so come to church to be decontaminated from it (forgiveness of sin). Nothing to do with COVID or any other virus. Just a play on words
He wasn't smart enough to realise this. 😂
criterion hotel is where my mum workers lol
and at 0:53 is the house my pop worked on
@@mamamia.-.9213 😁 Obviously did not work on the house for long enough..........
01 12 2022
I live ipppp
there are places to go..like cafe.theres one on wood st u daft bugger.everyone has gone..prob. covid if filmed 7 months ago.i live out in the bush and come in tovwarwick.its a boring town mostly and welcome to the wind..ha...funny as
Ghost town
Warwick,s a very clicky town,not much goes on,few things to do on weekend,s.i lived there a little while,too small.
its a big hole..like a black hole in space..
Like your videos; thanks for posting them. There is a Baptist Church in Toowoomba that has been putting up similar signs for years which whilst obviously are intended to advance a Christian theme, are phrased as a comical play on modern events. I suspect your local Warwick Minister may have been doing something similar? Would probably have been an idea to speak to them before publishing such a derogatory opinion.
He went easy mate. Bloody kooks.
I'm sure that by now you've realised that you missed the point of the "sin virus" sign. Thy were simply saying that Jesus is the cure for sin. Yes, it was cringey.
The church sign was a play on words...they did not say that the virus was sent due to sin. They said that sin is like a virus. But it is much more fun to bash the Church isn't it? Apart from that, I enjoy your vids mate.
@Uncle Nubby thank you for your comment, I appreciate all feedback. Personally, I do think that all religions need a bit of bashing from time to time. Further, I think that in time we will do away with religion and focus more on what people can do to solve problems. But that's just my perspective.
Religion is the real virus.
Uncle Nubby, go back and read it again.
Awful town with awful people.
Love your work