Broken Hill to Menindee, September 1965
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2020
- Footage of Swinburne Director Mr A. F. (Tom) Tylee and his wife Doris's road trip from Broken Hill to Menindee, New South Wales in September 1965. The film opens at the Silver Haven Motel in Broken Hill followed by a tour around the town (of Broken Hill); rest stop halfway at Quondong Hotel (note giant bottle on the roof); Stephens Creek; Menindee Lakes; grave of Dost Mahomet (camel driver for Burke & Wills 1860-62 expedition); Burke and Wills Park; and the Maidens Hotel (Menindee). Mr Tylee's distinctive red and white 'International Harvester' van is often seen in frame. Note all the Fords and Holdens. Film shot on colour reversal 16mm stock (Kodak Kodachrome), most likely on a wind-up Bolex 16mm movie camera. Please note that video has no sound. Film digitised by Dennis W. Nicholson (Audio Visual Production Manager), Swinburne Dept. of Film and Animation in April 2020.
This is making me cry ,when this was shot i was living at woolcunda station ..dad was a roo shooter so many memories !
Wish they had this exact quality for filming around broken hill.
It’s really interesting to see how little has changed between then and right now.
Fantastic old footage, must have been some good early spring rains about. Funny how no one needed SUVs in those days!
I made many trips from the Hill to Menindee in the 60s and 70s with my parents to go camping, fishing and yabbying at the river. A halfway stop at the Quondong Hotel was mandatory. I remember there was a very basic kids playground around the back and a small kiosk next to the pub with drinks and lollies.
The Miners Arms Hotel was also called the Rockwell Hotel at some time.
Thanks for the memories.
Great seeing water in the lakes...
Great footage I was only 5 years old them⭐
My dad & I, (Mario Donda & Son, Painters & Decorators) painted the metal bridge at Quondong in the 60s. a company from Adelaide built similar bridges on all the roads out of Broken Hill around that time, hard yakka, heat, flies & plenty of lead in the paint, the same paint used on Sydney harbor bridge, in some of my weddings photos you can see my fingers all bandaged up from working on those jobs...
Broken Hill teenager in 50s, the Menindee Lakes held, someone told me, more water than Sydney Harbour. Everyone went to Copi Hollow for camping, fishing, ski and boating weekends. So green too most of the way I noticed, all the Holdens and Fords. Touted that Menindie might also become the bread basket of the west - no one ever thought it would dry up. Alas it did ... So what an amazing and historic record of Menindie in 60s. Thanks for sharing
Menindee Lakes Scheme had 7 times the capacity of Sydney Harbour. Sad that what had so much potential was ruined by short sighted greedy people growing cotton.
Thank you for sharing. I've been to this road twice. In 1965, it was a grassland and it looked like water.
I lived in BH for a while, did the run to minindee many times. at 6:25 seeing the small trees at Copi Hollow , all i say great thought planting the trees.👍🇦🇺🦘
Have to add , how lucky are we to watch this archive. Thank you.
Grew up in the Hill in the 60s and 70s. Fond memories.
@ 4:07 that minibus looks like Colin Jack's tour bus. He ran West Darling Tours.
The road hasn't changed much, however, we have certainly killed/ruined the Menindee Lakes, mans need/greed/lust for water up stream of the Darling has seen to that. Love the scenes of what are now "classic" cars. Vincent, Tarax and Bex adverts on the tree at Quondong, what memories! The Indian Pacific train was still another five years away too. I stayed at the Albermarle Hotel last year in Menindee with colourful publican "Dingo". Menindee railway station still looks the same today. A most enjoyable video, thank you very much for posting it.
Those were the days back before I was born but lakes we're full.
It was very green must have been a wet year.
Fastinating to see this as i dont think the roads have changed in 50yrs. By contrast my parects went from parramatta to balxlandnin 1971 and the tar stopped at Penrith before the nepean river and was dirt across the blue mountains