First few months in a new country , footage from Chapel st .Windsor , Prahran , Melbourne zoo and Bonegilla migrant camp./ song " Wondering Man " courtesy of Leadfinger
I grew up in the 60s and 70s in the Elsternwick suburb of Melbourne. I did however go to school near here. instantly recognised this railway bridge and pub facade even though i hadnt been there for about forty five years. I confirmed it with google maps, great memories, thank you so much. {i now live in Sydney}.
That is outside Windsor train station on chapel St near Dandenong Rd. The overpass walk bridge is on Dandenong Rd at Hornby st. I lived there from 1967 to 1981. Life was wonderful then. I was between 3 and 17 years old. How times have changed. I wish I could go back in time.
Born in Mcilwrick st 1959 parents owned the pet shop, went to Windsor primary, Hornby St till 1970,Delivered prescriptions for Mr Lumley, chemist that was the advertising on the bridge at about 1.30 in the film, wonder if that was Redlich butchers Chapel street they were our neighbors in Mcilwrick st
I'm the little girl in the film. I was 7 yrs old and now 56. Here with mum Sata and dad Sergej Zemljacenko and brother Boris. We were new immigrants in 1970, just arrived from Borovo in the former Yugoslavia, now Croatia.
@@sanjaherrmann Thank you for your reply -that's so wonderful! Apart from being inherently fascinated by old footage, and wondering what became of the people who appear therein, I actually live around Windsor and frequent the very stretches of Chapel Street that are in your home movie. The other day I was at the exact spot where your family is standing at 4:00 and thought of you all...
Today is the 50th Anniversary of our arrival. I now live in the Blue Mountains. My dear dad passed away in January. We didn’t keep in touch with the couple with the pram after that year.
@@sanjaherrmann Happy 50th Anniversary. I'm sorry your father passed away just shy of it. Poignant to think you lost touch with the other couple not long after the footage was shot - I had imagined decades of shared memories - but sometimes people enter and exit our lives as abruptly as waiters at a restaurant.
I only remember the mans name was Zdenko and he worked at Chanel 7 developing rolls of film. He is responsible for this film footage, for taking us out of the migrant hostel and into his large home (From memory 77 Windsor Rd?) and finding my mums long lost brother, who you see in the film holding my hand, Uncle Vlado, who we just met. Our life would have taken a very different path if it wasn’t for Zdenko. And then we moved to Sydney with Uncle Vlado. I think Zdenko took his young family back to Croatia possibly. Some people have a huge impact on our life. I would like to thank him.
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A much simpler time in marvelous Melbourne, where cost of living was low and buying a house was reality for most people that worked!
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Thanks for the wonderful memories of Melbourne in the 70s
I grew up in the 60s and 70s in the Elsternwick suburb of Melbourne. I did however go to school near here. instantly recognised this railway bridge and pub facade even though i hadnt been there for about forty five years. I confirmed it with google maps, great memories, thank you so much. {i now live in Sydney}.
That is outside Windsor train station on chapel St near Dandenong Rd. The overpass walk bridge is on Dandenong Rd at Hornby st. I lived there from 1967 to 1981. Life was wonderful then. I was between 3 and 17 years old. How times have changed. I wish I could go back in time.
Born in Mcilwrick st 1959 parents owned the pet shop, went to Windsor primary, Hornby St till 1970,Delivered prescriptions for Mr Lumley, chemist that was the advertising on the bridge at about 1.30 in the film, wonder if that was Redlich butchers Chapel street they were our neighbors in Mcilwrick st
What a great family! watch the emu, though.
The kid in the pram would now be in his 50s : )
Windsor Melbourne near chapel and Dandenong Rds?
Yes on Chapel rd ...
I was in grade 3 and my reacher was an ex RAF Lancaster bomber crew member.
that was pretty cool
🎤🐥 how cool
What wonderful time-capsule footage of Melbourne! Is this of your family? If so, where did they emigrate from? And who is everyone -including you? :)
I'm the little girl in the film. I was 7 yrs old and now 56. Here with mum Sata and dad Sergej Zemljacenko and brother Boris. We were new immigrants in 1970, just arrived from Borovo in the former Yugoslavia, now Croatia.
@@sanjaherrmann Thank you for your reply -that's so wonderful! Apart from being inherently fascinated by old footage, and wondering what became of the people who appear therein, I actually live around Windsor and frequent the very stretches of Chapel Street that are in your home movie. The other day I was at the exact spot where your family is standing at 4:00 and thought of you all...
Today is the 50th Anniversary of our arrival. I now live in the Blue Mountains. My dear dad passed away in January. We didn’t keep in touch with the couple with the pram after that year.
@@sanjaherrmann Happy 50th Anniversary. I'm sorry your father passed away just shy of it. Poignant to think you lost touch with the other couple not long after the footage was shot - I had imagined decades of shared memories - but sometimes people enter and exit our lives as abruptly as waiters at a restaurant.
I only remember the mans name was Zdenko and he worked at Chanel 7 developing rolls of film. He is responsible for this film footage, for taking us out of the migrant hostel and into his large home (From memory 77 Windsor Rd?) and finding my mums long lost brother, who you see in the film holding my hand, Uncle Vlado, who we just met.
Our life would have taken a very different path if it wasn’t for Zdenko. And then we moved to Sydney with Uncle Vlado. I think Zdenko took his young family back to Croatia possibly. Some people have a huge impact on our life. I would like to thank him.
Ah the good old days, when it wasn't only me who used Imperial measurements!
I still use them, don't worry!
What happened to the family in the film?
I was only 10
New immigrants would never be so positive and happy if placed in a migrant camp nowadays.