Jeparit: The quiet charm of a town you've probably never heard of
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- I love visiting small towns you've probably never heard of. Jeparit, in the Wimmera wheat belt, is a great example of an Aussie bush town that has maybe seen grander days. But it has charm, a beautiful river and lake, and is the birthplace of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies.
My dad was born in Jeparit in 1928. My grandparents had a barbershop. Dad is still alive at the great age of 96 and when you mention Jeparit his eyes light up and he brings back the past.
That’s awesome. Good on your Dad 😀
I love the wide streets in Victoria and South Australia. They had some forethought in those places.
Another interesting small town. I'll go there one day soon I hope but definitely not in summer !!
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I thought the name Jeparit sounded familiar and a quick search reminded me why - it was the name of a ship that was involved in supplying our troops in the Vietnam war. It was often mentioned on the news back in the day.
My mum was born in Jeparit in 1923. I've always wanted to see it, so thankyou!
That’s great. Now you have to visit one day 😊
great video Terry!
Thanks 🙏
Jeparit and Rainbow are also know for being settled by German Lutherans who travelled across from South Australia.
Great video Terry. It's certainly a wake up call for city slickers.
I remember doing a small High School project concerning Sir Robert Menzies. Much of information came from a Herald newspaper article (before it became the Herald Sun).
Sir Robert was introduced to three Russian diplomats with unpronounceable names ending with "vitch" or "vich".
No worries here but the razor sharp Sir Robert (like Sir Winston Churchill) said something to the effect of
"Vitch Vitch is vitch?".
Country Victoria and the rest of Oztralia is a goldmine for unknown history. The backbone of Oztralia but many don't know.
A rich goldmine awaits in every small country town in Oztralia.
Cheers!
Thanks 😀. Glad you enjoyed it. I love small Aussie towns
Ha ha you Vitch story reminds me of another trure one.
At a political rally a heckler shouted to Menzies.."we know what dark forces control you"...Menzies replied...
YOU LEAVE MY WIFE OUT OF THIS...😅
Interesting that you do so much research when doing a video about a town. Nice video
Thanks. I hope it makes for a more interesting video 😀
i was there for a while in the 70's. lived at the hindmarsh hotel when mr & mrs Lamb owned it. there was a haunted room there upstairs they never rented out. the hotel as changed owners a lot, even closed down at one point and here it looks quite run down.
Jeez, you missed the Pioneer Museum, you must have driven right past it as it's on the Dimboola road.
Church street has all the churches, rather aptly named. I didn't know the pub had closed, celebrated the old man's passing in there, but that was 30 years ago. 😇
4 mile beach (where you stayed) is alright, but there are a couple of other campsites around the lake worth visiting. Yep, getting bogged out there is as easy as anything.
But a reasonably good view of the town.
It was closed the day I was there otherwise I would definitely have dropped in 😊
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Menzies was a master politician. John Howard idolised Menzies, even using Menzies old desk when he was Prime Minister. Howard tried to emulate Menzies but the Australian electorate had become far more politically savvy since the Menzies era and Howard, even with the assistance of a majority right-wing media failed in concealing his political strategies in the same manner Menzies had.
An interesting video , about a rural town in the mallee, and Sir Robert Menzies , gives it some notoriety, so when the local pub closes, & or the local milk bar that’s when you know its going downhill, so many towns across Victoria are going out of business, and no doubt across Australia as a whole, at least the traveler gets to give some business to these small community, cheers from Downunder ❤️🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺
Many of these towns are in decline. But that doesn’t mean they’re doomed. Have a look at my Dimboola video to see an example of a town being revived by art.
Once it was a good place for Saturday night at the pubs. I installed the automatic telephone exchange there
Plenty of Rocking chairs and banjos, but Lake Hindmarsh is special
I have been living in Jeparit my whole life and at timestamp 2:20 the big red house was built by Erwin Stanley Schmidt, he built 7 identical houses in Jeparit all different colours 5 in town and 2 on farms the big red one was the main homestead he lived in.
That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing 😊
I worked with a young bloke from Jeparit, at Alcoa in Geelong, I think his name was Tony Farmer, memory for names isn’t good though, 😊
The tragedy is that as those beautiful old houses decay, they are slowly being replaced by revolting bland souless buildings, eventually the process will kill of tourism...
Was it really a bad thing for the missionaries to have educated the aboriginals ? Imagine if they didn't bother, can you really think it would be right to have a stone age society living in parralel with a modern one ? You and I know what the end result would be.
I love your videos.
Thank you
Being from Warracknabeal I had defiantly heard of never been but always wanted to know what it looks like looks very peaceful.