Tony Robinson's Time Walks | S1E2 | Melbourne
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- čas přidán 15. 04. 2019
- MELBOURNE
The real story of Melbourne isn’t found in the grand tree-lined boulevards or boomtown architecture. It’s hidden down the lanes and alleyways. Utopian idealists, internationally celebrated art, class-war dressed up as teen-rebellion, you’ll find it all in the centre of the city.
I lived in Melbourne from 2015-2017, never went to the beach, I barely enjoyed the city landmarks, I definitely didn't discover Melbourne as a tourist ... however I mingled with the wonderful people and shared their day to day lives, made wonderful friends and Melbourne feels to me like home... to me Melbourne is the best and Aussies are the best too! I hope to come back and enjoy Melbourne again
I am from a fucked up country present day hindu rashtar called India which churns out largest number of movies, besides malnutritioned children. Trust my judgment when I say this Tony time walk video is way better than the thousands of movies made in India in last two decades. Amazing script, production and amazing work of Tony. Thank you for making my day!
My grandfather took me to see Chloe for my 18th birthday, will never forget having my first beer with him.
To all the naysayers...Melbourne is Melbourne, the worlds most liveable city...it will be back, better than ever! We are resilient folk down here and Tony showed us just the faintest glimpse of this remarkable place!!!
Wonderful! I lived in Melbourne from 1999 to 2004. It was the best experience of my life. And I am 81. I have lived in nine states of the U.S., plus four countries, including Australia, Canada, Japan, and the U.S. Of all the places that I have lived or visited, none of them had the charm, beauty, and comfort of Melbourne.
Paul Smith the place has real issues at present, I hope you don’t have the misfortune of finding yourself here anytime soon.
@@inkdreams5113 Get a grip
@@inkdreams5113 The don't have any issues any more other around the world
@@montecarlo1651
He has...ON REALITY...!!!
jecos jecos the issues I speak of stems from the government and the way they are “dealing” with this public health problem. Heavy handed tactics have never worked in the past, I think they’ve blown this whole thing out of proportion.
Early this year we had misinformed boarder security which lead to a quarantine scandal.
Then in July we started a lockdown because a dramatic increase in cases, perfectly justified in my opinion. Now that cases have fallen equally dramatically we are risking livelihoods to not stress a healthcare system that should have been reinforced when the lockdown started. Now with an average of twelve new cases a day (or there abouts) with fewer than thirty patients in intensive care Australia wide. We are still not permitted to go more than 5km from our place of resistance.
Yes we do have issues like the rest of the world but we also have an oppressive government making it just that bit worse.
My father always bought his hats from the hat store at Flinders Street Station. Back in the 30s he made arrangements to met a girlfriend under the clocks, when he turned up he noticed 2 of his girlfriends waiting under the clocks, that’s when he realized he had got his dates mixed up and invited both girlfriends. He then went into Young and Jackson’s and had a few beers until one girl left.
if that is a true story it is a beauty, if not even better
i love that shop but never been in.
Thanks for sharing this story.
Your dad was a legend.
Her name was Chloe.
Pre-COVID-19 Melbourne is so hip and bustling
IJK yep welcome to Dans CCP city
@Dave I bet if the liberals in were in power and the current chain of events still happened you wouldn't blame them so hard now would you?
@Dave what the hell are you on about! the Liberal and national party are so right wing that they could be mistaken for a 1940's Italian government.
Ironically some people who buy into the whole murdoch media propaganda don't see that it was the Victorian right wingers that caused all of the issues and spread of covid 19 by failing to wear marks and abide by the rules of social distancing but then in the same breath blame anyone that is a "leftist" for the increased lockdowns.
Stop sperging out guys
Look at where the hipness is taking us... 1930s economic depression
Hahaha two students caught wagging on camera. Promptly legged it.
Ssshhhh.... ;-)
Timestamp?
@@sanbornolsen must...not...dob...people to authority.
@@Jaiysful Timestamp dude, not a question
@@sanbornolsen czcams.com/video/wAizZvig8Lc/video.html
i live in melbourne since 2014 to 2021 i think melbourne for me is very modern city just like shanghai very chaming and beautiful
OMG Baldric is teaching me about my own city, this is fantastic!
I was paying close attention to what people were doing behind his back and I've noticed a girl twisted her arm to take a selfie on digital camera, a pair of people waiting for someone with arms down and other who were just sitting on stairs without checking their mobile phones, someone in a cafe who was solwing crosswords while drinking coffee, and so many small details like that that I rarely see nowadays.
i never realised my hometown was so interesting to people.
Mate we have the best city in the world 😆
We're so lucky
@@MissAnathemaDevice people who don't travel out of Melbourne wouldn't understand that how good they got it.
@@MEETGILLtheMAN I agree left Melbourne for Sydney and returned within a month. 😂
Trust your first instinct.
That gargoyle looks like Gladys berejiklian
Bahahah
I loved this city from 04 to 09 and would go back in heart beat
You wouldn't like it at the moment, mate. Trust me.
8 times in a row most livable city in the world. By far the most watchable episode I have seen yet.
My tears flowing... wish the pandemic can be over soon, and we can open up Melbourne to regain her glory.
Without these bloody masks.
You voted for communism, deal with it.
Abrahamic Religions Bow Before Nate nothing communist about it.
@@matthewwilderbrokemystride2972 >labor = leftist
>authoritarian
>friendly with chinese COMMUNIST party
checks out
@@abrahamicreligionsbowbefor3585 Labor is centre right in practice and you wouldn't know a communist if they came up and socked you in the face which one can only hope happens however unlikely
For anyone who has visited all the capital cities in Australia, it is clear that Melbourne is the cultural capital. Though, these days, perhaps not the economic capital.
@Dave spotted the RWNJ
Cultural sure. Australian culture - hardly.
Cultural, sporting, live music and entertainment, I think it’s taken a back seat to Gold Coast as fastest growing city but still; far more than just cultural, mate.
I’ve lived in every city in the east coast. The only thing it doesn’t have is the weather and beaches that the northern neighbours are famous for.
Bloody hell the weather is so perfect up north I’m farken sick of seeing sky blue and crystal clear ocean every single day. It honesty gets annoying.
I want some rain! I miss it! The weathermen on every channel up here whine like little babies every time it rains (not often). And I’m sitting here like; ‘we NEED the rain, you git!’
If we don’t get that rain then we’ll be back to water restrictions again. Queenslanders love to go for a surf and get wet, but 1/100 days it might rain then they all cry like it’s the end of the friggen world.
As a child living in South Australia, a friend at school once gave me a copy of one of Cole's Funny Picture Books. At the time, I disregarded it as weird, old-fashioned & filled with terrible, dated humour, but thanked him & shoved it in my collection nontheless. Thirty-odd years later, it's still in my collection and in excellent condition for a book of its age. But despite the last decade or so of actually *living in Melbourne,* I had absolutely no idea about the history behind the book or its eccentric author, until this video. It's crazy to think of the journey that book's taken only for me to unwittingly return it to it's place of origin all these years later.
Bumble Douche I had a copy of it as a kid too. My Nan gave it to me. Like you I had no idea of the history behind it. I really wish I had it now!
@@planetdisco4821 It's funny in life, the obscure, random things that bring people together. 🙂
I've seen the Coles books in op shops. I had no idea. If I see one, I'm going to buy one.
Melbourne my favourite city in Australia
Sydney better you tax less and there beaches
@@coopsnz1 Melbourne is a shithole now this comment was put up a year ago before all this corona.
Right now I would love to be in Sydney
Herbert Moon me too Dan needs to go vote Liberal
OH YEAH YEAH Labour is better at economic recovery. It’s proven in the past. Why would you ask the Liberals for this?
Yep dan fkd it.. melb won't ever be the same
Can't believe a British man just informed me that my office is situated in the old red light district of Melbourne!!
None other than Black Adder's man slave Baldrick, though I prefer his recent role in Time Team. Tony is brilliant!
i love looking at my country in history , i was brought seeing everything about america , america this , america that , thinking we don't have one , but to some brave people like tony we get to see our history is just as good and we do have a history and a very good one ...
Sir Les Patterson, Cultural Attache and Minister for the Yarts (aka Barry Humphries) said that Chloe was painted before the discovery of Tasmania.
A "map of Tassie" is a euphemism for a lady's pubic region, due to the triangular shape. As a native Melbournian, much like Sir Les, I thought international audiences might appreciate this little snippet.
Or possibly is was Chloe who had the snippet.
Thanks for this lovely tribute to my hometown. She’s changed a lot in my lifetime, but always home, and a wonderful composite of old and new, stately and tacky. And nothing Dan is doing with lockdown comes even close to what Jeff did in the 90s...
Forgive me as I'm too young to remember, but what did Jeff do?
I hate Kennett
They actually did replace the clocks but it only lasted about 6 months before we demanded they be taken down and we won.
Now we've just got to get our spencer street station back
The clocks the went back only look similar - the new ones are electrically set where the old ones were manually set by hand after each train departed.
Onya!
S Manns man I miss wandering those old halls
Allan Gibson I did not know that. Thanks for the cool info
Tony you do a great job of surgical journalism! I now live in Toowoomba but in spite of some sorrow re massive changes down there, Melbourne, is always where my human heart is. I'm so glad the town was named after Lord Melbourne too!
Loved Tony Robinson as Baldrick, and love him in these documentary serieses.
Considered loose if a lady had her fingers pointing forwards in this stance. Don’t bother that Chloe is naked.
“I’ll meet you under the Clocks. If it’s raining, I’ll be at Young and Jackson’s, across the road.”
It’s nice to see Melbourne, while we’re in 2020COVID19Quarantine over Victoria. Not allowed to go more than a few miles from home, it’s like a Melbourne fix. Thank-you heaps.
I WORKED FOR VIC RAIL I CHANGED THE CLOCKS EARLY SEVENTIES
I can't wait for Melbourne and Victoria to come back from the Rona lockdown and we will in a BIG WAY!!!!
Gold and green were common colors for buildings in 19th century Melbourne. That is why Flinders is colored the way it is.
Tony Robinson is wonderful with his unique portrayal & his historical explanation of our Aussie history, just to add a little more on the sharpies of the sixties l was a young teenage sharpie & l think the way we dressed differed a little depending on which Melbourne suburb you lived, in my suburb around 1967-68 l can still remember short square back hair, usually a “crest knit” shirt with a maroon GT type stripe, “flag” type or super wide jeans-trousers, and also “chisel” Cuban heeled shoes, prince of Wales checked coats ( and trousers) the bell bottoms & multi coloured stuff & long hair were for the “mods” the sharpies were generally “clean cut” there were still a few “rockers & widgies” around @ this time too, quite a few people confused “skinheads” as being sharpies but they were not they came a bit later in the sixties.
Loved the tour of Melbourne mits beautiful and unique,thankyou tony
I never knew about Bombay station until I arrived there after an epic 74 hour train ride from Rajahstan in 1992 and suddenly realised it was identical to the station in my home town!!!
Tony, Clocks of Flinders WERE replaced with Philips 24" colour screens, and I remember them. Thay did not last long. The public backlash was SO HARD, that the screens only remained long enough that the old mechanical version that was run by a small army of people with long hooks and keys could be replaced by an automatic electrical version much like you see today. The massive TV screens still ran down on the platforms, and in the few under ground stations we have for many years, but the Melbourne Metropolitan Network knew they fucked up mightily when they took the clocks from the corner of Swanston and Flinders.
Looks like this series aired in 2012. Skyline's definitely changed, barely a crane in sight then!
I've been there twice - in early 2014 and late 2018, and the downtown area had changed a lot in terms of new skyscrapers, either finished or under construction. Photos from recently show that the trend has continued. I wish I'd been there to see the Australia 108 building. Hopefully you guys open your borders in the near future.
Along with the lack of skyscrapers, they still have Ford Falcon Taxi cabs!
We used to have lane ways in Geelong till the property spivs moved in and turned them all into shopping malls. Melbourne's lanes are great. There's a gallery you might like in Hardware Lane, Mahoneys. I love the joint.
Hosier Lane - most overrated tourist attraction in Australia - however on the plus side, you cannot get a bad coffee in Melbourne.
Oh yes you can - at Starbucks.
Agreed, and agreed.
It's an embarrassment how proud they are of it..
Graffiti and homeless people sleeping in the doorways..
Manage your expectations: it's just a small lane with some occasionally very cool graffiti.
False - most overrated tourist attraction is the big banana
I’m from England and Lived in Melbourne back in 2013-14. I miss it.
Tony Robinson was in Melbourne?! He is awesome
Watching this now just as a reminder as to where I use to travel to on a daily basis pre covid.
wow. That beautiful lady in the hat shop!!
Great channel Tony, only just found it. Good stuff. Never been. Ace look at life there.
wonderful to see you down here Tony. thank you for taking an interest in our city. i hope our mayor gives you the keys.
Even though i am from Melbourne.
I learnt a few things that i either did not know or had forgotten about.
It was funny to see the retired Sharpies ??
Reminds me to be young while you have a chance too.
Leave it till later, maybe never have a chance again ??
I’ve been to almost places that you are showing us. Your video reminds me to think back there when i was in those wonderful places.
It’s really killing me to see you walk where I ever wander solely. Thanks for making this video.
Great channel Tony.
Melbourne has been something that Sydney has never been THE CAPITAL OF AUSTRALIA.
Just love to get back to Melbourne City again via Flinders St . Sick of Stage 4 Miss My Mates.
Cheers melody tone! I'd almost forgotten alot about this wonderful city I live in, never forget. The 'liveable' section is the CBD and surrounds, once youre down the Monash for 5 minutes it's open slather ;)
loved it hey Tony 😀
melbourne street art very charming tony uncle
Memories brought back of climbing flinders street station with my brother Yohan searching out pigeons for his collection we climbed up about half mile back walked along the track then climbed a ladder to a walk way that was below the dome think I was about six to 9 years of age then so that was around 1950 to 1958,fond memories ,
Melbourne would have been such a wildly different place then!
I would watch the crap out of a period drama based on the Coles Book Arcade. So fascinating!
Got my favorite Akubra from city hatters.
Fantastic Melbourne...come to Dunedin in NZ for some exceptional street art too...and the gold rush centre - also very fascinating 🙂
The clocks at Flinders St Station WERE replaced by TV screens but not for a long time. Initially they were to stay there but a loud outcry resulted. So a compromise was reached by which the screens remained until the old mechanical insides of the clocks and the signs could be replaced by remotely controlled, electrical gear - and then the screens were swapped out again.
Love my city of melbourne, sad they didnt showcase some of the gaming street art near queen vic markets. I guess its a hidden part i welcome people to search for if they visit melbourne
I saw this come up on my screen and I thought, "What Bloody Crap is this!" I am pleasantly surprised that I really enjoyed it!
Very entertaining.
9:49 Yer. Nah. People still piss in Flinders Lane. That why they call 'em the wee small hours.
I've lived in Melbourne all my life. So sad to see what's happening there right now. It's a ghost town.
Flinders Street station may be the oldest in the southern hemisphere, but it wasn't much use until they built the second oldest. (For the curious, that was Port Melbourne, which is now a tram station instead.)
Man this feels so different than the Melbourne I live in.
No wonder this came up in my suggestion people are jonesing for coffee and cafes
Thanks for video 📹 of the mum
I used to live there for 5 years with 6 other people in a 2 bedrooms apartment before moving to Perth
Would it be worth giving up laptops and cell phones to go back to a time where the biggest issue was pointy hat pins.
I'd give up the cell phones a laptops, iPads and crap any day... I liked the old red telephone boxes everywhere. Teenage girls going out on a date were instructed by father's to always carry enough correct change in your purse in case the date turned bad or thecarbrokedown and you needed to use a public street phone to call dad for help or call Police, ambulance, taxis etc. Sound advice and even I followed it, though I had no dad to call (died)andmum liveda few hundred miles away in the bush. But I did use my emergency coins once to call the RACBV when my date's car got trapped in dirty murky floodwaters under a bridge one dark stormy winter's night in Melbourne and we were at wits end, our nice stylish clothes covered in city greasy road sludge and mud. It was our first date and the way we handled this drama so well convinced us we should get cleaned up and dry out and try to have a second date, when, hopefully, it won't rain, again!?! I made sure I carried the necessary phone boxmoney, just incase and told him to bring his sparephone coins, too, just in case the phone box stole my coins without putting me through to emergency help. I also stuffed two towels, soap, two rain coats and some spare underwear and men'ssox in abigger handbag, just in case... It popped open and all the contents skilled onto the pavementashepicked me up in his dad's car. "Just like my mum... Carrying the kitchen sink everywhere...."he commented. "Well,that's fantastic. It means we are made for each other since every son adores his mother...And it means your mum and I will get along just fine..." I replied. "Not my dad, though... He hated mum's stuff she takes everywhere..."he replied. I was running out of conversation and refused to discuss Melbourne's notoriously rotten weather. "How long has he been married?"I asked, for something to say. "Longer than me... About 40 years..." he replied. "The if he stayed that long with your mum and all her stuff you say he hates, he will get along with me, too..." I commented. "Yeah, that's what I'mworried about... And where do I fit into all this?" He mused,as it started to rain again... "Ah, don't go under that bridge again... Remember last time... But, I've brought towels and stuff this time, in case we get caught in another downpour...". And we pulled out a Melways paper street directory that I, with typical female bad sense of direction, unable to figure out North, tried to read to direct him, going all over the place because I wasn't sure where we were going but I just wanted to make sure that wherever it was,there'd be a red telephone boxwithin reach. "Ah... There it is!" I finally screamed in glee when Ispotted the red phone box . "What? Where? I can't see what you're talking about...." He asked, confused. Not surprising, with mysort of navigation skills. "The red telephone box... Bet you didn't know there was a red telephone box there, did you? They must have recently built it. It doesn't show on my Melways map..." He grabbed the map. It was the wrong map... "I thought you agreed to go out to dinner with me, not red telephone box spotting... Close the Melways. I know where we'll go and how to get there... Don't worry about anything... " And he went straight to where he had wanted to go all along, without my navigational "help" and asked if I liked it,but I really didn't care where he took me because it was him I liked, not wherever he took me and red telephone box spotting as we crossed Melbourne City Streets was as good a date idea as any.. But it was a nice place, with fine food and good service,nice peaceful, stylish decor etc and this second date wasn't as bad as the first one whenwegot caught in dirty murky black city floodwaters and road sludge.
SHARP was Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice. Those connie jackets were made at the Lincoln Knitting Mills in Coburg when I was a kid in the 70's, and the massive stacked "Clodhopper" shoes (not none of these chaps have any of those) were made in factories nearby. I had a house over the road from where those factories were for the last 20 years. My Grandfather was Chief Warden at Pentridge, just up the road from that house and where those blokes probably spent time on remand for petty theft. They were probably trying to nick a pair of clodhoppers from David Molloy's shoe store on Sydney Road.
16:52 😃😂😱 a tunnel straight from parliament to the red-light district. Hahaha 😃😃😃😃
Thanks for the video I'm watching from Dubai
This bloke has been doing doco's as far back as I can remember.. at least 35 years. And he hasn't changed a bit..
As a primary school kid back in the 70s I was shitscared of sharpies. I grew up in Williamstown.
@IJK usually always the case with gang morons. But I was a 5 to 8 year old.
My brother and I were threatened with knives and robbed by sharpies on the Frankston line. It was in the mid-70's and I was about 13 years old.
Melbourne art is very nice at captain city I hope one day maybe November I can visit this place tony uncle
Best bit of the CBD is a good hangover brekkie, hair of the dog at young and jackson then footy at the G. Didnt matter who was playing just a perfect weekend day
My hat pins are in shot!!
hi tony fan of the time team. I from melbourne. can u come back re visit afther the covid.
ps... saw this on foxtel history channel australia.
Why were these uploaded so many years after filming? The footage is about 2015 at least...
I have a copy of Cole's Picture Book. Ain't sellin'.
Hahaha....NO...OH. This is us, Melbournian and our vibrant Melboune City we're proud of.
To anyone got travelling bugs, this is a MUST SEEN CITY in the world. This video presents the best of the City. Never miss and enjoy the discovery and exploration.
Welcome Always .............STF...........
I've still got a few of my Cole's Funny Picture Books. I really enjoyed them as a kid. At least until my Atari 2600 arrived.
13:38 Hey honey, guess who I heard speaking at EW Coles this afternoon ? No tell me ! It was Sod-off Baldrick !
i'll just put S.Baldrick :)
I want a beer in the mitre. 😪🍺
Ever done the Mitre 10?
10 pots for lunch! Liquid lunch.
@@BEEER000 not the lunch. An avo session for sure, finishing at the Irish pub around the corner.
@@danielburke9881 Was that called The Times?
@@BEEER000 that's the one. All down hill from there😀
Go and get it!
You will be lucky to see six people walking around.
The biggest laugh this week, the council want to introduce a 30 kph speed limit in the city, figure that one!
Ah, the days you could walk around Melbourne without being arrested by a squad of wound-up policemen.
i had coles books :)
R.I.P. The Elms. Btw I spent many hours in the pub over many years and never saw those blokes in there.
Hahaha... that's so spicy hilarious joke about a mum in wedding gown and tracking pants.... LMAO...
Now Melbourne's a ghost town
It’s now owned by Dan the dictator and Chinese communist party
@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 🤦♂️🤦♂️ know anything about what you just said
Been watching much sky news?
@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 Dan must be the shittest dictator in history given he just eased a ton of restrictions. Do you people even listen to yourselves, or are you just full of hate about everything? You want to see what it's like to actually live under a dictatorship? Move to North Korea.
Hell, say anything negative about the CCP...you'll end up in a tiger chair by the end of the day. You don't have a clue mate.
22:24 Kennett loathed at the time he’s still loathed if not more then before.
Nearly as bad as the biggest evil dictator Fraser.
No mention of the high rate of.homeless people living on the streets and bridges, which im sure you would have seen.
Good to highlight the good things of Melbourne, also important issues in melb.
Name a major city that does not have rough sleepers.
@@TheMarkhopper melbourne has a very high rate. Each major city has
@@ghs7714 Exactly. It's not a negative, just a fact of life.
@@TheMarkhopper yes still a negative of life
Wonder how many copies of Coles picture book have survived?
I love our Melbourne town.
21:25 only cos it was prearranged by the studio and the company...if that was more spur of the moment..
He’d be told NO due to OH&S crap lol
At 17:26 looks like an Indonesian artist got a look in.
Try doing an episode now!
The skyline has really changed
when was this filmed?
The clocks have since been replaced by screens :)
I reckon Chloe was Megan's Great-great-grandmother :-)
Gosh i didn't know half of those things.
@8:20 it looks like Tess was quite a fan of Ole Baldrick
26:19 "vertical laneways that go up" - what's he referring to there?!
Curtin House probably the most notable example - 252 Swanston St