Nice to see railways built BEFORE homes were built to encourage homes to be built , unlike these days. These photos make me realise how much I hate crowded cities. Beautiful homes in a beautiful landscape.

Great job. I've lived in Epping for over 60 years. So much change, and not always for the better.

@sdjuxu

Ай бұрын

Did you go to Epping boys high school?

@50centgotshot9times

3 күн бұрын

@@sdjuxu i did 2007 grad

Grew up in Austral Ave Beecroft in the '70s. Worked as a postie in Beecroft and Cheltenham for many years. Escaped to the Blue Mountains in 1990 where I worked at Katoomba post office for many years. Still, live in Mount Victoria.

@adamrobinson8620

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I live in Warrimoo now. The mountains is what Epping used to be,

@deanpd3402

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamrobinson8620 Very true!

@sdjuxu

Ай бұрын

I remember all those old post Offices as a child as I lived in all those same areas...I remember all the phones outside of the old Katoomba post office .. And I think Beecroft is now a cafe..

architecture was so much better then. wish i could travel back in time to see it myself

looked so much better back then

The blending of the old and 'current' photos of streetscapes particularly illuminating. Thank you.

I wished I was born in that era, I bet they were a lot happier then now and our mod cons. I always thought I never belonged in the 20 century or the 19th century. Thankyou for you video’s.

@darioburatovich2240

2 жыл бұрын

...you never belonged in the 19th century ?..... "please explain" as Pauline said....

@kimgee4821

2 жыл бұрын

@@darioburatovich2240 I should have said late 19 century. About 1900 to about 1940,s. Men were men and women were women. People wanted to work and not wealthy but happy with their lot. Poverty back then was a problem, but they suck it up and got on with it. I don’t know they were poor but happy. I would’ve like to be born then. No many frigging high rises .

@sdjuxu

Ай бұрын

They were a lot happier and far more decent towards each other than today...there was hardly any crime ,very very safe and no drugs.... It was so safe as a child ,I use to travel the whole suburban train network, often by myself ,with no memories of and any hostile or antisocial behaviour except one time I remember a drunk on a train using bad language and being immediately throw off.. Wtf has happened? social media,FB , dating apps, Mobile phones,drugs, computer games, mass immigration of cultures that clash....and sadly the main one.....those good old souls have passed away that kept things in order...

@sdjuxu

Ай бұрын

They were a lot happier and far more decent towards each other than today...there was hardly any crime ,very very safe and no drugs.... It was so safe as a child ,I use to travel the whole suburban train network, often by myself ,with no memories of and any hostile or antisocial behaviour except one time I remember a drunk on a train using bad language and being immediately throw off.. Wtf has happened? social media,FB , dating apps, Mobile phones,drugs, computer games, mass immigration of cultures that clash....and sadly the main one.....those good old souls have passed away that kept things in order...

I grew up in this area and can’t believe how much it’s changed over the years but still some of the shops are the same

Loved this. I lived with my aussie relatives for a year in Beecroft, returned to Australia regularly and still feel like I'm always in the netherlands with one foot and in australia with the other. So it's nice to be able to 'travel back' and see all the familiar places.

Thanks, brilliant video. Interesting to see Rex Hazelwood in the credits. I have a history or Epping from the 1960s by Walter Hazelwood. First came to Epping in the 1960s. Last drove though there yesterday. I suppose it’s progress, but I miss the Epping I grew up in.

brilliant , grew up there

Wonderful - amazing to see the overlays of then and now.

Fabulous. Really enjoyed this, and I can see that a tremendous amount of effort went into making it.

This was the area I spent most of my weekends at as a child with grandparents and all the old WW2 vets....and I....was a scallywag 😊

This was so well done.

Absolutely fabulous

Great work!

Loved it, fantastic

I've looked at a number of these old and new but your effort has to be by far the best I have seen, great effort and interesting all the way to the end, thanks agin.

Great before and after series

done so beautifully...thanx

Ingenius!

Great stuff. Thanks.

Love it - hope you got top marks!

I'll never look at those buildings in the same way! Great work.

@yourewelcome6082

6 жыл бұрын

Why not?

Great music!

My family settled in Epping 1921 from Scotland we’re there until 1989 my father knew were all of the old houses were and who lived there. And the cinema and shop down the bottom of bridge road were you could get anything didn’t matter what it was you could get it at that shop lol my grandfather knew a guy who would empty the dunny pans he’d work with the dunny man and they’d end up in the Epping pub the dunny mans home is still standing on the main road in Cheltenham

Good job

3:19 - Is that what Cheltenham station looks like now??? I used to catch trains on the Northern Line all the time but haven't been for quite a few years. Last time I went through Cheltenham it was still an attractive, leafy station. Devastated to see what has been done to it. I suppose it's due to the line duplication. Sigh. Just more of the past trampled.

@iris4547

Жыл бұрын

the whole station was basically rebuilt about 7-8 years ago when they built the new freight line up to thornleigh. extra track, large modern canopy type concourse that connects to the bridge on cheltenham road. nothing like the old station.

Cool!

Clever

Sydney is Amazing

@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479

Жыл бұрын

Not any more

The present Oxford St, Epping photos are already out of date. It's missing all the new towers (3 built and 6 incoming)

I lived in Barombah rd Epping for 20 years, the highway runs over where my house was now😢

Very clever, love it, how did you do it. Use a stitch programme or collage?

@elprojects1743

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I used Adobe Photoshop to make the composite photos

Wow. Amazing how is everything is uglier now. Or not amazing.

Thank you for your time and effort . how things change =)

The scene on 6:22. Can anyone give details. I am unable to work out what it is.

@elprojects1743

4 жыл бұрын

Description of the photo from Hornsby Shire Recollects: "c.1896 photograph shows birthday party of Clarice Green, with Beecroft Railway Station in the background".

@holboroman

4 жыл бұрын

@@elprojects1743 Thank you for that info. I have an insatiable curiosity.

can you at least put the years of the comparison pics??

6

what happened to the camera? kzread.info/dash/bejne/lZ1k0sGylMrRpdo.html

When heart disease and cancer were death sentences. Some things have improved.

And doesn't it look so much better these days...NOT!!!

Obviously the rural or semi rural past was prettier than the bussy, noicy, crowded and even uglier present. Railway stations today, are pragmatic places without any romantic beauty to look at, just take that train, go to work and shut up, this is the XXI century, don't you know?....don't expect any real beauty anywhere anymore......pero c'eme l' favo' !!