Anyone wishing to visit the Hobart Highland Road can do so by going to the Google Maps link below. Simply follow the track up from Athleen Avenue, Lenah Valley. maps.app.goo.gl/vajBz8vSqEjjD1Lc9

@bigears4014

2 ай бұрын

In chigwell in arunta crescent you have a stone bridge crossing faulkners rivulet, it's purpose forgotten other than it was part of ty Lowe's estate ,600 acres , including the sandstone chigwell barn , I'd suggest it was a main rd at one time , to grand for a creek crossing. Things get lost in time quickly

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

That's an interesting bridge. Not part of Highland Road but people who used the Highland Road may have also used it on the same journey. Someone probably knows more. They should share what they know.@@bigears4014

@seanworkman431

2 ай бұрын

Another great installment, when I lived in Hobart it was a fun drive up from Newtown and through Mt Stuart around the back of Lenah valley and down into Glenorchy. It is interesting that you found most of the old road and staying on the ridges was always better back in the day as it is much easier to navigate, hikers get lost when they go into the valley.

@QIKUGAMES-QIKU

2 ай бұрын

We did not build this

@seanworkman431

2 ай бұрын

@@QIKUGAMES-QIKU well who did then?

Asides the Franklin museum in Lenah Valley all of this information was totally new to me. I can’t say I was even aware of the highland road. Thanks Angus I appreciate the efforts you make in discovering and bringing to life all of this history. It’s fascinating 😁👍

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it. All of these things have probably been recorded earlier by different people at different times. It's interesting to share them.

Another great vid. These are amazing times we live in. All you need is an intelligent philosophical person, a camera, a drone, a dog and a blue jacket and you can create fascinating must watch content. BTW is there anyone who can name a better plum than a greengage.

@jansilk83

2 ай бұрын

The only plum that is anything near as good is the old golden drop plum.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Greengage for the win.

@pippacarron1861

2 ай бұрын

My grandmother's garden in Canberra in the 1950s has a plum tree with enormous deep maroon blood plums. I don't know their varietal name (maybe Satsuma), but I can't imagine a better plum.

Angus, your best yet. I respect your meticulous research and love the way you seamlessly blend with technology (the overlay of the road of satellite images is stunning). For some reason the Franklin ‘temple’ draws my deep interest. As is your style, you bring a moment or three of thoughtful philosophical thinking. Thank you for all you do.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Phillip. The video came together well in the end.

Opened my eyes again. I REALLY look forward in anticipation to each of your videos. So many places in our own backyard that are just hidden away from everyone

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Cheers, Tommy. Glad you enjoyed.

Thanks, Angus and Dog for sharing some of my convict past. Another excellent video

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Ricky

Brilliant as always, this channel is a great service to Hobart

Taking the time to look at what was just doesn't happen these days, I am almost sixty and remember older uncles, great grandparents etc quietly talking about the past over a cup of tea out in the bush or on the road to some where. We grow up in a rushed world nowadays with so many things competing for our attention, worst of all is all the targeted advertising and consumerism that has stopped us from actually living. Very enjoyable series, thankyou.

Great video, i'm pretty sure it continues through Chigwell where there is an old convict bridge that crosses the creek at the back of Arunta crescent, it was there when I was young and lived there and hope it still is.

@ilikegoon1

2 ай бұрын

Yep still is there

@danielevergani5216

2 ай бұрын

It is still there on the Faulkners Rivulet.😊

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

It's still there.

Mate I live in Lenah Valley and ddint even know Lenah = Kangaroo. I have heaps of them every night in the paddock beside me - Great video again - Keep them coming

@fixxxer7030

2 ай бұрын

They're wallabies bruh

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

He's probably speaking colloquially. Informally chatting kangaroos and wallabies are all kangaroos. @@fixxxer7030

Another great video Angus - thank you for your hard work and research to bring us these glimpses of colonial Hobart. Keep them coming!

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, mate.

So much hidden history. Thank you for bringing it to light.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Lilly.

All killer, no filler, this fella.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Cheers, homes.

Another fantastic slice of history that would have likely been lost to time without you Angus

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Drew. It still could be lost. It'll only go on as long as it's shared.

The Grand Angus, the blokes a freekin legend.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Cheers, mate.

Grew up in Mt Stuart (just above the old road), mums a historian so I learnt about the lost road when I was lil. Great vid 👍

thank you once again angus for this history ,for those of us acquainted withthis region, it adds a deeper appreciation of that which is around us. almost a spiritual feeling to it.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

It does, Christian

Wonderful as always Angus! Thank you and thanks to The Dog! (Love that little pooch!)

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Annie

Thank you Angus, for sharing and saving this history, once again.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, mate. It's important to share this stuff. If only because it's interesting.

I'm a state away and unable to access the data I used years ago. But I can tell you that after the map, I was able to find the old Main Road/Highland Road ran down essentially parallel to New Town Rivulet on the north side to near the old Creek Road Mill. At this point it took a sharp turn north, roughly following the fence line that aligns with Charles St. Best guess, the road ran parallel to Charles St, slightly to the west, but no more than a current property depth from the current Charles St. Follow a straight line from the northern end of Charles St, through the old MTT depot, to the sports ground off Felicty Lane. Here it curved to follow parallel to the current Main Rd alignment, to become Cooper St beside Glenorchy Central, then straight to Barry St, then an s-bend to become Main Rd at O'Brians Bridge. There was also possibly a road continuing north east along Humphrey's Rivulet, but I personally think this was a farm entrance, as the whole area was a wet weather swamp along the current Main Road and to the east. The swampy ground is why the old road was that short distance to the west through Moonah, as it ran alongside the area that turned into a mud bath every time it rained. Another location where a road changed location is what I call the "Four Roads Challenge." Find the four Midlands Highway routes from Oatlands to Antil Ponds. (Two can be easily seen as the newest one is used, previous one is next to it, one before that is a row of trees in a paddock, earliest nowhere near the current one, but follows the railway corridor.)

@angusthornett

20 күн бұрын

Interesting.

@angusthornett

20 күн бұрын

I'd love to see this map.

Wybra hall is an interesting and beautiful building with a dark history which would make for an awesome video. Love your work mate keep it up:)

Thanks again Angus for the history lesson. I didn’t know Lenah = kangaroo either. Will explore the area tomorrow hopefully. Hug to Harry

Many thanks for another gem Angus. Your research and intelligent footwork is always welcome. Totally entertaining and informative. Superb!

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Good to hear you enjoyed it, Peter.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATE.. thanks for all the videos.. Keep up the good work.

I wish I found this video last week. What a cool find. Keen to have a geez around for it next year!

The remnants of the ol 'highway' can be seen in parts on the east side of the current road to Launceston on the hillsides. It's nice to see the Hobart end of it. Cheers.

Thank for another great video Angus, I love to learn new things about my back yard, and youve taught us so much.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Cheers, mate.

Great video!

@angusthornett

Күн бұрын

Cheers

Great one Angus. Jimmy says hi !!

Oooh, keen for this. I know there is a portion behind the Lenah Valley RSL and on visiting Cosgrove before enrolling the principal said it passed through the back of the land the high school sits on.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Using a map I was able retrace part of the original road.

Thanks for another great video. Whenever I visit Hobart I am always impressed at how steep some of the roads are. Some of the scenes in this video really illustrated that too

Eloquent as ever, love your quiet historical sleuthing. "The Dog" is such a quiet joy too.

Travelled down from Launceston and played many gigs at The Trout which I believe was the pub at the corner of Elizabeth and Elphinstone (now The Winston). And maybe it was called AlleyCat at one point? Anyway, fantastic and intriguing video as always Angus.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

It was called the Eagle Hawk Inn for ages. Elphinstone Road also used to be called Eagle Hawk Lane.

@Igloo3471

2 ай бұрын

Commercial Hotel/Eagle Hawk Inn/Trout/The Winston. I remember Alley Cat bar too.

I have never heard of this road! Thank you for your sleuthing, the video was wonderful.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Good to hear that you liked it. Share it too.

Thank you Angus - Another outstanding presentation.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Cheers, mate.

By gum lad! Your brought back some memories for with this excellent presentation. When we eventually moved up to Hobart, from Port Arthur then Lewisham my uncle purchased a house in Newtown situated on Rupert Avenue, that had been erected for the Bidencope ( Spelling?) family, they had an upmarket "gentlemans" store in Hobart city situated on...Murray Street I think; I recall the servants bells in the kitchen of our rather large dwelling. I also recall my dear mother had a photocopy of a map, with a LOT of red dots scattered around the general area of Newtown, and parts of Lehah Valley. These many red dots indicated where coal mines were one situated, the actual mine galleries were still there, but now all were flooded. I recall the Lands Branch ( they were just down the road from where we lived, on Newtown Road), and a chap advising my Mother to NEVER purchase any properties further up in the hills! Thank you so very much for this presenation and allowing me a trip down memory lane.

Well done. Lots of work on your end. Love what you do. My heart is in Tassie.

Another great episode, thanks. Love your work, it bring history to life.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Cheers, mate. Glad you liked it.

Ive read that ,lady franklin's building was meant to be a library, as to educate people of the finer things in life

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

That was the idea.

Another fantastic video. Thankyou

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, mate

Great work Angus. I always look forward to your vlogs thank you

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks heaps for watching.

Very insightful video once again my friend!!

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, mate. Glad you enjoyed.

Like the way you digging into these sorts of mystery moments. I've often wondered why on earth was the gallery there! It has an interesting history as a building itself, but the road too. hmmm . . .. interesting indeed.

Excellent!

Another great video, thanks ❤

Excellent video. Will walk it thanks to you.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Good stuff

Thanks for another episode which had me switching between your video and Google maps! In my mind’s eye I can see remnants of the highway, but probably because you’ve told me it’s there!

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

No, you can sort of see it. Partly because it ran along ridges most of the way.

@bigm383

2 ай бұрын

@@angusthornett Thanks mate!

Another Great video awesome script and drone pilot footage. Well retraced Angus and even a free feed how Cool was that. And I admire that the aboriginals get a mention as well. Hope the souvenir hunters don't get that mileage peg (boundary post). Great content Brother. 👌🏽

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

There's thee of those boundary stones across the northern edge of North Hobart. I'll probably cover them in the future.

Great info. Thanks heaps Angus.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Anna

Nature certainly has a way to taking things back. History alost lost in time, but thanks to you Angus, you brought it back to life in this story telling.

Brilliant video Angus, your finest yet. Do you have any guesses how it went from the milk factory to O'Brien's bridge? Perhaps via the modern Kalang Ave?

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

I'm 95% sure that it went up the valley were the Parkwood Gardens sub-division now is. But I don’t have a map to prove it. There's bits of what I suspect to be the old road still there now. You can go and see, you can sort of see it on Google Maps too. The road ended up on the top of the hill before going down the other side. There's mention of it joining up up with where Coleman Street now is. And crossed the back of now Cosgrove School.

Could your unidentified fruit be a quince? Such a stimulating video.

Love the videos keep up the great work 😊

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Another fascinating watch Angus - well done! John McAdam, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham along with steam age luminaries Boulton, Watt, and Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus, invented the modern bitumen road. That's what macadamized means. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Loudon_McAdam

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it, mate. Thanks

BRUH THE FIRST HOBART VIDEO ON MY FEED I LOVE THAT CREEK NEXT TO IT

@A_avocadoduck10

2 ай бұрын

BRUHH

@A_avocadoduck10

2 ай бұрын

NAHH

@A_avocadoduck10

2 ай бұрын

I SWEAR THUS IS MY LUCKY WEEK

I did wonder about it when first saw mention of Lenah Valley (then Kangaroo Valley, Knagroo Bottom, augusta) being on the main road North in an article on Thomas Nevin online. Had also seen mention of where some of it was on a FB page.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Lenah Valley seems to have been called Sassafras Valley also by some.

@garychadwick9170

2 ай бұрын

I have heard that. I do wonder if they refer to all of Lenah Valley or different parts of it. Iread somewhere that when they renamed Stephens Rd to Augusta Rd it was after the village at the end of it. Augusta Rd finishes at Creek then Its Lenah Valley Rd.

I love your videos!

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Good to hear.

Another incredibly insightful video, always a joy! Also that mystery fruit quite resembles a gnahsi pear (pear x apple cross)! :)

Such a chillax dog. I really like these videos. The pacing and the space make them quite special.

Cool - Eager to see this video as always!

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Steve.

@SteveMack

2 ай бұрын

I replayed the airborne dog opening shot, about a dozen times! Classic!! LOL

An amazing piece of content

Great job 👌

Excellent vid!

nice work Angus , thanks for bringing history to life

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, my learned viewer.

At was awesome thanks mate.

Could you do some videos in the north? Launceston has so many world firsts and the way you present your videos would be amazing ❤

I was today old knowing this.. Thank you 🙏✅

Another great video. Thanks Angus!

Best video yet Angus! That was so bloody interesting

I enjoy these videos so much! Thank you for the time and effort that you put into them.

A LIDAR image of the area might show remains of the road

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

It probably would in parts.

You should do one on the old coach road the runs along the prosser River near orford that would be cool

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

That's an interesting road.

Was Mary's Hope Road an early road there is a convict built bridge in Chigwell that may of been part of the early road to Austin's ferry There is also a sandstone remains just past the Granada Tavern opposite the turn off to Mona The sandstone may of been the remains of an Inn before it made way for the train line

Any greengages left ? Mine have finished . Thanks for another fantastic views and humerous video .

That jacket, hat and shorts must keep Hobarts dry cleaners in business. Leave " The dog" on the ground Gus

The portrait of Mathinna with her red dress and bare feet is haunting. Would she have been any happier had she gone?

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

I'd imagine so. She could have had a long happy life. Her story is very interesting. Worth anyone Googling.

@catrionahall8435

2 ай бұрын

@@angusthornett it makes painful reading. Hard not to judge harshly, life 170 years ago was not like life now, but still, why start something if you don’t mean to finish it?

Angus, another very interesting and well researched video. But I worry about you and the ‘dog’ looked very hot you need to take of your jacket off !😳

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Man's Not Hot

I always hated that part of Hobart, the Lenah Valley. Mainly due to the steep hills

😊❤

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Hey Angus - did you do the research for this video yourself?

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

I work alone. But like I say in the video I was helped by others who shared what they knew. The map was the key to unlocking it all.

@chromartist

2 ай бұрын

@@angusthornett was one of these people David Metcalf from Mount Stuart residents website? Because every fact in your video seems to be lifted from his "History of Mount Stuart" work shown on that site. Did you get permission from David and the Mount Stuart Residents group to use this information? If so, should there be more of a credit than "Others" in your video?

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Went to original sources, historical documents containing facts protected for free use by Australian copyright law. The bloke who gave me a copy of the map is Corlie Davies.

@chromartist

2 ай бұрын

@@angusthornett ok, thanks for your reply.

Hi Angus being a resident of south arm wondering if you could do a piece on the iron pot

@therighttoremain

2 ай бұрын

I go towards the Iron Pot in the World War 2 video.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

@therighttoremain Yes, you’re correct. In the Hobart in WW2 video I visit there.

When does the dog get his own utube channel.? 😮😂

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

This is his channel.

Nashifruit cross pear apple , not a old variety at all

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

Any idea how old the variety is?

@bigears4014

2 ай бұрын

@angusthornett In tassie the last 40 years for these varieties, but could of been bought over from China by miners in the 1850s .

@mrfreddyfudpucker2185

2 ай бұрын

My research suggests they were remnants from a pre 1956 orchard on the site prior to the subdivision by Plomley.

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

@mrfreddyfudpucker2185 that would make sense. Thanks for sharing.

Port Arthur was not built by Australian Convicts 😂 it has a red bricked TARTARIAN wall creating the entire ocean edge and vanishes into the deep ocean below. No way on Earth any of us did this

@angusthornett

2 ай бұрын

You’re a moron

@albertarthurparsnips5141

Ай бұрын

I’m afraid that that is simply nonsense. I was fortunate enough to visit the spot in the mid-80s as a guest of a large group of archaeologists & historians when it was being excavated. It was studded with relics & curios of entirely British, sometimes local / colonial , origin. Glasswork, coins, keys, iron joints & bolts, etc. None of them were imagined by anyone to be Tatar or Russian in origin ! You must be confusing VDL / Tasmania with Northern California or Alaska !