Wapping, Hobart
The area around the City Hall is known as Wapping. In the early colonial days it was a rough and vibrant area, where the sailors and the convicts intermingled.
Initially Wapping was the heart of the commercial part of the town. There were plenty of taverns, industry and small houses that grew up beside the waterway.
This video was researched, written and prepared by TMAG volunteer Sally Rackham and narrated by Noreen Le Motte.
Hobart Darkie
A walk through the Hobart Rivuet back in 1995.
It's shaky & grainy but check ot the changes in less than 20 years!
Theatre Royal, Hobart
Dubbed by Noel Coward a dream of a theatre, the Theatre Royal has been operating continuously for 170 years, although it was also known as the Royal Victoria Theatre. Situated in the heart of Wapping, in those early days the audience came from the brothels, taverns and small cottages locally as well as from the more genteel areas of the town, so some of the drama took place in the auditorium as well as on the stage.
This video was researched written and prepared by TMAG volunteer Sally Rackham and narrated by Noreen Le Mottee.
Skate park protest Hobart, Tasmania (Early 90's)
In the early 90's we all decided it was time for the Hobart council to provide us skaters with a modern skate park. We had been skating the streets for years and the council were getting annoyed with us, saying we were a menace and causing people harm. Finally after years of battles with the council they did build a skate park at Elizabeth College, just out of the city's center. Congratulations to everyone who helped push for this to happen. Story was from the ABC News, Hobart.
Petrusma Property Profile - 40 Hamilton Street, West Hobart
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Shots Fired Into Bar - Hobart CBD, Tasmania (2018)
Police are investigating after approximately 20 shots were fired into a bar in the Hobart CBD.
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Hobart Penitentiary Tour 1
Tree performing at a house in West Hobart.
Tree perform in a house in West Hobart on February 19, 2011.
Tree are Jonathon Ainslie, Callum Cusick and Will Man.
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The docks area of Hobart.
The Victoria and Constitution Docks of Hobart is an area full of maritime history as well as historic bars and restaurants.
Australia Day at the Theatre Royal Hobart
Australia Day at the Theatre Royal Hobart
Nineteenth Century Hobart
Enjoy this montage of nineteenth century photographs of Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania. Australia's second oldest city has a fascinating history and still retains much of its architectural heritage.
Early Settlement and Museum, Hobart
Following an earlier attempt at setting up the camp on the other side of the river, in 1804 David Collins picked this site, now adjacent to the Museum, to establish his new settlement that he called Hobart Town. There was a creek to provide water and the land was readily accessible from the sheltered waters of the river Derwent. There was a small island known as Hunter Island just offshore connected by a narrow strip of land which flooded at high tide.
This video was researched, written and prepared by TMAG volunteer Sally Rackham and narrated by Noreen Le Motte.
ABC 2 (Hobart): Last Tasman Limited train, 1978
ABC Channel 2 News; Last Tasman Limited train, 28 July 1978. Regular passenger Verdon White of Devonport, being interviewed on board train as it passes Claremont. Train guard was Max Brennan. Franklin MHA Bruce Goodluck interviewed at the Midlands halt of Parattah.
Memories of the old Hobart Floating Bridge
Various film and television footage of the transition from the Hobart Floating Bridge to the new Tasman Bridge in the early 1960s, to the sound of Sleepy Shores by Johnny Pearson.
Tunnels under RHH hobart
Tunnels under RHH
Lady Franklin Museum - history, Hobart Tasmania, Ancanthe Built. Registered builder and consultant.
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Jane Franklin Museum Location Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Research/ script and production by Mike Grant Jan 2012.
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Script.
In the late 60's I attended a boy scout troop just across the road from here and as a result we spent a lot of time playing around this build. Zoro was on tele at the time so there was a lot of sword play up and down the steps.
I assumed that every scout hall had one of these old buildings right next door.
I was wrong.
This little greek temple built in the 1840's it located on a suburban street in a suburb of Hobart and has an vey interesting story to tell.
In 1836 Sir John Franklin arrived in hobart to take up the position of Governor. (yes the famous Arctic explorer) but this story is not about him but his adventurous, highly educated and bold wife Jane.
Jane had married John Franklin at the relatively late age of 36 but she had not spent the previous years idle, rather she had travelled extensively in europe visiting the antiquities and galleries and it has been suggested that she was the best educated English woman of the time.
On arrival she set about lifting the arts and cultural life of hobart as there was no comparison to the galleries of Paris. She visualized a gallery on their estate that they named ancanthe. A little greek folly set in an ideallic picturesque valley.
The greek temple in a suburban street is as peculiar today as it was originally when it was set in the tasmania bush several hours ride from the town itself but is begins to make sense when seen in the context of the time. In the grand estates of england the placement of antiquarian follies in the picturesque landscape and been a fashionable for some time and knowledge of greek and roman art and architecture was celebrated.
Lady Jane procured a design of a greek temple from england along with a wish list of marble sculptures and works of art to display in the gallery.
The building's designer is not known it it may well not have one as the building is so simple.
So whilst the design of the building did not require either skill or experience the carving of these fluted Doric columns required knowledge, skill and considerable experience.
knowledge of the classical orders was the provence of the stone carvers and each order had its particular difficulties. Concave flutes were the most difficult and the person that carved these would have been at the pinnacle of the trade and in high demand.
But the columns have their own story to tell. The antiquarian structures of Greece demonstrate a great variance between buildings but the classical scholars of the 1700's rationalized these into a set of ideals. The doric column, for instance should decrease one sixth of its diameter from one third of its height. This as known as the entasis.
This was loosely followed thorough out the 1700 and into the 1800's but by1840 it was becoming discretionary. These columns do not not have an entasis - their decrease is even over the full height of the columns.
This might suggest that that the works supervisor and or carver were not devotees of classical correctness.
The museum was opened on the 26th of Oct 1843 and included items of natural history and and library.
However at the time Sir John Franklin's tenure as governor had come to an end and the ancanthe estate, that included the museum, was being placed into the hands of a trustee as part of the Christ College the Franklins also. established.
Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin both clearly had a vision that went far beyond Tasmania. Jane could see the possibilities of art, culture and universal eduction while John imagined a whole world waiting to be explored and a North West Passage to found.
However, what they established had to remain in the world of petty small town jealousy and politics and not long after their departure the collections were split up with the building used as an apple shed for the next fifty years.
Lady Jane Franklin established a museum to bring arts and culture to the far side of the world. She would not be the last to attempt this.
For The Term Of His Natural Life (the real story) - Macquarie Harbour Penal Station Tasmania.
For The Term Of His Natural Life (the real story) - Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Tasmania. Music is The Ballad of Rafus Dawes by Australian Rock, blues veteran Tony Tapp or Tappy.
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Hobart Rivulet Plus Tunnels Under The City
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We Found Our Own Way And Was Lucky To Get Out Where We Did.
Slipyards, Hobart
Ships were vital to Tasmania. It was not until the middle of the 1800s that an all weather road was constructed to Launceston, and other outlying areas remained without road links to Hobart for even longer.
Ship-building therefore was an important industry. Slip-yards were built to handle repairs as well as for the construction of new boats. The slip-yard on the Domain, in use since the 1830s was an important addition to the maritime facilities in Hobart.
This video was researched, written and prepared by TMAG volunteer Sally Rackham and narrated by Noreen Le Motte.
Hobart Street Scenes 1960s
8 mm colour film of Hobart City Centre in the early 1960s. Shot by Robert Aldridge. Featured are Hobart BUT (British United Traction) trolley buses travelling along Macquarie Street, and the occasional bogie tram in Elizabeth Street. Film by Robert Aldridge.