Historic Hemmant - Brisbane's Last Country Town?

Trust me, there's a load of fascinating history in Hemmant that few know about - this included me until I began researching it. This video really was an eye-opener inasmuch as history is all around us, no matter where we are.

And I finally get my Fonzi moment...

#hemmant #brisbane #queensland

[walkaboutwithrob]

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[amative]

The Queensport Hotel, or as it was commonly known as The Hemmant, is where I had my first legal drink in a pub.

[yuk-erkmckirk]

the war memorial was moved to the corner behind you before being moved to the park. A section of the base foundation is still there today. Still live in Hemmant and swam in the quarry and jumped off the train bridge into the creek as a kid. There were a lot more houses along Aquarium ave and the industrial area in the past even the caravan park and marina, which had the aquariums and zoo earlier, have been closed bulldozed and turned to sheds. It was a great place to grow up in as a kid and a great little primary school too. I think we had maybe 80 kids max and that was grades 1to6. It was like a little country village, we'd help milk the local farmers cows and deliver it fresh on the back of his old Datsun ute to the local customers after school, go fishing with the principal and spend the weekends in the bushland or the creek in homemade corrogated iron canoes. I've drank at the Hemmant for 45yrs now, and been locked up in that jail cell before on more than one occasion. Good to see a bit of info on Hemmant around, but don't spread it to much, as we like our little unheard of neck of the woods. unfortunately the larger blocks of land are being bought out and joined up to to make way for estates that are just making traffic a problem and ruining the suburbs character. There is more than one hill in Hemmant, I'd say 3, I'm surprised you hadn't noticed, you filmed from 2 of them.

[kieranosullivan]

There was a train station near Hemmant named Doboy
It was used by factory workers and is no longer there.
The creek is now spelt Doboy.
Changed from Doughboy. I wonder why.
Great videos Rob.

[Mick]

Thanks Rob, glad you were able to capture the chapel in use by our community.

[dougrogan]

My Dad's family is from Hemmant. I spent a lot of time there growing up, I recognise a lot of the places in this video. Sadly, their old house has now made way for town houses and my grandparents reside in the Hemmant cemetery. How time flies. Thanks for the video

[buckwilliams]

My old stomping ground, sadly my old house is now a shipping container holding yard 😢 such wonderful memories and superb rural feel growing up there.

[deannavanvelsen]

Thank you Rob for this video. My ancestors are the Annings and you have shown the memorial for my great, great uncle! Also they part owned the aquarium which was washed away in the 1893 floods

[robdiv]

Great work! You should do a video of Murarrie/Park Hill lots of history in that area - Meat works/Bacon factories & other cool stuff

[mebradhen]

That voice over joke was fantastic! Great video once again!

[stevelaw]

Thx Rob, I love your videos. This one really touched my heart. My Grand Parents owned the house opposite the shop and Post Office. The best memories from the sixties, collecting Mulberries from the backyard tree and chopping wood for the wood fired stove. I still record the memories and the fragrance.

[Peters]

Hey Rob, great video mate
I live in Wynnum and I've never visited the quarry
I will have to go and have a look at the quarry have a look around.
I like to drive through Hemmant because it reminds me of a little country Village.

[rosewright]

Thanks for your research and tour. My 2x great grandparents, fresh off the ships from England and Scotland respectively, met, lived and worked in Hemmant. I believe they worked on farms. They ultimately ended up on a selection of 100 acres at Bli Bli in the mid 1880's.

[shellebelle]

Always fascinating videos, love the old church. I can remember as a teenager swimming in the quarry at Daisy Hill 😊
Go the Fonz 😂

[sandramackin]

Interesting especially also about the steam ship Walrus which had some history, as you said, on the Albert River Beenleigh. Good video again .

[t-rocks]

Hey Rob, Great Vid again, I love Hemant, I Have walked that quarry Quite a few times, Its great, I love reading the names on those old cadastral maps, Keep it up mate, T-Rocks 😎

[EarJuice]

Brookfield still has the country town feel hidden away behind Mt Cootha. Especially with the showgrounds. I used to swim down at the waterhole everyday. The rope swing was so good.

[tomwitherspoon]

Thank you Rob another great history lessen, look forward to your next walk about cheers mate.

[ronsmith]

Well researched and presented. Many thanks. Very interesting. The only time I was ever there was to attend a funeral years ago.

[stuartmackay]

@2:37 regarding the naming of Doughboy Creek – a book called ‘A History of Bulimba Creek Valley’ Compiled by John Godfrey - Project Convenor and a founding member of what was originally The Bulimba Creek Protection Society states in his research about the European settlement from 1823 to 1860 states that:

'doughboy' is supposed to have been a maize meal and soda dumpling or damper cooked by one of the early European trail-blazers when camped nearby - however there could be a derivation from the aboriginal word "dubee" for mud-crab. American troops in Europe during World War 1 were euphemistically called " Doughboys "