@Shellie Savoie What a lovely compliment! I really appreciate it. I'll keep trying harder to make better videos.

Yes I fully agree with you he is one hell of a good history teacher. I remember in primary school Goodna State School and Bundamba High School the only thing we were taught about history was india-china and other places like that nothing was never told about Australia it was like it was all hush hush.

@Mongrel Jack's Adventure Time! I have certainly thought about a video of the Mayne's. If I can find a new angle to it, I'll definitely do it.

Welcome aboard!

@Tina Jenkins thank you!

Where do you call home now?

Follow up question: can anyone request access up to the viewing platform at the Archerfield airport?

Yes, 'The Quarry', I learnt to swim there at 13, my mates would throw me in then haul me out until I could manage on my own, ah childhood memories.

@moist_nana very interesting. Thank you for sharing this.

@@walkaboutwithrob No worries, love your vids m8

my Amberley State School headmaster, Bill Belford, RAAF pilot, POW Burma Railroad, POW at Seganaski (near Nagasaki) and QLD Light Heavyweight boxing champion, Australian Golden Gloves champion and Australian Heavyweight crown holder, was reprimanded and suspended from flying and put on six months "Confined to Barracks" for flying low over the shop his sweetheart (and future wife) Joan worked at and mock dive bombing a local fishing ship, he flew out of Archerfield that day in a RAAF Tiger Moth

@Julie Schipplock thanks! Was a difficult video to make but it turned out ok.

@@walkaboutwithrob Looked ok to me. Hard to film with planes flying over lol. I worked at Awisco, a welding supply company, and did a lot of business with Hastings Deering. You work in the area, but don’t think about it’s history background.

I'm a Moorooka boy and we used to raid the quarry on our bikes (it was securely fenced off) for electrical parts and scrap metal in the fifties. The story I was told that all the left over spare parts and supplies from the hangers in Kerry Road were simply bulldozed into the quarry when the Americans left in 45. No attempt was ever made to cover the parts. The quarry slowly filled with water during the fifties and drowned the booty. The edges of the quarry were pure gold as the abandoned stores were simply pushed over the edge. You simply had to climb down the tip face to retrieve anything you wanted. Over the late fifties the quarry slowly filled. We used to scavenge for copper and stuff which we then sold off. Money was in short supply for us but we managed. The best of times.

Yeah it's sad for many people, but nobody can deny that as a grassroots racetrack it attracted the WORST illegal hooning behaviour to the area and it was never policed adequately. At least now it will be an overall benefit to society as an e-commerce warehouse (or whatever they make it).

I am in Richlands too. My italian aunty grew up on a farm on old progress road, which is still being farmed! there is a memorial to the Italian Settler's in the old school grounds.

I'd believe it I grew up near a place that had a rumour similar and people actually found WWII motorbikes in the hole

Damn that aircraft race woukd have been awesome to see. With regards to the bottomless pit, its called Carr's Quarry....they made it into a airshelter during ww2, so I would say the bottom was known before they filled it with a natural spring...FWIW, I got this info of BBC site. I honestly thought that hole was some type of sink-hole....they say once they filled it with water the locals use to swim in it.

I grew up in Acacia ridge and as a kid we would ride our bikes to that sink hole and the fence was always cut someone where as kids and we would swim there…

My grandma lived in coopers Plains from the mid 50s until she passed in 2018. I lived in acacia Ridge as a kid in the 90s they drained in when I was a kid and found all that and more.

@BeardeDragon77 Thanks indeed for the feedback. There's history literally everywhere and I just love digging a little deeper to find it.

@Wendy Brealey all the information is out there, it's just a matter of finding it and wrenching it out of the record-keepers.

Remember it well, but i think 80s. i went there to see what they pulled out regularly but it got closed down because of the amount of explosives in the hole

The bunker consists of one main room with two entry points which each have a thick wooden door a couple of meters inside the actual entry which can be seen.

We used to jump off the bunker and swim there as kids, remember it well.

@@shmick4203 thanks for sharing....so hole isn't that deep?

The recovery got closed down because the dude running it ran out of money. He pulled up some rusted bored out (destroyed) Machine Guns and aircraft parts and a couple of stolen cars a swell ... Including one the owner was tracked down, and he said he pushed it in himself lol ;) There were no 'Tommy Guns' or 'Whole planes' or 'explosives' found. The Oz in WW2 site did an extensive report on the recovery using old newspapers, tv and interviews.

My father and his mate rode in that. He lives in North Maclean down the road still today

@v6hilux I've been compiling notes for a Greenbank video...

@Sandra Mackin there must be a ladies loo there somewhere but didn't notice it. And yes it'd be either Jean or Maude I'm guessing. Or the cat. Did you see the Battle of Brisbane video?

@@walkaboutwithrob yes her cat in the plane and yes watched the Battle of Brisbane video. Interesting historical facts to know now.

Actually Petrie Terrace is the smallest suburb, then comes Gordon Park.

@walkaboutwithrob oh really, Bald Hills & Strathpine are also old suburbs that need exploration.

I find the size of suburbs fascinating. I've long felt that Redland Bay must be one of the biggest in the south-east. It just goes on and on and on. Apparently, it's 52.4 square kilometres.

@shelleigh5993 thanks! I knew virtually nothing about the Archerfield area either until I began investigating it. Local history can be a rather dry subject for some, so I just try to include as many different things in them as possible. Keep them moving and entertaining.

@walkaboutwithrob you most certainly make them both interesting and entertaining, so Thank you!

@midnightrambler6018 thanks! And yes, am most keen to explore Caboolture!

Hey Rob, Great Video Mate, I learnt to fly there in the 90s and have spent many hours in that terminal. I have wandered through that cemetery, but never did any research, The name Archerfield always intrigued me, but due the the dates and the nature of the business, I always presumed one of the (many) Archer brothers were involved. I was also there that a private company dug up the old sink holes looking for dumped WW2 aircraft, I don't think they found much. Looking forward to your next Sojourn. 😎

Oh wow! Anyone else with news about that?

Rumours persisted for years that it was amongst other things a secret entry to underground bunkers, and where surplus WW2 equipment was dumped in 1945-46. There were even supposed to be crates of Harley Davidson motorcycles that were shipped to Brisbane but never assembled. I can't recall which year (mid 1980s?) when they pumped out the water and put on display found items. A couple of stolen motorbikes and bicycles were found, but nothing of great value.

When the water is low enough you can see the entrance to whatever it was

There is a system of tunnels that link the hangers on the air field to the maintenance hangers on Kerry Road. one of the entrances is in the water hole on Mortimer

Cheers Cliff. That would explain why they wiil not build anything heavy on there. I do prefer the mystery though 😀👍

Slight correction, he found them on the 10th day. If you haven't already, the Jack Thomson film about it "Riddle of the Stinson" is well worth watching and the mock up full size Stinson in it is the one that now sits out the front of Oreilly's guesthouse. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otFmi8anx6-qYY0.html

@@paulh4691 thanks for the correction op the amount of days, i wasnt quite sure, i have the book and the DVD both interesting and Jack Thompson did an excellent job in the movie

@@bigcarle Yep me too👍 good movie and O'reilly's Green Mountains book is a great read

@Daniel Warnock I almost believe you! 😆😁

I don't see any car parked under the trailer

@@walkaboutwithrob the blue one cob I can't see a Prime movie being able to hook up again either

Not shiting on you cob love your local insight

@@utubetrutharrowmichael-and9105 The blue car is mine and I parked well away from the trailer. Additionally, I was there for all of fifteen minutes to get the shot, then I left. If the truck had arrived to carry the trailer away during that fifteen minutes I would of course moved my car.

​@@walkaboutwithrob thats funny I didn't even click that that was your blue car as I've been going to make a joke that there's a blue car flowing you in the Rathdowney and other videos 😂 but yeah it's totally in the way out of truck when a hook back up is what it is

@ilikebigskidsandicannotlie3449 No. Telling people to "keep their complaints about hooning to themselves now" is just a form of censorship. Free speech is a wonderful thing, and I'll exercise it right here - I think hooning is a despicable and dangerous pastime. Innocent people are injured or killed because of the selfish, lunatic attitudes of some drivers. How many more people have to die before hooners get the message and stop being such assholes?

@@walkaboutwithrob the people you're thinking about never came to the track. Some of them became less antisocial and then completely reformed and almost instantly. We introduced these kids to motorsport which brings it's own challenges and most importantly discipline and respect. That's just how it works so were not the ppl in the industrial estates as we were most likely working either in business probably trying to work out the tax ect or more than likely the night before working on the car. All the tire's all the radiators All the panels petrol everything was i believe a part of the economy ppl didn't think about. Our cars were towed we have trailers and tow vehicle,s and yes can travel to Warrick coffs ect however as mentioned we're all self employed and that's a bloody big deal to loose 3 days for a trip and session times ect are a joke at Queensland raceway. But that's fine for me but what about the kid in the estate where can he go now. QR costs a small fortune and absolutely everytime I go there's more police than you can imagine targeting them. Personally i don't care if they are wanted for hooning ect when leaving a place where it's legal can be the very thing that can fix the issue. Now in the beautiful home we called Archerfield drift park we had a wonderful family always ready and working our arse,s off trying to get those kids in the gate and we did. Thanks has to go to the police they were truly wonderful they've pulled up with lights ect when loading the car but the attitude towards those kids was spot on. They'd drive off tail lights smashed ect and if those tires were good brakes ect all safe they'd just grin 👍 all the way back to Ipswich I'd always be pulled over towing the falcon never a rbt check just genuinely wanting to know how it'd gone. One car i had was parked in the street and the local kids painted it. The last 2 nights at Archerfield drift park we had guy's on track from around the world and some lads from outback sa. We got a price of 3 million to save it as we're way quieter than speedway bcc gave approval however the state government killed it ALOT of shady shit got pulled on us over the years. On the very last day i drove onto that sacred track knowing the Queensland government had announced 6m for cameras to stop hooning 🤦 check out a channel called Grass Roots Drifting for a story about the true impact. Chong a cerebral porsey affected fella who who went just as hard as any of us. They now can't afford to drift 😔 we're trying to get help and that video is in a contest atm you're vote would be awesome 🤙 It's just so sad it was the heart of our home 😔

@@walkaboutwithrob and I'll bloody fight for free speech right beside you mate 🤙

@steviev1422 thanks for the passive-aggressive comment. Let me respond in kind. Ms Ball was mentioned as she had a conveniently appropriate surname that reflected her role as a PE teacher. (Following so far?) And I only put in the peeing bit to piss you off. Glad it worked! And no, not to much sun. Just a love of life and exploration and creativity. Anything else?

Goon.

Hopefully he adds the odd pee in every few episodes just for you. Also the Ball joke was spot on, maybe you had too much of something?

@@walkaboutwithrob Keep peeing! Everyone does it, even if some like to pretend that they don't!

@signature 1990 I thought you might. I put it there just for you.