Now these blokes earned a paycheck.

I am a fourth-Generation timber worker and local man from Pemberton. I run a great history site and have added this to the page. I hope to have old locals try identifying those pictured. Thank you for the film.

Dairy farmers in Capel, Harvey etc were very successful and the superphosphate factory in Picton had a huge yellow heap of sulphur you could see from the road. The wharf was long at Bunbury and steam trains went along part of it. We all learned to swim in the harbour nearby. No children wore shoes to primary school then. If it was too hot to sleep at home we’d get fish and chips and sleep on the surf beach until it cooled down later in the night. It took several days to drive across the Nullarbor, sleeping in or next to the car as the potholes and bull dust limited us to about 30 km per hour and there was no motel between Norseman and Eucla (I think). The alternative was to put the car on the train at Kalgoorlie and drive again from Port Pirie. We caught the Australind from Bunbury and sailed in the Oronsay, which was that light coloured ship in Fremantle, to Liverpool in 1958. Went to school on the three week trip, saw beggars in the street for the first time in Ceylon, real Arabs in Aden, soldiers with real guns along the Suez Canal, and the old ports and castles in Naples, Marseilles and Gibraltar.

any Aussie watching this, feels Bloody proud.

Great film. Beautiful colour.

Thanks for this. Interesting how the buses in Perth transported baby prams on the outside of the bus as at 3:28 and earlier at 1:48. Hopefully after the baby had been removed from the pram.

I like how the different parts of the country and the work people do.

Hard People there will never be a time like that again, love the old films thanks.

That was great. Thank you

Awesome video

Love how the health issues were glossed over for asbestos, even though they were known well before 1955.

Simply marvellous.

How thin and fit all those working men were.

Good Film Thanks!

The good old days, working with asbestos, cyanide, chopping down the old Karri, wood heating, leaded fuel haha

Great Video. Unfortunately I can remember flying in one of those MMA Anson aircraft as a young passenger. They were good days---I think.

Those Mullock heaps of "gold exhausted muck" were put back through the modern extraction plants by WMC and tons of gold recovered.

If only they knew then what we know now about asbestos!

They used that method over here in America 🇺🇸 as well to clear the land

Crazy to think Perth only had 350 thousand people in 55 and now its nearly 2.3 million

An era of innocence, long since past, hey?

15:16 is the best part

Wow I never knew the used a lead ball like that to clear the land. Very interesting 🤨

Ah, blue asbestos... Now there's a great resource worth recovering. I'll bet none of the people in the video lived out a long life 😔

some things are worse now somethings are better give me those days any day

Where men grew muscles before brains . I know , I was one of them .

Rattle and grin, Few skulls more thin With a grinning skull You're sure to win

poor forests

I bet none of those gold miners that worked underground lived to be old, cyanide isn't something that promotes healthy living environment!

If anyone has a proven method of time travel, I'm willing to sell my soul to go back. I'll even settle for the early 80's. I promise I won't talk of the future, or invest in Apple or Google stocks. They HAVE to have this technology at Pine Gap. How else do you explain the Mandela Effect! PLEASE! Anyone??

"These geological formations mean much to a civilised community"... proceeds to talk about blue asbestos mining without any safety precautions. Yes, very civilised indeed 🤣

to much land was cleared only 50 %of a given area only should have been cleared and all uncleared land connected

"But the singular geological formations, which meant nothing to wandering tribes, mean much to a civilised community". Rio Tinto - still channelling racist garbage from the 50s when they blew up Juukan Gorge.