The last few seconds touched my heart. I spent many a shift as an ambo at Jimboomba station. It started off in about 1985 as a sub centre of Beaudesert District Ambulance back in the days of the QATB. It wasn't a 24/7 station until many years later, and even when it was it wasn't uncommon to start night shift and not turn a wheel all shift. The original station was built on the current site, but for about 12 months in about 2008 we worked out of a rented house at the end of Green Ridge Rd. Nowadays the new station is still at its Johanna Street site and workload has exploded with the growth of surrounding housing estates.

I’m liking the meaning thunder with little rain. I have watched many rain clouds gather and completely pass Jimboomba only to drop over the ridge. 😢

I have lived here in Jimboomba for 10 years and I had no idea about any of it! Pretty cool thanks!

So we had better public transport in 1888

If my Father was alive today, I am sure he could tell you where the Norfolk Tavern was located. My best guess is the old Cobb and Co stop at the corner of Teviot Road and Pub Lane, closer to Greenbank and opposite our former family home at The Meadows ... Which is now 3000 home residential estate. FYI, my great grandfather married a girl named Alice MacLean (MacLean's Bridge fame), and pioneered the area around Greenbank. Thank you for the video ... well worth the effort, Cheers

Nice walk about! After moving here last year I can safely say I love this town! You even featured my car at the very beginning of the video! Learnt some very interesting information, thank you for making this

We moved to Jimboomba in 2001, the growth in that time has been incredible. Thankyou for your great work.

Enjoyed it. Ever thought of doing Killarney? They had a tornado in 1968 that flattened half the town. Lots of history there. Queen Mary Falls nearby.

I have lived here since 1977, Jimboomba has changed a lot since then

Fun little tidbit, 14:04 over on the left that four pointed BBQ area there is a Litterbug sign. There was a completion for kids back in the 90s IIRC? mine was the winner, still there now (well I check Google street view which is from Jan 2021).

This where my family settled, originally coming from the second fleet. We owned thousands of acres, including Jimboomba House. Our family lived in Jimboomba House until it was sold to Japanese investors in about 1992 and Hills College was built on the property. The house is now the restaurant onsite. It was moved in the 90s.

We’ve just bought a house on Cross street and we are told that apart of our house (separated from the house) was the old butcher’s shop/general store. It was situated at the front of the property, but when they moved this house here in 2001, they move the shop to the back of the property and made it like a granny flat. It basically looks the same with the old weatherboards and the old timber floors are still in tact. Very special piece of history

Great round up of what we call....The Lazy J. Nice work Rob!

As teenagers we'd sometimes drive down to Jimboomba from Brisbane on a Saturday night for the 'country' dances at the old hall. Great atmosphere, no fights, everyone happy and we learned all the old favourites like the progressive barn dance and so on. You could even "cut in" on dancing partners and it was accepted as just fine. It also seemed a very long drive - not so today.

That was awesome Rob and agree so much history in our area, very informative

Awesome Rob, some interesting information and history on my town I didn’t even know, can’t wait to check out your other videos

Thank you for this video! I spent the first 20 years of my life in Jimboomba, and this bought back SOO many memories! I left 23 years ago, and have never been back, and while it looks like it has changed a lot, it is still easily recognisable! I have since moved to Tassie, and was stoked to be able to point things out to my husband, such a throwback! Also, just as a little tidbit of information, my sister was the first bride to be married in the little brown church after its relocation, and its also where I went to church as a very small child in the 80s 😊 What a flashback this was! Thank you !

Just watched that video. It made me sad how we have turned a nice country town into an overpopulated city :( seen it change so much in the last 25+ years.

Hi Rob.back in the old days in Qld you could get a beer on a Sunday if you were a traveller so Dad would take the kids and Mum to different places and the Jimboomba hotel was one of those places we went to. Apparently you were considered a traveller from Salisbury to Jimboomba!

My hometown, think i've explored every inch of this place 10 times a didn't know half this information, thanks mate!

One of the great things about the present mania for walking trails will be that they preserve the right of way for when growth in those areas and the green thumb coming down hard on cars makes rail commuting viable again. Unlike the shambles down to the Gold Coast. Lovely to see those old buildings get a new life and the timber interior of the little church building. It would be nice however if the Local Authority required each new house block to have a couple of the old endemic Hoop Pines planted as food for the Koalas displaced. 😉

Thanks Rob very interesting and love the walkabout .watching from St Just Cornwall UK 🙃

I've lived in Jimboomba for 28 years. So much has changed since I first moved here in 1995

Thanks for this. My ancestors were Hinds and their property was up near the Maclean Bridge. Hinds Rd starts up there. I believe they arrived from England in 1896. It was great watching the history. We caught a train from that station around 1960 when I was about 7 years old but I remember it really clearly. It was a steam train back then of course.

thank you Rob for another great local history lesson. it is truly amazing the history we have around us here in Brisbane, and than you for bringing this to our screens with your humor too. much love and have a wonderful day 🤗💕🙏

That was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Ive been living here 6 years now, and know all the spots you were at. Loved the Mullet joke too.

Loving your videos, thank you for the time and effort that you put in to them.

I love watching your show. Very informative & entertaining. Thank you.

In the sixties my Dad would take my Mum (and the kids) from Brisbane to the dances at the hall, the Pub was close by and he could get beer after 6.00pm.

Your a hidden charm Robbo, thanks for the local history as usual

i went to sunday school many moons ago in the little brown church ... good to see its still looked after and not been left to fall apart

Hi Rob... from 4:45, Jimboomba House was moved from the east, closer to the highway and Henderson Creek where the original Concrete Grain Silos and sheds still are. The location that you see from Riverside Esplanade is our old farm which my Dad bought in 1958. It was a back paddock of the Jimboomba House property. It was our Dairy Farm until around 2000 then we just ran cattle until we sold it in 2015.

That was interesting, I am in the UK, but my cousin and her family live in Jimboomba

This was great, I grew up in Jimboomba and recognised where you were in almost every shot, but I still learned a lot about my hometown I didn't know. I went to school at Hills College, near where Jimboomba House is located now. The school was built by a Japanese businessman who bought the land from the Henderson family and used most of it to build a golf course that used to be the longest 18 hole golf course in the Southern Hemisphere. In high school, I had to walk the length of that long driveway you were filming on twice a week to get to the sports facilities at the front of the property for PE lessons, and there was a really aggro magpie that took the intrusion very personally.

I not long ago discovered your videos Rob and have been eagerly devouring one a night since. I’ve a great passion for history (my first degree was a BA (Hons) in Australian history) and am pleased to see that both yourself, and others, share it. Like you I’m also originally from Sydney and notwithstanding having lived in SE QLD for almost two decades, my knowledge of local history here is reasonably slim. You’ve helped ignite a passion to learn more. Thanks for this video. I’ve only been to Jimboomba once and that was to a farm on the outskirts to pick up my Kelpie cross Border Collie pup. I didn’t visit the township. I now know a lot more about the area in which Roy (my dog) was born. That can’t be a bad thing 😊

Jimboomba used to be really well known for it's geological formations too. Gilgai's and also stone formations near the creeks that form great big round holes that bore vertically down into the rock face. You could put a hole leg down there all the way up to your hip joint and it still wouldn't touch the bottom (yes I'm speaking from experience!). We lived in Woodridge but we used to love swimming in the waterholes around here in the 70's, lost many a shoe and thong that way!

Very interesting. Well researched. Thanks.

I was raised in Jimboomba. Went to Jimboomba State School in the late 80s/Early 90s. My sport group house was called Henderson (green team). I did my primary school dance graduation at the Jimboomba hall. My Father still lives in Jimboomba near McLean and Logan Village. I did the brickwork under the Colonoal village. I think there is a sihohette of me standing under one of the houses in the picture. I lived on Matt Court, which was right off Mary Street and that little Brown Church.

Loved this. Thank you 😊

I've been thrown out of the Jimboomba pub. Twice.

First real country town i went to in Australia. Dated a guy from Jimboomba back in the early Naughties! I am from Sweden so Jimboomba felt pretty exotic then.

Awesome work rob, I enjoy your videos

Rob , Jimboomba looks pretty place to meander I gotta get myself there on a lazy Sunday arvo thx for the tour and end-the-week ideas.

Love the video, been in Cedar Grove for 15 years and never knew the history. Wish they would turn the old railway into a walking track.

Fantastic Vid and I have just subscribed... I would love to see you do a vid on Beaudesert

Thankyou, very interesting! I live at cedarvale & didn't know all this, please keep going with these videos, most of us Australians aren't informed of this very important history ❤️

I lived in the area when the heritage group were running the train. Unfortunately at that time there was a terrible drought and almost every time the train ran, a bushfire started. So the locals were obviously angry about this. I always assumed the burnt bridge was an ‘own goal’ from one of the bushfires they started.

Outstanding, mate. Is the pre-decimal money something of interest to you as that ended in 1966-ish. The last of the circulated silver in Australia

The Norfolk pub originally was located down near the train station with the Hall. But after some serious flooding it was uprooted and hauled up the hill using Bullock teams to where The Jimboomba Country Tavern is located today. Shortly after the Hall was relocated between the Pub and the School. The Hall was then moved to Honoura St in 1985 to make way for the Jimboomba Shopping Centre. The area around the train station was originally the Jimboomba township.

Nice work Rob.

Jimboomba house wasn’t moved until about 2008. The original site was east about 200 yards, not west, and the site is still visible, with an old Nissen hut, sheds, and barn.

This is great. I used to live there, my family and I moved to just south of there in 1988. It's changed a hell of a lot since then.

Thanks for this. I'm inspired to check out the colonial village. I've driven past it many times but didn't know what it was.

Awesome Rob, Changed my perception of Jimboomba 😎

My understanding was that Jimboomba meant "where the echo ends"...as in the valley opens up to floodplains here, so the echo's from the mountains "run out" when they reach Jimboomba.

Jimboomba has a similar past to Petrie, and the land is very similar.

I live at North Maclean have done for over 10 years and always wondered about the history of the area , thanks Rob 😊

G’day Rob. Have you done a video on Nanango. Great little town.

There is a preserved parcel of land - maybe several hectares - at the corner of Cedar Vale Road and Bluff Road that is representative of the sort of forest that covered much of this area. It is a very dense, dry forest and from tall trees dangle large vines similar to those that abound in thee Bunya Mountain region.

Jimboomba used to be in the middle of nowhere, very hot and dry in Summer. So crazy how developed it is becoming, much like everywhere I guess.

Hey Rob, is there anything interesting in outer Northside suburbs you'd consider doing? I.e. samford-caboolture, we love your videos!

Hi Rob. Any plans to do more videos in NSW/Victoria?

The oldest "house" was the women's prison house, next to St Stephen's church, behind the GPO in Brisbane. Most of the towns in Queensland were named by the "mail drop" transports, Cobb & Co. They just asked "What's the name of this place"? Usually the reply was, "Well the local aborigines call it....".

Thise is very cool.. Love to know more re north maclean/Greenbank.. . We have train tracks behind us on lance rd which is only used now at nights for I think container company it be interesting why when etc it was built as different to the jim/beau line .. and we can be either greenbank or north maclean..feels neither !! I have one those trees in middle of paddock now I know what it is

Um. Isn't that the track switch at 9:36? Or were you just showing an example of what you were looking for? At 9:47 you say you couldn't find it, but the video you show is only a single track, so you must have already passed the switch.

Jimboomba is booming nowadays

Would be really cool if you did the history around camp cable road, too. From my understanding, it was the location of an army base at some point.

I think you’d be fascinated by a funny little town called Imbil and it’s neighbour Brooloo. Great history.

I lived in the units now on the corners of cross street

870th thumbs up 👍🏻

a great eye opener to how there is no history or story to the new towns/estates. just housing

About the most Aussie way to build shops. Bolt together some old houses 😂 👍

RE Railway Hotel that's not the history we were taught being a kid that grew up in Jimboomba. Railway Hotel at Beaudesert was originally at Jimboomba Junction, across the road from the country tavern.

Track switch is at 9:37 isn’t it???

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Was amazed to have this come up on my KZfaq as I live in JIMBOOMBA. This was so interesting and full of facts I didn’t know. Very sad that the pine forests were never replenished, and right now developers are destroying all the remaining ones in the area of yarrabilba, 10 mins east for more housing developments. I think if I had seen this when that started I would have rallied against it. Sorry to say but you do have a big part wrong, as Jimboomba is actually in Queensland about an hr and a half north of the border of NSW. Great video thanks so much from all us Jimboombarians….👍🏻😀

I here they are looking into building a botanical gardens here in Jimboomba Brisbane city has many botanical gardens but Logan city dose not so its good council is looking into building a gardens here

I learnt it meant loud thunder little rain

So if Jimboomba was a big noise, what is Toowoomba?

If only they had maintained the railway.

Mullets 😂

Sounds more like Jimboomba Queensland

Be nice if a few people decided to replant some Hoop Pine.

Dry snitching on folks at whatever St.

I am leaving here

it is in qld

The jimboomba you are filming at is in Queensland, not new south whales. We do not associate with those gutter rats

Thanks Rob, I’ve been living here for nearly 3 years now and you’ve really given a great insight into this wonderful town. I really had no idea about it’s history.