yungaba

gus

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Nikolai

I hear ya...
Good luck, may be you guys will manage to stop them...

And in any case take as many pictures of it as you can - in the worst case scenario they will become relics and you'll get rich fast:-)

gus

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mpknox

Yungaba development proposal: The Immigration Story

gus wrote:

Yungaba was built in 1887 to house migrants & is today still used for them. You can see & hear them laughing & dancing till late at night in a huge upstairs hall. Many different dances...north african tribal styles through to eastern block waltzes.

It was also used as a hospital in WWII. Its still in great shape.

This building is heritage listed & has been for a long time...now here thats serious. If your house is heritage listed then you need to apply to the council to change the paint colour & im not joking. But some how the city council has managed to quietly sell this land/building to a developer & its now earmarked for a high rise of apartments.

As long as i live i will not understand this type of behavior. We have only a short heritage in this country & must protect the little we have & this sort of garbage is allowed by the people we elect & are answerable to us.

Yep...there is a group of residents starting to build speed & halt them but i think its too late as the sale has gone through. Rot in hell you mongrels !

Yungaba is a beautiful building and Yungaba Action Group are proposing it is opened to public tours of the Immigration Story. Visitors will thrill as they step into the 1890s shoes of an immigrant and pass from station to station where imagineering will bring alive the feelings of their ancestors on arrival in Australia. For further information see www.yungaba.org.au

mpknox

Yungaba development proposal: The Immigration Story

gus wrote:

Yungaba was built in 1887 to house migrants & is today still used for them. You can see & hear them laughing & dancing till late at night in a huge upstairs hall. Many different dances...north african tribal styles through to eastern block waltzes.

It was also used as a hospital in WWII. Its still in great shape.

This building is heritage listed & has been for a long time...now here thats serious. If your house is heritage listed then you need to apply to the council to change the paint colour & im not joking. But some how the city council has managed to quietly sell this land/building to a developer & its now earmarked for a high rise of apartments.

As long as i live i will not understand this type of behavior. We have only a short heritage in this country & must protect the little we have & this sort of garbage is allowed by the people we elect & are answerable to us.

Yep...there is a group of residents starting to build speed & halt them but i think its too late as the sale has gone through. Rot in hell you mongrels !

[Martin/quote] Yungaba is a beautiful building with a unique heritage. Yungaba Action Group propose that the sale should be reversed and public tours developed of The Immigrant Story. Groups of visitors would stand in the shoes of 1890s immigrant ancestors and experience their processing through Yungaba. Each station would bring thrills of imagineering from drama and other exhibits.