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Great video 👏 👏

Awesome videos as always ❤

Hi Leanne 😊 Is this a new beginning? Purples partner videos 😂😂😂 I'm all for it 👍👍👍 Your far better looking than the other half 😊 my Wellingborough x Rushden events never mentioned Louise Nixon at the little R ale house,would loved an afternoon out down there 😢😢😢Went to Bedford river festival today 21st,great atmosphere and plenty for all the family😎

WOW. been many years since I've been to this area, great stuff mate, Very good footage. Thank you

What a brilliant thing to record, thank you.Treading around could you hear the ghosts of all the people who toiled, argued and laughed together?

Just seen this Jamie, what a wonderful allotment.

Thanks for posting, an important historical record for the future. Shame the buildings are too far gone and cannot be re-purposed like those at the old gasworks site on the other side of the railway. I remember the old water tower here, a Wellingborough beacon. I am sure the tank was painted yellow for a time before the British Leyland livery was applied.

Brilliant, I love you two exploring, so much enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing

Great to see you back doing what you do best - nosing around old, hidden and soon to be forgotten parts of Northamptonshire. Shame those buildings are coming down, but I can understand it. Good that you & Jamie have documented it. Hope you & the fam are doing good.

What happened to your hair. Oh my god,, oh you could name it wellingcross irthlington.

Cheers Purple and Jamie. I remember those sheds in use although it was a long time ago. Any news on the ex Midland Shed with the bowing Gable?. All the best for now.

I enjoyed that tour and a pity they have to come down as im sure they would still make good workshops or storage for old trucks or buses etc. I love the rails in the floor.

Hi purple x J B 😊 Interesting stuff as always, history on our doorstep 👍👍👍BTW went on Chester house boat trip Sunday,the chap running it has taken over at ditchford and told me he's getting pigs as well as alpacas and intends to have tree houses and pods in future.wondered if you would be able to do a promotional video for him when he's up and running?

That's a bumble bee

My father was the foreman there in the 1950s and I recall his office being directly over the furnace which exploded underneath. He was in his office and heard a strange noise and was making his way out of the door to investigate when the explosion happened and destroyed his office causing him to be thrown breaking his little finger on his right hand, but he avoided the worst as he had just left his desk.

Happy birthday mate have a great day mate

Hello, my man, just been listening to you talking about watermills and the idea of getting electricity from them, well indeed Wily Watt mill did just that after if closed purple, using the in use water paddle wheel, hey presto, Electric.....................just thought id shove that in P

Great video. 😊 new houses popping up everywhere 😢 keep up the good work 🎉

LOL.......

I remember the barn that used to cover the concrete slab which is the last piece of Hemmingwell farm, we found a dead horse in there in the very early 70's......

They got rid of the pond because people would always dump their rubbish in there, made it into a stinking eyesore!!! Used to catch newts there in the 1970's, when it was pretty decent.... Lived in Thrush lane for 40 years, 2 doors up from Ray Stewart, before he moved out, funnily enough.... Nice one for the pond photo, purple, brought back some memories 👍👍

Must have been noisy for the locals living near but nice to take the children for the time. Glad that we care better now about animals welfare. 😃

Hi purple 😊yes im back,back again😊got back to find me Wellingborough angling news letter that says a fenced off section of a Rushden lakes is to receive some beavers 🦫🦫🦫(which av been absent for 400 years)and a viewing platform.Do you think Vistry Bovis will be training them to escape and gnaw away the trunks of lime trees at embankment to fell them?😂😂😂

Some people aren’t going to like this video. How will they go on about what a dystopian concrete jungle Milton Keynes is if you show them what it’s actually like.

Interesting thanks. I live in St Blazey and have done for most of my life.

Just found my new happy place.

Cheers Purple, thanks for the progress report and hope you and the family are keeping 👍. All the best for now.

Nice production values. Atmospheric ❤

More land that is being destroyed by developers, more houses for the illegals

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Purple I have to say this video touched my heart, it's truly amazing. Not because of the drone footage but because it highlights your commitment and dedication in documenting all the changes (Railway, Road and other construction) in your local area and the effects good or bad they have had and possibly will have in the future of the local people. I think in Documenting such things you are providing a lasting record for future generations, your boys are too young to appreciate those changes at the moment but the footage will be there for when they are old enough. More Power to your Elbow Purple, I for one appreciate the work you put in. 👌👍.

5.50 Anyone else see a face in the soil?

does that mean that although the governments are taxing and predicting climate change, building regulations are exempt.Or we just have to dig a pond and everything will be ok ?

Absolutely sickening just mindless vandalism by youths who have no respect for anything 😡 hopefully the youths will be caught and appropriate action taken as god knows what it has done to the morale of the volunteers who give up their free time to restore these heritage vehicles I am absolutely shocked by the totally mindless behaviour 😮

small world i had a mate who lived robin lane the houses at 6.49 in your video babz was his name aka clayton

Great footage. Good thing about airshows, not having to go to be able to see the planes. Sounds like your children were excited. Red arrows were great 👍

Hi purple x Ryan 😊 that's some epic footage 👍🛩️✈️🚁 I thought we had a great free vantage point by the Priory looking straight over to sywell but the Travel lodge got in the way😂loved the bit at 7.00 mins when the Arrows seemed to disappear 😊😊😊BTW Am hoping to get down kotch Saturday afternoon .we have funfair at Irchester but Gypsy lane is closed weds 26th and Tuesday 2nd next week.Im off to Caister Monday to Friday will catch up on videos when I return 😎⛱️

Some great footage of the WWII aircraft. Although it does annoy me somewhat that aircraft are allowed to fly close formation over built up areas but my Mavic 2 isn't allowed near civilization of any kind... Unless it's a cow in a field.

Brilliant video ! I’m a postman and started my career at royal mail back when the sorting office was on those premises, very strange seeing a very familiar location almost unrecognisable after what must be about 25 years of decay.

Not wanted and not needed. We in Burton Latimer have recently seen three huge logistic centres go up, seemingly without a by or a leave. How these proposals ever got the go ahead I find somewhat staggering. I guess one has to follow the money!

Hi purple 😊 fantastic aerial footage 👍 scary to think how much more traffic will be on the roads when there are all finished and sold😱Hope residents use the railway system 🤔 Anymore news on the multistorey carpark at station?

Nice one mate 👍 Good to see a few of the houses getting solar panels, shame it isn't all of them though. It would save covering entire fields with them.

😁 Interesting to see what's happened.

Good lad Purple nice to see you still out and about. All those Rabbit Hutches going up the place is losing its character. All the best for now.

I can see the residence complaining about the railway when they move in

F AND G WING WERE THE MOST MODERN JAIL buildings IN THE UK the old Wellingborough the old boys Borsalino was inadiquate, the cold, the damp, the dark corners, dangerous for staff areas had to go, it was not a nice railway Victorian save me place, it was hell, drugs, dealing and staff being taken on from criminal gangs unlawfully, good riddance to hmp Wellingborough, I’m sure the new layout is better

me and my mate when there similar time as you im guessing and we got done by security, everythings been nocked down now

23:08 I come all the way from New Orleans to make this EXACT walk!! Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulez!!

Let me make a suggestion to you 1 the police will do nothing they are to busy chasing down motorists for every conceivable offence to gain money for thee coffers 2 install electricified fences around your property seeing you dont seem to have a shed 3 apply to the government for a grant to enable sheds to be built In my experience you are fighti g a losing battle if the kids càn get to it they will destroy it

Only coming to this just now .. i worked there from 1979 to 1992. I was a "Kiln Burner", responsible for burning the bricks, controlling the drying and firing temperatures and producing the finished article. Love the enthusiasm you have. And smiled at some of the naiveté. The numbers on the bricks have nothing to do with Kiln numbers. When they were being pressed there was no definite knowledge of which kiln they would be set in. You ask what a facing machine is. Some bricks would be plain with no facing. Others would have different colour facing. So Cheviot would be red facings, there would be a whiteish/grey facing (brindle), a yellow facing, etc. The facing on the brick determined the colour of the house or other building made with the bricks. The facing material came in powdered form and was pressed onto the green clay brick during production. You suggest that the big lights in a shed were to help dry out the bricks. I can assure you that as the bricks came off the presses and were stacked - by hand into a defined structure to fit the kiln - they were picked up by a forklift truck and put in a kiln and this is were they were dried out. The lights were simply to give light. You refere to hoppers as cement hoppers. There was no cement involved in the production of Oxford clay fletton bricks. The clay dug out of the ground would be formed into tiny granuals. It is these granuals, like gravel, that would come down into the hoppers. These granuals eould then be pressed to form the shape of a brick. Break any brick open and you can still see how these granuals form the structure of the brick. When you show the drone footage looking along the railway track, the remnants of the kiln on the right hand side of the track with the structure of the lower part of the chambers still visible is CK 1. (Carr Kiln 1) A little further into the distance justva bit more to the right is CK 3. CK 2 was a little further to the right just out of shot and was tge biggest brick kiln in the world with 80 chambers each holding, if memory serves me right, 80,000 bricks. All of the kilns on the other side of the railway track were Hoffman Kilns (HK 18, 19, 20, etc.) Theyverre all smaller than the Carr Kilns. When I was made redundant in 92 there were 500 million bricks stacked, unsold. It will be of little surprise tonlearn that last year (2023) the UK imported 500 million bricks, much of them from Pakistan were colleagues of mine were sent to train workers in LBC run factories over there innthe 1970's. Mad world. Hope this is useful.