It must be Phenomenal to have been discovering those tunnels. I'm guessing theres gonna be some celebrating when they hit the grand tunnel!! Brilliant vid martin!! 👍
@@MartinZero 🔥now I can't wait to see that Martin👌 I wish I could down there to see it The brickwork/stonework is next level. Love these old historical places. I have done a video an a old viaduct. Takecare Martin have a good day my freind 👍✋
robert howie : Never forgotten, wiped by opencasting , ignored, allowed dereliction, - its a sorry wave to all those who put in their laboured hours - never forgotten tho, effin amazing I'd say.
One day Granada TV will get its act together and give Martin Zero a series of his own. There is a huge and loyal potential audience for serious stuff about the history of Manchester and the North West . This area had a huge influence on the Industrial Revolution but it also has a Roman and Medieval past worthy of bringing to us ordinary, non Historians.
Another Mind Blowing Video. Haven't been this excited since my three day visit to Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Was on the edge of my seat waiting for this part 2. Don't know what I am going to do waiting for part 3. Love all the videos about your tunnels and old Mill buildings. Grew up in Manchester New Hampshire in the U.S. where we also have huge old Brick Mill Buildings from the turn of the century. Manchester NH was a huge Textile manufacturing location as was Manchester UK. Main difference was our mills were water powered as the rivers here run down hill and produce huge amounts of water power. Thanks again Martin. linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2011/hometowns/danielle/history.cfm
Glad I found these 2 videos. They are brilliant. A fascinating and interesting project and well done to the volunteers who obviously have put a lot of hard work in over the years uncovering this gem of history.
Brilliant stuff, in my opinion one of your best yet. Hats off ( but don't forget to put them back on ) to the volunteers there's been some hard graft put in there.
MZ: these two vids have been entrancing mate, really!! The accompanying backing suits just right, magik all round and 15 outta 10, not arf and thanking youze for the production of. By the way - why was the house frontage so precariously left standing? Also - in 'the Gash'', the stone sides seem to be stone mason 'dressed', would this indicate that fissure was much wider, once?
I'm sitting here watching this just shaking my head in disbelief. It's not just the extent of the labyrinth, it's the obvious quality of the brick and stone work. There has to be a rhyme and reason to it all. Amazing stuff and thanks again to all for showing us around.
It just goes to show that can never be 100% sure of what's beneath your feet. Oh how I'd love to see inside there and get a feel for the place. Incidentally, no one has mentioned things like ghosts and missing persons, and yet I got a eerie feeling whilst watching parts of this video. There is something reminiscent of "Quatermass And The Pit" about it, and no, I don't think there'll be any Martian creatures and 'hob-goblins' down there. Seriously though, I cannot help but feel that the house should be rebuilt, at least to its original plan, and isn't it strange, perhaps even ironic, that it's the lowly parts of the site that have survived while the upper crust sections have fallen. This place aught to be given national heritage/protected status.
Fantastic work Martin! Your productions are absolutely brilliant, you’ve certainly made me aware of a lot of local history I knew absolutely nothing about. Your content is invaluable,
Absolutely cracking video mate! It's funny because just before you said about sitting down with Joseph Williamson and a cuppa, I'd said the same thing to my wife!!
Utterly gripping stuff. I have a huge love of history and even have a PHD (admittedly pre-industrial history), but I never knew about this. It's changed my view of Liverpool. When they reach the Grand Tunnel, please do a part 3.
Absolutely amazing stuff Martin, . So much more discovered since I visited 10 years ago and saw a lot of what you showed in part one. I was on a 6 month tour of the UK coast living in a Transit van to write a book The Road Next The Coast. Williamson did a huge amount to alleviate poverty in Liverpool. Very religious, he used to ride his horse to church each week and it had its own pew next him where it stood during services ! Well worth a visit if you ever visit Liverpool
Fabulous Martin 😎 like you I thought it was like exploring egyptian pyramids too. The wonder of all these tunnels he had built makes your brain go into overdrive with unanswerable questions 🤔. Mind blowing stuff 🤗.
Hi Martin. Great videos! My family and I visited this year after me wanting to see the tunnels for some 20 years; I wasn't dissapointed! As you said, this is a must see experience. If yo do visit, please leave a donation to help the volunteers continue their work.
Could there have been heavy flooding ever in that area? That could possibly cause a more dense fill in, or maybe the London bombings during World War 1 damages?
@@MsBlueRyan These tunnels are in Liverpool. London suffered badly during the WWII, not I, the aircraft in that times were just a measly biplanes. They did bombing but by hand, throwing smaller explosives.
Although Liverpool took a hammering in ww2 also. The battle of the Atlantic was planned from there. I think they opened that as a museum too. LindyBeige did a good video on that.
They're called the "Wine Bins" because the people operating the site have called them that. They are making an assumption based on guess work. I asked them about this when I visited the tunnels. I live just by them.
@@MartinZero "Isn't the Wine Bins are the name that you've given to that area? I'm sure I've read that on here. I think you need to be crystal clear and say "The area we call the wine bins" as when I did the tour you made it clear then that no one really knows what the area was used for." Lynn Mills replied: "Mark, I think everyone knows this. All our chambers have "pet" names. Xxx" FoWT also replied: "This area has been known as the Wine Bins for many years, 20+ years since FoWT was formed." I replied: "Friends of Williamson's Tunnels, I know, but there's no historical evidence to say it was used for that purpose. It's a name that you've given it. Here's a bit of history for you. When there was only one organisation involved with the tunnels, I was the member of staff, in Regian House, who took the paperwork off the person who brought it in to set up the organisation. I remember it because I had a conversation with him about visiting the stables site, when Gabby, did the tours. At that point it was the only part of the complex that the general public got to see. Long before any excavation started. When I did the tour of your site, a few years back, the guide did say that the "wine bins" was the name that you gave to the area, as like most of the complex, we don't know exactly what they were used for. Keep up the good work." From: m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2165564236807279&id=204751736221882
I’m absolutely blown away with this video and all concerned. Being a Tour director for over thirty years and staying in Liverpool on virtually every tour I’m choked that I never knew about this gem. Thanks to everyone concerned. Wow.
this is great ..absolutely fascinating ... you should be on the discovery channel with these vids...The sheer amount of hard work involved in cleaning out those tunnels is mind boggling.
It's sunday, it's Martin and it's another great video. Thanks for sharing. And -again- I asked myself "Why are people doing that sort of stuff ?" Not only digging the tunnels out now, but *digging* them once in first place ? What was the original purpose ? Just helping unemployed men ? Sure. Maybe. But I would guess that it was only half of the truth. Most likely we never get to it anymore. And for you Martin: From the level of mysteriousness it is hard to top *that* at any rate ... No easy task and that's why I wonder what's on your next video. ;-)
Again, excellent Martin. Thank you to both you and Connor for taking the time to come abd check us out. What we have is very special and we love having visitors. Hope to see you again soon 😁
Will you be doing stuff out of your area and will we be seeing more of your lady friend from the magnet fishing ? How about teaming on something with Patrick Dickinson who does the Shefield area ?
I have heard a similar story to the "Banqueting Hall" set it the Blue John mine! Apparently back in the day it was vogue to do the "Underground Experience" ..... Queen Victoria was a fan and was dragged through a very low tunnel in a small barge lined with hey to visit a cave system at a Victorian (well it would be wouldn't it) rope works! If it were good enough for the Queen I can see some up and coming Scoucers going for it too ;0) The "Drainage Tunnel" is actually (I think) called a Sough ... pronounced Suff! There is record of them being dug as a drainage channel and being covered over to form a tunel! There was one from Walkden centre down to Worsley Delph! A problem was that they tended to fill up and jam with detrious. A man was paid a shilling a year to clean out the one at Worsley ... even a once a year job like that was hard, so they included in his payment a "flaxen Shirt" so we have the first recorded issue of overalls ;0) Enough prattling from me .... and another great video from you!
There are many, many places worth a visit! There is also a rich industrial history which is being reclaimed both by nature and the builders ....... I just hapend to be near Ladyshore in Little Leaver yesterday at work. There used to be a Pit, Brickworks and Bleach works there .... all going back to nature! It is hard sometimes to imagine how industrial it actually used to be! So many places,so little time ;0)
Amazing place and video,strange if no records of workers and accidents,have survived. The Gash does look like the inside of Great Pyramid of Giza. Hope the guys don't come across any Bank Vaults. Wouldn't like to give the Bizzies the wrong impression.
Omg Martin How weird are they. I was watching a video earlier about Liverpool’s first dock (time team I think) and they found a tunnel entrance below water level and didn’t really know what it was for. How fascinating Thank you 👍🏻 Hi to Conner
What was this man up to? Stuff underground is usually related to secrets... I think there is more to it than giving disadvantaged men skills and opportunity
Once again Thank you Martin & Connor and Friends of Williamson's tunnels. This Williamson fella must have been a bit strange to think of doing this. The mind boggles. Brilliant video
Excellent. This for me holds the fasciation that I felt when many years ago I first discovered Time Team. If you will forgive the pun, I find it to be totally ground-breaking and absolutely absorbing. I have not looked forward to new videos since I found those released by the Great Orme Exploration Society, but they go deeper and the excavations they work are on the whole, much older. Keep up the good work guys. Looking forward avidly to your next presentation.
wow I'm from Liverpool that's amazing, brilliant video. Thanks to all the brilliant, dedicated workers that give their time to work on this project and thank you for visiting and uploading these videos very interesting and informative of a historical site.
Glad to see a Manchester lad presenting an article on a Liverpool subject. Would like to know wether you have considered doing any other Liverpool landmarks ie the waterfront (world heritage site),or anywhere else?Us scousers would enjoy your views. Keep up the good work, have enjoyed watching all your videos. Well done mate.
There's normal volunteering and then there's this. It's dangerous, dirty and dark working down there, but the results are spectacular. Hats off to them.
The ovens they excavated remind me of the ovens they found under the Famine Museum in Strokestown in Ireland. i visited in 2002 and they had only just discovered them in a part of the house that had been filled in and a modern kitchen was built above them.. great video Martin cant wait to see an update to this video in the future...
Hi Martin, great video as usual!! So interesting to find out there's so many tunnels buried, thanks for going down there for me as I get terrible claustrophobia!!
thank you martin wow what a find i be going there myself sometime like i said if you are in my area i like to tell what we have going for kearsley and clifton and beyond keep the the fantastic work
Great follow up video Martin! You’re right about it not being for the claustrophobic down there. Those tunnels are definitely a mystery, but very interesting. Hopefully they’ll find a way into the great tunnel. That would be interesting to see. 👍
Like you say...Mind Blowing... Like another world and a pretty dangerous one for those who are working down there. Another very interesting well presented video. Thank you
Always enjoy your videos mate, it took me until my now early 30s to appreciate the surrounds we have throughout the UK, you capture it and your passive of information over it is incredible. Being in the armed forces I’m fortunate to experience a lot of our outdoors from another perspective. Keep up the good work rate mate!
We could probably do it, with a bit of research and practice. Stonemasons today do a lot of great work restoring old stone buildings. Money and time is normally the limiting factor - and for new buildings, return on investment.
@@daveg2104 Yeah, alright Dave, maybe but being an advanced craft carpenter of 30 years (so far) I haven't seen this quality from our generation - or anywhere near it! I've even worked with good stonemasons from Bath but this kind of tight joint is not seen nowadays!
@@kevinchamberlain7928 My nephew is a stone mason. Works on a lot of stuff. With laser sights and levels, diamond saws (and I don't even know all the tools of the trade), even hand polishing, it basically comes down to time and money. These days, buildings are constructed to a price (lowest bidder usually wins), and mostly not constructed to last. Just look at the issues with concrete cancer. The construction industry could do better, but where is the incentive. So yes, I do agree that there is a lot of poor tradesmanship going on (and has been for a long time), but shoddy, for a price work isn't really indicative of what could be done if we really wanted to.
@@daveg2104 Everything you said is absolutely correct, Dave! Clearly, you see what's going on around you! Please consider buying "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" by Christopher Dunn. Your nephew and yourself will learn about stone masonry of old which will shatter your paradigm completely! Usually, I won't bother recommending this but you're an astute guy, Dave and you will easily see the problem of government education. Here's a clip of Chris Dunn: ruclips.net/video/Jz6Ja_4q6gA/видео.html
@@daveg2104 Everything you said is absolutely correct, Dave! Clearly, you see what's going on around you! Please consider buying "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" by Christopher Dunn. Your nephew and yourself will learn about stone masonry of old which will shatter your paradigm completely! Usually, I won't bother recommending this but you're an astute guy, Dave and you will easily see the problem of government education. Here's a clip of Chris Dunn: ruclips.net/video/Jz6Ja_4q6gA/видео.html
It must be Phenomenal to have been discovering those tunnels. I'm guessing theres gonna be some celebrating when they hit the grand tunnel!! Brilliant vid martin!! 👍
There's a bigger tunnel to discover Oh my 😂. Awesome .
Yes am hoping to go and see
@@MartinZero 🔥now I can't wait to see that Martin👌 I wish I could down there to see it The brickwork/stonework is next level. Love these old historical places. I have done a video an a old viaduct. Takecare Martin have a good day my freind 👍✋
you should do a tv series about the forgotten history of working england the steam the canals and mining industry its all forgotten about now
robert howie : Never forgotten, wiped by opencasting , ignored, allowed dereliction, - its a sorry wave to all those who put in their laboured hours - never forgotten tho, effin amazing I'd say.
One day Granada TV will get its act together and give Martin Zero a series of his own. There is a huge and loyal potential audience for serious stuff about the history of Manchester and the North West . This area had a huge influence on the Industrial Revolution but it also has a Roman and Medieval past worthy of bringing to us ordinary, non Historians.
Whareva - MZ's vids and the accompanying sounds just work.
@@thedativecase9733 Manchester was one of the most important launch pads into the modern world .
More brilliant footage from the master, Keep it up Martin great stuff.
Thank you Chris
Can the one dislike please explain what's not to like!!
Totally baffled!
There's three of 'em now!!
Maybe they're claustrophobes?
...Although I've never understood why anyone fears Father Christmas!
@@cargy930 Mega LOL!!! Great play on words, and OH!! now there are four!!
It’s now 7 Or should I say the insignificant 7
Another Mind Blowing Video.
Haven't been this excited since my three day visit to Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Was on the edge of my seat waiting for this part 2. Don't know what I am going to do waiting for part 3.
Love all the videos about your tunnels and old Mill buildings. Grew up in Manchester New Hampshire in the U.S. where we also have huge old Brick Mill Buildings from the turn of the century. Manchester NH was a huge Textile manufacturing location as was Manchester UK. Main difference was our mills were water powered as the rivers here run down hill and produce huge amounts of water power. Thanks again Martin.
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Hello, wow I'd love to visit the other Manchester
Love the page on Manchester New Hampshire Danielle . A very similar history to Manchester Lancashire. The booms the busts and the rebirths.
Glad I found these 2 videos. They are brilliant. A fascinating and interesting project and well done to the volunteers who obviously have put a lot of hard work in over the years uncovering this gem of history.
Brilliant stuff, in my opinion one of your best yet. Hats off ( but don't forget to put them back on ) to the volunteers there's been some hard graft put in there.
Yes Mike they do work very hard
MZ: these two vids have been entrancing mate, really!!
The accompanying backing suits just right, magik all round and 15 outta 10, not arf and thanking youze for the production of.
By the way - why was the house frontage so precariously left standing?
Also - in 'the Gash'', the stone sides seem to be stone mason 'dressed', would this indicate that fissure was much wider, once?
Not sure about your question about the Gash. Id love to know why they left the front of the house
I'm sitting here watching this just shaking my head in disbelief. It's not just the extent of the labyrinth, it's the obvious quality of the brick and stone work. There has to be a rhyme and reason to it all. Amazing stuff and thanks again to all for showing us around.
Cheers Jack, we were equally gobsmacked
I think I know why but I'm still figuring it out. I deffo have a good hypothesis as to what was happening here. 😁✌️
It just goes to show that can never be 100% sure of what's beneath your feet. Oh how I'd love to see inside there and get a feel for the place.
Incidentally, no one has mentioned things like ghosts and missing persons, and yet I got a eerie feeling whilst watching parts of this video. There is something reminiscent of "Quatermass And The Pit" about it, and no, I don't think there'll be any Martian creatures and 'hob-goblins' down there.
Seriously though, I cannot help but feel that the house should be rebuilt, at least to its original plan, and isn't it strange, perhaps even ironic, that it's the lowly parts of the site that have survived while the upper crust sections have fallen. This place aught to be given national heritage/protected status.
Possibly Hob Goblins 😀👍
Amazing video Martin. The amount of work involving in uncovering those tunnels is impressive.
Yes, hats off to them
Fantastic work Martin! Your productions are absolutely brilliant, you’ve certainly made me aware of a lot of local history I knew absolutely nothing about. Your content is invaluable,
Thank you very much
Until I saw you come down those stairs I had no idea the massive size of where you are and the size of the stones. wow :) peace
Absolutely cracking video mate! It's funny because just before you said about sitting down with Joseph Williamson and a cuppa, I'd said the same thing to my wife!!
Ha great stuff. Yep id love that cuppa
This all falls in wonderfully with Mudflood theory! Thank you for your work!
Amazing
Love the now regular Sunday night video
Keep to up
Great bid as ever
Thanks
Mark
Thank you Mark
Utterly gripping stuff. I have a huge love of history and even have a PHD (admittedly pre-industrial history), but I never knew about this. It's changed my view of Liverpool. When they reach the Grand Tunnel, please do a part 3.
I certainly will and thank you
Absolutely amazing stuff Martin, . So much more discovered since I visited 10 years ago and saw a lot of what you showed in part one. I was on a 6 month tour of the UK coast living in a Transit van to write a book The Road Next The Coast. Williamson did a huge amount to alleviate poverty in Liverpool. Very religious, he used to ride his horse to church each week and it had its own pew next him where it stood during services ! Well worth a visit if you ever visit Liverpool
Fabulous Martin 😎 like you I thought it was like exploring egyptian pyramids too. The wonder of all these tunnels he had built makes your brain go into overdrive with unanswerable questions 🤔. Mind blowing stuff 🤗.
It certainly is Dave
Amazing video, i've heard of the tunnels but never seen so much detail of them! You are doing an amazing thing with your channel, really good!
Thanks very much Michael
Hi Martin. Great videos!
My family and I visited this year after me wanting to see the tunnels for some 20 years; I wasn't dissapointed!
As you said, this is a must see experience. If yo do visit, please leave a donation to help the volunteers continue their work.
That narrow tunnel at 23;00 is the stuff of nightmares
It wasnt too bad 😀
I love you channel it’s like urban exploring but for adults!!!!!!!
Ha, thank you Mike 😀
Liked before viewing. Excellent as always. Thanks Martin. 🙂👍
Thank you Ian
An Enigma within an Enigma, great presentation as always, and thanks for taking all of us along too.
Thanks Scott, definite Enigmas
One word about both of these vids FANTASTIC
Thank you very much
Brilliant Video Martin ......Looking forward to your next Film mate ... respect and regards ... Frank...
Thank you Frank
Absolutely stunning! Fantastic work Martin just brilliant. 2 of your best videos yet! What an amazing place to see. Cheers for the tour.
Brilliant martin 👍 do you get to access all areas or is it just the competed sections when the public vist .
I think you get to go into the Paddington site Ian. Which is in part 1. Well worth a visit
Another thing, how did all that spoil get into it? Considering how hard its been getting the stuff out 🤔🤔
The Officer My thoughts completely mate.
Could there have been heavy flooding ever in that area? That could possibly cause a more dense fill in, or maybe the London bombings during World War 1 damages?
Later generations didnt care about the tunnels and used them as dumps. Also the council dumped stuff into them
@@MsBlueRyan These tunnels are in Liverpool. London suffered badly during the WWII, not I, the aircraft in that times were just a measly biplanes. They did bombing but by hand, throwing smaller explosives.
Although Liverpool took a hammering in ww2 also. The battle of the Atlantic was planned from there. I think they opened that as a museum too. LindyBeige did a good video on that.
BTW > There's a book: Underground Liverpool by Jim Moore and , via Bluecoat Press (or there was), detailing Williamson and more.
That sounds good Suzy
You could call it a Maze of tunnels.
A place you could hide.
Many more secrets to be revealed by digging out.
yes indeed
They're called the "Wine Bins" because the people operating the site have called them that.
They are making an assumption based on guess work. I asked them about this when I visited the tunnels. I live just by them.
You must go and ask then
@@MartinZero I asked them about it on their Facebook group and they answered as above.
@@MartinZero
"Isn't the Wine Bins are the name that you've given to that area? I'm sure I've read that on here. I think you need to be crystal clear and say "The area we call the wine bins" as when I did the tour you made it clear then that no one really knows what the area was used for."
Lynn Mills replied:
"Mark, I think everyone knows this. All our chambers have "pet" names. Xxx"
FoWT also replied:
"This area has been known as the Wine Bins for many years, 20+ years since FoWT was formed."
I replied:
"Friends of Williamson's Tunnels, I know, but there's no historical evidence to say it was used for that purpose. It's a name that you've given it.
Here's a bit of history for you. When there was only one organisation involved with the tunnels, I was the member of staff, in Regian House, who took the paperwork off the person who brought it in to set up the organisation.
I remember it because I had a conversation with him about visiting the stables site, when Gabby, did the tours.
At that point it was the only part of the complex that the general public got to see. Long before any excavation started.
When I did the tour of your site, a few years back, the guide did say that the "wine bins" was the name that you gave to the area, as like most of the complex, we don't know exactly what they were used for.
Keep up the good work."
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Fascinating Martin...the hand drills looked very interesting...
Wondering what the date would be on them...?
Yeah Id love to know
Totally engrossing once again. Keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks very much
I’m absolutely blown away with this video and all concerned. Being a Tour director for over thirty years and staying in Liverpool on virtually every tour I’m choked that I never knew about this gem. Thanks to everyone concerned. Wow.
Thank you for sharing this video absolutely brilliant 👍🏻
Cheers Garry
Amazing tunnel network. Keep up the great work Martin as your videos are so interesting
Thank you Martin
this is great ..absolutely fascinating ... you should be on the discovery channel with these vids...The sheer amount of hard work involved in cleaning out those tunnels is mind boggling.
Hello thank you. Yes its amazing what they have achieved
I,m only here for the Tea! wow! impressive, nice vid Martin, and hello from Germany
Hello Julian in Germany 👍
Amazing! Thank you for sharing! What great masonry!
Yes Bob agreed 👌
It's sunday, it's Martin and it's another great video. Thanks for sharing.
And -again- I asked myself "Why are people doing that sort of stuff ?"
Not only digging the tunnels out now, but *digging* them once in first place ?
What was the original purpose ? Just helping unemployed men ? Sure. Maybe.
But I would guess that it was only half of the truth.
Most likely we never get to it anymore.
And for you Martin: From the level of mysteriousness it is hard to top *that* at any rate ...
No easy task and that's why I wonder what's on your next video. ;-)
Thanks very much. Yes I do think that was the reason
Thats a good spot of the brickwork on the walls of the markings
Wonderful video @Martin Zero but why am I hearing water when you said a fissure in the rock face
So interesting! I'll bet there's going to be Parts 3 and 4 or, at least updates, as they continue excavating these fabulous tunnels.
Yes Pamela as I get to know more I will go back
Again, excellent Martin. Thank you to both you and Connor for taking the time to come abd check us out. What we have is very special and we love having visitors. Hope to see you again soon 😁
Hello Lynn thanks so much i will never forget this
Thanks again Martin for another great video, I'll maybe try and get there in August.
Yes if you get chance do visit
Superb part 2 Martin. Hopefully at some point we get a part 3!
yes when they find the great tunnel
Will you be doing stuff out of your area and will we be seeing more of your lady friend from the magnet fishing ? How about teaming on something with Patrick Dickinson who does the Shefield area ?
Hi Steve I will do anything interesting anywhere. Rachelle wants to do another video. I think Patrick is a lone wolf but i would work with him
Absolutely fascinating Martin I wonder why they ever filled them in in the first place you do a brilliant job Martin keep up the good work.
Hi martin. Later generations werent bothered about the tunnels and the council dumped in them
I have heard a similar story to the "Banqueting Hall" set it the Blue John mine! Apparently back in the day it was vogue to do the "Underground Experience" ..... Queen Victoria was a fan and was dragged through a very low tunnel in a small barge lined with hey to visit a cave system at a Victorian (well it would be wouldn't it) rope works! If it were good enough for the Queen I can see some up and coming Scoucers going for it too ;0)
The "Drainage Tunnel" is actually (I think) called a Sough ... pronounced Suff! There is record of them being dug as a drainage channel and being covered over to form a tunel! There was one from Walkden centre down to Worsley Delph! A problem was that they tended to fill up and jam with detrious. A man was paid a shilling a year to clean out the one at Worsley ... even a once a year job like that was hard, so they included in his payment a "flaxen Shirt" so we have the first recorded issue of overalls ;0)
Enough prattling from me .... and another great video from you!
Never been Blue John. I really should visit
There are many, many places worth a visit!
There is also a rich industrial history which is being reclaimed both by nature and the builders ....... I just hapend to be near Ladyshore in Little Leaver yesterday at work. There used to be a Pit, Brickworks and Bleach works there .... all going back to nature! It is hard sometimes to imagine how industrial it actually used to be!
So many places,so little time ;0)
I saw Mark E. Smith when I was driving down the East Lancs Road through Worsley. That is my Manchester musical claim to fame
Fabulous 👍
Hi Martin.🙂 Just love it pal 🔥.
I always look forward to your videos. Top stuff. Take care my friend ✋👍
Thank you for the visit into England"s past! I got claustrophobic just watching your video!! Great job as always.
Thanks very much Phil
Amazing place and video,strange if no records of workers and accidents,have survived. The Gash does look like the inside of Great Pyramid of Giza. Hope the guys don't come across any Bank Vaults. Wouldn't like to give the Bizzies the wrong impression.
Thanks Lawrence. Yes i couldnt stop thinking about the Pyramids
Incredible place. Cant wait 2 c the great tunnel dug out. The history n artefacts found already is huge.
Yes Lisa, thosee antiques are stunning
I'm off to Screwfix to buy me a shovel! Thanks Martin, another excellent bit of footage of an epic and ongoing discovery.
Thank you, enjoy the shovel
Omg Martin
How weird are they.
I was watching a video earlier about Liverpool’s first dock (time team I think) and they found a tunnel entrance below water level and didn’t really know what it was for.
How fascinating
Thank you 👍🏻
Hi to Conner
oooo that sounds interesting
What was this man up to?
Stuff underground is usually related to secrets...
I think there is more to it than giving disadvantaged men skills and opportunity
Thanks Phil
They should do tours for it, an amazing piece of history that but Liverpool on the map for trading.
Once again Thank you Martin & Connor and Friends of Williamson's tunnels. This Williamson fella must have been a bit strange to think of doing this. The mind boggles. Brilliant video
Yep but am glad he did 😄
what is it wih watching urbex vids ? portsdown bunker was awsome aswell as all the underground stuff thanks Martin ....
What I'd like to know is why did they brick up the tunnels?
Time and expense for what?
Over time the tunnels were a nuisance in a developing city so different people had them bricked up
Thanks for the tunnelling vids. Now I am also feeling like digging something up. Highly inspirational.
Fascinating place, thank you Martin (Mike, Lynn, Volunteers).
Can't wait to see more of it.
Thanks very much
Excellent. This for me holds the fasciation that I felt when many years ago I first discovered Time Team. If you will forgive the pun, I find it to be totally ground-breaking and absolutely absorbing. I have not looked forward to new videos since I found those released by the Great Orme Exploration Society, but they go deeper and the excavations they work are on the whole, much older. Keep up the good work guys. Looking forward avidly to your next presentation.
Thank you David
Absolutely brilliant, waited all week to watch this. Thank you ever so much!!
Thank you Chris
Another fascinating video Martin...well done! If I ever go to Liverpool, I'll for sure visit these tunnels.
Yeah Paul its a must do
Fascinating video Martin , one of your best to date . Thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us .
Thanks very much Christian
WOW! Another stellar video as could be expected. Where do you get all your information? Best history channel ever! Keep up the good work mate 👍🏻👍🏻
wow I'm from Liverpool that's amazing, brilliant video. Thanks to all the brilliant, dedicated workers that give their time to work on this project and thank you for visiting and uploading these videos very interesting and informative of a historical site.
Glad to see a Manchester lad presenting an article on a Liverpool subject. Would like to know wether you have considered doing any other Liverpool landmarks ie the waterfront (world heritage site),or anywhere else?Us scousers would enjoy your views. Keep up the good work, have enjoyed watching all your videos. Well done mate.
I love the combination of ambience, information and exploration! Thanks for your valuable videos!
Thank you am glad you appreciate that side of the video 👍
HI Martin great vid as allway can u tell me what that bit of music is thank
Yep as Stevie says its my 3 chord trick with a bit of Prospect studios Stevie magic 👌
thank mate
There's normal volunteering and then there's this. It's dangerous, dirty and dark working down there, but the results are spectacular. Hats off to them.
The ovens they excavated remind me of the ovens they found under the Famine Museum in
Strokestown in Ireland. i visited in 2002 and they had only just discovered them in a part of the house that had been filled in and a modern kitchen was built above them.. great video Martin cant wait to see an update to this video in the future...
wow amazing. Im so intrigued to see it all now cheers
Thanks Alan
Hi Martin, great video as usual!! So interesting to find out there's so many tunnels buried, thanks for going down there for me as I get terrible claustrophobia!!
No Problem Marilyn. Am glad you enjoyed
Another excellent video Martin, will you be able to follow the progress the excavation of the tunnels as they are something very special ?
Very interesting and they well explained, amazing as always 👍👍
Thanks very much
Another cracking job with documenting those tunnels. What an interesting character Williamson was.
He certainly was Michael
thank you martin wow what a find i be going there myself sometime like i said if you are in my area i like to tell what we have going for kearsley and clifton and beyond keep the the fantastic work
Am all ears Dean ?
Great follow up video Martin! You’re right about it not being for the claustrophobic down there. Those tunnels are definitely a mystery, but very interesting. Hopefully they’ll find a way into the great tunnel. That would be interesting to see. 👍
Hi Simon yeah when they do I'll go back
Excellent filming as always. Glad that you were wearing hard hats.
Thanks for production and sharing Martin.
Thanks very much Roy
Suspect Joseph was just trying to build a basement cinema room but got a bit carried away.
Fabulous and so interesting. I only live a few miles away But never realise the extent of these excavations.👍
Another fantastic video Martin, I find this one absolutely fascinating, those guys are doing a brilliant job. Well Done All
Thank you Alan
Amazing - brilliant video Martin. Can't wait to visit them.
This is mudflood evidence. Check out Rebel without a pause channel to see what its all about.
At 24.35. Maintain 3 points of contact, you were on your way down weren't you ?
Amazing place, great info and your interest is infectious.
Like you say...Mind Blowing... Like another world and a pretty dangerous one for those who are working down there. Another very interesting well presented video. Thank you
Thanks very much
Fantastic work as always, thank you so much Martin!
Thanks very much Adam
What an interesting historical video, thanks for sharing. 👍🙂
Thank you David
Amazing video Martin thank you and all the volunteers so interesting
Always enjoy your videos mate, it took me until my now early 30s to appreciate the surrounds we have throughout the UK, you capture it and your passive of information over it is incredible. Being in the armed forces I’m fortunate to experience a lot of our outdoors from another perspective. Keep up the good work rate mate!
Thanks very much. Really appreciate it
Williamson seems to have bought the out of every one. What a lovely construction and imagination. Fantastic. Well done chaps.
Yes indeed, and thank you
Once again, awesome video! Thank you Martin!
Thanks Mathias
The sandstone arch is of exquisite quality! The joints although mortared are extremely tight! Work like this is not possible today.
We could probably do it, with a bit of research and practice. Stonemasons today do a lot of great work restoring old stone buildings. Money and time is normally the limiting factor - and for new buildings, return on investment.
@@daveg2104 Yeah, alright Dave, maybe but being an advanced craft carpenter of 30 years (so far) I haven't seen this quality from our generation - or anywhere near it! I've even worked with good stonemasons from Bath but this kind of tight joint is not seen nowadays!
@@kevinchamberlain7928 My nephew is a stone mason. Works on a lot of stuff. With laser sights and levels, diamond saws (and I don't even know all the tools of the trade), even hand polishing, it basically comes down to time and money. These days, buildings are constructed to a price (lowest bidder usually wins), and mostly not constructed to last. Just look at the issues with concrete cancer. The construction industry could do better, but where is the incentive. So yes, I do agree that there is a lot of poor tradesmanship going on (and has been for a long time), but shoddy, for a price work isn't really indicative of what could be done if we really wanted to.
@@daveg2104 Everything you said is absolutely correct, Dave! Clearly, you see what's going on around you! Please consider buying "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" by Christopher Dunn. Your nephew and yourself will learn about stone masonry of old which will shatter your paradigm completely! Usually, I won't bother recommending this but you're an astute guy, Dave and you will easily see the problem of government education.
Here's a clip of Chris Dunn:
ruclips.net/video/Jz6Ja_4q6gA/видео.html
@@daveg2104 Everything you said is absolutely correct, Dave! Clearly, you see what's going on around you! Please consider buying "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" by Christopher Dunn. Your nephew and yourself will learn about stone masonry of old which will shatter your paradigm completely! Usually, I won't bother recommending this but you're an astute guy, Dave and you will easily see the problem of government education.
Here's a clip of Chris Dunn:
ruclips.net/video/Jz6Ja_4q6gA/видео.html
The victorians built things for fun hard grafters that got things done.
Mart you definitely want a job on tv ..i could watch you all day very interesting videos mate
Thanks Martin. I think I'll stick to youtube 😀