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I like a good scavenger hunt but should we at least try refurbish some of the old railway places just seeing them fade away into nothing just break my heart seeing it going into nothing less
@@nathantownrow4177 unfortunately, unless there is as usual profit to be made, I ain’t gonna happen. Although as someone in the comment thread mentioned, this would be an excellent holiday let!
Walking amongst the ghosts of the past is an amazing thing. Touching the same door or downspout that someone else rested against over 134 years ago is crazy to me. I love it. I think about that stuff all the time.
As another retired surveyor from the OS I am also very pleased that all the work we did, in all sorts of grubby places in all sorts of weather, is appreciated. In 32 years the dirtiest place I worked was around the engine shed on the North Yorks Moors Railway!
Well on behalf of everyone who loves looking at maps and doing this stuff, thank you very much for sticking your nose’s in all over the place, so we get to enjoy the countryside much more with your mapping!
I love how in old structures even small mundane items had a bit of elegance to their design. Like that drainpipe and those hinges. Amazing! Thank you for sharing this gem. Hello from North Carolina, USA!
Abandoned and overgrown railway buildings do evoke a sense of wonder for sure, I remember my dad taking me on a walk between Glen Parva barracks and the Leicester Birmingham line going towards the old Wigston Glen Parva Station around 1970 and which only a few years earlier had been closed down after the Beeching cuts. A magical memory that I've never forgotten.
Found your channel by chance and so glad I did. As an ex-resident of Harborough, I did many times walk or cycle the Brampton Valley Way and used to explore. Love the history of the surrounding area. Great video and nice to recognise that Leicestershire accent if I am not mistaken. Keep up the super videos. Thank you.
I remember as a kid in the 60s climbing all over abandoned steam engines ...dumped in parks bushland...they were everywhere...To us kids they were better than a day at the amusement park !!! CHEERS.🚂🚃🚃🚃
Cheers. I agree. Although I unfortunately never had the opportunity to gawp at abandoned trains, I prefer sticking my nose in exploring than going to any theme park. Thanks for watching
You should visit the Tanfield railway in County Durham. As well as running heritage locos on a Sunday, there is a train graveyard full of rusting victorian locos and wagons to explore.
Aww, gorgeous! The wood is beautiful as well as the drainpipe and hinges! It's refreshing to see an old structure free from grafitti too. Golden fields of barley is one of nature's most beautiful vistas! Lovely stuff - thank you!
Another great find Steve using those brilliant old maps. I don't know what kind of house you live in Steve but the Victorians knew style and detail and I am privileged to live in one 140 years old and it will still be a fine house when in the far distant future some philistine developer wants to knock it down.
Thank you Chris. My house is a semi detached miners house built in 1903. The old part of my dad’s house is a good 200 years old. Built a lot differently to mine lol! Thanks for watching and commenting buddy.
It's so important that you recorded this railway shed, thank you. Liked the cast drain tray, pipe, hinge and square head door bolts. Victorian engineers where great.
What a terrific find and what an incredible survivor!! A quick check in the Northamptonshire book of "The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands" by Eric Tonks, shows that the railway and quarries here were operated by the Glendon Iron Company from 1882 until 1890, there is also a photo of the loco shed taken in 1953, looking very complete, with the smoke vent in the roof and the very solid looking doors complete too. There is another Ironstone loco shed not too far away at Blisworth, not sure if you have ever made it there, but it is very much worth a visit. The shed survives along with a complete weighbridge, workshop building, plus the buildings are replete with a fair bit of surviving artefacts too. Also, the adjacent trackbed of the ex-B.R. line from Blisworth to Towcester is very accessible, with some deep cuttings, bridges and other relics to see. Thanks for sharing the video Steve, very enjoyable and I'm looking forward to the next one. Cheerz, Alan
Thank you very very much Alan! I will be looking into this immediately! Thanks for the great info. I recently brought an Eric tonks book, not covering this area though. It’s the Corby edition.
@@LeiceExplore The "Where's the Path" website is a good place to start, zoom into the area to the west of Blisworth, adjacent to the A43 is Gayton Wood Farm, to the north, on the other side of a couple of ponds are the loco shed and other buildings, you can see them on the Google Earth window too. Happy 'sploring.........
Another great find Mr Picker. I’ve walked and cycled along here a few times, as I live about 10 miles away. I’ve looked at the siding areas both sides of the road crossing before, but I knew nothing about the old engine shed. I will have to check it out, as it’s a hidden gem. So refreshing to see the absence of graffiti as well. Keep the videos coming, they are most appreciated.
Hello everyone! Thank you for watching this video. If you enjoyed the vid, you may also enjoy this one I did a few weeks ago, also an iron ore tramway with great finds along the way. ruclips.net/video/emfXqDN4SVw/видео.htmlsi=vAalACNa1p75DhQZ
I probably spend 6 hours a week on the NLS side by side viewer, so great for finding all sort of historic things hidden in clumps of trees. Nice investigating work ! And yes the drain pipe is lovely, any original metal feautres are always lovely.
Had two uncles who drove the steam engines nearby in the late 1950s to early 60s near Hanging Houghton, used to ride on them, lovely days, always thought it was a loco shed, enjoyed your video
My neck of the woods! I walk and cycle along the BVW often, you see the odd railway relic here and there but nothing as interesting as your find. There was craftsmanship in building in those days even in mundane features, you see this in houses of that era. Thanks for this video, really enjoyed it.
Thank you very much, I’m very pleased you enjoyed it. It’s nice round there, some of the villages in that area are gorgeous two, built with iron stone.
Another good video Steve, You are getting good at finding these old engine sheds! I do love your selection of photos used on the intro to your channel... 😃👍🏻
You can see this engine shed from the A508 on the left hand side heading south not long after passing through Maidwell, in the Winter months , when the vegetation has died back, or at least you certainly could a couple of years ago. As someone else has said, its mentioned in the Eric Tonks book about the Ironstone Railways of Northamptonshire. Thanks for posting Steve!
Steve mate, I totally agree. I’m a sucker for fireplaces. Fireplaces in abandoned plate layers huts or signal boxes is one of my weird loves 🤣 Just something about fireplaces for me.
I agree with you 100% , There is something magical about those old structures.. You and me are alike... When I see them I imagine the day when they were filled with the people that worked there, and operating as they did... Just a cool feel.. Love it!
Love this video, I often pas this line when I come over from Belgium to visit relatives in Leicester. And I'm also a British model train collector, these branch lines are often a good a source of information for a layout. One thing I want to point out is that it also had a roof dome, you can see just some of the old frame work sticking out. It probably acted as a vent to get the chimney fumes out. Great find thanks for chairing…
Another great video, loved the pictures at the beginning of the older exploits. Such a great find with the engine house. Always going above and beyond to find our history 😊😊
Cheers mate! I do have some waders. I’m the situation I was in today, I’d sooner just get wet, but wading through water in rivers and what have ya, yes.
Hi mate,my best friend,s brother made a quid recycling bricks, he would buy railway sidings buildings just like this and bigger. Keep up the great work cheers mate 👍
Thanks Steve. Interesting story and most definitely an Engine Shed. A lost piece of our Industrial Heritage. Nice to hear you mention Ruston Bucyrus. Both my father and brother worked for them up in Lincoln.
Thank you very much! I love looking at old photos of diggers, I really do. I do drive modern day excavators as part of my job occasionally when the main driver of our gang is away.
@@LeiceExplore Your very welcome Steve. A great day out for me in the early 60's was visiting RB's open day, jumping around in all the big buckets on show! The popular 22RB sold all over the world.
Thank you. I didn’t enjoy school at all really. I didn’t enjoy history either, “learning” about wars, not for me. But this side of things, since the age of 15, I’ve always been interested.
Nice, thought the same about the drainpipe. It is a beauty thought, and the support trusses are solid, though I didn't get a good look at them to tell if they were iron or wood.
Thank you. I’ll tell ya what, there’s a lot of us getting excited about that old drain pipe lol! The bloke who fixed it to the wall in the 1880’s would never have thought in his wildest dreams that 130 odd years later we would be showing it some love lol! Thanks for watching
Love this, couldnt see any smoke stain from the engine, it would have been above the doors, I agree the first floor is an addition as a loco would not have fitted.not all sheds had a pit, ash would have been raked out onto a steel plate, so as not to set fire to the sleepers. Thoroughly enjoyed this, 👍
Fantastic find man, I truly live stuff like this out on a walk!! We were in Fakenham town and I looked left into a small ally, a rusty victorian drain pipe with beautiful old top section stopped me in my tracks, needless to say the missus continued on haha.
Thank you. Yes, the small details, in places that wouldn’t get noticed much. A by gone era. We seem to be devolving this day and age in terms of craftsmanship. Thanks for watching.
I live down the road from there. There are a couple more survivor buildings a bit further along in fields from the ironstone quarrying times as well as the old wheel house for the tram line at Scaldwell.
What comes to mind is how little has changed in building techniques in the last 130 year. But if it works why change. Also how much pride was in the Mfg. of things back then to make them look nice, even a drain pipe. Now days stamp it out paint it it's good to go. England such a treasure for stuff like this. You find it some here in the US but most times it's vandalized. Was hoping there might have been an engine in there.
Thank you. Yes, it was a whole different world back when this was built. Can you imagine if there had have been a steam engine left behind in here! That would’ve been amazing!
It’d be great to see, although, I don’t know about you, but I like to come across things in that condition, gives them character and tells a story. Thanks for watching
As someome that grew up in Lutterworth i find this very interesting . I remember in junior school playing football against Welford,Great and Little Bowdon , and other obscure villages. Later in life i played for North Kilworth , Husbands Bosworth and Lutterworth , .The names of the villages seem so strange now after 45 years in the U.S..
The Victorians built to last. Imagine someone coming across a 1960's built structure in the woods 130 years from now!! "This pile of debris used to be a house"
'Fields of Gold' was written by Sting and covered by Eva Cassidy. Sting was very possesive of that song and refused all requests for cover versions until he heard Eva Cassidy's demo. His response to the demo was along the lines of 'it's not my song any more' and freely gave Eva permission to release her version. Eva, regretably, succumbed to cancer at just 33 years old. Thanks for the video - I just had to correct that bit! 😄
Thank you, I usually get summat wrong haha! I didn’t realise she was as young as that when she died. She had possibly the best, purist vocal that I’ve ever heard to. Thanks for watching
What I like about this most is, even that Hopper had to be designed, patterned and then to the forge. As every thing until the computer it was from human engineering. From thought, design to the draughtsman to the engineer to the customer.. every one had jobs to do erve apprenticeship and then apply their trade..
On holiday in poland visiting wife's family and done a bit of exploring of a old train night shed and it kept 5 and turn table laid down in 1890s fell out of use in 1950s but all still there was really cool might upload
Loved the video... And your commentary which is straight up. For a Londoner who has been living in New Zealand for many many years, it's great to hear the old cockney rhyming slang.... The old currant bun. Lol. You have a new subscriber and I look forward to viewing your earlier adventures. :--)
Thank you very much! It’s great that these videos are being watched as far away as New Zealand, I often think I sound daft when I’m editing lol! Thanks for watching!
Might seem odd to admire a drain pipe but did you notice the details put into everything made back then , nobody does this now , that's why you find it magical..once upon a time we cared about quality.......that's why it's still there....
I love old derelict buildings and old drain pipes for that matter , I often wonder about the men who built and worked in these buildings or who put up those drain pipes who have now faded into the obscurity of history.
Im fascinated by the old railway that ran from bishops Stortford to Braintree. Mainly a path now but some things remain. Like an original station in rayne. Theres a carriage somewhere on outskirts of dunmow that i will find one day.
Another good one Steve, have you ever been to the cloud trail at worthington just the other side of Ashby it’s a former railway but is now a Sustrans cycle route that you can walk, Brendon quarry is next to it and you can look down into the quarry there are odd bits of railway stuff about and there used to be some sort of machine by the river viaduct, weekday would be quietest.
The appeal structures of this age have for me is the quality of craftsmanship and attention to aesthetic detail. Construction practices that are no longer affordable. Modern typically equates to ugly.
I find it sad what we have become. We live in a world that has got quicker. Fast food, high speed internet. But us the species have gone backwards lol! Thanks for watching.
Great discovery there, The TV show Time Team made several references to British Trust. Is it possible that they could provide information about old, but not quite "Roman" old cultural structures and roadways ? Also what were those white flowers you pushed thru ? I saw one that looked like wild carrots, but others looked like water hemlock !
Thank you! If structures like this haven’t been built on, but end up just falling down and what’s left of foundations covered, maybe archeologists will in a thousand years uncover what’s left, then find a one thousand years old video of me finding it! Now there’s a thought! That plant was indeed poisonous Hemlock!
That shed doesn't seem big enough to house a standard gauge engine, even without the loft. It does, however, seem to be the right size for a couple narrow gauge engines side-by-side. Narrow gauge engines are often used in quarries when space is too tight for a standard gauge engine, and, due to their smaller gauge, they can make tighter turns than standard. When quarries need to transfer a load from narrow to standard, they use an elevated platform either directly above the standard rails with a simple frame below to allow for the transfer of the quarry's product or adjacent to them with a chute angled towards the cars below.
Hello there! Yes, it does look a bit small for a standard gauge engine, I did read that the line was standard gauge, but that could’ve been wrong of course, because this line had been out of use for a very long time. Thanks for watching.
@@Game_Blox9999 a narrow gauge line did run from Scaldwell to Holcot,not to far away, I think part of the engine shed is in someone's yard in Scaldwell, you can see it from the road, it's corrugated metal
Eric Tonks wrote a series of books about ironstone mining in the area. This tramway does feature in one of those books. I don’t have it currently, but I do have another that is a good read.
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As a retired Ordnance Surveyor, I'm glad that our old maps from NLS are so valuable to explorers and family historians. Made it all worthwhile!
I’d be lost without these online maps, and the OS explorer maps I take out with me. They are a vital resource in what I do.
I like a good scavenger hunt but should we at least try refurbish some of the old railway places just seeing them fade away into nothing just break my heart seeing it going into nothing less
@@nathantownrow4177 unfortunately, unless there is as usual profit to be made, I ain’t gonna happen. Although as someone in the comment thread mentioned, this would be an excellent holiday let!
OS maps are up there with my favourite things, I use OS maps daily.
Walking amongst the ghosts of the past is an amazing thing. Touching the same door or downspout that someone else rested against over 134 years ago is crazy to me. I love it. I think about that stuff all the time.
That drain pipe, that hand-forged hinge and old chimneys tickle my fancy! Love these old buildings, built with style.
Brilliant! I ain’t the only one then lol
It's getting your head around the fact that the building last saw a steam engine in 1890 and it's been derelict for over a century. Excellent video.
Thank you very much. That’s just it, a lot has happened in the world since it last seen a steam train. Crazy ain’t it? Thanks for watching.
The important thing is that the shed still survives! The drain pipe and hinges are pieces of functional artistry.
They certainly are!
As another retired surveyor from the OS I am also very pleased that all the work we did, in all sorts of grubby places in all sorts of weather, is appreciated. In 32 years the dirtiest place I worked was around the engine shed on the North Yorks Moors Railway!
Well on behalf of everyone who loves looking at maps and doing this stuff, thank you very much for sticking your nose’s in all over the place, so we get to enjoy the countryside much more with your mapping!
So you would have surveyed the Ingleby Incline?
@@robfinch1522 Hardly. It was dismantled in 1929; well before I was born!
@@simonchapman5611Whoops, Sorry, didn`t mean the active incline, just subsequent surveys for map updates
I love how in old structures even small mundane items had a bit of elegance to their design. Like that drainpipe and those hinges. Amazing! Thank you for sharing this gem. Hello from North Carolina, USA!
Thank you very much! Like you say, even a little structure like this had great detail! And hello from north west Leicestershire!
Abandoned and overgrown railway buildings do evoke a sense of wonder for sure, I remember my dad taking me on a walk between Glen Parva barracks and the Leicester Birmingham line going towards the old Wigston Glen Parva Station around 1970 and which only a few years earlier had been closed down after the Beeching cuts. A magical memory that I've never forgotten.
Thank you. Same here, loads of magical memories. They really do evoke a sense of wonder, you’re right.
I loved that drainpipe proper victorian design. Built to last.
Cheers Andy! I know right? Everything they did was exceptionally good, they even did it in places that would hardly ever be seen.
Found your channel by chance and so glad I did. As an ex-resident of Harborough, I did many times walk or cycle the Brampton Valley Way and used to explore. Love the history of the surrounding area. Great video and nice to recognise that Leicestershire accent if I am not mistaken. Keep up the super videos. Thank you.
Thank you very much! And welcome aboard the crazy train that is LeiceExplore! I am indeed from Leicestershire.
I remember as a kid in the 60s climbing all over abandoned steam engines ...dumped in parks bushland...they were everywhere...To us kids they were better than a day at the amusement park !!! CHEERS.🚂🚃🚃🚃
Cheers. I agree. Although I unfortunately never had the opportunity to gawp at abandoned trains, I prefer sticking my nose in exploring than going to any theme park. Thanks for watching
You should visit the Tanfield railway in County Durham. As well as running heritage locos on a Sunday, there is a train graveyard full of rusting victorian locos and wagons to explore.
Aww, gorgeous! The wood is beautiful as well as the drainpipe and hinges! It's refreshing to see an old structure free from grafitti too. Golden fields of barley is one of nature's most beautiful vistas! Lovely stuff - thank you!
Thank you Clair. Yeah just as the sun shines on it like in this vid with the barley. Perfect.
You do manage to find some absolute gems! Branch lines and tramways seem to have all the true hidden gems.
Cheers mate. I spend a lot of time looking at maps, and I’m literally doing it as we speak!
Should be restored to a museum!!!
Another great find Steve using those brilliant old maps. I don't know what kind of house you live in Steve but the Victorians knew style and detail and I am privileged to live in one 140 years old and it will still be a fine house when in the far distant future some philistine developer wants to knock it down.
Thank you Chris. My house is a semi detached miners house built in 1903. The old part of my dad’s house is a good 200 years old. Built a lot differently to mine lol! Thanks for watching and commenting buddy.
It's so important that you recorded this railway shed, thank you. Liked the cast drain tray, pipe, hinge and square head door bolts. Victorian engineers where great.
sorry "were" great.
Thank you very much. It brings me a lot of joy looking at this stuff. Thank you for watching
What a terrific find and what an incredible survivor!!
A quick check in the Northamptonshire book of "The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands" by Eric Tonks, shows that the railway and quarries here were operated by the Glendon Iron Company from 1882 until 1890, there is also a photo of the loco shed taken in 1953, looking very complete, with the smoke vent in the roof and the very solid looking doors complete too.
There is another Ironstone loco shed not too far away at Blisworth, not sure if you have ever made it there, but it is very much worth a visit. The shed survives along with a complete weighbridge, workshop building, plus the buildings are replete with a fair bit of surviving artefacts too. Also, the adjacent trackbed of the ex-B.R. line from Blisworth to Towcester is very accessible, with some deep cuttings, bridges and other relics to see.
Thanks for sharing the video Steve, very enjoyable and I'm looking forward to the next one. Cheerz, Alan
Thank you very very much Alan! I will be looking into this immediately! Thanks for the great info. I recently brought an Eric tonks book, not covering this area though. It’s the Corby edition.
@@LeiceExplore The "Where's the Path" website is a good place to start, zoom into the area to the west of Blisworth, adjacent to the A43 is Gayton Wood Farm, to the north, on the other side of a couple of ponds are the loco shed and other buildings, you can see them on the Google Earth window too. Happy 'sploring.........
Our fearless leader is back once again! Great find!
Thank you very much! I’ll always be sticking my beak in somewhere for you lovely lot!
Another great find Mr Picker.
I’ve walked and cycled along here a few times, as I live about 10 miles away.
I’ve looked at the siding areas both sides of the road crossing before, but I knew nothing about the old engine shed.
I will have to check it out, as it’s a hidden gem. So refreshing to see the absence of graffiti as well.
Keep the videos coming, they are most appreciated.
Thank you very much mark. Thank you so much for watching, because that is greatly appreciated also!
@LeiceExplore you are most welcome old boy.
Hello everyone! Thank you for watching this video. If you enjoyed the vid, you may also enjoy this one I did a few weeks ago, also an iron ore tramway with great finds along the way.
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Love the overgrown finds. Thanks Steve for the wet and soggy trek.
Always a pleasure and never a chore mate, even if I did get wet!
Love the drainpipe and the rounded brick pillars in the corners, thanks for sharing!
Thank you. And thank you very much for watching.
I probably spend 6 hours a week on the NLS side by side viewer, so great for finding all sort of historic things hidden in clumps of trees. Nice investigating work !
And yes the drain pipe is lovely, any original metal feautres are always lovely.
As,e here! I spend untold hours scanning our beautiful land. They are an incredible resource they really are.
Had two uncles who drove the steam engines nearby in the late 1950s to early 60s near Hanging Houghton, used to ride on them, lovely days, always thought it was a loco shed, enjoyed your video
Thank you, and I’m pleased you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing this amazing video. There is so much heritage to be found in Leics and Northants.
Thank you very much. I’m very pleased you enjoyed it.
My neck of the woods! I walk and cycle along the BVW often, you see the odd railway relic here and there but nothing as interesting as your find. There was craftsmanship in building in those days even in mundane features, you see this in houses of that era. Thanks for this video, really enjoyed it.
Thank you very much, I’m very pleased you enjoyed it. It’s nice round there, some of the villages in that area are gorgeous two, built with iron stone.
Another good video Steve,
You are getting good at finding these old engine sheds!
I do love your selection of photos used on the intro to your channel...
😃👍🏻
Cheers Eddie! All those pics were taken by Delighted Dave. I could have picked hundreds from his back catalogue
Thank you for sharing your adventure.
And thank you for watching it to!
You can see this engine shed from the A508 on the left hand side heading south not long after passing through Maidwell, in the Winter months , when the vegetation has died back, or at least you certainly could a couple of years ago. As someone else has said, its mentioned in the Eric Tonks book about the Ironstone Railways of Northamptonshire.
Thanks for posting Steve!
Thank you very much. I recently brought one of Eric’s books, they are brilliant
"Victorian" - what's not to love...thank you for taking us along on your little adventure....John (in Australia).
Thank you John! It’s great to know that people are watching from Australia. Thanks for watching.
Steve mate, I totally agree. I’m a sucker for fireplaces. Fireplaces in abandoned plate layers huts or signal boxes is one of my weird loves 🤣 Just something about fireplaces for me.
Eh up Davey! I love Platelayers huts! And like you, I love the fireplaces buddy
Love old buildings and the iron work like that they took pride in
Thank you very much. A by gone era that’s for sure. Thanks for watching.
I feel the same, going to an old railway station just makes you feel good.
Absolutely buddy. I love these old buildings, especially when they are in a bit of a state, gives um a bit of charm for me personally
I agree with you 100% , There is something magical about those old structures.. You and me are alike... When I see them I imagine the day when they were filled with the people that worked there, and operating as they did... Just a cool feel.. Love it!
Thank you! Yes, I spend a lot of time at this places, and I see and hear everything that used to go on in my minds eye!
Very very interesting..I like the gentleman's enthusiasm.
Thank you very much!
Love this video, I often pas this line when I come over from Belgium to visit relatives in Leicester.
And I'm also a British model train collector, these branch lines are often a good a source of information for a layout.
One thing I want to point out is that it also had a roof dome, you can see just some of the old frame work sticking out.
It probably acted as a vent to get the chimney fumes out.
Great find thanks for chairing…
Thank you, I’m very pleased you enjoyed the video. You’re right, there was ventilation. Thanks for watching.
Great find, this mate. On a roll!
Cheers our Gaz! I think I’ve found summat else down that way to buddy.
@@LeiceExplore keep meaning to get down Northampton way. I know there is a lot going off. Just bloody childcare!
Cracking video lovely little engine shed love the down pipe wish they were made like that nowadays,sadly just to much plastic. Take care and thankyou.
Thank you, I’m very pleased you enjoyed it. I know, plastic, horrible stuff ain it!
Another great video, loved the pictures at the beginning of the older exploits. Such a great find with the engine house. Always going above and beyond to find our history 😊😊
Thank you very much Dave!
Cracking noseh that one, loved your closing monologue, sums up exactly why we’re all into this stuff.
Thank you Russ. I sometimes struggle to put it into words to be honest mate.
You got it spot on mate, it was from the heart too, brilliant.
@@russlee5500 cheers mate. While editing, I often think I sound OTT, but, it’s natural, so I leave it in.
Ey up Steve, another railway noseh, love it! You’re spoiling us! ❤👍🏻
Cheers Max buddy! At the same time I’m spoiling myself to lol
That’s cool wee place man these wee old gems r a great to see my man 👍👍👍👍👍
Cheers. There are so much more hidden gems in this green and pleasant land of ours to find that’s for sure. Thanks for watching
Who doesn't love a good hopper!!
I also love the drain pipe mate 👌 nice find and bit of history 👌
lol! I know, what is wrong with us haha! Yeah I love those details
Brilliant as ever, love it. You do need some waterproofs mate!
Cheers mate! I do have some waders. I’m the situation I was in today, I’d sooner just get wet, but wading through water in rivers and what have ya, yes.
Great job sir! Best to you from Cape Coral, Florida, USA.
Thank you very much. I’m very pleased you enjoyed it!
Hahah i like your friend, i also wouldve been satisfied with hinges n the pipe too.
Awesome little shed, thank you for the exploration
Thank you very much! I know, a rusty old hinge getting everyone in a sweat haha! Thanks for watching
Hi mate,my best friend,s brother made a quid recycling bricks, he would buy railway sidings buildings just like this and bigger. Keep up the great work cheers mate 👍
Thank you for watching Ian. I know a few piles of old bricks that’s for sure!
Happy days Steve, I'm a Leicester lad and love me some history, especially local and industrial revolution based! Subbed 👍
Thank you very much mate, it’s very much appreciated.
Nice one Steve, im not wired up right either 😂 Love that down pipe😅
Cheers buddy! It’s great to not be wired up right, who wants to be like the crowd anyway!
Thanks Steve. Interesting story and most definitely an Engine Shed. A lost piece of our Industrial Heritage. Nice to hear you mention Ruston Bucyrus. Both my father and brother worked for them up in Lincoln.
Thank you very much! I love looking at old photos of diggers, I really do. I do drive modern day excavators as part of my job occasionally when the main driver of our gang is away.
@@LeiceExplore Your very welcome Steve. A great day out for me in the early 60's was visiting RB's open day, jumping around in all the big buckets on show! The popular 22RB sold all over the world.
I’m with you, I’m always amazed and wonder with these old relics, more so in my older age, yet remember at school how I hated history 🤷🏻♂️😂
Thank you. I didn’t enjoy school at all really. I didn’t enjoy history either, “learning” about wars, not for me. But this side of things, since the age of 15, I’ve always been interested.
I love these historical video and walking through our history filled country side . So I've just subscribed to your channel .
Thank you for watching, and thank you very much for subscribing, it’s very much appreciated!
Nice, thought the same about the drainpipe. It is a beauty thought, and the support trusses are solid, though I didn't get a good look at them to tell if they were iron or wood.
Thank you. I’ll tell ya what, there’s a lot of us getting excited about that old drain pipe lol! The bloke who fixed it to the wall in the 1880’s would never have thought in his wildest dreams that 130 odd years later we would be showing it some love lol! Thanks for watching
Love this, couldnt see any smoke stain from the engine, it would have been above the doors, I agree the first floor is an addition as a loco would not have fitted.not all sheds had a pit, ash would have been raked out onto a steel plate, so as not to set fire to the sleepers.
Thoroughly enjoyed this, 👍
Thank you Simon. And I’m very pleased you enjoyed it!
Just found your videos, very interesting, I'll be watching your other ones. Thanks for making them.
Thank you for discovering LeiceExplore. I hope you enjoy watching my videos.
Fantastic find man, I truly live stuff like this out on a walk!!
We were in Fakenham town and I looked left into a small ally, a rusty victorian drain pipe with beautiful old top section stopped me in my tracks, needless to say the missus continued on haha.
Thank you. Yes, the small details, in places that wouldn’t get noticed much. A by gone era. We seem to be devolving this day and age in terms of craftsmanship. Thanks for watching.
It's like a journey into the past, it's throuly magic
Thank you. Yes it’s a great little gem this one is.
Great find. Nice job.
Thank you very much, and thank you for watching
Top chap, love all that stuff.
Thanks a lot, much appreciated.
I live down the road from there. There are a couple more survivor buildings a bit further along in fields from the ironstone quarrying times as well as the old wheel house for the tram line at Scaldwell.
Thank you for the information, I’ll be looking into it.
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What comes to mind is how little has changed in building techniques in the last 130 year. But if it works why change. Also how much pride was in the Mfg. of things back then to make them look nice, even a drain pipe. Now days stamp it out paint it it's good to go. England such a treasure for stuff like this. You find it some here in the US but most times it's vandalized. Was hoping there might have been an engine in there.
Thank you. Yes, it was a whole different world back when this was built. Can you imagine if there had have been a steam engine left behind in here! That would’ve been amazing!
Brilliant!
Thanks Paul!
Someone needs to restore that shed to its original appearance!
It’d be great to see, although, I don’t know about you, but I like to come across things in that condition, gives them character and tells a story. Thanks for watching
What a lovely find.
Thank you very much!
As someome that grew up in Lutterworth i find this very interesting . I remember in junior school playing football against Welford,Great and Little Bowdon , and other obscure villages. Later in life i played for North Kilworth , Husbands Bosworth and Lutterworth , .The names of the villages seem so strange now after 45 years in the U.S..
Thank you. It’s changed an awful lot round that area in that time that’s for sure!
The Victorians built to last. Imagine someone coming across a 1960's built structure in the woods 130 years from now!! "This pile of debris used to be a house"
They certainly did. And in 150 years from now, I can’t imagine explorers will find our buildings as interesting lol
it's great comparing old maps against new 1ns and spotting how long things have been around
Its fantastic. I love um!
Great documentary 🚂👍
Thank you very much!
In Fields of Gold ; STING , yes I am 63 and that song came out in my 30's ...yeah in fields of gold. Still searching for that lady. 🙏🏻
It’s a great song, I love it
'Fields of Gold' was written by Sting and covered by Eva Cassidy. Sting was very possesive of that song and refused all requests for cover versions until he heard Eva Cassidy's demo. His response to the demo was along the lines of 'it's not my song any more' and freely gave Eva permission to release her version. Eva, regretably, succumbed to cancer at just 33 years old.
Thanks for the video - I just had to correct that bit! 😄
Thank you, I usually get summat wrong haha! I didn’t realise she was as young as that when she died. She had possibly the best, purist vocal that I’ve ever heard to. Thanks for watching
What I like about this most is, even that Hopper had to be designed, patterned and then to the forge. As every thing until the computer it was from human engineering. From thought, design to the draughtsman to the engineer to the customer.. every one had jobs to do erve apprenticeship and then apply their trade..
That’s just the way I think about these things, every time I’m out looking at stuff
First time viewer. I loved the video. Thank you.
Thank you. It’s very much appreciated
On holiday in poland visiting wife's family and done a bit of exploring of a old train night shed and it kept 5 and turn table laid down in 1890s fell out of use in 1950s but all still there was really cool might upload
Now that sounds like somewhere I’d love to see!
Loved the video... And your commentary which is straight up. For a Londoner who has been living in New Zealand for many many years, it's great to hear the old cockney rhyming slang.... The old currant bun. Lol. You have a new subscriber and I look forward to viewing your earlier adventures. :--)
Thank you very much! It’s great that these videos are being watched as far away as New Zealand, I often think I sound daft when I’m editing lol! Thanks for watching!
The tops of those old drainpipes, hung on a house or garden wall, make excellent plant holders.
In a 130 years time, I don’t think anyone will say that about todays drain pipes lol
Ich habe sie wieder gefunden.❤❤
Danke
Sehr interessant
Vielen dank, dass sie sich mein video angesehen haben ich weis es wirklich zu schatzen. Ich habe google verwendet haha!
Might seem odd to admire a drain pipe but did you notice the details put into everything made back then , nobody does this now , that's why you find it magical..once upon a time we cared about quality.......that's why it's still there....
Absolutely. One thing is certain, people in 100 years time won’t admire today’s architecture like we do with this old stuff. Thanks for. Watching.
Thanks, mate.
No worries, thanks for watching!
I love old derelict buildings and old drain pipes for that matter , I often wonder about the men who built and worked in these buildings or who put up those drain pipes who have now faded into the obscurity of history.
I’m always thinking about those that built it all. Expect a video on them in the future.
Im fascinated by the old railway that ran from bishops Stortford to Braintree. Mainly a path now but some things remain. Like an original station in rayne. Theres a carriage somewhere on outskirts of dunmow that i will find one day.
Thank you. I’m gonna look into that!
I've seen this on another Local Channel. Good job Boys.
Thank you! I looked to see if anyone else had been here, but didn’t find anything. I suppose it depends on the title of the video I guess.
Cool video. Thank you
Than you very much for watching
Made 15 minutes on the cross trainer easy, great watch as always, bit of a Matthew Corbett bye-bye at the end although it's not a bad thing
Top banana Lord Beers/Earl of JOOP/Achbishop Ponytail lol! That’s a new un on me a mathew Corbett bye bye lol!
Thank you.
No worries Mike. Thanks for watching.
Another good one Steve, have you ever been to the cloud trail at worthington just the other side of Ashby it’s a former railway but is now a Sustrans cycle route that you can walk, Brendon quarry is next to it and you can look down into the quarry there are odd bits of railway stuff about and there used to be some sort of machine by the river viaduct, weekday would be quietest.
Hi Chris, thanks mate. Yes, I know it very well, I’ve done some videos down there.
Nice one I have had some happy times mooching around it
the fact that the shed has gone through 2 world wars, almost a nucluar war, and many different land owners
It’s amazing isnt it? A survivor of a by gone era. Thanks for watching
A great video
Thank you very much
I wonder if any of these properties ever come up for sale? Would be nice to do this up.
On very odd occasions I suppose. It’s in a beautiful area to.
Awsome. Martin zero would be proud
Thank you very much! Yeah I really enjoy Martins videos.
Definitely reminds me of Duke the lost engine in the episode, "Sleeping Beauty".
I ain’t never seen it
Well done
Thank you.
The appeal structures of this age have for me is the quality of craftsmanship and attention to aesthetic detail. Construction practices that are no longer affordable. Modern typically equates to ugly.
I find it sad what we have become. We live in a world that has got quicker. Fast food, high speed internet. But us the species have gone backwards lol! Thanks for watching.
Great discovery there, The TV show Time Team made several references to British Trust. Is it possible that they could provide information about old, but not quite "Roman" old cultural structures and roadways ? Also what were those white flowers you pushed thru ? I saw one that looked like wild carrots, but others looked like water hemlock !
Thank you! If structures like this haven’t been built on, but end up just falling down and what’s left of foundations covered, maybe archeologists will in a thousand years uncover what’s left, then find a one thousand years old video of me finding it! Now there’s a thought! That plant was indeed poisonous Hemlock!
That roof has the remains of a skylight that would have had open vents to allow the smoke out from the engines chimney.
That shed doesn't seem big enough to house a standard gauge engine, even without the loft. It does, however, seem to be the right size for a couple narrow gauge engines side-by-side. Narrow gauge engines are often used in quarries when space is too tight for a standard gauge engine, and, due to their smaller gauge, they can make tighter turns than standard. When quarries need to transfer a load from narrow to standard, they use an elevated platform either directly above the standard rails with a simple frame below to allow for the transfer of the quarry's product or adjacent to them with a chute angled towards the cars below.
Hello there! Yes, it does look a bit small for a standard gauge engine, I did read that the line was standard gauge, but that could’ve been wrong of course, because this line had been out of use for a very long time. Thanks for watching.
@@Game_Blox9999 a narrow gauge line did run from Scaldwell to Holcot,not to far away, I think part of the engine shed is in someone's yard in Scaldwell, you can see it from the road, it's corrugated metal
I couldn't find any information about the engine(s) that worked on that little tramway.
Eric Tonks wrote a series of books about ironstone mining in the area. This tramway does feature in one of those books. I don’t have it currently, but I do have another that is a good read.
My name is Chris and I like drainpipes
lol!
looked longer from the outside than the inside -strange place!
Come to think of it, yes it does! Maybe it was a faulty tardis or summat! Thanks for watching.