Hi Martin, great video. Just some info Zac and Jack may find interesting: my Nana worked in the Calico Printworks as a little girl (her family also worked there). She was born in 1902 and so this would have been 1909-10 period. She used to tell me stories of getting very upset at having to work in bare feet in the mill (due to the risk of fire) because of the thick oil on the floor getting on her feet - she said it also used to make her feel really sick, and made the skin on her feet really sore. In the end, they were given little soft, material slippers to wear that protected her feet a little. She absolutely hated working there. Great video, lads!
Martin , just a thought - this magazine style of framework is so flexible and the content can be across the board ... your quality makes it all work - so keeping it going and involving your audience is great once in a while ...just a thought.
Fantastic series Martin. Your interest and enthusiasm is so good to encourage others to have an u understanding in industrial archaeology which is the most interesting part of history.
I used to see the weir in the 50’s and loved watching the cascading water. There were hardly any trees on the valley floor and a clear view to Arden Hall now the motorway cuts right across in front. The print works was there and a row of cottages. Also remember the ski jump that was built there one summer. Great video. Thanks to the boys reviving happy memories of Reddish Vale
From The Forgotten Valley, page 28, "In its later years the coal from Wind Hill Pit was carried into the valley by means of a tramway, the line first spanning the Ashworth Road then dropping down the hill, across a timber trellis, through a narrow cutting and finally terminating at the foot of Deeply Hill. There were two four wheel wagons in use, each carrying five 21/2cwt. tubs of coal, and the gradient of the line allowed them to enter the valley by their own momentum. They were hauled back by means of a cable which was powered by a stationary steam engine situated by the pit".
Another great video with some great contributions from Chris and his family and the boys and mum. Essential viewing on a Sunday evening from Steve in Bridlington.
Loved the video - as always - and the guest stars were fantastic! Sharing a love of history and curiosity is a great thing! Cheers from across the pond! Keep on cracking on!
Adventure Family following the footsteps of history.... Wonderful enjoyment... are outings of memory with the family, and a plus wondering through history that surrounds us. Cheers.
Cheers Martin, thanks for the inclusion. If anyone wants us to make more, we'll do what we can. This was our first atempt. Cheers, Chris, Elizabeth, Thomas and Rosemary on camera!!!
very informative. I'm in Northern Ireland (but from St Helens) never been to Hull , so had no idea where you were, but still found it fascinating what was left from 50 yrs ago.for a first attempt it was very good. keep it up and ignore the ars****s . ..... Mitch
Well done Chris. Loads of incredible, under-appreciated history in the Old Town and docklands as well as the grand industrial warehouses, wharves and silos of the River Hull!
Excellent video. I was dubious at first, I admit it. But I soon got sucked in and enjoyed it all. Such a pleasant change from that grumpy Mancs bloke who's always knee-deep in rivers! XD XD
wonderful great to see you all and thank you for taking us out with you all even if i was still indoors on lockdown cheers from trev and Chris down south in Sussex by the sea
Been loven the magazine style all along here. I'd like to see you work with Jack and Zach again on something kid oriented but historical in origin. Things have come a long way since the trap door in the canal. Looking forward to the next video.
The strong construction of the right of way bridge for farm travel under the disused railway line in Hull show i think the importance placed on the farm and rural commerce still based on a running river even as the steel rail developed , amazing ,its so easy for things to be out of sight out of mind , and i now need some goggles when i watch , hmm which should they be ,, hmmm maybe both i think , one to remind me of tea time and the other to get a closer look at things , great stuff thanks martin and team (s)
Excellent as always Martin. Great contribution from Chris and family and the lads from Jay Zay. Really good to see young people taking an interest in their local history. Many thanks.
I am so impressed with the lads who have been watching your videos! I hope to inspire younger folk to take an interest in what is around them, too! Great video as always, and I love the content you've included this time - it is great when people are inspired and want to engage! Jack and Zach were brilliant as were your official Hull reporters including Elizabeth and Thomas! Brilliant work and you did a great job of connecting the different aspects of your story! ~M x
yes i try with my thirteen year old daughter . she gives me strange looks . but she does take it in and remember too 'best wishes from wigan still in lancashire
I loved this kind of stuff at that age as well. How things work, why they were built. Not a log of obvious physical heritage in the part of Canada where I grew up, but I was lucky enough to see Spain in '78 (got some assault rifles pointed at us in Gibralter. Prepared me for travelling in the US . . . ), Germany/France in /84 & China in the late nineties. I suspect the only reason boys don't like studying history in places where you can see it all around you is because they don't take it out of the classroom often enough.
Very interested to see Reddish Vale as my Dad lived in Reddish as a young man before WW2. He and his twin brother used to sketch around Stockport and Reddish Vale, I still have some of his sketches which are 70 years old. Loved those young lads , watch your back Martin 😂
South Manchester,I was born and brought up in Gatley ....in those days 1950’s/early 1960’s we still had steam trains on 2 seperate lines at the top of our road,Pendlebury rd Gatley...nowadays it’s the motorway where there were fields from which we did our train spotting... different times ,love your videos 🙂👋my gran lived in HeatonMersey...and we saw the stream trains there as well,......all long gone 😕
Blimey Martin I think you might have some competition there with Jack and Zak very knowledgeable young men, glad you will be out and about next week but I have also enjoyed the magazine style blogs so thanks for keeping us entertained though this awful time. Love to everyone out there hope your all safe and well.
We have railroad embankments here in northern Kentuckythat are huge with culverts that do double duty as roads, very narrow and low, date to early 1900's. I don't know of any borrow pits so I imagine they shifted Earth from cuttings and redistributed it. Great fun trying to drive through them during heavy rains!
So many wonderful things here,the history as well as your young audience! There are more kids like this ,just need a bit of visibility. YOU all are amazing.
Really enjoyed that. Miss mash is just great, especially the boys good on them hope their channel goes well. Thanks Martin for taking me along and please stay safe
I think history is great for kids and don't understand why more are not interested. I mean think about it - you are uncovering treasures from the past and unlocking lost worlds from books. Then being able to see the remains in reality brings these worlds to life. Love the magazine style content alongside the rest.
Fantastic video not surprised you have inspired the young ones and its great they have developed such an interest. Love the goggles we get a lot of steam punkers in Morecambe through the summer. Great to sit in the old Bruccianis café which dates back to the 1930 s and is still original selling their homemade ice cream watching all the different costumes passing by.. You must try it if you ever get to Morecambe.
A nice lighthearted video. It's great that you have some budding competition in the making. I hope this inspires more young people to explore their local history and share it with others.
Good magazine style video enjoyed the special guest made a change great lads they should do well. Loving the back in time railway adventures you never know what you find hidden in these over grown places. It always astonishes me in the work involved in making these tunnels and bridges all by hand and wheel barrow amazing really.
We lived in Brinnington in the early sixties and used to go down the vale quit regularly, in the summer we would strip down to our shorts and incredibly play on the top of the weir, walking over to the top edge to what you call strines weir and generally messing about on it. One summer me and my friends went down the vale with our mums for a picnic they say by the river near the viaduct and we as usual went to the weir messing around on it. shortly after our mums walked over saw what we were up to and we got a right thick ear for being so stupid.Oh god i cant believe some of the stunts we got up down there. Another great film Martin.
Martin, You never have to apologise for the content of your videos....they're always great. Bought my first house right next to Reddish Vale back in the mid 70's, so your collaboration with Zak and Jack was very interesting. The Vale seems a lot more wooded now than I remember. Shame the was no Viaduct to left to find in your first segment, but still, that little archway (whatever it was) and the twin culverts were a great find. Thanks again!
I'm so glad I found this vid.I spent some formitive years in the Reddish area just up from the Giants money box bridge. Really nice to see bits of the place. I was never sure what the slit might be but the coal drop seems a reasonable reason than any other. Really enjoyed the rest of the content and will be watching more. Nice one
At the top of the viaduct, is the old junction thru brinington tunnel onwards to tiviot dale station stockport and onwards to northern junction, the remains of the Midland mainline and Cheshire lines viaduct and bridges use to cross the mersey further up after stockport, great walk.👍
I really enjoy this type of video where you mix a few things up, nice to see young kids interested in history too, soo much better than a stuff classroom. 😃😃
Great video once again Martin. You're clearly an inspiration to the younger generation, for which you deservedly should be commended. p.s. formerly Ashton on Mersey Bugle :-)
Yet more loose ends to be sorted!!! Did I notice a certain river creeping back into your vid 😃😆🤣 Great to see the boys taking an interest in history - bit of a novelty these days.
As a Kid used to ride my bike from Anlaby Common embankment ,go across Springhead Lane bridge along the embankment to Aston road bridge to Willerby square .Go across the road to a field and follow the train track to a Mile long tunnel coming out at Weadley Springs and then on to South Cave .
Another class video Martin 👍.I do enjoy a good railway history video. I live on the route of an old branch line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, built to serve a large mill nearby. Although the line was only 1.6 miles long, it had a 13 arch and a 14 arch viaduct, which both still stand today, as well as 2 stations and a large goods yard. Although the track has long since gone, there is still plenty of evidence of what was there if you know where to look - I’ve found a few sleepers and even lumps of coal by the old coal dumps, which is now just a dense forested area. Glad to see there’s more of us out there who have an appreciation for stuff like this.
we had lot of lines in wigan too . three engine sheds three stations and two nearby works . most of it now lost without a trace . best wishes from wigan still in lancashire
Martin Zero We did enjoy it thanks Martin, there are loads of great photo opportunities! In the print works area it was like Aztec ruins with a calm, peaceful, and tranquil atmosphere. I got that sense of mystery of the lost knowledge of what it all was exactly. A dozen or so black cows and calves were chilling out there in the shade near us which was dreamlike. We didn't have time to walk to the large lower chimney and we weren't sure which path to take exactly, but we'll look forward to exploring that next time. Lower Cheesden Lumb Mill is amazing.
I was intrigued by this and thought I would investigate, I've been map reading for some years and I believe you may have been slightly off track as the viaduct didn't run through the copse of trees but slightly in front, I plotted a line on an old map then overlaid the with today's google map. At the same time the plotted line will,stay in place and you can overlay an O/S map and take a grid bearing then convert to a magnetic bearing, anyway this is how I saw it didn't run through the trees, also it wasn't there for that long. Use the national library of Scotland maps archive, brilliant tool for research. Ps i was going to email the the map screen capture overlay to you, but couldn't find an email address. Another edit, I've been looking at the geography of this place and a few things jump out at me, the first being that it's a dead straight line, the second is that from the mill to the colliery there is a rise of 200ft in altitude, 725ft to 925ft, next is that the tram way is totally isolated and not connected to anything which suggest to me it was built from the pit for the sole purpose of supplying the mill, which then lead me to believe this could have been either a pulley system tramway or the wagons went up and down the tramway under their own weight? What you think Martin?
Mike B I have been wanting to find map bearings from old maps to today’s os to get compass bearings for a long time now but couldn’t find how to do it. I can see what you mean but could you tell me how i can do this in a bit more detail. :) Thanking you in advance.
Great that you will be getting out, but I have to say I do like this type of video also. It reminds my a bit of Nationwide - remember that. It would go well with your Hillman Avenger. If you are going back to Reddish you could catch the once a week train to Reddish South station from Stockport.
Over the other side of Reddish Vale, going towards Brinnington is the old CLC railwayline, locally called the "deadline", which heads towards the old Tiviot Dale station where there are still some small remains of the platform. There's also a branch (before you reach Tiviot Way - heading towards Stockport and Tesco's) which goes under a rather wonderful old tunnel heading in the direction of Romiley and Marple. If you head to Red House Lane in Bredbury, you can see the remains of the old line running next to the existing line. When I was a kid in the seventies, that mechanism was mostly covered by earth, but you could clearly see the top of it...I'd pass it when heading up "Big Ben" to skive at my friend's house, to avoid doing the whole of the school-cross country run. Wonderful to see it in all of its glory now.
@@MartinZero Hi Martin, "Big Ben" is (or rather was) the local nick name for the, somewhat large, hill that led from the river up to the Brinnington estate. I believe (may be wrong) it was destroyed when the developers built the new properties on the playing fields.
Strines wier looks like an old flash lock, used to make a river navigable. These only needed a single gate to allow boats to climb and descend between levels.
Good video martin i love that saying onwards & upwards wish this lockdown never happened glad your out & about i, ll be looking forward to your video next week very interesting indeed👍
Love the guest productions its got so much potential, I went to one of the many Brunel viaducts in my area yesterday with my 4 Yr old son who does indeed watch your chanel too..
Another great remnants of a train bearing viaduct is the like that runs across Malton and Norton in North Yorkshire where it used to cross the Derwent river the old viaduct looked incredible. Sad there isn't th full thing left but there is the giant embankment leading up to the river edge with the pillars still remaining
Hi Martin, what a great & jam packed video, phew. I loved the video that Chris made of some awesome history of the railway there before things changed., his Daughter seemed like a very bright girl and his Son was lovely too. I also loved the video of you with Zack, Jack, Sam and Mum, it's so refreshing to see young lads getting involved in history and they really knew what they were talking about too so kudos to them for that. Thank you for sharing another great magazine style video, take care. xx💖
Really enjoyed watching the young lads, so refreshing seeing them interested in local history, pity Strines Weir is no more. In Reddish near to Hyde Road at Debdale Park there’s a path that was actually an old canal leading to the Ashton Canal at Openshaw facing Greggs Bakery, I was brought up down on the estate to the left after we left Miles Platting , before you get to the bridge at the end.
@@MartinZero Going the other way from Reddish lane it went to Holdsworth mill, Broadstone mill then to the top of Lancashire hill. there is another weir in Reddish vale called Harrisons weir.
Think the hanging blue tub, might be something to feed game birds. Was planning to go out today to do some filming for you, but I hurt my back yesterday and wouldn't have been able to get to most of the places. Keep up the good work and stay safe
Martin I used to walk through the tunnel at Upton when I was a kid in the 60s the hull to Barnsley line there is a group that are trying to get it up and running through the tunnel to the A1 from Upton it's about 2 miles long
Another good ex railway in hull is the hull to hornsea line. Runs from princes avenue right to the sea front at hornsea. Lots of old sidings and platforms preserved with a great cycle/footpath down its entire length
I wonder if the tramway could have been cable driven similar to Great Orme. Perhaps the post in the little archway could have been where the cable ran round.
So many great things about this vid i dont know where to start. My mum grew up near kirk ella she would have loved to have loved to have seen her old stomping grounds.
Where did she end up RIver. It makes us laugh because my mother and father in law are from Martin's neck of the woods. The shame it brings me to have married into a Manchester family I tell you. Father in law was brought up in Summerseat and the drunker he gets, the more Lancy he gets :)
Thee looks warm lad, aye it's cracking flags here! Keep hydrated. It's bonnie there. It's great to see the kids getting on it, well done lads, onwards and upwards ....
Martin you really make Sundays great. If you think this was a mish-mash it was one great mish-mash. It was very uplifting, everywhere you go there is beautiful countryside. It would be great to have a DeLorean time machine and go back a hundred years or so and see how things were. I am always amazed at the quality of the workmanship that was done back in the day. In the tunnel could that slot have been for venting of some sort? Again another great video. Thanks...….
brilliant content, as always. Martin, you're the MVP, i'm following many similar channels, but this is my all time fav! love the old maps and the feedback. Keep them coming, mate!
Always good, Martin. Please consider setting up a Patreon page. You so much research and work. The more support, the better, to keep it going. (I do not want to do the You Tube join thing.) Thank you.
Hi Martin. I'm a bricklayer and I can tell you the hole left in the bridge was certainly built for a reason. It would take great skill and a lot of cutting of bricks by hammer and chisel to create that slot! I have heard it was built to drop mail bags from the trains?
Hi Martin, great video. Just some info Zac and Jack may find interesting: my Nana worked in the Calico Printworks as a little girl (her family also worked there). She was born in 1902 and so this would have been 1909-10 period. She used to tell me stories of getting very upset at having to work in bare feet in the mill (due to the risk of fire) because of the thick oil on the floor getting on her feet - she said it also used to make her feel really sick, and made the skin on her feet really sore. In the end, they were given little soft, material slippers to wear that protected her feet a little. She absolutely hated working there. Great video, lads!
Thanks for the info Ani
Its so refreshing to see kids getting out and taking an interest in whats around them.
Excellent Martin thanks.
Thank you and yes. I think they will always remember this stuff
Martin , just a thought - this magazine style of framework is so flexible and the content can be across the board ... your quality makes it all work - so keeping it going and involving your audience is great once in a while ...just a thought.
Thanks Colin and yes your right
Fantastic series Martin. Your interest and enthusiasm is so good to encourage others to have an u understanding in industrial archaeology which is the most interesting part of history.
No need to apologise for the mag style, it's great, do a bit of that and long-form. Here's hoping the lads go from strength to strength..
Thanks very much Colin
I used to see the weir in the 50’s and loved watching the cascading water. There were hardly any trees on the valley floor and a clear view to Arden Hall now the motorway cuts right across in front. The print works was there and a row of cottages. Also remember the ski jump that was built there one summer. Great video. Thanks to the boys reviving happy memories of Reddish Vale
From The Forgotten Valley, page 28, "In its later years the coal from Wind Hill Pit was carried into the valley by means of a tramway, the line first spanning the Ashworth Road then dropping down the hill, across a timber trellis, through a narrow cutting and finally terminating at the foot of Deeply Hill. There were two four wheel wagons in use, each carrying five 21/2cwt. tubs of coal, and the gradient of the line allowed them to enter the valley by their own momentum. They were hauled back by means of a cable which was powered by a stationary steam engine situated by the pit".
Thank you Joy
Sorted !
Ahah -Hull - the ignored city so much history here - thanks for visiting cheers Rob
Thank you Martin, thoroughly enjoyed the video. brilliant to see the youngsters taking a keen interest in history.
Yeah they are very good Christine I was impressed
Cracking video. Im 36 years young and follow all your videos. Keep up the good work
Cheers Rob
Another great video with some great contributions from Chris and his family and the boys and mum. Essential viewing on a Sunday evening from Steve in Bridlington.
Thanks very much Stephen
Loved the video - as always - and the guest stars were fantastic! Sharing a love of history and curiosity is a great thing! Cheers from across the pond! Keep on cracking on!
Thanks very much, yes am very grateful to my Guest stars 😃
Adventure Family following the footsteps of history.... Wonderful enjoyment... are outings of memory with the family, and a plus wondering through history that surrounds us. Cheers.
Cheers Martin, thanks for the inclusion. If anyone wants us to make more, we'll do what we can. This was our first atempt. Cheers, Chris, Elizabeth, Thomas and Rosemary on camera!!!
Very enjoyable thanks
@@paulblyth5047 thanks Paul. Was our first go. The kids and I love a bit of Martin, which is nice and better than the usual rubbish they watch :-)
very informative. I'm in Northern Ireland (but from St Helens) never been to Hull , so had no idea where you were, but still found it fascinating what was left from 50 yrs ago.for a first attempt it was very good. keep it up and ignore the ars****s . ..... Mitch
Well done Chris. Loads of incredible, under-appreciated history in the Old Town and docklands as well as the grand industrial warehouses, wharves and silos of the River Hull!
Excellent video. I was dubious at first, I admit it. But I soon got sucked in and enjoyed it all. Such a pleasant change from that grumpy Mancs bloke who's always knee-deep in rivers! XD XD
That was great. I love this magazine format. It's amazing how much you can fit in to 30 minutes!
Thank you Ruth
wonderful great to see you all and thank you for taking us out with you all even if i was still indoors on lockdown cheers from trev and Chris down south in Sussex by the sea
Thanks very much Trev and Chris hope all is well down in Sussex
Been loven the magazine style all along here. I'd like to see you work with Jack and Zach again on something kid oriented but historical in origin. Things have come a long way since the trap door in the canal. Looking forward to the next video.
Thanks Richard, might just do that
The strong construction of the right of way bridge for farm travel under the disused railway line in Hull show i think the importance placed on the farm and rural commerce still based on a running river even as the steel rail developed , amazing ,its so easy for things to be out of sight out of mind , and i now need some goggles when i watch , hmm which should they be ,, hmmm maybe both i think , one to remind me of tea time and the other to get a closer look at things , great stuff thanks martin and team (s)
Thank you Roy
Another great video Martin. Those youngsters were brilliant too. Many thanks Pete.
Excellent as always Martin. Great contribution from Chris and family and the lads from Jay Zay. Really good to see young people taking an interest in their local history. Many thanks.
Very interesting collaborative video. Thanks to Martin and the lads and mum!
Really good to see your new fellow enthusiasts.
Those two are brilliant, and we know where they get their enthusiasm from, a great teacher. 👍🏻
Thanks Brian, they area a force to be reckoned with
It is great to see young people taking an interest in local history. Great episode.
Thanks Robert, yeah they are great lads
I am so impressed with the lads who have been watching your videos! I hope to inspire younger folk to take an interest in what is around them, too! Great video as always, and I love the content you've included this time - it is great when people are inspired and want to engage! Jack and Zach were brilliant as were your official Hull reporters including Elizabeth and Thomas! Brilliant work and you did a great job of connecting the different aspects of your story! ~M x
P.S. I am planning a visit to Reddish Vale for some mudlarking and filming myself!
Thanks very much Meredith. yes All the contributors were great on this one
Great work as always Martin and also great to see the next generation of young people interested in local history 👍🏻
yes i try with my thirteen year old daughter . she gives me strange looks . but she does take it in and remember too 'best wishes from wigan still in lancashire
Yeah its good. They are very keen as well
You have done excellent work with the restrictions you have had....no apologies needed!
Thanks very much Michael
Definitely enjoyed the variety of content in this video.. very interesting. thumbs up! to Zak and Jack!!
Thank you Robert
Its awesome the younger people are into exploring too!
I loved this kind of stuff at that age as well. How things work, why they were built. Not a log of obvious physical heritage in the part of Canada where I grew up, but I was lucky enough to see Spain in '78 (got some assault rifles pointed at us in Gibralter. Prepared me for travelling in the US . . . ), Germany/France in /84 & China in the late nineties. I suspect the only reason boys don't like studying history in places where you can see it all around you is because they don't take it out of the classroom often enough.
Yeah and they know their stuff
Very interested to see Reddish Vale as my Dad lived in Reddish as a young man before WW2. He and his twin brother used to sketch around Stockport and Reddish Vale, I still have some of his sketches which are 70 years old. Loved those young lads , watch your back Martin 😂
South Manchester,I was born and brought up in Gatley ....in those days 1950’s/early 1960’s we still had steam trains on 2 seperate lines at the top of our road,Pendlebury rd Gatley...nowadays it’s the motorway where there were fields from which we did our train spotting... different times ,love your videos 🙂👋my gran lived in HeatonMersey...and we saw the stream trains there as well,......all long gone 😕
I wish I had seen all that Janet it sounds great. Best regards
Blimey Martin I think you might have some competition there with Jack and Zak very knowledgeable young men, glad you will be out and about next week but I have also enjoyed the magazine style blogs so thanks for keeping us entertained though this awful time. Love to everyone out there hope your all safe and well.
Thank you very much and yes the lads are great
We have railroad embankments here in northern Kentuckythat are huge with culverts that do double duty as roads, very narrow and low, date to early 1900's. I don't know of any borrow pits so I imagine they shifted Earth from cuttings and redistributed it. Great fun trying to drive through them during heavy rains!
Sounds great Jessie
So many wonderful things here,the history as well as your young audience! There are more kids like this ,just need a bit of visibility. YOU all are amazing.
Thanks Andrew
Really enjoyed that. Miss mash is just great, especially the boys good on them hope their channel goes well. Thanks Martin for taking me along and please stay safe
Another fascinating video and wonderful to see these young protegé̩s whom you've inspired!
Thanks you, yes they are great lads
I think history is great for kids and don't understand why more are not interested. I mean think about it - you are uncovering treasures from the past and unlocking lost worlds from books. Then being able to see the remains in reality brings these worlds to life. Love the magazine style content alongside the rest.
I think the history or the way history is taught in schools is off putting.
Fantastic video not surprised you have inspired the young ones and its great they have developed such an interest. Love the goggles we get a lot of steam punkers in Morecambe through the summer. Great to sit in the old Bruccianis café which dates back to the 1930 s and is still original selling their homemade ice cream watching all the different costumes passing by.. You must try it if you ever get to Morecambe.
I went to Whitby to the Steam Punk festival it was great
A nice lighthearted video. It's great that you have some budding competition in the making. I hope this inspires more young people to explore their local history and share it with others.
Cheers Chris
Good magazine style video enjoyed the special guest made a change great lads they should do well. Loving the back in time railway adventures you never know what you find hidden in these over grown places. It always astonishes me in the work involved in making these tunnels and bridges all by hand and wheel barrow amazing really.
Thanks David
I was always interested in history as a kid, so it's great to see the youngsters of today taking and interest.
Another great video. Thank you!
Thanks Bob, yep they are inspiring
We lived in Brinnington in the early sixties and used to go down the vale quit regularly, in the summer we would strip down to our shorts and incredibly play on the top of the weir, walking over to the top edge to what you call strines weir and generally messing about on it.
One summer me and my friends went down the vale with our mums for a picnic they say by the river near the viaduct and we as usual went to the weir messing around on it.
shortly after our mums walked over saw what we were up to and we got a right thick ear for being so stupid.Oh god i cant believe some of the stunts we got up down there.
Another great film Martin.
I bet it was a great place back then
Martin,
You never have to apologise for the content of your videos....they're always great. Bought my first house right next to Reddish Vale back in the mid 70's, so your collaboration with Zak and Jack was very interesting. The Vale seems a lot more wooded now than I remember. Shame the was no Viaduct to left to find in your first segment, but still, that little archway (whatever it was) and the twin culverts were a great find.
Thanks again!
Thanks very much Mike
A nice historical vlog, also from the family.
Got a holiday feeling about it.
How nice that Zack, Jack and Sam are so busy with history, thumbs up.
I'm so glad I found this vid.I spent some formitive years in the Reddish area just up from the Giants money box bridge. Really nice to see bits of the place. I was never sure what the slit might be but the coal drop seems a reasonable reason than any other. Really enjoyed the rest of the content and will be watching more. Nice one
At the top of the viaduct, is the old junction thru brinington tunnel onwards to tiviot dale station stockport and onwards to northern junction, the remains of the Midland mainline and Cheshire lines viaduct and bridges use to cross the mersey further up after stockport, great walk.👍
Cheshire Lines warehousing/terminal building at Wallasey/ Birkenhead agin the river, almost ¿?
Jack is my childhood best friend it’s amazing to see him doing well in somet he loves 💙
Thanks Ruby
I’ve loved these videos Martin and it’s nice to know your getting out and about 😀
Thanks very much Sue
Zak and Jack future archaeologists. Great video, our hidden history.
And Sam lol
Sorry I forgot Sam 😬😬
They are definitely destined for good things
I really enjoy this type of video where you mix a few things up, nice to see young kids interested in history too, soo much better than a stuff classroom. 😃😃
Thanks Paul. I think Reddish needs a full on video though
@@MartinZeroOh definitely it looked a great area. Awesome work as usual mate, I look forward to your videos every week. 😀
Great video once again Martin. You're clearly an inspiration to the younger generation, for which you deservedly should be commended. p.s. formerly Ashton on Mersey Bugle :-)
Thanks Martin, you changed the name then ?
Yet more loose ends to be sorted!!! Did I notice a certain river creeping back into your vid 😃😆🤣 Great to see the boys taking an interest in history - bit of a novelty these days.
Yep the Irk made an appearance. Yeah the Lads are very keen and thanks Bob
Great stuff. All the kids in the videos were charming. Atmospheric guitar redolent of intro to Smash It Up by The Damned. Peerless, Martin 🇯🇪
Thanks Ivan
As a Kid used to ride my bike from Anlaby Common embankment ,go across Springhead Lane bridge along the embankment to Aston road bridge to Willerby square .Go across the road to a field and follow the train track to a Mile long tunnel coming out at Weadley Springs and then on to South Cave .
Wonderful, it's a real shame the line has gone. I can remember being very young and sitting in the car watching them cut the Calvet Lane bridge down.
@@thelegoshed Yes i remember that .
A great video and boys were fantastic, so good to see them interested in their local history. We'll done all 👍
There was Dry side but even the dry side is wet!! Love it x
Excellent video from the guys in Hull great to see people getting involved with your channel martin
Yeah he did a good job didnt he Rob
Another class video Martin 👍.I do enjoy a good railway history video. I live on the route of an old branch line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, built to serve a large mill nearby. Although the line was only 1.6 miles long, it had a 13 arch and a 14 arch viaduct, which both still stand today, as well as 2 stations and a large goods yard. Although the track has long since gone, there is still plenty of evidence of what was there if you know where to look - I’ve found a few sleepers and even lumps of coal by the old coal dumps, which is now just a dense forested area. Glad to see there’s more of us out there who have an appreciation for stuff like this.
we had lot of lines in wigan too . three engine sheds three stations and two nearby works . most of it now lost without a trace . best wishes from wigan still in lancashire
Thanks Bill. Definitely love all that stuff
Always look forward to new uploads 👍👍
Thanks Jay
Cheesden Valley, Deeply Vale as per Martin's vid last week.. I went today for an explore, mind was blown.
Did you enjoy it ?
Martin Zero
We did enjoy it thanks Martin, there are loads of great photo opportunities! In the print works area it was like Aztec ruins with a calm, peaceful, and tranquil atmosphere. I got that sense of mystery of the lost knowledge of what it all was exactly. A dozen or so black cows and calves were chilling out there in the shade near us which was dreamlike.
We didn't have time to walk to the large lower chimney and we weren't sure which path to take exactly, but we'll look forward to exploring that next time. Lower Cheesden Lumb Mill is amazing.
I was intrigued by this and thought I would investigate, I've been map reading for some years and I believe you may have been slightly off track as the viaduct didn't run through the copse of trees but slightly in front, I plotted a line on an old map then overlaid the with today's google map. At the same time the plotted line will,stay in place and you can overlay an O/S map and take a grid bearing then convert to a magnetic bearing, anyway this is how I saw it didn't run through the trees, also it wasn't there for that long. Use the national library of Scotland maps archive, brilliant tool for research. Ps i was going to email the the map screen capture overlay to you, but couldn't find an email address.
Another edit, I've been looking at the geography of this place and a few things jump out at me, the first being that it's a dead straight line, the second is that from the mill to the colliery there is a rise of 200ft in altitude, 725ft to 925ft, next is that the tram way is totally isolated and not connected to anything which suggest to me it was built from the pit for the sole purpose of supplying the mill, which then lead me to believe this could have been either a pulley system tramway or the wagons went up and down the tramway under their own weight? What you think Martin?
Mike B I have been wanting to find map bearings from old maps to today’s os to get compass bearings for a long time now but couldn’t find how to do it. I can see what you mean but could you tell me how i can do this in a bit more detail. :) Thanking you in advance.
Love the young adventurers, great stuff! But I can remember being interested in local history when I was around that age...
Great that you will be getting out, but I have to say I do like this type of video also. It reminds my a bit of Nationwide - remember that. It would go well with your Hillman Avenger. If you are going back to Reddish you could catch the once a week train to Reddish South station from Stockport.
Someone else has mentioned that train Alex. The twice a week one
@@MartinZero I used to travel from Stalybridge to Stockport via Reddish South every day between 1966-9 to go to school. :)
13:31: Nice stroll! I love the blackbirds singing in the background.
Hi Martin, Had to watch this one again...... Great video.......
Over the other side of Reddish Vale, going towards Brinnington is the old CLC railwayline, locally called the "deadline", which heads towards the old Tiviot Dale station where there are still some small remains of the platform. There's also a branch (before you reach Tiviot Way - heading towards Stockport and Tesco's) which goes under a rather wonderful old tunnel heading in the direction of Romiley and Marple. If you head to Red House Lane in Bredbury, you can see the remains of the old line running next to the existing line.
When I was a kid in the seventies, that mechanism was mostly covered by earth, but you could clearly see the top of it...I'd pass it when heading up "Big Ben" to skive at my friend's house, to avoid doing the whole of the school-cross country run. Wonderful to see it in all of its glory now.
Thanks Paul, what is "Big Ben" ?
@@MartinZero Hi Martin, "Big Ben" is (or rather was) the local nick name for the, somewhat large, hill that led from the river up to the Brinnington estate. I believe (may be wrong) it was destroyed when the developers built the new properties on the playing fields.
You have great rapport with the kids! You've made this magazine style format quite interesting. Thanks for keeping this going through the lockdown.
Thanks very much Patrick
Strines wier looks like an old flash lock, used to make a river navigable. These only needed a single gate to allow boats to climb and descend between levels.
Really, interesting point, never heard that before.
Had to watch this a second timr,and such a cool thing to see these boys into the history of it all.
Cheers Andrew
Good video martin i love that saying onwards & upwards wish this lockdown never happened glad your out & about i, ll be looking forward to your video next week very interesting indeed👍
Sideways and backwards, then.
Thanks very much Thomas
Those young lads are great advocates for local history. :)
Yep, they are proper keen
That was delightful and the Goggles bit was magical! Well done to you and the young ones!
Thank you Nigel
super video..interesting..fascinating..and great entertainment!!! 👍 cheers,dave
My youth: It's 5 to 5 time for CRACKERJACK!!
My Adult hood: It's 5 to 7 time for MARTIN ZERO!!
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double or drop?
- who got the cabbage?
Love the guest productions its got so much potential, I went to one of the many Brunel viaducts in my area yesterday with my 4 Yr old son who does indeed watch your chanel too..
What area is that. I know of some of the bridges and viaducts brunell built, mainly for the GWR.
@@simontay4851 exeter torbay Plymouth etc
Ahh thats brilliant and send him my regards
Another great remnants of a train bearing viaduct is the like that runs across Malton and Norton in North Yorkshire where it used to cross the Derwent river the old viaduct looked incredible. Sad there isn't th full thing left but there is the giant embankment leading up to the river edge with the pillars still remaining
God I just love this,and I always was into this kind of explore,even as a kid. Onwards and upwards mates!
That's some beautiful scenery
Really enjoying the magazine style videos Martin
Thank you to Chris and family.
Thank you and your friends for sharing there places to see with you have enjoyed thanks!!😎🐓🐓🇬🇧
Thanks very much Christopher
Hi Martin, what a great & jam packed video, phew. I loved the video that Chris made of some awesome history of the railway there before things changed., his Daughter seemed like a very bright girl and his Son was lovely too. I also loved the video of you with Zack, Jack, Sam and Mum, it's so refreshing to see young lads getting involved in history and they really knew what they were talking about too so kudos to them for that. Thank you for sharing another great magazine style video, take care. xx💖
Thank you Sue, yes the lads know their stuff
Really enjoyed watching the young lads, so refreshing seeing them interested in local history, pity Strines Weir is no more. In Reddish near to Hyde Road at Debdale Park there’s a path that was actually an old canal leading to the Ashton Canal at Openshaw facing Greggs Bakery, I was brought up down on the estate to the left after we left Miles Platting , before you get to the bridge at the end.
Is that the one at the top of Reddish Lane Brian ?
Martin Zero I think so mate, where all the pipe work is/was, been 30 years since I’ve been up there
@@MartinZero Going the other way from Reddish lane it went to Holdsworth mill, Broadstone mill then to the top of Lancashire hill. there is another weir in Reddish vale called Harrisons weir.
Think the hanging blue tub, might be something to feed game birds.
Was planning to go out today to do some filming for you, but I hurt my back yesterday and wouldn't have been able to get to most of the places.
Keep up the good work and stay safe
The first thing I thought of was anglers breeding maggots for fishing
Cheers Phillip not sure what they were
Maybe a feeder for deer or hogs? If they bump it some feed falls out....
i LOVE the way the whole family is involved
Yeah it was a good day and thanks
@@MartinZero thank you for bringing us hours and hours of non stop content awesome chanell cant fault nothing
Great video as always. Good to see the youngsters getting involved 👍
Yeah, I was impressed with their enthusiasm
Martin I used to walk through the tunnel at Upton when I was a kid in the 60s the hull to Barnsley line there is a group that are trying to get it up and running through the tunnel to the A1 from Upton it's about 2 miles long
Our lad Martin uploading us more great content, thank you!
Thanks very much
Another good ex railway in hull is the hull to hornsea line. Runs from princes avenue right to the sea front at hornsea. Lots of old sidings and platforms preserved with a great cycle/footpath down its entire length
I wonder if the tramway could have been cable driven similar to Great Orme. Perhaps the post in the little archway could have been where the cable ran round.
Possibly Dave, it gets me how this stuff disappears
So many great things about this vid i dont know where to start. My mum grew up near kirk ella she would have loved to have loved to have seen her old stomping grounds.
Where did she end up RIver. It makes us laugh because my mother and father in law are from Martin's neck of the woods. The shame it brings me to have married into a Manchester family I tell you. Father in law was brought up in Summerseat and the drunker he gets, the more Lancy he gets :)
Thank you
The blue hanging plastic tub is likely a pheasant feeder. Great video🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
Oh right, Thanks Simon I hadnt a clue
Thee looks warm lad, aye it's cracking flags here! Keep hydrated. It's bonnie there. It's great to see the kids getting on it, well done lads, onwards and upwards ....
Martin you really make Sundays great. If you think this was a mish-mash it was one great mish-mash. It was very uplifting, everywhere you go there is beautiful countryside. It would be great to have a DeLorean time machine and go back a hundred years or so and see how things were. I am always amazed at the quality of the workmanship that was done back in the day. In the tunnel could that slot have been for venting of some sort? Again another great video. Thanks...….
Thanks very much Mike, Oh to have that Time machine
brilliant content, as always. Martin, you're the MVP, i'm following many similar channels, but this is my all time fav! love the old maps and the feedback. Keep them coming, mate!
Thanks so much I really appreciate that
Always good, Martin. Please consider setting up a Patreon page. You so much research and work. The more support, the better, to keep it going. (I do not want to do the You Tube join thing.) Thank you.
Ok Diane and thanks
Nice one mate. Look forward to the next. 👍
nice work martin an everybody else. keep up the good work, stay safe an well eh!
Thanks very much Greg
Hi Martin. I'm a bricklayer and I can tell you the hole left in the bridge was certainly built for a reason.
It would take great skill and a lot of cutting of bricks by hammer and chisel to create that slot!
I have heard it was built to drop mail bags from the trains?
Thank 4 great video once again really lovely area forgetting this nice place Martin. JohnRooney
Wonderful, nice to see young fans joining in too
Yeah, great lads
@@MartinZero budding martin zeros indeed