The Victorian Clay Pipe Works At Broseley

A look around the old clay pipe works at Broseley, which is pretty well as it was left in 1960, with clay and tools still on the benches, and some incredible wiring for an electric kiln.

[@dylanjones7047]

Really lovely footage there, Harry! It was a pleasure and a joy to have had you come on the tour.

[@harryrogers]

Thanks Dylan, it was very enjoyable.

[@h2o270]

I got to help at an archeological dig at a camp used by Stephen Long during his expedition in 1819 across what is now the state of Nebraska in the United States. In the fireplace, we found several clay pipes that were made in England. It amazed me that such a simple item had made it that far across the globe only to be discarded in a fire. Except for Native American artifacts, we don't often find objects that old in the midwest.

[@johnnybravo2373]

Thank you so much for sharing your visits to those places of another time. This was particularly interesting to me.

[@harryrogers]

Thanks Johnny

[@mrsgbee8246]

Having found broken clay pipes over the years it was very interesting. Thank goodness someone preserves these places. I’m all for the crafts that have left so little trash. We are trashing this planet and space now and we can’t seem to stop our selves.

[@tangle70]

I love the old brick industrial buildings. Thanks for the video.

[@Frankowillo]

Thanks Harry, I really enjoyed that, since I used to smoke a pipe. I also had a couple of clay pipes in my collection.
Cheers, Frank.

[@arturhakobyan6850]

It is so fantastic they can preserve the atmosphere and tools!!!!

[@tropifiori]

When I was in University I played about at pipesmoking. The long clay pipes smoked better than briars or even Meerschsaum.

[@brandontharp8182]

As usual great video and great bit of history

[@billychapman1923]

Thank you for the Tour of the Pipe factory, Im a Pipe Smoker myself, I have a Beautiful collection of Meerschaum Pipes. One is in the shape of a Buffalo which I do smoke. I use it in Pic's when advertising Buffalo Ridge Leather.. You should get one in the shape of an Acorn Harry...lol..

[@jackreeves3001]

I'm in Kansas USA, thanks for sharing UK. I love your channel. Thanks so much!

[@harryrogers]

Thanks Jack

[@tangle70]

I love those old red brick buildings. Thanks for sharing.

[@xkabedaruhe2956]

Thank you Harry for these videos of museums etc. Very interesting!

[@larryparker698]

Hi Harry,an interesting video as usual.As a matter of interest the old radio is a 1940s wartime civilian set.This was supplied to alleviate the shortage of new radios during the war and received only medium wave programmes.Regards Larry

[@pathdoc60]

Thanks Harry. That was an interesting tour to see. Those pipes look quite delicate and I would think would need proper care to prevent breakage.
Cheers,
Michael W. O’Brien
Alabama, USA

[@robertsadler9903]

Amazing! Reminds me that the past is really not so long ago! Thanks.

[@scottmorrell148]

Very interesting. love how you find cool places to go and see and do videos of. Than you

[@raycycleit8311]

Very nice.

[@porkyfedwell]

Used to find clay pipes in the grain fields in Ohio. They were made in the 1800s locally and the men and women smoked them. They used elderberry stems as the pipe stems.

[@harryrogers]

Thanks thats interesting. Regards Harry

[@GrandadIsAnOldMan]

Nice walk around Harry

[@johnhartley3596]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[@johnhartley3596]

Suggest you take a look at Nicola White mud larking videos. She’s always finding clay pipes while mud larking on the Thames.

[@JAT985]

I honestly have no idea what larking might mean. It's not a word in American English vernacular. It seems a fairly odd word to my mind.

[@porkyfedwell]

@@JAT985 it means they're on a lark, looking through the river mud for whatever they might find.

[@tastindaganja]

Yes was thinking exacly the same, Hope she finds this video!!

[@MrBazH]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting. As a former pipe smoker I've tried a few clays (well you have to!). Always brought out the flavour of the tobacco better than briar but obviously not as durable or as expensive. I suspect that for smoking purposes in days of yore you'd buy a few at at time. They get very hot, hence the reason that the longer ones are preferable. Suspect the shorter ones weren't lit all that often!

[@berniesr]

That was very interesting

[@djscottdog1]

Its a cool building

[@saxilbyjoe4325]

Fantastic - I also saw an old paraffin stove in there. Talking of safety - from the 40s to the 70s my grand parents had a hardware and fishing tackle shop. They lived above the shop. There was a huge tank for paraffin which they pumped and sold - their bed was just above it. Everyone smoked then.

[@harryrogers]

I can imagine..made me laugh! Thanks.

[@shanek6582]

Why did they keep paraffin melted and sell it like that? Could you not just buy it in blocks?

[@harryrogers]

@@shanek6582 Hi for oil stoves it was always sold as liquid...a penny an hour or something to burn it...used to advertise it that way in the 1960s...gave lots of condensation...used to scrape the ice off the inside of my bedroom window.

[@shanek6582]

I hate to pester you, you mean you can actually burn paraffin wax and there's stoves designed for it? Is there a different product in England named paraffin or is it the same opaque white paraffin wax that I buy in America to melt and dip my steel traps in? Thanks

[@harryrogers]

@@shanek6582 Hi..sorry if confusion..I am talking about paraffin oil not wax...I guess you might know it as kerosene...but that might be something similar but different?

[@barbroevanderlindquist4128]

In Sweden in 1999 I was on "Gammelvala" Old world a yearly market manifestation in Värmland Sweden, they was making claypip's to sow the making process in europe is not totaly dead. BarbroSweden

[@balista9831]

very interesting, you should check out Nicola White`s mudlarking videos, also very interesting.

[@andyg3]

so much charcater!

[@pizzamanyoutubewatcherofal3947]

I was here