What a beautiful building! They took so much pride in the construction of water infrastructure back in those days. The consequence of poor water & sanitation such as cholera outbreaks would have still been in living memory. They understood how precious & sacred good water was hence building temples to water. We often just take it for granted these days, and winge about hosepipe bans! Excellent adventure.
I never thought that I'd get excited about old buildings hidden in the woods, but your tremendous enthusiasm has changed my mind! What a lovely spot that was. Many thanks, Ant. I look forward to lots more.
A beautiful little find Ant and more special that it is exactly 100 years old. Definitely not somewhere to come across at night with all those holes. Another great explore. Thanks for sharing.
Other sources suggest that the "overflow" in the outside tank is one of two boreholes that would be used to pump water up. The other borehole is inside the pumphouse, in that tank you could see, around 440 feet deep and still bringing water up due to natural water pressure... which is why its a swamp around the site
What an elaborate building, beautiful stonework, and all just for a pumping station, I wonder what they throw up these days. Great enthusiastic find Ant👍👍👍👍
Very fascinating. Throws up many questions. Eg what was the need for a pumping station? Water power for a mill perhaps? How did surveyors figure there was an aquifer at that spot? Where was the quarry to extract all the stone. How was the stone transported? Why such elaborate stonework? Did the masons live on site? How did they get fed? Was there a landowner who funded the project? So, it's just a taster that could drive a budding researcher to produce an intriguing story.
Always find it interesting that such utilitarian buildings, in the middle of nowhere, are still embellished with beautifully dressed stone and details. Reminds me of the Longdendale Valley and the various water catchment infrastructure dotted up and down there. Not sure I'd be traipsing through that ochrey mess in a decent pair of shoes, though! 👍
Wasn't expecting that in the woods Ant! Its beautiful the workmanship gone into that is amazing. Those holes can be tricky to navigate in the dark. Great footage of inside with your camera. Its a coincidence but at the bottom of the hill from me there is a Hunger Hill Lane. Great explore Ant. ❤😊👍
Years ago, I used to dream of buying this old pumping station and turning. It into a house . Unfortunately, it was only a dream due to having a wife who refuses to move from the village where we lived and continue to live ! It's a beautiful quiet area .👍
Well, yes, that's us wives and women for you! You would have been plagued by visits from Trekking Exploration and You Tube watchers now if you had followed your dream!
@MelanieRuck-dq5uo I know you're taking the mick, duck but if I had bought the place, it would have been fenced off except for any public right of way and several German Shephrrds and Malinois would have been running lose inside the fenced off area, just as I do where I live now. Sometimes, we have to sacrifice some dreams, I can't really complain after 45 years together , she settled for an ugly coal miner, mind she now lives a good life !🤣😂 bless ya duck.🙂
Hello. I wasn't taking the mick in a bad way. I was just having a little joke with you since my husband has mad schemes too! (He seems, at the moment, to want to buy an old bus to live in! Which is fine by me, I will just stay in our house!) Congratulations on your 45 years together. That's really nice. That's about twice as many years as we've had. Take care and best wishes.
This is really beautiful, Ant. The stonework, the water courses, your choice of music and the surrounding woodland are such a beautiful combination. We would definitely love more of these journeys. Thank you so much.
Great video Ant. Would love to see more of this kind of stuff. They took so much pride in their work back then. Waterway and railway infrastructure was something quite beautiful back in the day. Keep em coming 👍
Stunning! What a glorious find. History and beauty! Hidden in the woods stuff - Porta Maria Chapel in Bittering Norfolk if you are ever over that way worth a look, was my find of last year.
Your comments about the footpath and getting confused as you thought it was private made me laugh. I know exactly where you mean. Great video and thank you for visiting my part of Derbyshire.
That was fantastic. That could be renovated into a beautiful house. Stream and woodland all around, I could handle that. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please take care
What a fascinating explore. Amazing all the buildings still there. Loved the water and River. As you say it all blended in well with the woodland. So enthusiastic Ant. Makes the video so much more enjoyable. Thank you. Take care.
I like these old buildings too,it shows the craftsmanship of another era. I do wonder if some of the metal clad buildings we see now will be as good in a hundred years. Love your work Ant,it allows us to see things we wouldn't usually get to see.
As alway top quality, ive enjoyed your work for sometime & have felt you deserve far more subscribers. Not only top quality but also quantity. One of my other favourite channels recently hit the 100k subscribers but maybe he's created a monster with sporadic uploads & electric bike advertising these days not what i want when i specifically pay RUclips not to see advertisements. Loving your work Ant thanks fella.
Thanks very much for your kind words. I'm often getting the emails for advertising products and sponsorship but I won't do it. I'm not here for that. I always skip past such things as a viewer or stop watching completely 😊
@@TrekkingExploration hope Mr Z is reading this & takes note. I totally understand how much time & money these films take especially the drone shots & editing.Thank you again sir.👍👍
Excellent video Ant. Some very real health and safety concerns. The local council ought to be made aware before someone has a very nasty accident. Thank you for sharing these interesting places with us.
it all has a similar look to a lot of the DVA architecture that was built around that time in derbyshire notts and Leicestershire. very interesting. the DVA was an amazing achievement, taking water from the Derwent Dams all the way to the 3 counties in the early 1900s all by syphon. you would be truly amazed by some of the architecture if you like this building.
Brilliant video Ant, really well made with lots of interesting information. The only thing I should perhaps highlight here is that the old pumping station is on private land. It's also very dangerous because of hidden deep shafts, which I know you discovered for yourself, but I just wanted to let you know in order to hopefully to avoid any issues as your video is publicly showing yourself trespassing on private land 🙂👍
My neck of the woods that!……I live in Chesterfield. We went to visit Redmires reservoirs after your video a while back and tomorrow I’ll be nosing around Corporation woods after todays 🙂
St Ann's Hill Chertsey.Surrey Underground resevouir pluss house.Watermill nearby dem olished for M25.route footpath around hill with viewpoints Heathrow visible 21:3621:36 row
That could be another return to video maybe May - June time to see if there is any difference in the water level like you did with the reservoirs. Very enjoyable...all the best.
Ever since I've known it, it's usually had water inside the main building and around the outside. Like Ant said, it's a beautiful area. I'd love to say where it is, but you know someone would go and steal the pullyblocks that you saw hanging down. 👍
There is a deep borehole just in front of the camera at 9:45, hidden by the wood and muck in the water. This borehole has been overflowing from natural water pressure for many years now so the site is waterlogged at all times of year
@@greg5639 It's a lovely area indeed, shame that in recent years it has become more and more trashed. I've seen photos from over 10 years ago where there was still a lot of the conduit in for the wires, old electrical sockets and metal railings - all of which have been broken now and strewn around inside
my father and my brother were both bricklayers and I often wonder what buildings they have left behind for later generations to marvel and ponder over in the future. I do like my horror and ghost short-stories and think that intimidating gothic building would make a fitting scene for one of those - especially at night!
The pumping station is quite infamous locally as in the 1980s there was a coven of witches that would meet up there, along with devil worshippers. Last Easter a ghost investigation group visited the site and picked up on a couple of interesting things. It is definitely a very spooky place at night
On Loads Road nearby is a very old looking covered reservoir with the exact same style gates as the pumping station. Im willing to bet the station pumped water from the well and sent it uphill to the reservoir for local use :)
:D I realise STW Whispering Well is on that road too, the one I mean is just a little further down the road if you keep the res on your left on Google Maps :) Absolutely love your vids and work :) @@TrekkingExploration
A couple of hundred yards away to the east, there is another underground reservoir, also named Whispering Well, which has supplied Holymoorside with water since its construction in 1973. - from Haunted Holymoorside
That's Whispering Well Pumping Station, built in 1925 by Chesterfield Corporation and since converted into apartments. The two pumping stations worked together to provide water to Holymoorside in times of drought
Hello again Ant, I've visited this place a few years ago, but in the pooring rain 😂 it had a different atmosphere that day may i say. It felt very eerie too. It's so nice to see industrial history hidden away like this,still alive in the modern day, even though sadly it's no longer in use. Not sure which way you arrived there? But when i went up to have a look the first time, i caught the bus from Chesterfield town centre bus station to Holymoorside and got off at a stop called Gallery Lane, then walked up a steep hill, it was a treck, but was worth all the huffing and puffing to get up there lol 😂 Once again Ant, thanks for another BRILLIANT video, keep up the good work mate, i love your channel. Ps. On another note, maybe for another future video, go and take a look at the old Robinsons factory site please one day, you start the walk from a place in Chesterfield called Goytes side next to Queens Park, and lookout first for the old remains of the water wheel, which sadly is in a sorry state now, then you walk in a straight line all the way looking at the old factory buildings and arrive at a place called Walton Dam just behind a Morrisons supermarket on Walton Road, then if you want to carry on your walk, it'll take you to a place called Sommersall Park, it's a country park and if you walk up to the end of sommersall road, lookout for the two old gate houses which stand at the end looking onto Chatsworth Road. It's a walk i do a lot myself and it never changes from day to day. Anyway hope it's an idea for you Ant.? If so I'd love to see a video if you think it's of interest for your channel.? Anyway all the best from. Devon Mike.
A Great watch while waiting for my lads footy team to finish training. And, Im 2 minutes away from Peel Hall Moated Site, Which is still a sight to behold. Well worth a quick look if youre ever up Mancherster way, Ant.
@@TrekkingExploration Theres a moated hall site in Timperley too, with great history. Its a beautiful walled garden now, With notice boards up telling of previous excavations
it certainly has had the test of time don't think many new it was there when you heard that noise the pumping house it makes you think it's haunted i wouldn't like to fall down that hole you wouldn't be able to get out and no one would be able to hear you glad you found it
You would have found it quicker on a road out of the village, but then they'd have been less dramatic build up to the video. I saw a photo of it on Facebook when it was new and no trees around it, so it's a good thing that it's now hidden. Worse in summer with the foliage and the ground is still soaked. Just got to hope no one has an accident there and it gets fenced off. I found it had a creepy atmosphere to it.
You’re the kind of person who might enjoy benchmarking. A hobby were you hunt for old levelling lines used by the OS from 1828-1993. They are nothing more now than an old relic. I’d provide links, but youtube always blocks comments with ‘dodgy’ links in them, so I could email you them if you are interested in making some videos looking for them. :)
Went there when I was about 10 years old. Thick fog. Sheeps head on a stake Burnt out capri outside House of Satan written above main door. Scared me for life😮
Fabulous photography. That looks like a gauging station in the river. It worked by measuring the head over that weir. From that you can easily calculate flow. Was this a river intake pumping station? If so the gauge would measure the compensation flow that had to be maintained downstream.
I love the brickwork and the isolation of the place, but I am amazed the tanks in the ground are not covered in case someone or something falls in. All your photo's are lovely as usual, especially the waterfall one. Do you mind if ask what camera you use? I would love to get a decent one this year. Give myself a treat.
@@TrekkingExploration Really!? My phone is rubbish at photo's (except close ones of the kids) I must be doing something wrong. Oh well, I will have to try harder.
What a fascinating place, I love explores like this, hunting around to see what history you can find. I've had this one on the map for a while now but being quite far away in East Norfolk not sure I'll ever get a chance to visit so grateful for you taking us for a proper look. Keep up the great work, definitely one of my favourite RUclips channels 😀👍
So interesting presentation is superb as if you have written a script for an actor, excellent research. That area should all those holes in the ground and open water tanks be filled and covered over for safety sake. Again, no other people
Love how the stream with the pipe in it also has beautiful stone walls too. 🧱 This poor pumping station was built to last even though it never lasted. If only modern architecture was as well constructed instead of these ugly things built nowadays.
What a beautiful building! They took so much pride in the construction of water infrastructure back in those days. The consequence of poor water & sanitation such as cholera outbreaks would have still been in living memory. They understood how precious & sacred good water was hence building temples to water. We often just take it for granted these days, and winge about hosepipe bans!
Excellent adventure.
Another piece of history which without you would remain hidden. Thanks for posting
Thanks for watching Sarah 😀
I never thought that I'd get excited about old buildings hidden in the woods, but your tremendous enthusiasm has changed my mind! What a lovely spot that was. Many thanks, Ant. I look forward to lots more.
A beautiful little find Ant and more special that it is exactly 100 years old. Definitely not somewhere to come across at night with all those holes. Another great explore. Thanks for sharing.
Other sources suggest that the "overflow" in the outside tank is one of two boreholes that would be used to pump water up. The other borehole is inside the pumphouse, in that tank you could see, around 440 feet deep and still bringing water up due to natural water pressure... which is why its a swamp around the site
What an elaborate building, beautiful stonework, and all just for a pumping station, I wonder what they throw up these days. Great enthusiastic find Ant👍👍👍👍
Thanks very much Bob. I keep searching and finding ☺️
@@TrekkingExploration It's great you are, always looking forward to your next little find, keep up the good work👍👍👌
Very fascinating. Throws up many questions. Eg what was the need for a pumping station? Water power for a mill perhaps? How did surveyors figure there was an aquifer at that spot? Where was the quarry to extract all the stone. How was the stone transported? Why such elaborate stonework? Did the masons live on site? How did they get fed? Was there a landowner who funded the project? So, it's just a taster that could drive a budding researcher to produce an intriguing story.
Great stuff again Ant, I wonder if the council still have drawings
of how it all worked back in the day.
I wonder if the council even remembered it's there 🧐
Thank you for the walking tour this day. Very informative and interesting to watch. See you on the next. Cheers Ant! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
Thanks very much Martin as always 😊
Always find it interesting that such utilitarian buildings, in the middle of nowhere, are still embellished with beautifully dressed stone and details. Reminds me of the Longdendale Valley and the various water catchment infrastructure dotted up and down there.
Not sure I'd be traipsing through that ochrey mess in a decent pair of shoes, though! 👍
Yes always such effort to only be hidden from sight. The shoes are well past there best
Wasn't expecting that in the woods Ant! Its beautiful the workmanship gone into that is amazing. Those holes can be tricky to navigate in the dark. Great footage of inside with your camera. Its a coincidence but at the bottom of the hill from me there is a Hunger Hill Lane. Great explore Ant. ❤😊👍
Funnily enough I didn't even see a Hunger Hill, Lane or road on any maps near here
@@TrekkingExploration wonder why is called Hunger Hill it is a strange name🤔
Years ago, I used to dream of buying this old pumping station and turning. It into a house . Unfortunately, it was only a dream due to having a wife who refuses to move from the village where we lived and continue to live ! It's a beautiful quiet area .👍
Well, yes, that's us wives and women for you! You would have been plagued by visits from Trekking Exploration and You Tube watchers now if you had followed your dream!
@MelanieRuck-dq5uo I know you're taking the mick, duck but if I had bought the place, it would have been fenced off except for any public right of way and several German Shephrrds and Malinois would have been running lose inside the fenced off area, just as I do where I live now. Sometimes, we have to sacrifice some dreams, I can't really complain after 45 years together , she settled for an ugly coal miner, mind she now lives a good life !🤣😂 bless ya duck.🙂
Hello. I wasn't taking the mick in a bad way. I was just having a little joke with you since my husband has mad schemes too! (He seems, at the moment, to want to buy an old bus to live in! Which is fine by me, I will just stay in our house!) Congratulations on your 45 years together. That's really nice. That's about twice as many years as we've had. Take care and best wishes.
@MelanieRuck-dq5uo you're welcome duck. I just took it as a tease. Take care duck. 🙂
I'd have politly knocked and suggested we put the kettle on ;)
This is really beautiful, Ant. The stonework, the water courses, your choice of music and the surrounding woodland are such a beautiful combination. We would definitely love more of these journeys. Thank you so much.
Great video Ant. Would love to see more of this kind of stuff. They took so much pride in their work back then. Waterway and railway infrastructure was something quite beautiful back in the day. Keep em coming 👍
Thanks very much i shall keep searching for more places
Stunning! What a glorious find. History and beauty!
Hidden in the woods stuff - Porta Maria Chapel in Bittering Norfolk if you are ever over that way worth a look, was my find of last year.
Thanks for the info i shall give that a google
Your comments about the footpath and getting confused as you thought it was private made me laugh. I know exactly where you mean. Great video and thank you for visiting my part of Derbyshire.
It does look a little private until you're brave enough to proceed 🤣
I'll try to find more places around there
That was fantastic. That could be renovated into a beautiful house. Stream and woodland all around, I could handle that. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please take care
It would be a lovely residence providing the water seepage could be contained. Thanks for watching ☺️
Go past this all the time and it always creeps me out a little
Potential for a camp in the summer
Ant, I wish we were neighbors, I would go along on every hike/adventure with you. What a great explore you had that day..... Back to work.......
Get yourself over for a holiday 😀
I wish, I'm also a foster home --- full time job..... @@TrekkingExploration
Great find I get so excited when I come across something like this. Keep on exploring mate
This is some of my favourite kind of places
What a fascinating explore. Amazing all the buildings still there. Loved the water and River. As you say it all blended in well with the woodland. So enthusiastic Ant. Makes the video so much more enjoyable. Thank you. Take care.
Glad you enjoyed it Shirley. Thankyou as always :)
Lovely building and surroundings, wish buildings were built like that now😟
Me too, or at least similar
I like these old buildings too,it shows the craftsmanship of another era. I do wonder if some of the metal clad buildings we see now will be as good in a hundred years. Love your work Ant,it allows us to see things we wouldn't usually get to see.
As alway top quality, ive enjoyed your work for sometime & have felt you deserve far more subscribers. Not only top quality but also quantity. One of my other favourite channels recently hit the 100k subscribers but maybe he's created a monster with sporadic uploads & electric bike advertising these days not what i want when i specifically pay RUclips not to see advertisements. Loving your work Ant thanks fella.
Thanks very much for your kind words. I'm often getting the emails for advertising products and sponsorship but I won't do it. I'm not here for that. I always skip past such things as a viewer or stop watching completely 😊
@@TrekkingExploration hope Mr Z is reading this & takes note. I totally understand how much time & money these films take especially the drone shots & editing.Thank you again sir.👍👍
Excellent video Ant. Some very real health and safety concerns. The local council ought to be made aware before someone has a very nasty accident. Thank you for sharing these interesting places with us.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you. I did send an email about the holes to the local council out of fear of danger to wildlife and dogs etc
@@TrekkingExploration Well done Ant, thank you 😊
it all has a similar look to a lot of the DVA architecture that was built around that time in derbyshire notts and Leicestershire. very interesting. the DVA was an amazing achievement, taking water from the Derwent Dams all the way to the 3 counties in the early 1900s all by syphon. you would be truly amazed by some of the architecture if you like this building.
That workmanship, still be there in another 100 years time too, will outlast most crap built today
I absolutely agree 😊
Brilliant video Ant, really well made with lots of interesting information. The only thing I should perhaps highlight here is that the old pumping station is on private land. It's also very dangerous because of hidden deep shafts, which I know you discovered for yourself, but I just wanted to let you know in order to hopefully to avoid any issues as your video is publicly showing yourself trespassing on private land 🙂👍
My neck of the woods that!……I live in Chesterfield.
We went to visit Redmires reservoirs after your video a while back and tomorrow I’ll be nosing around Corporation woods after todays 🙂
It's rather good down there. I didn't see soul. Just watch out for the holes in the ground
I am glad that I found your channel, it is good that you go find these places and make a record of them, keep it up
Glad you like them! Thanks so much John
What a fantastic find, many thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed it Roger
St Ann's Hill Chertsey.Surrey Underground resevouir pluss house.Watermill nearby
dem olished for M25.route footpath around hill with viewpoints Heathrow visible 21:36 21:36 row
That could be another return to video maybe May - June time to see if there is any difference in the water level like you did with the reservoirs. Very enjoyable...all the best.
Yes I think I'd like to go back around then. Possibly an overnight camp location 😉
Ever since I've known it, it's usually had water inside the main building and around the outside. Like Ant said, it's a beautiful area. I'd love to say where it is, but you know someone would go and steal the pullyblocks that you saw hanging down. 👍
There is a deep borehole just in front of the camera at 9:45, hidden by the wood and muck in the water. This borehole has been overflowing from natural water pressure for many years now so the site is waterlogged at all times of year
@@greg5639 It's a lovely area indeed, shame that in recent years it has become more and more trashed. I've seen photos from over 10 years ago where there was still a lot of the conduit in for the wires, old electrical sockets and metal railings - all of which have been broken now and strewn around inside
my father and my brother were both bricklayers and I often wonder what buildings they have left behind for later generations to marvel and ponder over in the future.
I do like my horror and ghost short-stories and think that intimidating gothic building would make a fitting scene for one of those - especially at night!
Yes it's a good thought to have 😊
The pumping station is quite infamous locally as in the 1980s there was a coven of witches that would meet up there, along with devil worshippers. Last Easter a ghost investigation group visited the site and picked up on a couple of interesting things. It is definitely a very spooky place at night
Would be interesting to see in summer when it's more accessible, and many lower water too.
I'd like to go back then although there's probably still going to be water seeping from the bore holes and lots of weeds
Perfect timing I’ve just grabbed lunch
Brilliant 😊
Top marks for this video Ant,thanks lad
Thanks so much Simon
On Loads Road nearby is a very old looking covered reservoir with the exact same style gates as the pumping station. Im willing to bet the station pumped water from the well and sent it uphill to the reservoir for local use :)
Ooooh could be worth a poke around
:D I realise STW Whispering Well is on that road too, the one I mean is just a little further down the road if you keep the res on your left on Google Maps :) Absolutely love your vids and work :) @@TrekkingExploration
A couple of hundred yards away to the east, there is another underground reservoir, also named Whispering Well, which has supplied Holymoorside with water since its construction in 1973. - from Haunted Holymoorside
That's Whispering Well Pumping Station, built in 1925 by Chesterfield Corporation and since converted into apartments. The two pumping stations worked together to provide water to Holymoorside in times of drought
Hello again Ant,
I've visited this place a few years ago, but in the pooring rain 😂 it had a different atmosphere that day may i say.
It felt very eerie too.
It's so nice to see industrial history hidden away like this,still alive in the modern day, even though sadly it's no longer in use.
Not sure which way you arrived there? But when i went up to have a look the first time, i caught the bus from Chesterfield town centre bus station to Holymoorside and got off at a stop called Gallery Lane, then walked up a steep hill, it was a treck, but was worth all the huffing and puffing to get up there lol 😂
Once again Ant, thanks for another BRILLIANT video, keep up the good work mate, i love your channel.
Ps.
On another note, maybe for another future video, go and take a look at the old Robinsons factory site please one day, you start the walk from a place in Chesterfield called Goytes side next to Queens Park, and lookout first for the old remains of the water wheel, which sadly is in a sorry state now, then you walk in a straight line all the way looking at the old factory buildings and arrive at a place called Walton Dam just behind a Morrisons supermarket on Walton Road, then if you want to carry on your walk, it'll take you to a place called Sommersall Park, it's a country park and if you walk up to the end of sommersall road, lookout for the two old gate houses which stand at the end looking onto Chatsworth Road.
It's a walk i do a lot myself and it never changes from day to day.
Anyway hope it's an idea for you Ant.?
If so I'd love to see a video if you think it's of interest for your channel.?
Anyway all the best from.
Devon Mike.
I came down from Darley Road at the top of the hill near an old quarry. I've screenshot your comment about the walk Idea I'll have a look later ☺️
As kids we followed the river from Somersall park all the way down to Queens park, only bit you can't really do is where it goes under Morrisons.
Another little gem I knew nothing of and now need to see!
Thanks for watching ☺️
Loved it,very Interesting find, 😊 x
I've been back near there today
@@TrekkingExploration I wondered where you were😃
@@janepatricia8779 me too 🤣
A Great watch while waiting for my lads footy team to finish training.
And,
Im 2 minutes away from Peel Hall Moated Site,
Which is still a sight to behold.
Well worth a quick look if youre ever up Mancherster way, Ant.
I'll be back up in Manchester in February so I'll give that a try.
Thanks Bob ☺️
@@TrekkingExploration
Theres a moated hall site in Timperley too, with great history.
Its a beautiful walled garden now,
With notice boards up telling of previous excavations
Great video , I used to read the electric meter down there about 30 years ago. I had a walk down a couple of years ago , keep meaning to go back.
it certainly has had the test of time don't think many new it was there when you heard that noise the pumping house it makes you think it's haunted i wouldn't like to fall down that hole you wouldn't be able to get out and no one would be able to hear you glad you found it
Great video 👍 have you been to the ruins of errwood hall in the goyt valley near Buxton ?? interesting place for an explore
Thanks very much Terry. That and the Reservoirs have been on my to do list for over a year now
You would have found it quicker on a road out of the village, but then they'd have been less dramatic build up to the video. I saw a photo of it on Facebook when it was new and no trees around it, so it's a good thing that it's now hidden. Worse in summer with the foliage and the ground is still soaked. Just got to hope no one has an accident there and it gets fenced off. I found it had a creepy atmosphere to it.
Came across that a few years back amazing really sort of middle of nowhere 👍
Yes it's a good one isn't it?
You’re the kind of person who might enjoy benchmarking. A hobby were you hunt for old levelling lines used by the OS from 1828-1993. They are nothing more now than an old relic. I’d provide links, but youtube always blocks comments with ‘dodgy’ links in them, so I could email you them if you are interested in making some videos looking for them. :)
Went there when I was about 10 years old. Thick fog.
Sheeps head on a stake
Burnt out capri outside
House of Satan written above main door.
Scared me for life😮
Bloody hell how long ago was that? The sheeps head would have got me!
Fabulous photography. That looks like a gauging station in the river. It worked by measuring the head over that weir. From that you can easily calculate flow. Was this a river intake pumping station? If so the gauge would measure the compensation flow that had to be maintained downstream.
I love the brickwork and the isolation of the place, but I am amazed the tanks in the ground are not covered in case someone or something falls in. All your photo's are lovely as usual, especially the waterfall one. Do you mind if ask what camera you use? I would love to get a decent one this year. Give myself a treat.
Thanks very much Sheila I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Believe it or not all of my photos are taken from my Pixel Phone
@@TrekkingExploration Really!? My phone is rubbish at photo's (except close ones of the kids) I must be doing something wrong. Oh well, I will have to try harder.
Thanks Ant. We like the same things. Me old - you young!!!!
Thank you ❤️
I'm probably older than you think 😉
Really? I am 66/@@TrekkingExploration
The seldom seen mine near Eckington might interest you, a sad story behind it aswell !
I can't believe that opening is left open and not welded shut.
It would be nice if such a splendid building could be repurposed, as a nature centre or similar - or is it too remote?
It could be, it maybe only took me 10 minutes brisk walk to get to from the main road
You would not want to fall into that tank! Would be almost impossible to get out!
Yes i have emailed the council about it suggesting danger to wildlife and dogs off a lead
Where do you park and it looks like it's on a road next to a house
What a fascinating place, I love explores like this, hunting around to see what history you can find. I've had this one on the map for a while now but being quite far away in East Norfolk not sure I'll ever get a chance to visit so grateful for you taking us for a proper look. Keep up the great work, definitely one of my favourite RUclips channels 😀👍
Don't forget to give me a shout if you ever plan to head over this way!
I'll be over Norfolk again in march
Thank you,more hidden history.😂
Thanks very much for watching ☺️
Looks like an Hydraulic Ram Pumping Station.
what a find ant is likely to be listed
I couldn't find anything on it being listed
@@TrekkingExploration then maybe it should be
Local witches gather there sometimes.
I've read a little bit about that, glad i didn't see anyone. Thanks for watching
Just went on lunch break..... First???
Absolutely I released it 15 minutes late just for you 🤣
Ant, I wish we were neighbors, I would go along on every hike/adventure with you. What a great explore you had that day......@@TrekkingExploration
So interesting presentation is superb as if you have written a script for an actor, excellent research. That area should all those holes in the ground and open water tanks be filled and covered over for safety sake. Again, no other people
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Not worth a video by itself but did you go to stone edge cupola while you were there?
I'm on my way there now! 🤣
I'm off to make a short video before looking at the Ashover Railway
The over flow looks like zippy
I need to go look again 🤣
Love how the stream with the pipe in it also has beautiful stone walls too. 🧱 This poor pumping station was built to last even though it never lasted. If only modern architecture was as well constructed instead of these ugly things built nowadays.