Thanks for such a speedy update. Please go on as you are, creating content that YOU want, whenever you feel like it, instead of chasing clicks, likes, and viewers.
It's fantastic to find a channel that gives entertaining insight into a city I've lived in or around for my whole life. Mistakes are part of the process of historical research. It's integrity like this that allows us to learn and better understand
It's incredibly refreshing to hear someone reminding us to "dislike and unsubscribe", and so it's all the more ironic that you instantly gained my respect and earned another subscriber for your troubles.
Trivial fact about Mangotsfield Junction: Arnold Ridley who played Private Godfrey in Dad's Army was also a prolific playwright, and his most successful work "The Ghost Train" was written after he spent a cold night at Mangotsfield having missed the last connection. Hearing several trains pass through the station gave him the idea for the plot.
I think you deserve huge credit for acknowledging these corrections so politely and gratefully! I suspect very few people get their research 100% right but few will accept that others have a contribution to make. Well done!
RUclips managed to recommend this channel to me at just the right time. I’m planning on moving to Bristol in September to go to university. I’m a massive fan of useless information, historical trivia, and general nerdery.
Not sure why the algorithm waited till that particular video to recommend you consider how many history/map related videos I watch, but I'll call it a win. Binge watched all your videos over a couple evenings and look forward to the next. great work!
As someone who found your channel through the last video and went through and watched all the rest of the videos I think maybe the algorithm knows what it's doing. I love what I've seen on the channel because it's something I've never seen before
Your original video illustrated well enough the reasons why the railway never reached the centre of Bristol. History about ordinary things is always absorbing.
If you hadn't uploaded this, us ignorant non-Bristolians would have had to read all the comments on your previous video, and make our own conclusions about what wasn't corect or not - even if we'd seen them! Please keep up your fascinating content. I was so impressed, I forwarded your link to one of my daughters, who lives in Bristol, and she enjoyed it, as does my son. So I, from Birmingham now am interested!
Huge respect for holding up your hands and admitting the errors with such speed! No one should complain about or 'dislike' corrections; more so, when they're accompanied by interesting video footage. Keep on making those videos!
You know what? Yes, you screwed up, but corrected it. For that alone, you're a good man. I remain subscribed. And don't you dare stop making interesting vids! I look forward to the next one.
As a Bristolian living in Australia I like your Videos. They remind me of my youth and the wonderful city I left behind. I now know more about Bristol than I ever did growing up there. Thank you.
I am one of those new people enjoying the opportunity to look at a city other than London back home in England, I appreciate that you are there pointing a camera at interesting stuff and telling us about it.
We found this channel because we enjoyed the content you wanted to make. Don't feel you have to do anything other than make the content you want to make!
I found your channel from that video and have watched a few more since. Really interesting and it's refreshing to see a correction video too, most people would have just left it or edited the description!
Your updated video, providing updated Reportage on a ‘Bristol Central’ railway station, was presented in your own distinctive - nay, laconic style. It was brilliant! As was your original effort that seemed to encourage swathes of railway buffs into a hornet-like reaction. I find there are few subjects on which there is such committed & vibrant reaction, than from those who are occasionally named ‘rivet counters’ or otherwise local experts on routes, venues & railway equipment; especially when related to inception, place or time, mixed with the nuances or iterations of colour scheme, numbering, badges, the cumulative effort of now long-dead CMEs & lesser hosts of railway workers. Keep up your present efforts… digressing, I found your account of the ‘Fives’ walls in Somerset riveting.
In your previous video you suggested that the Roundabout at the bottom of Jacob's Wells road was not the epicentre of much. While this is true nowadays, at the time it was quite a busy area, with thousandsof people travelling that way each morning to get to avonmouth, and later trams ran the route between Temple Meads and Hotwells to provide a route to steamships. Hotwells had one or two railway stations and at least two tram stations. Dowry Square in particular was a hive of activity. Mr Scwepps had a shop there. Humphry Davy discovered the benefits of laughing gas there.
PLEASE keep up the good work. 👍 Your content is very enjoyable and if anything subsequently needs correction or elaboration it makes it all the more interesting. As one commenter has implied, anything to do with railways is likely to encounter the encyclopaedic knowledge of railway enthusiasts but what’s the harm in that in makes the channel more informative.
I think I'm one of the recent new followers you reference. No risk of being disappointed at all, what I've watched so far has been engaging content delivered with sharp humour.
I absolutely love the effort you put into your videos and research - not only is it interesting, but as I moved to Bristol recently, you're making me look smart in front of friends who have lived here for ages! Thank you.
Enjoying your videos perhaps even more so with the corrections. ❤ Anyone who strays into railway “territory” will find many knowledgeable people which, as a railway lover, I find encouraging because it shows how many people are interested in them. It’s just a pity that as a country we don’t build more and invest as much in them as our European neighbours.
I for one am extremly grateful for your hard work and approach to Bristol's history. I find it absolutely fascinating. And if you did receive a small number of corrections, it just proves that your ouput is appealing to a large and growing number of people. History is rarely an exact science, so by acting as a catalyst, you are promoting positive and helpful discussion. more power to you. And if the output is sporadic, then disgruntled viewers can wait for the bell lik ethe rest of us. Quality is always preferred over quantity in my book. Keep up the good work and don't feel bad about being precious over your time and how to use it.
Relevant to the original video, the Bristol & Gloucester also had a small station (St. Philip's) near Old Market: which is also not near the centre, which technically was SLIGHTLY closer to the centre than Temple Meads. Just. I think.
I have been watching a number of your videos recently, after being recommended your previous video on the railway. I have particularly enjoyed your videos on the road layout shenanigans from the 60's, and wished to draw your attention to a major road layout change that happened in the 90's while I was still living in the area. That being the destruction of a 'flyover to nowhere' that existed for about 40 years taking traffic over parts of the Temple Meads area and then merging it back in to more or less the same traffic. There is now very little evidence of it left but it would be interesting to see your take on the whole issue.
Oh dear, I was quite enjoying being in a secret society - the last time I was in a secret society was when I was a member of The Black Hand Gang on the Ridge Estate in Yate about sixty years ago - but now everybody knows about Pedestrian Diversions. Don't worry PD you're much appreciated - please keep them coming!
ha yes I know exactly what you mean about the secret society vibe, I was enjoying that too. numbers are returning to normality now perhaps we can carry on as before hehe
Excellent clarification from the reluctant RUclips star. Could you be our west country Jago Hazzard? I still found the whole idea of a Bristol Central Station fascinating. Hats off for the intense amount of research and effort required for these videos. Take your time, there are plenty of providers and I'm sure you'll be a welcome addition whenever you may release something.
Don't apologize for your content. The discourse and additional information in the comments brings out much interesting stuff that would otherwise have remained hidden, and drives more informative content in the future. I really enjoy your videos.
You're not the boss of me so I just liked and subscribed. On a more serious note though. Well, accidental or not as a Bristolian on loan I quite enjoyed the type of content you produced so far, errors or not. I thoroughly enjoy knowing the history of the places I aimlessly wander by in the daytime so your videos certainly help fill in the severe gaps in knowledge I have. For example since seeing it in Stourhead I always wondered why the Bristol Cross was called that if its miles away from Bristol and it's a spire, not a cross... After watching some of your videos, I know. So thanks and keep doing what you do. 👀
Really like the channel. I’m a former Bristolian (left when I was 14, I’m now 51) who is able to show his wife and daughter some of the places I was around when I was younger. I can see that you do have a strong sense of authenticity and integrity. The feedback has hopefully introduced you to a few peers that you lean on a bit for accuracy if you need it in the future. The rest of us probably wouldn’t have known about any of the errors. Well corrected and great work!!
Your videos are fantastic. I hope you continue to make them at a pace that works for you on things that interest you. Don’t feel pressured into making videos for anything other than what you want for.
Please stay as you are. Your videos are great, relevant, and I just love your ability to take a swipe at the relevant local authority / individual that has sometime spurned an opportunity to improve our City. Keep going !
Keep up the great work. Genuinely enjoy the content and you've definitely got the right attitude of addressing small mistakes instead of just moving on without acknowledgement.
Well done for holding your hand up and producing another corrective video. I am always slightly in awe of content makers as there seems to be a lot of research required and sometimes local knowledge too. Sometimes "folklore" also turns out to have a nub of truth too, My knowledge of Bristol is as an occasional visitor so I would not have known any better.
Have pride in your work, my dude! People are seeing it more because it's good and because it's worth seeing! Also, based on the tone of your comments sections and of your reaction to them, this might be the the most reasonable and wholesome community on the entire internet. Well done.
I'm one of those new viewers and I'm loving the content! Been living in Bristol a year and a bit and it's always interesting knowing new things! Appreciate the fact that you own up to your mistakes and correct them, and keep making what you want when you want. I hate seeing people burn out over RUclips!
As to the number of views on previous videos 1) it is about railways and 2) the "central" in it as a station name reflects on others vids (adventureme / jago hazzard ) that refer to "central" stations and lines in other cities. At some time with the canals there will be spill over into the whitewicks vids too for recommendations.
Don’t put yourself down. I really like your style and I’ve learnt a lot already (despite thinking I knew a reasonable amount about railways). And I like your honesty and integrity in admitting (to my mind, minor) inaccuracies
No problem from me, I knew what you were talking about, and the fact that I lived between Fishponds and Staplehill Railway Stations had nothing to do with the fact I enjoyed it very much, and could work the rest out, without “splitting hairs” Please keep up Your great work! Tone PS have you found out why there is no Westville in Bristol?
Bristol Sr Philips station is worth a mention. "St Philip's railway station was a small terminus station in Bristol built by the Midland Railway to relieve pressure on the main station at Bristol Temple Meads, which it shared with the Great Western Railway. The station had a single platform and was used principally by the local services between Bristol and Bath Green Park, via Mangotsfield." Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_St_Philip's_railway_station The station was situated on the corner of Midland Road and Waterloo Road.
Been subbed since your video on Bristol's waterways, and been throughly entertained by your videos ever since. Glad to see the algorithm start to bestow success upon you.
Thank you for both videos. One smallish point: The route map at 1:19 does not include Bristol St Phillps station, opened in 1870 as the terminus for (some?) Midland services until the station closed to passengers in 1953, with services transferred to the Midland shed (aka Digby Wyatt shed) at Temple Meads.
My ex girlfriend recommended your channel to me a couple of days ago and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying your videos, so much that I’ve done something I don’t usually do, and that’s clicked on the notification bell
As someone who has spent a lifetime studying the history of my home city of Bath and was a city guide, I know how difficult it is to be entirely accurate, not helped by books that perpetuate myths. So making mistakes comes with the territory, I have made a few in my time. So you do the best you can.
I really wouldn't worry too much - many youtube vids contain far more egregious errors than those, and in any case with a subject like old transport links, any video that provides an interesting starting point for informed debate and discussion should be judged as a great success. So well done on your interesting content.
Actually, Brunel intended the steam ship bound for New York to depart from Portishead, not Bristol. He even built a pier in Portishead which is still there today. Look it up.
Sorry, can't agree with the self put down. Your increase in subscribers is defo deserved IMHO. You produce videos of real relevance to Bristol and environs. We should be paricularly grateful for your excellentTotterdown video for instance. That dreadful fate needs to be ever etched into the memory so that Bristol and other UK cities (where similar happened) learn the lessons of it and need never suffer it again
Well even if you think you don't know what you're talking about, I'm subscribing anyway as I've really enjoyed watching your videos that RUclips have recommended to me in recent days, they're very interesting indeed, thank you
I watched the original video this is video was made to correct and I am just as lost in this video as i was in the last since i have never have been to Bristol but i hope one day to go to the city, and if i ever make it i guess i will rewatch both of the videos unless you make one that reworks everything and puts them together.
RUclips kept recommending your previous video to me and now has recommended this one within hours of you putting it up. I don't think I've ever watched your videos before and am not subscribed. This may account for the many views.
@PedestrianDiversions, I wasnt sure where to ask this or if you would have any information: Last night, stuck on platform two at Bath Spa I took an interest in a pair of glazed pocket doors to a dark room that looked to be lined with wood and very old benches. I asked a chap who I think was janitorial staff if it was a Victorian waiting room? He said he understood it to be an original lift probably as old as the station (180 years!). It took passengers and their coaches to and from the awaiting coaches under the station. In fact I could see what looked like ropes - but it seemed both wonderful and far-fetched. But if true a very interesting story and one I cant find any reference to on google. Can you shed any light? 🙏
@@PedestrianDiversions I got stuck there for a while on Friday evening. I have some videos to share with you to have a look to see if it is of interest before taking a trip over in person. What would be the best way to send a google photos album to you?
While we're on the theme of extreme pedantry, it's the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, not the cycle path. I can see why some non-cycling users of the path get irked by that as it contains a presumption that the oath is not for them
Great stuff. You know the concrete bench that looks like it's from Yugoslavia by the Avon (near or on spike island)? I've long wondered what's the story? It's so unique and impressive - more art than function. I've not been able to find amy info online. Thanks from fellow Bristol bridge admirer.
@@PedestrianDiversions That's what I thought.. If anyone would know. I've wondered for many years now, it's very atypical of the UK. I've never seen a bench like it. My guess is that it was built at the same time as the 50's or 60's concrete steps you find connecting the overpass to the road around the same area. I'm very fond of both.
If Bristol Central station still exists today. Will Temple Meads station be redeveloped and merge with Central station in Bristol. And to serve the city centre. How many stations are there in Bristol. Apart from Bristol Parkway which is just outside of Bristol.
Me too, I'm a newbie and I'm staying. I can emphatically state without fear or favour that I can count on the fingers of one finger the number of channels where the host has had the decency to shamefacedly make a similar mea culpa, no holds barred, pants down correction collection. As many others have commented, it shows how much you care about the correctness of your concatenations, validity of your vids even and is nothing short of the standard that every other content provider on this fundament of flim~flammery that goes by the name of You Tube should be sweating bullets to attain. Enuf of me blowing sunshine up your αr5ε, here comes the but bit... Please consider occasionally pronouncing Avon like wot most Brisstoeleeunz does: not Ayvonn but the krek waiters peek, namely Ayvun. Churz.
it's not a 'cycle path' it's Bristol to Bath Railway Path. it's just as much a walking path a cycle/e-scooters (racetrack) although it doesn't seem like some days.
having only ever heard it referred to as the cycle path, when I headed over there to film I was genuinely unsure if I was even 'allowed' on it on foot. probably should have adjusted the script here having established it had loads of walkers on it, but, you know... whoops
Thanks for such a speedy update. Please go on as you are, creating content that YOU want, whenever you feel like it, instead of chasing clicks, likes, and viewers.
That's the plan!
"... if that's the case don't forget to dislike and unsubscribe." - I LOLed! 🤣
Nice flip of the script from the usual.
It's fantastic to find a channel that gives entertaining insight into a city I've lived in or around for my whole life. Mistakes are part of the process of historical research. It's integrity like this that allows us to learn and better understand
It's incredibly refreshing to hear someone reminding us to "dislike and unsubscribe", and so it's all the more ironic that you instantly gained my respect and earned another subscriber for your troubles.
Trivial fact about Mangotsfield Junction: Arnold Ridley who played Private Godfrey in Dad's Army was also a prolific playwright, and his most successful work "The Ghost Train" was written after he spent a cold night at Mangotsfield having missed the last connection. Hearing several trains pass through the station gave him the idea for the plot.
I think you deserve huge credit for acknowledging these corrections so politely and gratefully! I suspect very few people get their research 100% right but few will accept that others have a contribution to make. Well done!
RUclips managed to recommend this channel to me at just the right time. I’m planning on moving to Bristol in September to go to university. I’m a massive fan of useless information, historical trivia, and general nerdery.
The first video caught my interest but the integrity in following up with addressing mistakes that few would catch has gained my subscription
I am outraged by the inaccuracies in your previous video. So outraged in fact that I am going to have to watch all of your future videos religiously.
Not sure why the algorithm waited till that particular video to recommend you consider how many history/map related videos I watch, but I'll call it a win. Binge watched all your videos over a couple evenings and look forward to the next. great work!
I agree. Keep doing them
As someone who found your channel through the last video and went through and watched all the rest of the videos I think maybe the algorithm knows what it's doing. I love what I've seen on the channel because it's something I've never seen before
Your original video illustrated well enough the reasons why the railway never reached the centre of Bristol. History about ordinary things is always absorbing.
To err is human, to correct errors is dedication to the task. I'm subscribing now, and I didn't even see the original yet.
To err is human, to totally screw up you need a computer.
If you hadn't uploaded this, us ignorant non-Bristolians would have had to read all the comments on your previous video, and make our own conclusions about what wasn't corect or not - even if we'd seen them! Please keep up your fascinating content. I was so impressed, I forwarded your link to one of my daughters, who lives in Bristol, and she enjoyed it, as does my son. So I, from Birmingham now am interested!
Just keep going mate! We'll all educate ourselves together! That's the beauty of the internet. More power to you!
"We'll all educate ourselves together! That's the beauty of the internet."
Huge respect for holding up your hands and admitting the errors with such speed! No one should complain about or 'dislike' corrections; more so, when they're accompanied by interesting video footage. Keep on making those videos!
You know what? Yes, you screwed up, but corrected it. For that alone, you're a good man. I remain subscribed.
And don't you dare stop making interesting vids! I look forward to the next one.
As a Bristolian living in Australia I like your Videos. They remind me of my youth and the wonderful city I left behind. I now know more about Bristol than I ever did growing up there. Thank you.
What a refreshing video!
You might find that your honest, no-nonsense approach, brings you more views!
I am one of those new people enjoying the opportunity to look at a city other than London back home in England, I appreciate that you are there pointing a camera at interesting stuff and telling us about it.
I appreciate this correcting video , usually not brought up on YT…
We found this channel because we enjoyed the content you wanted to make. Don't feel you have to do anything other than make the content you want to make!
I found your channel from that video and have watched a few more since. Really interesting and it's refreshing to see a correction video too, most people would have just left it or edited the description!
Remember the old maxim - A “man” who never made a mistake never made anything - .
Please keep making your videos.
Your updated video, providing updated Reportage on a ‘Bristol Central’ railway station, was presented in your own distinctive - nay, laconic style. It was brilliant! As was your original effort that seemed to encourage swathes of railway buffs into a hornet-like reaction.
I find there are few subjects on which there is such committed & vibrant reaction, than from those who are occasionally named ‘rivet counters’ or otherwise local experts on routes, venues & railway equipment; especially when related to inception, place or time, mixed with the nuances or iterations of colour scheme, numbering, badges, the cumulative effort of now long-dead CMEs & lesser hosts of railway workers.
Keep up your present efforts… digressing, I found your account of the ‘Fives’ walls in Somerset riveting.
In your previous video you suggested that the Roundabout at the bottom of Jacob's Wells road was not the epicentre of much. While this is true nowadays, at the time it was quite a busy area, with thousandsof people travelling that way each morning to get to avonmouth, and later trams ran the route between Temple Meads and Hotwells to provide a route to steamships. Hotwells had one or two railway stations and at least two tram stations. Dowry Square in particular was a hive of activity. Mr Scwepps had a shop there. Humphry Davy discovered the benefits of laughing gas there.
PLEASE keep up the good work. 👍
Your content is very enjoyable and if anything subsequently needs correction or elaboration it makes it all the more interesting.
As one commenter has implied, anything to do with railways is likely to encounter the encyclopaedic knowledge of railway enthusiasts but what’s the harm in that in makes the channel more informative.
I think I'm one of the recent new followers you reference. No risk of being disappointed at all, what I've watched so far has been engaging content delivered with sharp humour.
I absolutely love the effort you put into your videos and research - not only is it interesting, but as I moved to Bristol recently, you're making me look smart in front of friends who have lived here for ages! Thank you.
Enjoying your videos perhaps even more so with the corrections. ❤
Anyone who strays into railway “territory” will find many knowledgeable people which, as a railway lover, I find encouraging because it shows how many people are interested in them.
It’s just a pity that as a country we don’t build more and invest as much in them as our European neighbours.
I for one am extremly grateful for your hard work and approach to Bristol's history. I find it absolutely fascinating. And if you did receive a small number of corrections, it just proves that your ouput is appealing to a large and growing number of people. History is rarely an exact science, so by acting as a catalyst, you are promoting positive and helpful discussion. more power to you. And if the output is sporadic, then disgruntled viewers can wait for the bell lik ethe rest of us. Quality is always preferred over quantity in my book. Keep up the good work and don't feel bad about being precious over your time and how to use it.
Relevant to the original video, the Bristol & Gloucester also had a small station (St. Philip's) near Old Market: which is also not near the centre, which technically was SLIGHTLY closer to the centre than Temple Meads. Just. I think.
I have been watching a number of your videos recently, after being recommended your previous video on the railway. I have particularly enjoyed your videos on the road layout shenanigans from the 60's, and wished to draw your attention to a major road layout change that happened in the 90's while I was still living in the area. That being the destruction of a 'flyover to nowhere' that existed for about 40 years taking traffic over parts of the Temple Meads area and then merging it back in to more or less the same traffic. There is now very little evidence of it left but it would be interesting to see your take on the whole issue.
Oh dear, I was quite enjoying being in a secret society - the last time I was in a secret society was when I was a member of The Black Hand Gang on the Ridge Estate in Yate about sixty years ago - but now everybody knows about Pedestrian Diversions. Don't worry PD you're much appreciated - please keep them coming!
ha yes I know exactly what you mean about the secret society vibe, I was enjoying that too. numbers are returning to normality now perhaps we can carry on as before hehe
Excellent clarification from the reluctant RUclips star.
Could you be our west country Jago Hazzard?
I still found the whole idea of a Bristol Central Station fascinating.
Hats off for the intense amount of research and effort required for these videos. Take your time, there are plenty of providers and I'm sure you'll be a welcome addition whenever you may release something.
having binged the rest of your videos I jumped at this further 5 minutes of content. keep it up!
Don't apologize for your content. The discourse and additional information in the comments brings out much interesting stuff that would otherwise have remained hidden, and drives more informative content in the future. I really enjoy your videos.
You're not the boss of me so I just liked and subscribed.
On a more serious note though. Well, accidental or not as a Bristolian on loan I quite enjoyed the type of content you produced so far, errors or not. I thoroughly enjoy knowing the history of the places I aimlessly wander by in the daytime so your videos certainly help fill in the severe gaps in knowledge I have.
For example since seeing it in Stourhead I always wondered why the Bristol Cross was called that if its miles away from Bristol and it's a spire, not a cross... After watching some of your videos, I know. So thanks and keep doing what you do. 👀
discovered this channel from that video and i’ve been watching all your other bristol videos, they’re all so interesting
Really like the channel. I’m a former Bristolian (left when I was 14, I’m now 51) who is able to show his wife and daughter some of the places I was around when I was younger. I can see that you do have a strong sense of authenticity and integrity. The feedback has hopefully introduced you to a few peers that you lean on a bit for accuracy if you need it in the future. The rest of us probably wouldn’t have known about any of the errors. Well corrected and great work!!
Your videos are fantastic. I hope you continue to make them at a pace that works for you on things that interest you. Don’t feel pressured into making videos for anything other than what you want for.
Found the original video, loved it and have binged most of your back catalogue!
Please stay as you are. Your videos are great, relevant, and I just love your ability to take a swipe at the relevant local authority / individual that has sometime spurned an opportunity to improve our City. Keep going !
Keep up the great work. Genuinely enjoy the content and you've definitely got the right attitude of addressing small mistakes instead of just moving on without acknowledgement.
Well done for holding your hand up and producing another corrective video. I am always slightly in awe of content makers as there seems to be a lot of research required and sometimes local knowledge too. Sometimes "folklore" also turns out to have a nub of truth too, My knowledge of Bristol is as an occasional visitor so I would not have known any better.
Have pride in your work, my dude! People are seeing it more because it's good and because it's worth seeing!
Also, based on the tone of your comments sections and of your reaction to them, this might be the the most reasonable and wholesome community on the entire internet. Well done.
Thoroughly enjoyable. Educational to. And thanks for passing on the updates/corrections so speedily.
I'm one of those new viewers and I'm loving the content! Been living in Bristol a year and a bit and it's always interesting knowing new things!
Appreciate the fact that you own up to your mistakes and correct them, and keep making what you want when you want. I hate seeing people burn out over RUclips!
As to the number of views on previous videos 1) it is about railways and 2) the "central" in it as a station name reflects on others vids (adventureme / jago hazzard ) that refer to "central" stations and lines in other cities. At some time with the canals there will be spill over into the whitewicks vids too for recommendations.
Don’t put yourself down. I really like your style and I’ve learnt a lot already (despite thinking I knew a reasonable amount about railways). And I like your honesty and integrity in admitting (to my mind, minor) inaccuracies
I’m one of the new viewers. I like your stuff. I also enjoy this sort of open sourced fact checking process. 😂
If you really enjoy the process of make these videos, then I can say I defiantly enjoy watching them, so keep up the great work.
No problem from me, I knew what you were talking about, and the fact that I lived between Fishponds and Staplehill Railway Stations had nothing to do with the fact I enjoyed it very much, and could work the rest out, without “splitting hairs” Please keep up Your great work! Tone PS have you found out why there is no Westville in Bristol?
Bristol Sr Philips station is worth a mention.
"St Philip's railway station was a small terminus station in Bristol built by the Midland Railway to relieve pressure on the main station at Bristol Temple Meads, which it shared with the Great Western Railway. The station had a single platform and was used principally by the local services between Bristol and Bath Green Park, via Mangotsfield."
Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_St_Philip's_railway_station
The station was situated on the corner of Midland Road and Waterloo Road.
Been subbed since your video on Bristol's waterways, and been throughly entertained by your videos ever since. Glad to see the algorithm start to bestow success upon you.
Thank you for both videos. One smallish point: The route map at 1:19 does not include Bristol St Phillps station, opened in 1870 as the terminus for (some?) Midland services until the station closed to passengers in 1953, with services transferred to the Midland shed (aka Digby Wyatt shed) at Temple Meads.
My ex girlfriend recommended your channel to me a couple of days ago and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying your videos, so much that I’ve done something I don’t usually do, and that’s clicked on the notification bell
As someone who has spent a lifetime studying the history of my home city of Bath and was a city guide, I know how difficult it is to be entirely accurate, not helped by books that perpetuate myths. So making mistakes comes with the territory, I have made a few in my time. So you do the best you can.
Keep up the great work ! Good to see my old stamping ground. I don't get back there enough
I really wouldn't worry too much - many youtube vids contain far more egregious errors than those, and in any case with a subject like old transport links, any video that provides an interesting starting point for informed debate and discussion should be judged as a great success. So well done on your interesting content.
Put everything else in hold, I gotta correct niche facts i absorbed through a RUclips video through another RUclips video immediately
An excellent channel. Thanks for all your hard work !!
Actually, Brunel intended the steam ship bound for New York to depart from Portishead, not Bristol. He even built a pier in Portishead which is still there today. Look it up.
You may have made a few mistakes (you're only human). But overall, you taught us a lot.
I really enjoy your videos, just wanted to let you know.
Sorry, can't agree with the self put down. Your increase in subscribers is defo deserved IMHO. You produce videos of real relevance to Bristol and environs. We should be paricularly grateful for your excellentTotterdown video for instance. That dreadful fate needs to be ever etched into the memory so that Bristol and other UK cities (where similar happened) learn the lessons of it and need never suffer it again
I'm enjoying videos about Bristol history. Need need to change anything. Keep it up!
Well, now you know how to improve! Good luck and I hope you enjoy making more :)
Well even if you think you don't know what you're talking about, I'm subscribing anyway as I've really enjoyed watching your videos that RUclips have recommended to me in recent days, they're very interesting indeed, thank you
I really like your Bristol Based content. Top Channel! keep the videos coming, warts and all
I watched the original video this is video was made to correct and I am just as lost in this video as i was in the last since i have never have been to Bristol but i hope one day to go to the city, and if i ever make it i guess i will rewatch both of the videos unless you make one that reworks everything and puts them together.
RUclips kept recommending your previous video to me and now has recommended this one within hours of you putting it up. I don't think I've ever watched your videos before and am not subscribed. This may account for the many views.
I loved it! And this one was a laugh too! Keep going. 🙌👍
I guess the lesson is: take no risks with railways. There are too many individuals with an extreme level of knowledge.
Just keep up the good job! Your vlog on Bristol was most interesting…
It's all good 'cos yutube pushed that video and I found your channel. cheers!
@PedestrianDiversions, I wasnt sure where to ask this or if you would have any information: Last night, stuck on platform two at Bath Spa I took an interest in a pair of glazed pocket doors to a dark room that looked to be lined with wood and very old benches. I asked a chap who I think was janitorial staff if it was a Victorian waiting room? He said he understood it to be an original lift probably as old as the station (180 years!). It took passengers and their coaches to and from the awaiting coaches under the station. In fact I could see what looked like ropes - but it seemed both wonderful and far-fetched. But if true a very interesting story and one I cant find any reference to on google.
Can you shed any light? 🙏
offhand- no idea/never heard of it, I'm afraid. intriguing though. will report back if I discover anything
@@PedestrianDiversions I'll try and get some photos next time Im there. Could be interesting and as yet undocumented on youtube :)
@@PedestrianDiversions I got stuck there for a while on Friday evening. I have some videos to share with you to have a look to see if it is of interest before taking a trip over in person. What would be the best way to send a google photos album to you?
Your videos are fantastic :)
While we're on the theme of extreme pedantry, it's the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, not the cycle path. I can see why some non-cycling users of the path get irked by that as it contains a presumption that the oath is not for them
Great stuff. You know the concrete bench that looks like it's from Yugoslavia by the Avon (near or on spike island)? I've long wondered what's the story? It's so unique and impressive - more art than function. I've not been able to find amy info online. Thanks from fellow Bristol bridge admirer.
@@TreeMovies I'd add a pic if I could - genuinely looks like a spomenik. It's beautiful.
right at the end? with a view of the bridge?
@@PedestrianDiversions That's it! Do you know why it exists and who designed it?
@@seanjose219 haven't a clue sorry. my kind of question though
@@PedestrianDiversions That's what I thought.. If anyone would know. I've wondered for many years now, it's very atypical of the UK. I've never seen a bench like it. My guess is that it was built at the same time as the 50's or 60's concrete steps you find connecting the overpass to the road around the same area. I'm very fond of both.
could you do a video on the bristol bath railway path? it's at the end of my street!
Yeah it's best to stay away from anything Train related, as it always brings the Armchair Alfies out of the woodwork :D
If Bristol Central station still exists today. Will Temple Meads station be redeveloped and merge with Central station in Bristol. And to serve the city centre. How many stations are there in Bristol. Apart from Bristol Parkway which is just outside of Bristol.
These videos are fab keep up the good work
my life was fine without your videos, and just a little better with them. Just do you what you want mate.
It's still so wierd seeing Thames Turbos in the South West
love your vids fellow bristol goer
you and jago hazzard could make a support group for victims of unneeded haranguing and correction from train nerd one-upmanship lmao
Loved you content
Me too, I'm a newbie and I'm staying. I can emphatically state without fear or favour that I can count on the fingers of one finger the number of channels where the host has had the decency to shamefacedly make a similar mea culpa, no holds barred, pants down correction collection.
As many others have commented, it shows how much you care about the correctness of your concatenations, validity of your vids even and is nothing short of the standard that every other content provider on this fundament of flim~flammery that goes by the name of You Tube should be sweating bullets to attain.
Enuf of me blowing sunshine up your αr5ε, here comes the but bit...
Please consider occasionally pronouncing Avon like wot most Brisstoeleeunz does: not Ayvonn but the krek waiters peek, namely Ayvun. Churz.
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it's not a 'cycle path' it's Bristol to Bath Railway Path. it's just as much a walking path a cycle/e-scooters (racetrack) although it doesn't seem like some days.
having only ever heard it referred to as the cycle path, when I headed over there to film I was genuinely unsure if I was even 'allowed' on it on foot. probably should have adjusted the script here having established it had loads of walkers on it, but, you know... whoops
It was developed by Sustrans as a cycle path (and formed the first national cycle route), although it of course can be used by pedestrians as well.
Enjoying your work how about how bath destroyed bath went to bath after 2o year got off train to a horror in sandstnoe
You will never become a succesful politician if you keep making apoligies for poor research, etc. Then again, I doubt you fancy a life in politics.😶
If you ever want a hand with train stuff. I'm sure there people you can turn to.