Hidden Histories - Episode 1: Walking the Walls
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Although all but vanished, Leicester's defensive walls protected the town and its people for over 1,500 years. This video tour explores the clues and surviving evidence that not only tell us where the walls were situated but also how they influenced the lives and past-times of the town's inhabitants throughout the Roman and Medieval periods.
Really enjoyed this episode, I was aware of the walls before but they will now mean so much more.
Thank you
Thank you so much for this.
My Father was associated with and Chairman of The Leicester Civic Society for a long time; I spent many an hour with him looking at stuff like this in our City!
This was brilliant as a Leicester lad born and bred. Seeing the history of our amazing city is awesome. Great work can’t wait to watch all your videos
Only;y just discovered this channel. It is fantastic learning something about my county town.
leicester's history and heritage is fantastic and really fascinating! the more i watch this video, the more i'm in love with this city. much love from italy🇮🇹🏴❤️
Thanks Jim! Really interesting.... and my Dad enjoyed it too. Looking forward to the next one 😃
Hope you subscribed - can’t be delivering this to your door every time, people will accuse me of favouritism! 😉🤣
Loved this being born here. As a teenager I rang the bells at st Mary de Castro church and when castle park hotel comes into view I used to work there when it was a solicitors called Harvey Clarke and Adams
Thanks for taking the time to create this video. It's all very interesting, good work.
One thing that often seems skirted around or missing even, in a lot of local history information is info or even a mention of the Anglo-Saxon/Early English settlements and further English history which always seems odd as the English are now a settled community for approx one thousand six hundred years since approx 449AD and so more info on our roots in the city and some further English history would be very much appreciated.
Local history in most cases seems to go Roman, (skirt around or miss out Anglo-Saxon/Early English) Viking, Normans, Edwardian, Victorian etc etc
I would love to see someone address this maybe? (I would but have ill health until I get an operation) The Lady of the Mercians (Lady Ethelflaeda) one of the most famous females in our history was not mentioned and seems hidden history despite a small statue of her existing in the garden area of The Guildhall and the Midlands Revolt of 1607 later on had a connection with Leicester city with a curfew and a gibbet put in place in Leicester City.
But well done with all the work and research you put in for this video. It is appreciated.
Very educational, very detailed and very professional too. I came here via your link on Next door Jim.. Look forward to more videos of our great city.
Jim - many thanks for this episode, (will be watching the others) my Wife is born and bred in Leicester and lives here in Manchester now, but all the places you mentioned she has told me about, so it helps bring her personal history to life for me, many thanks.
Regards, Gus from Eccles (with it's own rich history) okay, we are on to the next episode ;)
What an interesting and informative video, so good to meet you at the Braustone Park History tour. I had a view looking over Castle Gardens when I worked for William Baker Ltd, a hosiery company.
Clean, understanding presentation 👌 👏
Thank you for this video. You have put a lot of work into it, much appreciated. I grew up in Leicester but learned precious little about my home city; which is a shame. This is the second time I've watched this piece of work and I learn more every time I watch it it seems. Thank you again.😇
5 generations of my family have lived in Leicester, after hundreds of years you'd think us descendants would know this but I'm ashamed to say, I didn't! Will definitely be brushing up on my history and learning more, thanks for peaking my interest Jim! I thoroughly enjoyed your video :)
We should be taught our local history in school 🤷♀️👍
Always pleased to see a positive view of our City and of those areas less trodden by many residents. I have since my youth, and I still do (before Covid), wandered those areas, some now derelict and/or under construction .
Always interested in the Newarkes area in particular as my favourite part of Leicester. We have so much history to share for people who might stray off the beaten tracks of the shopping and commercial areas. I've watched Leicester evolve over the decades. Some recent changes to our historic are very good and attract tourism and some modern changes are perhaps less worthy.
Local history has always been of more interest to me than national because of my connection with Leicester.
A great piece of documentary evidence. Very well edited and presented and do like the addition of the background music which adds ambience and atmosphere.
Very Interesting and informative. Just stumbled on your videos after watching time team videos 😂. Enjoyed your videos very much.
Hi Jim, Thankyou so much for this, as someone who was born and bred in Leicester. Born in south Leicestershire and moving to the city near Narborough Rd, then the New Parks/Glenfield now. But so many memories of my childhood and how it used.to look and the comparison with now , which I have to say is not for the better in my lifetime. I recognise it all and have been to a lot of the places you mentioned and knew a little of it's history but I never realised the was such a deep history to my hometown. Thank you so much 🤗 Very well presented and easy to understand! Thank you again, best wishes Yvonne 😀
Very interesting, informative and coherent. From someone born in Leicester and being a pupil at Newarke, but not taught by Mr Corker. Great seeing childhood stomping ground, and shocked at amount of construction
Looking forward to more
What a video I learnt so much dude 👍🏼
Absolutely fantastic, thank you for this. It was a fascinating watch.
Thanks, Erfana! Pleased you enjoyed :0D
Fantastic, thoroughly enjoyed the first episode Walking the Walls of the Romans & Medieval Leicester. All explained in such a way that is easy to follow and take in, really interesting facts about hidden Leicester and can't wait for the next episode. Great job Jim.
Brilliant, so interesting. Thanks for doing this but sooooo many more questions!
Feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to answer them 👍
Really good videos, quality, educational, well narrated. Next time I am in Leicester I will be walking these areas again with a better understanding of Leicesters significance! I grew up in Belgrave and my mums side of the family (Vann) also has some interesting history in that area (Belgrave Hall).
Indeed, the Vann’s have a long connection to the Hall! 👍🏻
Excellent!
Thank you for this. You have cleared up a question I have had about the West Gate.
A fascinating look at how Leicester has changed in the last 2,000 years. I really enjoyed this Jim and it was great to document what Leicester is like under the lock down. We could actually hear you over the traffic and that doesn't happen often in Leicester! Looking forward to more....
Always interested in the history of Leicester. I will take even more notice on my walks into town. Good to see you James. Thankyou
Congratulations Jim ! I absolutely loved this film, learning so much about Leicester through the defensive layout.
I thought I knew most of Leicester'a history but apparently not. I grew up just off Tudor Road so alot of the places shown were my playground.
This was great and so interesting. Thank you
I grew up on Vaughan St, off Tudor Rd. I chose a lot of those places because they were my playground too! 😉👍
Great stuff Jim. I just heard your interview about your page on Radio Leicester with Ben Jackson.
Excellent video, I've lived here all my life and found out more interesting facts about the city. Can't wait for the next video. 😊
Really enjoyed this .. some familiar areas and some not so. Not sure about graffiti central, but lots of good info .. in particular about the word ‘gate’ 👍👍
The graffiti is only a temporary measure in an area of much construction. I have watched the artists doing their individual work some days and while it isn't always to my own taste, it is more colourful to look at than plain wooden hoardings.
As the buildings go up, so these artworks will come down. Like them or not, they too are a part of the fabric of our ever evolving city development and no doubt, some particularly well done pieces may end their days in an art gallery setting.
Amazing video, thank you for uploading!!!
Outstanding stuff! I will enjoy working my way through these.
Have fun! Hope you enjoy the other episodes as much! 🤞👍🏻😃
Turret gateway built 1422 just like that, no explanations as to how it was built in such an early time period baffles me and I never get any answers 😮 love this great job
Greatly enjoyed your city tour. Lots of new information. Look forward to the next episode.
Just found your videos. Leicester born, Wigston bred I left the area in 1980 when I was 24. I'd love to see something on pre-Roman Leicester :)
Out of interest, how did you find my videos? 🤔👍🏻
@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester Some sort of Google search, but I forget the specifics. Or it came up in my RUclips home.
Love it. Very interesting and informative, right my my street. As others have said the walks around Leicester will be far more interesting. Looking forward to the second video
Thank you really enjoyed listening about Leicester. Look forward to the next one . Look out for the link via Next door.
I do happen to know that there's a massive intact Roman mosaic in the centre of Doen Lounge on the corner in churchgate, was under an older dancefloor, fully intact. Can't say how I know but it's 100% there 👍🏼
Very well presented
Really enjoyed that, Jim
Fascinating stuff
I just discovered your channel today- a fascinating tour of the wals of Leicester! I will be searching out the other 'Hidden Histories' now!
Please do! 😃👍
Really good 👍🏽 thanks looking forward to your next video!
Thanks for this, extremely interesting stuff. Can’t wait for more!
Very nice video!
Brilliant! Very well made documentary indeed
As somebody who has spent threee years in Leicester for university, it's was a shame to find out that the saracens succesfully invaded and conquered Leicester, they should of kept the defences in place!
Thank you for this channel :) I’m Leicester born living in NZ. I have always enjoyed history and doing research in my family tree so enjoying learning all about Leicester history and seeing the places on your videos. I was particularly delighted to see you in Butt Close Lane, while not a nice occurrence, my 4th Great Grandmother died on that corner you stood in 1830 !
Oh wow! What happened to her??? 😨 Pleased you’re enjoying the films. Next episode coming soon! 🙂👍🏻
@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester Look forward to seeing the next one :) It is quite a sad story but she took arsenic poison and died on that spot as the local publican was trying to help her. Her husband had deserted her years earlier and remarried, he was a gunsmith in Belgrave Gate, who a couple of years later shot himself - so very tragic :/ I have collated all newspaper articles & written it all up as part of my family tree research
Well done 😎.
Excellent! (I would have expected nothing less)
I love this channel so much.
Thank you! Really like it!
Thanks for the great video!🙂
A very enjoyable video, I look forward to more, especially at my home area of Melton.
Brilliant video jame very intreting
This is really great.
Excellent, thank you
Really interesting, thank you very much.
This was great big up
my 2nd Great Grandmother's Lester
family from Coffeyville Mississippi
trace back to the Surname
Leicester which in fact is from Leicester in Leicestershire England!
I even have got a custom embroidered hat
made for my Leicester Ancestors
that is a Roman Theme!
my name is English descent Norman Conquest Origin Harris
Really enjoyed this 😊
Great video, well done for a professional job.
Great interesting video 👍
Thank you 👍
Regarding the church built outside of city walls, many early church were built on pagan worship sites. There are many churches in Britain that are oddly located, later research has found that cover a pagan site such as well or hidden spring.
Hi Michael, as far as we know there is no pagan site associated with St Margaret’s church, which is located just a few hundred metres from the River Soar. I suspect, with the areas to the immediate west and north of the town being prone to flooding by the river and with Saxons already established within the former Roman town walls and just to the south of them, this area just to the north-east, which runs beside the former Fosse Way to Lincoln and further into the Danish-held territory, was probably a convenient and comfortable spot to live and trade with the town.
So interesting thanks
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😃👍
Really interesting video, love the graphics are they from the UCLA?
Karl Davey The images were a mixture between ULAS (University of Leicester Archaeological Services), Leicester City Council and wider Creative Commons sources 👍🏻
Oops I did mean ULAS!
Would you consider producing a version without music playing under the spoken parts? I found it very distracting!
Are you doing anymore of Leicester Jim.....please reply thanks
Love these videos...need more buddy
Hi Karl! The quick answer is ‘Yes!’ 😃👍🏻 The slightly longer answer is, ‘I’m not sure when!’ 😬🙈 I work freelance which means I have to take the jobs when I can get them and for the past 18months I have been run-off my feet (which is a good thing as it pays the bills! 😉). I already have the next episode half written and loads of other episode ideas in my head, so plenty more stories I’d still like to tell! I’m hoping things will calm down a bit over the autumn so that I can get some more episodes written. 🤞🤞🤞In the meantime, I do some guided walks and cycle rides linked to the episodes, so keep an eye on Facebook @HiddenHistoriesofLeicester and Twitter @HiddenHistorie3 for details of those. 👍🏻 Thanks for the support - it really is appreciated! Jim 😊
Thank you for replying.... and I've have now joined u on FB.... Thanks again.. all the best Karl...
Excellent ,but the planning system shouldn't be let off the hook for the horrors of modern Leicester. A city a shadow of its former self.
neat
Where are you... not seen nothing from u... still waiting.. Thanks Jim Butler
New episode being actively researched written. 😃 Hoping I can get it finished, filmed and out in March! 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Karl - Have you seen my Hidden Histories of Leicester Facebook page? There’s some films on there about the Reformation and Counter-Reformation that I did for English Heritage that I can’t post on my RUclips Channel 👍 Hopefully they’ll keep you entertained until I get my next episode published! 🤞
I'm looking it up now, thanks, Jim....
my last name is Harris I mean
my 2nd Great Grandmother is the newest Lester in my direct Ancestry
my Great Grandfather's name is
Lester Lamar Kennedy
I love the name Lester even more now!!!!
family love to all Lesters!!!
Well, there are worst places for you ancestors to hail from! 👍🏻🙂 Do you know when and/or why your ancestors left Leicester for the New World???
@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester no I don't, but I know that they were from cheshire and possibly leicester before that because the name lester traces to leycester and leicester
the many times great grandfather of my leicester ancestry who was the original bearer of the name leicester may have been a frenchman or french descent from a french family who moved to leicester, and then he became leicester cause he lived there, so the family name became leicester, over time leycester, and then lester
just a theory copying the general story / origin of how my gresham family originated (as far as I think)
@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester like my gresham family ancestors trace to roger branche who is the grandson of peter braunche, who was from caux, normandy.
roger became roger de gresham since he and his branche / braunche family lived in gresham norfolk,
Do you know when your Leicester ancestors moved to America?
Hi Jim, It's John Cook who you tried to contact on email, i can't access the flickr site return mail so just send me an email, my email address should be easy to find.
best John
Great video but they would not have had metres! Come on!
Are you referring to the measurements I give for the height, width and foundations of the walls?
Observing lockdown rules as Parliament partied,very interesting info, thank you, the City is an ugly place.