Warm in winter and cool in summer - with today's energy prices, we should all be living in caves. I like that you can expand the rooms unless you have a neighbour too close lol.
I would love to live in a cave, with allotments and orchards. That combined with warm in the winter, cool in the summer and I totally understand why people lived there.
Whilst staying in Mojarca, Spain we went on a coach trip to Grenada. On the way back we stopped at a tiny hamlet, where inhabitants lived in caves and earned an income from making garden pots etc from local clay. One old man rode up to the tiny bar on a donkey. He then entertained customers telling his family history of living in the caves for generations. Apparently when a young couple wanted to set up home the parents just allowed them to dig out another room in their cave and they all lived together. He enjoyed the tips and drinks the tourists treated him to.🍷🍷 A final amusing twist as we drove away was to see tv ariels poking out of the grassy mounds above the caves.😄
Thank you. That means a lot. A few years ago I was very poorly and housebound and I spent most days watching YT and I always thought If I get better I’m going to pay it forward - so that means a lot x
@@throughlucyslens same i have a health issue and when it hit it hit hard going to the bathroom showering walking was horrific meds i take help it but ive lived in dread it returns asking your OH to help you out off the bath bed or loo at 21 sucks now im 48 now a bit better but it still sucks
Mine started in my early 20s too, I’m 43 now and DREAD a relapse, truth be told some days I get up and I still can’t face moving much further than my bed but I try and make the good days count (even if I end up paying for it!) so much love to you. We got this x
Having lived in a basement flat I would definitely live in one of those lovely cave homes. My basement was damp, cold and miserable. The caves look bright, dry and comfy. When can I move in 😂
Wow, like real life Hobbit Holes. What a wonderful place. I don't think I'd have wanted to give up living there, but maybe the idea of a flushing loo was too much to turn down!
I love that you inferred that those who lived there knew what they had, I agree they must have - we certainly see it's value even now! Absolutely I would live there, what a marvelous thing to share, thank you!
I love the walls and ceilings, all that lovely rock-hewn texture.😍 Living in the womb of Mother Earth surrounded by nature. What could be more glorious? They would make an amazing artist studio. 🥰🙏🌿
Great memories as i lived in Stourbridge from 1985 to 1988 doing a fine art course. We used to go often to the caves on week-ends to picnic. Thanks for this lovely reminder 😊
I had no idea that the UK had any cave dwellings. Fascinating. Apart from the lack of electricity, somewhere like this would suit me down to the ground! Great video!
Some years ago I saw thease with my parents, we walked up from the nearby canal which we had been travelling on. On the canal there are shelters carved into the rocks my by and for the canal builders. Very interesting.
@@throughlucyslens the canal side shelters were not far from the cave houses, I will ask my mum where it was. Sadly my parents gave up thier canal boat around 5 years ago, it was based in Gailey, the canals around there are wonderful and we saw places easily missed by road. Lots of interesting houses and buildings open to the public. We found the cave houses by accident. If you get a chance get out on the canal. Fascinating videos by the way, I really enjoyed the prefabs, I used to be the grounds manager for a lodge park and there are many similarities between lodges and prefabs, I would say I'd prefer a prefab given the choice.
These houses were not what I expected they were bigger and looked so comfortable and in such a beautiful place it must have been a lot healthier than living in the crowded towns 😊❤
there are more on the cliffs between high and low town in bridgnorth but they were vacated a lot earlier and are now just holes in the sandstone face, barely visible to the passer by and in a fenced off council or castle patch of land.
Thanks for going inside. I visited a couple of years ago and the houses were closed. Yes quite a hike up to the top. Keep going, your doing a grand job.
Really chuffed to see these. I'm originally from Worcestershire and went with some friends to Kinver Edge for a day out in the early 70s. We didn't see or know about the live-in caves but we did find some empty shallow caves and made one our base while we explored, etc, so it's great to also see the cave cottages too. Really enjoyed your tour. Cheers. :)
Oh wow this was sensationally tranquil, I've never been to this place and since watching your video never heard or known about it, i think i could live there too, so peaceful like you not a fan of alot of stairs but thats minor when you find out whats waiting for you, thanks for sharing stay safe out there ❤
I had no idea that something like this even exists! I am so glad that I found your channel, and I really enjoy your videos, and the subjects you are showing us.
A British friend of mind bought an underground home in the US because she knew about the benefits of living underground, like the place you explored. I've lived in a purpose built underground home in the US for over forty years. We have no heating or air conditioning bills. I think this will become a normal way of living in order to survive climate change. Thanks for this video!
So nice to hear from you - from a person who has an underground home, like I said in the video I think they are amazing. Do you mind me asking where abouts in the US they are? I am always really interested in quirky "unconventional" housing - which yes, I do believe will become conventional in years to come.
@@throughlucyslens Our homes are in Missouri, a place with a lot of karst caves (geologic term). It is also possible to build earth sheltered homes on private land because many counties don't have building codes. My own family were Native American settlers in Oklahoma, prior to the forced removal labeled "The Trail of Tears". People would often build a "soddy" into a hillside because on the plains there was a lack of trees to build a log cabin. My family's old soddy from the early 1800s is still in use as a food cellar on the original homestead.
My husband and I enjoyed this video so much. Our dream was to visit England, Ireland and Scotland some day. He has stage 4 cancer so that’s probably not going to happen, but we enjoy these type videos and plan to watch more of yours today. ❤ from Virginia, USA.
I visited the cave houses a few years ago, and like you Lucy, I would love to live in one. The idea that you could just make a room a bit bigger, or gouge out a new cupboard, really appeals to me...Love your videos. Thanks for sharing them.
@@throughlucyslens It was really interesting to see them. Back then there was access to more than you can go into today, I think that health and safety wasn't as strict as it is now.
Thanks Lucy! We've spend the last 10 years dwelling through Britain in the summer and I LOVE this kind of places. Never heard of it. It's so nice to see a glimp into the past, and not only the rich houses but the houses of 'just people'. Thanks again and we will for sure visit this Cave houses. I really like your channel! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you so much for sharing this. It's somewhere we really want to go. Fascinating that people lived there so recently. We loved watching this. Filmed so well and great narration. Hope you have a wonderful week. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
I’m sure other commenters have said the same, but this reminds me so much of the underground houses of Coober Pedy in Australia. Some really fascinating Coober Pedy homes show up on real estate sites from time to time, which were owned by elderly people who barely altered them over the decades. They are often even sold with assorted furniture and household objects still in place, so it is a real pleasure to look through the images, like a time capsule. Similar to the homes in your video, they are generally owner-excavated, so there is a lot of personality and individuality to each room.
I need to check out these houses, they sound absolutely amazing and SUCH A good idea in Aus to avoid the boiling summers. I heard sometimes people would dig a room and find an opal too which is a real bonus. Would be amazing to visit one day - bucket list stuff :)
This is so great. We have something similar in the area where i grew up in America. We called them rock houses. And they were actually over hang caves with a large open front. And they would build a front or surrounding walls out of stacked sandstone rocks. I went to school with a girl who's father grew up in one. Thanks for sharing your adventures.😊
Wow on an overhang too! You can't even imagine getting up and down but I love how humans can make a home out of anything given the chance. - thanks so much for sharing! I am going to look those up :)
I cant help but think of the movie 'The Dwelling Place.' Here in Canada, my boys and I borrowed this movie from a public library, and we loved it. We were all so fascinated with the concept of living in a cave.
We lived in Sedgley in the 60’s. Kinver Edge was a popular destination for a walk at the weekend but I was too young to remember much about it. I remember how red the Sandstone was.
Seeing this pop up on my page made my day! I'm from Halesowen and grew up in the black country and I remember going to visit thr cave houses with my mom and dad many many times when I was younger! I mostly remember the sheer amount of steps and having a coke and some crisps at the pub after in Kinver 😅 happy memories x
There was nothing like that bottle of pop & a bag of crisps on a day out as a kid was there? I remember we were never allowed inside the pub either 😂 thanks for your lovely comment.
Oh Lucy, we are kindred. I just found this video and I had to subscribe. Kinver Edge rock houses look like a bit of heaven to me. Thank you for the journey and looking forward to more. ✌️❤
Lovely video and described very well .Really enjoyable to see how people lived in the cave houses ,I would live there they looked very homely and warm.
I think they are wonderful! Sitting here on a boiling hot day in my Victorian home determined to keep me at a million degrees I would love to be sat in a cave right now!
Thanks for the fun exploration! I think many of these people had to be forced out and that is why the history of them is scarce. There are literally thousands of these scattered across Europe.
Lovely to see the rock houses, used to go quite often with my late husband. I can remember when people still lived in them. The town of Kinver is lovely to visit too. A few years ago Grand Designs tv featured a rock house that someone renovated to live in, i believe it's at Habberley, not far from Kinver. There were a few places.like this with cave houses cut into sandstone cliffs. Very interesting, thank you ☺️
Glad you enjoyed it, lovely to hear about your special memories, it really is a lovely place. I need to find this episode of Grand Designs, it's a programme i've never watched and sounds like I would enjoy it :)
Great great narration...I would like to live there..not worried about the cold, but if cool in summer then I could handle it. I have lots of items from my grandmother and her mother, and I love the uniqueness of them..I actually use them and display them. Once again, great tour..thank you.. I live in Texas..US..I have been to London once when I worked for the airline industry, but would love to spend quality time there explore the small communities outside of the cities..what an adventure. You are so blessed to live there..
Thank you! And from someone who DREAMS of visiting a Bucees maybe we can do a swap? I am really proud of living here though, there really is something around every corner - even if I love going abroad too!
What a fascinating place, Lucy. I'm not sure if I could live in one of those houses, though, as I'm very claustrophobic. I love to see all the different places you take us to. There's so much to see and do in England.
We visited a couple of years ago and like you it was not what i expected. I would have loved to live up there away from the industrial smooth. Nottingham caves are equally fascinating and also show how the caves were used over the centuries.
Thank you, I’ll check out the Nottingham ones, they are round by the castle walls are they? (Could be wrong) I had a vague recollection of visiting once maybe when I was really little.
My wife's grandparents used to run the cafe on the other side of the cave houses. There used to be a long climb of steps up to the cafe which her grandad put in himself.
Loved it, thanks so much for taking us along for the tour. Fascinating stuff! As a keen caver it's great to see this. Much as I love caves, I'm not sure I'd want to live in one... :D
I think you are so brave! I took my students caving once on a PGL type holiday and I was terrified! Put on a brave face for the kiddos but I could feel my legs shaking 🤣
Wow!! I think I’ve been living under rock. I’ve never heard of this place or these beautiful cottages. Absolutely fascinating I’m going to have a google and a read. Thank you 😊
I would be quite happy to live in one of these cottages, would have to install a compost toilet lol thanks so much this video was refreshingly educational and shows our history x
My husbands great uncle owned a mountain in Tennessee and it had a cave in it. His dad explored it when he first got the property. He found huge bones in it (maybe giant sloth bones), indian artifacts, and during the civil war the Confederacy stored gunpowder in this cave. To transport the gunpowder there was a wooden rail in the cave. The uncle's father decided to explore the cave and see how far it went. After three days of exploring he had not found the end of the cave. They thought it migh be connected to the cave system in the Cumberland Gap, which would make it huge. When his great uncle was still alive we went to visit him. The cave looked like a little hole in the side of the mountain but when you went in it opened up into a huge room, big enough to build a two story house inside it. My husband thought about asking his great uncle if he could buy it from him, but he never did. When the great uncle died his daughters sold the cave and land it was in to the state. The state said it wanted to turn it into a tourist attraction, but around 25 years later nothing had been done with it.
What a shame! But you had me at GIANT SLOTH BONES! Woah! Thats absolutely incredible and sounds like it does need to be an attraction and saved. States (or councils as we call them here) rarely return on their promises so they, mores the pity!
@@throughlucyslens my husband visited there when he was a kid and found a bow and a quiver full of arrows made by some Indian tribe. But since he was a kid and the adults around thought he had junk they let him destroy them. Horrible. I visited that cave with my husband later and got as far as the area where the gunpowder was stored. The little rails on the floor of the cave were wooden ( no sparks to set off the gunpowder) seemed in good condition. It was a dry cave. That is as far as I went. Those giant sloth bones may be around somewhere on that mountain. The uneducated adults just let the kids play with them.
That looks like a lovely way to live, i wouldnt mind that myself! This video was a nice random find on youtube, thank you for sharing! Makes me want to visit even more
I love a random find, it's how I find most of my faves. Thanks so much for dropping by and I'm glad you enjoyed it, I too quite like the idea of living in a cave!
Such a beautifully presented video. How lovely it was, to listen to your narrative, as we joined you, on your journey into this magical little dwelling. It was so interesting! I found myself totally captivated. How lovely it must of been to live in amongst mother nature and all of her glory. Look forward to joining you on future travels. I happily subscribed and shared. Wishing you happiness on your travels. PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Warm in winter and cool in summer - with today's energy prices, we should all be living in caves. I like that you can expand the rooms unless you have a neighbour too close lol.
Well said! I bet you can’t hear the neighbours either - bliss 😂
I lived in a cave house in Spain for several years. Yes, they are warm in the winter and cool in the summer. I absolutely loved my cave house.
Wow!! What a dream to live in one!
@@throughlucyslens This was my cave house.
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Give it time Jules the way we're heading it won't be long
I would love to live in a cave, with allotments and orchards. That combined with warm in the winter, cool in the summer and I totally understand why people lived there.
100% sounds like bliss, I’ve been contacted by folks who still live in caves in Spain - I’m hoping I can find an air bnb in one one day!
Whilst staying in Mojarca, Spain we went on a coach trip to Grenada. On the way back we stopped at a tiny hamlet, where inhabitants lived in caves and earned an income from making garden pots etc from local clay.
One old man rode up to the tiny bar on a donkey. He then entertained customers telling his family history of living in the caves for generations. Apparently when a young couple wanted to set up home the parents just allowed them to dig out another room in their cave and they all lived together. He enjoyed the tips and drinks the tourists treated him to.🍷🍷
A final amusing twist as we drove away was to see tv ariels poking out of the grassy mounds above the caves.😄
I love that they are preserved but its a shame no one can live like this now. Catch 22. So glad we preserve our heritage though.
How come?
Actually someone does live in one of the caves further along the escarpment.
The one currently lived in was on TV, they filmed him restoring it.
im loving your show you are the eyes ears legs of those who cant get out and about
Thank you. That means a lot. A few years ago I was very poorly and housebound and I spent most days watching YT and I always thought If I get better I’m going to pay it forward - so that means a lot x
@@throughlucyslens same i have a health issue and when it hit it hit hard going to the bathroom showering walking was horrific meds i take help it but ive lived in dread it returns asking your OH to help you out off the bath bed or loo at 21 sucks now im 48 now a bit better but it still sucks
Mine started in my early 20s too, I’m 43 now and DREAD a relapse, truth be told some days I get up and I still can’t face moving much further than my bed but I try and make the good days count (even if I end up paying for it!) so much love to you. We got this x
Well said! I spend most of my time propped up by pillows and I'm loving these videos
@@throughlucyslens That’s lovely. I work for someone who rarely gets out, she says she lives through me. I am enjoying your videos, subscribed!
Having lived in a basement flat I would definitely live in one of those lovely cave homes. My basement was damp, cold and miserable. The caves look bright, dry and comfy. When can I move in 😂
I’ve lived in a basement flat too - it’s not great is it 😂
Er that’s a definite no lol😂
Wow, like real life Hobbit Holes. What a wonderful place. I don't think I'd have wanted to give up living there, but maybe the idea of a flushing loo was too much to turn down!
And maybe hot running water too? It’s a shame because in modern times I suspect all those issues could be ironed out to make great, safe homes
I know I wouldnt want to have moved into counsel houses.
Yes! I was about to say reminds me of Hobbit holes 🥰
I love that you inferred that those who lived there knew what they had, I agree they must have - we certainly see it's value even now! Absolutely I would live there, what a marvelous thing to share, thank you!
100% and I feel so sad they were made to move. They must have been heart broken!
I love the walls and ceilings, all that lovely rock-hewn texture.😍 Living in the womb of Mother Earth surrounded by nature. What could be more glorious? They would make an amazing artist studio. 🥰🙏🌿
It would be idyllic, the air is so fresh up there too!
Great memories as i lived in Stourbridge from 1985 to 1988 doing a fine art course. We used to go often to the caves on week-ends to picnic. Thanks for this lovely reminder 😊
It’s a lovely place for a picnic over looking that view, the woodland was so pretty and quiet too - just me and the birds :)
Woooow! Not sure what I expected exactly, but these were far more “cosy” than I imagined
Fabulous job showing us around, as always
Thanks darling, I think I was expecting “a cave” too - a cavern with maybe a fire in the middle. Learn something new every day 😂
Something like that, yeah 😂
Have a fabulous Sunday sweet ❤
My great aunt that was my Grandads Sister live in one in Wales, she was a teacher if I remember.. we will be back in them some day soon..!
I'm really enjoying these programmes with history thrown in as well; Thank you Lucy for showing this. The homes look so cosy,
Glad you like them! It’s like a new exciting plot twist for me! Can’t wait to find more now.
I had no idea that the UK had any cave dwellings. Fascinating. Apart from the lack of electricity, somewhere like this would suit me down to the ground! Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it, and me too! Would do me nicely ❤️
Some years ago I saw thease with my parents, we walked up from the nearby canal which we had been travelling on.
On the canal there are shelters carved into the rocks my by and for the canal builders. Very interesting.
Ohh that’s amazing. I really want to get out on the canals. It’s my dream to have a canal boat holiday!
@@throughlucyslens the canal side shelters were not far from the cave houses, I will ask my mum where it was. Sadly my parents gave up thier canal boat around 5 years ago, it was based in Gailey, the canals around there are wonderful and we saw places easily missed by road. Lots of interesting houses and buildings open to the public. We found the cave houses by accident. If you get a chance get out on the canal.
Fascinating videos by the way, I really enjoyed the prefabs, I used to be the grounds manager for a lodge park and there are many similarities between lodges and prefabs, I would say I'd prefer a prefab given the choice.
Thank you, yes I absolutely LOVE prefabs. Something about them isn't there?
I live not far from Kinver. Went to visit the cave houses a few years ago. Fascinating places. Thanks for the interesting video.❤
These houses were not what I expected they were bigger and looked so comfortable and in such a beautiful place it must have been a lot healthier than living in the crowded towns 😊❤
Absolutely, and yes, they are so big inside, would have been much bigger than the other working class alternatives! ❤️
Lucy, yet another gem, never knew these cottages existed, absolutely amazing places to live, definitely on my wish list to visit. Many thanks.
Please do! They are magical I imagine on a warm day when the honeysuckle are out it would be perfect x
@@throughlucyslensyou know how old these are and no none carved them out if you pay attention you can work out the seams
How wonderful! I’d live there in a heartbeat! ❤
there are more on the cliffs between high and low town in bridgnorth but they were vacated a lot earlier and are now just holes in the sandstone face, barely visible to the passer by and in a fenced off council or castle patch of land.
I will look over in the summer when I go to bridge north. Thank you
Thanks for going inside. I visited a couple of years ago and the houses were closed. Yes quite a hike up to the top. Keep going, your doing a grand job.
Thanks for watching! I was worried when I saw all the work going on they would be closed but thankfully they were open.
Amazing, they do look better than the cottages 👍👍
Really chuffed to see these. I'm originally from Worcestershire and went with some friends to Kinver Edge for a day out in the early 70s. We didn't see or know about the live-in caves but we did find some empty shallow caves and made one our base while we explored, etc, so it's great to also see the cave cottages too. Really enjoyed your tour. Cheers. :)
That’s so cool! I love it - did you sleep over or just day camp out?
Oh wow this was sensationally tranquil, I've never been to this place and since watching your video never heard or known about it, i think i could live there too, so peaceful like you not a fan of alot of stairs but thats minor when you find out whats waiting for you, thanks for sharing stay safe out there ❤
Thanks Nik, the birds singing was soo beautiful too!
I had no idea that something like this even exists! I am so glad that I found your channel, and I really enjoy your videos, and the subjects you are showing us.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that a lot x
A British friend of mind bought an underground home in the US because she knew about the benefits of living underground, like the place you explored. I've lived in a purpose built underground home in the US for over forty years. We have no heating or air conditioning bills. I think this will become a normal way of living in order to survive climate change. Thanks for this video!
So nice to hear from you - from a person who has an underground home, like I said in the video I think they are amazing. Do you mind me asking where abouts in the US they are? I am always really interested in quirky "unconventional" housing - which yes, I do believe will become conventional in years to come.
@@throughlucyslens Our homes are in Missouri, a place with a lot of karst caves (geologic term). It is also possible to build earth sheltered homes on private land because many counties don't have building codes.
My own family were Native American settlers in Oklahoma, prior to the forced removal labeled "The Trail of Tears". People would often build a "soddy" into a hillside because on the plains there was a lack of trees to build a log cabin. My family's old soddy from the early 1800s is still in use as a food cellar on the original homestead.
We went there for the first time last summer - sooooo cool and fascinating!
Amazing isn’t it Kath.
My husband and I enjoyed this video so much. Our dream was to visit England, Ireland and Scotland some day. He has stage 4 cancer so that’s probably not going to happen, but we enjoy these type videos and plan to watch more of yours today.
❤ from Virginia, USA.
So much love to you and your husband, that has really touched me having being in a similar situation with my Dad. X
I visited the cave houses a few years ago, and like you Lucy, I would love to live in one. The idea that you could just make a room a bit bigger, or gouge out a new cupboard, really appeals to me...Love your videos. Thanks for sharing them.
You are so welcome: I love sharing them. Aren't they lovely? Just a lovely atmosphere I thought - peaceful x
I could listen to your voice all day...such a great voice!
You're the best! Someone that’s had the Mickey taken out of their voice a lot for being a Brummie that means a LOT!
Such a beautiful setting and the homes are lovely...I would live there in a heartbeat!!! Close to nature and away from hustle bustle!!❤
Perfect to me, I agree x
Absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful place. I wonder if Tolkien ever was there… shades of Bag End.
I have read that he had visited & was inspired by them🥰
Used to visit these when I was a child in late 80's. They are amazing!
So cool! It's lovely when you are there to think about all the people that have visited and enjoy them in the past x
@@throughlucyslens It was really interesting to see them. Back then there was access to more than you can go into today, I think that health and safety wasn't as strict as it is now.
Yeah there's so many nooks and cranny's off limits now. It's a shame!
Thanks Lucy! We've spend the last 10 years dwelling through Britain in the summer and I LOVE this kind of places. Never heard of it. It's so nice to see a glimp into the past, and not only the rich houses but the houses of 'just people'. Thanks again and we will for sure visit this Cave houses. I really like your channel! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Hello.. or I should say Hallo! Lovely to have you here x
Thank you so much for sharing this. It's somewhere we really want to go. Fascinating that people lived there so recently. We loved watching this. Filmed so well and great narration. Hope you have a wonderful week. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
Thanks Dave & Dawn, I’m convinced I’ll bump into you two one of these days! NT Collab! X
Those houses are a gem, and so are you.
Thank you Sarah 🥹
I’m sure other commenters have said the same, but this reminds me so much of the underground houses of Coober Pedy in Australia. Some really fascinating Coober Pedy homes show up on real estate sites from time to time, which were owned by elderly people who barely altered them over the decades. They are often even sold with assorted furniture and household objects still in place, so it is a real pleasure to look through the images, like a time capsule. Similar to the homes in your video, they are generally owner-excavated, so there is a lot of personality and individuality to each room.
I need to check out these houses, they sound absolutely amazing and SUCH A good idea in Aus to avoid the boiling summers. I heard sometimes people would dig a room and find an opal too which is a real bonus. Would be amazing to visit one day - bucket list stuff :)
This is so great. We have something similar in the area where i grew up in America. We called them rock houses. And they were actually over hang caves with a large open front. And they would build a front or surrounding walls out of stacked sandstone rocks. I went to school with a girl who's father grew up in one. Thanks for sharing your adventures.😊
Wow on an overhang too! You can't even imagine getting up and down but I love how humans can make a home out of anything given the chance. - thanks so much for sharing! I am going to look those up :)
It looks so charming,I wouldn't mind living there!
Beautiful isn't it x
My nan used to live those.
I cant help but think of the movie 'The Dwelling Place.' Here in Canada, my boys and I borrowed this movie from a public library, and we loved it. We were all so fascinated with the concept of living in a cave.
Hey! I'm going to look up that film now! Thank you :)
What about the dugout homes on North American prairies? Those are cool too
We lived in Sedgley in the 60’s. Kinver Edge was a popular destination for a walk at the weekend but I was too young to remember much about it. I remember how red the Sandstone was.
Yes it's very striking isn't it how it just appears in the distance!
wow...... the cave houses are beautiful 😮🤗 and the views 😲 stunning 🤗
It really is! Such a hidden gem.
Seeing this pop up on my page made my day! I'm from Halesowen and grew up in the black country and I remember going to visit thr cave houses with my mom and dad many many times when I was younger! I mostly remember the sheer amount of steps and having a coke and some crisps at the pub after in Kinver 😅 happy memories x
There was nothing like that bottle of pop & a bag of crisps on a day out as a kid was there? I remember we were never allowed inside the pub either 😂 thanks for your lovely comment.
Another interesting video. I love hearing about how people have lived. Thank you x
Glad you enjoyed it and you are always welcome x
Lovely prepared for visitors. Wow.
Almost a fairytale life. Thank you...
Very welcome & thank you
Oh Lucy, we are kindred. I just found this video and I had to subscribe. Kinver Edge rock houses look like a bit of heaven to me. Thank you for the journey and looking forward to more. ✌️❤
Hey Andrea. Thanks so so much! I think they are Marvelous! I dream of living a more sadate life one day and these are a bit of me! X
Lovely video and described very well .Really enjoyable to see how people lived in the cave houses ,I would live there they looked very homely and warm.
I think they are wonderful! Sitting here on a boiling hot day in my Victorian home determined to keep me at a million degrees I would love to be sat in a cave right now!
I would definitely love to visit these and I agree with you that a cave house would be a great place to live.
Very interesting to learn about this & your videos in general. Watching from Germany, take care 🤗
Guten Abend! Vielen Dank für Ihr Abonnement, das freut mich sehr! Deutsch ist meine zweite Sprache, aber ich bin heutzutage nicht besonders gut. :)
Well that was fascinating Lucy. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us 😂
Glad you enjoyed it! And my pleasure
I love this type of thing! Thanks for showing us!
You are so welcome x
Thank you for sharing. Makes me want to bore into one of the hills on our land!
It would be wonderful wouldn't it - If you own the land experiment - it would be a lovely project wouldn't it?
It looks beautiful there, another one to visit on our next trip to the UK
Please do! and enjoy x
Thanks for the fun exploration! I think many of these people had to be forced out and that is why the history of them is scarce. There are literally thousands of these scattered across Europe.
You are very welcome: it's such a shame that happened but I know there are some in Spain & Italy lived in and I'm so glad!
What lovely TINY HOMES!
Gorgeous huh? Sign me up 🤣
Those caves are so cosy! They remind me of Fantastic Mr foxes home x
Yessss! Aww that’s a lovely way to look at them.
Oooh, I've got that top. Lazy Oaf for the win!
Yessss! I love LO! 🙌
Thank you so much for such a terrific presentation of a fascinating piece of history.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you. I do love a mooch around these places x
Lovely to see the rock houses, used to go quite often with my late husband. I can remember when people still lived in them. The town of Kinver is lovely to visit too. A few years ago Grand Designs tv featured a rock house that someone renovated to live in, i believe it's at Habberley, not far from Kinver. There were a few places.like this with cave houses cut into sandstone cliffs. Very interesting, thank you ☺️
Glad you enjoyed it, lovely to hear about your special memories, it really is a lovely place. I need to find this episode of Grand Designs, it's a programme i've never watched and sounds like I would enjoy it :)
This is all so amazing. Feel like you took me on a beautiful journey. Thank you.
You are so welcome! Look forward to showing you around more places x
Superb , thanks for a slice of pure nostalgia.
Thanks Lucy another great video you are really getting in your stride now.
Thank you! 😃 this video was actually on the back burner not to be published as I wasn’t happy with my camera work so thank you for being so kind x
So quaint. I could easily live there 👍👍
They are beautiful, but i'm too used to having electricity and running water
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 Isn't everyone ? 🤣
nice vid again Lucy so interesting for people to just say hey lets make a home here absolutely genius and to last out that long
So true! And ecologically so sustainable too - more caves I say!
Great great narration...I would like to live there..not worried about the cold, but if cool in summer then I could handle it.
I have lots of items from my grandmother and her mother, and I love the uniqueness of them..I actually use them and display them.
Once again, great tour..thank you..
I live in Texas..US..I have been to London once when I worked for the airline industry, but would love to spend quality time there explore the small communities outside of the cities..what an adventure.
You are so blessed to live there..
Thank you! And from someone who DREAMS of visiting a Bucees maybe we can do a swap? I am really proud of living here though, there really is something around every corner - even if I love going abroad too!
Fascinating., amazing,I’d have loved to live there. Thank you for sharing ❤
Beautiful isn't it, thanks for your lovely comment x
I have just found this platform and I have to say the information you give is amazing thank you from Australia I would never had known.
You are so welcome. I adore doing the research and sharing. Thank you for your lovely comment x
WOW! What a place, and I never knew it was there! Thanks for the tour
Very welcome, thank you.
What a fascinating place, Lucy. I'm not sure if I could live in one of those houses, though, as I'm very claustrophobic. I love to see all the different places you take us to. There's so much to see and do in England.
There is, I think you could just keep on exploring on and on and never get bored, we are very lucky.
It’s beautiful and seems so peaceful looks xo of nature surrounding it
Wouldn't it be wonderful. The fresh air and all those birds singing. Gorgeous.
Absolutely love to hear the birds sing 🙂
We visited a couple of years ago and like you it was not what i expected. I would have loved to live up there away from the industrial smooth.
Nottingham caves are equally fascinating and also show how the caves were used over the centuries.
Thank you, I’ll check out the Nottingham ones, they are round by the castle walls are they? (Could be wrong) I had a vague recollection of visiting once maybe when I was really little.
Oh this is bloody fantastic! Grinning the whole video
🥹🥹🥹 thank you!
Cracking little film. Thank you.
Many thanks!
My wife's grandparents used to run the cafe on the other side of the cave houses. There used to be a long climb of steps up to the cafe which her grandad put in himself.
That is absolutely brilliant, thank you so much for your comment, so interesting and what a legacy!
That was fascinating thank-you 🙃
Glad you enjoyed it, it's my pleasure x
Loved it, thanks so much for taking us along for the tour. Fascinating stuff! As a keen caver it's great to see this. Much as I love caves, I'm not sure I'd want to live in one... :D
I think you are so brave! I took my students caving once on a PGL type holiday and I was terrified! Put on a brave face for the kiddos but I could feel my legs shaking 🤣
Wow!! I think I’ve been living under rock. I’ve never heard of this place or these beautiful cottages. Absolutely fascinating I’m going to have a google and a read. Thank you 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! I had never heard of them either, it was my Mom that told me about them - I initially didn’t believe her 😂
Honestly looks like paradise to me.
Me too! 🥰
I’m so glad I have come across your videos. I would definitely love to stay in a cave, Airbnb??? Really great videos, thanks for sharing them. ❤🇨🇦
Glad you like them .. there are cave dwelling air bnbs in Spain .. trip idea?
The rockhouse retreat, Kidderminster not far from the ones in kinver.
You can hire it out like an airbnb
This is absolutely fascinating! I’m definitely going to research more. I’d definitely love in a cave like that. They made it cozy and inviting.
Glad you enjoyed it, it's lovely isn't it? I too would love to have lived in one too x
I love all your videos, Lucy. And this one was especially fascinating!
Thank you. Really appreciate that! I'd love to experience living in one x
I am loving this channel I'm obsessed with homes from the past a d you can keep your stately ones.
Glad you like them! Even when I go to a stately home I go straight to the kitchens and servants quarters - I feel at home there!
I would be quite happy to live in one of these cottages, would have to install a compost toilet lol thanks so much this video was refreshingly educational and shows our history x
Thank you! And yes a good old compost loo would do the job nicely .. !
I am so sad I never saw this amazing place when I was living in England a few years ago , I have to plan a visit one day ❤️
It will still be there, waiting for you ❤️
After looking at the cave houses in Spain, I'm thrilled to see that the UK had some too. I'd definitely without a doubt live in one.
I’d LOVE to see the ones in Spain, it makes total sense doesn’t it? Natures air con with a warm hug in the cooler weather. I’d live in one too!
Given the choice between a 400 year old tradition and indoor plumbing, I'm voting for indoor plumbing. Fascinating.
Thank you ❤️
Indoor plumbing can be fitted.
Love seeing the Fry's Coco tin in the 1930's home 😀
So nostalgic .. my Mom still loves a frys cream bar :)
My husbands great uncle owned a mountain in Tennessee and it had a cave in it. His dad explored it when he first got the property. He found huge bones in it (maybe giant sloth bones), indian artifacts, and during the civil war the Confederacy stored gunpowder in this cave. To transport the gunpowder there was a wooden rail in the cave. The uncle's father decided to explore the cave and see how far it went. After three days of exploring he had not found the end of the cave. They thought it migh be connected to the cave system in the Cumberland Gap, which would make it huge. When his great uncle was still alive we went to visit him. The cave looked like a little hole in the side of the mountain but when you went in it opened up into a huge room, big enough to build a two story house inside it. My husband thought about asking his great uncle if he could buy it from him, but he never did. When the great uncle died his daughters sold the cave and land it was in to the state. The state said it wanted to turn it into a tourist attraction, but around 25 years later nothing had been done with it.
What a shame! But you had me at GIANT SLOTH BONES! Woah! Thats absolutely incredible and sounds like it does need to be an attraction and saved. States (or councils as we call them here) rarely return on their promises so they, mores the pity!
@@throughlucyslens my husband visited there when he was a kid and found a bow and a quiver full of arrows made by some Indian tribe. But since he was a kid and the adults around thought he had junk they let him destroy them. Horrible. I visited that cave with my husband later and got as far as the area where the gunpowder was stored. The little rails on the floor of the cave were wooden ( no sparks to set off the gunpowder) seemed in good condition. It was a dry cave. That is as far as I went.
Those giant sloth bones may be around somewhere on that mountain. The uneducated adults just let the kids play with them.
Such a shame that is x
Thank you for sharing, so interesting 😊
That looks like a lovely way to live, i wouldnt mind that myself! This video was a nice random find on youtube, thank you for sharing! Makes me want to visit even more
I love a random find, it's how I find most of my faves. Thanks so much for dropping by and I'm glad you enjoyed it, I too quite like the idea of living in a cave!
Thanks Lucy, I would love to live in these! ❤ xxx
Very welcome, me too! ❤️
It’s sad that no one can live in these now- this is how I’d love to live.
Same. It's idyllic to me x
These are amazing and they look so cosy. I'm absolutely loving your videos!
Thanks so much Lynne, appreciate that
Brilliant Lucy! Thank you 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Brilliant another video showing places I have also visited. Thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Such a beautifully presented video. How lovely it was,
to listen to your narrative, as we joined you, on your journey into this magical little dwelling. It was so interesting! I found myself totally captivated.
How lovely it must of been to live in amongst mother nature and all of her glory. Look forward to joining you on future travels. I happily subscribed and shared. Wishing you happiness on your travels. PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Look forward to you travelling with me Kathy ❤️
These absolutely beautiful. 😍
Thank you, I agree.
That was so refreshing. Thank you.
You are so welcome Debbie. Thank you ❤️
I LOVE THIS,THANKU&YES,ID LIVE IN ONE ..FAB!🙂
You are very welcome xx
Very lovely, thank you!
My pleasure!