Underground river tunnels explored under city of Bristol
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- The river Frome flows under the city of Bristol in tunnels hidden from the public view. It comes out into the Bristol harbour where it eventually joins the river Avon before flowing into the sea.
We look at these tunnels and explore them.
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The Frome is pronounced “Froom”. Also, the long curved tunnel mentioned at the beginning of the exploration is called “Castle Ditch” it follows the original road line of Lower Castle Street and ends at Broadweir, where the weir is located and the access to the street is found. Great video.
I enjoyed this explore Matt. Every city in the UK has great places to explore. that woman was brave coming out to confront you guys. But I suppose working in a homeless shelter she has seen everything & nothing frightens her.
Hahahaha at the old woman, she seemed friendly enough . Everyone is wondering WTF is going on! 😂
That was a great ending😂dinkum, hope your alright mate
She's not that old! She's probably about 40 or so. Definitely the women who work with Homeless people are unflappable.Nothing phases them.
There was a tiny woman who set up Bristol Drugs Project when in her Twenties.
Maggie Telfer.
She died tragically in her early Sixties this year of cancer.
She wasn't phased by anyone...She could see the value in the most seemingly broken and hopeless person, and had faith in them.
These fearless women are often the backbones of these charities ..They will absolutely fight for justice for all. 💕
I like this narrated format of older explores. I watched the original vid but this is really cool. The woman near the end was canny and you probably made her day haha
Brilliant video.
I've always been interested in the River Fromes route and especially the underground part.
Followed the frome Valley from fishponds to where you came out. Older people in Bristol remember when it was open through the centre at Electricity House, but the tunnels under Castle Park and Nelso Street are fascinating.
Nice.
You made the news in Australia today with this.
do you have a link please.... many thanks.
Brilliant explore Matt!
Nice to see different part of river from where you land the boat.
The Google/aerial view with overlay is really interesting, showing how the tunnels and river join up with the channel - great music too.
That poor lady - obviously not had to deal with people walking along the river before and then trying to get out!! Classic 😂
Great video 👍👍
Very good video again Matt, I haven't seen any videos of your court cases that you had, you you did say that you would tell us, what it was all about when you could,are you able to talk about it yet or have you still got stuff going,on and can't say anything yet, love what you do keep up the good what you are doing,I also love it when you are out exploring with iks have you any more videos coming up with Ian all the best
Fantastic...I was up by th Castle at Xmas & walked past that door. Great video
Absolutely love this channel, been watching it for quite a few years now, always top notch, and another fantastic video thank you SecretVoult 👌😊
Another amazing Bristol video Matt, definitely learnt more about the city in your videos than I ever did in the 15 years I lived there. I hope you can go further someday but safety first.
I lived they back in the 1990
yeah i may go back but need 2 people in waders...
@Wayne Gray 2000-2015 for me and I certainly saw some changes during that time but thankfully I had already gone before the centre was redesigned again.
@@MetroTitanD78 Bristol has changed so much.. Architecturally much worse than it was. Also the 'Poorer' areas are now really gentrified.
@Oakleaf700 tell me about it, I used to live in Hartcliffe and the only investment we really had was Symes Avenue and the 2 secondary schools being rebuilt. The area is still a dive and one I thankfully no longer live at.
looking forward to watchjing Bristol born! I love bristol!
If you carried on,the river narrows, goes into smaller tunnels, eventually going up past Eastville, then into snuff Mills, some old mines in snuff Mills, dug by German prisoners of war in 1914-1918, then Eastville Park was also A POW camp, lots of tunnels and water ways dotted around Bristol, the woods with a monument on the hill,just off the M-32, a very old brick tunnel located in the woods, not sure if it's been filled in,I went into part of it back in 1988.
Very Interesting - I always thought the Frome (it rhymes with Room by the way, not Rome) just went up Nelson Street and under the post-war shopping area of Broadmead - though I guess going the way it did it would have formed part of Bristol Castle's moat, along with the Avon, to the south. I worked in that Salvation Army centre back in 1989 - it all looked very different then, no fences for a start; and you went in at the end of the building, just next to where you climbed over the gate and met the lady who set you'd set off all the alarms! It's more of a rehabilitation centre where people stay for a while than a homeless shelter by the way - though the red brick building across the road on the corner of Wade Street is what used to be their traditional homeless shelter before that building opened in the sixties. I remember it ran for maybe another 200 yards before the river disappeared underground - I guess some of that is now under the diverted road, at the back of Cabot Circus! I'm pretty sure a bit of it was temporarily exposed in front of the old Bridewell police station, maybe about 35 years ago - it might have been that the road needed strengthening, or something like that.
thanks for the info.
May 1971, rupert street collapsed into the river for 120 feet. Rebuilt within 9 momths.
Another brilliant video cheers Matt 👍 It’s amazing what’s underneath the ground we walk on everyday & would never even know it’s there.
You made the local news again xD its what led me to look for this video
What amazes me is how you guys just walk in like that and no says nothing I’m surprised that you didn’t find any body’s down there
Quite a trek that.
Fun stuff.
Thanks Matthew!
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I'm a bristolian, lived her all my life (67). I know of the tunnels but never realised how far they go. wasn't they used in Victorian times as sewers?
9:41 to the far left is where the water sluice is located and I've been down that way during heavy rain when they've activated it.
I read somewhere that the medieval bridges werent demolished and were just added to the culvert, looks like one of them at 14:51 just above you.
top info
14:51 is nelson street bridge of 1799 with needless bridge with its pointed arch right along side it.
I know i will enjoy this hope you are doing well Matt!!!
Interesting Matthew Thank you very much
No leaky wellingtons there, great stuff Matt.
Absolutely amazing
This was a really cool video, thanks Matt!
Cheers Matt an the lads
Fantastic video Matt! Love what you did with the google earth at the beginning! The lady at the end seemed nice. 👍🏼
A real fun family day out big bangers ...stopping at greegs for sausage rolls...sarnies drinks..good day out with the children..look like weston super mare mud to me matt ..
brilliant!
9:21 those cranes you see are part of the museum, we used to go down there at night when I was a teenager and wed unhook the carts on the rail and push them under the cranes because it activates the cranes to "talk" to each other as part of a museum exhibit. I dont think it does it anymore though plus far too much cctv now
Thank you
Great video, have you done the Megatron in Sheffield?
@Matt,
A throwback towards the beginning to you and Dan exploring together. Hopefully, Dan will get over his current health problems. 🤞🏼🙏🏼
Yes we said we would do this together but didnt get around to it so I did it instead. Get well soon Dan.
WONDERFUL TOTALLY WONDERFUL
Going back to 1920 when my late father was 12 he in the sea scouts use to go shooting rats in the underground Froom and as me and my late brother did too, so it was great to again see the underground rivers but no rats and a lack of water. The lady who confronted you as to what you were doing being me I expect I would say we escaped from Horfield Prison via the drains and we were trying to make are escape., but story was more believable great explore.
Loved it. 🧡 It's amazing at all the places you can explore in the United Kingdom. Y'all looked like the Ghost Busters come out that door on to the street.😄 But seriously Matt, I loved the video. The crap you find is unreal. And that lady ... Yikes 😳. Love you Matt. 🧡🧡🧡🧡
08.40 the original access pillar is now in M shed museum.It’s like a very large green postbox that had a ladder inside. Replaced by manhole covers.
yes a vertical drop in.
Thanks
Thank you for your kind support.
I think you missed a vintage Raleigh in that tunnel! 😂
Great vid Matt. There is a smaller underground river tunnel near me in Frome somerset.
We have done a tunnel there... its on the channel.
@@TheSecretVault oh cool, i must have missed that one. Thanks
This is crazy
cheers Matt :)
The most fascinating underground explore I've found so far in about 10 years- filming, narration & above ground tracing/explantion using google earth, well done guys. Would be interested to know if what 'William Quick' said recently below (quoted) could be verified and corrected/appended to your video? As a find its own level U shaped culvert ("Siphon pipe")- diverting underneath the harbour instead of into it then joining the ("New Cut") Avon somewhere else would be fascinating! "Between the 13th century and 1825 this would have been correct but to deal with sewage issues it was largely redirected to join the New Cut of the Avon (not the floating harbour which it goes under in a siphon pipe) in a project known as MyIne's Culvert".
Mylnes culvert was built 1827
those are under most of europe time team did many episodes on how the covered most rivers creeks 41:31 thats close to original construction like OLD OLD I believe
Paddled here today. Lots of t light candles in outlets. U do that?
I prefer the Cave videos myself as I find caves and tunnels more supernatural and creepy lol
Hope Dan can get well soon, terrible news!
Love the video, though there is a mistake as to the course of the Frome coming out by the watershed. Between the 13th century and 1825 this would have been correct but to deal with sewage issues it was largely redirected to join the New Cut of the Avon (not the floating harbour which it goes under in a siphon pipe) in a project known as MyIne's Culvert
Ah but every time there is a tide higher than the level of the floating harbour, the rivers flow backs up through mylnes culvert because it has no one way flap. The river rises above the level of the floating harbour and the excess water spills over the dam by the front of electricity house and resumes its course under the cenotaph and the centre and out at the watershed grill.
The looks it needs cleaned out
18:35 thats my bike 😆
cool
Whoop!
The floating harbour is not tidal.
Neither is the Frome.
This was the whole point of the floating harbour; it allowed vessels in the City dock to remain afloat, from Netham locks to Cumberland basin.
Moreover, the River Avon bypasses the float via the cut, which flows out to the sea.
Bristol has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world, which is another reason for the Floating harbour.
The Avon empties into the Bristol channel; the Severn starts at Sharpness.
The reason that the Anglo-Saxons founded Bristol (Brigstow) where it is, is because it was the only place for miles around where the Avon and Frome could be forded.
Before the Frome was covered in vessels would lay up as far as Christmas steps.
The frome certainly is tidal!!!! Every high tide the flow enters Mylne’s culvert causing the frome to back up and the river level rise up to 6 feet.
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The Frome flows into the float under the Centre ,which was navigable up to Christmas street before it was paved over.
Therefore, it is not dependent on the tide.
However, if one looks at the cut, which bypasses the float, one will see that it is tidal as it is open to the incoming tide from the Bristol channel, whilst allowing the Avon to maintain a constant level, that's what the Netham complex does.
In fact, there used to be tidal slipways at both Totterdown and Bathurst basin on the cut.
17:50 looks almost like the area under the road outside the old firestation, near the current police station in town.
It is under the old firestation, thats where he turned round
I found this a bit boring but wow
Look at all that workmanship that went into building everything and how it has stood the test of time
That hostel is definitely NOT posh!
They've seen it all there anyway..😁
Back of the Sally Army hostel
0:50 that is called castle Park Church which was bombed in the ww2 never rebuilt
Saint Peters in Peter Street
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Hello Matthew what part of Birmingham u live at
i live in Wiltshire m8....
@@matthewwilliamsbroll3007 oh ok
How old are the tunnels, are they as old as the castle? Anyway, enjoyed this video thanks Matt..
Mainly 1854-1882, with some sections late 1700s and the wade street end 1923
seen this
Were these tunnels smugglers tunnels then because Bristol was known for the smuggling ?
No, there are no smugglers tunnels under bristol. The frome was culverted 1853-1938 to make roads over it
13:30 yes
I bet it cold down they
Ze Valt
hakuna Matata 😂
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE TIDE COME RUSHING IN...
run like buggery
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Frooooom, not Froam!!
1:08:13 ye man blood clat
Trust not posh...death camp
It’s pronounced Froom.
She was a lovely woman
yeah a no stress type for one. We need more like her.
That's not a unit,bare druggies,hostel,watch Ur feet,💉💉💉💉logus house,salvation army for homeless,✌️❤️🧘
loads of shit 15:03
Not keen on this stuff
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