The Scar house Dam or the Revealed sunken remains, which is best ?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Scar house Dam and reservoir in the Yorkshire Dales was built between 1921 and 1936 to supply the City of Bradford with fresh water as it thrived during the Industrial revolution in the 19th century. The Reservoir is supplied with water by the River Nidd. This is a beautiful part of rural Britain called Nidderdale. During the summer of 2022 water levels at the reservoir have fallen. Revealing the remains of a farmhouse that is normally sunken beneath the levels of water. There is also the sunken remains of a road thet goes to nowhere. But the star of the show id the Scar house Dam. Built from local Yorkshire stone it is very beautiful and an Edwardian engineering masterpiece. We also see old pics of the Nidderdale light railway. Bradford water corporation built the Dam and reservoir and its a a great piece of architecture. This is a history of England and Britain.
Gothic music by Marcus aka The Drain Maestro ruclips.net/channel/UCWjg8ChLBdWti6APNJJlIjg Guitar music by Stevie Hind and Martin
Brill Marcus.
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So any links to the actual tunes, please. @Martin Zero . Also, I've never seen a water retention construction that's so dam beautiful! Good vid! 👍
Foster Beck Mill 1864, wheel installed 1904 for spinning twine or linen yarns and was later producing twine. Closed 1966 and turned into a large pub - Watermill Inn, popular for dances, that closed around 2005 to be converted into houses and an adjacent cottage next to the road bridge was turned into a pub (Bridge Inn). You managed a good shot, it always seems to be in the shade when I pass.
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Was that john foster who had the mohair mill in Queensbury?
Thank you - @Martin Zero maybe pin this post please?
It must be 50 years since I visited the Watermill at Foster Beck
@@robinwbarrett ok was it the same fosters who owns the mill in queensbury I was born there
Foster Beck Waterwheel, near Pateley Bridge. It was an old mill, which was converted to a Pub and Nightclub and is now residential properties. The wheel is apparently listed...all according to Google. Great vid as ever Martin. Thanks.
Thank you for the info on the waterwheel. It's a beauty.😃👍
Shame it no longer works. I wonder how much electricity it could generate in these difficult times.
Lol not heard of that place in Ages, I actually used to live there. In the living room we had like a glass box within the wall where you could see the mechanics for the wheel itself.
Mind you the snow there was different..... when it snowed it properly snowed it was over your car bonnet. "Would ring work saying I couldn't come in" send a photo of the snow....... head to the pub 1 minute away, jobs a good'n 😁
Was absolutely picturesque that area, really miss it.
Great video lads. Back in the days. The people new how to build great builds and other great things. Build to last too.
I've been over that dam, absolutely beautiful, even the pump house, like you said, why can't we have architecture like this anymore, it is pleasing to the eye and fits in so well, now it would be grey concrete. Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it 👍
They were built to last forever, now only for 30 years.
I cannot wrap my head around the sheer elegance and exquisite beauty of that place. Absolutely stunning. So well documented Martin. Kudos for work so well done.
One of the best looking Dams I’ve seen. Absolutely beautiful
Amazing the location and the knowledge acquired x.
I am loving this series and the accompanying music.
Thanks 👍
Funnily enough the Nidd Aqueduct taking water from the reservoir to Bradford passes under the railway just past the eastern end of Bolton Abbey station where you were, and also runs above ground over a bridge over Hambleton beck which you can see from the main road near the turning for the station.
My grandfather was the foreman of the gang that laid the Nidd Aqueduct. From Scar House to Chellow Heights, Bradford is approx. 30 miles and the water flows all the way under gravity with no pumping stations involved.
I’m speechless. Martin! Breathtaking.
Fantastic stonework at the dam such a beautiful structure. And the waterwheel on the side of the houses was amazing. So good to see one in such good condition. I wonder if it still turns. Thank you so much Martin Big 👍to you & the boys.
Thank you Martin and lads your adventures never cease to amaze! The dam and pumphouse have a fairytale look to them damsels in distress and knights in shining armour would fit right in!
Now that autumn has started, the water level will rise again.
Beautiful steam train, nostalgia just like the dam.
Provides a good overview overlaying the cards.
Martin welcome to our patch.
Lovely up there. Great work thanks 🙏
Another splendid explore with the additional bonus of the steam train and the water wheel!
Fascinating. I'm a Yank and really admire the Brits talent in masonry. Stunning. You're right; beauty should accompany function.
Looks awesome Martin, loved the engineering of the build very pleasing to the eye not just a concrete apparition.
As always...thanks for the trip :)
Wow what a dam. Absolutely stunning vlog 😍
Great 👍 look's like you all had a good day for it. Looking forward to seeing your next adventure 🙂👍💯🙏
Such a beautiful dam. Cheers for sharing lads.
My dad who is now one month off 98 years old remembers walking across Dead Man’s Hill from Coverdale and over the dam when it was under construction.
Great video Martin. I was up there in March when the water was cascading down the face of the dam. Very impressive. Took a few photos & videos. Our annual (May 7th '23) Nidderdale Walk takes walkers/runners from Pateley up and round the reservoir - 26 miles!
The dam and its infrastructure win it for me; as a computer systems engineer, semi-retired, I work on small scales. The enormous scale of this engineering fascinates me; someone had to design all this and then build it!
Loved the music! Very apt for this visit and with Halloween just around the corner too! I'm spooked for sure! I'm so glad you found you 'could be arsed' to do this visit. The water's soon going to cover up all of these gems again, and it was so fascinating. It was really great to see the Bolton Abbey train too, having ridden on it when on holiday in the area. The dam is just amazing and you can always rely on the Victorians to overdo with architecture. They'd hate the way we throw up all all those ugly buildings now. It's a sight to behold. Your brew was really luxury style on this outing and I loved the entertainment thrown in by James! Thanks all of you... a sincere pleasure to have been able to join you! 👍
Amazing video. I live fairly close by and have gone to the reservoir about 30 times in the last two years alone. I ride their on my motorbike and I never get bored visiting it.
Great to see the drone footage and historical photos.
Something about these reservoirs, when the water is low and the old buildings revealed, it's like a lost world coming back to life.
Fascinating stone and masonry workings.
Great video of an incredible place and so easy on the eye for a functional piece of infrastructure.
Lovely lovely. Even more plces on my list to visit, next time in UK. Thanks
Yeah nice up there
A fabulous video , Thank you ,i certainly wouldn’t have know it was there if you hadn’t brought it to our attention, so thank you guys very much ,and yes its an amazing Dam , and spill way. i would love to see it full . my regards liz .
Just found this on my 10:00 AM break, thanks for making a good morning better.....
The most impressive dam I've ever seem. It's not just functional, but ruddy gorgeous to boot.
Beatrice is very beautiful and so is the dam. Awesome video Martin and the crew!
Cheers David
Amazing architecture and engineering, I'd love to see that with the overflow in full flow.
Thank you for bringing us this video of such a stunning piece of work. Absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.
Awesome drone footage. 👌
I think the waterboard if that’s was what they were then had a blank check book cause look around any old reservoir and the architecture is second to none
Years ago I looked after an old lady who was brought up in the Shanty village they built for the workers and families. There was everything they needed a school even a picture house when you drive up to Scar house on your left you can see the concrete bases of the buildings
Apparently the concrete base for the projector in the picture house is still there.
Thank you Martin and friends , for another stunning video show !!!
What an amazing place. That stone work that as you said looks like a castle must be designed by a person who was inspired from a previous generation Victorian designer. Great video
what a lovely dam , great video martin
Am struggling to comprehend just how bad the drought has been
Love what has been revealed and just how much history is available to us - am surprised you've not found a mill cos that area was littered with them
Thank you very much for showing us this snippet of our history
I recently came back from the Lakes and I can say that Grasmere, Rydal Water, Windermere etc are NOT low .. in fact there were flooded feilds up there, the River Rothay that feeds these 3 lakes was running high between Grasmere and Windermere, it was a veruitable torrent through the village of Ambleside.
I live in Wigan, some 50 miles south of the Lakes and the canals there are not low either, neither is Scotsmans Flash and that must be 10 foot at its deepest and not murkey like this so realistically it should have warmed up and completely evaporated away if the droughts reduced water levels in these select places by 30 foot.
Sale Water Park in South Manchester also is not experiencing low water levels.
No where I look are the levels of bodies of water low except for in resevoirs .. makes you think dont it ..
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Yes indeedy
@@Caustictherapy Yes, but all the places you mention are on the western side of the Pennines, whereas the reservoirs that Martin and the team have been looking at are on the eastern side and this is why these lakes are so low.
I flew out to Sweden from Manchester around mid September and the whole place was brown. There was a wild fire on the coast just beyond Hull too, you could see the smoke cloud for miles into the North Sea.
@@Caustictherapy It's almost like the water from the reservoirs is consumed in some way lol.
Could you imagine the boring eyesore they'd build these days. Nice one Martin.
Another fantastic video Martin, as always, you bring us fascinating and interesting content, I have been aware of the dam all my life but never visited - the close ups, architecture and masonry work - I am absolutely blown away - superb. Thanks
Another quality video. James is a real character.
Another lovely video Martin. Well done. I lived in West Yorkshire for 13 years and your passion for beautiful industrial architecture transported me from Argyll where I now live, right back to the hills around Yorkshire once again. Thanks!
its magical when the water drops an we get to see what we lost..... thats the only way i think of it, thanks for making the trip martin, seem we all love this stuff
Brilliant, I’m at a travel lodge
Perfect timing Martin 👍🏼
Nobody was fussed about last night pal
Edit: That was breathtaking Martin, built to last. It looked like a water garden it was that detailed
Do they build dams that aren't built to last? 😬 😉
I live in Nidderdale and know Scar well, correct the stone was quarried in the hill side above the dam but if you look high up on the hillside on both sides there’s two huge concrete blocks where the blocks of stone were brought down on pulley’s. The main construction is concrete and faced by stone and in winter the whole wall moves one inch with the pressure. The wall has a series of tunnels that run across for one side to the other and are inspected for movement , it’s a wet job because they drip and leak. The tower in the middle is a away down in to the middle of the dam and if you every get chance to go down it’s hard to imagine all that water and pressure is just a few feet away. Foster beck is a old mill that became a local pub and played music every weekend, I’ve only seen the wheel run once but it shook so much that it nearly pulled the wall down, they turned it quickly off.
Ahh interesting, thank you. Yeah that is a massive wheel !!!
Thank you team . If James forgets the brew and treats the Zero expedition might be lost on the Yorkshire moors. A real modern hound of the Baskervilles for Haloween😂😂😂❤.
Nice video Martin thanks guys....Chris
Another fantasic video Martin, thanks.
Fascinating, Martin, thanks for that!
I love your videos, Martin! As an American, I had to chuckle at "it was quite a drive" when it's only 70 miles. 😆
Yeah its not all motorway though, lots of windy roads
@@MartinZero, windy roads are my favorite -- makes the journey as enjoyable as the destination, IMO.
Lovely film! I remember Nidderdale from the odd trip when I were a lad. I do agree that these 'lost villages' r the spookiest of the spooky.. 👻Thanks also to commentators who fill in the odd bit of info.. That's what it's all about guys! Nice one Martin. 🌟👍
Nice one Ceril...Grand job.
Thanks Cyril
It's so pretty! I wish things like built in America now looked this nice.
Really enjoyed that , thanks martin and team
Another great video, Martin. Thank you!
That dam is stunning.
When it started, I thought you had accidentally uploaded an episode of Thomas the Tank engine. Or is that in the car for keeping James busy 🤔 while driving. Top video as usual. Would not be the same without the brew. 💪🤟🤗👍
Absolutely blown away with this video. Stunning architecture 😍, they knew what they were doing back then ...impressing generations on from then and into the future.
Top notch Martin ...and guys. Thank you
Never heard of it. An amazing place.
Absolutely love infrastructure like this! Great work as always Martin!
Brilliant video guys - Amazing location !!
Cheers Tim
Fascinating as always.
Yipes. That photo of the dam in action was scary.
Fantastic construction, you can see the footings of the houses built for the dam construction workers to the left of the road before the car park. To the north of the reservoir where the quarry is Dead Man's Hill, named after the murder of 3 Scottish drovers for their money by a woman and her daughter who ran a local inn, they were tried in Pateley Bridge and hung. It is said on some nights the ghosts of the drovers roam the moor.
Good stuff Neil
Stay on the road, beware of the moor.
That was the quarry up the hillside, and what is now a road was once an inclined plane where the loaded wagons ging down would pull the empties back up. You can still find the foundations of the loco sheds and workshops, both narrow and standard gauge, and the sites of all the housing blocks.
Really enjoyed this one Martin, isn’t that dam just fantastic!
Loving these videos......some real bits or architecture, engineering and archeology combined....
That was a nice video to watch, in keeping with all the great videos you produce, Martin, a massive legacy..
The water wheel you show is Foster Beck Mill that was a Hemp Mill
Hi Martin I have seen the railroad station on a couple of train videos, but I love the dam. I would have liked to have seen the slush gates open when it was full. Great looking pump house. Thanks again for the video
Absolutely brilliant
Interesting video I live not far away and there are more reservoirs nearby built at a similar time but none as spectacular as Scarr House. Nearby Leighton has a aqueduct with such a small fall it is amazing and a needles eye was built to help line route. A light railway was also used connecting the main line at Masham . Amazing what could be achieved all them years ago.
Another cracker Martin and the boys. Loved the little saddle tank steamer as well 👍👍
Awesome video Martin, they did'nt have to make Scar House Dam so ornate and beautiful but they just did, god bless them, as a Bradfordian i did not realise just how low our water lavels are so will make me more careful how i use it now.
yeah, especially with that dead goat carcass flavouring the water.
Great video these reservoirs are just amazing.
Loved the black white pictures showing the construction all those steam excavators it fair reminded me of Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel!! And lots of sights on the way, that waterwheel, or I think I should say Noria, which is also same name in Spanish (didn't know that until I saw Paul and Rebeccas one) and visit to see the steam engines at the Bolton and Emsbay,
Well done!!
Good luck from Spain!!
PS: Great selection of music from Marcus really suited the opening scenes. Some classic team zero music from yourself as well Martin!!
Another great video as always :-) next time martin take a Manchester tart with you.
Fantastic as ever guys. I'm fortunate to live less than an hour away from scar House, I'm glad you like it and the weather was friendly (it isn't always) thanks for the amazing video
Great video, what a fantastic structure. Also enjoyed seeing Pateley Bridge water wheel again. Best Wishes Pete.
Stunning workmanship. Great video an unknown gem, thanks lads.
Thanks Neil
To quote you, that's an amazing viaduct, especially the overflow system.
A beautiful & interesting sight. You don't see many original BMW 8 series these days 😂 The damn & reservoir were fascinating too!
Another great video Team Zero, keep up the good work. 😄
Wow that is a big dam!
Superb video lads and what great engineering and really great architecture 👌👍
Another excellent video Martin. You are heading for British Historian Of The Year status. Maybe no other bloggers record history as well as you do.
Thanks Martin, i always watch and like but rarely comment. Well thats stunning isnt it, from an era when they just built stuff like this because they could. Thanks chaps.
I'd forgotten about the Embsay railway. Thanks Martin.
Amazing
I call dibs on the little turret in the middle at the top. Dam is best by a long shot!
Great video and presentation! Thank you!!
What an amazing place.
It was Nigel
Thanks, cracking video , Lovely spot. It would be good to see that overflowing i can just imagine the noise
Was doing some work on a cottage just downstream and the owner said that during high water when it breaks the spillway he loses the bottom half of his garden! Beautiful but bleak place. Interesting drive up to it too as the Yorkshire Water approach road is the trackbed to the old railway. They’re now bricked up but the tunnels are still in place. I have photos of my last visit with the hills in snow, that was a chilly day!
I always enjoy these
Great video thanks Martin. With the little I know about Bradford I'm not surprised that it was Bradford Corporation that built it - that was back when councils had some pride. The bean-counters must have had a fit when they saw the plans though.
That dam must be quite a sight when the reservoir is full - perhaps a return visit is called for in the spring?