When I was younger my Father and my Grandfather took be to see some of the dams in the Scotish borders. I remember them telling me that when the dams were built the farms were flooded and are still under the water. When I went back to school I drew what I thought it looked like and I drew a house under water with fish swimming around it. I was amazed that what I pictured was not far from reality. Fantastic video, I really love all your videos. Looking forward to the next one.
One thing that strikes me about Scotland is how barren it actually is. Once upon a time it was teeming with forests and wildlife, it even had the most extensive temperate rainforest in Europe going all the way down the west coast of Scotland into Cumbria in England. Scotland should actually look like Norway a little bit, covered in pine forests, but there's nothing but bare hills and rocks across bare moors and meadows. The industrial revolution seriously scarred these islands and we've never really allowed our landscape to recover from it. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland; they're all still beautiful, but they used to be so much wilder, each having a genuine wilderness we've since long lost.
The British Isles should be one big forest. Thank you very much, industrial revolution. It's only 'green and pleasant' because it rains. Could very easily become brown and barren if the global temperature increases at the rate it's on track to... :/
@@roddymcniven8734 All the crofters were thrown off their land to make way to make way for large amounts of livestock, to do this land also had to be cleared of tree's etc.
Someone should invent an underwater drone to film things like this. Here in France there are many drowned buildings and one town in the south in particular was drowned complete, they left it all and they even used the flooding of it in a movie, it was quite spectacular. The first place in France I visited on holiday was on the edge of a flooded valley and in summer the church with it's bells protruded from the water along with other buildings.
I'm reading up on Raasay, it sounds really cool. I'm from Iceland and it gives me somewhat familiar vibes, but of course there's the distinct difference that the British isles have been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, quite unlike Iceland.
I would trade a kidney for Icelandic citizenship. I haven't stopped dreaming about your country since I drove the ring road aimlessly for 15 days, checking out spur roads, towns, trails booking the closest guest house at sundown each day. We skipped the triangle and the lagoon. The architecture and infrastructure so orderly, clean, ergonomic. The thing that I didn't expect was the vocal tradition. Walked into a bar and a bunch of people were singing. The resonance of the voices together in the room, at parts it reached a fever pitch and I could feel the sound pressure on my chest cavity. It wasn't so loud that it hurt my ears. It was one of the most memorable and intense moments ever. I knew about the storytelling and writing, I knew people sang, I just didn't expect that. Being Irish I've been in many public house rooms where people sang to pass the time. I'm not an art nerd or anything, it just blew my mind. I expected most of the other things though, everything exceeded my expectations. The intensity of the landscape, the micro climates, everything changes over a couple hundred k. I've never felt so drawn to a place. Since I first breathed the air I haven't stopped thinking about the place. It was an irregularly warm late February into March that we were there. The weather swung several times per day by location. It was like going from Oz to the Arctic to the fjords and back to the bright green land of Oz. Caught a snowfall, some ice, and there was a large snowfall the day we left. If only I could find a way, then again I suppose everyone would want to stay if it wasn't so difficult.
Iceland is better inhabited than Britain. Those Roman ass-hats didn't bring along their best engineers, which is PAINFULLY OBVIOUS seeing the last 1400+ years of "British Engineering." Germans won. They even took the British Isles. Nobody wants to admit it, but the Windsor family/Queen Victoria 3's family are literally German folks, pretending to be British, because WHY THE F*** NOT?! PROVE ME WRONG
I really enjoyed the photography you popped in! There is something fascinating about underwater ruins especially when they resurface, there is a certain mystery and draw to these places where time works differently on structures and it feels like peeling back the curtains to get a glimpse of times past, preserved as if they had only recently been submerged. Also maybe this appeals because I've been reading a book about bog bodies and the author talks about how the preservation that occurs in bogs, fens and mires changes how we perceive these sometimes very well preserved bodies in comparison to how people feel regarding skeletonized remains.
Check out this great article that interviewed me and found some extra info- including a photo of the house when still above the water! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/2693889/secrets-scotlands-submerged-ruins/
Back in the 70's they built four lane highways to motor all the way up Scotland to the top, way before it was actually needed and it's a joy to drive very early in the morning in winter on these great roads covered in snow with the faery landscape following us.
What four lane highways are these? I live near John O'Groats (top of Scottish mainland) and I can say for certain that there is no four lane highway that comes all the way up since the 70's. Dualing the A9 is still on going, large sections between Perth and Inverness weren't done until the 90's, and the section north of Helmsdale wasn't done until 2005/2006. I remember single track roads mixed with normal roads when I was young, and a couple of those larger bridges weren't built either.
Awww, thank you so much for your valuable videos, I only came across this video tonight. I'm hoping that you still do your Videos. Much appreciated much love from the UK xxx
The wooden wedge at 12:40 is a "dook". used before screws and rawlplugs for creating fixings. Cut with an axe in a shape to create a cambing action when hammered in. The joiner also needed a dooking chisel to remove the mortar to create a gap for the dook. Your skirtings and stuff were nailed to the dook.
I was brought up near Loch Cluanie and it was a fairly common occurrence for the loch to be low, especially in the Summer, the chimneys were a good signal that it was particularly dry. I knew they belonged to the lodge but wasn't aware that it actually the wash house. As a side note, these hydro schemes didn't just drown land, in Loch Ness they extended the shoreline when tunnel waste was dumped in the Loch during the 1950's. Now covered in birch woodland you would never think it was under water 70 years ago, and gives you an idea of how quickly forest can establish itself in Scotland.
Oh how my fingers itch to touch those stones as you explore this beautiful place. Your vid does for me, what I might never be able to do, and I thank you for that. I hope someday to go to the Isle of Skye. It's on my bucket list. Thanks again. Melanie
Great video mate, will be watching more! Interesting fact you may like to know I that here in north east Victoria Australia, they moved the entire town of Tallangatta in the 50’s to escape the rising waters of an extended Lake Hume. The streets, train station and foundations of the houses are visible most summers.
The one place outside the USA I’ve gotten to visit was Scotland. It’s such an amazingly beautiful place! Thank you for posting this video, it was very cool to see this!
haha! Both this, the Jimny and the Campervan video were all 'weekend videos' that didn't require much research, just lots of filming. Hopefully I'll get a few other videos out soon too!
@@CalumRaasay These weekend videos mean a lot to me in my small work-from-home office! So good to see what else this island can offer when I can finally take my family on a good trip around.
As a young Marine in the 1970s we were sent to Scotland and trained there. It is an amazingly hauntingly beautiful landscape. I devour EVERY movie about and filmed in Scotland 🏴!!
Amazing. I love stuff like this. Not the dryness. I'm from Oregon born '89 and I am obsessed with rain and temperate rainforest ecosystems I've grown up living in and it's crazy seeing how dry it's been. But I sure love getting to explore lesser known and abandoned locations. On a end note: I believe science will prevail and we will be enjoying complaining about the rain and storms in no time lol
Thanks for bringing up Dryweryn, I was wondering if Scotland got to keep the energy produced or if it was also situation like that. Absolutely beautiful footage and photos! almost like an aurora in some places.
Thank you! I’d actually scripted and recorded a whole piece about Capel Celyn and Llanwddyn for this but it didn’t really fit. Maybe deserves its own video. Great old documentary called “Celts: the final conflict” that discusses it too.
The electricity generated did indeed stay in Scotland, often meaning even in remote areas homes had electricity decades before running water made it to the area, so they could boil a kettle but the water would still need to be filled from a well and carried miles.
@@CalumRaasay ooh I'd love to see that. My friend and I spent a lot of time driving around lake vyrnwy in our 20s, and as beautiful they managed to make a dam, I always wondered what the landscape would be without it. Manchester is teeming with reservoirs, wonder why Liverpool figured Wales was easier?
I remember visiting that spot in Wales when I was a boy in 1962. I was visiting from America. My grandmother in Worcester and I took a Midland Red coach tour to Wales and I remember the driver saying that you could see the village church steeple sticking out of the water when the level was low. I've always wondered about that and if true, did they relocate any bodies and tomb stones to higher ground before flooding the place. Fascinating video. Thanks for bringing back a fond childhood memory.
I remember see the house exposed once before , it may have been in 1995 but i believe that it would have been before that, maybe the late 80's, the water wasn't as low then is it is here and the house appeared to be on an island or it may have been that it wasn't even fully exposed. i remember that the chimney was still standing at that time. Interesting to see that the house appears to have been built in two stages, one section built earlier in stone and the later part in brick. thank you for sharing your trip to Cluanie, brought back a lot of memories.
This is brilliant, you've gained a subscriber. Whilst you were covering these, I had a separate Chrome tab open on the National Library of Scotland. They have georeferenced maps where you can overlay modern satellite imaging onto old (~100 years ago) OS maps. If you drop me a message I can link it to you. On Loch Cluanie you can see the entire previous road including some sort of military road called General Wade's Military Road to the west. If you haven't already heard of this mapping tool, I'd suggest scouring the hydro reservoirs around Scotland and seeing what is buried beneath the waves.
That's such a cozy van you have there! You should do videos on any modifications or showcase some of the features. I'm sure there are many out there who would like to see them. 😎
The brick round the windows show where the windows were enlarged or even put in, likewise the brick extension on the side, my cottage has the same additions, put on in 1948 when water as put on inside the house (including hot water from a back boiler), prior to that there was a well round the back. You should come down to Galloway and visit our hydro scheme, built in the 1930s, a very impressive set of dams and generating houses that are reasonably easy to access, Tongland used to do tours round it but I think they have been suspended for the moment, we are well worth the visit. 😊.
I used to live in a place called Eastport, Mississippi. It's a very small town on Pickwick Lake that is a dammed section of the Tennessee River. There's a sunken city there submerged under the water much the same way. Old Eastport was abandoned when TVA was planning the lake. But the houses were not demolished, just emptied. There's even street signs and cars. Visibility is very poor though as the water is muddy.
Hi Calum Over in Co Down we have something similar in Spelga dam up in the Mourne mountains, Sometimes the water gets so low you can walk the old road goes through it with a bridge that’s usually under water. Think there use to be a house or two that where under the water.
Not sure how you popped up on my recommendations but I'm glad you did. That was really interesting. 🏴 it just shows what great builders they were. Gosh my house is less than 20 years old and is falling apart already with just a bit of wind and rain...lol
Because we staple sticks together. These people are on another wave length when it comes to architecture, construction and design. We are in the stone age with fred and barney right now. How did we build these structures before with a rope, stick, wheel, horse and don't forget your bronze hammer!! It's really simple to understand just ask yourself. Why??? How? When you do really chew on that idea for awhile, you will come up with the realization it's all a LIE!!!!! Not some of it, not most of it, All of his story is a controlled narrative!
@@paulinemegson8519 Strangely enough, one conspiracy after another gets proven true. Keep an open mind because your mind is going to be blown when you finally hear the truth about the controlled narrative of his story (history). Best wishes Pauline!
Absolutely brilliant video, especially about Loch Cluanie! I'm up and down to Skye a few times a year, and always mean to stop there and have a good explore. I can never quite remember where the various bridges and bits are. I wonder if anyone has dived at the chimney stacks, it would be interesting to see what's still left below. There's Loch Loyne as well, where the old road from Tomdoun went over to Cluanie - sometimes the two bridges there get exposed as well, but it's a wee bit of a hike up.
I remember years ago when the electric was connected to parts of the Highlands, an old woman I think in her 80's said it was nice of the Council to give her a washing line but she couldn't understand why they hung it so high.
I'm surprised they didn't tear up and recycle the old Macadam tarmac (asphalt, I'm assuming). Maybe as the price of oil has changed since the reservoir was first made now makes this a viable idea. Wood lasts a long time so long as it is either dry or wet. Good video. Thanks
I seem to remember there was the remains of an old kirk in the depths of Loch Faskally and I am also reminded of where they moved the railway up the banks of a loch possibly on the Mallaig line as my father wanted to buy one of the old stations along that line hoping to get a job at Banavie signalling centre. My family ancestral home is all around Castle Lyon til the English crown decided other people should own the lands, got quite a few ancestors buried in Fortingull and Aberfeldy. I am trying to get moved to Scotland, both my grown up daughters live there now, abs adore the place.
"out of the water like two strange pillars" Those chimneys don't just resemble strange pillars; they are strange pillars, and deserve to be credited as such.
The locally-called "Dam Lochs" at Strathcanaird, a few miles north of Ullapool were in a similar state earlier this year. We've been having holidays in the area for many years and we've never seen them so low. Obviously the dams themselves are very strongly built, but for maximum strength, I thought they relied on a minimum level of water? Any civil engineers out there care to put me straight on that point?
that was a great vid thanks the whole way through i was woundering what the backround noise was till you mentioned that the family could not live at the farm then i realised what it was i did not think the sound of the wind turbines was as loud as that i can now see what people moan about
1995 was roasting BTW, at least it was down south, as I didn't move to Scotland until 2002. 1995 was probably the hottest summer I can remember since 1976.
Here in Eastern Ontario , Canada, the St Lawrence River was dredged and widened to make way for the passages for lakers and ocean going ships. This is the world famous 1000 Islands region, a stunningly beautiful tourist draw. There are also lift locks along canals. When all this work was done to deepen and widen the river, entire villages were cleared out of the residents and literally submerged. This was a very traumatic event for so many of these villagers. Some people were traumatized for their remaining years. I actually understand why damns and reservoirs are built but not only do l hate the look of damns and reservoirs, l am totally creeped out by them!!!
American here. I just discovered your channel today and have found it very interesting. Subscribed after this video, actually. If you addressed this already, I completely missed it, but... Out of curiosity, has that wind farm completely replaced the further need for that dam, or, will those ruins eventually be flooded again at some point?
Wow, I'm new here. That drone shot of the chimneys with the soothing, yet somewhat eerie music is a gorgeous bit of filmmaking. :) And the photographs. Good eye! Subscribed right away, you come across as an exceptionally pleasant and likeable person. :) Now I'm looking through the comments to see if one of those people related to the former owners of this house found their way here, perhaps appreciating how wonderfully you have captured their personal bit of history.
between 1990 and 2000 i stayed in the village of blackford we would we would walk up the old military road (kinpuach hill) to that dam, there where many abandoned farms on the way for teenage boys to explore and play in (very dangerous), I imagine it would have been around 1995 as would be 15 don't recall any off us vandalising or graffitiing but at that time i recall in the ruin there was still some signs on the wall like a metal tennats larger or BP fuel one, was already half rusted then... at that time they (scottish hydro) where reinforcing the dam, the original wasn't considered strong enough the big slipway and all the earth embankment wasn't there then was just a kind of wall.
interesting that the farmhouse would have sat right next to that river. I wonder what it looked like at the time from the perspective of the family living there. Probably was gorgeous with that river and the flowing hills.
although it is a year later, if the waters are still low, probably a good time to salvage some of those building materials instead of leaving them to be wasted under water..
I really want to watch this entire episode, but the jiggly camera work is (unfortunately) giving me a migraine. Darn. But, it IS fascinating....and a little horrifying. Thank you.
As a Skyeman from Glasgow, I've easily travelled the length of Loch Cluanie over 100 times and I don't think I've ever seen the water level that low. It's slightly scary to think of a water shortage occurring in the Highlands. Glé inntinneach - mòran taing
They flooded the Carron Valley to build a reservoir to supply water to Falkirk.I’ve seen some videos on RUclips of it being built.I think there were some spectacular falls on the River Carron before it was flooded and the river is just a shadow of what it used to be.
Fantastic! I remember Glendevon dam being built (Edit Oops no, that would be Castlehill! See you’re at Lower Glendevon!) Amazing what we achieved in the 50s and 60s for integrated hydro. Hydro Boys is a good read.
There's a real horror to me about the state of the houses and the land that are revealed. I understand the need for power, especially clean power, but having grown up in farmhouses that are eerily similar to that construction, it's just a touch frightening to look at. I think we can do better by the land in terms of how we use hydro-electric power, and how we can preserve beautiful vistas and land that you demonstrated.
Connect to the past and Scottish people of yore and the human emotions it brings who lived there who was born there who died there what conversations took place there fascinating and intriguing too
Your calves are exceptional.
Homeboy does not skip leg day.
They give away free pants to the poor at some churchs
he's a true highlander
I thought the same
It's because he is not a Welshman.
When I was younger my Father and my Grandfather took be to see some of the dams in the Scotish borders. I remember them telling me that when the dams were built the farms were flooded and are still under the water. When I went back to school I drew what I thought it looked like and I drew a house under water with fish swimming around it. I was amazed that what I pictured was not far from reality. Fantastic video, I really love all your videos. Looking forward to the next one.
Did you get your inspiration from a gold fish bowl?
One thing that strikes me about Scotland is how barren it actually is. Once upon a time it was teeming with forests and wildlife, it even had the most extensive temperate rainforest in Europe going all the way down the west coast of Scotland into Cumbria in England. Scotland should actually look like Norway a little bit, covered in pine forests, but there's nothing but bare hills and rocks across bare moors and meadows. The industrial revolution seriously scarred these islands and we've never really allowed our landscape to recover from it. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland; they're all still beautiful, but they used to be so much wilder, each having a genuine wilderness we've since long lost.
The highland clearances had a lot to do with it.
The British Isles should be one big forest. Thank you very much, industrial revolution. It's only 'green and pleasant' because it rains. Could very easily become brown and barren if the global temperature increases at the rate it's on track to... :/
@@demonhighwayman9403WHAT?? please elaborate
@@roddymcniven8734 All the crofters were thrown off their land to make way to make way for large amounts of livestock, to do this land also had to be cleared of tree's etc.
@@demonhighwayman9403 mate, the trees were long gone before the clearances,come on.
Someone should invent an underwater drone to film things like this. Here in France there are many drowned buildings and one town in the south in particular was drowned complete, they left it all and they even used the flooding of it in a movie, it was quite spectacular. The first place in France I visited on holiday was on the edge of a flooded valley and in summer the church with it's bells protruded from the water along with other buildings.
Research Tartaria and the mudflood
We have the tech, we just need the people now!
They had the tech when they built the calypso g.
remote submarine?... the things that definetly already exist?
Spot on ! Yikes ! @@toasterhavingabath6980
I'm reading up on Raasay, it sounds really cool. I'm from Iceland and it gives me somewhat familiar vibes, but of course there's the distinct difference that the British isles have been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, quite unlike Iceland.
I would trade a kidney for Icelandic citizenship. I haven't stopped dreaming about your country since I drove the ring road aimlessly for 15 days, checking out spur roads, towns, trails booking the closest guest house at sundown each day. We skipped the triangle and the lagoon. The architecture and infrastructure so orderly, clean, ergonomic. The thing that I didn't expect was the vocal tradition. Walked into a bar and a bunch of people were singing. The resonance of the voices together in the room, at parts it reached a fever pitch and I could feel the sound pressure on my chest cavity. It wasn't so loud that it hurt my ears. It was one of the most memorable and intense moments ever. I knew about the storytelling and writing, I knew people sang, I just didn't expect that. Being Irish I've been in many public house rooms where people sang to pass the time. I'm not an art nerd or anything, it just blew my mind. I expected most of the other things though, everything exceeded my expectations. The intensity of the landscape, the micro climates, everything changes over a couple hundred k. I've never felt so drawn to a place. Since I first breathed the air I haven't stopped thinking about the place. It was an irregularly warm late February into March that we were there. The weather swung several times per day by location. It was like going from Oz to the Arctic to the fjords and back to the bright green land of Oz. Caught a snowfall, some ice, and there was a large snowfall the day we left. If only I could find a way, then again I suppose everyone would want to stay if it wasn't so difficult.
Iceland is better inhabited than Britain. Those Roman ass-hats didn't bring along their best engineers, which is PAINFULLY OBVIOUS seeing the last 1400+ years of "British Engineering." Germans won. They even took the British Isles. Nobody wants to admit it, but the Windsor family/Queen Victoria 3's family are literally German folks, pretending to be British, because WHY THE F*** NOT?! PROVE ME WRONG
I really enjoyed the photography you popped in! There is something fascinating about underwater ruins especially when they resurface, there is a certain mystery and draw to these places where time works differently on structures and it feels like peeling back the curtains to get a glimpse of times past, preserved as if they had only recently been submerged.
Also maybe this appeals because I've been reading a book about bog bodies and the author talks about how the preservation that occurs in bogs, fens and mires changes how we perceive these sometimes very well preserved bodies in comparison to how people feel regarding skeletonized remains.
to me its crazy how fast the grass re-establishes itself, the hills ache to be meadows.
"the hills ache to be meadows" jesus what a great line!
Check out this great article that interviewed me and found some extra info- including a photo of the house when still above the water! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/2693889/secrets-scotlands-submerged-ruins/
Thanks for finding those pictures. 🇬🇧👍
nice pics
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@@asterion3291 no way, it’s much cooler and more historically important under the water!
Why did they have to move out a second time?
Back in the 70's they built four lane highways to motor all the way up Scotland to the top, way before it was actually needed and it's a joy to drive very early in the morning in winter on these great roads covered in snow with the faery landscape following us.
What four lane highways are these? I live near John O'Groats (top of Scottish mainland) and I can say for certain that there is no four lane highway that comes all the way up since the 70's. Dualing the A9 is still on going, large sections between Perth and Inverness weren't done until the 90's, and the section north of Helmsdale wasn't done until 2005/2006. I remember single track roads mixed with normal roads when I was young, and a couple of those larger bridges weren't built either.
Awww, thank you so much for your valuable videos, I only came across this video tonight. I'm hoping that you still do your Videos. Much appreciated much love from the UK xxx
The wooden wedge at 12:40 is a "dook". used before screws and rawlplugs for creating fixings. Cut with an axe in a shape to create a cambing action when hammered in. The joiner also needed a dooking chisel to remove the mortar to create a gap for the dook. Your skirtings and stuff were nailed to the dook.
Great spot!
I was brought up near Loch Cluanie and it was a fairly common occurrence for the loch to be low, especially in the Summer, the chimneys were a good signal that it was particularly dry. I knew they belonged to the lodge but wasn't aware that it actually the wash house. As a side note, these hydro schemes didn't just drown land, in Loch Ness they extended the shoreline when tunnel waste was dumped in the Loch during the 1950's. Now covered in birch woodland you would never think it was under water 70 years ago, and gives you an idea of how quickly forest can establish itself in Scotland.
Yeah I've always been unlucky, I've driven Cluaine hundreds of times but I never got the chance to stop much to look for the old ruins!
Oh how my fingers itch to touch those stones as you explore this beautiful place. Your vid does for me, what I might never be able to do, and I thank you for that. I hope someday to go to the Isle of Skye. It's on my bucket list. Thanks again. Melanie
“Droughts and dryness” is not something I would ever have thought about when mentioning Scotland. Especially as an Australian
I'm impressed no sunken boats , anchors, cars or barrels with bodies in them. Great job taken care of you water ways.
Great video mate, will be watching more! Interesting fact you may like to know I that here in north east Victoria Australia, they moved the entire town of Tallangatta in the 50’s to escape the rising waters of an extended Lake Hume. The streets, train station and foundations of the houses are visible most summers.
just about the best narrator job I've ever listened to. Also, that van is awesome!
The one place outside the USA I’ve gotten to visit was Scotland. It’s such an amazingly beautiful place! Thank you for posting this video, it was very cool to see this!
Man your content is amazing, keep up the great work
😀Thank you! Really appreciate that
This was great. Awesome photo's & drone footage!
Thank you!
2 uploads in 3 weeks!
2021 is turning out alright after all!
haha! Both this, the Jimny and the Campervan video were all 'weekend videos' that didn't require much research, just lots of filming. Hopefully I'll get a few other videos out soon too!
@@CalumRaasay These weekend videos mean a lot to me in my small work-from-home office! So good to see what else this island can offer when I can finally take my family on a good trip around.
Just amazing... those bridges, and especially the fence line still standing... And the windfarm ironically attacking the locals again...
As a young Marine in the 1970s we were sent to Scotland and trained there. It is an amazingly hauntingly beautiful landscape.
I devour EVERY movie about and filmed in Scotland 🏴!!
Amazing. I love stuff like this.
Not the dryness. I'm from Oregon born '89 and I am obsessed with rain and temperate rainforest ecosystems I've grown up living in and it's crazy seeing how dry it's been. But I sure love getting to explore lesser known and abandoned locations. On a end note: I believe science will prevail and we will be enjoying complaining about the rain and storms in no time lol
Thanks for bringing up Dryweryn, I was wondering if Scotland got to keep the energy produced or if it was also situation like that.
Absolutely beautiful footage and photos! almost like an aurora in some places.
Thank you! I’d actually scripted and recorded a whole piece about Capel Celyn and Llanwddyn for this but it didn’t really fit. Maybe deserves its own video. Great old documentary called “Celts: the final conflict” that discusses it too.
The electricity generated did indeed stay in Scotland, often meaning even in remote areas homes had electricity decades before running water made it to the area, so they could boil a kettle but the water would still need to be filled from a well and carried miles.
@@CalumRaasay ooh I'd love to see that. My friend and I spent a lot of time driving around lake vyrnwy in our 20s, and as beautiful they managed to make a dam, I always wondered what the landscape would be without it.
Manchester is teeming with reservoirs, wonder why Liverpool figured Wales was easier?
I remember visiting that spot in Wales when I was a boy in 1962. I was visiting from America. My grandmother in Worcester and I took a Midland Red coach tour to Wales and I remember the driver saying that you could see the village church steeple sticking out of the water when the level was low. I've always wondered about that and if true, did they relocate any bodies and tomb stones to higher ground before flooding the place. Fascinating video. Thanks for bringing back a fond childhood memory.
I remember see the house exposed once before , it may have been in 1995 but i believe that it would have been before that, maybe the late 80's, the water wasn't as low then is it is here and the house appeared to be on an island or it may have been that it wasn't even fully exposed. i remember that the chimney was still standing at that time.
Interesting to see that the house appears to have been built in two stages, one section built earlier in stone and the later part in brick.
thank you for sharing your trip to Cluanie, brought back a lot of memories.
This is brilliant, you've gained a subscriber. Whilst you were covering these, I had a separate Chrome tab open on the National Library of Scotland. They have georeferenced maps where you can overlay modern satellite imaging onto old (~100 years ago) OS maps. If you drop me a message I can link it to you. On Loch Cluanie you can see the entire previous road including some sort of military road called General Wade's Military Road to the west. If you haven't already heard of this mapping tool, I'd suggest scouring the hydro reservoirs around Scotland and seeing what is buried beneath the waves.
Fascinating and interesting as your other videos.
Thanks Calum
I love this as we've recently traced our Scottish heritage back to 1500
That bridge is testament to the skill of workers back in the day.
Great, glad you're doing these.
That's such a cozy van you have there! You should do videos on any modifications or showcase some of the features. I'm sure there are many out there who would like to see them. 😎
Abolutely going to make a van tour! Just a few bits to finish off first!
The brick round the windows show where the windows were enlarged or even put in, likewise the brick extension on the side, my cottage has the same additions, put on in 1948 when water as put on inside the house (including hot water from a back boiler), prior to that there was a well round the back. You should come down to Galloway and visit our hydro scheme, built in the 1930s, a very impressive set of dams and generating houses that are reasonably easy to access, Tongland used to do tours round it but I think they have been suspended for the moment, we are well worth the visit. 😊.
Appreciate the 3 layered view of historic change .Captivating experience.
Thank you!
I used to live in a place called Eastport, Mississippi. It's a very small town on Pickwick Lake that is a dammed section of the Tennessee River. There's a sunken city there submerged under the water much the same way. Old Eastport was abandoned when TVA was planning the lake. But the houses were not demolished, just emptied. There's even street signs and cars. Visibility is very poor though as the water is muddy.
I admire your photographs...Hope you can include more
Hi Calum Over in Co Down we have something similar in Spelga dam up in the Mourne mountains, Sometimes the water gets so low you can walk the old road goes through it with a bridge that’s usually under water. Think there use to be a house or two that where under the water.
Damn Scotland's got lots of dams. I had no idea.
That super carry is amazing!
Photography skills are top notch.
Great video. Loved the drone footage. 👍🏻
Next time can you use a stabilising gimbal or some device? The handheld part is so shaky and dizzy.
Not sure how you popped up on my recommendations but I'm glad you did. That was really interesting. 🏴 it just shows what great builders they were. Gosh my house is less than 20 years old and is falling apart already with just a bit of wind and rain...lol
Because we staple sticks together. These people are on another wave length when it comes to architecture, construction and design. We are in the stone age with fred and barney right now. How did we build these structures before with a rope, stick, wheel, horse and don't forget your bronze hammer!! It's really simple to understand just ask yourself. Why??? How? When you do really chew on that idea for awhile, you will come up with the realization it's all a LIE!!!!! Not some of it, not most of it, All of his story is a controlled narrative!
@@omnivincitveritas spoken like a true conspiracy nut.
@@paulinemegson8519 Strangely enough, one conspiracy after another gets proven true. Keep an open mind because your mind is going to be blown when you finally hear the truth about the controlled narrative of his story (history). Best wishes Pauline!
Another really interesting piece of work. Thank You very much. Jim Bell (Australia)
Thank you Jim!
Fascinating stuff you do. Thank you.
Absolutely brilliant video, especially about Loch Cluanie! I'm up and down to Skye a few times a year, and always mean to stop there and have a good explore. I can never quite remember where the various bridges and bits are. I wonder if anyone has dived at the chimney stacks, it would be interesting to see what's still left below. There's Loch Loyne as well, where the old road from Tomdoun went over to Cluanie - sometimes the two bridges there get exposed as well, but it's a wee bit of a hike up.
I remember years ago when the electric was connected to parts of the Highlands, an old woman I think in her 80's said it was nice of the Council to give her a washing line but she couldn't understand why they hung it so high.
I'm surprised they didn't tear up and recycle the old Macadam tarmac (asphalt, I'm assuming). Maybe as the price of oil has changed since the reservoir was first made now makes this a viable idea.
Wood lasts a long time so long as it is either dry or wet. Good video. Thanks
I seem to remember there was the remains of an old kirk in the depths of Loch Faskally and I am also reminded of where they moved the railway up the banks of a loch possibly on the Mallaig line as my father wanted to buy one of the old stations along that line hoping to get a job at Banavie signalling centre. My family ancestral home is all around Castle Lyon til the English crown decided other people should own the lands, got quite a few ancestors buried in Fortingull and Aberfeldy. I am trying to get moved to Scotland, both my grown up daughters live there now, abs adore the place.
Iv'e watched several of these low water reservoir videos and each one has been equally sad and fascinating.
Hi just came across you... Brilliant keep doing what you are doing x
Thanks for taking us on that journey
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
So lucky, I envy you being thier to explore such a place, but thanks you very much for sharing.
"out of the water like two strange pillars"
Those chimneys don't just resemble strange pillars; they are strange pillars, and deserve to be credited as such.
Very interesting. Thank you for the video (from Washington state, USA) 😊👍
This is wonderful. Thankyou.
Great video with very nice footage, especially the drone footage. thanks 😊
This was really interesting and lovely scenery too
Thank you! Really loved making this video
Came from your reddit post. Great video. Was surprised at the lack of green algae on everything
Good idea working some of your photography into this video. Some nice shots.
Thank you! Rarely get a chance to share my photography here so it was a nice treat!
The locally-called "Dam Lochs" at Strathcanaird, a few miles north of Ullapool were in a similar state earlier this year. We've been having holidays in the area for many years and we've never seen them so low. Obviously the dams themselves are very strongly built, but for maximum strength, I thought they relied on a minimum level of water? Any civil engineers out there care to put me straight on that point?
Another excellent doco Calum, great to see Cluanie ,dam exposed like this!👌
Thanks for sharing your travels with us.
Thank you for watching - and commenting!
that was a great vid thanks the whole way through i was woundering what the backround noise was till you mentioned that the family could not live at the farm then i realised what it was i did not think the sound of the wind turbines was as loud as that i can now see what people moan about
1995 was roasting BTW, at least it was down south, as I didn't move to Scotland until 2002. 1995 was probably the hottest summer I can remember since 1976.
Here in Eastern Ontario , Canada, the St Lawrence River was dredged and widened to make way for the passages for lakers and ocean going ships. This is the world famous 1000 Islands region, a stunningly beautiful tourist draw. There are also lift locks along canals. When all this work was done to deepen and widen the river, entire villages were cleared out of the residents and literally submerged. This was a very traumatic event for so many of these villagers. Some people were traumatized for their remaining years. I actually understand why damns and reservoirs are built but not only do l hate the look of damns and reservoirs, l am totally creeped out by them!!!
Looks very similar to pontsticill reservoir right near me. 👍🏻🏴
Hey man incredible work again! So informative!! Absolutely love your stuff dude
Thanks Mike! Really appreciated!
Excellent and fascinating.
You just got a new sub my friend🤗 Well done!
i loved the walk thank you
American here. I just discovered your channel today and have found it very interesting. Subscribed after this video, actually. If you addressed this already, I completely missed it, but... Out of curiosity, has that wind farm completely replaced the further need for that dam, or, will those ruins eventually be flooded again at some point?
Flooded again. Only dry due to a lack of rain! Though I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't dry again this year.
Wow, I'm new here. That drone shot of the chimneys with the soothing, yet somewhat eerie music is a gorgeous bit of filmmaking. :) And the photographs. Good eye! Subscribed right away, you come across as an exceptionally pleasant and likeable person. :)
Now I'm looking through the comments to see if one of those people related to the former owners of this house found their way here, perhaps appreciating how wonderfully you have captured their personal bit of history.
Check the pinned comment, good article all about the house!
Brilliant, I took Slide's 20 years ago and Digital 7 years ago of the farm.
Nice pics.
Another great one.
between 1990 and 2000 i stayed in the village of blackford we would we would walk up the old military road (kinpuach hill) to that dam, there where many abandoned farms on the way for teenage boys to explore and play in (very dangerous), I imagine it would have been around 1995 as would be 15 don't recall any off us vandalising or graffitiing but at that time i recall in the ruin there was still some signs on the wall like a metal tennats larger or BP fuel one, was already half rusted then... at that time they (scottish hydro) where reinforcing the dam, the original wasn't considered strong enough the big slipway and all the earth embankment wasn't there then was just a kind of wall.
Thanks for this. Really enjoyed it.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. 👉👊👍
interesting that the farmhouse would have sat right next to that river. I wonder what it looked like at the time from the perspective of the family living there. Probably was gorgeous with that river and the flowing hills.
A 'for sale ' was stuck on the side of Glendevon Reservoir farm in 1994....
Great story, great photos!
although it is a year later, if the waters are still low, probably a good time to salvage some of those building materials instead of leaving them to be wasted under water..
You are living my dream life!
I noticed the fence poles were still standing way back in the video.
I really want to watch this entire episode, but the jiggly camera work is (unfortunately) giving me a migraine. Darn. But, it IS fascinating....and a little horrifying. Thank you.
i nearly had a heart attack seeing you walking on the bridge, i thought what if he gets hurt?! what if it collapses.. be careful kay?
As a Skyeman from Glasgow, I've easily travelled the length of Loch Cluanie over 100 times and I don't think I've ever seen the water level that low. It's slightly scary to think of a water shortage occurring in the Highlands.
Glé inntinneach - mòran taing
They flooded the Carron Valley to build a reservoir to supply water to Falkirk.I’ve seen some videos on RUclips of it being built.I think there were some spectacular falls on the River Carron before it was flooded and the river is just a shadow of what it used to be.
Interesting! Will have to check that out
Wow, screwed in two different generations. It's a good summary of how things that are "good for the people'" actually affect the people.
Great video, and so funny how you think 5 hours away is far 😂
Fantastic! I remember Glendevon dam being built (Edit Oops no, that would be Castlehill! See you’re at Lower Glendevon!) Amazing what we achieved in the 50s and 60s for integrated hydro. Hydro Boys is a good read.
Hydro Boys is a great book!
@@CalumRaasay There’s another more technical book too rather than Hydro Boys more social outlook , which I’ve misplaced, I’ll take a wee look later.
wow they knew to build the walls with a air space in between the outer wall and the inner wall. Imagine living there 100 years ago.
There's a real horror to me about the state of the houses and the land that are revealed. I understand the need for power, especially clean power, but having grown up in farmhouses that are eerily similar to that construction, it's just a touch frightening to look at. I think we can do better by the land in terms of how we use hydro-electric power, and how we can preserve beautiful vistas and land that you demonstrated.
Should do some metal detecting in this area....I'd camp there for weeks doing so if I had the opportunity.
Are there any dates on the bricks?
Connect to the past and Scottish people of yore and the human emotions it brings who lived there who was born there who died there what conversations took place there fascinating and intriguing too
Thank you.
Excellent.
I think it would be hard for me to resist taking a brick from that old farmhouse.
I know, but if we all did there would be nothing left!