History of Manchester - 1. Mamucium
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2019
- The first in a series about the history of one of the world's most historically important cities. I'll be looking into the very origins of Manchester - from an insignificant nowhere in an obscure corner of Europe to a valuable hub for the Roman expansion across the British Isles.
I'll visit the remains of the old Roman fort in Castlefield - Mamucium - including the only remaining piece of the original fort left standing, which until recently was inaccessible and forgotten about.
Finally, I'll be heading to the Castleshaw valley above Saddleworth to find a tiny outpost the Romans built there.
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This is a highly underrated Video! Thank You for explaining Manchesters history
Thanks so much!! Hopefully I'll find time to make some more soon. Glad you liked it!
I excavated the Vicus under Professor Barry Jones back in 78, good memories.
DNA testing has me rooted primarily on and within 100 miles of Manchester. Your video may not yet have gotten as many views as you would have hoped; but in me you have a very appreciative audience for exactly the material that you covered, and I very much hope that you will continue with the series.
Thank you so much, that's very kind! I don't have a lot of time to make videos very regularly but I'll definitely try to keep them coming.
I was there today. It made me sad how all of this incredible history has not been cared for. It has been abandoned and let down in the Industrial advances that have gripped my city of birth.
I have lived in Manchester for almost 50 years & never knew about the Roman rock in the car park. 😮
It's hidden away like a deformed child in some grim take.
@lilywhite9109, It must have been in the late 50's, our teacher took us to this grotty little railway arch. And there it was, a tiny section of the roman wall. No idea how he knew it was there
Sad that the Roman sandstone block doesn't even have a plaque
never knew any of the original roman fort still existed. they absolutely do something to make it more visible and protected. ill have to go sneak a peek some time,
Found this via Reddit, great stuff sir.
This was amazing, I learned a lot and loved your hands-on approach to history with you actually visiting all the different locations. I'm sad about that sandstone block, it deserves better than a graffitied archway in a car park. But I'm glad the Earl of Ellesmere had it protected and had the castle turret put up on the bridge- at least that's something! I come from Royton and when I traced my ancestry last year the majority of it comes from the Greater Manchester area and the southern Pennines so I'm appreciative of knowing the history of the area better :)
Deansgate is full of red sand stone, this isn’t the last piece. You find megalithic buildings throughout Manchester if you look carefully
Very grateful to you. I was a kid in Manchester and then went to America. Your videos are like going home.
I remember going to see this Roman Relic. I guess it would be the late 50's. I was fascinated then, as i still am.
Absolutely buzzin I’ve stumbled across this channel. I am obsessed with Manchester’s history and industrial heritage. Top one mate.
Cheers thanks very much!
The Roman wall is surrounded by railway lines and the canal. It's like the entire history of Manchester encompassed in one corner of the city.
Decent chippy around the corner from the Roman 'fort' so good to snack whilst genning up on the ancient history of the area. I wasn't aware the piece of actual Roman fort existed. I'll certainly look it up. Thanks for these very interesting history docs. 😊
Thank you for the history of Manchester place of my birth. Greetings from Adelaide South Australia.
Greetings!! You're a proper 'Southerner' though now! 😁
@@BeeHereNowuk Yes after 51 years down under 😎
Thank you for creating these videos Ollie, they've added so much to our trips to Manchester ! Went to the car park on Collier St today to see the remains of the Roman fort and got talking to a local who recommended we walk to 55 George St to see visible remains from a different era. Thanks again and have a great Christmas.
Hi my daughter watched this for her homework really enjoyed it!
Oh fantastic! Now I feel like i should have put more effort into it!!
Im doing it for homework
Another great watch, enjoyed the music when showing the Romans and Roman locations. Thanks for posting....
These videos are amazing, well done
Great vid I love this style of presentation You Martin Zero Curbex ect are seriously the best watching. Keep0 them coming
Thanks that's very kind. Those guys are proper on it though compared to me. Glad you like the vid!
Your knowledge of the videos you share is amazing thank you👍
Part of the old straight Roman road from Mamucium to Castleshaw remains as Roman Road running through Failsworth. You can trace it's length nearly all the way from New Islington near Manchester itself, all the way up to the Pennines. Now, if you follow the A62 up over the hills past Diggle, through the cutting, you come to Pule Hill on the right hand side, on the way to Marsden. Pule Hill shows traces of human habitation back to the Iron Age. So now, climb to the top of Pule Hill, and you can see that it was the original sighting point for the Roman Road. You can trace the alignment on a map to this day. From Pule Hill the alignment looking south-west passes through the cutting where the A62 passes, then over Lark Hill near Diggle, then through Scouthead, and along the Roman road. The alignment continues all the way to Chester. The Romans preferred straight roads to get from A to B partially because they kicked ass and didn't want to muck around, and also because in many cases they were co-incident with even more ancient Olde Strait Ways. You won't find this information about Pule Hill in any book, or none that I have seen anyway. I discovered it for myself. Cool!
Very cool and interesting stuff indeed, thanks for sharing!
Really interesting mate. Gonna watch Ep2 now 👌🏼
Another GREAT video.
I'm from the Lakes, with a couple of friends in Manchester, and for some reason I find the history of the city far more interesting than the history of any other.
Keep em coming.
Rich🥰🥰🥰.
Fascinating stuff, thank you.
Fascinating,... but if true why hasn't a piece of our early manc history not been moved to preserve it?😕
I'm not sure. It's a shame that there's nothing in place to protect it. I quite like the fact that not many people know it's there though.
To some degree, the low profile anonymity of the single stone has protected it from casual vandalism. Those who want to find this site will make the journey....Richard 3rd was also protected by an NCP car park!
you probably dont care but if you guys are stoned like me during the covid times then you can stream all the latest movies on instaflixxer. Been streaming with my girlfriend recently :)
@Christopher Otis definitely, been watching on InstaFlixxer for months myself =)
Disappointed in Manchester for letting the oldest Roman stone be left to rack and ruin behind a metal car park fence overgrown. Sad and disappointing
I love this video! Thank you!!!!!!!
My father would have loved your videos Ollie. Lovely, thank you 🙏
Very intetretsing Ollie. Excelent video.
Great production, thanks. I’ll keep my eye open for that original sandstone block under the viaduct at castlefield. Also nice to hear how mamucium is pronounced.
My wife is like manchester she has strange ways
Enjoyed this
Amazing video. Totally agree with the depression resting place of the ‘rock’ horrendous how much we disregard our history.
WELL DONE LAD.
A yup again our kid by coincidence I moved to hulme in 1990 and lived there til 94 then fallowfield then Withington then ordeal. ...thanks for your videos only just found them through googling Latchford viaduct. ......looking forward to watching. ....
Love the video
Great video
Thank you
Quality vid with great presenting
Thanks!
Love this videom
Bravissimo!
great vid and chanel
really like your style
Cheers thanks!!
iv had a good few beers in that pub behind you :D
Hi! Really love what you're doing. I just moved to Manchester and your channel helps me learn about its history. I was wondering if you need any help with creating your videos? I have no experience but if you would like someone as a company or to help to film I would love to help!
I think you'll find Birmingham is the second largest city😆
Great video tour. They should have that stone in a museum. To be fair, they dont really treat the ruins any better in Rome.
I can see Castle field from my class room
Another great video keeping me entertained while at work 😂
Fantastic video, is there any chance you can find out why all of the oldest buildings in Manchester have the date 1907 on them? I can’t find any proof of building on this date or any images
No
Roma il più grandioso e glorioso Impero della storia, Roma = CIVILIZZAZIONE; la grandezza, la potenza, la magnificenza e la GLORIA DI ROMA EST AETERNA, ROMA INVICTA ET LUX MUNDI 💪💯
We also learnt the value of Pax Britannica from the nearly half-millenium of PAX ROMANNI !
Great video… I was under the impression that Birmingham is the second largest city.
It is!
It was not any more
@@floswason8776 I think city proper Birmingham is bigger population wise. That means literally just the city itself. But Greater Manchester is bigger than 'greater' Birmingham. Definitely correct me if I am wrong brother.
@@lewisgreenhalgh7546theres no such thing as greater birmingham, Greater Manchester is a county, and if you go off counties, west midlands is bigger
@@user-qb1pn8uj7u hence why I put the greater before Birmingham in quotations. Using it as a place holder. But was sure Birmingham was bigger. Manchester feels small when you're in it also.
Should the letter “c” in Mamucium be pronounced like a K, rather than an S sound, like in Eburacum/York?
Based on the current interpretation of ancient Latin pronunciation, yes
Makes me proud to be a manc
I'm surprised that not more Roman roads made it to become part of the road network we see today.!🤔!.
They were obviously the best and quickest routes back then, so why not now.?🤔?.
Cause they mostly got dug up when modern roads were built.
Blimey glad I found this site its smashing I'm not from Manchester but who cares its brilliant. Got to say that rock needs a little more respect than a metal fence how sad
Thought manchester was 3 larges City in 🏴
There's a reason the history authorities don't want to draw too much attention to the study of this site, and many, many others up and down the British Isles. Around Castlefield you'll find the odd GIANT stone in situ or repurposed by the Romans and later eras, into bridges, side walls and buildings. These sandstone bluffs were castles, built by Giants and dismantled by the Romans. I've had my eyes opened by the work of people such as Paul Cook here on YT and have a new passion for this hidden truth to be known. The deception is great and now it's time to expose the lies. The entire south side runway at Manchester Airport and Ringway was IMO a huge castle or several smaller ones....Lots to uncover in Manchester.
This was my homework
I hope it was worth it. 😬 Good luck!
Rome and manchester are maybe rivals in football, due to some stupid confrontations in the past , but not in history. Come on manchester!
Without Manchester there would be no railway 😱 how mad
Only remaining bit of roman wall left is under an arch in a car park nearby. Very underwhelming
Pretty sure the Romans never used a 'soft c'.
Here because Manchester has invaded my Twitter feed….
Birmingham IS Britain's second largest city. Greater Manchester County is Britain's second largest urban area.
It's a real shithole though. Went to Birmingham once. Grim grim grim
Maybe he meant civilized 😉😉
Birmingham, 2nd most populated city. IT WILL NEVER BE the true 2nd city. Manchester is a mini London. With a business quarter, tech hub, best university in the country. Next year the tallest building in the country. Best nightlife & much much more. Birmingham is not even a poor cousin.
Romans? the very word Chester shows the Romans were here and there are still some fine reliocs
Isn't Birmingham the UK's second largest city? 👀
Not anymore
Nope
No
depends how you define it, by population within a city LLA or Municipal boundary, Birmingham is more than twice the size of Manchester, Manchester actually is about 5th largest, If you define it by population of of the continuous urban area around a city, ie Greater Manchester is about 4% larger than an equivalently defined area around Birmingham, by population of primary urban areas, then Birmingham is about 3% bigger than Manchester, If you measure it by Metropolitan area, a cities hinterland, which is the area directly economically connected, Birmingham is about 44% bigger by population. think most of these are based on figures that are from 2020, the Metropolitan area figures being the odd one out, being about a decade old. up to you which metric you use, but two define Birmingham as significantly larger, one marginally larger and one marginally smaller. draw your own conclusions, ultimately it doesn't really matter, both are great cities with a rich industrial and social heritage
@@tonymcfeisty2478 yeah Birmingham is more than twice the size of Manchester what rock have you crawled out from under. Clearly a lie.
CE. ? A.D. = The year of our Lord. B.C. Before Christ AD. After the Dude.
love your videos mate. but i have to disagree with you on the whole "second largest city" and "the forefront of the industrial revolution" both of those accolades belong to Birmingham.
😂😂😂 no they don’t, you lot have curry mile and Ozzy osbourne
reconstructed #grammarpolice
AD! Millennials.
Marry me
Why ce, it has been AD for over two thousand years, it kinda put me off your video!
How many Mancs know Latin?
And Manchester being a melting pot for so many different religious belifes and it's diverse cultures, "Common era" is a more appropriate term than Anno Domini.
@@sally6457 Because it is ultra vires!
@@bobmcdermott9535 only applies to financial companies,
The Anno Domini dating system was devised in 525 by Dionysius Exiguus to enumerate the years in his Easter table. His system was to replace the Diocletian era that had been used in an old Easter table because he did not wish to continue the memory of a tyrant who persecuted Christians
progressus, acceptatio, intellectus.
stultus!
You talk about Manchester yet bring up united :)
Cos City has no history GGMU ❤
History of a sewer town ......YNWA
Theres a lot more surviving though similarly built over Roman remains (70-160 AD) in Wigan town centre. Under the childrens library the Wiend wooden roman fort remains were found when it was built in the 80's, while building the Grand Arcade in the 2000's a roman bathouse was discovered larger than the ones at the principle Hadrian's wall forts, the original remains are preserved in the basement of the shopping centre, a reconstruction was built on the street outside (pictured). Also in the basement of the Galleries are further roman structure remains.
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