The Work of James Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery
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- čas přidán 7. 03. 2020
- In this video we study the work of James Brindley at Wet Earth colliery. Otherwise known as Clifton Colliery. Situated in Clifton Country park. Wet earth colliery was beset with water ingress problems. The coal mine was always flooding mainly caused by the river Irwell. James Brindley came up with a solution that was engineering genius. It involved a weir on a river and a set of underground tunnels in salford / manchester. This powered a water wheel and solved the coal mining problems. This involved land owner John Heathcote and Matthew Fletcher. Who gave his name to Fletchers canal. Fletchers canal would eventually join the Manchester Bury Bolton Canal and be useful for the transportation of coal from the colliery. The Irwell valley has a long tradition of Coal mining and this was just one of many collieries including the famous Agecroft colliery
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This is better than what's on TV, the drawings and the details are just like how Fred dibnah used to do his programmes.
Thanks Johnathan I have Mr Ranks to thank for the drawings
My thoughts exactly Johnathan, Martin brings the same amount of enthusiasm into his videos that Fred did, along with a great deal of very interesting information. Martins content is far more interesting than anything found on television these days.
agree
"Did you like that?!"
Yes it’s miles better than tv
The use of a cameraman makes for an interesting production, thanks to Danny for that. Another great video Martin, looking forward to the next instalment.
Thanks Steve, yep he did a great job
Steve Wardley: And he comes in handy if Martin falls into the river!
forgot i was watching youtube it was that good, felt like a tv production lol
@@ricky_pigeon Yes, BBC quality! And a lot more fun, with suspense thrown in as we wonder whether there are alligators in that river or not.
Thats mad, I was walking my dog there yesterday and thought, wonder why there's a weir there. Thanks for that quality video
Thanks Leon, now you know 👍
Love it Martin.
You know when a guy is good when he makes something you never thought of interesting.
You deserve a well paid presenters job bro
Thank you, yeah this subject is an unknown gem
Brilliant start to what promises to be a great series, Martin. Well done for getting so much detail from so long ago.
Thank you Andy
Anything to do with coal mining always gets 100% of my attention, This has exceeded that. Thanks Martin
Thank you, yes I did enjoy doing this one
TheWacoKid1963 your icon made me think there was a hair on my screen lol
@@mickd6942 I know, I was like a cat trying to swipe at a mouse on TV.
Hi Mick. After watching latest vid of Martin zero. Yr comment on whacko kid I also thought I to had hair on my screen lol
This is quality work. very well filmed and edited
These videos need to be on national tele x
Cheers Damon
@@MartinZero "Build it and they will come" as the quote goes.
Excellent Martin more local history, and names like Fletcher, local mine owners where I come from.
Keep up the good work, all info for us.
John
Thank you John
Brilliant research, have to take my lid off to you, should be a history professor! Just get in that river!
Cheers, that river is too deep 😀
An absolute pleasure to watch Martin, you are a natural presenter! You can get 62,000 people (and counting) enthused about some old brickwork and long forgotten tunnels. That is no small feat. Well done sir, can't wait for the next one!
Thanks Michelle. I wish all 62,000 would watch it 😄
Another fantastic episode... this needs to be brought and broadcast on TV
Thanks Matt. TV wont buy it, no Celebs in it 😀
I love it when you do videos on my end of Manchester - I love the fact that I always learn something new from your videos - a well deserved like from me 👍
Cheers Nathan
Loved it! Despite the weather, your enthusiasm never fails! An inspiration to the rest of our channels ❤️🎥📷
Look forward to part two!!
Thank you, yep that was one wet day
@@MartinZero your a trouper!
Gripping, interesting entertainment! Worthy of television, but we love having you here with us on CZcams ❤️📷🎥🎙️
Thanks for excellent, practical, down to earth history and showing what we would otherwise never know and see. Cheers
Really excellent Martin, your work just gets better and better. James Brindley, what an engineer! Thank you Martin and Danny.
Thanks Mike, yeah what an engineer, worked himself to an early grave
@@MartinZero Very sad that they all went that way Martin. I.K. Brunell was another brilliant man who died young!
Another great video
Well made and very informative
Personally think you could do with an arts council grant to help make more
Looking forward to this mini series
Thank you very much
Martin another fascination episode, very informative and interesting.
Cheers Tim
Unbelievably fascinating! How wonderful it would be to go back in time 270 years and witness this engineering marvel!...Thank you Martin!
Yeah I would love to Tom
Dear Sir quality work .The BBC should take a couple of lesson off you.Your presentation are down to earth,so eat your heart out David Attenborough!Keep the good work up.Many thank
Been waiting all week for this and seriously not disappointed these videos are getting better every week and the attention to detail is impressive. Stay safe and keep up the good work
Thank you Stephen. I did a lot of reading for this one
I greatly appreciate all your research and dedication to deliver a fantastically informative video. I wish there were CZcams Oscars , you'd wipe the competition hands down.
Thank you George much appreciated 😃
Superb video again Martin! 👍🙂
James Brindley, born and raised in the Peak District and with no formal education became one of the greatest engineers Great Britain has ever seen.
Yes I read that he had an intuitive knack for these things
I worked in an old mill building that had a weir behind it. I used to walk back there and was fascinated by the old works. Now I know exactly what is was all about. Thanks!
Thanks martin, this is such a brilliant part of history.
Yes great story, loved researching it
Really great and interesting video. Just be very careful around weirs, you were to close to the water when you were above the weir, the river as it was, youd have had no chance of survival if you'd fallen in. Keep the good work
Thanks Phillip 👍
This is very important. I had a short gig as a canoe-based river lifeguard as a kid. Weir rescues are extremely difficult without a motorboat. Here's a good explanation: czcams.com/video/-TlSMD1iEwU/video.html
Totally agree I live on a boat and I cant stress enough....get ya sen a life preserver 😉👍
Absolutely brilliant Martin. In my opinion your skills as a documentary presenter, story teller and investigator are second to none. In these strange times it is reassuring to listen to you.
Thank you for what you do. 🙂
Thanks very much Zeno, glad you enjoyed
Born and bred in Bolton, home of Fred Dibnah, grew up watching his programmes on BBC TV... Can quite seriously say your are as good as he was and really should be on mainstream TV. Your infectious interest and love of the area and its history is really plain to see. Lots of comments on here seem to agree with that. You have raised a huge amount of interest in local history visiting places we all pass every day, possible played in as kids.... Really superb vlogs Martin. Always watch every episode you produce and am working my way through your "old" ones. Many, many thanks.
Hello Richard thanks very much. Fred was a hero of mine as well. But I can only walk in his shadow. He was an actual engineer
Love your videos. Your passion for history is certainly addictive! I'm so looking forward to part two 🤗
Thank you, Part 2 soon 👍
Leaving us with a Clifton cliffhanger eh Martin!
Oh yes, Ka boom 😂
The highest compliment I can give you Martin is this video is more in depth and informative than most top rated documentaries.
Well done mate!
Thank you. I really appreciate that. I must admit this was a labour of love
@@MartinZero , and it really shows mate, cannot wait for part 2 :)
Loved this one. Hated history at school. If only it had been presented to us as well as this back then.
Brilliant Martin. Thank you.
Thanks Mark
Thanks Martin , captivating. Can't wait for part 2. I like the 'OMD' start too 🤔😁
Oh yes, you recognised it 😃👌Very impressed
I saw a book in an antiques centre in Lancaster about coal mining in Lancashire. Kinda regret not buying it now. Must admit I was interested for the sole purpose of seeing my house in a photo as it was built around the same time the mine in my area opened :)
Awwe should have bought it Jen
@@MartinZero I totally regret it now ;) Think I'll have a mooch on Amazon
@@jenratcliffe7232
bookfinder.com
Best site for finding books
@@Miatacrosser Thank you I'll try there :)
p2, now I am gripped !!!! can't wait :-) Awesome Martin , Danny !
Am back there soon to film the rest of Part 2
Thanks Martin. As Brummies we can appreciate the contribution James Brindley made to our canal waterways. So much, we named an area in the city centre after him. Like you said in your excellent video 'he made water run up-hill'. Thanks mate and I'm looking forward to part two.
Thanks Gary, yeah he was very active around your area, wasnt he
Talk about ending on a cliffhanger. I was really getting into that. Part 2 can't come soon enough.
Cheers Peter
Feels like eternity waiting for one of Martins videos...
Great camera work Danny, i really like the presentation format in the video, looking forward to the next video i wonder it it will end us as a series about the Irwell like the Medway series.
Thank you Paul, I will pass on your compliment
Being as I kind of have ties to that area and a big interest in its industrial past, giving this a 'like' is a given. So much history round there, and you're the bloke to dish it up for us. Top job as ever, mate.
Old Jim Brindley was spreading himself thin round about the time he was doing this job, his reputation was then in the ascendant. He was, it turned out, working himself into an early grave. Turns out he was a diabetic- but kept very hard at it and thought nothing of 'nipping over' (on horseback on unmade very poor roads), in all weathers from, say, Staffordshire or Derbyshire jobs, just to have a see how things were going, or to promulgate a new idea or alteration that may be of benefit. What a bloke!
Looking forward to some more please! Thanx, Martin.
Yeah I think I read he was Diabetic. Yes he was known for having multiple projects on the go. What a guy
Thanks for keep no Manchester’s Past Alive Martin & Danny does well as a cameraman,kudos to you both for keeping my interest peaked! 👍
Thank you. Yeah we enjoyed filming this one
The opening music is awesome........OMD vibe going on there Martin :-)
Yes I love that drum machine, Dean did it for me
@@MartinZero Would that happen to be one of those Roland Compurhythm drum machines? (I'm not intimate with the sound possibilities of those.)
Another fantastic episode by the way....
@@ChurchOfTheHolyMho Thank you, yes its based on the Roland CR-78 drum machine used in the late 70's early 80's. The brief to Dean was give me That drum machine with a Gary Numan John Foxx Vibe
What a night Man Utd win then Martin puts a video up 👌
Thanks Tom
Fabulous, fabulous videos. Well done with these - Tony Robinson levels of presenting. You deserve a prime-time slot on the tele!
Thanks very much 😀
Sorry I forgot to say that the video is excellent, you made a great job of explaining how Brindley used a siphon to take the water under the Irwell to the colliery. I can't find it on line now, but there used to be a website that showed how underwater archaeologists had entered the tunnel system and fully explored it with detailed description and photographs of the remains tunnel system excavated from solid sandstone or constructed from brick. This website was a good companion to the original 1968 book published by David and Charles about Brindley's work at Wet Earth. Thanks again for bringing Brindley's work to public attention in such a graphic way and also for putting up with getting soaked in the process!
No Problem, Kevin and thanks
I've only just got round to watching this and I was absolutely riveted. I was only exploring the Wet Earth Colliery area with my brother yesterday.
Still here...still watching....still a massive fan....
Thank you Steve and I very much appreciate your support
Ingenious buggers using water to drain a flooded pit, Brill vid once again Martin.
Yes it was a masterstroke
Fantastic video! I've lived in Clifton for 3 years and do like to explore it and learn its history.
Your film is an absolute masterpiece. Thank you very much for your work!
Thanks very much Alex
I used to play round there back when I was 11 (1972) and you could see the silted in remains of the boats in Fletchers Canal there!
It remains a fascinating place ..... Truly one of the places responsible for the birth of the Industrial Revolution!
It is hard to overstate the importance this place has played in history!
Top video too! ;0)
I absolutely agree Dave. the place is grade 1
The grim weather is a good reminder of what rough and tough work it was all about. Excellent content, as already pointed out this is loads better than whats on the telly.
Bring on Part two. love it.
Cheers Paul and Rebecca 👍
I've been jogging,walking and cycling round there for thirty years and never new any of this, really interesting, thank you.
Great, fascinating video, Martin. I can't help but notice how 'Televisual' it is! In your discussion of the alternative routes for the waterway, I was amused that the 'Not In My Back Yard' (NIMBY) mentality is not a new thing, at all.
Looking forward to the rest of these. Thank you.
Thank you Brian, yeah Nimbys even then. When you say Televisual is this a good thing or a bad thing
@@MartinZero I think its a good thing meaning professional quality!
@@MartinZero - It's a good thing. I was definitely, and if you'll indulge me getting a definite 'Fred Dibnah' feel about it. Your enthusiasm, and knowledge, and personality shine through. Every time. That's why we love your videos. You're a natural, and, as I've said before, I always leave your videos with the enriching feeling of: "I did not know that." Thank you so much.
Great work, Martin. You really go the extra distance for your work.
A bit of a labour of love on this one
Fabulous...thanks Martin & Crew.
hi martin I agree with cool dude what a wonderful story nearly 300 years ago we loved it as with all your films cheers Martin
from trev and Christine down south
Thanks very much to you both
Martin, you really are enjoying this. So comes across in what you are doing!
Yeah this one was a challenge and a labour of love
Better than TV, Martin 👌
Another great video, history is such a great thing ✌️ thanks so much for sharing ✅✅
Thank you. Hope your well
Great vid Martin, as always!
I ment to mention on your last vid that the little beach you were mudlarking on is exactly where a huge sewer pipe from Prestwich and Whitfield passes under the river into the waterworks. A decade or so ago United Utilities found it had been leaking into the river for years. During the replacement work there was a temporary overground pipe that actually ran over the footbridge into the sewage works. The pipe was about 3 ft across, vibrated with the pressure and was nice and warm!!
Oh dear, I wonder what made it warm 😷
Mr Zero, thank you very much for your fantastic video! So brilliant, packed with detail and interest to the very last!
Thank you Simon
Yet more fascinating insight into local industrial heritage. Brilliant video Martin. Looking forward to part 2 👍👍
Thank you Stu
Martin, if anyone deserves an award, mate - it’s definitely you. Thank you for all your enthusiasm.
( I live close to Healey Dell. Perhaps one day?)
Thank you. Ive been to Healey Dell
I really believe you knocked the ball out of the park!! You did an excellent job Martin!! Great presentation!!! A great documentary!!
Thank you Michael
Martin, I've become addicted to your videos and watched nearly all of them. Loved the Medlock series and all the the Brindley videos. What a genius James Brindley was. I'm not sure that he ever got the credit and notoriety of more well know figures like Brunel.
Thanks very much John, glad you like them 👍
Dare I say, this has to be one of your best yet. Very detailed and informative, with excellent filming. Looking forward to the rest of this series.
Thank you John
Absolutely brilliant, so well presented. Thank you Martin.
Great stuff Mart, really interesting thanks for taking us along👍🏴
Thanks very much Martin
Mate - I was glued to this video, can’t wait till the second part....
Great video full of detail. Can't wait for part 2.
Thanks Stuart. I did love this story
You need to get these videos on the tv
Cheers Barry
Yes, you are really on a roll. This is first rate, enjoyed it thoroughly.
James Brindley..... way ahead of his time
❤💛💚 thanks martin & danny
He certainly was
Intriguing as always!
Thanks Phil
Excellent, one of your best, and that's high praise!
Thanks Stephen
Absolutely fantastic!! Brilliant!!
Thanks Harry
Simply amazing! The camera work and the explanation are top notch. (Better then tv/movie productions)
Thank you Martin - A fascinating video - I had to give a talk on James Brindley at school (Salford Tech) many years ago, in relation to the Bridgewater canal. This is all new to me.
Thanks Keith, yeah another of his projects
Brilliant historical video Martin, well done. Can't wait for part 2.
Thanks Graham
This should be a great series. Thanks Martin.
Cheers Lawrence
That was great Martin, one of your best. Can't wait for part two.
Thanks very much Rick
Well that was fabulous. Just love the history so totally fascinating. Thank you so much for taking me along with you. Looking forward to part 2
Thank you Linda
Martin, another great production and presentation. Especially given the conditions. Cheers!
Thanks Gareth yeah persisted it down
your videos get better and better fascinating story of a time when Britain shone brighter than anywhere else in the world .
Hi Martin well done for another cracking video, documenting historic remnants that will eventually be lost for ever
Thanks very much. I think this place is of major historical importance
Thanks so much for putting the time and effort into bringing us these wonderful films.
Thank you Matt, am glad you enjoyed it
Excellent film. Thanks!
Very interesting, thank you for sharing, going to part 2 now
getting something of a reputation as Dangerman.....looking forward to the part 2, so long as you don't get drowned, fall down a hole or off of a tall building......love these videos...
Cheers Richard. In part 2 I did all 3 😉
Nice work Martin looking forward to part 2
Thank you Ray
Martin, thanks so much for this series. I find it all absolutely fascinating and love learning more and more as you reveal things.
Thanks Christine and yes the pace is fascinating
Wow! Did not want that to end. Will be waiting in great anticipation for part 2. Cracking video as always.
Thanks very much Phil
Love your historical videos. Looking forward to part 2
Thank you Jane 👍
Brilliant video Martin. Well researched. Look forward to part 2
Thank you David
Very Educational love the History this is so Good five Thumbs up 😁
Thank you Mary
Fascinating video, many thanks.
Thank you Roger
love it. you are a great storyteller, can hardly wait for part 2
Very educating Martin......
Excellent work keep it up..........
Brilliant video Martin can’t wait to watch part 2
Thank you Mark
You've come along way. Great work indeed.
Thanks David
I love this guys passion, it is totally addictive!
So do I Dave 😃👍