James Brindley and Wet Earth Colliery Part 3
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2020
- In this video we continue our study of Wet Earth Colliery. We now follow on from the work of James Brindley and look at how this Colliery in the Irwell valley evolved. We are following the feeder stream into the colliery. This feeder stream later became a canal, Fletchers canal and at the colliery was a Loading basin. There is a rich history of coal mining at Clifton and the Irwell valley. Mathew Fletcher developed the Wet earth Colliery and later Botany Bay colliery. We are in the undergrowth looking for clues to the past workings of this mine on this historical archeological search and its also an Urbex urban exploring quest into the past Industrial history of such a fascinating place. This video looks at the Mining History in Salford and Manchester.
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Martin as always does a fantastic job of bringing the history to life far better than reading a book about it. There is nothing like actually seeing what these places look like now with that historic content packed around it. Difficult to picture what there would have been at the time but impossible not to appreciate the skills and engineering of these great men.
Oh God, who needs television when you've got Martin Zero ? Dogfather xx, I'm with you all the way on your comment. All the men with now cold arses that have gone before us. We're all here just but a fleeting time but at least Martin is putting flesh on those old bones, a mark of respect for those that have gone before us.
Words can't describe how good this is but I'll try, lol. The presentation is excellent, the music is superb, the content so interesting, the filming is spot on, I loved the whole package. Your videos get better and better, well done. It's so sad seeing how it's all disappeared, especially seeing old photographs of the workers, and the sketch by Lowry. Can't wait for part 4.
Ian and Angie.
Thank you so much Ian and Angie, really appreciate that
You said what I was going to say, well put and so true. Cheers
completely agree with everything you said, well summed up. Thanks martinzero, this is fabulous stuff.
Great comment, well put. I think most of us would completely agree.👌👍
Couldn't agree more with many of the comments . The time and effort Martin & co put into these is unreal. Captured for the masses, for those who appreciate the efforts of those who went before us.
And this is the story of just one colliery and one aspect of life back then. How fortunate We are.
Thanks again Martin, amazing !
Thanks very much
Another amazing video, what I love most is the sense of history isn’t lost on you.... take that sleeper for instance, it’s a piece of wood, but you know it’s probably been there 100+ years, a person fitted that, think how many people have looked at it, walked along it and touched it in that time... just think about it for a second... it’s quite amazing really
Yeah absolutely, its a gem of a find
Well said Dogfather, it's very emotive.
Here he comes to save the day, Martin Zero's on his way...
Mighty Mouse 😂 Mighty MartinZ
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Martin is just an ordinary mancunion but when he drinks a can of bodingtons he turns into bodingtons Manchester explorer man
andy caufman
excellent video all you need on a sunday evening is a video from martin and a late tea thats my evening sorted.
Cheers Tom
ahhh! that time of the weekend when martin uploads a vid ....time to sit back and crack open a beer!
Number 6 😂 Off this week
Hope you enjoyed
With the music and visuals, I find these videos completely mesmerising...... :)
Thanks Demelza
So Martin says "I hope you enjoyed the video". Like yeah! I mean how can you not like it. Bringing to life the history of these places and the lives of the hard men and women associated with them. what a teacher you are Martin and thank you so very much for your efforts
Thank you Scott
Welcome back to another great video !!! Great work , well done . Stay safe
Thank you Victor
Coal & cotton, what made South Lancashire.
My old lad left school on a Friday age 14 and was darn pit on following Monday morning.
Undercutting coal the dangerous part being why they needed small boys.
UKs prosperity based the dangerous hard graft of the workers.
Missed you last week, assumed you where still out and about making movies for us.
All the best
John
..... the legacy of King Cotton. Martin is showing us all how IT WAS... Today is twisting us through the prism of how some prefer to imagine how IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ... Yomp On, Martin.... We Need YOU ;
Excellent video again Martin.
An explorer's worse enemy is pricklies and things that sting! 🙂👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Yeah absolute Killer
Many thanks, Martin. You have no idea how much your vids do for my mental health at the moment. I'm in Day 97/98/I Can't Remember of social isolation and shielding. I'm living in a tiny, tiny, tiny bedsit in south-east London with no access to outside space and when I look out my window, I cast my gaze on a massive car wash until I raise my eyes to the far distance, in which I can see four trees. (They're not healthy specimens, but at least they're trees.)
I've also run out of British TV shows and films I want to see/can afford and have been relying on Netflix and Amazon Prime for windows on the world. So all I hear are American accents. Once a week, I go out late at night to my shopping and in an entire week, the only live British accent I'll hear is "That'll be £38.47 please".
This isn't to create some narrative of 'poor little me'. I'm a resilient person. I can cope with all of this.
My comment is more to celebrate you.
You have no idea how much the images you create of greenery and wildness do to feed my raisin of a soul right now. And you have no idea how much I've yearned for the accent of the people I grew up around.
These things keep me sane, calm and relaxed and happy at the moment, so thank you.
Please keep on doing what you're doing.
Thanks very much Darrien I really appreciate that. More greenery to come in the next video
Fascinating video martin ...so many things remain ..we found it a wonderful place during our walk....thanks for all your hard work we look forward to part four ..stay safe mate ..Frank & Lee..
Thanks to you both Frank and Lee
Another great Video Martin I'm currently rewatching all your videos so it's nice to get a fresh one today.
I love every minute of this,the time you spend showing not just the architectural history but the people who worked so hard here is what always impresses me.
Oh yes!!! Another little bit of awesome!! Thank you so much, I love your channel.
Thank you
Brinley was a absolute genius!!!
He was Peter
Played all over the area as a boy. Found out later than my dad had played in the tunnels in the late 1940’s early 50’s. There is a tunnel on the river bank below the canal, and one day I climbed down and sat at the entrance (2010) by the steel door blocking the tunnel. When I looked through the hole of the door I heard foot steps and someone whistling a tune approx ten feet away walking towards me, but no one was there.
I’ve been in the large holes and tunnels in the early 1980’s. In the old canal there were a line of abandoned barges left to rot, not far from the turbine. There is also a ww2 pillbox on top of the canal that we played in (1983) but it became so overgrown that it couldn’t be seen when I visited in 2014. In the 80’s we found old buildings with fireplaces amongst the undergrowth. Amazing place and really interesting to watch you walk through the tunnels. I believe Time Team did an episode on it, but I may be wrong.
Nice one. Can't wait for part 4.
Cheers Tony
So....there's a part 4? As usual , can't wait for that . Clearly this site has much to reveal. There's lots around that area ,a very rich hunting ground. Thanks for rooting it out and serving it up to us in such an intensely interesting way. Bloody brilliant , award yourself a beer. You're payng , though !
Cheers Harold. Much more from this place
Can't wait for the wheel pit video had a nosey around there in the late 90's and its amazing how much nature has grown around it over the last 25 years!!!
Yeah, see what we can do
Buzzin, part 3 is here. Its gonna be good. Back to my neck of the woods. Just brilliant and fascinating, cannot wait for episode 4 now
Thank you
Waited with baited breath for this one Martin. From the bottom of my heart well worth the wait. Jaw - droppingly excellent fascinating video. I got a tingle up my spine with that sleeper you found. Well played old boy
Thank you. I found it frustrating as I wanted to see more
Jeez, I want to get in there with a big strimmer to see the whole layout of the place!!! One time there Martin I thought you were going explode with excitement - I can see why. So much history, so many lives, so many stories, incredible. 👍❤🐝
Well Martin I really enjoyed that. I just love the stonework of the walls and tunnels. Nature sure has been working hard there with all that undergrowth. Seeing inside the tunnel was magic.thank you so much for taking me along.
Thanks very much Linda
BRILLIANT!! I'm reading a book about James Brindley. Now, I come from a canal viewpoint, so I'd never heard of Brindley's work at Wet Earth Colliery. The book has some very simple diagrams but these don't make clear exactly what Brindley designed to solve the problem caused by water in the mine. I just discovered your three videos and you have made everything clear in a really engaging and enthusiastic way. I just subscribed and will be watching all your stuff from the beginning. Thanks very much, Martin - superb.
So enjoyed all parts of Wet Earth Colliery. Thank you Martin.
What part did you enjoy the most ? For me part 4 brought the whole story together .... that expert really knew his stuff ....
Great video and great music, as always. Must have been horrific these places, now they're serene and peaceful. All those lives spent there...
Great video. Part 4 should be interesting. Amazing the amount historical stuff buried in the overgrowth.
very enjoyable, great narration, well worth watching, bring on part 4.
It's got to the stage where I start to watch your posts and hit the like at the same time then watch the post through. You're quality is so interesting and well presented. Thanks again for your work and enthusiasm.
Thank you
Martin, I have to say, how blown away I was to watch this extremely interesting and superbly well produced , researched and presented this series of wet earth colliery.
As usual Martin....a really great video! Full of facts and atmosphere.
Yes....all the lives that have come and gone, births and deaths and everything in between.The people who made the history are often forgotten, replaced by dates and big events. The ruling classes write the stories they want people to hear, of great men with big ambitions. But it's the people who brought their dreams to life that I find really fascinating. The men who laid the bricks, and placed that sleeper in the ground, and the women who raised their kids. The likes of you and I are here today, only because people back then survived what was done to them in the name of progress. So, lets not paint too rosy a picture of the people who lived in the big house, and thank our lucky stars we're alive today and not back then.
Can't wait for #4....
I agree Mike and thank you
great video
Thank you
Well presented mate, TV presenter/producer in the making I reckon! Gogogogo!
Another absolutely fascinating watch Martin. As well as the wonderful subjects you cover, it's clear that you put a tremendous amount of work into making these videos entertaining, informative and very well presented. As someone who is currently 'shielding' from this damned virus and therefore unable to travel, I really appreciate you showing us these tremendous places and the effort that goes into each video from you and Team Zero! You've been making lockdown so much easier for a lot of people, many thanks!
Thank you very much. I must admit its a labour of love
Love the history thanks Martin and co. I was a faceworker at Agecroft until closure, and my subsequent move to Parsonage colliery in Leigh. I have a keen interest in all history, especially the films regarding coal/collieries/mining. They don't do it like northerners do! Keep it up please.
Thanks Jester. Wow thats so interesting that you worked at Agecroft
@@MartinZero Yeah '81 to closure. My Dad and two brothers worked there too. They were all deputies, and I had my deputies papers.
Hooray! Zero hour has arrived! And it's good.
Cheers John
Well im eyes pealed for part 4. 👍🏻 Loving this series 😁 keeping me occupied in lockdown. 👍🏻
This colliery must have been an absolute beast back in the day, looks like it had so much infrastructure
Yeah it was, There were so many though
Well what a day, myself and her-in-doors have been kayaking up coniston most of the day, decided to treat ourselves 🤟🏻
To come home, little bit of tea.
Then watched this your latest video 👌🔥 brilliant, luv it. All them year's of history 🤟🏼 just brilliant 🙌👍 looking forward to the next. Keep up the great work 💪👌💪👊
Thank you. I loved that bit of Kayaking I did last year
Fantastic as usual.
Thank you
another great journey Detective Zero
Martin, your research & your work is magnificent. I do hope you manage to complete the series on the Wet Earth Colliery. Really looking forward to a part 4.
Great stuff! Thanks again!
Fascinating once again Martin,better than anything on TV...keep it up 👌👌
The brilliance of using the power of water to drain water from the mines...fascinating engineering!
Yes it was a brilliant scheme
Yeah i really enjoyed the video as always Martin. Cheers
Cheers Carl
Throughly enjoyed this series and cant wait for part 4.
Keep up the informative work Martin..
Thanks Ant
thank you for these historic mysteries, many a bored day saved by Martin, fascinating!!! absolutely fascinating! cheers from America!!
Thank you very much
As a kid I often played by the old Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal, from Salford into Agecroft and Clifton. My Granddad told me how parts were filled in after the last war era when 'technology' got the better of us. I think the remaining spots left open were for anglers (keen fishermen to the rest of the world) to carry on their weekend activities. Anyhow - Top stuff Martin. I always enjoy your videos and appreciate the research that goes into them.
Thankyou for Sunday normality Martin 👍🏻
Thanks Dan
I finally got around to watching part 3; what a fascinating investigation. I love the beauty of the old brickwork, all the shades of colour on the facing archway when the camera looked through the barrier. Once again a great vid.🌟👍
21:48 the mist looks great. Adding to the atmosphere.
Brilliant! I've been waiting for part 3. Now you can get out again - may the Wet Earth Colliery journey continue! 👍👍
Yep, Cracking on Simon
This series is phenomenal.
Another top video Martin, keep it up pal 👍👍
Thanks very much Chris
Another great video! Thanks Martin
Brilliant
The saga continues
It's a shame that this can't be restored and maintained its brilliant
Then again it would cost so much to maintain
Still would make a great visitors attraction
Yeah the place is of major historical importance
Quite fascinating video, it is really cool to see how do you put puzzle pieces together with looking back to earlier videos. I imagine, with some money and people it would be possible to let the whole colliery resurface as prime example of early industrial history.
Yes Peter, the site is of major historical importance
I absolutely LOVE your videos. They are so well made and informative. You are a brilliant filmmaker and deserve way more recognition.
Thank you very much
Thank you for the video Martin. I like the you way cross reference with the old maps. You'd think there would already have been surveys of these places.
Thanks Martin for another fantastic and beautiful vlog searching through our local industrial history. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Thanks very much Stevie
It's amazing how quickly nature can reclaim old abused industrial sites once we let it! Great video again Martin!
Thank you Cappen
I remember walking by the Irwell in the 1980s and seeing the broken belly of a starvationer stuck in the ground 20 or 30 feet above the river.
I am binging on your video and have to say they are all gold.
Thanks very much Martin
Pure escapism Martin ! Thank you so much !!
Thank you Anne
Another brilliant insight into the industrial history of industry in the North West.
You say it's asking a lot for us to use our imagination, but with your descriptions and story telling it is not hard at all. You bring us along with you in such an easy and interesting way. Thank you Martin.
Thanks Martin for part 3. Worth waiting for. Look forward to final part. Another excellent video.
Thank you David
Intressting as always martin. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Thomas
Martin the videos you make and the content are worthy of primetime tv. Im sure the show would be popular and i feel like it will happen in the near future for some reason.
Thank you very much
Just watched 3 so far ,you need a TV show.
Another brilliant video Martin. Thanks for all the hard work you put in. God knows what goes on in the brains of people who give it the thumbs down, sad individuals.
Thanks very much
Its amazing what you find in the undergrowth can almost know that some sort of building has been there would love to watch part 4 of the wet earth colliery & find out the history some good clues there martin in the undergrowth we shall see in the next video brill mate 👍
Thanks Thomas that undergrowth hides a load of stuff
@@MartinZero cool you never know what you might find next time in your other videos
Come back in winter when all the plants have died back.
Its good to see you Educating us of these lost wonders Martin, VERY Interesting
Thanks very much Mark
great to see you back at Wet Earth Colliery and continuing the story Martin, thoroughly fascinating and much enjoyable video and looking forward to part 4. Cheers 👍
The brickies who made the tunnels were masters at it the unusual shapes and arches
Yeah I love that arch
It blows my mind when I try to think of someone building these things, fantastic.
that is the reason why stone masons were special throughout history and closely guarded their scientific secrets (to make sure they were done properly to protect the people in and around the constructions). Then people who didn't understand got suspicious and accused them of all the things that people accuse others of that they decide to not like. Education is important.
Your presenting has become so honed and engrossing that you should be on TV. Someone should commission a series!
Thank you, I think its up and down sometimes 😄
Great and interesting video Martin looking forward to part 4 thank for sharing and keep safe 👍
Thanks very much
Another interesting part. Looking forward to No.4
Been waiting for this for ages. Love the vidoes thanks
That intro music was the shi. Great video 👍👍👍
Great series of videos Martin Pleasure watching them. Did you do a 4th video? Apologies if I missed it. Right back to watching the old well house & the castle that's an imposter. All the best 👍
Martin you have really pressed my buttons around history and how we need to know as soon as we can and in saying this it is still fun finding history ASAP.
Yeah this place is fascinating
Martin... another fantastic video... thank you so much... your videos are always educational.. Thanks again.
Thanks Mark
Great to see that you're enjoying your work and we look forward to seeing the videos and uncovering the history of the areas in and around Manchester,, bloody brilliant,, 😁😁☘️☘️☘️from Northern Ireland greatly appreciated thank you,, good bricklayers would be in great demand,,
Another very interesting video Martin thank you can’t wait for part four.
Thanks Mike
Hi Martin - super video. Walked round Clifton Country Park a million times, knew of Wet Earth, seen a few videos but nothing like this. Really good explore. Your style of story telling is moving on, and i like it. This video seemed like a live outside broadcast, maybe an idea... Would you consider some sort of FB live event with a live explore... Lots of planning and clearly connectivity is needed but it would be awesome!
I could John, its like you say keeping a connection
Thanks for this Martin, well worth the wait.
Martin, these videos featuring the ghosts of industrial structures hidden in the woods are some of your best work! It's absolutely fascinating, sad and encouraging at the same time, to see how Nature has reclaimed what people have abandoned!
Thank you. Yes the place is incredible
That was another good one Martin! Most enjoyable and informative! :-)
Can’t wait for part 4 so interesting thank you
Another great video. I wish more people from all over did similar content covering their own areas
What an amazing video, I love the way you narrate these historical video's, you have a way of being able to transport us back to a time when the colliery was up and running, I can vividly imagine the workers having a laugh on their break and the noises you would expect to hear while they are at their job. Truly stunning Martin, I cannot praise the quality of this series enough, thank you for a truly unique way of bringing history to life, much love. xx💖
Excellent! Looking forward to part four and then binging the whole playlist again :D
Cheers Lulu
Another superb video. Never disappoints. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Excellent as usual martin, you have the knack to keep us glued to your video's 10/10 mate.
Thanks very much
I know this has no bearing on this, but sort of does! My mum died las sept! Aged 95! I know she was, like I was born in the south of England! Then you said the place closed down in the 28! it just makes you think! As you said all those guys that worked there! Whilst I know, as we all do, time moves on, but it is sad that something cannot be made as a monument to those folk from back then! Thank you for such a lovely trip down the path of all our history! Well done and the mand below said it perfectly Thank you Martin Zero!!
Thank you very much Nigel