🎤 To watch with subtitles, please click the 'CC' button on your CZcams video player :) Good evening! And welcome to this walk around one of Yorkshire's most wonderful towns: Skipton! Known as the Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales, Skipton is full of history at every turn, complete with a grand medieval castle, calming canals and grand architecture. There's a lot of history to Skipton, but one thing we didn't mention on our walk is that the town was home to two prisoner of war camps in the First and Second World Wars. In WWI, a former military camp of the Bradford Pals was converted into a large detention centre for German officers and soldiers - over 600 of them, while in WWII, a modern-day caravan park held German and Italian soldiers just outside Skipton town centre.
Only your travels can take in so much beauty and details of culture / history at the same time..... Hebden Bridge was great, now Skipton's in my itinerary !
Its also one of the safest places to be. Thank goodness it hasn't gone the way of the surrounding cities. I live here now and you never feel threatened and thats incredible given crime stats elsewhere.
Thank you very much for your videos introducing Britain and its history. Very good ideas for our visits there.😁👍I appreciate your nice English too, so well understandable for us, foreingers..
Very informative and useful video. Very good ideas for our visits there. Amazing place to explore. Beautiful scenery. Thanks for taking us along. Have a great day my friend. Big Like 84😍👍💐
What a nice, well-kept town. Something occured to me as we reached the first canal: it seems strange that, while the canal builders made an effort to take the canals through the centre of towns, the railways didn't seem to worry so much about convenience, often siting the station on the outskirts of, or even outside, the towns they served. Obviously, there are exceptions to such a wide generalisation and some feasible reasons come to mind, you would think it would be slightly easier to route a railway than a water-filled, flat canal, even allowing for locks. Ho-hum, just a thought.😁
🎤 To watch with subtitles, please click the 'CC' button on your CZcams video player :)
Good evening! And welcome to this walk around one of Yorkshire's most wonderful towns: Skipton! Known as the Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales, Skipton is full of history at every turn, complete with a grand medieval castle, calming canals and grand architecture.
There's a lot of history to Skipton, but one thing we didn't mention on our walk is that the town was home to two prisoner of war camps in the First and Second World Wars. In WWI, a former military camp of the Bradford Pals was converted into a large detention centre for German officers and soldiers - over 600 of them, while in WWII, a modern-day caravan park held German and Italian soldiers just outside Skipton town centre.
Only your travels can take in so much beauty and details of culture / history at the same time..... Hebden Bridge was great, now Skipton's in my itinerary !
I have never been to the UK so is very helpful. Thank you for your fun tours of historic towns of Britain.
Thank you, another marvellous 'Let's Walk' and only twenty so miles form where I live.
Thank you for a memory of Skipton my birthplace 80 yes ago .
Top stuff ! Well done ! Thankyou all involved ! 🇦🇺🙋🦘🛵
Its also one of the safest places to be. Thank goodness it hasn't gone the way of the surrounding cities. I live here now and you never feel threatened and thats incredible given crime stats elsewhere.
Make sure to never let it become another victim of multiculturalism and "diversity". Protect it with all your might.
Fascinating,town Thanks.
Thank you for this!
Awesome live video I enjoyed it 👍😀
Amazing video.
I'm your fan.
Thank you very much for your videos introducing Britain and its history. Very good ideas for our visits there.😁👍I appreciate your nice English too, so well understandable for us, foreingers..
I live here, Craven Court would have been a nice addition to this Video. Enjoyed watching this about our little town 😊
Also my home town! I love good old skipdale! Except for trying to park somewhere 🤣
Very informative and useful video. Very good ideas for our visits there. Amazing place to explore. Beautiful scenery. Thanks for taking us along. Have a great day my friend. Big Like 84😍👍💐
Sir Mathew Wilson was my 3x Great Grandfather. Would love to see his statue.
What a cool place to explore!. Thanks for capturing this walk and sharing your adventures with us!
Ive only been in a couple of pubs there, would like to go in all of them.
What a nice, well-kept town. Something occured to me as we reached the first canal: it seems strange that, while the canal builders made an effort to take the canals through the centre of towns, the railways didn't seem to worry so much about convenience, often siting the station on the outskirts of, or even outside, the towns they served.
Obviously, there are exceptions to such a wide generalisation and some feasible reasons come to mind, you would think it would be slightly easier to route a railway than a water-filled, flat canal, even allowing for locks.
Ho-hum, just a thought.😁
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