After the brutally hot summer of 2018, Ladybower reservoir in Derbyshire was empty, as a result, the sunken village of Derwent became visible once again.
I was at a boarding school in Morcott village in Rutland in the early 70,s and this was before the reservoir was built. I was driven round when all the markers were in place showing where the water level would come up to. An elderly lady was still living in a cottage and I just thought it was a horrible way for her spend her last days knowing that everything she had known was about to be obliterated.
@@ianmccrae2676 the OP was referring to another reservoir which had the same effect on local villages and infrastructure. and FWIW i remember rutland water being constructed, and the old road to barnsdale.
My grandmother’s family lost their home in Ashopton village it haunted her for the rest of her life. I think about it every time I drive over the Ashopton viaduct. It looks beautiful today but nothing comes without a price.
My mother (from Sheffield) used to walk through those villages before they were flooded. She remembered the dam being built. At one time, wasn’t Derwent church spire still standing above the water? I think it was demolished because it was so painful for the villagers.
@@landhopper4296 Apparently the spire was demolished in 1947 - which puts paid to my 'memory' of having seen it in the early 60s! It was a school outing and we were told the tale - imagination did the rest.
@@bigunit205 thats definitely a pumping station,vintage hydraulic based civil engineering structures were externally glorified in this way. Parts of this were knocked off over time.
Here in Niagara Region they flooded and submerged an old cemetery along the old Welland Canal to create a reservoir - apparently it was too costly to relocate the bodies so they just left'em. Every once in a while a piece of skeleton washes up on the shoreline to be found by hikers in the area.
First of all, how disrespectful. Secondly, holy hell. Just imagine that you’re minding your own business and then you see a literal human skeleton wash up on the shore, it would certainly scare the knickers off of me.
@@BabyGhast4 It goes unreported in local media much of the time. Kind've a dirty little secret in the local community that very few talk about these days.
This reminds me a lot of the reservoir near where I'm from, it was flooded in the 1930's for a hydro electric power station, when the water's low you can still see the ruins and remains of old farm machinery the people left behind, it's quite poignant especially knowing how little compensation the people got for their farms and homes, the landscape is also quite similar to that in the video.
I've been to a big empty reservoir in the Southwest of Germany as a kid in the 80s. The dam was undergoing some inspection. The reservoir has been a valley with villages in it and the old bridge and some old foundations appeared. The little river that ended in the reservoir now went back to its old bed under the bridge and the greensward that once covered the edges of the valley got loose over 70 or 80 years in the water and rolled down very slowly. So when empty there were biiiiiiig rolls of the former grass laying on the slope of the lake. Very weird sighting. I'll never forget the moonscape down in the old reservoir. And for a long time you still could see the church steeple when the water was low but I guess at some point it crumbled.
I guess you mean Sylvenstein. There was an inspection a couple of years ago, when people could just wander through the ghost town. Many walls were still intact, even after decades underwater. The remaining waterflow was forming natural channels in the seabed, it was very interesting to see.
@@draxalia southwest could also easily be Hohenwarte... The village was flooded also for a reservoir (Talsperre). Ps: I had a little twist in my mind, Hohenwarte would be middle East...
Yes, I was also waiting for that. Shame. Never mind, you can easily go there by Googling: images Morcott village, Rutland, England. It WAS very beautiful.
We have similar drowned areas in Washington State. There are many huge hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. Old settlements were moved or razed. Structures burned, leaving only foundations. Train tracks that go nowhere. The resulting lakes never empty, but you can still see roads that go downhill into lakes and vanish. In the higher mountains we have storage reservoirs for irrigation. Trees and structures were removed there too. During low rain and snow years, lakes do get low enough to see the land as it was before it was flooded.
Well the channelled scab lands were underneath a deluge a few times before people even settled the area. It left some interesting lakes East of the Columbia river.
@@SJR_Media_Group You're welcome. My local reservoir here in Ireland has an old village on the lake bed, at least 100 feet under the surface. As you can probably imagine, it has the usual superstitious crap such as hauntings associated with it.
@@skateboardingjesus4006 Thanks... yes all the ghost stories from ghost towns under 100 feet of water. Lake Mead at record lows, missing bodies showing up after being gone for years.
@@SJR_Media_Group Yeah, I've seen that. All manner of boats bodies, detritus and concrete filled barrels being found. Vegas is going to be in trouble, because they can't keep subsidising with water from Powell. Oroville in California and it's adjacent reservoirs are also having big difficulties.
The old channel would be covered in dozens of feet of silt. That new channel is a result of the river cutting into the silt, which may or may not reflect course of the old channel.
Reminds me of another dismal drowned village called Geămana in Romania. Rich reserves of copper were found in the area back in the late 70s, and the regime of Ceaușescu wanted every part of it. Knowing the amounts of toxic waste it would dispose of, he ordered the village to be evacuated (majority left but some refused and moved to the edge of the flood) and flooded it and the surrounding valley with this toxicity. This made the lake red, so it creates a very eerie environment with the buildings that remain.
It's a sad thing but we as a humanity have to sacriface some villages for progress after all that copper was probably used in diffrent buildings, electronics and hardware
if this is interesting to you, you'd really like the story of the Quabbin reservoir in Massachusetts. they flooded a massive area for the water supply of eastern MA. an entire group of towns all sitting at the bottom of a nearly crystal clear body of drinking water. its a really cool story, and i believe PBS or some company did a video on it. its super cool
At some point, many years ago, when the water was low, you could, apparently, see the old church spire. People used to swim out to it. However, this was seen as dangerous and the authorities had it dynamited.
This would have been so much more interesting with a voice-over explaining what we were looking at, with old maps, photographs, etc, so the viewers can make sense of what they are seeing.
In Azad Kashmir pakistan there's a dam called the mangla dam it has a rich history built by the British and American companies. They used have so many villagers and people living in the old city where the dam is currently. The one thing there that stand out is the Mandir (Hindu temple) even though the dam has broken Away and washed so many houses and villages the only peice of history standing there is that Mandir and what a sight that is
If you can see Derwent village remains you have the water equivalent of DEFCOM2 If you can see the remains of Ashopton then your at DEFCOM1. It would be really empty. I had a great uncle who lived in Ashopton and moved to Ashbourne in the late 1930's. They then took half his farmland in WW2 to build an airfield. Not mush more can you do for your country?
This is sooo cool. The resevoir near my house flooded a town also and whenever there is a drought the old ruins of the town are exposed. It's really awesome. Sucks when theres a flood but really cool.
Been there in mid 1990s -another drought. My eldest (then about 4) managed to accidentally pull a stone mullion down from a building window of one of the ruins, it missed landing on him by sheer chance and I almost died of shock. Surprised to see how little left standing now.
@Peter Governments around the world have Patent permission to manipulate the weather (to fix droughts, floods, etcetera) why aren't they using that technology effectively..? People need to be demanding answers to these questions. And why are governments around the world allowing Chine to syphon-off HUGE amounts of its FRESH water 💦 systems..?
@Steve Tyler 👆 Bingo! Govts are the bitches of the dragon Yaldoboathe the Worm aka Yahweh and his human alien hybrids are his workers of iniquity.All roads lead to Worms, Germany THEN to Rome. Check out the dragon over the church of Our Lady of St. Peter. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms,_Germany
@@kellikelli4413 We can't manipulate the weather, we can seed clouds to make it rain in one place rather than another but there has to be clouds to begin with and during droughts there are no clouds.
My parents took me here during the drought of 1976. I remember it was a Sunday afternoon because Leeds United had beaten Everton 5-2 the previous day and it was the featured game on football special on the Sunday and I missed it. I’m off to search for the highlights now
Well creepy! Some beautiful shots in this. They say there are the remains of villages overcome by The North Sea due to coastal erosion, but I was never a good enough swimmer to find out for myself.. 🤣Thank you for this. Fascinating! 👍
just shows how the buildigngs wuhere just BETTER int he old days for a few things to be standing and looking good like nothing ever happened. outstanding work filming this thanks. i worked up there 20 years ago for a year and never witnessed anything sadly with my own eye. very grateful you filmed this
I think those structures predate the village , thats just a pile of rubble. Its architecture from the Grand old days , I suspect far older than they make out. If you notice all these amazing old architecture are all founded and not built or completed ...but founded. History lies and its in front of our eyes .
Correct. It was blown up in 1947. Many people claimed to have seen it after that though and it became something of an urban myth. I'm afraid. people are inclined to tell lies lol but they didn''t have the internet then and it was difficult to prove otherwise.
Excellent footage was there in 1976 (I was9 then)when just about everything viewable how all we survived down to a trickle is unbelievable. Really amazing 👍👍
I saw a similar sight years ago in Nidderdale in Yorkshire,I've forgotten the reservoir,but the water level was so low that the dry stone walls marking the fields and the lanes could be seen.
I live near there and the village that was abandoned so the valley could be flooded was called Ashopton. I've walked to it many times when the water is low.
When the old boy fitted that stone gate post we see at 01:30, he set it carefully, admired his work, patted it twice and said: "That's not going anywhere."
I really wanted to go and see this, but as I don't drive it is very difficult for me to get to. Hopefully when we have a hot summer again and it shows I can then go and see it, the River Derwent runs near my house haha :)
I live about 15 minutes drive from here and if the dry weather in this area continues it will not be long before derwent village is revealed again.I first saw derwent village in 1976 when it was a long dry hot summer and have seen it several times since.If the old road bridge on derwent reservoir the next one above appears then we are really going to struggle.I have only seen it once and that was in 2018.
Bureaucrats and politicians always talk about the economic impact of these reservoirs. They never discuss the damage in property destroyed, history lost, environmental destruction or lives disrupted, farms destroyed businesses wiped out.
Reminds me of the Film Patagonia with Duffy, About an old lady and her grandson going back to Wales to find the village where she was born, all she found was the village grave stones and a reservoir she lay down and died on a bench over looking the water where the village had been!
People like to claim every place outside Pyongyang in our country is just like this but that couldn't be further from the truth. Reality is our people are happy just the way they are. They know we struggle because of sanctions, but that's the price to pay to live in a worker's paradise.
@@theyorkshireman2467 : Are you talking about the ruins of the church steeple when the water was so low as to expose the ruins of the village? i am only talking about the actual intact steeple sticking out of the water before it was destroyed. There are pre-1947 photos of it sticking out of the water before it was blown up. It looks quite spooky. Actually, an old gatepost of Derwent Hall looks a bit like a steeple and could be mistaken for it if seen when the water level was really low. You can find pictures of the gatepost online. Maybe it matches your photos? From what I've read about Ladybower, the reservoir is at it's shallowest where Derwent village was located. The water level didn't have to be low to see the steeple as it always rose out of the water from the day the village was flooded because it was much taller than the reservoir depth at that point. This was probably the reason it was deemed dangerous. It's a real pity they had to blown it up as it would have been an amazing tourist attraction.
I live in the Netherlands and when the water level of the river Meuse gets extremely low some oak timber posts of a late-Roman bridge surface, 4th century AD.
@chubviewer no they had to chop it down to water level however the water their was not the normal water level so you should be able to see it it's just the fact he didn't show it
They cut it down because to many divers was going in there and dying because they couldn't make it there so they chopped it so they would stop dying from it
Amazing to think that despite Britain being under enormous pressure for survival in the fight against the Nazis in WWII with much of the male population away at war fighting, rationing at home, massive cuts to the infrastructure and the blitz to contend with that they nevertheless continued with the project for the first three years of the war not knowing at the time if they would lose and be occupied by the Germans or be victorious.
Those are in pretty bad shape. At Elephant Butte (c. 1915) on the Rio Grande, entire villages and canal systems were likewise inundated, only the mostly abode buildings have never surfaced even as the reservoir nears 10% capacity (critically low). As a result, the buildings are mostly intact in over 80' of water.
I get that the dams were needed but at the same time it's tragic those lovely old villages were destroyed for them, all the people who lived there, & wanted to carry on living there; so wrong - wonder if the Gov would get away with it now.. probably. 😞
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I don't understand why they would not demo all the structures in the area to remove any underwater hazards, maybe even reuse some of the materials in other buildings, or the dam itself.
I was at a boarding school in Morcott village in Rutland in the early 70,s and this was before the reservoir was built. I was driven round when all the markers were in place showing where the water level would come up to. An elderly lady was still living in a cottage and I just thought it was a horrible way for her spend her last days knowing that everything she had known was about to be obliterated.
i agree
My gran was born in one of the villages under Rutland water.
@@ianmccrae2676 the OP was referring to another reservoir which had the same effect on local villages and infrastructure. and FWIW i remember rutland water being constructed, and the old road to barnsdale.
I was at Oakham School in the 70's & remember something.
Kinda like looking around now and thinking the same thing.
My grandmother’s family lost their home in Ashopton village it haunted her for the rest of her life. I think about it every time I drive over the Ashopton viaduct.
It looks beautiful today but nothing comes without a price.
My mother (from Sheffield) used to walk through those villages before they were flooded. She remembered the dam being built. At one time, wasn’t Derwent church spire still standing above the water? I think it was demolished because it was so painful for the villagers.
I used to live in Ashopton near the old Post office,
@@landhopper4296 Apparently the spire was demolished in 1947 - which puts paid to my 'memory' of having seen it in the early 60s! It was a school outing and we were told the tale - imagination did the rest.
Memory is one of the least reliable forms of evidence
just proves we have no rights if they can just remove people from their homes so they can build roads or dam's
Guy who built that garage- "I told ya it'll be the last standing building in town"
It's a water pumping station lol
2:07 I don't think that's a pumping station
@@bigunit205 thats definitely a pumping station,vintage hydraulic based civil engineering structures were externally glorified in this way. Parts of this were knocked off over time.
Haha i guess I was wrong lol
Looks more like a Joss House to me.
Here in Niagara Region they flooded and submerged an old cemetery along the old Welland Canal to create a reservoir - apparently it was too costly to relocate the bodies so they just left'em. Every once in a while a piece of skeleton washes up on the shoreline to be found by hikers in the area.
Omg.
First of all, how disrespectful. Secondly, holy hell. Just imagine that you’re minding your own business and then you see a literal human skeleton wash up on the shore, it would certainly scare the knickers off of me.
@@BabyGhast4 It goes unreported in local media much of the time. Kind've a dirty little secret in the local community that very few talk about these days.
This reminds me a lot of the reservoir near where I'm from, it was flooded in the 1930's for a hydro electric power station, when the water's low you can still see the ruins and remains of old farm machinery the people left behind, it's quite poignant especially knowing how little compensation the people got for their farms and homes, the landscape is also quite similar to that in the video.
You wouldn't happen to be talking about the Between the Rivers area, would you?
@@sdrape4964 no, the place I'm referring to is in Ireland, it's called the poulaphuca reservoir.
I've been to a big empty reservoir in the Southwest of Germany as a kid in the 80s. The dam was undergoing some inspection. The reservoir has been a valley with villages in it and the old bridge and some old foundations appeared. The little river that ended in the reservoir now went back to its old bed under the bridge and the greensward that once covered the edges of the valley got loose over 70 or 80 years in the water and rolled down very slowly. So when empty there were biiiiiiig rolls of the former grass laying on the slope of the lake. Very weird sighting. I'll never forget the moonscape down in the old reservoir. And for a long time you still could see the church steeple when the water was low but I guess at some point it crumbled.
I guess you mean Sylvenstein. There was an inspection a couple of years ago, when people could just wander through the ghost town. Many walls were still intact, even after decades underwater. The remaining waterflow was forming natural channels in the seabed, it was very interesting to see.
@@draxalia southwest could also easily be Hohenwarte... The village was flooded also for a reservoir (Talsperre).
Ps: I had a little twist in my mind, Hohenwarte would be middle East...
Do you mean "Gruorn" in the near of Münsingen?
the people who lived there before wouldnt think this would be an event it just proves that nothing lasts forever
It would be amazing to see pictures of the village as it was and compare to how it looks now
Its amazing so few are concerned about so many reservoirs like lake Meade vanishing when we are so dependent on water.
Yes, I was also waiting for that. Shame. Never mind, you can easily go there by Googling: images Morcott village, Rutland, England. It WAS very beautiful.
@@NoNORADon911 dont worry we have all the water you'll ever need in Canada. We'll give you the neighbors price! $$$$$
@@robertb8629 They have lots of water in the U.S. - but they put it in a bottle and call it beer.
@@NoNORADon911 Lake Meade is vanishing because too many people are living and farming in the middle of a desert where man was never meant to be.
We have similar drowned areas in Washington State. There are many huge hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. Old settlements were moved or razed. Structures burned, leaving only foundations. Train tracks that go nowhere. The resulting lakes never empty, but you can still see roads that go downhill into lakes and vanish. In the higher mountains we have storage reservoirs for irrigation. Trees and structures were removed there too. During low rain and snow years, lakes do get low enough to see the land as it was before it was flooded.
Well the channelled scab lands were underneath a deluge a few times before people even settled the area. It left some interesting lakes East of the Columbia river.
@@skateboardingjesus4006 Thank you.
@@SJR_Media_Group You're welcome. My local reservoir here in Ireland has an old village on the lake bed, at least 100 feet under the surface. As you can probably imagine, it has the usual superstitious crap such as hauntings associated with it.
@@skateboardingjesus4006 Thanks... yes all the ghost stories from ghost towns under 100 feet of water. Lake Mead at record lows, missing bodies showing up after being gone for years.
@@SJR_Media_Group Yeah, I've seen that. All manner of boats bodies, detritus and concrete filled barrels being found. Vegas is going to be in trouble, because they can't keep subsidising with water from Powell. Oroville in California and it's adjacent reservoirs are also having big difficulties.
Wow, it looks like you can still see the course of the old river, even after all those years .
The old channel would be covered in dozens of feet of silt. That new channel is a result of the river cutting into the silt, which may or may not reflect course of the old channel.
Reminds me of another dismal drowned village called Geămana in Romania. Rich reserves of copper were found in the area back in the late 70s, and the regime of Ceaușescu wanted every part of it. Knowing the amounts of toxic waste it would dispose of, he ordered the village to be evacuated (majority left but some refused and moved to the edge of the flood) and flooded it and the surrounding valley with this toxicity. This made the lake red, so it creates a very eerie environment with the buildings that remain.
It's a sad thing but we as a humanity have to sacriface some villages for progress after all that copper was probably used in diffrent buildings, electronics and hardware
@@Groza_Dallocort On the contrary, Ceaușescu did it for his own greed to push his cult of personality. He literally starved his people
@@disneymore7941 he did but other countries also have old villages that have been put underwater due to hydroelectric dams
This was not a video I was expecting to find you on.
What progress are you talking about? It is just a means for some big corporations to become richer. Progress is just a hoax.
if this is interesting to you, you'd really like the story of the Quabbin reservoir in Massachusetts. they flooded a massive area for the water supply of eastern MA. an entire group of towns all sitting at the bottom of a nearly crystal clear body of drinking water. its a really cool story, and i believe PBS or some company did a video on it. its super cool
I wouldn't want to drink that water
Some company....maybe mcdonald's?
At some point, many years ago, when the water was low, you could, apparently, see the old church spire. People used to swim out to it. However, this was seen as dangerous and the authorities had it dynamited.
ffs
Typical, they have no soul.
Why are, you using, so, many, commas in, your sentence?
@@ChoppingtonOtter Nah they just don't want a legal problem
@Joseph Nicholls You have an issue with proper grammar?? Lmao weird
This would have been so much more interesting with a voice-over explaining what we were looking at, with old maps, photographs, etc, so the viewers can make sense of what they are seeing.
I'll give ya a voice over
@@Fadem12forReal no good replying to me - I'm nothing to do with it, but I'm sure you could get a message to the creators of the video..
You like to be spoon fed do you?
This video is more informative:
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That would be sweet but then again this guy probably doesn’t know any more than us
What a great video, thanks. Can’t believe that beautiful barrel roof structure was left there!
Remember the 1974 drought I went there with my girlfriend and walked down to the ruins of the houses it was so weird
Here in Italy there is a whole town under water, when the lake goes down you can see all the old village still intact
In Azad Kashmir pakistan there's a dam called the mangla dam it has a rich history built by the British and American companies. They used have so many villagers and people living in the old city where the dam is currently. The one thing there that stand out is the Mandir (Hindu temple) even though the dam has broken Away and washed so many houses and villages the only peice of history standing there is that Mandir and what a sight that is
it looks great i hope it stays up forever
Very interesting video. Thank you for filming this and getting it out before the water returns.
That is absolutely fascinating. Well done fantastic informative upload
@@MatthewBarsby welcome 👌👍
If you can see Derwent village remains you have the water equivalent of DEFCOM2 If you can see the remains of Ashopton then your at DEFCOM1. It would be really empty.
I had a great uncle who lived in Ashopton and moved to Ashbourne in the late 1930's. They then took half his farmland in WW2 to build an airfield. Not mush more can you do for your country?
at least they didnt take his life.
Its DEFCON DEFence CONditon, not DEFCOM.
@@unknowndomain It's the Derbyshire accent is all
@@unknowndomain His comment is full of grammatical and spelling errors. Probably a child.
@@resnonverba137 nobody cares.
This is sooo cool. The resevoir near my house flooded a town also and whenever there is a drought the old ruins of the town are exposed. It's really awesome. Sucks when theres a flood but really cool.
Been there in mid 1990s -another drought. My eldest (then about 4) managed to accidentally pull a stone mullion down from a building window of one of the ruins, it missed landing on him by sheer chance and I almost died of shock. Surprised to see how little left standing now.
@Peter
Governments around the world have Patent permission to manipulate the weather (to fix droughts, floods, etcetera) why aren't they using that technology effectively..?
People need to be demanding answers to these questions.
And why are governments around the world allowing Chine to syphon-off HUGE amounts of its FRESH water 💦 systems..?
@@kellikelli4413 why the hell would you let the government manipulate weather to begin with, thats just asking for trouble there.
@@jtkm governments aren't really in 'control', they just set policy and run the admin.
@Steve Tyler 👆 Bingo! Govts are the bitches of the dragon Yaldoboathe the Worm aka Yahweh and his human alien hybrids are his workers of iniquity.All roads lead to Worms, Germany THEN to Rome. Check out the dragon over the church of Our Lady of St. Peter.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms,_Germany
@@kellikelli4413 We can't manipulate the weather, we can seed clouds to make it rain in one place rather than another but there has to be clouds to begin with and during droughts there are no clouds.
My parents took me here during the drought of 1976.
I remember it was a Sunday afternoon because Leeds United had beaten Everton 5-2 the previous day and it was the featured game on football special on the Sunday and I missed it.
I’m off to search for the highlights now
Two years after Brian Clough referred to them as the "damned United" when they sacked him after just 44 days.
Sacking him was a great move as he was never going to achieve owt.
Oh hold on 🤔
Well creepy! Some beautiful shots in this. They say there are the remains of villages overcome by The North Sea due to coastal erosion, but I was never a good enough swimmer to find out for myself.. 🤣Thank you for this. Fascinating! 👍
god knows what could have been on doggerland
Some say you can hear the church bell toll.
I'm going to pretend this video says: "When the reservoir is empty, the remains of a dwarven village can be seen."
Artistically this is somewhat special. The music, the filmography makes it a very haunting 2.47 minutes examining this sadly lost settlement.
just shows how the buildigngs wuhere just BETTER int he old days for a few things to be standing and looking good like nothing ever happened.
outstanding work filming this thanks. i worked up there 20 years ago for a year and never witnessed anything sadly with my own eye. very grateful you filmed this
I think those structures predate the village , thats just a pile of rubble. Its architecture from the Grand old days , I suspect far older than they make out. If you notice all these amazing old architecture are all founded and not built or completed ...but founded. History lies and its in front of our eyes .
My dad said that when he was younger and he went hosteling he saw a church steeple.he’d be going back into the 1940’s I suppose.
Correct. It was blown up in 1947. Many people claimed to have seen it after that though and it became something of an urban myth. I'm afraid. people are inclined to tell lies lol but they didn''t have the internet then and it was difficult to prove otherwise.
I was there today and it's even lower than in this video really facinating to see
Great vid. They did the same at the chew valley lake near why I live to. Very interesting. :)
It’s a shame they demolish the houses before filling the reservoir. It would be great to see the village in full each time the water gets low enough.
The building material would probably pollute the water or something.
Poignant memories of my long long ago north of England childhood and youth. Thank you...
Excellent footage was there in 1976 (I was9 then)when just about everything viewable how all we survived down to a trickle is unbelievable. Really amazing 👍👍
Who builds a town underwater? Ffs. Must've been great swimmers.
Hats off to the builder of that garage
I saw a similar sight years ago in Nidderdale in Yorkshire,I've forgotten the reservoir,but the water level was so low that the dry stone walls marking the fields and the lanes could be seen.
I've been to Ladybower Reservoir once, and it was a few years earlier than this event. I had no idea that it could sometimes be empty! Wow.
I've been round there quite a few times and also didn't know tbh.
Iv never seen it empty thanks for sharing
I live near there and the village that was abandoned so the valley could be flooded was called Ashopton. I've walked to it many times when the water is low.
It was only one village. There were two villages flooded. the one with the church spire was Derwent village.
Went up there today and it's surprisingly underwater.
What are the remains at around 0.58?? I saw those and thought it was the manor house rubble
When the old boy fitted that stone gate post we see at 01:30, he set it carefully, admired his work, patted it twice and said: "That's not going anywhere."
This is fascinating. I wish we could view pictures of how the village once looked. A look at THEN & NOW.
If you look on google images for old photos of ashopton and derwent you will see how beautiful they were.
@@grahamschofield4555 yeah, I was going to say, the Internet is RIGHT THERE...
@@stevecarter8810 Inorite? These plebs! Not us tho. We knew better. It's like... It's RIGHT THERE!
Jfc You didn’t even try to search for it. You just went straight to commenting.
@@cwg73160 I did!
I really wanted to go and see this, but as I don't drive it is very difficult for me to get to. Hopefully when we have a hot summer again and it shows I can then go and see it, the River Derwent runs near my house haha :)
Love the background music to this. So serene. So mystical!
What's the name of it?
What is the background music
Great video cheers 👍
Thanks for a beautiful but haunting video.
Good vid, Well put together and music made for it.. : )
Burzum
What is that short, squat building at 2:06?
I live about 15 minutes drive from here and if the dry weather in this area continues it will not be long before derwent village is revealed again.I first saw derwent village in 1976 when it was a long dry hot summer and have seen it several times since.If the old road bridge on derwent reservoir the next one above appears then we are really going to struggle.I have only seen it once and that was in 2018.
Quite eerie scenes!
Great vid, what is the music called ? Nice !
great footage that really didn't need that stabilisation applied
The towns of Alma and Lexington, California, were similarly lost to the Lexington Reservoir, just south of San Jose.
Not sure why, in these days of droughts, that these reservoirs are not dredged during these ultra-low times. That kind of fill dirt sells well.
Probability some weird law protecting a lesser spotted mud worm or something...👍👍
What was the stone building at 02:06, does anybody know? There doesn't appear to be much that is left actually judging by this video.
This is giving me severe color out of space vibes and I'm not sure what to make of that
Bureaucrats and politicians always talk about the economic impact of these reservoirs. They never discuss the damage in property destroyed, history lost, environmental destruction or lives disrupted, farms destroyed businesses wiped out.
Reminds me of the Film Patagonia with Duffy, About an old lady and her grandson going back to Wales to find the village where she was born, all she found was the village grave stones and a reservoir she lay down and died on a bench over looking the water where the village had been!
People like to claim every place outside Pyongyang in our country is just like this but that couldn't be further from the truth. Reality is our people are happy just the way they are. They know we struggle because of sanctions, but that's the price to pay to live in a worker's paradise.
Thank you Jong-Un for liberating the Democratic People’s Republic of Derbyshire
any idea what that structure is at 2:05 - 2:10?
Beautiful videography❤️🥰
I remember as a kid you could see the church spire when levels got a little low, must have been destroyed over the years
How old are you? The spire was blown up in 1947.
@@kayla-Rey22 not that old, the photos we have must be fakes
@@theyorkshireman2467 : Are you talking about the ruins of the church steeple when the water was so low as to expose the ruins of the village? i am only talking about the actual intact steeple sticking out of the water before it was destroyed. There are pre-1947 photos of it sticking out of the water before it was blown up. It looks quite spooky.
Actually, an old gatepost of Derwent Hall looks a bit like a steeple and could be mistaken for it if seen when the water level was really low. You can find pictures of the gatepost online. Maybe it matches your photos? From what I've read about Ladybower, the reservoir is at it's shallowest where Derwent village was located. The water level didn't have to be low to see the steeple as it always rose out of the water from the day the village was flooded because it was much taller than the reservoir depth at that point. This was probably the reason it was deemed dangerous.
It's a real pity they had to blown it up as it would have been an amazing tourist attraction.
Remember seeing another 'drowned' village in 1976 in Wales. Quite creepy
The one where you could hear the church bell ringing underwater? That alone freaked me out.
seen this once in my life, was a young boy back then, on a day trip with the grandparents.
I live in the Netherlands and when the water level of the river Meuse gets extremely low some oak timber posts of a late-Roman bridge surface, 4th century AD.
I'd like to know the name of the music playing.
Visited this area several times but never seen the village revealed like this ! The church steeple above the water was always a great sight.
How old are you because the church spire was blown up in 1947 because of safety concerns?
Where did you get the soundtrack and what/who is it?
What treasures could be found?
This happens at Lake Vrnwy in Wales when the water levels are low. It's quite sad thinking of the people in the valley who were forced to move.
If only they had kept the church tower, then you’d have a great postcard!
They did keep the church he just didn't show it, they had to chop it down a bit so it was water level
@@cloudchaser.x.o8691 it was scaring tourists.
@chubviewer no they had to chop it down to water level however the water their was not the normal water level so you should be able to see it it's just the fact he didn't show it
They cut it down because to many divers was going in there and dying because they couldn't make it there so they chopped it so they would stop dying from it
Save the clock tower! Save the clock tower!
Walked on bottom of thete a few times amazing ta see the old ruins. Found a few clay pips and other items
Bet it would be great to go metal detecting when all these reservoirs are low
It would have been cool if old pictures of the are were included as a reference. Found many online after I watched the video.
What is that chinging noise?
Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Jon Voight are getting nervous these days....
How many villages have they sunk under reservoirs in the southern parts of Englsand or is it a special treat they save purely for the north?
Amazing to think that despite Britain being under enormous pressure for survival in the fight against the Nazis in WWII with much of the male population away at war fighting, rationing at home, massive cuts to the infrastructure and the blitz to contend with that they nevertheless continued with the project for the first three years of the war not knowing at the time if they would lose and be occupied by the Germans or be victorious.
Maybe the Financers of the project financed the "other project", and did know the final result....
I guess the government thought your damned if you do damned if you don't...
We were never ever going to lose the war. So we carried on as planned and that is why we won. Germany was never going to occupy us...
You can't pause engineering projects just because a war is on, those projects could be the one thing that helps your nation survive.
If this is what 30 years and a little water can do imagine a span of thousands of years and what could have been or will be lost...
A few years ago the Lexington reservoir in Central California was drained and the remains of the towns of Lexington and Alma became visible.
Thanks for sharing😎
I was at college nearby in Matlock in the early 70's and passed by a few times - I thought the church steeple was visible - must have collapsed
The local council demo'd it is can't remember the year or the exact reason but I always thought it was a huge shame.
No, it was destroyed in 1947. It became a massive urban myth though and many, many people claimed to have seen it in the 60's and 70's.
@@chrisfisher5129 1947. It was considered dangerous as people kept swimming out to it.
I'm surprised that people lived there. It's very muddy 🤔😲🙄 ;-))...
Whoever built that garage wasn't paid enough
Those are in pretty bad shape. At Elephant Butte (c. 1915) on the Rio Grande, entire villages and canal systems were likewise inundated, only the mostly abode buildings have never surfaced even as the reservoir nears 10% capacity (critically low). As a result, the buildings are mostly intact in over 80' of water.
Rad musical choice bro
where is the village?
1:56 that's a "no way!" moment, what a reveal
Great job ❤️🌺💕
And how is this reservoir doing during the 2022 heatwave? Suffering I'd imagine
I get that the dams were needed but at the same time it's tragic those lovely old villages were destroyed for them, all the people who lived there, & wanted to carry on living there; so wrong - wonder if the Gov would get away with it now.. probably. 😞
Of course they would, look at HS2.
It's called 'the greater good'. It's life.
It was build in 1935 and 1943? In just two years, with a long pause. Interesting. Do you know why they paused for so long?
Did a Colour out of Space live there, too?
When this Series first came out I had to binge watch the whole 1st series! This is the BEST sci fi series that has been seen for YEARS. The time period thing works as well. I grew up almost in that era the 70s/80's. The music, clothing and whole atmosphere is ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON. Well done EVERYONE cast , crew, whatever you do and the marvellous Duffers!! We have seen 11 grow up and come of age. Terrifyingly enthrallingly ADDICTIVE. Deserving of every award going!
Stranger Things have happened.
I don't understand why they would not demo all the structures in the area to remove any underwater hazards, maybe even reuse some of the materials in other buildings, or the dam itself.
Used to go here with mates on bikes when we were kids from Sheffield great days
That countryside is beautiful.
1:57 ! Absolutely amazing TARTARIA ! Look at the roof and the double triple walls ! These were built to last into the Void for Thousands of years
Wow could the captioning be any smaller?