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  • čas přidán 26. 11. 2014
  • Lancaster, England is the town which has given its name to many other places around the world, especially the USA.. With its mighty historic castle, owned by HM the Queen, towering above the city. It stands on an old Roman site guarding the crossing of the river Lune and its beautiful Lune valley. This historic market city holds many secrets and I have been behind the scenes to discover them. This is just part of a much longer dvd. To see more visit www.heritagevideoproductions.co.uk or www.vimeo.com/chrisabram

Komentáře • 43

  • @mickbranner7823
    @mickbranner7823 Před 5 lety +15

    The castle is a fascinating place, l was an inmate for several years, the history is fascinating, especially the Pendle witches,

  • @alisonwunderland9900
    @alisonwunderland9900 Před 4 lety +6

    4:01 Those lovely trees have been chopped down. An OUTRAGE!!

  • @boywcurtains7355
    @boywcurtains7355 Před 4 lety +2

    i have lived in lancaster all my life and i didn’t know half this stuff, nice to learn about my home town :)

    • @tealeafuk
      @tealeafuk Před 3 lety

      I'm glad you said that I was born here & lived here all my life alot of this i didn't know & stuff I did know I only learnt recently. I wouldn't want to be from anywhere else though.

  • @thejakeyboi
    @thejakeyboi Před 5 lety +3

    This is great, well filmed and showcases a really nice light on the city. Thank you!

  • @robertnewton6454
    @robertnewton6454 Před měsícem

    For many years now
    Lancaster has been a vibrant
    University city
    Tour the great river lune
    A famous salmon river
    And walk across the amazing
    Aqueduct bridge
    Which carries the Lancaster canal over the river lune
    So proud of my
    Magnificent red rose
    Home city

  • @ChrisAbramduKes1937
    @ChrisAbramduKes1937  Před 5 lety +6

    lancastrians are really welcoming people so if you do move you should be very happy. What a contrast it must have been moving from the beauty and heritage of Carcassone to Sheffield!
    Kind regards
    Chris Richardson-Brand

    • @Kev-son_of_kev
      @Kev-son_of_kev Před 8 měsíci

      As an Irishman who lives there for the Last 5 years I concur. Never met people like them. Friendly, easy to strike up a conversation with, helpful, kind and considerate. Yep, great place

    • @Kev-son_of_kev
      @Kev-son_of_kev Před 8 měsíci

      And I have lived on four continents over the last 35 years and this is my favourite place hands down

  • @billsmith305
    @billsmith305 Před 5 lety +4

    Grew up there in Lancaster,did my apprenticeship at Barton Townley's , great days,

    • @ChrisAbramduKes1937
      @ChrisAbramduKes1937  Před 5 lety

      Hi Bill, I don't know how long ago it was but were you there when Joyce Wood was there. She married Mel Cooke and we have been friends for over fifty years.
      kind regards
      Chris

    • @billsmith305
      @billsmith305 Před 8 měsíci

      Hi Chris, name Joyce rings a bell but then again I was a Lancaster lad, was at Townley's in the 60's if that's any help. nice to chat with you anyway, chat soon , Bill.

  • @Dr.MonideepaDas
    @Dr.MonideepaDas Před 2 lety

    Beautifully filmed… Spent a month in last October… The castle tour was fascinating… Will certainly keep these things in mind when I visit it next time…

  • @paulgraystone4919
    @paulgraystone4919 Před 4 lety +2

    my father used to play the piano to the silent movies at the grand theatre. . . grayston jack john

    • @ChrisAbramduKes1937
      @ChrisAbramduKes1937  Před 4 lety +1

      What a fantastic childhood you must have had. My local cinema in Cardiff used to be like that on a Saturday morning. I once had a gentleman called Andy Prior working for me at Wigan Pier and he was also the resident band in Blackpool Ballroon and one of the great thrills of my life was coming up on the Compton organ. Thanks for the memory. Kind regards
      Chris Richardson Brand

  • @Paola11852
    @Paola11852 Před rokem

    My sister and I were born at Sheraton Green Hospital, My Grandparents ran the Horse and Farrier Pub in the town, what great memories we have👀🥰 The Whitson Parades were amazing does anyone have any memories of the pub? Thank you 👋🏻😘

  • @lisabudd5979
    @lisabudd5979 Před 2 lety

    Im born Lancaster and this was amazing to find .fasinating.

  • @markkenny4900
    @markkenny4900 Před 8 lety +2

    I have been in the well tower to the Pendle witches cell and saw the big metal ring they were chained to and was told that the roof of the cell was made in a way to stop the spells coming out it was a warm day but it's that deep down inside the tower it was really cold down there it was a great experience go there.

  • @SuperBlackguard
    @SuperBlackguard Před 2 lety

    lovely little film that...thanks, moving to it soon!

  • @therespectedlex9794
    @therespectedlex9794 Před 2 lety +1

    I believe Buck Ruxton was a very friendly and popular doctor in those parts.

    • @ChrisAbramduKes1937
      @ChrisAbramduKes1937  Před 2 lety +1

      Wonderful doctor until he started cutting up people, wrapping them up in paper and distributing the parts over the lowlands of Scotland

  • @IRSmurfz92
    @IRSmurfz92 Před 8 lety

    This was highly interesting to watch, subscribed

  • @tonydodgson
    @tonydodgson Před 7 lety +1

    #lovelancaster historic city

  • @jamesmitchell1909
    @jamesmitchell1909 Před 5 lety +2

    I may be moving here from Sheffield I think the smaller less busy lovely looking city will be great.
    my parents live near a city called carcassonne which is the same size and historic.And I can travel to watch an array of different levels of football.

  • @liambaines1985
    @liambaines1985 Před 2 lety

    Great info and video, thanks! I’m new to area, what is the big stone square outside the old town hall, i see it is not in your video..

  • @stewartlancaster6155
    @stewartlancaster6155 Před 7 lety +5

    interesting, but not exactly hidden Lancaster, these are all fairly touristy things to be honest, there are more hidden parts of the city that are fascinating...but not telling where.

    • @LU2013Aziz
      @LU2013Aziz Před 5 lety +1

      Stewart Lancaster where please

    • @mickbranner7823
      @mickbranner7823 Před 5 lety +1

      One definite secret- there are no spooks in the castle, well except 1-2 prison officers.

  • @mrsweetscottyd7890
    @mrsweetscottyd7890 Před 5 lety +3

    I'm born an bread in Lancaster and my mum told me it was rumoured there is an underground tunnel from back of what is now skate park (nr greyhound bridge) leading to the merchants pub outside of the Lancaster castle and was rumoured to be where people were taken to have there last drink before getting hanged.

    • @branthomas1621
      @branthomas1621 Před 2 lety +1

      Hi, just made a similar comment today concerning tunnels, ^ I've never heard about the one near the skate park, Merchants wasn't around at the time people were hung, it's the Golden lion where they had their last drink before they where taken up to Golgotha village and hung opposite the row of houses which you see in this video.

    • @mrsweetscottyd7890
      @mrsweetscottyd7890 Před 2 lety +1

      @@branthomas1621 Merchants goes back too 1688 I'm sure they were hangings in the town at the time and post 1688, lol?, I never heard they were hanged at merchants I heard they were then taken too the castle, again tho that's just what I heard :/

    • @mrsweetscottyd7890
      @mrsweetscottyd7890 Před 2 lety

      There were hangings at the castle I've heard that several times!

    • @branthomas1621
      @branthomas1621 Před 2 lety

      @@mrsweetscottyd7890 Hi, I just research this and found that the pub is using the date 1688, I'm shocked, from what I remember from talking to ex landlords and local historians it was first a merchants wine cellar, but not a pub, I seem to remember the building was excavated in more recent times, then converted into a pub. Yes hanging was done at the castle, but at some point they started to execute them at Golgotha instead, stopping off along the way at the "whittle" now the Golden Lion, there's also a story of a man who refused his last drink, a pardon for his execution was granted but it was too late - they'd already hung him, would have been saved if he had a tipple. There's a stone slab at Golgotha near the Wyresdale rd turn off where the gallows stood. Also, if you look at one of the oldest known maps of Lancaster (1600's) there's a clear picture of a gallows at the site of Our Ladies High School! but no history about it can be found, no local legends nothing. 1688 they say?? read this ; www.hpa.ltd/refurbishments-to-historic-pub/

    • @mrsweetscottyd7890
      @mrsweetscottyd7890 Před 2 lety

      @@branthomas1621 ahh how interesting, Lancaster is very historic!

  • @branthomas1621
    @branthomas1621 Před 2 lety

    I was expecting this to be about tunnels under the city. I would love to go under but they're not open to the public. I've heard that there are tunnels underneath the bus station that lead to the castle. Some of the pubs have tunnel entrances in the cellar, The Sun Hotel, The ring o bells, merchants and I've heard of another which goes from the old Moor hospital to where the infirmary is today.

    • @ChrisAbramduKes1937
      @ChrisAbramduKes1937  Před 2 lety +1

      Morning Brian,
      For some reason my reply to you was not published. I spent many months looking into the "Tunnel theories" re the castle and I think that I can definitely say that they do not exist. There are always stories about tunnels in just about every castle in the UK, most of them false. Several pubs had wine cellars, many bricked up over the years, and this has led to "tunnel theories".
      There is a major sewage outlet almost under the Greyhound bridge. There is also a large tunnel complex under the bus station which takes the waste water from the town centre and runs under the houses in the direction of Skerton Bridge. When I was making the film I was lucky enough to be allowed access into it at the bus station and was given some old photographs of it prior to modernizing and repairing. If you look carefully at the bus station you will see a large turning circle to the left in front of the old captain's house and that was where the most recent access was gained.

  • @alisonwunderland9900
    @alisonwunderland9900 Před 4 lety

    Why, oh why, don't they sandblast the old town hall?

    • @warailawildrunner5300
      @warailawildrunner5300 Před 3 lety +2

      Because it would destroy some of the carvings on the walls. It's a listed building.

  • @rodolfoerdogan4983
    @rodolfoerdogan4983 Před rokem

    Hidden Houston

  • @FryPanMusic
    @FryPanMusic Před 6 lety +1

    I live here.

  • @jiimmy_b6659
    @jiimmy_b6659 Před 7 lety +1

    My mates dad owns the lancaster brewery

    • @fredmuppet3077
      @fredmuppet3077 Před 3 lety +2

      He's proper naughty that man, not a kind decent business person At All. He took over the festival there which was for fundraising when it started and was run by a volunteer who does loads of fundraising and he took it all for himself after. They're all about making as much profit for themselves as possible and always have been it's a shame to put profit in front of local fundraising. I live right by here and won't use em now even though the beer is tasty