This is me and James doing a podcast style video on our recent trip to Cornwall. We take a look at Abandoned places in Cornwall. So I guess this is our guide to Industrial Cornwall. As well as all the obvious things like visiting the fishing villages in Cornwall like Newquay and Padstow we also visited the Eden project and The lost gardens of Heligan a very beautiful place. However we also wanted to look at the remains of Cornish Industry. This involved finding some old Cornish Tin and Copper mines or at least the mine engine house. We went up onto Bodmin moor and after looking at the River Fowey and the Golitha falls in some wonderful Corwall ancient woodlands we took a look at Wheal Jenkin Tin and Copper mine and then New Phoenix Tin mine. These Copper and Tin mines date back to around 1836 and were served by the now abandoned Cheeswring railway. Wonderful examples of Georgian architecture and old Engine houses. We also look at The Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash just outside Plymouth built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Martin & James Cornwall Podcast

In this weeks video we go to Hull and take a look at the the old abandoned St Andrews Fish dock. Why did it end like this. The Fish dock had been successful until the 1970's and it has now been abandoned and closed down. A major player in Britains fishing industry. Built in the Victorian era many of the buildings are also brick and steel 1930's architecture. This is Hull St Andrews Fish dock an urban explore urbex adventure brief history video about the abandoned buildings on the docks. Featuring @hullhistorynerd

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Hull fish Docks. Why did it end like this ?

We ran the Manchester 10km run in May 2023 to raise money for charity. many of you sponsored us so we wanted to do this running video. To show us running a 10km and to update you on how much we finally raised for our charity. The AJ Bell manchester 10k Kilometre run wennt from Manchester City centre out to Salford Quays and back. It was a hot day and james struggled

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James, Martin & team run the Manchester 10km run 2023

In this video we continue our search for interesting historical gems around Manchester and Salford. Firstly we visit Poynton in Stockport to look at a 17th century Ice house. This historical grade II listed building belonged to Poynton Hall. Secondly and for the disused railway enthusiasts we look at some old railway lines and points around the Radcliffe area of Manchester. An old railway sign can also be seen and the old tracks are now being consumed by the trees. Thirdly we look at the Nasmyth steam hammer invented by James Nasmyth in Patricroft Eccles in Salford. The steam hammer was  Victorian engineering masterpiece. Fourth we look at James Brindleys Stone aqueduct that carried the Bridgewater canal over the River Irwell at Barton. The Barton aqueduct was demolished when the Manchester ship canal was built and replaced by a swing bridge. Finally we visit Liverpool road station on the Liverpool to Manchester railway. We look around the arrivals area that dealt with railway goods. We see the original cattle ramp that is now grade II listed. This video is definitely one for the railway and engineering enthusiasts as it looks at Railway architecture and Victorian engineering as well as James Brindley canal engineering.

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Five historical Gems around Manchester & Salford

On the banks of the River Irwell in Manchester Salford we found a mysterious tunnel. Cut into the sandstone it didnt show on any of the old maps. We suspected it had a connection to the industrial past. So we decided to investigate. We strongly suspect this mystery tunnel is an overflow tunnel for the Manchester Bolton and Bury canal that was higher up the bank above alongside the river Irwell.  Indeed there was a rather busy canal lock directly above called Giants seat locks. When we got to the end of the tunnel there was a shaft and indeed we surmised it was infrastructure for the canal. The Manchester Bolton Bury canal was built around 1791 in the canal building years. A prominent investor was Matthew Fletcher who also owned and ran the Wet Earth colliery. This is a wonderful piece of Georgian canal architecture. 
Music: Track Ascension by Jason Southern

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We found a mystery tunnel on the banks of the river ?

We are still training for the Manchester 10km run. But we also wanted to say thank you for sponsoring us. We have now raised over £3000 for the Garden funds. So we went and met the rest of the running team because they wanted to say thank you as well.

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We are still training for the run & we wanted to say thanks

The Jumbles quarry steam crane has sat hidden away in a valley in the Forest of Bowland for 100 years. The abandoned steam crane is a wonderful piece of Edwardian engineering. It is a Smiths of Rodley steam crane. It was used at jumbles quarry in the trough of Bowland to quarry stone for the Stocks reservoir project. The Stocks reservoir was a reservoir for fresh drinking water built by the Fylde water company in 1921. There is also an abandoned disused tramway across the moorland that crosses the River Hodder. The tramway is in a state of disrepair its a 3 ft gauge that took the stone across the moor to the reservoir civil engineering project. A wonder setting in the heart of Lancashire.

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Hidden away in a valley, This steam crane has sat here for 100 years !

James and I are running the Manchester 10km run in May 2023 to raise money for an NHS charity. We are running to fund an Intensive care garden for the Royal Oldham Hospital. Great Manchester Run

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Me and James are running for Charity

New information on St Lukes church in Cheetham hill the 184 year old church. Its an abandoned church demolished in or after 1975. There was dry rot in the church. We explored the church on an urbex mission

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New information on The Cheetham Hill Church.

In this video we visit St Lukes church on Cheetham hill road in Manchester. The church was built in 1839 making it 184 years old. It stands whats left of it abandoned in a terrible state of repair. The main part intact is the undercroft or what may have been a crypt but its more likely an undercroft. This used to be one of Manchesters richest churches. The composer Mendelssohn played here on its organ. He played here in 1847. It was reported in the Manchester Guardian. The old graveyard is a sight to see and we look at some of the old graves. We also find a connection between two names in this historic video about English manchester history.

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A church 184 years old and its crypt that isn't a crypt. Where Mendelssohn played.

A door hidden by brambles leads to 200 year old tunnel's in Manchester. Apart from its not a real door, they are not tunnels and they aren't quite 200 years old. Rochdale road Gasworks was built in 1824 it was also known as the Gould street gas works.  This victorian  gas works provided town gas for the city of Manchester. Much of it now demolished there are some hidden remains left behind. These hidden chambers are a fascinating insight into an area of Manchester that has lain abandoned and undisturbed for years. The old gas works in Manchester took coal from the nearby Oldham road goods depot and treated or baked the coal in the absence of oxygen and made Coke a smokeless fuel. But the main product was town gas. This video is an urbex explore looking at the history of Manchester in the UK. Or the history of England.

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Door hidden by brambles leads to 200 year old (tunnels ?) Gas works remains

We visit an abandoned Cinema in Stockport/ Manchester UK. In its later days it was a snooker hall. The Wellington Cinema Stockport was built in 1921. It was a local picturehouse showing films. It was taken over by the Essoldo cinema chain. It had billiard tables and a cafe in the basement. However later the basement was opened as a live venue club called The Manor Lounge Stockport. many famous bands played here including Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd as well as the Kinks, Tom Jones to name only a few. This is an urbex explore of an abandoned cinema in Stockport. After researching this grade 2 listed building I realised its importance in the local music scene.

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The old cinema where Jimi Hendrix & Pink Floyd played

The Gaunless Viaduct. County Durham is a disused railway Viaduct. Also called the Lands viaduct it was situated on the Barnard Castle to Bishop Auckland now disused abandoned railway line. The area of County Durham in the North Pennines in the North East of Britain was a very industrial area. Coal mining and Coke ovens were in the area. Plus the area was full of old Industrial tramways that served the local quarrys. This is a video about Britains railway history. The Lands Viaduct was designed and built by Thomas Bouch in 1862. The last train ran in June of 1962. Thomas bouch also designed the original ill fated Tay bridge that collapsed. Disused railway line explore in Britain.

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The Viaduct to nowhere. The Gaunless Viaduct

This is a brief Wednesday evening video on the Tudor Hall in Middleton Manchester that is Tongue Hall. The house was built over 400 years ago and dates back to Tudor times. There had been an arson attack on the old house and we visited and went round with a camera. Four years after that video here is an update on the old house.

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An update on the Tudor house. Tonge Hall

In this video we visit Heptonstall in Yorkshire. We take a look at a very old church St Thomas Beckett now lies in ruins replaced by a second later church. The old ruined church is wonderful. The village of Heptonstall is very beautiful full of old Yorkshire stone cottages. In the old graveyard is a grave of David Hartley the main culprit associated with the Cragg vale coiners. We tell the story of the Cragg vale coiners also a famous American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. We take a look around this quaint old English village. Famous people in graveyards.

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The curious graveyard with two churches and the Villain buried there ?

This is a storm drain in Sheffield. It's a concrete culvert. Very stoopy at the start. Not much going on. Its known as Decepticon in Urbex language.  It has a sewer going through it and also a concrete tall chamber. It was a back breaking urbex explore and I got very wet feet in one of Sheffield/Rotherhams storm drains, that ends up nowhere

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Concrete, stoopy and smelly a storm drain to nowhere.

The River Irwell in Salford near Manchester was re shaped in the 1950's and 1960's in a civil engineering project called the Anaconda cut. A loop of the river Irwell was cut off as there were problems with flooding in the Lower Broughton area of Salford. The river was straightened out. eliminating a meandering loop prone to flooding. We look at old maps and old photographs of Salford to see how the area has been re shaped. Also this area was where Bernard Sumner of the band Joy Division and New Order grew up. So we will be taking a look at the area that gave birth to the music of Joy Division. Explored through old ordnance survey maps and vintage photographs of Salford this is a look at a major engineering Project that most people have forgotten in Salford.

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The Anaconda cut. How Salford re shaped the river Irwell

This video is about the Wince Brook. One of Manchester's lesser know waterways. It is a tributary of the River Irk. The Wince brook from its source in Chadderton Oldham Lancashire only appears from a culvert after running a considerable length. Its source is situated in a former mill lodge reservoir. It runs past an old industrial colliery site. The Stockfield colliery. One of a number of collierys or coal mines in Chadderton Oldham. It runs past foxdenton Park and becomes very cantankerous as a large discharge from a sewage farm joins it. The rest of the Wince brook passes old Cotton mills runs underneath a former railway yard. Then it finally ends in the town of Middleton. This video is very much about the  History of Manchester  and the story of the Industrial revolution. We have to use our imagination to envisage what the Wince brook looked like pre industrial revolution.
Music: Savfk, Strange the dreamer

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Calm to Cantankerous. Manchester's lesser know waterway.

This video is about Magpie Lead mine Derbyshire England. There has been lead mining in Derbyshire since Roman times. Leads mining at Magpie goes back to the Georgian era and 1740.  it's a 18th century mine. We take a look at the old abandoned mine buildings in this urbex trip and examine the history of the mine. We take a look down four old mine shafts. The deepest being 728 feet deep. We look at the engine house that housed a Newcomen atmospheric engine. The old chimney flues are still intact and we can look at those as well. Getting a glimpse inside the 1840 chimney. The Mine is cursed  due to the magpie miners lighting fires and smoking out the neighbouring miners in a rival mine, killing them. The wives of the murdered miners put a curse on the mine.

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The Cursed Mine. Magpie Lead Mine

In this video we visis Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire and take a look at the Strid. A fascinating short stretch of water where the River wharfe is forced into a small canyon. The Strid is very dangerous and has a high mortality rate should you fall in. The Strid /river Wharfe has cut its way through millstone grit over thousands of years. We also take a look at Bolton Abbey the ruins of an 12the century monks priory. Dissolved in 1540 by Henry VIII. In our walk we look at Barden bridge a 363 year old bridge and have a cup of tea at the tea rooms. Thanks everyone for 100,000 subscribers

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A pleasant walk by treacherous waters. The Strid

This video is about Cromford in Derbyshire and its role in the Industrial revolution. Richard Arkwright the famous industrialist set up the Cromford mill here in the 18th. Century. 1771.  Cromford mill was the first water powered mill in the world and the site is now a world heritage site. He utilised water power for water wheels. He also cut into the Cromford sough a mine drainage adit for his water powered mill. The bear pit is a prime example of how they re directed the water towards the cotton mill. There is also a history of Lead mining in the area and we take a look at some very old lead mines. Finally we take a look at Sheep pasture incline on teh Cromford canal and also Leabrook pump house. The pump house dates from 1850anf raised water from the River Derwent into the cromford canal. this whistle stop tour of Cromford is an industrial archeological journey.
Music Savk: Strange the dreamer

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The Industrial place you never knew about ?

In this weeks video we find five hidden historic gems that are still in place after the passing of time. A historical journey. Located in Manchester these five historical artefacts have managed to survive, We find a lost waterway the Clayton Dingle now culverted in a pipe. We see some wooden cobblestones put in place by an 19th century hospital so the horses and carts did not make too much noise and disturb the patients. We then see an old factory chimney from an old works by the river Medlock. Then we find an old canal towpath bridge still surviving long after the canal has been filled in. It was on the stockport branch canal in Manchester. Finally we visit the Cadishead railway viaduct. A remarkable piece of railway architecture. This video is a historical journey around Manchester looking at some amazing architecture from the victorian era and the industrial revolution.

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Five hidden historic gems  ?

This video is about Baitings reservoir West Yorkshire. The low waters of the dry summer and drought of 2022 famously revealed an old pack horse Bridge from the sunken depths. As well as the bridge being revealed an old former dam was revealed. We go back in a re visit to see the reservoir waters now rising and all the features disappearing under water again. We discover an old photograph of the former Baitings intake Dam from the 1920's and see the pack horse bridge looking eerie as it is engulfed by water. The hidden old remains are being covered.

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The Bridge is being submerged, back to the depths from whence it came.

A video about the Carr brook in Sheffield. Otherwise known as Nice n steady. The brook spends most of its time underground in a culvert. It outfalls into the river Don Sheffield in a fascinating place at the side of Brightside weir. We are drainers and urban explorers and we like to chart the route of these fascinating old watercourses. By using old maps of Sheffield we follow the route of this hidden watercourse, brook from its source to its meeting with the river Don. We look at the history of Sheffield England.

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