Fantastic video of your youth. Rolling down that knoll. Trixy your dog. All special memories from history, your history. Elephant Trees.🐘🌴 Wonder what the fruit looked like. 😊Really enjoyed this ambel, thank you for sharing 👍👏👏👏see you in the next video Allan&Family
Never heard of it before but you picked a cracking day to revisit your youth and what a place to play when you were a kid. Lucky with the drone mind and I always worry about mine every time I send it up, especially when you lose sight. Been to the Elephant Trees before just outside Middleton in Teesdale but that was a first visit to the Elephant Cemetery for me, cheers Alan
@@AlanMETALMAN Hi Alan and thanks for watching and yes I was lucky getting such a nice day and super lucky getting my drone back as this was a trip down memory lane for me i don’t expect many views but I needed to record it and it’s a shame The Cassop Circular walks dont get used much these days and I believe it’s now a protected area with special plants and wildlife , I was lucky being born there in Cassop as there are some other nice walks nearby and another one I might do is an old railway line , Catch you later Kev
The Elephants' skin theory sounds the most persuasive Kevin looking at the rock. Great to relive old times in familiar countryside on a calm day with a breath of fresh air and sunshine to boot! 🌞
Very interesting Kevin thanks for the tour, it sure was tranquil used to love exploring in the remote countryside with my dog also as a lad happy days. Could have been a small patch of subsidence from old mine shafts and been filled in with stone by the coal board. How strange the elephant connection, I wonder if during excavation of the quarries and mines they unearthed Mammoth bones ? and thought they were elephant bones? or during the days of the British Empire were elephants imported in from India and Africa and used for earth moving? We have an Elephant Rock or did have on the headland promenade in the mid to late 1800's and I recall Butlins Filey had an elephant called 'Big Charlie' apparently. lovely part of the world Cassop I'll have to have a walk there during better weather, all the best take good care.
Great walk, I spent many days there as a kid, we used to run like hell through the cow field to get there. I've heard tale's of bone's down there but I'm sure the name has something to do with the rock's, sadly my dad's not here anymore, he used to tell us tales about it, I'll have to ask about plus that's my old school, great day's with Mr McManus and proper school dinner's 👍😊
@@kj-dq7of Wow thanks for you input and nice to hear I’m not the only one to have memories down the bank and would be amazing if the stories about the bones were true , I cannot remember the teachers at the school as i was only a bairn and didn’t stay long before moving down south . Thanks once again it’s much appreciated Kevin
That place looks ripe for a tour with the metal detector if it's allowed. Wooly mammoth co existed with humans until as recently as 4000 years ago and were in the UK,maybe bones were found in the quarry.
@@johnarnell4241 Hi John yes I’ve often thought about the detecting here but don’t know if it’s allowed and yes mammoth bones would fit but haven’t found any documentation on it , Thanks for watching Kev
Fantastic video of your youth. Rolling down that knoll. Trixy your dog. All special memories from history, your history. Elephant Trees.🐘🌴 Wonder what the fruit looked like. 😊Really enjoyed this ambel, thank you for sharing 👍👏👏👏see you in the next video Allan&Family
Never heard of it before but you picked a cracking day to revisit your youth and what a place to play when you were a kid. Lucky with the drone mind and I always worry about mine every time I send it up, especially when you lose sight. Been to the Elephant Trees before just outside Middleton in Teesdale but that was a first visit to the Elephant Cemetery for me, cheers Alan
@@AlanMETALMAN Hi Alan and thanks for watching and yes I was lucky getting such a nice day and super lucky getting my drone back as this was a trip down memory lane for me i don’t expect many views but I needed to record it and it’s a shame The Cassop Circular walks dont get used much these days and I believe it’s now a protected area with special plants and wildlife , I was lucky being born there in Cassop as there are some other nice walks nearby and another one I might do is an old railway line , Catch you later Kev
The Elephants' skin theory sounds the most persuasive Kevin looking at the rock. Great to relive old times in familiar countryside on a calm day with a breath of fresh air and sunshine to boot! 🌞
@@roger5159 Thanks for watching Roger and for your opinion about the origins of the name and yes a trip down memory lane felt good Kind regards Kevin
A lovely walk to share memories. Looks very overgrown, like its not used very much. Beautiful scenery. Great video.
@@annbell9429 Thanks for watching and yes it’s a shame the walk doesn’t get used much
Great mooch around Kev ! 👍
Thanks for watching pal and was cream crackered after this walk
@@thedurhamvlogger I’ll bet you where !
Beautiful scenery
Very interesting Kevin thanks for the tour, it sure was tranquil used to love exploring in the remote countryside with my dog also as a lad happy days. Could have been a small patch of subsidence from old mine shafts and been filled in with stone by the coal board. How strange the elephant connection, I wonder if during excavation of the quarries and mines they unearthed Mammoth bones ? and thought they were elephant bones? or during the days of the British Empire were elephants imported in from India and Africa and used for earth moving? We have an Elephant Rock or did have on the headland promenade in the mid to late 1800's and I recall Butlins Filey had an elephant called 'Big Charlie' apparently. lovely part of the world Cassop I'll have to have a walk there during better weather, all the best take good care.
Great walk, I spent many days there as a kid, we used to run like hell through the cow field to get there. I've heard tale's of bone's down there but I'm sure the name has something to do with the rock's, sadly my dad's not here anymore, he used to tell us tales about it, I'll have to ask about plus that's my old school, great day's with Mr McManus and proper school dinner's 👍😊
@@kj-dq7of Wow thanks for you input and nice to hear I’m not the only one to have memories down the bank and would be amazing if the stories about the bones were true , I cannot remember the teachers at the school as i was only a bairn and didn’t stay long before moving down south . Thanks once again it’s much appreciated Kevin
Spent my childhood days down the bank picking bluebells
In everywhere but Cassop..... It's a cemetery Kevin........
Was born here had some great times
That place looks ripe for a tour with the metal detector if it's allowed.
Wooly mammoth co existed with humans until as recently as 4000 years ago and were in the UK,maybe bones were found in the quarry.
@@johnarnell4241 Hi John yes I’ve often thought about the detecting here but don’t know if it’s allowed and yes mammoth bones would fit but haven’t found any documentation on it , Thanks for watching Kev
The Elephant Trees are near Frosterley and unrelated.
@@quayside971 Thanks for your comments and my thinking was there might have been something similar here in years gone by . Cheers Kev
BEAUTIFUL walk; some of those stiles looked a bit dodgy, though.
Thank you for watching and yes those stiles need fixing
Fair swop in my mind...... An old jumper for a drone.......
Yeah i was so pleased to get it back and the jumper was only twenty years ....well spotted
i can see that school from me house kevin
@@1975pcupid Hi Peter thanks for watching and you must be a Q H Lad and guess you might have done this walk . Cheers Kev
@@thedurhamvlogger yes being there lods ,, but no over the valley g way