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It's ironic that H.P. Lovecraft's fictional city of Dunwich is more famous internationally than the original. It's very likely he swiped its name. But I'm sure "The Dunwich Harbour" would've been a very different tale than what he actually wrote.
I was disappointed there was no mention of an invisible blasphemous abomination sinking the town. Possibly at the behest of Deep Ones (who just wanted their current houses more convenient to the shops).
One of the potential sites that inspired Lovecraft's Dunwich ended up flooded for a reservoir, and frankly, for all I know, there might just be a very dangerous colour there.
I'm from new England. Live in UK now for 10 misurable years. Swansea Wales does. But in the UK it's always default weather. Aka. Grey is sky, kind of average weather n annoying type of rain. Not down pour or light shower. It's the other kind of rain. I only recommend coming here if ya a commie, criminal , or want to marry a child and don't want to live in Texas or middle east. There are some nice ppl here. Few and far between. Most are drunks who stab and rape. But there are some very great ppl here if ya know where to look. On the plus, marmite is so cheap in UK. But self defence is a crime so sayith the police here. Can't wait to move back home when I can. Kind of. Americans have their own problems but better than here. I can defend myself n my woman n not face jail time. But you rape or kill or invade a home with weapons. Cops do nothing. Kind of like Russia but worse lol
@@Ghost-Horse. You just live in a bad area like i live in wales and none of this is true at all, like dude you just live in some ffed up place like tf?
We're having the same erosion problems here in the US, particularly on the lower East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Homes in some areas of South Florida are now inches away from the waterfront. The North Carolina Legislature came up with a solution, though - they voted that the problem didn't exist.
That's still not quite as bad as the morons who keep rebuilding New Orleans. When your existence is maintained purely by levies, it's past time to give up, the ocean isn't going to lose.
Inspired by global mastermind, Donald Trump. You can vote problems out of existence. Every country needs that opportunity. Make Earth great again ( not the marine part tho ).
Oh please stop your blaming trump for everything mental illness. This has been happening in United States for hundreds of years. The coastline off Savannah’s Georgia extended 30 miles out 700 years ago. Louisiana by building to preserve has actually increased its loss. There is nothing you can do about it: zero.
Love your site. I'm an old retired history teacher and a descendent of the English who came here to New England in the 1630s, so your site is fascinating.
I love hearing about British history! I’m American and so never really learned much about England. I love learning about the land that my Ancestors came from
@Trance and america is the land of the slaves, point is that history is and will always have reprcussions years later. Some countries like Japan have an horrible past but eventually, they are forgiven however other countries like Germany will always be linked with Hitler. Russia will always be linked to stalin. And china ( but a lot less so) will be linked to Genghis Khan
This channel is rapidly becoming one of my top five favorites. I'm waiting for the printed book though. I have a friend that works at a large bookstore and she gets me good deals.
Hearing you say "net full of cod" as you referred to Doggerland was a rather poignant statement for me. As a Newfoundlander, from the easternmost province of Canada, nets full of cod were once so commonplace that folks assumed it would go on forever. In recent years we are lucky to have cod fisheries opened for recreational fishing. Our once plentiful cod stocks are quite reduced. Unlike places like Dunwich, the loss of a way of life we have suffered is largely down to politicians giving away access to our fish stocks or at minimum not fighting to retain those stocks. Dunwich could do nothing to avert its faith and did nothing to prompt it. So tragic.
Cape Cod got it’s name because apparently the cod used to be so plentiful that you could, “walk across the water.” Humanity has left behind tragic situations in once thriving ecosystems. The most tragic thing, it doesn’t have to be that way.
While my neighbours have still have their air raid shelters I'm going to be the odd one out with a personal sea wall. Maybe start a gofundme to make one big enough to cut off Orchard Park to the rest of us.
You should cover the Galveston, Texas flood. Spooky. Children playing in the water in their front yard in the morning, then trying not to drown on their roof in the afternoon.
There are many sites of pre-historic cities on the continental shelves of the world. Doggerland was between today’s British isles and Scandinavia, flooded after the last ice age. There were many such early settlements flooded which is why The Flood is in many ancient legends of most civilizations to leave records or have myths mentioned from before recorded times. The summarians included it in the oldest written records on earth.
"Imagine if I told you that in 200 years Liverpool will be almost entirely underwater." Please don't dangle my dreams in front of me, only to snatch them away. :(
No-one is going to wake up and see sharks circling the Liver Building because by the time sea-levels innundate Liverpool, humans will be long extinct. . Humans are experiencing their final century of evolution. This fact is inevitable.
Fellow East Anglian here, totally remember going on geography school trips to Dunwich to learn all about coastal erosion and the unfortunate tale of the town 😁
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@@weirdreportt marble board is unforgivable, wood is where its at, from a professional chef mind you. your sharpening your knives far more frequently on a marble block they are more for serving on, say a nice cheese board or perhaps a large roast given the design.
Funnily enough, I grew up in Suffolk and we did learn about this and actually went on a school trip to Dunwich. There was almost nothing there and we were all bored stiff though. And yet I find it super interesting now!
IKR? The acts of rulers are so stupid by comparison, they're only worth being aware of as backdrop info to how people were living and making advances and how the opportunities waxed and waned
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 about climate and nature in general. I think we're focusing way too much on climate to the detriment of other environmental issues, it should be rebalanced a little, because habitat destruction - including dumping our shit into the oceans - are also extremely worthy causes
The power of water can be terrifying! I live near a neighborhood that subsided into the bay after people had been pumping water out from beneath the soil for everyday use over a few generations. You can still see the roofs of the houses just under the surface of the water, and a couple of roofs still protruding above the water. The water below those homes was supporting them, and when that water was removed, the water around them was able to invade them.
Great video. Btw, greatly enjoyed reading your book 'Stick a flag in it'. Britian may have invented hockey, but Canada perfected the sport of hockey 😁.
As a native East Anglian, it is fantastic to see a snippet of our history on such an awesome channel! You should look for some interesting stories for videos in Norwich's history! Some real fascinating stuff!!
Reminds me of the Oregon coast. There are many expensive houses right on the edge of the cliffs going down to the ocean, some of them reinforced with wooden struts, all of them in danger of collapsing eventually. The home owners can't sell their homes because nobody will buy them, so they're holding out as long as possible. There are others that are located directly above caves that undermine parts of the coastal areas. I doubt they'll have any luck selling their homes, either, if they decide to leave.
It's not even sandstone. In Suffolk, there are NO solid bedrocks - it's all glacial deposits, clay, gravel, sand, that sort of thing, and a layer made entirely of fossil shells, known as 'Red Crag'. It's tremendously friable, and a lot of the Suffolk coast is made of it. Red Crag can be crumbled in the fingers like a stock cube. Sandstone would have stood up so much better.
@@JinzoCrash Except it's not "global warming" anymore, remember, they changed it to 'climate change' now. Why did they change it? Oh, because actually the change in Earth's global mean surface temperature has been close to zero since 2000, and you know, the climate is always changing - so effectively the term was changed to keep their fake narrative 'relevant'. Got to keep those worthless jobs going and the grift money rolling in.
@@sunnyjim1355 Indeed lol. Like how they "selectively" use ocean-rise stations from areas where the landmass is actively sinking as well as stations on blacktop in a parking lot in the northwest, next to motor homes with A/C exhaust blowing on them.
The reality is too many people live near coastlines. Coastlines are bountiful and have a lot of great qualities, but as you can see from this video, they can be very destructive too
In 5000 years the British Isles will be considered as much of a myth as Atlantis until an archeologist that's considered a whack job by his colleagues dives deep enough to find a black taxi cab.
I often get a kick thinking about the fact that if things continue as they are, one day my hometown will be remembered as the lost city of New Orleans. Such is life. 😉🍻
Apparently Charleston SC is the most likely to be the first city claimed by the ocean. Since it was famous for its slave market, I'm less upset about that than I probably should be. Losing the Gullah islands will be awful.
@@D-B-Cooper Good one, sharp wit!! Yeah, it’s definitely in a perpetual decline. Btw, are you Johny boy Osterlind? Or a different John O? If not, the question is a complement. He’s a sharp fella also.
@@warreng675 Well it should have already but humans love to set back reality with their technology, so now it is only a matter of time, water and a big storm or storms to end the party.
You're right. I do need my little version of everything. First, I drink my 10 litre tea mug, then my 9 litre one, then my 8 litre one, then my 7 litre one, then my 6 litre one, then my 5 litre one, then my 4 litre one, then my 3 litre one, then my 2 litre one, then my 1 litre one, then I repeat.
Though this was quite sad, the pure glee that I experienced at your exclamation : "Why the Holy piss..." was enough to more than cheer me up. Long live the memory of Dunwic. Thanks for sharing!!!
@@themerchantofengland I used to go to Lowestoft on my Lambretta back in the 80s, we kinda took over your Town for one weekend a year... Sorry about that, and for sleeping in one of those very nice beach huts, although the cow who took me there ( a local lass) gave me crabs. Through the haze of 30+ years and beer goggles, yes I think you're right, It was a beautiful place. Have a good'un and if you can't her ugly mate'l do, tatah.
@@centuriontwofivezeroone2794 ha ha nice one, I remember you all coming here in the 80's and going on to Great Yarmouth 👍the sun is shining this morning and I can hear the waves laping the shore...have a good day ol bud!
@@themerchantofengland That's right, we'll never see those kind of times again sadly. You take care of yourself mate, best wishes, from an old Mod from Brum. You're very lucky to live in such a lovely old seaside town, take a deep breath for me mucka, it's kinda stuffy in the old City. See ya.
Anther subject talked about in my university classes. The world changes and is changing rapidly, yet million dollar homes are put on land less than a meter above sea level only to have expensive renovations after a storm surge floods the town.
I hope you go to lengths to explain that these events happened hundreds of years before the industrial revolution and are just part of natures' usual influence.
The insurance pays it, kinda reminds me of what with the 1908 great quake of San Francisco, although not sure if they're using the rubble to create more land?
In the 1980s, my dad published an article in a Cornwall newspaper, discussing the idea of the British isles being the drowned high ground of ‘Atlantis’-these days, referred to as Doggerland.
The Al Stewart song The Coldest Winter In Memory features the line "By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away They say you hear the church bells still as they toll beneath the waves" The song is about a man fighting in the Great Northern War in the 1700s.
I know it has nothing to do with the topic of the video but I kinda find it interesting how the northern European mainland seas are named... North Sea = Nordsee Baltic Sea = Ostsee (English = German btw) But translating it in reverse "Ostsee" would be "East Sea"
When I was still a lad, my Mother told me that her mother had told her that her ancestors were Basques who claimed that they were they were descendants of Atlantis who had escaped its destruction. Many of them spread throughout the Iberian peninsula. and mixed with whoever was there. MY DNA results show that it originated there, along with five settlements in Norway. Very interesting how updates in DNA testing has changed our understanding of our earlier history. This was another very interesting Video, and like all of your work, very well done. Thank you Lad. Be Well and Stay Safe
@@soakupthesunman l know, but that's what it would take to have any effect on Liverpool's coastline. Don't know why Liverpool even got a mention, there's no erosion issues and it's in a sheltered position on the banks of the River Mersey.
It is quite true!!! Medieval Dunwich was so much like Liverpool!
A rarely mentioned fact concerning Dunwich is that, just like Liverpool, there was in that very town a "foursome of minstrels" all with matching page-hairstyles that reportedly "tooketh the whole state by storm" with hits such as: Wage Canst Buyeth me Loveth Twisteth and Shouteth Thy Lady Loveth Thee I Wanteth to Holdeth thy Handeth .. and many, many more!
This is similar to an old welsh story. Even to the point of hearing bells on a quiet night in the bay. I forget which bay. But its an old story. Edit... Cantre gwaelod is the name and it was said to be in cardigan Bay.
@@metaldetectingengland I suspect in history quite a lot of the coastal areas have these stories. It's just struck me when he mentioned hearing the church bells under the water. The same is said about cantre gwaelod.
Good video, I used to live in Aldeburgh (or Aldborough as it was on the old maps) and it also suffered a similar fate to its shipbuilding industry as the Orford Ness spit grew across the river, cutting off the industry that once built the Golden Hind for Francis Drake, fortunately for Aldeburgh it was able to make up its losses through fishing and eventually tourism but it still has problems with flooding and erosion, the small village of Slaughden immediately to the south of Aldeburgh was eaten by the sea around the same time as All Saints church went down in Dunwich, with the landlord of the last pub sometimes having the open the front and back doors to let the sea go through. These days there's concern that at some point the marsh to the north of Aldeburgh will be reached if the Alde river breaches significantly and basically turns the older part of Aldeburgh into an island, which will significantly improve the traffic problems in the summer let me tell you. Another interesting place to look at is Fairbourne in Wales, it's a town of around a thousand people at the moment, but has been designated as being abandoned as part of the 'managed retreat' strategy of coastal erosion which means at some point within the next twenty to sixty years the place will be unsuitable for living in. I bet you that house prices are still through the roof though.
Well done pronouncing Happisburgh correctly, once heard a TV presenter call it Hap-is-BURG. Yes, BURG, like an American would! No excuse for that haha.
Excellent video. Thank you so much. But naughty that comment on Hull going ten years early "if we are lucky". I know it won the first ever crap towns award and is usually in the top ten, but I for one think it is a lovely city. However, we have three contenders for a British Atlantis on the west coast too. All around Blackpool. Singleton Thorpe, Wadham Thorpe and Kilgrimol. All swept away one night in around Sept 1555 by either a tsunami or a storm surge. No one survived in Wadham or Kilgrimol, but four survived in Singleton Thorpe by being away trading inland. Divers here occasionally find the remains, as visibility is better and at a neap tide in Feb or March, where the tide goes further out than normal, you can walk out along the cobbled road that used to go to the village. Also the few remaining fishermen at nearby Fleetwood, won't venture out, if they think they hear the bells of Singleton Thorpe church tolling slowly under the waves. Spooky. Cheers for reading.
I love how he so elegantly pronounces the g's at the ending of words. Whereas we Americans tend to drop off that ending g sound or do not pronounce it as clearly.
I remember the 2013 flood, luckily my town is slightly up a river that goes to the sea but we're close enough to be a decently sized trade port so none of our land was lost but we had flooding up to 2 blocks in from the seafront, a couple of my friends had to stay elsewhere during that time as their houses were at least 2 inches deep in water on streets on a hill. I had no idea that was happening all the way down the eastern coast
Ah another display of natures ability to ruin everyone's day. Great video btw listening to you're videos really takes the edge of my really long work days.
considering much of that happened before the industrial revolution, id you cant blame it on climate change, but they will anyway, theres people out there that seem to think anything and everything can be blamed on climate change. they probably think that Mars is a waste land because of climate change issues.
One teensy thing... ‘begs the question’ does not mean ‘raises the question’, it refers to a flaw in reasoning where an argument can only be proven true if one first assumes that it’s true (I’m paraphrasing). If someone uses the ‘begs’ version, 99.99% of the time, they’re making this same mistake. Not judging, just sharing. 🙂
Atlantis was in a place now called Mauritania in the Saharan Desert, the Eye of the Sahara is where it is supposed to have been. However there is evidence of either a single or many inter connected kingdoms tha predate the Ice Age much evidence points to this.
Maybe. Another very likely candidate is of Greece, in the waters of the Aegean Sea. IIRC an island sank there after Greece had become inhabited, and legends had been passed down that were likely referencing this real island. What's a bit less certain is just how advanced a civilization did exist on it.
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht It could have been part of the same time frame, for sure. It is the characteristics of the area in the Sahara that makes me believe it as well as the story was told by an Egyptian priest. Egyptians are also theorized to have decended from Atlanis after the fall. Also the island didn't really sink, the water level just raised and covered it. Same thing happened with the Sahara except the water ran off and covered the lower parts on the coast of Africa. From sat maps you can actually see (if you pay attention) the water erosion from massive amounts of water moving over the area. Actually makes me wonder if that is why the Sahara became so desolate a lot of salt got into the soil. It is like what Crusaders used to do salt the fields if their enemies to ruin the soil.
Eloquently put. Always enjoyable. The West coast , where I grew up , is however growing at the same rate as the East coast is eroding. The Mersey is kept accessible by constant dredging. The coast itself has also encroached into the Irish Sea by nearly 2 miles from Sefton to Fylde , since I was a lad. We're on the move , it seems.
Another very interesting video. I am from Great Yarmouth just a few miles up the coast. Little secret about the deserted Eccles on Sea; it isn't. I drove their at work as we do a fair bit of driving and often look for places to explore. Saw a sign saying Eccles on Sea and followed it, it really was undefinable and was literally like a small town forgotten by time, with houses with long porches, kind of a rectangle grid shape, no tarmac on the roads but an interesting little town for sure. Best I go for a beach walk along there. Thoughty2 you are my main teacher, I watched dozens of your videos and you always create intuitive, thought invoking videos that share the most valuable commodity we possess, knowledge.
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Great video! Being under a lot of water is standard for British cities LOL
@King of kings shut up
You have a fine stash sir.
How are you here? It says that the video was uploaded 26 mins ago....
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“And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” - Jimi Hendrix
I sung that song as well ❤️
Respect
Definitely a top 5 Hendrix song. My personal favorite
Class
Underated comment 👍🏽
It's ironic that H.P. Lovecraft's fictional city of Dunwich is more famous internationally than the original. It's very likely he swiped its name. But I'm sure "The Dunwich Harbour" would've been a very different tale than what he actually wrote.
Was this the story about weird fishmen or the story about Yogg-Sothoth's twins?
@@Geheimnis-c2e The one about the twins. The other one is The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
I was disappointed there was no mention of an invisible blasphemous abomination sinking the town. Possibly at the behest of Deep Ones (who just wanted their current houses more convenient to the shops).
One of the potential sites that inspired Lovecraft's Dunwich ended up flooded for a reservoir, and frankly, for all I know, there might just be a very dangerous colour there.
@@shawnhartmann4581 Well, if it's an invisible blasphemous abomination, no one's likely to see it -- or try to see it, for that matter!
*Those people living in that city are probably like:*
“The rain was so bad that it sunk our city.
British weather am I right?”
I'm from new England. Live in UK now for 10 misurable years. Swansea Wales does. But in the UK it's always default weather. Aka. Grey is sky, kind of average weather n annoying type of rain. Not down pour or light shower. It's the other kind of rain. I only recommend coming here if ya a commie, criminal , or want to marry a child and don't want to live in Texas or middle east. There are some nice ppl here. Few and far between. Most are drunks who stab and rape. But there are some very great ppl here if ya know where to look. On the plus, marmite is so cheap in UK. But self defence is a crime so sayith the police here. Can't wait to move back home when I can. Kind of. Americans have their own problems but better than here. I can defend myself n my woman n not face jail time. But you rape or kill or invade a home with weapons. Cops do nothing. Kind of like Russia but worse lol
@@Ghost-Horse. Ok.
@@Ghost-Horse. You just live in a bad area like i live in wales and none of this is true at all, like dude you just live in some ffed up place like tf?
@@HappyDayZ0 I live in wales too, and I’ve not heard of anyone being stabbed or raped...
@@ohareair552 thank you :
It’s very impressive how he’s managed to get actual video and photos taken during the 13th century.
We're having the same erosion problems here in the US, particularly on the lower East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Homes in some areas of South Florida are now inches away from the waterfront. The North Carolina Legislature came up with a solution, though - they voted that the problem didn't exist.
That's still not quite as bad as the morons who keep rebuilding New Orleans. When your existence is maintained purely by levies, it's past time to give up, the ocean isn't going to lose.
Inspired by global mastermind, Donald Trump. You can vote problems out of existence. Every country needs that opportunity. Make Earth great again ( not the marine part tho ).
Oh please stop your blaming trump for everything mental illness. This has been happening in United States for hundreds of years. The coastline off Savannah’s Georgia extended 30 miles out 700 years ago. Louisiana by building to preserve has actually increased its loss. There is nothing you can do about it: zero.
I live right around the corner from dunwich! The pub there does a lovely Sunday roast
That’s really cool
Oh get me a Sunday roast please
Uncle Rey 😊
I'm close by too, cool to see a video of it.
Thats noice
Dunwich : So ... Will you tell me how did you end up here?
Port royal : its complicated...
Akrotiri: Been here thousands of years. I got time.
Its the P's man XD the 5 P's
Love your site. I'm an old retired history teacher and a descendent of the English who came here to New England in the 1630s, so your site is fascinating.
Hey I'm also from family that came over in the 1630s!
Congrats on being everyone In america!
Congratulations, colonizer
What site? Forty-two doesn't own UA-cam. It's a channel.
@@allanshpeley4284
Don't be a twat!
I love hearing about British history! I’m American and so never really learned much about England. I love learning about the land that my Ancestors came from
Ewww American
@Trance what
@Trance racist and stereotyping the british, you must be american like him
@Trance and america is the land of the slaves, point is that history is and will always have reprcussions years later. Some countries like Japan have an horrible past but eventually, they are forgiven however other countries like Germany will always be linked with Hitler. Russia will always be linked to stalin. And china ( but a lot less so) will be linked to Genghis Khan
@Trance we are the colonizers, the ones that plagued your lands with opium stay mad kiddo
This channel is rapidly becoming one of my top five favorites. I'm waiting for the printed book though. I have a friend that works at a large bookstore and she gets me good deals.
'You know what the British are like - got to have a small version of bloody everything.'
Woke everyone in the house for laughing.
Unlike his moustache
@@sirdandandy1736 thats the Germans
even a "little Britain"
Unlike the Americans who need a huge version of something 😂
yourguard4 Remainer scum.
Liverpool will be underwater? Well I guess I'm gonna need a Yellow Submarine
I don't know about that. I'd like to be under the sea.
Ahha! Badum tsss
👏👏👏 BRAVO! Loved that one!
Hey, I’ll see you in the Octopus’s Garden then mate! 🐙
There’s one in front of the airport
That's why we bigfoots stay away from human cities, never know if they might end up underwater
Can u shut up
@@assslapper6928 Nah
@@assslapper6928 no u
@@assslapper6928 Can you? Probably not, since you are what you eat (or in this case, slap).
@@assslapper6928 u r boring tbh
When someone from Hull eventually figured out how to use the internet they are going to be sooo offended at your remarks. 🤣
Keep up the great work.
Hearing you say "net full of cod" as you referred to Doggerland was a rather poignant statement for me. As a Newfoundlander, from the easternmost province of Canada, nets full of cod were once so commonplace that folks assumed it would go on forever. In recent years we are lucky to have cod fisheries opened for recreational fishing. Our once plentiful cod stocks are quite reduced. Unlike places like Dunwich, the loss of a way of life we have suffered is largely down to politicians giving away access to our fish stocks or at minimum not fighting to retain those stocks. Dunwich could do nothing to avert its faith and did nothing to prompt it. So tragic.
Cape Cod got it’s name because apparently the cod used to be so plentiful that you could, “walk across the water.” Humanity has left behind tragic situations in once thriving ecosystems. The most tragic thing, it doesn’t have to be that way.
"Maybe 2040, if we're lucky" this cracked me up. I'm sensing some animosity towards Hull.
While my neighbours have still have their air raid shelters I'm going to be the odd one out with a personal sea wall. Maybe start a gofundme to make one big enough to cut off Orchard Park to the rest of us.
As the popular phrase goes, "From Hull, Hell and Halifax may the good Lord deliver us."
Am from Hull it cracked me up too
@@andygannon6825 me too
I was wondering, why the Hate for Hull?
You should cover the Galveston, Texas flood. Spooky. Children playing in the water in their front yard in the morning, then trying not to drown on their roof in the afternoon.
And I'd bet there were STILL a few die-hard barbecue chefs up on their rooftops trying to perfect that pulled-pork recipe or five-alarm chili.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc I mean there definitely could be, but it wouldn’t be 5-alarm because this happened in 1900😂
In Britain, it only rains 2 times a year.
Each time for 6 months
No every day man
Day and night
@@Getting_Good2007
Wait...that's what the point....nevermind...
You know nothing John Snow.
We can experience Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer all in one day!
Not true. Last year it rained for 7 months, and then for only 5 months.
This was genuinely the most British video you have put out to date.
Loved it.
There are many sites of pre-historic cities on the continental shelves of the world.
Doggerland was between today’s British isles and Scandinavia, flooded after the last ice age.
There were many such early settlements flooded which is why The Flood is in many ancient legends of most civilizations to leave records or have myths mentioned from before recorded times.
The summarians included it in the oldest written records on earth.
How tf do you get so many videos out at this high level? You're incredible dude. Your whole crew is on another level.
He’s a alien 100% facts
Probably a reptilian
time travel
Thoughty2 doesn't exist in in fact, they've built an AI to simulate his voice from text.
Dorito shaped pyramid...
"Imagine if I told you that in 200 years Liverpool will be almost entirely underwater."
Please don't dangle my dreams in front of me, only to snatch them away. :(
Liverpool FC got 200 years to wait for another title
oh mood
100 years
.... if only.....
No-one is going to wake up and see sharks circling the Liver Building because by the time sea-levels innundate Liverpool, humans will be long extinct.
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Humans are experiencing their final century of evolution. This fact is inevitable.
Can we take a moment to appreciate his mustache
Let's just appreciate everything about him. He's the best.
I take a moment before every video to appreciate that stache
No we can't
And those suspenders. I really do enjoy him
I wonder how he would look with a beard
Fellow East Anglian here, totally remember going on geography school trips to Dunwich to learn all about coastal erosion and the unfortunate tale of the town 😁
You went to geography school? That's pretty awesome
I just found your channel a few weeks ago. I enjoy it so much, I've been binge watching it. Thank you. God bless you.
2:25 this man is a master chef, that does UA-cam as a hobby....
Now we know he is skilled with culinary as well.
lol it's just an ad XD
remember he got promoted by raid shadow legends once and said how he enjoyed the game despite him not being a gamer and the fact game is so bad many would rather kill themself than promote it.
only good game he got sponsoredby was stellaris,and i don't think he promoted the right version sinse mobile version is just crappy compared to pc one.
@@theicyphoenixrecords5980 you dont seem to know what a joke is.
@@weirdreportt marble board is unforgivable, wood is where its at, from a professional chef mind you. your sharpening your knives far more frequently on a marble block they are more for serving on, say a nice cheese board or perhaps a large roast given the design.
@@itsyaboy_dario Is plastic ok?
I wish we learned THESE kinds of topics in school, I would be much more intrigued and interested in learning about history that way
Funnily enough, I grew up in Suffolk and we did learn about this and actually went on a school trip to Dunwich. There was almost nothing there and we were all bored stiff though. And yet I find it super interesting now!
It might also inspire kids to learn about climate change.
IKR? The acts of rulers are so stupid by comparison, they're only worth being aware of as backdrop info to how people were living and making advances and how the opportunities waxed and waned
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 about climate and nature in general. I think we're focusing way too much on climate to the detriment of other environmental issues, it should be rebalanced a little, because habitat destruction - including dumping our shit into the oceans - are also extremely worthy causes
Because it wouldn't help with you getting a job
Arran is the friend that talks too much but that you also pay attention to. The kind of guys that gives you advice in the form of historical facts
I am so impressed with the spectacular quality of your productions and the broad reach of your knowledge.
The power of water can be terrifying! I live near a neighborhood that subsided into the bay after people had been pumping water out from beneath the soil for everyday use over a few generations. You can still see the roofs of the houses just under the surface of the water, and a couple of roofs still protruding above the water. The water below those homes was supporting them, and when that water was removed, the water around them was able to invade them.
The same has happened along the Severn. In my 62 years here on earth the cost line has gone a fair few meters washing away many historic areas.
Unfortunately, Temphill is not among them.
"because you know what us British are like we've got to have a little version of bloody everything" cracked me up .... 🤣🤣
Great video. Btw, greatly enjoyed reading your book 'Stick a flag in it'. Britian may have invented hockey, but Canada perfected the sport of hockey 😁.
fucking hell, we invented hockey too?
@@123mrmaynard123 Is there anything the British didn’t invent?
We invented alot of things 😃
@@josephbenjamin2934 traffic lights
Hehehe without us cars would be crashing every second-
As a native East Anglian, it is fantastic to see a snippet of our history on such an awesome channel! You should look for some interesting stories for videos in Norwich's history! Some real fascinating stuff!!
Reminds me of the Oregon coast. There are many expensive houses right on the edge of the cliffs going down to the ocean, some of them reinforced with wooden struts, all of them in danger of collapsing eventually. The home owners can't sell their homes because nobody will buy them, so they're holding out as long as possible. There are others that are located directly above caves that undermine parts of the coastal areas. I doubt they'll have any luck selling their homes, either, if they decide to leave.
The big problem with Dunwich is that it was built on sandstone so soft you can dig out a hole with your finger.
It's not even sandstone. In Suffolk, there are NO solid bedrocks - it's all glacial deposits, clay, gravel, sand, that sort of thing, and a layer made entirely of fossil shells, known as 'Red Crag'. It's tremendously friable, and a lot of the Suffolk coast is made of it. Red Crag can be crumbled in the fingers like a stock cube. Sandstone would have stood up so much better.
Won't stop the elite from telling us it's "global warming" and how we have to give up our money out of guilt.
@@JinzoCrash Except it's not "global warming" anymore, remember, they changed it to 'climate change' now. Why did they change it? Oh, because actually the change in Earth's global mean surface temperature has been close to zero since 2000, and you know, the climate is always changing - so effectively the term was changed to keep their fake narrative 'relevant'.
Got to keep those worthless jobs going and the grift money rolling in.
It was just sand, without the stone.
@@sunnyjim1355 Indeed lol. Like how they "selectively" use ocean-rise stations from areas where the landmass is actively sinking as well as stations on blacktop in a parking lot in the northwest, next to motor homes with A/C exhaust blowing on them.
Thoughty2: If sea wants to take something, it just takes it.
Me an intellectual: *looks at Dutch people*
No intellectual has ever put the words, "me , an intellectual". In an online comment.
Give it time
'Thoguhty2'
Intellectual*
*me a non Intellectual
fixed it for you
The reality is too many people live near coastlines.
Coastlines are bountiful and have a lot of great qualities, but as you can see from this video, they can be very destructive too
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In 5000 years the British Isles will be considered as much of a myth as Atlantis until an archeologist that's considered a whack job by his colleagues dives deep enough to find a black taxi cab.
enjoyed the "wic" explanation. as somebody that lives in Kent, frequenting places like Greenwich... it's good to know "why" it is what it is.
Had the same thought, been sitting here thinking of all the WICH places I can😂
Found this channel the other day and safe to say im constantly learning and loving it more!
Thoughty2 = Awesome. :)
I recommend his book. Stick a flag in it is great
I often get a kick thinking about the fact that if things continue as they are, one day my hometown will be remembered as the lost city of New Orleans. Such is life. 😉🍻
Apparently Charleston SC is the most likely to be the first city claimed by the ocean. Since it was famous for its slave market, I'm less upset about that than I probably should be. Losing the Gullah islands will be awful.
Already think of it as lost city.
Living in Somerset I also have some worries the floods are already high I don't want a repeat of the floods that happened in the 2010s my lord
@@D-B-Cooper Good one, sharp wit!! Yeah, it’s definitely in a perpetual decline. Btw, are you Johny boy Osterlind? Or a different John O? If not, the question is a complement. He’s a sharp fella also.
@@jessicawright5354 I dig that. I hope you won’t have to deal with it again.
Brittish man: tells an intire story about how a city disappeared into the sea
Dutch man: So????
Yeah, how long before Holland disappears into the sea
Um... *entire*
lqtm, had to stop for a laugh 😂
@@warreng675 Well it should have already but humans love to set back reality with their technology, so now it is only a matter of time, water and a big storm or storms to end the party.
@@heliosgnosis2744 As a dutchman, we will never surrender to the sea, NEVER!!!
I just want to tell you that I'm completely obsessed with watching your videos. Keep it up!
You're right. I do need my little version of everything. First, I drink my 10 litre tea mug, then my 9 litre one, then my 8 litre one, then my 7 litre one, then my 6 litre one, then my 5 litre one, then my 4 litre one, then my 3 litre one, then my 2 litre one, then my 1 litre one, then I repeat.
British Empire: Rules nearly a quarter of the Earth's total land area by the beginning of the 20th century.
Rising sea levels: Hold my Ice
Harlech Castle: Rises about half a mile inland!
Eccles-on-sea was one of my favorite Doctors.
fun fact. this video is at least 10x more depressing when you realize you actually live in Liverpool
Though this was quite sad, the pure glee that I experienced at your exclamation : "Why the Holy piss..." was enough to more than cheer me up. Long live the memory of Dunwic. Thanks for sharing!!!
Excellent video with a ton of interesting information and very thought-provoking. Thanks, Arran👏🏽👍🏾🥰
Dunwich actually drowned itself deliberately after it was connected by public transport to Lowestoft...
A wise decision.
I live in lowestoft, its a beautiful place.
@@themerchantofengland I used to go to Lowestoft on my Lambretta back in the 80s, we kinda took over your Town for one weekend a year... Sorry about that, and for sleeping in one of those very nice beach huts, although the cow who took me there ( a local lass) gave me crabs. Through the haze of 30+ years and beer goggles, yes I think you're right, It was a beautiful place.
Have a good'un and if you can't her ugly mate'l do, tatah.
@@centuriontwofivezeroone2794 ha ha nice one, I remember you all coming here in the 80's and going on to Great Yarmouth 👍the sun is shining this morning and I can hear the waves laping the shore...have a good day ol bud!
@@themerchantofengland That's right, we'll never see those kind of times again sadly. You take care of yourself mate, best wishes, from an old Mod from Brum. You're very lucky to live in such a lovely old seaside town, take a deep breath for me mucka, it's kinda stuffy in the old City. See ya.
So, that silent W made it to NYC and now Greenwich is pronounced the same as Greenwich over there across the pond.
Anther subject talked about in my university classes. The world changes and is changing rapidly, yet million dollar homes are put on land less than a meter above sea level only to have expensive renovations after a storm surge floods the town.
You look like Stephen King.
I hope you go to lengths to explain that these events happened hundreds of years before the industrial revolution and are just part of natures' usual influence.
The insurance pays it, kinda reminds me of what with the 1908 great quake of San Francisco, although not sure if they're using the rubble to create more land?
In the 1980s, my dad published an article in a Cornwall newspaper, discussing the idea of the British isles being the drowned high ground of ‘Atlantis’-these days, referred to as Doggerland.
The Al Stewart song The Coldest Winter In Memory features the line "By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away
They say you hear the church bells still as they toll beneath the waves" The song is about a man fighting in the Great Northern War in the 1700s.
I know it has nothing to do with the topic of the video but I kinda find it interesting how the northern European mainland seas are named...
North Sea = Nordsee
Baltic Sea = Ostsee
(English = German btw)
But translating it in reverse "Ostsee" would be "East Sea"
Extra fun: the North Sea was commonly called the German Ocean until after WW1, it was changed due to politics of the time.
original title: "How Did an Entire British City End Up Underwater?"
The horror that came to Dunwich over the deep ones.
Love the way you present your videos. Good stuff! 🍺😎👍
Thoughty2's videos are so easy to watch and are enjoyable, bravo! I only recently found you, but I am now binge-watching your back catalogue :)
I guess the WALES wanted a city of their own. hehe
Too me it more like Someone pissed off chaos from sonic adventure
Lol
Now that's a classic Gothenburg style pun if there ever was one 👍🏽
I guess you could say that "Eccles-on-Sea", is now Eccles in sea😂🌊
Groan...
I am so old that whenever I hear Liverpool I think of the Beatles. I think I need somebody to hold my hand.
Im only 38 and when i hear Liverpool i think of the Beatles also.
Samw but I'm not going to complain ☹️
There's an invitation I won't pass up. It seems these days I can't buy me love.
@@AnotherWittyUsername. Don't worry about it, just get back to where you once belonged and something will come together.
@@rafanifischer3152 - Hahahaha!
When I was still a lad, my Mother told me that her mother had told her that her ancestors were Basques who claimed that they were they were descendants of Atlantis who had escaped its destruction. Many of them spread throughout the Iberian peninsula. and mixed with whoever was there. MY DNA results show that it originated there, along with five settlements in Norway.
Very interesting how updates in DNA testing has changed our understanding of our earlier history. This was another very interesting Video, and like all of your work, very well done. Thank you Lad.
Be Well and Stay Safe
Found this guy today and he’s already one of my favourite youtubers if not my favourite 😂
A drastic rise in sea levels may affect the city centre and areas close to the Mersey but the majority of Liverpool is too high above sea level.
sea levels will not be drastically rising
@@soakupthesunman l know, but that's what it would take to have any effect on Liverpool's coastline. Don't know why Liverpool even got a mention, there's no erosion issues and it's in a sheltered position on the banks of the River Mersey.
"2040, if we're lucky"
Lol!
I don't live in Liverpool but I am scouser in heart. You made me anxious.
I live in Liverpool and i am scared now
You got 200 years lad don’t worry
@@graceburton3369 Don't worry the Germans will arrive before then to occupy it.
I live in America and have no idea wtf this means but gl with it. Cheers
All scousers could do with the wash
Thanks for the lesson on the pronunciation of wic, a lot of European and west Asian names have ic in it!
It is quite true!!! Medieval Dunwich was so much like Liverpool!
A rarely mentioned fact concerning Dunwich is that, just like Liverpool, there was in that very town a "foursome of minstrels" all with matching page-hairstyles that reportedly "tooketh the whole state by storm" with hits such as:
Wage Canst Buyeth me Loveth
Twisteth and Shouteth
Thy Lady Loveth Thee
I Wanteth to Holdeth thy Handeth
.. and many, many more!
Because it NEVER stops raining in Britain!
Ikr is a pain
Yes it does, but only so it can snow.
Absolutely amazing history lesson. Thank you!
This is similar to an old welsh story. Even to the point of hearing bells on a quiet night in the bay. I forget which bay. But its an old story.
Edit... Cantre gwaelod is the name and it was said to be in cardigan Bay.
Hello there's one off the coast by Llandudno North Wales as well ...similar inundation over night washed away a now sunken town .gone for ever ! ..
@@metaldetectingengland I suspect in history quite a lot of the coastal areas have these stories. It's just struck me when he mentioned hearing the church bells under the water. The same is said about cantre gwaelod.
Good video, I used to live in Aldeburgh (or Aldborough as it was on the old maps) and it also suffered a similar fate to its shipbuilding industry as the Orford Ness spit grew across the river, cutting off the industry that once built the Golden Hind for Francis Drake, fortunately for Aldeburgh it was able to make up its losses through fishing and eventually tourism but it still has problems with flooding and erosion, the small village of Slaughden immediately to the south of Aldeburgh was eaten by the sea around the same time as All Saints church went down in Dunwich, with the landlord of the last pub sometimes having the open the front and back doors to let the sea go through. These days there's concern that at some point the marsh to the north of Aldeburgh will be reached if the Alde river breaches significantly and basically turns the older part of Aldeburgh into an island, which will significantly improve the traffic problems in the summer let me tell you. Another interesting place to look at is Fairbourne in Wales, it's a town of around a thousand people at the moment, but has been designated as being abandoned as part of the 'managed retreat' strategy of coastal erosion which means at some point within the next twenty to sixty years the place will be unsuitable for living in. I bet you that house prices are still through the roof though.
As someone who lives in Norfolk, 15 mins away from a coastal town, this video fills me with joy!
19:16 - 19:24 Hull will sink by 2040 if we are lucky 🤣🤣nervous laugh for me😂you got me there🤣🤣
Ikr xd
Well done pronouncing Happisburgh correctly, once heard a TV presenter call it Hap-is-BURG. Yes, BURG, like an American would! No excuse for that haha.
Oh, it's close to Covehithe. Tom Scott made a video about it.
Excellent video. Thank you so much. But naughty that comment on Hull going ten years early "if we are lucky". I know it won the first ever crap towns award and is usually in the top ten, but I for one think it is a lovely city.
However, we have three contenders for a British Atlantis on the west coast too.
All around Blackpool. Singleton Thorpe, Wadham Thorpe and Kilgrimol.
All swept away one night in around Sept 1555 by either a tsunami or a storm surge.
No one survived in Wadham or Kilgrimol, but four survived in Singleton Thorpe by being away trading inland.
Divers here occasionally find the remains, as visibility is better and at a neap tide in Feb or March, where the tide goes further out than normal, you can walk out along the cobbled road that used to go to the village.
Also the few remaining fishermen at nearby Fleetwood, won't venture out, if they think they hear the bells of Singleton Thorpe church tolling slowly under the waves.
Spooky.
Cheers for reading.
I love how he so elegantly pronounces the g's at the ending of words. Whereas we Americans tend to drop off that ending g sound or do not pronounce it as clearly.
Thoughty2: 3:30 explaining there were different independent kingdoms.
Me: an intellectual who already knew this by playing AC Valhalla 🤓
WHY COULDN’T YOU HAVE MADE THIS VIDEO LAST WEEK A HAD A GEOGRAPHY TEST ABOUT DUNWICH YESTERDAY
That is just so sad
We get it, England has left the EU; they don't need to keep moving a meter away every year.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loving the picture of the sea wall at Dawlish when "big and important cities" are mentioned. That place is so small!
I remember the 2013 flood, luckily my town is slightly up a river that goes to the sea but we're close enough to be a decently sized trade port so none of our land was lost but we had flooding up to 2 blocks in from the seafront, a couple of my friends had to stay elsewhere during that time as their houses were at least 2 inches deep in water on streets on a hill. I had no idea that was happening all the way down the eastern coast
Ah another display of natures ability to ruin everyone's day. Great video btw listening to you're videos really takes the edge of my really long work days.
You're first congrats here's a medal 🥇
First by 2 hours..... hmmmmm
How the fuck did you comment 2 hours ago?? HE JUST UPLOADED THIS
@@MrPotato- yeah, that's rather interesting haha
Did you become a channel member after watching your first video of his?
The sun may never set on the British empire, but the water certainly sets on
lol
considering much of that happened before the industrial revolution, id you cant blame it on climate change, but they will anyway, theres people out there that seem to think anything and everything can be blamed on climate change. they probably think that Mars is a waste land because of climate change issues.
You deserve many more subsribers/views. This channel is one of 2 channels I allow notifications from. Awesome job!
As soon as I hear, "thoughty2 here!", my serotonin levels immediately rise and regulate themselves...so thankful for this channel!
Maybe use it as a ring tone... ? :)
I'm english, how did I not know about this before?
I don't think they teach English history in schools anymore.
You where viking before you where English and mean like great great great great ehhhh alot greats gramps or granny's ago
@@cdeford you don't have to be in school to learn.
I knew......🤷♂️.
@@cdeford they do
If you liked that, look up 'Hallsands': that vanished almost overnight. All that's left are a few ruined houses clinging to a cliff.
One teensy thing... ‘begs the question’ does not mean ‘raises the question’, it refers to a flaw in reasoning where an argument can only be proven true if one first assumes that it’s true (I’m paraphrasing). If someone uses the ‘begs’ version, 99.99% of the time, they’re making this same mistake. Not judging, just sharing. 🙂
Atlantis was in a place now called Mauritania in the Saharan Desert, the Eye of the Sahara is where it is supposed to have been. However there is evidence of either a single or many inter connected kingdoms tha predate the Ice Age much evidence points to this.
Maybe. Another very likely candidate is of Greece, in the waters of the Aegean Sea. IIRC an island sank there after Greece had become inhabited, and legends had been passed down that were likely referencing this real island. What's a bit less certain is just how advanced a civilization did exist on it.
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht It could have been part of the same time frame, for sure. It is the characteristics of the area in the Sahara that makes me believe it as well as the story was told by an Egyptian priest. Egyptians are also theorized to have decended from Atlanis after the fall. Also the island didn't really sink, the water level just raised and covered it. Same thing happened with the Sahara except the water ran off and covered the lower parts on the coast of Africa. From sat maps you can actually see (if you pay attention) the water erosion from massive amounts of water moving over the area. Actually makes me wonder if that is why the Sahara became so desolate a lot of salt got into the soil. It is like what Crusaders used to do salt the fields if their enemies to ruin the soil.
I love you simply because you understand the connection between hovercraft and eels.
Anybody noticed how Thoughty2 uses a dark non-altering background so that a considerable amount of internet data is saved. That's really thoughtful.
First thought when I saw the title; "Ooh, will there be any references to Rapture?"
Eloquently put. Always enjoyable. The West coast , where I grew up , is however growing at the same rate as the East coast is eroding. The Mersey is kept accessible by constant dredging. The coast itself has also encroached into the Irish Sea by nearly 2 miles from Sefton to Fylde , since I was a lad. We're on the move , it seems.
Don't normally comment on videos.
But I love when you are speaking about something you find out all the grimy details.
Keep up the good work.
Another very interesting video. I am from Great Yarmouth just a few miles up the coast. Little secret about the deserted Eccles on Sea; it isn't. I drove their at work as we do a fair bit of driving and often look for places to explore. Saw a sign saying Eccles on Sea and followed it, it really was undefinable and was literally like a small town forgotten by time, with houses with long porches, kind of a rectangle grid shape, no tarmac on the roads but an interesting little town for sure. Best I go for a beach walk along there. Thoughty2 you are my main teacher, I watched dozens of your videos and you always create intuitive, thought invoking videos that share the most valuable commodity we possess, knowledge.