CLAY CROSS: North East Derbyshire Parish #20 of 24
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Time for another former industrial and mining settlement, and this one owes its very existence to what it stands on - and I’m not talking about coal! The most famous associate here was George Stephenson. As we’ll discover in a short while, without Stephenson, this would not be what it is today.
He would form a company and build more than 400 miners' cottages, set up elementary schools and consecrate new churches. The company provided the town with almost all its energy needs in gas and electricity. But why would he do so? The answer lies with the railway boom of the 1800s.
The North Midland Railway drove a tunnel under the settlement which would lead to town becoming what it is today. George Stephenson discovered both coal and iron in vast quantities thanks to the tunnel, and because of these incredible finds, the area became a boom town, and the population soared immeasurably.
When you walk the streets here you struggle to comprehend that under your feet is a mile long tunnel that carries a railway line underneath the entire settlement. The northern railway portal is of a magnificent Moorish design. The Southern portal is inaccessible on foot.
So what are those strange structures like that we see at the beginning of this video? Walk around with me and you’ll find out. Welcome to CLAY CROSS.
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My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the district of North East Derbyshire. There are 24. Here's the TWENTIETH one - Clay Cross.
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Brendan Perkins - “Foxsnow” (B. Perkins)
• Foxsnow
Brendan Perkins - “Mickey's House” (B. Perkins)
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The Keyhouse - "Voices" (H. Flunder)
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CLAY CROSS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- The place that looks like a working mens club at 4:30 is actually the Rykneld Turnpyke, home of the Instant Karma Brewing Co.
- Halfway down Thanet Street, between Clay Cross and Danesmoor, was where the Bolsover MP Dennis Skinner used to live.
- Big Jim's Steakhouse used to be a pub called The Cannon.
Lived here 71 years and seen it changing, will have to count the vents now👍👍
Hi Andy.
So many villages in Derbyshire has been connected with coal.
Working men's we're very popular..
Wow 11 buses that's a lot.
Lots of villages owe they're live hood to former industrial past.
The famous William Morris.
It's nice see independent shops.
Clay Cross has lots for the locals.🎉
A brilliant video.
Sorry I forgot it's a town..
Thanks
My friend lives in Clay Cross
Thank you for a very well researched presentation from an ex pat Clay Cross resident now in New Brunswick Canada. The Victorian pub on John Street was the Egstow working men's club and institute. Across the road stood the Rainbow Cafe transported from the end of Ashover light railway .There was a bowling green too with changing rooms made from an old carriage from that railway.
The housing estate opposite the Institute is built on the previous cricket pitch and football grounds which were used by the teams of the Clay Cross company.
After seeing you in the Guardian, I'm now watching some old episodes, and think they are great! I especially love seeing the churches, and that old base of the original clay cross was fascinating! Thank you so much from this very homesick expat!
So glad you do these tours brings back so many memories, now that I live in Kent thank-you 😊
Thank you for the video. My great grandfather was probably baptized in St. Batholomew's in 1871. Need to get there!
You should, its a great little place Clay Cross :D
I live in clay cross lol
@16:55 what did he want? tell him to chuffin get out of it. daft apeth. great video me duck. would love to move back. thanks.
Haha he was asking what I was doing. O get that a lot
@@TheVillageIdiot cheers Andy :)
Nice to see you getting national recognition
Its weird but its all good!
ive lived here all my life its a great historical place good people and the strikes as well which is well known
I'm not sure if I have mixed up Clay Cross and Pilsley, but in the early 70s when I was at Tibby secondary school, we did for a time go to a swimming baths for swimming lessons, which was an old basic and frankly, rough building with changing cubicles around the side of the pool. Does anyone remember where this could have been? Also, I do remember a farrier working from Thannet Street at that time, number 40 I think, can't recall his name though?
I think its more likely Clay Cross than Pilsley...unless you're thinking of Morton with the pit baths?
My grandad George Bostock was born at 26 Cross Street
The place that looks like a working mens club at 4:30 is actually the Rykneld Turnpyke, home of the Instant Karma Brewing Co.
Straight in the additional info for that, thanks!
The building around 8:00, was the Danesmoor Miner’s Welfare.
I was born and raised in Danesmoor and have many happy memories from growing up there.
No mention of the Rent Strike from the early 70s though. There’s a memorial off Bridge Street and it was a huge part of Clay Cross history.
Its one of them things I wrote down but couldnt fit in
The steakhouse used to be a pub called The Cannon.
Thank you! I'll make use of that :D
It has been other things too, but I can’t really remember what. On a side note my dad has wrote several books on local history and is a keen historian of North East Derbyshire, he’s got a tonne of local knowledge, i’m going to show him ur videos because I think he will enjoy them, if u notice my name crop up again i’m not a stalker I just think he’ll have something to say or share, but his lack of tech ability will mean i have to do it :)
@@elvanrensburg881 haha thats no problem 😁
It was originally the King's Head, next building up was The Prince Of Wales and then the Queens Head just over the brow on the other side of the road.
The A61.........shows Market St (A6175). Great start.
You mean at the beginning in the Welcome to Clay Cross bit? Thats a general introduction.
Market Street and High Street are both in thar section.
Always has to be one that can only be critical.