Always have two feelings over these posts, Sad that they are gone but happy something remains to remind us of the past, Keep up the good work, Well worth watching.
In the picture of the old lockkeepers house, you can see one of the wooden lock gates. You do a wonderful job of research and documentation, and you are very good looking!
Really enjoying these videos! My grandad used to live in Shan House, right behind Lemonroyd and next to the railway crossing in Methley. He was there the day of the flood into St Aidans and his house was bought by the National Coal Board as part of their preparation for redirecting the river. Part of the old country house is still there but much of the land has now been redeveloped.
Really enjoyed the video especially the photos of the old lock keepers cottage .A lot of hard graft went into making the locks and gates and good that this one survives . I will try and find that big iron pipe ,not seen that before. Keep up the good work. Ian
Fascinating. I watch these videos with a little sadness, all the effort of building, the investment and people that worked on them now almost lost, I guess they served their purpose. You bring history to life, as you say that feeling of finding something which was once very significant
Thanks Paul, i didn't expect to find anything, just like you will see in my next video.I did no research before, as I wanted to explore properly. Thanks for watching.
I finally found the abandoned lock today, having heard about it, having watched your footage, having not looked a map last time I was at St As, so today we made a more concerted effort to find it, i was stunned as to how intact it is.
Very interesting, I spent a lot of time down there with my mates the 1970's when the only other people about other than us kids were old time poachers after the rabbits. The lock keeper from Old Lemonroyd lock used to give us apples from the tree in his garden. Still walk down there today, you were right about the Tow path although it was a lot closer to the canal as you'd expect due the times when horses were used to tow the boats. You were also spot on with the location of the old Lock house, you used to be able to see the houses footprint before it got too over grown.
@@AdventureMe Fleet lane once lad to the village Called Fleet, as shown in one of your pictures. There was the Mill, a Farm and several cottages. The Farm was once owed by the grandparents of a school mate of mine called Horne. we used to play in the derelict buildings there in the late 70's when both lock gates were still there.
I am so with you on discoveries of the past. The fact there was such a busy industry there at one time blows my mind. I were in the old lock the other day. And then into the nature reserve itself the amount of old railway on show is fascinating. Sod it im going back today I love it there 😀
My dad used to be the engineer on the old Humber Enterprise operated by JH Whittakers and would have gone through Lemonroyd Locks and the old navigation many times unloaded and loaded with heavy oil from 1967. When British Waterways enlarged and deepened he channel of the Aire & Calder Navigation from Goole to Leeds to provide a draft of 2.5 metres for craft up to 175 feet in length. She was 175 feet long and had an air draft of 11.5 feet and gross tonnage was 295.36.
Another great trip down memory lane for me. The culvert you speak of was I believe a continuation from oulton beck and ran from the other side of the railway, through what we knew as the dry tunnel, 'which was strange ' and there is a massive concrete pipe running through it now, but either side of that culvert was a beautiful wooded valley where we had a tarzan swing, made from an old mooring rope across a stream. Great days 😊
Thank you Darren for this video. My wife and I have walked past this many times and tried to work out what it was. I always thought it was remains of a canal for transporting the coal from the mine.
I really appreciate these videos you get me griped. three other members of my family also watched them My grandad worked from 50s to 80s on repairing railway lines
@@daleHarrison93 longest I stayed on the boat was about 2 weeks. BBQ at the side or you can stop at pubs and the odd pot noodle other than that cruising along enjoying the day. We had a little boat with an outboard motor I sometimes went off on that or I would be pulled along behind the main boat good memories. A bicycle is a must aswell to go to any shops that might be a good walk away from moorings.
Superb. Probablt the best on your channel. Always worthwhile when you find tangible evidence of the (relatively recent) past. Amazing too how nature (and brambles) can take over in a few decades.
Would be a long way for a little one to fall in if they hadn't filled it, & they will have had plenty of spoil from building the new channels. No brainer really for a hazzard so close to a public byway.
I love your videos bud 👍👍♥️ It's nice to know that some of the things (unlike the railways) aren't abandoned because nobody could be arsed to make it work. I love the history and you portray everything so well, keep up the cracking work fella 😎
Brilliant that. You have to go down to the bottom of Bullough lane and explore the old site of the Anchor Inn and Thorpe Stapleton. Also the area of Knostrop further along the canal. Used to be old halls such as Thorpe Hall, Knostrop Hall etc
Hi Gavin, All of those you mentioned are on my list for summer. The next video is an old pub called the Caroline Inn and Kippax Lock. Thanks for watching.
What a great find Darren, shame they couldn't leave the complete stretch of canal unfilled. Sad to see what 30 years of natural can do when its left alone.
There was a short stretch of Barnsley canal in Haw Park wood, that I practiced conoeing in, back in the mid 70’s. It seems strange now to see most of that naturally filled in, although there is water still around some of it.
Remember the flooding we'll used to cycle down the towpath regularly and saw the devastation, and rode along the bottom of the new excavation to methley which was quite an excavation before they let the river back through! There was I think quite a big railway depot /sidings on the methley side of the canal where coal was transfered to trains and barges for transport from the local mines!
Great video,i love finding abandoned sites like this - its only a few miles away from me so i'll have to check it out. Have you heard of Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens near Halifax? It used to be the 'Alton Towers' of the North in the victorian age,welcoming thousands of people a year with rides and helterskelters etc. Its now just an abandoned overgrown lake - well worth a look! Theres probably some abandoned artifacts there in the undergrowth. I went to the local library years ago to research up on it,found some really interesting old photos. Its just off the A58,in between Halifax & Hipperholme.
Yes that sounds very interesting and right up my street. I'll have a look into that. I'm doing a similar one at Shipley Glenn, same kind of thing. Thanks for the heads up. If you need a tour round Lemonroyd, give me a shout.
@@AdventureMe Likewise,if you fancy the trip to the Sunny Vale site,let me know. Its fascinating once you start researching with newspaper clippings etc.
Just started watching your videos I think they are brilliant I’m from east lancs so your stuff isn’t that far from me keep up the good work and I’ve subscribed it also inspires me to go and look for things near me that are similar sort of things
I was doing the same as you last week trying to find the old canal root. The only part I could find was the wall you found and the small edging a and the old lock As you were looking away from leeds it crosses the footpath to the other side about 300 meters then it just finishes.
Another great video, thank you. Will visit next time we’re at St Aidans. Any plans to do Lofthouse Colliery and/or East Ardsley Station and sidings? Would love to find out more about either
Hi Andy, I have another video coming next week about another location at the top of St Aidans too. Yes Lofthouse Colliery and East Ardsley Station are coming up this year hopefully. Thanks for watching.
I was born in Oulton and used to play in that area as a kid. Many pit hills and history to be found there. I have to say too I used to swim in the old canal before it was redirected
hi keith did u live on the coalboard estate (cardboard city) as my mates called it lol i was born on there lived there for 15 years i bet u will know my grandad or his dad
They were filmed out of sequence, i actually filmed the breach video after this one, all on the same day. But I put them out in the sequence I thought worked.
You could do with a better microphone, something windproof might be an idea. The wind was so strong at one point I could barely make out a word. Maybe check out what Martin Zero uses, as I recollect he used to have similar issues early on due to the nature of the environment he films in (not entirely unlike the sort of environs you're in there).
Hi Anthony. All sorted now. This was one of my early videos. I've got a decent windproof mic setup now, check out my Belah Viaduct video with Martin. It was blowing a gale that day.
Really enjoyed this one. I mentioned an abandoned lock on the Morris Canal where I lived in NJ in the 80's on a different video. It had been completely graded flat and filled in, we had no idea it was there. They have since excavated it and rebuilt it, much of it was intact under ground level. Here's a link if you want to see pics from now, when it was just shutting down, and further down the page what it looked like when I was a kid. If I ever get back there this is the first thing I want to check out. www.njskylands.com/history-morris-canal-wharton
Always have two feelings over these posts, Sad that they are gone but happy something remains to remind us of the past, Keep up the good work, Well worth watching.
Thanks for watching.
In the picture of the old lockkeepers house, you can see one of the wooden lock gates.
You do a wonderful job of research and documentation, and you are very good looking!
6:26 looks like a steam boiler or pressure vessel. See the extra pipe on the outside and the welded inspection hatch inside!!!
Really enjoying these videos! My grandad used to live in Shan House, right behind Lemonroyd and next to the railway crossing in Methley. He was there the day of the flood into St Aidans and his house was bought by the National Coal Board as part of their preparation for redirecting the river. Part of the old country house is still there but much of the land has now been redeveloped.
Glad you enjoyed it, Thanks for the information and Thanks for watching.
Really enjoyed the video especially the photos of the old lock keepers cottage .A lot of hard graft went into making the locks and gates and good that this one survives . I will try and find that big iron pipe ,not seen that before. Keep up the good work. Ian
Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for watching.
Fascinating. I watch these videos with a little sadness, all the effort of building, the investment and people that worked on them now almost lost, I guess they served their purpose. You bring history to life, as you say that feeling of finding something which was once very significant
Thanks Andrew, yes it is sad to see. But I suppose in this case, it was replaced. Thanks for watching.
Good follow-up video. Well done on finding the old lock basin.
Thanks Paul, i didn't expect to find anything, just like you will see in my next video.I did no research before, as I wanted to explore properly. Thanks for watching.
I finally found the abandoned lock today, having heard about it, having watched your footage, having not looked a map last time I was at St As, so today we made a more concerted effort to find it, i was stunned as to how intact it is.
Glad you found it.
Very interesting, I spent a lot of time down there with my mates the 1970's when the only other people about other than us kids were old time poachers after the rabbits. The lock keeper from Old Lemonroyd lock used to give us apples from the tree in his garden. Still walk down there today, you were right about the Tow path although it was a lot closer to the canal as you'd expect due the times when horses were used to tow the boats. You were also spot on with the location of the old Lock house, you used to be able to see the houses footprint before it got too over grown.
Thanks mate. Glad I got it right. I was using my memory when on site from the old maps.
@@AdventureMe Fleet lane once lad to the village Called Fleet, as shown in one of your pictures. There was the Mill, a Farm and several cottages. The Farm was once owed by the grandparents of a school mate of mine called Horne. we used to play in the derelict buildings there in the late 70's when both lock gates were still there.
I am so with you on discoveries of the past. The fact there was such a busy industry there at one time blows my mind. I were in the old lock the other day. And then into the nature reserve itself the amount of old railway on show is fascinating. Sod it im going back today I love it there 😀
Enjoy. It's good exploring.
@@AdventureMe loving your work mate. Great videos, certainly giving us more inspiration to get out to different places
Fascinating, thank you I enjoy watching the vlogs.
Another fantastic video. It helps me understand the history of the area which I have lived in for the past 5 years.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
My dad used to be the engineer on the old Humber Enterprise operated by JH Whittakers and would have gone through Lemonroyd Locks and the old navigation many times unloaded and loaded with heavy oil from 1967. When British Waterways enlarged and deepened he channel of the Aire & Calder Navigation from Goole to Leeds to provide a draft of 2.5 metres for craft up to 175 feet in length. She was 175 feet long and had an air draft of 11.5 feet and gross tonnage was 295.36.
PLEASE NOTE: This video was filmed on the 16th March 2020 before the Lockdown.
Great video! It's amazing how much survives considering the canal has been filled in!
Another great trip down memory lane for me.
The culvert you speak of was I believe a continuation from oulton beck and ran from the other side of the railway, through what we knew as the dry tunnel, 'which was strange ' and there is a massive concrete pipe running through it now, but either side of that culvert was a beautiful wooded valley where we had a tarzan swing, made from an old mooring rope across a stream. Great days 😊
Thanks Vernon. Sounds fun back in the day.
Old locks are a great explore 👌
Very interesting, also the old photos are amazing. 😎
Thank you Darren for this video. My wife and I have walked past this many times and tried to work out what it was. I always thought it was remains of a canal for transporting the coal from the mine.
Glad you enjoyed it. More to come.
I really appreciate these videos you get me griped.
three other members of my family also watched them
My grandad worked from 50s to 80s on repairing railway lines
That's awesome
Spot on I had a childhood in and around that marina on a boat named Cordelia.
Thanks for watching
i want to live on a boat, whats it like? i imagine alot of fishing ;)
@@daleHarrison93 longest I stayed on the boat was about 2 weeks. BBQ at the side or you can stop at pubs and the odd pot noodle other than that cruising along enjoying the day. We had a little boat with an outboard motor I sometimes went off on that or I would be pulled along behind the main boat good memories. A bicycle is a must aswell to go to any shops that might be a good walk away from moorings.
Been down there for the first time today. It’s beautiful and sad to see the old lock but great videos.
Glad you got to see it. Thanks for watching.
Superb. Probablt the best on your channel. Always worthwhile when you find tangible evidence of the (relatively recent) past. Amazing too how nature (and brambles) can take over in a few decades.
Many thanks!
Great detail .great video thanks for the work u done ✔🙌
Much appreciated
That’s pretty cool.
I find it weird that the lock was filled in so much.
Would be a long way for a little one to fall in if they hadn't filled it, & they will have had plenty of spoil from building the new channels. No brainer really for a hazzard so close to a public byway.
I love your videos bud 👍👍♥️
It's nice to know that some of the things (unlike the railways) aren't abandoned because nobody could be arsed to make it work.
I love the history and you portray everything so well, keep up the cracking work fella 😎
Another great interpretive video. You know what to look for. I love the superimposed photos - Old/New.
Thanks mate.
I'm fascinated by all things abandoned! Glad to have found your channel.
Thanks. Plenty of that on here and coming up.
Brilliant that. You have to go down to the bottom of Bullough lane and explore the old site of the Anchor Inn and Thorpe Stapleton. Also the area of Knostrop further along the canal. Used to be old halls such as Thorpe Hall, Knostrop Hall etc
Hi Gavin, All of those you mentioned are on my list for summer. The next video is an old pub called the Caroline Inn and Kippax Lock. Thanks for watching.
What a great find Darren, shame they couldn't leave the complete stretch of canal unfilled. Sad to see what 30 years of natural can do when its left alone.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
There was a short stretch of Barnsley canal in Haw Park wood, that I practiced conoeing in, back in the mid 70’s.
It seems strange now to see most of that naturally filled in, although there is water still around some of it.
Think it’s filled in with all the earth dug out for rerouted river aire. Plus filling in lock chamber preserves it to avoid collapse etc.
Thanks for the video and chat. A very interesting video. Cheers Darren.
Remember the flooding we'll used to cycle down the towpath regularly and saw the devastation, and rode along the bottom of the new excavation to methley which was quite an excavation before they let the river back through!
There was I think quite a big railway depot /sidings on the methley side of the canal where coal was transfered to trains and barges for transport from the local mines!
I've never seen the big pipe before, looks like it's made from an old steam boiler shell, will have to look out for it next time I'm down there.
It's easy to find, but the brambles might be an issue. Thanks for watching.
Great video,i love finding abandoned sites like this - its only a few miles away from me so i'll have to check it out. Have you heard of Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens near Halifax? It used to be the 'Alton Towers' of the North in the victorian age,welcoming thousands of people a year with rides and helterskelters etc. Its now just an abandoned overgrown lake - well worth a look! Theres probably some abandoned artifacts there in the undergrowth. I went to the local library years ago to research up on it,found some really interesting old photos. Its just off the A58,in between Halifax & Hipperholme.
Yes that sounds very interesting and right up my street. I'll have a look into that. I'm doing a similar one at Shipley Glenn, same kind of thing. Thanks for the heads up.
If you need a tour round Lemonroyd, give me a shout.
@@AdventureMe Likewise,if you fancy the trip to the Sunny Vale site,let me know. Its fascinating once you start researching with newspaper clippings etc.
Just started watching your videos I think they are brilliant I’m from east lancs so your stuff isn’t that far from me keep up the good work and I’ve subscribed it also inspires me to go and look for things near me that are similar sort of things
Thanks john. Welcome aboard
I was doing the same as you last week trying to find the old canal root. The only part I could find was the wall you found and the small edging a and the old lock
As you were looking away from leeds it crosses the footpath to the other side about 300 meters then it just finishes.
Another great video, thank you. Will visit next time we’re at St Aidans. Any plans to do Lofthouse Colliery and/or East Ardsley Station and sidings? Would love to find out more about either
Hi Andy, I have another video coming next week about another location at the top of St Aidans too. Yes Lofthouse Colliery and East Ardsley Station are coming up this year hopefully. Thanks for watching.
Brilliant 👏
Thank You.
I was born in Oulton and used to play in that area as a kid. Many pit hills and history to be found there. I have to say too I used to swim in the old canal before it was redirected
Lot's of history for me to find hopefully.
@@AdventureMe Go further up to Skelton Lake have a look around. There's a lot of history down there that goes back to the 1800s. Good Luck
@@TankyKB I've already covered some of Skelton Lake. Did you see my Lost Village of Waterloo video?
@@AdventureMe Yes, I did mate. I knew it was there. I had an uncle who worked near it.
hi keith did u live on the coalboard estate (cardboard city) as my mates called it lol i was born on there lived there for 15 years i bet u will know my grandad or his dad
You should do one on the lost astely lane village that was abandoned to make way for st'Adians open caste
I'll look into that. Thanks.
how did you miss this lock when you walked from the weir to the place of the breach in your first video? Enjoyed the video immensely, thank you
They were filmed out of sequence, i actually filmed the breach video after this one, all on the same day. But I put them out in the sequence I thought worked.
Wow! I've been there and I was like wtf is that?
Yeah, a lot of people said the same.
Those lock gates let you out onto the river Aire. I have been through these lots of times.
Original canal carried on down to kipax locks before entering river aire. Its only the new lemonroyd lock that runs into rerouted river aire.
You could do with a better microphone, something windproof might be an idea. The wind was so strong at one point I could barely make out a word. Maybe check out what Martin Zero uses, as I recollect he used to have similar issues early on due to the nature of the environment he films in (not entirely unlike the sort of environs you're in there).
Hi Anthony. All sorted now. This was one of my early videos. I've got a decent windproof mic setup now, check out my Belah Viaduct video with Martin. It was blowing a gale that day.
I am in good place, estate I live on is called.......brambles!
Thanks. Never heard of that, hopefully it's not as bad as my legs after those brambles.
That old pipe looked like it was a old steam boiler with its guts ripped out.
Most probably was
Really enjoyed this one. I mentioned an abandoned lock on the Morris Canal where I lived in NJ in the 80's on a different video. It had been completely graded flat and filled in, we had no idea it was there. They have since excavated it and rebuilt it, much of it was intact under ground level. Here's a link if you want to see pics from now, when it was just shutting down, and further down the page what it looked like when I was a kid. If I ever get back there this is the first thing I want to check out.
www.njskylands.com/history-morris-canal-wharton
Brilliant, thanks.
I was born at Lemonroyd
In the old village?
@@AdventureMe In the lock cottages. The smaller ones on your old picture of the houses that were beside the lock
Please stop wagging your finger at me!
It's like a dog's tail. A mind of its own.
@@AdventureMe you keep that finger wagging…it is actually hypnotic 😂.
I wish you would stop wagging your finger at me. Had to stop watching. Shame it looked like an interesting subject.