My elderly father was born in Warrington during the War. He was brought up there, and married there before migrating with wife and kids to Australia in the 1980's. He's on his final legs now, bed ridden with dementia, and hardly able to see or hear anymore. I hold my phone up to his ear, and play your marvelous stories for him. I sense he can follow along and it takes him back to happier times when he was a younger able man enjoying Warrington in simpler times. We appreciate you taking the time to create and share these stories near and far, delivered in a familiar and comforting accent. To many of us, they mean more than you know. Thank you so much!
Lovely trip down Sankey Valley park, one of my favourite places in the world. Also glad you made the point of the Sankey canal being the first proper industrial canal, not the Bridgewater. Great soundtrack too.
Even though they have built many thousands of new houses all around Warrington you can still travel all across from Penketh to Great Sankey on pretty rural roads with plenty of green spaces, and Great Sankey was were you went into Burtonwood and the old American airbase, rumour is that they wanted to turn the airbase into Manchester airport after the war! but due to subsidence from all the mining in the area, seems that a seam that ran from Bold Colliery ran under the runway at Burtonwood and had caused a drop in the runway! so instead it was built at Ringway. in the 1960s we used to go and watch the WB-29 then WB-50D Superfortress taking off, they were used to collect weather data for the US forces. I think their is still a part of the original runway at the side of the M62.
Theres something else in Sankey which may interest you. It lies in the St Mary's Cemetery. The grave of Sgt James Donoghue, who was a bugler that sounded the start of the light brigades charge through the valley of death. On your way, you'll pass a crossroads, which up until only a few short years ago was the last remaining example of a typical English village center, Conitaining the 4 P's at each corner. Public House, Post Office, Parish Church and Police station. I hope to see more of your work locally, thanks.
Hi Kieran. Love your videos. Welcome to my neck of the woods. Re your music: Nip down to The Sloop and try to sort out a gig there.....Maybe if i see you in there i'll buy you TWO pints.
Hi nice video, thanks for highlighting the Sankey Canal! You finished up at Winwick Quay which was the repair dry dock & maintenance workshop for the canal. The M62 runs past it. You were stood in Hulme Lock, the remains of the lock keeper's cottage are in the undergrowth. Sankey Canal Restoration Society is planning to do some maintenance shortly. The canal closed upstream of Earlestown in 1931 (but remained in water), sugar traffic to Earlestown stopped in 1959 and the canal formally closed in 1963. Warrington Borough Council enthusiastically filled in the canal from Newton Brook to Bewsey in the 1970s-80s.
Loving your videos, they popped up in my feed this morning! I regularly cycle and run the Sankey and canal trails, in fact I was stopped taking pictures of the same old canal loading docks on Saturday! I shall now be binge watching 👀
Glad to see you again. Every time you came upon a dog in the speeded up bit, I held my breath 😂. I kept thinking a dog would walk in front and you'd go over the handlebars. I do miss cycling, and thankyou for taking me on such lovely sightseeing trips ❤.
There's a rather excellent moated farmhouse just off the A580 East Lancs rd at Astley, as it passes over the Bridgewater Canal. A better example would be difficult to find I think?
Found your channel the other week. I've been binge watching all your vids. Brilliant seeing and learning about my local area. Keep it up, and happy Bimbling :)
Barrow Hall Lane is in Sankey which you were on. All used to be fields around there. I think near Bewsey Old Hall is a square piece of grass land with a small moat around it. No water but you can see the impression.
Good to have you back Kieran, and that was quite a long bimble as well! Full of your usual lesser known facts and places, as enjoyable as ever. :-) (Al Kennett)
Long time no see Kieran ,great to have you back, you have been missed i used to live in Latchford Wa4 ex neighbour possibly 😀. also there is a moated farm in Frodsham so you will have to go back to my home town and find it 😊😊😊
I would have gone halves with you on the rent on St.Luke’s as I’d have been able to open up a free art gallery to promote Waywell art and include other northern artists work. My sister is a Dr.Rev and her husband a registrar so we could have thrown in some free weddings and funerals to help people out. The council have too much power to dictate what the arts council can and cannot do, I had to raise a petition (which had a great public response) to get gallery space for my dads work which quite frankly is disgusting as they should have revered him but they are seemingly against anything to do with our local history as a working class northern town. Where the Sankey Canal is on old Liverpool road there was a spot called Sankey Bridges and he painted a few pictures of the large iron columns before they were taken down probably in war time.
Very interesting video, Thanks for making it.. As you love a church. i visited an interesting one in Gresford near Wrexham last week. A very grand one, in a small village. Even the vicar couldn't tell me why such a place was built. One day you need to visit it👍
Brill a new Bimble, just think of you had have ran with the church I wonder who would be recording in it now. And you could have built a moat around it !
Ah, I thought it was you. I'd watched one of your other videos just a couple of hours earlier and then rode past you as you were filming at the dry dock. Next time I'll say hello. ☺
OMG, I pass by your back gate now and then on my bimbles down Sankey Valley on my Cyrusher fat tyre lekky bike from Golborne. And you passed top of my road in your Pennington Flash 'Bonk' video...🥰🥰🥰
Ahh youve moved... better area Kerian i was brought up in Penketh then moved to Orford ,both my girls went to little beaumont , sankey is a good change
At Sutton Nash school it was always referred too as Billinge Lump. We were taught that it was a spur of the Pennines. Oh I and in St.Helens. Moggy is a mouse.
Interesting as always. Thanks. I cycle from Newton-le-Willows to the Mersey but get lost every time! Wish they had map of the canal .I wish I had a map of th canal route/Sankey valley .
My elderly father was born in Warrington during the War. He was brought up there, and married there before migrating with wife and kids to Australia in the 1980's. He's on his final legs now, bed ridden with dementia, and hardly able to see or hear anymore. I hold my phone up to his ear, and play your marvelous stories for him. I sense he can follow along and it takes him back to happier times when he was a younger able man enjoying Warrington in simpler times. We appreciate you taking the time to create and share these stories near and far, delivered in a familiar and comforting accent. To many of us, they mean more than you know. Thank you so much!
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Lovely trip down Sankey Valley park, one of my favourite places in the world. Also glad you made the point of the Sankey canal being the first proper industrial canal, not the Bridgewater. Great soundtrack too.
Yay! The resident Bimbler returns.
Doog?
@@MrTadted1 What?
I get called Doog 😊@@Dooguk
@@MrTadted1 Blame the Scots. 😉
Even though they have built many thousands of new houses all around Warrington you can still travel all across from Penketh to Great Sankey on pretty rural roads with plenty of green spaces, and Great Sankey was were you went into Burtonwood and the old American airbase, rumour is that they wanted to turn the airbase into Manchester airport after the war! but due to subsidence from all the mining in the area, seems that a seam that ran from Bold Colliery ran under the runway at Burtonwood and had caused a drop in the runway! so instead it was built at Ringway. in the 1960s we used to go and watch the WB-29 then WB-50D Superfortress taking off, they were used to collect weather data for the US forces. I think their is still a part of the original runway at the side of the M62.
Theres something else in Sankey which may interest you. It lies in the St Mary's Cemetery. The grave of Sgt James Donoghue, who was a bugler that sounded the start of the light brigades charge through the valley of death. On your way, you'll pass a crossroads, which up until only a few short years ago was the last remaining example of a typical English village center, Conitaining the 4 P's at each corner. Public House, Post Office, Parish Church and Police station.
I hope to see more of your work locally, thanks.
Thanks Kieran, a great place Warrington. So interesting. Best Wishes Pete
Hi Kieran. Love your videos. Welcome to my neck
of the woods. Re your music: Nip down to The Sloop and try to sort out a gig there.....Maybe if i see you in there i'll buy you TWO pints.
Hi nice video, thanks for highlighting the Sankey Canal! You finished up at Winwick Quay which was the repair dry dock & maintenance workshop for the canal. The M62 runs past it. You were stood in Hulme Lock, the remains of the lock keeper's cottage are in the undergrowth. Sankey Canal Restoration Society is planning to do some maintenance shortly. The canal closed upstream of Earlestown in 1931 (but remained in water), sugar traffic to Earlestown stopped in 1959 and the canal formally closed in 1963. Warrington Borough Council enthusiastically filled in the canal from Newton Brook to Bewsey in the 1970s-80s.
I’m from Sankey and now in Penketh - I’d LOVE you to do a Penketh Bimble!
Loving your videos, they popped up in my feed this morning! I regularly cycle and run the Sankey and canal trails, in fact I was stopped taking pictures of the same old canal loading docks on Saturday! I shall now be binge watching 👀
Glad to see you again. Every time you came upon a dog in the speeded up bit, I held my breath 😂. I kept thinking a dog would walk in front and you'd go over the handlebars. I do miss cycling, and thankyou for taking me on such lovely sightseeing trips ❤.
There's a rather excellent moated farmhouse just off the A580 East Lancs rd at Astley, as it passes over the Bridgewater Canal. A better example would be difficult to find I think?
I’m amazed at the great tail network around Warrington, and throughout the UK. Lots of old canal paths and defunct rail lines. Great bits of history!
Grew up in Sankey and Penketh. Went to St Greg's as well. Don't live there anymore but have family in Whittle Hall. Great video.
Found your channel the other week. I've been binge watching all your vids. Brilliant seeing and learning about my local area. Keep it up, and happy Bimbling :)
Doesnt get more local than that !! Any closer and you could have popped in for a brew 😁. Good to jave Bimbles back
I lived on Saxon Park when the church was a make shift studio! Remember it well!
Barrow Hall Lane is in Sankey which you were on. All used to be fields around there. I think near Bewsey Old Hall is a square piece of grass land with a small moat around it. No water but you can see the impression.
At last! Suffering from bimble cravings- great to see you mate 🏴
Good to have you back Kieran, and that was quite a long bimble as well! Full of your usual lesser known facts and places, as enjoyable as ever. :-) (Al Kennett)
Cheers Al :)
"peak moat times"....never thought I'd hear that phrase ;-) ...needs abother video :-)
Nice to have you back Keiron. There is a Bewsey New Hall hidden in the woods . Right near Gullivers World . Keep on Bimbling .
Welcome back Mr Bimble
Hooray you're back!!
Well as a longford lad kieran the sankey canal had to be where my magnet journey had to begin , loved this bimble mate, marvelous 👌👍
Cheers magnet man :)
Rock savage, that’s my favourite song by Ultravox! Pre midge Ure.
Welcome back!
Kieran, did you see the old ship inn on the notice board where gordon sheds is, I was looking at it last week never knew it was ever there.
There's a moat at Wigan golf club
Very Very interesting thank you for a good video.
Good bimble mate talking about rocksavage power station theres a pill box by the security gates when you go down the long path to your left
Long time no see Kieran ,great to have you back, you have been missed i used to live in Latchford Wa4 ex neighbour possibly 😀. also there is a moated farm in Frodsham so you will have to go back to my home town and find it 😊😊😊
Ahhhh, normality resumes! Welcome back Kieron 🫡
I would have gone halves with you on the rent on St.Luke’s as I’d have been able to open up a free art gallery to promote Waywell art and include other northern artists work.
My sister is a Dr.Rev and her husband a registrar so we could have thrown in some free weddings and funerals to help people out.
The council have too much power to dictate what the arts council can and cannot do, I had to raise a petition (which had a great public response) to get gallery space for my dads work which quite frankly is disgusting as they should have revered him but they are seemingly against anything to do with our local history as a working class northern town.
Where the Sankey Canal is on old Liverpool road there was a spot called Sankey Bridges and he painted a few pictures of the large iron columns before they were taken down probably in war time.
Very interesting video, Thanks for making it.. As you love a church. i visited an interesting one in Gresford near Wrexham last week. A very grand one, in a small village. Even the vicar couldn't tell me why such a place was built. One day you need to visit it👍
Good to see you again mate on your trusty steed. Boss Bimble as always. Top info!!
Thanks again Kieran. Another excellent informative and humerous show. (False teethe for a wedding gift?😅)
Great to have you back Kieran. 👍🏼
Great to see you back. 😊
Im from newton great work very informative about the canal
Nice area .
Please keep up with the adventures very enjoyable.
Only just found your channel, love that music.
Brill a new Bimble, just think of you had have ran with the church I wonder who would be recording in it now.
And you could have built a moat around it !
brilliant, thank you
Have you done the plantations at Haigh Hall? There is plenty of history there
Great V,log Kieron. Who knew Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed at Bewsey Old Hall? No wonder it,s haunted with the murder,s their.
Ah, I thought it was you. I'd watched one of your other videos just a couple of hours earlier and then rode past you as you were filming at the dry dock. Next time I'll say hello. ☺
I was christened in st lukes
A new house a new bike your doing great 😂❤
Hi pal in a keen cycler and a fan of yours I live in Atherton Manchester would it be possible for us to have a ride 🚴 together 🤔
OMG, I pass by your back gate now and then on my bimbles down Sankey Valley on my Cyrusher fat tyre lekky bike from Golborne. And you passed top of my road in your Pennington Flash 'Bonk' video...🥰🥰🥰
Ahh youve moved... better area Kerian i was brought up in Penketh then moved to Orford ,both my girls went to little beaumont , sankey is a good change
Good idea them mottes keep the neighbours a bay
we walked past you when you were filming the church wife told me shout hello but i didnt want to distract you from filming.
Could you not sound proof your loft 😂😂😂😂
You were on billinge hill you said but locals know it as billinge lump mate
@@stephenswift3535 in Sankey?
@@BimblismUK no billinge
At Sutton Nash school it was always referred too as Billinge Lump. We were taught that it was a spur of the Pennines. Oh I and in St.Helens. Moggy is a mouse.
Interesting as always. Thanks. I cycle from Newton-le-Willows to the Mersey but get lost every time! Wish they had map of the canal .I wish I had a map of th canal route/Sankey valley .
Open street maps is what you need. :)