You are a natural presenter, no ego, refreshingly honest, modest and bit vulnerable in some ways too. Ive watched all of your videos, theres something very special about the work you produce . Its your personality and inquisitive nature plus the time you put in to give us such quality programming.
Just watched this old one. Bloody hell, the wife was having kittens watching you near the edge of that deep water-filled well. Glad you made it back to make a few more hundred videos! Great work!!
Chris Jones i know what you mean but maybe it would be a good thing to find the undiscovered bodies of missing people. Would be good for the families, for closure
I spent a night at the Carraige House when I walked the Pennine Way. I woke up early and had a look outside. The shafts you visit were smoking/steaming like crazy (about 10 to 20 times as much as in this video). I thought there must have been a train accident. But it eased off as the day started to warm up, so it must be a lot of water vapour.
I’m also a train driver for a well known freight haulage company, you don’t see much driving through these tunnels but it’s still quite the experience and creepy 👍🏻. Keep up the great videos mate
How deep the water is does not matter if you can swim to the shore and get out fast enough. Actually, undeep water can be more dangerous because there is a bigger likelyhood you get trapped in mud. But better be prepared and better not be alone in such cases.
An outstanding effort well done , i always wanted to have a look over one of them shafts , drove past these loads off times and never knew about that well.
Awesome video again Martin , you do put yourself in some sticky predicaments , looked like you were sat on a ledge that was over that nightmarish well rather you than me lol , keep them coming cheers pete
Love watching your videos find them very interesting and enjoyable to watch. The tv is full of crap don't pay my license either not done for yrs now rather watch your videos and others similar to yours on UA-cam they are more interesting
The shaft is a balance shaft. A counterweight would have dropped down it to help raise spoil from the main vent during construction. This is why the building aligns with the vent. The incline you first walked up had rails originally and was used to lower Stone from the quarry above down to the road. The bearing mounts for the winch drum are still in situ at the very top
The building originally housed a water balance engine to raise the excavated waste from the tunnel workings. It was a more economical method than burning coal as the tub raising waste up the nearby shaft was connected to another tub by a rope or chain through a reduction pulley arrangement which ran over a grooved wheel and went down the much shallower, as seen (now completely flooded) balance pit. The tub in the balance pit was filled with water at the top of the shaft until it had sufficient weight to raise the waste filled tub at the tunnel headings at the bottom of the working shaft. Upon reaching the balance pit bottom, a valve on the tub opened releasing its water into a drainage adit and a nearby stream. After being emptied, the spoil tub would again descend to the tunnel workings to be filled, where the cycle, all controlled by means of a braking system continued. The traces of the water courses built to supply the water can still be seen on the hillside. Great video!
@@MartinZero I'm happy to have been able to provide a snippet of info' on the subject. I lived in Saddleworth and was always fascinated by the industrial remains relating to the tunnels and surrounding villages. Your work is second to none, very compelling to watch and inspirational.
Love that area of moors between Greenfield and Marsden, I've spent many hours tramping those hills, lots of features to explore both natural and man made.
The rectangular building across the road seems to built around the two original Redbrook shafts. It says in www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/tunnels/standedge.html that these had forced ventilation by arranging for water to fall down the "down cast" shaft, carrying air with it which then escaped back up the "up cast" shaft. Perhaps they experimented with the same idea at the two flint pit shifts, which would at least explain why they are so close together.
I also stumbled on your channel after watching the "trapdoor in the canal" video and are now a subscriber. I love your way of calculating the vent depths, I thought it would be interesting to use a fishing rod with a fairly heavy lead weight on the end and lower this into the well then measure afterwards. Your format and informative content are very entertaining, 10/10
Super Martin! Shall watch again later,so love how you teach about a side of Manchester we do not always hear of. I am still heading over in 19. Great job.
Great adventure again Martin, passed that way dozens of times over the years. The building could have an(stream) engine house, maybe for a machine or crane bringing spoil out of the shaft. Dug by hand but machinery to lift rock etc.
I was looking at the moor and thinking i could cover some miles walking lol. When you sunk the camara under the water on this video, i would of been scared in case i found a body! Another great video Martin 😀
Martin Zero I thought aswell that would have been great to lower the gopro fully down to the bottom of the well to see if there’s anything interesting in there. Have a good one Martin
Another great video Martin. Some digging around and it turns out the structure was an old flint pit - will probably predate the Standedge Tunnels for a few years I would reckon - the building structure looks late 1700s to my eyes too.
@@MartinZero Think it is just flooded - loads of surface run off and that channel you stuck the GoPro up - probably hasn't been used for nigh on 150 years!
@@MartinZero I'm not well up on mining history although it does look like a shaft - the way it is brick lined. That said, it looks like the structure is now owned by British Waterways - the danger sign - some proper research would need to be done to confirm it!
Hi Martin, looking at the 1890 map of that area the building you explored is listed as a Flint Pit, possibly a shaft where you could be hoisted down to a seam of flint, now flooded. By the way great you tube channel, cheers Ash
Hi Ash many thanks. Yes I know some of the maps you mean. It probably is a flint pit but what confuses me is its directly above Standedge tunnels. I wonder if it was initially a flint pit and then maybe workings for Standedge ?
There is a tunnel in Massachusetts called Hoosic,the date says 1877,but it took nearly 20 years to complete. They tried an early version of a tunnel machine ,but it failed leading to manual methods with about 200 men lost. I so want to go through it,almost 5 miles through mountains.
If you search around the internet you can find several accounts of explores in the Hoosac Tunnel. It's just a few hours drive west of me(I live on the coast). I'd love to do an explore of that tunnel; have wanted to for years, but its too dangerous. The tunnel is still active and the schedule has no regularity to it. The trains run at random and as needed. You do not want to be in a 4.75 mile long tunnel with no place to go when a freight train is bearing down on you! The story of the Hoosac is an interesting one for sure. Quite the feat to construct, as it was the second longest tunnel in the world when it opened and was the longest in all of N. America for 40 years. Its still the longest active tunnel east of the Rocky Mountains. Many new technologies and innovations were used in its construction making it the grandfather of long tunnels in the USA. It was also nicknamed "The Bloody Pit" because of the death toll. It's supposedly haunted.
Martin if you want to dangle your GoPro down a hole, try the huge one about a mile east of J27 on the M62 West Bound, right at the side of the motorway. It's a Biggy ! 😊 I'm guessing its a ventilation or spoil shaft from a tunnel, which one I don't know. The one you said smelt of diesel and was steaming, is probably the one that the train caught fire with a 700 ton load of petrol and diesel on board..... which is what you can probably still smell |I guess ??? Anyway, excellent and interesting as always Cheers Roj
"It looks bleak" you say, but I am drinking in that landscape with awe and wondering about all the different and unique species living there and wanting to study them . My botany and ecology petticoats are showing, I'm sure, but that is a magnificent environment!
When mining in damp areas , there's always water draining into and collecting at the bottom of the excavation . The deeper they went , more water would have needed to be pumped out . Enjoy your explorations of this famous area of early industry ! You look very agile , but please have a redundant safety rope when you explore the edges . As you get older the small odds add up . Hope we all can heed this . Enjoy
Another great video ! The underwater sequence scared the sh.t out of me. The added music was terrifying and I was expecting any moment a banshee to come from the depth to grab the camera....
Well done again. That well was the stuff nightmares are made of. Falling in there and you could have major issues getting back out. Was half expecting you to see the remains of the last person who tried to see what was down there :-) Don't know why but the scene in the murky water was quite un nerving to watch! That smaller tunnel was defiantly man made. two slabs tall with a slab on top. Guess that was to supply water to the other structure.
A fishing rod is a perfect tool to explore areas with the Gopro. The waterproof housing with some steel nuts to make it sink and even if the fishing line cuts off for some reason and the gopro went down you can still try to find the nuts attached to the waterproof housing with a magnet. Cheap and worked brilliant in the past.👍
lovely place!!! i found a sheep skull up where you were when i was a child and took it home. I loved the vents. The cliffs are woorth a look also. I found where sheep slept and cliff faces. Best footage so far of hidden places, and i dont think that footage has been captured before.WELL DONE Martin.
@@MartinZero I agree about its eerie nature. You might be able to put the go pro in a clear perspex box with some sealant around the edges. Attach it to a fishing rod to and lower it down??? :)
Another superbe vid martin 😊 the well you found is the remsins of a bore that was used to pump water out of the workings it is capped 500 feet below the water level
@@MartinZero the airshafts go down to the rail line which is 600 feet below that area the sump in question which at one piont during construction was used to clear the workings via a steam pump due to the amount of water encountered was caped at 500 feet to prevent water runoff from entering the tunnels. The side pipe you looked into was part of a water collection system for thr engine
600 feet my god, Blackpool tower is 518 feet !!! Ok I want to put something to you. I have read there were no steam pumps. it was all by hand and pulleys and buckets ? It was found it was difficult and inefficient to use steam. What are your thoughts
@@MartinZeroyou are right my friend the tunnel itsself was effectivley dug with bucket and spade but the water needed to be pumprd out hence the engine house your good self found
That definitely was Marijuana plants down the round chimney, where you extended your gopro. Hahaha. BTW, I've been binge watching your channel for 21h now, best show ever. I just love history and you search for some exciting places.
I think your explanation for the deep well is spot on. The mechanical parts would have been in that ruin, on the floor level. I share your trepidation for it too. What a grim looking hole. All the metal bars and rammel in that mirky still water could snag your clothes if you fell in. Could snag your clothes, come loose and drag you to the bottom. It gives me the heebejeebees looking at it from here in my arm chair. Can You remember the advertisements in the summer holidays, warning us to stay away from places like that. I could hear the wicked laughter echoing from the 70's when you were' testing the ground'! Should'nt mess like that on your own Martin. Go pro on a rope would be good though next time? I imagine it's a long way to the sleuce gate into the canal. I dread to think what you might find down that horrible shaft.
Cracking climbing on those cliffs. If you carry on up the obvious incline, there's the remains of the old winding house for the quarry at the top. If you follow the terrace at the base of the cliffs to the right, there's a square shaped quarry where they cut the rocks on 3 sides. A footpath runs past the front of it and there's a dry-stone bench looking out over the moors. There's a poem carved into the stone near that. :)
Cracking film Martin. On the way back from Huddersfield this summer I took my 6 year old up to them building ruins, the one that you said was probably a shelter.. that's exactly what I told my kiddy, a shelter for farmers or shepherds. The vents deserve a nosy with a drone. As for that well.... Sod that I know where I'd end up! 😁
Great little adventure for your little one. Yes has to be some kind of shelter that. I need to see into the taller vent. First thing I'll do if I get a drone
@@MartinZero she loved it. She has got urbex wrote all over her!! 😁 loves being out and about and she has developed a passion for just looking around. Ever since the bee hunt she has started noticing things..
The sign says "Danger Keep out" "Oh it must have been dangerous at one time" You think just like me, I mean that in a good way. LOL Glad you came out OK... All's well that ends well.... Great work......
Guess it won't be any siphon for the canal. The canal is way to much down there. Looks like an old well for the building once stood there. Might be a little mill or a farmer who kept sheep in the moors (and the well was in the cellar). Well is obviously build to collect the water coming of the hill; well would be to get easy acces to drinking water for the family/workers/animals around the building. As to keep the water cool and up to a certain amount to get through dry seasons, that well might be several meters deep (in The Netherlands those wells were mostly build several meters into the groundwater level). So good choice to don't get anywhere too close to the edge.
Years ago when I lived in Huddersfield, I managed to look inside one of these vents there was a hole in the wall which I was able to partially crawl through, there was just a circular hole surrounded by grass. I was scared to completely crawl through incase the ground around the vent wasn't stable. I think it was the upper of the 2 vents in this video. It was in the mid 90s I think.
ik this is an old video but that thing you was looking at is a water basen (old water storage) we have tons in my town most of them drained now but interesting to see a full one :)
Another great video Martin & you managed to not lose the Go PRO Your getting better I was thinking you where going to fall in you were so close to the edge .
Hello, hope your well. Yeah it was strapped on with tape pretty tight 😃 yes looking back it looks like am right on the edge but I was sat quite back. I felt safe anyway. That well gave me the creeps
I love the idea of what you are doing hope there are many more videos to come . Love the train spotter cup . I'll have to see what we have at work when I'm back as I work on a heritage railway that never ran under British Railway always a light Railway.
@@MartinZero Look up derwent valley light railway york . I'm sure you would like it all be we only have 1/2 mile of track we want to start raising funds to take it back towards its original starting point
Respect to the people who built those shafts. Wouldn't fancy being lowered down into the bowels of the earth to lay another course of stones. They were needed in steam days to help prevent blowbacks from the firebox due to air pressure.
Watching this again (it fascinates me, to be honest), at 19:00, That stream is in a man-made culvert, with blocked sides and flagged and corbelled base and top. It might be rewarding to clear away the greenery and topsoil, for a few yards, and see where it goes back to.
They used to call them Soughs! Many were simply trench dug and planked over. The planks would rot and collapse, but H+S were not high on the agenda back then!
No way. I stopped to look at that same same vent a few years back. I thought i could look down it to. I remember slipping on my arse on the way down un my new trackys. Crazy. 👍
I absolutely *love* the first shot you show of the two pit shafts and the spoil heap between them. Re the view where you mention the 'worn path' that goes up at the back of the pit shaft towards another area of spoil heaps higher up, do you think that path could have been a small truck-road (rally-roads, they used to call them near me!) to send spoil down the hill to the road? It's such a defined path that seems to have deliberate embankments on either side ... (or am I imagining it all!). I *so* love this series of videos, Martin, they are amazing. Wish I could be brave enough to go up there, but I might have to do with Google Earth ... too scary to go on my own, and I don't think any of my friends are mad enough! Ha-ha :o) Thank you again :o)
You are a natural presenter, no ego, refreshingly honest, modest and bit vulnerable in some ways too. Ive watched all of your videos, theres something very special about the work you produce . Its your personality and inquisitive nature plus the time you put in to give us such quality programming.
Totally agree
Better than anything on TV...no BBC biased and no adverts, very educational too. well done Martin.
As Peter Crenshaw, from the Three Investigators, would say:” I’ll buy a double helping of that”
Russell Martin Kenny no BBC biased. Lol I am glad I am not the only person to think that.
Just watched this old one. Bloody hell, the wife was having kittens watching you near the edge of that deep water-filled well.
Glad you made it back to make a few more hundred videos!
Great work!!
Yeah I wouldn’t fancy falling in there. It would be easy to as well.
That little seep coming out of thr rocks certainly looked man-made it might have been interesting to see where it came from after all
Lowering a strong magnet down the well might be interesting, who knows what old relics lurk in the depths, could be an interesting video
Dnuddz I really like this idea
Dnuddz i agree would be interesting. He could also attach a line to the go pro and lower it further down to see how deep and what is down there
I'd be too scared to explore moors because precious children have been lost there from hindley and Brady monsters
Chris Jones i know what you mean but maybe it would be a good thing to find the undiscovered bodies of missing people. Would be good for the families, for closure
Down down into the abyss. That’s fascinating but quite terrifying and how dangerous just left with a bit of a fence to keep people out. Love it !
"I'm not going in the the tunnel or anything..."
It's fun watching these out of order. :)
I spent a night at the Carraige House when I walked the Pennine Way. I woke up early and had a look outside. The shafts you visit were smoking/steaming like crazy (about 10 to 20 times as much as in this video). I thought there must have been a train accident. But it eased off as the day started to warm up, so it must be a lot of water vapour.
Interesting! I like how comfortable you seem when talking to camera, It makes me smile 😊
I lived in Huddersfield for a while and I have walked up to these tunnel vents. Neat!
I’m also a train driver for a well known freight haulage company, you don’t see much driving through these tunnels but it’s still quite the experience and creepy 👍🏻. Keep up the great videos mate
"Ooh it's flopping, I've got a bit of droop" at 7:50 Brilliant!!!!
Droop is never good 😆
Nothing but love for this and all your other videos.
Thanks for educating us.
Thank you very much
OOO I got very nervous watching you near that deep water!!! Please take care! Oh my lord i had the shivers watching this!
How deep the water is does not matter if you can swim to the shore and get out fast enough. Actually, undeep water can be more dangerous because there is a bigger likelyhood you get trapped in mud.
But better be prepared and better not be alone in such cases.
An outstanding effort well done , i always wanted to have a look over one of them shafts , drove past these loads off times and never knew about that well.
Thanks Colin
Your videos are bloody marvelous
Awesome video again Martin , you do put yourself in some sticky predicaments , looked like you were sat on a ledge that was over that nightmarish well rather you than me lol , keep them coming cheers pete
Love watching your videos find them very interesting and enjoyable to watch. The tv is full of crap don't pay my license either not done for yrs now rather watch your videos and others similar to yours on UA-cam they are more interesting
Wow that looked deeeeep great vid 👏
You gave me me sanity in a mad world, thanks Martin,😃😃
The shaft is a balance shaft. A counterweight would have dropped down it to help raise spoil from the main vent during construction. This is why the building aligns with the vent. The incline you first walked up had rails originally and was used to lower Stone from the quarry above down to the road. The bearing mounts for the winch drum are still in situ at the very top
Have you been up there Dave
@@MartinZero yes. A couple of years ago.
The building originally housed a water balance engine to raise the excavated waste from the tunnel workings.
It was a more economical method than burning coal as the tub raising waste up the nearby shaft was connected to another tub by a rope or chain through a reduction pulley arrangement which ran over a grooved wheel and went down the much shallower, as seen (now completely flooded) balance pit.
The tub in the balance pit was filled with water at the top of the shaft until it had sufficient weight to raise the waste filled tub at the tunnel headings at the bottom of the working shaft.
Upon reaching the balance pit bottom, a valve on the tub opened releasing its water into a drainage adit and a nearby stream.
After being emptied, the spoil tub would again descend to the tunnel workings to be filled, where the cycle, all controlled by means of a braking system continued.
The traces of the water courses built to supply the water can still be seen on the hillside.
Great video!
Thank you very much for the info, great stuff 👍
@@MartinZero I'm happy to have been able to provide a snippet of info' on the subject.
I lived in Saddleworth and was always fascinated by the industrial remains relating to the tunnels and surrounding villages.
Your work is second to none, very compelling to watch and inspirational.
Love that area of moors between Greenfield and Marsden, I've spent many hours tramping those hills, lots of features to explore both natural and man made.
Hi Chris, yeah beautiful place. 👌
that was a old engine house to pump water out of the tunnels when they was being built abiit like the one across the road
Thats interesting Brian. Do you think its just flooded over the years ?
Yes mate I did have a old picture of it but can’t seem to locate it if I do will post it up
The rectangular building across the road seems to built around the two original Redbrook shafts. It says in www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/tunnels/standedge.html that these had forced ventilation by arranging for water to fall down the "down cast" shaft, carrying air with it which then escaped back up the "up cast" shaft. Perhaps they experimented with the same idea at the two flint pit shifts, which would at least explain why they are so close together.
As Peter Crenshaw, from the Three Investigators, would say:” I’ll buy a double helping of that”
I love your enthusiasm, Martin.
Thanks Allan
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I also stumbled on your channel after watching the "trapdoor in the canal" video and are now a subscriber.
I love your way of calculating the vent depths, I thought it would be interesting to use a fishing rod with a fairly heavy lead weight on the end and lower this into the well then measure afterwards.
Your format and informative content are very entertaining, 10/10
Thanks very much glad you enjoyed. I did love looking at those shafts
Fantastic video again. Best channel on youtube
Thank you very much Carl
Always wondered how big those things were! It's fascinating seeing them up close
Yes very deceiving from the road. Hard to work out 😃
We all drive past these amazing secret places daily but Google maps is also a great way of seeing landscapes and a few hidden Gems well done Martin
Hi Mark, thanks very much 👌
Really enjoyed the video martin plus your innovations. Ive been quiet for awhile so really glad to be back and watching you great videos. Thank you
Hi Dave many thanks. When you have no drone a long stick will do 😆
Martin: assembling a super long selfie stick with a broom handle.
Me: *MacGyver theme starts playing in my head*
That was great Martin never expected to see the metal platform in the chimney 👍👍👍
Another great video Martin, thanks once more. We aren't 'Trainspotters' we're Railway Enthusiasts.
All the best.
Thanks Mike 👍
Super Martin! Shall watch again later,so love how you teach about a side of Manchester we do not always hear of. I am still heading over in 19. Great job.
Thanks Andrew, yeah out on the edge this one, foreign territory 😁
Another great one Martin. You are the Northern Tony Robinson.
Ha, Thanks Simon 😃
Wonderful as always .. and from the colonies, listening to your accent is so enjoyable, thank you Martin
Great adventure again Martin, passed that way dozens of times over the years. The building could have an(stream) engine house, maybe for a machine or crane bringing spoil out of the shaft. Dug by hand but machinery to lift rock etc.
I think thats what it was 👍
bloody wonderful that was martin and the good old gopro done us proud cheers from trev
Cheers Trevor
The Go-pro goes, where Zero daren't Go 😲😲 🤔 brilliant videos 👌🏻👌🏻 keep em coming Mr zero 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ha Thank you. Yep I do like to stick the go pro in things 😆
@@MartinZero myself and wife to be (this year) Luv watching your videos 👌🏻 well made, factual always great to watch #keepupthegoodwork ✌🏼
Really like you videos it’s nice to see other places and its history
I was looking at the moor and thinking i could cover some miles walking lol. When you sunk the camara under the water on this video, i would of been scared in case i found a body! Another great video Martin 😀
Hi Mary, yes that shaft was very scary
You are awesome. So glad I found your channel! Take care. :)
Another interesting vid Martin, thanks
Thank you
Martin Zero I thought aswell that would have been great to lower the gopro fully down to the bottom of the well to see if there’s anything interesting in there. Have a good one Martin
Great video Martin! Keep it going!
Another great video Martin. Some digging around and it turns out the structure was an old flint pit - will probably predate the Standedge Tunnels for a few years I would reckon - the building structure looks late 1700s to my eyes too.
Wow really !!! Flint ? Wonder where the well came into it ? or is it just flooded ?
He obviously found the same map as me! Another great vid mate. imgur.com/a/fqQCNLB
Ahh yes looks like a busy area with Quarries. Don't explain the shaft though ? or is it a well. Or was the shaft a mine ?
@@MartinZero Think it is just flooded - loads of surface run off and that channel you stuck the GoPro up - probably hasn't been used for nigh on 150 years!
@@MartinZero I'm not well up on mining history although it does look like a shaft - the way it is brick lined. That said, it looks like the structure is now owned by British Waterways - the danger sign - some proper research would need to be done to confirm it!
So that spring in the rock near the end, was a man made little canal, with a roof on it , as the sides were made from packed rectangular rocks
Yes! I noticed that as well. An old irrigation channel?
@@SarahGreen523 Possibly a drainage channel for the quarry at the top of the hill
@@Goldie644 @Martin Zero Or a water supply for the steam engine?
Hell Yeah, Awesome Effort
Hi Martin, looking at the 1890 map of that area the building you explored is listed as a Flint Pit, possibly a shaft where you could be hoisted down to a seam of flint, now flooded. By the way great you tube channel, cheers Ash
Hi Ash many thanks. Yes I know some of the maps you mean. It probably is a flint pit but what confuses me is its directly above Standedge tunnels. I wonder if it was initially a flint pit and then maybe workings for Standedge ?
There is a tunnel in Massachusetts called Hoosic,the date says 1877,but it took nearly 20 years to complete. They tried an early version of a tunnel machine ,but it failed leading to manual methods with about 200 men lost. I so want to go through it,almost 5 miles through mountains.
Hi Andrew sounds very interesting. 5 Miles is a hell of a way. Was it a road tunnel ? is it in use ?
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If you search around the internet you can find several accounts of explores in the Hoosac Tunnel. It's just a few hours drive west of me(I live on the coast). I'd love to do an explore of that tunnel; have wanted to for years, but its too dangerous. The tunnel is still active and the schedule has no regularity to it. The trains run at random and as needed. You do not want to be in a 4.75 mile long tunnel with no place to go when a freight train is bearing down on you! The story of the Hoosac is an interesting one for sure. Quite the feat to construct, as it was the second longest tunnel in the world when it opened and was the longest in all of N. America for 40 years. Its still the longest active tunnel east of the Rocky Mountains. Many new technologies and innovations were used in its construction making it the grandfather of long tunnels in the USA. It was also nicknamed "The Bloody Pit" because of the death toll. It's supposedly haunted.
Brilliant vidio..love to see that go pro go down on a line to the bottom of the well.......
Me to Phill, But I think I'd lose it 😬
excellent video very interesting, and that well was scary as hell
I did lol at 6.49. Class. Thanks fer splitting yer kex in the name of adventure.
Anytime 😄
What a strange building y would it have a well in it I'm stumped by this one
It was a disused shaft and engine house for the Standedge tunnels
Martin if you want to dangle your GoPro down a hole, try the huge one about a mile east of J27 on the M62 West Bound, right at the side of the motorway. It's a Biggy ! 😊
I'm guessing its a ventilation or spoil shaft from a tunnel, which one I don't know.
The one you said smelt of diesel and was steaming, is probably the one that the train caught fire with a 700 ton load of petrol and diesel on board..... which is what you can probably still smell |I guess ???
Anyway, excellent and interesting as always
Cheers Roj
Sounds great, Ive had a quick look on maps cant see it ?
@@MartinZero Hi Martin, love your videos! I think this are the shafts coordinates on google maps: 53.732578, -1.611506
Nice one Martin
"It looks bleak" you say, but I am drinking in that landscape with awe and wondering about all the different and unique species living there and wanting to study them . My botany and ecology petticoats are showing, I'm sure, but that is a magnificent environment!
It is bleak but in a beautiful way Sarah
I’m beginning to think Martin that you’re totally mad lol, that had me on the edge of my seat it was fantastic
Wow bit risky sat at the side of that well Martin . Very interesting stuff
When mining in damp areas , there's always water draining into and collecting at the bottom of the excavation . The deeper they went , more water would have needed to be pumped out . Enjoy your explorations of this famous area of early industry ! You look very agile , but please have a redundant safety rope when you explore the edges . As you get older the small odds add up . Hope we all can heed this . Enjoy
Another great video ! The underwater sequence scared the sh.t out of me. The added music was terrifying and I was expecting any moment a banshee to come from the depth to grab the camera....
Yes Tom it was scary to look back at and I mean that
Martin fence hopping is the most majestic thing, like a gazelle!😅😉
Well done again. That well was the stuff nightmares are made of. Falling in there and you could have major issues getting back out. Was half expecting you to see the remains of the last person who tried to see what was down there :-) Don't know why but the scene in the murky water was quite un nerving to watch! That smaller tunnel was defiantly man made. two slabs tall with a slab on top. Guess that was to supply water to the other structure.
Yes it was very creepy and unnerving. I get what you mean about the underwater footage. The whole thing is scary and shouts out Death !!!
You ain't kidding. A great vid though!
A fishing rod is a perfect tool to explore areas with the Gopro. The waterproof housing with some steel nuts to make it sink and even if the fishing line cuts off for some reason and the gopro went down you can still try to find the nuts attached to the waterproof housing with a magnet. Cheap and worked brilliant in the past.👍
Question is : how long should be the fishing line !
@@tomjoad1363 How deep do you want to go? ;-)Just make sure it's a strong one!
@@John.Doe_ Yep cause even if the camera weights almost nothing, the rope itself will weight something. I would try to go to the end of it.
lovely place!!! i found a sheep skull up where you were when i was a child and took it home. I loved the vents. The cliffs are woorth a look also. I found where sheep slept and cliff faces. Best footage so far of hidden places, and i dont think that footage has been captured before.WELL DONE Martin.
Thanks Martin. Its a beautiful and eerie place. I wish I could of got even better footage underwater so fascinating
@@MartinZero I agree about its eerie nature. You might be able to put the go pro in a clear perspex box with some sealant around the edges. Attach it to a fishing rod to and lower it down??? :)
Fishing rod Idea is good 👍🏼
Very amazing video well done and I love listening to your videos as I am blind and I am a white cane long cane user
Hi Richard thanks mate. Hope your good
@@MartinZero I am doing ok mate
Not seen yet, great video of those shafts in wonderful surroundings Martin!!
Thank you Flo
Enjoyed the video. Thank you
Great video again! The concrete hut, a pillbox from WW2 maybe to offer some defence against sabotage?
Yes I believe it was Jonathan
100% a pill box ww1 or 2 not sure.
Another superbe vid martin 😊 the well you found is the remsins of a bore that was used to pump water out of the workings it is capped 500 feet below the water level
Hello many thanks for the info. Yes am starting to understand now what it is. Do you mean its 500 feet deep ?
@@MartinZero the airshafts go down to the rail line which is 600 feet below that area the sump in question which at one piont during construction was used to clear the workings via a steam pump due to the amount of water encountered was caped at 500 feet to prevent water runoff from entering the tunnels. The side pipe you looked into was part of a water collection system for thr engine
600 feet my god, Blackpool tower is 518 feet !!! Ok I want to put something to you. I have read there were no steam pumps. it was all by hand and pulleys and buckets ? It was found it was difficult and inefficient to use steam. What are your thoughts
@@MartinZeroyou are right my friend the tunnel itsself was effectivley dug with bucket and spade but the water needed to be pumprd out hence the engine house your good self found
That definitely was Marijuana plants down the round chimney, where you extended your gopro. Hahaha. BTW, I've been binge watching your channel for 21h now, best show ever. I just love history and you search for some exciting places.
AWESOME SHOW!!
I think your explanation for the deep well is spot on. The mechanical parts would have been in that ruin, on the floor level. I share your trepidation for it too. What a grim looking hole. All the metal bars and rammel in that mirky still water could snag your clothes if you fell in. Could snag your clothes, come loose and drag you to the bottom. It gives me the heebejeebees looking at it from here in my arm chair. Can You remember the advertisements in the summer holidays, warning us to stay away from places like that. I could hear the wicked laughter echoing from the 70's when you were' testing the ground'! Should'nt mess like that on your own Martin. Go pro on a rope would be good though next time? I imagine it's a long way to the sleuce gate into the canal. I dread to think what you might find down that horrible shaft.
Yes it gave me the creeps. Am no daredevil so I wasn't getting too close. I had a mate with me. Yes I remember that advert 😆
Great video. Scary old well though!
Hi, yes that Well was an unexpected scary find
Good video
Hiya brilliant video we love it up there so beautiful 🙂
Hi Teresa yes a beautiful but foreboding place 😬
Cracking climbing on those cliffs. If you carry on up the obvious incline, there's the remains of the old winding house for the quarry at the top. If you follow the terrace at the base of the cliffs to the right, there's a square shaped quarry where they cut the rocks on 3 sides. A footpath runs past the front of it and there's a dry-stone bench looking out over the moors. There's a poem carved into the stone near that. :)
I really need to go back there and explore further 👍
Cracking film Martin. On the way back from Huddersfield this summer I took my 6 year old up to them building ruins, the one that you said was probably a shelter.. that's exactly what I told my kiddy, a shelter for farmers or shepherds. The vents deserve a nosy with a drone. As for that well.... Sod that I know where I'd end up! 😁
Great little adventure for your little one. Yes has to be some kind of shelter that. I need to see into the taller vent. First thing I'll do if I get a drone
@@MartinZero she loved it. She has got urbex wrote all over her!! 😁 loves being out and about and she has developed a passion for just looking around. Ever since the bee hunt she has started noticing things..
Great stuff. She's got soul 👌
Another great video Martin yes it might be an old pump house
Thanks Brian, yep possibly
Again, brilliant!
Thanks Dave
Interesting video as always. Could the ruined building have been for pumping water out of the tunnel?
Found you by chance great watching your videos
Thanks Stuart 👍
The sign says "Danger Keep out" "Oh it must have been dangerous at one time" You think just like me, I mean that in a good way. LOL Glad you came out OK... All's well that ends well.... Great work......
Well done....I'd never have risked a go-pro ..glad it survived .Mor ethank you jeans did ,Great red undies btw ..*
Ha you cant go playing out in your best jeans, hence the red undies 😆
Very true but thought you ripped em on video .So now I get it ripped jeans and red undies are your hazard warning ... Terrific lol
Definitely need to get a magnet down that well
Guess it won't be any siphon for the canal. The canal is way to much down there. Looks like an old well for the building once stood there. Might be a little mill or a farmer who kept sheep in the moors (and the well was in the cellar). Well is obviously build to collect the water coming of the hill; well would be to get easy acces to drinking water for the family/workers/animals around the building. As to keep the water cool and up to a certain amount to get through dry seasons, that well might be several meters deep (in The Netherlands those wells were mostly build several meters into the groundwater level). So good choice to don't get anywhere too close to the edge.
Another great video Martin.
Years ago when I lived in Huddersfield, I managed to look inside one of these vents there was a hole in the wall which I was able to partially crawl through, there was just a circular hole surrounded by grass. I was scared to completely crawl through incase the ground around the vent wasn't stable. I think it was the upper of the 2 vents in this video. It was in the mid 90s I think.
ik this is an old video but that thing you was looking at is a water basen (old water storage) we have tons in my town most of them drained now but interesting to see a full one :)
Thanks, its a flooded shaft
Another great video Martin & you managed to not lose the Go PRO
Your getting better I was thinking you where going to fall in you were so close to the edge .
Hello, hope your well. Yeah it was strapped on with tape pretty tight 😃 yes looking back it looks like am right on the edge but I was sat quite back. I felt safe anyway. That well gave me the creeps
I love the idea of what you are doing hope there are many more videos to come . Love the train spotter cup . I'll have to see what we have at work when I'm back as I work on a heritage railway that never ran under British Railway always a light Railway.
Really thats fantastic. Id love to come along !!!
@@MartinZero Look up derwent valley light railway york . I'm sure you would like it all be we only have 1/2 mile of track we want to start raising funds to take it back towards its original starting point
You have a class 03 !!! Last saw one of those at Stratford Diesel depot London
Respect to the people who built those shafts. Wouldn't fancy being lowered down into the bowels of the earth to lay another course of stones. They were needed in steam days to help prevent blowbacks from the firebox due to air pressure.
It must have been horrible going down there, Mega deep
Watching this again (it fascinates me, to be honest), at 19:00, That stream is in a man-made culvert, with blocked sides and flagged and corbelled base and top. It might be rewarding to clear away the greenery and topsoil, for a few yards, and see where it goes back to.
They used to call them Soughs!
Many were simply trench dug and planked over. The planks would rot and collapse, but H+S were not high on the agenda back then!
Enjoyed that very interesting, so glad you did the pro camera, just shows you don't now what your walking on history,👍
Hi kay. Yes definitely. The well was quite a mystery !!!
Another good video Martin. I had visions at one point of your stick coming back up without your GoPro on the end of it. Thankfully it didn’t though. 👍
Hi Simon, it was pretty nerve wracking I tell you. In both cases I wasn't getting it back if it went in 🤣
Brilliant video cool GoPro footage great underwater shots in the well
hope you threw a coin in & made a wish 👍
Hi mate, cheers, yeah wish I could of gone deeper in the well. Forgot to make a wish 🙁
Nice view and awesome vlog handsome Martin
Thanks very much Adil
Love to see how deep that well was Martin. You got to go back wth the gopro on long fishing line . 👍
I think its mega deep. 😱
Yeah please do it Martin!
No way. I stopped to look at that same same vent a few years back. I thought i could look down it to. I remember slipping on my arse on the way down un my new trackys. Crazy. 👍
Hi Ned, yeah you don't get the impression of its height from the road. Hope the trackies weren't white 😁
@@MartinZero 😂👍
I absolutely *love* the first shot you show of the two pit shafts and the spoil heap between them. Re the view where you mention the 'worn path' that goes up at the back of the pit shaft towards another area of spoil heaps higher up, do you think that path could have been a small truck-road (rally-roads, they used to call them near me!) to send spoil down the hill to the road? It's such a defined path that seems to have deliberate embankments on either side ... (or am I imagining it all!). I *so* love this series of videos, Martin, they are amazing. Wish I could be brave enough to go up there, but I might have to do with Google Earth ... too scary to go on my own, and I don't think any of my friends are mad enough! Ha-ha :o) Thank you again :o)
Come to think of it , it could have been a tramway Ani
This reminded me of the Iain Banks novel 'Complicity', in which a railway tunnel vent shaft plays a large part.
Looks like some sort of old pump house? Maybe! 👻
Yeah possibly, its hard to find info on it ?
You could try asking people that's lived around in that area...
I am on it Christian 👍
The brick work is fantastic