Showing my age now , can remember visiting a old friend's Gran who lived in a terrace house alongside fhe Sankey Canal within sight of the viaduct . Even think it was at a lock and the canal was still in use . This would be the early 1970's , the waterway going under the viaduct which had a pumping station under the arch and continued to run alongside Sankey Sugar Works which was still there at the time with the remains of the Loading area from factory to canal . Wow the memories that come flooding back and I'm not even 60 years of age . Less than a lifetime ago
I grew up in Newton-le Willows where the Sankey Viaduct is located. We always called it The Nine Arches, although if someone called it the Sankey Viaduct we knew what they meant. I now live in Australia and it is great to see it as it is now and remember what it was like in the 1970's
I ride my bike from Leigh to around Chat Moss and Little Woolden Moss in the warmer months with my dad and often George Stephenson comes up in conversation. This was interesting, thanks
i often stand at Edge Hill station in Liverpool thinking WOW the oldest working railway station in the world. but i love a trip now and again from Liverpool to Manchester and back just love the route, the History as you have excellently portraid here and the cities themselves where Liverpool always seem to dig and tunnel (roads and railway mersey tunnels) and Manchester go up in the air (bridges, viaducts, mancunian way). both fascinating cities and a proud historical link between them both.
My only real memory of the Huskisson memorial was in 1982, aged 15, I was training for the Newton-le Willows first ever half marathon and I was running along the A572, and I stopped at the bridge some 100 odd yards west of the memorial when I saw a friend of mine sitting atop of it. We had a shouted conversation where it transpired that he was also training for the half marathon but was taking a breather. I'm guessing that the fencing wasn't up to much then!
Brilliant video Oli, not far off the 1k sub mark now! Love how much effort you put into this and told us the timeline. Really interesting story! Thanks for sharing.
i always understood William husskinson was killed on the day of the Rainhill Trials near Rainhill Station and i`m sure the Memorial to Huskinson is near to Rainhill Station alongside the Track.
Like many my family arrived in Manchester from the country side in the 1820s and your videos help bring the working class conditions and life alive understanding the great changes for them during the industrial revolution really good job and i am sure this is the same for many who's family arrived and settled in the new industrial cities
Have u thought of doing one about the peak forest canal, Marples aqueduct being superceded by a viaduct a few decades later is one way of seeing how quickly things were accelerating back then
Slick, tasteful and professional looking production that keeps interest throughout. All that was missing was Michael Portillo's pink pants (thankfully). I really enjoyed it.
Our steam-hauled train had intended to reach Rainhill on the last Sunday of BR steam in 1968. Unfortunately, we were running so late we had to cut this bit out on our return south.
This is so fascinating to hear, the history behind these bridges and urban features really makes them come to life :D if you didn't know about them you'd just think it was depressing city features but you can really gain an appreciation for them when you know about their background
I really do hope to see the celebrations for the lines 200th anniversary!!! Probably should recreate the first day (minus accidents) of the MP and PMs journey!
Great video, i have a distant relative link to this, The Wetherburn family were engineers and drivers heavily involved with Stephenson and from family tree research seem to have been one of the drivers on this day, so this video was great to watch
Thanks for the excellent video Oli. My father was born and brought up in Worsley, just down the road from Eccles. There’s a place in Worsley called the Delph, and this was the entrance to the underground mines that ran under the moors there. It is also the starting point of the Bridgewater Canal. I visited it a few years back and to me that also is one of the origins of the whole Industrial Revolution, the mines providing the coal that was shipped by barge into Manchester, fuel for the steam age. Have you visited there ?
Great video. Don’t want to distract from the good work but you missed another Stephenson first - the first ever ‘skew’ bridge at Rainhilll station. Still there today. Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the comments. Especially like your ship canal adventures by the way....
These are known as the nine arches, it,s in a little village called earlestown, lancashire. I was born and grew up there, and in the summer I used to walk under them and take a jam jar and fishing net to see what I could catch in the canal that ran alongside. The accident happened further up the track from earlestown station. There is a memorial stone for william on the sidings at Newton le willows station.
Great video and thanks for all the effort to make it! There is also another crazy story about this amazing first railway. Apparently the final station was not supposed to be where it ended up - off Liverpool Rd - after all, at the time, that wasn't really the centre of town - and why spend all that extra expense building a huge bridge when they could stop at the Salford side and have a cheaper route to town. It was supposed to be a bit closer to central MCR on the MCR side. But as they were getting nearer to the opening day, the people building the railway found they had a conflict with an owner who still owned a single plot of land somewhere between where the station is now, and where its was supposed to be (they thought it was already bought, but turned out it wasn't). Negotiations failed to resolve in time, so they rushed the change of plans and built the station where it is now. This station, as you mention, is elevated to allow for the crossing of the river and this meant when the next station in MCR city centre was built, it had to be the same height - as all other stations. This is why every station in central MCR is elevated - all because of a mistake - though it has helped the other stations easily cross the river whenever needed such as Victoria. But that begs the question... does MCR also have the world's first elevated railway?
You didn't point out that until the useless Ordsall cord was built Liverpool road station was still connected to the mainline and reduced the space the MOSI had to run its engines. 😡🏴🇬🇧🤠
Was watching a great documentary about the world first line on tv station 'yesturday' err today... Was actually upsetting seeing that it was filmed before that line was put in and could see people enjoying a reproduction Planet whilst it was still connected... It was needed, but such a shame they couldn't work it and keep the worlds oldest station connected.
My Dad put me on to your videos and I'm proper chuffed. Amazing stuff throughout and plenty of "no way!" moments. You have an except of a film from Germany in the 1930s at around the 9m30s mark. What production is that from? Cheers
If I was to pick one day in the industrial revolution in Britain that I could have witnessed, it would have been the rainhill trials. What a day. Came alive at a school and to this day. My dad was a history teacher of the socioeconomic history of Britain. Probably a glossed over narrow view of history to be true. Though still an example of human ingenuity of the working people of Britain. Jesus, sorry for the outburst. And of course workers of the world unite- what ever conspiracy you believe
Hi Ollie, Only this past week I watched a programme on this very subject, produced by the BBC. As interesting as it was.....your programme was much better IMHO. Not just saying that either. When TV companies talk about the great achievements of the past, they talk about the owners, the wheelers and dealers, the lords and other useless hangers-on. They very rarely, if ever, talk about the people who actually did the work and whose skill and sacrifice turned rich men's dreams into reality. Wellington...what a tosser! He didn't fight or win at Waterloo, his solders did!!!! The same folk who built the Empire they received so little reward for. Even today, the wealthy ruling class believe they are entitled to do as they please....like that toss-pot currently in number 10. The irony is, it's the working class who accommodate them. Thank god I'm perfect...ha ha!!!! Thanks for this mate...thoroughly enjoyed it.
Cheers Mike. Very nice of you 😃 Yes I always hate how history is told from the point of view of the wealthiest and hardly ever from the the point of view of the people who actually made it happen. That's the great thing about Northern history I think. Its all about ordinary people building change.
The greatest viaduct I've ever seen is the one next to the Runcorn bridge av lost count on how meny arches the is this viaduct is unbelievable the must be billions of brick s used in it's construction I have watched loads of the greatest railways around the world yet this one has not had a mention on the telly that I no of yet it' would dwarf most of them just the sherr number of bricks alone if you put it into prospective the tobacco warehouse when built was the biggest brick building in the world 27 million brick in it's construction they must of used that meny bricks in the first couple of arches there that big in fact the is a church under one I would love to see a documentary on this on how meny bricks and how they built it I have looked at it on Google maps and it curves round no lazer levels back then unbelievable how they worked the geometries out the pyramids have got fk all on them
Showing my age now , can remember visiting a old friend's Gran who lived in a terrace house alongside fhe Sankey Canal within sight of the viaduct . Even think it was at a lock and the canal was still in use . This would be the early 1970's , the waterway going under the viaduct which had a pumping station under the arch and continued to run alongside Sankey Sugar Works which was still there at the time with the remains of the Loading area from factory to canal . Wow the memories that come flooding back and I'm not even 60 years of age . Less than a lifetime ago
I'm in love with railways and steam trains. I also saw the Rocket in Manchester, it was one of the greatest days of my life
I grew up in Newton-le Willows where the Sankey Viaduct is located. We always called it The Nine Arches, although if someone called it the Sankey Viaduct we knew what they meant. I now live in Australia and it is great to see it as it is now and remember what it was like in the 1970's
I ride my bike from Leigh to around Chat Moss and Little Woolden Moss in the warmer months with my dad and often George Stephenson comes up in conversation. This was interesting, thanks
i often stand at Edge Hill station in Liverpool thinking WOW the oldest working railway station in the world. but i love a trip now and again from Liverpool to Manchester and back just love the route, the History as you have excellently portraid here and the cities themselves where Liverpool always seem to dig and tunnel (roads and railway mersey tunnels) and Manchester go up in the air (bridges, viaducts, mancunian way). both fascinating cities and a proud historical link between them both.
My only real memory of the Huskisson memorial was in 1982, aged 15, I was training for the Newton-le Willows first ever half marathon and I was running along the A572, and I stopped at the bridge some 100 odd yards west of the memorial when I saw a friend of mine sitting atop of it. We had a shouted conversation where it transpired that he was also training for the half marathon but was taking a breather. I'm guessing that the fencing wasn't up to much then!
That was great I enjoyed it very much, thanks
Personally I need more maps & time so I piece it all together in my mind.
Great content.
Brilliant video Oli, not far off the 1k sub mark now! Love how much effort you put into this and told us the timeline. Really interesting story! Thanks for sharing.
Lol cheers dude. Yeah it's been a long slog hasn't it! Thanks for the support mate!
@@BeeHereNowuk Well deserved mate! You're smashing it! Can't wait for more videos.
i always understood William husskinson was killed on the day of the Rainhill Trials near Rainhill Station and i`m sure the Memorial to Huskinson is near to Rainhill Station alongside the Track.
This was great. Thank you for all your hard work producing these videos.
Brilliant. An enormous amount of work must have gone into this.
Thanks very much. Yes it took longer than I thought! 👍
This was so interesting thank you from New Zealand amazing video
Lovely lesson of history. Thank you, well done. What excites you - also excites me - you are no alone. Cheers
Fascinating storytelling. I had no idea it was such an eventful trip.
I'm 78yrs,and remember the trams in piccadilly.Also the sea mine in Piccadilly gardens.The old Manchester was a far better place than it is now.
Like many my family arrived in Manchester from the country side in the 1820s and your videos help bring the working class conditions and life alive understanding the great changes for them during the industrial revolution really good job and i am sure this is the same for many who's family arrived and settled in the new industrial cities
Fantastic video and history lesson. Your narration was perfect and enjoyable. Thanks for this story.
A great retelling of the opening of the first railway. Your videos are fascinating, please keep them coming
A cracking bit of history, very well made. Loving your channel. 🙂
An excellent vid, well researched and presented. Thank you
Beautifully produced. As stated, great huge work.
What an interesting, informative and well put together film. Well done sir!
Thank you very much 👍
Informative, interesting and very watchable. Keep them coming. Cheers Ollie.
I’ll second that sir 👌😎 fred
Have u thought of doing one about the peak forest canal, Marples aqueduct being superceded by a viaduct a few decades later is one way of seeing how quickly things were accelerating back then
Brilliant and Factual , it puts flesh on a journey most people probably don't even think twice about nowadays
Thank you very much, glad you liked it
fantastic video again! really enjoyed the story of the drunken crowd lobbing objects at wellington!
Haha, yeah as if the day wasn't bad enough. Thanks for the nice comment!
@@BeeHereNowuk I understand that they only threw stuff like rotten fruit and not stones at his passenger carriage.
Slick, tasteful and professional looking production that keeps interest throughout. All that was missing was Michael Portillo's pink pants (thankfully). I really enjoyed it.
Haha thank you. I knew I'd forgotten something!
Nice history information. Enjoyed it.
Our steam-hauled train had intended to reach Rainhill on the last Sunday of BR steam in 1968. Unfortunately, we were running so late we had to cut this bit out on our return south.
This is so fascinating to hear, the history behind these bridges and urban features really makes them come to life :D if you didn't know about them you'd just think it was depressing city features but you can really gain an appreciation for them when you know about their background
Good channel so far
Fab video, very much appreciated. Well done.
Great chanel,you deserve a medal
I really do hope to see the celebrations for the lines 200th anniversary!!! Probably should recreate the first day (minus accidents) of the MP and PMs journey!
Superb video. Love your presenting style and dedicated research to produce such quality films.
A masterpiece!!! Nice work! Loved it....moved down south this month so I'm feeling a little homesick after watching this.
Thankyou, learned a lot about the railway in this video.
Brilliant video Oli thanks again. Keep up the good work.
I enjoyed it very much, thanks
Only 6.5k views and 400 likes, you sir deserve more credit for the work that's gone into this video!
Thank you thats very nice to say. 👍🏽👍🏽
It's like a tribute to Fred Dibnah, brilliant
Fascinating documentary!
Great video, i have a distant relative link to this, The Wetherburn family were engineers and drivers heavily involved with Stephenson and from family tree research seem to have been one of the drivers on this day, so this video was great to watch
Thanks for the excellent video Oli. My father was born and brought up in Worsley, just down the road from Eccles. There’s a place in Worsley called the Delph, and this was the entrance to the underground mines that ran under the moors there. It is also the starting point of the Bridgewater Canal. I visited it a few years back and to me that also is one of the origins of the whole Industrial Revolution, the mines providing the coal that was shipped by barge into Manchester, fuel for the steam age. Have you visited there ?
I’ve seen it on my bike rides from Leigh, didn’t know all that though. Thanks
Great video. Don’t want to distract from the good work but you missed another Stephenson first - the first ever ‘skew’ bridge at Rainhilll station. Still there today. Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the comments. Especially like your ship canal adventures by the way....
Well presented well done Bill the Mancunian from W/Australia
Hilarious joke towards the end - excellent video liked well done 👍
Thank you 👍
Great and entertaining video with a whole lot of interesting information!
Seems for commuters, trains havnt changed much. Great vid
Excellent, you deserve so many more subs 👍
Well done, that way great, enjoyed that video.
I thought there would have been more about Rainhill and St Helens, maybe a bit about the intersection bridge?
Wonderful documentation about a great project!
Sunny greetings Lobo
Hey thank you very much! Love your music. Thanks for letting me use it!!
Interesting - I just randomly came across this video. William Huskisson was one of my great uncles. I never knew there was a memorial to him.
'He was an aristocrat who didn't really care about the working poor' - How things have changed.
Yet another amazing video full of historical facts. Thanks Ollie
Cheers
loved the 1930s German re-enactment footage. lol. thanks very much.
You should be a teacher, you have so much passion :)
These are known as the nine arches, it,s in a little village called earlestown, lancashire. I was born and grew up there, and in the summer I used to walk under them and take a jam jar and fishing net to see what I could catch in the canal that ran alongside. The accident happened further up the track from earlestown station. There is a memorial stone for william on the sidings at Newton le willows station.
Great video and thanks for all the effort to make it! There is also another crazy story about this amazing first railway. Apparently the final station was not supposed to be where it ended up - off Liverpool Rd - after all, at the time, that wasn't really the centre of town - and why spend all that extra expense building a huge bridge when they could stop at the Salford side and have a cheaper route to town. It was supposed to be a bit closer to central MCR on the MCR side. But as they were getting nearer to the opening day, the people building the railway found they had a conflict with an owner who still owned a single plot of land somewhere between where the station is now, and where its was supposed to be (they thought it was already bought, but turned out it wasn't). Negotiations failed to resolve in time, so they rushed the change of plans and built the station where it is now. This station, as you mention, is elevated to allow for the crossing of the river and this meant when the next station in MCR city centre was built, it had to be the same height - as all other stations. This is why every station in central MCR is elevated - all because of a mistake - though it has helped the other stations easily cross the river whenever needed such as Victoria. But that begs the question... does MCR also have the world's first elevated railway?
Wow great info thank you! That's so interesting. Never heard of that before!
I have seen the Rocket in working condition pulling coaches
I hope to fly into Manchester in 21 to thank Survivors Manchester for helping me, and I absolutely must see Rocket!
A Shame Rocket is no longer in Manchester.
Cool !!
I think George's bridge looks far better than the new one
Where did you dig up that German Re enactment...I live local and regularly cycle the paths under the viaduct.
Loads of appreciation from Pakistan for appraisal.
you used to be able to get in the top of them arches we played in them as kids
You didn't point out that until the useless Ordsall cord was built Liverpool road station was still connected to the mainline and reduced the space the MOSI had to run its engines. 😡🏴🇬🇧🤠
Was watching a great documentary about the world first line on tv station 'yesturday' err today... Was actually upsetting seeing that it was filmed before that line was put in and could see people enjoying a reproduction Planet whilst it was still connected...
It was needed, but such a shame they couldn't work it and keep the worlds oldest station connected.
The Water Street Bridge's Doric columns are represented at night with lights, not just the markers on the pavement!!!
Hey I never knew that, how cool. Thanks for the nice comments too!
Where did it all go?
I’d love to see bbc take up your work and make a great series out of it. With you of course.
Thanks that's really nice of you! 👍
1:15 one horse power please good sir!
My Dad put me on to your videos and I'm proper chuffed.
Amazing stuff throughout and plenty of "no way!" moments.
You have an except of a film from Germany in the 1930s at around the 9m30s mark. What production is that from?
Cheers
I'm not sure. I found it online but with no further details.
horse on a cart, but they didn't test Brunton's Mechanical Traveller?
If I was to pick one day in the industrial revolution in Britain that I could have witnessed, it would have been the rainhill trials. What a day. Came alive at a school and to this day. My dad was a history teacher of the socioeconomic history of Britain. Probably a glossed over narrow view of history to be true. Though still an example of human ingenuity of the working people of Britain. Jesus, sorry for the outburst. And of course workers of the world unite- what ever conspiracy you believe
In those days, what’s a few deaths 🤷🏽♂️🙈. Lives were cheap
Its tartarian ....we would struggle to build that today especially in 2 years....
Hi Ollie,
Only this past week I watched a programme on this very subject, produced by the BBC. As interesting as it was.....your programme was much better IMHO. Not just saying that either. When TV companies talk about the great achievements of the past, they talk about the owners, the wheelers and dealers, the lords and other useless hangers-on. They very rarely, if ever, talk about the people who actually did the work and whose skill and sacrifice turned rich men's dreams into reality.
Wellington...what a tosser! He didn't fight or win at Waterloo, his solders did!!!! The same folk who built the Empire they received so little reward for. Even today, the wealthy ruling class believe they are entitled to do as they please....like that toss-pot currently in number 10. The irony is, it's the working class who accommodate them. Thank god I'm perfect...ha ha!!!!
Thanks for this mate...thoroughly enjoyed it.
Cheers Mike. Very nice of you 😃 Yes I always hate how history is told from the point of view of the wealthiest and hardly ever from the the point of view of the people who actually made it happen. That's the great thing about Northern history I think. Its all about ordinary people building change.
22:55 ah, so basically the current government's opinion on trains
I created a tribute to William Huskisson at facebook.com/huskissonmemorial
Nice! Liked it
The greatest viaduct I've ever seen is the one next to the Runcorn bridge av lost count on how meny arches the is this viaduct is unbelievable the must be billions of brick s used in it's construction I have watched loads of the greatest railways around the world yet this one has not had a mention on the telly that I no of yet it' would dwarf most of them just the sherr number of bricks alone if you put it into prospective the tobacco warehouse when built was the biggest brick building in the world 27 million brick in it's construction they must of used that meny bricks in the first couple of arches there that big in fact the is a church under one I would love to see a documentary on this on how meny bricks and how they built it I have looked at it on Google maps and it curves round no lazer levels back then unbelievable how they worked the geometries out the pyramids have got fk all on them
You no ya shit mate Grt stuff👍
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