Lancashire Footnotes Episode One Hundred and Six - Silverdale
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Silverdale is a charming, coastal village in the north of Lancashire that's full of cra...er...spurious folklore and history, ranging from the Buck Stone Serpent to the Fairy Steps. An now it's got Jeanie McIntosh to add to its list of mythical creatures. Join us as we...etc...
Those ancient corpse roads beckon for another saunter, though I fear my arse may find itself wedged in the fairy steps these days. As for the inebriated denizens of the area, they sound like kindred spirits indeed!
You can't get up the Fairy Steps now...not since Jeanie McIntosh's Zimmer got stuck in 'em halfway up.
Poor Jeanie. Excellent.
She deserves it... 😜
This is a long episode, i got the popcorn and ice cream out at about 4.15, It was very enjoyable as always. Up in the lancashire border regions is great, as part of Cumbria was once Lancashire a few years back. It's only the pennines where you must heed caution as you're near white Rose territory. Look forward to the next feature length installment.
At some point we're hoping to do Coniston and Bowness - old Lancashire - when the weather's warmer and the ice cream vans are out...just because, really... 😀
@@wyrearchaeology1 Ahh Bowness high street, We go there a couple of times a year to watch the Townies wander about with Alpine snow cramps and walking poles as they scale the expensive shop windows. In july, It can't be climbed in winter apparently.
When I was a kid, many decades ago now, we used to stay a couple of times a year in a cottage on the southern banks of Coniston Water that was owned by a friend of my parents. Me and my brother would row across to the island in the middle of the lake, little realising that we were following in the footsteps of the Swallows and Amazons. It's still Lancashire as far as I'm concerned, which is a good enough excuse to go back anyhow. 🙂
Silverdale, it sounds like a kingdom in Game of Thrones, no wonder Sir Roger De Courcey and his bear had to slay hairy worms, which I expect were just friendly lil dogs, the murdering sh*t, and the last wolf, probably just a bigger dog, no wonder everyone drinks there and passes the time getting wedged in narrow crevices, thank you Brian and co.
You could expect nothing more from a man who called his bear 'Nooky' and spent most of his life with his hand up it's bottom, really...
@@wyrearchaeology1 thankfully it wasn't Nooky's arm up Rogers arse, though he did have that look about him..
I think they took it turns, and occasionally invited Emu, Rod Hull and the Krankies to join in. Er...so some bloke in the Fisherman's Arms told me.
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Loved the CGI and all the special effects. Your Professor Brainstawm efforts are amazing. Keep up the good work x
They're not special effects. We were lucky enough to encounter a few genuine 'wirms' (hairy and/or otherwise) during our expedition - and Jeanie McIntosh really does look like that. John Carpenter's special effects team couldn't recreate the true horror of it all.)
One of my favourite places is the Silverdale area. I go to Leighton moss about four times a year. And I have stayed at Challan hall, it's a bloody good B&B.
It looks like a nice place, I must admit. Apart from the dead dragon over the fireplace. 🤪
Beautiful commentary.
Ta. 🤪
🤣 Enjoyed that thanks 😂. ATB
You're welcome.
Silverdale to me is a mine in Staffordshire . One of many I worked in . Your Silverdale I have also visited to sea fish which is very good although you have to watch the tide
I misread that - I thought it said 'to see fish'. I definitely needs some new specs. 🤪
I jumped in fright at the image of Michael Portillo. You need to pre-warn of such grisly imagery. I recovered by the time you got to the steps bit, thankfully, or I might have suffered serious injury.
I can only apologise. I'm only grateful that I didn't use the photographs of Jacob Rees Mogg and Eric Pickles.
Always makes me smile, but I'm running out of patience waiting for you to find a pub called the George and iccythosaurus or indeed any made up Dino saw!
If I ever get enough money I'll open a pub called the George and the Hairy Worm, just for you. 😜
I walked down and up the fairy steps, only a small child might be able to do it without touching the sides.
And only then if they're on stilts - some of those steps are at least four and a half feet in height.
Why didn't they carve steps into the Buck stone, like they did with the one up Tatham Fell? prehistoric Yorkshire enterprise, that was. Though much depends on whether there's owt worth seeing off the top of it.
Apparently the Fairy Steps aren't carved - they formed naturally. Apparently.
I see Sir William Baguley/ Baggelegh Effigy in the opener
Is that who it was? I couldn't tell because his head had worn off.
Looked like it but could be wrong
My head's worn off a bit
I know how you feel. 🤪