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You see - this is why TV is dying ; I have just happily sat here for 28 minutes watching a bloke hunting around for a particular type of brick from Accrington - and then getting excited about a chimney made from those bricks ; love your content - always a little sad to see the state of the high street when you do those videos.
I live in Accrington and have done all my life 😊 I'm only 41 mind. I have never seen your content before but I saw you getting the half a brick from poundland and were curious as to what you were doing until I saw someone post your video on a local forum. I just wanted to say thank you, people come to these run down towns that used to be the backbone on the country and do nothing but slag it off and it's people. The town might be run down thanx to the councils ect but the people take pride in what they have and will do anything for people 😊. I love your content mate, not because you came to Accrington ,the rest on your content is second to none. I love your enthusiasm and the fact you can see past the the disrepair and deadness of the places you go and take people as you find them 😊
Accy bricks,a nightmare even for top bricklayers. The building lad you talked to was correct.Nori is Iron backwards. If you could lay them you could lay owt. The Burnley bricklayers were experts but the Blackburn lads couldn't lay straight in bed.
I am an Accrington lass born and bred,I still love our little town.Our bungalow is built with Nori brick,Internet bloke had to drill a hole inside to out so he could feed a cable through he had to charge his drill as he was drilling for ages before he managed to get the hole for the cable..There are still nice areas in the town,but people who video just tend to film the town centre which is a sad sight nowadays,but most of Accringtonions are a very friendly bunch.
Dont know.how i got.on your channel but i watched until the end because i loved the way the local people were so nice and found time to talk to you...A rare quality 😂😅😂😅
I live in Accrington, and worked at Accrington brickworks with my dad, he started there from when he left school at 15, definitely the strongest bricks ever, thank you for the video.
Do you not have a problem with his pronunciation of the Iron brick. I`m in the comments before i`ve even watched the rest of the video because it`s Nor.... eye. Hence chuck half a Nori through the window. At 18 mins he finally gets it right after three different people correct him. Crisis averted.
@@eugenemclemmont4045What a good story about how typesetting IRON went awry. Eye-Ron forwards, Nor-Eye read, as on the brick. If it’s true, I guess they just stuck with it and it became world famous.
@@GT380man Yep its true , the first bricks just had iron on them , not Accrington other wise that would have been backwards as well. Its the story i`ve always been told from childhood.
Unfortunately, everywhere is dying, except bloody London. Bet there's even places there that are failing too. I'm in Scotland, if you're not in Glasgow or Edinburgh you're screwed.
Another super video. I geew up in Dill Hall Lane, Church, a suburb of Accrington, in a 1920's semi-detached house built of NORI bricks. I now live nesr Scarborough but i am very proud of my roots! Accrington seemscto be best known, besides bricks, engineering and cotton, for Accrington Stanley. Go well. Keep wandering!
Absolute banger mate. Never thought bricks would be THIS interesting. The fact that your north face hat becomes more lopsided as the manic chase for bricks progresses is just epic.
Thanks for showing Accrington in a positive way. I lived there in my formative years for 13 years in the 1960's and 1970's. I remember the overhead tramway that carried the clay from the clay quarry behind The Coppice to brickworks over towards Huncoat. It went over Burnley Road just up from the crematorium. There was a big rope net underneath above the road to catch any clay debris that fell out. As a kid I found that really impressive. All that effort going into making top bricks. My heart will always belong to Accrington ❤
This American watches the Wandering Turnip and loves his UA-cam videos. I now want to go to Accrington to see the town. Great chimney, built out of Nori bricks! Good on you, Mr. Turnip!
I can relate so much to this video,I moved to England in 99 from Italy ,soon after a girl on holiday ,staying where I lived asked me what she could bring back as a present that represented England and could be original…I went out and brought her back an accrington nori brick.
My house is Accrington brick, it took an Openreach guy two drill bits to get through it. I bus pass it to Accrington regularly on the X41 just for the journey, and a meal. The main square is very impressive, telling how wealthy and significant a place it once was, and the streets all around are quirky and odd shaped. Despite its isolation, amid countryside, it's still very much alive. I feel comfortable there, and pleasantly grounded.
My son works at Accrington Brickworks, it’s a new facility run by a company called Forterra which opened in 2015. They can produce 45 million bricks a year and have an adjoining quarry which contains around 40 years worth of clay. They have recently expanded to produce brick slips which are in demand as a non flammable cladding for buildings.
What amazing people you found in Accrington! I live in Dubai now but went to school in Blackburn with a load or awesome people from Accy. Thanks for all your content… I really enjoy them! Thanks David! 🙏
Brilliant and where else in the world would you get so excited over bricks!!!!! Your a great ambassador for the North of England ...I wonder if there is anything that dates the bricks? you next task is to find the oldest one!!!!!!
Hello David. Great to see your quest for NORI bricks was fruitful. I live in a very small village in rural Ayrshire, S.W.Scotland over the past few years mountain biking and exploring lost villages of Ayrshire and hunting down locations of historic industrial sites. I found a few bricks made in local brick works. I now have several Littlemill and Annbank bricks in our back garden being put to use supporting our sheds and there are a few I have used as part of a rock crawler course for my radio controlled off road cars. I also have a few sections of the original clay water pipes that used to feed water to the village from a natural spring a mile up the hill. Nice to have a few little bits of local industrial history. Enjoying your videos, Keep on exploring. I hope You wrap Your dad's special brick in brick paper for Xmas! All the best from Scotland.
These towns were the centre of the manufacturing ecosystem that was Victorian Britain. I’m from Birmingham though I claim zero personal knowledge. It too was an incredibly important place for a long time. What I’ve come to realise over recent years is the extent to which the decline of the whole state of affairs is in no way natural, accidental or unavoidable. No, it was actively chosen as an industrial strategy (well aware the naming of the plan that did all this is ironic). I genuinely get emotional when I think about what’s been done to people, the very many, in other to serve the desires of the very few. Meanwhile, what a lovely group of people who the WT spoke with. The guy who got him a Nor-Eye brick, evidently choosing a nice example. Aren’t people good?
What a great video! I am a Londoner, who hasn't travelled up North for many years. In a sane world, Accrington's lovely shops and buildings could be restored, because they are still so beautiful.
Very nice! I had a friend, years ago, who collected bricks. I got him a marked one that he was searching for. He used them to make a patio at home. Great job! Cheers!!
I can't believe I spent 30 minutes or-so of my life watching this but it was 30 mins of total quality. Thanks very much for this, rounded my day off perfectly! Having visited Thiepval Memorial several years ago, I'm also suitably impressed that they're there as well. Fantastic history.
even if it's a topic of which I have no underlying interest, it's amazing to watch someone with such unbridled passion try to convey that subject. I now know about something of which previously I knew nothing and who knows, at some point in future I may have a use for that knowledge and I will recall your passion whenever that happens. Seriously love your videos and look forward to ones in the future, especially overseas. Keep up the good work!
Accrington and it's people are bloody lovely. Im a regular at a tattoo studio in central Accy (you actually walked past it, same road as where the fella left you the first brick) and every single time I'm there, I couldn't get a warmer welcome from anyone I bump into or have a chat with.
@@dylanrolph3278agree, i was a guide in a Palmerston Fort in Hampshire, we had master brickmakers that would come in just to see the Fareham red bricks, they were fascinating
Turnip! Myself and teen kids absolutely love your content 😊 I'm a Wiganer myself, and I've watched you now for ages and the history in your local footage is getting better and better! Keep it up! Very educational. Northerners are absolutely the best! Always there to help. Couldn't be more proud 😊❤
Best UA-cam video I’ve seen all year David. You had me and the missus engaged from start to finish. Great energy, hope you get enough Nori’s to make a MASSIVE chimney! 👍
Accrington brick is a lot tougher than modern brick, our old house was Accrington brick and when my dad tried to drill through it, it broke his drill. My mum also told me that when they wanted to add an extension she requested Accrington brick the builder said you're not making a fortress that's an engineering brick. She got it anyway didn't even cost that much more and looks a lot nicer.
See my comment above. Yesterday I tried to drill into a German imperial brick and the very pointy Bosch chissel went in for 5 millimeter and all I could see was that it made sparks where the drill hit the brick. I tried it 2 cm to the side but it did not break. I gave up and had to use a crow bar to force the brick out of it's position ( above a door from 1870. Brick is from 1860). Real good German quality.
Fred Dibnah Would be proud of you.. My Granddad was a builder and as a child we would build fires with a chimney, that was 60 years ago, shame we can not time travel back to then..
Another brilliant video. Informative and considerate as always. Being from Burnley, it's nice to hear somebody cheering on Northern towns for a change.
If I spent the day walking around Accrington looking for a very specific type of brick and then told my wife what I'd been doing, she'd purse her lips, nod once and say, "Sounds about right." New subscriber, loving it!
Mate your channel is so good. This kind of journalism is what's missing from the BBC and C4. As someone that lives in Horsham and has always lived in the South (Reading previously) this is such a great window into the realities of what is happening in the rest of the country. I love that you cover both the good and the bad, mixed in with some ace history and a tangible pride and fondness for our country. Anyway, just wanted to say I think your content is brilliant and gonna recommend it to people from now on.
im a surrey lad..chiddingfold, i moved up to accrington a decade ago and i will see out my days here, i love it..the people are the best part of Lancashire no matter which town, village or city you go to
Accrington was also (sadly) famous for its Pals battalion which was almost wiped out at Serre on the Somme 1 July 1916. They say just about everyone in the town knew someone who had died.
What a wonderful video. Your enthusiasm is always so engaging but this was something else. When you revealed all the bricks in your car I wiped away a tear. And the final shrine to the Nori brick made me grin from ear to ear.
I enjoyed this far more than a fully functioning adult should, but seriously this was class, I love your enthusiasm for everything you do… it warms my heart, never lose your ability to find true excitement in what most would find mundane. ( That’s a compliment btw ). Thanks for bringing such bloody awesome content I love them all. Blessings to you & yours 🙏✌️ Peace to you ( a legend in the making my friend ).
I love your channel! I'm Canadian, so seeing and learning about different places around England outside of London is fascinating. I was genuinely excited when you started to find the bricks.
What a fantastic fun video that was, the sheer joy of yourself ,the pleasant people everywhere in Accrington , best video I have watched on UA-cam for a while ,oh and informative, I ever watch TV anymore this is a golden example of why cheers.
I like the language that you use and the committment and passion, you bring to things a great sense of occasion and the peopple you meet genuinley like you :)
I LOVE this video - I live near Kendal and love your stories. The people of Accrington seem so friendly and genuine - just as they are over my way! Thanks for an interesting and refreshing video - finding and showing us all some of the good that can still be found, no matter how neglected a place may be! Excellent!
Great video, got me looking into the history of the bricks myself as I live about 10 minutes away from the brickworks at Altham/Whinney Hill. An interesting fact, our house is a new build on an estate across the M65 opposite Whinney Hill, and our deeds state we’re not allowed to produce bricks at the property (not that we’re too upset by that) but just shows how big the industry was around here and how much they wanted to protect the brickworks
Love your enthusiasm! It is so contagious! Never before have I been so interested in bricks! And never before have I been as happy as when you found several NORI bricks! Keep up the great videos!
I only remembered Accrington from a very old TV advert & "Accrington Stanley" football club, was mentioned in the ad. Now I've learnt about their world famous bricks, that helped build The Empire State, which I once took a lift to the top. Quality content video.
Wow this is so interesting for me, my grandmother was born there and took a boat when she was still a baby with her parents all the way to Aotearoa! Amazing to see where my family comes from. Thanks for all the great videos
Hello David what a funny video. I’m glad you found your bricks lol. But most of all I was so impressed with the lovely friendly people of Acrington, reminds me of my home town growing up. I’m so pleased you were made welcome. Happy Days 👍🥰
Enjoyable for you to make. And enjoyable for me to watch. You bring the viewer along with you. I look forward to your new videos. And the brickworks are still there ! A positive video in a friendly town. Terrific. From Australia.
"Look at that quality signage, nowt fancy, just fish." I love your hunt for Accrington bricks and I really enjoy local histories from everywhere. Thanks WT for another great video! Cheers from Canada P.S. Wikipedia on Accrington says that Accrington Nori bricks were used in the construction of the Empire State Building!
My parents were Accrington born & bred and I'm saddened to see the state of the place now. My grandfather was a past treasurer of the Mechanics Institute. Tesco's is on the site of the original Accrington station, have look on a map to see just how big the station area was. Congrats on getting the bricks. The overhead railway that gentleman mentioned was a cable rope way, it crossed Burnley Road outside my Godmother's house, I used spend hours as a kid watching the buckets of clay. My Dad told the story that "NORI" came about because the guy who made the mould got the letters "IRON" back to front. I remember seeing the chimney with "NORI" on it in huge letters. I notice you missed the "Arden Inn" pub.
Thanks to your tour of Accrington I now know more and appreciate what the town contributed via the NORI brick - I love it - an accidental mirror of IRON!! You are a great documentary creator.
I used to work in construction in London where the main old brick are yellow stocks. I have seen those red bricks in many places, especially the further north you go. I was always told they are called engineering bricks because they are so durable. What a great vid and really cool to know where they come from.
About 12 years ago I used to write a blog on KFC (Kentucky Fried Bloggin) We were invited to KFC HQ in Louisville Kentucky by YUM Brands. We went over to the US and rented a car, we did a 3 month driving tour of KFC restaurants. When we arrived at the worlds first KFC in Salt Lake City it had been demolished. I still have one of the bricks from it. I remember it cost me £60 in overweight baggage flying home.
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theres a growing drug problem in accy as with most large towns in lancashire
Please show us your dad's brick collection?
@MostlyLoveOfMusic Danzig's evil bricks
Prity sure got couple in ma kitchen
Imagine Poundland giving away half a brick for zero LOL
You see - this is why TV is dying ; I have just happily sat here for 28 minutes watching a bloke hunting around for a particular type of brick from Accrington - and then getting excited about a chimney made from those bricks ; love your content - always a little sad to see the state of the high street when you do those videos.
I have a TV, but rarely watch it. Why pay a TV licence for state propaganda?
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I live in Accrington and have done all my life 😊 I'm only 41 mind. I have never seen your content before but I saw you getting the half a brick from poundland and were curious as to what you were doing until I saw someone post your video on a local forum. I just wanted to say thank you, people come to these run down towns that used to be the backbone on the country and do nothing but slag it off and it's people. The town might be run down thanx to the councils ect but the people take pride in what they have and will do anything for people 😊. I love your content mate, not because you came to Accrington ,the rest on your content is second to none. I love your enthusiasm and the fact you can see past the the disrepair and deadness of the places you go and take people as you find them 😊
Back in the 90s I'm sure you can remember it wasn't like the sad state its in today, it was bustling
I've been in Accrington a few times and gone to top of hill and seen the view Jeanette Winterson saw though it's probably changed since then.
Well said mate.
Really, that was one of your best posts mate, thanks on no short measure to the great people of Accrington.
Accy bricks,a nightmare even for top bricklayers.
The building lad you talked to was correct.Nori is Iron backwards.
If you could lay them you could lay owt.
The Burnley bricklayers were experts but the Blackburn lads couldn't lay straight in bed.
I am an Accrington lass born and bred,I still love our little town.Our bungalow is built with Nori brick,Internet bloke had to drill a hole inside to out so he could feed a cable through he had to charge his drill as he was drilling for ages before he managed to get the hole for the cable..There are still nice areas in the town,but people who video just tend to film the town centre which is a sad sight nowadays,but most of Accringtonions are a very friendly bunch.
Dont know.how i got.on your channel but i watched until the end because i loved the way the local people were so nice and found time to talk to you...A rare quality 😂😅😂😅
One of the friendliest places ive ever been, it was so much fun to make
People in Lancashire are so friendly. Everyone he meets just wants to help him without being asked.
I live in Accrington, and worked at Accrington brickworks with my dad, he started there from when he left school at 15, definitely the strongest bricks ever, thank you for the video.
Do you not have a problem with his pronunciation of the Iron brick. I`m in the comments before i`ve even watched the rest of the video because it`s Nor.... eye. Hence chuck half a Nori through the window. At 18 mins he finally gets it right after three different people correct him. Crisis averted.
@@eugenemclemmont4045What a good story about how typesetting IRON went awry. Eye-Ron forwards, Nor-Eye read, as on the brick.
If it’s true, I guess they just stuck with it and it became world famous.
@@GT380man Yep its true , the first bricks just had iron on them , not Accrington other wise that would have been backwards as well. Its the story i`ve always been told from childhood.
When I first moved accrington it was ok now it's just dead
@@eugenemclemmont4045 Nori through the window, now there's a saying I haven't heard in a while.
Q: "What did you watch on TV last night? “
A: I watched someone wandering round looking for a brick. TV is dead! 👍
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Id pay a tv license for this kind of quality content. Stick your celebrity jungle nonsense
Man Looks for Bricks is surprisingly compelling viewing!
I bet there were few jewellers bricking it when you walked past!
Loved the video, I'll have to show to my dad - he was a brickie for 50 years.
ididnt realise that watching a man look for bricks in Accrington could be so much fun, like your chimney ❤
Great video, I am 71 years old and lived in Accrington all my life. The town is dying but the people are very friendly.
Friendliest place I’ve ever been in England, and I’ve been everywhere
@@wanderingturnip what about the pub where they let you stay,they were very friendly
Unfortunately, everywhere is dying, except bloody London. Bet there's even places there that are failing too. I'm in Scotland, if you're not in Glasgow or Edinburgh you're screwed.
"The town is dying but the people are very friendly." Print that out for every town these days
Looks like it's already dead
Another super video. I geew up in Dill Hall Lane, Church, a suburb of Accrington, in a 1920's semi-detached house built of NORI bricks. I now live nesr Scarborough but i am very proud of my roots!
Accrington seemscto be best known, besides bricks, engineering and cotton, for Accrington Stanley.
Go well. Keep wandering!
A big thank you ti the legend who left the brick
I know I want to find that guy and buy him a pint
NO-RI ... I -RON ! Hahaha!
Class. The way you look into these traditional industries and your enthusiasm for our country is something else mate
Absolute banger mate. Never thought bricks would be THIS interesting. The fact that your north face hat becomes more lopsided as the manic chase for bricks progresses is just epic.
Thanks for showing Accrington in a positive way. I lived there in my formative years for 13 years in the 1960's and 1970's. I remember the overhead tramway that carried the clay from the clay quarry behind The Coppice to brickworks over towards Huncoat. It went over Burnley Road just up from the crematorium. There was a big rope net underneath above the road to catch any clay debris that fell out. As a kid I found that really impressive. All that effort going into making top bricks.
My heart will always belong to Accrington ❤
You Brits are just awesome. From New England, cheers.
You New Englanders are pretty awesome as well. :)
As if somebody from new England has seen accy town class😂
You dont know us very well
Which New England? There's one in Australia, inland from Newcastle, where coal comes from :-).
@endintiers The ORIGINAL New England, dating from the early 1600s. The six northeastern most states of the US.
This American watches the Wandering Turnip and loves his UA-cam videos. I now want to go to Accrington to see the town. Great chimney, built out of Nori bricks! Good on you, Mr. Turnip!
I can relate so much to this video,I moved to England in 99 from Italy ,soon after a girl on holiday ,staying where I lived asked me what she could bring back as a present that represented England and could be original…I went out and brought her back an accrington nori brick.
My house is Accrington brick, it took an Openreach guy two drill bits to get through it. I bus pass it to Accrington regularly on the X41 just for the journey, and a meal. The main square is very impressive, telling how wealthy and significant a place it once was, and the streets all around are quirky and odd shaped. Despite its isolation, amid countryside, it's still very much alive. I feel comfortable there, and pleasantly grounded.
I just watched a video about something I have zero interest in, yet still enjoyable to see someone else be so interested in it
My son works at Accrington Brickworks, it’s a new facility run by a company called Forterra which opened in 2015. They can produce 45 million bricks a year and have an adjoining quarry which contains around 40 years worth of clay. They have recently expanded to produce brick slips which are in demand as a non flammable cladding for buildings.
That’s just bloody brilliant. Cheers for that.
Do they export?
What amazing people you found in Accrington! I live in Dubai now but went to school in Blackburn with a load or awesome people from Accy. Thanks for all your content… I really enjoy them! Thanks David! 🙏
Brilliant and where else in the world would you get so excited over bricks!!!!! Your a great ambassador for the North of England ...I wonder if there is anything that dates the bricks? you next task is to find the oldest one!!!!!!
Hello David. Great to see your quest for NORI bricks was fruitful. I live in a very small village in rural Ayrshire, S.W.Scotland over the past few years mountain biking and exploring lost villages of Ayrshire and hunting down locations of historic industrial sites. I found a few bricks made in local brick works. I now have several Littlemill and Annbank bricks in our back garden being put to use supporting our sheds and there are a few I have used as part of a rock crawler course for my radio controlled off road cars. I also have a few sections of the original clay water pipes that used to feed water to the village from a natural spring a mile up the hill. Nice to have a few little bits of local industrial history. Enjoying your videos, Keep on exploring. I hope You wrap Your dad's special brick in brick paper for Xmas! All the best from Scotland.
These towns were the centre of the manufacturing ecosystem that was Victorian Britain. I’m from Birmingham though I claim zero personal knowledge. It too was an incredibly important place for a long time.
What I’ve come to realise over recent years is the extent to which the decline of the whole state of affairs is in no way natural, accidental or unavoidable. No, it was actively chosen as an industrial strategy (well aware the naming of the plan that did all this is ironic). I genuinely get emotional when I think about what’s been done to people, the very many, in other to serve the desires of the very few.
Meanwhile, what a lovely group of people who the WT spoke with. The guy who got him a Nor-Eye brick, evidently choosing a nice example. Aren’t people good?
What a great video! I am a Londoner, who hasn't travelled up North for many years. In a sane world, Accrington's lovely shops and buildings could be restored, because they are still so beautiful.
You have got me looking at chimneys with admiration (sometimes) and your enthusiasm about a nori brick is infectious.Well done!
Very nice! I had a friend, years ago, who collected bricks. I got him a marked one that he was searching for. He used them to make a patio at home.
Great job! Cheers!!
I can't believe I spent 30 minutes or-so of my life watching this but it was 30 mins of total quality. Thanks very much for this, rounded my day off perfectly! Having visited Thiepval Memorial several years ago, I'm also suitably impressed that they're there as well. Fantastic history.
I can't believe I missed this _brilliant_ brick hunt.. 😄 So glad you mentioned it on your latest upload..
I never thought Id find bricks so exciting
Real life Minecraft - Northern Version.
@@charlottewebster4233Brilliant 😂
even if it's a topic of which I have no underlying interest, it's amazing to watch someone with such unbridled passion try to convey that subject. I now know about something of which previously I knew nothing and who knows, at some point in future I may have a use for that knowledge and I will recall your passion whenever that happens. Seriously love your videos and look forward to ones in the future, especially overseas. Keep up the good work!
Accrington and it's people are bloody lovely. Im a regular at a tattoo studio in central Accy (you actually walked past it, same road as where the fella left you the first brick) and every single time I'm there, I couldn't get a warmer welcome from anyone I bump into or have a chat with.
The chimney with the wooden base made me smile from ear to ear
Everything is just so brilliantly unhinged!
@@bradleyforde2601😂😂😂 can’t deny it
This is easily my favourite video of yours, who knew finding bricks could be so exciting. Accrington is on my list to visit next week now!
Wish I could get this enthusiastic about anything! 🙂
Born and raised in Accy, as kids we used to play in the old clay quarry which no longer exists, now a refuge dump. Love your vids and enthusiasm
Me too,it was a adventure playground
Used to freeze over in winter up there ..dangerous but ...we were kids
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The one on the Altham side of the quarry?we used to swim in there in the summer and break the ice in winter👍
What a legend! Only northerners do this kind of stuff! Never been so excited about a brick before! Good on ya lad!
Not only Northerners get excited about the simple things in life... We r from Suffolk and love to collect original bricks! ❤
@@dylanrolph3278agree, i was a guide in a Palmerston Fort in Hampshire, we had master brickmakers that would come in just to see the Fareham red bricks, they were fascinating
Need a good quality brick when it rains most days!
Love how friendly and helpful everyone was. Bet your Dad loved his present
Glad I managed to get you halfway onto your journey, never realised how northern I sound 😂
I was on Piccadilly Radio as a teen and when I said “Oh it’s great” they kept taking the P out of my Rochdale accent 🤣😂🤣😂
Absolute legend thanks for the help 👏👏
Is that you at 16:44 👍🏽
@@J.A.Madventures no I'm at beginning with the voiceover and Poundland
Good work fella
Turnip! Myself and teen kids absolutely love your content 😊 I'm a Wiganer myself, and I've watched you now for ages and the history in your local footage is getting better and better! Keep it up! Very educational. Northerners are absolutely the best! Always there to help. Couldn't be more proud 😊❤
Honestly love comments like this 👍 hopefully lots more vids to come 😃😃
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Best UA-cam video I’ve seen all year David. You had me and the missus engaged from start to finish. Great energy, hope you get enough Nori’s to make a MASSIVE chimney! 👍
What about all his other videos throughout the year🤣
Accrington brick is a lot tougher than modern brick, our old house was Accrington brick and when my dad tried to drill through it, it broke his drill. My mum also told me that when they wanted to add an extension she requested Accrington brick the builder said you're not making a fortress that's an engineering brick. She got it anyway didn't even cost that much more and looks a lot nicer.
See my comment above. Yesterday I tried to drill into a German imperial brick and the very pointy Bosch chissel went in for 5 millimeter and all I could see was that it made sparks where the drill hit the brick. I tried it 2 cm to the side but it did not break. I gave up and had to use a crow bar to force the brick out of it's position ( above a door from 1870. Brick is from 1860). Real good German quality.
Another great video. Always admire the respect you pay to the local people, taking the time to listen to their stories 🙏🏻
No doubt the people of Accrington can feel immense pride in their proud engineering history
Love to see a place where everybody is proud of and knows about their local history and industry
This video put a big smile on my face. Seeing you so excited and happy and everybody being kind and nice in that city. Thanks
Fred Dibnah Would be proud of you.. My Granddad was a builder and as a child we would build fires with a chimney, that was 60 years ago, shame we can not time travel back to then..
Another brilliant video. Informative and considerate as always. Being from Burnley, it's nice to hear somebody cheering on Northern towns for a change.
I love Accrington. Great charity shops, friendly people.
That was so nice of that builder to leave that brick for ya 🙌🏼
Did the clubs many times 70/80 s always went down well with the audience’s, really happy memories. Good solid folk and the salt of the earth 👏
If I spent the day walking around Accrington looking for a very specific type of brick and then told my wife what I'd been doing, she'd purse her lips, nod once and say, "Sounds about right." New subscriber, loving it!
Mate your channel is so good. This kind of journalism is what's missing from the BBC and C4. As someone that lives in Horsham and has always lived in the South (Reading previously) this is such a great window into the realities of what is happening in the rest of the country. I love that you cover both the good and the bad, mixed in with some ace history and a tangible pride and fondness for our country. Anyway, just wanted to say I think your content is brilliant and gonna recommend it to people from now on.
im a surrey lad..chiddingfold, i moved up to accrington a decade ago and i will see out my days here, i love it..the people are the best part of Lancashire no matter which town, village or city you go to
Another " smile all the way through " video. Marvellous!
You did Accrington a great service 👏
Apparently The Empire State Building used Accrington Bricks in it's foundation. Awesome
Accrington was also (sadly) famous for its Pals battalion which was almost wiped out at Serre on the Somme 1 July 1916. They say just about everyone in the town knew someone who had died.
What a wonderful video. Your enthusiasm is always so engaging but this was something else. When you revealed all the bricks in your car I wiped away a tear. And the final shrine to the Nori brick made me grin from ear to ear.
Fantastic - I enjoyed every minute. Your Dad is going to be well pleased with his brick.
I enjoyed this far more than a fully functioning adult should, but seriously this was class, I love your enthusiasm for everything you do… it warms my heart, never lose your ability to find true excitement in what most would find mundane. ( That’s a compliment btw ). Thanks for bringing such bloody awesome content I love them all. Blessings to you & yours 🙏✌️ Peace to you ( a legend in the making my friend ).
It’s crazy that us northerners aren’t taught things like the NORI brick! Great history! Great video!
Great video. I live in the north, it deserves more love like this. Well done.
i love the fact you have covered this part of east lancs, shows how much has been taken from us.
I love your channel! I'm Canadian, so seeing and learning about different places around England outside of London is fascinating. I was genuinely excited when you started to find the bricks.
Im in pure admiration and happiness for your enthusiasm for bricks
There are still very nice people left out there. Thanks for helping him out and merry Christmas
What a fantastic fun video that was, the sheer joy of yourself ,the pleasant people everywhere in Accrington , best video I have watched on UA-cam for a while ,oh and informative, I ever watch TV anymore this is a golden example of why cheers.
I like the language that you use and the committment and passion, you bring to things a great sense of occasion and the peopple you meet genuinley like you :)
Bro ive never laughed harder over bricks mate
I LOVE this video - I live near Kendal and love your stories. The people of Accrington seem so friendly and genuine - just as they are over my way! Thanks for an interesting and refreshing video - finding and showing us all some of the good that can still be found, no matter how neglected a place may be! Excellent!
Im a southener ..worked all over Lancashire during the 90s ....great place great people.
What a stunningly good video. Enthusiasm, a bit of history, and a reflection of the genuine niceness of ordinary, everyday people.
24 bricks = an advent calendar for your dad! 🧱
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Or a little wall
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I felt quite invested in your brick discovery's. What a bunch of lovely people you met there.
Great video, got me looking into the history of the bricks myself as I live about 10 minutes away from the brickworks at Altham/Whinney Hill.
An interesting fact, our house is a new build on an estate across the M65 opposite Whinney Hill, and our deeds state we’re not allowed to produce bricks at the property (not that we’re too upset by that) but just shows how big the industry was around here and how much they wanted to protect the brickworks
Love your enthusiasm! It is so contagious! Never before have I been so interested in bricks! And never before have I been as happy as when you found several NORI bricks! Keep up the great videos!
I only remembered Accrington from a very old TV advert & "Accrington Stanley" football club, was mentioned in the ad. Now I've learnt about their world famous bricks, that helped build The Empire State, which I once took a lift to the top. Quality content video.
You just really made me laugh, seeing you trying to carry that pile of old bricks while filming!
Cheers for that, mate. I needed that! 😂
Wow this is so interesting for me, my grandmother was born there and took a boat when she was still a baby with her parents all the way to Aotearoa! Amazing to see where my family comes from. Thanks for all the great videos
I love your respect and enthusiasm for Britain's industrial history! Your videos are some of the best on youtube. Greetings from Calgary, Canada
Thanks!
Thank you so much 👏👏👏
Hello David what a funny video. I’m glad you found your bricks lol. But most of all I was so impressed with the lovely friendly people of Acrington, reminds me of my home town growing up. I’m so pleased you were made welcome. Happy Days 👍🥰
Enjoyable for you to make. And enjoyable for me to watch. You bring the viewer along with you. I look forward to your new videos. And the brickworks are still there ! A positive video in a friendly town. Terrific. From Australia.
"Look at that quality signage, nowt fancy, just fish." I love your hunt for Accrington bricks and I really enjoy local histories from everywhere. Thanks WT for another great video! Cheers from Canada P.S. Wikipedia on Accrington says that Accrington Nori bricks were used in the construction of the Empire State Building!
How anyone could make a video on bricks so enjoyable? Cheers mate, from a Geordie.
great episode, glad you found your brick and met such good people along the way
Fantastic vid, dude! Love the positivity and passion for history. Reminds me of your chimney vids. More industrial history vids please!
My parents were Accrington born & bred and I'm saddened to see the state of the place now. My grandfather was a past treasurer of the Mechanics Institute. Tesco's is on the site of the original Accrington station, have look on a map to see just how big the station area was. Congrats on getting the bricks. The overhead railway that gentleman mentioned was a cable rope way, it crossed Burnley Road outside my Godmother's house, I used spend hours as a kid watching the buckets of clay. My Dad told the story that "NORI" came about because the guy who made the mould got the letters "IRON" back to front. I remember seeing the chimney with "NORI" on it in huge letters. I notice you missed the "Arden Inn" pub.
Thanks to your tour of Accrington I now know more and appreciate what the town contributed via the NORI brick - I love it - an accidental mirror of IRON!!
You are a great documentary creator.
I'm genuinely happy for you, what a heart-warming quest. Well done!
I used to work in construction in London where the main old brick are yellow stocks. I have seen those red bricks in many places, especially the further north you go. I was always told they are called engineering bricks because they are so durable. What a great vid and really cool to know where they come from.
Love it. Great video. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
This is probably your best video yet. I was on invested in your quest for a brick.
Great vid man 👍
Happy to hear that the cool guy at the 10:00 minute mark said nori and not norry as you were saying it. 😀
Those locals were some of the most friendly on the channel. Did you know that "nori" in Japanese means seaweed.
Ha ha - reminds me of when Mrs Slocombe made a joke about Accrington on Are You Being Served.
About 12 years ago I used to write a blog on KFC (Kentucky Fried Bloggin) We were invited to KFC HQ in Louisville Kentucky by YUM Brands.
We went over to the US and rented a car, we did a 3 month driving tour of KFC restaurants. When we arrived at the worlds first KFC in Salt Lake City it had been demolished. I still have one of the bricks from it. I remember it cost me £60 in overweight baggage flying home.
What a fantastic thing for a dad to collect! That's very special and perfect for encouraging thought rather than expense.