We Found the Most Unique Underground Room
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- I very nearly didn’t make a video on this.
All my life I have lived here completely unaware of what history was under my feet.
I also love that this site had a direct connection with WW2 and years later it has become home to military vehicles once again.
The 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion has an incredibly interesting history of its own and well worth reading about.
The Hall was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and would be the only one of his structures to be demolished.
So what do you think we should do with our findings?
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Restoring the lily pond would be a nice tribute to the old house
And to the troops stationed in it during the war
Agreed. That would really be a fitting memorial.
Nah, not worth it. Sure a loose Centurion will run through it soon.
@@lawrencetrow6394there were WW2 troops in the lily pond?
Was this part under the butlers quarters?
It's a shame that hall was demolished in the first place. It was a national tragedy that so many places like this were demolished after the war when no-one could afford their upkeep. You could do something Colin Furze style with those rooms - all you need to do is make a slightly domed concrete cap for a roof. It would make a cosy little snug where you could have a drinks cabinet and a sofa and have a memorial to the hall itself. 😊
Demolished because no one could afford to run it.
@@Rover200Power Demolished because the powers-that-be jacked up the taxes.
@@LandersWorkshop yup inheritance tax was the thing then
@@LandersWorkshopWhat happened was that Labour put up death taxes in a deliberate attempt to destroy families who had built up an estate. When they couldn't pay, many houses were 'nationalised' (stolen by the state).
@@LandersWorkshop well there was a war that needed paying for . . .
Just spat my tea out 'can I come in ur trench' .....😂😂
Have you never seen "Time Team" a standard Tony Robinson remark.
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Best comment ever
Said Tony Robinson to Phil Spencer...LOL
At least Joe said trench and not hole 😂
What a shame, that mansion was demolished.
From my library degree, a lot of houses like this were lost after WW1 esp after WW2 because of the deaths of owners/families in the war and a lack of money to pay for repairs/upkeep so 100s if not 1,000s were just left to rot.
A lot of councils' public archives are made up of people going to these houses when they were falling down/left abandoned and getting papers. Books and libraries out of the houses.
@@QALibraryI think a major issue was inheritance tax.
In addition, military occupation of the houses took a toll on the structures and at the end of the war it may likely have been in poor condition.
would not have these nutters messing around with tanks if it was
@@mpage6593 Our local Mansion was used by the SAS during the war. Allegedly a jeep was driven up the grand staircase. Luckily it was sold to the local council and eventually saved(after 22 years of dereliction) My father was stationed at Roughwood Park SOE training school during the war. They managed to blow out some lead light windows with the back blast from a bazooka!🙄
It's one of the worst parts of being young and not knowing. Not knowing to pay attention or talk with those that when you are older, you would give nearly anything to speak with again even if only or a day.
This, is very, very appreciated by my family here. Dad from Smeaton, mum from Harbourgh, both gone now. Dad told me of the base and the aircraft operating from it during the war. My grandmother was a nurse at St Lukes Hospital for decades, she often had to fight off the advances by the Americans on her daughters, lol. First view of the bottles told me they were very old, i guessed a manor house or property of note was nearby, but, was never mentioned by my parents. There was years ago big property buildings in Gumley, one burnt down in the late 1960's. I briefly lived in Smeaton next to the western side farms, then 2 years in Little Bowden. Harborough Grammar school, 1973-1976, any of your family at that school then ? Kind regards, Gaz, Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺. 👍👍👍
Thank you for sharing your story
@KD2HJP Thankyou very much, sadly, I've lost contact with all the friends I knew at school there. I believe many have passed on, moved away, -missing in action, lol, cheers 🙃👍
I grew up near Lutterworth. Went to school in North Kilworth, Lutterworth High School and Lutterworth Grammar School. I used to play in the fields round Gilmorton, visit Bruntingthorpe aerodrome and Foxton Locks. I really miss the whole area and the people round southern and eastern Leicestershire.
@@ScienceChap hello, I'd forgotten about Lutterworth, Kilworth etc. 3 of us in a tiny boat with baby outboard motor would go from Harborough to foxton pub on the canal. Fighting fallen trees, weeds, grasses and getting very wet & muddy, beer was always worth the trip 🤣👍.
The canal has had massive restoration done. The locks are all fully functioning. It's an incredible piece of industrial heritage.
Death duties would have been the demise of the hall , a lot of old landed families gave up trying to keep estates like this running.
Mr Hewes: "We've got loads of work to do on these tanks."
Also Mr Hewes: "Oooh look! A hole! Let's see where it goes!" 🤣
Love you guys and gals. Never change
As an archeologist the bricks have no 'frogs', so it's pre 1800 construction before the boilers went in! Gordon
It also struck me the number of vaulted rooms, arches, and domed roofs of various types dotted around, I wonder would that have been a carry through from the original, “old “ stone building that we got a sight of briefly? a study of those arial photos might give a clue to the type of roof the boiler room might have had ( a domed roof would not need any RSJ,s for example. I love looking at stuff like this
Power archeology at its finest…a la Time team. You don’t suppose the the gate statues are still around in some salvage yard? Have a good day from Northwestern Montana, USA.
The boiler looks like it was a Sectional Boiler, so would be newer than the original building as he sections could be brought in down the stairs.
The vaulted cells could have been for spirits - gin, whiskey etc
Big boiler would’ve served the mansion heating system, the small one with the header would maybe have served either heated greenhouses or possibly a separate running hot water system for the mansion?
Great find! It’s a shame that the brick barrel-vaulted ceilings were knocked in when the mansion was pulled down, but it would’ve made getting rid of the spoil a lot easier.
I really hope you’ll be able to make something out of it, nice feature piece to have.
The boiler room and steam heating system would have been a add on around the turn of the century I bet. Before that, fireplaces.
Builds pressure for the water feature as well? Maybe the the tank is the fountain and the boiler is the house radiators? And the bread oven thing is greenhouse?
Don't know why but this was definitely one of my favourite videos you've done!
Would be a nice touch to have a small memorial to the 319th somewhere.
Oh my! Those last pictures had me in tears! I grew up on an estate like that in Sussex ( Grandad was head gardener) it was used by the Canadian Army prior to DDay and as a hospital afterwards. The boiler room was very similar. Luckily it's still in private ownership and wasn't demolished like your place. What an adventure! I'm so glad you want to preserve it. ❤
Might be a good place to get some reference pics and videos. Likely the same setup.
@@MostlyInteresting I'm already on it....we all moved out in the 1980's when it was sold, but I'm still in the area.
This hit me a little hard, ya'll. First off, I live in a 110 year old house but it certainly wasn't a manor, with four coal burning fireplaces. Then it's revealed that Paratroopers were housed there, and I'm an old WW2 freak and the last five minutes almost made me cry. A well-done tribute. Sad waste of a fantastic edifice... you just never know what's underfoot and I'm glad there were photographs and God bless your dad. Now.... to business: all that scrap iron you're digging up, pipes, cast iron, everything ferrous, right down to the tricycle, is VERY valuable for an obscure reason: it can be refashioned into extremely sensitive radiation detectors since the iron and steel were forged and rolled decades before there was any sort of obscure isotopes and radioactive stuff floating around to contaminate it when it was manufactured. Being radiation free, you see, it makes a fantastic source of material for those kind of detectors. SAVE IT and do a little research on pre-nuclear iron. Might make a little beer money for the Tanker's Snug roof and bomb shelter!! Nice job all, and as usual I am impressed with you Joe and your mates and Tae and of course..... Ted.
That's a great find. Nice break from the norm. Food for thought....every brick was laid by hand, the amount of work to build that foundation is amazing in it self.
No Barratt homes here, probably built in a fortnight too
My father was a brick and stone mason and I used to make mortar with a pan and hoe. I really appreciate the work that went into these historic homes.
@@NickKirbyNicksnaturephotos back when work was actually work..lol. I look at some of the new construction and it's so boring compared to the old brick homes. Much respect for what you and your father do.
If you make a little pub, "Ted's Tavern for Trolls and Tank Tinkerers" would be a fitting name. So much going on there. Memories for your Dad. The Spitfire flying over on the week of Battle of Britain celebrations. Learning the purpose this house served during the war. You really have a one in a million wonderland.
That was my favourite video you’ve ever done and I’ve been watching you for years. Seeing those soldiers at your house, knowing what we now know about the war, very moving.
The intact millstone is a real one and what is known as a ‘French Burr Stone’ which was specifically used to grind wheat into flour for human consumption. Yes, I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to (water)mills and I can also tell you that it is rather valuable for a lump of old stone.
Very well done Joe, nice to pay homage to those who went to war on D-Day and on the anniversary of Arnhem as well.
You're a proper stitch up, you, 17:43, " go on, take the lid off, I've got no sense of smell"
10 minutes earlier, when you were on the steps with Ted, you said it smelt horrible down in that room. 😂😂 professional wind-up merchant!
He mentions in most videos that he has no sense of smell
He doesn’t have a sense of smell, every so often he’ll get a whiff but that’s about it 😂
Your mrs is a definite keeper joe you need to put a ring on it asap 👍🏼
They do make stuff that lasts forever, it just costs as much as it did back in the days (relatively) and hardly anyone is willing to pay that much.
If you choose to pay two months wages for a table, you get one that lasts, if you pay a days wage, you get one that collapses after a few years.
As a kid we were told "begins with horseplay ends in tragedy". Watching all of you I feel young again! Thanks
I would love to see more about the history of this underground place
On the topics of the boilers, they could also have been used to power a water fountain in the pond as a thought of the pipes are heading out in hat direction.
Good observation. Yea a steam percolator pump or even a steam engine driven one to run the fountain.
If that is indeed true, then it has to be worth getting the system & the fountain working again, if only just as a one off - though I share your wariness about relying on the proofing of a 150 year old boiler that has been living buried in a hole in the ground for 75 years & that dated from an era when nobody knew what health & safety was & blowing up your head gardener & his apprentices in a giant fountain accident was just a thing that happened occasionally in a well regulated manor house...
Whether the boilers stay there or come out either to be weighed in or to go to a museum might depend on a) Whether you can make them do anything useful & b) Whether they are of industrial archaeological interest or not. I feel like you should make some decisions _before_ you put a roof on the place because everything is easier to implement with it open. But yes, hard core jet-washing & then greasing & oiling everything that you might hope to turn one day...
@@fat_biker Obviously they knew what health and safety was but the information on how to do it was less attainable. Employees couldn't just learn online
I found those last minutes very moving while watching the pictures of the US soldiers bilitted there. As you say, many never returned from Normandy.
came here for tanks, stayed for the archeology. Great video keep up the awesome work :D
So much owed by so many, because of the few brave souls who sought out freedom for all and paid the ultimate price to ensure our freedom, God Bless them one and all, in a time when many nations stood together against tyranny and oppression, thank you for posting this little slice of British History
What a superb find, thanks for posting. The furnace looks like it's to make coal gas, the other "boilers" may be to clean the gas, big filters. Before electricity it was used for lighting. The brickwork is top notch, the bricks in the rubble if not bashed up to much will fetch a few bob. The battery "bank" looks like a HT battery for a radio, lots of cells in series to give high voltage to power valve radios. Turn it into a big sauna.
Would make sense for it to have it's own gas lighting plant.
You could call in a guy with a ground penertrating radar and survey the site. That might be a good idea to avoid equipment from falling into holes.
A great underground bar I think. Roof with a sky light. Even maybe get the boiler going. Or start and rebuild a house above it... what a find.
Bloody brilliant..and at that moment a Spitty does a flypast. The God's are looking down..excellent
It's great isn't it, digging with Time team over at the Langtons we saw the Lancaster with Spitfires and Hurricanes flying to and from airshows. We could see them wave so we waved back, fun 👍.
Lovely old house, such a shame they knocked it down.
They cheaped out a little bit covering over the old boiler room after they knocked it down rather filling it in.
I would see a modern boiler still work after being for 70 years.
I am amazed nothing collapsed the roofs in earlier considering all of the tanks and heavy machinery you drive over these basements and such.
Maybe some of it did collapse from it. They said some were already
they were filled to the brim with rubble, there was nowhere for it to collapse to
they fought for freedom, they fought for the future , they fought for YOU and ME , never forget , thank you
God Bless all the American servicemen who helped UK in our hour of Need. THANKYOU 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
Be aware, that heater is actually a boiler, and it probably still has water in it.
Now it's unlikely that it would hold any pressure, but if you got it boiling, you could possibly have an explosion.
The latest adventures of Indiana Hewes and short jack, luckily no snakes it seems this time around
Rebuild the Manor House as you haven't got much on at the moment have you??😂😂😂
What a nice tribute honoring The Greatest Generation and their equally great ancestors. I laughed, i cried. Brilliant video. ❤🇬🇧🇺🇲❤
Hi, That room with the compartments could have been the " Ice House " which most big houses had in the day's before freezers/fridges, just a thought.
Probably the most random "will it run" video I've seen on UA-cam 😂
Would love a celler/boiler room restoration series
This is very appreciated, please please put a roof on the boiler room. keep the memory alive. It is the only way that us young folk learn about the past.
Mr Hewes needs to do his best Tony Robinson impression next time! Love this mate!
What a beautiful old house. What a shame they tore it down.
Beware the "Ghost of Papillion Hall"
David Papillon (1691-1762) was known by local people as 'Pamp'. David Papillon was reputed to have had a Spanish mistress who lived in the hall but never left it. The mistress died in mysterious circumstances in about 1715, but there are no records of her death. She is associated with the body of a woman who was found within an attic wall during the 1903 renovations. Before her death, the mistress cursed that anyone who moved the brocade shoes would suffer ill-fate. During the 1903 renovation work, Sir Frank Bellville had the brocade shoes removed from the house to his solicitor's office. Shortly afterwards, Sir Frank was thrown from a pony and trap and suffered a broken skull. The brocade shoes were returned to the hall and are now owned by the Harborough Museum, Market Harborough.
He’s cool with it, he likes the tanks
I can imagine after a proper cleaning, you can turn this into an indoor/outdoor recreational bar and grill.
It's got me thinking a transparent roof would be cool, I just love all the light in what was once a dark basement.
I’ve been dying to watch this!, you definitely need to preserve as much of it as you can
Wonderful video...members of my family went to Normandy...My father trained many of the young men to fight and die in the Normandy Invasion...Thank you for this video...The best ever...
Your tom foolery was worth watching, you are all the genuine article.The pictures at the end of the film brought a tear to my eye, just brilliant thank you
chisel head in the cellar! such a lovely dog :)
This is a fantastic find. Great content.
The WW2 connection and the spitfire was serendipitous.
An aboslutely amazing find! Makes you wonder how anyone could ever tear down a place like that. So much beauty from different time. That the house has such an intimate connection to the brave soldiers that liberated Europe gives me goosebumps. Have you considered getting in touch with your local archaeologist? I'm sure many keyboard-archaeologist must have shuddered seeing you going through the rubble with a digger. I love the enthusiasm tho. Please save all the video material, even the parts that are uninteresting for youtube, so it can be studied later. You'll never know what we'd be able to find on the recordings you made. It will make an amazing space once you've uncovered and cleaned up more.
We have had various teams of professional archaeologist look over the ruins in the past. I never found anything of any historical significance. Sadly all the good bits were taken either by the US army or the demolition team
"An aboslutely amazing find! Makes you wonder how anyone could ever tear down a place like that."
It's my understanding that they were either destroyed to lower the nominal value of an estate and so reduce tax burdens, or else to reduce the value of the estate (more specifically the land) to make selling easier and faster. Keeping a building intact, especially over multiple generations once inheritance tax got introduced, is very expensive and for most households essentially impossible unless you can get grade listed status and so government funding.
The range of emotions between Can I come in your trench and The tribute at the end was unbelievable.
Very interesting. Be good to see more of the stables where the lads lived. Hello Ted. We still love you mate.
You should do some ground penetrating radar tests, if for no other reason than to set off shotgun cartridges.
What a great episode. It was certainly different from your normal content that we love. Amazing the things that you can discover when you pull on the right loose thread of history.
The boiler room is definitely worth preserving, as a tribute.
It's a shame that such a grand looking Manor House was abandoned & couldn't have been saved.
It looked like it would have been a beautiful place for the US Servicemen during the war, especially in those crucial 12-18 months leading up to D-Day as their training ramped up.
I would love to hear your Dad's thoughts on it.
Well done to the Mr Hewes Team of Archaeological Explorers & Boiler Wizards.
....Dr Jones (Indiana Jones) would be proud. 🤠
Cheers fm Australia 🇦🇺
Sad to think that the house and it's history are gone. I'm glad you have found what remains. Great video, Thanks!
magnificent find Joe.
It would be nice if you could save some it from being completely swept away by time.
And you are correct, they built things to last, back in the day. Sadly, not so much with today's 'culture'.
such a shame for it to be just torn down.. over two hundred years old... gone.
History. So much of it, and so little left.
The ending to the video was perfect.
Cheers for sharing
That is an incredible find, and what a thing with such interesting history to have literally under your feet. I think setting up some sort of memorial to the 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion would be a very appropriate thing to do, given that this was possibly the last place of comfort that many of them experienced. As for the spaces, they are all that remain of that wonderful house, and I think cleaning them up, making them safe and utilising them in some way is a fitting way to ensure that some part of that building remains loved and enjoyed as it was intended. Thank you for making and sharing the video, it was thoroughly enjoyable to watch.
That boiler room looks to my liking just the place for a cozy man cave with a pizza over and fireplace. Nicely done up, it can serve as a spot to relax, reminiscing about things gone and more.
As much as I love watching your restoration videos on equipment...this has got my full attention. I wish i gould give yo a million likes for this.
Same here.
Restore the boiler and this pond and heat the pond ! Pub with hot tub! Also hang some pics of how it was.
Wow…. That video at the end. Quite emotional. Well done!
Fascinating, loved the tribute at the end, brings a lump to the throat!
Regarding your little thing at the end about wanting to be able to meet and talk to the vets now that you didn't "get" as a child, it's always like that.
I lost my Grandad when I was an early teen and I'd kill to be able to sit and talk to him as an adult. From what I understand and have learnt of him in recent years, he was a proper gent and had some brilliant stories to tell.
Put a roof on it, new storage rooms.
Absolutely brilliant find and somewhat haunting. What a waste the old house was knocked down given it use in WW2 and no wonder the Veterans came back so many years later to pay respects. They would be impressed with your armor restorations continue. Love the channel, cheer from Oz.
Its possible that the lily pond was (at one time) actually a heated pool for swimming/lounging in, hence the pipes running from the boiler room towards it. A friend of mine owns a Victorian walled garden, which is adjacent to a large country house, and it has a dipping pool that was heated by big cast iron pipes from the boiler room that also heated the greenhouses in the garden. So heated pools were a 'thing' back then too.
What an incredible find. I think turning that place into a hangout room, somewhere the whole gang can relax after a hard day's work would be really cool.
That is insanely amazing that you have history like that just under your feet!! Awesome video!!
That looks like fun!!
Maybe you’ll find the family jewels or gold stash.
A few years ago I visited a closed 1920s cinema which when built seated 3,000 in the auditorium. We ventured into the basement and there was a bank of about 4 of the burners similar to those you found with the heating curcuits all still in place. It must have needed constant fuel supply to heat such a huge building in winter. It also had live in staff as we also found the flat accommodation.
Get the aqua blaster down there and see how well all that metalwork shines up! If you get a proper reinforced roof over the rooms you don't have to worry about equipment and tanks falling in the holes, put a little hut with a door over the top of the stair cases and then you can take your time restoring and re-purposing them when you feel like it.
Amazing history, amazing site. This labyrinth would probably cost over a million to build today.
Brilliant video, im glad you are going to preserve it. The tribute at the end to the soldiers was fantastic. Well done all.
Ted does time team!
Mr. Hewes, DOCTOR of Snarkeology!! You should check with your Defense Ministry; it's probable they have arial photographs which might show the working areas of the original manor house. As for a roof, you might look into finding a company that makes farm silos. They could fab you a silo roof for the diameter of the room. You could build a raised wall with windows from the ground up 2 or 3 feet, then install the roof above that. Now you have lots of natural lighting and a HUGE domed roof.
Thank you for a great non-tanky video. You should invite Sir Tony and Phil down to check the dig out; just be prepared for Phil to continue trenching! Is there any chance you might fab up a tshirt with a silhouette of the firebox? That thing is a work of art!
I wonder if you'd be able to sell any of those bottles. Some of them will probably be collectors items if they're from old defunct brands.
Really amazing exploration guys, hopefully you could reinstall some of its roofing and walls and have it as a bunker with ww2 items in it, even better have it built as your blog studio for future.
The ceiling for that might have been the wooden floor joists and boards for the room above.
It looked like it might have been vaulted roof.
I would personally put back in for planning permission for a house of similar size, theres a strong chance it would get approved and your land would be worth more for it.
Wow what a beautiful mansion it was when you showed the ending.What a shame it couldn’t have been saved from demolition.The story about the US serviceman got me emotional.
I would put a very small brick wall around the top - mainly so you can see it when driving a tank - and make the rest of the roof out of glass or stainless steel and use the place as a bar or even an editing room for the videos
I think you have one of if not the best channels on you tube.
If you have a good look around the area you might even find the ice storage room.
What you’ve got there is some serious archaeology, Phil Harding
This was a special one. Thanks mates.
Reclaim some of the bricks, build the walls up and put a roof on it.
Awesome find and video. Thanks for sharing this. 👍
There's something about a fire. Never mind resurrecting one! Magical. And with all that history.
Amazing but sad too......
You should have invited Phil Harding for some extra banter.
If only Mr. Hewes was wearing is hat, he could play a younger Phil.
The shelves are wine cellar. Got your own nuclear bu ker
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Right on the anniversary of Op Market Garden.. very fitting.
Before the days of refrigeration ROOT CELLARSwere a must. That's what your arched cellar was
Incredible history, thank you very much for sharing and making me laugh. You all are the best!!!!
So glad you didn't have a waterside explosion of that boiler. . .
Believe it or not the boiler drain tap was operational and I drained the system before
Preserve the remains, Joe. Important for later generations!
Probably a good spot to do some metal detecting. The soldiers probably lost some interesting things.
This was probably the best video I think I’ve ever watched on UA-cam. Please continue with the updates etc on this
Make it into a man cave / bunker style place you can hang out in