1. I played football on that football pitch 2. I worked at that closed pub 3. I learnt to ski at the ski slope 4. I made slippers at Lambert Howarths mill for about 1 week when 16 deciding it was not for me. As far as I am aware they moved all the manufacturing machinery to Malaysia for the work to be done there and now just sell the slippers as retail points. I live in Tod now so in 48 years "emigrated" about 8 miles 😂 Your videos are always thoughtful and ernest. Top man
@@wanderingturnip - I've got a one-eyed cat called Princess Kitty the Pretty. She doesn't need your help atm but would love a shout out / name drop !!!
How sad. Imagine how it was back in the day. 60,000 people all working together, socialising after work, being proud of their industry and town. Pubs full and the high street thriving. Globalisation has really finished off this country.
I spent the first 31 years of my life living in Rossendale and absolutely couldn't wait to leave. As beautiful as a lot of the area is, the local mentality is very odd compared to most of the country and the gradual decay has been very evident my entire life. It will always feel like 'home' to me when I'm passing through the valley but I'm far happier knowing my house is isn't here any more.
I thought she was kind to show you around the Masonic lodge. It is an extremely secretive organization. I've only been in a Masonic Lodge in Dallas, Texas (USA) approx 26 yrs ago. We were filming a TV show and I was an actress😊.
@@sandi8596 No that aren't. In the uk they have open days to the public. I've visited two. I know a few masons too. Normal blokes with normal lives and families.
I learned to ski on those dry slopes. I wanted to learn before going to the alps. They are brilliant for learning to turn and stop. It's tougher than on snow, so you have to accentuate the movements more than on snow. So when you first go on snow, it's like you swapped a honda Prelude for a Ferrari. I was so happy that it was easier on snow. Those places are great for learning the basics
There’s a very popular dry ski slope nearby on Pendle hill, I’d never seen one until moving up here. Must be what they do round here for fun 😂 spectacular views and nice bar/restaurant too 👍
I went to a fund raiser back in the early 80s, it was to build that football ground, some 15 years later my sons played a match there, bloody shame how its turned out, we used to yake our kids to the park at the bottom of the ski slope, you've brought back some great memories for me, my life has changed exponentially since, and not all for the better, 👍
Damn! Nuts seeing you here. I would have loved to show you around. Lived in Bacup for 22 years and further down the valley for nearly as long. It's a pretty weird place, tell you that for free! You literally walked past my front door in this video!
Waterfoot had the biggest slipper factory in the world at one point (just up from where the crap arcade is). The arcade got £250k to be renovated last year, nothing so far!
Bingo hall has been empty 30+yrs - actually has a beautiful old facade under that horrid white tiles. You missed Elgin street! (Sort of at one point the shortest street in the world) which is near the old market hall which has been closed a very very long time.
Really interesting wanderings by our _brilliant_ Turnip.. Wearing his shoes out to bring us the best of these towns.. 😁 Always love the humour too.. 😂👏
@@ohsocosy I used to work in that supermarket (the Asda in Wolstanton). I did the night shift, so all I could see and hear around there was the steelworks on the other side of the A500.
i think it's quite funny how people that aren't part of the brotherhood (masons) tend to get so impressed and start theorizing things when they see a lodge meeting hall lol
Loved this tour and your shoe versus stone wisdom. I've gone south now but miss the north. Looks like the north misses the north too. Sad to see the old stuff rotting.
That was a fascinating and very sad video. I knew the Rossendale Valley was famous for cotton mills, didn't know anything about the shoes and stone. 19:00 Veranda. The railway is the East Lancs Railway, runs between Rawtenstall and Heywood, via Bury. 24:16 in the background is the old police station, now converted into living accommodation. There's a disused ski slope in Sheffield, loads of plans for it but it is completely overgrown.
A good few shoe manufacturers left in Northamptonshire. Wollaston village has two inc Dr Martins. The other company does tours I think around the factory. Northampton has a chimney they saved just off of Bedford Road.
I’m glad you’ve filmed these, cos I was telling my husband about them and he said he doesn’t know what I mean, I said our local bike club and I rode through them. So I’ll show him this thanks 👌🏼🌈✝️🕊️
Absolutely love old architecture! Also love a good ghost sign. Remember seeing and photographing one in London not too long ago above the Market Coffee house on Crispin Street
There's still a dry ski slope in Plymouth. You can see it as you come down the motorway it says ski in giant letters. You should definitely come visit 😁
You might enjoy visiting Clifton Country Park in Salford - it is on the remains of the wet earth colliery and is full of the crumbling remains of old industry. Often take my kids there and we love the old brick remains and looking down the wheel pit.
Interesting place. Never been. Big chimney. Love the old buildings 👍 Wow a dry ski slopes till in use 👍😃 Not many masonic halls left now. They are a friendly bunch. The London Masonic hall is a lovely old building and also the one in Canterbury. They often have open days. You need money to join as their outfits aren't cheap plus all the black tie charity events. I know a few. Just normal family guys trying to help their fellow man. We don't get lovely buildings anymore like stonemasons once made.😢
@ Steph, Masons are in a death cult, they show allegiance to the cult, which is Luciferian in nature, they tried to recruit my brother, a Christian, good job he declined
I think the football ground’s problems were twofold, firstly for a Haslingden team it’s a bit of a trek out of Haslingden to get to it and secondly it was later picked up by stand athletic, who were a team based in Whitefield 13 miles away. There is Haslingden St Mary’s FC which is in a much better location for local residents. Loved the vid!
Hi, i have been subscribed to you for a long time. I have never made a comment but i have watched all your videos and i had to now. I love all the architecture there lovely place 😊
Amazing that you came to Rossendale! Check out my dad’s work- Stephen Oldfield who writes on the folklore of Rossendale! The book is called the forgotten Forrest! Crawshawbooth is definitely worth a visit too if you have time too, so much history there.
We have a dry ski slope here near Bournemouth which is quite popular. Think there is one in Plymouth aswell but went to that a few years ago so not sure if it is still open. Love your stuff, keep it coming.
Nice to see you in rossendale. Disappointing to see you didn’t give Bacup the exposure it deserves. I can walk you around and show you fantastic stuff when you come back. My business is in one of the oldest weavers cottages in bacup. Circa 1775 Valley Denture Clinic. Hope to see you soon.
Slippers now made in China and or may be Bangladesh, Shoes mainly made in Asia, all our great industries have left or leaving and now with car and van manufacturing industry, what's left of it, BREXIT has made things so much worse, that even I now have to move my business abroad due export issues, but I do believe there is hope for steam in the UK as there is plenty of high calorific coal to be mined that will bring plenty of well paid jobs back to the local communities. Love a good chimney, A good friend of mine used build the linings of the chimney's with the fire bricks, now in his 80's. Love your video's Mr Turnip! Good job! If you were into football wasting time on historic goals we would not have people like you making such good content.
Bacup. It’s a place alright. Used to (briefly) go out with a lass or two that lived over there in the 90s. Vicky and Becky. Sheesh, the 90s were great 😂
Great video. I'll say it again, love the structure you create by chance or design. Most every one being a journey of some sort like all good stories are with a goal announced at beginning and then all sorts of "adventures" and discoveries along that journey, reaching a satisfyingly end (I was hoping you'd find a local shoemaker still in Bacup at the end, but your recap did the job and, well the steam train and Lancashire Day were maybe better!). Of course extra points for me for anything East Lancashire where my roots go far and deep (not Rossendale Valley but Ribble/Calder, still close enough for some great memories...and I've actually been to Bacup!). Anyway, well done again. Here in the states (well, let's face it, UK too) we need some positive distractions just now! 👏👏👏
Should have knocked on, I'd have done you a brew. My grandma worked in a slipper factory in Bacup. During WW2 they all shifted production to bullets. Lots of metal railings taken down and melted during WW2 to make amunition/weapons, that's why you see so many walls with them missing.
16:13 That’s all I really think of Rossendale for ..The ski slope ..only cos it’s the only thing I’ve been there for other than drive through the place. I went around 1994 I think 🤔 with two South African friends and a Spanish friend 😘🥰😍🌈✝️🕊️😇 x x x Oh a yr or so back I walked up to a high point somewhere there with a sculpture on it and met a lovely horse and rider who lifted a little boy up on her horse for a free ride with her around the hill top x x x
oh yeah, these masons were behind all governments deciding what to do with world and prime ministers are just talking heads on tv. Turnip didn't wonder what does this chess-like colouring on each floor in mason rooms. I can explain, its symbol of duality in our world, black represent evil, white represent good. Masons created chess as well, chess is symbol of our life. Board is our system, everyone is set to play by certain rules. Hierarchy system, Queen is doing whatever she wants, and peasants are very limited and restricted. Never liked this game on intuitive level, as I seek freedom and think outside of box.
I love videos where you show interesting old buildings - either abandoned or still in use. There were a lot of great old buildings in this one. Ace video! (Did I use that ‘ace’ correctly? I’m American, so I have no clue, but it was a great video).
“Stone is stronger than shoe” Turnip you are my favourite philosopher, but what about a shoe made of stone? Lovely video by a lovely root vegetable man!!
The Cobblers didn't shut down because of lack of trade, there was a massive fire there a couple of years ago while it was open. The other side of the building you didn't see collapsed in.
There isn't much manufacturing these days-it's mainly importing and exporting now. Both the Cobblers Pub and Kidderminster Footwear burned down. The Arcade in Waterfoot was one of the first buildings in the UK to have electricity. The Ski Slope is still popular, but not super popular. You can have skiing and snowboarding lessons there, as well as tubing for the kids. Professional skiers still practice on it as it gives more resistance to snow. Rawtenstall is much better than 20 years ago; Bank Street, where you were the Cobblers Key Cutting place, was mainly boarded-up and charity shops. Now, it's more vibrant for restaurants and microbreweries. Walking around Rossendale on a cold, quiet day does make it look more crumby than it is. Let me know if you ever fancy revisiting, and I'll take you over the tops (it's not a hard walk). The views are spectacular and there's loads of history about the quarries and stone factories and stuff up there
The thing with shoe making is it was traditionally done in worker's homes the big shoe factory was a relatively new idea about 130 years ago... The original home working is shoe making, tailoring and weaving.
Dry ski slopes are very much still a thing. Around the world many countries are building new ones - such as in China, the USA and France. But here in Britain lots of dry ski slopes have been closed unfortunately. I live very near the longest dry ski slopes in England, which is also one of the 20 longest in the world.
1. I played football on that football pitch
2. I worked at that closed pub
3. I learnt to ski at the ski slope
4. I made slippers at Lambert Howarths mill for about 1 week when 16 deciding it was not for me.
As far as I am aware they moved all the manufacturing machinery to Malaysia for the work to be done there and now just sell the slippers as retail points.
I live in Tod now so in 48 years "emigrated" about 8 miles 😂
Your videos are always thoughtful and ernest. Top man
Oh no way as if. This vid must have been a bit of blast from past then.
I appreciate that thanks for the comment and nice words 👏👍👍
@@wanderingturnip - I've got a one-eyed cat called Princess Kitty the Pretty. She doesn't need your help atm but would love a shout out / name drop !!!
How sad. Imagine how it was back in the day. 60,000 people all working together, socialising after work, being proud of their industry and town. Pubs full and the high street thriving. Globalisation has really finished off this country.
Yes there is. There’s a dry ski slope in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Great video and that hall was amazing. 👍
The was very kind the nice lady showing you.
I spent the first 31 years of my life living in Rossendale and absolutely couldn't wait to leave. As beautiful as a lot of the area is, the local mentality is very odd compared to most of the country and the gradual decay has been very evident my entire life. It will always feel like 'home' to me when I'm passing through the valley but I'm far happier knowing my house is isn't here any more.
That Masons Hall is Amazing!!!
So interesting David. What a lovely lady showing us the Masonic Hall beautiful building and very interesting. Thanks mate 👍
I thought she was kind to show you around the Masonic lodge. It is an extremely secretive organization. I've only been in a Masonic Lodge in Dallas, Texas (USA) approx 26 yrs ago. We were filming a TV show and I was an actress😊.
@@sandi8596 No that aren't. In the uk they have open days to the public. I've visited two. I know a few masons too. Normal blokes with normal lives and families.
is it me or does "Valley of Stone" sound like a brilliant metal band name?
I learned to ski on those dry slopes. I wanted to learn before going to the alps. They are brilliant for learning to turn and stop. It's tougher than on snow, so you have to accentuate the movements more than on snow. So when you first go on snow, it's like you swapped a honda Prelude for a Ferrari. I was so happy that it was easier on snow. Those places are great for learning the basics
There’s a very popular dry ski slope nearby on Pendle hill, I’d never seen one until moving up here. Must be what they do round here for fun 😂 spectacular views and nice bar/restaurant too 👍
I went to a fund raiser back in the early 80s, it was to build that football ground, some 15 years later my sons played a match there, bloody shame how its turned out, we used to yake our kids to the park at the bottom of the ski slope, you've brought back some great memories for me, my life has changed exponentially since, and not all for the better, 👍
Awesome, I like looking round old Masonic halls, and orange lodges.
China sells even the shows so cheap that shoe repairs are not available except in the City of London, where some odd fellows buy expensive stuff.
There is another dry ski slope in Lancashire on top of Pendle Hill. It's called Pendle Ski Club and is next to the Wellsprings Spanish restaurant.
Damn! Nuts seeing you here. I would have loved to show you around. Lived in Bacup for 22 years and further down the valley for nearly as long. It's a pretty weird place, tell you that for free! You literally walked past my front door in this video!
The cobblers (pub) had a massive fire when it was open a couple of years ago. They are working on it (allegedly).
Waterfoot had the biggest slipper factory in the world at one point (just up from where the crap arcade is). The arcade got £250k to be renovated last year, nothing so far!
Wyndsors (aka Sutton's) in Bacup don't make shoes on site any more as far as I know. Just a shop these days - they do memory foam mattresses on site.
Bingo hall has been empty 30+yrs - actually has a beautiful old facade under that horrid white tiles. You missed Elgin street! (Sort of at one point the shortest street in the world) which is near the old market hall which has been closed a very very long time.
Oh thanks so much for all this man. A local guide would have been ace 👍👍
Love how you interact with people. Good for you buddy.
Wandering Turnip Feline help, comedy gold!😂😂
My wife and I have moved from Manchester and lived in Rossendale for 20 years and still love it.
Really interesting wanderings by our _brilliant_ Turnip.. Wearing his shoes out to bring us the best of these towns.. 😁 Always love the humour too.. 😂👏
Llandudno in North Wales still has dry ski slope,, great walk around ❤
There's a dry ski slope in Stoke-on-Trent too!another interesting video :) x
I was about to come here and say the same! Used to love watching them ski on a Saturday while my Mum was in the supermarket.
@@ohsocosy I used to work in that supermarket (the Asda in Wolstanton). I did the night shift, so all I could see and hear around there was the steelworks on the other side of the A500.
Looks like a nice solid town ! Beautiful/potential. USA
the covered thing is called an awning. 19:02
It's known in Waterfoot as "The Arcade"
When I saw Kidderminster in the thumbnail I was expecting the Severn Valley, oh well it was interesting anyhow.
My Son lives in that Mill..😁don’t knock em down, re use em 😁great chimney
"Lovely bit of column" is now in my vocabulary. 😂
16:00 Ski Rossendale is super useful for local schools going to Austria on skiing trips. That’s my input 😂
There’s another dry ski slope near Sabden it runs down the side of Wellsprings pub, Pendle Hill. I really enjoy your videos and look forward to them.
Stone and shoes, two of my favorite subjects,
I like cheese and peas myself
i think it's quite funny how people that aren't part of the brotherhood (masons) tend to get so impressed and start theorizing things when they see a lodge meeting hall lol
The masons seems like such a weird organisation. Cracking vid. Time (or investment) seemed to stop in that part of the country
Loved this tour and your shoe versus stone wisdom. I've gone south now but miss the north. Looks like the north misses the north too. Sad to see the old stuff rotting.
no one can resist the turnip's charm
There’s a dry ski slope on Pendle hill, still used by many people especially at weekends.
That was a fascinating and very sad video. I knew the Rossendale Valley was famous for cotton mills, didn't know anything about the shoes and stone.
19:00 Veranda. The railway is the East Lancs Railway, runs between Rawtenstall and Heywood, via Bury. 24:16 in the background is the old police station, now converted into living accommodation.
There's a disused ski slope in Sheffield, loads of plans for it but it is completely overgrown.
Another great video, very enjoyable. That'll be a "glazed canopy" over the pavement at Waterfoot.....
@@larx4074 It's known locally in Waterfoot as "The Arcade"
you need to go northampton for shoe industry! great museum and church's still have a factory there!
the lift tower too, you will love that
A good few shoe manufacturers left in Northamptonshire. Wollaston village has two inc Dr Martins. The other company does tours I think around the factory. Northampton has a chimney they saved just off of Bedford Road.
I’m glad you’ve filmed these, cos I was telling my husband about them and he said he doesn’t know what I mean, I said our local bike club and I rode through them. So I’ll show him this thanks 👌🏼🌈✝️🕊️
Didnt even find any stone shoes, how disappointing!
Oh well, maybe next time! Haha!
Come for the cats, stay for the proverbs: "Stone is stronger than shoe". Cheers Turnip!
Getting stiff for slippers......legend!
Kendal has a great dry ski slope Turnip. Absolutely thriving, run by volunteers, it has just celebrated its 40th anniversary.
There's one at Whitlingham, just outside Norwich. Still operating year-round.
Absolutely love old architecture! Also love a good ghost sign. Remember seeing and photographing one in London not too long ago above the Market Coffee house on Crispin Street
there's a dry ski slope in Boothtown!, great views over the 'Fax'
There's still a dry ski slope in Plymouth. You can see it as you come down the motorway it says ski in giant letters. You should definitely come visit 😁
You might enjoy visiting Clifton Country Park in Salford - it is on the remains of the wet earth colliery and is full of the crumbling remains of old industry. Often take my kids there and we love the old brick remains and looking down the wheel pit.
Interesting place. Never been. Big chimney. Love the old buildings 👍
Wow a dry ski slopes till in use 👍😃
Not many masonic halls left now. They are a friendly bunch. The London Masonic hall is a lovely old building and also the one in Canterbury. They often have open days.
You need money to join as their outfits aren't cheap plus all the black tie charity events.
I know a few. Just normal family guys trying to help their fellow man.
We don't get lovely buildings anymore like stonemasons once made.😢
@ Steph, Masons are in a death cult, they show allegiance to the cult, which is Luciferian in nature, they tried to recruit my brother, a Christian, good job he declined
I think the football ground’s problems were twofold, firstly for a Haslingden team it’s a bit of a trek out of Haslingden to get to it and secondly it was later picked up by stand athletic, who were a team based in Whitefield 13 miles away. There is Haslingden St Mary’s FC which is in a much better location for local residents. Loved the vid!
Did enjoy particularly the tour of the Masonic Lodge. Just a little spooky.
They aren't spooky at all. They have open days in the UK go visit. Just a weird mens club with old traditions. I know a few.
I live in Kidderminster, nice exploring, and I like the old stuff to.
Hi, i have been subscribed to you for a long time. I have never made a comment but i have watched all your videos and i had to now. I love all the architecture there lovely place 😊
Ah well thanks so much for watching, I proper appreciate it 😃😃
2:50 This reminded me of the _Tim Traveller_ UA-cam video about the steam railway though the football ground in Čierny Balog, Slovakia.
10:30 what a luvverley chimernee ❤
You should go to Kidderminster, they’ve got chimney’s, steam trains, carpet factory museum and run down shops!
Passed the football park many times on the ELR steam trains. Love your vids
Love that Lodge room!
Amazing that you came to Rossendale! Check out my dad’s work- Stephen Oldfield who writes on the folklore of Rossendale! The book is called the forgotten Forrest! Crawshawbooth is definitely worth a visit too if you have time too, so much history there.
We have a dry ski slope here near Bournemouth which is quite popular. Think there is one in Plymouth aswell but went to that a few years ago so not sure if it is still open.
Love your stuff, keep it coming.
Worth a view for the steam train or the chimneys. Everything else was a bonus!
Love a steam train.
Another great video David.
Very cool seeing inside the lodge mate. Very.
I lived I'm Bolton for 15 years and I'm sure we took the children to to that sky slope in the 80's.
Great content on this one! I love old building that you were showing. Cute little shopping places that need some tenants though
Loved the video and the passion.By the way I have a cat with no legs,no eyes and half an ear if you are interested.It's called (Un)lucky.😂
Big dry sky slope on the Pentland hills just beside Edinburgh
Yep, Hillend! I remember having skiing lessons there through school!
Gotta agree with you on that one, my shoes are always wearing down due to walking on stone 😂
Thought I was having de ja vu with the masonic hall bit. But think it was either you or Charlie Veitch got a free tour round a masonic hall
I've never used it but I believe Pontypool in Wales still has a working dry ski slope.
I was born in rossendale and my mum used to make slippers in haslingden
Nice to see you in rossendale.
Disappointing to see you didn’t give Bacup the exposure it deserves.
I can walk you around and show you fantastic stuff when you come back.
My business is in one of the oldest weavers cottages in bacup. Circa 1775
Valley Denture Clinic.
Hope to see you soon.
I moved up to here nearly 8 years ago, the best decision i ever made only 20 mins away from Manchester but a millions miles away in reality.
Slippers now made in China and or may be Bangladesh, Shoes mainly made in Asia, all our great industries have left or leaving and now with car and van manufacturing industry, what's left of it, BREXIT has made things so much worse, that even I now have to move my business abroad due export issues, but I do believe there is hope for steam in the UK as there is plenty of high calorific coal to be mined that will bring plenty of well paid jobs back to the local communities. Love a good chimney, A good friend of mine used build the linings of the chimney's with the fire bricks, now in his 80's. Love your video's Mr Turnip! Good job! If you were into football wasting time on historic goals we would not have people like you making such good content.
16:20 I remember skiing on that in the 80s. Proper middle class activity.
I vote you go back to Bacup and interview Brian. He could be the saviour or he might just be a very naughty boy.
We've still got a dry ski slope in Sunderland, still popular
The continuous canopies outside a row of shops are often called street Verandahs.
Bacup. It’s a place alright. Used to (briefly) go out with a lass or two that lived over there in the 90s. Vicky and Becky. Sheesh, the 90s were great 😂
Great video. I'll say it again, love the structure you create by chance or design. Most every one being a journey of some sort like all good stories are with a goal announced at beginning and then all sorts of "adventures" and discoveries along that journey, reaching a satisfyingly end (I was hoping you'd find a local shoemaker still in Bacup at the end, but your recap did the job and, well the steam train and Lancashire Day were maybe better!). Of course extra points for me for anything East Lancashire where my roots go far and deep (not Rossendale Valley but Ribble/Calder, still close enough for some great memories...and I've actually been to Bacup!). Anyway, well done again. Here in the states (well, let's face it, UK too) we need some positive distractions just now! 👏👏👏
Getting more like the UK version of Dime Store Adventures!
Should have knocked on, I'd have done you a brew.
My grandma worked in a slipper factory in Bacup. During WW2 they all shifted production to bullets. Lots of metal railings taken down and melted during WW2 to make amunition/weapons, that's why you see so many walls with them missing.
13:37 Yeah Grand ……🤣😂🤣 you said that automatically after finding out it was Lancashire day 🤣😂🤣
We have an active dry ski slope here in Ipswich. About a mile from where I live. (Wherstead ski slope)
There’s another dry ski slope in Telford, right in the centre of the New town.
Surrounded by the villages and reminders of industry
You managed not to mention the Britannia Coconut Dancers....famed Morris dancing troupe of Bacup.
16:13 That’s all I really think of Rossendale for ..The ski slope ..only cos it’s the only thing I’ve been there for other than drive through the place. I went around 1994 I think 🤔 with two South African friends and a Spanish friend 😘🥰😍🌈✝️🕊️😇 x x x Oh a yr or so back I walked up to a high point somewhere there with a sculpture on it and met a lovely horse and rider who lifted a little boy up on her horse for a free ride with her around the hill top x x x
what are the masons actually up to in those creepy rooms. Loved the tour there, your tour guide was so kind
oh yeah, these masons were behind all governments deciding what to do with world and prime ministers are just talking heads on tv. Turnip didn't wonder what does this chess-like colouring on each floor in mason rooms. I can explain, its symbol of duality in our world, black represent evil, white represent good. Masons created chess as well, chess is symbol of our life. Board is our system, everyone is set to play by certain rules. Hierarchy system, Queen is doing whatever she wants, and peasants are very limited and restricted. Never liked this game on intuitive level, as I seek freedom and think outside of box.
There used to be a dry ski slope on Eston hills what was once the county of Cleveland. Also Silksworth in Sunderland.
How did you not get a shot of that rug in the freemason room?! Would've like to see the detailing and symbols on that rug. Great content as always!
Give this man a terrestrial TV contract ! He is the 21st Century Fred Dibnah.
I love videos where you show interesting old buildings - either abandoned or still in use. There were a lot of great old buildings in this one. Ace video! (Did I use that ‘ace’ correctly? I’m American, so I have no clue, but it was a great video).
“Stone is stronger than shoe” Turnip you are my favourite philosopher, but what about a shoe made of stone?
Lovely video by a lovely root vegetable man!!
There's a dry ski slope in Silksworth just outside Sunderland city centre. its still very popular and well maintained
@WanderingTurnip, there is a dry ski slope still open off Matchams Lane near Bournemouth airport 👍
The Cobblers didn't shut down because of lack of trade, there was a massive fire there a couple of years ago while it was open. The other side of the building you didn't see collapsed in.
There isn't much manufacturing these days-it's mainly importing and exporting now. Both the Cobblers Pub and Kidderminster Footwear burned down. The Arcade in Waterfoot was one of the first buildings in the UK to have electricity. The Ski Slope is still popular, but not super popular. You can have skiing and snowboarding lessons there, as well as tubing for the kids. Professional skiers still practice on it as it gives more resistance to snow.
Rawtenstall is much better than 20 years ago; Bank Street, where you were the Cobblers Key Cutting place, was mainly boarded-up and charity shops. Now, it's more vibrant for restaurants and microbreweries.
Walking around Rossendale on a cold, quiet day does make it look more crumby than it is. Let me know if you ever fancy revisiting, and I'll take you over the tops (it's not a hard walk). The views are spectacular and there's loads of history about the quarries and stone factories and stuff up there
Theres Halifax Ski & Snowboard Centre inbetween Queensbury & Halifax , Great view of Halifax, on the Swales Moor ,next to the Shibden Valley.
The thing with shoe making is it was traditionally done in worker's homes the big shoe factory was a relatively new idea about 130 years ago... The original home working is shoe making, tailoring and weaving.
There's a dry ski slope over the tops of Halifax near Boothtown.
Nice to see the inukshuk at 20:16.
Dry ski slopes are very much still a thing. Around the world many countries are building new ones - such as in China, the USA and France. But here in Britain lots of dry ski slopes have been closed unfortunately. I live very near the longest dry ski slopes in England, which is also one of the 20 longest in the world.