It's something that has always just been there for most of us who live in Huddersfield, the history of the whole thing is really quite interesting, I hope!
wonderful, the amount of times I used to pass the Dam years ago, I always wanted to know more about it, and the bridge at the top between the two hill sides just fascinates me. thanks you so much for bringing this to us.✔✔😀😀
Great video, must have walked here several hundred times over the last 50+ years, is only 3 miles my house, my dad was a tipper driver in the late 60's when the dam & the motorway was being constructed, I used to go with him in the school holidays, we'd drop material of on the dam wall, wasn't so nice in winter, it's quite bleak up there, but great for fresh air & exercise 😁👍
@geetee7154 cheers mate, glad you enjoyed it, damn can only imagine what it was like all those years ago in the snow on the stormy moors, bleak and beautiful.
Excellent video! I’ve walked around some of the path a few times (& flown the drone) but never walked all the way around. I didn’t even know about the steep hill or 450 steps on the other side of the motorway! I must pay another visit! Cheers 👍 Steve
@MoellerEngineeringCo. Hello America! I can see the appeal, the history, the logistics, the beauty, never again will I look at one and just think it looks pretty.
Wonderful video. This is "my patch", walked around it hundreds of times. Remember walking round the Valve Tower, years ago, before the fence went up. Nice to see it over-flowing again.
Thank you I'm always pleased that people enjoy them, especially local folk. It's sad that we can't walk on that path above the water anymore, health and safety...
Great footage ❤Hope you weren't on a non legal vehicle on this path.. . Taught to sail here in early 80s by my dad. It's a wild beautiful place and has a place in my heart. The perimeter path wasnt complete then I believe.
In the pearly 60s myself and Brian Oram(( R.I.P.) used to walk from Slawit through Wilberlee to Deans head during summer holidays from school. Dean head was a nice quiet place.
@@WhiteRoseYorkshire You don’t know what you’re talking about, locals have always referred to Slaithwaite as Slawit, and Wilberlee is a small hamlet above Hill top ( Slawit). You’re obviously a comer in who has no knowledge of the area.. If you go to Huddersfield you can catch a bus to Wilberlee . If you’re going to comment on posts please ensure you know what you’re talking about.
@paulwoolley4957 Well that gentleman is clearly from foreign parts, I lived in Slawit and we all called the location Wilberlee, as you well know. Watched a YT BBC video that showed it up there during the building period, fascinating stuff😁
wonderful, the amount of times I used to pass the Dam years ago, I always wanted to know more about it, and the bridge at the top between the two hill sides just fascinates me. thanks you so much for bringing this to us.✔✔😀😀
@toucan221 thanks for watching, always nice to hear positive feedback, It does make you look again once you look into the history of the place🤯🫡
Along with hundreds of others, as a child, I watched this being built at weekends.
It was the best entertainment for miles around!
Oh wow that must have been so cool, wish someone had done a film of it, they probably thought it wouldn't have been of interest to the future.
Awesome video and it's a great bike ride there in the summer. Appreciate the tidbits of history blended in.
@@azy78 cheers, always nice to hear😁
Great video, must have walked here several hundred times over the last 50+ years, is only 3 miles my house, my dad was a tipper driver in the late 60's when the dam & the motorway was being constructed, I used to go with him in the school holidays, we'd drop material of on the dam wall, wasn't so nice in winter, it's quite bleak up there, but great for fresh air & exercise 😁👍
@geetee7154 cheers mate, glad you enjoyed it, damn can only imagine what it was like all those years ago in the snow on the stormy moors, bleak and beautiful.
all the times I've been over the 62 never knew you could walk around it its the first time I've seen the valve tower from above great vid
Thanks glad you enjoyed it, it does make you look at it very differently.
Excellent video! I’ve walked around some of the path a few times (& flown the drone) but never walked all the way around. I didn’t even know about the steep hill or 450 steps on the other side of the motorway! I must pay another visit!
Cheers 👍
Steve
Thanks Steve, yep it's certainly quite a varied walk, damn those steep bits. I'll look forward to see what you do with those steps and bridge! Steve👌
Greetings from Ohio, USA. I am fascinated with reservoirs.
@MoellerEngineeringCo. Hello America! I can see the appeal, the history, the logistics, the beauty, never again will I look at one and just think it looks pretty.
I live just down the road from the res .
Wonderful video. This is "my patch", walked around it hundreds of times. Remember walking round the Valve Tower, years ago, before the fence went up. Nice to see it over-flowing again.
Thank you I'm always pleased that people enjoy them, especially local folk. It's sad that we can't walk on that path above the water anymore, health and safety...
Me and my kids(now in their twenties) go picking Bilberrys around Scammonden dam every year they are so plentiful.Of course we make Scammonden Jam
@fionadelahunty369 Scammonden Dam? Like it, must open my eyes to see them.
Great footage ❤Hope you weren't on a non legal vehicle on this path.. . Taught to sail here in early 80s by my dad. It's a wild beautiful place and has a place in my heart. The perimeter path wasnt complete then I believe.
@guyroebuck8510 glad you enjoyed it, lovely place, I don't know when the path round it was complete.
Ebike, a fully legal one👍
Nice video. Can I link to it from my website?
Thanks mate, yeah course you can, link it to the world let's go viral, ha ha😉
Thanks. Did you take any photos that I could add to it? (I'll give you credit for the photos)
I didn't take a single photo, outrageous really when the drone is up there anyway!
@@yorkshiredrone No problem. Are you okay if I take some stills from the video and add them to the webpage?
@@UKDroneAdventures yeah sure that's fine
In the pearly 60s myself and Brian Oram(( R.I.P.) used to walk from Slawit through Wilberlee to Deans head during summer holidays from school. Dean head was a nice quiet place.
@paulwoolley4957 oh wow, I can only imagine how massively different it was then, up there with no noisy motorway I can well imagine it was lovely.
Slaithwaite, not 'Slawit'. Also, Wilberlee is a school in Slaithwaite, not a place.
@@yorkshiredrone Yes it was great to walk over the tops( as we called it) vastly different than today.👍
@@WhiteRoseYorkshire You don’t know what you’re talking about, locals have always referred to Slaithwaite as Slawit, and Wilberlee is a small hamlet above Hill top ( Slawit). You’re obviously a comer in who has no knowledge of the area.. If you go to Huddersfield you can catch a bus to Wilberlee . If you’re going to comment on posts please ensure you know what you’re talking about.
@paulwoolley4957 Well that gentleman is clearly from foreign parts, I lived in Slawit and we all called the location Wilberlee, as you well know. Watched a YT BBC video that showed it up there during the building period, fascinating stuff😁