Netherton to Brierley hill | Exploring the black country - S3 - Episode 2
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- I explore some interesting black country history along the Dudley n1 and 2 canal looking at some stuff what it would look like in the past - round oak steel works - hingleys - windmill end colliery covering history of the past . This exploring the black country episode will give a insight of what was along the canal at the time .
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Thank you so much for this lad, it's so kind of you. I'm 75 now and worked in the mills in the Black Country. You are so proud of our history and it's wonderful to see. All the best momon.
Your welcome mate , did you enjoy the work in the mills ? So much history related to the industrial past find all of it really interesting
Another great video.
I dunno what it is with the The Black Country but our achievements are seldom celebrated and the local councils and the education system seem increasingly keen to bury our regional history, so kudos for bringing this stuff to our attention.
Interesting fact about Round Oak Steel works, it's actually the cover art Depeche Mode's Some Great Reward album.
Thank you 😄 I love black country history all started with my grandad telling me stories and it got me into it - since he passed he loved my work so I've had a passion to expand onto it there's so much to learn even learned several things doing these videos myself .
@@MidlandsOutdoors it's clear you have a real passion for it. I do a lot of walking around here myself, so it's great to see someone else covering the same area and giving me a bit of history along the way. I do artwork based on the region and I'm always looking for new areas to explore, so it's great that you vear off the beaten track and show us different parts of the black country...though please be careful! Sometimes things like an abandoned railway can sometimes still be live track.
Dunno if you follow them but Joolzguides (London) and Actionkid (New York) do similar local history walks/talks. But it's like I say, it's great to finally see someone doing similar stuff round here. Looking forward to checking out your other videos.
@@alexmac337 thank you ☺️ got more stuff do do in January after Christmas gonna look at doing some walks around my local area for rest this month
Thy love destroying white heritage, government sponsored... rather teach 5 yr olds that its ok to be transgender
The metal on the chimney at bumble hole is a lightning rod and bands to keep the structure stable
Thanks for sharing this wondered what that was 😁👍
Visited the Church of St. Andrew at Netherton in November 2005. Looking into the colhera outbreak of 1832 it seems that the neighbouring Churches of St. Thomas and St. Edmund in Dudley put up a notice to say... "All persons who die of cholera, must in the future be buried in the Churchyard at Netherton."
There are fears of a colhera outbreak in Gaza.
All the best, Peter.
I'll do a video sometime about the outbreak , some interesting history around the churches
The metal bars around the brick work on Cobbs engine house are known as tie bars and are common to old buildings in the Black country. In particular on or near mine workings and are to protect against subsidence. Keep up the good work really interesting 👍
Interesting thanks for sharing this never knew about that . Appreciate that aswell bud 🙂📸
Another interesting fact about brewins tunnel is just to the left as you are heading towards merry hill is another tunnel as the canal used to fork off before the reservoir was constructed.
Thanks for sharing that quiet interesting. Would love to have seen what these was like back in days brewins tunnel
Absolutely bostin mate from a Derby End bloke
Thanks bud 🙂📸
Really enjoyed this, used to visit Netherton a lot as a kid brings back so many memories
Thank you
Your welcome thanks for your reply 🙂
My dad and his dad used to work at round oak my dad use drive overhead crane
Thanks for sharing mate bet they have memories from there shame it's gone tbh would have kept much employment in the area
Cradley chain makers made chains for titanic, they had a piece of it on their outside office wall building in cradley. HINGley not hinge ley netherton was just that a testing factory. They did make smaller anchors which there is some on the coast wales way in museum. probably a link to be found somewhere on internet.
Thanks for sharing that bud , I'll have to have a look for that you mentioned
Wonderful Video
Thank you 😁📸
Great video just a bit gutted about the crooked house disgusting inside job definitely the way it was bulldozed less the 48 hours after the fire heartbreaking
Thanks bud I know right very heartbreaking couldn't believe when I heard about it . Definitely a inside job
Thanks again for a great video really interesting.
Your welcome bud 🙂👍
Its a bloody lightning conductor !!
The rods going round the stacks are shorings to help stop the lower bricks cracking and giving way.
I remember part of the site used as a tip and there's all sorts of rubbish underneath it. The council has filled in many of the little ponds that used to be home to so called 'Protected Newts and frogs'. The council didn't give a toss in the old days and probablystill don't since they added Pedmore and other tory enclaves onto the Borough. I used to laugh at the Dudley town motto, quin est prospicit (wise is he that looks ahead), talking about hypocrisy.
I worked at Lloyd's British testing in the 1970s, using the big 750 ton test machine. We used to test the anchors used on the oil rigs in the North Sea and also the manhole covers and torpedo slings used in submarines and the big wire ropes for the suspension bridges. We also proof tested vessels like boilers and steam engines. My main job was opening the ends of the wire ropes to fit the resin or zink wedge caps so they could be stretched using an hydraulic ram to test their safe working load often tested to destruction. There was also a heated pit full of tar which was used for dunking the ships anchores in to black them.
I think Cyril Beech steel stockholders bought the place and now own it but he kept the original 750 ton testing machine in place for prosperity.
The Black country was known for coal mainly because of the 30 ft seam which can still be mined near the surface in places near the plague pit on the north west side of Netherton Church.
Iron ore deposits were also close by but it was the discovery of coking the coal in the retorts which was used primarily in the iron smelting that made Dudley famous.
Thanks for sharing this interesting to read most of that especially your time at that company . Could imagine the canal line has changed a bit since those times in the 70s
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The company used the canal as a tip. You don't want to know.
So glad it's recovered.
Great video enjoyed
Thanks
When your in Netherton church your standing by my dad's grave
The unmarked graves are to the left of you on top of hill which were fenced of years ago
Oh right thanks for sharing this bud some date really old quiet interesting
My parents told me years ago that most of the graves which were used for big disease they had were buried on the hill which was stopped being used as burial site because of the fires underground from the coal
@@Andy-oe4wb I heard about a disease that happened crazy tbh I did however try find some of the graves in there says on internet somewhere some was buried in the grounds
Also bud when in netherton church there is a grave of one of the men who flew on dambuster mission
@@Andy-oe4wb thanks for sharing that I find it interesting of the dambusters and that grazebrook iron works that was next to the canal
We all need too stand together n put this wrong write
I agree 💯