Great warning about gas. I never knew that. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm sure many others wouldn't have realised either - especially the part about it not always having a smell.
Just read up loads about the Wet Earth Colliery, really interesting article for, a group that entered the tunnels in 2003 with pics and explanations. That big iron pipe thing for the turbine, there’s a very good diagram if you Google it and explaination on how it works and is really interesting. Great vid, on to the next one 👍🥂
I have been in that tunnel, it is part of brindleys siphon system, the tunnels nearby lead to the underground canal system, speak to llan davis at leigh heritage, he used to do underground tours.
I used to knock about that area back when i was a kid (70's) and remember the disused canal and mine entrance! Much of your video is covered in the link by Matt James! There is a visitors centre in Clifton Park that sells refreshments (Martin will obviously not be interested in this ;0) ) The entrance to Clifton Park is from Clifton House Rd off Bolton Rd!
Indeed. I went down the Wet Earth drainage soughs shortly after they openrd. It must be at least 25 years ago now, a year or two later they got shut down due to possible gas issues.Don't think the tunnels are part of the siphon, but almost certain the iron pipes are.
This was my neck of the woods when I was little. We camped out down there sometimes a few times. And I explored down near the river. Japanese Knotweed is all over the river banks in hotter months, or atleast was years ago. Cheers for another interesting video!
Martin this is yet another example of your art, and Dan's painting was the cream on top. Thank you for sharing. You have turned Manchester from somewhere I have avoided into somewhere that I want to visit
Martin and Danny thanks I really enjoyed this video Loved the music sombre and respectful of People and a times gone past. A cheap mini Drone would be fantastic for exploring inside the mines? But crash and all lost. Cheap sacrificial mini-drones don't exist yet but who knows maybe soon. My Dad and Uncle worked down Agecroft Pit also Bradford My Grandfather Died of a heart attack down Bradford Pit.(i never met him) I could Have entered mining as a trainee Miner at Agecroft in the early 70s. Dad talked me out of it as all pits would shut down. So got an apprenticeship as a Plumber. £75.00 I think as a trainee miner £20.00 as an apprentice plumber 1973/74 16 years old. Dads 80 now drives his car like Sterling Moss and loves a pint of Boddingtons I'm very proud of him I never wanted for anything. He still has traces of coal scars on his back and arms from open cuts /wounds filling with coal dust.
The tunnel at the 16 minuet mark is indeed the tailrace tunnel from wet earth colliery.I have been in that tunnel all the way to the loading basin next to the colliery.That was on a guided tour around 25 years ago.The tunnel was used for all manners of drainage ,including the boat repair area around where the loading basin met fletchers canal.
What I love about your videos Martin, is your honesty and passion. Your video of the clock tower in Manchester made me wish I was Mancunian, and I'm a Londoner born and bread. It just shows you what a broad, diverse and historic country we take for granted fella. Nationalism is not a dirty word, remember that people. Be proud of whatever country you reside in, even Germans 😉 I await the trolls...
As usual I feel like Ive been on holiday. Not much to mudlark in Pretoria and its too dangerous to explore old buildings. I remembered an old dump and will try and get there. Love to you all, Danny keep painting you have talent.
Lovely video. I love weird holes in the ground like those adits. Nice one. A tobacconist in town - it's a well loved shop, even for non-smokers, used, until very recently, to sell clay pipes. When I was at school, a mate of mine used to smoke clay pipes when fishing. The stems would break, and the pipe would get shorter and shorter, until he'd get to the point where the bowl was almost under his nose. He'd chuck it in the river, and get another pipe from an old wooden box in his creel, and start over.
I can not thank You enough for preserving those last pieces of history on pictures! That mine, especialy when i try to imagine it whit that old tree on top and the vent. tunnel still intact with that tiny waterfall, looked as it came straight out of a fairytale from my old kids books grandma used to read when i was a little child. :) There realy are something extraordynary with those old sites that i hardy can reconstruct in my country, we always used the latest tecnology and but also being very fast to get rid of our past where i live, not as in those places with layers upon layers of solid history weawed together with aincient mythology, magic and preserved sagas, i realy feel we lost much in my country by newer realy care about our modern history until pretty recently, i think they did back in time, but a lot of it got lost in the 1960-1980s when all that was concidered old and "dirty" remains of those parts of our past many people only saw as embrasing and "dirty" and concidered it as undesirable reminders they just wanted to get rid of, now, it's all lost forever and people start to realise how rootless everything has became if we begun to almost deny such big parts of our past and what it realy ment to forge what our country has became today and alkso a great part of our identity and daily life so many people are totaly unaware of but still affect their lifes in the same way as it does on mine. It realy feels like the last minute for a lot of it to still be documented today, othervise the generations to come probably hawe to start all ower again.
Hi Martin, Danny's obviously a very talented artist, that's an awesome painting. So many cool finds from your mud combing expedition, that little statue is so cool. Those mine tunnels look so inviting and very intriguing too, maybe you could ask permission to go down there escorted and with your hard hat and an oxygen/gas meter. Thank you for taking us along on your adventure along the Irwell. x🙏🏻💖
The bend in the Irwell we used to call “Balls Bend” when we were kids. Any ball kicked into the river higher up used to end up sat in the eddy where the water is calm. Hours off fun when your young 😂
Well done chaps, fascinating stuff. Lovely to see nature reclaiming the things that man has left behind. (Danny's 'Lowrey' is excellent too.) Thanks again.
Martin, the oyster shell you found was fresh not old. that one had been opened by a bird wanting something for lunch. If it had been buried in a trash or rubbish dump it would not be that new looking. there are fresh water oysters and clams so that is probably what you got there.
Hi, Martin. Many years ago, myself and a couple of friends explored some of the tunnels, before they were gated off,and somewhere I've got some photos. I know the area well as I used to work there.
Excellent video Martin. Very informative and educational as usual .we have an amazing history and people such as yourself bring it back to life as if it was yesterday . Your background knowledge and insight is truly essential for the next generation of historians/explorers such as yourself to capture and log all lost manufacturing and diverse companies that used the local rivers and tributaries to despatch their goods .as each year our history and heritage are slowly eroded from history. Keep up your amazing work. You are one of you tube true heroes. Very much appreciated. 😃👍
Martin, for future reference the "bucket" part of a pipe is known as the "bowl", and the long thin part is the "stem". Please keep up these fascinating glimpses into our past.
@@MartinZero Have a look at Nicola White's channel on Mudlarking on the River Thames, before you make a video, she has heaps of those pipes a lot of them intact.
The small finds only become worthless if the location they are found is not recorded. That is what you seem to be doing, the location can say a lot. Thank you both of you for making this video. It's making me want to go back out and do some exploring. I have found a few adits when wandering around but they are always bricked up or collapsed for me.
Love a bit of mudlarking Martin. I used to dig up pottery fragments in my Grandmas garden years ago and then throw them all back at the end of the holidays so we could find them all again the following year 😂😂 you can tell we had to make our own fun in the 1950s! Another great video starring the Irwell, stay safe .
Well Martin love all your videos but this is my fave. Some fantastic finds there. Gosh wish I was there looking thru river, great stuff. Thanks so much for taking me along
Excellent vid your usual high standard. Anything on local area goes down well. Memory says the gas is what old miners called Fire Damp, methane as I understand, very explosive and killed more miners then one could count. There was a position of Fireman in the mining industry. My uncle did this and it was his job the set the explosives used to dig out the coal. A very responsible job. I was told that in time gone bye the job of the Fireman was to cover himself is wet sacks and search out pockets of fire damp with a lighted Taper. True or not I do not know but in times gone bye life was cheap. Thanks. John
great vid as always seems better vids when you have your favourite rivers near by they seem to give you a buzz. loved it tks DAZ..great pottery give Nicola White a nudge on what you might have found
Oysters were very cheap a penny or two for a dozen, youll find zillions on old victorian tips, they used to be one of the main ingredients in lancashire hotpot. The little head is from a doll. Great video pity you didnt find any pipe bowls . Very interesting about the mines. Cheers Martin and Danny, just absolutely love your painting of gate street its really excellent, you have much talent! :-)
This is just round the corner from where l live now...further along and on the other side from where you are was Ringley Woods a great area when l was a kid from Whit Lane area of Salford we used to camp there ....the SP you described on the map near Giants Seat was in fact a spring that flowed from the Radcliffe area down through Giants Seat and then through to the Irwell....we used to drink and cook with that spring water when camping in Ringley.....there were lots of " Caves" on the side you were on around the Gated entrance.....some were left open , some were " Bricked up " but some had been opened up by the lads and lasses who were " exploring "...we went down into one cave and was gingerly making our way when all of a sudden the only one with a torch screamed STOP...he had stopped us from falling down a somewhat massive hole ....Phew.l often go back up to my old haunts for a look down there at my memories of my youth....great times from 60 + years ago..... by the way my mate Paul Kelly can help you with anything to do with Irwell Valley and other Mines , he is an ex Agecroft miner and runs a site called Irwell Valley Mining Project ....a mine ( no pun intended ) of information , also there are 2 monuments commemorating the miners who lost their lives in the pits at Clifton Hall and Agecroft ,,,contact Paul at pkellyivmp@gmail.com he has access to mining maps and is the go to expert on mining not just round here but Nationally.........
And yet another fascinating video from Martin Zero. You have this natural knack of making things that people find in general day to day life very interesting, thank you very much.
As others have said, the porcelain head is definitely a doll's head. You can tell by the shape of her shoulders. She'd have been sewn into a cloth body. Great video!
Oh how fun! Mudlarking on the River Irwell! I watch a few mudlarkers on the Thames now and then. Good finds today! I wonder what that wooden bit of tool was. The lady head is off of a china doll, by the look of it. Hollow and sewn onto a linen body filled with batting. Sometimes they had china arms and legs, sometimes not. Love all the pottery and china shards you found! Such beautiful patterns! Thanks for the explore! Those old mines are fantastic! That last one you poked your camera into looked spooky!
Amazing, the impromptu nature of this adds to the enjoyment! All your hard work, you deserve your own TV program. More importantly you bring Manchester and its history to life, via the very things we walk past every day...Thank you!
Looked like a timber spike you picked up . The turbine probably ran a pump to pump out the mine drainage or a generator for lighting and lifts , conveyor system or air compressor or ventalition fan etc . Nice !
Another joy to watch that was alot of water comming out of that sewage works had there been storms the river looked quite high. You were right to stay clear of the mines who knows what gases are inside
In a hundred of so years from now, I hope that there is someone like you to document the remains of United States factories. Sixty years ago I could find the wood locks from the 1850's, went back decades later, all gone.
Enjoyed the video Martin! Love Danny's painting, very talented! There are some great mudlark youtubers who mudlark mostly on the Thames foreshore, they find a lot of clay pipes. Thank you for sharing...take care!
You do more to show Britain its country side its other side history that so many around world crave be it there gran folks did or came from. To its majestic engineering past that was copied worldwide than any big mainstream media touristy guide do. We all know big attractions but so many crave this side of UK history past cheers thanks many regards from Ireland.👍🇮🇪☘Godbless/peace🙏✌
Me and the kids were mudlarking (never heard that term but I like it) by the River Croal in Moses Gate Country Park last week. My five year old came home with her pockets full of old pottery. (Moses Gate was the site of an old paper mill and colliery, as well as paper mills and cotton mills all nearby the river) We saw oyster shells too and wondered how they might have got there. We'll have to keep a look out for clay pipes from now on. Thanks for a brilliant video.
You should get a few 'uv filters', basically clear glass that screws on your lens and protects it Some tripods have a hook at the bottom of the centre column, ideal for hanging your backpack on for weight. That oyster could be from the sea, but there are also freshwater oysters. The turbine pump is most likely to suck air through the workings, i wouldn't be surprised if the adits you foind were mainly for air inlets on the other colliery, they could also act as drains. If there's any artifacts you're not sure of, pop into your local history museum, if they can't identify it, they can put you in touch with a historian. Keep up the great work :)
Often find bits of clay pipe up here in Boro, the banks of the Tees are great for mudlarking. That entrance into the mines looks like a drift, there’s very similar places up here.
i love history, the mysteries and the endless questions it makes you think about. Just trying to imagine what people were like back in the time that those finds were in use. The turbine pump for instance, just trying to imagine what the men were like that built it, the tools they used etc. History is such a fascinating subject. I love the way it gives you these mysteries to try and solve. Very interesting video.
Hi, I'm pretty sure the small ladies head is from a small (china/porcelain) doll. They often would make the heads like that and have a cloth body that they would put the head into. Nice video as always.
If you have a look in the remains of the canal there are actually boats. Canal is clearer to see down at the pilkingtons factory end ( it runs through there yard)
Martin would love to see you down South at the Stewartby brickworks in Bedfordshire It closed around 12 years ago and will be demolished over the next few years. Lots of history with old train lines, sheds, the old kilns chimneys and warehouses from the 20s are still standing..
I suspect that rather than the river depositing your finds on that beach area it uncovered them. Domestic waste was often tipped onto river banks and consequently people often go bottle digging on river banks. I noticed at one point you discovered a boot sticking out of the bank.
Here is a Link to Deans music from the video. It has a vocal on it. Give it a listen 👍 ua-cam.com/video/xpjhbk0Srms/v-deo.html
An Coats Yeah that’s the place. It even shows the little beach we were on 👍
Great warning about gas. I never knew that. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm sure many others wouldn't have realised either - especially the part about it not always having a smell.
Natural gas (methane) doesn't have a smell: that's added by the gas companies for safety reasons.
@@RichardWatt thanks.
Just read up loads about the Wet Earth Colliery, really interesting article for, a group that entered the tunnels in 2003 with pics and explanations. That big iron pipe thing for the turbine, there’s a very good diagram if you Google it and explaination on how it works and is really interesting. Great vid, on to the next one 👍🥂
Ive done 3 videos on the place 👍
Martin, in 72 years, I've hardly ever been to Lancashire but I think your history videos are wonderful.
Thanks very much Pete
I have been in that tunnel, it is part of brindleys siphon system, the tunnels nearby lead to the underground canal system, speak to llan davis at leigh heritage, he used to do underground tours.
Hope Martin see this.
@@mattjames6447 Thanks, That was very interesting. (Ohio USA)
I used to knock about that area back when i was a kid (70's) and remember the disused canal and mine entrance!
Much of your video is covered in the link by Matt James!
There is a visitors centre in Clifton Park that sells refreshments (Martin will obviously not be interested in this ;0) ) The entrance to Clifton Park is from Clifton House Rd off Bolton Rd!
Thats great info i hope Martin follows up on that. Nice one!
Indeed. I went down the Wet Earth drainage soughs shortly after they openrd. It must be at least 25 years ago now, a year or two later they got shut down due to possible gas issues.Don't think the tunnels are part of the siphon, but almost certain the iron pipes are.
This was my neck of the woods when I was little. We camped out down there sometimes a few times. And I explored down near the river. Japanese Knotweed is all over the river banks in hotter months, or atleast was years ago. Cheers for another interesting video!
Thanks Tony
Martin this is yet another example of your art, and Dan's painting was the cream on top. Thank you for sharing. You have turned Manchester from somewhere I have avoided into somewhere that I want to visit
Martin and Danny thanks I really enjoyed this video Loved the music sombre and respectful of People and a times gone past. A cheap mini Drone would be fantastic for exploring inside the mines? But crash and all lost. Cheap sacrificial mini-drones don't exist yet but who knows maybe soon. My Dad and Uncle worked down Agecroft Pit also Bradford My Grandfather Died of a heart attack down Bradford Pit.(i never met him) I could Have entered mining as a trainee Miner at Agecroft in the early 70s. Dad talked me out of it as all pits would shut down. So got an apprenticeship as a Plumber. £75.00 I think as a trainee miner £20.00 as an apprentice plumber 1973/74 16 years old. Dads 80 now drives his car like Sterling Moss and loves a pint of Boddingtons I'm very proud of him I never wanted for anything. He still has traces of coal scars on his back and arms from open cuts /wounds filling with coal dust.
The tunnel at the 16 minuet mark is indeed the tailrace tunnel from wet earth colliery.I have been in that tunnel all the way to the loading basin next to the colliery.That was on a guided tour around 25 years ago.The tunnel was used for all manners of drainage ,including the boat repair area around where the loading basin met fletchers canal.
Very lucky to have been in there Michael I am very envious
What I love about your videos Martin, is your honesty and passion. Your video of the clock tower in Manchester made me wish I was Mancunian, and I'm a Londoner born and bread. It just shows you what a broad, diverse and historic country we take for granted fella. Nationalism is not a dirty word, remember that people. Be proud of whatever country you reside in, even Germans 😉 I await the trolls...
Mudlarking with nicola white is a pretty good UA-cam channel for anyone who finds it interesting 👍 Great vid Martin
I sub to her channel too, could be a great new project for Danny.
The piece of wood with loads of holes is all that is left of a brush.
Agree completely
Of course yes, the holes being where the bristles were glued in.🙂
The more i whach you're videos the more i realise the river wos so important to Manchester it wos the heart of it
Excellent video. Very interesting patterns on that pottery. Turbine pump a nice find too. Grat little painting by Danny.
Fascinating area you were spoilt for interesting relics from the past. Many thanks Martin.
Yeah that place is great John
As usual I feel like Ive been on holiday. Not much to mudlark in Pretoria and its too dangerous to explore old buildings. I remembered an old dump and will try and get there. Love to you all, Danny keep painting you have talent.
Lovely video. I love weird holes in the ground like those adits. Nice one. A tobacconist in town - it's a well loved shop, even for non-smokers, used, until very recently, to sell clay pipes. When I was at school, a mate of mine used to smoke clay pipes when fishing. The stems would break, and the pipe would get shorter and shorter, until he'd get to the point where the bowl was almost under his nose. He'd chuck it in the river, and get another pipe from an old wooden box in his creel, and start over.
I can not thank You enough for preserving those last pieces of history on pictures!
That mine, especialy when i try to imagine it whit that old tree on top and the vent. tunnel still intact with that tiny waterfall, looked as it came straight out of a fairytale from my old kids books grandma used to read when i was a little child. :) There realy are something extraordynary with those old sites that i hardy can reconstruct in my country, we always used the latest tecnology and but also being very fast to get rid of our past where i live, not as in those places with layers upon layers of solid history weawed together with aincient mythology, magic and preserved sagas, i realy feel we lost much in my country by newer realy care about our modern history until pretty recently, i think they did back in time, but a lot of it got lost in the 1960-1980s when all that was concidered old and "dirty" remains of those parts of our past many people only saw as embrasing and "dirty" and concidered it as undesirable reminders they just wanted to get rid of, now, it's all lost forever and people start to realise how rootless everything has became if we begun to almost deny such big parts of our past and what it realy ment to forge what our country has became today and alkso a great part of our identity and daily life so many people are totaly unaware of but still affect their lifes in the same way as it does on mine. It realy feels like the last minute for a lot of it to still be documented today, othervise the generations to come probably hawe to start all ower again.
Hi Martin, Danny's obviously a very talented artist, that's an awesome painting. So many cool finds from your mud combing expedition, that little statue is so cool. Those mine tunnels look so inviting and very intriguing too, maybe you could ask permission to go down there escorted and with your hard hat and an oxygen/gas meter. Thank you for taking us along on your adventure along the Irwell. x🙏🏻💖
The bend in the Irwell we used to call “Balls Bend” when we were kids. Any ball kicked into the river higher up used to end up sat in the eddy where the water is calm. Hours off fun when your young 😂
Thats how we remember it as well
I was born and lived in Ringley... To me it was the "Ball Factory" The meander in the Irwell caused by the Pendleton Fault.
Another fascinating video there Martin, thanks 👌🏼🧱👍🏼
Well done chaps, fascinating stuff. Lovely to see nature reclaiming the things that man has left behind. (Danny's 'Lowrey' is excellent too.) Thanks again.
Martin, the oyster shell you found was fresh not old. that one had been opened by a bird wanting something for lunch. If it had been buried in a trash or rubbish dump it would not be that new looking. there are fresh water oysters and clams so that is probably what you got there.
Hi, Martin. Many years ago, myself and a couple of friends explored some of the tunnels, before they were gated off,and somewhere I've got some photos. I know the area well as I used to work there.
Thanks again Martin. Great video and info. Best regards from Chicago
I LOVED THIS ADVENTURE. How blessed you are to have your health Martin! Yeah wellies are not for hiking lol!
Thank you again for bringing me along!
Surprised that you have not developed gills, Martin. Illuminating content, once more. Well done.🇯🇪
Excellent video Martin. Very informative and educational as usual .we have an amazing history and people such as yourself bring it back to life as if it was yesterday . Your background knowledge and insight is truly essential for the next generation of historians/explorers such as yourself to capture and log all lost manufacturing and diverse companies that used the local rivers and tributaries to despatch their goods .as each year our history and heritage are slowly eroded from history. Keep up your amazing work. You are one of you
tube true heroes. Very much appreciated. 😃👍
Martin, for future reference the "bucket" part of a pipe is known as the "bowl", and the long thin part is the "stem".
Please keep up these fascinating glimpses into our past.
Cheers Leonard I couldnt think of the word for it 👍
@@MartinZero Have a look at Nicola White's channel on Mudlarking on the River Thames, before you make a video, she has heaps of those pipes a lot of them intact.
The small finds only become worthless if the location they are found is not recorded. That is what you seem to be doing, the location can say a lot.
Thank you both of you for making this video. It's making me want to go back out and do some exploring. I have found a few adits when wandering around but they are always bricked up or collapsed for me.
Great vid. You highlighted a few spots I wasnt aware of. I will be paying them a visit soon.
Love a bit of mudlarking Martin. I used to dig up pottery fragments in my Grandmas garden years ago and then throw them all back at the end of the holidays so we could find them all again the following year 😂😂 you can tell we had to make our own fun in the 1950s! Another great video starring the Irwell, stay safe .
Thank you for another escape .
Well Martin love all your videos but this is my fave. Some fantastic finds there. Gosh wish I was there looking thru river, great stuff. Thanks so much for taking me along
Excellent vid your usual high standard. Anything on local area goes down well.
Memory says the gas is what old miners called Fire Damp, methane as I understand, very explosive and killed more miners then one could count.
There was a position of Fireman in the mining industry. My uncle did this and it was his job the set the explosives used to dig out the coal. A very responsible job. I was told that in time gone bye the job of the Fireman was to cover himself is wet sacks and search out pockets of fire damp with a lighted Taper. True or not I do not know but in times gone bye life was cheap.
Thanks.
John
great vid as always seems better vids when you have your favourite rivers near by they seem to give you a buzz. loved it tks DAZ..great pottery give Nicola White a nudge on what you might have found
Sublime. James Brindley made water travel uphill via the syphon. The amount hewing through hard rock, monumental. 👍
Oysters were very cheap a penny or two for a dozen, youll find zillions on old victorian tips, they used to be one of the main ingredients in lancashire hotpot. The little head is from a doll. Great video pity you didnt find any pipe bowls . Very interesting about the mines. Cheers Martin and Danny, just absolutely love your painting of gate street its really excellent, you have much talent! :-)
There are just so many 'hidden' treasures, but you need to be fitter than I am to get to them! Thank you Martin! :-)
I was a littttle bit spooked by the bits where you pointed the torch down the tunnels Martin 😄. Really liked this one! Love a bit of mudlarking
Me too! That’s dolls head would have gone back in the river 👍🤔
This is just round the corner from where l live now...further along and on the other side from where you are was Ringley Woods a great area when l was a kid from Whit Lane area of Salford we used to camp there ....the SP you described on the map near Giants Seat was in fact a spring that flowed from the Radcliffe area down through Giants Seat and then through to the Irwell....we used to drink and cook with that spring water when camping in Ringley.....there were lots of " Caves" on the side you were on around the Gated entrance.....some were left open , some were " Bricked up " but some had been opened up by the lads and lasses who were " exploring "...we went down into one cave and was gingerly making our way when all of a sudden the only one with a torch screamed STOP...he had stopped us from falling down a somewhat massive hole ....Phew.l often go back up to my old haunts for a look down there at my memories of my youth....great times from 60 + years ago.....
by the way my mate Paul Kelly can help you with anything to do with Irwell Valley and other Mines , he is an ex Agecroft miner and runs a site called Irwell Valley Mining Project ....a mine ( no pun intended ) of information , also there are 2 monuments commemorating the miners who lost their lives in the pits at Clifton Hall and Agecroft ,,,contact Paul at pkellyivmp@gmail.com he has access to mining maps and is the go to expert on mining not just round here but Nationally.........
And yet another fascinating video from Martin Zero.
You have this natural knack of making things that people find in general day to day life very interesting, thank you very much.
Front bucket bit.Keep it coming mate.
cheers.
Hi, looks like a small Victoria dolls head. Look it up they where numbered and came in various sizes. Love the show.
Yes a distant relative of mine. Its arabella the 4th who fell into the river and drowned
As others have said, the porcelain head is definitely a doll's head. You can tell by the shape of her shoulders. She'd have been sewn into a cloth body. Great video!
It was a distant relative of mine poor thing drowned in that river
On my DSLR I always use a screw on filter, usually a polarising one or just clear, to protect the lens. Also lens hoods are handy as well
Well enjoyed great finds great video Martin 👌👌👌👌
Oh how fun! Mudlarking on the River Irwell! I watch a few mudlarkers on the Thames now and then. Good finds today! I wonder what that wooden bit of tool was. The lady head is off of a china doll, by the look of it. Hollow and sewn onto a linen body filled with batting. Sometimes they had china arms and legs, sometimes not. Love all the pottery and china shards you found! Such beautiful patterns! Thanks for the explore! Those old mines are fantastic! That last one you poked your camera into looked spooky!
Sunday night entertainment sorted thanks so much Martin
I remember the glass works well,a good teacher you are!
Amazing, the impromptu nature of this adds to the enjoyment! All your hard work, you deserve your own TV program. More importantly you bring Manchester and its history to life, via the very things we walk past every day...Thank you!
Great job as usual.
Looked like a timber spike you picked up . The turbine probably ran a pump to pump out the mine drainage or a generator for lighting and lifts , conveyor system or air compressor or ventalition fan etc . Nice !
Another joy to watch that was alot of water comming out of that sewage works had there been storms the river looked quite high. You were right to stay clear of the mines who knows what gases are inside
Ahhh Swinton, a wonderful place. My hometown yet I don’t know much about it. Great video as usual Martin.
The vertical pipe was intriguing as it's cast iron on the bottom and perhaps riveted boiler plate on the top. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Chris
Great video again mate. Always very informative...Cheers Martin.
Loved this vid. Mudlarking what a great twist.
Great video, thanks.
Thanks Martin cheers loved watching this one to Jacqui :)
Thank you Jacqui
In a hundred of so years from now, I hope that there is someone like you to document the remains of United States factories. Sixty years ago I could find the wood locks from the 1850's, went back decades later, all gone.
Thanks Evan. I hope so too
Great insight into our industrial past I really enjoyed watching this documentary of your findings thanks for taking the time to share it
Enjoyed the video Martin! Love Danny's painting, very talented! There are some great mudlark youtubers who mudlark mostly on the Thames foreshore, they find a lot of clay pipes. Thank you for sharing...take care!
Fantastic as always keep them coming I never miss an episode now.
You do more to show Britain its country side its other side history that so many around world crave be it there gran folks did or came from. To its majestic engineering past that was copied worldwide than any big mainstream media touristy guide do. We all know big attractions but so many crave this side of UK history past cheers thanks many regards from Ireland.👍🇮🇪☘Godbless/peace🙏✌
He is 20x better than the BBC
This is all great stuff.
Thanks Michael
wonderful trip for us all martin and danny thank you so much all the best from trev and christine down south
Martin you’r the best!👌🏻
I dug in the carlisle castle moat to lay cables for flood lights in 1980s, hundreds of clay pipes in there
Me and the kids were mudlarking (never heard that term but I like it) by the River Croal in Moses Gate Country Park last week. My five year old came home with her pockets full of old pottery. (Moses Gate was the site of an old paper mill and colliery, as well as paper mills and cotton mills all nearby the river) We saw oyster shells too and wondered how they might have got there. We'll have to keep a look out for clay pipes from now on. Thanks for a brilliant video.
Its my ambition to find a Pipe bowl Fay
I enjoyed your latest video Martin.
Many thanks for all you do for us🙂🍻👍🏻
Amazing video thanx
J and h gwynne iron works hammersmith London 1892
I got me shovel an hot cup a coffee.............. heading to the creak for a look around.
one of my absolute fave places in the world. fletcher's canal is fascinating and i was lucky enough to spot a certain rare animal there last year
wonderful martin, another sunday watching your incredible work. thank you.
Amazing, Martin you’re such an inspiration to us!
Love Danny's artwork at the end! Great work!
Good bit of Sunday evening entertainment Martin, amazing to see how much even that small part of the river has been industrialised over the years
Now that was very interesting! Some quality gems you found there lads! Great vid!
You should get a few 'uv filters', basically clear glass that screws on your lens and protects it
Some tripods have a hook at the bottom of the centre column, ideal for hanging your backpack on for weight.
That oyster could be from the sea, but there are also freshwater oysters.
The turbine pump is most likely to suck air through the workings, i wouldn't be surprised if the adits you foind were mainly for air inlets on the other colliery, they could also act as drains.
If there's any artifacts you're not sure of, pop into your local history museum, if they can't identify it, they can put you in touch with a historian.
Keep up the great work :)
Danny's painting is amazing!
Another great video Martin , love how the industrial blends back with nature great finds again pal
Often find bits of clay pipe up here in Boro, the banks of the Tees are great for mudlarking. That entrance into the mines looks like a drift, there’s very similar places up here.
This makes me very nostalgic.
Fascinating video good work again.
I love the music you use in this video, it works so well with the video
i love history, the mysteries and the endless questions it makes you think about. Just trying to imagine what people were like back in the time that those finds were in use. The turbine pump for instance, just trying to imagine what the men were like that built it, the tools they used etc. History is such a fascinating subject. I love the way it gives you these mysteries to try and solve. Very interesting video.
First bit of double ended wood looked a bit like a spool or shuttle from a loom.
Hi, I'm pretty sure the small ladies head is from a small (china/porcelain) doll. They often would make the heads like that and have a cloth body that they would put the head into. Nice video as always.
Nice work chaps,thank you
I bet postman had a job getting there ! Great Vid !
Fab interesting vid. Loved the mudlarking. Hope u do loads more.👊💪👌💖
Another great video for Sunday evening viewing. Well done Martin
Absolutely fantastic video Martin thanks really got me wanting to trace on this time to try the trial. John Rooney st.annes Lancashire UK
Enjoyed that Martin ! Bring us some more please , Cheers from the USA .
Fascinating watch Martin, thanks
If you have a look in the remains of the canal there are actually boats. Canal is clearer to see down at the pilkingtons factory end ( it runs through there yard)
fletchers canal :)
Yep that's the one
Martin would love to see you down South at the Stewartby brickworks in Bedfordshire It closed around 12 years ago and will be demolished over the next few years. Lots of history with old train lines, sheds, the old kilns chimneys and warehouses from the 20s are still standing..
I suspect that rather than the river depositing your finds on that beach area it uncovered them. Domestic waste was often tipped onto river banks and consequently people often go bottle digging on river banks. I noticed at one point you discovered a boot sticking out of the bank.