Lancashire Footnotes Minisode Eighty

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Lancashire Footnotes Minisode Eighty - Rivington Pike

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Rivington Pike is a hill, originally owned by Lord Leverhulme, now a popular destination for local residents with nothing better to do. It has terraced gardens on it, and some follies, and summer houses and stuff - sort of like Stanley Park only much steeper. I'm surprised Jeanie McIntosh made it up as far as she did, although her head had transformed into a violent, purple-coloured belisha beacon by the time she'd reached the ornamental Italian-style lake. It was also Easter weekend, so it was heaving with people.

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@MrGarytc Жыл бұрын

I always enjoy watching your quirky, clever and interesting Lancashire videos your type of presentations would make good television viewing and then you would get the viewing figures you deserve.

@wyrearchaeology1 Жыл бұрын

That's what I keep telling them at the BBC. At least, I did, until they took the restraining order out against me.

@ianedwards1293 2 ай бұрын

Originally from Abram, on two occasions I participated in the Good Friday Walk to the top of Rivington Pike , I would have around the age of 8_9 , it was quite the hike I remember.I have been living in the US for the past forty years. In 2023 I spent several days staying in house at the foot the hill, exploring and reminiscing. It remains an attractive part of the country..

@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын

It was quite a hike, I must be honest - especially for Jeanie McIntosh on her Zimmer frame. 🙂

@marksadventures3889 11 ай бұрын

Used to get to Rivi barn back int day ont bikes. Formerly furnished with large engines, these days an electric motor and smaller.

@wyrearchaeology1 11 ай бұрын

But can you still pull a wheelie on a mobility scooter? 😜

@bobjackson4720 Жыл бұрын

I don't know why your unique humour doesn't attract more followers. Perhaps for a similar reason why I get so few views to my travel videos. The KZfaq algorithm is a strange master.

@asticou04 Жыл бұрын

If we get too many it will become “first!!!!1” and the like.

@wyrearchaeology1 Жыл бұрын

I saw a video of somebody's dinghy slowly deflating in the corner of their garage. It had had fourteen and a half thousand hits (or something similar). I figure that, if that's what people want to watch, then it doesn't surprise me that my own figures are so low and that Ant and Dec are so popular. 😁

@asticou04 Жыл бұрын

@@wyrearchaeology1 I just went and watched that one; thank you.

@wombal177jim Жыл бұрын

very nice vlog But can you please explain the very last time Britain was invaded. Thanks ATB

@wyrearchaeology1 Жыл бұрын

That'd be the Battle of Fishguard, Jim, by the french in 1797, although it didn't last very long.

@deborahcontessa6023 Жыл бұрын

When I was small, my dad told me the Pigeon Tower was Dracula’s Castle . . . imagine my disappointment 🧛🏻‍♂️

@wyrearchaeology1 Жыл бұрын

Vampire pigeons are a problem round Rivington.

@grahamstephenson9393 Жыл бұрын

All this built by selling soap? Sort of shoots the great unwashed theory to bits. I can remember the old tin bath hanging on the wall in my grans out house. Carbolic soap and scrubbing brushes to hand.

@wyrearchaeology1 Жыл бұрын

My gran had a dolly tub and a mangle in our wash house. That mangle didn't half hurt when it came to drying us off...

@pierremchughes9917 Жыл бұрын

I'd love your take on the great worldwide ( I don't say global because that's retarded) expositions of the late 19th century....it might stop you believing any old shite you read.....I always wondered why I disliked history at school, now I realise my bullshit detector was saving my brain from information spam.

@wyrearchaeology1 Жыл бұрын

History, they say, is written by the winners - presumably by which they mean the big, important history all about people of noble birth doing big noble things and having big important babies and stuff...although I've found that such history books are actually written by jobbing historians, generally for rich and self-important aristocrats rather than 'winners' as such. Local history, on the other hand, more often than not appears to be written by vicars...possibly because, other than on Sundays, they don't have much else to do.