Well, that was good. I enjoyed that episode of the Foredyke Saga 🙂

My grandma lives on James Reckitt pretty much opposite where you were stood next to Malet Lambert. Lived in the house since the 50s. My dad was born in that house, and remembered Lambwath stream pretty well, as it passed the back of the garden. He spent many days as a child fishing for newts and frogs in it (and finding an unexploded WW2 bomb in it once...). My gran always told me stories of the stream flooding and ducks swimming across their garden. When the stream was filled in in the 60s, i was told that the land was offered to the houses. The houses on the Malet Lambert side of the Gillshill roundabout all said no, and so the stream land was incorporated into the park, but the houses on the other side (the back of the little boating pond, where my parents currently live and where i was raised) all said yes, so the land was given to them. Hence the last 10ft or so of my parents garden is where the stream used to run.

I've been keenly interested in the history of Hull for a while now, despite only actually visiting a handful of times and having no personal connection with it. There's just something about the place I can't quite put my finger on and this channel conveys that feeling so well. Not sure if it's the writing, the presenting style, the music, the camerawork, the editing or all of the above but the videos just perfectly encapsulate that sense of eerie melancholy that draws me in.

Thank you! Brilliant, informative and entertaining at the same time. I’ve said it before, you deserve a TV series.

Hi! My mom & I really like watching all your videos. She used to work at The Land of Green Ginger, and we used to have "adventure days" in the 70s going across on the ferry from New Holland. I lived in Victoria Dock for 6 years, too. We salute you, sir! 😁👍

My grandparents lived in Spivvy St, there was a public lav attached, and that was also their toilet

Great stuff Jim, I grew up on North Bransholme, and these drains were our hangouts as kids.....great days. Swimming in Holderness drain too,, we used to call it 'pumpie' after the pumping station. As you say it's a bit deeper. No footage from the nudist camp near North Bransholme and Wawne I see Jim ( very wise in this weather) I live on Dansom Lane, right near Fordyke...... Thats me walking the dog folks, beginning of the video 😁👍 Delighted to see you Jim, top stuff as usual.

always a pleasure & very informative watching ur work on bridges! & where the drains once was !

Great to see you back lad,thanks

Another interesting and we'll researched episode

Really good information and research…cheers man.

Great episode Jamie. Been past the bridge at the corner of Cleveland Street many times. I seem to remember it as a water course too, many years ago. As a copper in the 70's my beat was to walk to North Bridge and phone Tower Grange from the police box that used to be there. We had radios of course, but a phone call back to base from the box pinged me geographically in case I was needed urgently in that location (Ha, that's a laugh, me being a useful copper). Don't know if the box is still there. We walk past all these places and generally take little notice. I had no idea there was an inbuilt plaque declaring the first use in the UK of ferro cement. We left Australia in 76 after 3 years, came back to Hull and I got a job as a bobby, thinking it would keep us in Hull, not wanting to return to Australia. I lasted 2 years as a copper, was probably Hull's most useless policeman ever, certainly one of the shortest, and the lure of Australia pulled us back here... We've missed much of the change in Hull, but thanks to you I can catch up some. Your podcasts are an invaluable look back into our past. No podcaster I know does it in quite the way you do dude... Having the "benefit" of being quite a few years older than yourself, there is much that I do remember as a post war kid growing up in the 50's and 60's before so much change took place.... I've got my sister over here from Hull for several weeks and she tells me Hull is in a parlous state, no longer the city of interest it once was. If true, that's rather sad. A city with a significant and outstanding heritage which seems to have had much of it obliterated in the name of something. Progress? Some might call it that, but that's a stretch.... Keep going Jamie, I could smell the wood shavings when you talked about your granddads joinery....

Knew the Fordyke Stream well in the late 60s, early 70s living on Bransholme. Curious you didn't make mention of the brick built drovers bridge that crossed the stream from Soffham Farm, the track it took is still there today crossing the streams route. We would go fishing and eeling in the Fordyke, best catches where at the junction of Fordyke and Holderness, with the added bonus (for us kids) of the nudist camp site with a 'gappy' fence just up the Holderness, it's still there today, goes by the name of Yorkshire Sunny Bums or something!! As ever, brilliant and informative video Sir, keep up the great work and thank you.

Thanks for another cracking vlog very interesting and well put 😊

Brilliant! Two of my favourite lost Hull streams.

Oh that's why North bransholme gets flooded heavy rain and that's looks nice really nice walk with dog 🐕

This is a really good video. I grew up on Bransholme from 1968 and the 'Iron Bridge' that you show on Bude Road was originally silver coloured before it was painted. The other bridge you mention was identical and it was actually on Holwell Road. That one had a plaque on it that did state that it was built by the army. I can't remember which branch. Presumably therefore they were both army-constructed. Apparently they were supposed to be temporary but the Bude Road version is a local landmark and in its mid 50s! In the early days of Bransholme there was Sofham Bridge further north by about 250m, right opposite the Nightjar Pub (named after the farm), and heading back south by a similar distance there was another bridge called Stephenson's Bridge that connected the 2 Stroud Crescents. Soffham and Stephenson's were historic and had probably been there for a very long time. Hope you find that useful! By the way, photos of Foredyke Stream on Bransholme before it was filled in are like hen's teeth. I've only seen one but there must be a few out there in lofts.

As a kid growing up on Bransholme, we’d build rafts to navigate the Foredyke. Great fun. This superb video is giving me flashbacks to simpler days.

Another very interesting part of Hull's history .......keep up the good work !

Used to live at Long Riston. If I'm right i think the Lambworth drain ran through Skirlaugh under the A165 and on to Aldborough. Used to cross it many times. Great video. Very interesting. All the best 🇬🇧.

Great info on my local area!

Thanks for another great video with trademark spooky synth, nice one! Now here's a nerdy observation or two. Where you make the Humber spread out to pre-drainage dimensions you obviously use the lovely hot chocolate colour we know and love. Back then it would have been pretty clear though - the smooth cocoa colour is the result of land-drainage in the enormous catchment of the estuary. Millions of tons of silt has been released/washed away by drains under and alongside the fields over hundreds of years intensifying in the last 150. Brownness of water would have been limited to eroding edges of the Humber, and there maybe wouldn't have been very much of that - lots of reedbed. The sheep wash idea for the Lambworth name suggests an image of the munks walking along a muddy drain then using the sparkling waters of a natural stream to freshen up their flocks for market. Keep up the good work.

Very, very interesting

Once again brilliant xxx

Wonderful as ever! I think I remember what they called 'The Joiners' Shop', visiting it with my dad to get a couple of grinding wheels.. That would be in the early 1970s I suppose. Thanks for another excellent film! 🌟👍

great video i remember playing around foredyke drain when the masonettes was over the road grew up on bransholme

Looking forward to this one. I spent most of the first 10 years of my life "down drain". Now where did I put my rose tinted spectacles?

Another fascinating episode - thanks. Incidentally, I was born and raised on Holderness Road and never heard Spyvee Street pronounced as you did with a short ‘I’, it was always pronounced with a long ‘I’ as ‘sp eye vee’ by my family and everyone we knew.

What a great video. I cycle part of this route to my dads most days, then usually walk with him along the route you took. I think he'll enjoy this episode very much, thanks HHN 👍

I was always told as a kid that the bridges on Bransholme were built by the TA at Mona house, my uncle helped with one and my best friends father who ended up being SGT Major of the unit knew him and agreed with this, thats 20 odd years ago now.

Really enjoyed watching the video, we used to take our kids along the cycle path, happy memories , looking forward to the next one 🎉

Another fascinating tour of Hull's history. Thank you.

Very interesting, thanks for all your hard work putting these great video's together. I don't really know that part of hull but enjoy seeing how things work and what they used be like. Keep up the good work 😃

This is great. Back in the 90s i used to walk east along Sutton Road towards the Leeds road crossroads. I remember there being a large diameter pipe that suddenly rose from the ground for a few meters before going back underground. Just about where the pelican crossing is now. I always wondered why it did that. Its now clear that this was where the pipe crossed over the water before it was filled in!

As always, informative, interesting, and well presented, being an East Hull lad it never ceases to amaze me of what I didn't know, until you let me know, keep doing what ya doing

brilliant yet again thanks. brian d.

Thanks! This brought back a lot of memories of growing up in the area of Summergangs/Mally/East Park etc.

Really enjoyed, can remember Fordyke going under the H/B Railway 5 Arches Bridge in the 60s ,nice to see bit of the bridge remains along with the stream further down.👍PS I take it you like Tangerine Dream😉

That was beautiful and brilliant!

That shed light on so many things. Brilliant

It all adds up now, to why Lambwath Junior School was so named.

Not a east ull lad cos you would have said spy vee street and olbun street lol 😂 grew up just across Danny lane park 60s so the drain was our playground . Great video again panicked reading twitter feed thought I would have to join some group to watch it

Brilliant, really loving this series, thank you 👍

Yet another great vlog. May I suggest you do a vlog on Hull City trolly busses? I do miss them. I remember The Hull Daily Mail headline on how much the Hull City Council received for the sale of all the copper overhead wires. It wasn’t too much later when the oil crisis hit and the cost of running busses went through the roof.

It's a shame that so much has been destroyed or demolished because of the war damage. Because Hull has some fascinating history which HHN has been producing some brilliant content

Love it. I did a load of research on these a few years ago looking for culverted land drains to traverse, but was very disappointed to find out they'd all been filled in. 😥 Great video as always!

I used to fish at top of cleveland street foredyke stream back in the 60.s also lambwath stream for sticklebacks and newts

Another great video. I've cycled along that path from Mount Pleasant to Bransholme many a time during lockdown.I never knew the paths history. I do now. Great video.

Very interesting - thank you. Born down Northumberland Avenue 1945 we used to swim in Barmston drain in the 50's. There was also a small stream that ran from the River Hull where we would go crabbing in the mud, when the water was low and sometimes they opened some sort of sluice/lockgate and let water through; maybe at high tide? It's all filled in now of course and factories built on the land.

Excellent

Good video! Learned alot!

Another amazing video as always 👏 keep up the brilliant work, although gutted I didn’t see you on Bransholme when filming 😅

Fascinating video, as always well researched. Very enjoyable.

Great video as always mate 👍

I remember the huge hole on the other side of the bridge.

Another TV quality video ,superb as per usual ,and the HnB mentioned again lol

love it

You was correct about the cast iron bridges, these were build by 129 field squadron the Royal engineers, as you say from sutton barracks, one of the bridges has a plaque on it with the information about the bridges. It must have been on the other bridge over Holwell Road. I'm sure they where built to aid with the construction of the estates.

superb episode whens next one lol

Brilliant another interesting video.

Thank you

Fascinating videos. I lived in Summergangs Road many years ago and never knew about these drains! Will you be doing anything on West Hull, Prory Rosd area where I grew up?

The point where foredyke stream crosses holderness drain culvert. There used to be a plank you could cross over we used to fish either drain

My last comment about Keyingham Drain. Google shows a harbour there. And about 6 yachts etc moored. I call it a harbour. Very sheltered and includes even a slipway

About three miles east of the abbey is Skirlaugh and on the 1:25000 OS map, heading back out SW of Skirlaugh is a drain marked as "Lambwath Stream" and about mile from Skirlaugh it goes through a place called Lambwath Bridge. Is this anything to do with the Lambwath Stream you covered? Or was Lambwath (Lambwash) perhaps once a common name for a stream? Or is it possible that before the Holderness Drain was dug they were both part of the same (longer) stream way back when?

You don't actually mention when the Foredyke Stream was filled in. I have a dim recollection of it at Cleveland Street, where a section ran close to Witham/North Bridge. On the North side of the Stream was a large wrought iron metalworkshop owned by Eddie Beadle, whose name was painted on an advertising board above the premises. I had some gates made by him in the late 1970's and I'm sure the water was there at that time. But I might be wrong. Now it's just a car park...

great theme music too :) v kraftwerk

And in a 100 yrs time they'll be another hull history nerd talking about a statue erected in your honour 👍👌

Sorry but have to go with the locals. Was brought up in Egton Street and it was always Spy vee Street. On another level always used to enjoy pointing out to people the plaque stating this was the first ferro concrete bridge. We live in a much maligned city and when asked where I am from my reply is Kingston upon Hull it is on my passport and all other documents as well as my old school books from the 1960's onwards.

thanks awesome

Top job another very interesting video puts into context what was clearly a bridge at sometime just a question is this the same drain that is on wawne common?

What a coincidence. I was watching a video of a yacht returning to its berth to Stone Creek. I couldn't find it on Google maps at first. The yacht sailed into a small stream that I later identified as a drain near sunk island. Its called Keyingham Drain. Really interesting to watch the last part. The last part of Part III. The view is confusing but spectacular. The place has only Stone Creek House as a description. The course to get into the drain for the yacht is along the coast between the coast to the north and the mud of the humber to the south. If you need a link. Let me know

Hi Nerd, Putting the history of Hull aside for a moment, I have a question ii I may? As I know your a potential sausage roll connoisseur, what is your favourite sausage roll, and do you have any recommendations? 😊

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You mention part of the stream was not filled in until the 70's, do you know the dates of the various parts getting filled in? Being born in what would become Bransholme in the early 60's I remember the construction the bridges on Bude Road

Excellent . Did prefer the original spooky music 😁

Any evidence that Foredyke was ever used by small boats in the distant past?

The Foredyke Stream is part of a sad time in our family. My Mother, her parents, Brother and Sister lived at 3 St. Marks Avenue, St.Marks Street and in 1928 her Brother, Jackie, who was aged 3yrs, drowned in the Stream. His body was found floating face down, where the Stream crosses St.Marks Street. He had been playing with some other children and somehow fell in.

I don't know the 'wrong' side of Town at all. Anything further than Queen's Gardens is Bandit Territory. I am ashamed. I always go onto maps after a video though and learn a bit.

Bailey Bridges ?