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@martynking542 9 күн бұрын
Ans news on when/if you are restarting Lancashire Footnotes? I miss them.
@wyrearchaeology1 9 күн бұрын
Not yet, unfortunately, Martyn. I'm in the middle of renovating my 'new' home at the moment - and my god, does it need renovating.
@martynking542 4 күн бұрын
@@wyrearchaeology1 I feel your pain. We have just recently moved back to Fleetwood and we are still working on the house. Take care.
@christinekenny1110 28 күн бұрын
It's Darwen not Darwin
@asticou04 Ай бұрын
Seems the railway regeneration has hit a halt, judging by the level at which nature has reclaimed the tracks (as at July 2024, not in reference to the footage).
@todmick Ай бұрын
The locks are hillock locks wheelton nr chorley . Leeds Liverpool canal
@wyrearchaeology1 Ай бұрын
Excellent. Thanks for the info. 🙂
@todmick Ай бұрын
The quarry is Denham quarry whittle le woods nr chorley.
@wyrearchaeology1 Ай бұрын
Cheers for that.
@girnogiovana6577 Ай бұрын
big up
@bigearedmouse17 Ай бұрын
like a Lancashire Toy Dolls this is...
@wyrearchaeology1 Ай бұрын
...the scary, Victorian variety.
@Mokh7777 Ай бұрын
You forgot to mention the Iranian Sarmatian Iazyges. That’s who King Arthur was also. Sarmatian.
@wyrearchaeology1 Ай бұрын
I didn't forget. I just didn't know.
@Mokh7777 Ай бұрын
@@wyrearchaeology1 Oh lol. The Sarmatian Iazyges were the cavalrymen that were sent to Britain by the Romans around mid 2nd century AD. They garrisoned the Bremetennacum fort, and I believe Hadrian’s Wall.
@wyrearchaeology1 Ай бұрын
Ah yes...the sarmatians were stationed at Ribchester, if memory serves. (That is, I remember reading that somewhere...I wasn't actually stationed there with them). And their horses were supplied from Eskham on the Pilling Marsh road where archaeologists dug up a roman horse corale-wrangot-thing. I think. Probably. I'm old and easily confused and haven't had enough coffee this morning yet. 😜
@dianesnowflake 2 ай бұрын
I too had tears of laughter, I did the same walk with my husband, your breakdown of this walk is on point. Really, that bench, I sat on that with my head in my hands.
@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын
They don't call it the 'Climb of Oblivion' for nothing. (Actually, they don't call it the 'Climb of Oblivion' at all. I just made that up, because it seemed fitting.)
@dianesnowflake 2 ай бұрын
Congratulations on your 100th vlog. I have just found your channel and due to your witty delivery, you have a new subscriber.
@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын
Thank you, Diane. We are on temporary hiatus at the moment (due to having to move and stuff) but we should be back at some point.
@CharlyP1603 2 ай бұрын
great footage and explanations, thumbs up, thanks for sharing, have a nice day
@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын
I shall do my best, Charly.
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 2 ай бұрын
A Charles Babbage footnote: I went to school with his grandson. Bill. That's not his name I'm called Bill.
@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын
The question is, was he a whizz kid at I.T.?
@andycruickshank1671 2 ай бұрын
It's pronounced Yelland,had an Aunt and Uncle lived there for years.
@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын
That's me being a mispronunciation Barland.
@philcoogan7369 2 ай бұрын
Don't ask me why but I was looking into gassometers and came across a reference to Dolphinholme and it's place in early gas history, oldest remains of a gasworks and now a scheduled monument. And that shot you've got of the site of the waterwheel? They claim (and I think it's more likely) is it's the remains of the gassometer. What fun!
@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын
That's very possibly correct. It was too big and round for a hamster - that's all I know for certain. 😜
@MarkAbRobert-jv6it 2 ай бұрын
A slight correction, Cartimandua had been ousted by her ex Venutius when the Romans invaded Lancashire. A big correction King Arthur was not a Saxon
@wyrearchaeology1 2 ай бұрын
No, you're absolutely right...Arthur was a Romano-British chieftain fighting against the invading saxons, if memory serves.
@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. 🙂
@user-hz7pr8lc4v 3 ай бұрын
A great channel I've just found you I like it . great work
@user-hz7pr8lc4v 3 ай бұрын
Ive just found your channel its great 👍🏻
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
Thanks, Chris. We're on hiatus at the moment, but please stick around and, all being well, we'll be back eventually. 🙂
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 3 ай бұрын
I still lament the closure of Yates and Jackson's brewery. Mitchell's 'acquired' it when Y&J got into financial difficulties. Bill
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
All brewery closures are a national tragedy.
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 3 ай бұрын
Didn't the The Three Mariners used to be The Carpenter's?
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
I thought they were a 60s American pop group... 😜
@cappuccinodriverno1 3 ай бұрын
Edith Rivett has her grave at St Saviour's church Aughton. Under the name E C Lorac she wrote many whodunnit novels including one entitled Crook o' Lune. She was as prolific as Agatha Christie but is not as well remembered . However the British Library is currently re-issuing a few of her books in its Classic Crime series
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
Rivetting. (I'll get me 'at.)😜
@rebblespad1 3 ай бұрын
Oh God! This was the funniest one yet! Tears are rolling down my face!
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
I have the same problem when my boxers are too tight. 🤪
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 3 ай бұрын
Dignitas lol. Is that the Cleveleys branch? Bill
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
The Cleveleys branch is more of a whole trunk than a branch...
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
No y
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Scouring action makes me reminisce
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
On serious note i do appreciate the history and I thank you they are trying to erase it in the usa
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
And its caton no y.
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Wojohwitz?
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Skeeter?
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Anny suggestions
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Or roody
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
My son is having a son last of the caton on this side names? Im thinking cleetus
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
No y
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
I concur on the old build they dont no
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
No y
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Feed the tree
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
3 cats
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
No y aperintly thay want to slander my name
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Is that all
@DougCayton 3 ай бұрын
Im sorry the tree is in such a disarray we planted it so long ago try a short yank at its base hertiage lover douglas caton no y.
@jackieotway8513 3 ай бұрын
My family has roots here. In fact, some are buried in Warton. Your video is plain creepy and doesn't do much dignity.
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
To be honest, it wasn't meant to.
@KokowaSarunoKuniDesu 3 ай бұрын
Not to mention Hudson's ice cream in Chatburn: the liminal zone poised for a leap into Greater Yorkshire. I grew up in Chatburn. So I made that leap.
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
Yes, but, Wallings...I mean, at Cockerham you can actually watch them milk the cows and make the ice cream...apart from Gladys, the short sighted dairy maid, who, if nothing else, is good at making the bulls happy.
@KokowaSarunoKuniDesu 3 ай бұрын
@@wyrearchaeology1 Mmmm, Cocker 'em: hence the name. Hudson's is more lacticly pure.
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
By a strange coincidence they do a cock and ham flavour, amongst their thousands of other flavours. Or chicken and ham if the cocks are busy.
@davebannister4222 3 ай бұрын
Wish id discovered this 3 years ago as a yorkshire man im loath to praise hut its fucking funny
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
I apologise unreservedly for the anti-Yorkshire rhetoric, Dave. Some bloke from Derbyshire made me say it and then ran away.
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 3 ай бұрын
My friend Maria lived in Anchorsholme and the Bispham. She didn't tell us about the history of these places. I'll have to have words with her! I did, in a very small way, add to the folklore of Bispham on one occasion. We were staying at her house a few years ago and she prepared a culinary masterpiece. She baked some potatoes and then scooped out the cooked middle and mashed it with cheese. She then returned this mash to the potato skin and served it with a flourish...or possibly some butter. I witnessed this culinary miracle and then pronounced that henceforth this concoction should be known as 'Bispham Showboats'. And it was! She has moved to Cleveleys now so we may have to amend the name. Bill
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
There used to be a Cleveleys Showboat, on the promenade. I remember we had our school Christmas party there one year. It's gone now. A 1920's building, if I remember correctly, like something off Poirot only a bit mankier.
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 3 ай бұрын
My friend Maria who lived in Bispham at the time, once told me and my partner that she had been up 'Nicky Nook'. I said "Ok Maria, where is this fictional nook?" She assured me that it existed and that it had a loud echo. Is this true? Bill
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
It definitely exists. I've never heard about it having a loud echo before though. Mind you, by the time you reach the top you can hardly breathe, so I've never put it to the test. Next time I go up there, I'll push Jeanie McIntosh off the summit to find out. (Your friend Maria...her surname wasn't Von Trapp, was it?)
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 3 ай бұрын
Well here I am again with more nostalgia.(See Ashton Memorial, Fleetwood, Bamber Bridge and KIrkby Lonsdale videos for larger helpings of nostalgia). The Station Hotel is where my cousin held his wedding reception. One of the most depressing venues imaginable. There is, or was, Steamtown, the old locomotive sheds which act as honeypots to those obsessed with old steam trains. The most exciting part of any visit to Carnforth must include a visit to Booth's, the nearest thing to Waitrose for people who like that sort of thing. For those who don't, there is an Aldi next door. Bill Oh and I almost forgot, Cecil Parkinson who passed for a romantic lead in the minds of female members of the Conservative Party, came from near Carnforth....
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
I bought an interesting, hot sausage butty from the Booths in Carnforth, once. You get a good view of the building from one of the multitude of secret backrooms in the bookshop, if memory serves.
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 3 ай бұрын
More nostalgia from me! (See Ashton Memorial, Bamber Bridge and Fleetwood videos). When I was in my teens I was taken to the Devil's Bridge by a relative with a motorbike and sidecar. It was Easter and meltwater was rushing down the river. I swam of course but not for long. Dunking my head under the water resulted in a massive headache, so I stopped doing it. Bill
@wyrearchaeology1 3 ай бұрын
Sounds like a sensible move. 😜
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 4 ай бұрын
It's full of incomers from Bispham hoping to better their social milieu.....Bill
@wyrearchaeology1 4 ай бұрын
I went to school in Bispham. And Cleveleys, come to think of it. I led an eclectic childhood. 🤪
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 4 ай бұрын
Don't knock Quernmore (pronounced Qwarmore)...my grandmother was born there....Bill (again)
@wyrearchaeology1 4 ай бұрын
I don't think Quernmore's big enough to have a go at. 🤪
@user-dx5kg1nu6k 4 ай бұрын
More childhood nostalgia from me. (See Bamber Bridge and Darwen episodes) I once rode my bike from home in Lancaster to Knott End, crossed the Wyre by ferry and started to explore Fleetwood. Within five minutes I was shocked and dismayed by an incident which I cannot, all these years later, dismiss from my memory. I witnessed an RN sailor, in full uniform, urinating copiously against a wall in full sight of anyone who cared to watch. Being young and of delicate disposition, I was so shocked that I immediately returned to the ferry and escaped Fleetwood....I have been back since and I hold no continuing grudge against the place Bill
@wyrearchaeology1 4 ай бұрын
It's a good job you turned and ran when you did. Five minutes later and you'd have witnessed the Jolly Roger.