Even though I was born and bred in Blackburn, I find your videos very interesting, they help colour what for me is now home (Preston), but wasn't for the first 35+ years of my life.

love your videos/thankyou

Very interesting. I lived at 62 hesketh street until I left home, my parents continued to live there. The house was originally bought by my grandfather Hayward Boneham.

Great video xXx

I'm led to believe it was founded in 1123 by Stephen, Count of Boulogne, later King of England (1135-54).

I dated a woman from Southampton, UK and she told me in her teens kids would sneak into church ruins like this after dark and drink, do drugs, and have sex. I am American so we just had to settle for the woods. lol

This video is everything I've been looking for for as long as I can remember. I'm originally from Barrow but left in 2001 and the abbey always fascinated me. I've been eager to understand what the abbey both looked like in its prime and what life might have looked like for those who called it home. Thanks so much for filling in the blanks.

Brilliant video, thanks for sharing

One of the less visited Dales, but perhaps better for it.

Wow fantastic

This got me very nostalgic. I was a student nurse between 1993-1996 and lived in at Sharoe Green Hospital (as I was not from Preston). The old work house had become part of the University and served as the faculty of health. I spent many an hour attending lectures in that beautiful building.

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Very interesting and informative - thank you for posting this!

A small gang of us would walk the mile to town. No parents The older ones (9 0r 10) were trusted to look after the young ones ( 4 or 5 ) A bob to get in for three hours entertainment. The ABC in Chester. ( But sometimes we were traitors and went to the Odeon instead 😅) But they never had the letter badges like the ABC. Remember buying one every week till you could spell out your name on your jumper? We used to dance to music up on the stage before the films and cartoons started. Simpler but much happier times. Makes me a bit sad to recall

and on the 3/11 date that has to be in everything. ? 11/3 the date that the bug was declared a pandemic and on the USA election date.. 11/3. ???????

Thank you. A great example that it wasn't only Protestants that were harshly persecuted but also Catholics too 💔 🙏

Great capture. Thanks for sharing.

I was lucky enough to have been there with my brother a few times from the late 80's until the early 90's when it waa still open.On a sunny warm day this place was absolutely stunning! The view of the bay alone was breathtaking from such a great viewpoint. The swimming bath oozed old fasioned style,which i loved as a kid. The pool was filled with saltwater which i always found a novelty as i'd never swam in a saltwater pool unlil then. The diving boards were all opperational too at all hights. Truely wonderful place,abdolutely made up that they are willing to fix it up and make it great again as it truely deserves that.

The subtitles could do with chucking out. Number 1. Then perhaps replacing with greater accuracy? How much is that to ask?

WE ARE PROUD. Words and music, Gary Cunliffe and Ian Gray, 1991. We belong to a town With a thousand years of history, With traditions and a story Which have made its people proud. We belong to a town Where the road could ford the river, Where monks were given lands And where priests could build their town. And the place began to grow Through its markets and its trade And a charter from the king came by decree. And the merchants had their court Where their rules and laws were made And the Guild began and made the borough free. CHORUS: We are proud Of the history that surrounds us Of the great events and names that make the story of our town. We are proud To be children born of Preston, Let us sing it clear and loud For we are proud. People knew troubled times Lived through strife and plague and famine, Trembled under Cromwell’s sword As he closed the Civil War. Scottish armies marching south Marching for The Old Pretender, Were defeated in our streets A final fight on English soil. And when cotton came to town Life could never be the same With the mills and smoke that revolution brings. But we went from strength to strength Helped by Arkwright and his frame And by Horrocks who made Preston’s cotton King! CHORUS: We are proud............. We belong to a town Where a thousand years of history Are only the beginning of Much greater things to come. We belong to a town Which is proudly now a city, The future waits for all In this place we call our home. This shouldn’t be a thing we say Once in every twenty years When in our hearts We feel it every day. CHORUS: We are proud.............

"to be gifted to the Cumbria Archives " is US-american. In England, we say "to be left to ...".

Very sad state it is in when I saw it today. I hope it can be restored in the future.

I used to sing this at the a b c in croydon. Memories of taking my 2 brothers with me n returning to carribean sunday meal, gram playing with dads Trojan records in late 60s early 70s. GNia poet

Amazing photos, and so glad they were recovered. Seeing the change in the Abbey from the early 1900’s to the present is stunning. What Furness Abbey Hotel and Station were a tragic loss.

Very Victorian style.

Exceptionally interesting and atmospheric photographs of this grand and moving ruin. A pity about the banal soundtrack..

Founded almost 900 years ago, Furness Abbey was once the largest and wealthiest monastery in north-west England. A place of prayer, piety and pilgrimage, the abbey was also a major landowner, its abbot occupying an important place in the administration of the region. Today, Furness has some of the finest monastic ruins in England. Its buildings are witnesses to the lives of the monks who worshipped and lived there between the 12th and early 16th centuries While excavating the grave of a prosperous medieval abbot, a hoard of medieval treasures was discovered at Furness Abbey. This discovery unearthed the first crozier (a staff with a crook on top) to be excavated in Britain in over 50 years and an impressive gemstone ring was also found. Emergency conservation work is taking place to stop the ruined abbey church sinking into the soft ground. This follows earlier routine inspections which revealed serious cracks in the walls. Medieval masons used large pieces of oak in the foundations and after 500 years, this timber is now gradually giving way.

Enjoyed, thanks for the work and showing just how many good photos of the Abbey there are in the collection. I would like to know who some of the people are on the photos.

Really interesting thanks for compiling brilliant

Stunning 🤗

Is there a part 2 anywhere?

hi i lived in grange in the 60s and 70s i also worked there in late 80s at a garage must do a road trip bk up to my old stomping ground and take my dji friend lol also when i was a kid and even up until the late 80s there was no sea grass it was all rocks and sand up to the prom

Los felicito por haber logrado esa restauración tan exacta de la locomotora original. Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱, Sudamérica.

Brilliant loved this content hats off to you.

I have to say that its so frustrating that people dont complete thet series od vids . You watch all of no 1 and then no follow on . .

I had no idea there were, in fact, two locos. Thank you for posting this!

Lets hoe the Lottery comes up with some more funding to get the other one back in stem.

Are there any info pages on how this engine mechanically works? What drives the wheels, some gear system under the chassis, seemingly not the connecting rods?

Cracking video and I can say that it is a joy to drive FR20 indeed. It is a lovely loco and full of character.

What good are carriages with windows you can't open and look out of?

it's really cool to see the old girl looking and sounding as if she were fresh from the builders. Beautiful! Jack

Poor drivers... never gave a thought about them lol

Awesome restoration - or is it a rebuild ? : I wonder what the wooden box next to the smoke box contains.... oiling cans & rags ?

I was born in Rossall Street as was my mother, literally round the corner from what was Tulketh Hall.

1863, she was built during the American Civil War. What a grand old lady.

I always thought Courtaulds at Redscar was haunted. Theres definitely a strange vibe about Redscar Industrial Estate. I remember passing through Redscar Industrial Estate in the early hours of the morning after they blew up Pope Lane Bridge. I was stuck on land at the east side of the M6 near to the woods. It’s real creepy around there at night. I can remember going to a music recording studio in 1997 with a mate which was inside the Corning room area to the north and there was a strange vibe in that building. You can drive inside the building though internal roads leading to industrial units.

I love Luther Vandross' version from all the versions of this song, especially when I saw him live in 1987 and 1990. I love the horn on this version though. It compliments her voice. Very few people can perform this song well, but this is a great rendition❤

As a kid I loved old Coopernob, and I still love seeing it now. The only downside is that it doesn’t look quite at home in the great hall as it did in the station hall.