A potpourri of videos ranging from animated explanations of early steam engines; a detailed journey along Hadrian's Wall to Drone flights over moors and other interesting landmarks.
I have just google earthed this and what a mess. I used to ride at the little riding school owned by Mrs Oliphant on Fagley Lane. The field next to the Industrial Museum was where the Blue Cross Gymkhana was held. All of her fields have been built on, all the fields where the gypsies parked their barrel topped vardis and tethered their horse all built on. I realise you can't not build houses but this is on an industrial scale. Laughingly someone has tried to maintain the equestrian link but Fetlock Drive, Canter Way and Martingale Close?
This area was the last of the former agricultural land within the township of Eccleshill. As a local historian - I recorded the Townships demise over the years. Now the place is characterless and without soul.
When I look at what we have at our fingertips today and what was available back then - it sickens me somewhat - I have all I could ever need to produce some notable videos but find that time and health are against me.... But .... That's the way the cookey crumbles - Just seen your new vid - YEAH ... TIME YOU DID START DOING MORE MATE ;)
@@MybitofHistory I've tried to do more over the last 2 weeks, but I'm struggling to make the content interesting enough, if they bore me when I watch them back in the bin they go, I need a new approach which I'm still working on...
Was fighting against a bit of a wind coming up from the sea - not long after it knocked the camera's gimbol out and had to spend half hour resetting it. Still - the footage was good enough for Getty and already sold 3 of the clips included in this video - It keeps me as active as I can be Chris.
Britain from 1800 to 1900. 20,000 Waterwheels decreased in number. Windmills decreased in number. England's Thomas Newcomen's 1,500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared. Scotland's James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10,000,000 !!! To every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 you could now add 500 Watt type Steam Engines in 1900. This WAS the Industrial Revolution. A 500 times increase in Power Output for the whole country in one human lifetime. Take away James Watt's Steam Power and you get no Industrial Revolution. Just Newcomen Atmospheric Pumps and Arkwright's Water-Power.
An amazing video well done but the place is a shit hole ! A dumping ground of life’s unfortunates no longer a thriving community but still full of people taking advantage of the poor
Nice to see another drone video up mate, the town was bustling with people, or were they ants, lol... I am getting ready for semi-retirement and this channel will be back on my list to upload to, starting with getting back to fitness vlogs and then onward to wild camping, I still want to do that Moor of yours and with my weight dropping and time on my side, I will be there late winter early spring and then for some droning... ;)
Blimey. Alot of people in Haworth. No idea where it is or why so many people. Must be shops. Only reason why a load of women would congregate with their dragged along husbands....
Aye... 10 years ago.... Seems like only yesterday, but a sad reminder of the times I could walk further than 20 yards or a flight of stairs without needing a 20 minute rest ;)
Oh dear nearly missed this and I get notifications, hmm... This must be over a few flights, great views and what is the walk all those people were on at 14:35 - Mam Tor? Looks like one the wife would do, lol... The flight over that amazing Winnats Pass at 9:00 was my favorite, I loved that. Now I have my replacement drone from DJI I must do something this year... This is brilliant!!!
Same day Chris - the sites are along the Hope Valley - Castleton is a great place to spend a couple of days - and a visit to the Devils Arse is a must ;)
Only of interest to those within the locality and the online History FB page I run for Eccleshill. That said, I did visit your RU-vid site and was astonished to find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for such an opioninate individual. Whereas, my RU-vid site is PACKED SOLID with videos I have produced down the years and are appreciated around the world with request for use in Universities and TV stations etc.
Are they about to be demolished as well? Only kidding ;) The fact is, the area is within the No Flight Zone for Leeds & Bradford Airport - Yeah I know - like it's several kilometres away. I do do this commercially, so it's finding the time - but who knows - the footage can always be used in the History FB Page I run ;)
Shame all those front doors and windows going to waste like that. What is planned for that space? A migrant centre or just a load of new build boxes at extortionate prices? Or maybe just a green space.
Certainly not a green space - though developers fail to recognise that whole area below is packed with old mine shafts and coal gallaries. Front doors and Windows - Cheapest Bradford Council could find - It's going to cost more getting rid of them - I proposed them being used as a Migrant Centre prior to demolition - not accepted ;) I'm a paid up Memeber of GB News ;)
@@MybitofHistory Sounds like they took a risk building there in the first place. Your proposal would have been cost effective too! 😇😁 GB News... one of seemingly endless controlled opposition. People should realise by now, that there are no political solutions to our problems. The system is not designed for that. It was put there to keep the public in a sheep pen, that they can never escape from.
Don't want to sound like the drone police! But you are supposed to have a visual on the drone at all times. There is no way that you could see it from that distance 😳😜
Great review , I’ve got the main pod and was going to buy another as a back up as I use it for iris photography but seeing this I’m going to try a pod mini instead 😁 thanks
Every time I see a video like this I think how wonderful it is that there are volunteers who are happy to spend many many hours using their skills to educate and entertain others about history and amazing things that have been done. Very well done and a big thank you.
Hope you enjoy the vidoe I produced about Trevithicks other road engine - The Puffing Devil ;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DXknPScdDJc.html
I can't recall anywhere in the history books / accounts of James Watt ever having the imagination to stick 4 wheels to a steam engine.... I thought you would have nown that ;)
Because he didn’t. Watt, as is well documented, wanted nothing to do with what he termed ‘strong steam’, or high pressure steam. His huge stationary engines worked somewhere around 10-15 psi, and relied on condensing the steam to create a partial vacuum in order to get useful work done. What he actually invented was the separate condenser, which increased the thermal efficiency of the low-pressure engine that had already been invented, in a crude form, by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, 24 years before Watt was born. Watt died in 1819 at the age of 83, 18 years after Trevithick built Puffing Devil, and 16 years after the first locomotive ran on rails in 1803.
Newcomen's Atmospheric Pumps disappeared when Watt's Steam Pumps appeared and Arkwright's Water-Power disappeared when Watt's Steam Engines appeared. Newcomen's Pump supplied Atmospheric Power. Watt's Pumps and Engines supplied Steam Power. Atmospheric Pressure opposes a Steam Engine. Watt's separate condenser on his new engines recycled hot water and eliminated 14.7 psi of opposition from Atmospheric Pressure, with the vacuum created by condensation.
Not quite.. Newcomer’s engine also relied on condensing the steam to create a vacuum beneath the piston, which means that the atmospheric pressure becomes the main motive force, and the same is true for Watt’s engines. The main difference between the two is that Newcomen injected cold water directly into the cylinder to achieve this, and as a result the entire mass of the piston and cylinder needed to cool to the point of condensation, meaning that the next cycle had to waste a tremendous amount heat energy from the incoming steam to re-heat the cylinder before condensation would cease and the upward stroke could commence. This gave the Newcomen engine a phenomenally low fuel efficiency, or ‘duty’ as it was termed at the time. By creating a separate condenser that could be kept at an even temperature at all times, Watt effectively eliminated this cyclical waste of energy, as the cylinder and piston could be kept hot throughout the cycle, thus achieving a significant increase in efficiency. Although many new engines were built at the Soho foundry, Watt’s business model was nonetheless heavily dependent on the fitting of this separate condenser to a large number of existing Newcomen engines, and profiting by taking a share for themselves every year of the savings that were gained from this increased fuel efficiency, a policy that became increasingly unpopular in Cornwall. However, these were still low pressure engines, and still wildly inefficient when compared to the compact high pressure direct-acting engines of Trevithick, operating at 50lb to the square inch, a fact that was proved when a Soho built engine was trialled head to head with a Trevithick ‘puffer’ to see which did the greater amount of work for a given consumption of coal, and lost quite unequivocally. Watt undoubtedly contributed a great deal to the development of the steam engine and the understanding of its thermodynamic performance, and deserves to be recognised as such, but ultimately he is part of a much wider and more complex narrative, which still seems to be blurred by his somewhat litigious nature and an unfortunate tendency to engineer his own legacy.
Development of this sort is a good thing. It's easy on the one hand to yearn for about 1985 when you could walk or run from Moorside Road, across Fagley Lane, down the track, across the disused railway line and up the hill to Calverley. But my impression is that many people from my generation left the area in the 1980s and 1990s, feeling it was rapidly going downhill and had little to offer in terms of skilled jobs or amenities. Everyone young and educated with 'get up and go' seemed to be moving away, leaving an ageing population and too few motivated people left to sustain community groups. However this video shows that people DO want to live in the area, which should be good for bringing the critical mass to sustain local activities and businesses.
As of now, (February 2024) not a single conviction for this crime. And the burned out wreck of the mill is just being left to rot. And as if that isn’t enough, someone had ANOTHER go at burning down the remains of the mill a few months back. No one has been nicked for that attempt either. This town really is on it’s arse at the moment.
I must admit that I've come across your video quite by accident. I wanted to find a video about the Pod Mini which had been done by someone other than the guys at Adaptalux, so I was chuffed to bits! I was even more chuffed to bits when I heard you say 'Tickety Boo!' That alone was worth me subscribing! 😁😁
Hey... I don't expect a subscribe.... seriously... if you're looking for a good lighing system then it has to be Adaptlux... I'm now a pro photographer - I sell on my works on Getty (World-wide) - you couldn't want a better lighting system at an affordable price ;)
I remember as a kid in the late sixties growing up in Bradford. There were still plenty of remains of the canal along canal road, a wharf somewhere towards the city centre with a loading crane (maybe around the back of Leather’s chemicals?).
Amazing, I have lived in and around Ilkley - Bingley moor for 40 years and knew snippets of history but this series was fantastic to learn so much more. I have walked virtually every step of Ilkley - Burley - Addingham - Bingley moor over the years and will now walk lots of it with a new perspective. Thank you for your time and effort making this great series.
I'm back again to remember these men. Today is Saturday, November 11th, 2023, and the anniversary of the armistice. it was said that during the Bradford PALS assault at the somme, every household in Bradford knew someone who had lost their lives on the somme battlefield. in a city of then over 250,000 people, that is one hell of a loss for any city to recover from. my Grandmother remembers the bomb which fell on the city centre in the second world war because Grandmas' family had a shop in the same parade as the shop which was hit when the German bomb fell on it. God rest their souls.
Loved watching your series, thank you so much, i was born on Main Street Haworth in 1969, we had a antique emporium market in the street abd i ran wild as a kid on the moors, got a few interesting stories, at the side of the black bull pub there was a allotment and it had a cockpit from a ww2 fighter plane in the middle, not sure if anything is still there today but if you take the path at the back of the black bull carpark leading to the old Jagger's quarry just on your left in the first allotment. Once found 11 boxes of ordinance up way past Stanbury, think thst was in tje Keighley news early 70s but ive seen a couple of strsnge things i cant explain also up on the moors, including my clear sighting of Barghest on the edge of ponden kirk when i was 11, i ran all the way home! The moors are everything to me, i could never leave them, returned from a month in Saudi Arabia in 2006 and dropped of my bags picked up my tent and headed onto the hills just to get my connection back on track 😉💚
