Whatever you do in life, a miniscule number of people will like it, a miniscule number won't and the overwhelming majority will be completely unaware..
hi all im in southern Ireland i was born in Dudley Rd hospital 62 yrs ago last Sunday week 16th June 1962 mom and dadlived in digs from a Pakistani family in college rd alumn rock then in 1967 they got a flat in sth tower we moved around nechells 3 times between 1967 -1973 SOUTH TOWER THEN ON TO HOME tower in 1973 dad got a job as the caretaker for the duddeston four south tower/high tower/queens tower/home tower i can tell you he was busy he had a back up caretaker to help cover the four tower blocks that time the BOILERS Burnt Coke too heat the four towers plus the masonettes as well we mooved over to melvina rd in 1974 to 27/3 flat no masonette block little hall rd 6 years we stayed till october 1980 we moved to falcon lodge estate turned out it was a bad move too far away from city centre etc we left falcon lodge in march 1982 dad went home too ireland my parents are dead now but i havent been back to nechells snice we left in 1980 44yrs !and uk since 1982 so nechells /saltley/alumn rock has changed a lot and nechells and duddeston too does anyone know me? im michael barrett it ll be an eye opener for me when i go back anyone from nechells between 1967-1980 remember the community centre melvina rd ? a woman from glasgow who attacke mr ron bell in 1974 poor woman had too be taken away to be sectioned she lived in the gr flat in south tower ground flat a mrs hope threw herself to her death from kitchen window at home tower 1977 rest in peace my dad used to get the 14 bus with her going to work i think she had depression anyone from nechells in them years 1967-1980 remember the tom thumb pub /the rocket/the ashted hamlet/the oliver cromwell/foaming tankard/the duke of wellington next too bloomsbury LIBARAY ANYONE REMEMBERS THE ROYAL GREENJACKETS ON DUDDESTON MANOR RD GREEN IN 1974 MANY GAMES OFF FOOTBALL/ CRICKET I HAD ON THAT BIG GREEN ! GREAT TIMES IN THE 1970S YOU KNOW I COULD STAY OUT IN THE HOLIDAYS TOO 11/0 CLOCK AND KOWBODY WOULD BOTHER YOU OK YOU HAD TOO BE STILL CAREFUL BUT IF YOU WERE STREET SMART YOUD BE OKAY I REMEMBER THESE FAMILIES THAT LIVED IN THE MASONETTES BLOCKS THAT TOOK UP TWO SIDE S OF ROADS ONE SIDE FACED MELVINA RD THE OTHER SIDE FACED LITTLE HALL RD THERE WAS US THE BARRETTS/A MRS SAMPSON AND HER SON /JOHN THE DRUMMER OFF GLAM ROCK BAND ROY WOOD /WIZARDJOHN LIVE BELOW ME WITH HIS FAMILY WHO WERE FROM MALTA /THERE WAS MS JOSIE GARDINER FROM DUBLIN AND HER FAMILY/A NURSE CALLED GLORIA FROM BARBADOS WEST INDIES HER AND HER TWO GIRLS / THE WILSONS /ANTHONY WOODS / EX ST VINCENTS RC SCHOOL WAS WITH ME AT ST VINCENTS / ANYONE REMEMBER A MRS MURRAY AND FAMILY FROM WARDLOW RD NECHELLS HER DAUGHTER AND TWO SONS WENT ALSO TO ST VINCENTS SCHOOL IN VAUXHALL RD I WAS TOLD BY A EX PUPIL WHO WAS IN MY CLASS ABOUT 20 YRS AGO MRS MURRAY LOST HER ONLY GIRL MARGRET MURRAY FROM CANCER I LOVED MARGRET WHEN I WAS 7 IT WAS A SAD LOSS IM NOT SURE IF SHE WAS MARRIED ILL HAVE TOO GET A ST VINCENTS RC SCHOOL REUNION TOGETHER FOR ALL OF US WHO ATTENEDED ST VINCENTS SCHOO FROM SEPT 1967 -MAY 1973 ANYONE WHO RECONIZIES THES E NAMES CAN THEY CONTACT ME ID LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOUS HELP BRING BACVK GOOD TIMES AND MEMORIES FROM NECHELLS AEREA 1967-1980 IM MR MICHAEL J BARRETT EX NECHELLS THERES SO MUCH MORE TO MENTION BUT ILL BE HERE ALL NIGHT LOL BYE FOR NOW
@@sandpit72 that was a complete eye opener. I’m nearly 50 and I’ve lived in north Devon my whole life and have done a fair bit of mooching in my younger years but have never considered how far you could actually go by cross country without roads. That was some achievement You would be great on that hunted tv programme I saw some years back. 👍
New 2 part video beneath Braunton coming which is another eye opener, it certainly opens up your mind into seeing the local area from a very different viewpoint.
Been watching all of this series, I love our local area its easy to get stuck on the tarka trail but if you look about there is adventures everywhere. I wonder If Bideford to Barnstaple is possible with the same rules.
Well remember walking the line from the station [where my grandparents lived] to Rumleigh and beyond after the track was torn up in 1969, you could go as far as you wanted towards Tavistock until the vegetation started to take over probably in the 1980's.The trackbed was cleared to an extent around about 2008 when there seemed to be a real possibility that the line would reopen, unfortunately it didn't happen-better luck this time hopefully.
I was really glad to get out of Birmingham. But I was born in India, and nearly froze as a baby, and hated all the Victorian architecture. Have lived in Perth Australia for over 50 years now. Love going back to the Midlands every few years.
Excellent video 👍👍love ilfracombe so much and come down every year. Amazing what you don’t see from inland a few km . Love the views so unbelievable and beautiful. Look forward to more content 👍👍
YES! Number 7! Always fascinated me since I was a little kid in the 80s when we used to go here on Holiday (my Uncle and Auntie ran a resteraunt there for years, The Mexican Hat I think it was called?), and had no idea where the other end(s) was! Literally saw the title of this video and hoped it would feature that, and it does! Thank you, you've literally answered a 35+ year old question for me.
I agree on your prediction, I also thought this for a while, there's cracks in the road surface up on that stretch in places so I think the ground is slowly eroding up there already.
Certainly a lot to explore in Devon. I wonder how many people actually know it exists and walk this? I live in Dorset and near me (West Bay) there has been a great deal of land slippage due to excessive rain and inadequate footings (either by tree roots to shore up the cliff or man made solutions which never work). This is not exclusive to the south west, look at erosion and landslide in Yorkshire (Scarborough) and the south Holderness coastline. Interesting.
Lovely video see those areas of north Devon, to cheer me up,I miss this area. To visit or my dream to live down that way is becoming quite hard for a single parent with three children in this cost of living times 😢
I fell off a cliff recently while exploring and ended up in hospital. I was so lucky I didn’t paralyse myself. Please stay away from these locations they are so dangerous. There are plenty of flat, beautiful areas that are much better suited for walking.
Cheers, was actually filming something incredibly serious which will be at the end of the next video, but will always find time for this amazing steamer.
Thanks, saw at the time on the Bay cam - wondered why it was going back and forth. Saw it last year when it docked doing a round trip from I think from Clevedon, around Lundy, then Penarth & back to Clevedon - that is some day trip !
The huge basin is a washing machine. The fire underneath heats the water and you bash the sheets in the hot water. They also used urine to pre soak their whites to clean them 😮
