American Construction Worker Reacts "Guy Martin's How Britain Worked - Episode 3 - The Seaside" 

The world needs more Guy Martins

Can't wait for you to watch his show about his Merlin Engine from a Spitfire. His intention was to have in his Front Room .He had Demolshed a wall and Staircase at his Workplace. When he Reved it up Full and it Took Flight .his Boss wasn't a happy chappy 😮

Guy Martin is an all round legend , his passion is unreal.

You have no idea... NO IDEA!!! How cold the sea is.. when you come to the UK and it's a warm nice day. Please record and put on here your first reaction 😂.

Guy Martin’s enthusiasm for everything he puts his mind to is infectious- top bloke as they say up north

I live in Manchester and we still love a day out to either Blackpool or Southport as they are only 45 minutes ish away in the car.

Love these. 💙

Summer season is about 3 days in May. Further to Spencer’s comment about wearing your Sunday best in summer, bear in mind these people’s wardrobe would be very limited, it’s summer, humid, and bathing regimes would be much less frequent. You know when they say you can smell the seaside, bet you could back then.

A really early Fred Dibnah episode showed him using the same concept as the tram system. He was knocking down a chimney brick by brick. He loaded the spoil into a skip. Using pulleys and cables, the loaded skip descending brought up the empty one.

Guy Martin is a force of nature. Genuinely interested in all sorts of things, passionate about his interests, and willing to put himself on the line when it matters. Fantastic character.

Love you guys, most honest reactions.. Fun, awe & emotion... You cover so many aspects of all things,

The funicular tram is pretty cool, I'm a local runner and it's common for runners to race the trams up to the top, they have to stop halfway and change trams though as the cables are spilt in two, one set go up/down to halfway, the next set go up/down to the summit, so because they stop runners can beat them, but when the people on the tram realise what's going on they start cheering you on, it's pretty funny! There's also cable cars going up to the summit so if I was visiting I'd get one up and the other down, but if you wanted to visit Wales I'd suggest Llandudno is the perfect spot to stay, there's loads of accommodation there and lots to do, plus it's close to Snowdonia national park, you can easily get to the highest mountain in England/Wales which is called Snowdon from Llandudno, which has a rack and pinion railway going all the way to the summit, and that's an easy day trip from Llandudno even on public transport, it's the only mountain in the UK with a train going all the way to the summit, and it even has a café on the summit which cost £6m to build, for me it would be high up on the list of things to do in the UK.

That's my part of the world, it's pretty rare to see temps as low as -5°c in Llandudno, winter norm temps would be 5c to 10c, the NW Wales coast has one of the mildest winters in the UK due to the gulf stream, so we have winters much warmer than places on the same line of longitude on the west side of the Atlantic like Newfoundland which is much colder, just checked and it's -16°c in St John's and 9°c in Llandudno as I type, and that's all down to the gulf stream. so I think Guy was very unlucky to get such an unseasonably cold day!

Well done Fellas, enjoyed that 👍🏽❤️❤️fair journey between Brighton and Blackpool, enjoy Spencer👏🏽👏🏽

Saltburn by the Sea has a funicular tram system, in North Yorkshire.

Are you guys aware of Guy Martin's Wall Of Death speed record? It was done as a live broadcast but is available here, on RU-vid, and there is also a behind the scenes episode to enjoy too. Give it a watch, you will NOT be disappointed.

This was great. Have you guys seen the Royal Navy Gun Race yet? Absolutely smashing!

played with a few colliery bands in yorkshire. was the best time ever! always amazes me how much enthusiasm guy has with anything he does. such a down to earth bloke, willing to get stuck in and get his hands mucky!

I love how much you love our history and how you're educating a new generation to world history. Respect

Oh God. His story about the mishap with a merlin engine from a Lancaster bomber and his bosses workshop..."it's been a year since it happened and I'm just about starting to see the funny side of it..." it's on RU-vid as "Guy Martin favourite things" (without quote marks). Bloody hilarious.

Whitby, Scarborough, saltburn in North Yorkshire, England are nice seaside towns to visit. Blackpool not so good.

The union's fought for our right for holidays. Before the industrial revolution people worked around living, factories changed that. Sundays were a day off, Saturday afternoons were given eventually. We were then given two weeks in summer.

Can’t wait for more Guy on the channel

In the industrial revolution you would maybe have Sunday and Saturday afternoon off work. As mills and industry developed it was found that a period of time was need each year for maintenance and upgrades. The mill would shut for a week, the employees would go on holiday via the new railways to the coast. Entire mill towns would close and decamp to the seaside. Local residents would accommodate them in their own homes becoming bed and b breakfast

The system that is designed to transport holiday goers up the Great Orme in Llandudno is not actually a tram system, it is actually classed as a funicular, The cable is attached to two tram type carriages, with the cable stretching from the tram carriage at the bottom of the hill, up and around a huge wheel at the top and then attached to the other tram carriage at the top, as the tram at the top goes down the hill, the other one is pulled up the hill, It works in the same principle as a steep cliff railway, or for the technical term a funicular, There are many of these systems to be found in the UK & Ireland, in Europe & around the world, Where a tram system would usually have more than two trams operating on a parallel loop system, like the earliest one at Blackpool, where it would be operated by an overhead electric power supply, or by other means of power, There is also a funicular system that operates on a steep cliff at the town of Bridge North, at the northern end of the Seven Valley Railway, where Guy was in the first video with the steam engine, It relies on two water tanks underneath the cars, when the water tank on the one at the top is filled, the one at the bottom is emptied, by controlling the water flow, it allows the wait of the one at the top to start moving down the cliff and the one at the bottom to start moving up the cliff, 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

Guys a Top Man. The world need more Guy’s. ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤷‍♀️🇬🇧🇺🇸

Its Llandudno, my mate owns a bed and breakfast on the sea front "The Promanad Hotel" about 150 yards from that pier, lovely little sea side resort. If you go from Brighton to Blackpool along the M6 you'll pass by it, not a huge detour.

I live in Norfolk, England and our coastline is the North Sea and it is brutal and is the most violent sea in the world. This is due to it being only about 300 meters deep so when the wind blows it creates monsterous waves and swells. The south coast of Englands Atlantic coastline is like a warm bath in comparison.

Try Whitby...Great seaside port with history Captin Cook sailed round the world from there and Dracula stories

For the working class had two set of clothes. Working wear and Sunday best. There was no casual wear.

The Atlantic around Britain is warmer than down the east coast of the USA. This is due to the Gulf Stream warming the north east of the Atlantic and a cold Arctic flow running down the USA east coast. Still bloody cold though😗

I have walked, ridden, rode and driven up the Great Orme. In 1984 I challenged an ambulance engine supplier to see if their engine would accelerate up the steepest road. To my and the sales representatives surprise it did. Unfortunately, Ford and Chevrolet brought alternative engines to market and it didn't take. I visit Llandudno a number of times a year. The best thing to do is get a knickerbocker glory from Forte's it wonderful. I have seen the price rise from 50p to £8.50 but love it still. I wish it was 50p still.

I have to say, I’ve been going too Abersoch, in north Wales, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for my summer holidays since I was 4 yrs old. I’m still going at 57. I’ll go anywhere in the year, but my Summer holidays have to be in Abersoch. Ok, the water may be a bit nippy for me now. I do still go in. I still meet up with people and there families, that are still going. And I’ll tell you know, this kids will take there kids. It’s just such a lovely place for your holidays. 👍❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤷‍♀️❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸

The inappropriate clothing thing was also common in the US. Take a look at some old photos from the American wild west and you'll see people wearing Victorian clothing in hot Texan sun....men in black suits with bowler hats and bow ties and women dressed head to toe in thick dresses. Fashion, what's it all about? ✌️❤️🇬🇧

My home town. Third tram is Lisbon in Portugal.

Guys. The engine running the electricity on the prom. With Pam And Dennis Woodward Buglawton on. Was a personal favorite of Fred. He was very close friends with them. He used to look after it for them. 👍

If you’ve had a hotter than normal Spring, can make the sea warmer for summer holidays.

When i was a school boy as soon as the the water temperature reached 48 f the first swimming lessons began, pale skin turned blue and most of your anatomy went into hiding there was no hot showers after your swim dry off with a rough towel and a 2 mile walk back to school, the memory still make me cringe!

We don't tend to get ice anywhere around the UK's coasts. The currents take icebergs elsewhere, and we get the benefit of the Gulf Stream bringing water from the Caribbean over to the Atlantic coasts of western Europe, which is what makes Europe temperate and not icy like the same latitudes elsewhere like Newfoundland and Moscow. But still, the Irish Sea and the North Sea are bleeping cold to swim in. Working hours is a question of the rate of exploitation and the distribution of income. More hours means workers getting a lower share of the value of production in the form of less pay per hour, ultimately, and a lower share of the pay costs of the business as a whole, with more going to management (and more managers). Lowering hours means forcing management and owners to abide by a lower profit rate and a smaller differential between workers' wages and management salaries, which is why it has to be forced on them by strikes and Acts of Parliament. But it's better for productivity and it's better for the economy as a whole, because wages being spent creates growth and business opportunities. The maths also applies in the public sector, because managers are always trying to take more of the pay cake, and the government always wants to pay less in total, so it has the same effect on pay as if it was shareholders instead of politicians. It's just that in the public sector it's easier to unionise because there's just one employer, rather than workers being scattered between seperate businesses. You've got to have physical rides, for a simple reason: fun is physical.

I can still remember what we used to call the "Factory Fortnight" which was two weeks where all of the factories in our town (we were big boot and shoe town) closed and everyone used to go to places like Great Yarmouth on (paid) holiday. If you could not go on holiday the town was strangely quieter, whilst if you were in one of the holiday resorts you would see families and people you knew from the where you were from.

Yeah, maths and music - Bryan May (Queen), physics degree in Astro-physics comes to mind. Good video again guys.

Slaps the drums and your man says not yet, I laughed my arse off🤣🤣🤣🤣

It was for more than the one percenters. My family has been involved with Llandudno since the war. My father built the homes and my aunt cared for the toilets on the main street, my cousins managed the hotels. BTW it's not the Atlantic but the Irish Sea. The tram on the Great Orme passed by my father's home on the way to the half way point but it is not the same today. Back then the tram had an overhead cable and it required to be connected. It was changed to a new system, the overhead cable was removed and now they are dragged up or lowered by Swedish machinery, it's all about tourism not transportation.

A lovely place and a destination i go to every year. A weekend or a day spent here is always amazing and its only 60 miles from me in liverpool. Great vid Guys.

It didn't realise my original home town of Blackpool was on your schedule, it's a real eye-opener of a place. I have the same love/hate relationship with it that I do with Vegas, but despite the lights, it's NOT vegas. It's not even Reno or Atlantic City, even in it's long past hey day, it was always very working class. But like everywhere in the North, the locals are amazing, the food was designed for workers (so if you're not burning 4000 cals a day, it WILL kill you) and the beer is much more drinkable (no trip to Blackpool is complete without a trip to the Pump and Truncheon Pub for proper real ales in a proper pub). Enjoy!

PLEASE review these shows. No one else does them. British, surreal, dry comedy. People like us The Armando iannucci show The day today

Tbf everything there looks exactly as it did the last time I was in Llandudno, in 1978. I like the keeping of tradition.

24:08 the 3rd place to still have a cable powered system is in Lisbon, Portugal.

10 Seaside Resorts in England:- Blackpool, Lancashire:- North Pier Central Pier South Pier Bournemouth, Dorset:- Bournemouth Pier Boscombe Pier Brighton, East Essex:- Palace Pier Great Yarmouth, Norfolk:- Britannia Pier Wellington Pier Hastings, East Essex:- Hastings Pier Skegness, Lincolnshire:- Skegness Pier Southport, Merseyside:- Southport Pier Southsea, Hampshire:- South Parade Pier Clarence Pier Western-Super-Mare, Summerset:- Grand Pier Birnbeck Pier Yarmouth, Isle of White:- Yarmouth Pier 6 Seaside Resorts in Wales:- Aberystwyth:- Royal Pier Bangor:- Garth Pier Beaumaris:- Beaumaris Pier Llandudno:- Llandudno Pier Mumbles, Swansea:- Mumbles Pier Penarth:- Penarth Pier 5 Seaside Resorts in Scotland:- Dunoon:- Dunoon Pier Helensburgh:- Helensburgh Pier Kilcreggan:- Kilcreggen Pier Rothesay:- Rothesay Pier Fort William:- Fort William Pier 1 Seaside Resort in the Isle of Man:- Ramsey, Isle of Man:- Queens Pier (There is 41 seaside resorts in England, I just named 10 of them), 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

My Welsh Grandfather orTaid used to work on the Llandudno Great Orme Tram. Spent many happy Summer School Holidays in Llandudno

There was an open air theatre on the Great Orme, in Happy Valley. Unfortunately it is no more, the stage area is a children's playground, seating is now grassed slopes and the theatre building is a cafe. It is a real catastrophe, everybody loved the shows. It gave performers a break and introduced every day folk to performance. It is a real loss.

Ive been to Llandudno several times lovely! I live in Blackpool weve got 3 Piers!

Seaside holidays were for all classes. "Wakes Weeks: From the Saints to the Sea With the coming of the railways in Victorian times, the traditional wakes weeks were when millworkers would travel to seaside resorts like Blackpool for their annual holiday. The whole of one town and its surrounding area would grind to a halt and the workers would all board the trains for the coast".

This guy races in Isle of Mann , 100% respect and he must be a tad crazy , lol

Hey Guys. Do you know the longest Pier in the world is at South End on the Kent Coast. I think it’s 1.33 Miles out into the Thames Estuary. 🤷‍♀️❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸

There's only one seaside town to consider, and that's where it all started - Scarborough! Come and have some fish' n' chips! (With the added benefit that it's a short train journey from York which should also be on your list!)

You really need to check out Guy Martin Speed… The episode where he sets a world speed record on the wall of death will whet your whistle for more 👍 Guy Martin is a cross between Evel Knievel and Fred Dibnah!

After 4hrs working in sub zero temps and not a glove in sight 👍 proper job

Lost count how many times ive walked that pier and ridden those trams😇

Just to re-iterate, you guys should do SHARPE, all but two later episodes are up in full on youtube so copyright shouldn't be an issue there... it'd be a great series to get your teeth into and you'd learn a ton of history too.

18:47 only Guy Martin would walk into a pub and ask for a cuppa tea 😂 😂 😂

Another great review, thank you, I thought of something you may be interested in as I started re watching it last night is salvage squad, with suggs from madness where they repair various types of vintage vehicles like a White steam car, Bristol motorcar steam boat and a Blackpool tram. I'm really enjoying these Guy Martins tho

Weston super mare and Clevedon and portishead xx

There's a cable pull tram on the isle of man. In the TT videos you would have seen a massive wheel, that's part of tue tramline.

We have 8 mandated holidays a year. Generally you would also have, circa, 28 personal holiday days per year (+ or - minus a few days company dependant). You could assume 33days paid holiday days per year. We also have paid sickness days (after the first 3 days unpaid).

Beach culture has direct link to the invention of trains

Actually you’re right. The water temp has been recorded my study’s and folk. That it is warmer at the end of summer. 😅😅😅😅❤❤❤

That cable method of providing motion is still used in some mining areas for transport of men and materials and conveyer systems to move the coal some may also be slowed down to carry men to the work face.

In Scarborough n Whitby we use water to pull similar car up a 1 in 2 cliffs from the beach. No electricity and years old . All gravity fed

I think Daniel's name tag selection often funny. Can I suggest: 'Sir Ringpain De Flange-Chutney' Go onnnnnnnnnnn 🤣

You can get high dexterity winter gloves which keep your hands warm and make life a lot easier. I use a UK brand for shooting in cold weather. They have enough feel that you can operate the trigger exactly as if you weren't wearing gloves.

Please react to Guy Martin's Favourite possession. It's only a few minuites but is an amazing video.

Top tip!!!wear rubber gloves under normal,cuts windchill and cold off,you hands

I worked at a precast Concrete Site during one of the Coldest Winters .on the Stressing yard making Bridging Beams Omg it got to - 18 early in the Morning. They closed the Site for 3 three weeks eventually.

We have a cable car in Wellington, New Zealand.

Swear I thaught he said from a Audi to a mini 😂😂😂😂😂

"Nobody knows the grafters!" If your picture appears in the company magazine with no name, then you know you're a worker and not a boss!

You know he was a champion motorcycle racer don't you?

Southend-on-Sea has the longest pier and not a long trek from London 🌟

Guys next series will be how Britain is completely now f_cked.

I went out with a girl called "Atlantic" once. Boy. was she fridged. I mean Ice Cold LOL

hey guys if you like guy martin you must watch his series on world speed records it’s a realy good watch

'Know Your Ally: Britain' Please react.

Have you checked out Guy Martin show called Speed with Guy Martin. Saying you like your speed sports that's the show for you

Guy Martin and Fred Dibnah. Who wouldn't want to have sat down for a pint with those two!!?

It's not just a case of "math" in the UK , it's "Maths" !!!! 🤔🙄😄

We have 7 public holidays lmfao, wishful thinking though chaps :P Edit: If you end up over here in summer / autumn then try to visit a steam fare if you can!

I fish on Llandudno pier👍

Imagine what the North Atlantic would feel like without the Gulf Stream.....bbrrrrrr.

spencer...BLACKPOOL has 3 piers...south pier..central pier..and north pier

What was the significance with the road-sign for warning about water hazards?

You gotta wonder if a system could work where the carriage at the top got tanks filled with water to give it extra weight based on the passenger weight on the carriage at the bottom... then jettison the water at the bottom to make for a lighter ascent?

Do you know that Guy Martin was one of the best Island of man TT motor bike riders of all time if you know nothing about TT racing in island of man I sergest you watch it and put it on your pod cast it will truly open your eyes .

He has and built a Ford transit that he brought to America and Germany to go as fast as he could look out them videos

I Travelled on a Venicula Railway In France which went into Switzerland. Well I think it was Venicula Railway. So that might be the third.

That’s what she said

"Job's a good 'un"

I'd shout Gulf Stream but I think we broke it.

Don't go to Blackpool do Scarborough and that side of the coast it miles better

Llandudno It's in Wales