I was forwarded this video by a friend, and what a cracking video it is too! I'm a volunteer at Blists Hill and the chap operating the mine winding engine in your film. New sub here and will be off delving through your content soon 👍🏻
Good day, well what a surprise for you and us! Over the moon that you liked the film we made of the museum last year. It has to be one of our favourite places to visit to get our victorian fix! We see you have some interesting videos behind the scenes at the museum so will equally be checking them out! Please do share with your colleagues love them to see it as well, thanks so much, made our day! 😀
Excellent video, it always amazes me how some of the RU-vid channels can produce content that is the equal to or indeed surpasses productions with writers, producers, directors and crews. Brilliant!
I was press-ganged into being a costumed volunteer for a day at Blists Hill in a former life. I was a young person visiting from "the colonies" (always said with a wave in a vaguely westerly direction). Lots of comments about how good my N.A accent was, which was a relief because it was the only one that I had. Thank you for bringing back fond memories!
So enjoying your lovely videos. I’m American but have always wanted to visit England and tour all these wonderful historical houses and places. So wonderful to be able to see these places through your eyes and not have to leave the comfort of home, especially now with all the different travel restrictions and COVID protocols. Thank you so much for your wonderful work.
@Wish you were here…yes indeed! English, Irish and Scottish blood. England, Ireland and Scotland call to my soul. I guess no matter how many generations separate you from your ancestors, you still feel that tug way down deep calling you back “home”.
I would love to visit and could easily move here too, with our family of 6! So much history, wonderful.. love places like this, I'd enjoy being a tour guide.. hopefully my family in the UK will be able to visit soon. Amazing that its a living working "village" thankyou
We love this area of Britain, like being in a time capsule not just in Blistshill museum but all over the Ironbridge area. We try and visit each year for a weekend to get our fix!
Blists Hill is a remarkable museum, we visited a few years ago now, and we can recommend it. From the candle maker we purchased white candles (for private use) and pale green candles that were used at the foundry. They were coloured to deter pilfering. The candles were even wrapped in reproduction newsprint.
I visited Blists Hill for a day in the summer of 2019, & it was really wonderful! I had an excellent time &, by the end, felt as if I could move right in. Anyone who has a chance to go there really should do so. 👍🏻🙋♀️🥂
Nice visit to our past, so interesting and great for children to understand that phones, tablets, tv's and all things taken for granted are relatively new. Nice to be able to do virtual visits as mobility is getting wonky and at least get an opportunity, thank you both.
Hello Yvonne, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Pleased we can bring videos like this to you. We love doing it and we know it brings so joy! All the best.
Lovely. Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, is considered the best example of a Victorian era city in the world. The goldfields of Bendigo brought much wealth to Britain and allowed the residents to build fine Victorian buildings.
I first visited Blists Hill and some of the other museums in the 1990's when I stayed on holiday with a friend from Shrewsbury. I revisited the museum in 2017 and 2018 and was amazed at the additions and upgrading... going back was like meeting up with an old acquaintance from years ago. My favourite parts of the Museum are the Fish and Chip Emporium and the Photographers Studio, I have two souvenir photographs taken in there while wearing Victorian costumes. Once the pandemic has waned and travel is back to some sort of normality, I hope to visit this wonderful Museum again. Gordon Taylor, Scotland.
Hi Gordon, Thanks for sharing your memories with us! We agree, it is an impressive museum with lots going on each day. We have visited twice, once before corona and once during. They were able to keep most of the attractions open, but the photography studio was closed during our second visit. The whole Ironbridge town area is beautiful, did you watch our other guide on the other museums dotted around town. It would be well worth spending a few days in town to do Blists Hill and the other attractions. PS: We’re hoping to get to Scotland this year to do some filming of the Highlands and Islands!
Really great video! In 1965 i was taught in my public school here in Canada to write with a bottle of ink and a pen. It was a lot of fun mainly because it could be very messy.
I found this video extremely interesting and educational! I learned so much about the late Victorian times! I enjoyed this video so much indeed! It also reminded me of my great grandparents, on my mother's side, who grew up, and worked, in the Cumbria and Lincolnshire counties! Labourer and domestic servant, they were. Thank you so much for bringing their lives to life!
My wife and I have visited twice, it's a nice experience. We also visited the Ironbridge Gorge courtesy of National Holidays coach trip. Would love to visit again. George & Christine Peace. 👍
Visited 20 years ago and again about 7 years ago. Probably the best place I've been. Had a lesson in the school and a sing song in the pub with the policeman playing the piano. Also had the best fish and chips ever from the chippy.
This was another very informative and interesting history lesson. I like your reassuring and soothing voice. Your videos are top notch! You are so lucky to be living in beautiful England.
Lived in Broseley throughout my secondary school years and went to school in Madeley so crossed the Iron Bridge many times. Love this area and would happily go back .
I was born near the Black Country, not far away from this excellent preservation, and having moved south, as a boy, I enjoyed my visit there about 10 years ago. The one shop that scared me, was the Chemists, with the Dentists chair, AND, not mentioned here, was the weird contraption used, to drill teeth with. Believe it or not, the Dentist had to pedal this cycle-like machine, which turned the drill as fast as the Dentist could pedal. Imagine---he's swaying side to side while pedaling fast, AND, trying to hold the drill steady, on the end of a flexible spinning wire, while attempting to be precise.TERRIFYING !!
What a beautiful museum site. The extent of preservation is very impressive. It is wonderful to see the well oiled mind shaft mechanism and the the fully working track engine and fair ground rides. Thankyou for the lovely and informative tour. I am now a subscriber. Every blessing for future videos.
Everything looked so much more aesthetically pleasing back then, even down to product pacakging. They really cared about how things looked and made sure to prioritise beauty as well as practicality
Fabulous shop fittings in the pharmacy. I love old buildings. I didn’t know that The New Inns pub was re-erected at Blists Hill. A lot of Walsall’s pubs were lost unfortunately. It is certainly an interesting day out, plenty to see and do. Tfs.
Did the same at Dudley Black Country Museum of Living. They have a working pub, best fish & chips in the country and some interesting Cast Iron Houses.
Great video! Really professionally made and informative. I went there about 5 years ago but was with a coach party so we only had about 90 mins to visit, didn`t see half of what you showed in the video, will have to have a return trip in the car at some point. Have subbed.
This is my favourite museum from childhood! It made is so much more real, changing your money and seeing all the old techniques. You’ve inspired us to visit here again really soon. Great video 🍻
Very sadly we have literally today returned from a visit to here and to say we were underwhelmed would not be over stating it. Just as well we have your great video to see what we should of seen. If anyone is thinking of going here I suggest you go in rather than out of season.
What a great series on Ironbridge - loved it, thank you. We've taken 2 or 3 short breaks in the area and been to most of the museums - it's a great place to visit and these videos have reminded me....we must go back!
Hi, thanks for your kind words! We also love that part of England, there’s so much to see and do and the history of the area is fascinating. We will be back too. What’s your favourite attraction in the area?
Another great series! So much information, both historical & current - which will be historic, too. Do hope this year, '22 that some awful plague or pestilence isn't causing disruption (oh yes, flights & rail...) Anyway, look forward to seeing where you take us this year & trust you both enjoy smooth travels. Keep safe & thanks - very enjoyable. Not sure why I never got to Lionbridge, but certainly seems to be well worth a visit.
You can certainly spend a few days in Ironbridge and really immerse yourself in the past, and what a history the area has! We never get bored and have visited a few times. Hoping for smooth travels for sure the heatwave and as you say airport issues do make it troublesome at present! Would recommend a visit to this area in the future.
@@MemorySeekers At least 7 fewer roommates, running water, indoor bathroom with jacuzzi spouts in the tub, closets, internet, cable tv, electricity (to use the tv and internet) kitchen and bedroom. I didn't notice either of these. Brad Pitt in a little cottage next door. The last may be asking too much.
I’m from the US and happened to land in London the very day the UK changed its money over to the decimal system. It was so funny because none of the shopkeepers had any idea how to make change…chaos ensued! I, a foreigner, had to explain it to them. They would just present me with a handful of assorted coins and I would make my own change! I guess I had an honest face. I remember thinking, “How can it be that they don’t understand this?!” Now if the US could just PLEASE go onto the decimal system for weight, temperature, and length…it makes so much more sense.
I was at Victoria station in London in 1971 just before decimal currency began. An American gentleman approached with a handful of silver coins and asked me what they were. "Half crowns." "What?'" he replied. "Two shillings and sixpence." (Puzzlement). "Two and a half shillings." (Silence and the start of a glassy stare). "Eight to a pound." Finally, a reply: "My God, you British!" In subsequent visits to USA whenever I got my leg pulled about stones (weight), imperial vs. US gallons, driving on the left etc., I used to thank your country for being the last resting place of the British Thermal Unit. Good times!
Loved this comment - I suppose I always imagined that the change-over was seamless. Actually, knowing what I know about us disorganised Brits, your version is more realistic 😂
If they are even close to accurate (and if I'm reading it correctly), those exchange rates in the Lloyds Bank are amazing. One British pound was worth $4.87 US dollars? That's one strong currency!
