I grew up around Ironbridge, and went to the Abraham Derby School in the early 1980's just up that steep hill towards Madeley, And now I live 3 miles north of Shrewsbury. I would of loved to meet up with you and thank you for being such a fantastic guy as well as an awesome Vblogger. When I was 10 in 1975 my father used to drive over the Ironbridge to get to his mother's home in Broseley. Back then few cared about the bridge or its history and I remember it being rusty with many missing rails. But by 1979, the bicentenary of the bridge construction, it was restored to a good state and a ceremony was held on that very car park you could see from the side of the Tontine Hotel. Prince Charles attended, so did a lot of Welsh Guards in full uniform, including the very tall bearskin hats. A few of them collapsed and passed out in the extraordinarily hot weather we had that day
WOW !! I had goosebumps when you showed the first image out the bedroom window. I thought you must be in the Tontine, and I was right ! My mum grew up in the hotel in the late 1920's to early 1930's (her parents owned and operated it), and she often told of adventures around there, and walking up the steps to the school at the top of the hill. Brought back fond memories of my dear late mum. Thank You Juan :)
Darwin's father was a schoolmaster at the then location of the public (ie private training for future civil 'public' servants to the Crown) Shrewsbury School, was a library when I grew up there. Hubby and I were married in the Castle (home to the regimental museum of the Shropshire Regiment that burnt down the White House in 1812, there's no bad blood now thought). Did you stop by the Roman ruins along the River Severn, on your way from the bridge to the castle? Indeed the McDonalds there is possibly one of the 'oldest' fast food stores in the world: during construction they excavated down and found the original ancient town walls in the basement. Thank you Juan for sharing !
Glad you are enjoying your visit to the UK, despite the best endevours of our very seasonal weather. Its a shame I didn't know you were heading this way as it would have been good to meet up with you and give you a quick trip on my narrow boat Nessie.
Thanks for the great UK information. I followed the Oroville incident on your channel and got lots of info that seems to be overlooked in the mainstream media Special thanks for the Kmax coverage My father in law was the engine integration engineer for Kmax at Lycoming. The original engine design was marketed to the Shaw of Iran for navigating over the high mountains in a helicopter. The blade tip clearances in that engine are very small!
The precursor to iron smelting was the technology transfer from Glass making, I haven't found the connection yet to these iron constructions but my ancestors were big in Glass in the 1600s and had an iron foundry in Wellington, Shrewsbury in the 1700s. The first 'skyscraper' was built in Shropshire (Salop), iron girders about 4 floor levels high. We invented the ability to make champagne in the 1600s as putting iron into glass was intended to colour it but instead made super strong glass which allowed double fermentation and ideal storage bottles for the British Navy.
HEY from Ireland. it's great to see you letting your kids BE kids on this brilliant family tour of uk. Been a fan for quite some time, but this Playlist popped up in my utube sugg., i really enjoyed. Many Thanks buddy. xx
I Love Shrewsbury. Great video. Look at it on a map you can easily see why you would build your town there. The Severn forms a natural barrier on three sides so you have only to control access on the north and you have a very "safe space" for farms, houses, animals and folks. Even if the baddies mean you no good en mass they have to slow down a lot to get you by crossing the river or dealing with your barrier on the north. Worked very well until the Romans showed up and then worked pretty well after they left for the next 1000 years.
The Ironbridge was the first all iron bridge in the world. But if you like bridges then you should have gone straight north from yesterdays stop to the town of Conway with a beautiful castle and well preserved walled town. There are 3 bridges crossing the River Conway, A modern auto bridge a plate-link triple chain suspension bridge and a square tube railroad bridge (looks like a very long shipping container) All just a from feet from the other. Google street view is very nice. Was there around 1982. Stayed at the Park Hall, just west of town and it looks like it is still there.
Just watching some of the old History channel shows here..Many discuss at how the History channel became the nothing reality channel it is..Personally I haven't watched broadcast or cable for a long time..Enjoy everything you post and now your increasing your families knowledge and mine..Thank You
Great video once again Juan. By the way, green peas are a staple down South. Glad that Pete has learned to enjoy eating them! And, across the pond, in Yorkshire, Compo loved mushy peas at Ivy and Sid’s Cafe.
Fantastic history. And my God, your kids love peas!!! Amazing. When I was that age my mom would hide to peas in the mashed potatoes to get me to eat them.
Gutted! You were about five miles away from me dude. would've been great to shake your hand and say thanks you for your work bringing real news to those of us interested.
Nice to see your enjoying County of Shropshire Juan, I've been watching and fascinated by your videos for some time, but didn't expect to see a video from my home town of Shrewsbury😀, Enjoy your holiday, hope your finally enjoying the sunshine today (Friday)
Ironbridge is in Coalbrookdale where Abraham Darby I started producing Iron with one of the first blast furnaces back in 1708.. it''s nearly all still there. The Iron Bridge was built by Abraham Darby III.
Great history lesson, Juan! Amazing that bridge is still standing after all these centuries! I'm historically illiterate when it comes to European history, so thanks for sharing this! Now I see where Shrewsbury, MA was named after. Lots of cities and towns here in MA share English locales - was "New England" after all. :) Love history - sometimes wish I could build a time machine. :D
hi juan, i live just up the road from ironbridge in Broseley, ive followed your channel since you started doing the updates on the dam, i hope you enjoy your stay in my part of the world, as i have enjoyed watching the videos you have made about your part of the world. john williams, Broseley.
Lovely area. If you like historical sites, visit the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. It was built by Thomas Telford and was completed in 1805 after 10 years of construction. It is an amazing feat of engineering and the views from the middle are outstanding.
I go past Iron Bridge a lot but Ive never been and had a look yet. Ill have to make time. Chesters worth a look if your up that way, or even Lichfield which is closer to where Im from.
As a Welshman, living near LLangollen, I feel as though I should apologise for the weather. However, I also think you should be suing the person who recommended North Wales in January! Many thanks for the insights into your world - best wishes...
Did you see the cracks in the cast iron structure, the reason it was closed to vehicle traffic. Royalty has to pay to cross that bridge, there is a picture of prince Charles buying a ticket. This region flooded many years ago, you can see info as you come into town, that is a deep gorge the bridge crosses, takes a lot of water to flood the town
`Get stuck into those nitrogen nodules (peas) Pete; I love garden peas too. You can keep the mushy variety however. Did you visit the "Dingle" in the botanical gardens. I used to love visiting there when my folks went shopping in Shrewsbury. We lived at RAF Shawbury about seven miles distant. EGOS flying *Avro Ansons, *Chipmunks, Meteors and a *Tiger Moth back in around 1954 (I got to sit in * as they pushed them into the hangars, only once or twice though) I never heard you say Ironbridge, London . . . that earns you Navigational demerits :-) On the other hand my US geography is pretty pants. You are certainly getting about. Did you tell Pete that there would be a quiz, about all he saw, when you got home? I did Cyprus historical sites when I was Pete's age and remember a lot of it to this day, half a dozen+ decades later.
When I was in the RAF cadets (Air Training Corps) we used to fly Chipmunks at Shawbury. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-1_Chipmunk#/media/File:Chipmunk_1_(9015801584).jpg
The Dehaviland Chipmunk two seat trainer - www.google.co.uk/search?q=dehaviland+chipmunk&oq=dehaviland+chipmunk&aqs=chrome..69i57.6585j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Ha ha, I lived at RAF Turnhouse in 1972/3, employed at RAF Pitreavie Castle, Fife. At that time the Airport Terminal was just a walk up the road (as you will be aware) for the Sunday morning newspapers. More enlightened times, pre full scale terrorism. Went to RAF Gan from there - A Route Station to the far east on the end of the Seychelles chain of islands in Addu Atoll. Great times.
The construction is more like carpentry using iron instead of wood, it is a very interesting area to visit, thanks for sharing your tours Juan. Did you visit the aircraft museum at RAF Cosford which is not too far away (10 miles)? Some great and historic aircraft there.
a shame you didnt film in the iron bridge museum, they have some wonderful working exhibits, but maybe it was off season?...and Iron Bridge is in the county of Shropshire not London! 😄👏🏻🇬🇧...Love the Vlogs!
The canal boats you refer to are called 'narrow boats' (not long boats) and are 6ft 10ins in the beam. They can travel on the broad and narrow canals and rivers. Barges are twice as wide, or more, and can only travel on the broad canals and rivers. A narrow boat holiday is wonderful, even when the weather is less than perfect, and good exercise with all the manual locks to open and close.
I am a right handed UK person and I have my fork in the right hand. This makes sense to me as I want to use my most coordinated hand (right hand) when bringing a sharp metal object close to my face!!!!
Have to tell Pete to keep up the good work, and keep doing it his way. (Those poor people in the UK can't even drive on the correct ,or should I say right, side of the road!)
You are not far from Bridgnorth ,famous for it`s fenicular railway, 15 mins drive ! Also the severn valley railway station, nice interesting old steam engines . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KsuM3OBG9W4.html
They must use a rust inhibitor like Ospho, Corroseal or zinc chromate on the cast iron. Do you have any idea what it is? It would almost have to be some zinc derivative. Watching Pete eat pees reminded me of ME of growing up in Depoe Bay, Oregon in the 50's. Someone had a garden and grew pees. We used to sneak in there and help ourselves.(:>) Time were good.........................and so were the pees!!!! I want to commend your readers for their comments. VERY INTERESTING. One last thing, I'm 39.(Jack Benny)(;>)
WOW ETC PETE IS GROWING UP AND HE AND HIS SISTER ARE REALLY CUTE TO WATCH.....DO U EVER TAKE YOUR DAUGHTER FLYING? AS U DO PETE AGAIN THANK YOU RON AND VERO IN NY
I seem to remember it's pronounced Shrowsbury rather than Shrewsbury. Leicester and Beaminster are also traps for the unwary. But anyway, looks like you had a great time.
The story I heard is that it is called Shrewsbury if you live there, or if you are not posh, but if you are posh and don't live there you call it "shrowsbury" due to some long forgotten reason. The names that usually cause problems end in "cester" as many get contracted ("towster" for Towcester, "bister" for Bicester, "lester" for Leicester). And in Yorkshire there's Todmorden (pron. "todmaden").
possible etymology: Shrobbesburg (b/v consonant shift common in northern-european tongues) -- from a personal name meaning shrubbery. Alternatively "shriven" as in Shrove Tuesday -- from the many monastic foundations erected there (you can see ruins of Haughmond Abbey north from the castle walls on a clear day, the author of the "Brother Cadfael" mysteries sometimes shown on PBS based her fiction on Shrewsbury Abbey on the English Bridge side of the river - rumor has it the first 'parliament' of nobles advising a King was held there - whereas the Priory School is situated where the Franciscan Priory on the Welsh Bridge).
The gorge is on a fault line and is slowly closing up. The bridge deck was level when built 240 years ago, another testament to the strength of the material and design.
The English royalty are rolling in thier graves watching someone eat peas with hands. I say this in jest, but All my grandparents/ great grandparents were born in England. I remember well learning from them the formalities of the dinner table, which are not so present today.
I am a loyal viewer Juan but where are your manners! And where are your children's manners?!! Nothing more inconsiderate than jumping on the innkeeper's guest bed. His livelyhood. And the hotel guests below you have to deal with the noise above their heads. If the pub is underneath then you're still jumping on a 250 yr old floorboards. No hotel guest should behave this way, no place, no country. As a commercial pilot you spend a lot of time in hotel rooms you should know better.
