The Lost Rivers of Manchester. The Cornbrook Part 4 

New information has come to light since publishing this video. The information is regarding the 'Traction engine incident'. I will issue a video on this subject as soon as I can. Best regards and thanks for all your support on this video.

1000 channels on the TV and I’m watching Martin Zero 👍

Thank you Martin and crew.

Fascinating video. Thank you.

Roy what a bloke Fantastic !!!

This video took 2 days to watch for me and I enjoyed every minute! Thank you Martin and the & guys for Cornbrook 4

Looked forward to this and it didn’t disappoint. Loved the lime formations and the black brook confluence, you guys go above and beyond for our viewing pleasure. Another great video.👍

Hi Martin, forget Johnny Marr ,forget Harry "H" Corbett and forget Bill Piddington ( Tarmey)- Charlie Chaplin attended Ross Place School Ardwick early last century during his nomadic lifestyle .P.S. I saw the Beatles at the Apollo in 1963. I am 78 I need a life ......

Nice to see James. Adds character and personality to this. He is always happy.

Absolutely brilliant (as usual!) Thank you!

Had a summer job before going to college in 1971 at Hyde Road depot working for Selnec. The conductors brought their ticket machines in so that they could be checked against ticket sales and I was that person adding it all up on a huge adding machine . Ardwick is very interesting for me as my Grandmother was born there in 1880 . Thanks for a very interesting video Martin.

love the little snippets of the local history

What a great journey!

great sunday viewing

I am ever so glad you guys go crawling through the mud so we don't have to. 🙂

Thank you so much for these videos. As a Manchester guy who now spends a lot of time away from the U.K. they really make me appreciate my home town. You guys deserve a TV show btw.

Always a treat to get new impressions from your lost waterways. And very happy that smell-o-vision isn't invented yet!

I’ve been waiting for another Cornbrook segment! Not disappointed absolutely fascinated about the Black Brook such a shame it’s lost to a concrete pipe now, lucky Roy has recorded these places previously, Absolute gem is Roy. Another Quality video Martin, thank you 🙏🏻

Regards from Sweden Mr Martin Zero

Great video. This area is where my family are from. I can remember Ardwick as just rows and rows of terrace houses in the early 60s cheers Martin and the crew 👍

thanks again for uploading another video, you have become one of my fav RU-vidrs and find your videos always entertaining when James is there but so informative and interesting. I'm not from Manchester but have learnt so much about the area through your videos ❤

Roy knows his stuff martin

Great job Martin. Still can't get over those pics of the Traction engine collapsed through the road... Bet the poor driver messed his pants big time !!! LOL!!

I’m loving this, visited Manchester in 2023 as a volunteer for the swimming championships, so much industrial history.

I love the correlation of your underground location with the scenes from above. Outstanding. Cheers from NY!

An interesting walking and underground tour this day. Thank you for the many hours staging this tour back in time. Always look forward to them, Martin. Enjoy your week ahead, and see you on the next! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

Amazing what was built above ground. But underground is something else!

Very, very good, what a team. Amazing history recorded for posterity. Thank you Martin and crew.

Manchester University once had a plan to open the culvert under Brunswick Street and have a small lake / large pond between the Roscoe Building and Zochonis Building (then Electronics). There is now a park, but no water feature. In 1974 there was a large collapse where the Brook passed under Upper Brook Street, leaving just the tram lines over the chasm.

Thank you Martin and team, definitely another great episode. 😊😊.

I'm always looking forward to your Manchester videos, Martin. This is another pearler, and you've done a lot of research as to where things are with the maps and photos, making it stunningly interesting. The still existing buildings like the Apollo theatre at Ardwick, and the old hospital are great to know about, as to when they were built. It was amazing to think that you went under Hyde Road bus depot and the railway into Piccadilly. A great achievement going through those conditions underneath, and credit must be given to Roy for previously taking photos of his own journey through there. Most excellent, and thank you to yourself and the team

Just made tea, now time for some great Manchester History.

Thanks for the info on Ardwick Cemetery. I first found it while researching my family history. My Great-Great-Grandmother was buried there in 1872.

Good on you guys for all your hard work bringing us this one

No better way to spend a Sunday Bank holiday wife In one hand cold beer in another.....and martin and his crew on big telly ....well done Martin 1st class as always m8

The building at 29:22 is indeed beautiful. Im glad it survives.

The Trolleybuses at 27.30 are actually trams! There was a purpose built garage for trolleybuses at the bottom of Rochdale Rd opened in 1938 but later in the 1950's some trolleybuses were based at Hyde road, There were trolleybus lines into Hyde Rd so that the vehicles could go to the central car works (the long wall after the garage entrance is the side wall of the car works).

I always marvel at the engineering ability that Industrial Great Britain had from the 18th century canals right through to the 20th century Edwardian era. What happened to this great nation?

Strange bit of trivia: I proposed to my wife on a rainy October night 34 years ago on Kincardine Road in Brunswick. To think that we were almost on top of the Cornbrook at the time!

Never been to Manchester, but your passion towards the lost portions of the area is contagious. I can't wait for the next update.

I’m all bizz for this 😊😊

Martin can I request ‘Down in the Sewer’ by the Stranglers for Part 5 I am thinking of Roy in the festering pipe heading to Gorton he says “never before have I wanted to get out of something it’s disgusting” haha

I enjoyed that one and living not far from Blackford Bridge water treatment place and with the right wind direction i watched it with smelly vision

Wow so much work went into this production🎉

Top video Martin and James ☝😁

Martin, what a great watch along with a great team. Does anyone know or investigated what is really under Manchester ??? There must be hundreds of years of culverts, sewers, lost rivers, storm drains, long forgotten basements, underground canals and so on. People of Manchester and other old big cities live, work and play not knowing what lies under their feet. Amazing watch and thanks to you and all of the team.

Brilliant video.

Very interesting! Thank you 😊

Great video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I wish I had some of these tunnels around here in the states where I am Nothing but barns and dairy farms

Great watch....thanks 👍

In 92 a friends band was supporting Hawkwind at the Apollo (Manchester space rock band Krel), we went along to see them.. but first we went for a quick pint next-door. I think we must have got into the beer too much (maybe a couple of smokes too) because all of a sudden we could hear Krel through the fire exit. We downed our pints and rushed through to the gig.. we just caught the very end of their last song.. "What did you think of our set?" "Erm, yeah.. you were brilliant.. :/" Oops!

Beautifully done. I had no idea about Ardwick Cemetery

Well done .. .. ..

I used to be able to see the Apollo from my bedroom window when I was a teenager. That was aeons ago.

In Middlesbrough I played in a park which used to be a cemetery, they just lined all the head stones along an adjacent wall and built a playground over part of it.

Awesome Stuff . Love the History .Next Journey will be Brave Thanks

I went to some cracking concerts at the Apollo in the late 1970s when I was a student in Manchester, Buzzcocks and Status Quo spring to mind.

Hi Martin. Your video brought back some memories. I was born within spitting distance of the Apollo and went to Saturday morning matinees there when it belonged to the ABC group (along with about 2000 other local kids). As a point of reference, where you were stood in the opening sequence with your back to the Apollo is historically Chorlton on Medlock (previously Chorlton Row), the division between it and Ardwick being Stockport Road (behind you in front of the Apollo). Chorlton-on-Medlock is bordered to the north by the River Medlock. Its other borders roughly correspond to Hathersage Road (prev. High St), Moss Lane East and Boundary Lane, and it's neighbouring districts are Hulme to the west, Ardwick to the east and Victoria Park, Rusholme and Moss Side to the south. The original Polygon Estate was situated in Chorlton on Medlock and the street where I was born would have been on its fringes before it was demolished and the streets of two up and two downs built. Interestingly, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was born in New York Place, Chorlton on Medlock. The museum dedicated to him in Llanystumdwy, Wales has the original street sign of New York Place that was presented by Manchester Council. It was strange to see Stockport Road so quiet and now lacking any real character, the same as other Manchester suburbs that suffered mass demolition in 1960's/70's. I remember it being lined with shops, businesses, pubs, houses, cafes, churches and small factories more or less from the Apollo to Levenshulme. Thanks for your brilliant videos.

It's nice to hear someone else loves OMD.

Great video, especially those archive images of some of Manchester's landmarks, including those haunting images of the cemetary, now buried, it seems, beneath a football pitch. I wonder how many of today's punters and players know?

Brilliant as always

Wow! Can't make my mind up if your brave on bonkers! Fantastic insight to, what sounds such a delightful stream 'Cornbrook', but it's so sad it's no such thing! Thanks for making it and sharing your findings. x

Great video Martin . I worked for the Municipal Waterworks Dept . where I live in northern Ontario Canada for 27 years. The average citizen has no idea or reason to know what's going on right under their feet . There's an endless maze of pressurized pipes and gravity flow drains doing their jobs 24/7.

thanks Guys, yet another interesting Journey.

24:38 looks like a gravestone on the right, I'm sure it isn't though. Another cracking explore, martin.

Cracking video Martin and team, well done!! Thanks to Roy for going round the last bend. I guess you all got out ok🤔🤔 Loved the mix of stories from the area above. What a painting of Dalton in the town hall. I wonder where he was taking his sample? I shared the thumbnail of the traction engine with my friend Emma down in Oz who has one, she said "that sort of thing happens"!! All the best!!

Really good video love da Cornbrook episodes 👍

Thank again Martin, great video and content. Good to see all the lads up and about. Best regards from Chicago

Great video Martin, thank you 😊❤

I went to St Greg’s school in Ardwick and remember the regular punch ups with Nichols school. Ahh…happy days.

"They just moved the headstones - they left the bodies!" - Isn't that directly from Poltergeist the Movie? Thanks Martin!

First class video friend thank you very interesting 😊. Please keep the great videos coming friend. 🎉🎉From Scotland.

Well done guys! Roy, really is the man!

Superb as ever. Bring on part five.

Absolutely brilliant as always.

Always interesting Martin, thank you guys.

Another great video Martin & co. It was interesting to see the iron oxidising bacteria coming out of some of the small pipes on the side of the culvert. It’s completely harmless in spite of its orange colour. Says something about the local geology me thinks. Looking forward to Part 5.🎖️

Much Appreciated! I love those images and the comraderies between friends.

Excellent as usual , re Ardwick cemetery I had a cousin that lived behind there I spent a lot of Saturdays with them back in the late 50's early 60's . I remember the removal of coffin remains and was told that the human remains were all removed and deposited elsewhere. Whether that was just a story line not sure . thanks for informative video all the best to the team ,Dave (bus museum)

Hats off to you Martin and team, great video thanks

Thanks

Another great video

I am glad it is not "stenchvision". Awesome video as always :)

Brilliant

Truly excellent guys. Well done for the underground trip.

Always hated the seats at the Apollo but the sound was amazing. So many a band there in the 80s. Public image, the ramones, the cramps the cult split endz I'm sure there's a lot more I forgotten

Yay more Cornbrook action been waiting on this to return haha

The Apollo seen my first band there 1980 the stranglers now the cornbrook it's been a while

Another fascinating video Martin, well done to you all, looked horrible in parts.

Great vid ❤

Quality as always top man keep them coming brilliant as always 🧁🥧🍦

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Great episode of this series, and so glad there isn't smelly-vision. The traction engine collapsing into the culvert, reminds me of the alleged story of a bin truck collapsing into the Williamson Tunnels, supposedly it was left there and concreted in...

Your videos get better and better! I've never seen a mainstream (sorry about the pun) documentary to touch your refreshing style and research. Thanks!

Hiya Martin its your number 1 fan Haha. I met you on aldi car park a couple of weeks ago if you remember mate. Love the new video pal keep it up buddy. ( thought I'd of got a mention gutted) its Gary Taylor in case you do. Show us some more on ancoats and miles platting too.

Started to listen to OMD back in the 80's. Another good vid.

What a brilliant adventure. Must say i was more than a little worried at times. Cant wait for #5 🙌💖🙌

Thanks, Martin. The way you tell the story and set things into a historic context is wonderful! The (possible) location where the steam locomotive sank in, what a find!

Great stuff mate. I wait for my days off to watch your videos on me big tele with a laaaaaaarrge vodka in me and!