The Most Interesting Place You’ve Never Heard Of 

Snuff was used by miners to clear out the coal dust. Both of my Grandads worked in the mines in the Rotherham area and used it. One of my Grandads who was a heavy smoker used chewing tobacco as well. He had a dirty habit of spitting it into the coal fire. A lot of older miners had blue scars like tattoos because of the coal dust. You need to go and have a look at the National Mining Museum at Caphouse.

Loved the video, thanks for coming to Coalville and showing off our bikes. Great to meet you, Kirsty & Paul

From Derby but my uncle opened his first indian restaurant there on 40 High Street (Monoon Tandoori restaurant funnily enough was a Curry's before we opened). Was a special place for us and always will be..the closing of the colliries was definitely felt.

Sometimes I look at the mining community in my local village and im envious that I'll probably never be a part of something as powerful, the amount of old blokes in this village that will stop and talk to eachother for 20-30 minutes, yet I walk past people I know constantly and just say hello, then continue with my day.

You’re doing your nation a service mate, well done!

2:50 I just love this down-to-earth fella and all the other northern guys who commented and explained so clearly the upheavals of the coal mining era! Love Kirsty and Paul too with their amazing whacky inventions.. Huge congratulations to this amiable and inspiring couple! The fact they've been able to give up their day jobs speaks volumes! 👏🇬🇧 As it does for our beloved Turnip, who never ceases to bring us such interesting stories.. Thank you so much for this BRILLIANT episode.. I so enjoyed it! 👍

Coalville... home of Palitoy (Action Man, Pippa, Original Star Wars toys) 11:47 - Yes!

This is a great series and getting better each episode, well done showing us the history and reality of a bygone era in the UK.

Blooming brilliant vid mate. So informative and entertaining.

That place where they make bikes is amazing. Really interesting video. Looks like a great place.

This is some of your very best work! Such a lovely counterpoint to the high street content.

Paul and Kirsty. Great couple. Nice to learn a bit about Coalville too!

Cool bikes and an interesting mining history!

This is not related to this video, but currently at Sunderland uni, making a documentary script on how online shopping is killing the high street. I came across your videos, and they are very useful. Thank you. Can you visit more northwest and southwest towns and cities (Cornwall and Carlisle area)? I'm also surprised no one mentioned Princess Quay or Whitefrairgate in Hull. I'm originally from the Hull/Bridlington area, and the town centres aren't too bad, but in the way of entertainment (concerts, cinemas, bowling alleys. etc.), it's a long drive if you live in the more rural areas like Driffield.

I like your dialects. Sometimes I have to rewind 2-3 times because I didn't understand something, but somehow I can rhyme the content. Even for me as a child of the 60s, it is almost unimaginable that you had to work so hard at that time. Your videos are really interesting because they show the other sides, far from tourism! I am impressed! Smoothie bike! People come up with ideas! The interesting thing is that you also sell the stuff and then there is also real demand! Fabulous!

I know Coalville well. My Mum’s family is all from around there, they owned a large house in Swannington just down the road that had to be demolished with all the coal mining subsidence. They’d lived in the area for several generations, they were actually the top butchers and bakers in the area that people went to for their produce which was cool to learn when we did a bunch of family tree stuff a while back. In my lifetime, I loved Snibston Colliery Park, there used to be a massive Discovery Centre attraction there on that large bit of flat paved land next to the current car park there. It was such a fun place for family day outs, loads of cool interactive exhibits and stuff to play around with, similar to the Conkers Centre just down the road, whilst you learned a ton of neat facts about local industry and technology in the Midlands. And in the back of the centre in an outdoor space were a bunch of fun water contraptions that kids loved to play with, involving diverting water around with little gates. It sounds boring but I know for a fact it was fun for us Zoomers. Haha It closed and was demolished around 10 years ago, and what’s left doesn’t even compare. Just a playground, a cafe, a green park and of course the old mine buildings. Which is fine, but that places like this have to close speaks volumes about the lack of investment over the past 14 years thanks to the Tories.

That cage went into the pit at 19mph! Another great video David - the bikes were brilliant - great to see such positivity!

Klingt wie unsere Geschichte. Grüße aus dem Saarland.

Great 👍👀🌷

Great video & I really believe that the miners plight changed the solidarity we had left in the country. All done on purpose they don't want us united. I remember watching the atrocious behaviour of the policefarce & total over reach !

Thank you. Your videos are so interesting giving us a snapshot of England today.

Great fun. So many of these towns that grew up around industry had such a united community. And for some reason the coal ones were that bit more. Such dangerous jobs. You didn't know what would happen. Make the most of what you have. In today's IT world people converse online. The world is a smaller place. But not the same. Generally though community has gone. I grew up in a small country farming community. Everybody knew everyone. Same place today. Lucky to know your neighbour. Why is this ? What has changed ? People don't talk to each other. Few volunteer to help. Where I live now I do volunteer work. A lot of the volunteers are older than the people they are helping. Can't find new volunteers. Lovely to see those old miners sticking together. Providing a service. And living off their memories. Hard to find that today.

Brilliant!

Great video Dave, nice to meet you at Snibby a couple of weeks ago.

Another cracking vid. Nice one David.

Great video with awesome people as well. Thanks, David

Sundays aren't Sundays until I've watched my weekly Wandering Turnip! ❤

Great video. Just recently found your channel and catching up with all the videos. Love it!! 😀👍

Great vlog 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 It is great to see the people still coming together, even though the Mine is closed. Good community spirit 👏🏼👏🏼 Nice people eh

One of your most interesting videos...

Another great video. I was made redundant in 2004 after 25years. The think I missed the most was the people. We still meet up now and again. Jobs may not last but the friends you make can last a life time.

Keep doing what you're doing my brother. Hope you're house comrs soon.This is my kind of reporting.100 %honest and humble

thanks very much for sharing 🙏

Thank you. Never knew Pippa was made there and of course my beloved ACTION MAN. I adored my Frog Man Action Man

What an amazing place, thanks for sharing that visit with us

Another great film Turnip, everyone was so lovely! Loving this series 😊 xx

Thank you

Fabulous video, David. So interesting - particularly the bikes! I do hope you come to Leamington Spa one day and see all our wonderful small shops, including the best music shop in the country! Then, I will buy you that beer!

Just down the road from me is Coalville, I live in Loughborough which gets more attention than Coalville so this has peaked my interest. As I've already commented before you need to look around Derby, Leicester and Nottingham. They are close to each other and have fascinating places and history as well as closed places.

Great Video, as always. Always interesting, and these people are very inspiring. Cheers! 👍

Love the town,....... the bikes are cool.Sell in America,......... we would love you here ,charge 3x more you will get it,... especially in New York City!!Hello from Connecticut USA

Believe it or not, the last time I was in Coalville was on the 19/12/1965 aged 13 touring steam locomotive sheds in the area on a day coach trip from London. Us kids saw plenty of steam locomotives on that day at Nottingham and Colwick sheds as well ! Happy Days !

Your my favourite Northerner!

Excellent video.😀👍

smoothie bicycle - amazing!

Been raving a few times oddly in Coalville.

There's a mining museum near where I live. It's called Woodhorn Museum (Northumberland). It might worth going there. Mining was a big thing around here, there were quite a few pits in the area.

Definitely heard of Coalville; remember the "Dirty Thirty"!

Nice video. If you are interested in coal mining you should look at the Lancashire Mining Museum at Astley Green near Leigh. It has the last surviving headgear and winding house in the Lancashire coalfield. Also, about a 5 to 10 minutes drive to Leigh there are several industrial chimneys.

Great video. Thanks for that

I’m in Cleethorpes this weekend. First time in a long while! I was shocked to see that Pleasure Island Theme Park is now a derelict wasteland awaiting demolition. After a quick Google I found out that it closed in 2016! How time flies. It doesn’t seem two minutes since my kids were on the rides there. You should cast your turnip eyes over it if you can get permission 👍👍👍

Love the turnip!

Nice one! I was shocked when this popped up, I live here. North west Leicestershire has some fantastic industrial heritage, it’s a very underrated area in that regard. Keep up the great work. I’ve been subbed for a while now.

Love your videos, David! And all the great info and reactions in the comment section as well; you give everyone a place to tell their story and make people feel involved and connected. There is still community in these tumultuous times. Keep wandering 🙌🏼!

I was in the weaving industry until covid puahed the company under. I live in a small town that has four weaving companies. It may be of interest to you and it also has thay sense of community. Look up Sudbury Suffolk biggest weaving town in the country i believe.

I loved this video " Turnip ". My Dad was a Kent Miner. I was taken as a young boy all over the mine " Snowdown " including the lamp room. Showers. Canteen. And the cage and watched Men going down and trucks coming up loaded with coal. Now all gone. Regards Alan in Dover, Kent :o)

Love love your content

Great to see your channel growing and growing. You have a natural ability to present and engage with people. Keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻

I swear I've seen Paul in Brighton spray painting beautiful art work? Great video very interesting

Love ❤️ your videos! So interesting!

As we say up North the difference between a good weld and a bad weld is half an hour of grinding! lol

The last pit pony finished its shift in the late 70's

Weird that this popped up. I was an apprentice lorry mechanic in the early nineties and went to college in Coalville. Used to race our cars up the old coal bing.

Another wonderful video. Pure documentation. Thank you and these lovely people.

Interesting as usual 😊

My husband used to take my sons action men to Palitoy to get them fixed when broken,when we lived in Leicester.❤

I used to call at JTS biker clothing regularly a great shop, I found everyone I met in Coalville pleasant.

Bloody hell, you're down the road! Was not that expecting that.

Loved it, amazing as always 11/10

Never heard of Coalville either now glad I have hopeful to visit one day. Thank you Kirsty and Paul and the Colliery such a scary job to have as saw an old show recently about miners 'When the Boat comes in' not that I can say whether it was realistic or not but interesting no less. Loved the bikes and creativity one day I think they will create one to create energy to run a home or heating etc..such a lovely interview as well thank you David :)

Nice one turnip what nice people keep it up

I was only watching something the other day where the people were from coalville. Cool bikes! I like the LP art 😀

How many more towns are there like this, where people are coming together to reinvent their work life? I hope you discover many more!

43 seconds? Wow.

Two "coal themed" towns in Pennsylvania. Eckley - Coal town frozen in time since the 1800s. The movie "Molly Mcguires" was filmed there. Now a protected historical town. Centralia - Coal town that has been on fire for 40 years. Smoke from underground make a creepy experience. Most have left. All of NE Pennsylvania was coal territory. Lots of coal mines to explore including one that was powered entirely by gravity and an engineering marvel at the time.

Awesome video brother thank you

Cool bikes and I love seeing and learning new things with your vlogs, please do a video on Camborne Cornwall about the old tin mining and how the town is from now.

Great video and thanks for visiting Leicestershire. Frst time I have seen any such video's on this great county!

You could also do struggling high street videos in Ashington and Blyth.

Passion was one of the very best clubs.

great content and great people🙂

wow this is a blast from the past, i went on a primary school trip to Snibston, that was in the 90s, what memories this brought back. I am 42 now lol .. this was a great video!! im always a fan of history..this was great

One of my favourite bits are the post trip reviews back in Yorkshire mate. Really fills the heart, my ol' Turnip. ❤

Something else that breaks my heart about Coalville is they used to have the Snibston Discovery Park, which was a great site for families, super educational and historical, which was on the site of the colliery. And for whatever bureaucratic reason, they flattened it a few years ago. They had great exhibits, it was a good day out. There's apparently a pretty good downhill/BMX bike trail on the slag heap now, on that plot, which is good, but yeah. A shame, and a loss! Great video once again, with good people.

Oh my...I fell in love with the smoothie-bike. Absolutely bonkers but quite handy.😂 Amazing video! I really like your well researched explanations and promenades. And your accent! so Yorkshire... Cheers from Spain.

That was an awesome video.

Mr Bacon sent me here. Great Video! Thank you and good night.

Kirsty and Paul, you are an inspiration and I wish you every success, you are what Great Britain was. And I must say this episode is good enough for mainstream TV. Well done all of you! Ooops almost forgot the Coal Miners of the time there is only one word for you guys LEGENDS!

Grwat video so far. just paused to make a comment on something before I get distracted by another part of your video. I live in the north east, Born here but moved away as a child only to return later in life. I think the point about the sense of community being dead is whats really wrong in the world and i know you mentioned it a couple of times. I've just received two letters from the constituant politician for county Durham with regards to my email addressing exactly this issue. What I proposed was have a legislation change with regards to housing developments and so far he seems to agree and has since put me in contact with the team at the local council planning team to go into more detail with them. But what i proposed was based on seeing new houses popping up on greenbelt land when we have so much derelict brownbelt and wastland that could be easily developed and will already have supplied there. I also made a point to him about them always having plots along side these development areas and one in particular i saw they fenced off what would eventually be a bit of greenery but currently has digusting looking soil with a few spindle-like trees poking out. these are at the end of each row of maybe 4-5 properties in this development and could have been used to create a community garden for the locals. somthing to bring them together and have the elders teach the youth and so on. There is obviously a lot more we can do to bring back community, like markets etc, the one near myself was destroyed because they opened the river bank back up, which i understand was to help with reducing floods but they didn't do anything to help what was once a wider community hub, thousands of people would travel from across the region to come here or that, that would in turn bring people to the high street here which is in a massive decline. Anyway that's my contribution so far. Love the videos and have been enjoying them for quite some time, even got some of my friends and family into your stuff and they all love you too. keep up the good work.

smoothie bike! awesome

Remember going Snibston Discovery before the council closed it.

Loved this video. The mining museums are amazing. The only thing missing is the noise.

Nice one. Very interesting.

I think you would like the book 'the road to Wigan pier' by Orwell.

excellent👍 narration, insight to coal mining, miners and slightly more bizarre stuff.

Wonderful video

Poor Clive ❤ the lad has had it rough 😔

Amazing people you met there. Great episode.

A place called Coalville had a mining history? Stripe me pink! LOL

Bloody hell, I haven't heard Coalville metioned since the early 00's when Passion at Emporium was a popular venue for clubbing!