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Peak In The Past
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 11 ธ.ค. 2020
The Mystery of Ashford-in-the-Water's Hidden Grave
Short historical documentary film, inspired by the distant childhood memories of a care home resident in her 90s, leading to the rediscovery of a lost Victorian grave and an investigation into the death of a young boy back in 1853 in the Peak District village of Ashford-in-the Water and the rumours he may have drowned. The investigation by the ‘Peak in the Past’ team uncovers an astonishing tale of a seafaring family involving tragedy, shipwreck and undiscovered buried treasure...
The film is a lament for lost loved ones and traditions and a love letter to the picturesque Peak District village of Ashford-in-the-Water.
The film is a lament for lost loved ones and traditions and a love letter to the picturesque Peak District village of Ashford-in-the-Water.
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Shaping Sheffield and South Yorkshire: A Brief Historical Tour
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Short historical documentary film, produced for Sheffield Hallam University and La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia), introducing how Sheffield and the surrounding area has been shaped by the historical themes of mining and manufacture, migration and municipal identity.
Folktales of the South West Peak
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Introduction to some of the folktales associated with the South West Peak District region of Staffordshire by author and folktale collector Mark Henderson. Filmed and edited by Bobby Turton, film production student at the time at the University of Salford. Created as part of a Peak in the Past project "Illuminating the History and Folktale Traditions of the South West Peak" funded by the South ...
Caribbean Cricketer in the Peaks: Charles Augustus Ollivierre (1876-1949) and the Peak District
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Short historical documentary film highlighting the Peak District connections of pioneering cricketer Charles Augustus Ollivierre (1876-1949), the first black West Indian to play county cricket in England. The film charts Ollivierre's remarkable journey from the south Caribbean island of St Vincent to the High Peak in Derbyshire in the Summer of 1900. It explores his extensive travels through th...
The Headless Horseman of Onecote
มุมมอง 4943 ปีที่แล้ว
Short film featuring author and Peak District folktale collector Mark Henderson introducing the 'Headless Horseman' folktale/legend associated with the village of Onecote, Staffordshire, in the South West Peak. The film was made thanks to a grant from the South West Peak Community Grants Scheme.
Lud's Church - Background to Folktale
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Background/contextual information provided by author and Peak District folktale collector Mark Henderson concerning the folktales associated with the rocky chasm Lud's Church, near Gradbach, Staffordshire in the South West Peak. This short film is a companion piece to our separate film (also available on this channel) introducing the main folktale narrative associated with Lud's Church, centred...
Lud's Church
มุมมอง 8513 ปีที่แล้ว
Short film featuring author and Peak District folktale collector Mark Henderson introducing the folktale associated with the dramatic rocky chasm of Lud's Church, near Gradbach, Staffordshire in the South West Peak. The folktale centres on a group of 'Lollards' - religious dissenters - who worshipped there back in the 14th-century and who faced persecution from the ruling elite on account of th...
The Gradbach Cannibals
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Short film featuring author and Peak District folktale collector Mark Henderson introducing the Gradbach Cannibals folktale associated with the hamlet of Gradbach in the Staffordshire Moorlands in the South West Peak. The film was made thanks to a grant from the South West Peak Community Grants Scheme.
The Doxey Pool Mermaid
มุมมอง 3903 ปีที่แล้ว
Short film featuring author and Peak District folktale collector Mark Henderson introducing the "Jenny Greenteeth" mermaid folktale associated with the mysterious Doxey Pool on top of the Roaches in the Staffordshire South West Peak. The film was made thanks to a grant from the South West Peak Community Grants Scheme.
The Blake Mere Mermaid
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Short film featuring author and Peak District folktale collector Mark Henderson introducing the mermaid folktales associated with Blake Mere, Morridge in the Staffordshire South West Peak. The film was made thanks to a grant from the South West Peak Community Grants Scheme.
Tideswell: A Sweep of the Peak
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Pilot episode for Peak in the Past's historical documentary series which relates the dramatic true-life tale of a journey taken by three young chimney sweeps back in October 1840 from the Derbyshire Peak District village of Tideswell across the southerly parts of the White Peak in search of work. It was a journey which was to have devastating consequences; leading to the shocking death of a 9-y...
Wardlow Mires: Shadows of the Gallows
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An improbable tale of two sisters murdered in 1815 at two separate toll-houses (on the very same night!); two brothers sentenced to death for desperate crimes; two murders involving the strangest of details (including a pair of red shoes and a poisoned cake!); a 16-year-old girl killing her friend at the very spot where a rotting corpse hung overhead; a highway robbery leading to exile to the o...
Eyam: The Plagued Village
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One of the most devastating episodes of English history striking a secluded Peak District village and leading to the demise of a third of its population back in the 17th-century. But these deaths were caused by no human hand… And the unconnected discoveries of two corpses, one shrouded in stones and the other entombed in rock: two murders which have left mysterious imprints on both local landsc...
Eyam: The Plagued Village (Trailer)
มุมมอง 5583 ปีที่แล้ว
Trailer for the 'Peak in the Past' historical documentary episode 'Eyam: The Plagued Village' which interweaves investigation into the Eyam Plague of 1665-1665 with the historical events surrounding two murders well-known in Peak District folklore: the murder of William Wood of Eyam in 1823 and the murder of a "Scotch pedlar" at the Moon Inn, Stoney Middleton, following a dispute at Eyam Wakes ...
My great grandfathers had a steelworks at Attercliffe and my other one had cutlery firm on Rockingham street early 1800’s, loved watching this
what a great video of my home town sheffield well done all ❤
I love this film but the music is overwhelming in places and makes it difficult to hear the narrator.
Wow fantastic
The council ,goverment needs to get a grip on building on brown field sites, Promote building trade schemes for apprentices in all trades from leaving school.!More cameras.Trendy appartments,gardens on roofs ,bus shelters up the side of buildings.yuppy craft beer bars ,trees planted,fountains to give a friendly welcoming air.!
Great story and presentation.
Thank you for making this video for it was very interesting and yet so sad for the two lives lost and for the family all those years ago.
I was born in Sheffield but wish I was born in Manchester a much better city
I was born in Sheffield in 1946, the first City in Europe to go smokeless, I now live in SE Asia but will never forget what a wonderful childhood I had there. Sorry to say I would not want to live there now
Sheffield used to be the city of Steel. ❤❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉
A very good video spoiled by overloud music. Such a pity.....
Great Plauge & Great Fires of London. 1665 & 1666. Reign of His Majesty King Charles the 2nd. Samuel Pepys the Diarist. Sir Christopher Wren.
An interesting, enjoyable film. Thanks. But why does background music so often have to be louder than the narrator these days? It's really annoying! Also, I was surprised to hear you say that Sheffield, "did not have the Corn Exchange of Leeds". We definitely had a Corn Exchange, built some time in the 1830s. It was somewhere around where Park Square is now.
Do you know anything about James Neill industry that used to be on Cemetery road in Sharrow area?
Think they made drill bits.
Between there and eccelsawl road were lots of firms making tools for engineering, drill bits measuring equipment spring to mind
I was born in 1962 in the Hillsborough Area of Sheffield and it's great to remember the history years gone by and at the moment it is not like it Used to be Now but I came back to Sheffield during Christmas and at the moment I am Disgusted with the Town Hall who has Ruined my Home Town City Life 😢
At 5mins 14secs you see two men who taught me fitting . At River Don when I was an apprentice. Keith Bannister. And Tony Stanbra .very skilled men .
I love Sheffield, i live on the very edge of Sheffield on the South side that borders derbyshire. I can be in a urban council estate one minute but then half hours walking i can be in the countryside that is filled with rivers, hiking trails, reservoir and quaint villages like Matlock
Thank you
Omg, I am devastated that you are not getting thousands more views. I'm so glad I came across your channel.
Exactly! I believe this approach is called microhistory and to me, it's just fascinating. So very well done guys!
Sheffield because a city in 1893....
So in England somewhere…
No such thing as a Scotchman. Said person is either Scottish or a Scotsman
It’s an archaic term but that’s how he’s described in the historic records from the time about the case. We understand it doesn’t necessarily refer to a ‘Scot’ or someone from ‘Scotland’ but was often applied to a stranger or outsider whose origins were unknown
Greetings from Canada. I just stumbled upon your channel. Very good content. Thank you for keeping your local history alive.
I hope more videos will come from your channel in the future!
The plague of 1665/66 was nowhere as virulent as earlier outbreaks. Eyam wasn't unique in the level of mortality caused by the plague - around 260 victims of a population of around 800. The fact that Eyam sealed itself off after the outbreak would have had no effect on the level of mortality nation-wide, as the disease was already flourishing in London and elsewhere. The mortality rate in London was around 25%. Eyam derived its fame through its decision to isolate itself....and its popularisation in literature, both factual and fiction.
What a brilliant documentary!
Why only 9 likes , Fantastic story have you wrote any books I could buy
Really good
kept me gripped was great storytelling
Did you know made in sheffield is trademarked because the quality is so good ?
Can you make your content inclusive by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning please? it is extremely hard to watch it relying only on the auto captioning sadly (I'm Profoundly Deaf)
Love the haunting song at the end, beautifully sung by Laura Ashby. What is it?
It is a little gem, in which so much work and original research has been invested, and is worthy of attention by the major TV channels. They don't know what they're missing and a national - no global - audience deserves to hear this important and intriguing story, so brilliantly told and co-presented.
Definitely! Really enjoyable, from Detroit Michigan.
My husband was born in Sheffield 🙏
Many thanks for posting such an interesting and heartwarming presentation. Being born and bred in Sheffield, some seventy years ago, I agree wholeheartedly with the comment made by the Health Department as, in my case as a true "dee dah", it sums up the spirit and determination of the Sheffield people. I still have immense pride in our wonderful City and all it's achievements both past and present, also looking forward to Sheffield's ongoing and exciting new phase of regeneration.
Thank you for such positive words and interesting observations. As you say, there are signs of promising things soon to come for Sheffield with an appreciation of the city's heritage incorporated in visions/plans for its future!
I was told stones in archers where from old castle not sure if its true or not always wondered @@peakinthepast
Sheffield did have its own Corn Exchange. It was where Park Square roundabout is now.
That's true, but Sheffield's Corn Exchange wasn't quite on the same scale / levels of grandeur as its counterpart in Leeds and the building proved sadly to be only too short lived and never achieved the same iconic status
which square, as I recollect, is now a roundabout! Video doesnt say Sheffield didnt have a Corn Ex, it is simply comparing it with other cities
Thoroughly enjoyed the video and it summed up my birth city perfectly. The insular approach was felt when I was a teenager in the 60's in Darnall. I tried to explain this to my friend from Liverpool how a city's development has an impact on the attitudes and approach to life of those who are born and grow up in the northern cities. I'll show him this video. Once again, thank you
Thanks for your positive comments! Really pleased you enjoyed it 🙂
I was born in Sheffield in 1935, but left with my parents for overseas in 1952. I loved Sheffield and still think of it every day. I still keep in touch with my relatives.
You got out just in time. Its a hell hole now
I’m Australian and was working with an Englishman, we were getting a site ready for a small weir to be built. When the materials arrived it was sheets of steel with made in Sheffield stamped on them. I thought to myself I’ll see if I can get a bite out of him. I commented what would they know about making steel in Sheffield! Boy did I get a bite out of him, haha nearly bit my head off.
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Shows that the developer wasn't cutting corners with cheap Chinese or Indian steel. 😉
The other unique feature of Sheffield is how long it takes you to traverse it. I can get from Greenhill, a village on the Southern edge of Sheffield to Worral, a beautiful village to the North of Sheffield in half an hour. What other major city in Europe can offer you that? 🤩😯💗
That depends what time of day you travel.
@@560smr4 Also depends on route you take And I've got that down to A fine Art. Even during the rush hour there Are ways And means.
@@560smr4 35 mins on A bad day
Great job Tim and Holly. A worthy advertisement for this unique, dynamic and cosmopolitan city in the British Isles and the greenest in Europe. 💖👏👀
Sheffield has a lot of potential but there is a lot to be done to make it more attractive to investors, the railways need to be brought up to date with electrification for a start
Beautifully presented. Worthy of much wider broadcast. Astonishing that you have such a modest number of subscribers. A real gem.
My favorite legend was first told this when I was in scouts and read about it many times even visited the old cottage. I wish to write a horror novel based on this as I think it will make a good story to keep these legends alive!
Ooh yes you should definitely write that horror novel! As you say it would be a good way of reinvigorating the legend and helping to keep it alive!
Absolutely fantastic video! We've just been to Eyam. Your video helps understand all depth of what happened there. Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for your positive message, really pleased you enjoyed the film!
An American Anglophile here. I recently read Year of Wonders, a novel about the Plague outbreak in Eyam. Great video! I really enjoyed watching it.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for your positive response! Yes Year of Wonders is a great retelling of the plague story!
I did not hear of this story before. I was friends with previous owner of the Old Bulls Head.
We were very grateful for the owners of the Old Bulls Head for allowing us access and helping to transport us back in time - it was fascinating to see how so many of the old pub features remain and offer a glimpse how it would have been at the time it was serving ale whilst also hosting coroner's inquests!
Absolutely love these episodes, I’ve recently been tracking my family on ancestry as we have lived out here in what seems like forever, our own grandfather is abit of a mystery and has connections to the duke at chatsworth 🤯 I love learning the history of the places I’ve grown up in! Xx
Thank you for your kind words. Really pleased to hear you've enjoyed our episodes. Sounds like there's some intriguing stories to explore in your own family history connected with the area!
What a great episode after visiting the area just helped us truly understand this small village
Thank you! Really good to hear how the episode complimented your visit to the area in this way!
Thank you for this very interesting, but very sad documentary. The Peak District is a very beautiful area, however life must have been very tough for common labourers back in the 1800's
Thank you for the positive response. Yes that is so true - the Peak District is such a beautiful place but life could be so bleak and brutal for people back then!