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Excellent video lads. Sorry to be a pain but what was the song at the beginning of the video please?

There's a pub a I think Cock Inn, Hanbury. Damage in the blast and re built has or had a lot of photos in I read years ago

Alabaster and gypsum “used in fertilization”. Guess you don’t have kids! 😆👍

Very interesting one this, my first time hearing / seeing this too, quite the story but well told 👍🏻

Blimey. Very interesting.

11:11hrs in the 11th month? Nothing at all suspicious about that…

Interesting video 📹 Gentleman..thank u 4 sharing 😊😊😊

Great walk that lads . Been up there myself . Unbelievable scale of the place

I would love to live in an apartment rebuilt from an old asylum or hospital. Not because I am 'into ghosts' but because of the historic value of the buildings and area. I have seen a few places transformed to keep the essence of the past but bring a modern freshness to it. They look amazing.

Those two tunnel entrances where covered over and buried a few years ago, looks like they have been opened up again.I wonder why?

Never seen an officer's mess with guardroom on the end

Isn't Frogmore Cottage where randy andy lived?

Are the signs saying unexploded bombs just to keep you out?

I loved this! Great story. Thoroughly enjoyable. This is a gem of a channel. I'm so glad I found it! 👍

Excellent video Gareth, there is great video by IKS Exploration taken in the underground tunnels of what is left of the facility, keep the videos coming 😀

Been around there a couple of times over the years amazing area 👍

Managed to see a bit of the underground tunnels here about 10 years ago. Good to see more of the surface features.

Goodness, you are going through some beautiful countryside! Thanks for the English Hx lesson.

Amazing, thanks boys! 👏🏼

Wirklich unglaublich! Ich habe nie davon gehört. Wieder etwas dazugelernt. Ich freue mich schon jetzt auf ein neues Video von dir. Danke und Gruß aus Deutschland

What's the tune at the start of the Video?

Also back in 1975, there were no trees in the creator, it was a wonderland for a small 8 year old boy..

My father took me and my sister to the bomb creator in 1975, I would of been 8 years old. Back then you could go into the actual creator, I remember playing with my sisters and rolling down the sides. I went again in 2009, but it has all been fenced off, so you can’t really see much now, shame. Great video..

Absolute scum bag council of which I unfortunately pay my council tax to, we did get a questionnaire on what should replace them and I voted for a rebuild as they were. Similar happened at Nottingham Industrial Museum when the Horse Gin was taken down and transported to Astley Green the just cut it up.

I lived right next to it for a few years but never actually ventured inside always looks ready to collapse so I’m surprised it’s listed. Looking at old maps the whole area was a hive of industry and of course the former Stanton Iron works not far away.

I have a short video of the lime kiln at Whitwell, it's massive! If you'd like a peek. I was giving it some "awwww mate' 😅 How can i send it?

Goodness! What an amazing bonus. Peter was fantastic, and love the story about the miller's daughter. I had to Google what a flint mill was actually used for, and Peter mentioned it towards the end... pottery! Great to see all your excitment as the wheel kicked in :) Great explore, thanks all!

Our engineering skill is amazing! AS a later commentator here says, canals crossing each other on aqueducts seem so counter intuitive! And i'd never thought about where the water for canal's came from before. Using feeder lakes as giant cisterns is genius, but so obvious.

Great video, especially like all the childhood reminiscences which add so much context and interest. Such a pity that dad didn't see more life in the line. Also like the humour, you both deserved that beer😂

This was so amazing cheers you guys :).

What a fabulous little find at the end, and topped off by the heritage geezer. You were well and truly rewarded!

Brilliant!

PMSL! Awwwww Mate 😅 Absolutely loved the ending at the Mill and all it's history. Good ol' Pete, proper bloke👏🏼💦

Awesome video hope you all had good Christmas happy new year to you all ❤❤❤❤❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

While watching, was thinking: The journey or the walk toward our destination in life can have such beauty. Sure, the destination is the trophy, but the journey can be priceless. Thanks for the different angle on ‘legging it,’ which was probably not the angle you took when working on PT patients’ legs. To G, P, A & J, salute from TX. Also, thanks to the kindness of the man who showed you guys around the mill 🫡

Another excellent and informative video. Thanks, guys 👍

Hello Gareth my father was a linen service manager that covered hospitals in this area, he found all manner of discrepancies in patients numbers especially when transferred from place to place the last location often records disappeared and only if written in to visiting book or other such thing did you get a total number of residences, the requirement to know was to be able to cope with volumes of laundry, it was a very similar story in many areas of his career whereby area health authorities where fudging numbers, likewise the dates of buildings often don’t add up, especially in respect of asylums not allways but certainly sometimes, the repurposed stately homes or estates where quite common for asylums and mental hospitals.often unsuitabley so, even when claimed built for! This complex looks like a grand college campus how bizarre if its purpose built with several quite similar in England probably worth a look at the available plans for the same architect?! All the wars was a driver and also those who didn’t toe the line of the narrative is the overall findings of many researchers worldwide. In the first photo aerial view at 1.58 ish there’s a big circle in the background like a walled pond? Circuit board earth comes to mind turn a high energy location in to a low low by adding trauma and upset, it’s got all the look of the old world with grand towers and cupolas big halls and main entrances with clocktowers. Cheers

Hayup Gareth there’s so much going on in this one how many layers of canals railways and rivers, brilliant that Peter let you look around it’s a response to your collective enthusiasm, the wheel circumference and how many revolutions per minute you may be able to work out the theoretical water flow speed, it varies wheel width and chute width depth, so it won’t relate to river speed. Taxes on bricks for number off then size perhaps that’s why the pyramids and balbeck are so big? They did the window tax of course and the lesser known door tax, there was even a concrete or lime mortar floor tax seen evidence of that in post 1930s wooden garages they buried the concrete floors as it reduced the rates or rateable value, may have been 1953 or thereabouts when business rates became overlayed on to house. either way if you complained to much or to vividly you where offered a stay at one of them hospitals for the alternative minded. fantastic episode, Cheers

Another fascinating informative video 📹 😊😊😊thank u 4 sharing Gents 😊😊😊😊

Hey Gazza and Chaps 😅 ya can't beat a good old fashioned water mill 😊😊😊

That was great! Peter seemed to be happy to show of thier restoration work. Lucky day. But overall, from an outsider point of view, it does seem weird to have canals crossing each other.

Fab Gareth...what a canal corker!

I love the intro. I love the music. normally I don’t like a history lesson, but you make it really painless. Way go jazz! good for you.❤🎉

The line from Langley Mill beyond Cromford Road to Brinsley and to Watnall / Moorgreen was not MR it was the Barber Walker Colliery Railway later NCB, it picked the MR up again south of Watnall

Oh my, I'd love to live in that tower 😍 Another good one boys 👍🏼

They were experimental camps and the fore runner for what has become known as MK Ultra the WHO CDC etc

Thanks for another journey into the past Gareth and the guys . It seems there is so much history that is not exactly hidden , but not really spoken about too much either. My mind is working overtime wondering why so much coal was needed for an "asylum", Keep on truckin' and have a great new year 👍👍

Great content as always any plans on coming to the north east for Railway 200 ?

I was down at Marlpool station this morning, 04/01/2025, with my dog. The water that you could see from the top of the embankment was covering the footpath proper, which in turn was part of the trackbed from Heanor back to Ilkeston. A lot of the water is what' been drained from the fields on your right as you're walking towards Marlpool station. There are about 4 or 5 trees down after the storms recently making access difficult but not impossible now. There is a small group of volunteers working on clearing years of leaves and soil from parts of the platform surfaces, revealing the out lines of the station buildings. I'm a first time visitor to your channel and enjoyed this video. I have now subscribed.

I live on Eaton Bank just around the corner from the Church, which my friend is in Duffield..