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Geekymanc
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2015
Hello,
My name is Jon and I'm the geekymanc.
I have a passion for history and walking so decided to create this channel.
My aim is to give interesting information on historic sites that I visit as well as start to walk more. (need to loss more weight 😂)
Please comment on any of my videos, if you think I've missed something interesting or can add more about the location that would be amazing.
I would love to have a great community on this channel who are friendly, what to share stories and hopefully make new friends.
So let's crack on! Peace and love ☮️
My name is Jon and I'm the geekymanc.
I have a passion for history and walking so decided to create this channel.
My aim is to give interesting information on historic sites that I visit as well as start to walk more. (need to loss more weight 😂)
Please comment on any of my videos, if you think I've missed something interesting or can add more about the location that would be amazing.
I would love to have a great community on this channel who are friendly, what to share stories and hopefully make new friends.
So let's crack on! Peace and love ☮️
A motte-and -bailey castle near Manchester ( Watch hill castle)
In this video I walk along the river Bollin to discover what remains of Watch hill castle ( a motte-and -bailey castle) on the boundary of Bowden and Durham Massey in greater Manchester.
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Park Bridge Ironworks (Travelling along the fairbottom brunch canal, Ashton under lyne)
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In this video I travel along the fairbottom brunch canal. Starting off in Daisy Nook I follow the canal discovering its old colliers and industrial past and ending up at Park bridge ironworks. Information edit( fairbottom bobs was built between the early 1800s to early 1900s) ( The locomotive in park bridge tramway was used from the mid 1900s)
The forgotten Hollinwood branch canal( Droylsden to Daisy Nook)
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In this video I locate the forgotten Hollinwood branch canal. Starting at lock 18 on the Ashton canal,I travel through Droylsden along what remains of the canal eventually arriving at Daisy Nook.
Walking around an 18th century settlement ( Fairfield moravian settlement in Droylsden)
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In this video I travel back in time to the Moravian settlement in Droylsden. I discuss the history of the settlement, its iconic buildings and people who lived there. Founded in 1785 by Benjamin La Trobe as a centre of evangelistic work for the Moravian church in Manchester area it has also been used in recent years as a filming locations for many period dramas. It really is like stepping back ...
A lockdown in 1666! ( The Bubonic plague village of Eyam in the Derbyshire Dales)
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In this video I visit the plague village of Eyam in the Derbyshire dales. The village went into isolation to stop the spread of the plague in 1666. I travel round the village to discover the historic sites from that period in time and also find some Anglo-Saxon History.
Abandoned medieval village in North Yorkshire (Wharram Percy)
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In today's video I visit Wharram Percy which is an abandoned medieval village. Mentioned in the Domesday book the village appears to have been most active between the 10th and 12th centuries. Wharram Percy is one of the largest and best preserved of Britain's 3,000 or so known deserted medieval villages. Wharram Percy, Malton YO17
A plane crash site near Manchester (Boeing RB -29A Superfortress)
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In today's video I visit the crash site of a US air force Boeing RB-29A Superfortress. The crash site is on Bleaklow in Derbyshire near Glossop and Manchester. On the 3rd of November 1948 the aircraft crashed on a day time flight when the area was covered with low cloud. 13 people tragically lost their lives.
Arbor low stone circle ( A stone circle in Derbyshire dales)
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Arbor low stone circle ( A stone circle in Derbyshire dales)
Victorian Tower looking over Greater Manchester ( Hertshead Pike)
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Victorian Tower looking over Greater Manchester ( Hertshead Pike)
The former abandoned village of Wycoller in Lancashire (Along the Bronte way)
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The former abandoned village of Wycoller in Lancashire (Along the Bronte way)
Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (Part 5)
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Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (Part 5)
Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 4)
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Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 4)
Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 3)
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Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 3)
Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 2)
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Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 2)
Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 1)
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Visiting Manchester? Historic city centre tour (part 1)
Arguably the first truly man made canal (Bridgewater canal, Castlefield Manchester to Worsley Delph)
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Arguably the first truly man made canal (Bridgewater canal, Castlefield Manchester to Worsley Delph)
Roman Manchester to industrial Manchester (Castlefield)
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Roman Manchester to industrial Manchester (Castlefield)
Historic canal walk, Hyde to Marple. (Peak forest canal part 2)
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Historic canal walk, Hyde to Marple. (Peak forest canal part 2)
Historic canal walk, Ashton under Lynn to Hyde (Peak forest canal part 1)
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Historic canal walk, Ashton under Lynn to Hyde (Peak forest canal part 1)
Abandoned castle near Manchester (Buckton Castle)
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Abandoned castle near Manchester (Buckton Castle)
If I'm available l could show you the exact place let me know
Hey @BTony47, oh wow that is amazing. I will send you a DM when I'm available and see what is good for you. Life is a bit crazy at the moment for me which has made it hard to commit to making videos at present but will definitely take you up on your offer 🙂
After watching your report on the nico ditch you have missed out the stretch in Stretford which is on Ryebank Fields
Hey @BTony47, thanks for your comment. Oh brilliant, I will go and investigate what remains. Such an interesting topic 🙂
Looks like a great day for a walk. Lovely video!
Hey @chrisbaines4339, it certainly was. The only problem was that I was covered in midget bites.
best video yet! love the tone, the pacing and the new effects are brill.
@ReetBoaTellThee, thank you my friend. 🙂
Nice save from the fall. Hope you didn’t hurt yourself too much.
Hey @chrisbaines4339. Oh a little bit, thanks for asking 😂 Will be wearing proper walking boots from now on
As a self proclaimed ‘Titanorac’ I can confirm you are correct; whilst the majority of iron used in the construction of the Titanic primarily came from Middlesbrough and Sheffield, some of the iron used did indeed come from the Park Bridge Ironworks. The ironworks provided materials for various industries, including shipbuilding, during that time.
#SkyPilotXSX wow thank you for the in depth and knowledgeable answer. That's amazing 🙂 Peace and love
@@geekymanc Ask me another 🤣
Very interesting thank you
Hey @stephenhelm5844, thanks for the comment and really happy to hear you enjoyed 🙂 Peace and love
Wouldn't the 1700s be the 18th Century?
@paulhugo2180, your 100% correct sir. I will update that now my friend. 🙂
@@geekymanc No worries, Nice area.
“The poor drinking habits of the local men” 🤣 No change there then 🤣🤣
@SkyPilotXSX 😂
Lovely day for it!! Great to see local places an learn more about them 👍🏻
Hey @chrisbaines4339, really happy to hear you enjoyed 🙂
Great video. Was there the other day filming, unfortunately didn't have the weather you did 😆. Fascinating stories though.
Hey @CallOfTheDarkVideo, thanks for your comment 🙂 Yeah it turned out to be a lovely day for myself. It's a beautiful little village isn't it. 🙂
Loved this! Your best work yet. Really enjoyed the pacing, the deep knowledge, the fancy new transitions, and just your general demeanour. It was all fab. Bravo!
@ReetBoaTellThee, thank you 🙂 I know you have watched my videos from the start so really appreciate your kind words Peace and love
Great video
@julieleah9913 thank you 🙂
This must be related to the highland clearances as well. As soon as sheep became profitable, everyone got moved on! What a crime. That village would have been lovely.
@ReetBoaTellThee, good point I had not thought about that but definitely very similar. Also about profit, not much has changed over the centuries haha
Loved your video keep going
@julieleah9913, thank you 🙂 Really enjoying filming and happy you and over people are watching and enjoying. Peace and love
Thanks for sharing this. I'm sure that after the crash the US Air Force came out and removed the remains if possible and any sensitive equipment from the crash site. I'm from the US, and I study WW2 history, so this video was very interesting. Thanks again for sharing.
@toddmcclellan979 thank for your comment and all your information. I'm really happy you enjoyed mate 🙂 Peace and love
Nice video. Glad it has not been stripped.
Hey @ davidkozinski. Agree mate, very eerie experience and of course very sad that all them people needlessly lost their lives
Very interesting location!
@Viking88Power, I really is mate
I believe that the long tube with spaced rings shown at 2:23 is part of the communication tunnel that connected the front and back of the place, running on the top of the bomb bays.
@4000ChacoRoad, oh fantastic! That's really interesting and very much appreciated. Peace and love
That would make sense. The cockpit and areas where the crew stations were located were pressurized. The tube/tunnel was a way to connect the pressurized portions of the aircraft and extended from the cockpit through the fuselage to the crew stations in the rear of the aircraft. Pressurizing allowed flying without oxygen masks and the cold weather clothing like in the earlier B-17/B-24/B-25s
@@geodes4762 thank you for your comment and all that information. Really interested and I am now getting to learn a lot more about this particular aircraft. Peace and love buddy
Very surprised any of it is still there. Kind of expected this to have been cleared up decades ago.
Hello @peterbest5938. Yeah it amazing how much of it is still remaining. I think it classed as a place of memorial and that's why it remains.
Nice video. The leaving the wreckage there is a brilliant memorial to the fallen. Beautiful location seems very eerie. Loving the geeky facts!
@chrisbaines4339, thank you for the comment. Definitely worth a visit if you ever get a chance and you are correct a brilliant memorial. Peace and love
Oh wow! That's WELL bigger than I imagined. What a great site. Imagine owning that land as well. Lucky farmer. Thanks for all the interesting facts. I will have to *barrow* some of them. ho ho ho
@ReetBoaTellThee 😂 Yeah it's huge, definitely worth a visit to see for yourself
Anita street is probably my favourite place to visit in mcr. Keep them coming 👍🏼
@daftmonkey7296, thank you 🙂 Yeah I love it myself, especially with the amount of rebuilding and changes in Manchester city centre. Like stepping back in time
Hi John…love your videos and your research is fantastic keep them coming mate 👍
Hey @stevemulligan8427, thank you buddy 🙂.
@@geekymanc …really interesting your doing a great job
Very interesting! thank you :)
@silviahoya, happy you enjoyed 🙂
A village founded in the 10th century BC🤣🤡
Hey @MarkAbRobert-jv6it. There is suggestions that a settlement was located there late bronze to early iron age. Of course this is completely debatable.
Ummmm, how is that stream running up hill??????
Hey @robertalford2257, thanks for your comment. There is something called reversing falls when the direction of flow changes due to tides. If I'm honest I don't think this is the case in this situation. I think it may be a course location spot, due to an obstruction in the stream there is enough momentum for the stream to flow over the obstruction.
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Loved the video, but saying you won't include the man in your video, then just putting him in anyway is a bit rude, he may not have wanted to be in your video.
Hey @HadronWolf, thank you for you comment. I saw him on my way back and asked if he minded being included. He said it was ok. 🙂
You want to be careful on that bridge, lad!
@evanhughes7609, definitely could be slippy.
Proof of all Historic CLAIMS are Required.
@GMT439, I got the information from looking online. One good article is on historic UK.
He was gonna run off with ya phone m8
@redcalx9568 😂
Best video yet. Loved the impromptu interaction with the man crossing the bridge lol - Always a pleasure learning something new from you GeekyManc! Let's crack on! Looking forward to the next one! 🙂
Hey @Xbox320SimPilot. Was a really interesting place to visit and meet a few lovely people along the way. Happy you enjoyed buddy 🙂
This place looks amazing!! It's great that people live there again. Pretty sweet that nobody can drive up either. I wouldnt mind it there. Best vid so far! Also love the story of the Hall. Faded nobility and feckless heirs end up having it literally dismantled brick by brick to pay off debts. That fireplace was serious business too
@ReetBoaTellThee, its a lovely spot and definitely worth a visit. Thanks buddy
Centre is RE.
@paulwild3676, 100% correct. I have corrected the error. Thanks 🙂
Very interesting.
@midnightroadstuios, thank you for comment 🙂
Best video yet! Loved looking in Afflecks Palace. Good info about it too. And everything else. Big up the curb!
@ReetBoaTellThee, thanks mate. Many memories from my teenage years in afflecks. Happy your enjoying
Wow, I didn't realise Emeline Pankhurst was from Moss Side. I need to get off my arse and get around ol Manny to see this stuff.
@ReetBoaTellThee, definitely mate. You will be surprised what you may discover
Love to see another Geekymanc. Thanks for making it. Would be good to see inside that pub some time. Maybe let us know how the local beers are!
@ReetBoaTellThee, it's tiny so not a massive selection. Good pint though
You should do a video for Hartshead Pike, was there today, really interesting little place lots of history.
Hello @pamelaphelan, thanks for the comment. I have one planned for there at some point. I use to love going there as a kid. Very interesting isn't it. 🙂
@geekymanc yes it is really interesting, apparently it was used to warn the Romans of any attacks, they used to light it inside and it was open to the public as a sweet shop at some point in time but not sure the date.
@@pamelaphelan177 I will do my research I see what I can find out 🙂
Thank you. St Peter's Church was designed by Thomas Wyatt who's masterpiece was probably Heaton Hall. It was a classical building and to his chagrin had an extra tower on it. It has a particularly tragic episode as the first victim of Peterloo, a baby boy, after being ridden down, was brought to it's steps by his mother. Apparently below ground the crypt is intact and where the commander of the Mcr. Yeomanry is buried. Central Station was the second widest unsupported building in the UK when built. It's triplet the Midland Railway's St. Pancras bring slightly wider. The third triplet being Liverpool Central, only the underground station survives regretably. A canal was built underneath it, the ends of which are visible in St. John's near Granada Studios and next to the Bridgwater Hall. The Halle' is Britain's oldest professional orchestra. Where the Midland Hotel is once stood another musical venue a Gentlemen's Concert Hall. Below the Midland Hotel's restaurant flows the River Tib. There used to be a covered way from Central Station to the Midland Hotel so patrons could travel sheltered. However a bus on Windmill Street collided with it. Regetably Central Station closed on 5th May 1969 as did Exchange Station. A relative neighbour of Emmaline Pankhurst was born David Lloyd-George of Welsh parentage in Chrolton-On-Medlock. Mcr has always been political but as many plaques as it has you will be hard pressed to find anything about him. That's Mcr for you. Cancel culture isn't new. The Central Library in it's basement once housed the Library Theatre where John Thaw performed. Nearby on Peter Street is the Theatre Royal where Charles Dickens the author (and actor) performed. His sister and her husband and child lived at Ardwick. Please note Mosley Street was were Rothschild the founder of the banking empire once lived. Round the corner of the Art Gallery is the Athenaeum where I believe Benjamin Disraeli gave a speech and later Winston Churchill. Opposite the site of the Royal Hotel in Piccadilly Gardens Gardens was, the Queen's Hotel where Arthur Balfour Prime Minister and Chaim Weizmann Israel's founder, met and drew up the map of modern Israel. Further down Portland Street was the Bank of England building a modern office building Charles Robert Cockerell built the Bank of England's first building on King Street, which still exists, near opposite Mcr's first town hall. There have been three (?) Bank of England buildings Mcr. The one on Portland Street is now used for alternative owners but was once the bank's bullion vaults. It's basement walls are 16 feet thick. It's not far from the Circus public house.
@English_Dawn, wow very knowledgeable facts. I just started reading about David Lloyd George, I never knew he was from Manchester. So surprising there isn't anything about him. Honestly this is so interesting, thank you for sharing 🙂
St Peter's Church was designed by Thomas Wyatt, his masterpiece was probably Heaton Hall. In Mcr's dark moment, Peterloo, sadly the first victim, a baby boy, who had been ridden down was brought to the church steps by his mother. The crypt of the church still is extant below ground. Apparently in it is buried the gentleman who led the Mcr. Yeomanry on that day. Central Station was the second widest unsupported room in UK when built. It's triplet St. Pancras being wider. The third triplet of the Midland Railway was Liverpool Central, sadly only the underground station of which survives. Regretably it closed on the 5th May 1969 at the same time as Mcr. Exchange Station.
Hey @English_Dawn, that you for all the information 🙂 That is so sad about the baby boy, the madness of that day is completely unacceptable. I've just started reading up about the events leading to that tragic day. I was reading about when they was regenerating St Peter's Square and expanding the tram station they had to add extra protection to the crypt. Thank you for providing me with this comment with so much detail. Such a rich history around that area of Manchester. Peace and love
Really enjoying these videos - thanks Geekymanc! 🙂 Manchester's increasingly on the map, and great to highlight how much there is to offer. I suspect the train sites would be a popular upcoming video! (& "Let's crack on" 's becoming a catchphrase!! 😄)
Hey #Ollie1091 🙂 Outstanding my friend. Where are you from? Got a few interesting facts coming in future videos. Hopefully you will enjoy. Haha I didn't realise I used that phrase so till I start this 😂
Brilliant and informative video again. Keep up the good work
@chrisbaines4339, thank you 🙂. Happy your enjoyed
I can't believe our Manny killed Chopin!
Hey @ReetBoaTellThee, the assumed cause of death was tuberculosis. He was already very ill when he visited Manchester, he still deciding to perform. It was so well received of how outstanding his performance was, it was held in 1848 at where the midland hotel now stands Infront of around 1200 people
Thanks for the info!@@geekymanc
Love learning about my home city from you, but feel slightly ignorant that I should probably have known at least some of this info already haha A statue of Abe Lincoln in the middle of Manchester??? Who knew!? I didn't! Looking forward to the next video, keep up the good work!
Hey @Xbox320SimPilot, I only discovered his statue a few years ago. Such a rich history in Manchester city centre, really happy your enjoying mate 🙂
I walk around Manchester all the time and I've never noticed all the little pieces of history dotted all over! Thanks!!
Hey @dragonfly4370, such a rich history spanning throughout time. Really happy you enjoyed mate. Peace and love 🙂
Love this video! Really enjoyed the tour around Manchester. A lot of buildings I didn't know about and now I reeeeeally want some Vimto!
@ReetBoaThee, haha who doesn't love vimto!
My elderly mother STILL calls it London Road Train Station lol
Hey Xbox320SimPilot. Hahaha, bless her. 🙂
Loving the Geeky Facts! Keep up the good work/walking!
@CarlHincks, really happy your enjoying my videos. Definitely will be something I will be continuing. 🙂
Wow your geeky facts are great 😀
@julieleah9913, thank you 🙂 Got more filming planned for this weekend. Hopefully the sun will still be here. Peace and love