Return to Thruscross Reservoir: The Village Under the Lake
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- In the summer of 2022 - one of the driest years on record - I made a video about Thruscross Reservoir and the ruins of a submerged village which can be seen during extremely dry periods. Two years later, in one of the rainiest summers we've seen, I've returned to see just how much it's changed - and what it can tell us about climate, infrastructure, and heritage.
Additional images sourced from Laurence A (1992), West End: A Sunken Village.
If I understand correctly, only two households were displaced by this reservoir, even so, that detail about the exhumation and relocation of the bodies in the churchyard is sad. The information about the Welsh village that was drowned is sadder. Fascinating stuff as ever. Thank you!
You're still doing super videos Catherine. I visited Thruscross in 2022 after seeing your video and it's a great memory. I'm inspired now to make a return visit. A good excuse for a good walk . It's lovely up there. Thanks to Simon too .
I’m a child of the 60s who grew up not too far from here so the woods and reservoirs where our play ground and we where well aware of the history of this place and you are right it has an air of spookyness or something similar.Great video which brought back happy memories.
The water always looks black 😳 lovely to hear about your memories, I really love visiting and walking there
Great video again Catherine......Loving the HD Camera work
I remember you from your Google+ channel! Glad to see you again.
Informative as always.
A'reyt Catherine. I used to pass tankers of water endlessly filling Pennine reservoirs in the drought in the 1990s.
I remember two such years in the mid 1970s.
I have tried to comment about your videos on TH-cam where appropriate and sent a couple of links, but it is usually as a reply. Other TH-camrs do not want their videos to just be a way to promote stuff that is not their own, so I try to make sure it makes sense.
Water management isn't the most exciting topic but its one of the most important in the 21st century.
Well done enjoyed this
Miss warr, thanks the video, educational and interesting, more please.
Very interesting! Keep them coming :) 👍🏻
Really loving the camera work in this video and that heatwave of 2022 was a b***h but at least it gave a chance of a ruined village. Great video Catharine
Very informative and interesting video. Well and thoughtfully presented, thank you.
This is such a professional quality report; it looks and feels like it should be on the BBC. Good work Catherine, and your team.
I'm here after being heartbroken after seeing Thruscross yesterday for the first time since 2019 after the moved away from the area 😢 I didn't know what had happened, I only saw 2 other on my walk, so gutted not to be able to walk down by the brook before you go up onto the moors
Great video, thank you for the content you have made over the years. I have learned so much! I was wondering if you have looked much at Cromwell Bottom (near Brookfoot, between Brighouse and Elland). That is very close to where I grew up and I know it has a lot of civil war history. I would be super interested to learn more about the history of the area. Keep up the good work! ❤
Thanks, I'll have a look!
We used to have water security. Then came water privatisation and the selling off of reservoirs.
... yep, and thereby came the collapse of reinvestment in new and replacement infrastructure, with it just being run for cash out
Totanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull) said that nothing lasts forever, only the earth and the mountains. Certainly not those man made.
I think I spotted Waldo
Percy Bysshe. Excellent.
There are a lot of houses now built on marshes so we lose some houses and get much more. The shame is the loss of farming land. But many the lake should be allowed to be used for recreational and light commercial.