Welcome to my hometown! One thought: it was my understanding that the 1:12 incline wasn't necessarily a problem for the horses travelling uphill (I don't know, maybe it'd make pulling the carriages a bit more difficult), but rather for the horses making the downhill journey, whose carriages would start rolling freely and then immediately run them over. I'm not sure where I read that, and I could well be wrong... although both might've been factors in the end. Anyway, thanks for stopping by.
Cheers Kelvin! You may well be right - my sources simply said that horses couldn't handle the incline, rather than saying whether the problem was going up it, or down it. I'll pin your comment because 1. it's an interesting footnote and 2. perhaps a local expert will stop by with a definitive answer :)
Kelvin Coleman I live surrounded by Amish and Mennonite family’s living in the Appalachian Mountains. I think the problem is something more. Many of our roads, paved and otherwise, approach 1-12 pitch. Maybe the surface or turning them around? I’m amazed at what a horse can do. Great video anyways.
Small carriages aren't usually a big deal. Some carriages have brakes that help manage the downhill roll. If those aren't available, then the solution is to back down the hill using the power of the horses to keep the carriage from running out of control. My guess is that it was an excuse: It may be that the lady of Nottingham simply didn't like going through a tunnel after the Duke had decided to build one, so he made up that excuse about the carriages to keep from admitting that he was beholden to his Lady.
Broadmarsh shopping centre was built on jury hill, which was a medieval street, not dissimilar to what you can see in York. The shopping centre didn't last as long
@@greenaum yeah, it was written by Tony Robinson so pretty much. I think Tim does play the piano which means he is the rights holder to all his performances.
My old house is in your video, just 200 yards up the road from here. Before those new houses were built there was a fence and high gate fronting our road, and no lighting in the tunnel. I often used it as a short cut to get home after the pub, walking very slowly through the pitch black tunnel, and then running full pelt to the gate through the wooded area (where the houses are now). The late Justin Fashanu lived in one of those new houses while he was playing for Nottingham Forest, bless him.
Your jokes are fantastic and groan-worthy at the same time, I frickin' love this channel. Again, thanks for the accessibility info for disabled folks. It's noticed, and appreciated, and reminds us that we're noticed and appreciated too.
@@miroslavmilan I don't know about the manual variety, but most electric wheelchairs available nowadays can handle a slope of 1 in 7 easily. That was the standard for access ramps in England as long ago as the 1980s (I know this because I used to build them back then). Also, I think the problem with the 1 in 12 gradient is not so much the uphill (horses are incredibly strong animals, hence their images are carved in several English chalk hillsides - not sure what the ancients at Uffington were smoking though....) as the downhill, horses are not usually fond of being pushed.
I was living in Notts before I was sent back to my home country over seas due to the You Know What. This both brought joy to my heart and a tear to my eye! I miss Notts so bad! Thank you for making this video!!
You'd think the city council would be smart enough to pave the tunnel with the lovely cobblestones you see at 4:27 but no, let's put the ugliest aggregate, cinderblocks and steel platform we can manage to cram in this historical landmark. Oh, and don't forget to put a plastic bin in the way of the picturesque arch, we sure don't want tourists to miss it!
@@timtjtim That reminds me of Carcassonne's castle, the only place in the city where you can still find... a traffic light. Socialist council too! i0.wp.com/greatdestinationsradioshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Carcassonne_old-town-3.jpg?resize=1200%2C675
@Peter Rumsby It's not just socialism, I think it's beaurocracy in general. Tourism value is something that is hard to put an actual value on, but repair of infrastructure with extra wear and tear on it is all to easy to quantify. Ironically most beaurocrats are so bad at it we STILL get a spate of roadworks leading up to the new tax year, as councils hurry to spend their budgets in the fear they'll get a reduced amount the following year if they have a surplus.
A grand old tunnel that ends...in a car park. By the way I love the jokes in this, definitely gave me a good laugh. Like 2:39. And I'm sure Donald and Daisy Duck would love Nottingham
You are translating your titles and description to Dutch now!? Wow! Never ever have I seen a foreign producer do this for our little insignificant language ;). It's appreciated!
I like the "ey up mi duck" at the beginning, and generally acknowledging the existence of the East Midlands. For those outside region, 'there be dragons'. Great video, it's a pity the Derby Road entrance doesn't match The Park Estate and Ropewalk entrances! Factoid 1: "Duck" in this context, is a corruption of the Old English "ducas", meaning duke. A term of respect, turned term of affection (influenced by "hen" or "chick", perhaps). "Ey up" is an Old Norse greeting, translates something like "heads up". Factoid 2: The exact 'slap-bang centre' of England by the way, is a field near Fenny Drayton in Leicester; if you were to put England on a pin, that's where would balance perfectly. If you wanted to do that... well Ordnance Survey did, albeit figuratively.
@ddemaine I grew up in Leicester and saying "ey up mi duck" was part of my vocabulary. Thank you for the explanation which I did not know. As I am sure you are aware, Leicestershire is supposed to be the birthplace of the English language, see news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1055772.stm
@@fredygump5578 Well back in 2013-- before staying indoors became fashionable-- this fetching wooden post was placed in a hedge, to mark Ordnance Survey's discovery. Prepared to be awed... www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leicestershire-22901222/new-centre-of-england-marked-in-fenny-drayton
Great video. At uni we used to smoke a walking down the staircase to the tunnel at night - it was a really impressive sight when you reached the bottom!
This is so bizarre that this should pop up in my search. I am from Nottingham and what is strange is that I actually recognise you from Nottingham, Tim! Although I knew the person you looked like in the 1980's who used to visit my parents' cafe, The Gingham Kitchen, on Lincoln Street. If it is you then you don't seem to have aged. I hope it is you. Definitely very similar to the decent chap called Tim, I used to know.
The is the first Time Traveller video i have watched, and i immediately love your enthusiasm and speaking voice! Looking forward to watching more videos :)
I found this tunnel by mistake after somehow never noticing it in decades of living in Notts. How interesting to hear the origin! I swear this city has more secrets than most. Thanks for the video
Hi sounds interesting, how did you find the walk? same lived in Notts. a long time, I know of the disused rail tunnels, this would come in handy as a shortcut. Where does the tunnel in the video lead to?
Nottingham is an amazing place with lots of historical heritage. One of my favorite places is a pub on Maid Marion way called Ye olde Salutation inn and apart from being one of the best live music venues in Nothingham, it has a network of underground caves that are themselves a venue for poetry, drumming, singing and part of a historical walk. No trip to Nothingham would be complete without a visit.
It's astonishing how much entertainment and information you pack into a 5 min (thereabouts) video. Keep it up, Tim. This quarantine can't last forever, right?
Great video. For reference: 1:12 incline = 8.3%. Dependent on the speed the carriage is travelling at, going up or down even a gentle incline can be quite dangerous for the horse(s) pulling it, and in adverse (wet/snowy) conditions going in either direction can prove fatal, especially if the brakes fail on the carriage. As pretty as the tunnel is I wouldn't take a horse up or down it, even without a carriage.
The Park is pretty unique in that it is lit by gas street lamps. It's quite an unusual experience because the intensity, spread, beam or whatever the relevant parameters, are so much different. There's also some very high kerbs to trip over too. The Salutation on Mad Marion Way/Hound's Gate is an equal contender for the oldest pub in the UK, based on the same name continuously and actually having been a pub from the start. Ye Trip started as the castle brewery. The Bell on Angle Row is also a contender. Some archaeologists- Time Team?- went there on a dig and discovered there had been brewing there since Saxon times, but unlike the other two there's no written records to argue over as they only go back to 1437 or thereabouts. The Sal has some very good caves. Quite a few pubs and most of Nottingham do. There's dedicated 3D cave maps online.
Born and bred in Nottingham and been along it, so it was great to see it. Hope you checked out the MANY underground medieval caves and tunnels while you were there
Maid Marian! Nice choice of background music there! It's a little game for people watching the videos, most of the music is instrumental versions of TV theme songs, see if you can guess them all! This applies to all Tim's videos I've seen so far.
I already started to miss your new videos and you haven’t even stopped releasing them yet. Stay safe mate, I hope to see you again in a year or two when limited travel might be permitted again.
I used to live on tunnel road in the park. It’s a great short cut from home to the pub. Ahh the 90s in Nottingham was off the hook! Enjoyed this video very much!
It's geology made it perfect for the city's historic water system. Groundwater was once supplied from a tunnel under the River Trent, as the sandstone that formed its roof made for a perfect filter as the water seeped down from the riverbed
Thats a sandstone lump thats quite high for the area, most of the surrounding area was wiped flat by iceflows during the last iceage. The castle rock was the edge. The entire rocks got tunnels through it btw, and the entire city of nottingham for some miles around aswell.
I was a student in Nottingham in 1986, and was introduced to this tunnel by a very sweet Irish girl on our way back from the Garage Nightclub. Thanks for the happy memory, Tim!
Hey Tim, been binge watching your videos. We are both afflicted with same serious geeky affliction; oddball trains and borders. I collect them as well and have a mostly different collection (with some overlap) from you. I applaud you having taken the step of v-blogging it. In my case it's more person, although my bona fides extends to a PhD in geography and have written about same in way too technical terms. As I'm in Washington State US, my perspective is a bit different. Would love to stay in touch. Keep up the good work (resume it when you can!) and stay safe.
Imagine that, your guy screwing up really bad and effectively making an entire project useless and you just it behind you and keep working together on many more projects. Incredible professionalism and decency we all can probably learn from.
Well that's me subscribed! Highly entertaining, great information and as someone who has to use a wheelchair outdoors, your making the effort to let people know the accessibly is just down right awesome 👍👍
I was in Nottingham in the mid 90s they have an old historic tunnel tour under a shopping center called Broadmarsh. Best nights out of my life were in Nottingham flipping great place, great people, great food and great beer etc. All the best from Western Australia Cobber love the vid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@themightywrighty yea it worked! Not until you send it though. That is just to test your faith in TH-cam. Thank you sir, and greetings from locked down New Zealand 🇳🇿 😊.
I thought he was going to say "But we're not here to see any of that." But this time, it actually had something to do with the castles and history of the town.
Ahh, gotta love the concrete and zinc (?) as building materials. Those architects know (and as it seems knew since the 1800s) what they're doing! The phone got me, I'm still laughing 10 mins later... Cheers! :D
Fantastic editing! Haha I like your style of doing off the beaten path videos but how come you didn't do this one on the tunnel that runs to the keep? (The tunnel that led to Sir Roger’s downfall then became known as ‘Mortimer’s Hole’). I see now that the castle has been closed since 2018 so maybe that's why. Love your stuff dude! Hope you stay safe in all this mess.
Having lived in Nottingham my entire life, I've never seen this but I appreciate your common taste of architecture. Almost as beautiful as the tower blocks over Victoria Centre
C Rose That’s what I’m wondering, but my partner lives even closer to the centre than I do and she’s never seen it either. I know of the hidden tunnel in Chesterfield more than I do this, quite unsure of how I’ve never seen or heard of it.
If you find yourself in Germany sometime soon, you could check out Lemgo and the Junkerhaus, it was made by an eccentric architect who carved every single surface of the house- being inside of it feels a bit like being in a living thing, since the effect of all the carvings- at least to me- made a skeletal impression!
Ah, random tunnels dug under bits of rock stuck in towns. Reigate, where I live has the UK’s oldest road tunnel (not that it’s used as a road anymore!) Earl Somers decided to build it to help his coach get up Reigate Hill! In fact, I’ve done a video about it with the Bald Explorer!
The Dukes were very talented at impressions, they could do telephone rings, duck quacks, almost anything. The only thing they couldn't do was a Newcastle accent
The bewilderment of walking right through the tunnel from The Park and coming out a nondescript passageway onto the Derby Road is like being dropped by the side of the I-95 at the end of the head-trip in Being John Malkovich. A portal to a different world in plain sight.
Great video. There’s a bunch of accessible disused railway tunnels from the old lines that go under a shopping centre in Nottingham. Worth researching and checking out
Your videos are great at reminding me that this will all be over eventually and we will be able to back to traveling again. Thanks for the window to the outside during these times. 👍
Jaha! It's a new Tim Traveller! Uhmmm. When i hear Nottingham, i always think about Donington Park too. Fantastic Track nearby. But that's just my Racer Brain...
Excellent version of the "Unsolved Mysteries" theme tune at the beginning there....brilliant video and had it been around when I was doing my doctorate in history, I would have taken your recommendation and not used it (but may have referred to it in the preface anyway...)
Welcome to my hometown! One thought: it was my understanding that the 1:12 incline wasn't necessarily a problem for the horses travelling uphill (I don't know, maybe it'd make pulling the carriages a bit more difficult), but rather for the horses making the downhill journey, whose carriages would start rolling freely and then immediately run them over. I'm not sure where I read that, and I could well be wrong... although both might've been factors in the end. Anyway, thanks for stopping by.
Cheers Kelvin! You may well be right - my sources simply said that horses couldn't handle the incline, rather than saying whether the problem was going up it, or down it. I'll pin your comment because 1. it's an interesting footnote and 2. perhaps a local expert will stop by with a definitive answer :)
its is probably a strange ferling for them to have, something pushing them from behind
Kelvin Coleman
I live surrounded by Amish and Mennonite family’s living in the Appalachian Mountains. I think the problem is something more. Many of our roads, paved and otherwise, approach 1-12 pitch. Maybe the surface or turning them around? I’m amazed at what a horse can do. Great video anyways.
@Michael Moretti I think you'll find the 5th Duke had people to lick the road clean of such detritus.
Small carriages aren't usually a big deal. Some carriages have brakes that help manage the downhill roll. If those aren't available, then the solution is to back down the hill using the power of the horses to keep the carriage from running out of control. My guess is that it was an excuse: It may be that the lady of Nottingham simply didn't like going through a tunnel after the Duke had decided to build one, so he made up that excuse about the carriages to keep from admitting that he was beholden to his Lady.
Tim saying “hello” lifts my spirits more than you would think!
Couldn't agree more! I get really happy no matter what mood I'm in.
Goodness yes.
I had the volume very high and it made me jump from my chair lmao
I mean, there are viable alternatives, but they can be a bit hard on the environment... th-cam.com/video/yTKdHbiLim0/w-d-xo.html
You may also try agadmator's chess channel. His "hello everyone" works for many of us the same way
As someone from Nottigham, it's an honour to see the NCP car park by Broadmarsh considered good architecture
It is a particularly fine example of the NCP car park genre
Such a shame that Broadmarsh is under construction though. Puts a dampener on the fine Car park figure
Broadmarsh shopping centre was built on jury hill, which was a medieval street, not dissimilar to what you can see in York. The shopping centre didn't last as long
The architectural style is called brutalism and I think the booth in front of it spoils it.
Go listen to yes now buddy
Next episode : climbing the highest moutain in Tim's appartment.
I sincerely hope it is not a pile of laundry. Haha.
It'll be a trip to the attick, or maybe the ridge line on the roof :)
Wait, this isn't Unfinished London......
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But I'm sure J Foreman helped Tim. Look at how the persons speak, J has done it like this in a couple of videos.
@@jamatg There was certainly a J. Foreman feel to this one.
My suggestions apparently see that a bit differently
Same feeling, I love them both. ❤️
I love how Tim signs off. "and I will see you...soon" it's nice and reassuring. As soon as this lock down lifts, we need you out filming immediately!
Tim: calls the poshest bit of Nottingham "a housing estate". Lol.
It's a posh housing estate!
They can't afford electric street lamps
@@TheTimTraveller Fair point :)
It has no graffiti so it must be posh.
To be fair, it is called The Park ESTATE.
Nice touch with the piano improvising around the theme tune of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men @03:12
Ah not just me who noticed that! Does Tim play the piano himself or is it from some BBC album? Was a great show, not far off Blackadder for kids.
@@greenaum yeah, it was written by Tony Robinson so pretty much. I think Tim does play the piano which means he is the rights holder to all his performances.
Finally! This video will serve perfectly as the main source for my history PhD!
I Lol'd :)
My old house is in your video, just 200 yards up the road from here. Before those new houses were built there was a fence and high gate fronting our road, and no lighting in the tunnel. I often used it as a short cut to get home after the pub, walking very slowly through the pitch black tunnel, and then running full pelt to the gate through the wooded area (where the houses are now).
The late Justin Fashanu lived in one of those new houses while he was playing for Nottingham Forest, bless him.
Your jokes are fantastic and groan-worthy at the same time, I frickin' love this channel.
Again, thanks for the accessibility info for disabled folks. It's noticed, and appreciated, and reminds us that we're noticed and appreciated too.
TeaAndA TopHat | True, although I keep wondering if a wheelchair can be pulled up the slope if a horse-drawn carriage can’t.
@@miroslavmilan I don't know about the manual variety, but most electric wheelchairs available nowadays can handle a slope of 1 in 7 easily. That was the standard for access ramps in England as long ago as the 1980s (I know this because I used to build them back then).
Also, I think the problem with the 1 in 12 gradient is not so much the uphill (horses are incredibly strong animals, hence their images are carved in several English chalk hillsides - not sure what the ancients at Uffington were smoking though....) as the downhill, horses are not usually fond of being pushed.
Reminds me of dialogs between Archer and Woodhouse.
I was living in Notts before I was sent back to my home country over seas due to the You Know What. This both brought joy to my heart and a tear to my eye! I miss Notts so bad! Thank you for making this video!!
Ah thank you Amber, hope you get the chance to go back there soon!
And BTW, your humour is very creative.
You'd think the city council would be smart enough to pave the tunnel with the lovely cobblestones you see at 4:27 but no, let's put the ugliest aggregate, cinderblocks and steel platform we can manage to cram in this historical landmark. Oh, and don't forget to put a plastic bin in the way of the picturesque arch, we sure don't want tourists to miss it!
I'm not sure it's adopted
TheZapan99 Labour council. They have been busy ruining our city for years.
Give them credit - it’s a metal bin! They splashed out on ruining the view!
@@timtjtim That reminds me of Carcassonne's castle, the only place in the city where you can still find... a traffic light. Socialist council too! i0.wp.com/greatdestinationsradioshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Carcassonne_old-town-3.jpg?resize=1200%2C675
@Peter Rumsby It's not just socialism, I think it's beaurocracy in general. Tourism value is something that is hard to put an actual value on, but repair of infrastructure with extra wear and tear on it is all to easy to quantify. Ironically most beaurocrats are so bad at it we STILL get a spate of roadworks leading up to the new tax year, as councils hurry to spend their budgets in the fear they'll get a reduced amount the following year if they have a surplus.
A grand old tunnel that ends...in a car park. By the way I love the jokes in this, definitely gave me a good laugh. Like 2:39. And I'm sure Donald and Daisy Duck would love Nottingham
You are translating your titles and description to Dutch now!? Wow! Never ever have I seen a foreign producer do this for our little insignificant language ;). It's appreciated!
Oh thank you but I can't take credit for this - I have quite a lot of Dutch viewers and they have been kind enough to translate some of my videos :)
I like the "ey up mi duck" at the beginning, and generally acknowledging the existence of the East Midlands. For those outside region, 'there be dragons'. Great video, it's a pity the Derby Road entrance doesn't match The Park Estate and Ropewalk entrances!
Factoid 1: "Duck" in this context, is a corruption of the Old English "ducas", meaning duke. A term of respect, turned term of affection (influenced by "hen" or "chick", perhaps). "Ey up" is an Old Norse greeting, translates something like "heads up".
Factoid 2: The exact 'slap-bang centre' of England by the way, is a field near Fenny Drayton in Leicester; if you were to put England on a pin, that's where would balance perfectly. If you wanted to do that... well Ordnance Survey did, albeit figuratively.
TH-cam subtitles chose to write this as 'a aqueduct' 😂
I think someone needs to install a giant pin in that location, you know, just in case it is ever needed. We should start a petition?
@ddemaine I grew up in Leicester and saying "ey up mi duck" was part of my vocabulary. Thank you for the explanation which I did not know.
As I am sure you are aware, Leicestershire is supposed to be the birthplace of the English language, see news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1055772.stm
@@fredygump5578 Well back in 2013-- before staying indoors became fashionable-- this fetching wooden post was placed in a hedge, to mark Ordnance Survey's discovery. Prepared to be awed...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leicestershire-22901222/new-centre-of-england-marked-in-fenny-drayton
Maybe "ey up" could have meant eyes up.
Great video. At uni we used to smoke a walking down the staircase to the tunnel at night - it was a really impressive sight when you reached the bottom!
Loving the Maid Marian and Her Merry Men theme near the beginning.
This is so bizarre that this should pop up in my search.
I am from Nottingham and what is strange is that I actually recognise you from Nottingham, Tim! Although I knew the person you looked like in the 1980's who used to visit my parents' cafe, The Gingham Kitchen, on Lincoln Street. If it is you then you don't seem to have aged.
I hope it is you. Definitely very similar to the decent chap called Tim, I used to know.
Stumbled across you by chance! Glad I did. Great subject. Great entertainment! Thanks
Cheers Jack!
The is the first Time Traveller video i have watched, and i immediately love your enthusiasm and speaking voice! Looking forward to watching more videos :)
Woop! Cheers Jamie. I'd better make some more then
I found this tunnel by mistake after somehow never noticing it in decades of living in Notts. How interesting to hear the origin! I swear this city has more secrets than most. Thanks for the video
Hi sounds interesting, how did you find the walk? same lived in Notts. a long time, I know of the disused rail tunnels, this would come in handy as a shortcut.
Where does the tunnel in the video lead to?
Nottingham is an amazing place with lots of historical heritage. One of my favorite places is a pub on Maid Marion way called Ye olde Salutation inn and apart from being one of the best live music venues in Nothingham, it has a network of underground caves that are themselves a venue for poetry, drumming, singing and part of a historical walk. No trip to Nothingham would be complete without a visit.
Amidst this lockdown thanks for showing us the world
It's astonishing how much entertainment and information you pack into a 5 min (thereabouts) video. Keep it up, Tim. This quarantine can't last forever, right?
Great video. For reference: 1:12 incline = 8.3%. Dependent on the speed the carriage is travelling at, going up or down even a gentle incline can be quite dangerous for the horse(s) pulling it, and in adverse (wet/snowy) conditions going in either direction can prove fatal, especially if the brakes fail on the carriage. As pretty as the tunnel is I wouldn't take a horse up or down it, even without a carriage.
The Park is pretty unique in that it is lit by gas street lamps. It's quite an unusual experience because the intensity, spread, beam or whatever the relevant parameters, are so much different. There's also some very high kerbs to trip over too.
The Salutation on Mad Marion Way/Hound's Gate is an equal contender for the oldest pub in the UK, based on the same name continuously and actually having been a pub from the start. Ye Trip started as the castle brewery. The Bell on Angle Row is also a contender. Some archaeologists- Time Team?- went there on a dig and discovered there had been brewing there since Saxon times, but unlike the other two there's no written records to argue over as they only go back to 1437 or thereabouts.
The Sal has some very good caves. Quite a few pubs and most of Nottingham do. There's dedicated 3D cave maps online.
All your films make me want to visit weird places, even more so now when I can't. You bastard! I love you.
Born and bred in Nottingham and been along it, so it was great to see it. Hope you checked out the MANY underground medieval caves and tunnels while you were there
I've enjoyed your videos. This one popped up in my feed. Love the random places you go and talk about. Looking forward to traveling again one day.
Cheers Kristin, I think we're all looking forward to that!
Maid Marian! Nice choice of background music there! It's a little game for people watching the videos, most of the music is instrumental versions of TV theme songs, see if you can guess them all! This applies to all Tim's videos I've seen so far.
I wondered if anyone else had noticed! Maid Marian and her Merry Men
I just love the imaginary telephone sequence!
I already started to miss your new videos and you haven’t even stopped releasing them yet. Stay safe mate, I hope to see you again in a year or two when limited travel might be permitted again.
Another 5 minutes of joy and humour , plus some interesting stuff as well, Thank you
Another great video Tim, informative and funny. Love the humorous bits - especially the mouth phone ring.
I actually laughed out loud. Very funny video and informative. That PhD is mine!!!!
Light at the end of the tunnel, if that’s not a little too on the nose. It’s very nice to hear your voice sir 🥰😍❤️
There is another one under up in N. Yorkshire under the city of Harrogate. Built in the 1840s as a railway tunnel. Was used as a bomb shelter in WWII.
I used to live on tunnel road in the park.
It’s a great short cut from home to the pub.
Ahh the 90s in Nottingham was off the hook!
Enjoyed this video very much!
Was admiring the strata in the New Red Sandstone, quite beautiful, looks like lots of aeolian interbedded sandstones, very neat geology in this area.
It's geology made it perfect for the city's historic water system. Groundwater was once supplied from a tunnel under the River Trent, as the sandstone that formed its roof made for a perfect filter as the water seeped down from the riverbed
Thats a sandstone lump thats quite high for the area, most of the surrounding area was wiped flat by iceflows during the last iceage. The castle rock was the edge. The entire rocks got tunnels through it btw, and the entire city of nottingham for some miles around aswell.
Fabulous video Tim, really interesting. :) I wish you'd do longer ones - they're over too quickly.
Thanks for the tour. I have been to Nottingham many years ago. I didn't see the tunnel, so it was good that you did a video on it. Thanks for that...
Another fun video Tim. Your videos cheer us all up.
This is one of those random channels i bump into and just love every single video
An absolutely random video, and very cool! Thanks for posting!
I was a student in Nottingham in 1986, and was introduced to this tunnel by a very sweet Irish girl on our way back from the Garage Nightclub. Thanks for the happy memory, Tim!
When you’ve lived in Nottingham all your life and didn’t even realise this existed
I wasn't born in Nottingham but it only took me 20 years of living here before I found out about it.
Hey Tim, been binge watching your videos. We are both afflicted with same serious geeky affliction; oddball trains and borders. I collect them as well and have a mostly different collection (with some overlap) from you. I applaud you having taken the step of v-blogging it. In my case it's more person, although my bona fides extends to a PhD in geography and have written about same in way too technical terms. As I'm in Washington State US, my perspective is a bit different. Would love to stay in touch. Keep up the good work (resume it when you can!) and stay safe.
I always forget they say Duck in Nottingham. I tend to remember it as a Staffordshire thing (well Stoke) because of my family.
Terry Beardmore how does the accent differ from Notts and staffs
@@s125ish Vastly! Stoke is definitely one on its own. And it's just 'duck', not 'me duck' in Stoke (from memory - not lived there since I was 20).
Nothing is better than seeing your city in a TH-cam video
Great video once again
2:38 The duke making the sound of an electronic phone ringer cracks me up, as well as the engineer muttering about the invention of phones.
Imagine that, your guy screwing up really bad and effectively making an entire project useless and you just it behind you and keep working together on many more projects. Incredible professionalism and decency we all can probably learn from.
Well that's me subscribed! Highly entertaining, great information and as someone who has to use a wheelchair outdoors, your making the effort to let people know the accessibly is just down right awesome 👍👍
The theme to Maid Marian and her Merry Men!! EPIC!!
Thank you, Tim. Much appreciated. Keep up the good work. 😎
Born and bred in Nottingham and lived there for the first 20 years of my life. I have never heard of this tunnel!
You know, we don't have things like this in Canada. I wish we had things like this in Canada. We should build things like this in Canada.
Yes but you do have Buffalo Airways and Joe McBryan, Ice road trucking and the DeHavilland Beaver to your credit!👍
As the Mayor of London's genuine official agent like, for a very reasonable fee, I can sell you Tower Bridge. Cash only.
we do have the Brockville tunnel : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockville_Tunnel
@@offwithhishead2556 Well it worked when we sold London Bridge to the Americans and they thought they were getting Tower Bridge😁
Each province of Canada is many multiples the size of the UK, yet the total country has half the population. Is that not enough of jammy situation?
I was in Nottingham in the mid 90s they have an old historic tunnel tour under a shopping center called Broadmarsh.
Best nights out of my life were in Nottingham flipping great place, great people, great food and great beer etc.
All the best from Western Australia Cobber love the vid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for something uplifting m8. Take care and stay healthy everyone
What a way to wake up on Easter Sunday morning.. with a coffee and a new Tim Traveller video.
Loving this lockdown - more uploads (it seems) from you!
Just going to bed in Nottingham
@@chubeye1187 I'm not in Nottingham...
Thanks for including information for disabled users. **thumbs up**
@ Martin Wright hi from New Zealand. I would appreciate it very much if you tell me how you made some of your text "bold". Thank you.
@@ronashman8463 I just wrote something between two *, I did by accident, I had idea would do that!
@@themightywrighty good man. And here is me having been *looking for weeks!* (But will it work...)
@@themightywrighty yea it worked! Not until you send it though. That is just to test your faith in TH-cam. Thank you sir, and greetings from locked down New Zealand 🇳🇿 😊.
Born and bred in Nottingham and yet I'd never heard of this until now, well done youth.
It's always nice to get a Tim notification, just wished your vids were a little longer please 🤞
GREAT TO SEE MY HOME TOWN FIRMLY ON THE TH-cam MAP.
YAAAY!
I SAY THANK YOU
MR. TIM. 😊👍
I thought he was going to say "But we're not here to see any of that." But this time, it actually had something to do with the castles and history of the town.
Yeah it felt weird doing an intro that was actually relevant. Not sure I'll do it again
Ahh, gotta love the concrete and zinc (?) as building materials. Those architects know (and as it seems knew since the 1800s) what they're doing!
The phone got me, I'm still laughing 10 mins later...
Cheers! :D
Fantastic editing! Haha I like your style of doing off the beaten path videos but how come you didn't do this one on the tunnel that runs to the keep? (The tunnel that led to Sir Roger’s downfall then became known as ‘Mortimer’s Hole’).
I see now that the castle has been closed since 2018 so maybe that's why. Love your stuff dude! Hope you stay safe in all this mess.
Another really interesting find - thanks Tim.
Having lived in Nottingham my entire life, I've never seen this but I appreciate your common taste of architecture.
Almost as beautiful as the tower blocks over Victoria Centre
If it's only 5 minutes from the city centre how have you managed to avoid it?
C Rose That’s what I’m wondering, but my partner lives even closer to the centre than I do and she’s never seen it either. I know of the hidden tunnel in Chesterfield more than I do this, quite unsure of how I’ve never seen or heard of it.
Plxton. You are not the only one.
Even if you have reason to go into the Park it's easy to miss, it's very out of the way for a city centre tunnel
same bro im less than a mile away never seen it
This is your best, for sure. Loads of laughs to be had. Cheers! Stay safe, bro!
Great video, as always. And very funny too, good job!
Great video short, Tim - thanks!
I love how much tim you have for editing now. Also I can never admit how loud I actually laughed at that duck joke.
If you find yourself in Germany sometime soon, you could check out Lemgo and the Junkerhaus, it was made by an eccentric architect who carved every single surface of the house- being inside of it feels a bit like being in a living thing, since the effect of all the carvings- at least to me- made a skeletal impression!
Ah, random tunnels dug under bits of rock stuck in towns. Reigate, where I live has the UK’s oldest road tunnel (not that it’s used as a road anymore!) Earl Somers decided to build it to help his coach get up Reigate Hill!
In fact, I’ve done a video about it with the Bald Explorer!
Love the quick cut through the parking garage while talking about the architecture, that made me laugh.
So what's in that hole upper left of the tunnel ? (4:48)
I am getting strong Lindybeige vibes from this video, loving it
I love your mention about wheelchair access, most would never have thought about that ☺
2:39 Didn't know before that the 5th Duke could give a good telephone ring impression
The Dukes were very talented at impressions, they could do telephone rings, duck quacks, almost anything. The only thing they couldn't do was a Newcastle accent
It’s nice to find a video about my city
The bewilderment of walking right through the tunnel from The Park and coming out a nondescript passageway onto the Derby Road is like being dropped by the side of the I-95 at the end of the head-trip in Being John Malkovich. A portal to a different world in plain sight.
I used to walk through this tunnel all the time - brings back happy memories
Great video. Didn't even know it was there and I have been living in Nottingham for over 20 years.
Well done mate, your humour has brightened this kiwi's day.
Brilliant video! When we can travel around again I know what I'll be doing on my next visit to Nottingham!
Gotta love the NCP carpark, truly the most wonderful sight of our city
Used to live in Notts and would often skate through the park estate. Never knew about this tunnel!!
Great video. There’s a bunch of accessible disused railway tunnels from the old lines that go under a shopping centre in Nottingham. Worth researching and checking out
Cool video.. i guess you really do learn a new thing each day ,many thanks😁
Mate...cheery voice over, great info!
Subbed. Cheers
Just thank you for the episode, had a hard day, appreciate the jokes.
A rich architectural heritage - shows a grotesque car park. Love it!
That phone call bit is always so great. "Blimey mate, this'll be a lot easier when they invent the telephone, won't it?"
Your videos are great at reminding me that this will all be over eventually and we will be able to back to traveling again. Thanks for the window to the outside during these times. 👍
Jaha! It's a new Tim Traveller! Uhmmm. When i hear Nottingham, i always think about Donington Park too. Fantastic Track nearby. But that's just my Racer Brain...
I have quickly remedied the not subscribed issue I noticed I had, lovely interesting videos!
Haha, thank you, and well done on remedying that issue :)
Excellent version of the "Unsolved Mysteries" theme tune at the beginning there....brilliant video and had it been around when I was doing my doctorate in history, I would have taken your recommendation and not used it (but may have referred to it in the preface anyway...)