I Found a Cellar in the Woods 🫣 🔦
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Sitting in the middle of a woodland not far from the world heritage site of Saltaire, lay the ruins of a house once home to a very prominent, local figure.
It's been over 150 years since that family first moved in, but their legacy in the local area continues and not only that, the ruins of their grand home are still there including a very dark kitchen basement... - บันเทิง
The Drawing Room derives, as I understand it, from Withdrawing Room where the owner of the house, his wife or guests could withdraw from the main hall or dining area for more privacy or entertainment perhaps after a meal.
@@markcorvus6289 excellent bit of info... I knew the function but never made the link
15:47 A scullery is a room for washing dishes, pots, pans, and so on.
Another certified historian banger. Hope your eye is feeling better 👁️👁️ ❤
Thanks so much! 😀 It is thankfully back to normal 😄
Wao, that floor mosaic must have been beautiful back in the day!
Fab episode!
Btw, the drawing room is actually a room where you entertain and have guests. I think originally called a "withdrawing room" or something...but with time it get short.
Thank you! I learnt something today 😁
Thanks for the great story! It looks like a massive home. I would love to take some of those bricks with that rich history and pave a patio in my backyard. It would make a great conversation piece. Cliff.
The interruptions in your stories to point out different observations is what gives your channel a genuine human feel. It shows that you are present in your videos and that you have questions of your own. This is what I want to try to replicate in my own videos. I love your storytelling. Get that eye looked at, spiders are harder to spot if you only have one eye!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Also that's an effective way to get me to the doctors for my eye 😅
@@northernintrovert Great! We'll be expecting a report from your eye Dr. if your eye doesn't improve.
Watched all your outdoor videos in the last 24 hours there for i have a complaint not enough videos we demand more haha 😅
Lol ME TOO
Haha thank you! That's a good complaint to have 😄
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Came here from you strid short!
Fellow Introvert this channel is my new intellectual tickle...
Welcome 🙌 🙂
Great video, I knew stright away that it had to be Milner's Feild! I live 2 and half hours away but the ruins and story facinate me, I'm glad the local historians went around a dug up the foundations as it makes it so much more clearer of the layout!
15:15 Not at all a stupid question. A drawing room is basically the old verson of a second living room, which a guest or owner could 'withdraw' . For instance, after a formal dinner women would go there while the men retreated to the smoking room :)
A second living room! Now that is luxury 😁
My cousin has the jewellers in Saltaire. Love your stories - watching from 🇦🇺
That's cool! There's a load of great places in Saltaire, have you been to visit? Awesome to have someone watching from aus! 🙌😀
Arachnophobia, that’s what I have.
This place is wonderful. Maybe not so much of its history. So much of the masonry could be repurposed. Not sure I’d want to given that history. But those bricks are gorgeous. You do give a good tour. Thank you.
Thank you! I'm not as fussed as I used to be with spiders but when they have big bodies and are funny colors no thank you 😅 I do wonder why they haven't sold or reused more of that stone, there's so much there!
@ it could be that the people are weary of the history and would rather not use it. Bad can attach itself to objects.
Scullery would be where dishes would be cleaned, laundry and maybe extra kitchen work... Mum used to call our kitchen 'scullry' but I'm Scottish from a wee village lol... Go get your eye seen, looks like how mine went last year, ended up really puffed up, closed and sore... No idea why but needed strong antibiotics to clear it cos I left it too long
My Yorkshire Mother used to call what we would now call a utility room a scullery too.
I'm learning new things today, thank you! 😁 I have some antibiotics now so hopefully it will be ok 🤞😬
When I was a kid in the Black Country, my parents and grandparents called the kitchen the 'scullry' too.
@@northernintrovert pleased to hear it, I'm not too well, flu here, your content got me through a miserable morning but I seem to have consumed all your wandering walks in one go, look forward to many more in future. Get well mate.
Love this!
Thank You for another interesting walk around the Country.
drawing room was where visitors would "withdraw" to be entertained.
Think a Drawing Room was a Withdrawing room where they went after dinner. Amazing to see bricks strewn all over the place even though it was demolished so long ago
Watching you in the cellar, it makes me think of my Grandmothers stories she told me about her and in Salford when the Germans were bombing the area. Im born and raised in the U.S. so I’m not sure exactly where you are in relation. She said was in charge of babysitting a small group of neighborhood children ages about 4-10 years old. She was 13. She said they had to all stay down in the cellars when the bombing started. The earth shaking was the scariest part, and hearing the explosions near by was terrifying. She said it was basically a coal cellar and the hardest part for being “little English girls” was keeping their dresses or clothes clean from the coal all over the cellar. She said it was so funny, the little girls that were there with her were all sitting on their hands trying their best not to get coal on their clothes 😂. Bombs falling all around them, possible death looming and they’re worried about dirtying up there clothes 😂🙈. She always told it in a fun way, and she laughed each time she told it, but I bet it had to be a truly terrifying experience. Sorry for rambling, just reminded me of her in the cellar. Great video! Fascinating stuff. Enjoyed it. 😎🤘🏻
This is why I’ve subscribed to his channel. His videos are interesting, but so are a lot of the comments, like yours. Thank you xx
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Wow, what an amazing story thank you for sharing! That must have been terrifying, so funny worrying about the clothes in that situation but I can totally imagine it 😄
Me too I always look forward to the stories in the comments! 😁
You might be onto something with the materials it was built with having an unhealthy effect! Would be very interested to know if the staff also got ill, though I imagine that those people might not have had their histories documented quite as much!
I've not managed to find anything about the staff but that would be interesting to know. Someone else mentioned the use of arsenic in some wallpapers in victorian times which I never knew about!
The records do also say one of the reasons the house struggled to sell was because of damp and difficulty getting it heated. Maybe not one direct cause, but possibly didn't help anyone who was struggling with sickness.
Fascinating video. I've only ever visited bigger towns in Yorkshire (and York) so am finding your channel really interesting.
I was in Saltaire last week. It was a nice place.
Another interesting video. Well done :)
Thank you! 🙂
I was there and explored with salts school for my p.e class, and it was crazy
That’s pretty fun for a p.e class!
@northernintrovert looking back now How the fuck was that like allowed lol
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I was curious about what it looked like and found some information about Milner Field on The Yorkshire Society website. Thanks for your videos and how they encourage research!
This was a great tour of the area. I share your arachnophobia! The scullery is like a kitchen used for washing dishes and clothes. A drawing room used to be called a withdrawing room where people would go to after dinner and have their port and cigars! A room for every function in the days before TV. Your style of narration is infectious and fun. I don’t think that there’s anything mysterious about the deaths in the other families. It’s sometimes sobering to remember that antibiotics were not readily available and disease was rife even among the wealthiest. The climate and area around the house is damp and this could have contributed to their deaths. Keep up with your local research and videos, they are so interesting 😊
Thank so much! I like the idea of a screen-free drawing room (with port 😄). I'm sure you're right about the illnesses, it's easy to forget how fortunate we are with today's medicine. Thanks for the kind words and glad you're enjoying the videos! 🙌
You ought to watch Downton Abbey if you wish to fully appreciate such a grand country home. While the scullery wasn't featured prominently in the series, I recall a great many scenes playing out in the drawing room once the family would "go through" after dinner, sometimes the men would "go through" to the library, while the women "went through" to the drawing room, but more often than not, the family would withdraw together, allowing the staff to do their post dinner tidying in the dining room.
I'll have to check it out, thanks! It could be interesting to visit some of the locations they filmed at too, it looks like much of it was at Highclere Castle.
Loving your videos that I've just discovered today.
Ideas on how you could improve:
1. Invite your sister along for your next video
2. Maybe some Emperor Wang for occasional background music? Eddie Brown!
Haha. I thought you were in prison??
@northernintrovert they've not caught me yet. By the sounds of it all the Military Police are fully occupied looking for you. Is Cononley Lead Mine on your list for future videos?
@ It wasn’t but it can be, looks cool. Looks like I might need to get a gas detector before going in there though.
Definitely a lot safer than underneath K2 roundabout in Keighley
@@davedixon9682 Haha I’m not sure about that but it’s on my list now so I’ll find out 👍👍
Thank you for making me shudder - l hate spiders with a passion . 😢😢
Sorry! 🙈😁
@northernintrovert forgiven - l'm not as bad as l used to be - l don't scream the house down anymore !!😉
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I believe that spider is classified as a Nope. From the H E double hockey sticks NO family of no thank youse. 😉
Too funny! 🤣
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Williamson Cliff Ltd were brick makers near Stamford, Lincolnshire.
The origins of the Drawing room go back to Elizabethan times, called the withdrawing room, what we may call a living room today.
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I'm thrilled. 🙏🏻 Thanks.
Thank you! That's interesting about the bricks. There's apparently an old abandoned brickworks not too far from here, I might have to have a look into that one soon.
When buildings were built to be GRAND a time long gone. You have a way of even making 💩sound interesting 👍.
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The first children were usually named after parents and grandparents. The next batch after brothers and sisters. Then if they had enough children, themselves.
Ahh interesting, I was thrown off by that fact there were four other sons before him but that makes sense now. Thank you!
Im pretty sure Cadburys of Birmingham also built houses for his workers 😊
Oh my god I never knew! George and Richard Cadbury. It sounds like they did a very similar thing, and they named the village Bournville 🤯
Hello ! I have discovered your channel an hour ago from shorts. And it is amazing.
I have not checked every video, but I would love to see one on a crypt (I am interesting to them for a personal worldbuilding project👀)
Hi! You’ll be happy to know, I have a list of upcoming locations to film and one of them is a crypt! 🙌😁
@northernintrovert Yay 🥳
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Arsenic wallpapers? Arsenic was used in wallpapers for certain shades.
I never knew about this before! - "Despite its vivid and eye-catching nature, doctors eventually discovered that arsenical wallpaper could kill." 🙈
@@northernintrovert Yeah. There was even a book about called “Shadows from the Walls of Death” ; they were destroyed because they contained samples of the types of wallpaper that were laced in arsenic, there’s only one copy left, and you need to wear gloves just to read it.
@@BullShark-i2z Wow that’s fascinating, I had no idea. I’ll have a read up on that it could be a great subject for a video, thanks for sharing!
@@northernintrovert You’re welcome. I also like history. It’s pretty fun to explore historic sites.
In California we have Bumpass Hell, and in Cloverdale we have Delos Moody Blood. 😐, .
That looks amazing! I can't find anything about the Cloverdale one though?
I found a CellTower a Cauliflower a discouraged Buyer and a motivated Seller, a Laundry Faux-Pás ála Folíe a Deaüx, a baby's arm holding an rattler, and a forthcoming treeimagining of "The Langoliers", yez.
I love the 'exploring " way you do these videos. It's almost as if we were there with you.
I knew about Titus Salt senior , but had no idea about his son. A great family . What a pity modern-day entrepreneurs and businessmen dont follow their example, instead of spending their .money on stupid things like yatchs and gold toilets ( Donald Trump).😂
Thanks for this video, it was really interesting.
Gold toilets! I'm not sure the Salts would be too impressed by that 😆 Glad you enjoyed the video!