SOUND ISSUES: I am aware of some sound issues in this video. I now know what was causing it, and it's all down to a wind reduction setting on the camera. This has since been amended on future videos. But as I film many weeks ahead, it has meant that it's taken a while for it to be brought to my attention. I find if you watch the video on any device other than a mobile phone, it sounds much better. Due to the audio processing limitations on a mobile phone.
Brilliant video content. Yeah, the sound was really weird, I was watching on my laptop & using a Bluetooth stereo speaker but the sound kept going from left to right & sort of out of phase, almost uncomfortable to listen to.
Great video. 👌🏻 This is my local park, in fact I was there today walking the dogs on some of the same routes you were on. So much history in that Park. It’s South Leeds’s Green Gem. I never knew there was houses right at the bottom (Original Belle Isle). Also “Scrooge Hill” as its know is one of my favourite hill rep sessions. You can see the coal everywhere and is very close to the railway. Really enjoyed this video! Looking forward to the next instalment in this mini series.
Wow Darren, that brought memories flooding back. If you look at the last old picture I believe the houses to the right in the distance are at the end of Winrose Drive. My Dad and his Dad used to keep a smallholding in the V shape where Winrose Drive ran into a dirt road and joined what I think is called Old Run Road. Where the houses of Old Belle Isle were there used to be allotments. The old Broome pit had a water storage facility not far from where you were. The smallholding that we had is where the new new houses are but the entrance is still there or it was when I was there a couple of years back. My Grandad went to live in Australia and we moved from Hunslet Carr to live in Woodlesford in 1955.Looking forward to the next episode.
Hi Darren, my dad worked at Middleton pit and took us into the pit yard then up into the clearing about 62/64 to watch kite flying and stuff. There used to be a fantastic sledging hill at the pit end of the clearing. Brought back loads of memories,thanks. Keep up the good work. Love it 👍
That was very informative mate, Thankyou. I was raised in the old estate and the westwoods from 76 after my dad left the army, until 86/87 when I joined the army. I’ve lived and worked in the south since 92. I used to explore miggy woods as a kid, always going down there with mates and playing war, hunting each other etc… lol. But as for the history of the place, it was something I was never taught or even made aware of. The pits in the woods, we’re always thought by us to be bomb craters from the war, or mines where ‘monks’ dug. 🤷♂️. I’ll definitely take a walk through there with my son the next time I’m up there, with more knowledge of the place than I previously ever had. Thanks again 😃👍
Fascinating video especially the info on Belle Isle and the old photographs Brings back memories of old lessons in geology talking about seams and faults. The two chaps know their stuff .Yes that is a great beard. Definitely inspired me to check out this area keep up the good work .🛎
Hi, superb video I lived in Beeston a long time when we were kids and played in the park the holes etc were explained as bomb craters from WW2 by the older kids! Guess they were wrong. Eagerly awaiting the next videos Steve
AdventureMe Hi, little more info about the coal seam. The Marleys/Nosters streets on the edge of Beeston Hill overlooking Elland Road back in the 1960s when the brickworks were there and the hillside was quarried a coal seam was exposed which I presume runs under Beeston all the way up to Middleton Woods. Thought it maybe interesting Steve
We used to live on Manor Farm Drive right next to this park. the kids loved it up these sides of Leeds. Bit gutted we had to move back to the city. Brilliant video.
i live next door to it and didnt even know that it had all this .i am a regular to the park as there is a beautiful family of swans and their cygnets ,teaming with wildlife coots ,ducks herons, stunning park
Great video Middleton born and bred and have spent many hours in the park but didn’t know about a lot of these features. Will look out for them the next time I’m there
My dad Served his apprenticeship as a pony driver my grandfather and great grandfather worked at broom pit when it was open my my grandfather was born in the mining cottages on town street Middleton and my great grandmother was in service at house owned by the owner of Middleton colliery too
Hi Darren, interesting place with all it's old mining history, always fascinating to see this sort of thing, not many mines down here in the South of the country.
Great place for riding bikes Black Pudding right at bottom of waggon way we used toride motorbikes round the bell pits like the wall of death good times.
Great video I live in Middleton a long time since ive been down that long path, I went down there as kid and saw what must have been Middleton Broom Pit in the mid to late 1960's and the mining wheels were still there then not sure when the pit closed maybe in the 1950's? we used to collect frogs in the old slag heaps where the water used to be in between grey shell.
Right thanks for that info it must have been around that time 1968 we went down in the park and saw the pit it didn't look like it was working then, Keep up the good work. Ray
I remember the old cafe bieng there . And the golf course , bike course when young up and down bunkers , unhappy golfers 😂😂 . I actually swiped my headteachers ball off the green near where tractor shed was , he knew it was me a week's worth of detention 😂😂😂
The site of our weekly cross country run in the ‘60s, from the local grammar school. It was about a mile uphill to the bottom of the wagon way, and then another gruelling mile to the top. Coming down was great though, charging through the undergrowth and back along the tram track. And over the south Leeds railway which joined Beeston junction with Stourton, missing out Leeds centre. That was on the track, not a bridge. H&S would be apoplectic.
Belle Isle stands for Beautifull Island never heard of it named after any battle my brothers used to go out and pick coal of the slag heaps they were very tall and had cracks with smoke coming out of them down towards the hunslet /middleton railway these huge slag heaps were landscapped and grassed over in the late eighties.
Jesus , it's changed , they put boats at side of lake . They were stolen . Burnt out cars everywhere . Drug addicts etc . None of the things I see there now . Tours !!! My god . Who would have thought . I used to use the bell pits for ramping on bikes when Yung . Memories . Good content 👍
After watching this video i went for my birthday on tuesday on this trail with my mum,i saw alot of the pits and kept finding coal.something i found really odd at the far left of the park were signs one was showing the way to a lodge,yet the lodge was knocked down years ago so very confusing why theres a sign showing the direction its in. all i could find was a rose garden and a bike trail
I belive the estate was owned by the Maud family, I remember my parents referring to 'Miss Maud' There was a building on Town Street called 'The Maud Hall' Children from the C of E school had school ddinners there.
does anyone know where the devil worships go and if there are any markings of signs where they do it in the in middleton woods i remember seeing them as a kid but cant remember where abouts is is
Thanks. It's not inaudible, not the best I know. I am still learning, only started this year and trying my best to improve sound quality as I go forward, but hard when you are on the breadline due to covid.
SOUND ISSUES:
I am aware of some sound issues in this video. I now know what was causing it, and it's all down to a wind reduction setting on the camera. This has since been amended on future videos. But as I film many weeks ahead, it has meant that it's taken a while for it to be brought to my attention. I find if you watch the video on any device other than a mobile phone, it sounds much better. Due to the audio processing limitations on a mobile phone.
Brilliant video content. Yeah, the sound was really weird, I was watching on my laptop & using a Bluetooth stereo speaker but the sound kept going from left to right & sort of out of phase, almost uncomfortable to listen to.
@@NOWThatsRichy Yeah I know. I watch them on a TV, so never noticed. All sorted on future videos now anyway.
Great video. 👌🏻 This is my local park, in fact I was there today walking the dogs on some of the same routes you were on.
So much history in that Park. It’s South Leeds’s Green Gem. I never knew there was houses right at the bottom (Original Belle Isle). Also “Scrooge Hill” as its know is one of my favourite hill rep sessions. You can see the coal everywhere and is very close to the railway.
Really enjoyed this video! Looking forward to the next instalment in this mini series.
Thanks AJ, that hill killed me. And it wasn't that far. I'm so unfit. Not like you with your military background.
Wow Darren, that brought memories flooding back. If you look at the last old picture I believe the houses to the right in the distance are at the end of Winrose Drive. My Dad and his Dad used to keep a smallholding in the V shape where Winrose Drive ran into a dirt road and joined what I think is called Old Run Road. Where the houses of Old Belle Isle were there used to be allotments. The old Broome pit had a water storage facility not far from where you were. The smallholding that we had is where the new new houses are but the entrance is still there or it was when I was there a couple of years back. My Grandad went to live in Australia and we moved from Hunslet Carr to live in Woodlesford in 1955.Looking forward to the next episode.
Thanks Granville, glad you liked it.
Brilliant. I've got the day off on Wednesday. Guess where I'll be exploring? Thanks for the inspiration Darren.
No problem, wait for part 2 aswell. More stuff in there.
Great video, looking forward to the rest of the series.....such a shame the old buildings within the park have gone
Glad you enjoyed it, more to come from middleton park on the channel.
Fascinating stuff , love the old pictures
Thanks Nix, more to come from miggy park.
Hi Darren, my dad worked at Middleton pit and took us into the pit yard then up into the clearing about 62/64 to watch kite flying and stuff. There used to be a fantastic sledging hill at the pit end of the clearing. Brought back loads of memories,thanks. Keep up the good work. Love it 👍
Oh wow! Thanks for watching.
If I'd known you were around I'd have joined you. I live in Belle Isle and have all my life. Spent many a day in those woods and park.
More to come from miggy park.
Just goes to show what you can miss when you go for a wander in the woods. Excellent B & Ws. 👍❤
It does, most people thought they were WW2 bomb craters.
I’ve just got to say it ” Uncle Albert “ 👍🏻😄 great video love history 👍🏻😄🍻🇬🇧
Yeah. I said that to him. He said Santa Claus.
Another good explore Darren keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thanks 👍
Great video, I enjoyed that! 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it! Part 2 to come, looking at the tramways and railways.
That was very informative mate, Thankyou. I was raised in the old estate and the westwoods from 76 after my dad left the army, until 86/87 when I joined the army. I’ve lived and worked in the south since 92.
I used to explore miggy woods as a kid, always going down there with mates and playing war, hunting each other etc… lol. But as for the history of the place, it was something I was never taught or even made aware of. The pits in the woods, we’re always thought by us to be bomb craters from the war, or mines where ‘monks’ dug. 🤷♂️.
I’ll definitely take a walk through there with my son the next time I’m up there, with more knowledge of the place than I previously ever had.
Thanks again 😃👍
Thanks for watching Andy
Fascinating video especially the info on Belle Isle and the old photographs Brings back memories of old lessons in geology talking about seams and faults. The two chaps know their stuff .Yes that is a great beard. Definitely inspired me to check out this area keep up the good work .🛎
Many thanks!
Great vid, love seeing the park I spent so much time in as a kid through to adulthood.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating, great video, keep up the good work 👍
Many thanks!
Just came to give like as I am out now but will watch it later 😉 ...and I live near by so I am really looking forward to it
Hope you enjoy it!
Beautiful park
It really is!
Really loved that, just love history not worried which country it is. I look forward to next party. Thank you for taking me along and please stay safe
Any time!
Hi, superb video I lived in Beeston a long time when we were kids and played in the park the holes etc were explained as bomb craters from WW2 by the older kids! Guess they were wrong. Eagerly awaiting the next videos
Steve
Yes I had heard that story. Yes more to come very soon.
AdventureMe Hi, little more info about the coal seam. The Marleys/Nosters streets on the edge of Beeston Hill overlooking Elland Road back in the 1960s when the brickworks were there and the hillside was quarried a coal seam was exposed which I presume runs under Beeston all the way up to Middleton Woods. Thought it maybe interesting
Steve
We used to live on Manor Farm Drive right next to this park. the kids loved it up these sides of Leeds. Bit gutted we had to move back to the city. Brilliant video.
Glad you enjoyed. More to come.
Phenomenal Darren, Love this, must take my bike and cycle round there!
Do you know about Leeds Urban Bike Park within Middleton Park? It's awesome.
Interesting, just up road from Outwood where I live, never knew this, thanks for sharing.
Glad to help. More to come from middleton park soon.
Very interesting!I've ran races around the park and never knew the full history!
Glad you enjoyed it, there's much more in the second part.
Middleton park my play ground as a kid
A piece of heaven in the middle of the city
It certainly is. Thanks.
i live next door to it and didnt even know that it had all this .i am a regular to the park as there is a beautiful family of swans and their cygnets ,teaming with wildlife coots ,ducks herons, stunning park
Thanks Julie. More to come in my next Middleton Park video this Sunday.
Great video Middleton born and bred and have spent many hours in the park but didn’t know about a lot of these features. Will look out for them the next time I’m there
Glad it was helpful!
My dad Served his apprenticeship as a pony driver my grandfather and great grandfather worked at broom pit when it was open my my grandfather was born in the mining cottages on town street Middleton and my great grandmother was in service at house owned by the owner of Middleton colliery too
Thanks for watching Roger.
I run those trails 🏃♂️ and spent my childhood exploring those woods
Probably my favourite place in the town I was born in ❤️
I worked on the visitor centre when it was built in the early 90s. There was also ‘Fannys’ Cafe down at the bottom.
Very interesting. Amazing how all that industry has been replaced by nature.
It is, and it's unknown by most people.
Enjoyed your Film at Middleton Park. Played a few times with brass band I play Bbass. But not explored it.
Thanks. More to come on middleton park soon.
I used to fly radio control helicopters on the Clearing in Middleton Park.
New subscriber here, Paul and Rebecca sent me!
Awesome! Thank you! Plenty to come.
Hi Darren, interesting place with all it's old mining history, always fascinating to see this sort of thing, not many mines down here in the South of the country.
Yes it was full of stuff. Plenty up here in ol Yorky.
Great place for riding bikes Black Pudding right at bottom of waggon way we used toride motorbikes round the bell pits like the wall of death good times.
Wonderful video
Many thanks
This is so part of my life, but forgotten. I wish I could put it into context.
Sounds good. Hopefully good memories.
Wow I had no idea of this area, used to go to Horse place with people I supported. Another interesting video 😎
Thanks 👍
Great video I live in Middleton a long time since ive been down that long path, I went down there as kid and saw what must have been Middleton Broom Pit in the mid to late 1960's and the mining wheels were still there then not sure when the pit closed maybe in the 1950's? we used to collect frogs in the old slag heaps where the water used to be in between grey shell.
Thanks for the memories. It closed in 1968.
Right thanks for that info it must have been around that time 1968 we went down in the park and saw the pit it didn't look like it was working then, Keep up the good work. Ray
I remember the old cafe bieng there . And the golf course , bike course when young up and down bunkers , unhappy golfers 😂😂 . I actually swiped my headteachers ball off the green near where tractor shed was , he knew it was me a week's worth of detention 😂😂😂
The site of our weekly cross country run in the ‘60s, from the local grammar school. It was about a mile uphill to the bottom of the wagon way, and then another gruelling mile to the top. Coming down was great though, charging through the undergrowth and back along the tram track. And over the south Leeds railway which joined Beeston junction with Stourton, missing out Leeds centre. That was on the track, not a bridge. H&S would be apoplectic.
super vid
Thanks Chris. More to come from Middleton Park.
See you on the next!
I was hoping to see Kris in his Middleton Miners getup
He was tempted, but went for a friends of middleton park tee instead.
The houses at the bottom of Middleton park were called "old Belle Isle" My Grandfather grew up in one of the house there.
Yeah they were. Only after the new belle Isle Estate was built. They were there long before the estate.
My great grandad worked in the mines
Belle Isle stands for Beautifull Island never heard of it named after any battle my brothers used to go out and pick coal of the slag heaps they were very tall and had cracks with smoke coming out of them down towards the hunslet /middleton railway these huge slag heaps were landscapped and grassed over in the late eighties.
Jesus , it's changed , they put boats at side of lake . They were stolen . Burnt out cars everywhere . Drug addicts etc . None of the things I see there now . Tours !!! My god . Who would have thought . I used to use the bell pits for ramping on bikes when Yung . Memories . Good content 👍
After watching this video i went for my birthday on tuesday on this trail with my mum,i saw alot of the pits and kept finding coal.something i found really odd at the far left of the park were signs one was showing the way to a lodge,yet the lodge was knocked down years ago so very confusing why theres a sign showing the direction its in. all i could find was a rose garden and a bike trail
The second part is out this Sunday. With more stuff to find. You will probably need another walk after this.
I belive the estate was owned by the Maud family, I remember my parents referring to 'Miss Maud'
There was a building on Town Street called 'The Maud Hall' Children from the C of E school had school ddinners there.
I live next to middleton park!!
Lucky you. It's a great place.
Very similar to Haigh Hall & plantations wigan.
Is it a left turn just after the Water Tower then?
pretty much, head into the park down the main drive, and as you head down the hill it all unfolds from there.
Sissons view I lived bang opposite John blenkinsop middle school that was torn down . Near th old cinema that then turned into a bingo hall
Another truly amazing video keep up the great work.
Also belle isle is still a slum lol.
so is miggy
Thank you! You said it, not me lol.
Great videos, but your audio bends my ears! :-)
And mine, I'm still learning. And don't have the funds to upgrade to what I actually need right now.
Miggy park wow not to fair from me
Glad you enjoyed. More to come.
does anyone know where the devil worships go and if there are any markings of signs where they do it in the in middleton woods i remember seeing them as a kid but cant remember where abouts is is
Probably the sound was nicked ,after all you are in MIGGY,
lol. No, it was my camera on a dodgy setting.
😂😂😂
Would have been interesting if I could hear it
Thanks. It's not inaudible, not the best I know. I am still learning, only started this year and trying my best to improve sound quality as I go forward, but hard when you are on the breadline due to covid.
@@AdventureMe good luck , some videos of Leeds