The Devils hole. So its called ! A tributary of the River Medlock. At Park Bridge Iron works.

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  • In this video we entered a river culvert just off the River Medlock. This was Sheep Washers Brook. The culvert is known locally as the Devils hole. The correct name unknown to us at the time of the underground urban explore urbex. Its actually Sheep washers brook and is a tributary of the river Medlock. It is situated in the Park Bridge iron works heritage site between Ashton Under Lyne and Oldham Greater Manchester. This underground river culvert went on and on forever. It encompasses so many types of culverting materials. Brick culverts, Stone culverting and strangely corrugated iron. We entered under the site of an old cotton mill that was initially part of the park bridge iron works site. Looking up we could see the floor of the old mill and glimpse into the past of out industrial heritage. Parts were victorian engineering and some parts were Edwardian engineering. The brook/river was heavily contaminated with iron ore suggesting abandoned mines in the area were draining into it. We looks at old maps to try and work out the route of this underground tunnel. This is a glimpse into underground Manchester.
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  • @MartinZero
    @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    The urban Legend UK Channel = th-cam.com/channels/0yPaLwsmyWv_YS_37ys8fA.html Richie Wellocks Channel = th-cam.com/channels/c5Z1U4mgHjyQdfM9_CvPZw.html Antonio's Channel = th-cam.com/channels/HTI4lto4neeBw7kspelnGg.html

    • @TheNapalmFTW
      @TheNapalmFTW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Subscribed to Antonio's channel. Thanks Martin

    • @RayFromTheHayclan
      @RayFromTheHayclan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would guess they culverted it at a later date because of the pollution.

    • @m.j.morshead
      @m.j.morshead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Subbed all three channels.👍

    • @kmkm3703
      @kmkm3703 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Martin the music at the 19 min mark ... what is that from?

    • @glynwatkins9968
      @glynwatkins9968 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      yo yo yo URBAN LEGEND ----- Will

  • @crazyedits50
    @crazyedits50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Vitros was the trade name for the North Staffordshire Brick & Tile Co. Ltd. at Chesterton. Recorded in the Staffordshire Potteries Directory for 1868, this extensive works closed in the 1970's. They produced blue bricks, copings, pavers & plain roof tiles.

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      well done good info there

    • @simontay4851
      @simontay4851 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why did it close.

  • @susanlampshire639
    @susanlampshire639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Martin Zero….the hero that goes down horrible holes…..so that YOU don’t have to!! Thanks Martin 🤪

  • @glenntanner3
    @glenntanner3 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    great photos, thank you for including them

  • @TheJimmythecorkscrew
    @TheJimmythecorkscrew 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting to see this Martin. Amazing amount of labour and industrial history.

  • @UndergroundExplorerUK
    @UndergroundExplorerUK 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome explore together thanks Martin ! 😃🤘🏻🔦

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks so much. great day

  • @ivornappinion9406
    @ivornappinion9406 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Antonio..looking forward to seeing more of him :}

  • @scottrk4930
    @scottrk4930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Martin . So , this Video spawns a ton of questions for you...are you going back when the weather is drier ? Did you locate the tops of the access "tubes" you saw ? How did anyone get round , galvanized Pipe that far into the tunnel ? What is Blue Engineered Brick ? Have you ever used a Compass and/or a GPS to Map your Route through these Tunnels ? This is why we love your Videos...they involve us ! Cheers ! /SRK

  • @darkstatehk
    @darkstatehk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I just love the side by sides. There's so much that used to be there that isn't today and there's tonnes of examples all over on these maps. ENDLESS FUN :)))

  • @telquad1953
    @telquad1953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Someone had previously written "1/2 meter deep" across from the ladder. Good to prove that for one's self though... :)

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      at just half a meter . im so glad I didnt dive in

  • @chazzyb8660
    @chazzyb8660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I was expecting some sort of underground chamber at the far end, where James would be waiting supping tea and handing out the hob-nobs!
    As ever, glad you're doing it Martin - so I don't have to.

    • @philburr4075
      @philburr4075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah Where's James with the brews

  • @pilpelet100
    @pilpelet100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Martin! The places you go to learn about what goes on below ground and to bring us Sunday night entertainment! I don't know how you sleep at nights when you've been in places like this. Thanks to you and all the team.

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thats how he sleeps , it relaxes him im sure, going down them places.

  • @TheCelts01
    @TheCelts01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    We have been missing u for a few weeks Martin. Nice to see ya again mate. Your Nr1 Fan Deano from Hamburg Germany

  • @simonmcowan6874
    @simonmcowan6874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    That was so so good Martin, an excellent group of like minded people, safety in numbers too, I wonder where it would have come out if you'd had the opportunity to carry on.

  • @whoshotdk
    @whoshotdk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    It's fascinating that you can still see the crease in the land where the river was culverted. Unless my eyes are deceiving me!

    • @crazyfvck
      @crazyfvck 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @whoshotdk I noticed that too, at least in a few spots.

  • @RichieWellock
    @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Well I feel truly honoured there Martin when you said ( Richard & Will do similar to my channel ) we not worthy.

  • @PracticalCat
    @PracticalCat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That sump was curious. Did you notice water was entering from one side but not exiting the other?
    Does it have an outlet underneath? Maby a sewer interceptor?
    Also I noticed it said 1/2 meter deep in the wall.

    • @mrlister2000
      @mrlister2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I noticed the writing on the wall but was curious as to where the water was going!

    • @TheMattc999
      @TheMattc999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's a scary thought if it does have an outlet at the bottom. That could lead to a truly dangerous situation. Also, there at the 5:10 mark, was that water just dripping from somewhere up above, or was it actually raining? I love exploring places like this myself, but if they went in in the rain they have got waaaaay bigger man-bits than myself.... Anyway, awesome video. Unfortunately where I'm at now I've only got 2 really decent tunnels to explore, but I do believe I may have just found number 3 yesterday, and I do know of one more if the entrance ever becomes unsealed, or if I can find I secondary access. Oh well, at least I've got this to watch until I can go on my next mission. 👍✌️

    • @andykillsu
      @andykillsu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There was most likely a pipe on the sidewall somewhere. That looks like a sewer overflow area. So under normal conditions all the storm water would go into the sewer, but if during heavy flood/rain, the water level for too high, it would start flowing down the culvert into the medlock.

    • @bryan3550
      @bryan3550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, the water was flowing out somehow, but it wouldn't be going downward: such an exit would get covered in debris and block. Must be flowing out sideways.
      Would have been good for someone to take samples for Chem. analysis!

    • @PracticalCat
      @PracticalCat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheMattc999 Yep never go in drains when its raining. Its a great vid but pretty irresponsible imo.

  • @alanstone1206
    @alanstone1206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just a bit more info, during the 50s and 60s the valley from Alexandra Park to the mill in Park Bridge was filled in as a town refuge dump, it took a few years so the converting was done as the tip advanced, I think the iron contamination is may be due to the many tin cans and other scrap metal in the tip and the changes in construction was in stages as the tip moved down the valley. It's now Snipe Clough Nature Reserve. Always interesting, thanks for your videos.

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks very much Alan

  • @markheywood5626
    @markheywood5626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In the woods not far from that last tunnel is a memorial stone for the girl who was murdered. I came across it while walking in the woods a few years ago. It's hard to find as I have walked those woods for many years and only came across it a few years ago for 1st time.

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh wow were abouts Is that near the square brick pump house building near the curve drive ?

  • @silurian9420
    @silurian9420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    There was once a railway signal box just south of Oldham Clegg St station named Sheepwashers Lane, on the same line that crossed the demolished viaduct.

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Be good to find an old pic of that

  • @Dug-UK
    @Dug-UK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It was always called devils hole when I was a kid it comes out in the valley to the rear of dingle terrace at a weir , to the left of that was Sally’s hole which ran under the hill and also came out in the valley behind Dingle terrace, the entrance to Sally’s hole was covered in ages ago . There is a modern tunnel thar runs all the way to Honeywell lane near Alexandra park this was built under the tip I remember going in as a kid and it had a mini train in it

  • @nedseagoon5101
    @nedseagoon5101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Dunno why, but getting the vibe on this one that you were peed off & didn’t really want to be there!
    Still fascinating as ever.

    • @anthonys555
      @anthonys555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think he was missing James

    • @josedasilva8924
      @josedasilva8924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes!! I was thinking the same as I watched the video.

  • @Merescat
    @Merescat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Would love to see where those hatches came out on the map. Would give a good perspective of the distances and layout of the water course.

  • @Simon_Nonymous
    @Simon_Nonymous 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    At some points this was like watching Alien... nice one Martin and Team. And you're no soft arse - you faced up to, and overcame your fears.

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yep agree that corrugated tunnel , we almost expected green lasers and egg mounds going down it. lol

  • @mikekielecher.7171
    @mikekielecher.7171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was known as devils hole in the mid 50s and you couldn't access it because of a weir but Sallys hole was easily accessed and we used to go through it quite often. The source of the brook emerged from under the council tip and was a sewer.
    I lived on Fitton hill estate and this was our playground.

    • @mickyg1953
      @mickyg1953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I lived on Abbeyhills Road and we used to play down there too. I remember the sewer outlet from under the tip.

  • @General_Confusion
    @General_Confusion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Martin gingerly climbs into a sump of unknown depth, and all of a sudden everyone notices a funny smell.

    • @HuntersMoon78
      @HuntersMoon78 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      PARP! - Martin Fartin'

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hughn yeah noticed that as I wadded through the shit

  • @gmr1241
    @gmr1241 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 21.23, look to the left on the wall of the stinky sump. Says: "Half a meter deep". Still - wise to use the stick! OK, now I'm gonna watch the rest.

  • @MrRiverspider
    @MrRiverspider 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Your gas meter didn't pick up the helium lol loved some of the older tunnel, 🥰

    • @gs425
      @gs425 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's what I was thinking, bless him.

  • @whoshotdk
    @whoshotdk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A fella called Pitheadgear on flickr suggests Vitros was a brand name of North Staffordshire Brick & Tile Co, from mid 1800's to 1970's.

    • @stevesvids
      @stevesvids 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was interested to know what that was... I googled it... and yes it was a manufacturer of Staffordshire Blue tiles, bricks, edgings etc. They made those nice rope top edgings you find in old victorian gardens. 👍

  • @NeneExists
    @NeneExists ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm wondering if the eventual place that whole series of tunnel comes from is a pool at 53.5263, -2.0935
    It's got a fair amount of branches and other debris, which might explain what was found in the tunnel

  • @gerrywoody4301
    @gerrywoody4301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hello bud this one was worth waiting for. My wife has just told me that if she looks in on my den on sundays and she sees a mug of coffee and some chocky biscuits by the tv she waits till she hears" hullo I'm martin"then toddles of to leave me in peace

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Gerry. Mancave 😃

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gerry i would record his voice if i were you and play it every day, if she leaves you alone. or alternately watch his vids again and again. Just got to say ive just installed my wifi extender in my shed also.

  • @auser1484
    @auser1484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Never tire of this content and it's always done so well. For some reason TH-cam didn't notify me about this video...I really don't like it when that happens. :(

  • @nickcaunt750
    @nickcaunt750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great stuff again! I watched your pervious video at Park Bridge and it inspired me to add the area onto an explore of the Hollinwood Canal (in Daisy Nook) that I already had planned. I added the two together and it became a 10.64 mile walk that I did on Friday. PS the canal is also well worth exploring.
    In the last shot when you walk away from the smelly sump (about 21:18 mins) someone has painted 1/2 mtr deep on the left (east) wall, which you confirmed with your wade through.
    If there's a way of mapping the distances (I assume GPS doesn't work, but I don't do tunnels myself) I think you will find that the corrugated sections were put in last and filled the open sections shown in the side by side old map. It certainly looks like that would fit. These would have just needed to be placed in the stream bed and then covered over. Plenty of spare spoil around there!
    Regarding the odd bricks in the upper stone section. I think these would have been construction holes for the wooden tooling to fabricate the arched roof. There is also evidence of a narrow ledge just above their level where I think a horizontal (lateral) timber for the arch tools would have been placed and slid along.

  • @mudlakemicrobes
    @mudlakemicrobes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Martin have you read The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch ? You would probably enjoy the series he's a terrific writer and knows his lost rivers.

  • @alienseven
    @alienseven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    31:00 I hope no idiot goes in there and breaks that beauty off. Would like to see that in a few hundred more years.

  • @nedkelly4999
    @nedkelly4999 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When are you going back to park bridge, we need to see where that tunnel comes out.

  • @Bystander333
    @Bystander333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Loved the post from the guy whose father did a load of work on culverts in the 1930s. That's the kind of info that ends up pretty much word of mouth despite our best efforts to record what stuff is where and why we put it there.
    Also Antonio is cool and how the hell did they get the corrugated sections in there.

    • @nickcaunt750
      @nickcaunt750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Martin Zero If there's a way of mapping the distances (I assume GPS doesn't work, but I don't do tunnels myself) I think you will find that the corrugated sections were put in last and filled the open sections shown in the side by side old map. It certainly looks like that would fit. These would have just needed to be placed in the stream bed and then covered over. Plenty of spare spoil around there!

    • @crazyfvck
      @crazyfvck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nickcaunt750 That makes sense, but the big question is why? I understand putting small brooks and streams into culverts when an area was being industrialized, but not these days. It looks like mostly farm fields and some wooded areas around there. Maybe they just did that to try and keep people from going into the older sections of the culvert?

    • @davidwood3601
      @davidwood3601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      crazyfvck It looks like the site was used as landfill during the 1980s. Deanshut Clough, Dingle Terrace, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Tameside OL6 8AH is listed as a former landfill site sold off by Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority in December 2012 to a company called Landcare.

    • @nickcaunt750
      @nickcaunt750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@davidwood3601 I was in the area last Friday. Dingle Terrace is at the top of Park Bridge village, right beside (east) of the area that is probably landfill. It certainly looks so on the aerial maps.
      I actually walked down to the river where Martin accessed the riverbank. He makes it look so easy. It was slippery as hell after a shower when I did it.
      Anyway, I walked past the entrance to Sally's Hole (which is shown at the end of the video). I think the wire grill was no longer bent.
      I ascended the steep bank right up to the top. and continued my walk. That area was almost certainly former landfill, it looks the same on aerial maps. The two spots are essentially side by side. There would be plenty of landfill after demolishing the works!

  • @paulambrose1
    @paulambrose1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wall marked 1/2 metre at sump if ye didn't see it. It may be an indication of the depth . Thanks Martin, great videos.

  • @Ferbeldeyberb
    @Ferbeldeyberb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wanted to know where it went to! You’ll have to go back lol

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Apparently it goes on forever and gets smaller

  • @markthomas6045
    @markthomas6045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent explore Martin! The way you linked the cursor on the maps was brilliant, that, and the old stone tunnels themselves brought history to life! Thank You!

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks very much Mark

  • @jamesmihalcik1310
    @jamesmihalcik1310 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful footage of a very intriguing tunnel ! That looks to get some really heavy "flash flow" due to how clean the beds are. You are pretty deep for the lack of roots. Extremely well constructed, what a treasure ! I did miss seeing James, but all the gents solid and knowledgeable. Many thanks for taking us along :)

  • @andrewwells3367
    @andrewwells3367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just been looking at an older map than you had where more of the brook ran open - traced it up to an area called Sheepwashes, (roughly where Alexandra Park boating lake is now). Park Road from King Street roundabout to Alexandra Park was known as Sheepwashes Lane. This is the correct spelling. Whether it later became Sheepwashers or whether this is simply what locals later mistakenly called it, who knows.

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Andrew, what year was the Map

    • @andrewwells3367
      @andrewwells3367 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MartinZero National Library of Scotland, 3rd thumbnail down (don't do side by side) - Ordnance Survey 6 inch to the mile, surveyed 1844-1863, published 1882.

  • @thomasmann9216
    @thomasmann9216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can understand culverting a river (although I don't like it), but why culvert a dinky little brook?

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      mainly due to the mines they so worried of the water adding to the water table which happened any way . several serious collapse and mine floods happened regardless of the naivety of the time that they could affect the water table. At best culverting did do a great job of stopping water contamination. Im glad they did culvert these brooks, it gives me a fun place to be at the weekend

  • @Yonner666
    @Yonner666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The rivets for the Titanic and Eifle Tower were made at Park Bridge. The old steam engine from the mine is at the Ford Museum in America.

  • @tonymartin1119
    @tonymartin1119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Part of the upper reaches of the Sheepwashers Brook is visible on the well-known panorama photograph made in 1876 by Squire Knott, on display in Gallery Oldham. Nowadays the brook is entirely culverted.

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That sounds interesting Tony

  • @antimosh
    @antimosh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The railway Produced a lot of spoil from those cuttings higher up, They probably culverted over Deanshut Clough.

    • @lostinthefuture9300
      @lostinthefuture9300 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I look at the map and sounds like English. Then you speak^^^ lol.deanshut Clough wth

  • @eopaie023
    @eopaie023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very picturesque culvert. Also a criminally underrated one.

  • @matthewgriffiths8423
    @matthewgriffiths8423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does anyone maintain these tunnels do you know Martin ?. Surely if there was a collapse it would cause problems ?

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Am sure they do but who Iam not sure Matthew

  • @soundgroundermusic
    @soundgroundermusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fascinating, mate. The photography was dramatic. Always boggles the mind to think that every piece of stone or brick would have been laid by hand of the hands of souls long gone. But there would have been a great communal spirit between those men and we have a rare glimpse of their toils of labour that continue to benefit everyone in the area a today. This is thanks to yourselves and the team you worked with today.

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would love to go back and see how it was done

  • @stevesealey6312
    @stevesealey6312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you guys really enjoyed seeing what is near me 👍

  • @g2emedia1977
    @g2emedia1977 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good vid would have been better with a small boat the first part

  • @winniegeo
    @winniegeo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those s were awesome photos near the end of the tunnel admire the stamina it took for navigation. Five thumbs up!!,

  • @jimmyviaductophilelawley5587
    @jimmyviaductophilelawley5587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great stuff Martin every time you deliver interesting history in full context best wishes and take care

  • @chrisbow1776
    @chrisbow1776 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glad to get back into watching your cool videos, it's been over a year since I last watched yours or @richiewellocks stuff due to other things going on in life. Now I have a ton of binge watching to do to get back up to date. Ps @RichieWellock, cool jumper at the end of this one, been looking for something like that for ages during the winter, where you get it from?

  • @christalmoma4203
    @christalmoma4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    16:53 that's MORTAR DRIPPING from the bricks
    31:04 there are NO CAVES only MELTED RED BRICK BUILDINGS. that's clearly MELTED BRICK

  • @markcantemail8018
    @markcantemail8018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Gang for the Explore . Martin that was sweet at 15 mins where You got to see what your Dad was talking about . He might have been down where You walked ?

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh sorry Mark that was an account written in a forum by someone else

  • @aniwilliams3370
    @aniwilliams3370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely amazing as always, and the still shots are fantastic. Glad to see you had your hard hat on again ... you've been giving me the heebee-jeebees on some of your more recent vids! :o) Brilliant as always and I'll look forward to seeing any research your turn up as to what it was.

  • @theurbanlegenduk1760
    @theurbanlegenduk1760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a great day cannot wait to meet up again at another awesome location 💯❤️👍

  • @richardjellis9186
    @richardjellis9186 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Urban Legend.?🤔?
    You DO NOT give yourself the name 'Legend'.!🙄!
    This USUALLY means 'Dick', and DEFINITELY NOT legend.!🤣🤬🤣!
    And I'm guessing, but he's PROBABLY NOT the only Richie (or Richard) Wellock.
    I'm having a grumpy night. I'm allowed one per month.
    Love Antonio tho🥰!
    LOVE THE VIDS.🧐🥰,
    KEEP'EM COMING.🤞🥰.
    RICH(UK).😁😋🥰.

  • @richardjellis9186
    @richardjellis9186 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does this River Level flow into the River Medlock.?
    🤔🧐
    LOVE THE VIDS.🧐🥰,
    KEEP'EM COMING.🤞🥰.
    RICH(UK).😁😋🥰.🙄🤣🙄

  • @markkelly2468
    @markkelly2468 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bit late to the party but when I was a kid I was led to believe devils hole was more towards the houses on dingle terrace and was next to the exit of sallys hole. Sallys hole exit was small and devils hole much larger… both were fully circular and water would pour out of them. Both were covered in the early 80’s and re-routed… I was only a kid tho and could be wrong

  • @richardjellis9186
    @richardjellis9186 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ask Rich if he's the seperated at birth, twin of Sheffield's own culvert warrior, Pat Dickinson.?🤔?
    Or, is he Richie by day, and Patrick by night.?🤔?
    Uncanny resemblance.!🤣!

  • @jowalton4686
    @jowalton4686 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Wall Grange Brick & Tile Works started around 1890 & closed in the 1950's. The works was situated in the Park Lane area of Wall Grange, Leek. Vitros was the trade name for the North Staffordshire Brick & Tile Co. Ltd.

  • @danhoward1163
    @danhoward1163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you not notice the "1/2 meter deep" written on the wall of the sump?

    • @RichieWellock
      @RichieWellock 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      only when wadding in the smelly stuff, i noticed it then

  • @richardjellis9186
    @richardjellis9186 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I understand how hard it is to figure out what the weather is going to do round our area, even on a lovely summer day, but you really do need to plan better and take less chances with these kinds of explores in future bud.
    We want lots more videos. Not just one last VERY WET ONE.!🥺🤣!
    BE CAREFUL OUT THERE MART.

  • @mgman58
    @mgman58 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have just watched your video of park bridge tunnel. Devils hole. I have a little info for you regarding the corrugated sections. In the early eighties cherry valley was used as a landfill and sheepwashers brook was culverted along the section from near to Alexandra park all the way to park bridge section beyond Dingle terrace. Which is above the iron works/ cotton mill site. It took about 4 years to completely fill the valley. My mum lived on Alt estate and had to put up with the smells as they finished about 2 years after. The inspection covers that were installed along the pipe where you walked exploded and blew about 6 of them off due to the methane gas. In the 90s when I lived off warren lane which I had a view of the railway and what is left of the valley. They started construction of a 50mtr diameter settling tank on the valley this is about 75- + metres deep. If you had continued along the corrugated section where you turned back then you would have reached this holding tank. It was quite a sight when they were sinking the sections into the ground. The only thing you see now is vent pipes above ground. And the vented access covers all along the valley. But is is so overgrown that they will be difficult to find. When I was a kid I went through all of the tunnels and many a time had to swim out of them. Oh and in those days the medlock in that area was an open sewer. Full of all sorts. One time we had a half of a canoe mould and we canoed from near to the source at lees all the way to. Bardsley canal. At crime village took us 3 days. Keep up the good interesting. Videos I really enjoy them.

  • @pureshaw
    @pureshaw ปีที่แล้ว

    Probably culverted to stop flooding the nearby Oldham-Ashton railway line, and to keep clean water away from the polluted runoff from nearby mines.

  • @marqsee7948
    @marqsee7948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the pic shown during the 13th minute, 'The Cotton Mill at Park Bridge, 17th November 1963.'
    6 days later the first episode of Doctor Who aired.

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow thats a good fact, thanks

  • @richardjellis9186
    @richardjellis9186 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    33:26...
    Are you sure that there's not someone's skeleton, twisted and mixed up in all that mess.?🧐🤔🥺🥺🥺?.
    I'm surprised that you're not well below the water table at this point, looking at how far below ground you seem to be.!😲! Tho, you could simply be under a fairly large hill.

  • @Beemer917
    @Beemer917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Think about that foam next time you have a latte.

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I took some home for my next Latte

  • @RedWolf1989
    @RedWolf1989 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where does it end? Or maybe better, as you followed it upstream: Where does it begin? Obviously it can't go on forever, so there must be some kind of beginning, but I can't imagine how that could look like. Does it get narrower and narrower until it's impossible to follow? Does it start in a gigantic chamber with pipes leading into it from all directions? Or is there simply a brick wall forming a dead end?

  • @davidbutterworth5258
    @davidbutterworth5258 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Martin, I enjoyed your videos very much. Do you know anything about the Sheepwashes Brook culvert in Oldham? It used to go under the Snipe Clough tip, Cherry Valley, {closed and landscaped about 25 years ago). I say culvert, but on old maps, at the exit tunnel it is described as a storm tank storage facility, with an overflow weir. I remember going down the valley with a friend as a boy and we reached a large concrete fenced off tank, into which the contents of the main pipe were continually being discharged. It looked polluted and smelt strongly of effluent. The pipe/tunnel was about 9 or 10 feet in diameter and was continually discharging waste into the tank which was sub divided by 2 concrete platforms. In the middle of these the water was noisily being sucked down into, I presume, a subterranean drain and connected to the sewerage system. This storage tank may be seen on an old map dated about 1905, of which I have a copy.

  • @radio-ged4626
    @radio-ged4626 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a challange! Very absorbing to watch. Guess I'm hooked now.

  • @manchestercanals
    @manchestercanals 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't believe I missed this film .. its medlock and I'm into culverts and your channel .. well another classic Martin . The corrugated metal tube has nothing on that 1830s brick work..
    Balls deep up the Devils hole ..
    Grow Up. 😂

  • @goldenaxe1986
    @goldenaxe1986 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video Martin shame you couldn't venture deeper . it would of been very interesting. I especially like the silhouette picture of Richie Wellock at 34:01

  • @danielbarrows7144
    @danielbarrows7144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very cool video Martin! The chamber with the sump in it had 1/2 meter deep marked on the wall. The tunnel was very interesting especially the dark brick and the stone parts!

    • @MartinZero
      @MartinZero  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Daniel. Yeah but we couldnt trust that marking had to double check. Not going neck deep 😆

  • @peteemery9901
    @peteemery9901 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to play in Cherry Valley as a child. It was an open water coarse that often had sewage released into it every few weeks. We payed on the valley sides and down in the river for years. Long after the trains stopped running it was still a great place to play,all between the playing fields by Alexandra Park all down to Park Bridge. The council have totally filled in the valley which is why and how you have so many different types of brickwork,corrigation I suspect. Where you went right to set off,just to the left of the arches was another drain channel all the kids called Sally's hole...now collapsed.

  • @ColinBenbow
    @ColinBenbow ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting to see Park Bridge today as a young teenager in 1950's we ride along the Hollinwood/Bardsley canal to Park bridge. There we would watch them rolling iron into rods. I am not sure if the cotton mill still operated growing up in Droylsden seeing cotton mills was not that interesting but iron rolling was awesome. I worked at Buckton vale print works and this had many tunnels carrying effluent and fresh water for dyeing underneath the valley

  • @moweron1
    @moweron1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great trip....please find the other end. Is it me? The area of tunnel where you examine the "VITROS" bricks looks as though it was built in two stages. The blocks used for the vertical walls look fuller and less dressed as those used on the roof. It looks like this section may have been covered over at a later date, as per you notes about someones' father working on the "Sheepwash"

  • @butty2103
    @butty2103 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The source of the name is incorrect for this brook. Clarksfield in Oldham is a completely different area.
    That name in that area is probably common. Any brook near an old sheep farm would likely have that or a similar name.
    Good video though.

  • @ronm3245
    @ronm3245 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Google streetview of Waggon Rd. (next to the bit of old viaduct that Martin pointed out) showed two lovely ladies out for a walk, making their way past what appears to be an immense pile of shit.

  • @petek7822
    @petek7822 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I visited that site some years ago. I wonder what was the point in spending all that time and expense to put a brook in a culvert? Also, the same applies to the viaduct: why not just leave it? Viaducts make great cycling tracks!

  • @milolouis
    @milolouis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Natural river? Just Swim, water looked nice. Wear a wetsuit, you could move a lot faster.

  • @Falney
    @Falney 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't say I would be enthusiastic about exploring a culvert on a rainy day. It sounds to an aweful lot like courting disaster.

  • @ghostmandeak7305
    @ghostmandeak7305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Heyup lads

  • @morlanius
    @morlanius 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    @29:20 All that area where you say you can't see anything, you can actually see it archeologically in the field markings and tree divides if you look. You can even see an effect where the map is very slightly distorted from about @27:40 moving the map a little south compared to the photo, this sometimes happened on old maps, it could be an angular effect from how the picture was taken or simply your cursor was a few pixels out initially and the error margin increased over distance from origin. Its really interesting, I have done some work myself with field markings and you can see most of the features you mention here in field marks even though the actual course is gone. In fact the path looks like its still there in some form. The iron oxide formations coming from the ceiling is a good indicator that its seeping though that way, it "could" be that dumps from the iron works over time has leeched out into the water table and that is what you are seeing, just a thought.

  • @chrismccartney8668
    @chrismccartney8668 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ha Ha Martin you normally jump in feet first !!! Without a career!!

  • @cavey.thomas
    @cavey.thomas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. If you look on the map you showed, at one point it shows some tennis courts. this is the area we called 5 hills as kids. Just down the hill from there was a massive open sewer that was covered up by the landfill. If you want any information about this area in the early 70s just ask. It was my playground.

    • @the_retag
      @the_retag ปีที่แล้ว

      Massive open sewer covered by landfill... just what you love next to your river

  • @rogernewton1161
    @rogernewton1161 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Vitros bricks, do a Google sesrch Staffordshire firm, Victorian.

  • @bobsrailrelics
    @bobsrailrelics 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glad you do these as they are fascinating. However I'll stick to above ground 😁

  • @nickbenke3306
    @nickbenke3306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vitros is the name of an extra hard wearing blue engineering brick! Made in numerous places.

  • @johncarold
    @johncarold 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Martin. I was wondering if you are above when The Medlock where your video on the medlock or below the Siphon where it disappeared from sight. I know that I keep asking for the end of the Medlock series. I just don't live in the UK and find it on my own. I am just curious about what happens when it comes out. Thanks again for all you have filmed so far.

  • @MrSprocket2u
    @MrSprocket2u 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi , martin ... can you dig up the manchester canel .... reddish lane the one on reddish lane

  • @Richardj410
    @Richardj410 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you wear felt soled shoes for walking on the slippery rocks? I use them for fishing and they help a lot.

  • @lonemonaro1455
    @lonemonaro1455 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant episode, but not for the claustrophobic minded.

  • @grimsmith1
    @grimsmith1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Smashing lad, bluddy smashing!

  • @SirWombat
    @SirWombat 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The stinky pool, had the depth written on the wall. Half a meter.
    I find it interesting that these tunnels are still maintained. Which is a good thing.

  • @agentbertram4769
    @agentbertram4769 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It looks like there is a lot of iron in the ground in this area.
    It may be spoil it may be natural.
    I worked for a geosynthetics company that made 'clay-mat' a bentonite clay liner that was used to make settlement lagoons for waterways contaminated by iron ore. Lots of them around the Manchester area.
    Good video. I prefer it when you don't use the coloured lights or the mask. Thanks.

  • @sirtarquin928
    @sirtarquin928 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live about half a mile from park bridge, it's a short walk down the what is now a bridle path

  • @ecc84
    @ecc84 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was anyone else thinking fuck that shit the smaller the tunnel got lol another belter from Martin. Oh nearly forgot here's a link to the brick with a bit of history, father Jack would love it ;-) www.flickr.com/photos/28709338@N04/3181962411