The Lost Waterloo Village - What Remains?
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- Join me as we explore the Lost Village of Waterloo, just outside Rothwell in Leeds.
It was built as a colliery village for Waterloo Colliery situated on the Temple Newsam Estate.
It was situated on a piece of land between the River Aire & Aire & Calder Navigation, between 1821 & 1882. The village had numerous names throughout it's life, Waterloo Village, Waterlooville, New Market Village, Irwin Square & Ingram Place. We explore the whole site that the village sat on, and take a look at a rumoured piece of thr old school building the still remains to this day as a bridge foundation.
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A lot of places used to be very similar to Venice back in THE REAL PAST 'Rotation'
Thinking about these lost things, especially this lost village, it is amazing so much human effort, so many lives invested in what seemed so important at the time now lost forever and forgotten. I imagine the first tenants of that village moving in excited only for it all to come to nothing in the end.
Yes, and you wouldn't know it was even there now.
What an amazing video. Grew up in Rothwell in the 50/60's. Dad worked at Fanny Pit. My now husband did his apprenticeship at Skelton Grange and yet never knew a thing about this lost village. Thanks for the tour it was great to see some of the country park having moved from Yorkshire back in the 70's.
I'd never heard of it until last year too.
Yes amazing. I was born in Temple Ave. and grew up there. My dad also worked at Fanny pit. The bridges did carry the railway. Us lads used to dare each other to walk over the arches of the bridges. don't remember anybody falling off.
The two concrete bridges carried the coal trains from the main line to the two Skelton Grange Power Stations. The Skelton lake was part of the power station ash pits area. The whole site has been completely altered over the last sixty years due to open casting for coal, act’s how they discovered the site of the Templars site in the late eighties. The site of the Village was completely altered again in the mid 2000s.
Thanks so much for this! I was heading for a walk along there this morning, so I found the gap in the fence and found the remains of the building. I've been walking past this for years, and never knew!
Thanks, glad you got to see it.
A great piece of detective work Darren. I was one of the volunteer researchers for last year’s ‘Blot on the Landscape’ exhibition at Temple Newsam about coal mining on the estate and we featured the ‘lost village’ in the exhibition. I have been to the site a few times but thought, like you, that the village remains were buried when the pit railway bridges were built. It’s great that you seem to have discovered the remains of the school house (which was extended in the 1870’s when the local school board was created). Something you might be interested in, I also recently discovered that Albert Ward, who became a Yorkshire, Lancashire and England Test cricketer, was born in the village - his dad was a miner.
Thanks for the info Mike. There's not much info about this anywhere. Do you know why the Temple Newsam guide book also called it New Market? It's the only reference to this name anywhere.
There is a lot of information about the village in John Goodchild’s book ‘The Coal King’s of Yorkshire’ where the original name is mentioned. I also was able to find a short description of ‘Newmarket’ in Baines’ 1822 Directory of Yorkshire which is clearly the Waterloo village as it refers to the colliery owner (Fenton). I have no idea why it had that name though.
@@mikestirland7715 "The first sod for Waterloo Colliery was taken on the eve of the battle of Waterloo, (1815), hence the name." eastleedsmemories.wordpress.com/2018/09/01/waterlooville-the-lost-village/
Wih I'd seen "Blot on Landscape " exhition at Tempsy. I remember when there was an open cast mine there, that was a blot on the landscape alright !
Really interesting Darren, i thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
Awesome, thank you!
Lived locally for 48 years and never knew about Waterloo. Led us on to lots of other fascinating videos. Excellent.
Glad you enjoyed it. Lot's more to come on the channel.
Fascinating, well researched and glad you found the old school wall!
Glad you enjoyed it. Took a while.
Brilliant video. I was born in 1944 and grew up in Temple Ave. I have never heard of the village. Keep up the good work. I am now a fan.
Thanks mate. Welcome aboard.
I work on one of Huddersfields lost streets. The street sign for Vulcan Street is still on one of the inside walls of our building
Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks for filming this video. Really fascinating and great tour of local history.
My ancestors were miners living in a dwelling in Ingram Place on the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census returns so it's great to find out whereabouts they lived.
Brilliant. Hopefully filled in the blanks for you.
Great video, very interesting. Somewhere between the river and Temple Newsam house was the location of the medieval Templar's prefectory (farmstead/living quarters). I believe that back in the 1920s a couple of stone coffins were unearthed somewhere in the vicinity. I fear the specific site may have been lost under the newly built roadside carbuncle known as Skelton Services - yet another example of an uncaring government's act of environmental terrorism.
I'll check it out, thanks.
Just a quick word, The reference to Irwin and Ingram are associated with Temple Newsam which was acquired by Leeds City council from Lord Halifax (Earl Irwin) in the late thirties, and is now a public park and museum. The boundary of the park is quite close to Rothwell. There are several old coal mines in that area dating back to the 1700s. As a child, I remember seeing the pit ponies in the estate fields at the weekends.
10 out of 10 for remembering all the different names of the lost village 🏆
Fascinating! Glad I stumbled upon your channel. Looking forward to watching your other videos. The Skelton bridge area looks a good place for a walk.
Welcome aboard! More to come.
Brilliant, really enjoying your videos, used to take the miners down to the Colliery on the special buses from the Bridgefield pub terminus in the early 1960s takes me back, never knew about the village though. Keep up the good work looking forward to your new videos.
Thanks for the info! Glad you enjoyed it. More similar videos to come.
Went down there today on my Saturday early walk. Had a mini explore. The wall you showed I could not find. But a newly fallen tree has shown bricks in its root ball and there is a piece of worked timber looks like a floor or ceiling joist and old. That is under the concrete bridge over the river. Dicey getting down there though.
The flooding might have shifted some things around at the river bank. I might have to go check it out.
@@AdventureMe If your going down there let me know and I can join you. I have a contact who is probably in his mid to late 70's and knows all about Hunslet and the cuckoo steps etc. A very interesting man indeed.
Mate how am I only just finding your channel. Absolutely brilliant content!!! I can’t believe what I’m learning/finding out about Leeds. Going to binge pretty much every video now 👍🏻 again absolutely brilliant mate 👏🏻
Thanks mate. Welcome aboard
Hi Darren, I apologise for sharing your video to the LS26 group, I had no idea that you were a member. Steve ford.
As a history buff I absolutely love your channel being a Leeds lad that moved around Yorkshire. Theres stuff I know of vaguely locally I'd love to see. The sight of the Barnbow Tragedy in Crossgates or Colton Medieval village. Possibly even Armley Mills?
Thanks Jay. All of that is on my to do list. So keep your eyes peeled.
The amount of times the heavy machines worked in that area, soil wash lakes, when they built rothwell country park, Skelton lakes and the A1/M1 LINK you would think it would all be long gone. Good Work on documenting the history.
Thanks. You forgot to mention diverting the River Aire and widening the Canal too. I think that's why most of it has gone, but the school house wall.
@@AdventureMe th-cam.com/video/hiDWi1mpcWg/w-d-xo.html you can see what that are looked like in the eighties on this
I've stood on that banking where the river has been re-routed and wondered about why it was like that. I had no idea. I will have to go back and have a look around again now. Thanks for another brilliant video.
Glad to help. Yes it was re-routed due to Skelton Lake in the 80's/90's I believe.
Amazing..I never imagined there was a village on that site! Great job 👏
Fascinating. Cycled past there many times and never would have known
Me too, only when I looked into it I realised.
The old track bed you are on with the two bridges @8:30 is an old branch from the mainline to Skelton Grange power station. Another five minutes walk towards Leeds and there are two more long lost villages. Thorpe Stapleton and then Knostrop. Loads of long lost history in East Leeds
Thanks mate. I will be covering that soon.
Still waiting?
The Irwin's and Ingram's were the owners of Temple Newsam hence the names of the squares and streets
Thanks
That was really interesting. How sad that’s all that remains. Would love to explore down there.
It's really fascinating, you should.
Thank you Neil for another great video I cycle around there 👍
Love these videos about Rothwell being a resident here. Would love to see a video of Woodlesford’s history particular oulton beck walking down Farrer Lane
Thanks Joanne, i'm sure I will get to it sometime. Lots planned coming up locally.
Farrer Lane is in Oulton not Woodlesford. I believe Oulton beck’s real name is the river dolphin.
This is amazing ! Thank you for sharing the information with everyone 💖
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your like John Richardsons exploring brother .
Great content brother .
Thanks mate, i'll take that as a compliment. Keep watching, more to come.
Brilliant mate! I never knew it even existed.
Thanks for watching.
Great video, keep doing what you do, I live in the area and I am fascinated by the history of it all.
Thanks, will do! More to come.
Another excellent video. Since lockdown we have been walking all around this area regularly. Never knew of the existence of the village or that the River Aire had a slight re-route when Skelton Lake was built.
Thanks. Yes it was re-routed for Skelton Lake. Not sure when.
Possibley 1995 had a lot of workings gone on they especially after the power stations went could see changes happing when was working at Rothwell car auction old site
Another very entertains and interesting presentation,, I'm beginning to recognise cycle ways, and other views from previous videos. Your area is on the to do list once we get back to a more normal way of life.
Keep em coming.
Thanks mate. Plenty to come.
This is ace thanks mate. I found this village on the 1840s 6" map last year and, like you started to dig around, found an old blog about east Leeds and went hunting, ended up in exactly the same places you were filming. I came to the conclusion that the remains were not of the school house as it must have been slightly downstream of the old course of the river (now in the middle of the new course). The OS 25" maps provide a narrative that suggests the school house was converted into the smallpox hospital after the streets were cleared, and the only other building is unlabelled and positioned right by the cement bridge. My best guess is the remains are of this unlabelled building. I also wondered if the unlabeled building was the remains of the end terrace from the village that had been converted into some sort of out building? I guess we'l likely never know! Thanks again for this though, really good video. Will start watching the rest if your stuff.
Thanks Rich, yes I agree. I now don't think it was the school house, that would be under the new river aire course. I'm going back in the winter for another scout around, looking for more evidence.
Thank you for sharing used to go round this area all the time before they opened the area up, had no idea about the village that was once here, will be definitely going over asap to see this, also us locals know the lake as seven islands not skelton, and the two arched bridges as arnhem bridge. Thanks for sharing this amazing history!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks
Love this, something else I did not know about 😎
Very interesting, I love local history no matter where it is. I only found you yesterday cos you were with the Whitewicks and I`ve been binge watching ever since, lol. Keep it up Darren and take care.
Thanks Hazel, glad you enjoyed. More to come on the channel.
Thanks for that, really interesting. One sees odd bits of wall and building while exploring the countryside, there must be many untold or forgotten stories.
Yes loads, it's my job to find them hopefully.
Thanks for the video and chat. I do believe that brick structure under the new bridge was the original schoolhouse.the smaller reddish brick within the larger stone exteriors, maybe the key to the question. Thank you for sharing this video today. Again, another travel back in time. Cheers buddy.
brilliant video! Loved it and glad you found that bit of wall too. I must have a look down there myself at some point! Just found your channel this evening and binged watched a load of your vids. Enjoying them! Cheers
Awesome, thank you Robert. Welcome aboard.
Love this, and love your other videos, especially the comparison between the old and new. Been watching your videos this afternoon, you have a new subscriber and i've given you videos a like too. I love the history of places.
Thanks Joanne. Welcome aboard.
Thank you for another interesting video.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
These videos are really fab. Enjoyed the loss railways. Hope Darren can do more.
Thanks. More to come!
Simply brilliant. Well done!
Like to see one of Killingbeck Meadows
Remnants of Medieval Farming and Bronze age Fort
I'll get there eventually, just added it to my list. Thanks.
Nice one..... enjoyed it pal.... nothing left but the wall.... Great to see it on the old map as well..... Top job...👍👍👍
Thanks 👍 Robert.
Very enjoyable video to watch, once again i have learned something about by regular bike ride trail
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating story.
Thank You. More to come on the channel.
Another great video Darren, just like watching time team
Thanks 👍 Hopefully better looking than that lot.
Very well done
Thank you!
Hi Darren. I believe the concrete bridges were for the railway to serve the old power station. Love your explore videos keep them up.
Yes apparently so. For Skelton Grange.
Very early 1990s as kids would come here in fact swim across to he river/canal from holton Moore side .THE PIPE I remember breaking of the pipe sticking out a good two foot .it was heavy lead carried it all the way back home and now is buried in the back garden with now a exaction on it.im so sure Iv seen a photo like quality drawing of the this housing square in some book deplicting it at night/dusk with old gas lights. Anyone else ??
I haven't found anything yet. Just a map.
Just subscribed to your channel, lovely what your doing, I've lived around here for 40 years and know all these areas, and can remember watching the water fill up the St Aidens landfill site, I ve got a few videos too
Thanks Jason. Glad you enjoyed. I'd love to see the videos if you can get them online somehow.
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Hi, I`ve only just come across this post. Like you I also like tracing down lost building and artifacts. I don`t know if you are aware but when using Google Earth, if you go into the "view" menu and select "Historical Imagery" you can go back some 30 years or longer (eg London in the 1940s) that shows the aerial view at that time and also more importantly the changing vegetation. When comparing these views against each other quite often hidden artifacts appear as crop marks. Doing this with the area of Waterloo Village there appears on some a rectangular "crop" mark that coinsides closely with the location of Irwin Square. Great video as usual.
Thanks mate. Yeah I use that Google Earth tool sometimes.
This video is brilliant. I grew up around this area and still live fairly local but I never knew about this village.
I grew up in the village of Oulton which is next to Rothwell and I thought I knew quite a lot of the history of the area but this one passed me by.
I’m new to your channel so I’m not sure if you have done any walkabouts and videos of other lost villages in the area but there was once a village near to Oulton called Fleet. It was also sited next to the river Aire and I believe it was a small mill village. Maybe you could make a video about this lost village too.
Cheers Ian, Yes i'm not far from Oulton. I have done a video on Fleet locks and it's history around there. Have a look at my website, I have a map on there of all the places I have done. www.adventureme.co.uk
That's great hair mate! Better than my effort! I was getting sick of wearing my wooly hat!
It's much longer now, this was back in April/May. I had a mad moment.
Interestingly, I used to live near a Waterloo Village in New Jersey. It was built around the same time as this one on the Morris Canal (mainly used to transport coal), and eventually abandoned. It found a second life as a historical site, and still exists today in some form. Not much left of the old Morris Canal, though a portion of it remains in my old home town of Wharton and they are restoring an old lock there. Anyway, great video, and here's a link if you are interested.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Village,_New_Jersey
There's Waterloo's everywhere by the sounds of it. The canal sounds interesting, well if I run out of things here one day, might have to venture over.
I grew up in and around Rothwell and I’m surprised where you are filming you haven’t had any trouble with teenagers on bikes. Right at the top of the Rothwell country park there is also an old I believe anti aircraft gun emplacement from WW2. There is only the stone circle left now.
So far so good. But I do tend to film weekdays when it's quieter.
Very interesting. New to your vids but really enjoying them.
Thanks Richard. Welcome aboard.
Great video, very interesting must have ridden that route on my bike hundreds of times, no idea it was there.
I didn't until I did the research.
great work,thanks
Glad you liked it!
The mines near the lake were are also the site of a lost Knights Templar preceptory. There's a BBC article on it as well as a book.
Cheers, i'll have a look.
Enjoyed it very much !
Thanks Timothy.
Wow didn't know about the village . Well done 👍
No problem, more to come.
I think Ingram village sounds pretty good!!!!
I bet it does. You probably own it.
You ought to do one of these on Levitt Hagg in Sprotbrourgh South Yorkshire. There's quite a few old photo's and info, plus some remains.
Sounds good. I'll take a look into it.
Love your videos x
Thanks Tiffany
Most interesting! I did part of my nursing training at Rothwell Hospital in 1974! I noticed a couple of street names from Waterloo Village-Irwin Square and Ingram Street- these names were from the owners of Temple Newsam in Leeds. I wonder whether the collieries were owned by these people.....?
I think they had something to do with it, the collieries were on the land owned by the Temple Newsam estate.
@@AdventureMe I thought so! My Nanna lived in Charlotte Grove Halton. The land her house was built on was originally part of Temple Newsam estate.
Great video. I wonder if the name of the mine and village had any connection with Waterloo lake in Roundhay park. I think i will investigate, keep up the good work, i'm very glad i stumbled upon your channel its right up my street,
Apparently named after the battle of Waterloo, but not sure about Roundhay lake.
Can remember school taking us here to the remains of the old-school must have Been about 85 87 ish any way we had to draw /sketch the remains it was a very cold wet rainy day. Think that the teacher had family that had lived worked there?? Also not far away on the bank of the river was a very very old pub called the anchor Inn .
Thanks for the memories Andy, I will be looking at the Anchor Inn in the future.
Interesting. Thanks.
Thanks for watching Dot
Hello mate I'm from Leeds from Harehills I walk around but I never changed it a bit on my mountain bike also I used to go to Filey I went to Hornsea potteries when I'm with the kid I like the interesting what you do
Thanks Gary
The concrete bridge carried coal trains from Newmarket colliery ,stanley via the mjr,up until 1980/81 that is the reason for the tunnel under m62, at methley.
Very good.
Thanks mate
Theres an old abandoned railway in Horbury near the canal that you should check out
Yes, I will be onto that sometime soon. Thanks for watching.
Great video, nice and informative.
Thank you!
think im going to try and check this out
it's easy to find.
the concrete bridge was used by coal trains to Skelton Grange power station.
Yeah, which i will be covering soon. Thanks Robert.
Interesting
Thank You.
Do Waterton park at Walton and the old Barnsley canal
Just looked up "Waterloo" in Battys History of Rothwell book And it mentions that the Fentons allowed a room in the school to be used as a Wesleyan Chapel, till some visiting preacher gave a sermon that the current Mr Fenton thought was directed at him and he banned them from using it (around 1840). Then in 1867 it was "licensed as a preaching place for the established church"
Very interesting. Thanks.
I have that book too, but never noticed the waterloo section until you told me.
I'll have look for the old school wall, know the bridges very well, always down there cycling from my home at Cross Green
@@davebeston3954 I tried looking for anything on the north bank of the Aire last month but thats just corrugated metal sheeting. There seem to be some stone structure on the south bank - but its too overgrown to get to at the moment.
Have you ever been tempted to dig a little test pit to see if any evidence or pottery can be found?
I have. But wouldn't know where to start.
Ingram will be from Temple Newsam maybe?
Yes most likely. They owned all the land the mines sat on.
Can you please make these videos mono audio?
They are now. This was 2 yrs ago.
I’ve just come across your page! I have a place you might like to explore. Is there anyway I can contact you?
Yes darren@adventureme.co.uk
Emailed ✅ can’t wait to see what you think! X
The name Ingram was a family name , the Ingrams owned Temple Newsam House at some point in history. Temple Newsam is not that far away from where you are doing the video.
Yes, they were the colliery owners. Or at least had shares in Waterloo Colliery.
the only thing that points to it being true is the wall used for the bridge? surly the ordnance survey map shows it is true?
I don't know what you mean. The OS maps do show it.
@@AdventureMe i know, listen to what you said at 14:40 hence why i said that the truth is in the OS maps and not the wall.
@@stellakintara Oh I see, I was confused by your comment. Oh I say all sorts in the videos, I don't always mean it literally. I think I meant that it was the only remaining physical evidence left.
@@AdventureMe haha i did think it a bit strange but love your vids by the way, keep it up :)
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I thought you were going to show us the hospital, or what remains of it.
The hospital would be now underneath the new River Aire alignment. I show in the video what I thought were the remains of the old School House. Turns out this might be another building and the School House was the Small Pox Hospital later in life.
@@AdventureMe, better get your diving gear out 😁
Fannypit *smirk*
Didn't we all lol
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I am a new sub from martins you tube channel
Welcome Aboard. More with Martin to come on here.
I've got a weired question anyone know of any vids I can watch where someone visits a place but second visit its gone wired no i know it just hypes me for a none believer its like project zero fatal frames lost village
Not that I know of David, but would be interesting.
@@AdventureMe OK no problem thanks for messaging me I just noticed by bad spellings so thats good
Uhh Waterloo ville as in place like perterfield I know Waterloo ville went there last year it aint vanished
Haha, Yes not the one in Hampshire. I have relatives there.
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Makes me wonder the people who lived there all the trials and tribulations they experienced most fascinating
Yes all very haunting. Nothing much else known about it.
The River Air was diverted to create an open cast mine that is now Skelton Lake