Great video! I always felt like I was told about Wilberforce growing up but never actually got to hear his story, very fascinating piece of our local history :)
I am glad you are back after a years hiatus. Very interesting video. I knew nothing of William Wilberforce before now. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work.
My mum took me a few times to the museum when I was a lad in the 70s, across on the ferry. The garden looks exactly the same 50 years later! She enjoyed watching this video.
Whatever the circumstances of your absence for so long, I hope things are resolved. I have missed your brilliantly researched and excellently presented pieces and I hope we can all look forward to many more.
Great documentary really enjoyed it. Born in Hull, left for NYC in 1999 for 20 years and now live in West Palm Beach Fl but still come home every year for a couple of months and always spend time in the Old Town and down the Avenues. Thanks again for all these documentaries and maybe I’ll catch one of your live events this year when I’m home. cheers, Chris
Hi Jamie, it's a treat to see you again. I visited Wilberforce House a couple of times as a child. Frightened me stiff to see the wax effigy sitting in his chair. Don't know if I mentioned this but in Junior school I was summoned to see Mr Heidegger, my favourite teacher, and asked if I'd like to make a drawing of Wilberforce House. This drawing hung on the wall of his classroom for a number of years. This was late 50's, long before the idea of protecting things with laminated plastic. I was also tasked to draw a trawler at sea. I can't say these drawings were of any quality, but Mr Heidegger, who was Swiss, lived in Cottingham and drove a Berkeley 3 wheeled car, seemed to think I had some talent. I also believed, and it still might be true that my gran was born across the road from Wilberforce House down an archway to something like Maisters Buildings. No longer there of course, the council saw to that. After the war, when the Luftwaffe had done its best to redesign Hull, the council was faced with the monumental undertaking of stripping Hull of its insanitary and poverty stricken housing, but replaced it with something equally brutal and demeaning; high-rises and enclaves like Bransholme. Well-meaning at the time but the council did what it could post-war, particularly with regard to temporary housing. Temporary maybe but prefabs lasted well into whenever it was that the last of the still-servicable housing was finally torn down. We could blame the council for a raft of incompetent decisions over the years but they're gradually ridding Hull of its sometimes inglorious past. Modern housing should always be applauded so long as they don't gut our historic past to achieve their ends. They're experts at that... Getting off topic, maybe for another day. Much thanks Jamie for this enlightening and entertaining video
Welcome back and in good health, another fascinating documentary on my home town, produced once again in a way that major tv channels should learn from.
Fanstastic to see you back with another excellent video. I hope that you are fully recovered, you certainly seem to be as the presentation and content were first class (as always). I missed your videos during during the months you were away I am very happy to see you back and looking well. From one Hull lad to another I give you my thanks and very best wishes.
You've really bought this wax work figure truly to life. A fascinating insight into one of Hull's (and the world quite frankly) Greats. Please create more videos on the people of Hull.❤
I love your videos, they’re so well researched and enthusiastically presented! I’m originally from Hull and just about to move back with my wife and young daughter after being away and travelling for the last 15 years. Your videos have been incredibly educational for all of us and have only served to increase our excitement about returning!
Great to see you back!!. Fantastic video as ever. I was in Wilberforce House being a Grammar school boy although it was the Bricknell Ave site, now long gone. But we were constantly taught about the life and legacy of William Wilberforce.
Thanks for this excellent history lesson about Wilberforce. I've visited his house many times over the years, especially in my youth when tagging off school with my younger brother. The place has changed a lot over the years & a lot of the interesting artifacts have been moved out I think. Good to see you back & look forward to more of your very interesting & entertaining videos.
A wonderful documentary of Wilberforce. You really showed the complexity of the man as well as an insight into his motivations in the context of his age. Thank you HHN. It is good to watch more of your excellent content again. Looking forward to your next video already!
Glad you’ve posted another vid. 👍 I’d love to see one around “underground” hull, I know there’s a couple of levels below HRI stretching out under Anlaby Rd, then there’s an underpass under Ferensway near the station and a buried museum under Albion street car park but other than that I’ve not really heard of much.
Another great video! Proud to be from the city of Wilberforce and a visit to the museum was a blessing for every Hull school pupil so they could see at first hand the evil of the slave trade.
I really enjoyed this video. William Wilberforce has always been a hero of mine for the work he did on abolishing slavery. I found your juxtaposition of his lack of concern for the working man very interesting. I had never considered that aspect of his character. I suppose that's what makes human beings human.
Great video about our local historical figure Jamie. Loved it. Some things about him that I wasn’t aware of either. Really informative. Brilliant comic captions too 👍🏼🤣
Yes! Great to see you back. I really enjoyed this one. Funnily enough I have recently been learning about Wilberforce so this was perfect timing for me. I have never heard about the other side of him as you mentioned: not supporting the working class/poor in Britain etc... The film 'Amazing Grace' is all about this topic and I found it a brilliant watch also. Always look forward to you popping up nerd. All the best.😀
Geoff here - nice to meet you today !! Was trying to find your video on the Hull -> Bridlington railway! can't find it?? better still - if i came and rode the line again, to make a video .. would you like to accompany me, and be my expert guest in it? just for the fun of it !!
18:21 the “Wilberforce Oak” and subsequent bench to commemorate that conversation is in Keston, Kent. I walk past it most days with my dog. The original oak has sadly died but a new one was planted in honour a few years ago.
Great to see you back - I cancelled my Patreon subscription about a week ago, so that almost guaranteed a new HHN video! 😞 Look after yourself and I look forward to seeing more videos when you're ready.
Thanks for the usual detail and comprehensive coverage. Wilberforce was for a couple of years in my early teens the single most influential person in my life. and quite possibly had the greatest influence on the rest of my life. As a 12-13 year old I used to twag off school a lot. Other lads used to go fishing of Sammy's point or hang about in groups "on road" or East Park. This often ended up with being rounded up by the truant officers and a caning back at school. I discovered though that the old town and pier area were almost deserted and spent hours in the then three museums, Wilberforce House, The Georgian House, and the old transport museum. I must have known every exhibit. My disgust at what I learned about slavery though really disturbed me. This was reinforced by being taught at schools which still had pink atlases and thought it a good idea to employ ex-service men as teachers I suppose to help them re-intergrade with society. I only suffered two of these myself so can't speak for all. But both thought it appropriate, (and patriotic?) to regale us with tales of their war crimes committed while "serving" around their crumbling empire. So I both blame and thank William Wilberforce and those last desperate attempts of the empire to strike back at my decision at the age of 16 to twag of for the rest of my life. I dropped out and have never seen a reason since to drop back in. All my hopes from back then dashed and all my worst fears confirmed Wilberforce was very soon after replaced in my affections by Ho Chi Minh. I doubt there is a place anymore in this world for anyone remotely as influential as either of them.
Really enjoyed the video Jamie and pleased to see you're creating new content again. Was it not the case that the abolition of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery were distinctly different events. I'd always associated Wilberforce with the slave trade?
Indeed, and even just shutting down the slave trade itself took many acts and many decades. I use the terms interchangeably in this video because we're only really talking about Wilberforce and his dealings with slavery.
Comment contd; where were we? Ah yes, rendered dumb was I on seeing the gruesome and vicious instruments of torture and restraint on view, v hard hitting exhibition. If they still have it so, you need some strength to deal with the experience. I have missed the excellent quality of your wonderful channel Jamie. A fantastic surprise to see you back. 🌟👍
Been watching your videos, very interesting. We are also Hull based and visit a lot of the areas you may have covered. We are a sceptical based team who films and documents Hull and surrounding areas. We may have some footage you would like to see, inside the lord line building, beneath ye olde blue bell, inside ye olde white heart, inside the Masonic hall on dagger lane and much more. It would be interesting to have a chat sometime. Feel free to contact us, keep up with the brilliant work, I really like to see it 👍
Remember going to the museum when I was about 10, late 60s, and being stunned at the appalling conditions these poor people endured, before they were even sold to work on the plantations. He was a great man, Britain should be celebrated for ending this disgusting trade. Sadly slavery still exists in many parts of the world.
Good to see a balanced view of Wilberforce. No-one denies his work on abolition but few know of his repugnant attitude to his fellow English men and women and their struggles. As you mention Hazlitt had no time for the man and his hypocrisy: "Mr. Wilberforce's humanity will go all lengths that it can with safety and discretion: but it is not to be supposed that it should lose him his seat for Yorkshire, the smile of Majesty, or the countenance of the loyal and pious. He is anxious to do all the good he can without hurting himself or his fair fame."
Hopefully, though I've had a lot of other commitments recently so it's tough to find the time to do something as demanding as making and editing videos. Fingers crossed I might finish up the ones I have half finished sometime this year.
So glad to see you back. I had been worried about you. Sorry to hear that you bad but t yourself to a frazzle. Please be kind to yourself. Every video you make is much appreciated.
Jamie, off topic with this vid. But I've checked through your back catalogue, to see if you'd covered the subject, and it seems you haven't yet. But I thought of an excellent idea for a vid. That I couldn't think of a better person to do the story justice. That is, the History of the Full length of the River Hull, from the Humber, through Beverley and to its ultimate destination at Driffield. As you know, the Canal was instrumental in getting all the grain from the arable area around Driffield, through to the port of Hull. On your Railway vid, where you were in Driffield, you were at Riverhead, where the 2 old wooden cranes still sit dormant, (I swear I've never climbed to the top of either of them!! 😉.) Adjacent to the Old Mortimers Corn Warehouses. Obviously this links to the still existent Bell Mills, with their fascinating Water course driven facility. I'm sure there is plenty of old photographic material from the old lock gates near riverhead, and then further up at Wansford, and so on. When they were originally in use, and fell into disrepair, and were non functional as an actual lock pit during the 70s, 80s etc. Then to the Gradual reinstatement of the Double lock gates at Wansford for example, with a view to reopening as a viable navigation. How far this has progressed, I don't know without further research. But I think you would be the man for the job. With your exemplary research skills and your inimitable delivery style. I think this ties in nicely with the Railway theme, (its advent, and the various economic reasons for its advent.) It's all part of the same wider story, which of course, segues nicely with your excellent Docks and water course series'. I think it's right in your 'wheelhouse', as it, like the old Railways, has a evocative story to tell, about the instrinsic rural connection of Driffield with it's larger Urban Cousin of Hull. Not to mention, the Slow paced, romantic charm of the canals, is crying out for your treatment. As an amateur historian myself, with an extremely gripping case of Nostalgia, I have seriously watched a shedload of history documentaries, I've appeared in several History documentaries, working with pro film crews, (Channel 4, History Channel, Yesterday TV and National Geographic), so I believe I'm reasonably experienced enough to say, as I've seen, many others have said too, that your standard of presentation is absolutely Top Shelf, your Railway themed videos, were no less impressive, nostalgic and historically informative than the Michael Portillo ones. Just as interesting and evocative as the Neil Oliver ones, and basically all of the other made for TV ones. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say, if You Tube wasn't such a threat to TV nowadays, then your entire series would quite easily be capable of being broadcast on Yorkshire TV, at least. Your editing, your choice of fill shots, camera angles, drone footage, actually bely the fact that it's actually 'just' a TH-cam video!!! Anyhoo, I've drivled on long enough, please give it some thought. 🙏🏻😉😊😊💭
I was wondering where you'd got to Jamie. I have memories of a trip to Wilberforce House (The Wilb Museum) and going up, having eyeballed the scary waxwork of William, upstairs to the exhibition. I was traumatised a bit by seeing the mantraps, the deck plans (as shown in the fillum), truly horrifying things, which, apparently, rendered me incapable of speech to any but my mum..
Brilliant video, puts Hull in a whole new light as it's often portrayed in quit a negative way. The only thing that puts any of us on the wrong or right side of history is time!
Interesting video of the different sides of Wilberforce l never knew that also shows if it wasn't for the abolition Wilberforce wouldn't have been that good an MP against the working poor. Thank You.
the pure joy when i got a notification saying you had uploaded!!! Lovely video
Great video!
I always felt like I was told about Wilberforce growing up but never actually got to hear his story, very fascinating piece of our local history :)
I am glad you are back after a years hiatus. Very interesting video. I knew nothing of William Wilberforce before now. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work.
My mum took me a few times to the museum when I was a lad in the 70s, across on the ferry. The garden looks exactly the same 50 years later! She enjoyed watching this video.
Whatever the circumstances of your absence for so long, I hope things are resolved. I have missed your brilliantly researched and excellently presented pieces and I hope we can all look forward to many more.
Great documentary really enjoyed it. Born in Hull, left for NYC in 1999 for 20 years and now live in West Palm Beach Fl but still come home every year for a couple of months and always spend time in the Old Town and down the Avenues. Thanks again for all these documentaries and maybe I’ll catch one of your live events this year when I’m home. cheers, Chris
Great video as always! I hope you have more in the pipeline soon.
Bonjour, Henry comment allez-vous ? J'espère ne pas vous déranger pour ma demande de contacte ?
Welcome back hope you're on the mend. Top quality production as always. So excited when I saw this notification. Thanks from Oz
I’ve enjoyed your videos over the years and hope to see you return soon!
Thanks for giving us some fantastic videos love them, from a ''Hull lad in exile'' on the other side of the world.
Great video. Nice to see you back, you've been missed.
I keep putting these off to watch for the perfect moment then forgetting about them!
These are great for any relaxing evening or afternoon.
Hi Jamie, it's a treat to see you again. I visited Wilberforce House a couple of times as a child. Frightened me stiff to see the wax effigy sitting in his chair. Don't know if I mentioned this but in Junior school I was summoned to see Mr Heidegger, my favourite teacher, and asked if I'd like to make a drawing of Wilberforce House. This drawing hung on the wall of his classroom for a number of years. This was late 50's, long before the idea of protecting things with laminated plastic. I was also tasked to draw a trawler at sea. I can't say these drawings were of any quality, but Mr Heidegger, who was Swiss, lived in Cottingham and drove a Berkeley 3 wheeled car, seemed to think I had some talent.
I also believed, and it still might be true that my gran was born across the road from Wilberforce House down an archway to something like Maisters Buildings. No longer there of course, the council saw to that. After the war, when the Luftwaffe had done its best to redesign Hull, the council was faced with the monumental undertaking of stripping Hull of its insanitary and poverty stricken housing, but replaced it with something equally brutal and demeaning; high-rises and enclaves like Bransholme. Well-meaning at the time but the council did what it could post-war, particularly with regard to temporary housing. Temporary maybe but prefabs lasted well into whenever it was that the last of the still-servicable housing was finally torn down. We could blame the council for a raft of incompetent decisions over the years but they're gradually ridding Hull of its sometimes inglorious past. Modern housing should always be applauded so long as they don't gut our historic past to achieve their ends. They're experts at that...
Getting off topic, maybe for another day. Much thanks Jamie for this enlightening and entertaining video
Great to have you back Jamie....
Welcome back and in good health, another fascinating documentary on my home town, produced once again in a way that major tv channels should learn from.
Fanstastic to see you back with another excellent video. I hope that you are fully recovered, you certainly seem to be as the presentation and content were first class (as always). I missed your videos during during the months you were away I am very happy to see you back and looking well. From one Hull lad to another I give you my thanks and very best wishes.
You've really bought this wax work figure truly to life. A fascinating insight into one of Hull's (and the world quite frankly) Greats. Please create more videos on the people of Hull.❤
I love your videos, they’re so well researched and enthusiastically presented! I’m originally from Hull and just about to move back with my wife and young daughter after being away and travelling for the last 15 years. Your videos have been incredibly educational for all of us and have only served to increase our excitement about returning!
Great to see you back!!. Fantastic video as ever. I was in Wilberforce House being a Grammar school boy although it was the Bricknell Ave site, now long gone. But we were constantly taught about the life and legacy of William Wilberforce.
Bonjour, Anthony comment allez-vous ? J'espère ne pas vous déranger pour ma demande de contacte ?
You do a great job here of painting Wilberforce's character. Thankyou.
Welcome back, we've missed you!
Brilliant. Not a wasted word. One of the best biographies I have seen. Well balanced and detailed. Many thanks.
Watching from Hong Kong. Always enjoy these trips home.
Thanks for this excellent history lesson about Wilberforce. I've visited his house many times over the years, especially in my youth when tagging off school with my younger brother. The place has changed a lot over the years & a lot of the interesting artifacts have been moved out I think. Good to see you back & look forward to more of your very interesting & entertaining videos.
A wonderful documentary of Wilberforce. You really showed the complexity of the man as well as an insight into his motivations in the context of his age. Thank you HHN. It is good to watch more of your excellent content again. Looking forward to your next video already!
Glad you’ve posted another vid. 👍 I’d love to see one around “underground” hull, I know there’s a couple of levels below HRI stretching out under Anlaby Rd, then there’s an underpass under Ferensway near the station and a buried museum under Albion street car park but other than that I’ve not really heard of much.
This would be extremely interesting to me too!
I often looked - see where youd gone
Very pleased to see you back
Another great video! Proud to be from the city of Wilberforce and a visit to the museum was a blessing for every Hull school pupil so they could see at first hand the evil of the slave trade.
Bonjour, Timblagdon comment allez-vous ? J'espère ne pas vous déranger pour ma demande de contacte ?
I really enjoyed this video. William Wilberforce has always been a hero of mine for the work he did on abolishing slavery. I found your juxtaposition of his lack of concern for the working man very interesting. I had never considered that aspect of his character. I suppose that's what makes human beings human.
Great to have another video from you after quite a while and what a fascinating subject. So wonderfully told. Thanks.
I'm subscribed with all notifications turned on and and didn't get a notification for this video , luckily somebody mentioned it to me
Great video about our local historical figure Jamie. Loved it. Some things about him that I wasn’t aware of either. Really informative. Brilliant comic captions too 👍🏼🤣
Can’t watch right now but commenting to boost: always great to see your stuff!
Yes! Great to see you back. I really enjoyed this one. Funnily enough I have recently been learning about Wilberforce so this was perfect timing for me. I have never heard about the other side of him as you mentioned: not supporting the working class/poor in Britain etc... The film 'Amazing Grace' is all about this topic and I found it a brilliant watch also.
Always look forward to you popping up nerd. All the best.😀
Woohoo, been missing your vids. Good to see you're back.
From a guy due West in Morley :)
Brilliant to have you back and another excellent talk you provide and hope you are feeling well
Looking forward to the next video..... Rod Hull & Emu ??
Soooo glad to see you are back again, really missed your videos, hopefully many to come.
Plenty to come, but they might be at a slower pace than usual until I get back up to speed again!
Informative and interesting- you’ve a great presenting style. Thanks for breathing life into the history of my home town.
Geoff here - nice to meet you today !! Was trying to find your video on the Hull -> Bridlington railway! can't find it??
better still - if i came and rode the line again, to make a video .. would you like to accompany me, and be my expert guest in it? just for the fun of it !!
Ah yes, it's an early one, it's the Hull and Selby Railway part 2 - the Bridlington Branch!
And absolutely, it would be a pleasure!
Fantastic! I enjoyed this so much!! Someone needs to give you a job on the telly. Your videos just keep getting better. ❤
18:21 the “Wilberforce Oak” and subsequent bench to commemorate that conversation is in Keston, Kent. I walk past it most days with my dog. The original oak has sadly died but a new one was planted in honour a few years ago.
Great to see you back - I cancelled my Patreon subscription about a week ago, so that almost guaranteed a new HHN video! 😞 Look after yourself and I look forward to seeing more videos when you're ready.
A fantastic video. Very interesting. Great to see you back Jamie. 😊😊😊😊
Glad your back , something decent to watch again .
Great video, good to see you back
Great to see you back. Brilliant video.
Good to see new content. It's been a while?
Great to see you back, thanks for the video.
Excellent episode. Thank you for bringing William Wilberforce to life. It also got me thinking, I wonder if he has any descendants living?
Great documentary video. Informative, well presented and a joy to watch 👏👏👏
Thanks for the usual detail and comprehensive coverage.
Wilberforce was for a couple of years in my early teens the single most influential person in my life. and quite possibly had the greatest influence on the rest of my life.
As a 12-13 year old I used to twag off school a lot. Other lads used to go fishing of Sammy's point or hang about in groups "on road" or East Park. This often ended up with being rounded up by the truant officers and a caning back at school.
I discovered though that the old town and pier area were almost deserted and spent hours in the then three museums, Wilberforce House, The Georgian House, and the old transport museum. I must have known every exhibit.
My disgust at what I learned about slavery though really disturbed me. This was reinforced by being taught at schools which still had pink atlases and thought it a good idea to employ ex-service men as teachers I suppose to help them re-intergrade with society. I only suffered two of these myself so can't speak for all. But both thought it appropriate, (and patriotic?) to regale us with tales of their war crimes committed while "serving" around their crumbling empire.
So I both blame and thank William Wilberforce and those last desperate attempts of the empire to strike back at my decision at the age of 16 to twag of for the rest of my life. I dropped out and have never seen a reason since to drop back in. All my hopes from back then dashed and all my worst fears confirmed
Wilberforce was very soon after replaced in my affections by Ho Chi Minh.
I doubt there is a place anymore in this world for anyone remotely as influential as either of them.
Nice one... Welcome back
Hello, Scottie, how are you? I hope I'm not bothering you with my contact request?
Fantastic, hugely interesting account of Wllberforce's life and work.
Enjoyed that.
Thank you.
Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Really enjoyed the video Jamie and pleased to see you're creating new content again. Was it not the case that the abolition of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery were distinctly different events. I'd always associated Wilberforce with the slave trade?
Indeed, and even just shutting down the slave trade itself took many acts and many decades. I use the terms interchangeably in this video because we're only really talking about Wilberforce and his dealings with slavery.
Comment contd; where were we? Ah yes, rendered dumb was I on seeing the gruesome and vicious instruments of torture and restraint on view, v hard hitting exhibition. If they still have it so, you need some strength to deal with the experience.
I have missed the excellent quality of your wonderful channel Jamie.
A fantastic surprise to see you back. 🌟👍
Glad to see you back.
Well done on presenting a creat video about William Willberforce
Been watching your videos, very interesting.
We are also Hull based and visit a lot of the areas you may have covered.
We are a sceptical based team who films and documents Hull and surrounding areas.
We may have some footage you would like to see, inside the lord line building, beneath ye olde blue bell, inside ye olde white heart, inside the Masonic hall on dagger lane and much more.
It would be interesting to have a chat sometime.
Feel free to contact us, keep up with the brilliant work, I really like to see it 👍
I'm afraid the whole paranormal thing isn't my area at all, but thankyou for the message!
Glad to see you back
Hello, John, how are you? I hope I'm not bothering you with my contact request?
Class. Very informative and great historic backdrops.
Interesting video, as always. Thanks!
Nice to see you return 🙂
learning about my dads hometown from Canada...thanks!
It’s always interesting to read comments from people spread across the planet who originate from Yorkshire and the Humber area or their descendants.
Remember going to the museum when I was about 10, late 60s, and being stunned at the appalling conditions these poor people endured, before they were even sold to work on the plantations.
He was a great man, Britain should be celebrated for ending this disgusting trade.
Sadly slavery still exists in many parts of the world.
Good to see a balanced view of Wilberforce. No-one denies his work on abolition but few know of his repugnant attitude to his fellow English men and women and their struggles. As you mention Hazlitt had no time for the man and his hypocrisy: "Mr. Wilberforce's humanity will go all lengths that it can with safety and discretion: but it is not to be supposed that it should lose him his seat for Yorkshire, the smile of Majesty, or the countenance of the loyal and pious. He is anxious to do all the good he can without hurting himself or his fair fame."
Hope all is ok? Will you be doing anymore content this year?
Hopefully, though I've had a lot of other commitments recently so it's tough to find the time to do something as demanding as making and editing videos. Fingers crossed I might finish up the ones I have half finished sometime this year.
So glad to see you back. I had been worried about you. Sorry to hear that you bad but t yourself to a frazzle. Please be kind to yourself. Every video you make is much appreciated.
Thanks for that I love you channel keep it up
We're have you been haven't heard from you in a while nice to see you back
Can you do a video of viking history and place names in and hull and east Yorkshire please
Long gap. Makes me proud to be from Hull. School trip memories.
Hello, Andrew, how are you? I hope I'm not bothering you with my contact request?
The legend is back🔥💯
Nice to see you back
Jamie, off topic with this vid.
But I've checked through your back catalogue, to see if you'd covered the subject, and it seems you haven't yet. But I thought of an excellent idea for a vid. That I couldn't think of a better person to do the story justice.
That is, the History of the Full length of the River Hull, from the Humber, through Beverley and to its ultimate destination at Driffield. As you know, the Canal was instrumental in getting all the grain from the arable area around Driffield, through to the port of Hull. On your Railway vid, where you were in Driffield, you were at Riverhead, where the 2 old wooden cranes still sit dormant, (I swear I've never climbed to the top of either of them!! 😉.) Adjacent to the Old Mortimers Corn Warehouses. Obviously this links to the still existent Bell Mills, with their fascinating Water course driven facility. I'm sure there is plenty of old photographic material from the old lock gates near riverhead, and then further up at Wansford, and so on. When they were originally in use, and fell into disrepair, and were non functional as an actual lock pit during the 70s, 80s etc. Then to the Gradual reinstatement of the Double lock gates at Wansford for example, with a view to reopening as a viable navigation. How far this has progressed, I don't know without further research. But I think you would be the man for the job. With your exemplary research skills and your inimitable delivery style.
I think this ties in nicely with the Railway theme, (its advent, and the various economic reasons for its advent.) It's all part of the same wider story, which of course, segues nicely with your excellent Docks and water course series'.
I think it's right in your 'wheelhouse', as it, like the old Railways, has a evocative story to tell, about the instrinsic rural connection of Driffield with it's larger Urban Cousin of Hull. Not to mention, the Slow paced, romantic charm of the canals, is crying out for your treatment.
As an amateur historian myself, with an extremely gripping case of Nostalgia, I have seriously watched a shedload of history documentaries, I've appeared in several History documentaries, working with pro film crews, (Channel 4, History Channel, Yesterday TV and National Geographic), so I believe I'm reasonably experienced enough to say, as I've seen, many others have said too, that your standard of presentation is absolutely Top Shelf, your Railway themed videos, were no less impressive, nostalgic and historically informative than the Michael Portillo ones. Just as interesting and evocative as the Neil Oliver ones, and basically all of the other made for TV ones. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say, if You Tube wasn't such a threat to TV nowadays, then your entire series would quite easily be capable of being broadcast on Yorkshire TV, at least. Your editing, your choice of fill shots, camera angles, drone footage, actually bely the fact that it's actually 'just' a TH-cam video!!! Anyhoo, I've drivled on long enough, please give it some thought. 🙏🏻😉😊😊💭
Welcome back!!!!!
I was wondering where you'd got to Jamie.
I have memories of a trip to Wilberforce House (The Wilb Museum) and going up, having eyeballed the scary waxwork of William, upstairs to the exhibition. I was traumatised a bit by seeing the mantraps, the deck plans (as shown in the fillum), truly horrifying things, which, apparently, rendered me incapable of speech to any but my mum..
Haven't seen you in a while.
A wonderful warts and all look at Wilberforce.
Brilliant video, puts Hull in a whole new light as it's often portrayed in quit a negative way. The only thing that puts any of us on the wrong or right side of history is time!
excellent
Welcome back 🙂🙂
Where are you HHN ?
I'm here! Currently working on a video covering the archaeological dig at Drypool, and doing a few talks!
Lovely this appeared today. Mum and I have been educated in style.
4.03 Is this a wind up?......The person walking across the back.
Just a guy in the background!
Interesting video of the different sides of Wilberforce l never knew that also shows if it wasn't for the abolition Wilberforce wouldn't have been that good an MP against the working poor. Thank You.
Ah you are back.
4.32 The person running across behind is transparent .....is it just me ?
Just you, I'm afraid!
Just Woop woop
Not seen it yet but I already know it's going to be fab
Yay I miss it's info and interesting stuff and history
Thank you.
Our cult leader is back! ❤
My Dad's a Hull Methodist..... Puritan he ain't 😊
Absolutely brilliant ❤️