Cheshire. White Nancy. Towers and Mills
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- This week we are back on the Tower trail We are in Bollington Cheshire near Macclesfield. We go to visit a local English landmark called White Nancy . White Nancy is a folly built around 1815 to Celebrate the battle of Waterloo. It was built by a local family called the Gaskell Family. On the way we visit a cotton spinning mill. Ingersley mill. A former water powered mill re built in 1821. We look at the river Dean and the mill race and Goyt that was built along with a weir to power the water mill. After white Nancy we discover an old Tram road inclined tramway then on to Claytons tower. Is this tower a chimney a folly or an air shaft for a mine. Lots of walking in Cheshire as we go on a historical wal of Cheshire and look at some of Cheshire's history.
Music by Dean James Adshead. Facebook/Sensorytriggered A little piece inspired by Test Card F. Early 80's another gem of a Peel Session we played to death back in the day.
Test Card F. That's a blast from the past! Vince from the band was later one half of the mighty 'Gee Mister Tracy'.
J. Peel, legendary wireless broadcaster pre Internet his odd mix was the only way to get tunes
Sounds like 88 lines about 44 women by The Nails
Rhythm sounds inspired by the 80s tiny Casio VL-Tone keyboards! Da Da Da by Trio is another famous example of this legendary instrument that started som many of us on our synth journey back in the day :)
@@MagicMusicAdam That came into head straight away, 40 years that sound has been locked away at the back of memory lol
It's a Bollington tradition on Christmas morning members of the brass band play carols on white nancy. Imagine climbing that hill carrying a tuba
Its quite a trek
😍😍😍👏 AHHhhh! Martin! My home-town place of my birth! … and I can tell you how the water operated for Ingersley Clough mill: the larger, slim, rectangular building is the wheelhouse and it had a *massive* waterwheel - at one point the second biggest in Britain out side the Laxey Wheel on the Isle of Man. The little metal bridge you walked under fed the water you mentioned from the higher level to the waterwheel 😍.
And White Nancy is just so precious 💕. Many hours all through my life spent on family walks up there. James, you’re a star - brilliant choice. And …
there are old, small mines all over the place round there - the ‘strange road’ you walked down is locally called ‘The Rally-road’ and goes down to the canal, as you mentioned, to take the quarry stone to waiting barges.
Bollington is full of old cotton mills, and was the home of Samuel Greg Jnr (son of Senior, of Quarry Bank Mill fame). He built a mill and model village in Bollington (his mill was Lowerhouse mill and is still there) and he built houses and schools. Unfortunately, his ‘experiment’ was an unmitigated financial disaster and was of huge concern to his father/family still running Quarry Bank Mill. The whole place is a cotton town with other more successful mills - eg those run by Swindells. There’s a small museum by the large Clarence mill that’s on the canal that tells you all about the history! 😍
Going up towards Pott Shrigley at the top end of Bollington you get to Bakestonedale where there is/was a brickworks and the fireclay was mined in the fields opposite mainly through bell-pits+adits. But coal was also mined up there with the Lords of Lyme Park getting extremely pee’d off that miners would tunnel from those fields underneath the Estate boundary walls and nick the coal from under the Estate. Very early mine workings - no headstocks, etc, just men digging holes in the ground.
Bollington was a cotton town with lots of mills the two major ones still there being The Clarence mill and then the Adelphi mill. GO BACK there 😍 - I’m sure you’d get permission to have a wander around. The Clarence has an amazing cafe inside the mill (near the museum!) and right on the canal bank. You have found Martin Zero heaven, James! 😍👏
(EDIT: link to the history and photo of Ingersley Clough mill waterwheel happyvalley.org.uk/?page_id=3958)
Brilliant add on for historic fact nailing.
Nice one Ani
Hi Martin. White Nancy was on my great uncles property in the seventies and possibly before and after. I used to go up to white Nancy as a kid and can remember going inside. My grandfather was responsible for the white washing of white Nancy but I can’t remember much else as we moved to Australia in 1973.
Cant believe i found pics of white nancy painted as A SNOWMAN!
A CHRISTMAS PUD!
also very respectable military memorials,
And royal tributes.
💖
I love Martin’s reaction to seeing an arched stone culvert for the first time. It’s priceless.
Oh yes
I have undertaken an inspection of the culvert under ingersley vale mill.
Mmmmm, meat pies and a cuppa.....the towers and the inclined tramway were good too 😁
I was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA, which was incorporated in 1780, about the same time this mill was built. Interesting to see what my hometown was named after.
What a great video Martin and James, lovely find 👌
Another great video. I really enjoying seeing the country side and all the follies, etc.
Haa haa James remembered the spoon. Thank you for a great explore :)
11:55 - loved the gag, the new company vehicle!!
Nice to see James spread his wings in this video, good job. Turn left, turn right, go straight ahead or back up you're surrounded by amazing history. Nice how a Martin Zero video can make a good day a bit better. Thanks
Thanks Mike
Great video Martin, a serious bit of history with some comedy thrown In, James chasing the pie lol. Dont forget to plug in the milk float and charge it up for the next trip.
Another great video Martin and James ! fascinating ..makes me homesick for England ( Alberta) ..Thank you xx
Know the area very well, my friends and I used to spend many an hour collecting and consuming interesting mushrooms around White Nancy, another great vid gents.
Nice job m8, your young bloke James seems to be keepin up better. Thank you, another goodie. You and yours stay safe and well
Walked up there years apo. Very evocative video and the music was apposite, as usual. Well chosen, James. 🇯🇪
Tea and a bite and a bloody good hike . What more can you want . Cool video as always 😎
Thanks Nathan
Greetings from Spain. I worked at that textiles mill from 1975 until 1990. Went back to Bollington for a visit in 2004 and the stone roof tiles were missing. The main factory had a stone plaque dating it to 1809. The bridge entering the building from the hillside is what fed the water wheel. One would think that it should be a listed building. As kids, we used to run up the front of White Nancy (the steep part) LOL.
Once again very interesting! Thankyou
Thank you for visiting! Next time tell us you're on your way and we'll dust off the sunshine for you to get the whole view over to the Welsh mountains and St Helens 😊
That music takes me back, particularly the intro. It was the sound of the Casio VL-1, VL Tone, musical calculator. A weird piece of kit. And I`ve still got mine.
"It looks suspiciously like something interesting"
Good enough for *this* channel!
First class as always martin and James x
Great video martin as usual..and our lovely james..bit late in watching as had my sons birthday...this video had me smiling all the way..you two seemed so happy and those pies had me drooling...well done when is the next river video.due stay safe and thank u for your continued entertainment 😀 luv you both xxx
Great video thankyou martin and james keep safe.
hi martin and james this was a nice trip out and the pies yummy cheers from trev in sussex
thanks you Martin for a nice video see you next time
Class mate another very nice video, quite interesting places you find.
OMG was that OMD opening music 😆👍great video as well
Very interesting, watching from Philippines and a cool 29 degrees.
That looks like a Bellfield pie and sandwich :-)
Oh Sh*t, that intro, I've now got Da Da Da by Trio running around my head LOL Thanks Martin
James plans a day out for both 👍 they go Here , there over There over here or maybe over a Weir 🤟🏻 well done lads great video 👍
Brilliant viewing on a Sunday evening.
Cheers Paul
Always interesting, thanks
Beautiful video. Thanks.
There are so amazing places to see in this beautiful country we live in. Keep up the great work. God bless
Great video - boy did good. Well deserved pie
Great as always👍👍❤️
I've been waiting for this video. My hiking ground ;)
Great place Carl
Nice one Marin & James
Regarding the doorway in white nancy being blocked up, I think that the latest it would have happened would be the early 60's. As a kid in the 70's my grandmother told me that you used to be able to get inside for a picnic, but she spoke like it was a long time ago, not just a few years. Also, I don't remember my dad saying he'd ever been inside, and he spent his entire life in Bollington. He was born in 1936, so would certainly have been up there in the 1940's.
I first came across White Nancy on a long overnight bike ride. I was pushing the bike up the hill and saw it start to loom into view. I wondered if it was a UFO parked on top of the hill! Or a strange house. Get some nice sunsets up there and the locals are always friendly.
Another awesome video
Thanks Martin, a great video 🙂
Lol it's a national holiday now! He brought a spoon! Also I'd like to think THE WHITE NANCY was named after the horse!
Wow! Thanks guys! White Nancy was so interesting. Pity that mill is so decrepit, if looked after I wouldve loved to live there. James my mom used to make us tea when we went on long trips in the car but she used to put milk in with the tea. I put the sugar in too, less to carry and no spoon needed. Our trip food was buttered buns, hardboiled eggs, sausage called "boerewors" (literally farmers sausage) and bananas. I never ate the sandwiches, the butter and jam just got waved at the bread.
What a fun little video! Thanks for sharing. Love to see the adventures of Martin and James. 🫖🍪
Made me feel very homesick. ❤️❤️❤️White Nancy looks over the whole town like a guardian angel, visible on the hill, in most weathers! She has been all colours over the years. Thank you, loved this.
Amazing history….
Hey Martin when you want a tour of Clarence and adelphi Mill I know the estate manager there and I've already told him about you and he said he'd love to give you a tour.
That was Cool !
Wonderful.
Thank you team . when I heard James planned the expedition I prayed that their would be survivors HA HA HA. but I new the treats and tea would help you get back safe.
He almost got us lost 😄
I always enjoy your videos and I wish I could visit manchester myself. I am retired and on a small pension so at the moment I can only dream about m British heritage.
Like the "kraftwerk" bit, that tramway bridge was a bit of a gem 👍👍👍
Whenever I'm on a bridge over a small watercourse, I'm always tempted to play Pooh Sticks.
Great video as usual. 👍🏻
Hi Martin, Another great video, I,m from this area and the mill race from the pool you where talking about crossed the road in the iron trough which was above your heads , think you called it a flue but it actually carried water to a large over shot water wheel think at the time it was the biggest in the north of England , wheel has long gone. Have you ever ventured over to Goyt valley , well worth a look , ruined hall Errwood , lol grave yard , shrine , murders in the early 80,s and a World war plane crash , a Oxford and a railway incline from the Cromford and high peak railway, well worth a look , cheers
Thanks for this Martin. I was born and raised in Bolly, so it's great to see you exporing my local area. It's a shame you didn't get a nice day as the view is great, hills of the peaks to the right, the village below and Manchester in the distance. Macclesfield would be a great video also. And Bugsworth Basin, my grandad is the Chairman of the trust :)
Decent weather for the hike and picnic. The mill looked interesting but in dangerous shape for exploration. That milk float is in very nice shape!
Cant see that mill being developed now Bill
@@MartinZero it would have been a cool place to live but its just plain unsafe at this point which is too bad eh?.
The Length was just right and another good video.
maybe short but packed with interest, fun and facts. well done both of you.
That was interesting thank you x
Thanks Fatima
Pott shrigley just up the road has loads of mines and tunnels.. and the pie shop in bollington is the best ive ever had.. caramel slices are a must if you ever go back..
I remember going up to White Nancy when I was a kid. For one of the Queen's jubilees there were beacon fires set alight across the country and White Nancy was one of them. I remember being dragged along to see this 'historic' moment and peering into the far distance to find the next beacon fire in the line - only to see nothing. Cue lots of people with binoculars gesticulating wildly and shouting "It's over there, it's over there" and the rest of the crowd not having the faintest bloody idea of where we were supposed to be looking.
Also, not sure if it's still there, but there used to be a damn good pub nearby and you'd spend Sunday having lunch in the pub and then trying to walk it off by clambering up to the monument.
Good times - but it was always chilly up there no matter what the season was.
Thanks for sharing another great trek & music! Love James' new company vehicle!
Thoroughly enjoyed, thanks for bringing us along! 👍
Windmill Lane so named because of the windmill :-) Long since gone!
nice one James
My old stomping ground. My family on both sides come from that area. The shafts are coal shafts. My great grandfather used to work them. One of his sons William worked as an apprentice at that mill as an apprentice dyer. He was killed in 1918 in France. The quarry was where they mined millstone grit for the building industry. I got married in the local church in Rainow. The village also hosted a workhouse and there is local history about two accused witches from Rainow that were convicted and hung in Chester in the seventeenth century. All a long way away as I now live in Minnesota.
Thank you.
Interesting video. Very gloomy but atmospheric January weather.
Yeah shame about the view
Go to the anson engine museum in poynton, they have a huge 3d map of hundreds of old mines in the area, also a very interesting day out, lots of restored engines of all decades, sk121td
Nice one Ernie 👍 Zero road tax, being electric 🤣🤣
3 wheels though 😨
Good stuff
Love the incline, an unexpected bonus. An old college friend lived in Bollington and I seem to remember her talking about White Nancy. Good to see what it is.
Thanks for the great video. Like a few of the others who have commented, I was also born and raised in Bollington, and as a kids we used to walk & play in a lot of the places you showed.
Although I can't see it on the OS map of Google earth, I think there is another tower further upstream in the river Dean, on the true left bank (Kerridge hill side), it would be quite a way upstream from clough pool.
There is also a tower in the middle of the village of Rainow a few hundred metres away. I'm not sure if that served a purpose or was another Folly.
They say that's how Martin disappeared...out on the moors. Some say you can still hear him calling..." Helloo, and welcome back to another video"
A good pie shop and a sandwich would have lured me in also. Don't feel bad. :)
Da Da Da.🎵
Oh, something else, original.
Great video. What a lot of interesting stuff in a small area!
Thank you James 😊
3:08... I can HEAR the wheels spinning in your head here as the mysterious tunnel cries out for exploration!
Great video lads
What a brilliant double act..and James new company vehicle, classic material is that ! lol
Oh, and the vlog, superb as always guys.
3 wheeler though 😯
Its fun to watch because I've done similar stuff in all the cities I've lived in too, but the best part is seeing you guys explore together. I never had any friends to do weird stuff with so thanks for sharing!
Thanks Thomas
I like how white Nancy blended into the sky. A fun adventure
Nice one Martin, can't wait to watch this one, my home town Macclesfield, not been to White Nancy since I was a kid, brilliant, thanks 👍👍
cheers Martin, you should get yourself over to Blaenau Ffestiniog, more stuff here than you can shake a stick at
Yeah I want to go
Have a read up on nether alderly mill. Definitely an older water powered mill. Also on the macc canal you can see the rope marks on the bridges over the canal in and around bollington.
Great to see you do Bollington. There are many other things there. An even more derelict mill in the woods and lots of canal things. The place is Millworkers housing.
What's the derelict mill in the woods called. I can't think of anything that fits the bill
@@Paul-sc6ic For the life of me I can't remember where it is. Its beyond the derelict mill shown here, and was literally just footings etc if I remember correctly. Its a long time ago I lived there!
another Fantastic video many thanks , i think where james is getting mixed up is that it was one of the very first mills in the country to be powered by electricity, not water power keep up the great work
Tower and pie!
And a brew!
I like Bollington. I worked in macclesfield 20 years ago ans went to look at renting a cottage there but it was a bit out of my budget but a lovely little village. Much nicer than Macclesfield town centre where I ended up.
Yeah I must admit it was nice
Another interesting adventure, looks a bit bleak for a picnic though. James and the pie reminded me of Homer Simpson chasing a donut. Pauper apprentices were often orphans from the workhouses of the cities so not really philanthropic, more like slave labour. Quarry Bank mill is a good example of this practice. Waulk Mill is a variation on the spelling of Walk Mill, otherwise known as a fulling mill used in the production of woollen cloth.
Lovely video, Martin. The lad did good, today. Very fond of a Folly, me. Very fond. I've visited many, and here's the thing - some are beautiful, some, inexplicable, but a huge amount are simply bloody terrifying. A good cough could bring them down around your ears.
So was I the only one singing - "da da da" - with that tune? Most of thee are too young I suppose. Nice little short there Martin, well done James.
Cheers Mark
Once again brought to life by yourself and James. Thoroughly enjoyable, thank you.
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Good video that Martin & James glad he took his spoon for the brew I often where the name white Nancy came from 👍
We finally had a spoon
@@MartinZero hope he brings one on other videos 👍