Thanks for that video. I was in Eyam in 1998 for a lunch in a pub with tables covered with copper. We had a wonderfull crayfish salad there and I would like to find this pub to come back on next November. Is somebody able to help me to find this pub? I think that there was a statue of a bear nearby. Thanks for your help
The plague came to Eyam from London, where roughly 100,000 died. So Eyam quarantining did not really prevent the spread of the plague, at all, though it was largely confined to S.E. England.
It is said to have prevented the spread in Derbyshire. You can tune in to my interview with the curator of Eyam Museum.- th-cam.com/video/CI6eGdzwIuE/w-d-xo.html
It absolutely prevented the spread of the plague through neighbouring towns and villages and further through the north. What the villagers did here saved thousands of lives.
@@alison__16 So....those other villages had no contact with London or other towns & villages afflicted with the plague ? London was not quarantined so surely Eyam's self-quarantining was just a 'drop in the bucket' so far as stopping the spread of the plague was concerned.
@@rolandstravels It would not have helped if other villages in the area did not take precautions....such as closing their 'gates' to travellers to and from London and other infected areas. Did they do that ? I suspect not. Eyam was not the only village in S.E. England that had plague deaths, yet their non-quarantine seemingly had little effect on the spread of the plague in the surrounding areas.
Thank you for posting this. I just finished reading Year of Wonders and this tour was so enjoyable to watch to get eyes on some of their landmarks
That’s great. Thank you for letting me know.
Have you ever been to Pateley Bridge?
Sadly no.
Thanks for that video. I was in Eyam in 1998 for a lunch in a pub with tables covered with copper. We had a wonderfull crayfish salad there and I would like to find this pub to come back on next November. Is somebody able to help me to find this pub? I think that there was a statue of a bear nearby. Thanks for your help
The plague came to Eyam from London, where roughly 100,000 died. So Eyam quarantining did not really prevent the spread of the plague, at all, though it was largely confined to S.E. England.
It is said to have prevented the spread in Derbyshire. You can tune in to my interview with the curator of Eyam Museum.- th-cam.com/video/CI6eGdzwIuE/w-d-xo.html
It absolutely prevented the spread of the plague through neighbouring towns and villages and further through the north. What the villagers did here saved thousands of lives.
@@alison__16 So....those other villages had no contact with London or other towns & villages afflicted with the plague ? London was not quarantined so surely Eyam's self-quarantining was just a 'drop in the bucket' so far as stopping the spread of the plague was concerned.
The quarantine would certainly have helped reduce the spread.
@@rolandstravels It would not have helped if other villages in the area did not take precautions....such as closing their 'gates' to travellers to and from London and other infected areas. Did they do that ? I suspect not. Eyam was not the only village in S.E. England that had plague deaths, yet their non-quarantine seemingly had little effect on the spread of the plague in the surrounding areas.