The Ordsall Chord and the Marple Aqueduct.
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- In this video we visit the Ordsall chord a railway bridge that spans the cities of Manchester and Salford. Its a place we have visited before looking at George Stephensons railway bridge. We also look at an old River Canal wharf basin. Called the Wilburn street wharf. We then go on to look at Marple aqueduct. Built in 1794 to carry the Peak forest canal over the River Goyt.
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FOUR years ago, seems like yesterday I first saw that.... Martin, in the past five years you and your channel have grown in so many ways. I'm glad that I, like others, became part of your journey. You got me hooked with the "River Medlock" series, one of your best. I do miss the early days of "one man and one camera" but now the quality of your narration, your enthusiasm, music and editing are nothing but top-notch. Thank you for the past five years and look forward to the years to come.......
I thought the same thing! Then thought back about where I was in life at the point and needed to take a step back to breath 😂. How has it been that long‽
What he said. I could have written that comments myself. Awesome channel
@@martindooley4439 I found Martin by accident, i was researching the River Fleet in London and came across Martin and the River Medlock.
I do that Marple walk regularly, it's one of the nicest parts of Stockport, it's stunning.
My grandma was living yards away from Wilburn Basin during the Manchester Blitz in 1940. A pub on Wilburn Street took a direct hit causing huge damage ( and some fatalities) in that area. She spent the night buried in the cellar and had to be dug out. Fascinating to see it now, full of high rise apartments but still those hints of what was there before...
Samuel Oldknow was one of the prime movers for the Marple aquaduct. You will have noted the round stone lined opennings in the upper parts of the aquaduct, Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown (engineer) must have had similar concerns about the downward load of the structure as the "holes" were designed to lessen the weight. In one shot you can see a white farm in the valley beyond the later Viaduct. That, is reputed to have been a glue factory for processing the carcasses of the canal horses when they had come to the end of their working lives, there is a way down to the river from the Hydebank tunnel side of the aqueduct which is now a set of modern railway sleeper type steps and an old cobbled track leading from under the archway to the farm.
Martin , Paul and Rebecca , All Of You Guys ROCK , CHEERS From California !
Speaking as a Cumbrian country bumkin I find all of this fascinating.
Manchester seems like a truly grand city with amazing resilience and spirit.
Thanks for posting
So much passion went into the old infrastructure, those viaducts are stunning.
Thanks Martin for nice video see you next week
As you talked about - I also often wonders: How did they do it? Grand boulders mounted level and straight in the most difficult places. Marvellous enginering!!!
Love from Denmark
Haha, I love how casually you can say 'Yeah, I've kayaked through there!' So cool :D
Ahhh, Sunday's, Paul and Rebecca and Martin on the same day, what joy. Martin, another fascinating explore of Manchester history and that aqueduct, just phenomenal. I'm very worried about a George Stevenson statue, because some twat will undoubtedly find out that George had a 7th cousin 16 times removed who had 2 shares in a sugar plantation that had 20 slaves 300 years previously, and it will end up in the river. Great video and thank you very much.
maybe they will be too busy trying to find a 'connection' to a teeny-tiny commemorative plaque on the wall inside a village church somewhere!
I've heard that both George Stephenson and his son Robert spent their entire lives as white men and never once apologised for it. It's a disgrace and I demand that his statue is demolished even before it's built.
Always pleased to see a new video from this channel and this one is really interesting. I hardly recognise the Manchester I knew back in the 70’s and 80’s
😎😎😎 'Another great vid' Martin. Thanks for sharing. 😎😎😎
Ah yes remember that vid very well when you got hands on with Stephensons bridge. Good to see you back in town, happy days👍👍👍👍
Wilburn Basin. Yes those chutes were for Salford's "nightsoil" waste (including stable straw and horse shit), which went into barges to boysnope wharf (which used to be on the River Irwell, but now on the MSC in Irlam) for transfer to Chat Moss as fertiliser. The basin was filled in with cinders and then re-opened up about 1980 and low level wooden jetty built. Sadly in about 1988ish two youngsters were playing on the wooden jetty and a 4-year-old boy fell in and drowned.
Pure magic Martin, wow, me and my life long mate Pete Wrigley spent most of our lives on the peak forest canal and roman lakes. We must have crossed that aqueduct 100s of times. Glad you enjoyed it 👍😂👍
Great vids as always
Roj D ( raggy kids from Reddish back then 😆 )
How was that video 4 years ago?! 😵 That was one of the 1st videos that I watched on your channel. And I've been a huge fan since. Thank you for the update on the progress. Happy Easter. 🐣
I agree....amazing stone work....I'm in awe so many times in your videos! Thanks!
Thanks Martin A Great Video From Blue
That basin and its mystery chutes and wear in the stone is great!! It looks really amazing now!
I remember driving past Marple aqueduct and viaduct last year and immediately got on my phone to find out more. It's beautiful! Loving the waterwheel too!
I actually look more forward to watching these videos than I do my regular shows on the networks. Thanks for all you do, Martin and company!
Please, never apologise for lauding the 18th century. They did the creative work for much of the Victorian industry. It's just that they did much of it around Birmingham Stoke-on-Trent. Thanks for this nice recap-extension video. -- An 18th-century book historian.
Hi Martin, hard to believe the aqueduct is prior to Horacio Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar!
An incredible piece of engineering, and another great vid!
Cheers!
I liked that video its like old times and to the point.
How absolutly wonderful you included the Smiths music. That really made it! Thank you - Happy Easter.
Great video around the bridge's. Great views. Thanks again for doing the videos.
Four years wow thanks Martin keep them coming please
Fantastic Video, Martin. The Marple Aqueduct is quite similar to the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen canal another amazing structure and well worth a visit. I love your videos . Keep up the great work.😀👍
Yeh I remember watching that video blimey 4 years ago.Another good video Martin👍👍
What a great video Martin and I never knew about the bridges in and around the river irwell & of the bridge in marple keep up ☝the good work
I nip to London a lot and explore but these amazing videos are opening my mind to the wonders that my home town contains.brilliant mate.
Cracking video to finish off my Easter holidays 🙌 Be nice when that bridge FINALLY opens. Nice bit at the end of Marple.
Short and sweet Martin, just loved it and your enthusiasm makes it brilliant to watch. Miss the tea break though lol.....
I love how this area of Manchester is ram-packed full of transportation history. I've been in Manchester three times and basically haven't seen all of the niceties of the Castelfield area, didn't even touch it here even though it's only 300m further.
This simple video is just as amazing as the others and we love your videos Martin, thank you very much!
Very interesting as per usual Martin! Thank you for brightening my day !!xx
I popped up to Manchester a couple of weeks ago for a couple of days for the first time, and having watched your videos already felt I knew the place!
Back to basics Martin, brilliant short video. 👍
Really enjoyed your little video Martin. I have been educated again didn’t no anything about marple aquaduct so Thankyou it is indeed beautiful and awe inspiring. I’m the same you look at these magnificent structures from years ago and you think how did they do that just with simple tools and not much else. Those guys n gals really did leave something for us who have followed them to enjoy and marvel at. Cheers pal 👍
Thanks Martin for a brilliant vlog. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Wonderful video, Martin, the've done a lot of stuff up there, to preserve the industrial heritage!
thanks for the video Martin, the marple aqueduct is just great to look at.
Aw, what a great post, reminds me of the early days when I first subscribed. 👍
Love the smiths sounding music when you showed the Marple stuff
Loved the video compilation to the Smiths. Excellent. From Sheffield living in Bangkok now. Made me miss home.
Class Martin
Martin, I would give the left part of my anatomy to live there!!!! The history is incredible!!!! Even if its just a small drain age channel carved long ago into some flagstones!!!! As for those bridges!!
Another great video, another idea for an insert video would be to go back to the mill that was being demolished 2 years ago, with an update to the site. It's the one where you recovered a drone one time, then it was being demolished at the start of covid. Often wondered whats going on there.
Keep up the good work
still waiting for BBC or C4 to give this man a series. how he keeps finding all these hidden gems is beyond me
Well done martin the places and areas you visit and explain are as individual and unique as the people who designed and worked on them all those years ago......
Enjoy your bank holiday speak soon Regards rob x
As a retired civil engineer, I enjoy all of your videos of old structures. Many years ago, as a young 2LT, The US Army made me a bridge builder. Ever since, bridges were a big part of my professional career. I enjoy seeing all kinds of bridges. Thanks for sharing. Good Luck, Rick
Martin. Do you know that you are amazing, knowledgeable and Sooo interesting. Brill vid as usual thanks for brightening my day!!!
Smashing vid! Shame that eyesore the Hilton was in quite a lot ;)
Mint catch up Martin. Top one. Nice one. Get sorted!
I loved the style of this video, but i also like James!
Nice to see them making it look nice and recognising what they have, it would look really nice Martin if they put a statue of George Stephenson on the plinth but that would cost a bit I suppose, always lovely to see you Martin I just loved that mill at the end. Thanks. 😀
I’m so happy you’ve reached the point in your YT career that you are able to re visit areas and can potentially do side by side comparisons of locations. Really love the idea of you taking your drone back to compare the progress made around the bridges and the difference in the current sky line. It really does show that every video you create becomes a Time Capsule in its own right.
I know the concrete isn't as aesthetically pleasing, but I imagine it's also done to make an obvious distinction between new and old, like you are sometimes asked to do when renovating a listed building.
The area looks like it's going to be really something, I love the seating areas.
An interesting vlog, the drone gives a good overview of the environment.
Almost no graffiti seen.
A lone wolf video like the old days 😀
Glad you finally got to Marple!
I’m glad I walked across the old bridge before it disappeared.
awesome vid martin
Loved it .
Simple or not: a Martin-video I didn't want to miss. Shows wonderful engineering feats and pictures from the Manchester area. They should really put a statue of Stevenson on that lone pillar. With a turntable under it so he can look around and see what his follow-ups had done ... :-) Thanks for sharing !
Lovely to see the aqueduct from another perspective
At 11:29 you mention the chutes into the basin, just before that you mention the brewery that moved in there around the Time the Basin was being completed. If you measure the width of the chute you may find an answer. Possibly a barrel chute to load barrels onto the barges, they were sometimes used as they meant that overhead hand operated cranes didn't need to be used. They would've started at the brewery storehouse and be gradually inclined towards the basin, to allow gravity to do the job of lowering the barrel's to the barge level. The rope cuts would've been from the ropes on the drawbridge, yes I said drawbridge, that when raised stopped any barrels and when lowered it would project over the gunwale of the barge and allow the barrel's to be lowered from there into the barge.
I can remember seeing it somewhere else, but not the name of the place. Similar chutes were also used with a small track and light rope hauled carriages to move bales of wool and cloth etc from warehousing to barges at dock.
Great explanation.
Nice one Martin loved this one . The viaduct and aqueduct were magnificent 😍🤩🤩🧱👍🏼
Benjamin Outram is one of my heroes. He built Store Street aqueduct on the Ashton canal in Manchester at a 45 degree angle. Unfortunately the inside of the arch has been rendered with concrete because years of neglect have allowed water to seep between the joints in the stones, so the beauty of the skew arch isn't visible any more. It's still worth a look and it's only a stone's throw from Piccadilly station.
What no James? I'm let down 🤣
Thank you for making this happen
Nice job m8, kinda remember you and your m8s out in the kyaks round there. Its changed a bit, an more over grown. More building is called progress, sometimes I don't agree with it. Thanks m8, you and yours an James stay safe and well!
Good watch that was.
Very very interesting am in Newcastle but very interested in Bolton Manchester.
Nice work lads.
I enjoyed this as much as I enjoy all of your other video's.
At the start I thought to myself, this is where the drone lies and you then confirmed it.
Pretty cool to see the sign reused and repainted etc. This sign is from the salford side of the bridge, as there was another on the manchester side that had the crests reversed. Cool :)
I really like the return to the old Martin format in this video . Thanks ! What a shame with the tossers spray painting all the new concrete . When caught they should be made lick it all clean ! Love the maps old and new and drone angles . It looks like they’re laying some track on the old bridge ? Maybe part of a future display with some rolling stock ? Keep us posted eh ? Cheers .
Until those flats were put up around the basin, 4 or 5 years ago, that patch had been derelict for at least 30 years. I used to cut through on my bike on my way to work. Tucked in all the bushes was one of those 'interpretive signs' which the Castlefield Development people (as I remember) put up in the mid 80s when they were trying to tart the area up a bit, and things like MOSI and the pub at the end of the Rochdale Canal were just getting going. It had some nice pencil sketches of the council yard and some detail on the 'night soil men' and their carts of shite, and how it ended up going down the shutes into barges. Now sometimes flats on industrial sites are called 'The old mill' or 'The old foundry' but strangely the developer missed his opportunity on this one. Putting the 'brown' in 'brownfield site' :-)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off vibes at Marple aqueduct :)
God bless you Martin
I love to see my birth place again when you show us Manchester City Centre.
Thanks for your time and efforts to produce your volgs.
Keep safe warm dry and virus free.
Fantastic video as always martin x
I recently bought a bike. Fancied a ride out today and ended up at Marple Aquaduct!
Great to see the Spade Forge in Marple Bridge at the end of the video. Just across the road from me. The Marple locks and aqueduct are truly something for us locals to be proud of. Loved hearing The Smiths instrumental too. A really beautiful piece of music
I used to live in nearby Romiley after leaving Manchester (or was that forced repatriation?) in the 1960s and walked across the aqueduct on many occasions. One thing I noted is that they now have railings on the side opposite the tow-path. That used to be an unguarded drop and I remember kids jumping from the tow path to the other side! You really need to stand on the canal qaueduct to get a sense of how high the railway viaduct is - even as a kid it amazed. Great video as usual Martin.
How that area (Castlefield) has changed since I passed it regularly in the 80s.
Excellent vid as usual.
I first encountered the Marple viaduct in the late 80's, early 90's. Fantastic piece of engineering, and the canal is lovely. I had family who lived up there, and as a young carefree lad, took it upon myself to take the Dog for a walk to their house, I was living at home with my Mum at the time in Fallowfield. Yes, I walked all the way to Marple from Fallowfield, the Dog was knackered lol. I used to ride my bike up there too, was a good journey if you got the right weather.
Cheers Martin, brought back some fond memories 👍
I was the night concierge for Wilburn Basin a few years ago. You’d be surprised whats come out of it. I think when the water is low you can see the top of a car that was dumped in there.
When I saw the working boat and then a freight train, for a second I thought you had invented that time machine you often talk of.
Keep up the great work Martin. Your enthusiasm is infectious and your knowledge is great.
Nice job mate. I was laughing when you really started attacking the modern concrete, and one of your fellow explorer's is calming you down. I was right there with you. Also, loved the music. Who's playing it was such a lovely version, and totally in keeping with the subject matter. Once again knocked it out the park. I mentioned it to Jago Hazzard a while back as he's in London, but I know that there's some kind of tunnel under the statue of Boudicea in Westminster, supposedly linked to the movement of gold bullion from the Thames to the Treasury. I can't do it as I'm in the US, but it most be worth a snoop. Big love.
That sounds interesting Peter. Music was Dean playing a Smiths number 👍
As a civil engineer myself I totally agree with your comments about 18th century engineering, long before the science was developed. The Institution of Civil Engineers wasn’t founded until 1820
Good stuff Martin. Thank you.
Crikey you filmed the kayaking video 4 years ago? Time is passing us by so quickly.
Great video and totally agree with you about how these constructions were built so long ago.
That was great. Not to take anything away from epic explores, James and brew time but I actually prefer your old style. (Sorry to be old-fashioned!)
Can't believe that video was 4 years ago!
Excellent video Martin. It was all fabulous but the Marple Viaduct was incredible. The stonework is breathtaking. Absolutely loved that thanks. Please take care and stay safe
So amazing 👏
Thanks Martin happy Easter. Another fascinating vlog I do like the bits, be nice when the bridge is open ? You mentioned the dock for Salford Corporation transferred there rubbish. Over the river was Water St where Manchester Corp loads it night soil very smelly
Always enjoy your videos. Lots of interesting bits of info and wonderful old historical sites to look at. I can't believe I remember watching your kayak video back in the day, some days I can't remember what I did 2 weeks ago LOL. Great Video!
Excellent as usual, Martin.
That is awe inspiring.
Oh my... That took me back .. great vlog again. I'll keep hold of my biscuits for next time. Thanks Martin 🤗