Manchester Underground Tunnels Rivers and Railway Arches (River Medlock VI)
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- In this video we go underground in Manchester UK. We follow the river Medlock in the city exploring the Underground tunnels and end up under vast railway arches. The railway architecture is stunning. Some of the underground tunnels are quite long and scary. Some are old stone bridges. We urban explore, urbex and get a glimpse into Manchester's history. Old drains and remains of our industrial heritage as we see the remains of old factories. This is the history of Manchester on display whilst we wade along the river Medlock. This is quite an adventure Exploring Manchester's waterways.
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I have just watched all six of your Medlock videos back to back.
You, sir, have genuine talent as a filmmaker.
This is incredible. It's like stepping back in time to the early industrial revolution. If you didn't make these vids, nobody would ever know - massive thanks for posting. :)
Thanks Paul. I will never forget that walk in the River on a hot summers day 👍
The brick work along the way was incredible, but that last bit totally blew my mind. I can't even imagine the number of men and total of man hours required to build that. I've also got to wonder just how many bricks are in those walls and tunnels. An absolute testament to the engineering skills of the men that built that.
Incredible that arch wasn’t it 👍
This video alone was worth the price of the waders, i remember watching documentary some years ago stating parts of Man city was 90ft + in places from it`s original level. Walking down the Medlock seeing how the walls have formed over the last 300 years of industrial revolution from bedrock to large stone, and then the different styles of brickwork over the years. All the tell tale gems of past windows, doors, drians and loading dock / walkways are tales of what came in too or out of Manchester, to build it in to the city we know now. champion work by the three of you , cheers ken (YP)
Thanks Ken, yes it was absolutely fascinating. I noticed the bedrock whilst watching it back I should of mentioned that
yorkie pudd youve worked it out as well mate. Manchester was a basin with connectable high points, it could be in the future a hydro clean city.
It’s a shame to see all that Japanese Knotweed growing everywhere there, it will eventually topple those lovely brick walls :(. Top class videos, I’m hooked!
These videos need to be on a mainstream Tv channel, absolutely fascinating, well presented, engaging and educational. Martin you are very knowledgeable, easy to listen to and passionate about your subjects on Manchester. Keep up the good work mate.
This stuff is 10x better than the crap the BBC has broadcasting to the nation in recent years!
The number of bricks in that end part... Jesus Christ! Great video, this channel is a real gold mine!
Thank you very much. Yes I wouldnt like to hazard a guess as to how many bricks 👍
@@MartinZero The facing bricks are a fraction of the bricks behind. The arches can be many bricks thick.
Better looking than concrete which is what they would do now
I'm not from Manchester but I love your videos and your passion, I am however glad you didn't go into that tunnel without a gas analyser, it may be worth getting one if you carry on getting into less used spaces, I have seen too many people drop within 15 feet of someone then the other person goes to their aid and drops also.
Stay safe and keep doing what you do.
"Not too many maps" - love the maps! Great series Martin.
Need to go back and check out that little tunnel! 💪🏽
I know. I still wonder about that
@@MartinZero at a guess its a cso with the mist and the smell you describe then the roar of water in the distance also next to it at another guess is a manual pen-stock valve which would have been opened/closed at street level yet again sewer related ,Me and my son have river Medlock walked more or less were you stopped all the way back through Phillips park then onto to park bridge in A-U-L
Wow did you wade in the water ? thats very impressive. I realise know what it was and thanks for the info 👍
Martin, there's an excellent book that might be of help:-: Underground Manchester, Secrets of the lost city revealed, by, Keith Warrender (2007)- available from Amazon. Carry on with your work, greatly enjoyed.
It's a part of history that seldom gets told . Our industrial heritage ! Lost to more modern modes of transportation , neglect , fire , graffiti and then urban renewal .
I'm glad to the old buildings repurposed . Thanks for your efforts to video this important historical story .
Thanks Montie
I'm hoping he tells another story a Tartarian story
Last time I was in the Medlock the water looked like Brown Windsor Soup! We used to pump from the Medlock quite frequently on the numerous large fires we had around there. Happy times at Philips Park fire station.
Wow! I just turned 74 a few days ago and you tend, at this age, to think about the past quite a bit. I was born and lived in Chorlton on Medlock in New York Street near the Manchester Museum. I was recently thinking about how when we were walking out of the city centre - I must have been about 9 - we came across this river with a small drop that created white water. It was so incongruous and threatening being in the cĺity centre so to speak.
I had no idea where it was then quite by accident I watched a few of you videos and learned that it was at Pin Mill Brow. Brilliant! Thanks so much for that. The videos are great.
Thank you, Martin, for taking us with you on your journeys. Magnificent. A cathedral!
Thanks Joseph
Massive display of public works to make trade and manufacturing on such a large scale possible . It took an equally large GDP to pay for it . Thanks for showing the world the effort , of the parts shown , it took to build . Nice Job !
Came across this video by accident & loved it.But the waterways ppl could do with doing a clean up of it. Loved seeing how the different brickwork came together.
Hi Jo thanks for watching. I loved doing that vid, a very hot day in July. Amazing journey
thanks again for showing me the bits i can't see for myself :)
Amazing upload, I used to play in the Medlock in the 70’s. Lived off Rylance Street
England was so much more beautiful up until 100 yrs ago, or so.
Whole of Europe was beautiful. After the war in 1945 they knocked down so much, especially in the 60s 😔
Yes, another triumph! Thanks for such a well rounded and instructional video
Very amazing and I love how you describe stuff and well done and I love listening to your video's as i am blind and i am a white cane long cane user
Thanks very much Richard.
Martin Zero you are most welcome mate
Defo should have a TV show about this stuff. When you look around Leigh and Wigan and switch between old railway and new on railmaponline you will see just how much railway we lost - there are good viaducts near Bolton, one up near Rawtenstall and one near Great Harwood near Blackburn for sure, these were the Bury to Bolton line, Bury to Accrington Line and the Great Harwood loop in Lancashire
wonderful martin and team cheers trev
Amazing series, thank you very much! I love your content! 😀😁
It 30th December 2021 as I go through the Martin Zero video collection. What struck me about this video was the absence of birdsong compared to the previous section. Glad you didn't enter in to that brick side culvert, I was on the edge of my seat for a moment!!
Love this series - very inspiring :)
Fascinating. Thanks for your time and effort in making these great videos Martin. Love them all!
Thank you Mel for watching and supporting me 👍
My favourite of all of your videos! Fascinating stuff.
Many thanks for showing the world your old and neglected !
Thanks Montie
Exciting stuff Martin and Connor really enjoy the videos you make keep up the good work Martin.
Awesome channel, love this sort of thing
all the freaking brick work is just incredible, one at a time.
Hi Michael yeah and when you consider thats just one arch. there are about 20 on the run into Manchester Piccadilly. Its astounding 👍
Superb instalment again.Its amazing how da engineers and builders of da day built these bridges without heavy machinery 👍
I loved being under that massive arch, amazing stuff
Wonderful and very special this, it's amazing the enormous amount, and often beautiful brickwork, they produced during the victorian era!
Yes it was amazing the stuff we found
Awesome as always. The archs in blue brick definately look railway related. Kind of match the arches at the old nottimgham victoria site and the cast iron bridge is a giveaway. Dont think alot of places used Staffordshire blue bricks for general construction except the railways. Got afew lurking in my garden from random explores.
As usual, fascinating stuff Martin. I was wandering as I watched if there was any wildlife in and around the Medlock, then you mentioned you could see some small fish. Great stuff, keep uploading to keep your fans amazed and fascinated :)
Hi Tony the previous I was checking out the entry point and there was a small black duck with a red bit on it lol It looked a bit unusual 😮
Amazing to think you are in the midst of the city, yet because of the nature of the river and tunnels you could literally be in the middle of nowhere. I think my main fear would be tripping wearing waders. Would hate to have them fill up with water! That section of tunnel at the end was huge.
Hi yes so isolated down there. Yes thats my fear to be honest. That railway arch is a Cathedral 😃
I’m spending my days at home sheltering in place due to the corona virus. Thank goodness for your shows, Martin. I feel like a million bucks watching.
Thanks Joseph, glad your enjoying
Just found this video. Amazing job. Two things I find fascinating. The way they kept widening bridges over old ones is crazy. Like counting the rings of a tree. And the amount of brickwork is mind boggling. Incredibly labor intensive, not to mention beautiful. Be careful out there !!!
Helmet street 😂😂😂. I love Martin's video's..
Great video yet again Martin. There is a lot more history with the medlock if you come the other way from phillips park.
Even a lost village.
Really, I might have to do a series going that way as well
Yeah, I've heard about the lost village too, somwhere near Daisy Nook?
Auntie Jingles lost village sounds cool!
Let me know if you do and I'll show you a few places.
The Crime Lake myth?
Great Video Martin
Better than the telly
Hello, thanks very much 😀👍
The Meddy river means a lot to me, having grown up in Ardwick, going to Medlock Infants & Junior schools, moving house to Droylsden later, having family & friends in & around Clayton, running the school cross country across Clayton Vale, (crossing thru the Meddy), & on & on!
Yet another 1/2 an hour well spent.
I'm a manc born and bread but live in the USA. God you make me homesick And I didn't know those places existed the only rivers I knew were the Goyt and the Mersey. Thanks Martin keep up the good work
Hello, thanks very much. Yeah the Medlock is a lesser known river
A great video as usual Martin,thank you for posting,very interesting
Hi Mike, thanks very much 👍
Brilliant video let history take its course and your the one take in us on it 👍🐝
Ha, fab !!! Thanks Gavin 👌
just love watching your videos martin,most imformative..keep up the great work
Hello thank you very much 👍
Awsome video martin..
Another of the back catologue ticked. very enjoyable
Cheers Tim
Like no.50 another interesting video - I’m glad the weather has stayed great - I fully watched 👍👍
Hi Nathan, thank you very much
Loved this series of videos. If you'll excuse me I'll be opening google earth now to look up and explore Manchester... :p
Hi Martin afraid I'm playing catch up fantastic stuff reminds me of the time me and my mate paddled a dinghy on the river alt through the culvert under switch Island Maghull Merseyside it was good fun but no way near as interesting and brilliant the way you present your adventures.....Big thank you for being so inspirational....Nice one.
Another fascinating video, thanks Martin keep up the good work.
Thank you very much Betty 😆👍
I'm a stones throw away from clayton vale and the river medlock ,it's amazing the medlock has a amazing history with the Irish imagrants the train workers and the midland hotel .
Hi Danny yeah am heading that way on the Medlock series now am in Town 👍🏼
really enjoyed this film ty martin n team brilliant
Thank you
Absolutely loved it. I really didn't want it to end. I definitely wanted you to go in that tunnel with the stairs. Hope you took that tap as a souvenir it looked really old. Well done to the both of you. Keep them coming.
Hello, might have to re visit that tunnel. Believe it or not we didn't take the Tap. Now Connor wants to go back and get it 😀
Superb !
Great video once again Martin learning more and more about the history of this great city we live in
Thanks Steveo, glad you enjoyed it. It was great doing it too
Amazing! You are an inspiration Martin. What isn't seen is the amount of time you spend on research and putting all these films together, again thank you!
Thanks very much Clive
Wow that looks like a fantastic place to explore and experience. That side tunnel must be calling you to explore.
Great video Martin - all that unseen history exposed for all to see. Fabulous brickwork, especially in the unexplored tunnel... good effort 👍👍👍
Thanks John, loved the steps in that tunnel 👍
Have watched The Medlock Series again, and man I give you guys credit for perseverance. The size of Megatron is impressive, guess back in the day it was bearing heavy weight. Thanks again to both you ,Connor,and Gary.
Thanks Andrew
Great video and good work get to the 1 ware the cattle bridge is why the rivers at its low carnt wait to see in that one 👍😎
Still thinking on that one lol
Looked like a good day out 👍
Haha! Like that t-shirt. That's pretty cool on a hot day.
Thank you 😃
Another brilliant video. Very entertaining and informative. Great perspective of Manchester than most people do not get to see. Keep up the good work lads.
Cheers Alan
That was absolutely better than brilliant! I’ve only just discovered your channel and I’m glad I did. Thanks!
Thanks David glad you enjoyed 👍
I love this video series, didn't realise it was a year ago but that smelly tunnel could be a CSO, the clanging you heard would be from the large manhole cover on Crane St. there is another lid in the ground on the opposite side of that square building, from there I am guessing at its path as another lid is on the cobbled triangle island between A635 and Fairfield St. There is what looks like a sewer manhole cover in the yellow box junction quite close by.. Just guesses though :) Stunning work, that clang in the smelly tunnel would have had me crapping myself. You can see the top of the sluice rod in the yard with metal gates and a pile of tyres on Crane Street.
Please say hi to Connor for me and thanks to the pair of you for being so brave and adventurous :)
Thank you, I think the clang was some guys up top in a yard. But yes fascinating
JUST FOR THE RECORD MARTIN, AND YOUNG CONNOR, YOUR VIDEOS ARE "ACE"--TOP--NOTCH--EDUCATIONAL,-AND AS SOME ONE ELSE SAID, SHOULD BE SHOWN, ON MAINSTREAM T.V.---WELL DONE MATE.
It's awesome what those old timer's managed to build also it would be nice to get a group of people to help clean up all that garbage,
It's good to watch this in December to remember what summer looks like. Great videos Martin.
Yep very good memories of that video
I used to love walking through the tunnels in Bogart hall clough ( if thats the name, might be hole rather than hall ), any way, I was half expecting you to bump into some 'big kids' and get a hiding, I always did! Thanks for these last 10 hours!
Fascinating stuff Martin,as a Mancunian I didn’t know all this history was hidden away literally beneath our feet.Newly subcribed,thanks for making and sharing
Mike thanks very much. the more I look the more history I find. thanks very much for subscribing 👌
Fantastic, well done chaps!
Thank you Broderick 👍
Hi Martin, another great video thanks for making it. I'm amazed at the brickwork and wonder how they were built back in the day., incredible engineers.
Hello yes an incredible feat and underrated thanks for watching
I have to agree with all the others, this is absolutely incredible, terrible effort, fantastic editing. Those brick walls and arches everywhere, 90ft history below our feet everywhere in Manchester. Thank you!
Cracking stuff, Martin. As a Manc who now lives in Canada, I'm loving your videos about parts of the city I wish I'd checked out when I was living there. So much rubbish along that river though - could do with a good clean up!
Wow. Would love to explore this!
Mancs for the memories mate!
Thank you 👍
Very much enjoyed thank you
Thanks a lot Graham 👍
Fantastic that, blown away with it, cant believe you found that cavern, cathedral, but fair play to you and your mates.
I,d of kept that tap though. :)
Thanks David. We both keep thinking about the tap and how we should of kept it 😩
They really built things in those days. What I found interesting was the relative lack of garbage in the river. Usually a place like that would be full or times, bicycles and other stuff. Amazing journey. Thank you.
Hello thanks, yes there was some garbage but not that much 👍
Nice one mart
Another Epic explore, Those waders were a good investment
They certainly were mate 👍😃
Very good video lads ,well done,i must try that some time😁❤👍
Fantastic, I really like the old factory walls, its really quite beautiful.
Thanks Carl
Another great video Martin, enjoyed watching it.
Thanks very much Mark 👌
Wow, fair play for trying to get through
Superb well done Waiting for the summer sequel **Beaches of the Medlock**
Loved it.
Thanks Peter 👍
You even managed to entertain and fascinate a Yorkshireman!
Enjoyed great video Martin keep up the good work 👌
Cheers Brian 😀
Amazing video! I've always wondered what its like under Piccadilly.
Yeah this is just a bit further down from piccadilly but all the trains go over it
Can you imagine the logistics of building those tunnels? The MILLIONS of bricks it took and how many men took how many days to build them? It's the same here in America where cities just grew right over the top of streams and springs, covering them up, canalizing rivers and piping away ground water. But the water has to go somewhere, they can't stop it, and it will always flow!
I have just watched the entire series; really enjoyed it. Congratulations!
Great to see the amazing engineering, that last vaulted space is spectacular.
I was really surprised at how far below street level the river stream is; some of that walls looked to be close to 30 meters and and of how hidden the river is, both because it is so far below street level and the tunnels and culverts.
As I watched the early episodes I thought about how it would be a good idea to raft or kayak along the stream; you went one better by walking it, but still think rafting or kayaking it would be an enjoyable experience and video.
Your videos are great mate. Keep up the good work
Hi Lee, thanks very much 👍
loved this series many thanks wis I did the river len when fit in Maidstone kent
Thanks Stephen, I bet its nicer than the Medlock
Loved this video the Arches off Temperance St AMAZING!
Hi Mike, yes Ive looked at those arches from the street and thought they were amazing. So to be under them was fantastic, Thanks mate 👍
@@MartinZero very welcome. So much more to manchester that youve shown. And do amazing when i use to walk into manchester when i lived on West Gorton I'd stop.just under Mancunian way nr what was then the huge BT building and there is a culvert for the Medlock and used to spend many a time just looking down into the water, you had the hustle and bustle of M57 above, and London Rd behind and kind of hidden from the roads this River just flowing by. And just above the bend was a derelict building am guessing now cleared with the words SKOL graffittied on top. Think now adays with councils desperately for money, and developers with plenty to flutter they are usually always guaranteed to get permission to demolish history or cover it over with square boxes and everywhere looks the same no character and a lifespan of 20-30years. But in 5years of construction its dated. Unlike those from centuries before
@@MikeyManchester I know where you looked into the Medlock near the Mancunian way 😉Stay tuned it may feature
I love the red brickwork, reminds me of Birmingham in many ways. Fantastic.
Thank you 👍
Fantastic video, loved every minute Martin. Bet hardly anyone knows that's there, interesting stuff, thanks for the vid lads. Looking forward to the next one.
Hi Gazz, glad you enjoyed. Thanks very much
Enjoyed it....We loved it mate, both myself and the Mrs. Not seen her glued to a screen that much since she watched the Full Monty movie lololol.
😆Fab. My regards to your Mrs
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Wow blown away! Right past Mr Cohen’s My rag man!
Thank you very much. Not sure what you mean but it sounds good 😂😆👍