Even the dank cellars were constructed with architectural finesse. You guys always go the extra mile when documenting Bradford's heritage, and I salute you both.
I noticed light through a grate in the ceiling at one point .Could it also have been a escape route in olden times . I am led to believe that a lot of old mansions had underground tunnels escape routes one being Bolling hall .Although this is disputed ,but i think there will be .The Tempest family are also mentioned in Bolling Hall on the crests on windows and are associated with Clayton .Keep up your brilliant work i love to watch your videos.
There was a fair bit of modern fittings down there. Wiring and switches had modern shrouds around junctions. Modern Aluminium Ladders and plastic crates show that it is visited and used for storage recent yrs. Don`t think the troughs are toilets, but maybe part of a waste water system. Some of the rooms had the look of being used by the Military during WW2 as local regiment offices? Maybe wrong?
Worked for a corporate video company (YPL-no longer trading) in 1988 who used the basement. They used the area from down the steps and straight along the corridor to the end (which comes to steps out into the garden). They had rooms which branch off to the right and were full of video and editing gear.
I went to a wedding at an old hall in the Midlands in the summer, and I went down into the cellars to have a look round, they had left the door open and were very short staffed and no one said anything. They were using the rooms for food and drink storage, so very different to the lovely hall upstairs, it was cold even though it had been a warm day
Okay, large parts of these areas look like storage cellars for food, pre refrigeration cellars cold keep things very cool. Likely coal stored there also, the bars may have been purely for structural reinforcement as the space is quite wide either side of them. Some parts may have definitely belonged to the older medieval structure, e.g. the curved brick ceiling reminiscent of an undercroft structure. Some structures look like they might have been used for waste water management. Lots of modern/more modern stuff down there as well, which is to be expected. Looks like there might have been a furnace there as well.
52 years ago I lived at Tong Hall as it was a University of Bradford hall of residence. I shared a room in the gate house. I’m sure that the first part of the cellar was the kitchen from where we collected our meals as I recall having to go downstairs. I doubt whether much that you explored was accessible at the time as it would have been bricked up, but that would have been part of the extensive keeping cellars and coal cellar.
Defo the shute was a coal bunker. My house has a cellar which has a similar structure (smaller scale) and this was an old Farm Cottage in Wyke. Also a room with square holes in wall possible a larder or even a kitchen. So very interesting and you both are brave.
Looks very like "keeping" cellars where food and beer, wine etc would be kept. I would imagine the stone tables were to keep meat cold, before the days of refrigeration, I have a little one in my cellar. You can see the same configuration in castle and monastery cellars 😀
I was actually there last week. Very interesting place. The conditions are poor at the moment. Please bear with us , soon as it gets dry and will pop over to film. Looking forward to it myself. Thanks.
@@BradfordThroughTheLens its just that my 11yr old friend,who died in November,even tho I’m 14,I haven’t had the chance to visit his grave so this video would be highly appreciated
𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗯𝘆
𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀.
th-cam.com/users/BradfordThroughTheLens
Even the dank cellars were constructed with architectural finesse.
You guys always go the extra mile when documenting Bradford's heritage, and I salute you both.
Thank you Sir 😊
I noticed light through a grate in the ceiling at one point .Could it also have been a escape route in olden times . I am led to believe that a lot of old mansions had underground tunnels escape routes one being Bolling hall .Although this is disputed ,but i think there will be .The Tempest family are also mentioned in Bolling Hall on the crests on windows and are associated with Clayton .Keep up your brilliant work i love to watch your videos.
Great comment, and thanks for watching 👀
There was a fair bit of modern fittings down there. Wiring and switches had modern shrouds around junctions. Modern Aluminium Ladders and plastic crates show that it is visited and used for storage recent yrs. Don`t think the troughs are toilets, but maybe part of a waste water system. Some of the rooms had the look of being used by the Military during WW2 as local regiment offices? Maybe wrong?
That's an interesting take about the WW2 regiment.
We were baffled with the layout .
Thanks for your feedback.
Worked for a corporate video company (YPL-no longer trading) in 1988 who used the basement. They used the area from down the steps and straight along the corridor to the end (which comes to steps out into the garden). They had rooms which branch off to the right and were full of video and editing gear.
Thank you 😊
Again, from the USA thanks for the tour!!!!
Thanks for bringing us this interesting content - Keep up the good work!
Thank you
I went to a wedding at an old hall in the Midlands in the summer, and I went down into the cellars to have a look round, they had left the door open and were very short staffed and no one said anything. They were using the rooms for food and drink storage, so very different to the lovely hall upstairs, it was cold even though it had been a warm day
Okay, large parts of these areas look like storage cellars for food, pre refrigeration cellars cold keep things very cool. Likely coal stored there also, the bars may have been purely for structural reinforcement as the space is quite wide either side of them. Some parts may have definitely belonged to the older medieval structure, e.g. the curved brick ceiling reminiscent of an undercroft structure.
Some structures look like they might have been used for waste water management. Lots of modern/more modern stuff down there as well, which is to be expected. Looks like there might have been a furnace there as well.
Thank you 😊
Interesting video as always thanks for making and posting 👍
👍🏼
52 years ago I lived at Tong Hall as it was a University of Bradford hall of residence. I shared a room in the gate house. I’m sure that the first part of the cellar was the kitchen from where we collected our meals as I recall having to go downstairs. I doubt whether much that you explored was accessible at the time as it would have been bricked up, but that would have been part of the extensive keeping cellars and coal cellar.
Thanks for the information 👍🏻
Defo the shute was a coal bunker. My house has a cellar which has a similar structure (smaller scale) and this was an old Farm Cottage in Wyke. Also a room with square holes in wall possible a larder or even a kitchen. So very interesting and you both are brave.
👍🏻
Looks very like "keeping" cellars where food and beer, wine etc would be kept. I would imagine the stone tables were to keep meat cold, before the days of refrigeration, I have a little one in my cellar. You can see the same configuration in castle and monastery cellars 😀
Thank you 😊
A quick shot of Tong Hall above ground would be helpful.
There are a few on our channel.
brilliant very interesting
👍🏻
Wow. Love it 🙂. Those troughs ...I wonder if they were toilets? With the holes underneath to remove buckets when full?
Wish we had a Tardis and travel back in tme to find out.
Thanks for watching 👀
Nice video. There may have been a tunnel to the nearby church.
Thats what I was thinking too .
looks like cold storage down in bottom were cheese and veg meat would of stayed cool enough to last
Oh sugar, you boys have balls, it’s so scary having to go in to cellars
👀
Not an expert but those bricks in the basement look to be 19th Century rather than 18th. The latter tend to be thinner.
When is the utley cemetery video coming out
I was actually there last week.
Very interesting place. The conditions are poor at the moment.
Please bear with us , soon as it gets dry and will pop over to film.
Looking forward to it myself. Thanks.
@@BradfordThroughTheLens inshallah
@@BradfordThroughTheLens its just that my 11yr old friend,who died in November,even tho I’m 14,I haven’t had the chance to visit his grave so this video would be highly appreciated
@@moeezahmad5859 I am really sorry to hear that 😢
Definitely, I will film soon.
@@BradfordThroughTheLens it was the will of Allah for him to return to him and to his sister leaving his brother with no siblings
It looks like tong Hall could be built on top of a older house
Correct
If I could seen it with better lighting would have been very interesting but the lights didn’t do it justice