Great news about the studio - hope it all works out really well for you guys. Its great to see this type of business pop up as it has real potential and could help others get started in their YT or podcast careers. Like you guys my interest in learning and history has grown as i have got older, We really do send people to university at the wrong age!
Wow, I wasn't expecting this!! Best of luck with the new venture. I hope there's enough wall space for the Peutinger map!! Lovely to see Rebecca on camera again, I know she's been working hard behind the scenes. Some great questions on the Q and A. Have a wonderful Christmas, all the best!!
I think the charm of your work is you come from a generalist mindset. You know you don’t have to be an expert in each of the details - you just have to be committed enough to find the right person to tell you what you need to know. Sometimes very experts can be horrifically boring. Because they’ve gone down the rabbit hole so deep that it doesn’t communicate to a general audience. Your content is interesting fundamentally because you’re interesting people who are interested in it. And that passion leads you to do a good job of it. It’s infectious in the right way. :)
Living in Mittelsachsen, Germany these days, there is so much history here, the traditions especially Christmas and the Ore Mountain is just fascinating. Like in UK, there are so many abandoned railways. Food for thought, maybe. Happy Christmas.
All the very best with your new exciting venture. Thank you for the Santa collections this year.. much appreciated. Thank you for another year filled with interesting facts and pictures and ,Happy Christmas to you both and the 5 children. 😊😊😊😊😊XXXXX
Merry Christmas Rebecca and Paul, I love your channel! I can’t afford Patreon but will continue to be a dedicated TH-cam fan. Good luck with your venture.
Merry Christmas guys, love your work and enthusiasm. Keep doing what you do and looking forward to next year's contact. The new premises look really promising so I hope it works for you. Have a happy season and Rebecca love your dress or extended sweater :D xxx
Happy Winter Solstice-adjacent Holidays to all! My dream Whitewick investigation series would be the Adena/Hopewell mound-building cultures in America that were part of a continental trade network 2,000 years ago. Impressive earthworks and artifacts, and speculations of giants. Plenty of forest for Paul to tramp through.
When you come up to Scotland, I can recommend places like Cairnpapple Hill near Bathgate which has been a sacred burial site for around 4000 years. There are loads of Pictish hill forts and Roman stuff too
I will take this opportunity to extend my Season’s Greetings to you and to wish you every success in the expansion of your enterprise. It’s a big thing to take on the responsibility and overheads of premises .. so you have my admiration and support in your venture. I too wondered how you managed to juggle life around your channel. I am very aware of the time commitment needed to research a topic, gather the necessary content material and then massage it into an engaging piece of video … work which I consider you to accomplish with great panache. At no time have I ever regretted watching your content. I am consistently drawn to your channel due to the areas you cover … I am originally from NE Hampshire and in my teens and early twenties I explored much of the area you cover throughout Hampshire and I used to cycle out to Silchester and explore around the brambles there (I do not recall it being at all well maintained back in the 70s). I subsequently went to college near Uffington and then explored that region of “The Chalk”, discovering the various magical barrow sites. I have since made my home in Somerset and taken advantage of what Somerset and Dorset have to offer … with the benefit of both north and south coasts to hand. As a result, whenever you cover a place I do NOT know, you send me into a world of maps and Google to identify the location and dig for my own greed for more information. Like yourselves, my interest in things historical has evolved with age and I am proud of actually achieving an H grade for my history O Level … I was that disinterested. However, I did always have a fascination with things Roman … and my interest has grown from that. These days, I am increasingly fascinated by the development of human kind into meaningful societies and cultures as exemplified in pre-history by what is now being understood based on research into the various henges and … particularly .. in Orkney … a place I would dearly love to visit (but it’s such a long way away from Somerset ☹️ … but I still live in hope. Keep up the good work !!
Congrats on your new venture and Happy Christmas! Had fun trying to find it on Maps using just the first 10 seconds of video! Was actually pretty easy.
That zigzag path.. as it’s currently the solstice, to think our ancient ancestors would of walked from all over Albion(UK) to be part of the celebrations & get togethers through forests, rough ground, ancient tracks & general knowledge of where these stones circles, ancient tracks, henges & burial mounds were, is something to ponder over.
Good luck with your new studio venture. I've left you a "thanks" to show my support. I wish you both a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year, and look forward to more top quality content in 2025.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Paul and Rebecca. As someone who has always been interested in history I've enjoyed your TH-cam content especially anything railway or canal related. My grandfather was a Station Master at a couple of stations on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line from 1916 until he retired in 1942 so your videos on that line were particularly interesting for me. From 1972 to 2010 I lived in Wantage and became involved with the Wilts and Berks canal restoration group so your videos on that canal were also of great interest to me. Keep up the good work!
Good luck with the new studio venture! Didn't even realise you'd been to the Big Water of Fleet viaduct! Lovely area, not so good for people catching trains.... Still isn't! You're welcome back up this way any time, plenty of mysteries left to solve, I've been trying to trace the roman routes in the area but very little remains. To the point where I often wonder... were some railways built on top of Roman agger? Raised dry land, already compacted..... Something for you to ponder perhaps.
Hills and Mountains….. Walbury Hill in my native West Berkshire is the highest point in South East England at 974ft. Tan Hill/Milk Hill in Wiltshire are just a few meters lower. Both points are in the North Wessex Downs AONB. Great walking country!
I did visit the web site, and I see this little jewel in the FAQ: "No smoking or vaping allowed within the building. And if you do smoke outside the premises please dispose of your cigarettes in the correct manor." Is it the correct last word? With your history, I could see going either way; which noble will be inconvenienced? Happy Christmas from the USA state named after Queen Henrietta Maria, consort to Charles I.
hey that's a good topic! Comedy signs I once saw proper highway code type sign that read 'caution bridAL path ahead' 😅 like it was warning young couples not to go down that particular lover's lane
Merry Christmas you two and thank you for all the videos... Not sure if I ask the question: How long does a video take to make? Working with other TH-cam channels I have seen 1 minute of video show on TH-cam can take up to 30 to 60 minutes or even more eg when you include travelling with a team to Orkney to look at/film/edit/research/introductions to several companies to obtain permissions about Wind Turbines. I have seen that as low as almost to 2 minutes depending on the subject. I bet your video are nearing 40+ minutes
I have always loved history but in my thirties I discovered local history and not just the stuff about the rich and famous. I have bored many people in pubs in the thirty years that have followed. My current interest is Ermine St that passes by a few hundred yards from my abode. I get many tips and insights from your vids. keep up the good work 😀
@@pwhitewick Lol Interests after school turned to booze and girls. Only after meeting my lady and becoming a dad did I let the inner me escape and ask questions about the past that weren't always easy to find the answers for. :)
The whole set up looks like its going to push those creative boundaries further. With all this you will end up living here instead of at home. The podcast studio is going to lift the production I am sure, although is Mr Thorne ready for such a leap?
Wow. Really good luck with your new endeavour. Hope you get booked out soon and the place is buzzing. With most of the videos I watch it is the presenter that is important. I can be fascinated by the subject, but don't gel with the presenter, never watch again. It can conversely also get me interested in other things. A snippet comes up, I enjoy watching that presenter and continue. Same with books. Read one chapter or don't put the book down until it is finished. Brains are weird. You do a really good job, the pair of you. Have a great Christmas and may the new venture help make a prosperous new year. Ps. Lidar to find Aboriginal remains. Doubt it. You could find where they have been since us lot arrived. But less likely going back. You get spots in the landscape that are said to be of cultural significance, but no structures. Rock art is their biggest legacy.
I know this is too late for the Q&A but you asked about ideas for future videos. Have you considered doing a video on the Mumbles Railway? It ran around Swansea Bay, and apparently is the oldest passenger railway that existed in the UK? Happy to help with research and would happily give you some help with the video, places to visit etc.
Well done with the new adventure. How about a good ramble around Anglesey (the Isle of Apples aka Avalon). The home of the Druid school hence the mad dash by the Romans up there. It even has a decent railway bridge and the longest railway station name in the UK. Winner :)
Very much enjoyed that, thank you, and I wish you all the best for the coming year. Sorry I can't financially support you, but I am a subscriber and watch every vid - and sometimes comment. "Every little helps", eh?
The cost of rail and road infrastructure is exorbitant, companies make a fortune out of local authorities and central government, it ought to be investigated and made illegal.
On the one hand, there should be regular audits of any government contracts to catch fraud. On the other hand, it is very hard to know what the real costs involved are without being an expert in the area. While it is fine to be suspicious of prices that seem high, be prepared to learn that there are costs that you are not aware of.
The government of Quebec launched a whole inquiry on this a few years ago. They determined what everybody already knew; that the Italian-Canadian mafia was heavily involved in construction in the province. I'm not making this up 😂 You can verify it! It was the Charbonneau Commission in 2011. I wonder if it's the mob in the UK or some other group. 🤣
This is brilliant! I wish you both the very best with the new studio, and I look forward to your new videos. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Great news about the studio - hope it all works out really well for you guys. Its great to see this type of business pop up as it has real potential and could help others get started in their YT or podcast careers.
Like you guys my interest in learning and history has grown as i have got older, We really do send people to university at the wrong age!
Merry Christmas, both. Really excited for you.
Merry Christmas Rebecca and Paul, thanks for all the great videos in 2024!
Have a great Christmas, both!
a BIG WELL DONE to you BOTH for what you have done and are achieving . Merry Xmas and Very Best Wishes for 2025... onward and upward ho ho ho....
Wow, I wasn't expecting this!! Best of luck with the new venture. I hope there's enough wall space for the Peutinger map!!
Lovely to see Rebecca on camera again, I know she's been working hard behind the scenes.
Some great questions on the Q and A.
Have a wonderful Christmas, all the best!!
Great job guys
Great to see you both! And Happy Christmas!
Merry Christmas to the whole Whitewick family.
Thank you
I think the charm of your work is you come from a generalist mindset. You know you don’t have to be an expert in each of the details - you just have to be committed enough to find the right person to tell you what you need to know. Sometimes very experts can be horrifically boring. Because they’ve gone down the rabbit hole so deep that it doesn’t communicate to a general audience. Your content is interesting fundamentally because you’re interesting people who are interested in it. And that passion leads you to do a good job of it. It’s infectious in the right way. :)
Wonderful news. Good luck with the channel. Best wishes this Christmas
Enjoyed the video, Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Hey, congratulations on the studio! Well done and happy holidays to you both.
Same to you!
Brave people! Solstice Greetings and Happy Christmas to you both and to all fans!!!!
Thanks Helen. And to you
Living in Mittelsachsen, Germany these days, there is so much history here, the traditions especially Christmas and the Ore Mountain is just fascinating. Like in UK, there are so many abandoned railways. Food for thought, maybe. Happy Christmas.
Happy Christmas from North Carolina USA 🇺🇸
And to you.
Merry Christmas to you both! Looking forward to more of your adventures next year! 😊
Same to you!
Congratulations - the studio looks great, so much potential!
Thanks John. 🙏
Merry Christmas to you both! Looking forward to another year of following your work. 🙂
And to you. Many thanks
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family
Same to you!
Love the tour of the big reveal and good luck with the new venture. Love the Q&A as well.
The studio looks absolutely fantastic and I can’t wait to see more from you both in 2025. Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you!
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you too
Merry Christmas and Happy Hogmanay! Good Luck with your new venture!
Thank you! You too!
Good luck both on your new venture.
Thank you!
Hey wow how exciting! Your own usable studio. Fun Q&A too. Happy Christmas and all the best for 2025. Cheers, Warren :)
Cheers Warren. Merry Christmas to you too
All the very best with your new exciting venture.
Thank you for the Santa collections this year.. much appreciated. Thank you for another year filled with interesting facts and pictures and ,Happy Christmas to you both and the 5 children.
😊😊😊😊😊XXXXX
Thank you Pauline and thanks for your support. Very much appreciated. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Rebecca and Paul, I love your channel! I can’t afford Patreon but will continue to be a dedicated TH-cam fan. Good luck with your venture.
Happy Christmas both! Studio looks great.
Cheers Darren
@@pwhitewick Merry Christmas Paul and family.
Well done. Happy Christmas to you both. Thanks for making this year compelling viewing. Looking forward to more 🕊
Merry Christmas to you both.
Like the new studio -- and all you videos.
hello Paul and Rebecca, this is so cool, so excited for you both , missed you Rebecca, *Happy Christmas* , well done and thank you both 😊
Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year on the new road
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Merry Xmas to you both - thanks for the interesting weekly vids. I look forward to them!
Lovely Christmas sweater 😏
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you both and best wishes for the new venture and nice as always to see Rebecca again and liked her Jumper😀🎄
Merry Christmas guys, love your work and enthusiasm. Keep doing what you do and looking forward to next year's contact. The new premises look really promising so I hope it works for you. Have a happy season and Rebecca love your dress or extended sweater :D xxx
Happy Christmas Rebecca and Paul 😊
Same to you!
Enjoyed the video - Looked up the studio location, lovely! My wish for a Merry Christmas to you both and your family!
Happy Winter Solstice-adjacent Holidays to all! My dream Whitewick investigation series would be the Adena/Hopewell mound-building cultures in America that were part of a continental trade network 2,000 years ago. Impressive earthworks and artifacts, and speculations of giants. Plenty of forest for Paul to tramp through.
The very best of luck to you both. Have a wonderful Christmas, 👍👍
Just signed up on Patreon as a thanks for your professional, interesting, and educational videos :)
Awesome, thank you! Very kind
When you come up to Scotland, I can recommend places like Cairnpapple Hill near Bathgate which has been a sacred burial site for around 4000 years. There are loads of Pictish hill forts and Roman stuff too
I REEALLY need another trip north of the wall
I will take this opportunity to extend my Season’s Greetings to you and to wish you every success in the expansion of your enterprise.
It’s a big thing to take on the responsibility and overheads of premises .. so you have my admiration and support in your venture.
I too wondered how you managed to juggle life around your channel. I am very aware of the time commitment needed to research a topic, gather the necessary content material and then massage it into an engaging piece of video … work which I consider you to accomplish with great panache. At no time have I ever regretted watching your content.
I am consistently drawn to your channel due to the areas you cover … I am originally from NE Hampshire and in my teens and early twenties I explored much of the area you cover throughout Hampshire and I used to cycle out to Silchester and explore around the brambles there (I do not recall it being at all well maintained back in the 70s). I subsequently went to college near Uffington and then explored that region of “The Chalk”, discovering the various magical barrow sites. I have since made my home in Somerset and taken advantage of what Somerset and Dorset have to offer … with the benefit of both north and south coasts to hand. As a result, whenever you cover a place I do NOT know, you send me into a world of maps and Google to identify the location and dig for my own greed for more information.
Like yourselves, my interest in things historical has evolved with age and I am proud of actually achieving an H grade for my history O Level … I was that disinterested. However, I did always have a fascination with things Roman … and my interest has grown from that. These days, I am increasingly fascinated by the development of human kind into meaningful societies and cultures as exemplified in pre-history by what is now being understood based on research into the various henges and … particularly .. in Orkney … a place I would dearly love to visit (but it’s such a long way away from Somerset ☹️ … but I still live in hope.
Keep up the good work !!
Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to you and your family
Congrats on your new venture and Happy Christmas! Had fun trying to find it on Maps using just the first 10 seconds of video! Was actually pretty easy.
Still here. Have a very Merry Christmas. Looking forward to more in the new year.
That zigzag path.. as it’s currently the solstice, to think our ancient ancestors would of walked from all over Albion(UK) to be part of the celebrations & get togethers through forests, rough ground, ancient tracks & general knowledge of where these stones circles, ancient tracks, henges & burial mounds were, is something to ponder over.
🎉greetings from Northumberland 🎉❤
Helllllooooo
Good luck with your new studio venture. I've left you a "thanks" to show my support.
I wish you both a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year, and look forward to more top quality content in 2025.
Thank you Stephen. Very kind.
WOW!!!! Your website looks amazing!!! Nice logo!!!
Happy Christmas. Thanks for all the merriment and informative videos this year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Paul and Rebecca. As someone who has always been interested in history I've enjoyed your TH-cam content especially anything railway or canal related. My grandfather was a Station Master at a couple of stations on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line from 1916 until he retired in 1942 so your videos on that line were particularly interesting for me. From 1972 to 2010 I lived in Wantage and became involved with the Wilts and Berks canal restoration group so your videos on that canal were also of great interest to me.
Keep up the good work!
It looks a wonderful professional outfit. You also have plenty of 'studio extra's'! Well done and Seasons Greetings!
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!
Thanks for enjoyable and educational Sunday evenings.
Our pleasure. Thanks for tuning in
Enjoy your content. Look forward to next year.
Thanks Sean
Haven't seen Rebecca for ages it seems (maybe I've missed some).
More Mrs Whitewick please.
good luck with the studio hope all goes well.
Looking forward to the new years productions.....
Merry Christmas!
And to you. Thank you
Merry Christmas you two. Love the videos.
Good luck with the new studio venture!
Didn't even realise you'd been to the Big Water of Fleet viaduct! Lovely area, not so good for people catching trains.... Still isn't!
You're welcome back up this way any time, plenty of mysteries left to solve, I've been trying to trace the roman routes in the area but very little remains. To the point where I often wonder... were some railways built on top of Roman agger? Raised dry land, already compacted..... Something for you to ponder perhaps.
Thanks! 😃..... sounds good to us!
I’m all excited at your future prospects. Can’t wait for your upcoming videos.
Us too!
@ you both have fans on this side of the pond too.
Great video. Loved the Q&A. Good luck with the new studio(s).
Have a great Christmas and so good to see you Rebecca
Good luck !
Merry Christmas to you both. Hope you have a grewt time
🥳😊🍻🍹🥂Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
5 kids, good job! Nice new studio.
Yes! Thank you!
Good idea to get a Studio - It give you your Dinning table back!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
I knew a guy who couldn't afford anechoic panels, so he just used a bunch of old egg cartons stapled to the walls...lol
Oooh that's not a bad shout
Greetings from Sunderland
Hello there!
@pwhitewick I wish you and Rebecca and the brood a merry Christmas and a happy new year
good look guys hope can keep that place as long as you can glad for you
good luck for your new venture
Hills and Mountains…..
Walbury Hill in my native West Berkshire is the highest point in South East England at 974ft.
Tan Hill/Milk Hill in Wiltshire are just a few meters lower.
Both points are in the North Wessex Downs AONB.
Great walking country!
Almost mountains then!?
@@pwhitewick Thanks for your informative videos
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025
Merry Christmas
I recognise exactly where the studio is Paul. My mother lives not a million miles from there
I did visit the web site, and I see this little jewel in the FAQ: "No smoking or vaping allowed within the building. And if you do smoke outside the premises please dispose of your cigarettes in the correct manor." Is it the correct last word? With your history, I could see going either way; which noble will be inconvenienced? Happy Christmas from the USA state named after Queen Henrietta Maria, consort to Charles I.
Merry Christmas and thank you
hey that's a good topic! Comedy signs I once saw proper highway code type sign that read 'caution bridAL path ahead' 😅 like it was warning young couples not to go down that particular lover's lane
Excellent! Onward.................
Thanks
Thank you
3:45 "acoustic treatment" is the term you're looking for :)
Ah nice part of town and very handy for takeaways 😉
A little..... too handy some would say!
@ good point 😂
Merry Christmas from Sussex
Happy Christmas both plus offspring. Thanks for such interesting content and letting us see you closing the gates .. heh heh heh :)
Thank goodness it’s good news, you had my heart skip a beat when I saw the thumbnail and read the title 😂
Nice to see Rebecca, if we watch more of the adverts will that help, for all of us who skint lol
Spot on. Thanks Carl
Merry Christmas you two and thank you for all the videos...
Not sure if I ask the question:
How long does a video take to make?
Working with other TH-cam channels I have seen 1 minute of video show on TH-cam can take up to 30 to 60 minutes or even more eg when you include travelling with a team to Orkney to look at/film/edit/research/introductions to several companies to obtain permissions about Wind Turbines.
I have seen that as low as almost to 2 minutes depending on the subject.
I bet your video are nearing 40+ minutes
Good question. I'm going with around 3 hours per minute minimum based on thr average video.
Merry Christmas
I have always loved history but in my thirties I discovered local history and not just the stuff about the rich and famous. I have bored many people in pubs in the thirty years that have followed. My current interest is Ermine St that passes by a few hundred yards from my abode. I get many tips and insights from your vids. keep up the good work 😀
Cheers Mark. Funny how we find what we find 20 years after school!
@@pwhitewick Lol Interests after school turned to booze and girls. Only after meeting my lady and becoming a dad did I let the inner me escape and ask questions about the past that weren't always easy to find the answers for. :)
The whole set up looks like its going to push those creative boundaries further. With all this you will end up living here instead of at home. The podcast studio is going to lift the production I am sure, although is Mr Thorne ready for such a leap?
Wow. Really good luck with your new endeavour. Hope you get booked out soon and the place is buzzing. With most of the videos I watch it is the presenter that is important. I can be fascinated by the subject, but don't gel with the presenter, never watch again. It can conversely also get me interested in other things. A snippet comes up, I enjoy watching that presenter and continue. Same with books. Read one chapter or don't put the book down until it is finished. Brains are weird. You do a really good job, the pair of you. Have a great Christmas and may the new venture help make a prosperous new year.
Ps. Lidar to find Aboriginal remains. Doubt it. You could find where they have been since us lot arrived. But less likely going back. You get spots in the landscape that are said to be of cultural significance, but no structures. Rock art is their biggest legacy.
Yes you need lighting. Congratulations.
I know this is too late for the Q&A but you asked about ideas for future videos. Have you considered doing a video on the Mumbles Railway? It ran around Swansea Bay, and apparently is the oldest passenger railway that existed in the UK? Happy to help with research and would happily give you some help with the video, places to visit etc.
Oooh. Yes. It's in my list!
1,000 meters for a "Munro" in Scotland...
Well done with the new adventure. How about a good ramble around Anglesey (the Isle of Apples aka Avalon). The home of the Druid school hence the mad dash by the Romans up there. It even has a decent railway bridge and the longest railway station name in the UK. Winner :)
Been there just the once. Walked along a very beautiful loooong beach. Big love
merry xmas to you both from deepest darkest windy wet dorset
Haha... thanks Mark. And to you
Very much enjoyed that, thank you, and I wish you all the best for the coming year. Sorry I can't financially support you, but I am a subscriber and watch every vid - and sometimes comment. "Every little helps", eh?
The cost of rail and road infrastructure is exorbitant, companies make a fortune out of local authorities and central government, it ought to be investigated and made illegal.
The issue often is the cost of overheads these days. Wages, rent, rates have all gone through the roof
On the one hand, there should be regular audits of any government contracts to catch fraud. On the other hand, it is very hard to know what the real costs involved are without being an expert in the area.
While it is fine to be suspicious of prices that seem high, be prepared to learn that there are costs that you are not aware of.
The government of Quebec launched a whole inquiry on this a few years ago. They determined what everybody already knew; that the Italian-Canadian mafia was heavily involved in construction in the province.
I'm not making this up 😂
You can verify it!
It was the Charbonneau Commission in 2011.
I wonder if it's the mob in the UK or some other group. 🤣
@@pwhitewickEr, yeah, and shareholder’s dividends 😐
Agree 👍 (until proven otherwise)