Bon Dia, Thank you that. I lived not too far away, between Openwoodgate and Heage, so great to reminisce. I also forward your videos to family who now live in Germany and Vietnam. Greetings from Catalunya
Well done on crossing the A610 to regain the trackbed up as far as the farm occupation bridge. Many a man dont include it ! BTW - where the line branched off the Pye Bridge - Ambergate line, there is a buffer in the undergrowth sat just where the viaduct began on the Lake side of the road at Hammersmith next to the Mill and is also a loading platform and rail in the undergrowth that served the Mill.
I used to walk to the viaduct when I was a lad was a lot further on that that they had built a wall so you didn’t fall off but all the pillars where there until the a 38 decimated that area there was also another small tunnel built on top off another tunnel that was access down to the cromford canal and the butterley tunnel was a fantastic area to play when I was a kid still walk around there loads every week shame I didn’t see you again 👍
Loving your Channel and videos Gareth and Team 😊😊😊 I particularly enjoyed the music 🎶 at the start of the Video Gareth...your really nailing these videos and I KNOW your Channel will go from strength to strength 💪 😀 well done all..give my Regards to your dad also Gareth from one Lestonian to another 😊😊😊
Great video Gareth. Have a look for the book Rails To Ripley, it has a couple of pics of the site of the old Ripley station, the platform layout from 1950 and the old goods shed from 1969. 👍
@IckeWalks no worries. It's a great read, covers all the Little Eaton to Ripley branch, Pye Bridge, Ambergate, and the branch off to Codnor Park, Heanor and Langley Mill. Goes into some depth and has some amazing old photos.
The woman waving from the train at 16:20 I think was Noelle Gordon who starred for many years in Crossroads ,( she was quite a big celebrity in that time) Another great video Gareth and the scale of how quickly history can be lost is really becoming all too real , Thanks and ""keep on truckin ❤👍
Great little walk Gareth. Nice to have a little snippet of home too. Please keep my mum in your thoughts, she's in St Mary's hospital with a suspected broken pelvis and sepsis. Thanks.
@IckeWalks I've heard since that they want to get the infection under control first, and then operate. So the suspicions about a broken pelvis are true. 🙁
I work in that area. Indeed, some drone shots show the very building I work in. A bit further down the hill on Peasehill Road is another path opposite the new housing estate and quarry that looks a lot like it could have been railway related too.
Hayup Gareth So much great stone infrastructure great bridges an underpasses, shame about the viaduct should have curved the road round to go over it, I think the Penn station in New York only lasted about fifty years what a waste of effort an craftsmanship. I’ve heard of a story of a lad being evacuated from Southampton to the New Forest an the house he went to got bombed fortunately no one hurt! they where tending to the vegetable patch. also a lesser known bouncing bomb story it was top secret for over fifty years maybe seventy years they practiced with it on a ridge beyond godshill dropping it from mosquitos, useing concrete pads as markers to test speed and distance, I was cycling my 1939 Sunbeam tredder past bygone days a local historical meeting about 20 years ago an got talking to an old boy who recognised my bike as it was an X RAF aerodrome bike Ibsley an stony cross apparently they had half a dozen like it,he was an aero mechanic an serviced the cycles too, I knew it was from ibsley as the bloke I bought it from told me, an had worked out the rest from serial numbers etc, it’s high geared to get to planes quickly, anyway we got talking an after a few pints he relayed why it was so hush hush the bouncing bomb information one bomb bounced an took the rear of the plane off, so that was a bit of a disaster, he then told me of an American warbird a radial engined fighter that ran out of fuel in sight of stony cross an crash landed on the Ibsley WI hut they where busy making Jam so narrowly missed that meeting. America bought a knew hut.which was nice of them. Thing is I use to tell a few folks about this an they who really know there onions on all things wartime an local would tell me what nonesense I was told a fast one or two, then a few years back they released footage on TH-cam of the bouncing bomb on godshill ridge, funny thing history I guess you got be there. or work it out as best can from the many sources we know have, good research as ever. Cheers
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Bon Dia, Thank you that. I lived not too far away, between Openwoodgate and Heage, so great to reminisce. I also forward your videos to family who now live in Germany and Vietnam. Greetings from Catalunya
I enjoyed this very much, thank-you Gareth. Great work, as always.
Glad you enjoyed it
Cheers Gareth....enjoyed this one...
Thank you
Cracking stomp Gareth/ Cheers mate!
Cheers!
So cool to get these local videos
Cheers mate
Another good walk video coincidentally I’m Woking round the corner and have been picking materials up from keys what is next to the old station 👍
Synchronicity, mate.
Well done on crossing the A610 to regain the trackbed up as far as the farm occupation bridge. Many a man dont include it ! BTW - where the line branched off the Pye Bridge - Ambergate line, there is a buffer in the undergrowth sat just where the viaduct began on the Lake side of the road at Hammersmith next to the Mill and is also a loading platform and rail in the undergrowth that served the Mill.
Need to get on that them mate!
I used to walk to the viaduct when I was a lad was a lot further on that that they had built a wall so you didn’t fall off but all the pillars where there until the a 38 decimated that area there was also another small tunnel built on top off another tunnel that was access down to the cromford canal and the butterley tunnel was a fantastic area to play when I was a kid still walk around there loads every week shame I didn’t see you again 👍
I've seen an image of that tunnel on a tunnel. Crazy engineering skills!
Loving your Channel and videos Gareth and Team 😊😊😊 I particularly enjoyed the music 🎶 at the start of the Video Gareth...your really nailing these videos and I KNOW your Channel will go from strength to strength 💪 😀 well done all..give my Regards to your dad also Gareth from one Lestonian to another 😊😊😊
Really appreciate that mate.
Nice one Gareth. Thought I'd watch fer a few mins.. Watched it all.
Best from Yorkshire
Cheers mate! Appreciate it!
Great video Gareth. Have a look for the book Rails To Ripley, it has a couple of pics of the site of the old Ripley station, the platform layout from 1950 and the old goods shed from 1969. 👍
Oh I'll have to find that! Cheers.
@IckeWalks no worries. It's a great read, covers all the Little Eaton to Ripley branch, Pye Bridge, Ambergate, and the branch off to Codnor Park, Heanor and Langley Mill. Goes into some depth and has some amazing old photos.
@jamieohara4325 found it!
@@IckeWalks brill! Enjoy!
The woman waving from the train at 16:20 I think was Noelle Gordon who starred for many years in Crossroads ,( she was quite a big celebrity in that time) Another great video Gareth and the scale of how quickly history can be lost is really becoming all too real , Thanks and ""keep on truckin ❤👍
It certainly looks like her. What a dreadful programme that was! Don't like soap operas at the best of times but that one was dire!
You are absolutely right. Thats exactly who it was!
I used to watch crossroads back in the day even then i thought what a load of rubbish
Great little walk Gareth. Nice to have a little snippet of home too. Please keep my mum in your thoughts, she's in St Mary's hospital with a suspected broken pelvis and sepsis. Thanks.
Oh I am very sorry to hear that. I hope she makes a full recovery asap!
@IckeWalks I've heard since that they want to get the infection under control first, and then operate. So the suspicions about a broken pelvis are true. 🙁
Good old Derbyshire
I work in that area. Indeed, some drone shots show the very building I work in. A bit further down the hill on Peasehill Road is another path opposite the new housing estate and quarry that looks a lot like it could have been railway related too.
Almost certainly! Definitely worth a look!
Nice video.
Cheers!
Still is an aquaduct,runs right down middle 9f our road all way over to Nottingham
Really?
All that hard work and time, as you say what is the point
For such little time. Crazy.
Hayup Gareth So much great stone infrastructure great bridges an underpasses, shame about the viaduct should have curved the road round to go over it, I think the Penn station in New York only lasted about fifty years what a waste of effort an craftsmanship.
I’ve heard of a story of a lad being evacuated from Southampton to the New Forest an the house he went to got bombed fortunately no one hurt! they where tending to the vegetable patch.
also a lesser known bouncing bomb story it was top secret for over fifty years maybe seventy years they practiced with it on a ridge beyond godshill dropping it from mosquitos, useing concrete pads as markers to test speed and distance, I was cycling my 1939 Sunbeam tredder past bygone days a local historical meeting about 20 years ago an got talking to an old boy who recognised my bike as it was an X RAF aerodrome bike Ibsley an stony cross apparently they had half a dozen like it,he was an aero mechanic an serviced the cycles too, I knew it was from ibsley as the bloke I bought it from told me, an had worked out the rest from serial numbers etc, it’s high geared to get to planes quickly, anyway we got talking an after a few pints he relayed why it was so hush hush the bouncing bomb information one bomb bounced an took the rear of the plane off, so that was a bit of a disaster, he then told me of an American warbird a radial engined fighter that ran out of fuel in sight of stony cross an crash landed on the Ibsley WI hut they where busy making Jam so narrowly missed that meeting.
America bought a knew hut.which was nice of them.
Thing is I use to tell a few folks about this an they who really know there onions on all things wartime an local would tell me what nonesense I was told a fast one or two, then a few years back they released footage on TH-cam of the bouncing bomb on godshill ridge, funny thing history I guess you got be there. or work it out as best can from the many sources we know have, good research as ever.
Cheers
Penn station was one of the most incredible structures. Absolutely mad that they bulldozed that!
Kids graffiti reflects their rebellion. They all feel powerless.
True.
Hey kid, Have you considered walking other countries? Greece? Guatemala? Canada?
@@lindalautenberger5227 would love to.