Brilliant - a really engaging piece of local history research, with information on tramway design and operation useful to many other sites. Mow Cop is a fascinating area to illustrate the 'making of the landscape' from the prominent folly built by local landowners, the Waddingtons of Rode Hall to the settlements and works of miners, quarrymen and artisan engineers. Who needs Time Team when there's this level of enthusiasm and professionalism from ordinary folk.
People do not realise how much the Industrial Revolution relied as much on the new forms of transport as it did on the advances and inventions such as steam engines and iron or steel making.
? What is he saying about the holes? ~ 14:14 Actually I'm not catching much of the conversation underground, particularly from the guy with all the knowledge :( btw on a map www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/build_nls_historic_map.pl?os_series=1&latitude=53.11&longitude=-2.2133 slide the slider (video map @ 22:22)
The weep holes allow any build up of water behind the wall to 'weep' into the tunnel and get away, avoiding a build up of water behind the brickwork which would probably lead to the deterioration of the bricks.
Brilliant - a really engaging piece of local history research, with information on tramway design and operation useful to many other sites.
Mow Cop is a fascinating area to illustrate the 'making of the landscape' from the prominent folly built by local landowners, the Waddingtons of Rode Hall to the settlements and works of miners, quarrymen and artisan engineers.
Who needs Time Team when there's this level of enthusiasm and professionalism from ordinary folk.
As a local person and Father, Grand Father etc having worked around the area, I can't thank you enough for sharing this .
Just amazing I hope all this gets open to the public
Great to see this again after all this time.
People do not realise how much the Industrial Revolution relied as much on the new forms of transport as it did on the advances and inventions such as steam engines and iron or steel making.
? What is he saying about the holes? ~ 14:14
Actually I'm not catching much of the conversation underground, particularly from the guy with all the knowledge :(
btw
on a map www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/build_nls_historic_map.pl?os_series=1&latitude=53.11&longitude=-2.2133
slide the slider
(video map @ 22:22)
The weep holes allow any build up of water behind the wall to 'weep' into the tunnel and get away, avoiding a build up of water behind the brickwork which would probably lead to the deterioration of the bricks.