Exploring Scotland's Underwater Ruins
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- Many of the lochs we see while travelling through the Scottish Highlands are man made, created as part of vast hydro electric schemes in the 1950s and 60s. As the water level drops in many of these reservoirs over the summer, they reveal facinating secrets...
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Archelogy in the Upper Glendevon Reservoir:
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Photo of the Corrielair Lodge pior to flooding:
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Wonderful article on the drowning on Capel Celyn:
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00:00 - Introduction & History of Scottish Hydroelectricity
02:00 - The Old Sunken Roads & Bridges of Loch Claunie
04:24 - The Submerged 'Laundry House' of Loch Claunie
06:34 - The Empty Glendevon reservoirs
07:42 - The Sunken Farmhouse
09:26 - Exploring the Farmhouse
18:45 - Outro & Waffling on a bit
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Your calves are exceptional.
Homeboy does not skip leg day.
They give away free pants to the poor at some churchs
he's a true highlander
I thought the same
It's because he is not a Welshman.
When I was younger my Father and my Grandfather took be to see some of the dams in the Scotish borders. I remember them telling me that when the dams were built the farms were flooded and are still under the water. When I went back to school I drew what I thought it looked like and I drew a house under water with fish swimming around it. I was amazed that what I pictured was not far from reality. Fantastic video, I really love all your videos. Looking forward to the next one.
Did you get your inspiration from a gold fish bowl?
to me its crazy how fast the grass re-establishes itself, the hills ache to be meadows.
"the hills ache to be meadows" jesus what a great line!
The double walls gives a dead air space between, which acts as insulation from heat and cold. Cleverly built.
Don't all homes have cavity walls?
@MR Blaze Pukka how long have cavities been in use though because I was raised in a house that is now 100 years old and that had cavity walls.
One thing that strikes me about Scotland is how barren it actually is. Once upon a time it was teeming with forests and wildlife, it even had the most extensive temperate rainforest in Europe going all the way down the west coast of Scotland into Cumbria in England. Scotland should actually look like Norway a little bit, covered in pine forests, but there's nothing but bare hills and rocks across bare moors and meadows. The industrial revolution seriously scarred these islands and we've never really allowed our landscape to recover from it. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland; they're all still beautiful, but they used to be so much wilder, each having a genuine wilderness we've since long lost.
Agriculture also stripped vast amounts of forest from the UK.
The highland clearances had a lot to do with it.
The British Isles should be one big forest. Thank you very much, industrial revolution. It's only 'green and pleasant' because it rains. Could very easily become brown and barren if the global temperature increases at the rate it's on track to... :/
@@demonhighwayman9403WHAT?? please elaborate
@@roddymcniven8734 All the crofters were thrown off their land to make way to make way for large amounts of livestock, to do this land also had to be cleared of tree's etc.
Damn, you really captured some beautiful shots in this, Calum. The whole thing was fascinating to watch. Thank you for posting!!
Thank you Seth! Managed to get some great weather this week to film it all!
@@CalumRaasay awesome veiws caught with your camera ❤️
Just a shout out to a fellow Horn
My surname is Horn too, no "e" at the end though, like you.
I dont know if your in Scotland or the North or from elsewhere in the world.
My fathers people named Horn origionally came from northern Norway over to Scotland in the mid 1700s & settled in Inverness & across the north
Inlet to Dornoch
There are branches of our family still there.
My dads great grandfather came down to Newcastle Upon Tyne to work in the great industry of Shipbuilding that was once so prevalent in this area of the
Northumbrian coast all the way up to Inverness, & downover to the great shipyards on the River Wear in Sunderland
Anyway hope this finds you fit & well & may blessings make your day good.
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Here in America the vast majority of our wind farms have been a failure. They may be the future for Great Britain but they’re not working out that well here in the United States. The pictures you took and the videos are absolutely astounding and beautiful.
Most countries have high costs dus to maintenance.
It seems to be a scam
Its all a scam.
Hello Calum I just wanted to say how pleasant it is to see a young man who has such intelligence, and passion for social history as you obviously have. Your narration is not waffle by and means and I listened to every word, the whole presentation was fascinating. I have just subscribed, best wishes and I will now begin to watch all your material now I have found it. Thank you.
I’m so sorry I missed this comment! Thank you so much, really appreciate that.
Someone should invent an underwater drone to film things like this. Here in France there are many drowned buildings and one town in the south in particular was drowned complete, they left it all and they even used the flooding of it in a movie, it was quite spectacular. The first place in France I visited on holiday was on the edge of a flooded valley and in summer the church with it's bells protruded from the water along with other buildings.
Research Tartaria and the mudflood
We have the tech, we just need the people now!
They had the tech when they built the calypso g.
remote submarine?... the things that definetly already exist?
Spot on ! Yikes ! @@toasterhavingabath6980
I'm reading up on Raasay, it sounds really cool. I'm from Iceland and it gives me somewhat familiar vibes, but of course there's the distinct difference that the British isles have been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, quite unlike Iceland.
I would trade a kidney for Icelandic citizenship. I haven't stopped dreaming about your country since I drove the ring road aimlessly for 15 days, checking out spur roads, towns, trails booking the closest guest house at sundown each day. We skipped the triangle and the lagoon. The architecture and infrastructure so orderly, clean, ergonomic. The thing that I didn't expect was the vocal tradition. Walked into a bar and a bunch of people were singing. The resonance of the voices together in the room, at parts it reached a fever pitch and I could feel the sound pressure on my chest cavity. It wasn't so loud that it hurt my ears. It was one of the most memorable and intense moments ever. I knew about the storytelling and writing, I knew people sang, I just didn't expect that. Being Irish I've been in many public house rooms where people sang to pass the time. I'm not an art nerd or anything, it just blew my mind. I expected most of the other things though, everything exceeded my expectations. The intensity of the landscape, the micro climates, everything changes over a couple hundred k. I've never felt so drawn to a place. Since I first breathed the air I haven't stopped thinking about the place. It was an irregularly warm late February into March that we were there. The weather swung several times per day by location. It was like going from Oz to the Arctic to the fjords and back to the bright green land of Oz. Caught a snowfall, some ice, and there was a large snowfall the day we left. If only I could find a way, then again I suppose everyone would want to stay if it wasn't so difficult.
Iceland is better inhabited than Britain. Those Roman ass-hats didn't bring along their best engineers, which is PAINFULLY OBVIOUS seeing the last 1400+ years of "British Engineering." Germans won. They even took the British Isles. Nobody wants to admit it, but the Windsor family/Queen Victoria 3's family are literally German folks, pretending to be British, because WHY THE F*** NOT?! PROVE ME WRONG
I really enjoyed the photography you popped in! There is something fascinating about underwater ruins especially when they resurface, there is a certain mystery and draw to these places where time works differently on structures and it feels like peeling back the curtains to get a glimpse of times past, preserved as if they had only recently been submerged.
Also maybe this appeals because I've been reading a book about bog bodies and the author talks about how the preservation that occurs in bogs, fens and mires changes how we perceive these sometimes very well preserved bodies in comparison to how people feel regarding skeletonized remains.
Fascinating video, I love the way you edited in the photos you took! Love this and all your other content, keep it up!
Thank you Kai! I was so happy to finally inlude some photography in my videos! Will definatley be doing more of that in the future!
Yeah man, i couldn't agree more. =)
As a young Marine in the 1970s we were sent to Scotland and trained there. It is an amazingly hauntingly beautiful landscape.
I devour EVERY movie about and filmed in Scotland 🏴!!
I can really see why my grandpa though Scotland was the most beautiful place on earth. He was there during WWII while in the US Navy and he said he always wished he could return and bring my grandma with him. Sadly, they never made the trip.
This is incredibly fascinating and something I never even thought of before. Thank you for documenting and bringing us along on this adventure. It reminds me of the times I explored old ruins in the forest as a kid. Those were of course never submerged like these were, but I can relate to that curiosity and also pondering about who lived there before and what it was like. What's the story embedded in those walls? What have they seen?
Thank you Maia! I'd love to more videos like this exploring parts of Scotland, it's a real passion of mine! But you're exactly right, I'm at my happiest in woods or hills or anywhere exploring ruins and trying to discover a bit more of the history of them!
@@CalumRaasay I would love to see more of this type of video, drone shots are great but handheld could do with some image stabalization cause it makes my eyes hurt, showing my age. Keep up the good work.
Great to see the early use of cavity wall, a design that has become common place but was invented in this parts to protect the internal skin of brickwork from the driving rain
I lived in California's gold country at the peak of our drought and watched as old mining facilities and ghost towns slowly reemerged from our reservoirs, did some exploring myself but didn't care to document it at all
this was around the same time that the reservoir at Mt Shasta drained and a lost hiker was finally found pinned beneath a tree after some thirty odd years
Long awaited closure for a family for sure!
Back in the 70's they built four lane highways to motor all the way up Scotland to the top, way before it was actually needed and it's a joy to drive very early in the morning in winter on these great roads covered in snow with the faery landscape following us.
What four lane highways are these? I live near John O'Groats (top of Scottish mainland) and I can say for certain that there is no four lane highway that comes all the way up since the 70's. Dualing the A9 is still on going, large sections between Perth and Inverness weren't done until the 90's, and the section north of Helmsdale wasn't done until 2005/2006. I remember single track roads mixed with normal roads when I was young, and a couple of those larger bridges weren't built either.
The wooden wedge at 12:40 is a "dook". used before screws and rawlplugs for creating fixings. Cut with an axe in a shape to create a cambing action when hammered in. The joiner also needed a dooking chisel to remove the mortar to create a gap for the dook. Your skirtings and stuff were nailed to the dook.
Great spot!
I came for the tiny campervan. I stayed for the social history and photography. Your video doesn't appear anti-renewables at all. I too am fascinated but can't help feeling sad for someone's loss especially as it's mostly forgotten about now.
Thank you Alex! Much appreciated. More van content on the way!
I was brought up near Loch Cluanie and it was a fairly common occurrence for the loch to be low, especially in the Summer, the chimneys were a good signal that it was particularly dry. I knew they belonged to the lodge but wasn't aware that it actually the wash house. As a side note, these hydro schemes didn't just drown land, in Loch Ness they extended the shoreline when tunnel waste was dumped in the Loch during the 1950's. Now covered in birch woodland you would never think it was under water 70 years ago, and gives you an idea of how quickly forest can establish itself in Scotland.
Yeah I've always been unlucky, I've driven Cluaine hundreds of times but I never got the chance to stop much to look for the old ruins!
Fascinating and interesting as your other videos.
Thanks Calum
A strange recommendation but a welcome one, really interesting stuff
It might be something to check out next time you're up in Rainland
Thank you! Enjoy your work 👍🏻
Man your content is amazing, keep up the great work
😀Thank you! Really appreciate that
Thank you for sharing both this excellent video and your still photos as well.
Fascinated and gorgeous photos! Thank you!
So glad this came up on TH-cam. I really enjoyed all the pictures!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you Lucille! Was really glad to be able to share them
“Droughts and dryness” is not something I would ever have thought about when mentioning Scotland. Especially as an Australian
I worked on the dam reconstruction back in the early 90s in upper glendevon recognised it straight away. The old ruins would pop up from time to time.
I'm impressed no sunken boats , anchors, cars or barrels with bodies in them. Great job taken care of you water ways.
Lovely video , great to see these buildings saved for all time along with the farm house preserved for evermore .
Great stuff Calum, Love your videos.
Thanks so much for this video. It was so interesting and your photos were beautiful. I'll certainly watch any other videos you have done. It's amazing how all these years later the original views have somewhat surfaced. Great van by the way!
This was great. Awesome photo's & drone footage!
Thank you!
The world becomes a better place when people make things like this. Thankyou.
Thank you so much!
Hey man incredible work again! So informative!! Absolutely love your stuff dude
Thanks Mike! Really appreciated!
Really fascinating watch. Thanks for putting effort into this :)
Thank you so much!
Check out this great article that interviewed me and found some extra info- including a photo of the house when still above the water! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/2693889/secrets-scotlands-submerged-ruins/
Thanks for finding those pictures. 🇬🇧👍
nice pics
Yea w
@@asterion3291 no way, it’s much cooler and more historically important under the water!
Why did they have to move out a second time?
I really enjoyed your still photos. Amazing look at time and progress.
Thanks so much!
Great video mate, will be watching more! Interesting fact you may like to know I that here in north east Victoria Australia, they moved the entire town of Tallangatta in the 50’s to escape the rising waters of an extended Lake Hume. The streets, train station and foundations of the houses are visible most summers.
Calum, this was really wonderful. The shots at 7:50 are simply stunning, otherworldly. Thanks!
Thank you! Much appreciated
Great, glad you're doing these.
Great video and i would love more of this style!
Awww, thank you so much for your valuable videos, I only came across this video tonight. I'm hoping that you still do your Videos. Much appreciated much love from the UK xxx
I love the photos you took!
Great photography. Absolutely made the episode seeing your artfully composed perspective.
Oh how my fingers itch to touch those stones as you explore this beautiful place. Your vid does for me, what I might never be able to do, and I thank you for that. I hope someday to go to the Isle of Skye. It's on my bucket list. Thanks again. Melanie
Thanks Callum, that's excellent! I must nip up and take a look myself.
Very interesting! It looks like the windows of the house were modernised when the extension went on, the main part of the house looks much older. Thanks for sharing this :)
It’s been a pleasure discovering your channel, m8! You and I clearly have very similar interests. Thanks for the excellent content…it’s well-produced and fascinating! Liked and subscribed for sure
Thank you! Much appreciated
Amazing, thanks for sharing.
just about the best narrator job I've ever listened to. Also, that van is awesome!
These old ruins remind me of Cromwell, a small town in New Zealand. Around 1/3 of the town (including the railway station) was flooded in 1980 to allow for construction of the Clyde Dam. The railway from Wingatui was cut back to terminate in Clyde, and closed in 1990.
Oh amazing, I'll have to look that up. Facinating history
Fantastic video. I was riveted. In the past I travelled extensively in the highland and I always read up and dug into the history of the places I visited. Your videos are on a whole new dimension though.. Thanks for your work.
Thanks for sharing your travels with us.
Thank you for watching - and commenting!
Some really great shots captured!
Thank you!
Fascinating stuff you do. Thank you.
Mudlarking in Scottland! Beautiful Bl&Wh Photos...really lovely and so special
classic Scottish architecture is so charming, I love your culture, one of the few places I want to visit
Absolutely brilliant video, especially about Loch Cluanie! I'm up and down to Skye a few times a year, and always mean to stop there and have a good explore. I can never quite remember where the various bridges and bits are. I wonder if anyone has dived at the chimney stacks, it would be interesting to see what's still left below. There's Loch Loyne as well, where the old road from Tomdoun went over to Cluanie - sometimes the two bridges there get exposed as well, but it's a wee bit of a hike up.
Great video with very nice footage, especially the drone footage. thanks 😊
Fascinating stuff and some excellent photography.
Thank you so much!
Nice that you also showed us the photographs you took, especially the black & white ones are beautiful. 👌😀👍 ❗
Hi there I have an actual photo on my phone of the original house ,in the photo they had a yard for chickens geese ,etc at the main door ,my father's friend as a young man used to walk from Tillicoultry to. Blackford in the summer (11mile walk)and Sheppard's wife used to serve tea coffee cakes for passing walkers at the window facing the water,I also knew about ancient archeological sites too here there are numerous sites in the Ochil hills ,just down the road in I think Dunning area of the ochils they found a ball made of stone it's called the sherrifmuir ball perfectly round stone ball with inscriptions on it it was made 4000years ago ,great video.
Great Vlog Calum loved the drone footage and the stills. Reservoirs hide some amazing finds when the drop. We have one on Dartmoor with some prehistoric monuments i have seen a clapper bridge and stone circles that were lost.. You need a buy me a coffee link as well as Patreon.
I know, I need to get better with Patreon and the like! Hopefully for 2022. Thanks for the support 🙏
Thank you very much! A few years ago I worked in Gleneagles Hotel and I lived in the staff accommodation there. I walked to Glendevon reservoirs, but I would never say what could be hidden under water.
Awesome stuff 👍
Gonna have to visit this place, just found your channel from your latest vid. Content is very interesting and well explained.
This was great! Good job!
Thanks for bringing up Dryweryn, I was wondering if Scotland got to keep the energy produced or if it was also situation like that.
Absolutely beautiful footage and photos! almost like an aurora in some places.
Thank you! I’d actually scripted and recorded a whole piece about Capel Celyn and Llanwddyn for this but it didn’t really fit. Maybe deserves its own video. Great old documentary called “Celts: the final conflict” that discusses it too.
The electricity generated did indeed stay in Scotland, often meaning even in remote areas homes had electricity decades before running water made it to the area, so they could boil a kettle but the water would still need to be filled from a well and carried miles.
@@CalumRaasay ooh I'd love to see that. My friend and I spent a lot of time driving around lake vyrnwy in our 20s, and as beautiful they managed to make a dam, I always wondered what the landscape would be without it.
Manchester is teeming with reservoirs, wonder why Liverpool figured Wales was easier?
Appreciate the 3 layered view of historic change .Captivating experience.
Thank you!
I'm "incredibly glad" you came to visit. Really interesting video showing what I assume will remain the landscape here (plus vegetation in the future) and demonstrating how people are pushed and shunted around for the sake of energy production. I sympathize with the folks that had to move from such an idyllic location.
Thanks for the videos mate!
Thanks for working!
Thanks for this. Really enjoyed it.
Wow I used to live in Scotland in the 90s and all this is new to me. Thankyou for enlightening me to more history of a country I love and of my ancestors.
I hope it starts to fill up soon. Interesting. Thanks.
Nice photos !
A fascinating, beautiful place. Thanks.
2 uploads in 3 weeks!
2021 is turning out alright after all!
haha! Both this, the Jimny and the Campervan video were all 'weekend videos' that didn't require much research, just lots of filming. Hopefully I'll get a few other videos out soon too!
@@CalumRaasay These weekend videos mean a lot to me in my small work-from-home office! So good to see what else this island can offer when I can finally take my family on a good trip around.
Another excellent doco Calum, great to see Cluanie ,dam exposed like this!👌
I remember visiting that spot in Wales when I was a boy in 1962. I was visiting from America. My grandmother in Worcester and I took a Midland Red coach tour to Wales and I remember the driver saying that you could see the village church steeple sticking out of the water when the level was low. I've always wondered about that and if true, did they relocate any bodies and tomb stones to higher ground before flooding the place. Fascinating video. Thanks for bringing back a fond childhood memory.
The one place outside the USA I’ve gotten to visit was Scotland. It’s such an amazingly beautiful place! Thank you for posting this video, it was very cool to see this!
This is wonderful. Thankyou.
I admire your photographs...Hope you can include more
Thanks for taking us on that journey
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
(20:21 Yeah, you can clearly see it in the lower right corner. I'm fascinated by early proto castles and the old motte-and-baily design is a particular favorite of mine. How awesome to see the remains of one. 🙂 To be clear, the motte was the hill the castle part was on and the courtyard was the bailey.
Yeah have a wee read of that report, very interesting stuff!
Beautiful Landscape, Amazing, Just want to travel To Scotland Now 🙂
That's such a cozy van you have there! You should do videos on any modifications or showcase some of the features. I'm sure there are many out there who would like to see them. 😎
Abolutely going to make a van tour! Just a few bits to finish off first!
Great story, great photos!
Wow, I really wish I could do something similar to you. Travelling around in a van with my computer and gear in the back and just enjoy the occasional weekend just exploring the past.
Just amazing... those bridges, and especially the fence line still standing... And the windfarm ironically attacking the locals again...
Was lucky to do a similar walk a few years ago in Derbyshire when they lowered the water in Ladybower Reservoir and the remains of Derwent Hall were visible.
exceptional work 👍👍
Another really interesting piece of work. Thank You very much. Jim Bell (Australia)
Thank you Jim!
Another great one.
Great video enjoyed it
Excellent and fascinating.
Amazing. I love stuff like this.
Not the dryness. I'm from Oregon born '89 and I am obsessed with rain and temperate rainforest ecosystems I've grown up living in and it's crazy seeing how dry it's been. But I sure love getting to explore lesser known and abandoned locations. On a end note: I believe science will prevail and we will be enjoying complaining about the rain and storms in no time lol
That super carry is amazing!
This was really interesting and lovely scenery too
Thank you! Really loved making this video
Nice pics.