The Clough Hall Story visiting the areas from Kidsgrove the Bygone Days Musical

This is the 9th of the series from Kidsgrove the musical , In this Video we talk about the Clough Hall estate . A lot of research has been done to provide you the best information on the history of our area.
If you are interested in local history of Kidsgrove then this is the video for you, We also have a special guest appearance from the 80's.
#kidsgrove #publichouses #pubs #localpub #history #ghosts #80s #pastandpresent #history #stokeontrent #shops
0:00 Introduction and recap
0:37 update from part one
15:32 The avenue
22:38 Boathorse Road
29:16 Bathpool
31:35 Clough Hall Road
34:18 Leg O'Mutton
37:00 A34
41:19 Kinnersley avenue
43:54 Clough Hall Road
50:59 The Clough hall

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

Links to all the videos below:
Local Murders around Kidsgrove and visiting the areas from the Musical Bygone Days
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Local Folklore in Kidsgrove and visiting the areas from the Musical Bygone Days
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The Rise and fall of our Public Houses revisiting the scenes from Kidsgrove the Bygone days
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Pit Disasters in and around Kidsgrove revisiting the scenes from Kidsgrove the Bygone Days
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The Rise and fall of our Public Houses PART TWO revisiting the scenes from Kidsgrove the Bygone days
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Our Shops through the years Part one Visiting the areas from Kidsgrove the Bygone days musical
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The Old Kidsgrove Part one Visiting the areas from Kidsgrove the Bygone days musical
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The Old Kidsgrove Part TWO Visiting the areas from Kidsgrove the Bygone days musical
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The Clough Hall Story visiting the areas from Kidsgrove the Bygone Days Musical
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#publichouses #pubs #localpub #history #ghosts #80s #pastandpresent #history #stokeontrent #shops

[@nikkibell6887]

Brilliant 😊

[@sharronwaterhouse5864]

Loved this episode ❤ lots of happy nostalgia again

[@mj-cd9lk]

I didn’t move to Kidsgrove until I was around 12 years old but I’ve always considered it home and I’ve lived here for 40 years now.
I didn’t know a lot about the history of the place so these videos have been absolutely amazing to watch and I’ve really enjoyed getting to know the history of this wonderful town.

[@juliemchugh2357]

Fab video thanks Dave for all the info ❤

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Carusus1]

Thanks so much for this. Great discoveries. My grandmother was in service at Clough Hall, and may well be in that photo of the laundry. She remembered the Blondin visit.
I grew up on what Clough Hall Estate and Bathpool had become in the 1960s and 70s. Shame you didn't venture beyond Bathpool through the beautiful Target Wood to Blood Pool, as it was known. The far side of that pool is a steep clay bank, and it was, we believed, used for target practice during the civil war (?). We concluded this from the musket pellets we would regularly dig out from the clay surface (difficult to reach, nonetheless).
On my last visit I was disappointed to see that the beautiful Nelson Bank ('Nally Bank'?) the original one, which looks down onto what was Nelson Pond) has been completely and soullessly seeded no doubt by the National Forestry Commission. It used to be a grass bank affording a wonderful view up to Bathpool, and in summer we would slide ('surf') down it on strips of shiny hardboard.
Billy Poole in fact built the house I grew up in. Clough Hall House always used to scare me as a child: it looked like a haunted house from a horror film. It was surrounded by tall dark trees, which meant the house was always dark.
From my bedroom window I had a grandstand view of the cricket pitch, where we used to play... I used to score for the English Electric team.
I always wondered what the estate area had looked like before the houses, including what was in my day called the English Electric Estate (emergency built in the late 1940s (IIRC).
The gamekeeper's lodge always puzzled me, since it did not fit in with the rest of Kinnersley Ave. Thanks for the explanation.
As a child I would go looking for stuff in the ground here and there around Bathpool. Should have kept some of the finds for you.
Shame you didn't venture down past the Clough Hall bowling green into the steep woods behind to show the monkey puzzle tree and the rhododendron maze around it. That area was magic to children. We would collect conkers and firewood for bonfire night.
Leg o' Mutton also held mystery. I also fished there, and caught little. One guy landed a large tench next to me one day, however.
I always wondered who had lived in the lodge house at the top of Beech Drive/Park Ave.
And I was sad to learn that the sycamore on the mound in the park has gone (why?), as has the pavilion, where I used to see old men playing dominoes.
Thanks again. Andrew Dale

[@DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov]

Love this feedback.... since mentioning the cottage and was it Gamekeeepers, Butlers or Gardeners...i am convinced now it was the Gardeners Cottage. I have found photos of Bathpool with "The Game Keepers Cottage"...which would make sense now.

[@peternoble9408]

Played in puzzle wood in the fifties as a kid remember well the rhododendron bushes and the maze was rumoured to be haunted

[@JanetWilson-id6yr]

I have a cousin named David Swindells. His mother was my Dads sister Becca Swindells nee Brough. I was born in Buttlane in 1950 and Kidsgrove was my home for 42 years. His brother was John Swindells. There dad my uncle Edgar. Could this be the same one.

[@DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov]

That will be Dave & John yes.

[@DaveWaterhouse-oy2ov]

Dave is trying to contact you Janet