Brilliant narration and historical content videos of the highest quality,good work.

17:30 Amazing timing or luck with not just one but two trains passing just at the right moment!

@hullhistorynerd

6 ай бұрын

I couldn't believe that, it's actually on my first bloopers video, you see my excited reaction after delivering the lines to the camera!

Brilliant. Never realised I luve jusr round the corner from Hull's original station.

@hullhistorynerd

3 жыл бұрын

The number of times I'd walked round the Marina never realising that a) there used to be a massive railway goods station there, and b) that it was also the site of our first station... It's exactly that sense of excitement of discovering all of this stuff under my nose that drove me to start this channel!

The Leeds & Selby was the first mainline railway in Yorkshire; it was the second Mainline Railway in Britain and the first railway to be operated entirely by locomotives - other lines like the Liverpool & Manchester used locomotives and stationary engines. So too the Stockton & Darlington which even used horses as well. The L&S is a very important little line.

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

It certainly is! Obviously my focus was on the Hull and Selby stretch, but yes, the Leeds and Selby was absolutely groundbreaking in Yorkshire.

When I was a callow sixteen year old, first forging my way into working life, I had a job on Brighton Street Industrial Estate. This would have been 1986. On my first day the boss told me I would be working with an ex-retiree. He had retired, but just needed to keep busy with his life. He told me he'd been a fireman. I thought, this will be an interesting man to listen to. On meeting said man and over a lunch time salmon paste sandwich, I broached the subject with him with with an opener of something like "So, fireman. That's some courage right there". To which he put his head on the side and frowned. "Oh," he said "Tony told you I was a fireman?" I nodded. "He meant fireman on steam engines". My eyes lit up! I spent the next few months learning about all the daily working of Dairycoates. The locos that were trouble, the ones that steamed freely. The sneaky things they would do behind the gaffer's back. It was an education. I will never forget Alf. We came from two different worlds, but we had a shared love of the railways. This episode brought that home to me. Thank you.

@hullhistorynerd

3 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful chance to talk to someone who worked the line in its prime! Fantastic!

17:27 Perfect Timing!!!! 😎

@hullhistorynerd

2 жыл бұрын

There's an extended outtake of that shot in my second Bloopers video where I express my surprise at the timing!

Another brilliant, informative film. Really enjoying this series. Very good quality film and well put together. 10/10.

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou, really glad people are enjoying them as much as I enjoy making them!

This is really good 😌

Thank you for all your informative and entertaining videos . I remember wandering around the dairycoats round house with my mates as a child, trespassing of course but while an odd railway man would say you shouldn't be here we were never told to get out. That's all a long time ago before health and safety regulations

Love this, the fact you mentioned an epidemic in 2019 is very apt in 2021

@hullhistorynerd

2 жыл бұрын

The irony wasn't lost on me either!

You have Hudson we have Jerkies the forward thinking American Crooked Financier who had huge influence on London and its Transport..

Superb series stunned as t number of railways now gone and the areas that look like countryside but are really brownfield ??

Excellent. Very informative. Thanks very much.

Having an idle afternoon and your series popped up. I’ve great affection for Hull and East Riding railways in the 1960s, so I watched all five. You have a nice relaxed style. My local East Lincs Line and whole host of associated secondary lines where devastated in 60/70s; if ever you’re inclined, they’d make a great series tracing them.

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou! I'm really glad you've enjoyed watching them, and I most certainly have plans to explore more disused railways across the region once I've finished with my series on Hull's history!

Fabulous again! Also really like the music.

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou 😊

22:01 - *stands to attention and salutes*

Great video. Like you, I was fascinated by old and derelict stations and railways as a child, and continued to be fascinated by the effects of the transport links of society. I hope that you are able to look at the Hull and Barnsley Railway at some point

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And don't worry, the last two episodes will be on the Hull and Barnsley, at least the East Riding parts of it! Expect those episodes at the end of October and early November!

Very interesting 👍 Like you said in the video I have past relatives who worked for the railways. Thank you, looking forward to the next episode

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, hopefully I'll be able to make my 2 week deadline for the next one!

Another interesting and informative film, and overall very well presented and produced.

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for your kind comments!

DairyCoates stunning story…

Another brilliant upload ,subbed 10/10

Brilliant, thanks.

Great channel; I’ve no connection with Hull but been a couple of times and had a good snoop around. Several years ago I saw a programme on Mr Hudson; apparently a statue outside York station was being made of him, but then his creative accountancy showed up so they kept the body and cast a different head. However, I can’t find any evidence of this other than the TV programme.

All of this is excellent but just looking at the old maps in your series fascinates me. To see the tiny houses in squished terraces with no gardens right next to Paragon station. The poor souls who lived in those overcrowded hovels have my sympathy. Then when Paragon is expanded half of Collier's street houses are flattened.

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

I agree completely, the slums of the age were terrible places that were largely responsible for the cholera outbreaks that were suffered in the age. I'll actually be covering this in a later series of History of Hull which looks at the pattern and stages of urban growth in the city.

Any way like I said ,,we need this on Birkenhead docks history ..so as we speak I'm on way to hull to kidnap you ,bring you back to Birkenhead.( drone as well..) and give you the tour of our dock lands ....😎..seriously great presentation keep them up Mr nerd...also you look like you just got home from a place in the sun on this show ,,or is that just the light ..( OR MAYBE YOUR GOING FOR THE DAVID DICKINSON LOOK NOW...ha ha )

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Ha, sadly no sunny climes for me; I'd just been out filming a lot over a very sunny summer!

Absolutely loving the videos. I know hull a wee bit through my family, and this is just fascinating. If I had any spare money, would donate to help you make more videos :/

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And don't worry, I make these videos for everyone, not just those who can afford to help out! Keep on watching and keep on enjoying :)

I've watched all of these and really enjoyed them! Are there other subjects you have planned in the future or are you going to be mainly railway focused? :)

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment and really glad you're enjoying them! This first series of History of Hull is focused on the railways, but early next year I will be working on the second series which will be more concentrated around Hull's Docks. Future series will focus in on the trams and trolleybuses, and the patterns of the urban growth of the city. That said, whilst the History of Hull series will be leaving the railways behind, other stuff that I will be working on will certainly involve trains and abandoned railways!

Hey man how would I go about contacting you? I may have some material to help you with this series. Also your links in the description are broken, this will happen if you copy-paste the description from your previous videos.

@hullhistorynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Links are fixed! What is the material? I'm always extremely interested in old photos and footage as it really helps flesh out the vision of how a place used to be, but naturally I can only use it if you own the copyright.