Brilliant video again Martin! As a kid in the 60's, before all the housing, you could see Fallowfield Brook emerging from under Yew Tree Road to join with Platt Brook. What is shown as a cricket & football ground on the old map where the two brooks meet was, in those days a pig farm. We used to scale the fence and explore where the brooks joined. Platt Brook used to run open across the farm, down the side of the railway to Hough End, where the name changed to Chorlton Brook. 👍🙂

That was a good littke filler, loved the old pet cemetery, the Dutch girls were rather nice as well, above your usual standard of company! Nice one both, and Timmy.

It really brightens my miserable Sundays watching you guys👍

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Cheers Tweety 😁

I remember my Grandma telling me how my Dad went playing with his friends at the Brickie - very much against all instructions! Then how she and my Granddad went for a walk on Sunday evening and caught my Dad and his mates there. I think my Dad could still feel his punishment on his backside when he passed away aged 92!!

Brilliant the Dutch girls got in touch with you about The Fallowfield brook and waterfall , Amazing how one thing leads to finding out about the areas industrial past .

🧠💪🙋‍♂️🤝 Always a pleasure watching 💚🙏

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

Cracking video again lads, much appreciated 👍,very interesting facts about the various brooks, You two crack me up with your banter and I really thought James was going to end up on his arris at the end , shame Timmy didn't run a bit faster 🤣, stay safe guys.

Great little vid 🙂 Loved the pet cemetery bit. BTW, hope you had the Stroopwaffles how they're meant to be done (so I've been told, and had them as such ) by placing them on top of your mug straight after you've brewed up, just like a lid and leave them for a bit so that the filling gets warm and melts. Dead tasty 😋

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

That’s a good idea

Beautiful video guys keeps these wet cold dark nights out..thanks guys could watch you all day everyday...❤

A great video, my neck of the woods Fallowfield/Withington! My mum remembers the pig farm that was by the brooks. They moved into Bowdon Avenue in the 70's from Longsight, I went to St Kents School personally! It is interesting to see the old map of the area also with Yew Tree Rd (we lived on Yew Tree Rd by Rippingham Rd park when I was a kid) and Wilbraham Rd not yet meeting up!

Excellent walk around another local area and showing the back history to otherwise innocuous features.

Poor Marcus! I've seen LOADS of little waterfalls in Longsight and Levenshulme, particularly around chucking out time on Friday nights. 😂. Ham, cheese and pickle are definitely the business. Nice one guys! ⭐👍

That was wonderful, especially the cemetery, Thank you Martin.

My grandma lived on the estate where those Brooks meet up. I can remember playing as a kid near where the platt Brook came back out above ground on the far side of the estate

Levenshulme Waterfall- twinned with Wigan Pier. "Poulton's Patent Pending" on the stone.

Perfect another Martin Zero video… Sunday sorted

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Cheers Dan

Thanks you for the video. Always appreciate, your videos and travels. Enjoy the week ahead. Cheers Martin and James! ❤❤😊😊

Funny, I've driven past Stephen King's house, he lives in Portland Maine. Matin, you may call this a little filler video, but it was a enjoyable watch along with my morning coffee. Your information to humor ratio is spot on. You have so much history at your fingertips, you'll have content for many years to come. The Netherlands is my new favorite country.... lol mike

Another great Manchester video that you've done with James, Martin. How things have changed in that area, when you compare the old and new maps. I never would have thought that there was open ground like that park in the Levenshulme/Longsight area, and a pet cemetary to go with it. It's interesting as to where the brook goes and disappears under that estate. Look forward to a later program on that one. Many thanks for this film, even though short, really interesting.

Lovely little video! I thought the pet cemetery part was quite cool, especially the age of it as well, cheers.

@almaxx9680

8 ай бұрын

We need some dutch girls in Leicestershire 👍❤

Well your 'waterfall' wasn't that spectacular but what a lovely sound it made. I could listen to that for hours. How touching were those headstones remembering much loved pets? Maybe a short but sweet video, just the two of you (sorry Timmy, three of you), and not forgetting your new friends from the Netherlands. Hope you enjoyed your Stroopwafeln!

Well that was undersold!! Almost didn’t watch that, but was a lot more interesting than just a little waterfall!

That was really fun. How very nice to meet that lovely ladies from The Netherlands. That was a bonus. Always nice to see your James and of course his Timmy. I liked the video length. Didn't mind a nice shorter one. Many thanks Martin, really appreciate your work.

Once again a nice interesting video. Also great to see the 4 fellow Dutchies ;-)

Always great vlogs. Many thanks chaps 😊

Nice video and great history. I wish my waterfall was that big. Best regards from Oz.

Great video boy's ✌🏼💯 Pet Cemetery's all over1 in a priory near us. Hope today finds you both well 🙏🏻

Brilliant, you two make me smile, priceless.

Nice goin Martin, James an The Scruff [good to see him], that was intriguing particularly with the Aircraft Company Rds of Avro and Sopwith even Martlet, was an aircraft name. Makes me wonder if the area had aircraft manufacturing. Ya gotta watch those young blokes, always dashin in. Hope it was anything more permanent that bruised pride. Thanks for the Pet Cem visit, nice they are remembered. Pity stone headstones cost so much, people oly do it for people, and the pet oned are done by the owners. Thanks m8s, tell Marcus stay vertical.

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

Gosh! For a split second I thought that I was under the waterfall shower 🚿 in IACGMOOH! Bless it, it's quite cute 😍

You should definitely do one on Abney hall in Cheadle, it has a waterfall that is apparently haunted by a dwarf ninja lol. It also has the hall that was apparently the place Agatha Christie went into hiding to escape fame as she was friends with Lord Abney. Legend is that the railway bridge at the entrance gave her the inspiration for ‘murder on the orient express’ I know you like your trains, they have the nameplate on the wall of one of the ‘hall’ class locos on the wall, you guessed it ‘Abney hall’. There’s also a pet cemetery where the lord buried his dogs.

Really enjoyed that. Pet cemetery was lovely. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care

My Sunday is now complete!

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

I almost used your music on this

Excellent video. Your sandwich’s looked really tasty. Great fun watching you both. Old pet cemetery. Sad. Thanks Martin and James and Timmy.

Filler episode did not disappoint! Enjoyed it very much! Thank you.

Another great Vid, guys. My Grandad worked at Jackson’s Brickyard in Adswood, so finding out they had another works too was a bit of a surprise. 😀😀

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Aha 👍

Great stuff !.....love it...👍

Great as always. Keep up the good work lads.

Not enough of the girls 😂 great video as always

11:56 James, i really hope you didn't stir them with that toothbrush 🤣🤣🤣

Yes!!!😂 No spoon. You've not let me down James 😂

Great little video. Keep up the great work.

Nice Video Martin. Always good to see interesting places around Manchester . I Hope Marcus is ok he was lucky it was nice clean water & not some smelly 💩sewer.👍

Nice one lads 👍

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Cheers

As always, great video. Almost certainly a former weir. It might have been altered after the bleach works were demolished to become a feature of the landscape. Perhaps it did serve a function of flood control.

Hi Martin, I hope you shared your ham sarnies with the ladies!! Be interesting to know what they were studying. Always enjoy the parts where you trace the story through the side by side maps and uncover all those old photos. Well I'm going to see if I can get hold of the new book by Geoffrey, its on amazon at 17:95. Have a great week!!

Crazy to see you do a video right next to my house, and not on the rail line either. There is little evidence of the old factory on the path you walked down to the weir. Bits of brickwork and wall half buried beneath the muddy path. Highfield Farm, lasted until the 90's remember taking the dogs there when I was a kid. Was a kennel at that point. Sadly it was destroyed in a fire however you can still find the gate post marking the entry to the old pond off the track that runs by the stream.

Timmy to you Timmy to you

Nice one Martin and James.

Hiya Martin from Canada. Nice to hear you are going to do more on the Woodhead Route. Thank you. Much appreciated. One day we may ride together on the reinstated route.

Very interesting Martin and James enjoyed it. Pete and Lorraine

Thanks for sharing, i've some ancestors from Hulme and a lot of areas of manchester!

Another great video chaps. There is/was a pets cemetery in Brabyns Park, Marple Bridge.

Nice video as always Martin (and team). Looking at the stone inscription, it looks like it says 'POULTONS PATENT - READING - TRADEMARK - CURVILINEAR' Had to look that last bit up - that was really tough. Thanks for yet another fascinating video... ;)

@jimc6436

8 ай бұрын

There are a few references to this inscription on the web with pictures, but it seems to refer to the makers of this particular shape of brick, and not anything to do with the pet cemetery (unless perhaps there was a plaque on the other side, maybe).

Thanks Martin, love this episode - really interesting stuff, can't wait to see the 'big video' in due course. Great photo of Marcus giving a 'thumbs up! 😉 Really nice to see the International link-up too, happy to see more of that in future episodes! 😁 Also, love Timmy!! 😍 The Pet Cemetery looks like a set, left over from a film, how odd! Another Woodhead tunnels film would also be great!!

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Hi Oliver how are you, did you take that pic of Marcus

@oliverghunter

8 ай бұрын

@MartinZero fine thanks, hope you are too! I did and very happy for it to be used. 😊

It's nice that Timmy took James out for a hike 😅

I knew there must have been 3 reasons James was so keen. I bet if the ladies were also having Tea. There would have been a spoon each. Manchesters best cakes and perfect brew up. 🤣

The Students were nice ,can we have another joint video adventure with them , and James can continue to widen his Confectionery experiences .😊

Gosh your amazing.❤❤

Beste dames, als jullie dit lezen, hartelijk welkom in Zuid Manchester. Toen ik student in Manchester was, woonde ik in Levenshulme, best dichtbij dus. Ben ook in de regio geboren en getogen. Voor de laaste 16 jaar woon ik in Leiden. Omgekeerde wereld dus. Mooi gebaar om strooopwafels mee te nemen, jammer dat de mannen het niet echt konden uitspreken. Succes met jullie studies.

Like below. Nice vibe video. They all are. We need those. You guys are champions

I've never really been that way before - nice! The old photos of the brickworks were always a treat. Red onion chutney 👌

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Its nice but its basically Jam 😄

Timmys outta control 😮we love him 🤣🤣

Great little video. James’s bright new anorak will be very useful in spotting him when he falls behind on the cycling again! Surprised you didn’t make more of the Dutch girls and what they’d learnt from their pilgrimage to Manchester.

@ChurchOfTheHolyMho

8 ай бұрын

100% on the Dutch girls. I was left wondering all the "what," "why," and "how come" questions. I really would've liked to hear out of all the places in the world to pilgrimage to, that was the one. Maybe a link to their research?

An old vintage pet cemetery. Very interesting.

Great filla 👍

Love your videos guys, especially when you get the old maps next to the new ones. Did you guys know that trout fishermen out velvet on the soles of their waders so they don't slip on slippery rocks in the rivers?

Good one as always :)

Splendid video from weir's to pet cemetaries and slimy tunnels in between. Great stuff. Wonder how that pet cemetary got there?

Found this online relating to the curved brick probably from the brickworks kiln..... "This is a firebrick, manufactured by Poultons of Reading, and would originally have been installed in an industrial kiln, probably for making pottery. Poultons closed in 1908, so this is well over a century old. The firebricks are relatively uncommon - one was recently uncovered while building Crossrail, the first to be found in London. Our firebrick presumably ended up at Highfield when it was the local dump, and connects with Manchester’s industrial past."

@MartinZero

28 күн бұрын

👌cheers

My - that is a small water -fall / weir but sweet at the same time!!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂

I think we have a much better small waterfall in Middleton,a natural one ,in The Irk, just down stream from LOL also a bleach factory ,I have not been there for 30-40 years but I think it is just about where Alky Hall is, (I remember as a kid many times seeing the river frothing up with white foam)what they pumped into that river back then is crazy

Fallowfield. Long, long ago, I met my first Lesbian in Fallowfield. I lucked out. So we became nice friends instead. Which just goes to show, as Mick Jagger almost said, we can't always expect rivers & Swallow Falls. Sometimes we come to appreciate brooks & streams instead.

Eh up lads - I think Timmy's pulled. More chance than you two. Ha! Great little video again - thanks a lot. All the best, boys. Take care.

Thank you Martin and the spoon buffoon!

I think Timmy has the potential to become as famous as Ted from ‘Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing’ ❤😍🐾

No spoon again . Come on James you got one job.😆 Please make a check list. And put spoon in big letters 🤣👍

Great vid Martin, im wondering if where them 2 brooks meet and run underground do the house owners above the brook actually know it’s beneath them? I.e do you think it’s in the deeds for the houses or did the builder developer actually state it before people buying? If it was me I would be put off knowing that

What's not to like; two cuties, and a brew, and of course Martin.

@MartinZero

8 ай бұрын

Cheers Russ 😄👍🏻

Martin, that brick you found in the pet cemetery says poultons patent pending circuliniar, it must relate to the shape of the brick, only thing I can find is a reference to 1906 ish ( I think), something to do with a court case

Another great video lads, any chance of you doing another filler eating foreign snacks, like you did with the Korean food?

You guys pair up so well together, kinda like Laurel and Hardy lol.... Good on ya boys........ oh and Timmy.

@roberthindle5146

8 ай бұрын

I don't know how hard Martin has to try to persuade James to join him for these wet walks! I note he's the only one of the bunch who isn't a fair-weather explorer.

The ‘headstone’ is actually a curved fire brick manufactured by Poultons of Reading. It reads ‘Poultons patent Reading trademark curvilinear’

@Charstring

8 ай бұрын

A nice piece of industrial archaeology - it looks like Poultons had a few patents including their patent curvilinear boiler seating blocks?

Lovely ladies

That says poulton's patent curvilinear.... Reckon you uncovered something more than a dog's grave. Its a fire back for an open fire to improve the draw..... Actually Google says probably for kilns.

Thanks Martin, I wonder if the bleach works got taken over by the cooperative laundry?

As a Dutchman I love stroopwafels. Did you like them? Nice video again!

@MartinZero

4 ай бұрын

James liked them 😄

love the trickle of the waterfall, we have one here on the edge of the Black country, known as Wordsley waterfall, its really just a weir on the river Stour, but its become a big joke on local social media, with folks posting photos of waterfalls from around the world and referring to them as Wordsley waterfall

How random with the Dutch students!

18:47 - 'Poultons Patent Reading Trade Mark Curvilinear' ?

"Lovley innit"

Thanks :)

Timmy the chick magnet ❤

Timmy! 😍

If you need a new package of Stroopwafels because James' ate all of them, let me know. No problem to send you a few more. Als de Nederlandse dames meekijken, wat kwamen jullie doen in Manchester? En heeft jullie bezoek geholpen bij jullie onderzoek?

Oh, gezellig met die Nederlandse meiden. De stroopwafels zullen wel goed hebben gesmaakt.

@dixonsindorset

8 ай бұрын

Van de Lidl in Nederland! Ze zijn eigenlijk best lekker!

Interesting to see two of road names on the housing estate with WW1 aircraft references - Avro Close and Sopwith Drive. Anyone any ideas why? The Avro factory, now museum, wasn't a million miles away in Woodford, but Sopwith was based in Surrey. Martlet Close also has aircraft links, but that was an American plane in WW2.

@richardwillson101

8 ай бұрын

The Martlet was operated by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy in ww2. With "Martlet" actually being a British name for it. The Americans called it the "Grumman G-36 IIRC.

Hey Martin, did you take down the video that featured a big reservoir and spillway? Think it was filmed in the same area as the syphon tunnel, was looking for it the other day but couldn’t find it again…

Marcus "Dampy Pants" strikes again - going where no sane man will go.