A Secret Doorway & the Deep Canal Tunnel Shaft - The Butterley Reservoirs

[@pas7680]

Glad you came back to see the flow control and air shafts, i work in the buildings behind them and walk past every day.

[@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling]

Definitely walking through history Ant. I loved the way we got to see the valve with that camera shot. Amazing bit of research and old Reservoir. Thanks for sharing Ant.

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Fantastic video thanks Ant. I found finding the door quite exciting. The machinery all looked well looked after.. loved the portals and the area. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care

[@ffrancrogowski6263]

Finding these artefacts is marvellous Ant. The tunnel shaft is an amazing discovery as well as the valve behind the steel door. There's some interesting preserved railway stuff looking at the Swanwick Junction railway site. Many years ago, I think Rowsley train crews used to work through that area to get to Toton yard.

[@ernestbailey9194]

Your enthusiasm really shines through your videos, you make them so interesting to watch. Keep it up Ant.

[@JohnBath-f8p]

Explored this area 50 years ago. Watched the previous video, this one is excellent too! I moved from Sheffield to Essex in 1978, continuing my industrial archaeological explorations, both in Southern England and South Wales, and the Midlands and Northern England. Exploring disused airfields in East Anglia and the East Midlands has also allowed me to explore old industrial sites and transport routes from the air using light aircraft and gliders. One recent ground visit to a disused airfield in Northamptonshire revealed a disused ironstone railway with a wonderful bridge! Good luck with your historical explorations! John.

[@steve83803]

Yay I can see my house on the map at the beginning 😀

[@nigelbarker4135]

I absolutely love your attention to old infrastructure 😍👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Tuberuser187]

Another great explore, I could never get to these places with my health so these are my way of getting to see them and his enthusiasm makes them even better.

[@johnburns5783]

I used to go sailing on Butterley res in the early 70’s when I was at Gladstone school in Ilkeston. Friday afternoons in the summer / early autumn. Great memories 😉😉

[@fhwolthuis]

Great find! Martin will be jealous 😂😉

[@gwynrandall7255]

Another interesting and well made prog Ant.

[@shirleylynch7529]

Fab explore. So much to see and enjoy. Your enthusiasm rubs off. We are all excited to see what you find next. Thank you Ant. Great video, music and filming.

[@andrewmarriott4033]

Glad you found the air shaft reckon its got to be the canal down there 👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's a cracking little artefact isn't it?

[@andrewmarriott4033]

@ Amazing it’s survived

[@lancpudn]

Hello, I so enjoy your videos. They're beautifully shot & edited. You are very knowledgable about our great past history, seeing all these places you lead us to is an absolute joy. I can't get about like I used to & this is the next best thing to being there, thank you.

[@Paul_Wheller_with_an_h]

Utterly good video

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@allandenman9387]

@@Paul_Wheller_with_an_h ah I see what you did there.

[@ZX600E7]

We have 3 bridges here in Boston that were cast at butterley foundry/ironworks 😊

[@Kivetonandrew]

That line labled as a tramway was actually a standard gauge railway that connected to the Butterley Works. It crossed the Coach Road on a level crossing and to offices whare the housing estate is. Note some of the names of the roads on the estate. St Pancras, Falkirk and Bridge Yard. There were offices on this site up until 2004/5 when the offices were demolished. I worked at Butterley during this period. It was a huge concern totally ruined by greedy asset strippers.

[@davedear929]

As usual great story and content well presented ...you never fail to deliver... many thanks Ant..

[@steve83803]

The Swanwick junction spur used to go to Swanwick Colliery, now the Thorntons Factory site. Unfortunately an industrial estate cut off the line but the track bed continues past the industrial estate and is known as Riddings Railway Footpath. My house sits on top of the cutting.

[@ste.h9825]

Very interesting series.Thanks Ant.

[@dilwyn1]

@Ant ... That was an amazing piece of ingenuity to picture that valve in the tunnel and also it was a cracking video too. Great job.

[@themackeler5011]

I remember the forge working and the train line along coach road from the forge to Butterly . Great Video again.

[@vickybatchelor6858]

Stunning scenery, Ant, and a brilliant video. Loving the new camera angles with you not needing to hold it all the time 😃 Thank you

[@TrekkingExploration]

Yes I thought I'd give that a go I think it worked

[@vickybatchelor6858]

@TrekkingExploration It absolutely did 😃 Definitely more of that please ❤️

[@TrekkingExploration]

@vickybatchelor6858 I will I promise ☺️

[@martinholmes1369]

Interesting video! The redbrick headstock was the old Brittain Colliery.

[@simonballard6413]

Yet another superb video. Derbyshire is one of the most fascinating counties in the whole country. I just want to know how you manage to learn about these intriguing places! Keep them coming, Ant - thanks so much.

[@seanbroadbent7738]

Looks like 10inch gate valve well maintained 😊

[@alanjewell9550]

Excellent & very interesting video. The little building by the tramway bridge looks like a pump house. I've seen a lot of very similar design, brick walks & a concrete roof. Occasionally I've found a petrol or diesel engine & pump inside.

[@ianhill4933]

The shaft behind the door was a valve to let water from the reservoir into the canal below. Also the Butterley park reservoir was the whole of the flat ground above the cascade not the area you thought, that was the grumblethorpe colliery, and it's associated earthworks. The Golden valley light railway does not use the tracked of the railway between Butterley works and Codnor park works, that ran at side of coach road and crossed the main road at Golden valley where the cross roads is the continued to Codnor park works, at side of coach road for most of way.

[@bobingram6912]

Super interesting vid, that feeder channel was a blast from the past, so unexpected if you were just having a walk and knew nothing of the area. Liking the new shooting techniques, we get to see your lower half - the bit that does all the work😂😂😂 Did you take a change of coat with you????!!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂

[@nicknewton7189]

Nice one m8,another belter. 🫡✌️

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Nick

[@navelriver]

Fascinating stuff! Nothing like that where I live, it is like exploring another planet! I would search the reservoir bottom for ancient discarded items!

[@MOJO24-y3d]

Years ago,when my dad was alive. He use to tell of the tunnels under the Nottingham council house. Also the train tunnel that use to go south under Parliament street. One thing he did say and I don't know if it's true,but there's a tunnel from the council house to the council offices at the side of Trent Bridge. Maybe something to have a look at to see if it's true or not. Excellent video as usual 👍

[@sidewaysaction9983]

As per usual outstanding. Mat sir loving your work.

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Great footage, especially the tunnel shaft and the door to the valve mechanism, which looked to me, in remarkably good condition! Has it been restored, I wonder? Thanks for a really interesting video.

[@ynot6473]

the blue one looks quite new, the other one behind looks to have been restored.

[@MelanieRuck-dq5uo]

Ant calling a HST 125 an 'old HST 125' makes me feel really old! Another great and interesting video full of Ant's usual enthusiasm though.

[@andrewmaurer6267]

Another quality trip top man could you get a camera down the shaft ?? Maybe another day 👍

[@joan4906]

Nice😀

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you 😊

[@robinkey4499]

thank you

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching

[@tonyspike5928]

Have you been to Hardwick ponds , near Hardwick Hall. There's an underground chamber on the banks of one of the ponds. Not sure what it was for but there's a slit opening facing the pond so maybe it was forwwatching birds on the pond.

[@davidgibbings6085]

1602 through Minutes channel geo engineering going on In the Skys but love your introduction of past hissing , love that

[@suzyqualcast6269]

OK, Mat Bath side down towards Ambergate, just past Nightingale house and grounds, and just before Dukes Quarry site the watefcourse suddenly diverts under an arch, blocked but going under same. I always thought this was t'other side of Butterley tunnel, where they used to on their backs, walk the boats through, no ?

[@sunnyjim1372]

A lot of the lines marked in yellow on Railmap, are actually Butterley Company internal railways, not Midland Railway. The Butterley Company obviously pre-dated the Midland line through Butterley, and had its own tramways that connected it to collieries, the canal, and Codnor Park Ironworks - the Golden Valley Light Railway follows part of this last one. The difference between a railway and a tramway is a legal one, a tramway would not need an act of Parliament, and would use 'wayleaves'. A statutory railway would have Parliamentary powers to buy land and build the railway, but would also have statutory obligations. The line under the bridge on the Coach Road went to Butterley Top Plane, and joined what was the Butterley Branch up there. The area has been pretty much landscaped now, as part of the housing development. In the opposite direction, it went for some considerable distance to serve various collieries that would have supplied coal to the Butterley Works. With the coming of the Midland Railway, obviously a lot of the tramways would have been connected to the various lines. I don't know what gauge the tramways would have been built to, but obviously would have been standard gauge where they connected directly to the Midland. There were probably a lot more tramways that had gone long before the maps were drawn up.

[@746laurie]

The railway which joined the tramway simply means the tramway was built to a lower standard, for example lighter rail or less ballast under the sleepers. Wantage Tramway in my old home town is an example. It was standard gauge and had a connection to the Great Western main line at Wantage Road allowing wagons to be attached or detached from goods trains in the yard and then taken to Wantage Town station or down to the Lower Yard next to the former Wilts and Berks Canal wharf. Wantage Tramway Company was a private company but their locomotives were permitted onto the GWR tracks when necessary to collect wagons or add them to a mainline goods train.

[@davidurchyk1421]

The Victorian's left us some great relics.

[@TrekkingExploration]

They certainly did and are keeping me busy 😌 Thank you for watching

[@ronaldgamble8739]

I live near there and find so much interest but sad I can’t see it as it was.

[@briancooper562]

The reason for the reservoir abandonment is in front of you as you passed over the Golden Valley line at the top. A deep shaft mine. A case of thank you for your support but it's coal. What would be interesting is the location of the lift or crane to the freight interchange in the tunnel under the works. This would be before the railways when the canal was built. On the last video you found some large walls with a opening at the bottom was this the air inlet for one of the furnaces?

[@Jimyjames73]

Hello Ant @ 17:23 - Don't go be dropping your Camera down that shaft - or other wise you will never see your camera again!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂

[@adebat13]

First comment! Top marks there,you found it😉

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheers mate thanks very much for watching

[@JohnSmith-uw7su]

Thoroughly enjoyed that Ant. It's always fascinating to see nature obscuring man's endeavours and industry.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much John 🙂

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Q: so the resrs gone... aren't those locks 'from', those still in situ just below Ironville ?? Back in 02, where the canal runs alongside the railway in wide open fields/countryside my pal discovered, just below the canal, in hedge bottom, a flat bottomed half sized Hamilton, with etching details upon. Only thing found that day, and yes, I was jealous!!

[@a11csc]

in all the times i have been up and down the A38 never knew i was so close to all this

[@def90neil]

I was always told it was some sort of kiln there’s more to it round the back

[@ficooper8927]

Where is the circular brick building with winding gear please? At 12.37 in your video.

[@Adventures_with_Sog]

It'd be nice if you gave a little mention out of politeness and appreciation to the people who tell you about these places especially if they themselves have a channel.

[@fman02]

Graffiti artists just can’t help themselves, tosses.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Yes they made a mess of that door and for what?

[@StephenForster-z3m]

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you :)

[@dafdaffer1]

did you delete my comment with the link?

[@TrekkingExploration]

Not seen a link?

[@dafdaffer1]

@@TrekkingExploration possibly youtube did then, ive replied to your facebook page.

[@wideyxyz2271]

❤

[@TrekkingExploration]

😊

[@janettetaylor8760]

Ànt u need to watch Ur editing I know Ur coat in then didnt jacket on and then back to Ur blue thick jacket.. I do video editing myself so I'm always spotting items u haven't notices...

[@TrekkingExploration]

I don't need to watch it... I took the coat off to climb on top of the shaft to prevent scuffs

[@allandenman9387]

Shouldn't really matter. Doesn't cause a problem with the video content. But perhaps Janet's text could be improved. It's not good grammar at all.