Bimble: Rainhill

[@martindooley4439]

Cracking Bimble, as usual. 🚴🏻‍♀️🎼🎙️

[@mikehewett785]

Great to have you back, I was starting to worry.

[@RAINHILLRED]

In St Bart’s church yard there is a large memorial to Evelyn, Princess Blücher, daughter of Frederick Stapleton-Bretherton, who married Prince Blücher, G G grandson of Marshal “Vorwärts” Blücher of Waterloo fame. She wrote a memoir of her exile to Berlin during WW1 called “An English Wife in Berlin”

[@clairemcdonald6358]

Brilliant as always 👍 Skew bridge is at the Liverpool end of Rainhill station platform. It’s grade II listed & built using sandstone from the local quarry. It’s the first skew road bridge over a railway in the world & was also a first for the 34 degree angle it was built (hence the name ‘skew’).

[@annescott3641]

How good is this 😊 Fascinating local history very well researched Well done Mr Bimble

[@21Coins]

Used to live around that area and kids went to Tower College. Never knew about the quarry! How about doing Prescot sometime? Lots of history and a very nice church to see

[@ThePBWay]

Good to see you back 👍🏻

[@Mick_Holland]

Nice to have you back with a cracking video Kieran, and a couple of smart churches thrown in too. 07:30 26 mph 🚴🏼 I'm impressed! Cheers👍🏼

[@BimblismUK]

Legs of iron. Ha

[@jys160]

Thanks for the Bimble, now I know why you were at Cronton on Sunday

[@daveturner1956]

Nice to see you back Kerion 🚴‍♀️🚲

[@Barry-t8h]

Been PEX hill a few times good to see you back mate

[@johnpowell5311]

Good to see you are out and about mate. On our patch too at Earlestown as well. Great Bimble as always.. top info

[@chidizzy6633]

I live nearby to this area and know well as a fellow cyclist I actually lol when I knew you where going up the hill at tower college it's a beast 😅

[@B.FBlueRings]

Thank you 🇨🇦

[@tonydeltablues]

..."higher praise than that: been used in Hollyoaks twice..." lol. Glad you are well and recovered 🙂Best Tony (Garston).

[@andrewrice6596]

I live in Cronton, lovely to see the quarry on your vlog.

[@tabathv1]

Nice little tour

[@craigruddock3824]

Good stuff pal.👍🚴

[@susanellis7780]

Nice station😊

[@ste2442]

Lucky enough to have worked on that track many times , from rainhill to Astley box was on our patch at network rail

[@44950]

Good to see you back Keiran, as entertaining and informative as ever. :-) (I always watch but don't always comment as I tend to repeat myself!) Al Kennett.

[@garrybeech9536]

Pity you couldn't get inside St. Bart, it's incredible 😊

[@christabern9144]

I got married in St Bart’s 25-years ago. Its stunning inside

[@eant1234]

Excellent.

[@Wizzy-Waywell]

SUPERB 🎉

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

great place Rainhill nice place of history u should visit holyhead ther got some good history ther great video

[@andrewpaley9914]

Thanks!

[@BimblismUK]

Thanks so much :)

[@DixieDean9]

Near the quarry in Rainhill there’s a stone cross and it’s rumoured to be the grave of Oliver Cromwell’s favourite horse 🐎

[@GregPodster133]

Thanks for sharing K.🙏👍

[@exploringhistoryuk6150]

a paul boulton defiant crashed not far away from st annes well :) the engine was never found i wonder which farmers barn it ended up in or likely scrapped when the link way was put in glad to see you out and about kieren

[@majordamage069]

finally on my home turf. you went past my house near ship. which i knew could of taken you a short cut to pexhill round back of manor farm pub(which has a good history too.) many thanks

[@arthurmartin804]

Just passed Tower College on Mill Lane on righthand side at the top of the hill there is a an old sandstone cross. When I was a kid in the early 70s my mates and I knew it as Oliver Cromwells horses grave. Do yo know if there's any truth in this?

[@T4SelNiNO]

Or you could equally as quick (and less muddy) just cross the roundabout at the stoops and drive down norlands lane.

[@craigcogley5071]

Also the Liverpool astronomical society is the oldest in the world. There's also two big reservoirs dug out of the sandstone in the same area right behind the observatory. Good to see you back and I love the tunes. A couple of my friends got pulled up on the observatory car park some years back. They also used to go there to smoke fags😁

[@Lisa-yc3vg]

Omg missed u 😊

[@chrishopper340]

Great viewing - thank you...

[@ianinvancouverbc]

You forgot to mention the first railway accident happened on the same day as the Rainhill Trials. There is a monument to Thomas Huskisson who sadly died after being hit by Rocket, just east of Parkside Rd[A573] near Newton le Willows. It can only be seen from the train and only really clearly in winter. Unless you have a drone of course....

[@BimblismUK]

@@ianinvancouverbc that was actually on the opening day of the railway. :)

[@clairemcdonald6358]

It was William Huskisson 👍

[@Saints_Mariner]

My nan lives in Rainhill. I'll go and tell her all your facts and pretend I always knew 🤭

[@peterkilvert2712]

Great video, great music, great voice. Best wishes Pete. PS I just wondered if you received my donation a couple of weeks ago. I'm don't know if it went through. If it didn't I send it again.

[@BimblismUK]

@@peterkilvert2712 did you donate through here or kofi? :)

[@chrism8705]

Iv not been pex hill since it flooded about 50 years ago time to go back I think

[@glennycampbell]

Bobbie Goulding used to live on the close behind St Barts church I think.

[@sharonfoster1124]

I use that line too get Liverpool or Manchester. My station is Lea Green

[@abbeylloyd4064]

Hello we are coming to watch you on the 28th in Warrington. Can we sing along or is it fingers on lips x

[@BimblismUK]

Feel free. :)

[@radman8321]

You could have mentioned the vulcan foundry and vulcan village, which came into existence as a result of Stephenson winning the contract to produce locos for the L&M railway.

[@BimblismUK]

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[@WILKSVILLE]

MINT!

[@liamdanher1992]

Hello mate, can I ask where you find all your information from?

[@BimblismUK]

@@liamdanher1992 the many pages of the internet. Manchester Architects, historic England and of course wikipedia. Page 12 of Google etc. ha

[@DanielEarlester]

I wonder is Glazebrook in Warrington named after Glazebrook Rylands? Probably.

[@BimblismUK]

I think it might be the opposite way around. :)

[@d.g.d7894]

? whats a bimble ?

[@BimblismUK]

You have just witnessed one :)

[@13Pro-AmRL]

Opposite St Barts Church was Loyla Hall which has fascinating history too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainhill_Hall