Hartshead Pike a visit on a very cold day, some history views of Oldham Sarahs UK Graveyard

[@garylivesey7571]

Loved this video Sarah the horses were brilliant 🦄🦄i was born under the shadow of hartshead pike its really special to me XX

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Awwww lovely Gary x yes I like this video and the horses are marvellous xxx

[@DanishMumtazMirza]

I visited this place today after watching your video. THANKS

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Awww I am so glad you went. Did you see the horses? Xx

[@Jack-hy1zq]

I spent many happy summer's days walking to the Pike with my mates when we were kids. Park Bridge along the way. I live in the Republic of Ireland now so these videos mean a lot to me. Thank you x (I'm 60).

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Your welcome and thank you for taking the time no not only watch but to comment 😁

[@rwbsalford]

Your videos are brilliant keep it up mate thank you so much

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Thanks so much I will 😁

[@jrichards203]

Wonderful as always Sarah I love watching these videos of yours.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

You know I've spent the last hour watching some earlier ones and omg they are relaxing to me 🤣🤣🤣

[@jagomae.]

It’s lovely the bulgey shape of the building , cool vid ✨those horses are epic .

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

I thought they were great 😀

[@andreavassell6830]

The views are amazing I love it up there ,use to like walking round Park Bridge as well ,it's beautiful .The ponies are sweet 😁

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Yes I like park bridge did a video on that too xx

[@mattyboywalker9094]

Great views how I discovered this place is becuase one of my favourite albums bob catleys the tower the cover for the album was shot there back in 1998 looks like a great place

[@Lighthazzles]

This place his haunted by strange lights as is Stoodley Pike in todmorden. Both have monuments 'commemorating' something. Stoodley Pike was once an ancient cairn possibly in respect to the strange activity up there and in the surrounding area. I don't believe that to be coincidence. Disembodied voices and entities have been known to materialise on the pathways to Hartshead Pike.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Omg 😳

[@cuttlefisch]

Nice video as always Sarah!!

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Thank you so much. I didn't put the original sound on but it was so windy and freezing up there 🤣🤣

[@cuttlefisch]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard I once heard a local story connected with the Pike. Not sure if is true or not but some decades ago a bloke went up there to get drunk with his mates. The story goes that they read the sign about not throwing anything at the Pike but one of them decided to throw something anyway. Subsequently he had a full year of the worst luck you could imagine; breaking his leg, losing his job, wife leaving him and a bankruptcy. He never went near the place again

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

That's a brilliant story

[@cuttlefisch]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard Frustratingly though there are no specifics as to who he was or what happened to him subsequently. The version I heard implies these blokes were local to the Oldham/Tameside area, but nothing's known beyond that.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

I think it's a real story and so does my mum I just told her

[@ericleach9854]

Wow, that's what it looks like during the day? I only ever saw that view at night (lol).

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

how come youve never seen it during the day?

[@ericleach7074]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard Errrm, let’s just say, I used to love driving up there at night with certain friends 🤪😘

[@grichad8458]

This structure also served as a tuck shop, just before it was permanently closed. Apparently, please do correct me if I'm wrong, this location was used by locals due to it's views, to keep a watch on invading forces centuries ago. (before the construction of this building).

[@cuttlefisch]

It's believed there used to be a Roman fort or outpost here that would light a fire to warn the other local Roman bases if there was unrest brewing locally.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

It would be the perfect place for them to do so 😁

[@grichad8458]

@@cuttlefisch there is so much hidden history, it need to be unearthed and put to the fore.

[@richarddougherty780]

A few of us walked there a few times in the 60s from Alan Avenue in Failsworth via Woodhouses seemed like a long walk at the time.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

😁😁😁😁 I think it's still a tasking one lol

[@robogamer5384]

I've heard a few times the original pike stood out as a watchtower that was lit when we were at war with Yorkshire they lit it up when they could see the enemy coming hence the term war of the roses Sarah,I can see the pike from my house thanks for the video

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

hi Robo, your more than welcome, thank you for watching, have you subscribed at all ?

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Robo your welcome and let me say I'm jealous you have the pike view from your house. I don't from my house in Oldham

[@robogamer5384]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard yes I have subscribed,like your walk and talk videos,my mate Carl spiers does similar videos about local history do you how him

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Yes I know Carl he knows a lot about oldham but offers a different angle

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

His books are good too

[@philipshaw9485]

The farmer nearest to the pike had a pub there, it always smelled of cows#it. It was a place to take the wife if she wasn't your wife (wink wink)

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I remember that barn I went to it when it was a pub many years back and there was a cow in the barn

[@djpaul146]

I can see the pike from my flat. And I can remember that little pub you could go in for a drink

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Wow lucky you. We're I'm moving the views are spectacular. I can't wait to show everyone. Provided they are interested of course 😁

[@djpaul146]

Great video It took me 2hrs to walk it to there from my old house on Ashton Road

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

its a good trek

[@djpaul146]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard its good but tiring lol

[@cuttlefisch]

@@djpaul146 I believe you can see four historic counties from the Pike on a clear day: Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

It's brilliant up there and your right. On a good day you can see wales too

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

🤣🤣🤣

[@garethheathcote4988]

If anyone knows of a place around tameside somewhere that is most definitely haunted then we should organise a subscribers outing and film one of these ghost hunting programmes!? I'm going to try and visit the cold war nuclear bunker up on werneth low in Hyde today, if it isn't locked then I'll get some footage. 👍

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

did you find anywhere? I worked at the Broadoak in the 90s, I actualy worked the bar NYE 2000. rumour was that a former landlord haunted the place. I always used to be paranoid going to the cellar for ice but I didnt see or feel anything. The manager was a lady called Joan, she didnt own but worked for Robert Frost who still has it I think. she was a lovely lady and taught me a lot about being a bar maid. First lesson was no matter how crap your day has been when you get behind that bar you put a smile on your face for the customers.

[@andscholovideos312]

Great views up there of Dovestones, Jodrell Bank, the airport and Snowdon on a good day.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

I want to visit Jodrell Bank and will do when i can

[@HaiLsKuNkY]

there has been a beacon on that hill since the Roman times, apparently, there where beacons going all the way to the Roman fort on castle show, all the way to manchester, and if they came under attack from raiders they would light the beacons and the Romans would come from castle shaw to back up the garrisons in manchester. the roman road went all the way from york to manchester and then to Chester. the roman road in lineside/Failsworth is the original Roman road. www.romanroads.org/gazetteer/M712.htm

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Omg that's brilliant facts. I know roman Road and heard it was roman but thought it was just a play on words

[@daystate123]

We used to cycle there from bardsley. Proper hard when you're a kid. Blummin quick ride back though

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Believe it or not I tried to drive up there once iny old shape y plate mini via lily lanes in the 90s 🤣didn't realise there was another road 🤣🤣

[@daystate123]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard I think there used to be a tuck shop inside at one point

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Yes there was but I closed because they said it was unsafe I think

[@kristinejames9812]

@daystate12345678..Yeah me an' my bro used to cycle there with our grandad (all the way from Chaddy too!) No wonder we were so fit in those days!🤗

[@BlackpoolandBeyond]

Great video again could ask what camera and lens you use

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Course it's a cannon sx720 standard camera I paid 200 for it I think

[@BlackpoolandBeyond]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard thanx that zoom is great . I'm originally from London but love these type of video's

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

I'm really glad you like them. I've just been out filming so will habe another up in a few hours 😁

[@UrbanEyez]

I'm due another visit up there, I noticed yesterday that the scaffold was gone.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Yes I thought looking at it from a distance when it was on that it was a phone mast but it seems they were fixing the roof 😁

[@UrbanEyez]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard I love it up there, especially when it's a clear day, you can see for miles.

[@nicothechihuahua3167]

Hi Sarah Great video and happy to see you subs rising. I go to the pike quite often. I was wondering if you have tried stoodley pike overlooking Todmorden. Its a bit of a trek we went from the cragg Vale side up the hill there is probably easier ways but we wanted to see the derelict farmhouse( well worth seeing been empty for many years it just a shell) Anyway Stoodley pike is some place there are stairs inside where you can walk up the tower the views when you get there are fantastic. Hope your keeping well. X

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Omg sounds amazing I will defo have to look into it

[@nicothechihuahua3167]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard I forgot to mention the graffiti carved in to the stones on stoodley pike the earliest I seen without looking properly was from the 1940s theres loads. Take a torch the inside is really dark I just about managed with my phone light.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Brill I'll keep you posted 😁

[@essbee8028]

Awesome as usual Reach out to more viewers by adding a Facebook or Instagram link

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

I do have fb I'll add next video x

[@essbee8028]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard Yes that would be great, there’s certain Oldham pages on Facebook that will most definitely be interested in your videos

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

A bloke shared one of mine in one the other day

[@essbee8028]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard Indeed But a direct link would help your channel, and rightly so because you upload some great content 👍

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

That's really nice of you to say so.

[@salon5094]

My dad wrote his name on that in the 40s/50s. People do it because there name will be there forever, why not.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Fair enough, I bet its nice for you to see as it will hold lovely memories and you can go and look at it anytime

[@salon5094]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard yeah it strangely is lol, i do visit it just for that reason.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

I hope your not offended by my remarks. I wasn't thinking at the time of what the enscriptions meant to people. I just saw graffiti but actually I see now it's memories so I'm sorry about my short sightedness. Just goes to show that with a bit of perspective your views can change in an instant x

[@salon5094]

@@SarahsUKGraveyard no not atall dont be silly ! i am delighted to have told you why some people did it lol.

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Brilliant xx

[@joejoejoejoejoejoej]

What’s a Pike for ?

[@andrewmarsden9486]

Love the videos, excellent work as usual!

[@SarahsUKGraveyard]

Thank you so much x