Jeremy Clarkson Finds Out What Happened To Family Business | Who Do You Think You Are

Host of Amazon Prime's The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson is best known for hosting BBC motoring show Top Gear, and back in 2004 he decided to delve into his family tree. Jeremy Clarkson goes in search of a family fortune, on the way charting the rise and fall of British manufacturing.
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[@lexie5973]

My Great Grandfather and his father before him worked at the Thornhill Lees factory.

[@spacedodo6747]

The Kilner Company was taken to court in 1871 over the coal smoke coming from their Thornhill Lees chimneys and the judge ordered that "no man has the right to interfere with the supply of pure air". The company was forced to close down to convert to gas furnaces and struggled along for 66 years despite 3,000 people losing their jobs.

[@Kibouo]

So Jeremy’s contempt for environmentalists goes back generations!

[@unadavey2442]

Yeah, nothing must get in the way of making money

[@artsed08]

@@unadavey2442 You can't feed your kids with fresh air.

[@wendyclark7765]

My goodness how time has aged his commentary. If ONLY MORE judges in more countries around the world had enforced every man's right to clean air, we wouldn't be in the predicament we are now.

[@Juicy_4220]

The pounds today would be £177,850.53 And in usd it would come to 223,435.76 for the new furnaces if your interested

[@mig7290]

All 5? That's not alot for a factory of that type.

[@BoGijsel]

For some reason because it's j.r clarkson i look at the cars in the background

[@catherineasadi9226]

It’s not the environmentalist Jeremy. It’s the Earl and his over sized back garden!! Doubt he was that bothered about his trees as much as the wealth someone was making... I expect there was a degree of corruption going on there, job losses and poverty in 1800’s should have been a bigger factor and financial support from the Earl to buy what was necessary might have been much kinder 🙄

[@readmycomment3157]

Now that Clarkson has a big farm in the Costwolds, I wonder how he'd feel about having a big smokey factory next door to him polluting his air?

[@NACLGames]

He'd go, "Well, I guess I'll be selling smoked potatoes." Jeremy might be a hypocrite but he's always been quite consistent on his disdain for environmentalism, even when it works against him.

[@readmycomment3157]

@@NACLGames bollocks would he

[@ScreamOG1]

Read My Comment oh you know him personally?

[@terrancedactielle5460]

@@ScreamOG1 the phrase 'I wonder' would suggest he doesn't know him and hasn't had the opportunity to ask him.

[@ScreamOG1]

@@terrancedactielle5460 glad you're here to clear that up, nice work bud

[@gayleclanton3311]

"No one has the RIGHT to interfere with PURE AIR" Very Interesting that a Judge would say that in the 19th century. I wish that Judge were Alive today.

[@lissi6931]

Gayle Clanton Indeed, that judge was quite ahead of his time. Sound man he must have been

[@OffGridInvestor]

1991 clean air act in the USA. Basically stopped use of low grade coal that causes acid rain.

[@comealongcomealong4480]

@@lissi6931 or was he paid off by the Earl of Scarborough and family in the case - can't help but wonder.

[@garywagner2466]

There are plenty of judges who support environmentalism. As Clarkson points out, very few consider the economic impact of their legal decisions. Their livelihoods are never at risk because there is always another court case. No matter who “wins” the judgement, the judges and lawyers always get paid. Meanwhile, the company may relocate or go bankrupt, the employees may lose their jobs, and the economy loses revenue (including the taxes that paid for those impressive buildings). Don’t be so quick to sing their praises.

[@Gilren1]

@@garywagner2466 It would have been really clever to invent ecologically sensible in the first place - you see the result of ignorance all over the world.

[@cha2117]

According to wiki John Landis Masonis claiming to have invented the Mason jar but it should be Jeremy Great Great grandfather it's a British invention.

[@OffGridInvestor]

As an Australian who often enough here's about the layest stuff the Japanese are doing..... it's ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE how many SO CALLED American firsts are literally COPIED FROM THE Japanese or the germans. Some American takes a trip overseas and MAGICALLY INVENTS some so called American first...... just like abbott laboratories and the 15 minute caronavirus test. That korea was using on their people FOUR MONTHS BEFORE America suddenly decided they "made a break thru test". It was being used on the south korean public IN JANUARY. Even here in Australia we got it 2 weeks before the USA.

[@EddieBurke]

@Link Knight bro what kind of crack are you smoking.

[@daviddavies3637]

Except that Jeremy, as usual, misses the real point. It had nothing to do with environmentalism and everything to do with cronyism. Had the roles been reversed and his Lordship had owned the factory while his family had owned a few bits of shrubbery that were being killed by the smoke, which way does he think that the case would have gone?

[@DJBlackhood91]

Ok so the glass company that was very VERY rich and made tons of glasses that were very popular went bankrupt because of the environment damaging... Wow...

[@stewartw.9151]

I imagine that could apply to 90% of the industries of the Victorian age in Britain when later standards are applied! If it was not environmental concerns it would have been child labour, and general working conditions, all quite legal back then!

[@PBMS123]

@@stewartw.9151 Except they weren't applying todays standards. That court case was from then...

[@AngelaKSellsHomes]

That kind of operation had to be making the money to upgrade. His families greed shut them down. Don't feel sorry for them at all.

[@greggjohnson621]

It’s the perfect question for Clarkson: “Who do you think you Are?!”

[@exdus235]

At 4:30 document from company archives 'reluctantly' released for viewing to 'someone' who proceeds to wipe their chin and lips, put tips of fingers on a wet lower lip, then continue to handle the historical document. 😱

[@ROL4NDpkmnguide]

exdus235 it is clearly a print though

[@TheMijman]

Reluctantly? They went and found it. It's clearly an archived digital document, printed on modern paper. If you think that looks 110+ years old then you've got bigger problems

[@alffuergregor]

It’s so funny that his generation still carries the anger of losing the company… he hates the environmentalists 😂

[@gedhoughton9523]

So Clarkson’s family has always been buggered over by environmentalists, in every generation.

[@markorollo.]

Many lives were ended by that smoke but let's ignore that eh Clarkson, as long as the money's flying in cos that's all that matters!!!...

[@SteamLance]

Many jobs were lost, but they don't matter. They can be poor for other of you to complain about and say they need to be helped. Hypocrisy I think is what we call that.

[@heronblue3577]

Lives lost proof??

[@OffGridInvestor]

NO LIVES LOST just crops and trees. You're one of those leftist exadurators.... yeah it's at pretty bad soviet union type levels of pollution but NO LIVES LOST just a crop and jobs.

[@jeffthesquid]

Money makes the world go round bud

[@Fredrik5050]

@@jeffthesquid If you make money by burning the raft you live on you are going to sink.

[@floriskuipers4925]

All of these videos have a very loud, high pitched sound in the background. It makes them hard to watch as it's painfull to listen to. Could something be done about this?

[@michaeldukes4108]

Afraid not.

[@andynixon2820]

I like Jeremy but he does talk some nonsense . If you're factory is destroying the environment then it should change its ways or shut down . It was in the middle of an industrial boom so the workers had a chance of re employment and for the owners it's a reality of capitalist adventure .

[@_lambert_1785]

Yeah the workers had other places to work but that factory was supplying most of the jobs for the town and they would of had to move which wasn't so easy. The effect of working people and the economy should have equal consideration as the environment.

[@OffGridInvestor]

When you're at the level of just about creating acid rain..... there was a steel smelter in the Soviet Union and it was impossible to grow roses there because of the acidity of the air. I think the glass factory was at about that level if the crops couldn't grow.

[@stoneyopinion767]

People like Jeremy Clarkson are the problem with society these days, with their greed trumping our health.

[@3506Dodge]

Or maybe society's problem is people like you blaming other people for their own failures.

[@maxmeh2342]

@@3506Dodge How is Clarkson's family business polluting the environment his failing?

[@3506Dodge]

@@maxmeh2342 It isn't. That's my point.

[@maxmeh2342]

@@3506Dodge You implied that Clarkson's family business polluting the environment was StoneyOpinion's failing. How?

[@3506Dodge]

@@maxmeh2342 No I didn't. I implied that Stoney Opinion's comment exemplified a common deflection of responsibility onto others.

[@wyattearp190]

Yes all our lives would be so much better if we could breath garbage everyday. Think how you Mr Clarkson could have more money! You're quite conceited now!