Mountsorrel tipler and Swithland Reservoir

[@bazcooper2937]

wow those pictures and what amazing structures ... made me emotional ... just because its so stunning .. imagine what it was like when it was first opened

[@IZingari]

Fantastic video Steven, I'm so glad i found your channel , thanks for the info and great "chizzet" humour and I'm looking forward to watching more in the evenings , please keep up the good work , you'll probably never know just how much it means to us . peace out brother

[@LeiceExplore]

Thank you very much for watching, it’s very much appreciated. Plenty on the way.

[@rodsmith3911]

A very interesting video to me as I often went to Mountsorrel with my parents to picnic in the 1950s. The quarry railway was almost derelict in the late 50s and in one of the cuttings there was a line of wagons all wooden bodied 10 ton open wagons just left there rotting away. Later British Railways began using Mountsorrel Granite as ballast in big train loads via the sidings on the Midland Main Line. I think that was when the conveyor system was put in to replace the railway which I seem to recall had a small diesel loco working on it. The quarry was extended and began to remove the stone under what was Buddon Wood which is quite close to Swithland Reservoir dam. The planning permission was hotly contested at the time as it would completely destroy the remaining part of Buddon Wood. I presume that by now it has pretty much gone. The connection to the GCR has been relaid by the GC heritage line as a branch line from Swithland. When I was young it was just derelict and some of the track had been removed. Must have been a very busy area at its heyday.

[@LeiceExplore]

Thank you for the informative comment Rod, and thanks for watching!

[@almaxx9680]

Nice to see the tribal elder on the case👍 I'd like to live in that valve house😆 Nice photos dave👍

[@LeiceExplore]

Cheers buddy! It's up for rent, at an imaginary quid a month lol!

[@LS-ll4ry]

I run around this ressy all the time and obssessed with the victorian pump house and what lays beneth. Would love to get down there. I am also from mountsorrel and love the 1860 bridge, nice also to see others have an interest in it. You are right about the victorians, everything they did was ornate and beautifull. Thanks for the great video.

[@LeiceExplore]

Thank you very much. You used to be able to get inside the underground reservoir many years back.

[@smd1uk]

Really enjoyed that Steve, don’t know much about Mountsorrel so that was informative. Some great Swithland footage too.

[@LeiceExplore]

Cheers buddy!

[@firemon2217]

Love it. Got to get down to Swithland ressy, haven't been for forty years. Thanks Steve and Dave

[@LeiceExplore]

Cheers buddy! Just stay away from the old pump house, they got those police Armodillo cameras there. Then again, now I've made this they'll probs be round the filter beds to!

[@davidbooth-oy9yn]

I float by the tippler site on the Peter le Marchant boats and regularly point out it to the passengers. I don't think that many people would even notice it without explanation.

[@mboman42]

Fantastic video buddy it was a very interesting morning.

[@LeiceExplore]

Cheers me ode tribal elder delighted Dave! Great photo's

[@bugsterbuggly7308]

Hello Steve and Dave. Went under there in the early eighties when we used to meet with the old CB radio folks. I'm sure delighted Dave used to go too!

[@LeiceExplore]

You lucky little bleeders! Haha! Thanks for watching

[@Pippinjuice]

I have kayaked under that bridge on the river soar! We got out of your boats and had a look see, and a bit of a break. Later we accidentally went under another bridge that carries the same conveyor belt and it was very low, and treacherous 🤣 conveyor was running and had rocks falling off it!

[@LeiceExplore]

Im hoping to get a kayak at some point, as ive got some interesting videos that i could do if i had one! yeah, you wouldnt wanna get smacked on the head with one of those whilst in the water! Thanks for watching!

[@Pippinjuice]

@@LeiceExplore loved the video as always forgot to mention before! Yeah look into getting a ‘play boat’ because they’re much smaller nosed, easier to manoeuvre in a tight spot even with no paddles! I’m thinking flooded bunkers and caves and the like! 😏

[@MattDavis_BeechingsGhosts]

On my research I couldn't find out if the mineral line at Mountsorrel quarry was accessible between the GCR and the Midland at the same time, meaning you could take a wagon/train all the way from Loughborough (Midland) to Leicester (Central)! As the quarry is slowly dilapidating in the stone that is being taken from it, the surface changes and the positions of the track constantly change. So it's always been difficult to see the evolving quarry except on maps 10 years apart. Interestingly, I've seen a photo taken from the 1860 railway bridge looking toward the quarry and there stands a windmill on the rocks which have long been blasted from the ground.

[@LeiceExplore]

As you say buddy, the whole of that area has changed. Me and Dave were a bit naughty and took a closer look at the quarry lol...It's frightening!

[@juliantaylor6661]

The bridge seen in the third old photo looks like the one near the Rothley and Mountsorrel community centre, the cutting has been widened at some point.

[@LeiceExplore]

I think I know where you mean actually

[@bazcooper2937]

Sileby is Brett landscaping ... block paving Slades large concrete kerbs such as HGV services or warehouses... when I drove brick wagons I used to go in there ... railway line runs next to it and in it really

[@PendaMercia655]

That's the bridge at Mountsorrel from 1860 I said to Emma that you would swear blind it actually began in 1840 !

[@LeiceExplore]

Yeah they are deffo wrong! It must've been built in 1840! Lol!

[@MattHFE]

Maybe a lot of that was above ground level until the mud flood came along

[@LeiceExplore]

Hello mate. You maybe thinking that I ain't got a clue what your talking about...but I know exactly what your saying! It definitely looks old world. Derbyshire is the place to be for all that it seems

[@MattHFE]

@@LeiceExplore Lol was just testing you. You should set up a separate channel going around looking at old world/Tartarian buildings. Would be well interesting with you presenting.

[@LeiceExplore]

@@MattHFE it has crossed my mind!

[@MattHFE]

Great video. You need a sit on kayak

[@LeiceExplore]

Hi Matt yes we do! Judging by your profile name, I'm assuming that you are of the same opinion as my self that water doesn't bend around balls!

[@MattHFE]

@@LeiceExplore yes Steve, we are definitely not living on a ball spinning at 1000mph at the Equator. Happy to know you are of the same opinion.

[@scott131285]

Also near the switland rail bridge you are showing is the bridge they filmed the great train robbery on for the film buster. For permission to film the tripper you need access to land owned by tarmac leased to city transair opposite the cafe

[@LeiceExplore]

Thanks Scott, I never knew that about the film buster.

[@scott131285]

You have missed the best parts of mountsorrel off. Castle hill, war memorial, tunnel to the old castle etc The 1860 bridge does not feed the block works. It feeds tarmacs rail dept mainly. Mountsorrel supplies network rail with 1 million ton of ballast per year. You could make a much better video with the correct info and legal access. The pipe under the ressie leads to cropston res.

[@LeiceExplore]

I haven't missed everything thing off! We're going back, and as for the castle we know some quite interesting info that we couldn't do on the day that we need permission for because this was an off the cuff vid that wasn't planned!

[@scott131285]

@@LeiceExplore nice we have lots of history. The original mountsorrel cross you started your video at is sat rotting away in a field in Swithland.

[@LeiceExplore]

@@scott131285 last time I went to that cross I was 17. It's marked on the 1884 OS map as well

[@scott131285]

@@LeiceExplore its a shame its in the condition it is really. Are you going to go to the temperance hall and get permission to go down the escape tunnel from the castle.

[@LeiceExplore]

@@scott131285 that's the plan