The Walk - EP 141 - Lost Industries Of England - Oakwell Brickworks - Ilkeston, Derbyshire

[@anneo6476]

Thanks Gareth, so happy to see you out and about exploring natural areas. Hopefully it inspires others to unplug from the internet and reconnect themselves with the real world. Pure awesomeness 🙂

[@claireg1717]

That was an amazing structure, it is fascinating how these old buildings are hidden in plain sight with so much history attached. The lamposts in woods always intrigues me. Thank you both.

[@clairharwood]

Fantastic structure, the drone footage looks beautiful, and Phil's idea of a go-karting attraction is a great shout!

[@MummaBear]

A quick search on KZbin shows how a Hofman Kiln works. Fascinating 🎉 Loved this one 👍

[@dinkburns6883]

Fascinating!! Should be preserved. Coal & Clay. Hard work making bricks.

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Another great video. .as a Lestonian, I grew up with your dad on TV. Wish him well for me 😊😊😊😊

[@walkinderbyshire]

Lovin these local hidden industrial gems. Keep em coming 👍

[@IckeWalks]

@@walkinderbyshire cheers mate!

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Keep up the amazing work...love your very informative videos. Capturing our historical past 😊😊😊😊

[@robinterkzer8128]

The great outdoors ! They could make it into a working museum , to show how bricks were made ! Keep em coming !

[@joannaneale9816]

Very interesting, and I love those old maps.

[@IckeWalks]

@@joannaneale9816 the maps are a God send!

[@Traveler13]

Came here last year, amazing place mate

[@IckeWalks]

@@Traveler13 it's awesome isn't it?

[@Traveler13]

@@IckeWalks Just a thought not far from there at Stanton there is an abandoned street, old access to the ironworks and huge air raid shelters that might interest you for an explore

[@bwaynesilva]

This episode reminds me of my friend Robert and I hiking around the Mojave desert looking for fossils of ice age animals and sea creatures, while occasionally running into old homestead, mining or rail ruins. So you guys are actually hunting fossils as well, just more recent.

[@IckeWalks]

@@bwaynesilva yeah that's true.

[@stevenberryhill9209]

Nice haircut, Gareth. Lookin’ good, Phil. ✏️ Phil and Gareth, Gareth and Phil, ambling through the woods, kilns they saw of bricks they saw and then saw whatever they would. 🧱

[@IckeWalks]

@@stevenberryhill9209 mullet long gone.

[@gilesestram]

@@IckeWalks ....we all breathed a sigh of relief 😆

[@alfaubrom]

I was watching a second time an was wondering if some of them bricks you where walking on, where from a felled Chimney Fred Dibnah Styley? can’t quite work out the trajectory from where I’m sitting! but especially if a raised line an semi broken as it shatters the mortar off, as it’s coming down. there’s a bit of chat about illuminus lakes, did any of the locals start glowing?! Around these parts there was an American airbase an rumour had it that after the war stuff got dumped in a bog, then just a dozen years ago some environmentalists reclaimed the bog an weird stuff started to occur, animals an dogs froffing at the mouth etc it’s a worthy note to take care at old industrial locations. Cheers

[@alfaubrom]

Hayup Gareth that’s a good looking building, the place looks kinda mysterious, I’m liking the go kart track or semi underground roller disco those alcoves could be for vending outlets or even a gig venue sort of derby,s answer to the cavern club, we really need Alec Clifton Taylor or Professor Robert William Baker they’d know how the Kilns worked it’s a tad unusual the one at downtown was like a farm out house that just happened to have a big brick kiln in it, an it wasn’t that close to the railway line a few hundred yards so who knows how they got coal down to fire it, a short lorry journey I guess, them dark bricks had cinder in them for wells and mine shafts, still going strong 200 years later, I use to work with Bobby much of the kilns where in the Black Country he studied an then asked the old boys what was what according to their ancestral training an traditional understanding an he himself became an authority because he wrote it down and practiced it. I hope someone local who worked there gets in touch to explain the Hoffman workings. Great little film as ever you an Phil are tops! Cheers

[@declanjoyce8640]

Nice one...

[@LadySophieofHougunManor7325]

Awesome video as always hope you both well phills spot on those tunnels make awesome go kart course reminded me of fun kart Grand Prix in funhouse with Pat sharp and the twins Melanie and martina awesome video ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@IckeWalks]

@@LadySophieofHougunManor7325 pat sharp. Now we're talking

[@stephenwoodruffe4164]

Spent my youth down brickyard we had rope swing in woods next door fires jacket spuds underground dens huge bonfires and cycle tracks you missed green lake toxic and the white lime pits

[@IckeWalks]

Worth a revisit?

[@stephenwoodruffe4164]

@@IckeWalks I live locally and not been down since I was 17 heard it was all fenced off but there is gaps to get I am told where you walked in carry on passed kiln to the left side it's gets you to lime pits and far left is the old rail line and further along is what we called beauty spot and methane pond lights up at night.lots of kids played down there we used to have huge bonfires using old railway sleepers burnt for weeks

[@jondrizzle4554]

Nice one gareth great video in my hometown Id of bought you a beer if id of known you were close 😂 Unreal how nature has taken over around the brickworks its a fascinating place yo visit

[@IckeWalks]

Another time, mate!

[@stevemoult3997]

Where you was walking up to derby road, next to the posh houses, there’s a piece of land where an old railway house used to to be, which got knocked down a few years ago. This used to belong to Erewash borough council, who sold their housing stock to Erewash housing in 2002 but the railway house never transferred over? ?

[@johnstocks8561]

Morning ken

[@IckeWalks]

@@stevemoult3997 so they just knocked it down?

[@stevemoult3997]

@@IckeWalks yes Gareth, it was built out of really dark bricks, there’s got to be some photos of it somewhere?

[@IckeWalks]

@@stevemoult3997 I'll have a hunt!

[@stevemoult3997]

@@IckeWalks spoke to a mate who used to live in the house 20 years ago said it was number 134 derby road 👍🏻

[@johnburns5783]

How did you manage to get in past the fence ? I was there in July and couldn’t find any way through the fence 😉

[@IckeWalks]

@johnburns5783 there was a massive gap and 4 lads sat smoking weed in the kiln. Quite the edit to film around them!

[@stephenwoodruffe4164]

Stanton used it to dump there waste

[@tassie2348]

Loving these. Brick porn!!!!😅

[@IckeWalks]

Unsolicited brick pics.