Cheshire. White Nancy. Towers and Mills

Music by Dean James Adshead. Facebook/Sensorytriggered A little piece inspired by Test Card F. Early 80's another gem of a Peel Session we played to death back in the day.

It's a Bollington tradition on Christmas morning members of the brass band play carols on white nancy. Imagine climbing that hill carrying a tuba

I love Martin’s reaction to seeing an arched stone culvert for the first time. It’s priceless.

😍😍😍👏 AHHhhh! Martin! My home-town place of my birth! … and I can tell you how the water operated for Ingersley Clough mill: the larger, slim, rectangular building is the wheelhouse and it had a massive waterwheel - at one point the second biggest in Britain out side the Laxey Wheel on the Isle of Man. The little metal bridge you walked under fed the water you mentioned from the higher level to the waterwheel 😍. And White Nancy is just so precious 💕. Many hours all through my life spent on family walks up there. James, you’re a star - brilliant choice. And … there are old, small mines all over the place round there - the ‘strange road’ you walked down is locally called ‘The Rally-road’ and goes down to the canal, as you mentioned, to take the quarry stone to waiting barges. Bollington is full of old cotton mills, and was the home of Samuel Greg Jnr (son of Senior, of Quarry Bank Mill fame). He built a mill and model village in Bollington (his mill was Lowerhouse mill and is still there) and he built houses and schools. Unfortunately, his ‘experiment’ was an unmitigated financial disaster and was of huge concern to his father/family still running Quarry Bank Mill. The whole place is a cotton town with other more successful mills - eg those run by Swindells. There’s a small museum by the large Clarence mill that’s on the canal that tells you all about the history! 😍 Going up towards Pott Shrigley at the top end of Bollington you get to Bakestonedale where there is/was a brickworks and the fireclay was mined in the fields opposite mainly through bell-pits+adits. But coal was also mined up there with the Lords of Lyme Park getting extremely pee’d off that miners would tunnel from those fields underneath the Estate boundary walls and nick the coal from under the Estate. Very early mine workings - no headstocks, etc, just men digging holes in the ground. Bollington was a cotton town with lots of mills the two major ones still there being The Clarence mill and then the Adelphi mill. GO BACK there 😍 - I’m sure you’d get permission to have a wander around. The Clarence has an amazing cafe inside the mill (near the museum!) and right on the canal bank. You have found Martin Zero heaven, James! 😍👏 (EDIT: link to the history and photo of Ingersley Clough mill waterwheel https://happyvalley.org.uk/?page_id=3958)

I was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA, which was incorporated in 1780, about the same time this mill was built. Interesting to see what my hometown was named after.

Nice to see James spread his wings in this video, good job. Turn left, turn right, go straight ahead or back up you're surrounded by amazing history. Nice how a Martin Zero video can make a good day a bit better. Thanks

Hi Martin. White Nancy was on my great uncles property in the seventies and possibly before and after. I used to go up to white Nancy as a kid and can remember going inside. My grandfather was responsible for the white washing of white Nancy but I can’t remember much else as we moved to Australia in 1973.

There are so amazing places to see in this beautiful country we live in. Keep up the great work. God bless

Cant believe i found pics of white nancy painted as A SNOWMAN! A CHRISTMAS PUD! also very respectable military memorials, And royal tributes. 💖

Greetings from Spain. I worked at that textiles mill from 1975 until 1990. Went back to Bollington for a visit in 2004 and the stone roof tiles were missing. The main factory had a stone plaque dating it to 1809. The bridge entering the building from the hillside is what fed the water wheel. One would think that it should be a listed building. As kids, we used to run up the front of White Nancy (the steep part) LOL.

"It looks suspiciously like something interesting" Good enough for this channel!

That music takes me back, particularly the intro. It was the sound of the Casio VL-1, VL Tone, musical calculator. A weird piece of kit. And I`ve still got mine.

Thank you team . when I heard James planned the expedition I prayed that their would be survivors HA HA HA. but I new the treats and tea would help you get back safe.

Brilliant viewing on a Sunday evening.

Thanks for this Martin. I was born and raised in Bolly, so it's great to see you exporing my local area. It's a shame you didn't get a nice day as the view is great, hills of the peaks to the right, the village below and Manchester in the distance. Macclesfield would be a great video also. And Bugsworth Basin, my grandad is the Chairman of the trust :)

Hey Martin when you want a tour of Clarence and adelphi Mill I know the estate manager there and I've already told him about you and he said he'd love to give you a tour.

What a fun little video! Thanks for sharing. Love to see the adventures of Martin and James. 🫖🍪

Hi Martin, Another great video, I,m from this area and the mill race from the pool you where talking about crossed the road in the iron trough which was above your heads , think you called it a flue but it actually carried water to a large over shot water wheel think at the time it was the biggest in the north of England , wheel has long gone. Have you ever ventured over to Goyt valley , well worth a look , ruined hall Errwood , lol grave yard , shrine , murders in the early 80,s and a World war plane crash , a Oxford and a railway incline from the Cromford and high peak railway, well worth a look , cheers

Like the "kraftwerk" bit, that tramway bridge was a bit of a gem 👍👍👍

Have a read up on nether alderly mill. Definitely an older water powered mill. Also on the macc canal you can see the rope marks on the bridges over the canal in and around bollington.