A visit to a few of the lesser known breweries and pubs of North Yorkshire
Philthy and myself went to see some amazing breweries from north Yorkshire and also visit some of the lesser pubs and landmarks in the area. Apologies for the low volume, my fault. It was an all round great few days with lots of learning, sorry I did not get more footage inside the venues but we turned up unannounced to most of them and the camera was somewhat out of place.
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Oxenhope station on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Oxenhope station on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR).
The KWVR is a standard gauge branch line which joins the national railway network at Keighley in the north east of England and runs 5-miles up the Worth Valley to Oxenhope.
Other stations on the Line are at Ingrow, Damems, Oakworth (location of the film 'The Railway Children') and Haworth (the former home of the Brontë family).
The Railway is perhaps most famous for its role in the 1970 film version of Edith Nesbit's story The Railway Children. The famous film starred the wonderful actresses Sally Thomsett and Jenny Agutter, as well as Bernard Cribbins and Dinah Sheridan.
The decision to recreate the atmosphere of a 1950s branch line has been hugely popular, not least with film makers and TV producers. Over the years, the Railway has appeared in many TV and film productions including Sherlock Holmes, Last of the Summer Wine, Treasure Hunt, Sons and Lovers, Poirot, Born and Bred, The Royal, Where The Heart Is, A Touch Of Frost and Pink Floyd's The Wall.
The railway is justifiably proud that its painstaking attention to detail pays off so handsomely. It is a railway for all seasons, where winter visitors can see the stations bathed in gaslight and warm themselves in front of the coal fires in the waiting rooms. In summer, the station gardens are alive with blooms. Kingfishers, herons and dippers can be seen in the adjacent streams.
Just minutes walk from the village centre Oxenhope station was once bustling. However, after the cuts imposed by Second World War this service was never fully restored. The station became unstaffed in 1955, with the station master for the line being based at Haworth.
When the railway closed in 1961 Oxenhope had just one coal siding. There was no longer any track into the stone goods shed adjoining the platform. It has changed dramatically since. Inside the station there is now a shop where the booking office used to be in BR days and the booking office has now moved across the booking hall to the former station masters office.
The area beyond the buffers was landscaped to make a car park which has been paved in sets with the help of a joint initiative with Bradford Council. In 1970 the 'White Shed' opened, a double-track extension to the original goods warehouse and you can see it adjoining the platform. It was originally intended as a locomotive running shed but it was decided that this should remain at Haworth and it has since become used for carriage restoration.
Since the late 1970s Oxenhope has been used as the base for operational coaches. The three-road Green Shed, which you see on your right as you enter the booking office from the car park, opened in two stages in 1971 and 1973. This shed provides a home mainly for locomotives which are out-of-traffic long-term but which are in sufficiently good external condition to appear as static exhibits.
In 1982 a buffet car was purchased from BR and positioned permanently between the goods shed and the station building with access from the platform.
The video here is some footage of the steam trains and various sights and sounds at Oxenhope station, which I shot on the 6th June 2010. The video is best viewed at a high resolution; and, if you want to hear the various steam engine noises, with the sounds turned up to high.
Enjoy, then go to the railway and spend a brilliant day there.
With many thanks
Simon Flory
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GingRealAleTrail - CAMRA | 2013 Beer Festival, Skipton
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Revolutions Brewing - Beat Red 4.5%
Copper Dragon Brewery - India Pale Ale 3.6%
Black Jack Beers - First Deal 4.4%
Offbeat Brewery - Odd Red Ball 4.2%
Marble Brewery - Pint 3.9%
Mordue Brewery - Radgie Gadgie 4.8%
Tring Brewery - Mansion Mild 3.7%
Bowland Brewery - Admiral Of The Blues 4%
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Keighley and Craven CAMRA
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Didn't want to leave! Narrowboat journey back from Ripon, North Yorkshire
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Ripon - the second most northerly point of England's inland waterways after Tewitfield, Lancashire, and also the country's third smallest city. I loved it here, and I hope you enjoy this voyage log as much as I was sad to leave!
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The One Eyed Rat
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DRS Class 37s Nos 37409 and 37607 Thrash Through Prudhoe, Tyne Valley - 0M60 - 5th Nov 2015
DRS Class 37 diesels Nos 37409 and 37607 thrash through Prudhoe on the Tyne Valley Line with a light engine move from Seaton-on Tees to Sellafield B.N.F. (0M60) on 5th November 2015.
Apologies for the shaky start.
Real Ale project so far
My dissertation applied project so far, about Real Ale. Includes breweries in South Yorkshire, Beer Festivals and CAMRA. Sorry about the gaps, its not quite finished.
The industrial and natural beauty of the Aire & Calder navigation | #bargelife
Welcome back onboard the Naughty Lass, my 35 year old narrowboat home, cranking it along the main line of the Aire and Calder navigation from Leeds to Knottingley. Enjoy!
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Pub of the Week
Not featured - but The Packet of Steam in Knottingley is a must!
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Becoming a tenant at Hall and Woodhouse
Becoming a business partner with Hall and Woodhouse offers an exciting opportunity to run your own business in one of their 180 traditional pubs across the South of England.
From the rolling Dorset countryside to coastal locations and idyllic West Sussex villages, they have traditional pubs in some of the best locations in the country. Whether you are an experienced pub operator looking for a new challenge or someone looking to take their first steps in running their own business there is something to suit all tastes.
Cranking it up the tidal River Ouse
What I'm thinking in this video: Tide is going out. Or coming in. To be honest I've no idea. All the other boaters are queuing up behind me. Under 2 hours to travel 15 miles. That's more than I normally cover in a day... Can I do it? My boat's a lot older than the others... I hope my engine doesn't splutter to a halt, or I get something stuck in the propeller or go aground on a riverbank or or or... yeah.
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class 119's at the EVR 22nd march 2014
class 119's at the EVR at march 22nd 2014
Deltic D9009 Swanage Belle in Purbeck
Arriving at Furzebrook sidings on Sunday 21st Oct (Trafalgar Day) 2017 to take some pictures of the clay works I was persuaded to stay for a delayed Pathfinder Tours charter train coming on to the brach from Burton on Trent pulled by Deltic D9009 Alycidon .
This had left Burton at four in the morning and was late on to the Swanage Railway. The return from Swanage was over an hour late leaving apparently due to a technical issue on the engine, the last service train pulled by Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T 41312 had been sent out ahead of it, but was then held at Harman's Cross for the Charter to pass it. The charter wasn't going to get back to Burton till well after midnight!
Gale force winds gusting to over 60MPH impact on the audio even with a shotgun mike, foam and Rycote wind jammer!
Pennine Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer D15 (R717 YWC)
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Pub Review - Katy Kelly's - Real Ale Up North
Good to report on another pub opening. More beery, not too serious, off-the-wall reporting.Cheers for watching my latest video.
Ep 61 | Back in the UK Gongoozaling | Local Pubs and Locks with Aussie Friends
E61 Weekly Vlog of Life in a Nutshell travels.
Wendy's back in the UK and on Nutshell again. A couple of friends visited from Australia so we went out and about to check out the local pubs and waterways.
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Mooring, exploring, cranking & brewing! South Yorkshire at it's finest
Starting in Mexborough and ending in Eastwood, just outside of Rotherham, this video covers what I consider to be some of the most fantastic parts of the South Yorkshire Navigations.
Pub of the Week: The Imperial, Mexborough
Mexborough Ferryboat Association
Image: Natalie Seddon
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Flooding my boat, major welding job & losing my debit card in the middle of nowhere!
Filmed a while back now, so thankfully I've sorted everything - but what a weekend this was!
Journey is from Whitley Lock at Eggborough on the Aire and Calder, North Yorkshire all the way down to Barnby Dun on the River Don, South Yorkshire - via the New Junction Canal.
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Narrowboating up the tidal Trent | Keadby to Torksey Lock
In this part we take on the eerily calm (and bloody cold) tidal River Trent, setting off from Keadby Lock.
All filmed on an iPhone 8+, edited using Adobe Premiere Pro (for the first time, phew). Apologies for the v/o sound level towards the end, couldn't be helped unfortunately.
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SICK Going through a river lock | Scenic Selby canal
This leg of my epic journey around the UK's waterways takes me back onto a canal again - if only for 6 miles - the Selby canal, in North Yorkshire. Got the week off, the sun is shining so time for some quality cruisin!
Pub of the Week - The Riverside, Ousegate, Selby, North Yorkshire.
Cocktails, Mexican food and one of the best multi instrumental open mic nights in the UK
Filmed on an iPhone 6, edited using iMovie. All music made by myself using garageband and a washburn acoustic guitar.
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