Talbot Street Video Archive

[BarryZola]

Recently started this chief. Really enjoying it so far.

Shame you couldn't get into hex just go film the remade tombs.

Thanks mate. Yeah, I'm not sure if they would have allowed me to go and film in there with the lights on as it would have been a bit of a faff for them. I didn't ask, to be fair. I thought it would be pretty cool to go to the original places anyway, it was good fun. As an aside, I was at that little church in Norbury and a random group of lads came in halfway through and started singing. They sounded amazing. It turned out they were part of a choir and were randomly visiting the place for some reason that I can't remember. By the way, when you go into the Octagon the tombs are on the right hand side (one pretty close as you walk in and the other one the farthest side of the steps)

 

[Slugjc]

Well, I finished making that really niche video on the 'Statuary of Alton Towers'. Gives a history of the statuary and also features some old footage of the various fountains, and there are old pics etc. It's 1 hour and 40 minutes long though, and you have to listen to my voice droning on for that long!


From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ6R8xbKyVA

Just finished this old lad. Very interesting, on a subject that I wouldn't have thought about researching when I've dived I took the history of place. took me a while to get through, that on me. The calming background + a slow midlands accent does tend send me off. That's on me, please in no way take that as an insult.

When I've been reading various sources on the towers. It staggering to me that it wasn't ever really used. The amount of money thrown at this "project" and for what? We can applaud them for using local tradesman. Employment of locals just to keep it going. Just seemed to be one the earls passion projects that didn't capture the descendents. All that work pugin, not even around for a century before later generations cashed in.

 

[BarryZola]

Just finished this old lad. Very interesting, on a subject that I wouldn't have thought about researching when I've dived I took the history of place. took me a while to get through, that on me. The calming background + a slow midlands accent does tend send me off. That's on me, please in no way take that as an insult.

When I've been reading various sources on the towers. It staggering to me that it wasn't ever really used. The amount of money thrown at this "project" and for what? We can applaud them for using local tradesman. Employment of locals just to keep it going. Just seemed to be one the earls passion projects that didn't capture the descendents. All that work pugin, not even around for a century before later generations cashed in.

Thanks, and yes, I totally understand it taking a while to get through it

Yeah, it's pretty sad really. By the time it was nearing completion both the 16th Earl and AWN Pugin died and it seems Pugin's son finished off some of the new rooms his dad had been working on. So, the 16th Earl didn't get to enjoy it in its finished state and Pugin didn't get to see it either. It was probably partly a building site for large chunks of the time whilst they were there. Well, we say finished state, but I suppose had they lived longer they may have made more changes or additions to the place. Then of course the court cases came not long after and the wealth wasn't there to really do anything with the place apart from to start selling stuff off.

 

[Slugjc]

It's a tail we still see to this day. Person dies, kids see money tied up in a passion project, find ways that money they see as theirs goes to them and not the football club, house or whatever the passion project is.

The amount of money that went into Alton Towers, must stretch to nearly a billion into today's money. Can't imagine Pugin was cheap, or he liked to build cheaply. As you say, it was never completed. The costs must have spiraled. Especially with the work in the village as well.

Plus the earl doing what alot of rich folk did back then. Leave Britain because of health reasons, whilst forgetting the other countries have entirely different diseases to die from..but hey, the water in ground looks nice