you got marmite on toast i don't think i've ever seen you eat marmite on toast
i just fancied it he's in date in the cupboards you know
good morning everybody we are doing something quite exciting today what is uh somebody's
interested in everything and anything you can be interested in you'll find others who are
but kind of we're doing a video that we don't really know what we're gonna find
i know we did it often anyway because we just kind of go for it we know about the history of what
we're doing but we're not really sure exactly what we're gonna find today which is really quite cool
cool ready yeah well i've got no shoes on
we'll coat one okay i also didn't say we're actually we're meeting two people today
oh uh elliott and joe what's going to say who's elliott and joe then we'll just say yeah
hello Elliot, Elliot and Joe everybody
yeah cool brilliant all right i think we're going to walk that way
and so therefore it's so important to consider this question what do i desire
okay so i do feel this video could just be the four of us locking around
i'm down but i'll try and give you a little bit of context to it to what we're doing today
we're currently in the wadbury valley which is near mells in somerset and it sort of
gives a little bit of a follow-on to the two canal videos where the dorset and somerset
so we often make videos about old railways old canals and the landscaping how people interacted
with the landscape but today we're going to go a little bit further back in time so step back into
the industrial revolution window and in particular the window of a family called the fussells.
so we just spent quite a while trying to find um a crossing point because it says there's a
public broader way across the river the river metals yeah you tried to make us go for a log
there was a log which looked great yeah a thin branch
rebecca pointed out that there's actually a bridge so we took the sensible option there
right it's getting it's getting wetter which is uh umbrella weather before we get to where we're
going which is probably about half a kilometer away you need to go and watch ellie and joe's
youtube channel they're making a video today about where we are um and we always like to
point people in the direction of channels that we watch ourselves and we've got the
opportunity to do that today so i'll put a link in the description below
go and watch ellie and joe's channel because it's great
there's still like a bunch of girls with the umbrellas what's that all about
i haven't got an umbrella
in 1710 a man called james fussell james fussell iii was born
and by the tender age of 34 he obtained here a 99 year lease for uh to create a works over and in
the melrose river now that gives you a little bit of an idea of exactly what we're looking for today
so we finally found um what is the i want to say the eastern end of the males work so
the the factory and the workings that james fussell started here in what 1744 1745
this is now the eastern end of it and there's some beautiful pictures
from up in the valley uh the other side of the valley they're looking across
probably four or five hundred yards of workings from this point forward so we're gonna we don't
exactly know exactly what we're looking for but again if you go to a website which i'll put in
the link below from derrick hunt um you'll see all these old pictures and these are workings
and all the information but we'll try um we'll try and guide you through a little bit of that
was that experience for you rebecca it's like a little hallway as well because
so what we're on now is all the buildings that are probably now 30 feet above the water
so i don't think here that we're going to find any of the old wheel working so basically
so james fussell set up his works here um james fossil the third 1750ish and this section we're
on now is all the sort of the upper buildings and basically you just realize that obviously
if you can harness the power of water you can make stuff and you can use wheels and when you've got a
turning wheel you can do all sorts of things we'll come to a little bit more of that in a moment
every step of the way there's something different there's something else now and here's the first
example we've seen on our journey west of how they really did channel the water probably to get it
flowing a lot faster i guess but um right below me now you can see what almost looks like a lock gate
and holes in the walls sadly i don't think we're gonna get down that far yet it looks it looks
almost canal like rebecca just questioned if this actually was the old canal um of
course that was further north but that section there really does look like um a canal lock
um so just to continue the story of the fossil family and their importance in the in
the landscape here so james fossil iii had three sons the son called james james iv was born 1748
now he really took the reigns of the business along with one of his brothers austin i think
within sort of 40 years or so they had 250 people working here at this site and they were
making all kinds of agricultural cutting tools came up with many many different inventions and
wonderful bits and pieces including of course a sprocketed chain captain hydrate says drink water
is this a paid sponsored ads rebecca um well it's a school bottle i've nicked it
off
um back in the main building over there they had big tilt hammers everything they did was was
utilizing the power of the water turning wheels grinding knives and blades and they were exporting
them all over europe all over the americas as well i'm a real thriving business james iv himself also
took upon himself to to invent different things and one of the things he was heavily involved with
is the fossils balance lock of course on the dorset in somerset canal and before that he
patented a particular type of chain and the chain was different to the normal chain with just round
links it was a sprocketed chain and therefore it was able to go over cog-like wheels and make
the lifting of things smooth and with that in mind he built the fussells balanced log we could lift
boats up um raise them and lower them so instead of a traditional lock where the whole of the
water goes down he could build these uh lifting mechanisms with a sprocketed chain which didn't
rock the boat as it were and i guess that's where the whole sprocketed chain came from the fossils
balanced looking james fussell iv who basically lived and breathed everything in this area
one take it wasn't one take what was it like four well that was
it was a whole take yeah it's just you'd already done it three or four times
so elliot and joe a little bit braver than us in some of the things they do um which probably pays
off in terms of the filmography in the the cinema center graphics center graphics cinematography
cinematography on their channel that's why we love what ellie and joe do because they base their
channel around everything cinematographic oh my god cinematography i can't say the word and hence
now it's only just stopped raining and they're getting their drone out and it's gonna pay off um
so we'll repeat go watch their channel it's great fun all i can hear is hilarity though to be fair
yeah they're just laughing right they spend half their time locker chicken this is um pablo and
ravioli ravioli i love raphael that's the pastor right yeah yeah pablo loves ravioli loves ravioli
oh that's sweet pablo and ravioli that's our new new channel name rename it we've done that like
four times in the last like two weeks so you know i think it's great we are trendsetters we are yeah
especially geniuses that's a that's a big drone gents what what drone have we um
um that's a mavic right it's a zoom version yours is bigger than it is i'm getting drone
complex
and here's a great example of probably what is a man-made uh cutting so we've got the river
over that side just past rebecca um and here is a cutting which again probably was used to
channel the water down here for whatever reason perhaps they had a wheel in there somewhere um
i think we're in luck because i'm just climb over that
oh there's a lot up here or a certain old building next to the
channel um and yeah without doubt this is going to be part of the works
now remains here every sort of 30-40 yards you find something different
another huge old building there and again this is right above the water so
this would have probably been where things really happened um we are down at water level pretty much
i wish i could find an old wheel but i don't think we're going to oh look at that
so yet again another channel off of the main river and it comes down to this wonderful piece of uh
old ironworks in the form of a weir and yeah so i guess if they close that up completely
they could channel the water right underneath their works so this this is a perfect example
of how they would manipulate the water so they've been able to channel this we've seen now
in this section we've seen about four or five different buildings along here
where this is exactly how they got the water underneath it yeah so they channeled it away from
the main river stuck underneath all the buildings and all the wheels would have turned and they
could have conducted all the all the workings that they wanted to just wonderful look at that
all this in the name of cinematography there i said that word i said the word cinematography
and after all if you do really like what you're doing it doesn't matter what it is
you can eventually turn it you should eventually become a master um right so we're just walking
back now towards the east to weather park via the the amazing fossil works the ironworks um right
here is the main part of the building we can't get in there because it's all under construction
at the moment so we don't really want to climb the wall or fence because you can see it's quite
high um what we're going to try and do is get you guys to subscribe to elliot and joe so the
channel will be in the description below in the pinned comment and we love these guys because not
only do they do amazing cinematography but they also i said that word again i can say it in full
but they're also lovely gents and we really admire their work so go and go and subscribe to their
channel now and uh for today we shall call it um the end of today's film all right so it doesn't
work i'm walking a lot today right thanks for watching peeps we'll see you probably next week
you