Rotherwas Chapel (England)
Tour of Rotherwas Chapel - 13/2/16
Music by Gilles Binchois
Rotherwas Chapel is a family chapel, once belonging to the Bodenham family. It is now state-owned and administered by English Heritage.
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Kilpeck Church (England)
Tour of Kilpeck Church - 12/3/19
Music by Josquin des Prez
The Church of St Mary and St David is a Church of England parish church at Kilpeck in the English county of Herefordshire, about 5 miles from the border with Monmouthshire, Wales. It is famous for its Norman carvings.
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World War 1 Munitions Factory - Rotherwas Wye Valley
World War 1 Munitions Factory - Rotherwas Wye Valley
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An exploration of Rotherwas in Hereford one of Britain's largest 1st World War Munitions factories, which re-opened in 1942. Initially a play area when young much more has been learnt about this fascinating place since.
LINKS TO ROTHERWAS RESEARCH SITES
Many thanks to Rotherwas Munitions project for the use of munitions factory image.
Many thanks to Herefordshire Lore for the use of historic woman image at Rotherwas.
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THE VIDEOS - HISTORY & RESEARCH
OTHER IMAGES
Train Mounted Artillery
Marching to war
MUSIC
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Intro: Ben Sound - Epic
Blue Dot Sessions - The Summit
David Palmero - Let Me Dream P1
Graham Bole - We Are One
Associated: Rotherwas Munitions, World War, Weapons, History, War History, Hereford, World war 1, Woman In War, Ordnance Factory, Ministry of defense, Royal Artillery, Munitions Filling, River Wye, Wye filling, Pontrilas, Secret Base, Explosive Filling, Explosives, Bombs, Shells, Cartridges, Pyrotechnics, Single Span, Single Span Roof, Human Story, Bunkers and Air Raid Shelter.
Filmed Using the Sony DSC RX100, Sony Digital Camera, Sony Camera, Digital Camera.
Sony DSC WX350
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Rotherwas church
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Walking by a mast near Burghill Church Herefordshire. UK
Walking by a mast near Burghill Church Herefordshire. UK
Newport (Maindee East Jn) to Hereford – Hastings DEMU cab ride – 24 March 2018
*The Sixty Marches* charter, Part 5:
Cab view from Newport (Maindee East Junction) up the Welsh Marches Line to Hereford. Filmed from Hastings Diesels Limited’s preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 24 March 2018, during the outward leg of The Sixty Marches private charter.
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In this video we travel 43 miles and 79 chains in 51 minutes across Monmouthshire and Herefordshire, crossing and re-crossing the Wales/England border and skimming the edge of the Brecon Beacons. Initially we are on the Pontypool, Caerleon & Newport Railway which was built to act as a ‘bypass’ for the busy Monmouthshire Railway south of Pontypool, which the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway had originally been obliged to share. In the Pontypool area we pass a vast area which used to be heavily industrialised and served by many railway lines... all of them gone except for the one we are on, passing abandoned industry, overgrown railway sidings and a suspiciously new-looking housing estate. North of Pontypool we are on the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway proper, and at Abergavenny we pass first the existing station and then the site of a huge station of which nothing remains. Our climb steepens to 1 in 82 and our speed eventually stabilises at 40mph as we crest the summit at Llanvihangel, thereafter we have a fast run on downhills and moderate grades into Herefordshire and eventually down into the City of Hereford.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Reading; then from Reading via Hungerford (part 1) to the Westbury area (part 2) where we turned right at Heywood Road Junction, through Bradford-on-Avon and Bath to Filton (part 3), through the Severn Tunnel into Wales, to Maindee Junction (Newport) (part 4) for the line through Abergavenny to Hereford (this part); the return journey was via the same route.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield.
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1:23 – Newport MAINDEE EAST JUNCTION
4:23 – Maindee North Junction
7:34 – Caerleon disused station
9:22 – Ponthir disused station
10:54 – Llantarnam disused station
11:31 – site of Llantarnam Junction
12:50 – Cwmbran station
13:09 – Lower Pontnewydd disused station
14:05 – Chapel Lane Ground Frame – Panteg Goods Loops
14:53 – site of Panteg Junction and former steelworks
15:36 – site of Coedygric Junction
16:40 – site of Coedygric North Junction
17:04 – Pontypool and New Inn station
18:36 – Little Mill Junction, Signal Box & disused station
20:48 – Nantyderry disused station
22:51 – Penpergwm disused station
24:40 – Abergavenny Signal Box and station
25:58 – site of Abergavenny Junction and disused station
30:44 – Llanvihangel disused station and the summit of the line
33:09 – Pandy disused station
37:02 – Pontrilas Signal Box and disused station
37:15 – site of Pontrilas Junction
40:05 – St Devereux disused station
42:07 – Tram Inn Signal Box and disused station
44:09 – Red Hill Tunnel
45:10 – site of Red Hill Junction
46:59 – site of Rotherwas Junction
48:57 – HEREFORD.
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2018–2019 Hastings Diesels Limited.
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with focus modification, suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are the actual timings for the day’s outing:
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
* Outward:
Our return journey’s route was changed just a day or two before the trip because of a bridge strike — from Hereford to Filton Abbey Wood we were supposed to have been routed via Worcester and the Gloucester area to Yate and Bristol Parkway, but as things turned out we had to retrace our steps via the Severn Tunnel. The following shows our original route.
* Return:
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Hereford Visions - Traffic
What kind of city do you want to live in? Most research says that cities with attractive surroundings are more successful in commerce too.
Anne-Marie Dossett highlights here how Hereford is being overrun by traffic, and the associated multi-million pound industry of traffic light manufacturers is evident in this video.
Almost no care is given to pedestrians and cyclists in spite of claims to the contrary from the county council who, in practice, are reversing their stated order of preference.
It is a fact that no one group should be favoured over another. This is not to demonise motorists. Indeed, if road space were shared more equally, motorists would find life easier too.
Hereford to Newport (Maindee East Jn) – Hastings DEMU cab ride – 24 March 2018
*The Sixty Marches* charter, Part 6:
Cab view from Hereford down the Welsh Marches Line to Newport (Maindee East Junction). Filmed from Hastings Diesels Limited’s preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 24 March 2018, during the return leg of The Sixty Marches private charter.
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In this video we travel 43 miles and 79 chains in 49 minutes across Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, crossing and re-crossing the Wales/England border and skimming the edge of the Brecon Beacons. We follow the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford railway over the summit of a steep climb at Llanvihangel, through Abergavenny on the way down the other side, and onward as far as Pontypool. From there the line becomes the Pontypool, Caerleon & Newport Railway which was built to act as a ‘bypass’ for the busy Monmouthshire Railway south of Pontypool, which the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway had originally been obliged to share. In the Pontypool area we pass a vast area which used to be heavily industrialised and served by many railway lines... all of them gone except for the one we are on, passing abandoned industry, overgrown railway sidings and a suspiciously new-looking housing estate. Ultimately we curve round the Caerleon district and cross the tidal River Usk to approach Newport and the South Wales Main Line, onto which we turn at Maindee East Junction.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Reading; then from Reading via Hungerford (part 1) to the Westbury area (part 2) where we turned right at Heywood Road Junction, through Bradford-on-Avon and Bath to Filton (part 3), through the Severn Tunnel into Wales, to Maindee Junction (Newport) (part 4) for the line through Abergavenny to Hereford (part 5); the return journey from Hereford to Newport (this part) continued via the Severn Tunnel and Bath (next part), retracing the same route.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells.
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1:23 – HEREFORD
4:17 – site of Rotherwas Junction
6:42 – site of Red Hill Junction
8:29 – Red Hill Tunnel
10:55 – Tram Inn Signal Box and disused station
13:14 – St Devereux disused station
15:59 – site of Pontrilas Junction
16:06 – Pontrilas Signal Box and disused station
16:14 – Pontrilas Tunnel
20:52 – Pandy disused station
23:49 – Llanvihangel disused station and the summit of the line
26:24 – Abergavenny Junction disused station
26:41 – site of Abergavenny Junction
27:13 – Abergavenny station
27:24 – Abergavenny Signal Box
29:23 – Penpergwm disused station
31:43 – Nantyderry disused station
34:06 – Little Mill Junction, Signal Box & disused station
35:45 – Pontypool and New Inn station
36:09 – site of Coedygric North Junction
37:11 – site of Coedygric Junctions
37:33 – site of Panteg Junction
37:47 – Panteg Goods Loops
38:03 – Chapel Lane Ground Frame
38:35 – Lower Pontnewydd disused station
38:43 – Cwmbran station
39:30 – site of Llantarnam Junction
39:56 – Llantarnam disused station
41:01 – Ponthir disused station
42:28 – Caerleon disused station
44:41 – Maindee North Junction
48:04 – NEWPORT (Maindee East Junction).
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2018–2019 Hastings Diesels Limited.
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Travel on our train! See our Railtours webpage at:
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with focus modification, suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are the actual timings for the day’s outing:
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
* Outward:
Our return journey’s route was changed just a day or two before the trip because of a bridge strike — from Hereford to Filton Abbey Wood we were supposed to have been routed via Worcester and the Gloucester area to Yate and Bristol Parkway, but as things turned out we had to retrace our steps via the Severn Tunnel. The following shows our original route.
* Return:
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ERRATUM: the departure platform at Hereford should be platform 1, not 2.
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Yellow Bird spotted in Commercial Street Hereford UK!
Yellow bird spotted in Commercial Street Hereford. Timothy was just passing, couldn't resist getting his camcorder out. One day in June 2009. Hope you enjoy this.
Abandoned south side Herefordshire
South side
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Rotherwas ghost.
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Old SAS Pistol Range - Military History In The Wye Valley
Old SAS Pistol Range - Military History In The Wye Valley
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Join me as I explore the old SAS 25 Meter pistol range in the Wye Valley just South of Hereford in the UK. The Special Air Service spent a lot of time here perfecting their firing techniques as did the hosts father. Various thoughts and ideas are explored in what is a reminder of some of the worlds harsher realities.
Rotherwas Ammunition Factory
9mm Glock Pistol
Map
Additional Information
Chatting to Major Clive Lee former SAS the other week he says that the range was used for testing and that Uzi would be employed here to.
A comment on facebook by an old friend Simon Fraser who tried for the regiment once and whose father was in the regiment also stated this:
As you know it was a stones throw from the married quarters.
I remember sitting watching my dad shooting there.
It was standard 30 yard barrack range.
But vehicles could be driven on to it.
Pistol and most weapons could be fired here.
AK 47’s on one occasion I remember.
You mention Ross on Wye
There is another range out the back of Ross that the Regiment used, out to 300 m,
Filmed using the Sony DSC RX100 compact digital camera.
Location Scout - Bodenham Church and houses
Walk from Church to house.
Old Methodist Chapel
The Old Chapel along with the Sunday School and Manse are now private dwellings.
HTA - Jordan Creed - Save Herefordshire Buses
Since September, extensive cuts to school transport have added thousands of car journeys to local roads, badly affected working families and driven children to seek education in other counties.
Bus services are very important in this rural area, but you would never know it if you listened to the cabinet of Herefordshire Council. Their own sources of advice, LEP, Core Strategy Inspector, national departments of government, our MP and Herefordshire Transport Alliance have all said clearly the first priority should be SUSTAINABLE transport which means restoring not cutting bus services along with safe cycling/pedestrian routes.
Jordan Creed started a petition on 38 degrees to Save Herefordshie Bus services
We went to meet him.
Fire on Hereford St
A fire on Hereford St
Poppies: Weeping Window Hereford Cathedral - Interview with Professor Kate Williams
Poppies: Weeping Window at Hereford Cathedral, by Artist Paul Cummins and Designer Tom Piper.
Professor Kate Williams visited Weeping Window at Hereford Cathedral and discussed what the sculpture meant to her.
Poppies: Weeping Window is a cascade comprising several thousand handmade ceramic poppies.
The men and women of Herefordshire made a huge contribution to the war effort during the First World War in a variety of ways. Young men were recruited into the Herefordshire Regiment, which expanded to three battalions during this time, landing in Suvla Bay in Gallipoli in August 1915 before being transferred to the Western Front in 1918. Shells were produced at the Rotherwas Munitions Factory, which saw an influx of thousands of women into the county. Shell filling began on 11 November 1916. Herefordshire also provided horses for the front, known as ‘remounts’, as well as providing food supplies for the nation and the front from farms across the rural county.
Hereford Cathedral dates from 1120 and is renowned for being the home of the Mappa Mundi, 1217 Magna Carta and a unique Chained Library. First World War memorials in the cathedral include a plaque commemorating men of all ranks of the Herefordshire Regiment who died on campaigns in Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and France, and one to Hereford Cathedral School students and staff, including four former choristers. A Book of Remembrance for the husbands and sons of members of the Hereford Mothers’ Union who gave their lives in the war is on permanent display. In 2018, Hereford Cathedral will unveil a new plaque honouring soldier Allan Leonard Lewis, the only Herefordshire-born recipient of the Victoria Cross. Lewis was killed in September 1918, aged 23.The Victoria Cross was presented to his parents by H.M King George V at Buckingham Palace in April 1919.
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Part of 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions
Driving On The A438 From Ledbury To Trumpet Crossroads, Herefordshire, England 20th June 2014
Driving along the A438 Hereford Road from Ledbury to the Trumpet Crossroads, Herefordshire, England
Videoed on Friday, 20th June 2014
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Building Man - Bodenham Manor Stables
The first UK Building Man festival will take place during May 2013. Here we have a quick walk around the Stables building at Bodenham Manor which will be our main social/ sleeping and eating space for the month. See for a video of where most of the work will be taking place and an interview with Marcus Letts, co-founder of the Building Man Co-op
TELGARTH MENTAL ASYLUM EXPLORATION!! EPISODE 2
Exploring the abandoned Telgarth Asylum, we had a great time, we had to leave after we were shouted at by a strange man...