Hearted Youtube comments on Wandering Turnip (@wanderingturnip) channel.

  1. Thank you David for coming down to meet us at Grommets HQ and for a brilliant video! We love it 🤩 it was lovely to meet you. Many thanks Charlotte, Jo and all at Grommets Ltd 😊
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  2. Seriously turnip your content is getting better and better and it started off brilliant in the first place. This episode was outstanding. I too, even though I’m a soft southerner have mining in my family history and the story of your great……grandfather and others like him I found very moving. A fascinating history and family story to be proud of for sure.
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  3. I live in Accrington, and worked at Accrington brickworks with my dad, he started there from when he left school at 15, definitely the strongest bricks ever, thank you for the video.
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  4. It's great to see immigrants to the uk talking about what they like about britain, the american guy's enthusiasm about curry sauce and chips and the german guy talking about mushy peas in the fish and chips video was kinda heartwarming, would be good to see more of that kind of stuff, we could do with a bit of positivity in this country.
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  5. After 6-7 hours I got through and it was £1035 for 3 tickets due to dynamic pricing I was like ok let’s do it. Then it went to checkout and crashed. Gutted but also relieved as that was a lot of money.
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  6. Not far from you are submerged beneath the sea, medieval villages, it's been happening for centuries, the reason is that after the ice age the ice melted, the west of the UK lifted and the east dropped, see Harlech castle in west Wales, now many miles from the sea, but used to be supplied directly from the sea, this land tipping into the North sea is still happening. Erosion is just part of it, as it had been when before the North Sea existed, it was a fertile area known today as Dogger Land, see many other posts on this subject. Like what you are doing, great site and your enthusiasm.
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  7. "YOU MUST CONSUME! OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"
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  8. You should write a book about your experiences of viewing these dilapidated properties You could call it "50 Shades Of Mold "
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  9. John the Waller was my Dad. He loved his walls, he loved the outdoors but more importantly he loved people. I’ve not come across this channel before. I’ll be sure to watch.
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  10. Dark period bollocks.This is part of our heritage.I'm so sorry,it should be saved!
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  11. vinyl was never dead it was just hybernating
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  12. I appreciate you showing me places in Europe like Yorkshire Hills. I live in Hawaii and never been there or anywhere in that part of the world. Keep up the good work you are doing showing places like this and the other places you’ve been traveling to that I have seen on your channel. Because of your work I’m able to see a part of your world and listen to what you have to say about all the places you travel to. Aloha ke akua!!’
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  13. As a Bradfordian, Thank-you and well done on 100k
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  14. This is one of my favourite channels on YouTube. The videos are always so interesting.
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  15. WT - you are now the real time English historian . Putting context on the state of the nation . Keep it up please .
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  16. When a chippy doubles in price you need to remember, their food has gone up 20%+, energy 10 to 20%, council rates/rent 10-40%, workers wages gone up 30%. It just doesnt make sense how they can still keep in business to me nevermind trying to say places are ripping you off.
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  17. I remember growing up and my Dad always had such great tools (which were his father's tools from Sheffield like hand drills, spanners, planes, wrenches etc) - even his toolbox was steel and had that strong gun-oil smell. It blew my mind that they seemed so indestructible. Then I grew up and experienced Chinese screwdrivers that can't even get through their first use without some kind of damage 🤣. He has used those same tools for 60 plus years and they are still going strong.
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  18. The Three Tuns Pub was one of the original coaching Inns for the London to Bath run. The area out back were stables for the horses. The Herschel Pub was a lively Irish pub. Sad to see such decay. The chimney in the Trading Estate is for the independent power station. Slough Estates Ltd owns the entire land there. From an old ex-Slough person.
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  19. The Oasis "time to top up the bank accounts" tour.
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  20. Glad I managed to get you halfway onto your journey, never realised how northern I sound 😂
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  21. Great video, I am 71 years old and lived in Accrington all my life. The town is dying but the people are very friendly.
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  22. Dude I don't think these vids are depressing at all, it's shining a light on what's going on in reality. Keep it up!
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  23. Emotional video - we owe a lot to the miners. There job was so important that they weren't conscripted in the wars
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  24. Your channel is excellent. Using Orwell to drive the narrative was a brilliant idea. I'd love to see more like this
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  25. Honestly, THIS is how you do a documentary. BBC and others have 6 figure salary presenters giving very biased views, and this guy is out here embarrassing them all. Fascinating video, and now I'm locked in to binge everything on your channel.
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  26. The graffiti pedestrian street you showed never had shops on it. One side was a hotel, the other side a night club (Madisons, when I used to go to go in the 1980's). Great video mind.
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  27. The guide was very apt on analysis between Primark and Debenham. We pay a bigger price for selecting the lower price.
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  28. Your enthusiasm and joy were a wonderful thing to witness. 🙂
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  29. I've said it before, I'll say it again. My Dad would have loved you. And he would have enjoyed a day like yours. He created a career for himself reparing and reconditioning commercial catering equipment. He had one representative, from a huge company, come and watch his work. At the end he told my Dad that he had nothing to teach him. Am so proud of MY Dad. Thank you for a great video.
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  30. As a Gen 1 Digital Nomad and long time fan of the channel, I highly support this initiative and content!
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  31. Whenever you show these enormous chimneys, I think about the people who built them, and how much courage it would take to do work like that, especially long before there were so many safety measures required. The chimneys aren't just monuments to the businesses that used them, they are monuments to the men who built them.
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  32. Your presentation style is infectious. The down to earth attitude. And I am with you on avoiding the big shopping malls. Manchester would have to be one of the better big cities in the UK. Such a history. And such a life force. Looking forward to the new series. It will be interesting to see people making a product in England. And competing with all the foreign imports. I think I am right in saying , that at the height of the British empire. The UK produced something like 60% of the world's goods. China has never even got close to this. Manufacturing. New inventions. Product development. Britain was where it was at. Also, interestingly as you mentioned exploitation. During the big industrial era. British workers were largely exploited. The working class usually bear the brunt so others can prosper. These days we look at the low paid workers in China. Different location. Same deal. Governments should back enterprising business. But they don't. There is a big thing in Australia about buying Aussie. Hard to do. Not much made here anymore. The norm is now to advertise. Proudly Australian company since 1922. But the small print says made in China. Or Taiwan. I have even seen packaging with Proudly Australian written on it. And they didn't even spell Australian correctly. Sign of the times.
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  33. RIP the second mic. Was a pleasure meeting and showing you around dude, glad you got to see the community we have in the cronx!
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  34. Your best episode so far in my insignificant opinion. What a subject, what a legend! He had an abundance of talents, steeplejack, demolition expert, mechanical engineer, talented draftsman and historian. He visited my local pub with his second wife and I was so impressed by his modesty, he was actually very shy! Hard to believe I know. I love it that someone from your generation values him, he was/is special. Thanks for doing this.
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  35. Vinyl has a rare magic today, the alchemy achievable only through attention. You perform the tea ceremony necessary leading to the drop of the stylus and then, goddamnit, you LISTEN. And actually listening to music is an entirely different and wholly superior experience compared to simply hearing it.
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  36. Awesome video dude, Well done. As Londoner who now lives in Sowerby Bridge that was a hard watch. I have spent many years in the west end of London working as a stand up comedian. I even ran a comedy club in Piccadilly. At that point there were absolutely no boarded up shops but I did witness a change in the type of businesses that operated there with a lot of the smaller quirkier businesses being forced out. London started to loses it's unique feel even then. But seeing all those shops closed like that is a shock. Once again, thanks for the video.
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  37. Bless Fred,he knew chimneys.
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  38. 24 bricks = an advent calendar for your dad! 🧱
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  39. When I saw the latest one was about Wigan I wasn't expecting much but I think this might be your best video yet. The heart of your own personal connection, the eloquent literary extracts and the grizzley truth of the past and present, they paint a picture with many colours. I think these sum up what I love about this channel.
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  40. This is such a great story. And I must give you credit for the real professional work you’ve done interviewing, filming and editing this. I’ve watched documentaries on Netflix and bbc that hasn’t been as good as this. Love from down the road in Rochdale.
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  41. It never died for the core music fans
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  42. Mate, that TV licence skit was hilarious! 🤣
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  43. Guy eating his sandwich was switched on. Seemed like a true music fan!
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  44. Wow, what an enjoyable watch this is. Definitely your best video yet in my opinion. Loved how you weaved your family history into the mining heritage of the places you visited (and the references from Orwell). Never been to Wigan but it looks like it is doing better than some of the neighbouring towns. Finding the grave of your 3x great grandfather too- he must have been a popular chap as that grave is in a lovely spot and quite ornate.
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  45. ONE LOVE GUYS THANK YOU FOR COMING TO CROYDON COME BACK TO SEE US
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  46. Hi from Paris Your reportage captures the poetry lying within industriel relics Nice Bravo
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  47. There seems to be a widespread sense of dissatisfaction and gloom which characterizes the zeitgeist at the moment in the UK. Some commentators have noted that there appear to be so many problems the country needs to tackle, that it's difficult to prioritize what needs putting right first. This excellent vlog and it's passionate and caring host, emphasizes a starting point that we all should know already, but we often lose sight of: Mutual help and support within a local community. When you talk to people who lived through World War 2, they will often say that the collective sense of all of us pulling together was one of the positive aspects of life back then that we are now missing. Thank you David for doing your bit to remind us all that we are stronger when we act in unison, and that we can achieve amazing things if we put our minds to it. There is plenty of pressure from all quarters to divide and rule us, and keep us neutered, but by focusing on the traditional heart of our communities. we can claw back some control of our lives together.
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  48. So funny that you ended your curry journey getting a bit loose with your brother and ordering in a takeaway curry. I can't think of anything more British than that.
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  49. You'll probably get a more professional show.
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  50. So nice to see a community pub still around where everyone knows each other
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