Tom Scott: Amazing Places

The UK’s last aerial ropeway uses no power, moves 300 tonnes per day, and will be gone by 2036 (2021x9)

Air date: Jul 12, 2021

In Claughton, Lancashire, the Forterra brickworks produces 50 million bricks per year from shale that’s quarried a mile and a half away, transport by Britain’s last aerial ropeway; once common, but gone by 2036