 Hello, thank you for joining me. If you're wondering where I am, that station is called Ware. So Ware is where we are. And what we've come to do today is to go and look at a fascinating grotto hidden away on a housing estate. So this is the level crossing on the heart of the east branch. It's an unusual bit of railway, because all this video is not about railways, it's double track. And then there's the point. Just through Ware Station, it's single track. But it then becomes double track again. So it's a bit unusual that it's what we're going to find now here at the bottom of this level crossing is Amwell House. That's the beginning of what we've come to look at. So it's this building here in front of us. It's quite noisy by the way so I'm going to take you in here by the new river and I'll explain that in a moment. So this building in front of us, that's Amwell House. Now this is once the house with a lot of grounds. It's like a state home really even though it's very close to Ware Town Centre. And in those grounds was a grotto. But the grotto is still there, but most of the grounds have had houses built, but not the grotto. The grotto was safe. Look at it though, these two wings actually came out further once, but when the road was widened they were demolished, but the facade were recreated to set further back. It's recently been converted into flats. So what we're going to do now, we're just going to walk beside the new river a little way. This river was built to supply drinking water to London. So a man made river and although it looks like well, it looks like a canal. The thing to give away is not a canal. Not many boats are going to get under that bridge. So, Scott Scotto. John Scott, he was a Quaker. He moved away from London to get away from smallpox. He settled here in Ware and in the grounds of Amwell House. He built a grotto and a summer house. So the grotto we're going to go and see is really quite fascinating. There's going to be various little chambers. There's shells. It's decorated with shells. There's a council chamber at the end. So it's going to be quite exciting to see that. And then above all of that, up at the top of the garden there's a summer house. So it's the summer house where he would sit and he'd write some of his most famous poems. So that's the railway line along there and this is the new river. And there's a road just up there called Scotch Road. So imagine this road would have probably been here. But all of that was all Pleasure Gardens of Amwell House. So it had a situation on the road. It was a big estate and it had various Roscoe themed buildings. But the grotto is the main centerpiece. It's meant to be inspired by the grotto in Twickenham. So the path along the new river carries on. I hope I can get out of this gate. If I can't get out of this gate I'm going to have to walk back. Now I can get out of here. So I haven't got to walk back. So out through this gate to make sure I shut it up again which is so easy to do. The gate's closed. We're going to go up here. It's called Scotch Road. So we're going to go up Scotch Road and find Scotch Grotto which I'm really quite excited about. So there you go. Scotch Road. Let's go up there and find the Scotch. I'm now coming up the hill from Amwell House. Town of Wears in the background. This is called Scotch Road. Now the grotto we're going to is in here. You sort of wouldn't expect it in the middle of a residential area. But of course this was all Parkland once. So this is where it is. It's open every Saturday and it's well worth coming to see. I'm very excited about seeing it. This is Scotch Grotto. And we cross the road here and there's a big flag saying open. So we're going to go through these gates. We're going to have a look around Scotch Grotto. So here we are. We have arrived at the grounds where the grotto is. So we've just come in there. Roads on the other side of the fence. And as we follow this little path we look down there and you can see the front door there. You can see this other building here. So let's go in and have a look around. There's all shells and flints. It's a bit like some of the flints you can see here on the steps. There'll be a lot more of it once we get inside. So as we get to here you can see in front of us the entrance to the grotto and up there on the hill is the summer house. We're going to go to that later. You can see that's part of the grotto. And if we have a look and come to here you might just be able to see but we'll have a proper look as another skylight into the grotto. I do like the drain pipe. See how they've got this shell with a hole in it. Now this is the first of many shells we're going to see as we explore the grotto. So as we come into here this is the entrance to the grotto. Many shells. You can just see above a little flint there. And what we'll do, that one's just a dead end. We'll go around. So we go into here. Now it's lit to from here. But when we get down the corner it will be pitch black. So I have brought a torch with me. So as we go down here there are some air tunnels. As you can see it says no access to them. We're going down there. That is because you can't see much. So here's my torch. And let's go into the grotto. So we go down here and already we come to a junction. So that's the path that will take us right through. But as we have a little chamber, so let's go into this one first. So we go through here. It's very small in here. You can much be able to see daylight there and daylight there. So there's some more air holes in here. But just have a look at the shells. And I think that goes through to the next chamber. I'm going to do a slightly mad experiment. I'm going to put the torch in there. Because it doesn't look far. See if I can go and find it. So I'll put the torch there. Can I find it without a torch? It's pitch black. But if I go here, I'm going around the corner now. I promise you there'll be light. There it is. There is my torch. I'm going back. So we are now in another chamber. It's a bit damp in here. There's what appears to be more shells and like volcanic rocks. So it's a little bit, I wouldn't say spooky, more just different and exciting. Those are lovely patterns made with the shells. So we're going to now see some light without my torch there ahead. That's where we've come from. So we're going to take this tunnel here now. So let's go. There's another little junction here. Oh actually I think that's the main route down there. We're going to go down here. That's the air tunnel. That goes up to the entrance. It gets here. There's another air tunnel up to here. You can just hit people up there. So have a look at this. There's another air tunnel. We're going to make our way down to this chamber down there. So let's go back through here. Tunnel. It's quite a longer tunnel curving round the back. You get to hear that one. It's just a seat. That's where we've just been. That's where we were a moment ago. And we're coming to this chamber and they've made more nice patterns with flint and shells. An amazing place this is. As soon as someone comes through, we'll go through the tunnel in the next chamber. We'll wait for these people to come out and we'll continue with our underground adventure. Here we go. We can go through this next tunnel now. There's little seats everywhere. If you want to sit down underground, you can just sit here like I am. Another seat there. Now look at that. We're not going to need to talk much longer because the next one's lit up. If you look down here there's a tunnel. It's all lit up. As we can see a little conical roof above us as we came in. That's up there. Just okay, the camera's messing around with the light. But the two little lights are up there above the chandelier. But just look at these shells. They're amazing. These one has a different pattern. This one's quite cool. So they're all different patterns with different shells. I think it's really terrific. It's a really amazing building. And to think this is all going to be demolished when they built the estate that surrounds this place. I'm very glad they saved it. That's where we've just come out of. Looks very, very dark and forbidden. We were down there. Look at these shells all around the outside there. What we're going to do now is we'll go out there. Skylight. We've got up here to the entrance. There was one up a little chamber. There's no one down there. That's a dead end. Let's see what happens. If we go down here this is the last chamber. But there's not much in here. But this is the other chamber we didn't see. I'd just like to do everything. So that's it. That's the air tunnel. We were right down there. So what we're going to do now I shall go into the light and we'll look around the garden. So let's go out of here and we're going to go up and look around the garden now. So we come out of the Shell Grotto. We're going to go up to that summer house up above the Grotto. Yes, thank you. I've just been for a walk around. The lady very kindly asked me, did I know the way? So I said, yeah, I've had a look. So we get to here. Now there's two roots we can take. We can take that one. But let's take this one. It takes us lower and up. We can see a bit more of the Grotto from above. Have a bit of an understanding of where we've just been. So that's the porch into the Grotto. When we came into one of those first chambers we were in there. So it actually had lights here. The shaft kind of goes down that way. And so the chambers are basically under here in the hill. Come up to here. There's another little sort of a Grotto just here. This one here seems quite small compared to what we've just been in. So that's the roof of the Grotto down there. Follow this path around here. Must be really strange if you live in that house and you've got this as your neighbour. So that is the roof of the council chamber which was the really nice last one we saw. Go up the steps. That's interesting. It looks like next door they've also got a Grotto in their garden. I am not entirely sure. Or it was partly the original one. So here we are. We're coming up to the top of the garden now. So we were right down there. So we've been right underneath here in the hill. And here we're just behind it. This is the summer house here. Look at that. Let's go and have a look inside. So it's inside this summer house. So this is the summer house on the hill above the Grotto. Above the Grotto. So we've gone up to the top. So we've gone from underground to on top of the hill. So this is the summer house. There's a trap door. I've been told no link to the Grotto. There's just a chamber under here. There's a picture of how the Grotto may have looked once. And where we are now That's the view out over where. That's where we are. That's the view over where. So let's go back outside. We'll walk to the top end of the garden just so we've seen everything. And then it's time for me to walk back down to Weertown Centre and go for a walk I think by the River Lee and maybe see some trains. So I hope you enjoyed this video from Scott's Grotto In Where. It is open from time to time. So do have a look and see when they're open. Do come visit yourself. You can get here very easily by train on the railway line from London to Hartford East. So from the garden with this amazing Grotto in it I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment and from beside the summer house above Scott's Grotto. Bye.