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Yes it took me about 5 visits to see them (although I did spend an awfully long time in the Wallace collection). I'd say that you can see all of these sites in one day if you cut out the Wallace Collection, Edward IIIs manor, and the Cutty Sark.

@AlexTheHistoryGuy And you could include those if you did it on a bicycle, although I wouldn't advise visitors to do that. Great video BTW. Until youtube came along I didn't know what I was looking at when doing my job. I appreciate it a lot more now. I'm a big john rogers fan as well. Subscribed. Thank-you

I've never really understood Smithfield. I went through the famous meat market on three separate occasions throughout the year but everything was closed and boarded up so I didn't know what I was supposed to be looking at.

I'm from Norfolk, we don't pronounce T's often, it's just our accent.

@ I get the regional accent thing, but you’re pronouncing other words really well that aren’t affected by your accent(which I can barely detect). Pronouncing your t’s properly would give your already polished and great videos that little bit more refinement.

Complaints like this reek of classism. He's perfectly legible.

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Well it took me 4 or 5 visits to see all these sites! And I'm sure there are plenty that I missed.

Greetings from Norfolk!

I appreciate this, most people don't like the new with the old but you embrace it - I think that's very charming!

I agree that UK is pretty much irrelevant nowadays but London was still the 2nd most visited city in the world last year, and is consistently in the top 5 every year

Cheers pal!

London would have looked lovely in its medieval hey day

But for those buildings many of the sites wouldn't have been discovered. London isn't a museum it's a vibrant living entity.

Many of the modern buildings have been built on bomb sites. London was badly damaged by German air raids in WW2. I remember walking the city in the 1970s and even then bomb sites, huge holes in the ground, were everywhere. I don't think people realise this, especially Americans. The UK was really badly damaged in WW2, over 127,000 civilians lost their lives. Perhaps if people read the facts they would understand London the way it is. Very old, over 2,000 years of history, bashed up but capable of rising up again, responsible for building the greatest empire in world history. And yet people come out with ignorant comments like this. And it is usually the Americans, who have absolutely no idea what's happening outside their back door, let alone appreciate the incredible history of London and what it has achieved.

I was considering that but I couldn't find a map basic enough to plot the places on and I don't know how to make a map in Photoshop because I'm a dinosaur haha

After all that London has been through, I'm just grateful this much has survived

I only had so much footage from my visits so I had to tailor the script to the length of the footage I had, hence why some intriguing details had to be left out. I may revisit and give a longer dedicated video to the walls of London as I did with London bridge :)

The Charterhouse is at 20:35 :)

All my London journeys start and end at Liverpool Street station haha. Thank you, you too!

Much appreciated:)

I would love to visit Boston Minster. That gothic octagonal tower looks incredible

Sorry to hear about the mobility issues but I'm glad you're making the most of my videos. I hope I showed enough of each site for you!

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy it was lovely. I love old architecture and history, so enjoy the stories and seeing details up close. If there are any quirks in the architecture, it woud be nice to see that. I'm looking at buildings and working out changes in the structure. When I had a housefire 7 years ago, they stripped the interior down to the studs and I got to know the history of my house far better than I ever thought I would. I had undergone extensions and additions and was interesting to see how things were originally and how things changed over time.

It's surprising how certain things can teach you more about the history of places! There's a building in London which is near St Bartholomew's - it was bombed during WW2 and the damage caused the front facade to be removed which revealed a beautiful Tudor front to the house that nobody knew was there!

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy oh wow, a happy outcome!

It certainly was!

But unfortunately Washington DC is about 19 minutes old and London has been important for over 2000 years ;) On a real note, I don't believe London is very important on the world stage anymore. The UK in general is just very weak and irrelevant nowadays. It's a shame!

@AlexTheHistoryGuy Actually it's about 300 years old which doesn't matter it's about power projection.. its also home to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, NATOs real HQ as well as the Pentagon.. kind of important. Not much going on in London besides being a regional financial center or middleman between the United States and the EU which is ending post brexit and a king who has little to no power within his own island.

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy The essential difference between London and Washington is that the former is a world city (along with New York and Paris). It's the result of thousands of years of history and is a global centre of culture and fashion and soft power in general. As such, London has an appeal and drawing power that Washington will never have. As for the UK in general, I believe you are being a little harsh in your assessment. The truth is that we punched considerably above our weight for several centuries, but have now settled back into being a middle-ranking kind of country. But not to be under-estimated are the powers of creativity and innovation that has marked out the British down the centuries. Brexit hasn't helped though!

Brexit was about the eternal fight for freedom and democracy.

All hail America again

It certainly is, my friend. It certainly is.

Haha! I even have a friend who frequents lake Havasu City so I asked for footage to use in the video but I didn't get it in time unfortunately!

@AlexTheHistoryGuy I'm in, and from, Washington state, but somehow I've already heard about the bridge relocation. I've always wanted to go to Arizona to see if. I know that ships from the old world used to use remains of demolished buildings as ballast on their way to the colonies, and would unload the rubble wherever they made dock. There is more of the motherland sitting on American soil that people could ever imagine. P.S. if you ever go back to London, please please please look into Oulton Park. That was purchased by my 10th great grand uncle, Sir Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, as a result of the dissolution of the Monasteries.

I shall certainly check it out :)

Thank you :)

Haha thank you, enjoy sight-seeing!

Nobody knows whole London, it's just impossible.

Let me know how many you get round to seeing!

It is quite difficult finding 37 minutes of royalty free music haha

Music to my ears 🥰 much appreciated!

Which ones are you having issues with? I'll happily help :)

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy All Hallows by the Tower - the only thing I can find looks like an active congregation, not a ruin, and it is not on the correct road - although it looks close by. Ruins of Greyfriars Church - I finally found it, but needed a few blog posts to narrow it down Roman Wall of Londinium - There are SO many walls! I narrowed the one in your video down to one of three near the Tower of London.

@@marthasawall502 All Hallows by the Tower isn't a ruin. It's near the junction of Byward Street and Seething Lane. Google maps isn't good for surviving parts of the Roman walls as much is best viewable from the Barbican complex which is elevated and technically private land (although it's completely open to walk through). There's a little bit visible on google maps on an unnamed little lane which runs off the aptly named London Wall, south-west of Monkwell Square but you'll just have to come to London to see it properly.

If you search "all hallows staining church tower London" in Google maps, it should take you right there. Greyfriars is just up the road from St Paul's. And yes, the Roman wall sections are mostly on the Barbican area.

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Thank you very much!

If you visit the Mithraeum in the Bloomberg building and ask for a copy of their archaeological record book (which they offer for free if you ask), it tells you a lot of information about the Mithraeum in the Roman period so that's where I got the majority of my Information from. I don't think it was right on the rivers etc but yes, possible next to a tributary.

I agree that the stained masonry and overgrown areas do give it an interesting "ye olde" feel but it's also nice to clean up some areas.

All the modern boringly identical "architecture" has ruined the city (in my opinion).

That black soot was not that old. It was produced from burning coal for heating and power mostly between late 19th C - mid 20 C.

" It was better when I was young ", yeah. It was, it always is.

And there were still bomb sites, in the city and east and south London. 💔

It certainly was

Thank you! This video took multiple trips to London to film, and I think I walked over 70km in total to reach every site (including re-filming about 8 sites as I had upgraded to a 4K camera half way through the year so I wanted this video to be full 4K for you guys.)

Yes only official crusades, the peasants crusade was never officially authorized by the Pope and it was a total disaster anyway!