So good to finally see you in Jays video. I had no idea it was you until you spoke at the end. Well done. You're a legend. And were perfect playing Harry Beck.
Most certainly a deep fake to try to throw us all off the scent as to JH's true identity. That pithy sardonic wit is too sharp for a mere amateurs to replicate convincingly.
Interesting video! I think "Bond Street" was used to refer to the entire street, including New Bond Street, before a certain date. My ancestors lived on New Bond Street from 1772 onwards, and the Westminster property tax records seem to switch over from calling their address "Bond Street" to "New Bond Street" at some point between 1788 and 1791. Cheers!
@@rosiefay7283 The main reason for doing something like that in modern days would be to avoid messing with existing house numbers. That might not have been a consideration back then though. In present-day Austria apparently there's a law that if a city renames or renumbers a street, they have to compensate residents and businesses for all costs caused by the address change (printing new stationery, etc.). Because of that cities try to avoid renaming streets at all cost.
At the beginning of the 18th century, work on New Bond Street began, continuing Bond Street's North West trajectory. By the time it reached Oxford Street in 1720, Bond Street had become Old Bond Street. To this day, its affluent residents and patrons still refer to the two streets simply as Bond Street.
Hey, unrelated to video, just visited london for a week and spend most of my time riding up and down the tube. Your videos and the knowledge I gained from it really helped me enjoy my experience, less so for my mates whom I talked the ears of about all I knew about the tube. Thanks for all your videos, they are really enjoyable and informative, they inspired me to see the oldest underground of the world for myself. Also funny yo see you feature in a video of Jay Foreman.
I was told that the reason they had to add “New Bond Street” was that the addresses on the original Bond Street went up one side and down the other, rather than the odds on one side and evens on the other. Therefore the new section of Bond street would have had a very large number jump and would have been confusing so they started from scratch with New Bond Street.
Every time I travel back to London for a weekend to visit friends and family, I always feel out of place in areas like Bond Street, Kings Road in Chelsea, Knightsbridge etc. Much prefer going East to places like Brick Lane and Shoreditch and Dalston as you get a mix of all different types of people from all walks of life and social classes, same with Soho, but when you cross over Regent Street into Mayfair, the vibe completely changes!
In the 70's and 80's a scattering of Airline companies had Travel Agencies and Admin in New Bond Street. My Dad worked for Air France at 158. Occasionally there were the odd cheap and cheerful shops to be found. In the Burlington Arcade there was for a while a discount shoe shop Also, W.Bill, Milliners were selling Irish Tweed hats for a fiver a go. I still have two of them! I keep forgetting the surname, but there was also a tobacconist in NBS who blended his own. "Arthur....??" Someone. Dad was a regular there. Maybe because everything was grubbier in the eighties I don't remember it being as glitzy as it now obviously is. In one of the Mews streets nearby there was a pub selling meat pies that seemed the size of a rugby ball. Scrummy.
'a fiver a go' in the mid seventies would equate to maybe £100 these days! ... I ran a pub in Dering Street, just off N. Bond St in the mid 70s would never have thought of the street as 'grubby' We had a big fire in the pub on 7/7/77, ... and that was the end of that chapter in my life.
5:17 _Allies_ by British-American sculptor Lawrence Holofcener The sculpture, located on New Bond Street between Grafton Street and Clifford Street, was unveiled by Princess Margaret on May 2, 1995 “to commemorate 50 years of peace.” One site offers the following helpful note: _The two seated allies are unidentified at the site but with the assistance of our US consultant, Trevor Blake, we can confidently identify them as, left to right: Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill._
It's Bond Street on the Monopoly board, after all. Also, talking of 'Old' streets, there's one near me called Old Lode Lane, which is perfect for yodelling.
As someone not particulary familiar with individual streets in London, I had never really known that Bond Street was split into the Old and New sections - I'm not sure why they just end the differentiation between the two and just call the whole street Bond Street. Also, even after your appearances in Jay's tube videos, I will still best know you for your videos and your voiceovers in them
Most people around the area DO just refer to it as 'Bond Street'. If someone stops me for directions to it, I may ask if it's New or Old BS they want and then am able to point them in the right direction... The North end is 'New' (nearest to the Bond Street Tube / Oxford Street) & the South end is 'Old' (nearest to Green Park Tube / Piccadilly).
There is a sort of split in the architecture. Apart from the street signs, you can tell where the join is. It is basically 2 streets of varying ages mashed together. The road narrows as you get further into Old Bond Street. I used to work on it and I sort of share Jago's view on it. I never even glanced at the gaudy and expensive tat on display.
When i was the manager for the Bond Street Station refurbishment many many years ago, my office was in-between the Tanazire & Botswana Embassy's - no idea how much that cost to rent, located just across the road from the station in Stratford Place, at the end of the road is the Oriental Club established in 1824, of which the Duke of Wellington was the first President.
I didn't realise Bond St was split into old and new. Although being able to buy the whole of Mayfair for £400 does seem a little far fetched now I come to think of it.
@@rogink : It's old money. People like new things. Can see why Mayfair is attractive. It's the first time I've seen somebody filmed the entire street of Bond Streets. Didn't realise that, many of the old labels are all here.... Interesting. I thought that they are all gone.
"Was a fair held near the beginning of Summer, a May fair if you will. Wait a second, do you think that's where the name Mayfair comes from?" LOL something NYC and London has in common is how boring and uncreative we are with our names. If something is called that, it probably was that, as they say in NYC. Want to know why Canal Street is called Canal Street? Ding ding ding, there was once a canal! But there's more than that. The area was once home to Collect Pond, one of the city's few sources of freshwater. It became polluted because of everyone doing their business there, as well as run-off from tanneries. So it was drained via a canal so they could eventually put landfill there. This area is where the Irish first moved to in NYC (because it was all they could afford), which eventually became known as the most dangerous neighborhood in the world, Five Points, because of the area's Irish gangs
Even a lot of the seemingly more interesting place names are just as literal, but named in other languages and/or have been morphed by time. There are many places whose names mean things like High Place, River Bend Town or Bob's Village - they just seem fancier because they're more foreign to us. In truth, our ancestors weren't necessarily any more imaginative at naming things than us.
Not one generation of pre-modern Londoner has ever called the stretch from Oxford Street “Old Bond Street”, in fact both ends are just plain old Bond Street in London parlance.
The name’s Bond, Bond Street. Very informative as usual, fascinating, you know I’d never thought about this. I’m aware of the origins of some part of London’s names, maybe a few more of these, what other less obvious or obscure station/place names are there I wonder?
Had a look around Bond Street on the phase 2 opening day of the Elizabeth Line, posh area! Brilliant Video Harry Beck.... Sorry Brilliant Video Jago Hazzad (side note did enjoy your appearances in Jay Foreman's video)
I'm so glad the algorithm randomly put this on my feed. I genuinely just assumed that there was a Bond Street station because it was on Bond Street. Interesting video!
Very nice video! At 03:34 do you think the mentioned time period was truly the first time this shift in paradigm from shopping - necessity to shopping - now also leasure ; I don't have any sources but I do think a case could be made for the greco latin classical era also having 'advanced' enough to where the wealthy (accompanied by some slaves) went in person to shopping trips buying so and so high craftsmanship / luxury goods. I discovered your channel about a week ago and I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work. :)
I worked near the top of Bond Street for a bit in the 60s and 70s, and while not 'scruffy' it was not High End either. I think Fenwicks was there, and they had a mini supermarket in the basement, about the only place around there where you could buy food for your tea, and a frock in the same lunchtime!☺️
You made me go and find that to watch. And of course, Jago Hazard doesn't look remotely how I had imagined. And now I understand a couple of comments higher up the list.
You may never be rich being a railway UA-camr but you will always be interesting and that's far better in my book. On a completely unrelated note, there's no Marlborough street in central London either, despite it appearing on the Monopoly board. Great Marlborough Street on the other hand...
1.10 cool to note that this is the reason many cities have wealthier west sides than east sides: prevailing winds usually leave the west side less smelly in many places!
In places like Santiago, Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Montevideo, Uruguay, the _east side_ is richer than the west side (according to some commenters on one site). One might think that, being in the Southern Hemisphere, these places are subject to “prevailing easterlies” but that’s not precisely the case. The trade winds (which is what the “prevailing easterlies” are called) run in a band from roughly 30º north of the equator to about 30º south of it and these cities are within or very close to that band. (Santiago and Montevideo are each just a few degrees south of that 30º degree point.)
I wonder how much of the preparation time for these videos goes on thinking up the "You are the X to my Y" comment at the end? I love it, keep 'em coming! 😂
The true story of why it's called Bond Street: "We need to create a street above our lair so no one would suspect who we are and who we're holding captive-" (Smashes through door) "And who might you be?" "The name's Bond...James Bond-" "THAT'S IT!" "👁👄👁"
Getting a bit further from the tube into south London there are the pubs "The Old Tiger's Head", "The New Tiger's Head" and, er, "The Tiger's Head (deceased)".
"You are the price tag to my handbag," the video ends. Darling, if your handbag has a price tag on it then you certainly didn't buy it in Bond Street! x
Now whenever l hear you I imagine yesterday’s Harry Beck talking to a mic with the glasses on. If taht was really you, what a creative way to face reveal. If not what a fun way of fooling us
There used to be a traditional coffee shop / cafe in Bond Street, don't remember if it was in New or Old Bond Street. But the coffee and the atmosphere was nice, long before Starbucks spolied everything.
Huh ? You must be new. Never played Monopoly ? It's the green grid. The most expensive one. Well... actually... Mayfair and Park Lane must've increased in price. Cos Bond Street was a little less pricier... I wonder whether that game was made to make a point. :) Hamley's.... the place where you can still get this game. Game of British Life... you jump around houses, til you can afford the best one. Trying to save money, as well as houses, without selling houses and assets away ! LOL....
Sounds kind of like the east/west variants of the numbered streets in Manhattan. Most people just say the number, but if you have to specify an address, you need the E/W because there could be, for example (using made-up numbers for argument's sake), a 300 E42nd and a 300 W42nd St, and those would be quite far apart.
The two Bond Streets didn't merge, but travelling just one station to the north, Baker Street ate up two other streets (only one of which its own namesake) that ultimately took Sir Conan Doyle by surprise.
The question arises, why a “New” Bond St? In my Cartesian brain, my first thought was: why not just extend the address numbers? Then I remembered that many streets in London have that bizarre “up one side and down the other” style of numbering. 🤪 That would make an interesting video, please! I’m a toponymy fan, so I love this subject.
As someone who's good at map reading, I've tried looking for a bond Street on the maps of Central London near the underground station and not found one. Now I know why.
Small question. At 0:30 in the video (where the tube train arrives) there's signage saying wearing a face covering is required. Is this actually the case now or is this old footage? Asking because I'm travelling to the UK soon.
Old footage, plus some places still have the signs. In England there are few places that require masks. I believe in Scotland that they are a little more cautious.
I'm quite familiar with the area, but not it's history, and although I visit London much less frequently these days, I do visit the area especially as there's now an Elizabeth Line connection to the Bond Street Station, don't be surprised to see Paddington Bear somewhere there abouts as his creator's name was Michael Bond. To me Paddington Bear has always been the 'ultimate refugee', so not even/only being from a different race, creed and culture, but from an entirely different species, and that's what's made 'Great Britain' 'Great', accepting people at face value until you know otherwise AND not before!!!
When I was a little Londoner, I do not think we ever went to Bond Street. Tooting Broadway and Brixton Market was more our thing. Walking with urgency past the jellied eel stink at the fishmonger. I thought Sainsbury's was posh. Then the 1980s arrived and we moved to Milton Keynes. London Overflow is what they called us. A big, futuristic looking mirror glass shopping centre about a kilometre long full of all kinds of goodies. We had gone up in the world, aye?
I may have banged on about this before. Queensway tube access is on Bayswater, (Central line) whereas Bayswater tube (District and Circle) is on Queensway, A good 100m walk between the two. Or at least it was some years ago, before I moved Sarf of the river and then to Edinburgh, where we only have trams to complain about.
Very very informative, I need to change the name on the monopoly board if I had one. It was that American Selfridge who changed shopping Previous to him the rich would get people to either come to their home to purchase good or you would go to a shop where everything was behind the counter in wooden drawers including sock and handkerchiefs,you would never enquire as to the price as this would not be consider appropriate as you wanted people to know how wealthy you. He was the Genesis of modern department stores.
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After seeing Jay Foremans video I just imagine you write and read your scripts wearing those glasses
That’s the only image I have of him 😂
GLASSES: Model’s own
@@280SE same, when I first saw him I thought he was TomSka!
@@JagoHazzard is your name really Harry Beck?!? 😀
@@willingshelf He was in Tomska?
Many thanks, Jago, you are the shotglass spectacles-wearer to my Jay Foreman video subscription.
These comments are so well timed.
It was a bit risky having Geoff, Jago and Jay in the same room. It could have caused a fissure in the train-time continum
And what a Train-Time Travesty that would have been
And Tim Traveller and Half Asleep Chris.
I like to think it’s like the president and VP never being on the same plane. If something happened to that room the world would end
So good to finally see you in Jays video. I had no idea it was you until you spoke at the end. Well done. You're a legend. And were perfect playing Harry Beck.
Came looking for this comment. Was so shocked when he spoke in that video. I nearly spat my rice out!!!
@@francis_n me too. When he spoke I had to stop it and rewind. I'm like, that's Jago Hazzard I had to rewatch it all.
Most certainly a deep fake to try to throw us all off the scent as to JH's true identity. That pithy sardonic wit is too sharp for a mere amateurs to replicate convincingly.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch TL;DR it's him, he's in the credits
@J P I too though it was dubbed at first, but Jay confirmed that it was indeed Jago and not just his disembodied voice
Thanks Jago, you're the surprise celebrity cameo to my incredibly nerdy edutainment video.
I love that the new running joke on this channel will now be that you are Harry Beck
As he lost out on the royalties, would he be a "loser, baby"?
Interesting video! I think "Bond Street" was used to refer to the entire street, including New Bond Street, before a certain date. My ancestors lived on New Bond Street from 1772 onwards, and the Westminster property tax records seem to switch over from calling their address "Bond Street" to "New Bond Street" at some point between 1788 and 1791. Cheers!
Yes, I thought it strange that they didn't just use the existing name Bond Street for the whole street.
*CLArkSooOOOoOOOONNNNNN!!!!*
@@Rose.Of.Hizaki What are you whinging about Captain Slow?
@@rosiefay7283 The main reason for doing something like that in modern days would be to avoid messing with existing house numbers. That might not have been a consideration back then though.
In present-day Austria apparently there's a law that if a city renames or renumbers a street, they have to compensate residents and businesses for all costs caused by the address change (printing new stationery, etc.). Because of that cities try to avoid renaming streets at all cost.
At the beginning of the 18th century, work on New Bond Street began, continuing Bond Street's North West trajectory. By the time it reached Oxford Street in 1720, Bond Street had become Old Bond Street. To this day, its affluent residents and patrons still refer to the two streets simply as Bond Street.
Hey, unrelated to video, just visited london for a week and spend most of my time riding up and down the tube.
Your videos and the knowledge I gained from it really helped me enjoy my experience, less so for my mates whom I talked the ears of about all I knew about the tube.
Thanks for all your videos, they are really enjoyable and informative, they inspired me to see the oldest underground of the world for myself.
Also funny yo see you feature in a video of Jay Foreman.
I was told that the reason they had to add “New Bond Street” was that the addresses on the original Bond Street went up one side and down the other, rather than the odds on one side and evens on the other. Therefore the new section of Bond street would have had a very large number jump and would have been confusing so they started from scratch with New Bond Street.
Every time I travel back to London for a weekend to visit friends and family, I always feel out of place in areas like Bond Street, Kings Road in Chelsea, Knightsbridge etc. Much prefer going East to places like Brick Lane and Shoreditch and Dalston as you get a mix of all different types of people from all walks of life and social classes, same with Soho, but when you cross over Regent Street into Mayfair, the vibe completely changes!
In the 70's and 80's a scattering of Airline companies had Travel Agencies and Admin in New Bond Street. My Dad worked for Air France at 158. Occasionally there were the odd cheap and cheerful shops to be found. In the Burlington Arcade there was for a while a discount shoe shop Also, W.Bill, Milliners were selling Irish Tweed hats for a fiver a go. I still have two of them!
I keep forgetting the surname, but there was also a tobacconist in NBS who blended his own. "Arthur....??" Someone. Dad was a regular there. Maybe because everything was grubbier in the eighties I don't remember it being as glitzy as it now obviously is. In one of the Mews streets nearby there was a pub selling meat pies that seemed the size of a rugby ball. Scrummy.
'a fiver a go' in the mid seventies would equate to maybe £100 these days! ... I ran a pub in Dering Street, just off N. Bond St in the mid 70s would never have thought of the street as 'grubby' We had a big fire in the pub on 7/7/77, ... and that was the end of that chapter in my life.
'reasonable distance from poor people' had me chuckling 😂
So, a reasonable distance from UA-camrs who make train videos, it would seem.
@@obroni if you're talking about me, there might be something next year in that category ;)
Never that far away though, with St.Giles rookery the other end of Oxford St.
Great tale as always Harry... err Jago. When will you be doing another collaboration. Would love to see a Tom Scott/Jago crossover.
And the comment section completes the circle.
5:17 _Allies_ by British-American sculptor Lawrence Holofcener
The sculpture, located on New Bond Street between Grafton Street and Clifford Street, was unveiled by Princess Margaret on May 2, 1995 “to commemorate 50 years of peace.”
One site offers the following helpful note:
_The two seated allies are unidentified at the site but with the assistance of our US consultant, Trevor Blake, we can confidently identify them as, left to right: Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill._
There is a small hidden delight in Mayfair called Shepherd Market, I find the whole area intriguing so far as the mix of architecture goes.
Jago would fit right in walking down Bond Street as Harry Beck in funny glasses.
Nobody would even notice him 😆
It's Bond Street on the Monopoly board, after all. Also, talking of 'Old' streets, there's one near me called Old Lode Lane, which is perfect for yodelling.
Came for a James Bond reference, leaving satisfied. Another satisfying video.
As someone not particulary familiar with individual streets in London, I had never really known that Bond Street was split into the Old and New sections - I'm not sure why they just end the differentiation between the two and just call the whole street Bond Street.
Also, even after your appearances in Jay's tube videos, I will still best know you for your videos and your voiceovers in them
Because history.
Most people around the area DO just refer to it as 'Bond Street'. If someone stops me for directions to it, I may ask if it's New or Old BS they want and then am able to point them in the right direction... The North end is 'New' (nearest to the Bond Street Tube / Oxford Street) & the South end is 'Old' (nearest to Green Park Tube / Piccadilly).
There is a sort of split in the architecture. Apart from the street signs, you can tell where the join is. It is basically 2 streets of varying ages mashed together. The road narrows as you get further into Old Bond Street. I used to work on it and I sort of share Jago's view on it. I never even glanced at the gaudy and expensive tat on display.
Could it be, that it would cost too much for businesses in one of the two streets to have their house numbers changed?
Mr Hazard, you may never achieve monetary wealth via your You Tube videos upon trains but you are a gifted story teller of fine tales.
Burlington Arcade is worth a visit to anyone who's in the area. I worked on Savile Row for many a year in the 2000s.
Is that the name of the sex offenders’ wing?
I loved your feature in Unfinished London yesterday!
When i was the manager for the Bond Street Station refurbishment many many years ago, my office was in-between the Tanazire & Botswana Embassy's - no idea how much that cost to rent, located just across the road from the station in Stratford Place, at the end of the road is the Oriental Club established in 1824, of which the Duke of Wellington was the first President.
I didn't realise Bond St was split into old and new. Although being able to buy the whole of Mayfair for £400 does seem a little far fetched now I come to think of it.
Yes, but isn't Bond St only £380? Much better value :)
@@rogink : It's old money. People like new things. Can see why Mayfair is attractive. It's the first time I've seen somebody filmed the entire street of Bond Streets. Didn't realise that, many of the old labels are all here.... Interesting. I thought that they are all gone.
@@MeiinUK Whoosh - as the young people say!
@@rogink £320 even. You can get Park Lane for £380 and possibly have a little loose change.
Your description of the shops at bond street is spot-on.
Great video as always. I guffawed when I heard your sign off to London Transport in Jay's latest video. So good!
Enjoyed your cameo in the latest Jay Foreman video!
I can't believe you've been in full view as Harry Beck all this time in Jay Foreman Map Men videos. Now all I can imagine is you and those glasses.
As Jago has escaped the clutches of Unfinished London , an interesting video to watch.
"Was a fair held near the beginning of Summer, a May fair if you will. Wait a second, do you think that's where the name Mayfair comes from?" LOL something NYC and London has in common is how boring and uncreative we are with our names. If something is called that, it probably was that, as they say in NYC. Want to know why Canal Street is called Canal Street? Ding ding ding, there was once a canal! But there's more than that.
The area was once home to Collect Pond, one of the city's few sources of freshwater. It became polluted because of everyone doing their business there, as well as run-off from tanneries. So it was drained via a canal so they could eventually put landfill there. This area is where the Irish first moved to in NYC (because it was all they could afford), which eventually became known as the most dangerous neighborhood in the world, Five Points, because of the area's Irish gangs
And as the Irish moved up and out, the area became Chinatown and Little Italy.
Mind you, as tastes and morals change we can see that street names are changed as well - hence the reason why London no longer has a 'Gropecunt Lane'.
Even a lot of the seemingly more interesting place names are just as literal, but named in other languages and/or have been morphed by time. There are many places whose names mean things like High Place, River Bend Town or Bob's Village - they just seem fancier because they're more foreign to us. In truth, our ancestors weren't necessarily any more imaginative at naming things than us.
Look up the etymology of "Pendle Hill"... life is more boring than you can imagine...
Canal Street in Manchester meanwhile...
I liked you apoerance on jay’s video and this is also quite a good video, as always
If you look carefully, you can see a familiar reflection on one of the front displays in this video.
How did you get Harry Beck of tube map fame to do the voice-over for your videos?
they somehow got him back from the grave
I told him there were two new lines at Bond Street.
Loved your appearance on Jay Foreman's channel, by the way.
Not one generation of pre-modern Londoner has ever called the stretch from Oxford Street “Old Bond Street”, in fact both ends are just plain old Bond Street in London parlance.
"Well I hope you enjoyed the decade of hard work I gave you, you are the ungrateful corporation to my lifetime of loyal service."
The name’s Bond, Bond Street. Very informative as usual, fascinating, you know I’d never thought about this. I’m aware of the origins of some part of London’s names, maybe a few more of these, what other less obvious or obscure station/place names are there I wonder?
Really enjoy your videos!
The shop keepers are mostly paying rent to Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster.
Loved seeing you in Jay’s video! Best wishes :)
Had a look around Bond Street on the phase 2 opening day of the Elizabeth Line, posh area! Brilliant Video Harry Beck.... Sorry Brilliant Video Jago Hazzad (side note did enjoy your appearances in Jay Foreman's video)
I'm so glad the algorithm randomly put this on my feed. I genuinely just assumed that there was a Bond Street station because it was on Bond Street. Interesting video!
Tour collaboration with Jay Foreman was a delightful surprise!
Very nice video! At 03:34 do you think the mentioned time period was truly the first time this shift in paradigm from shopping - necessity to shopping - now also leasure ; I don't have any sources but I do think a case could be made for the greco latin classical era also having 'advanced' enough to where the wealthy (accompanied by some slaves) went in person to shopping trips buying so and so high craftsmanship / luxury goods.
I discovered your channel about a week ago and I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work. :)
Interesting video. I knew the area well back in the '80s. Used to work on Dover St.
I worked near the top of Bond Street for a bit in the 60s and 70s, and while not 'scruffy' it was not High End either. I think Fenwicks was there, and they had a mini supermarket in the basement, about the only place around there where you could buy food for your tea, and a frock in the same lunchtime!☺️
I'm still recovering from your most unexpected cameo in Jay Foreman's video! What a highlight 🤩
You made me go and find that to watch. And of course, Jago Hazard doesn't look remotely how I had imagined. And now I understand a couple of comments higher up the list.
As usual I was sat on the edge of my seat through this waiting for the quip at the end. I wasn't disappointed. Thank you.
You may never be rich being a railway UA-camr but you will always be interesting and that's far better in my book.
On a completely unrelated note, there's no Marlborough street in central London either, despite it appearing on the Monopoly board. Great Marlborough Street on the other hand...
I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms..... where's Charles Yerkes? 😂
Yerkes is lurking in spirit, I'd hazard to guess.
Punter: Can you take me to Bond Street?
Me: Do you want Old Bond Street or New Bond Street?
Punter: Anywhere near there...
🤔
1.10 cool to note that this is the reason many cities have wealthier west sides than east sides: prevailing winds usually leave the west side less smelly in many places!
Newcastle is the most obvious exception to the rule, I used to find the West = LessGood thing weird when I lived there
In places like Santiago, Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Montevideo, Uruguay, the _east side_ is richer than the west side (according to some commenters on one site). One might think that, being in the Southern Hemisphere, these places are subject to “prevailing easterlies” but that’s not precisely the case. The trade winds (which is what the “prevailing easterlies” are called) run in a band from roughly 30º north of the equator to about 30º south of it and these cities are within or very close to that band. (Santiago and Montevideo are each just a few degrees south of that 30º degree point.)
I wonder how much of the preparation time for these videos goes on thinking up the "You are the X to my Y" comment at the end? I love it, keep 'em coming! 😂
Absolutely brilliant Jago. UA-cam gold....that would probably sit well in Bond Street(s)
Thank you. I love these tablets of history. You do a very good job.
Great vid as always. And great to see your cameo in Jays video! You are the glasses to my alcohol consumption!
The main entrance to Bond Street Tube station is actually on Oxford Street, one of four on the same street. The side entrance is on New Bond Street.
The true story of why it's called Bond Street:
"We need to create a street above our lair so no one would suspect who we are and who we're holding captive-"
(Smashes through door)
"And who might you be?"
"The name's Bond...James Bond-"
"THAT'S IT!"
"👁👄👁"
That's Bondway in Vauxhall, though by now everybody knows that the building just North by the river is MI6.
Interesting video. Also loved your role in Jay Foreman's latest video
Getting a bit further from the tube into south London there are the pubs "The Old Tiger's Head", "The New Tiger's Head" and, er, "The Tiger's Head (deceased)".
Hilarious and entertaining narrative! So enjoy your style.
"You are the price tag to my handbag," the video ends. Darling, if your handbag has a price tag on it then you certainly didn't buy it in Bond Street! x
I came across this video randomly, but I must say this was very insightful.
I've just had two weeks' holiday in London and I did at one point ask myself that exact question. Thanks for the answer.
I saved myself a real soaking the rain the other week from the Circle line to Hanover Square by cutting through the Elizabeth Line platforms.
Now whenever l hear you I imagine yesterday’s Harry Beck talking to a mic with the glasses on. If taht was really you, what a creative way to face reveal. If not what a fun way of fooling us
I mean… Jay said it was the real Jago in a comment reply 😂
There used to be a traditional coffee shop / cafe in Bond Street, don't remember if it was in New or Old Bond Street. But the coffee and the atmosphere was nice, long before Starbucks spolied everything.
Perhaps The cafe was on the other side of Bond Street , i mean the next street to the west, Albemarle, through the Bond Street arcade
@@sianwarwick633 Might be, it was a long time ago. Run by Italians.
Very interesting. I never knew there was no actual street called Bond Street
Huh ? You must be new. Never played Monopoly ? It's the green grid. The most expensive one. Well... actually... Mayfair and Park Lane must've increased in price. Cos Bond Street was a little less pricier... I wonder whether that game was made to make a point. :) Hamley's.... the place where you can still get this game. Game of British Life... you jump around houses, til you can afford the best one. Trying to save money, as well as houses, without selling houses and assets away ! LOL....
Sounds kind of like the east/west variants of the numbered streets in Manhattan. Most people just say the number, but if you have to specify an address, you need the E/W because there could be, for example (using made-up numbers for argument's sake), a 300 E42nd and a 300 W42nd St, and those would be quite far apart.
There's a Goon Show episode involving a piano (IIRC) which is temporarily stored "in a bonded warehouse in Bond Street." So not XVII, more like 1958.
Even Goon Show... ;-)
@@RJSRdg Whoops. Edited. Heart gone, now.
awesome stuff. I learnt something new from this video, and I'm a "Londoner" ! ( cue singing "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner !")
The two Bond Streets didn't merge, but travelling just one station to the north, Baker Street ate up two other streets (only one of which its own namesake) that ultimately took Sir Conan Doyle by surprise.
*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Does that mean that Old Bond Street is like Sean Connery, while New Bond Street is like Daniel Craig ? 😉
So you’re telling me Bond Street is less a place, but a state of mind?
Kind of how money works
Very interesting. Is there a New Kent Road, or even a Kent Road?
Thanks, Harry Beck, very cool
A few years ago I foolishly let my wife accompany me up Bond Street (both). I hope to clear my credit card debt in the next year or two.
You should try Primark
“You are the price tag to my handbag”
A HANDBAAAAG?!?!?!?!
Any idea when Jago's dating system will become BCY an AY? (Before Charles Yerkes and After Yerkes)
Thanks
Has Jago papped Johnnie Ball getting off the Lizzie Line train at 0:07?
Good video Harry Beck.
The question arises, why a “New” Bond St? In my Cartesian brain, my first thought was: why not just extend the address numbers? Then I remembered that many streets in London have that bizarre “up one side and down the other” style of numbering. 🤪 That would make an interesting video, please! I’m a toponymy fan, so I love this subject.
I went to Bond street in the 60s, I have never known it being new or old, confusing, thanks for this interesting video
I recognise that voice, it’s Harry Beck!
What? Never ‘eard of ‘im!
That wash mosht interesting Mishter Hazshard. Right up my shtreet...
As someone who's good at map reading, I've tried looking for a bond Street on the maps of Central London near the underground station and not found one. Now I know why.
Small question. At 0:30 in the video (where the tube train arrives) there's signage saying wearing a face covering is required. Is this actually the case now or is this old footage? Asking because I'm travelling to the UK soon.
Old footage, plus some places still have the signs. In England there are few places that require masks. I believe in Scotland that they are a little more cautious.
I was neither shaken nor stirred by this video. Great as always.......................I'll see myself out.
I often name streets after myself. Not that anyone else knows this, but it makes me happy.
Drinking Challenge. Take a shot every time Jago says "Bond Street"
The Lego shop sells trains, Jago!
Loved your cameo in Jay Foreman's video!
Excellent. Will you do something similar about Knightsbridge, please. I can't wait for your thoughts about Harrods.
Yes there is, it's between Liverpool St station & Community chest.
Nice to finally see what you look like, no idea how you navigate the tube with those glasses on tho.
Very slowly.
I'm quite familiar with the area, but not it's history, and although I visit London much less frequently these days, I do visit the area especially as there's now an Elizabeth Line connection to the Bond Street Station, don't be surprised to see Paddington Bear somewhere there abouts as his creator's name was Michael Bond.
To me Paddington Bear has always been the 'ultimate refugee', so not even/only being from a different race, creed and culture, but from an entirely different species, and that's what's made 'Great Britain' 'Great', accepting people at face value until you know otherwise AND not before!!!
When I was a little Londoner, I do not think we ever went to Bond Street. Tooting Broadway and Brixton Market was more our thing. Walking with urgency past the jellied eel stink at the fishmonger. I thought Sainsbury's was posh. Then the 1980s arrived and we moved to Milton Keynes. London Overflow is what they called us. A big, futuristic looking mirror glass shopping centre about a kilometre long full of all kinds of goodies. We had gone up in the world, aye?
I may have banged on about this before. Queensway tube access is on Bayswater, (Central line) whereas Bayswater tube (District and Circle) is on Queensway, A good 100m walk between the two.
Or at least it was some years ago, before I moved Sarf of the river and then to Edinburgh, where we only have trams to complain about.
And the sometime Mark Lane Station was on Seething Lane.
Very very informative, I need to change the name on the monopoly board if I had one.
It was that American Selfridge who changed shopping
Previous to him the rich would get people to either come to their home to purchase good or you would go to a shop where everything was behind the counter in wooden drawers including sock and handkerchiefs,you would never enquire as to the price as this would not be consider appropriate as you wanted people to know how wealthy you.
He was the Genesis of modern department stores.
I enjoyed your cameos on Jay Foreman's videos, Mr Beck