American Reacts to Why Are There No Bridges in East London?
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- In this video I react to why there are no bridges in east London. At first I couldn't understand how an entire half of London wouldn't have an bridges over the River Thames. Now it all makes sense. I must admit I love the garden bridge idea. Anytime you can bring nature to a city environment is a win in my book.
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The river is pronounced 'Tems' with an 'e' sound rather than an 'a'.
The traditional shipping hub of London was in the East End. This was closed and largly demolished in favour of new business districts like that around Canary Wharf, and hugely expensive property developments, from the 1980's onwards. The area is known as 'Docklands' but the only 'docks' still in existence are mainly posh marinas, or simply landscaping.
There are big industrial areas to the west of London, and other areas of the city, but these industries don't centre around river traffic.
Some Americans don't seem to get that in the English language sometimes letters may be in a word but are silent.
The docks had closed in 1969. The redevelopment didn't start until the 80s. Between the two the area was an industrial sinkhole with very little going for it bar the "heritage" of the east end
The Docks closed because of the new container ports.
More Jay Foreman please 🙏 😊 great reaction, been enjoying your channel. And Thames is pronounced Temz
It's really not as bad as he is making it sound 🤣 I have lived in East London all my life & have never had a problem crossing the river ... We have the Woolwich Ferry, Woolwich foot tunnel, Greenwich foot tunnel, The cable cars, Blackwall Tunnels, Rotherhithe Tunnel and at least 4 railway tunnel plus Dartford Tunnels and The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge up the road.
The Garden Bridge was a vanity project for Boris Johnson.
1. It connected the busy South Bank to the uninteresting Temple area on the north side, which is not somewhere that people were clamouring to access.
2. It would be closed overnight and for corporate events, which is hardly people friendly.
3. Cyclists were expected to 'get off and push their bikes,' something that seldom occurs no matter how many signs are put up.
4. Maintenance of the plants was not part of the costs and would be handed off to the council to find the money to support it. London is actually well accommodated for green spaces anyway, so adding more expensive areas seems unnecessary.
It also cost £43m of taxpayer's money to not be built.
Yep, it was meant to cost 60m, but was getting close to 200m, with Boris having "dodgy donors". Rumour was it was donations for TFL contracts.
Have you never heard someone say the name Thames?? One of the most famous river's in the world! TEMS, it's pronounced TEMS!
As a hint: try saying 'Ten', like the number,
now say it as though there are multiple, so 'Tens'
now change the N to an M, 'Tems',
and that's it.
OR
Try: M&Ms,
now lose the M& part, so just Ms,
Now add a T sound at the beginning T>Ms.
Hope that helps.
And it really hurts when Americans can't pronounce it, and yes I know its a very strange spelling.
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There is no need to be nasty, this person is trying to learn about the UK. Also, in connecticut they have a river called Thames which is pronounced as it is spelt (unlike ours). Most Americans know that ours is pronounced differently but are not always sure how.
@@jackieparish979 we speak English you speak Americaneese. Spelling of English words are all different. "Well done" or as you would say "Good Job"
What's the Thames famous for? 🤔
The reason for the 'S' curves on that bridge concept were to keep the ramp angle low enough to be useable by wheelchairs etc. Without the curves it would have to be steps or a very steep slope. BTW, they fixed the wobbly Millennium Bridge by fitting hydraulic dampers to it, in order to change its natural resonance away from that of walking people. The engineer did not consider everybody walking in-step with each other and starting the thing swaying.
The swaying itself forced people to walk more in-step with each other, they assumed that people would not walk in-step like that but under-estimated what people would do to even a tiny sway in the bridge. The damage of assumptions.
Amazing phenomenon. That's what you get when you assume. You make an ass out u and me.
This was excellent,comprehensive.
The bridge with the S bends at each end make a gentler slope, especially for wheelchairs to get high enough
The millenium bridge wobbled because people tended to keep in step, setting up resonance, it's why soldiers are told to beak step when crossing bridges.
Thanks Steve for your amazing channel. When you and your family do get to visit England, I’d love to meet, show you around London or if you want, have you stay with me for a few days in London. Anyway, thanks for your really great channel.
It's cool being able to walk under the Thames. The entrance to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel is tight next to the Cutty Sark.
The other end of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel is Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs. This is considered a World Heritage site because of its view back over the Thames to the former Greenwich Naval Hospital, the Cutty Sark, the 17th Century Queens House and Royal Observatory Hill. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Gardens
I use to live near this river where it was quite wide. I use to take my dogs for walk. There's the modern day sea wall but we could walk along the Victorian sea wall and when the tide was out we could see the medieval sea wall
Something that you may like is a look at UK places that America places get there name. York,Birmingham, Boston, Jersey
Dont forget Washington and Philadelphia both in north east England .
Manchester and Lincoln, too.
@@lesjames5191Philadelphia yes, but Washington, DC got its name from the president
Valencia is amazing. A huge winding park through the city that serves the people. They have thought of everything! Skate parks, a theatre, a shallow lake, the list goes on. You see people of all ages outside, socialising, doing stuff, it means that the city centre is not a no-go area or a soulless shopping centre. It’s the best use and repurposing of an old river I’ve ever come across.
East London is were the working class historically live. It is where the Cockney people live within the sound of the bow bells. I was born in Bethnal Green but my family live in Essex what is literally on the outskirts of London 20 minutes to get to but much cheaper living conditions.
Parts of West London and Central are seen to be posh or just tourist attractions due to the history. Strangely though as London is so old it really is a mixture. There are streets in London where you have social housing kind of like your section 8 at one end and then £3.000,000 homes a few houses away.
Also it's the river Thames pronounced " TEM's"
The Garden Bridge was a vanity project, would have caused huge road congestion near Waterloo-Embankment, a
London was a port, no bridges meant sailing ships could get to the port
The same thing with Hammersmith bridge happened at my city. One of the most congested and important roads right at the city center was closed for 10 years, due to the construction of the metro lines. During this time people really forgot about it and were used to travel through other roots, so when it did open it opened only for pedestrian and bicycle use.
River Thames (pronounced Tems).
SW & West London riversides are amazing, with amazing parks, bars&eateries all along Richmond, Kingston, Hampton Court and Isleworth. Going into east london feels like the 50s with old ruined docks and crime-ridden neighbourhoods.
The reason that the Millenium bridge wobbled wasn't directly because of the number of people. When people cross a bridge they set up a resonance that is amplified by each person crossing. This resonance built up until there came a point when the bridge started to sway. Modifications had to be made to counter this.
I've lived alongside of Tower bridge all my life and seen the huge change from the days it was a port, at night I still marvel at its beauty as it stands majestically all lit up over the dark pool of London.
There should be film of the bridge swaying on the day of opening!
I grew up in Plumstead from 1970 to 1990. As children, we would race through the foot tunnel at Woolwich, racing those using the ferry seeing who would get to the other side first.
I remember doing that too in the 70s and 80s, was a damp and cold tunnel back then, half the lights didn't work and you'd come across gangs of skinheads going through the tunnel to have a scrap.
I grew up and went to school in Plumstead until 1970, when we moved to Welling …. My weekend and school holiday entertainment was spent playing ON the Woolwich Ferry and also running through the foot tunnel and squealing loud as it was so echoey! 😄
Playing ON the Ferry, we would go down into the seating area and if you weren’t spotted by a “grown up”, you could squeeze out of one of the side openings,climb over a low red bike chain link (can remember it was red coloured) and step really carefully to the very edge of the Ferry boat and whilst one hand holding on tight, put your hands in the River (and splash each other! 😄)
I used to love going up and down in the lift at the Silvertown end of the foot tunnel - I think there was a fully uniformed Lift Attendant shouting “gerrroutofit” to some unruly children who would be pressing the lift buttons.
Fun times! 😄
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.
Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 - 7 October 1903) was an English civil engineer and the son of the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806 - 15 September 1859) was one of the figures of the Industrial Revolution, [who] changed the face of the English landscape with his ground-breaking designs and ingenious constructions." Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship.
There are footbridges under the Thames in East London to, at Woolwich and Greenwich, and there is also the Woolwich Free Ferry. The trouble is that when there are problems at the Dartford Crossing, the other crossings in East London have to deal with all the traffic. The issue there is that traffic coming from the Channel Tunnel needs to go north, hence the reason for the new Lower Thames Crossing. The new Blackwell tunnel is currently being built and is needed in part because of height restrictions, for example it cannot take double deck buses both ways. The Rotherhithe tunnel is cars only as it is very narrow, though you walk through it , but not advisable unless you wear a mask. One of the main reasons the Becton bridge was cancelled was because of issues south of the river as it would have meant destruction of part of Oxleas Wood. There is talk of a new Bridge at Barking Reach also for the Overground railway line to Thamesmead, which would be good.
Footbridges cannot go under a river.
The word you are looking for is Tunnel
Before the completion of the Dockland Light Railway, there was a bus service (single deck) through the Rotherhithe tunnel. This linked Canary Wharf with the Surrey Docks and south London.
The Millienium Bridge was fairly quickly closed, stabilised and is now perfectly still and safe but the nickname 'the Wobbly Bridge' stuck around for years.
And Tower Bridge is even more impressive in person, especially when lit up at night.
It was a bit of a vicious circle - the poor people were in the industrial east, so they didn't get bridges. Which meant less chance to move between the north and south bank, which meant less money coming in, which meant... and it's pronounced "Tems" (rhymes with gems)
dont forget the thames barrier that controls the tidal flow from the sea into the mouth of the river and also restricts the amount of ships into the river and also turned a lot of busy dockland into unused derelict wasteland .a lot of the shipping transfered to the big container ports on the east coast north of the river thames
Lived right at Blackwall tunnel entrance til I was 6 all knocked down now
3:56. I love Jay Foreman but he is taking his life in his hands walking through Rotherhithe tunnel. Yes, there is a footpath/sidewalk for pedestrians but the pollution levels are unhealthy at best. Jago Hazard made a video of his walk through the tunnel. A cautionary tale.
You can take a tour of Tower Bridge. You can walk over the walkways at the top. There’s a glass floor. And you can tour the engine room, the mechanics of the bridge opening, you can stand in the room that bridge opens into! Scary.
Also interesting fact that no tax money pays for the maintenance of any of Londons bridges. Back in the 1300s (I think lol) money was set aside for bridge maintenance In London. The money is safeguarded and the interest it earns pays for the maintenance. I’m sure the tour money helps somewhat too lol.
London used to have a bridge, with shops and houses on the bridge 😉
Sadly "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady.
The famous medieval London bridge. Complete with severed heads of criminals & traitors on stakes lol. It stood for over 600 years! 🇬🇧
Great reaction, keep it up, I love Jay Foremans channel, so many great videos!
Love the garden bridge.I know in America the fly overs(roads on stilts) have been turned in to parks.Gardens in the sky..gorgeous.
Sadly Boris' Garden Bridge was cancelled as a cost-cutting measure. There is a purpose-built Garden Bridge at Mile End in Tower Hamlets that links two parts of Mile End Park over the main road.
The London Cable Car, also known as the Dangle Way actually runs from North Greenwich which is the location of the former Millenium Dome (now known as the O2 Dome). It contains a major concert venue, a Vue Cinema, numerous restaurants and eateries, and an upmarket shopping zone. On the north side of the Thames, the Cable Car stop at the western end of the Victoria Dock is near the DLR, the massive Excel Exhibition Centre, and from 2023 the London Assembly building. Formally known as the ultra sustainable Siemens "Crystal". So not exactly as Jay said from nowhere to nowhere😋
It's useless as a mode of transport because you can use the Jubilee and DLR to cross faster and cheaper. If the cable car was somewhere else and priced sensibly it might be useful but where it is it's only a tourist attraction.
The "garden bridge" was proposed as a public-private partnership by Boris when he was mayor of London and essentially the plan entailed the taxpayer paying most of the building costs for the private company whilst they built an office block at one end of the bridge, and they also planned to host events on the bridge (which could close the bridge, denying it to commuters during the events). It was also massively over budget before it even started construction (from £60m initial estimate to over £200m when they abandoned the idea). They also planned to build the bridge and an associated commercial building in part in a publicly accessible park, removing that from the enjoyment of Londoners and removing 28 mature trees from the park, and they wanted to remove other trees in the path of the bridge, including some planted in the 1960s as a living memorial to London's war dead. The bridge was also not open to cyclists, unless they pushed their bikes across, further denying it as a commuting route. The company also had a draconian set of rules for the bridge, including any exercise other than jogging, "gatherings of any kind", playing any musical instrument, or making a speech, and t hey were going to employ security guards with the right to fine people for breaking these rules. It also got in the way of some "protected views" of St Paul's (that's a legal thing btw, worth a look into) and about the only plus side you could say about it was "it would have been nice to walk over".
Fred Dibnah shows the bridge opening underneath.Worth watching
You can pay to going inside Tower Bridge, and look inside, as well as learning about the bridge. Also you can visit the engaine house for Tower Bridge as well. Also there is 3 new train tunnels under the Thames built since the 1995, 2 for the Docklands Light Railway, 1 for HS2 raillink. Which doesn't count, as it beyond the M50 motorway.
Only just come across your videos love them thank you and hope to see new one soon take care
Temz =Thames... BURRa = Borough...Great video!!
I've also been on the Emirates lift (named after the Emirates airline who bankrolled it) a few times. It offers great views of East London and is a way to cross the river to the O2 entertainment venue but it's not what you'd call a commuter or tourist hub.
I started school seventy years ago this September and there eventually came a stage at which we were introduced to the concept of the ‘schoolboy howler’ which I later took to mean a callow pupil’s inaccurate rendition of something that time and experience would expose as embarrassingly inaccurate.
As British children we were learning about our own country/countries, and I remember that at the head of the unofficial list would be that large river flowing through our capital city. Those who had never been to London coming across the word ‘Thames’ for the first time would frequently say ‘Thaymes’ which logic declared must be accurate. Learning that it was actually ‘Temz’ was a first step to managing the copious numbers of such UK linguistic hazards (e.g. ‘Frome’ is ‘Froom’).
We do not expect people from the US to be aware of such things, but at least this time we have been spared hearing it called ‘the Taymes River’! Thank you!
Not " chair lift " but " Gondolas " . WE also have a "Floating Bridge Ferry " at Woolwich without any charges for using it .
In past centuries most of the "smelly" industries were located in the City of London and further east. Because of the prevailing wind from the west, most of the better districts began to be located in the "west end", away from the noxious atmosphere in the east.
These were known as the Stink Industries, Tanneries, Lead Smelting, Sulphuric Acid production etc., all located on the eastern side of London.
I live about an hour away from London on train, and I haven’t really thought about the fact that there is only bridges on one side of London i’m not on the east side of London. I guess I really haven’t thought about that as if you want to get to the other side of the Thames you either go by train which like he said goes under the Thames or you take the foot passage under the it which will take you to Greenwich. I must admit I don’t like the foot passage tunnel under the Thames. As I get a little bit scared because you’re literally walking under the river with the Thames above you and because it’s so old I kind of think they might be goes from the past. I have yet to go on the gondola which takes you across the Thames and I believe it’s sponsored by emirates or something like that and you can go from the O2 Arena and I believe it takes you to Greenwich or nearby Greenwich. If you ever come to London, you should definitely see tower bridge because you can actually buy ticket that allows you to walk up to the top of the bridge and you can walk along the top obviously indoors and if I remember, I think there is glass on the bottom so that as you’re walking, you can look underneath and see the road with the cars driving across it. You also get to see the engineering side of it like how the bridge opens to allow boats to come through.
You make a great point about the foot bridge probably feeling a bit scary for some people. I can imagine claustrophobia kicking in for some people as like you say you're under a river.
London transport is great, but bringing a weeks shopping home from the supermarket by bus and Tube is not a practical option.
The riverThames is pronounced Tems
East London is most definitely not less populated! It's over populated if anything. It's more about restricting the poors movement since the docks were closed! And the tunnels are just traffic jams.
" Old father Thames keeps rolling along down to the mighty sea "......And will remain so for eternity.
Hi Steve. Can I recommend you look at a video of the Queen's diamond jubilee River pageant.
Yes a lot of the industry came from where the tall ships could berth and mostly the north side but this video really does the Woolwich ferry no favours dismissing it because of the slow time it would take to get from one side of the Thames to the other and be able to look at your passenger if you had left them behind. For those who want to get from say Woolwich or Plumstead both on the south side to somewhere that can actually get you to Europe from London city airport, which is virtually within spitting distance of the river, the Woolwich ferry is a must and takes less than 5 minutes to cross rather than 30 to 40 minutes to get there even if you use the nearest tunnel which is Blackwall.
Can confirm, east London is historically the more industrial part of the city. Both because of the docks (until they weren't big enough to handle container ships) and also because the prevailing winds blow the smoke of industry to the east
You should react to safest City's in the UK (its on learning canteen channel)
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You did not notice that his date for the 4th part was in the year 3022 :)
It is pronounced "Tems". I think if you look at the end of the video again you will see it says in 3022. I have been on the Emirates Airline it takes you from Greenwich across the top of the Millennium Dome ( I got an attack of cramp and terrified my friends by standing up and stamping my foot).
One could live in or around London and not drive a vehicle for weeks at a time. The 'chair lifts' you speak of are actually cable cars.
I live in Dartford and they were supposed to remove the toll after the bridge was paid for....it's been paid for 10X over and the price is £2.50 each way (for a car) because of this people still use the Blackwall cos it's free!
East India Docks & St Catherine docks were the main trade points in East London...tea, rice, spices, sugar so on all ended up there.
Millennium Bridge forced people crossing it into lockstep, (Soldiers normally march in lockstep but have to breakstep when crossing certain bridges) the problem was solved with shock absorbers, if I remember correctly. Oh yes, and Tower Bridge is a drawbridge, the roadway moving to let tall ships go past.
Again we can see there is the hint in here about wealth, it very often gets forgotten that there are lots of poor communities and poor people. London is very expensive to live so you find a lot of people who work there commute from outside London thats one reason for traffic, along with the Airport the alternative transport helps but even the train system can get crowded with the volume of people especially if you have to go a long way around.
Another feature of course is the British cities are so old that they were not exactly designed they grew organically and as he said unless the government knock down your house to build a hyperspace bypass its hard to build stuff
East London is the estuary side, and so the dock area. The Dock area of just about everywhere in the world, is more industrial, less genteel, with mainly lower class housing.
Great video 👍
I’m West London born and bred , I’ve used many of the bridges , I’ve done runs in London going over Tower Bridge . I finally got a place in this years London Marathon half way point going over Tower Bridge
The east sides of many major cities like London, New York and Paris are noticeably poorer and more industrial than their western sides. Research found that it’s due to the impact of air pollutants at the time of the Industrial Revolution (1800s) as prevailing winds in Europe (and also in the US) typically blow from west to east, so industry was located preferentially in the east where the wind blew smoke etc away from the city. This made the cleaner west end more desirable. The pattern has lasted until modern times.
Used to live in Plumstead, remember protests against new crossing as a kid. Blackwall tunnel - nightmare, 90% of the time you get stuck in traffic on either side; Dartford crossing has it's moments (generally 'rush hour'). River taxi good for commuting but doesn't have enough stops - had a colleague who used it fr W to SE; it went through Regents Park where she'd hear the zoo lions roaring so that was pretty cool. The 'gondolas' are from Greenwich at the O2 & . Jay was right they go to nowhere unless it's part of a commute & generally tourists go from G & back again as the views are worth the ticket price. Woolwich Ferry doesn't operate all the time so have often got to it & was too late - never could remember the closing time!!
I think the river taxis you are talking about were on the Regents Canal (part of the Grand Union Canal system that runs through North London) on the north side of Regents Park where the Zoological Gardens are. The River Buses that actually run on the Thames itself are starting to look like a proper commuting service now.
With regards to the east being more industrial - the width of the river is half of that (because that's where ships could get to so that's where it was easy to build warehouses and factories) but before this the industry was built in the east because the wind blows generally from west to east in London and the smell from slaughterhouses and tanneries (making leather used to involve soaking it in urine and faeces for months) and candle making and other things would blow away from all the rich people living in the west.
The poor people who worked in those industries and had to live near them didn't count of course, they were poor so "were used to the smell" and thus their housing was built in the east.
If you ever look down river.from Tower Bridge ( and a short distance up stream ) you will see tall brick buildings these are converted warehouses into flats , also a bit further down river you'll see the old docks , these were dug out so ships could go inside and gates would close after them so when the tide went out the ships were still floating . These days the old buildings have gone and replaced by modern tall buildings and the docks were the ships stayed are now marinas .
London on the most part was an industrial city but the East was where the docks would most prominently have been since the river is both wider and deeper, allowing more easy access via boats. These days most industry has left London, it is more of a Financial City. Canary Wharf for example, is a center-east part of London that has since been converted into a massive Financial Hub used by many businesses, it also sits in most of the most at-risk parts of London for Flooding, if the London Barrier ever failed. Nowadays, the Barrier is basically as far as any cargo ship could go and cargo ships have been getting bigger and bigger while the Thames, obviously hasn't been, which has made using London as a major port less desirable compared to coastal cities/ports.
The actual Port of London, where most products and raw materials are brought into the South-East is actually down the river at Tilbury in Essex. The old London Docks were built between 1790 & the 1910s and proved inadequate once shipping became containerised. The London Flood Barrier on the Silvertown Reach of the River is well worth a reaction video of its own.
Most major rivers in urban areas across the world, see docks and industry nearer the estuaries. This is true in the UK with the Thames, Clyde, Severn, and Tyne, for example; and it's true elsewhere: Rhine, Loire, Rhône, Tagus, Hudson, Columbia, Frazer, Niger, Nile, Arno, Congo, Rio Grande, and Nérvion, for example.
I highly recommend Stephen Fry's documentary "Key to the City- Exploring the Mysteries of the City of London". Way too long to do a reaction on but there is quite a few interesting bits about how centuries-old traditions are still maintained within the modern world. There's a bit about Tower Bridge in the documentary too.
I know what I'm going to watch tomorrow! I'm planning to move to England (preferably London) in a few years.
@@d.6593 The French have a saying "Paris is not France" and I think it's the same in England- London is not England. London is a little mini-kingdom all of it's own in many ways with it's own culture, history, dialect, music etc that is unique even within England. Enjoy the documentary... Stephen Fry could read the phone book and make it sound interesting tbh 🙂
@@catbevis1644 I know, I am studying the UK for a while now, but the more documentaries I watch the better!
Interesting Fact about Tower Bridge. It's a Wedding Venue.
That sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
I always thought it was due to accessibility to the docks etc in the East but didn't know about the other reasons
That would make more sense
Having an Atlantic climate, the prevailing wind blows from west to east in the UK making west London more preferable as the air was cleaner. This was true from medieval times and right up yo the Industrial Revolution. Further to this, the mouth of the Thames was to the east, so the docks and industry was focused in the east making in predominantly less affluent.
It's true. East London was the slum of London. After doing my family tree, I discovered I had family members that were born in and died in workhouses. Workhouses in East London have a lesser survival rate than slaves in America.
Boris was one of the best mayor's we have had
Taught me a lot as well, didn't no any of this
The river Thames is the largest river in England it starts in Gloucestershire its 210 miles long
East London along its entirety was once full of industry, many docks, factories and warehouses lining the East side of the river Thames for miles, Timber, Spices, Tobacco, vehicles, paints, lead, steel, food and just about anything you could think of passed through London's docks and industrial areas, and the smells coming from the many chemical, make up producing, bone, soap making, paint and varnish factories was truly disgusting. By the early 1980s it had all gone and the docks were closed the last one the East London dock closing in 1982.
You should check the tunnel in the English channel its way bigger than the ones in London
London was a major port to get your sailing ship to the sea from London you had to go east along the river so a few hundred years ago they could not build bridges high enough to allow the tall sailing ships to pass so it was not practical for them to build bridges to the east of London for trade reasons and security reasons the port was easier to defend from from the Spanish and french navy and later the German navy in both world wars
The cable car is useless as a mode of transport because you can use the Jubilee line and DLR to cross faster and cheaper. If the cable car was somewhere else and priced sensibly it might be useful but where it is it's only a tourist attraction.
Fun Fact: The reason that the west of London has expensive houses and wealthier residents is that the wind in the UK comes from the west. People with money did not want to live in an area where pollution from industry would blow over their housing. So the better areas are pollution free while the East End gets West London air and its own smog.
Being born in the east end of London you we're right about it being an industrial area the iron workers used to work on the docks..... That's how West Ham united became the first premier team...
...and why the team is known as the Hammers and their symbol the crossed hammers.
@@Paul_W.E_Ingham yep 👍 hammer's fan here
I was Born in East London!! IT'S THE BEST OF LONDON!! X
Further towards the sea you get the taller a bridge needs to be so the bigger ships can come up, that’s why tower bridge had to lift to allow ships into the pool of London till the 70’s , we got the Dartford crossing in the 80’s Witch I watched being built it’s has to be pretty high to allow the bigger ships down , they have planned and postpone the east london crossing a few times since it was planed in the early 60’s a mate of mine got kicked out of his yard back then to make way for the bridge that never happened lol
Just reiterating what Caroline Skipper said here, the Thames is pronounced "TEMS". I don't know why it's spelled the way it is.
Some Tube trains go under the Thames.
You should read about The Blitz (World War 2) in The East End Also....I could talk to you All day about The East End!! X
You couldn't pay me to live in East London! I do feel bad for East and South London though - they definitely have the short end of the stick. More should be done to get them better connections.
Uber boat - I used to commute to work on that for 4 years, it was quick and easy.. ended up making friends with people that used to get on at the same time in the mornings.
Albert Bridge, Hammersmith Bridge and Tower Bridge are by far the best bridges on the Thames!
when you consider that the only major crossing (the dartford crossing) that connects the south east of england to the rest of the country (short of driving completely round the other side of london) carries over 50 million vehicles a year, and is always congested, you can see why they wanted the lower thames crossing.
I dispute Jay's claim that it's been roundly dismissed by locals. I live 10 miles from the proposed Southern entrance and loads of people here wonder why it's not been built already. There's one road between Kent and Sussex and anywhere north of the Thames which is in any way suitable and that's the Dartford Crossing. Take out more than half the European traffic by diverting it through the new tunnel and thousands of vehicles a day don't go via Dartford...
Also, the tram system is a laugh. They couldn't keep a bus service running from north Kent to South Essex so not sure why a tram will generate that mobility requirement (The X80 used to run from Chafford Hundred to Gravesend East, but because nobody used it past Bluewater they cut it back and now it's a shuttle between Lakeside and Bluewater)
I’ve lived in east London all my life and we get nothing why because basically we’re still a really poor run down rough part of London always have been and I think we always will be
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I reacted to a video a while back about the lake District. You're right it is beautiful. I'll probably do another one sometime, because that was mainly just a short arial footage video and I kind of want to know more information about the area.
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Gr8 video thx
Our prevailing wind is to the east so all low class housing and factories since probably Roman times were built to the east of the posher more affluent west areas and were therefore by those simple facts poorer by nature
driving in london is expensive, if you dont have a low emissions compliant vehicle it can cost £15 a day to drive in central London (payable by all) and an additional £12.50 a day for a non low emissions vehicle - the area for this is due to expand out to the M25 this year. the london tube system makes getting around london much easier
There's enough trouble already with Eastenders paddling over in the night in kayaks.
Yes there are uber boats that stop at many piers. It's not expensive and makes commuting more fun!
That would be a blast. I'll have to check that out when I get over for a visit.
If you compare it to the Mississippi you will find a similar effect. There are several crossings at New Orleans but very few going north, crossings at Baton Rouge, Natchez and Vicksburg being the only places that merit one due to demand. Thats 200 miles with only 3 crossings.
This is interesting. What should be emphasised is that, as far as investment in transport is concerned, the rest of the UK outside London is the equivalent of East London.
Hi steve if you want to look into tower bridge check if anyone has uploaded Fred Dibna's episode on it he tells the history of and the design and engineering of it
We pronounce it 'Tems' which is weird when I write it down phonetically.
Please please do a video on the channel tunnel, its a train that goes under the sea to France
I realise that this is completely off topic but I'm aware of your interest in UK architecture. You may like this YT vid - 'A Definitive guide to English Cottages (Different Types of Cottages!) Architecture Styles Explained'
The river Temms