And what a wonderful 52 weeks it’s been. Thank you Alex, Chris, Laura and Siddy. And everyone at LTM and TFL for making this all happen. It really has made a dark year that much brighter. Love to you all.
The first time I went through Hampstead was in the 70's, on my way to a wedding at Burnt Oak. I noticed the following station, Golders Green, was in the open air, and so was surprised to subsequently learn that Hempstead was the deepest station below ground level. I returned there to alight a couple of years later, sampled the then high speed lifts, and noted the steep gradients at street level, which explains everything. (The gradients on the actual railway underground are almost negligible).
I used to travel every day to school through Hampstead station in the 1970s. At that time there were two high speed lifts and four of the old lifts. During the rush hours all of the lifts were in use (and the high speed lifts were operated manually). Outside the rush hour just the two high speed lifts were used - and were on automatic operation. We were reluctant to use the high speed lifts as they regularly broke down, and you were stuck in the lift waiting for one of the ticket collectors hear the alarm and operate the emergency override and bring us to the surface.
Numbers 1-4 were the high speed lifts. 5&6 were the old lifts. They remained operational until about 1990. I worked at Hampstead as duty manager and enjoyed running those old lifts. Number 5 from recollecting was rather temperamental and often overran the lift landing.
A station I have only ever passed through, so I will be fascinated to find out the hidden treasures in this station, especially any more beautiful tiles.
I do love a chap, who is not phased searching out a good looking man hole out in the open. I wonder, if like me he used this station to continue his search on the heath.
The green acanthus leaf tiles in the ticket hall are amazing. Regent’s Park has those too I believe. They did keep some of the wrought iron work there, luckily. Such a shame that everything was removed in the 80s.
Hi team this episode has got to be one of the best so far, the lift shafts are amazing plus 320 steps wow, this is another station i must visit, thank you team 💖
Many years ago, when I was younger and lot fitter I ran up those stairs for a bet. Knees were a bit wobbly at the top, but I carried on for another ten miles. Bet was more than won.
Back in the eighties I used to regularly walk up the steps at Elephant and Castle (till I found out it was quicker to walk from Waterloo) when the lifts wer being refurbished. It felt more like a 150 storey building.
What a coincidence. I was watching this wearing my T Shirt with the Underground map on it that I bought in the LT Museum last time I was there and Chris was wearing the same one.
Hello all!. Full of lots of surprises when I watch these fine videos, shame that they weren’t longer, love to see on anything disused at Camden Town and Baker Street tube stations would be nice 👍
@@alexgrundon2346 I’ll have to find that list, but if it’s on social media - then not. Best regards, and keep up the good work at LTM, as enjoying the videos - Jack.
Another fantastic episode! I have to tell you, I'm quite chuffed that I finally got my wife Julie to start watching this past week. We started with Notting Hill Gate, then Metroland and she was hooked! We're now binge watching starting with the first episode. Last night we made it to the 55 Broadway episode which she loved. So now you have two super fans here in Long Beach, California!
I now remember walking up those 320 or more steps to the surface, I did it, and important not to look up, I was in a bad way, unfit, I’m much fitter in 2021 due my very busy job, would like to Re walk it, the only other long spiral I tried was Caledonian Road, again a very long way up to the surface.
Could you do angel station? if it's possible you could do the abandoned bits from the the old station old ticket hall,lift shaft and low level passageway as well as the newer bits
Maybe you could devise a fitness regime based on 'using the stairs' with snippets of interesting information for the inevitable pauses to recover your breath.
Brilliant series. Can't wait to return to London. How about an episode about South Kensington? The classic Leslie Green Facade, the glass roofed covered arcade, the tunnel to the museums not to mention the original wrought iron sign proclaiming the "Metropolitan and District Railway". For good measure throw in the disused platform on the District and Circle line.
sems to me they make it almost as a mocking, not as an homage…he does deserve it at times with his constant work as a mouthpiece for Network Rail and anything that gets him special access
Hi Team Chris, Laura, Alex and Siddy, during this early era of the tubes (1890 - 1910) , as we all know Hampstead had the deepest lift shaft what station do you think would have been the 2nd deepest lift shaft ??.
49:14 It must've been a pretty close run thing at Embankment with the Luftwaffe having a go at the former loop under the river. Must've given one or two staff there and at Bull n Bush the collywobbles.
Hi hidden london hangouts yet another great episode makes my Saturday night fun. A quick question any chance of compiling a DVD of all episodes so we could keep also a book would be great.
There is already a book out which Chris and I wrote 😃 it’s called Hidden London Discovering the forgotten Underground and came out in 2019, can get it at the museum, Amazon and most book shops :)
Wonderful stuff chaps and gals.! Regarding Kings Cross- I'm sure there are tunnels South of the main station that in the ancient times main-line trains reversed.. Am I mad?
Kings Cross Midland City line > Kings Cross Thameslink > now St Pancras Thameslink. The old Thameslink platforms are still there - watch as trains go between Kings Cross and Farringdon x
Greetings from my quarantine in Toronto. I grew up in South Tottenham, approximately half way between Manor House and Turnpike Lane on the Piccadilly Line. On the junction with Green Lanes and Colina Road there is a substantial Charles Holden building housing a ventilation shaft. I was once told, (can't remember by whom), that there were once plans to have a station here, and the distance between the two existing stations would certainly warrant one. Is there any truth to this, and does the building house anything more than just fans? Thanks.
Re 1992 tube stock motors: the original DC motors have indeed been replaced with new AC motors, together with their traction system, that's why they now sound differently.
Love your work but can you please please do a Hangout of Westbourne Park I know it’s a overground station but it’s one of the early ones and it was my nearest stations growing up in 70s west London it must have a place in the history of London Underground I would be so very grateful if you guys could Feature the station as a lot has changed around it but you’ve got Westbourne Park bus garage next to it under the west way flyover that’s been there for a very long time it must have some hidden secrets away from the public eye ? I look forward to your feedback and hopefully your hangout there as it was very important in my growing up having access to the rest of London such fond memories when the world was such a Community spirited place I’m only 52 but have I seen a lot of change not all for the better unfortunately
You could say the same of Stratford, Wimbledon and Richmond. And I can probably think of others. The District Line to Wimbledon (south of the Thames) also has an interesting ex-national rail history n
@@lesliegprice6652 - until the Thameslink 2000 programme, Moorgate was possibly the only national rail terminus at an Underground station (still is if you include the GN service).
49:43 Hmm. You said the floodgates were never used, but I thought that the Charring Cross loop was bombed and flooded. So what happened, when the bombs damaged that loop?
For people with knee problems it's much easer going up but more effort than going down. When I traveled London I hated the fact that it was the down escalator they stoped if they needed to. It is almost sure that the decision was made by people that did not have bad knees.
We've had some production issues over the last few weeks so I'm sorry but there has been a lag in being able to post some of the extra content. It's sorted now so you'll see the posts resume with Kennington Hangup. BTW - nothing lowly about a technician - thank you so much for your support.
@@chrisnix7981 I can view up to ep 18 & am told I can see 21 & 23 live if I up my membership level. Nothing for 19, 20 or 22. Has anyone else reported problems?
I wonder if viewers realise that, until 7th September 1968, there was no bus services passing through Hampstead. Now there are two, plus a Night Bus Service !
Youre 100% right with the introduction of the route 268 before that the closes bus to Hampstead station was the 187 which turn off at Roslyn Hill to terminate at Hampstead Heath.
Brilliant episode.my favorite underground station in London.Hampstead and the last time I was there around 8 years ago.it was summertime and very hot. I arrived at the station with my girlfriend. we took the lift down to the platforms. however, we noticed the sign deepest tube station in London 220 feet below the surface. so my girlfriend tried to convince me to climb back up the steps. I refused because you are not allowed. that was my excuse to get out of this. turned around and my girlfriend was talking to a member of staff. the nice lady said you can but at your own risk. my girlfriend said you can do it you have permission. anyway, she entered the lift at the same time the nice lady member of staff entered the lift and when up in it.so I walked up the steps. I got several levels up and thought this is no problem easy. famous last words. I eventually got to the top out of breath and sweating. the member of staff asked me are you ok. to which I replied is they a cemetery around here and the reply was yes over the road and around the corner. I said good I,m just about ready to be buried in it. which caused great laughter. after a bottle of water and some comfort from my girlfriend. I was ok. all turned out well I proposed a few days later. now my beautiful wife and two wonderful children. so many great memories for us watching this episode for .thank you to you all.
Yes, I wouldn't recommend walking up the stairs at a "lift" station, especially Hampstead!! When I was forced to at Aldwych in 1994, a few weeks before closure, it wasn't very invigorating!
Hampstead station is 192 feet below ground level the deepest point below ground level is a point a little north of Hampstead on Holly Bush hill which is 221 feet (67.3 Metres) below ground level.
I was a "charpi-omi" on the Soho beat and nneded to know Polari which is mixture o Italian , Romani, London slang, backslang, rhyming slang, sailor slang, and thieves' cant. Later it expanded to contain words from the Yiddish language and from 1960s drug subculture slanga small core lexicon of about 20 words, including: bona (good , ajax (nearby), eek (face), cod (bad, in the sense of tacky or vile), naff (bad, now borrowed into mainstream British English with the sense of the aforementioned cod), lattie (room, house, flat, i.e. room to let), nanti (not, no), omi (man), palone (woman), riah (hair), zhoosh or tjuz (smarten up, stylize),, trade (sex), and vada (see), and over 500 other lesser-known words. So watch your "corybungus Alex LOL:
@@alexgrundon2346. Blimey. At first I thought you’re a bit pedantic. But on further thought I think you are a bit potty. The videos were (supposedly) about the London Underground, you know, trains and technology and passengers and things interesting. Whether the films were made by the museum or by Micky Mouse is irrelevant.
RE: FLOODGATES Has the improved methods of tunneling these days and the strengthening of the already existing tunnels made the need for newer floodgates somewhat obsolete? Just that, it is something that has crossed my mind.
Hi Aaron. Yes floodgates were a necessary temporary measure to defend the Tube during the Second World War and the cold war. Development of stations and wider city infrastructure means they aren't really needed any more and most have been removed. There are still a few modern ones but they are to deal with potential tidal threat.
@@chrisnix7981 Thanks, just that as someone who experiences The Tube through Cab Rides and the like it is something that crosses my mind quite frequently. "What about the modern flood defences?" Also as me and my mum watch the Jubilee line one that Video125 did, the bit that would put her off riding it would be that there are four "crossings" under the Thames. But I would love it.
All those who like Siddy say 'massive shaft' stand up. (Blimey... every red-blooded male)
And what a wonderful 52 weeks it’s been. Thank you Alex, Chris, Laura and Siddy. And everyone at LTM and TFL for making this all happen. It really has made a dark year that much brighter. Love to you all.
What a beautiful thing to read - thank you x
love watching siddy
What a stunner. I love clever women. (...that are gorgeous too)
@@Beatlefan67 I know her in real life. She's not clever.
@@gregh378 Well she seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the LU which impresses me.
@@gregh378 bullshit. She's comes across as extremely knowledgeable and very clever. Which tells me that you are full of it.
@@gregh378 She probably has a similar opinion of you.😁 But I bet she looks better in short shorts than you do.
38:21 Love it! Love the enthusiasm the child like glee.
The first time I went through Hampstead was in the 70's, on my way to a wedding at Burnt Oak. I noticed the following station, Golders Green, was in the open air, and so was surprised to subsequently learn that Hempstead was the deepest station below ground level. I returned there to alight a couple of years later, sampled the then high speed lifts, and noted the steep gradients at street level, which explains everything. (The gradients on the actual railway underground are almost negligible).
I used to travel every day to school through Hampstead station in the 1970s. At that time there were two high speed lifts and four of the old lifts. During the rush hours all of the lifts were in use (and the high speed lifts were operated manually). Outside the rush hour just the two high speed lifts were used - and were on automatic operation. We were reluctant to use the high speed lifts as they regularly broke down, and you were stuck in the lift waiting for one of the ticket collectors hear the alarm and operate the emergency override and bring us to the surface.
Numbers 1-4 were the high speed lifts. 5&6 were the old lifts. They remained operational until about 1990.
I worked at Hampstead as duty manager and enjoyed running those old lifts. Number 5 from recollecting was rather temperamental and often overran the lift landing.
Stunning 🤩 Siddy
14:20
There's a second "Heath Street" frieze in the tiles at the far end of the northbound platform too!
Indeed
A station I have only ever passed through, so I will be fascinated to find out the hidden treasures in this station, especially any more beautiful tiles.
I do love a chap, who is not phased searching out a good looking man hole out in the open. I wonder, if like me he used this station to continue his search on the heath.
The green acanthus leaf tiles in the ticket hall are amazing. Regent’s Park has those too I believe. They did keep some of the wrought iron work there, luckily. Such a shame that everything was removed in the 80s.
Good work I like that place
Hi team this episode has got to be one of the best so far, the lift shafts are amazing plus 320 steps wow, this is another station i must visit, thank you team 💖
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I remember once when i was around 17 me and my brother was considering walking up the steps but op out at the last minute
Many years ago, when I was younger and lot fitter I ran up those stairs for a bet. Knees were a bit wobbly at the top, but I carried on for another ten miles. Bet was more than won.
52?!Amazing! So many excellent episodes and such a wonderful way to help us through lockdown and entertain and educate us. Thanks Fab 4.
I’ve always been rather impressed with the beautiful shaped tiling around the old ticket kiosks at Hampstead. No one seemed to refer to that.
It still amazing how much this channel still has to give, and how many stations I still need to visit
Back in the eighties I used to regularly walk up the steps at Elephant and Castle (till I found out it was quicker to walk from Waterloo) when the lifts wer being refurbished. It felt more like a 150 storey building.
Brilliant stuff, funny thing is ive been all over these places youve shown on this video over the past few weeks several time.....
I used to works at Golders Hill Park 😀👌 we used to drink at The Gatehouse in Highgate.
The shout out to @geofftech at 20:23 and the 15 storey building 🤣
Geoff who? Lovely to see him on the Hangout chat on Saturday.
Another great episode, some wonderful details and great history.
Thanks to you all.
Endless innuendos, Alex just can't help squeezing one in! Great video team
Horse walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre. Barman gave him one.
I’ll get my coat….
@@alexgrundon2346 😂
What a coincidence. I was watching this wearing my T Shirt with the Underground map on it that I bought in the LT Museum last time I was there and Chris was wearing the same one.
Hello all!. Full of lots of surprises when I watch these fine videos, shame that they weren’t longer, love to see on anything disused at Camden Town and Baker Street tube stations would be nice 👍
They’re on the list, Jack!
@@alexgrundon2346 I’ll have to find that list, but if it’s on social media - then not. Best regards, and keep up the good work at LTM, as enjoying the videos - Jack.
@@alexgrundon2346 Im looking forward to those
Another fantastic episode! I have to tell you, I'm quite chuffed that I finally got my wife Julie to start watching this past week. We started with Notting Hill Gate, then Metroland and she was hooked! We're now binge watching starting with the first episode. Last night we made it to the 55 Broadway episode which she loved. So now you have two super fans here in Long Beach, California!
Heroes, both of you x
Welcome Julie!!
Thanks for spreading the word Jim and hello Julie! Welcome aboard.
I remember climbiing up those stairs when I worked on London Transport . Being hefty and out of condition I was knackered but the lifts were out.
I now remember walking up those 320 or more steps to the surface, I did it, and important not to look up, I was in a bad way, unfit, I’m much fitter in 2021 due my very busy job, would like to Re walk it, the only other long spiral I tried was Caledonian Road, again a very long way up to the surface.
For the 150 year anniversary some of the tile designs were recreated so you could have had your bathroom look like a tube station. 😊
The posters are beautiful.
Could you do angel station? if it's possible you could do the abandoned bits from the the old station old ticket hall,lift shaft and low level passageway as well as the newer bits
You’re about to be very happy indeed…..
Maybe you could devise a fitness regime based on 'using the stairs' with snippets of interesting information for the inevitable pauses to recover your breath.
Brilliant series. Can't wait to return to London. How about an episode about South Kensington? The classic Leslie Green Facade, the glass roofed covered arcade, the tunnel to the museums not to mention the original wrought iron sign proclaiming the "Metropolitan and District Railway". For good measure throw in the disused platform on the District and Circle line.
Not forgetting the incomplete platforms which were mean to be built for Deep level District which was never built.
27:37-28:23 full screen 720p 0.25 speed - thank you Siddy
14:20
20:20 love the Geoff reference to 15 floor buildings!
sems to me they make it almost as a mocking, not as an homage…he does deserve it at times with his constant work as a mouthpiece for Network Rail and anything that gets him special access
Hi Team Chris, Laura, Alex and Siddy, during this early era of the tubes (1890 - 1910) , as we all know Hampstead had the deepest lift shaft what station do you think would have been the 2nd deepest lift shaft ??.
Good question. Do you know?
@@alexgrundon2346 I think it was Holborn
49:14 It must've been a pretty close run thing at Embankment with the Luftwaffe having a go at the former loop under the river.
Must've given one or two staff there and at Bull n Bush the collywobbles.
She's a super model for sure 🔥
Hi hidden london hangouts yet another great episode makes my Saturday night fun. A quick question any chance of compiling a DVD of all episodes so we could keep also a book would be great.
That’s so sweet. I’ll put it to the board
There is already a book out which Chris and I wrote 😃 it’s called Hidden London Discovering the forgotten Underground and came out in 2019, can get it at the museum, Amazon and most book shops :)
@@siddyholloway8404 Thanks siddy I'll be looking out for it.😀
@@siddyholloway8404 It is a wonderful book too! :-)
Thankyou for sharing.
Wonderful stuff chaps and gals.! Regarding Kings Cross- I'm sure there are tunnels South of the main station that in the ancient times main-line trains reversed.. Am I mad?
Kings Cross Midland City line > Kings Cross Thameslink > now St Pancras Thameslink. The old Thameslink platforms are still there - watch as trains go between Kings Cross and Farringdon x
Greetings from my quarantine in Toronto. I grew up in South Tottenham, approximately half way between Manor House and Turnpike Lane on the Piccadilly Line. On the junction with Green Lanes and Colina Road there is a substantial Charles Holden building housing a ventilation shaft. I was once told, (can't remember by whom), that there were once plans to have a station here, and the distance between the two existing stations would certainly warrant one. Is there any truth to this, and does the building house anything more than just fans? Thanks.
Re 1992 tube stock motors: the original DC motors have indeed been replaced with new AC motors, together with their traction system, that's why they now sound differently.
Love your work but can you please please do a Hangout of Westbourne Park I know it’s a overground station but it’s one of the early ones and it was my nearest stations growing up in 70s west London it must have a place in the history of London Underground I would be so very grateful if you guys could Feature the station as a lot has changed around it but you’ve got Westbourne Park bus garage next to it under the west way flyover that’s been there for a very long time it must have some hidden secrets away from the public eye ? I look forward to your feedback and hopefully your hangout there as it was very important in my growing up having access to the rest of London such fond memories when the world was such a Community spirited place I’m only 52 but have I seen a lot of change not all for the better unfortunately
Paddington Hammersmith Branch as it's the only Underground that's in a main line station platform
You could say the same of Stratford, Wimbledon and Richmond. And I can probably think of others. The District Line to Wimbledon (south of the Thames) also has an interesting ex-national rail history n
@@NicholasNA yes you are quite correct ,but what I meant to say, but didn't as I left it out, was main line London Terminus station , apologies !
There's also Queens Park and all the Bakerloo shared stations on the Watford line, Harrow and Amersham on the Metropolitan/ Aylesbury Line !
@@lesliegprice6652 - until the Thameslink 2000 programme, Moorgate was possibly the only national rail terminus at an Underground station (still is if you include the GN service).
@@NicholasNA yes I'd forgotten about that, shame on me !!! Cheers
49:43 Hmm. You said the floodgates were never used, but I thought that the Charring Cross loop was bombed and flooded. So what happened, when the bombs damaged that loop?
As an alternative maybe one day you could show us West Ashfield and other training areas?
We can indeed
Would there be much to see at Paddington, underground?
A fair amount. But it’s a bit of a way down the list at the mo
The previous Otis lifts had a lot more bounce to them; the current ones are so boring!
EMERGENCY STOPPPPP!
For people with knee problems it's much easer going up but more effort than going down. When I traveled London I hated the fact that it was the down escalator they stoped if they needed to. It is almost sure that the decision was made by people that did not have bad knees.
Love all the Hangouts, but whats happened to the extra content for Patreon members. Last one I've seen is for Ep 18
Goes up every week and we did a lovely Live Hangup On Saturday too.
@@alexgrundon2346 Hi Alex, not when I log in, but I am only a lowly technician
We've had some production issues over the last few weeks so I'm sorry but there has been a lag in being able to post some of the extra content. It's sorted now so you'll see the posts resume with Kennington Hangup. BTW - nothing lowly about a technician - thank you so much for your support.
@@chrisnix7981 I can view up to ep 18 & am told I can see 21 & 23 live if I up my membership level. Nothing for 19, 20 or 22. Has anyone else reported problems?
Here's the Hampstead episode 😀👌
I wonder if viewers realise that, until 7th September 1968, there was no bus services passing through Hampstead. Now there are two, plus a Night Bus Service !
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24 has operated since 1910 - admittedly it never ran into the middle of the village.
Yeah the 24 and 168 were my Royal Free choices - and there they turned round!
Youre 100% right with the introduction of the route 268 before that the closes bus to Hampstead station was the 187 which turn off at Roslyn Hill to terminate at Hampstead Heath.
The photo of the lift shaft would be great enlarged and laminated into the floor.
How about glass floors for the lift so you can see it for real?!
Nostrils like twin tunnels 🤣
Brilliant episode.my favorite underground station in London.Hampstead and the last time I was there around 8 years ago.it was summertime and very hot. I arrived at the station with my girlfriend. we took the lift down to the platforms. however, we noticed the sign deepest tube station in London 220 feet below the surface. so my girlfriend tried to convince me to climb back up the steps. I refused because you are not allowed. that was my excuse to get out of this. turned around and my girlfriend was talking to a member of staff. the nice lady said you can but at your own risk. my girlfriend said you can do it you have permission. anyway, she entered the lift at the same time the nice lady member of staff entered the lift and when up in it.so I walked up the steps. I got several levels up and thought this is no problem easy. famous last words. I eventually got to the top out of breath and sweating. the member of staff asked me are you ok. to which I replied is they a cemetery around here and the reply was yes over the road and around the corner. I said good I,m just about ready to be buried in it. which caused great laughter. after a bottle of water and some comfort from my girlfriend. I was ok. all turned out well I proposed a few days later. now my beautiful wife and two wonderful children. so many great memories for us watching this episode for .thank you to you all.
Yes, I wouldn't recommend walking up the stairs at a "lift" station, especially Hampstead!! When I was forced to at Aldwych in 1994, a few weeks before closure, it wasn't very invigorating!
Hampstead station is 192 feet below ground level the deepest point below ground level is a point a little north of Hampstead on Holly Bush hill which is 221 feet (67.3 Metres) below ground level.
I have ran up Aldwych a few times but would defo think twice about running up Hampstead in those days when i was in my teens.
I was a "charpi-omi" on the Soho beat and nneded to know Polari which is mixture o Italian , Romani, London slang, backslang, rhyming slang, sailor slang, and thieves' cant. Later it expanded to contain words from the Yiddish language and from 1960s drug subculture slanga small core lexicon of about 20 words, including: bona (good , ajax (nearby), eek (face), cod (bad, in the sense of tacky or vile), naff (bad, now borrowed into mainstream British English with the sense of the aforementioned cod), lattie (room, house, flat, i.e. room to let), nanti (not, no), omi (man), palone (woman), riah (hair), zhoosh or tjuz (smarten up, stylize),, trade (sex), and vada (see), and over 500 other lesser-known words. So watch your "corybungus Alex LOL:
BRILLIANT
These London Underground videos are about everything except the trains and journeys!! But mostly about tiles. Weird.
They’re not LU films. They’re LT museum films. Sorry to correct you but if you’re after that you’re looking in the wrong place, Mr Old Man.
@@alexgrundon2346. Blimey. At first I thought you’re a bit pedantic. But on further thought I think you are a bit potty.
The videos were (supposedly) about the London Underground, you know, trains and technology and passengers and things interesting.
Whether the films were made by the museum or by Micky Mouse is irrelevant.
I'm your new subscriber
Welcome 🤗
Enjoy
@@daveharris7224 Smashing video. Siddy looked stunning again.
Francisco welcome!
Hello!
I much prefer the older lifts. The stainless steel is horrid.
Why on earth are/was LT obsessed with stopping people form hanging around admiring the station if people want to?
fantastic episode....Siddy has to be one of the most beautiful women ever.......sorry no offence intended
We have lost the art of tiling...those square white tiles are awful and insulting to the original
I do love the originals
She's got nice legs....
You didn’t notice mine. Gutted
Oh yes,... She's defo my 'The Girl I'd Most Like to Get Stuck In a Lift With'. There's plenty of opportunity on the U/G by the look of it.
Does the UK use metric or imperial? 28c and mph. What gives.
It sounds like a six foot wave on a three metre swell. 🏳🌈
RE: FLOODGATES
Has the improved methods of tunneling these days and the strengthening of the already existing tunnels made the need for newer floodgates somewhat obsolete? Just that, it is something that has crossed my mind.
Hi Aaron. Yes floodgates were a necessary temporary measure to defend the Tube during the Second World War and the cold war. Development of stations and wider city infrastructure means they aren't really needed any more and most have been removed. There are still a few modern ones but they are to deal with potential tidal threat.
@@chrisnix7981 Thanks, just that as someone who experiences The Tube through Cab Rides and the like it is something that crosses my mind quite frequently. "What about the modern flood defences?" Also as me and my mum watch the Jubilee line one that Video125 did, the bit that would put her off riding it would be that there are four "crossings" under the Thames. But I would love it.