A couple of extra facts for you, Southgate is the most northerly station on the tube to be underground and it is named Southgate as it was once the South Gate to Enfield Chase, which was once a royal hunting ground. I went to Southgate college years ago so I frequented that bus stop many times!
@@patrickovsiu In Amsterdam, the new North/South line is approximately Northeast/Southwest. Meanwhile, the first line or "East line" is the southernmost line on average and has the southernmost point on the net, runs approximately North-South and is actually two lines.
Actually no. The station used to be called Gareth but they had to change it to Southgate because of the woke mob. If you don't believe me check Wikipedia.
@@strikefirst4015 What rubbish are you talking? It was renamed 'Gareth Southgate' for 48 hours during the 2018 world cup as a joke / tribute for England reaching the semi's that year. Notice they didn't pull the same stunt this year when England reached the final of the (2020) Euros though.
Southgate has always been my local station, but I never realised how unique it was until I started learning about the tube and seeing the different stations across London, it gave me a new appreciation for the station I always took for granted. Thank you for covering it Jago, love these videos a lot.
Even growing up with this near us it always seemed special - and it was; ‘Southgate Hobbyshop’ was round the corner started by Col. S. N. Beattie - the forerunner of the (now defunct) ‘Beatties’ chain of toy shops all around the Country.
I remember that toy shop I came to England for the Coronation in 1953 from Sydney aged 10 my aunt lived in Mayfield Ave I use to cycle to the village & gaze in the window .
And it was browsing through the items inn the Hobbyshops (there was one for used models opposite the original I think) that my lifetime love of model railways was nurtured. A part time staff member there was the late Ray Hammond who encouraged many young people into the hobby and helped establish the higher standards of accuracy we see today.
I worked at Beatties in Southgate in my teens in the early 1980s having already spent many hours there browsing, generally hanging around and sometimes actually buying something! At that time the shop had different sections for railways, model kits and radio controlled vehicles. Hand-held video games were the new thing and seemed to be the company's way of surviving the trend of kids and teenagers away from modelling. Its such a pity they didn't survive long enough to make the most of the modern adult modelling market.
@@MrDavil43 - yes - the secondhand section was our ‘go-to’ as kids; further down they had another shop that sold secondhand Dinky toys as well. Happy days!
My sister and my friend Andy worked in that same branch late 80' early 90's. I was in the indie computer shop a little around the corner. Great memories of that time, 30 years later!
Your pronunciation of "Hilversum" and "Dudok" is actually very spot on. Though the city hall is his most famous work, there are a lot more of his buildings in Hilversum. Schools, houses, utility buildings and much more. I think Hilversum might be the town with highest Dudok density.
I love the design of this station, you're right about it resembling later 50s retro-futuristic 'jet age' looking style it fits right at home in an Atom-Punk kind of style. These vids are always really interesting, personally would love to see more ♥
Another great video - thank you. I know this station well as from 1961 to 1968 I intended Minchenden Grammar School, a short walk away in Southgate High Street. I often felt out of place there, rather like an alien in fact, as I struggled to pretend to be interested in German, History and Latin, although I wasn't too bad at Science or Maths. As for chatting up the girls - well they seemed like a different species to me. But then they were: I was the alien and Southgate "Tube Station" was my flying saucer. Please don't tell anyone. As a side note, in the 1960s I used to buy magazines such as Practical Wireless, Radio Constructor and Wireless World from the newsagent in the station and I ended up having a lifelong career in telecommunications as a result. Thanks again.
I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I love these videos on London station architecture, and I love the way that sometimes quite small interior details (lighting, tiling, and even furniture) can enhance the overall feel. For example, I absolutely love the benches at Barons Court...
I attended an Electrical Engineering competition at Southgate College in the 1960s, so passed through on four or five occasions. I was struck by the exciting building. I came 3rd, so just missed out on the all expenses paid trip to Japan. I reacquainted myself with the station years later when a friend bought a house nearby and I visited.
Thank for a very nice video (så Always!) As I live in Stockholm, I have also seen the similarities between Gunnar Asplund's circular building in Stockholm ('The City Library') and the 'Southgate' station. When visiting the station 3 years ago, I didn't know the fact that our city library stood as an building of inspiration to the tube station at Southgate! But, direkt I saw the similarities between the two and I actually presented some pictures of the the two buildings there at the ticket hall for two employees. They we're very interested to see where the inspiration came from! It was the time of the functionalist architecture during the late twenties and early thirties.
Both buildings are said to have inspired two public libraries in Leicester to be built in a circular shape in 1939. They were nicknamed the "pork pie" libraries from the shape and one of them is now officially called that.
Another fact . It is the only station where both the next and previous station are both above ground and if you look down the tunnel on the platform you can see where the daylight starts
Thanks for this been waiting for ages for Southgate to crop up. My Grandfather was a carpenter on the building of this station (he went on to work on MTB's in WWII) and I worked on it as a Railman in the early 80's (the good old bad old days) Always loved it and thought it special.
Hello from Hilversum! A nice surprise to see our City Hall featured on the Tales from the Tube. Your pronunciations of both “Willem Dudok” and “Hilversum” were pretty spot on. Dudok was the city’s architect, so besides City Hall many other buildings in his style can be seen here. As always I enjoyed your video. Many thanks!
A vacation (or holiday as it's known across the pond) to the UK is on my bucket list! Now if only this mess we're currently living in would cease, that'd be nice.
Oh, very much do it! England is a beautiful country, I was so surprised at all the open land and greenery, and loved the old architecture! And everyone was very friendly, it was easy to get around and I had a great time on both my visits. Of course the museums I visited were amazing, and don't go believing the food is bad, but take my advice and avoid american fast food chains! And if you're out for breakfast and the waitress asks "full english" say yes, but ask for toast or bread, not fried bread. And do some dumb tourist trips, the people make it a lot of fun. If I thought I could live there I'd give it a chance, just different enough to make for adventure, but without the awkwardness of barely being able to talk to people. I got a laugh out of a young lady in the town of Dorking being fascinated with me being American, and a couple gentleman wanting to know what was going on with our politics. Go, have fun!
@@PMA65537 Allow a day? No, I'd rather allow months (if necessary) the see EVERYTHING: England, Scotland, Wales, the whole of Ireland, The Isle of Wight, and The Isle of Man! That's my holy grail bucket list vacation.
The Radar/Electrical widget decoration on top is very reminiscent of the type of machinery from SciFi of the 1930s, such as Flash Gordon. I remember using Southgate station in the 1980s. It always struck me as being a cross between Gantshill and Redbridge stations.
I really like the look of this station, it's welcoming and the way the shops front is set up keeps people interested and looking in instead of walking past. The ticket office is nicely sized, and the round shape makes any lines that may form be open rather than jammed together. This was designed with people and busses in mind and to this day still serves that purpose very well from the look of it.
I have to say that Southgate tube station on the London Underground Piccadilly Line is very much well designed as what you have explained. And Southgate as a area in North London is quite unique, quaint and posh. And the bus station next door to the tube station acts like a interchange. And lastly Merry Christmas Jago Hazzard. :)
I was enthralled by this station in my formative years living at my grandmother's house a 125 bus ride away. Such excitement to be travelling by tube, sometimes to Wood Green, or on a good day, even further. I now live in Europe but will return for a site seeing trip when Covid allows. Great and evocative memories. Thank you.
Have always liked Southgate but hadn't quite thought of the resemblance to a flying saucer before. It is rightly included in the book "Britain's 100 Greatest Railway Stations" along with Surbiton and, more surprisingly, Southwark. Nice to see a glimpse at 4:25 of the 4-COR units that used to run on the line to my home town of Portsmouth and revolutionised the service there just like the Underground did in suburban London.
@@rjjcms1 Rather like Pick and Holden doing their European tour. So when we eventually reach the planet we will find a London Underground zooming everyone around their city.
Nice to see a video on this station I go to every month for a rock n roll record hop. Next door to the station is a working man's club. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month
My favourite tube station , architecture of the future and still architecture of the future , Adolf loos a European architect was drawing plans as early as 1890 for such buildings , what could be more simple than a box square or round , they just slightly angled the roof to drain water , thanks for this futureristic insight jago !
My favourite tube station by far and the local station of my earliest years. I have great great affection for it despite undergoing a traumatic event in the concourse when I small, but that wasn't the stations fault. Merry Christmas Jago, and thanks for this one. Great stuff as usual.
Shh... Dr Who has said we shouldn't talk about what was unearthed during construction and whisked away by a team of Archeologists lead by Indiana Jones... Oh drat I've said too much.
Thank you Jago. This is definitely my favourite underground station. Of course, I am biased having used it on numerous occasions when visiting my grandparents, but its design is unique and so memorable.
Beautiful architecture and features of the era. The curves of the bus stands and shop fronts are superb and the famous typeface of the shops adds to their appeal. I’ve not been to London in years, though thanks to your videos, Jago, I’ll be looking out to identify a few of the subjects of them.
I've always liked the Holden architecture- functional inside and outside, but good looking. Southgate just happens to be one of my favourite stations. I used to get off the train from Bounds Green there when going to the Southgate Hobbyshop (later Beatties of London) in the early 60s. I don't know if that shop still exists, but the circular arrangement of the shops there was attractive, with a very good bus interchange. P.S. That was a nice surprise to hear your contribution to RM Transit a couple of days ago. Recognised your voice straight away. ☺
There is a book called 'Bright underground spaces' by David Lawrence that focuses on the stations designed by Charles Holden. He also designed a bus, but it never went into production.
Jago - an idea for next year or for later next year. Choose 12 of your best Underground images & make up a calender! Offer them from around October. You would of course need to include an Underground map too! My overseas relatives & friends always marvel at the London tube.
Southgate is a real beauty of a station. I've never been there but next time I find myself in London I'll be sure to pay a visit. The interior seems as worthy of note as the outside, love those uplighters!
I love the architecture of London Transport, even at some of the bus garages I worked at, there were these lovely features in the personnel areas for instance the canteen and output, certain tiles on the walls no one noticed (only us enthusiasts) but over the years upgrades to buildings happened and a lot of the original features were lost, its very rare to see any of the old LT Griffins near the canteens anymore.. Luckily I rescued many old pieces from the skip when I worked at Shepherds Bush garage... I am glad the underground stations were kept to their original conditions... Well most... An excellent video Jago sir, on a really nice topic... And the stations on the Piccadilly line are probably my favourite ones ...
Another station I worked at and I was always fascinated about the design of this unusual station. When as a family we moved to Southgate this transport hub was part of our lives with daily visits to school for me and my parent going to work at London University in Russell Square. So thank you for this wonderful video.
These stations were about capturing the excitement the future was thought to hold. Life would be filled with the ease of movement, the silence of movement, the connections movement would make possible. They wanted to tempt your imagination, and then capture an image that would bring it forth. Marvelous! Thank you for this episode.
Hate to disagree but there is some fabulous Art Deco all over the UK, I live in the Art Deco District of Miami Beach, and a tour guide for it; but my love started as a very young child in England I fell in love with it as an eight year old!
Merry Christmas Jago. I used to live near Turnpike Lane and would often go passed Southgate Station in the mid 70s driving my ex-Post Office Morris van. It looked like something out of The Jetsons but I did know what the style was and when it was built.
Thank you for this video as i work at Southgate as a bus driver anthe information on the station wall is very limited really interesting 👍 and thanks for the brilliant content over the past year Wish you a happy new year.
I, for one, am very happy that you so often mention Holden, and especially Frank Pick, who's been a hero of mine since I was first accuainted with his thoughts on design. A truly enlightened man, Pick was. As for the English not wholeheartedly adopting the styles of the continent: Yours being an island home has kept your great artists and designers from influencing those of the continent. Ne'er the less Johnston, Gill, Epstein, and Moore are lighthouses in a dark and stormy continental night. Between the wars you had Holden, the continent had Albert Speer.
Hello, Jago - thank you once again for a wonderful presentation. Regarding the shops behind the station, did you notice whether the bagel shop is still there? For you, Jago, are the cream cheese and smoked salmon to my humble crust with the hole in it.
I am familiar with Arnos Grove station, but that is as far as I have ever travelled along the northern part of the Piccadilly Line. I love the Holden stations.
Southgate's design invites you to take a closer look at the building's design and artistic touches. Oh, and also to support the shops in a purchase, or two, followed by a making a trip on a tube train to the next station to investigate its stylings, and also the area around it.
Great video! And one of my local tube stations. They temporarily changed a few of the roundels to ‘Gareth Southgate’ in 2018 following England reaching the World Cup semi-finals - which was a lovely touch. How far would have they gone had we brought home the cup?
It's a good job Gareth Southgate wasn't manager of a successful GB Olympic winning football team, they might have painted it gold like they did the letter boxes for the Athletes after London.
There was a crash on the M25 the other day, so I found my phone diverting me through various suburban backstreets to avoid congestion - lo and behold, Southgate Station appeared as if out of nowhere, and my god it's an extraordinary thing to just come upon when you weren't expecting it! I'd seen this video when it came out, but the impact of seeing it in all its glory, the way the parade of shops prefects emphasises the effect of the central ticket office, it really is magnificent. The roundabout is damn confusing though. Possibly didn't help that I was distracted by the station...
I like IT... AND I like THEM. I find it a cozy sympathetic little thing that saucer of yours, and also, I find many of the buildings in Southgate pleasant and of a friendly type of architecture !
Not even the remodelling volunteered by the Luftwaffe could have resulted in more stations like Southgate, probably because there wasn't any money to do it.
Another top video Jago but I'm surprised you didn't mention its 1 day renaming as Gareth Southgate on July 16th 2018 following the Englad football team's glorious run to the semi-finals of the World Cup in the days and weeks immediately before. The name appeared not only on signage inside but also on the large roundel alongside the ticket hall. I remember it well because it was my birthday and I was driving nearby when I heard on the radio about the renaming hence a detour and some photos which I still have! Incidentally, the men's clothing shop which is built in to the outer face of the ticket hall sold Gareth Southgate's trademark waistcoats (vests to our American friends) for only £20 for 48 hours afterwards. Southgate was my local station as a kid and many years afterwards. Its funny how I took it for granted all that time and now see it as a beacon of design among an otherwise nondescript area. I would nominate the bus "station" there as one of the bleakest and windiest places in London on a wet afternoon but it seems much nicer now with the rosy glow of hindsight.
Jago, when you get to Oakwood you may wish to note that it was always said that the underground station was the highest point from there to the Ural Mountains.
Blimey there were some incredible designs of stations through the years. Always good to see my Home Station 'Balham' Gateway To The South! although my other regular station is 'Holloway Road' or what we call 'Meekesville' as of the Record Producer Joe Meek having his studio on Holloway Road. Im off to clean my Bathroom Tiles have a good day Jago Marc In The Bletchley Bungalow
I definitely see a resemblance between Southgate and the North/Clybourn station on the Chicago subway, built in 1943. It’s on a similar corner site and has a Streamline Moderne station house opening out onto a circular plaza with shops opposite. I think it’s been modified a bit over the years but the basic layout is quite similar.
I used to work in a town in Massachusetts that had a Catholic church which eerily resembled that station's ticket hall. I always assumed the spire was an antenna for making a wifi connection with the Almighty.
I think Southgate is one of those tube stations that looks particularly impressive at night, although I haven't seen it at night myself, only in photos.
You got the pronunciation of Hilversum correct, as well as the general pronunciation of Willem Dudok’s name (although I don’t know for certain which syllable of his surname should be stressed, so someone else might want to comment on that).
Know the area very well and drove past the station at least twice a day for twenty+ years. It's a pity they don't treat it to some TLC to show off the lovely exterior...Another great video from my fairly local area.😎👍
What an *incredible* design of the station and its immediate surroundings. Goddamn, few Tube stations are as bold as this one - *very* 20th century modern, I approve. I love the sculpture on the roof that looks like, yeah, an insulator or possibly the end of an alien's plasma rifle. Great video!
You are entirely right about Britain being seemingly unable to commit to any building aesthetic. To be more specific I would say that our biggest problem with architectural design is that we rarely do large swathes in a single style (either in whole or inspired by,) this is particularly true for non residential buildings. I have always thought that to get the most out of a design aesthetic you need to be fully immersed in it, both inside and outside the buildings in question, and to do otherwise is like radically switching up the architectural design going from one room to another inside your own home where you only get a taste of what could have been. I used to live in Bolton (yes, I escaped) and there is/was a tiny section of the town centre that is built of huge stone blocks, beautiful pillars, and cobble streets. There is one spot behind (and including) the town hall where the only buildings you can see fit this design and it is wonderful, robust, fortitudinous, and charmingly timeless. Imagine if the whole town centre shared that design, it would be positively magical. If you ever get an opportunity then go inside Manchester City Hall too (at least I think that's what it is,) I would honestly give up one of my feet if I could (lop-sidedly) stand in a city that was as achingly beautiful as that building is.
I have a friend working on the stained glass window renewal of Manchester City Hall, As to Bolton at least the dismal bus station has gone, replaced by a new hub adjacent to the Railway Station, (though of course that moves the buses away from the Market !)
So it's not just me who thinks this? I can't stand London, but I think I have watched virtually every video Jago has made. But why? The only thing under the ground where I live is tree roots or sewers.
Like some other commentators on this thread, Southgate station was a part of my youth; I considered it excitingly futuristic, but at the same time it became comfortably familiar before very long. Southgate was also unusual at the time for having a local rockabilly scene, when most neighbouring areas were dominated by rude boys, skins and ersatz mods.
Fantastic design, I like the electrode on the roof and the uniquely British style with the red brick. It is missing some palm trees and neon lighting like in LA/Miami but otherwise it is perfect.
A couple of extra facts for you, Southgate is the most northerly station on the tube to be underground and it is named Southgate as it was once the South Gate to Enfield Chase, which was once a royal hunting ground. I went to Southgate college years ago so I frequented that bus stop many times!
LU just likes irony doesn't it? Its southernmost point is on the Northern line, and its northernmost real tube station has the name "south" in it.
@@patrickovsiu In Amsterdam, the new North/South line is approximately Northeast/Southwest. Meanwhile, the first line or "East line" is the southernmost line on average and has the southernmost point on the net, runs approximately North-South and is actually two lines.
Actually no. The station used to be called Gareth but they had to change it to Southgate because of the woke mob. If you don't believe me check Wikipedia.
@@strikefirst4015 What rubbish are you talking? It was renamed 'Gareth Southgate' for 48 hours during the 2018 world cup as a joke / tribute for England reaching the semi's that year. Notice they didn't pull the same stunt this year when England reached the final of the (2020) Euros though.
@@jayseabie215 😅😅😅😅 mate I wasn't being serious.
Southgate has always been my local station, but I never realised how unique it was until I started learning about the tube and seeing the different stations across London, it gave me a new appreciation for the station I always took for granted. Thank you for covering it Jago, love these videos a lot.
Southgate is the opposite of a local station to me
Worked opposite this station on The Bourne @ Logic Sales in the late 80s, at the same time my sister worked at the Beatties. Good times!
Even growing up with this near us it always seemed special - and it was; ‘Southgate Hobbyshop’ was round the corner started by Col. S. N. Beattie - the forerunner of the (now defunct) ‘Beatties’ chain of toy shops all around the Country.
I remember that toy shop I came to England for the Coronation in 1953 from Sydney aged 10 my aunt lived in Mayfield Ave I use to cycle to the village & gaze in the window .
And it was browsing through the items inn the Hobbyshops (there was one for used models opposite the original I think) that my lifetime love of model railways was nurtured. A part time staff member there was the late Ray Hammond who encouraged many young people into the hobby and helped establish the higher standards of accuracy we see today.
I worked at Beatties in Southgate in my teens in the early 1980s having already spent many hours there browsing, generally hanging around and sometimes actually buying something!
At that time the shop had different sections for railways, model kits and radio controlled vehicles. Hand-held video games were the new thing and seemed to be the company's way of surviving the trend of kids and teenagers away from modelling.
Its such a pity they didn't survive long enough to make the most of the modern adult modelling market.
@@MrDavil43 - yes - the secondhand section was our ‘go-to’ as kids; further down they had another shop that sold secondhand Dinky toys as well. Happy days!
My sister and my friend Andy worked in that same branch late 80' early 90's. I was in the indie computer shop a little around the corner. Great memories of that time, 30 years later!
Your pronunciation of "Hilversum" and "Dudok" is actually very spot on. Though the city hall is his most famous work, there are a lot more of his buildings in Hilversum.
Schools, houses, utility buildings and much more.
I think Hilversum might be the town with highest Dudok density.
I love the design of this station, you're right about it resembling later 50s retro-futuristic 'jet age' looking style it fits right at home in an Atom-Punk kind of style. These vids are always really interesting, personally would love to see more ♥
By Jingo, Jago, you surely have hit the centre of the target with this spiffing video. Top notch. On the ball (etc, etc, ad nauseam). Simon T
You get a "like" if only for spelling "ad nauseam" correctly!
Another great video - thank you. I know this station well as from 1961 to 1968 I intended Minchenden Grammar School, a short walk away in Southgate High Street. I often felt out of place there, rather like an alien in fact, as I struggled to pretend to be interested in German, History and Latin, although I wasn't too bad at Science or Maths. As for chatting up the girls - well they seemed like a different species to me. But then they were: I was the alien and Southgate "Tube Station" was my flying saucer. Please don't tell anyone. As a side note, in the 1960s I used to buy magazines such as Practical Wireless, Radio Constructor and Wireless World from the newsagent in the station and I ended up having a lifelong career in telecommunications as a result. Thanks again.
I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I love these videos on London station architecture, and I love the way that sometimes quite small interior details (lighting, tiling, and even furniture) can enhance the overall feel. For example, I absolutely love the benches at Barons Court...
I went to school in Southgate and remember going on a history field trip to Southgate Station 😂
Funny how one takes things for granted until someone else expresses their views with fresher eyes. Thanks.
I attended an Electrical Engineering competition at Southgate College in the 1960s, so passed through on four or five occasions. I was struck by the exciting building. I came 3rd, so just missed out on the all expenses paid trip to Japan. I reacquainted myself with the station years later when a friend bought a house nearby and I visited.
Thank for a very nice video (så Always!) As I live in Stockholm, I have also seen the similarities between Gunnar Asplund's circular building in Stockholm ('The City Library') and the 'Southgate' station. When visiting the station 3 years ago, I didn't know the fact that our city library stood as an building of inspiration to the tube station at Southgate! But, direkt I saw the similarities between the two and I actually presented some pictures of the the two buildings there at the ticket hall for two employees. They we're very interested to see where the inspiration came from! It was the time of the functionalist architecture during the late twenties and early thirties.
Sorry about the misspelling here and there! The (Swedish) spell control came in by mistake and changed the English words! /Christer Lindstrom.
Both buildings are said to have inspired two public libraries in Leicester to be built in a circular shape in 1939. They were nicknamed the "pork pie" libraries from the shape and one of them is now officially called that.
Another fact . It is the only station where both the next and previous station are both above ground and if you look down the tunnel on the platform you can see where the daylight starts
What a great station! So glad it has been listed to preserve it for future generations.
Thanks for this been waiting for ages for Southgate to crop up. My Grandfather was a carpenter on the building of this station (he went on to work on MTB's in WWII) and I worked on it as a Railman in the early 80's (the good old bad old days) Always loved it and thought it special.
Hello from Hilversum!
A nice surprise to see our City Hall featured on the Tales from the Tube. Your pronunciations of both “Willem Dudok” and “Hilversum” were pretty spot on.
Dudok was the city’s architect, so besides City Hall many other buildings in his style can be seen here.
As always I enjoyed your video. Many thanks!
Great video. A lovey station, especially when you consider the integrated parade of shop and bus stops. Stylish AND functional
Definitely one of my favourites! I love that it basically looks like a flying saucer. 🤪
Amazing looking station I knew nothing of before this video. Thanks Jago. Pick and Holden were true visionaries.
A vacation (or holiday as it's known across the pond) to the UK is on my bucket list! Now if only this mess we're currently living in would cease, that'd be nice.
Oh, very much do it! England is a beautiful country, I was so surprised at all the open land and greenery, and loved the old architecture! And everyone was very friendly, it was easy to get around and I had a great time on both my visits. Of course the museums I visited were amazing, and don't go believing the food is bad, but take my advice and avoid american fast food chains! And if you're out for breakfast and the waitress asks "full english" say yes, but ask for toast or bread, not fried bread. And do some dumb tourist trips, the people make it a lot of fun. If I thought I could live there I'd give it a chance, just different enough to make for adventure, but without the awkwardness of barely being able to talk to people. I got a laugh out of a young lady in the town of Dorking being fascinated with me being American, and a couple gentleman wanting to know what was going on with our politics. Go, have fun!
And allow a day to do Scotland. That's a joke - despite being much smaller than the US the UK is still larger than some US people seem to think.
Indeed you could spend close to a week smelling the pew from Southgate toilet.
@@PMA65537 Allow a day? No, I'd rather allow months (if necessary) the see EVERYTHING: England, Scotland, Wales, the whole of Ireland, The Isle of Wight, and The Isle of Man! That's my holy grail bucket list vacation.
@@VoxNerdula YIKES! I thought The Tube was a step up from the atrocity that we Yanks call "public transit."
The Radar/Electrical widget decoration on top is very reminiscent of the type of machinery from SciFi of the 1930s, such as Flash Gordon.
I remember using Southgate station in the 1980s. It always struck me as being a cross between Gantshill and Redbridge stations.
I can't think why nobody's put a blue blazer on it.
to me
it looks almost exactly like the "10thousand monkey steeple" on many Japanese Buddhist pagodas...
I've heard it said that the widget inspired Terry Nation to design the Dalek eye stalk. Anyone agree?
Flash Gordon was my first thought, Tesla my second.
"The passenger must be made to feel as though he were a guest"... In Melbourne they struck the word "guest" and substituted it with "inmate".
I really like the look of this station, it's welcoming and the way the shops front is set up keeps people interested and looking in instead of walking past. The ticket office is nicely sized, and the round shape makes any lines that may form be open rather than jammed together. This was designed with people and busses in mind and to this day still serves that purpose very well from the look of it.
I have to say that Southgate tube station on the London Underground Piccadilly Line is very much well designed as what you have explained. And Southgate as a area in North London is quite unique, quaint and posh. And the bus station next door to the tube station acts like a interchange. And lastly Merry Christmas Jago Hazzard. :)
Indeed
@@s125ish Thanks
Yes but posh? I have some doubts as a local.
@@Marvin-dg8vj Barnet is posh. everywhere else in north london isn’t.
@@tc_buses Southgate is Enfield not Barnet.You need to go down a bit socially.
I was enthralled by this station in my formative years living at my grandmother's house a 125 bus ride away. Such excitement to be travelling by tube, sometimes to Wood Green, or on a good day, even further. I now live in Europe but will return for a site seeing trip when Covid allows. Great and evocative memories. Thank you.
"covid is forever".
It always reminded me a bit of the flying saucer from Daleks: Invasion Earth - 2150AD!
Have always liked Southgate but hadn't quite thought of the resemblance to a flying saucer before. It is rightly included in the book "Britain's 100 Greatest Railway Stations" along with Surbiton and, more surprisingly, Southwark. Nice to see a glimpse at 4:25 of the 4-COR units that used to run on the line to my home town of Portsmouth and revolutionised the service there just like the Underground did in suburban London.
One day it could blast off and return its crew to their home planet,their fact-finding mission complete.
@@rjjcms1 Rather like Pick and Holden doing their European tour. So when we eventually reach the planet we will find a London Underground zooming everyone around their city.
Nice to see a video on this station I go to every month for a rock n roll record hop. Next door to the station is a working man's club. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month
My favourite tube station , architecture of the future and still architecture of the future , Adolf loos a European architect was drawing plans as early as 1890 for such buildings , what could be more simple than a box square or round , they just slightly angled the roof to drain water , thanks for this futureristic insight jago !
Southgate may be Charles Holden's best station, but stay on to Arnos Grove to find an information plaque all about him and his work for the LPTB.
My favourite tube station by far and the local station of my earliest years. I have great great affection for it despite undergoing a traumatic event in the concourse when I small, but that wasn't the stations fault. Merry Christmas Jago, and thanks for this one. Great stuff as usual.
what was the traumatic event?
My favourite London station. Good of the later architects to design such bland buildings around it, so as not to distract from it.
Hanger Lane is similar in style. Maybe do a video about that?
What,no reference to the Jetsons? - Ah an opportunity missed. Thanks for highlighting another great station.
in actual artificial fact southgate was going to be called stargate but that was deemed to futuristic and before its time happy new year jago.
Shh... Dr Who has said we shouldn't talk about what was unearthed during construction and whisked away by a team of Archeologists lead by Indiana Jones... Oh drat I've said too much.
I have only been there a couple of times but Southgate always sticks in my head as a drop dead gorgeous station. Thanks for reminding me.
Thank you Jago. This is definitely my favourite underground station. Of course, I am biased having used it on numerous occasions when visiting my grandparents, but its design is unique and so memorable.
As a Southgate local I am touched.
Beautiful architecture and features of the era. The curves of the bus stands and shop fronts are superb and the famous typeface of the shops adds to their appeal.
I’ve not been to London in years, though thanks to your videos, Jago, I’ll be looking out to identify a few of the subjects of them.
I've always liked the Holden architecture- functional inside and outside, but good looking.
Southgate just happens to be one of my favourite stations. I used to get off the train from Bounds Green there when going to the Southgate Hobbyshop (later Beatties of London) in the early 60s. I don't know if that shop still exists, but the circular arrangement of the shops there was attractive, with a very good bus interchange.
P.S. That was a nice surprise to hear your contribution to RM Transit a couple of days ago. Recognised your voice straight away. ☺
Unfortunately, it no longer exists as a model shop. Beatties went into liquidation some time ago.
The circular interior of Piccadilly Circus station seems to an analogue of Southgate just turned inside out.
There is a book called 'Bright underground spaces' by David Lawrence that focuses on the stations designed by Charles Holden. He also designed a bus, but it never went into production.
Jago - an idea for next year or for later next year. Choose 12 of your best Underground images & make up a calender! Offer them from around October. You would of course need to include an Underground map too! My overseas relatives & friends always marvel at the London tube.
Southgate is a real beauty of a station. I've never been there but next time I find myself in London I'll be sure to pay a visit. The interior seems as worthy of note as the outside, love those uplighters!
I love the architecture of London Transport, even at some of the bus garages I worked at, there were these lovely features in the personnel areas for instance the canteen and output, certain tiles on the walls no one noticed (only us enthusiasts) but over the years upgrades to buildings happened and a lot of the original features were lost, its very rare to see any of the old LT Griffins near the canteens anymore.. Luckily I rescued many old pieces from the skip when I worked at Shepherds Bush garage... I am glad the underground stations were kept to their original conditions... Well most...
An excellent video Jago sir, on a really nice topic... And the stations on the Piccadilly line are probably my favourite ones ...
Fascinating about Southgate station architecture. I,ve gone through the past without getting off and I,ve obviously missed a treat
Another station I worked at and I was always fascinated about the design of this unusual station. When as a family we moved to Southgate this transport hub was part of our lives with daily visits to school for me and my parent going to work at London University in Russell Square. So thank you for this wonderful video.
Ah very good. Holden also designed Rayners Lane station, the big old cube building at the top of the hill where I sort of grew up for a bit.
Excellent Southgate design. Very spaceship. Integrated surrounding shopping and bus circle. Fortunate to have a large open site to build on. Cheers.
2:34 Geoff Marshall's Favourite Tube Station.
I used to use the station when I went to Beattie's model shop after school in the early sixties.
These stations were about capturing the excitement the future was thought to hold. Life would be filled with the ease of movement, the silence of movement, the connections movement would make possible. They wanted to tempt your imagination, and then capture an image that would bring it forth. Marvelous! Thank you for this episode.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have more on this architecture on the way!
'Hilversum' was really well pronounced! Thanks for another great video. I enjoy them very much.
'Hilversum' used to be on radio dials in the 50s. I had no idea where it was. The only 'station' that meant anything to me was Luxembourg.
Certainly an out-of-this-world design. But integrating it with bus lanes and a parade of shops sounds fairly innovative too.
Hate to disagree but there is some fabulous Art Deco all over the UK, I live in the Art Deco District of Miami Beach, and a tour guide for it; but my love started as a very young child in England I fell in love with it as an eight year old!
Merry Christmas Jago. I used to live near Turnpike Lane and would often go passed Southgate Station in the mid 70s driving my ex-Post Office Morris van. It looked like something out of The Jetsons but I did know what the style was and when it was built.
Thank you for this video as i work at Southgate as a bus driver anthe information on the station wall is very limited really interesting 👍 and thanks for the brilliant content over the past year
Wish you a happy new year.
Hope you had a lovely Christmas.☃️☃️☃️
Great video, you point things out that I would never notice
I, for one, am very happy that you so often mention Holden, and especially Frank Pick, who's been a hero of mine since I was first accuainted with his thoughts on design. A truly enlightened man, Pick was. As for the English not wholeheartedly adopting the styles of the continent: Yours being an island home has kept your great artists and designers from influencing those of the continent. Ne'er the less Johnston, Gill, Epstein, and Moore are lighthouses in a dark and stormy continental night. Between the wars you had Holden, the continent had Albert Speer.
Hello, Jago - thank you once again for a wonderful presentation. Regarding the shops behind the station, did you notice whether the bagel shop is still there? For you, Jago, are the cream cheese and smoked salmon to my humble crust with the hole in it.
very interesting video. I like the narrator's direction on use of the upper case.
I am familiar with Arnos Grove station, but that is as far as I have ever travelled along the northern part of the Piccadilly Line. I love the Holden stations.
Southgate's design invites you to take a closer look at the building's design and artistic touches. Oh, and also to support the shops in a purchase, or two, followed by a making a trip on a tube train to the next station to investigate its stylings, and also the area around it.
What a fantastic flying saucer / underground station! I especially like the curved frontage of the shops adjacent.
Great video! And one of my local tube stations. They temporarily changed a few of the roundels to ‘Gareth Southgate’ in 2018 following England reaching the World Cup semi-finals - which was a lovely touch. How far would have they gone had we brought home the cup?
It's a good job Gareth Southgate wasn't manager of a successful GB Olympic winning football team, they might have painted it gold like they did the letter boxes for the Athletes after London.
Thanks
There was a crash on the M25 the other day, so I found my phone diverting me through various suburban backstreets to avoid congestion - lo and behold, Southgate Station appeared as if out of nowhere, and my god it's an extraordinary thing to just come upon when you weren't expecting it! I'd seen this video when it came out, but the impact of seeing it in all its glory, the way the parade of shops prefects emphasises the effect of the central ticket office, it really is magnificent. The roundabout is damn confusing though. Possibly didn't help that I was distracted by the station...
I like IT... AND I like THEM. I find it a cozy sympathetic little thing that saucer of yours, and also, I find many of the buildings in Southgate pleasant and of a friendly type of architecture !
Chiswick Park station, also designed by Holden, looks very similar.
Again an excellent and enjoyable video. Thank you. I would love to visit Southgate station.
At 6:29 is the Town Hall of Hilversum, in Dutch "Raadhuis van Hilversum." Pronounced with an h, just like Hall).
Not even the remodelling volunteered by the Luftwaffe could have resulted in more stations like Southgate, probably because there wasn't any money to do it.
Its amazing how many look like something from the RAF c. 1935
Another top video Jago but I'm surprised you didn't mention its 1 day renaming as Gareth Southgate on July 16th 2018 following the Englad football team's glorious run to the semi-finals of the World Cup in the days and weeks immediately before. The name appeared not only on signage inside but also on the large roundel alongside the ticket hall. I remember it well because it was my birthday and I was driving nearby when I heard on the radio about the renaming hence a detour and some photos which I still have!
Incidentally, the men's clothing shop which is built in to the outer face of the ticket hall sold Gareth Southgate's trademark waistcoats (vests to our American friends) for only £20 for 48 hours afterwards.
Southgate was my local station as a kid and many years afterwards. Its funny how I took it for granted all that time and now see it as a beacon of design among an otherwise nondescript area.
I would nominate the bus "station" there as one of the bleakest and windiest places in London on a wet afternoon but it seems much nicer now with the rosy glow of hindsight.
Jago, when you get to Oakwood you may wish to note that it was always said that the underground station was the highest point from there to the Ural Mountains.
Surely it is not higher than the Brocken in the Harz Mtns?
Danke!
Thank you Jago, I hope you had a great Christmas ⛄⛄🎄 I🚂🎁❤️❤️❤️
Good to see Southgate Underground Station again having lived in Avenue Road from 1949-1961
Okay there is some modern architecture I like. These stations are actually pretty cool looking.
Good one Jago 👍 superb station
Blimey there were some incredible designs of stations through the years.
Always good to see my Home Station 'Balham' Gateway To The South! although my other regular station is 'Holloway Road' or what we call 'Meekesville' as of the Record Producer Joe Meek having his studio on Holloway Road.
Im off to clean my Bathroom Tiles have a good day Jago
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I definitely see a resemblance between Southgate and the North/Clybourn station on the Chicago subway, built in 1943. It’s on a similar corner site and has a Streamline Moderne station house opening out onto a circular plaza with shops opposite. I think it’s been modified a bit over the years but the basic layout is quite similar.
Easily one of my favourite stations on the Tube, so spacey!
I used to work in a town in Massachusetts that had a Catholic church which eerily resembled that station's ticket hall. I always assumed the spire was an antenna for making a wifi connection with the Almighty.
I think Southgate is one of those tube stations that looks particularly impressive at night, although I haven't seen it at night myself, only in photos.
You got the pronunciation of Hilversum correct, as well as the general pronunciation of Willem Dudok’s name (although I don’t know for certain which syllable of his surname should be stressed, so someone else might want to comment on that).
Know the area very well and drove past the station at least twice a day for twenty+ years. It's a pity they don't treat it to some TLC to show off the lovely exterior...Another great video from my fairly local area.😎👍
Lovely bit of design....👌🏼😊
What an *incredible* design of the station and its immediate surroundings. Goddamn, few Tube stations are as bold as this one - *very* 20th century modern, I approve. I love the sculpture on the roof that looks like, yeah, an insulator or possibly the end of an alien's plasma rifle.
Great video!
Very special. Good job celebrating.
A person who uses the word unique properly is unique.
For how many people always comment on how youtubers pronounce things wrong, you pronounced Hilversum perfectly Jago!
You are entirely right about Britain being seemingly unable to commit to any building aesthetic. To be more specific I would say that our biggest problem with architectural design is that we rarely do large swathes in a single style (either in whole or inspired by,) this is particularly true for non residential buildings. I have always thought that to get the most out of a design aesthetic you need to be fully immersed in it, both inside and outside the buildings in question, and to do otherwise is like radically switching up the architectural design going from one room to another inside your own home where you only get a taste of what could have been.
I used to live in Bolton (yes, I escaped) and there is/was a tiny section of the town centre that is built of huge stone blocks, beautiful pillars, and cobble streets. There is one spot behind (and including) the town hall where the only buildings you can see fit this design and it is wonderful, robust, fortitudinous, and charmingly timeless. Imagine if the whole town centre shared that design, it would be positively magical. If you ever get an opportunity then go inside Manchester City Hall too (at least I think that's what it is,) I would honestly give up one of my feet if I could (lop-sidedly) stand in a city that was as achingly beautiful as that building is.
What about the Hotpoint (or is it Hoover) building to the west of London
I have a friend working on the stained glass window renewal of Manchester City Hall, As to Bolton at least the dismal bus station has gone, replaced by a new hub adjacent to the Railway Station, (though of course that moves the buses away from the Market !)
I have no idea why but I can't get enough of these videos. The metro rail I grew up riding was bland and all the stations were basically the same.
So it's not just me who thinks this? I can't stand London, but I think I have watched virtually every video Jago has made. But why? The only thing under the ground where I live is tree roots or sewers.
All the same apart from those influenced by (the recently missing in action) Charles Tyson Yerkes
If a flying saucer lands in your city, throw up some scaffold around it and no one will notice.
Like some other commentators on this thread, Southgate station was a part of my youth; I considered it excitingly futuristic, but at the same time it became comfortably familiar before very long. Southgate was also unusual at the time for having a local rockabilly scene, when most neighbouring areas were dominated by rude boys, skins and ersatz mods.
Fantastic design, I like the electrode on the roof and the uniquely British style with the red brick. It is missing some palm trees and neon lighting like in LA/Miami but otherwise it is perfect.
'Willem Dudok's Hilversum City Hall.' Perfect pronunciation, sir!
Never Ever had I ever thought I hear the words Southrgate is exquisite⁉️⚽
Love Southgate station!
I used to love visitng Southgate for Beatties model shop which was just across the road from the station. Hope you & yours have had a great Christmas.