Charles Tyson Yerkes Report: No mention of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Honourable mentions: John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette. It's a required mention whenever you talk about the London sewers, after all.
There are punk songs and rap diss tracks about Bazelgette and the London sewers. Well, there's a rabbit hole I didn't expect to fall down this Friday. Yerkes-core remains a sadly under-explored genre.
@@harbl99 I think the steampunk music of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing (available on wax cylinder, amongst other formats) would appeal to some viewers. Their Bazalgette themed song is appropriately called _The Big Stink._ There's also a good one about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Ah, Night Soil. A valuable resource. Collected and carted north to fertilise the market gardens that in turn fed London. Maybe that's why Grandma insisted on boiling the cabbage for 20mins. Inedible, but at least you didn't get dysentery 🙄.
It might have worked better if they composted the solid stuff first. It won`t work that well these days since there is tons of stuff like pharmaceuticals and other things that will not decay, but it was a solid idea back then.
Interesting to note that one of Bazalgette's innovations was to make the sewers egg-shaped, so that whatever the flow, they always had adequate velocity. Then it's Next Stop Becton.
Interestingly, Bazalgette himself actually believed the miasma theory and that was his reason for building the sewers, but getting rid of the sewage also improved the water supply, so he achieved the desired result but not in the way he thought!
1:34 - For someone who spent decades observing that view, with the NatWest Tower solely dominating the skyline, it still seems strange to me to see it now hemmed-in by other, taller buildings.
Around 2000, I had to do a little bit of computery stuff in the tower on the 40th floor. The floor was being refurbished and completely stripped of any furnishings etc. also missing one window. Basically, a hole from floor to ceiling leading to oblivion. I stayed well clear! Oh, and Nat West tower........ showing your age there!
Ah thanks for covering the water-gate: a frequent conversation piece when getting sloshed at Gordon’s, over the great houses which once populated the river’s edge in the parish of Savoy! Travel a bit further behind you can spot a blue plaque marking the tiny original naval intelligence office that eventually gave birth to MI5, 6 and GCHQ; also nearby is where Benjamin Franklin lodged while living in London. The neighbourhood an old place of work for me. Just on the other side of Hungerford Bridge opposite the theatre, and right on the waterside - turn right out of the tube stop’s riverbank exit - is a splendid bronze relief memorial to Bazalgette, whose whiskers are a welcome palate cleanser to the moustachioed-fiend Chicago gangsterish visage of you-know-who.
When Marc Brunel and his son, Isambard were cutting their carriage tunnel, the miners often broke through and the filthy Thames water caused burning to the skin and other incapacity. The Embankment means much to me, having started with a tram ride where the cycle path now runs and then, travelling for years between Embankment and Sloane Square on the District/Circle Line. Nice video!
For the one or two of you who haven’t seen it, you may want to look up the episode of ‘Seven Wonder of the Industrial World’ TV series which covers this subject, as there is more to this topic than just well….what hits the fan.
Embankment is my favourite station funnily enough. During my first trip to London I wandered up the road to a bookstore up the hill and bought the first book in the Aubrey / Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien. Sat in the Embankment gardens and read it over 2 days. Now years later every time I come back to London I make a point of going and spending a few hours sitting on a bench in Embankment gardens as I did as a poor 24 year old backpacker… plenty of happy memories! Greetings from Sydney, Australia!
The more I learn about London history, the more I realize that Terry Pratchett didn't really invent any of the ideas in his books. He just selected from the already available things.
That's what I love about his work. It's all recognizable but just a little weird. The more you know about the topic he's talking about the funnier it becomes (e.g.Raising Steam is a fantastic read for train junkies). GNU Sir Terry.
Oh yes, some things he exaggerated, others he toned down, but it's all recognisable and in a weird way, even make sense. It's one of the many reasons his stories are just so brilliant.
@@pintpullinggeek Agreed, also "Going Postal" for techie geeks. If there are Jago followers here who have not read Pratchett, go read my child; be amused and enlightened.
@@delurkor I work for Royal Mail, I recognised all of the characters in "Going Postal" from among my colleagues as well as the super duper sorting machine bullshit!
I'm fairly sure on one trip to London many years ago, that I bought an allegedly meat-based product from the inspiration for Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
Thank you very much - fascinating! Please do a video on Bazalgette and the sewer - it's a story that illustrates the audacity of Victorian engineering, in that you make something using millions of bricks, something that you wouldn't know worked until you'd finished building it - but it did work (and still does after well over 100 years!)
The link between the invention / widespread use of the flushing toilet and the rise of the pollution in the Thames is an interesting one where shifting the problem just causes a problem downstream just as Bazelgette's plan led to a huge deathtoll when the SS Princess Alice sank near the Beckton outflow.
"The population of London exploded" - well no wonder it was so unhygenic! Joseph Bazalgette is a real hero of mine. That someone could concieve a system that would still be functioning today is just brilliant. More please...
Just finished the book John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854. I bought it when I saw your vid about Snow. Looking forward for more London sewer history, interesting stuff.
I have an idea of the stench. Some years ago a local farmer thought he would experiment by fertilizing his fields with human excrement. He had a huge mountain of the stuff sitting in a field for a while, totally uncovered and when the wind shifted, the smell was nauseating, you could smell it from a mile away, literally. He finally covered it in tarp which helped but it took him a while to find anybody willing to do the job. When he finally spread and ploughed it in, the smell went. Funnily enough, he never did use that form of fertilizer again.
Is this the first in a series about managing the "other sort of water" I mentioned in a comment on one of Jago's previous videos? At least we don't have smellyvision.......yet
No. No smellyvision, but just take your cell (mobile for Europe) phone into the bathroom and watch the vid. And then you could have your smellyvision. 💩
The stench was so great in one year that MP's were forced to walk around the Commons wearing handkerchiefs doused in cologne.The workers on Brunel's London tunnel were faced with diabolical problems stemming from the make up of the water in the Thames.It also included discharge from chemical and other manufacturing along its banks
The distance that was reclaimed from the river is nicely demonstrated by the brick piers supporting Hungerford railway bridge on the line between Charing Cross and Waterloo (which date to an earlier Brunel bridge at this position and may make an interesting future video?). The pier on the south bank side is a distance into the river, while the pier on the Victoria Embankment side is flush with the land. There is also a memorial to Bazelgette close to the Charing Cross pier.
This video was particularly good -- not that I've ever seen you release anything bad. I once watched a documentary in which it posited that the Bazalgette Sewer System could be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. I would think that would be a great subject for you to cover. Speaking of which, I would love to see a video from you on the dragon statues that mark the boundary of The City of London that are based on those which decorated the old London Coal Exchange building. (If you've already done a video on the that I am not aware of, then I apologise). Cheers, and take care.
@@JagoHazzard I'm aware. I was binge watching a heap of your videos (ua-cam.com/video/eGqzKduocBg/v-deo.html) this afternoon when I spotted one, giving me the idea. All the best.
Good to hear of the Adventures of Bazelgette, he's definitely much too unsung. Sing Jago, sing of Joseph! Really, I think the invisible infrastructure of London would make a very worthy celebration.
I live close to the northern sewer outfall pipe in Beckton so I've always been interested in this subject. The bomb damage seen at the base of Cleopatra's Needle is from a bomb dropped during the first air raid on London in September 1917.
Yes, yes, yes! Sewers are a vast topic of interest we perhaps choose to forget but they are certainly in the genre with the tube, railways and canals of the historical development of infrastructure and should never be underestimated!!!
5:53 Seeing the damage to the plinth of 'Cleopatra's needle' was the obelisk itself put away for safe-keeping during the war(s)? Just a thought. The story of how it got there in the first place is a good one, or have you already told it?
There is an excellent video on that subject by Robslondon - in which he points out that there were two of them. ua-cam.com/video/aQDcWg5EaXQ/v-deo.html
Great video, Jago. Another very interesting topic about London, the city where I grew up. Impressive vision and execution by Victorian thinkers and doers. Have to find and acquire books on this topic.
You are certainly unique Mr Hazzard ' wonderful videos very informative and enriched with humour' any building or engineering projects from any time centred around the capital would most certainly be enjoyed by your following ' which may I say should and will be much higher than at present.
Jago , my odiferous host , you have entertained me with a story on poop . Your story telling was first rate , but your subject was definitely a number two
Ooooo. Yes please! Videos on London’s sewers. You could do one on Crossness the workers at the end of the Southern sewers. They have some amazing old steam engines there.
Once again a terrific piece of work, I knew all about the embankment etc. Good to hear how the tube was involved with sewers though. Did anyone ever finish the so called super sewer?
Still looking forward to your sewer series! It might be interesting to use old maps to walk what was the old Thames foreshore before the embankment - and of course to go as far as the pump stations in the east…
Well, I was going to set you a challenge when the section at 4:00 popped up, as one feature in it is nearly always ignored by people who use that illustration. "Tell us more about the feature labelled 4 down at the bottom", I was going to ask. Smart Alec that you are, you then not only proceed to tell us what it is, you also may be making a video about it. Which was going to be the other thing I was going to ask. Oh well.
Brilliant stuff! My favourite part ws all of it. Well, okay, no, it was the bit at the end of the 'main feature' - love it! And thus my sacrifice is made to the algorithm!
Jago, Thanks very much for the link to the Super Sewer video nice to know construction continues. Unfortunately what I feel, are less needed projects such as HS2 and Crossrail have rather put the Super Sewer in the shade.
Hector Thorverton, Beckton is just one of the final stops on the Waterpoo Line, the other is Crossness on the south side of the Thames which still has it's magnificent Beam Engines in situ. It is open to visitors on some days.
The pneumatic railway would definitely be on my must watch list. I have read about it but that was sometime ago. So it would be nice to become reacquainted with it.
Another adventure into the smellier side of London. And with a tie-in to the tube to boot. Well done Jago! Now please excuse me while I go outside for a fresh breath of air. It got a little stuffy in here while watching the vid. 💩
The Thames in London is effectivley like a big bath sloshing up and down. This has a big impact on water quality. It is tidal but the travel of the water body toward the sea is about 200m per tide overall. If you through a body in it would appear to have dispeared off to sea only to return on the flowing tide 200m downstream. This is one of the reasons there was such a problem. More on the sewers would be great, Pumping stations, combined sewer overflows ( raw sewage still discharging to Thames today) and the lastest system for storm overflows at Beckton. Some excellent engineering.
You know when I'm overtired my brain suddenly goes really silly. So you mention Bazalgette and my tired brain goes "yaaay" like one does when watching a melodrama. And then it hit me. There is always a villain to "boooo". And my brain went "There should be a melodrama about the underworkings of London. And every time Bazalgette is mentioned or appears on stage everyone will cheer. And who do we get to do the "booo" for? Our favorite Mr. Yerkes! [I think I should get some sleep now. Hahaha]
Thanks again Jago, always interesting and informative. Perhaps we should hang perfumed curtains outside the windows of the Houses of Parliament now to stop the rather tainted smell that emanates from therein. Any takers
Have you been out to Crossness Pumping Station? It’s a bit of a pain in the backside to get there by public transport! They normally have a few open days throughout the year. It’s very interesting 🙂
If you love Tales from the Tube, then you’ll go crazy for …… ‘Stories from the Sewer’.
You’d be potty to miss it.
😂😂😂
The dig at MPs who saw no further than their nose remains pertinent.
As ever 🙄
Just as true today as it was when the first English Parliaments gathered in the Middle Ages.
Charles Tyson Yerkes Report: No mention of Charles Tyson Yerkes.
Honourable mentions: John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette. It's a required mention whenever you talk about the London sewers, after all.
You have a whole video about rivers of shit, and doesn't mention Yerkes once.
Take your win and go home.
There are punk songs and rap diss tracks about Bazelgette and the London sewers. Well, there's a rabbit hole I didn't expect to fall down this Friday.
Yerkes-core remains a sadly under-explored genre.
Perhaps we need to play Yerkees Bingo. Where we predict at what time in the next video he first says the name?
@@archstanton6102 the winner gets a free tour of the entire sewer system in London's fare city...or maybe not
@@harbl99 I think the steampunk music of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing (available on wax cylinder, amongst other formats) would appeal to some viewers. Their Bazalgette themed song is appropriately called _The Big Stink._ There's also a good one about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Ah, Night Soil. A valuable resource. Collected and carted north to fertilise the market gardens that in turn fed London.
Maybe that's why Grandma insisted on boiling the cabbage for 20mins. Inedible, but at least you didn't get dysentery 🙄.
Brilliant !
That explains the great British tradition of taking the joy out any food ingredient 🤣
Even in the 1980's in Hong Kong you had to look at the little pieces of pink paper sticking to you lettuce from China.
@@new-lviv yes , night soil
It might have worked better if they composted the solid stuff first. It won`t work that well these days since there is tons of stuff like pharmaceuticals and other things that will not decay, but it was a solid idea back then.
Interesting to note that one of Bazalgette's innovations was to make the sewers egg-shaped, so that whatever the flow, they always had adequate velocity. Then it's Next Stop Becton.
Well, the pumping station at West Ham first, then Beckton.
Inverted egg-shaped, in fact, or big endian, with the wide bit at the top and the narrow pointy bit at the bottom.
@@luxford60 Ah yes; the cathedral of sewage.
The working steam pumping station at Crossness might be worth a visit.
Joseph Bazalgette removed London's sewage. His great-great-grandson gave us Big Brother.
And also directed the episode of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World about the sewers
Both heavily involved with sh1te then.😁
One took away the shit and the other gave us shit.
"Night Soil" that's got to be a goth band name!
😁👍
For a finale they set off an explosion at the front of the stage that sprays sticky brown goo over the first ten rows of the audience.
@@lwilton 🤣😂💩
I was hoping the term 'gong farmer' might make an appearance. Maybe later.
Interestingly, Bazalgette himself actually believed the miasma theory and that was his reason for building the sewers, but getting rid of the sewage also improved the water supply, so he achieved the desired result but not in the way he thought!
1:34 - For someone who spent decades observing that view, with the NatWest Tower solely dominating the skyline, it still seems strange to me to see it now hemmed-in by other, taller buildings.
Around 2000, I had to do a little bit of computery stuff in the tower on the 40th floor. The floor was being refurbished and completely stripped of any furnishings etc. also missing one window. Basically, a hole from floor to ceiling leading to oblivion. I stayed well clear!
Oh, and Nat West tower........ showing your age there!
Ah thanks for covering the water-gate: a frequent conversation piece when getting sloshed at Gordon’s, over the great houses which once populated the river’s edge in the parish of Savoy!
Travel a bit further behind you can spot a blue plaque marking the tiny original naval intelligence office that eventually gave birth to MI5, 6 and GCHQ; also nearby is where Benjamin Franklin lodged while living in London. The neighbourhood an old place of work for me.
Just on the other side of Hungerford Bridge opposite the theatre, and right on the waterside - turn right out of the tube stop’s riverbank exit - is a splendid bronze relief memorial to Bazalgette, whose whiskers are a welcome palate cleanser to the moustachioed-fiend Chicago gangsterish visage of you-know-who.
Please include the pumping stations in any future video on the sewer system.
Watched this while eating breakfast....still clicked the like button.
You must have a hardy constitution.
I’m eating mine watching it now. I studied public health as part of Victorian history in my history degree. It doesn’t phase me at all anymore.
When Marc Brunel and his son, Isambard were cutting their carriage tunnel, the miners often broke through and the filthy Thames water caused burning to the skin and other incapacity. The Embankment means much to me, having started with a tram ride where the cycle path now runs and then, travelling for years between Embankment and Sloane Square on the District/Circle Line. Nice video!
Parliament before 1858: You know nothing, John Snow.
Parliament after 1858: Umm, sorry. We still cool?
For the one or two of you who haven’t seen it, you may want to look up the episode of ‘Seven Wonder of the Industrial World’ TV series which covers this subject, as there is more to this topic than just well….what hits the fan.
A great series. 👍
I can almost taste Pratchett's inspiration for Ankh-Morpork and the solid quality of the River Ankh 😄
Yes to those ideas, and a recap of the under construction 'supersewer' would be useful.
"I've never met a problem I couldn't solve with lime!" -Old Timey London
Also great for gin
So many wonderful euphemisms but "Night Soil" is my favorite!
*Bay Stated* - How about 'gong'? The men who emptied the communal shit-pits were known as 'gong farmers'.
@@21stcenturyozman20 Or Honey Wagon; the vehicle that took the ...stuff, away.
Embankment is my favourite station funnily enough. During my first trip to London I wandered up the road to a bookstore up the hill and bought the first book in the Aubrey / Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien.
Sat in the Embankment gardens and read it over 2 days.
Now years later every time I come back to London I make a point of going and spending a few hours sitting on a bench in Embankment gardens as I did as a poor 24 year old backpacker… plenty of happy memories!
Greetings from Sydney, Australia!
The more I learn about London history, the more I realize that Terry Pratchett didn't really invent any of the ideas in his books. He just selected from the already available things.
That's what I love about his work. It's all recognizable but just a little weird. The more you know about the topic he's talking about the funnier it becomes (e.g.Raising Steam is a fantastic read for train junkies). GNU Sir Terry.
Oh yes, some things he exaggerated, others he toned down, but it's all recognisable and in a weird way, even make sense. It's one of the many reasons his stories are just so brilliant.
@@pintpullinggeek Agreed, also "Going Postal" for techie geeks.
If there are Jago followers here who have not read Pratchett, go read my child; be amused and enlightened.
@@delurkor I work for Royal Mail, I recognised all of the characters in "Going Postal" from among my colleagues as well as the super duper sorting machine bullshit!
I'm fairly sure on one trip to London many years ago, that I bought an allegedly meat-based product from the inspiration for Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
Thank you very much - fascinating! Please do a video on Bazalgette and the sewer - it's a story that illustrates the audacity of Victorian engineering, in that you make something using millions of bricks, something that you wouldn't know worked until you'd finished building it - but it did work (and still does after well over 100 years!)
The link between
the invention / widespread use of the flushing toilet
and the rise of the pollution in the Thames
is an interesting one
where shifting the problem
just causes a problem downstream
just as Bazelgette's plan
led to a huge deathtoll
when the SS Princess Alice
sank near the Beckton outflow.
I remember when visiting London I was surprised at how wide the Embankment was.
thank you for that very enjoyable history lesson
My hopes for a Jago Hazzard/Martin Zero crossover just got inflated.
I'm with you on that one. brilliant idea.
I only like MZ videos about Manchester :(
Masterful editing as always, Jago.
"The population of London exploded" - well no wonder it was so unhygenic! Joseph Bazalgette is a real hero of mine. That someone could concieve a system that would still be functioning today is just brilliant. More please...
Thanks again Jago. And they still dump sewage in the Thames. At high tide and at night.
Great ideas for future videos; really enjoy these ‘content extensions’...
Just finished the book John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854. I bought it when I saw your vid about Snow. Looking forward for more London sewer history, interesting stuff.
A video on the stunning Crossness Pumping Station would be great as part of a sewage series.
I have an idea of the stench. Some years ago a local farmer thought he would experiment by fertilizing his fields with human excrement. He had a huge mountain of the stuff sitting in a field for a while, totally uncovered and when the wind shifted, the smell was nauseating, you could smell it from a mile away, literally.
He finally covered it in tarp which helped but it took him a while to find anybody willing to do the job. When he finally spread and ploughed it in, the smell went. Funnily enough, he never did use that form of fertilizer again.
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Oh, dis gun be gud.
Is this the first in a series about managing the "other sort of water" I mentioned in a comment on one of Jago's previous videos?
At least we don't have smellyvision.......yet
No. No smellyvision, but just take your cell (mobile for Europe) phone into the bathroom and watch the vid. And then you could have your smellyvision. 💩
The stench was so great in one year that MP's were forced to walk around the Commons wearing handkerchiefs doused in cologne.The workers on Brunel's London tunnel were faced with diabolical problems stemming from the make up of the water in the Thames.It also included discharge from chemical and other manufacturing along its banks
Great tale from the Tube , keep them coming Jago !
Those video ideas certainly sound like they could be interesting.
More sewers and plague pits please!!
Great vid Jago. A future video on the sewer system would be something to get our hands dirty with
The distance that was reclaimed from the river is nicely demonstrated by the brick piers supporting Hungerford railway bridge on the line between Charing Cross and Waterloo (which date to an earlier Brunel bridge at this position and may make an interesting future video?). The pier on the south bank side is a distance into the river, while the pier on the Victoria Embankment side is flush with the land. There is also a memorial to Bazelgette close to the Charing Cross pier.
Also the distance reclaimed is demonstrated by the distance from the Strand ( = the beach).
This video was particularly good -- not that I've ever seen you release anything bad. I once watched a documentary in which it posited that the Bazalgette Sewer System could be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. I would think that would be a great subject for you to cover.
Speaking of which, I would love to see a video from you on the dragon statues that mark the boundary of The City of London that are based on those which decorated the old London Coal Exchange building.
(If you've already done a video on the that I am not aware of, then I apologise).
Cheers, and take care.
Interesting suggestion! And I do have some footage of the statues...
@@JagoHazzard I'm aware. I was binge watching a heap of your videos (ua-cam.com/video/eGqzKduocBg/v-deo.html) this afternoon when I spotted one, giving me the idea.
All the best.
@@Figulus Maybe the one on the lions from the Lion Brewery?
Thanks Jago I learned something new today.
Good to hear of the Adventures of Bazelgette, he's definitely much too unsung. Sing Jago, sing of Joseph! Really, I think the invisible infrastructure of London would make a very worthy celebration.
I've looked, but can't find a biography of him anywhere! Ridiculous: the man was clearly brilliant! 🤔
@@bryan3550 there was a whole thing on BBC about him building the sewer!
Thanks for this. Sewers, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, pneumatic railways-all would be of interest .
Definitely cover the sewage system from start to present day! Excellent topic :)
I live close to the northern sewer outfall pipe in Beckton so I've always been interested in this subject.
The bomb damage seen at the base of Cleopatra's Needle is from a bomb dropped during the first air raid on London in September 1917.
That air raid was covered by Mark Felton.
Yes, yes, yes! Sewers are a vast topic of interest we perhaps choose to forget but they are certainly in the genre with the tube, railways and canals of the historical development of infrastructure and should never be underestimated!!!
This covers a lot of development projects in 19th century London.
It also answers a couple of Station name anomalies I always wondered about.
I still remember it being Charing Cross with Strand etc etc etc I'm sure have done a video about that
5:53 Seeing the damage to the plinth of 'Cleopatra's needle' was the obelisk itself put away for safe-keeping during the war(s)? Just a thought.
The story of how it got there in the first place is a good one, or have you already told it?
Well this certainly puts the theft of my recycling bin into perspective
seems that notification bot on Discord seemed to work, so i'm here now for more minding the gap and sewer things.
Jago, another great video! It would be interesting to get your take on the London Necropolis Railway one day!
There is an excellent video on that subject by Robslondon - in which he points out that there were two of them. ua-cam.com/video/aQDcWg5EaXQ/v-deo.html
Excellent tale of the underground
Great video, Jago. Another very interesting topic about London, the city where I grew up. Impressive vision and execution by Victorian thinkers and doers. Have to find and acquire books on this topic.
I appreciate the flow of this video. No mucking about.
You are certainly unique Mr Hazzard ' wonderful videos very informative and enriched with humour' any building or engineering projects from any time centred around the capital would most certainly be enjoyed by your following ' which may I say should and will be much higher than at present.
Many thanks!
You will soon have the Tideway Tunnel to write about. Looking forward to that.
Jago , my odiferous host , you have entertained me with a story on poop . Your story telling was first rate , but your subject was definitely a number two
No stink at all, but I find myself flushed with fascination! One of your most fascinating tales!
Ooooo. Yes please! Videos on London’s sewers. You could do one on Crossness the workers at the end of the Southern sewers. They have some amazing old steam engines there.
Lol…😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂…just love that dry humour of yours…
Your videos are some the most educational and engaging on UA-cam tbh, you're also funny as hell tbh.
I need to check dictionary first to know what Embankment actually means before watching this video. Thank you Jago. I learned something new everyday
😂 😂 😂 😂 Thank you for another enjoyable tale from the past 😄
Thank you, Monsewer!
Once again a terrific piece of work, I knew all about the embankment etc. Good to hear how the tube was involved with sewers though. Did anyone ever finish the so called super sewer?
It is still being worked on. Have a look here. www.tideway.london/
Yes, a Jago Hazzard London sewer system film sounds perfect. I'm in!
Still looking forward to your sewer series! It might be interesting to use old maps to walk what was the old Thames foreshore before the embankment - and of course to go as far as the pump stations in the east…
Well, I was going to set you a challenge when the section at 4:00 popped up, as one feature in it is nearly always ignored by people who use that illustration. "Tell us more about the feature labelled 4 down at the bottom", I was going to ask. Smart Alec that you are, you then not only proceed to tell us what it is, you also may be making a video about it. Which was going to be the other thing I was going to ask. Oh well.
8:22 Whenever I see pictures of the Villiers Gate, I am once more moved to mourn the demise of his wonderful Of Lane. It should be reinstated.
I would greatly like the video on Bazalgette's sewer system overhaul plans to be made. Thank you, Jago.
Another superb video Jago.
Brilliant stuff! My favourite part ws all of it. Well, okay, no, it was the bit at the end of the 'main feature' - love it! And thus my sacrifice is made to the algorithm!
Jago, Thanks very much for the link to the Super Sewer video nice to know construction continues. Unfortunately what I feel, are less needed projects such as HS2 and Crossrail have rather put the Super Sewer in the shade.
Absolutely fascinating again ! Feel like I'm being potty trained again ,thank you jago !
Really hope to bump into you one day in London.
Hector Thorverton, Beckton is just one of the final stops on the Waterpoo Line, the other is Crossness on the south side of the Thames which still has it's magnificent Beam Engines in situ. It is open to visitors on some days.
Very interesting! I look forward to looking into the sewer system with you soon, from a distance of course!
Fantastic video. Reply enjoyed it. Thank you.
The pneumatic railway would definitely be on my must watch list. I have read about it but that was sometime ago. So it would be nice to become reacquainted with it.
Another adventure into the smellier side of London. And with a tie-in to the tube to boot. Well done Jago! Now please excuse me while I go outside for a fresh breath of air. It got a little stuffy in here while watching the vid. 💩
You keep cracking me up, Jago!
To be both funny & interesting on a thing as sewage; now that’s classy 👌🏽
"Night Soil" was W.H.Auden's earlier, less successful poem...
This is the night soil, crossing the city...
Now, what rhymes with 'city'...?
I would really enjoy videos on both the London sewer and the pneumatic railway.
Who owned this Underground Electric Railways Company of London? Could you show us a photo?
Charles Tyson Yerkes. Have a look here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Electric_Railways_Company_of_London
ITMA!
@@bryan3550 It certainly is.😊
The Thames in London is effectivley like a big bath sloshing up and down. This has a big impact on water quality. It is tidal but the travel of the water body toward the sea is about 200m per tide overall. If you through a body in it would appear to have dispeared off to sea only to return on the flowing tide 200m downstream. This is one of the reasons there was such a problem. More on the sewers would be great, Pumping stations, combined sewer overflows ( raw sewage still discharging to Thames today) and the lastest system for storm overflows at Beckton. Some excellent engineering.
Fantastic video sir.
A good follow up video would be one about the Thames Tideway scheme.
You know when I'm overtired my brain suddenly goes really silly. So you mention Bazalgette and my tired brain goes "yaaay" like one does when watching a melodrama. And then it hit me. There is always a villain to "boooo". And my brain went "There should be a melodrama about the underworkings of London. And every time Bazalgette is mentioned or appears on stage everyone will cheer. And who do we get to do the "booo" for? Our favorite Mr. Yerkes! [I think I should get some sleep now. Hahaha]
Thanks again Jago, always interesting and informative. Perhaps we should hang perfumed curtains outside the windows of the Houses of Parliament now to stop the rather tainted smell that emanates from therein. Any takers
Have you been out to Crossness Pumping Station? It’s a bit of a pain in the backside to get there by public transport! They normally have a few open days throughout the year. It’s very interesting 🙂
Could you look at how your telecom system was run ? The exchanges and conduits runs would be interesting too
Those were the days, nostalgia! Lol 😂
The map at 3:48 is amazing!
ha ha ha love the how you cut your self off at the end :)
Stories from the Sewer, yes please !
So well done
That's very interesting video thank you