I lived in Edinburgh from the late 1970s until about 1990. I had a friend who worked for Edinburgh City Council’s Estates Department and it was she who told me about this close underneath the City Chambers. This was long before it became an official attraction. I went down there twice equipped with a reliable torch because only the rooms off the main close had no illumination. Now of course it’s a major tourist attraction.
Definitely something to put on the must see list. Through Lucy's Lens focuses on English museums and historical sites that reproduce ordinary people's lived history. I recommend her channel to those who enjoyed this episode. These sites mean a lot more to me than palaces.
Thank you for the tour, lad, it was fascinating! Thank you to mary kings close organization as well, for creating such great visuals & letting the filming be done... ;-)
Incredible that all this was able to be preserved and the history of it is able to live on. What hard times that must have been and can’t imagine the suffering. Excellent video Robert, really enjoyed it. ❤❤
Thanks Robert. I found this so very interesting. I can't begin to imagine what the streets were Lik to walk through when the townspeople where emptying their chamber pots out the windows... Much less the odor. . ... We were taught about the Black plague in elementary school.. it would have been a horrible time to be alive that's for sure. Please keep up the awesome work I love to hear you tell your tales. Wishing you and yours a very very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁❤
Thanks once again, Robert, this was fascinating. Until this video, I never thought of surviving the plague as a punishment. Now back to work, oh who am I kidding, I will just find another distraction. No, I didn't get that report written, but ask me about Mary Kings Close.
Once again, an extremely fascinating look back! Edinburgh seems to have a lot of mystery! ❤ Maybe, this was the inspiration behind Rowling's Digon Alley (spelling)!! Was wondering, any good history in Wigtown? Understand it to be the beginning of Christianity! 😮 Can you expand? 😊❤❤ Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄🎅
This is where I’ve always wanted to go in Edinburgh 🎉Excellent tour! With all the close quarters and lack of efficient sewers, isn’t this where the expression “Raining cats and dogs” came from due to flooding? And the grim children’s game Ring around the rosey🐦⬛👻 Thanks for your hard work! 🇺🇸SC
'You never know what's buried underneath all this history'. Yes, I do! Time Team taught me.... MORE HISTORY!! No religion but lots of death, just up my close! Lovely video as usual...
Great video, I found it fascinating. The noise's from outside Mary King close, at the beginning of the tour, certainly helped to create the atmosphere.😊
Wow! This was a great presentation! I had no idea (being from the US and never having had the pleasure of visiting Scotland, except in dreams, of course) that any of this existed! Thank you for sharing! I dearly love the "creepy histories" and this one was quite fascinating! Thanks again!
I used to work above the Close. It's entrance was in what was then The City Architect's Dept within the City Chambers. A room at the top of the Close was used to store old records, and apart from some junk the rooms were empty. It is now tarted up like a creepy Disney version of itself. However, it is worth a visit.
Thank you so so much Robert for this amazing tour/history of underground streets in Edinburgh 😲👍 💯 It must've stank fae the high heavens back then, poor folks😢 I'd heard the story of Annie, poor wee mite 😢 That plague man 😱 (I've a fear of going underground) so thank you for sharing this 🤗 Have a wonderful day Robert and family ❤
There is the old main streets underneath Seattle Wa. dating back to the early 1800's, turned into a museum now. I've never been there but my Granddaughter and her girlfriend went last summer and said it was really cool.
On 27 September 1940 a 500lb bomb dropped on the Caledonian Distillery (“the Cally”), the largest distillery in Scotland, on the corner of Duff Street and Springwell Place. Gallons of whisky spread down the street causing an enormous fire which spread to tenements in the surrounding streets. Hundreds of residents were made homeless. Overall, however, Edinburgh was fortunate not to experience large-scale air raids during the war and avoided the worst of the Blitz
I love the plauge doctors costume iv got one of the beaked masks imagine walking about Edinburgh back then seeing them beaked guys walking about .....they think the plauge even started in Edinburgh around these times as it was the most populated place in Europe
I saw this notification pop up on my phone & said, "Oh goody! Scotland Unplugged!!" & came right over. Many thank yous to you & the caretakers of Mary King's Close for the fascinating tour! (BTW, have you seen the videos on here about the wild Haggis that roam the Highlands? They're great! 😂) ua-cam.com/video/FBAgvssZxNI/v-deo.html&si=Ta_kTrqXgFR-KyFE
Hello Mr. Story Teller. Inquiring minds wish to know if there was a descendent of the Hoof GP in the Byre ??? Were there 17th century hoof trimmers ??? (that was supposed to be a funny !!)
I lived in Edinburgh from the late 1970s until about 1990. I had a friend who worked for Edinburgh City Council’s Estates Department and it was she who told me about this close underneath the City Chambers. This was long before it became an official attraction. I went down there twice equipped with a reliable torch because only the rooms off the main close had no illumination. Now of course it’s a major tourist attraction.
It always good to see a new Scotland Unplugged video has been uploaded.
Definitely something to put on the must see list. Through Lucy's Lens focuses on English museums and historical sites that reproduce ordinary people's lived history. I recommend her channel to those who enjoyed this episode. These sites mean a lot more to me than palaces.
I like palaces, too, but I want to see the palaces' bones. The architecture, the foundations, the ancient kitchens...
Excellent episode. Brought back memories. Done the tour and yes, left a little dolly for Annie. It was fantastic to see again. Many thanks 🙏💛💯💯💯💛🙏
Thank you for the tour, lad, it was fascinating! Thank you to mary kings close organization as well, for creating such great visuals & letting the filming be done... ;-)
Well worth doing the.full tour 😃
Fascinating! Thanks Robert!
Very Cool Scotland Unplugged, 👍😎🏴/🇺🇸 !
Love your content, Robert. Many thanks for sharing.
Wonderful tour! Thanks so much!
Family time? Nice. Slainte agus bliadna m'hath ur!
Incredible that all this was able to be preserved and the history of it is able to live on. What hard times that must have been and can’t imagine the suffering. Excellent video Robert, really enjoyed it. ❤❤
Thanks Robert. I found this so very interesting. I can't begin to imagine what the streets were Lik to walk through when the townspeople where emptying their chamber pots out the windows... Much less the odor. . ... We were taught about the Black plague in elementary school.. it would have been a horrible time to be alive that's for sure.
Please keep up the awesome work I love to hear you tell your tales.
Wishing you and yours a very very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁❤
So cool!!! I love the stories about the people that once lived there. Excellent video!
As always, this was an amazing video. Love your content. ❤
That was amazing, thank you Robert.
Thanks once again, Robert, this was fascinating. Until this video, I never thought of surviving the plague as a punishment. Now back to work, oh who am I kidding, I will just find another distraction. No, I didn't get that report written, but ask me about Mary Kings Close.
It's a feeling I know well 😆
Great video. Amazing how people lived centuries ago.
Oh Robert, I want to visit so badly !!! Thank you.
Excellent venue 🤠
Thanks
Looking forward to this one ! Heard about this but never saw any of it .
This is great history. Thank you Robert, enjoyed it very much!
Thanks Robert! Makes me appreciate our 21st Century lifestyle even more. You did a wonderful job describing wjo and what is down there.
Once again, an extremely fascinating look back! Edinburgh seems to have a lot of mystery! ❤ Maybe, this was the inspiration behind Rowling's Digon Alley (spelling)!! Was wondering, any good history in Wigtown? Understand it to be the beginning of Christianity! 😮 Can you expand? 😊❤❤ Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄🎅
There's a video on the Wigtown Martyrs from May last year. 😄 Merry Christmas when it comes!
This is where I’ve always wanted to go in Edinburgh 🎉Excellent tour! With all the close quarters and lack of efficient sewers, isn’t this where the expression “Raining cats and dogs” came from due to flooding? And the grim children’s game Ring around the rosey🐦⬛👻
Thanks for your hard work! 🇺🇸SC
wellworth a visit
Thank you for showing this--I was always interested in Mary King's Close, but I'd never never go underground!
Awesome video...great look into the past...❤
'You never know what's buried underneath all this history'.
Yes, I do! Time Team taught me....
MORE HISTORY!!
No religion but lots of death, just up my close!
Lovely video as usual...
The facilities in the middle of the room 😂 this would be an exciting tour. So many things under the city with much history. Fascinating
Amazing place definitely worth a visit.
Great video, I found it fascinating.
The noise's from outside Mary King close, at the beginning of the tour, certainly helped to create the atmosphere.😊
I'm sooooooo glad you posted another video! I've watched ALL your other videos and was anxious for you to post a new video! Thank you!!
Thanks for showing this interesting history. I thoroughly enjoyed it
Fascinating. There are things like this under the area around DC
Proof there’s lots of stuff buried
?As in Washington DC? There are medieval underground streets in Washington DC?
What an excellent episode! Thanks, Robert!
Thanks Robert❣️ just sitting down to watch - been to Edinburgh and know of these streets but never went down- can’t wait to see it🏴✌🏼
will add this to our Edinburgh "to do" list!
I've torn down enough lath and plaster in Missouri it makes me want to blow my nose and cough!! 😊
Haha. Yeah, it makes a mess when it comes down!
Wow! This was a great presentation! I had no idea (being from the US and never having had the pleasure of visiting Scotland, except in dreams, of course) that any of this existed! Thank you for sharing! I dearly love the "creepy histories" and this one was quite fascinating! Thanks again!
Wow, that is to cool
I visited Mary King's Close in 2016 and thought it was really interesting. The plague doctors' costumes were wild!
I used to work above the Close. It's entrance was in what was then The City Architect's Dept within the City Chambers. A room at the top of the Close was used to store old records, and apart from some junk the rooms were empty. It is now tarted up like a creepy Disney version of itself. However, it is worth a visit.
Might be my favorite video so far!
This was great! I love what they've done with the place!
Thank you Robert, that was wonderful as well as educational! K.
A great video Robbie didn’t know that you could go and see the secret street.
You can take an hour long tour, with much more info than I could manage in a video 🙂
This is something a lot of travel shows don't mention. Thanks for sharing this adventure !!! Watch out for the Wee Free Men !!!! 😂😂 🇺🇲 / 🏴
Thank you, sir. 🍁
That was something quite awesome .... thanks
Incredible experience, thanks from 🇨🇦
Very interesting place, but also kinda..... creepy! ❤️ from Michigan USA
Must admit it didn't feel that way when I was in there. Too much to see! 🙂
Wow! Very cool!
Thank you for the history.
Glad you're back in the saddle, Robert! I'm planning a far-in-the-future trip to Scotland with my dad, with Edinburgh and Wigtown high on the list!
Both highly recommended 🙂
I did the tour, definitely recommend it!
Me too. No beating the in-person experience. 🙂
Thank you so so much Robert for this amazing tour/history of underground streets in Edinburgh 😲👍 💯 It must've stank fae the high heavens back then, poor folks😢 I'd heard the story of Annie, poor wee mite 😢 That plague man 😱
(I've a fear of going underground) so thank you for sharing this 🤗 Have a wonderful day Robert and family ❤
Wow, how it’s changed for the better. It was fairly dark when I took the tour. Plus I don’t think they had all of the models. Thank you Robert.
Thank you, that was so interesting
I'd love to see this!
Great video.
Excellent video! Would you mind doing a video on how the Scottish accent came to be?!? And why it differs from the English speaking accent!
Haha. I'm not even sure how MY accent came to be. I've been accused of faking it. 🤣 Definitely one for a future video!
There is the old main streets underneath Seattle Wa. dating back to the early 1800's, turned into a museum now. I've never been there but my Granddaughter and her girlfriend went last summer and said it was really cool.
Life would have been so tough, only the strongest survived.
Very interesting.
This has changed so much since I was there back in 1997. There was nothing down there other than empty rooms.
Any word on whether the offerings eased the distress of Annie's spirit? I hope she was pleased w/ all those great toys that she has been given...❤
Never been doon 😵
Due to no filming policy it’s good to see at last
Edinburgh gotta be one of the most haunted city's on earth.. I didn't know Edinburgh was never bombed during the war
The gardens that everyone loves to sit in, have picnics and relax... if you knew what it was to behind with.. it would give you the fear...
On 27 September 1940 a 500lb bomb dropped on the Caledonian Distillery (“the Cally”), the largest distillery in Scotland, on the corner of Duff Street and Springwell Place. Gallons of whisky spread down the street causing an enormous fire which spread to tenements in the surrounding streets. Hundreds of residents were made homeless. Overall, however, Edinburgh was fortunate not to experience large-scale air raids during the war and avoided the worst of the Blitz
That, I didn't know! (Used to live just round the corner). I stand corrected. 🙂
@@scotlandunplugged future vid mate
I love the plauge doctors costume iv got one of the beaked masks imagine walking about Edinburgh back then seeing them beaked guys walking about .....they think the plauge even started in Edinburgh around these times as it was the most populated place in Europe
I saw this notification pop up on my phone & said, "Oh goody! Scotland Unplugged!!" & came right over. Many thank yous to you & the caretakers of Mary King's Close for the fascinating tour! (BTW, have you seen the videos on here about the wild Haggis that roam the Highlands? They're great! 😂)
ua-cam.com/video/FBAgvssZxNI/v-deo.html&si=Ta_kTrqXgFR-KyFE
Hello Mr. Story Teller. Inquiring minds wish to know if there was a descendent of the Hoof GP in the Byre ???
Were there 17th century hoof trimmers ??? (that was supposed to be a funny !!)
Haha. No hoof timing required back then. It didn't really take off until the latter half of the 20th century, with concrete floors. 🙂
Butchers were also called fleshmoungers esp. In England