Walking the Streets of London - History Everywhere!
how you doing folks it's the morning feeling a bit uh got a bit of a cold now folks I think that happened the other day I think it's just a slow developer but uh last night we went to the Back to the Future musical little picture um and yeah brilliant show definitely recommend it if you're in the in the area in it really was spectacular brilliant you know it's eye opener yeah I don't know what we're doing today get breakfast at the travel lodge and um yeah see where our feet takes us folks got the smells of London folks I mean the size of that not much sure you but you know is going on down there that's the view from outside folks oh lovely right wow all right then folks back to the train station it seems lovely old train folks right here we are then folks back at King's cross panas King's cross Tube Station I think that's where the fire happened isn't it in the ' 80s was it or '90s I can't remember that's a massive station and uh yeah just waiting for a train now back to good old DOA found this sort of water feature near King's grass it's not bad is it not bad just around the corner it's amazing what you can find just by a little bit of exploring folks just around the back of King's cross yeah we yeah down the other there what they called um barges no no they called tank house they yeah possibly that mad who's that they did yeah that's quite good that was have to get them on DVD Rosie and Jim the back of the site look see Cole office there you notice that written on the wall there that's mad look at the dirt the dirty bricks just shows you like what it was like back in the old days the smoke I think it looks good with the black window yeah it's nice that a Lori like there should we go down there yeah o two of them Wildlife I nature of I again folks there's your Canal boats you walk down there yeah some more bits here F it's just magnet fishing I'm Reckoning old telephone and uh bits and Bobs like that Wonder old that stuff is very old look the wood on top of that one there they are in they see there's smoke coming out of some of these yeah people are in them aren't they back there there was as well cobwebs does do it Waterfall oh wow just doing a bit of sightseing folks before we get the train 9:32 9:32 folks so so we've got to get there in night 15 minut should we go down there have a look go over and then back this our water tower in the distance there look is that brilliant so what are we looking at here a lock lock wow that's m is it I mean running out of time so we might have to cuz look it keeps going into the tunnel at the end there going to miss this but we come back folks you down this is nice what's going on sounds like the old sea go looking at these these are all gas um sort of fuel storage bits aren't they they've been converted into some sort of housing apartment this one here has been left as it is wow that's a bit mad is it they got plaques on the bottom of the legs folks of these gas I think they gas things aren't they you know what I'm on about they got one at Buckland haven't they I know what you mean Gas Works is it yeah Gas Works let's go to this one here cuz it's obviously got something you can see inside folks of them bolts wow oh is it just grass oh was I was expecting a massive like void yeah there we go it's inside it and these things I don't know if this was something to do with lowering and pulling the actual uh bits and Bobs tank thing I don't know I don't know much about them but there you go folks there's no plaque is there I can't see one over there folks the old post office tower there used to have a spinning restaurant not very not didn't spin that fast it sounded like that Cutlery yeah I yeah mad another sort of pump thing here folks all these buildings are part of the gas works as well the name where oh yeah gas gas holders folks wow that old building found it folks after many years nice look at this door it's like a blast door folks and a tube system check that thing out robot service embankment down there you got an old fashioned street sign up there look oh yeah that doctor keep I always yeah it sounds like it where's and systems are going to like ddge people towards this right what we got here then folks Herman Melvin Meli mov dick books what are they any good I've never read it but I recogniz the name right it's finding um anything and everything nowadays isn't it it's like hidden in the back street there look wow that's Ching Cross isn't it is it yeah it's a station that's Madness Nelson's colum there folks it's very busy it's always busy in tralan square Absolut Madness look at it let's go and get a MC flurry then look at this folks 1825 Methodist Church King's cross s has been changed there it looks like modern and they've added 1825 to it it's strange maybe it was there beforehand who knows got a new build going on here folks I was just saying to Debbie when this new building is built you won't get a view like this again from this point anyway so uh embrace an old street sign there look and beneath it is another street sign is that brilliant abolutely crazy can't really read the bottom one now but that's the second world war there's an old Pub for you folks that was a lovely old place 50s and second one war and all that don't see that very much nowadays do you look Penny fing folks all back Streets of London this is a fantastic Building look watch this an oldfashioned school that plant there it's got SB what does that stand for old school folks I love that old building there like says something 19 20s or something like that what' you reckon Sinclair house 1912 folks that's saw one big building is that's the entrance to it isn't that mad looks very vintage folks craft Masons look at this middle sex is that where we are around us godam it 1888 folks and that is your building is that amazing survive the blitz there a sight isn't it wow that great yeah amazing is they then you go down there but ain't got time for all that folks on this busy road folks got a hospital old vintage Hospital right there see the sign there you go don't know any information on it but uh it's that vintage survive the Blitz survive the uh the basically the construction of all this modern rubbish 1866 folks whoa indeed this lovely little building here folks another one look at a date on this it's $ 1899 yeah it's got like faces on the the oal bit that may it that's m there's got a pup beneath it all right so King cross pank folks the hotel look at this isn't that amazing car out oh we here super car over there yeah and that look at that and above the door there got the coat of arms that's else there saw on the other side yeah I bet look at that front wow is that great I'm not into cars but look at that the Lions up there look L zooming see yeah there through the trees there a lift here here we are then homebound Euro star going there going to France har through the camera it doesn't show the extend the size really doesn't 80 67 how old was the established Hotel 1870 or something 1873 yeah so obviously yeah it was all original cuz it's behind this isn't it the hotel that's mad here we go then folks our train is that train right sorry folks this ain't our train this is going to marget get the next one that was the end of that
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