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I’m walking between every station on the London Underground
There will eventually be walks between every tube station, in both directions, within the confines of the Circle Line. Outside the Circle Line, walks are done in the "into London" direction.
I illustrate each walk with some history, a little bit of "well I never!" and with various degrees of competence with cameras.
It's all in aid of the Prostate Cancer UK charity - there's a QR code with links to their fundraisers at the end of each video.
There will eventually be walks between every tube station, in both directions, within the confines of the Circle Line. Outside the Circle Line, walks are done in the "into London" direction.
I illustrate each walk with some history, a little bit of "well I never!" and with various degrees of competence with cameras.
It's all in aid of the Prostate Cancer UK charity - there's a QR code with links to their fundraisers at the end of each video.
A history of Trafalgar Square
The story of Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square illustrated in a series of historical maps between the 1500s and modern day. We visit the Royal Mews - more birds of prey than horses; see two Eleanor Crosses; drop by an ancient priory and watch as a new public space is built.
And surrounding the history is my walk between Piccadilly Circus station and Charing Cross station via the Haymarket and Trafalgar Square itself.
It's an early morning walk - explaining the relative lack of people around - and it’s number 60 of my continuing series of London Underground surface walks between stations.
Recorded October 2023
BLOG: www.theundergroundmap.com/wp/piccadilly-circus-to-charing-cross-walk/
VIRTUAL COFFEE: ko-fi.com/theundergroundmap
0:00 Intro
0:23 Piccadilly Circus
1:02 Haymarket
3:28 Pall Mall East
4:27 Cockspur Street
5:24 Trafalgar Square
6:10 A history of Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square
19:45 Trafalgar Square (again)
21:00 Arrival
And surrounding the history is my walk between Piccadilly Circus station and Charing Cross station via the Haymarket and Trafalgar Square itself.
It's an early morning walk - explaining the relative lack of people around - and it’s number 60 of my continuing series of London Underground surface walks between stations.
Recorded October 2023
BLOG: www.theundergroundmap.com/wp/piccadilly-circus-to-charing-cross-walk/
VIRTUAL COFFEE: ko-fi.com/theundergroundmap
0:00 Intro
0:23 Piccadilly Circus
1:02 Haymarket
3:28 Pall Mall East
4:27 Cockspur Street
5:24 Trafalgar Square
6:10 A history of Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square
19:45 Trafalgar Square (again)
21:00 Arrival
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Walking the London tube: Wimbledon Park to Southfields
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On the second walk of the Wimbledon to Edgware Road part of the District Line, you can walk through a completely marvelous municipal park. On a sunny and warm August day it was absolutely glorious (and walk number 59). Recorded August 2024 BLOG: www.theundergroundmap.com/wp/wimbledon-park-to-southfields-walk/ VIRTUAL COFFEE: ko-fi.com/theundergroundmap Wimbledon Park station 0:00 Arthur Road 0:...
How Bill Turnbull saved my life
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How a chance conversation meant that I survived cancer (This walk on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground was taken in April 2024 and was between Barons Court and Earl’s Court. Number 58 of 408 in a series of filmed walks between every London Underground station)
A walk down Camden High Street
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Walking in Camden from Camden Town station to Mornington Crescent station on the Northern Line (Charing Cross branch). this is walk 57 of these London Underground walks. There's quite a lot of see and hear on this walk/ Until we opt out that is to listen to some classic Radio 4 from December 2005 in the company of Humphrey Lyttleton, Graham Garden, Barry Cryer, Tim-Brooke Taylor and Jack Dee. J...
Why I love Ickenham Marsh
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Strolling the meadows of the Hillingdon Trail Have you ever wondered about that spot of unexpected countryside between Hillingdon station and Ickenham station when you pass it on the train? That's Ickenham Marsh, preserved by the Green Belt even though it's sandwiched between urban areas. This is a walk between those two stations on the Uxbridge branch of Metropolitan Line and Piccadilly Line v...
How wooden homes will fix London's housing malaise
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Changing the look of London London is transforming before our very eyes. Tired old industrial sites are becoming spanking new buildings. We can thank the change of a bylaw in mid 1990s Los Angeles for all this. The amble from Acton Town to Chiswick Park could be taken entirely on Bollo Lane and its changing landscape. But I couldn't help myself. Off I went to explore the hinterland. This walk o...
A quick historical map tour of Stepney Green
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How the area around modern Stepney Green station on the District Line/Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground developed from agriculture to the modern urban area
The Queen’s Club - world tennis in Barons Court
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One carrot field. Two clubs, famous worldwide... It's quite a short walk between Barons Court to West Kensington stations on the District Line of the London Underground. But does it punch above its weight or what? Walked during July 2023 and it’s the 54th published walk between Underground stations By the way, Monty Python’s “Salad Days” ain’t half funny: czcams.com/video/LMEKcIHvc5o/video.html...
The world's first underground railway
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A walk along the route of the District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines between Paddington and Edgware Road. It is number 53 of the walks I'm doing between the stations of the London Underground. After a section of old maps, I get on with following the route of the railway underneath my feet, as close as possible. I realise, after publishing, that the volume was a tad too low in the walking...
Best Places To Live in London 2024
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We're again publishing our latest list of the best places to live in London. The list is full of surprises - all the way to number one! ERRATA: Of course I meant to say "Tate Britain" not "Tate Modern" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Music: "Sky" - MBB & Ashutosh, "Rio" - Ashutosh Some of the more obscure footage that I couldn't find elsewhere came from the excellent youtube.com/@aladyinlondon channel 00:00 ...
How the lost River Walbrook was London's first Green Belt
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A history of the Moorfields area of London before a walk along the route of the Metropolitan/Hammersmith & City/Circle lines of the Underground between Moorgate and Liverpool Street. This is number 52 of the walks I'm doing between the stations of the London Underground. READ ALL ABOUT IT/MAPS: www.theundergroundmap.com/wp/moorgate-to-liverpool-street-walk MUSIC: Embrace by Sappheiros VIRTUAL C...
The beautiful backwaters of Bayswater
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An architectural walk along the route of the District and Circle lines in London between Bayswater and Paddington. It is number 51 of the walks I'm doing between the stations of the London Underground. If you are interested in such things, where I linger at the west end of Chilworth Street looking at a shop, in the early nineteenth century I would have been getting wet feet standing on the rive...
Exploring Fitzrovia
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It was announced just before I walked this walk that the BT Tower had been sold to a hotel chain. I assume this will mean greater access in future but this February 2024 stroll through Fitzrovia marks its last period as a government building. This is the 50th published out of 408 such walks between every station on the London Underground, raising money for Prostate UK, a cancer charity. At 16:4...
Embankment - Waterloo: A lesser-known shortcut
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There's a walking route between the two mainline stations of Charing Cross and Waterloo - situated on opposite sides of the River Thames from each other. Obviously it's not actually secret what with the huge signage showing the way. This walk also links two stations - Embankment and Waterloo along the Bakerloo and Northern lines of the London Underground. This quite rainy promenade was original...
Here’s why I’m doing all these London Underground station-to-station walks
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In this video I explain what this project is all about. Walking between every London Underground station began as a lockdown project - one of those "something to do to get out of the house" ideas. Since in late 2022 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer (and, after treatment, given the all-clear in 2023) the project took on more of a meaning. I am fundraising for the Prostate Cancer UK charity. ...
A south London walk with some Dexys thrown in
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A south London walk with some Dexys thrown in
Ada Lovelace helped create the modern world
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Ada Lovelace helped create the modern world
Walking the London tube: Royal Oak to Paddington
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Walking the London tube: Royal Oak to Paddington
Walking the London tube: Barbican to Farringdon
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Walking the London tube: Barbican to Farringdon
The 1850s streets of Notting Hill Gate
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The 1850s streets of Notting Hill Gate
Walking the London tube: Stockwell to Vauxhall
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Walking the London tube: Stockwell to Vauxhall
Walking the London tube: South Ealing to Acton Town
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Walking the London tube: South Ealing to Acton Town
Walking the London tube: Latimer Road to Ladbroke Grove
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Walking the London tube: Latimer Road to Ladbroke Grove
Walking the London tube: West Kensington to Earl’s Court
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Walking the London tube: West Kensington to Earl’s Court
Really great video. No wonder I was confused about the tube station name. I left the uk in 1979, the year the named changed.
Very informative the area keeps changing just like victoria st where i used to work london ever forward
Westminster gentrification and soul destroying changes from market traders and soho characters gone. It’s all about money and ‘clean up’ soulless. The park benches have all gone so no sitting and passing the time of day.
The bird population of London has plummeted 80%. No starlings hardly any black birds and about 6 pigeons
Pollution mostly now
Great, well made and interesting video. I love to spend hours pouring over old maps and comparing them. So this was a real treat, more please.
Thank you very much!
1848 Nelson’s Column was built
Nope. It was begun in 1840 and completed in 1843. The bronze reliefs on the pedestal were installed between 1849 and 1854 and the lions were added in 1867.
good interesting vid.. look forward to more
I don't live in London but like to walk its streets when i visit...dont think ive ever walked around Haymarket though. Thanks for sharing your walk. Out of curiosity what time of the day did you shoot the video as Trafalgar Square was deserted and I've never been when theres so few people around Also does anyone know why Greenwich was chosen as the prime meridian when Trafalgar Square was considered the centre of London youd think theyd choose the latter over the former?
It was a very early morning in October (last year) with the sun just rising
The Prime Meridian running through Greenwich was established there as The Royal Observatory which was the base point from which all accurate British maps of the time were measured was on the site. Greenwich was also the traditional home of the Royal Navy, who had an understandable major interest in accurate mapping. The Greenwich meridian was not the only one originally. Different countries, such as France, based their mapping on a 'Prime Meridian' suited to their own needs and national pride. With the increasing internationalisation and globalisation of world trade and travel, this was obviously not very satisfactory or, indeed, convenient and eventually the Greenwich Meridian was chosen as the global baseline in the 1880s - though France took several decades before they swallowed their pride and joined the party. The line was originally defined in terms of astronomical observations but has now been moved just over 100 metres to the West because satellite navigation systems take account of gravitational variations - the earth is neither a sphere nor uniform.
Back in the day, until the mid 80s I believe, there was a better way. When coming off Hungerford bridge on the South Bank, walk through Jubilee Gardens. At the rear of the shell centre there was a flight of steps that lead to a walkway that went through the shell centre and then over Belvedere Road (I think) and directly into Waterloo station. All gone now I’m afraid.
I hate the new screens at Piccadilly Circus. I always remembered the Guinness Time clock but was surprised to see the building it was on was demolished in 1973.
"Lions have a long history here" And just to the left of that snapshot, until the 1950s, was Lyons Corner House!
The Lyon’s Corner house was there into the 60s or at least ‘63 when I left school just around the corner.
The girl at the till would ask you: “Is that tea or coffee?” She couldn’t tell the difference. By the time you’d tasted it, you couldn’t either.
I enjoyed this video very much.
4:20 what was the White Star Line offices. Where the announcement of Titanic's sinking was made in April 1912, and the crowds gathered outside. Much photographed.
Interesting. Thanks!
Very interesting, thank you. Greetings from Montréa.
Wonderful stuff. My G-Grandfather was baptised in St Martins-in-the-Fields, in 1852. He married my G-Grandmother there in 1872.
The horse statue myth was busted on QI many years ago.
An episode I didn’t see!
Excellent!
Thank you! Cheers!
So very interesting and informative! Wonderful content, excellent presentation. The overlay of maps gave a true sense of landmarks that did not survive. (new subscriber, Virginia)
Many thanks!
Nice work. Brings back memories of living there in the 80s/90s.
Glad to hear that!
Great video I’ve worked in Whitehall for more years than I would care to admit on here so have been around this area for many years now (indeed, earlier today). I still struggle with the idea it was once countryside, it just seems inconceivable from my vantage point of today. Walking up Charing Cross Road towards Oxford St the other day I wondered what the topography of the land would be if you took the city away, wouldn’t suprised if its about a 100ft elevation from the river by the time you reach Oxford St.
Certain a small street flowed under Strand slightly further east - hence Ivybridge Lane. And streams flow downhill.
You may well be interested in John Rogers' books and his CZcams videos in which he walks around London and other places. He has a keen interest in all the hidden rivers and streams that have long since been covered over - the River Fleet is the most well known, but there were very many others, now part of the city's sewers.
@@philroberts7238 yes I have both of John’s books, and also Ian Sinclair’s about walking the M25 and the London Overground, all fascinating stuff. As a photographer I’m always looking at John’s work for inspiration, and some of his Essex walks have followed my own footsteps.
Thank you for making this video - it was absolutely fascinating and packed with so much interesting information.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, as ever an interesting history of part of London It could be argued that King George III died battling his mental health issues and King Charles I died as a result of battling Oliver Cromwell
And I suppose it can be argued that Charles I died of his injuries in a head-chopping-off sort of way
@@TheUndergroundMap That too 😀
26 is Raphael from Spain, mythical
Why show a picture of Muswell Hill on the lead in when it’s not on the list?
But that would give the game away - there would be no tension in finding out who won
From tranquility to the hell hole that it is now.
Amazing how Uxbridge is left with just 1 station while nearby Ruislip has 5 stations covering a much smaller area.
might want to check your audio as it changes to a game show...
It changes to the game called “Mornington Crescent”
Harold Balfour -- was he any relation to the Balfour who gave Israel to the Jewish nation?
Is the modern Boots in the Lewisham Shopping Centre the same Boots in the footage(2:30)?
Don't think so
wow where did you find these great fims , i was born in hackney e9 , mum dad brother, moved to lee mid 70ies then downham ,saw the glass bridge being put into place by clock tower lewisham has a big part to play in the history of london t y for these
You're doing a good thing here with this video. Glad you beat it back!!
Please get the facts rights about old buildings and don't assume or guess what they were.
Camden was amazing 20 years ago, now the big chains and money people have moved in and killed it.
Yes the peasants have all left thankfully.
I wish there was film footage of 1960s and 70s Kilburn and Willesden and anything from wartime.
Brilliant stuff, thanks. I’ve lived in the manor for 50 years and have seen a lot of changes. Glad I knew the area before a lot of the redevelopment. Great pics & info, Cheers
It would be cool if they finished the line onto edgwere and mill hill Broadway and so on
MUCH THANKS FOR THIS - I LIVED IN HILLINGDON FROM 1993 TO 1997 - I ATTENDED BRUNEL UNIVERSITY - WHILE PREPARING TO BECOME A BUSINESS CONSULTANT - i WAS THE TREASURER OF THAMES VALLEY SMALL BUSINESS CLUB - WHO MET IN SLOUGH
Thank you for sharing hope to try this walk at some point in the near future subscribed 🙏👍
Thanks for the sub!
It is an unexpectedly nice spot
I grew up in Stanwell adjoining LHR in the late 50s through 60s. My school was two fields and some grass away from what was the distant end of 27L/09R. The village grew from a few thousand to 16 000 while Iws there although the village itself retained is original shape with developments to the south , in addition to LHR the Staines reservoirs bordered it to the west. Its all very well to say it should have been elsewhere but where north Londona nd South London are hilly so no airports there , further west is Windsor Great Park so nothing was going to be bult there and further than that it doesnt get flat again until where Blackbushe is close to 40 mils out and even then its not really big enough. East of London is the Thames , and then docks and marshland -a svanat might have suggested building over dockland as LHR replaced the docks in a way . Of course it wasnt LHR back then but LAP -London Air Port. Back in the day with its 5 runways and endless different types jets , turbo props and recips it was fascinating . A bit of forward thinking would have left more land available to the north , there is still quite al ot and thatw ould have allowed a third e-w parlale to be bult in the 90s but thisis the UK and forward thinking is an alien concept
"Mechanical man" lyrics are actually quite good.
Indeed. It's a gem!
The drawing of the Telegraph Tower in West Square says it was drawn in 1810 but the telegraph wasn't invented until 1837. Am I missing something?
"telegraph" mean semaphore signals until the electric version was invented
@@TheUndergroundMap I learnt something new today. Thanks for that. Great channel BTW.
They may be bland but they most definitely arent an eyesore. Its an improvement on the flats of the 50s 60s and 70s for sure.
Small, teeny windows, poorly constructed, sustainable? but not durable.
Bloomin' square boxes is all they seem to build now, no imagination or new ideas.
Another great video A possible way to help the affordable house building problem. Any new employer creating more than 20 full time jobs has to build enough homes for the new employees. These homes must be affordable on the wages they will be paid and be should be within 30 min walk.
I think employers building the needed homes might get complicated though!
Thanks! My Grandad was born in Ardmere Road back in 1901 and his side of the family lived in Brightside Road too for a while. Unfortunately many of them now reside in Brockley and Ladywell cemetery.
No hands on the pavement, what pillock..Great video..
I will always remember the cafe in the station. It’s was Frank’s Cafe when I was a kid in 80’s/90’s and the place that sold the best homemade cookies. I lived there for 45 years before moving. Still one of the nicest stations on the Met line.
Pretty sure it is still called Frank's Cafe. Not sure if the owners are the same.
wait why did i hear an s stock?
I would love to live in Pimlico ,