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One of my great,great grandmothers was born in Worship Street Shoreditch in the mid 19th Century. I cannot find out much about it, only that there were many "houses of Ill repute. I have wondered for over thirty years what it would have been like in those times.

A diamond dealer bought it ' for around 50 million ' & converted it into luxury apartments 👌

Look, I simply dump a tank of my piss daily. It's one half of the source, the other half is a drooling cow.

Brilliant work as always rob keep up the good work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Amazing video. Where did you get the footage from ?

Don’t forget the bridge over the TAMAR,PLYMOUTH TO CORNWALL on the GWR line.

Without reading every other comment: I would steer towards a combination of two people. The naming may well be officially entrenched with the commissioner, but there may well have been an order of magnitude more people thinking a popular boxer was the Real Big Ben. As a wise gentleman said to me once “you must never let reality get in the way of a good story” Hi from Oz 🇦🇺

Bravo Rob!!

Surprise, it’s not about cooking! This episode was very interesting. I don’t suppose there will come a day when all the history of London has been explored. Thank you.

Lived in the Trellick a couple of years. A great building that would be a fantastic place to live if it wasn't managed by the murdering TMO.

Hahaha my locals at Swiss Cottage!! 😁❤

I love Kilburn... never a dull moment LOL

A wonderful adventure and well done. I would have to say though that the "Head Waters" of the Thames it seams is at Lud gate. These other sources can be many and varied as you mentioned. The key is in the word Source which is really is more like "Sources". Great Video!

Well, that gave me a flashback! "Angling" magaine back in the 1950s and 60s usde to carry adverts for the salmon-smoking services of Mr Barnett of Frying Pan Alley, E1...it took most of the video for the name "Barnett" to bubble to the surface, but a quick google confirmed it.

What do the letters E. and I. represent on the Spitalfields Frying-Pan Alley?

It's worth checking out the 3 bridges in West London and you can take in a nice circular walk that involves going through one of only 2 pedestrian railway level crossings in London and through the grounds of Osterley Park. I can recommend the channel "Adventure Me" as there's a 3 part series on Crystal Palace, what it was like when it was built, what it's like now and what remains of the original site.

Great video mate! very interesting 🇬🇧

I’ve just moved to Cricklade and would love to go to the start of Thames at some point but trying to follow the Thames right though Cricklade is a joke as it’s all so over grown your lucky if you get glimpses of the river 🤣 I live on the back of north meadow nature reserve which apparently is the only place to get the countries most biggest area covered with the rare snakehead fritillaries grow but they won’t grow this year as the meadow was to flooded and it’s only just drying out now .

Absolutely brilliant, Rob. Thanks so much. Music great too. Evocative I love Rob's London, it's just like my London used to be. Do you know that tourist postcard with all the punks sitting on the park bench? I'm very proud to say I still know one of those individuals and I cut her hedge last week. X

I worked at the President Hotel next to the Imperial and across the road from the Hotel Russell. The President Hotel was a favourite hotel of many of the pop stars of the time. I was a waitress and served the Beatles and Brian Epstein, Freddie and the Dreamers and Garry and the Pacemakers. Cilla Black and her manager stayed there along with an American singer called Brenda Lee. The most outstanding person was Chuck Berry who was very difficult to please sending his steak back to the kitchen 5 times. Amazing to think my grandsons went to a concert of his within the last 10 years. Russell Square is one of my favourite places and I was lucky enough to stay in the Russell Hotel several times. It is very impressive.

The Red Lion, Crown passage St James’s London. Would be a great one for you to add to your list.

The ugliest building in the entire Londonistan

Your videos are always so interesting and well researched, produced and narrated. This one is no exception.

The Jews Free School may have suffered in the Blitz, but has out-grown about 5 different premises in the 230 odd years since, and although is now JFS Comprehensive, has about 2000 pupils!!

I luckily had access to Downing Street while visiting London in 1976. Thanks, Rob, for another extremely interesting and informative video 😊👍

Thanks

This was so good. I loved the story about Chicago Mae. Fantastic I’m researching Russell Square at the moment and this was packed with brilliant and unique info 😊

Джоан роулинг не этим ли домом вдохновилась когда сочиняла своего Гарри Поттера? Похож на вход в "Дырявый Котёл" или в дом Сириуса Блэка. 😂

Good video. Your sentence flow becomes verrrrry repetitive where towards the end, you heighten your pitch. Seems like each sentence you are happily telling a child something.