London's Top 5 Hidden Secrets

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  • čas přidán 21. 04. 2023
  • Discover 5 secrets about London you never knew! Did you know there's a secret tunnel under the River Thames, a hidden entrance to the Tower of London, an underground network of tunnels for mail delivery, a buried river beneath the streets, and a secret station used by Churchill during WWII? Join us as we explore the hidden history of London!
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Komentáře • 216

  • @lon3don
    @lon3don Před rokem +394

    I think you need to look up the meaning of the word " Secret ".

    • @jomil8847
      @jomil8847 Před 11 měsíci +2

      I was just thinking the same

    • @anaruizguti
      @anaruizguti Před 11 měsíci +1

      😂😂 yes

    • @BobSmith-vv5ic
      @BobSmith-vv5ic Před 11 měsíci +2

      I'd loved to "make up shit" for" the intiweb" Every one who needs to know, knows Down St.

    • @corenmaryweijers1895
      @corenmaryweijers1895 Před 10 měsíci

      They better had given this video the name "secrets americans do not know about" 😂

    • @g-one6096
      @g-one6096 Před 9 měsíci

      The tunnels were used to transport MALES💀

  • @adam_p99
    @adam_p99 Před rokem +182

    The traitors gate isn’t a secret. It’s very visible

    • @robwalker7575
      @robwalker7575 Před rokem +6

      Tourist attraction.....but shhhh, it's a secret 😂.

    • @dotregan1506
      @dotregan1506 Před rokem +2

      Haha!! You can't miss it.

    • @kurtgodel5236
      @kurtgodel5236 Před rokem +6

      Nothing of this is secret.

    • @davidorf3921
      @davidorf3921 Před 9 měsíci

      Also it's original name was the water gate, created to allow Edward I to come and go by Royal Barge, later the tradesman used it to bring supplies and later still it was used to bring prisoners to the tower, many of whom were charged with treason, thus traitors gate

  • @hilaryc8648
    @hilaryc8648 Před rokem +116

    There’s secret routes above ground known as “streets” that criss cross the city connecting secret areas known as “places”. Sometimes a secret liquid known as “rain” falls from the “air”. Man oh!

    • @richardlangly4635
      @richardlangly4635 Před rokem +8

      Holy shit dude, you should post a video, this sounds incredible. "Streets" you say, hmm. We must know more.

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@richardlangly4635 Some people actually walk along these 'streets' between places.

    • @AlistairClark99
      @AlistairClark99 Před 11 měsíci +2

      That's shocking! How do you know?

    • @glockenspiel-ti1ms
      @glockenspiel-ti1ms Před 11 měsíci +2

      Seriously hilary, you swore not to tell anybody!

    • @billisaac326
      @billisaac326 Před 10 měsíci

      @@richardlangly4635They’re smothered with shit that should get your attention since you can’t put a sentence together without using that filthy word.

  • @davidmarchant9386
    @davidmarchant9386 Před rokem +88

    being from UK i know all these pretty common knowledge if you are a Brit

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 Před rokem

      Y oughta see the secret below Heathrow landing area, equal to that above where the Tommy greenhouses used to be spread.

    • @antonteslin8789
      @antonteslin8789 Před 9 měsíci

      @@suzyqualcast6269have you been there?

    • @Internationalbruv60
      @Internationalbruv60 Před 5 měsíci

      No one cares

  • @mikekelleher6940
    @mikekelleher6940 Před rokem +34

    The Fleet isn’t the only river incorporated into the London sewage system. There’s at least a dozen of them.

  • @marksymons3329
    @marksymons3329 Před rokem +39

    They’re hardly ‘secrets’ - you can buy tickets to visit half of them
    The tour of Down Street Tube Station is really cool - as is the ride on the Mail Train

  • @joebloggs5318
    @joebloggs5318 Před rokem +9

    So secret the Traitor's Gate has only been known about for around nine hundred years.

  • @Aaronsmith24
    @Aaronsmith24 Před rokem +14

    No secrets here.

  • @MrChristbait
    @MrChristbait Před rokem +12

    Traitor's Gate is hardly secret,it's a tourist attraction highly visible from the street.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @jamoco1
    @jamoco1 Před rokem +47

    about as secret as the combustion engine

    • @Matelot123
      @Matelot123 Před 11 měsíci

      There's a combustion engine? Goddam it! The secrets are tumbling out today!!!

  • @frankmurray1549
    @frankmurray1549 Před rokem +13

    Why do idiots make these videos without doing any research? Everything mentioned in this video is very well known they are so secret. The River Fleet is by no means a secret. The Fleet is a tributary of the River Thames, and flows six kilometers from its start as two streams in Hampstead Heath, past Camden Town, King's Cross, and Clerkenwell, to where it eventually empties into the Thames near Blackfriars Bridge.

    • @stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080
      @stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080 Před 11 měsíci

      I wonder if it follows Fleet St.

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 Před 11 měsíci

      @@stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080 Wow how did you guess that?

    • @frankmurray1549
      @frankmurray1549 Před 11 měsíci

      @@stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080 It was from t is river that Fleet Street got its name as did Fleet Road in Hampstead.

  • @derin111
    @derin111 Před rokem +7

    Iiterally knew every single one of these anyway.
    Number of people noticing a trend occurring here.
    👇

  • @gobbledygook5786
    @gobbledygook5786 Před rokem +9

    Mail rail train ride in London is super informative and cool! Highly recommend!

  • @strontiumstargazer103
    @strontiumstargazer103 Před rokem +9

    Interesting though none so far are secret

  • @samsprrr3548
    @samsprrr3548 Před rokem +6

    Lots of tube stations were used as shelter s in ww2.

  • @redparallax4442
    @redparallax4442 Před rokem +5

    And there’s a secret cabal running the city above these “secret” collection of tunnels:)

  • @barbaradyson6951
    @barbaradyson6951 Před rokem +8

    Tell me something I don't know.

  • @rachelriches9936
    @rachelriches9936 Před rokem +4

    Tell me something I not know please

    • @noobian3314
      @noobian3314 Před rokem +4

      There’s a secret overground location in London called the sky used to transport birds and rain

    • @YouTubesuckschlonge
      @YouTubesuckschlonge Před rokem

      @@noobian3314 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @frankmurray1549
      @frankmurray1549 Před rokem

      @@noobian3314 Also used to transport aircraft.

  • @craighobbs3708
    @craighobbs3708 Před rokem +7

    None of those are secrets!

  • @robertquinn3603
    @robertquinn3603 Před rokem +2

    Little-known facts……. That’s what you wanted to call this. They are not secrets or else you wouldn’t know them…… or they’re very badly kept secrets 😅

  • @your-local-fantasy-fan
    @your-local-fantasy-fan Před 2 měsíci +3

    Yes… the traitors gate, very secret. It’s only visible to tourists and the general public.

  • @GafftheHorse
    @GafftheHorse Před rokem +4

    I believe there are more covered over rivers feeding into the Thames, the Fleet is just the most well known.

  • @karlharrison6544
    @karlharrison6544 Před rokem +2

    About as secret as London itself....all of it

  • @runitsacow
    @runitsacow Před 9 měsíci +1

    I was drinking water while only listening to the audio, and when i heard "mail rail" i spat it out so fast 💀💀

  • @lololo0000
    @lololo0000 Před rokem +5

    So thats why I keep finding screws in my garden

  • @anthony_mundane
    @anthony_mundane Před 8 měsíci +2

    The picture used for the "secret" tunnel between parliament and south bank is actually the not so secret tunnel from the isle of dogs to Greenwich

  • @Rog5446
    @Rog5446 Před 11 měsíci +3

    He forgot the secret of the London Eye!

  • @johnlangs8821
    @johnlangs8821 Před 8 měsíci +1

    It’s a good job you have all these pictures of these “secrets”

  • @Loki1815
    @Loki1815 Před 11 měsíci

    As a South East Londoner, with an easy walk over any of all the bridges over the Thames, from Tower Bridge to Lambeth bridge, to reach Victoria in the west, Buck House, to St Paul's Cathedral and The Tower of London in the east.
    Two of my daughters were born in St Thomas's Hospital with views over the Thames and is opposite Big Ben.
    I can quite honestly say that these five London secrets are anything but Secrets!

  • @johnowenjones6440
    @johnowenjones6440 Před rokem

    Maybe we should remember that people from other countries can be easily surprised by things that we have simply taken for granted as being there

  • @mpecassahgamez8075
    @mpecassahgamez8075 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Well at least mail rail is a national tube train

  • @brianbonner7128
    @brianbonner7128 Před rokem

    I knew about all of these “secrets “ traitors gate was originally called trader’s gate because that is the way a lot of the supplies entered via the river

  • @K8thebest_Gaming
    @K8thebest_Gaming Před 9 měsíci +2

    Fleet ain’t the only one there’s also the Westbourne

    • @AzzurroBall
      @AzzurroBall Před měsícem +1

      Doesn’t the Westbourne go over Sloane Square

    • @K8thebest_Gaming
      @K8thebest_Gaming Před měsícem

      @@AzzurroBall dunno I know it goes near Kilburn though

  • @simonwhitlock9189
    @simonwhitlock9189 Před rokem +1

    Secret! what secret, common knowledge I thought.

  • @TimStamper89
    @TimStamper89 Před 10 měsíci

    Not only are none of these secrets, most of these are marked, but also are super common knowledge anyway

  • @spacecoop7659
    @spacecoop7659 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Wasn’t the mail train used to traffic children/could still be being used for that

  • @AugustDeb
    @AugustDeb Před 11 měsíci

    Listed in every guidebook.

  • @graytherobot7
    @graytherobot7 Před 10 měsíci

    There’s also another river at an underground station (idk which one) which is covered up its the River Westbourne

  • @pcbassoon3892
    @pcbassoon3892 Před 10 měsíci

    Traitor's Gate is straight-up labeled.

  • @artguy1169
    @artguy1169 Před 11 měsíci

    Traitors gate is one of the tower of londons main tourist attractions there is a whole museum for the mail tunnels and the river fleet goes right above a tube stations that thousands see everyday lol I think you need to look up the meaning of the word secret

  • @edwarddebenham1416
    @edwarddebenham1416 Před rokem

    I am 56 ...I new this when i was 15

  • @lilacscentedfushias1852
    @lilacscentedfushias1852 Před 10 měsíci

    Other places in the UK have rivers hidden underground. I know there’s some in a city called Sheffield because I’ve seen documentaries on it

  • @john_smith1471
    @john_smith1471 Před rokem

    Down Street station is abandoned but not secret, fire brigade have training sessions there and regular hidden London tours are taken there.

  • @MickCampin-jp9kb
    @MickCampin-jp9kb Před rokem +2

    are you kidding me. you missed the third tunnel.on the Victoria Line all the others are common knowledge to any Londoner

  • @OffTheRailsUK
    @OffTheRailsUK Před 11 měsíci

    Mate, please define "secret" for me. As a rail enthusiast, I knew about a few of these which were not railway related such as river fleet and the tunnel under parliament

  • @leoconway405
    @leoconway405 Před 9 měsíci

    The mail train is true but its now used as a museum called the bank of london i think

  • @frankspencer5368
    @frankspencer5368 Před 10 měsíci

    There is a lady who is flying with an umbrella singing, just a spoonful of sugar, and the fentanyl go down

  • @biglocc2209
    @biglocc2209 Před rokem

    There’s also a tunnel under Buckingham palace

  • @salonikulkarni157
    @salonikulkarni157 Před 10 měsíci

    Anyone else getting Neil Gaiman Neverwhere vibes?? Especially with Down Street?

  • @turkeytrac1
    @turkeytrac1 Před rokem +2

    If you're posting this, they aren't secret.

  • @robertmoffett3486
    @robertmoffett3486 Před rokem

    Like Harry Truman said, the secret is, there is no secret

  • @harryjohnson9215
    @harryjohnson9215 Před rokem +1

    All of these are common knowledge

  • @guyfierispetfish4619
    @guyfierispetfish4619 Před rokem +1

    Literally NONE of these are secrets

  • @jamescale9431
    @jamescale9431 Před rokem

    I have been in the tunnel it is in Greenwich and Mail Rail lots of times

  • @JamesDelanoMcCarthysecondacc
    @JamesDelanoMcCarthysecondacc Před 10 měsíci

    The first one i heard from Oversimplified

  • @bartvanhoeck
    @bartvanhoeck Před 11 měsíci

    Is no one going to mention the eerie man standing in the River Fleet ? No ? Okay.

  • @TheGreatest1974
    @TheGreatest1974 Před 10 měsíci

    There’s a SECRET RIVER that flows through London called ‘the Thames’…..

  • @garryc1110
    @garryc1110 Před 11 měsíci

    There's a Secret Palace in London where the Royals sometimes live, it is connected to a Secret Castle by a Secret Highway/Motorway (M4), outside London in a place called Windsor
    Ask me about more Secrets 😂

  • @nicholasr39
    @nicholasr39 Před 8 měsíci

    The fleet is not a river, its just a sewer. It was made part of the sewage system over 100 years ago

  • @anasbenomar7157
    @anasbenomar7157 Před 5 měsíci

    It was not built in the 19th century, it's been there for thousands of years

  • @WorldofWarcraftfan02
    @WorldofWarcraftfan02 Před 10 měsíci

    You forgot to mention the werewolf of London.

  • @fearsengar6341
    @fearsengar6341 Před 11 měsíci

    There's this secret thing that everyone knows about and is a major historical fact that I recorded in millions of public sources. So many secrets. 😅😅😅😅😅

  • @tremensdelirious
    @tremensdelirious Před 11 měsíci

    Every Londoner knows these

  • @pommiebears
    @pommiebears Před 11 měsíci

    I know all of these “secrets”! I’m English. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

  • @chrisgironde6669
    @chrisgironde6669 Před rokem

    These aren’t secret items.
    They’re not all very well known about.
    Quite a difference.
    Mail Rail is famous

  • @harrisonrobins3689
    @harrisonrobins3689 Před rokem

    I already knew about the 3rd one. It was shut down in 2003, sadly 😔

  • @consueloharo-4911
    @consueloharo-4911 Před 11 měsíci

    Yeah.. I can imagine…

  • @GM-ii8gs
    @GM-ii8gs Před 11 měsíci

    Umm, I'm from the UK, but not a Londoner and I know all of these "secrets"...

  • @markdixon3632
    @markdixon3632 Před 10 měsíci

    Definitely knew all those and so most people in the uk know

  • @andyd2528
    @andyd2528 Před 11 měsíci

    Traitors Gate was never a secret.
    It was very public.
    Traitors were chained to the wall.
    Many years ago the tidal Thames would flood Traitors gate and drown the Traitors.
    Bazelgette built the main London sewer past the Tower of London .
    It's now known as the Embankment and provides a viewing point of Traitors Gate.

  • @matthewlo55
    @matthewlo55 Před rokem +1

    these are not secrets, we all know that.

  • @leeomara1885
    @leeomara1885 Před 10 měsíci

    Another little secret,London is the capital city of England but don’t tell anyone I’ve told you

  • @TheGreatest1974
    @TheGreatest1974 Před 10 měsíci

    The ‘traitors gate’ is not a secret. It’s signposted…

  • @KhanivoreQniba
    @KhanivoreQniba Před rokem +1

    Only Americans can get away with this bull 💩.

  • @greglawton1
    @greglawton1 Před rokem

    Marvellous to read how everybody says that they know all of these, when the very first one in the video is totally fictitious!

  • @66PHILB
    @66PHILB Před rokem

    None of these are secrets.
    Traitor's Gate has its name above it plus its mentioned on any Tower Of London tour.
    You can pay to ride on part of the Mail Rail network.
    Down Street was a public tube station from 1907 to 1937. Its a disused station, not secret.
    The Jubilee Line tube line was originally called the Fleet Line.
    I'm a Londoner. We know this stuff.

  • @nigelbuck3162
    @nigelbuck3162 Před 9 měsíci

    How the hell is traitors gate a secret? You can see it from the river?

  • @johncookson9751
    @johncookson9751 Před rokem

    None of that is secret, and certainly not Traitors' Gate which derives from Traders' Gate, the entrance that Traders used to visit the tower of London by boat. As for the others, they're all well know places.

  • @jonathancharles3719
    @jonathancharles3719 Před 11 měsíci

    They need reopen the Tower of London the crime rates are on the raise again

  • @gordongoodfellow826
    @gordongoodfellow826 Před 10 měsíci

    You really need a reason to have people subscribe. Calling things "secret" when they are openly known in the public domain is not that reason.

  • @Tuberuser187
    @Tuberuser187 Před 11 měsíci

    I found a secret CZcams Short!

  • @suzyqualcast6269
    @suzyqualcast6269 Před rokem

    River Fleet pal, nae Flett .

  • @jbloomfield44
    @jbloomfield44 Před 11 měsíci

    None of these are secrets, they are all common knowledge

  • @1janehunter
    @1janehunter Před 11 měsíci

    These are NOT secrets we learned this in history at school back in the 60’s/70’s

  • @jaceygilbert6135
    @jaceygilbert6135 Před rokem

    I'm from London and I know all off them lol

  • @valeriepvi3667
    @valeriepvi3667 Před 10 měsíci

    Spooky....

  • @stevetaylor8298
    @stevetaylor8298 Před 11 měsíci

    Dude STOP calling things a secret when they obviously aren't, especially while you're showing us the pictures.

  • @JayDogZA
    @JayDogZA Před rokem

    So 1 thing then. London has tunnels.

  • @OSheaDean
    @OSheaDean Před rokem +1

    "Secret," lol

  • @ritaandcharlescorley5668

    Interesting facts but none of them secret. Some just less well known 😂

  • @stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080

    Traitors gate originally traders gate.

  • @captainboing
    @captainboing Před rokem

    So.... Not secret, Not secret, Not secret, Not secret aaand Not secret.

  • @MrFalconhead
    @MrFalconhead Před rokem +1

    I'm guessing you're only addressing Americans with that initial statement, these are not secrets or hidden.

  • @surferpip
    @surferpip Před rokem +2

    None of theses are secrets 😅

  • @user-xh3lz9xt4l
    @user-xh3lz9xt4l Před 6 měsíci +1

    Where is the secret????

  • @MushyMan-eng
    @MushyMan-eng Před 11 měsíci

    Bro I’m born and raised until 7 in Brixton nothing u can say or do is a secret, ITS LONDON

  • @archiearchmcarch
    @archiearchmcarch Před 11 měsíci

    I knew all of them.

  • @christopherbrown4619
    @christopherbrown4619 Před rokem +1

    All of the information has always been known, so why the secrecy crap, why create the drama when we Brit's are familiar with these tunnels..

  • @StephenLyons-tl8ie
    @StephenLyons-tl8ie Před 10 měsíci

    I knew all those! What's new??

  • @dannybarot4553
    @dannybarot4553 Před 11 měsíci

    My first love is LONDON❤😂❤