As a bricklayer it blows my mind at the ammount of bricks they laid to make these tunnels and sewers, the ammount of hauling and digging and hand mixing of mortar its nearly unbelievable, especially when you do it for a living and know yourself the ammount of labour it takes.
Every time that I look at Victorian brickwork, I think of the craftsmen who laid them and the fact that they did it for pennies while rich men profited. Likewise, the bricks themselves, my parents house built in 1874, was constructed of hand made bricks, many having fingerprints on them. Near the front door was one brick with four tiny fingerprints.
In the 1830s there were stationary steam engines here that hauled trains out of Euston, as the locos of the day were not strong enough. The 'sheaf tentioning chamber' was where the ropes that hauled the trains passed over large pulleys to keep them tight.
The more I see the more I am amazed by what they managed to achieve, canals that were dug by hand and in many places they laid huge amounts of bricks, tunnels that were blasted and then lined with bricks, the list just goes on and on and everything had to be moved by horse and cart. I am certain that there is so much more yet to be found too.
The sheave tension tunnel you saw marked on control panel was probably referring to a shaft full of cables and pulleys that controlled movement of lift/platform through different levels. Great video👍
There appears to be more and more to this chamber, with all the construction work going and electrics that are being fitted I cant help wondering what use is planned for these chambers, something maybe that needs to be secret and hidden away from prying eyes.The chambers just seem to go on and on, give thought to the guy's who dug everything out by hand and all the bricklayers who came behind them, there was probably far more to be found but that could be a job for waders. Great video !
This site is under or next to the West Coast mainline out of Euston...So though the works might _seem_ hidden and mysterious, I think it's a safe bet that it's something to do with HS2. 🚄🇬🇧😇
That old coal vault seems like a fairly huge place. In a city as sprawling as London, a place like this could have some use if cleaned up and renovated a bit. (primarily renovated for ensuring structural rigidity, the actual brick walls is a nice theme.) Then it could serve as some form of office space, maybe industrial, or apartments if housing regulations are sufficiently relaxed about the need for natural lighting.
Very interesting place, you found. Very intricate and just for the storage of coal? London seems to riddled with underground tunnels of all sorts. Can you imagine these places being built? The brickwork and all. They were certainly meant to last.
Well, that places has definitely been flooded to a good few feet deep - say, about 20 feet, at some time, and for some time, judging by the tidemarks on the wall. At first, my thoughts were along the lines of some form of reservoir (freshwater/foul water) but the breaker panel poo-poos that idea. Now then, "What is a sheave tensioning room room" you ask? - It's a room where you would find pulley blocks, or "sheaves" so somewhere, there was a cable hauled railway system. The sheave tensioning room would be equipped with some cleverly thought out system to maintain an even and constant tension on the cables, and on the face of it, you wouldn't want sudden shock loading on those cables, nor would you want those cables twanging and wanging about - That wouldn't make for a favourable ride, not to mention the risk of a cable breaking under a shock load. Can't wait to see the next part! - Just one thought though, what if those sensor activated lights also sounded an alert somewhere to let a remote operator know there was "activity" in there? As I say, just a thought.
They should maintain/repurpose these lovely old giants. Sad to see them rot away, filling up w/rubbish & flooding. Then again, if they salvaged every secret under-place, u'd have no sub-ex spaces to post. Sigh. It's always something...
My friend told me about how his friends brother went missing in an underground maze, you can find it to this day, it right across Ealing Hospital and you will hopefully find a gate. But there have been some “things” spotted there so be careful.
Seems like a shame I didn't get to see the vaults when I went down the Up ECL recently. It was totally flooded, about 1/2 way up the walls and there was water flowing in from the canal. The sump pump had no chance! It seems like everyone and their aunt has been down there now though, certainly a popular location.
Would you happen to be not a million miles from a well known London music venue by any chance? I know that you, quite sensibly, don't give out locations, to foil the nutters, etc., but this does seem to be very familiar to me from a description of such a site in a novel I once read. It's a great site, wherever it may be. Ah... A label on that fuse box tells me all that I need to know.
I did that in a WWII bunker I found, touched the wall & it had icky slimy stuff on it. It was horrible, was a really cool bunker though. An old Plotting room for Lydden Spout Battery. When I first went down it I thought it was a radar satation whenI first went down there. I am yet to find all the hidden entrances to places like this in London, would really spice up my lunch breaks as I would end up showing my work colleges around.
I’ve seen another video of this place before yours, the yellow ‘hand rail’ wasn’t in place then and the lights looked like they were still being installed? They didn’t say what the place was etc - much prefer your videos - oh and from the footage of the other video it’s pretty much the same throughout - however I’ve not seen anything in part two yet...
Have to admit that I cant stop wondering what is planned for this huge open area, look at the works that are going on and I cant help wondering what this whole area will be like in a year or two and who will be using it ?.
The tunnels of London.. deep secrets of its own.. Even being a factories of itself during WW2, and homeescape during the blitz. When a londoner goes from their home at night, for getting shelter from the bombs.. and after a bombingraid by the germans - goes out to work next day.. And the germans did the bombraids during nights only to "chrush their souls".. not even a bombingraids can stop the stubborn brits.. :D Honor to brits from Norway
I find is fascinating to see such elaborate tunnels. Imagine several thousand years from now, so much history will be forgotten, and it's possible that they rediscover the underground tunnels and bunkers of the UK. Would they think they were above ground systems, or would they assume that we were masters of living in underground societies with populations in the thousands? It's pretty crazy when you think about it, and there are probably much larger, maybe even more ominous-feeling underground systems elsewhere in the world... I'm not scared of much but there's no way in HELL I'd go down there. I couldn't even be high enough - there's still no damned way I'd drag my sorry ass down there lol.
I always wonder when an old, long-abandoned facility ends up with modernish infrastructure and then subsequent abandonment again. The yellow chain on the stairwell makes me think that was the modern way-out when they were working down there when the new lights and panel were installed, but it being sealed-off from exit seems odd in an era of health and safety.
Mad how well built they were despite being coal vaults-really interesting to see! Looks a bit like the place 8 minutes into this: ruclips.net/video/BdAFJ-19zlU/видео.html
'Lights are on sensors' personally i wouldn't have hung around. You never know if tripping those lights is making an alarm flash in a control room somewhere
In my experience, these systems are not actively monitored. Cctv etc is only checked when things get broken or stolen. As I don't do either of those, I've never had a problem 👍
Should life line onto ladders with drops that amature move won't be secret for long when floods of emergency services are trying to pull you out after a fall
So here I am on an island off the Pacific coast of Canada, watching a brilliant video of people exploring tunnels in London!
Newfoundland?
As a bricklayer it blows my mind at the ammount of bricks they laid to make these tunnels and sewers, the ammount of hauling and digging and hand mixing of mortar its nearly unbelievable, especially when you do it for a living and know yourself the ammount of labour it takes.
Every time that I look at Victorian brickwork, I think of the craftsmen who laid them and the fact that they did it for pennies while rich men profited. Likewise, the bricks themselves, my parents house built in 1874, was constructed of hand made bricks, many having fingerprints on them. Near the front door was one brick with four tiny fingerprints.
In the 1830s there were stationary steam engines here that hauled trains out of Euston, as the locos of the day were not strong enough.
The 'sheaf tentioning chamber' was where the ropes that hauled the trains passed over large pulleys to keep them tight.
Interesting...thx!
To me the most impressive part is the fact that the entire place was built with hand laid bricks.
For sure! A lot of hard labour. Full credit to the people that built it.
The more I see the more I am amazed by what they managed to achieve, canals that were dug by hand and in many places they laid huge amounts of bricks, tunnels that were blasted and then lined with bricks, the list just goes on and on and everything had to be moved by horse and cart. I am certain that there is so much more yet to be found too.
and thats why
it survives
to this day
When people can buy house and eat well by laying bricks awesome thing happens in society haha
Probably by slaves
Some of those places looked like they could have been the locations for the James Bond Skyfall scenes for the chase through subterranean London.
The sheave tension tunnel you saw marked on control panel was probably referring to a shaft full of cables and pulleys that controlled movement of lift/platform through different levels. Great video👍
Fascinating stuff the underground has so many secrets
20 seconds in and I already know this is going to be a good one.
The London Underground was and still is excellently built. Great engineering feat. 🥇🥉🏆🏅🥈
A really enjoyable, informative explore! So much below us we rarely think twice about (until now). Thx 4 peek into the deep!
Hi Simon, hmmm curious and curiouser lol. I can't wait for pt 2 to see what's down the hole. Thanks for sharing, much love. xx 🙏💖
brilliant video love your videos , stay safe , all of you and keep up the good work
Awesome video buddy 👌🏽👍🏽
Just look at the amazing brick work.
There appears to be more and more to this chamber, with all the construction work going and electrics that are being fitted I cant help wondering what use is planned for these chambers, something maybe that needs to be secret and hidden away from prying eyes.The chambers just seem to go on and on, give thought to the guy's who dug everything out by hand and all the bricklayers who came behind them, there was probably far more to be found but that could be a job for waders. Great video !
Like the Alan tait ammanford Screaming Tunnels in UK Wales 😅😅
This site is under or next to the West Coast mainline out of Euston...So though the works might _seem_ hidden and mysterious, I think it's a safe bet that it's something to do with HS2. 🚄🇬🇧😇
@benjaminw7027 I Want To Visit 😅
How bloody cool. Very nice
very interesting place.
loving the cobbled floor.
That old coal vault seems like a fairly huge place.
In a city as sprawling as London, a place like this could have some use if cleaned up and renovated a bit. (primarily renovated for ensuring structural rigidity, the actual brick walls is a nice theme.) Then it could serve as some form of office space, maybe industrial, or apartments if housing regulations are sufficiently relaxed about the need for natural lighting.
Looks like James Bond spy base to me
Leave it alone i want it.
Pretty exiting! London goes down deep! I would have expected a lot more water. But it seems to be holding just fine.
Greetings,
Jeff
Crazy what’s underneath London
Eager for part deux. Love these types of places that are still so raw.
As I mention more videos please? And you upload one!? Superb!! And cheers!
Very interesting place, you found. Very intricate and just for the storage of coal? London seems to riddled with underground tunnels of all sorts. Can you imagine these places being built? The brickwork and all. They were certainly meant to last.
There was a stationary steam winding engine (possibly 2, I'd have to look it up again) down there.
Is this a permission visit, absolutely awesome video, was drawn in faster than I could like this video!! Well done lads!!
Not a permission visit 😉
@@SubExploration Oooooooooo i am so jealous and would love to tag along to explore this place!!! (when covid restrictions relax of course)!!
Great video, nice bit of detective work.
What a fortunate idea it was to check that switch panel. Cool!
Oh wow what an amazing place! 😯
England is very beautiful and I am your new subscriber from Afghanistan.
great explore, Simon. As usual! And awesome pics at the end \m/
Well, that places has definitely been flooded to a good few feet deep - say, about 20 feet, at some time, and for some time, judging by the tidemarks on the wall. At first, my thoughts were along the lines of some form of reservoir (freshwater/foul water) but the breaker panel poo-poos that idea.
Now then, "What is a sheave tensioning room room" you ask? - It's a room where you would find pulley blocks, or "sheaves" so somewhere, there was a cable hauled railway system. The sheave tensioning room would be equipped with some cleverly thought out system to maintain an even and constant tension on the cables, and on the face of it, you wouldn't want sudden shock loading on those cables, nor would you want those cables twanging and wanging about - That wouldn't make for a favourable ride, not to mention the risk of a cable breaking under a shock load.
Can't wait to see the next part! - Just one thought though, what if those sensor activated lights also sounded an alert somewhere to let a remote operator know there was "activity" in there? As I say, just a thought.
I am waiting for next part
Man the vibes at 2:18 feel like its from the movie blade runner 🧛♂️😳
Wow that place is awesome, looking forward to the next part.
What a find you have got be going. Built in 1837 by Robert Stephenson. fantastic video.
The bricks used and laid during history is the most fascinating part of history...
Fascinating place 😁
Such amazing architecture masterpieces are hidden below in darkness.
They should maintain/repurpose these lovely old giants. Sad to see them rot away, filling up w/rubbish & flooding. Then again, if they salvaged every secret under-place, u'd have no sub-ex spaces to post. Sigh. It's always something...
Good one, an interesting place, can’t wait for part 2 👍
Matty was there last week...unbelievable place..
Would never thought of been part of the underground but apparently theys loads of tunnels been forgotten about
Brilliant
so cool to see that
Interesting place thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks Simon for the video.cheers 🧉
How did u entered the giveaway
Commenting on a post to win
My friend told me about how his friends brother went missing in an underground maze, you can find it to this day, it right across Ealing Hospital and you will hopefully find a gate. But there have been some “things” spotted there so be careful.
like what
@@neighborshouse6906 people from the mad house that have escaped 😂
Nice place
An Asbestos water fountain...cool!
Looks intresting to explore
What camera do u use?
DJI Osmo Pocket
Very nice Video I like it ^^
hey i plan to a lil photoshoot for my uni, how hard was it to get in
Need to take that track at the end of the video and sub in "I'll shine a torch and I'll show you". Would make an awesome song.
It’s amazing to think what’s beneath your feet when walking along unaware
love your videos
Thank you 👍
Seems like a shame I didn't get to see the vaults when I went down the Up ECL recently. It was totally flooded, about 1/2 way up the walls and there was water flowing in from the canal. The sump pump had no chance! It seems like everyone and their aunt has been down there now though, certainly a popular location.
Cool. Did you bump into Quatermass?
Welcome back
Thats an interesting place..
Cheers fella
Reminds me of Quake on the PC xD
Sub’d & very interested in future vids
Oh love your video's , still have nothing around my area even remotely similar to this . Shame love being underground .
Check out tartarian underground tunnels
The Secret Vault were here recently.
Would you happen to be not a million miles from a well known London music venue by any chance? I know that you, quite sensibly, don't give out locations, to foil the nutters, etc., but this does seem to be very familiar to me from a description of such a site in a novel I once read. It's a great site, wherever it may be. Ah...
A label on that fuse box tells me all that I need to know.
Looks like Camden vaults
Wow. Okay, I have to know what camera you've used here please.
DJI Osmo pocket 👍
the automatic lights seem overkill and fairly new.
What’s that thing at the top of the shaft?
The head 😂
Goodt👍👍👍👍
I did that in a WWII bunker I found, touched the wall & it had icky slimy stuff on it. It was horrible, was a really cool bunker though. An old Plotting room for Lydden Spout Battery. When I first went down it I thought it was a radar satation whenI first went down there. I am yet to find all the hidden entrances to places like this in London, would really spice up my lunch breaks as I would end up showing my work colleges around.
Where is this places aldywch ?
reminds me of that scene from james bond skyfall when the train comes crashing though that wall.
I’ve seen another video of this place before yours, the yellow ‘hand rail’ wasn’t in place then and the lights looked like they were still being installed? They didn’t say what the place was etc - much prefer your videos - oh and from the footage of the other video it’s pretty much the same throughout - however I’ve not seen anything in part two yet...
Have to admit that I cant stop wondering what is planned for this huge open area, look at the works that are going on and I cant help wondering what this whole area will be like in a year or two and who will be using it ?.
The tunnels of London.. deep secrets of its own.. Even being a factories of itself during WW2, and homeescape during the blitz. When a londoner goes from their home at night, for getting shelter from the bombs.. and after a bombingraid by the germans - goes out to work next day.. And the germans did the bombraids during nights only to "chrush their souls".. not even a bombingraids can stop the stubborn brits.. :D Honor to brits from Norway
this is like an assassins creed mission
Horse tunnel for hauling the coal?
They don't think they used horses for the coal. The horse tunnels were used to transport goods. They are connected to a canal/dock/markets area.
@@daveg2104 Thank you for the information.
looks like the catacombs in wolfenstein
What an unusual place with square setts on the floor.
Gee I wonder where this is on the 9th of January?
I find is fascinating to see such elaborate tunnels. Imagine several thousand years from now, so much history will be forgotten, and it's possible that they rediscover the underground tunnels and bunkers of the UK. Would they think they were above ground systems, or would they assume that we were masters of living in underground societies with populations in the thousands?
It's pretty crazy when you think about it, and there are probably much larger, maybe even more ominous-feeling underground systems elsewhere in the world... I'm not scared of much but there's no way in HELL I'd go down there. I couldn't even be high enough - there's still no damned way I'd drag my sorry ass down there lol.
Can someone point or tell me an inkling of how or where I can get under there to these old tunnels I want to go explore with my camera also 📷
I always wonder when an old, long-abandoned facility ends up with modernish infrastructure and then subsequent abandonment again.
The yellow chain on the stairwell makes me think that was the modern way-out when they were working down there when the new lights and panel were installed, but it being sealed-off from exit seems odd in an era of health and safety.
Mad how well built they were despite being coal vaults-really interesting to see!
Looks a bit like the place 8 minutes into this: ruclips.net/video/BdAFJ-19zlU/видео.html
'Lights are on sensors' personally i wouldn't have hung around. You never know if tripping those lights is making an alarm flash in a control room somewhere
In my experience, these systems are not actively monitored. Cctv etc is only checked when things get broken or stolen. As I don't do either of those, I've never had a problem 👍
Strange tube is the only place with auto lights NYC don't have that or any country I know of has it in subways lol
All that wasted electricity keeping those lights on all the time!
They are sensor activated, so nobody down there, they stay off
It looks a bit clean for a coal tunnel. I would have guessed at water storage.
Don't disturb Smaug!
A disused underground chamber.... With automatic light censors?! Fair enough!
Yup, weird.
This is interesting going to London's underground. I wonder when it was built and how long ago......maybe before WW1
Yes this would have been 1800's 👍
Is people allowed to enter this type of place ?
Not really if I'm honest.
£15 a day electric bill, and always lights on in these tunnels!!!!!!!!!!!!
🤣🤣🤣 That's such a good point!
Didnt some one turn the pumps off in their last video! #SV
Why are there lights that are on all the time in a abandoned place , just tell me why ??
With lighting on and scaffolding etc, did you get permission to explore.?
Ya need some wellies
sod mind the gap.... Mind the fluffing great holes!
Should life line onto ladders with drops that amature move won't be secret for long when floods of emergency services are trying to pull you out after a fall
If there’s a ladder, he’s using it, no matter what.