We're going on a rollicking tour of London's Pubs, uncovering the strangest, most unexpected tales. From mummified cats to underground jail cells and more, you'll learn it all! And some thought the United Kingdom was stuffy! You're going to love this! Who knew London's Pubs were hiding so much! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Mostly citizens north of the UK divide🙄, or London haters say "don't get fish and chip in London"🙄. Consider searching "Award winning fish and chips restaurants in London", but there are obviously great restaurants all around the UK of merit. Please understand, because London takes much of the worlds attention regarding British culture other parts of the country historically feel London is fair game for criticism (and that is fine). Of course if you eat "Fish and Chips" in a seaside location then psychologically you will unconsciously convince yourself its the best ever, ever-ever! What I would agree with is "value for money" as it is mostly cheaper outside London. UK is a small island so all areas are relativity close to the sea therefore any UK location could potentially have a great fish restaurant. On another note. Google searched "Billingsgate Fish Market". Located in Poplar in London. It is the United Kingdom's largest inland fish market. It takes its name from Billingsgate, a ward in the south-east corner of the City of London, where the riverside market was originally established. In its original location in the 19th century, Billingsgate was the largest fish market in the world. Great content as usual ladies.👍
Hi Ladies, I have drunk in most of these from time to time. The Bun House was an OK Local, I visited occasionally on a Wednesday, it was a music venue for a while. Just down the road (Devons Road) was Kitsons (though I think its real name was the Builder's Arms, is now The Angel of Bow) which was also a music venue, Kitsons was for Older Folk, with Bun House as 20-30's folk. Between them is what used to be a good Fish and Chip Shop 'Barrys', its still there does deliveries, worth a try. Generally Fish and Chips is best from actual Fish and Chip Shops, Pub Fish and Chips is often for tourists.
Some places more generally have some pretty damn cool things under the ground I mean, like some modern buildings under them have the old Roman things like their equivalent back then of central heating sort of (though is mixed the place generally like it being called essentially or within West Saxon named Wessex, plus then the seperate other former kingdoms like Middle Saxon Middlesex, East Saxon Essex and South Saxon Sussex, the Saxon states in the country.
You can get fish and chips anywhere but there is something about getting at the coast fresh from the sea, which is better than the inner city for twice the price.
In Nottingham where I live is Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, built in 1189 & is England's oldest surviving inn,got its name when King Richard the Lionheart and his men congregated here before embarking on the Crusades in Jerusalem.The building rests against Castle Rock, which Nottingham Castle is built on - also is attached to caves, carved out of the soft sandstone. There are a lot of cave systems throughout Nottingham
I think there’s some dispute about this ‘old’ pub , like many others, as there is no evidence it’s as old as it claims. I think the George inn down near Frome in Norton st Phillips is the oldest fully proven pub from the late C14. Most older builders were timber and now lost to time.
Been there many times. However, the Sal (Ye Old Salutation) nearby also has a good claim for the oldest. How about the Royal Oak in the centre of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, it was an inn at the time of the crusades... And so on....
Theres a really nice historical pub less than 5 minutes down the road from Bents Garden Centre. It was built in the 1500s! The Raven Inn its called. They tried to knock it down a few years ago till it was saved due to local uproar. Now its cleaned up and open for business again. The food there is sooo good. Its places like that you think "if these walls could talk"
The Raven, Captain Blood and Gunpowder plot, I took my American ex-in-laws there and they couldn't believe it, whilst my mother who was eating with us just thought it was a bit maudlin. It was also the pub of choice for discrete meetings (of all kinds) for the company I worked for.
Hi ladies ❤❤ Just to say, please don't worry if you want to go to pubs. You honestly don't have to drink alcohol. Plenty of people go just for light refreshments and food. We're not all heavy drinkers 😊😊
@@lottie2525 My soft go-to drink is J2O with ice! I never drink alcohol in a pub and usually can be found in one having lunch with another elderly lady!!
If you drop a glass or drink in a UK pub you will get a cheer or round of applause. The sea side is the best area for fish and chips. You cant get scraps and mushy peas in London chipies. .
Hey Natasha and Debbie, given you guys think a 1500s pub is old I thought you might like to know about the Rose & Crown in Ludlow, Shropshire! While its not always been a "pub" it has been a continuous drinking establishment (starting as an ale house) since 1102 when the de Lacy family were building the town to act as the main seat of power along the Marches and Welsh border to keep the Welsh out of England. This means that this pub has served alcohol since almost the first crusade (ended in 1099). The current owners even have documents that date back to this time in the form of the original ownership paperwork and licence as an alehouse. I also recommend you look at Ludlow Castle. As mentioned it was the seat of English power in Wales and along the border. The main fortification in a string of border defenses covering the entire border with the aim to quell Welsh rebellion and protect English lands. It was the site of multiple royal assassinations, the death of a king and the location of the Welsh High and Crown courts. Next to the castle is an old manor house that recently sold. This particular house is famous for being the home of Henry the VIII's wife after her exile. There is a lot of cool history to see there xD
There’s The Feathers too. My paternal Grandma was from Ludlow (born and brought up on Mill Street and her Dad worked in St Laurence’s too) but my grandparents used to take my Dad and Uncle on holiday to Ludlow every year and they’d stay at The Feathers, which as a young boy my Dad hated as he found it really scary.
@@lynnejamieson2063 There is indeed :) it dates back to 1603 and is almost directly opposite the Rose & Crown with them both on the same road. It was built by an ambitious lawyer who wanted to settle and make it big in the Marches then became a hotel 50 years later and has been serving hotel guests since 1670. Which means this hotel has been in continuous service for almost as long as there were Pilgrims travelling to America. With the building itself serving its initial purpose for 17 years before the first pilgrims landed.
@@JackulaHD are you actually in/from Ludlow or is it just an area that’s history grips your attention? My Great Grandfather (before he worked in St Laurence’s) owned a stationers, but as my Grandma was the youngest child of his second marriage, she was quite young when he died (I think under 10 anyway) and all her half siblings were considerably older than her (she was born in 1912 and they were born in the 1880’s) so I don’t think she ever really knew much about her Dad and the only story I remember her telling about him, was that her last memory of him was watching him walk up Mills Street and that he never came home. His name was Charles Cobbin.
@@lynnejamieson2063 I am from there. Well born in Kent but moved to Ludlow at 3 and lived just outside of Ludlow in the countryside until I moved away for Uni.
@@JackulaHD my Grandma met a Scottish soldier during WWII, moved to Scotland and married him but by the time I came along in the mid 70’s she had this hybrid Shropshire Scottish accent that was so soft, I honestly never really even registered that she was English for most of my childhood, even though she spoke about her childhood in Ludlow all the time. I really do love Ludlow, even though I’ve sadly only visited it a few of times, it really just felt right being there every time though. St Laurence’s just took my breath away when I visited it and I absolutely fell in love with Stokesay Castle. An absolutely stunning part of the world and one I keep intending to revisit in the not too distant future.
In Manchester in the 70’s we had a famous pub called Tommy Ducks. When you went it you were welcomed by dozens and dozens of knickers attached to the ceiling. In the dead of night without authority one evening the pub was demolished. It was a sad day when we lost this pub😅😅😅
Not somewhere I went often in my days in Manchester (80-87). If I remember correctly, it was a Greenall Whitley pub, which put it pretty close to the bottom of our ranking of where to get a *good* beer.
I'm not much of a bread eater, but I love hot cross buns. Sweet, doughy, spicy, with sultanas, and decorated on top with a thin cross made of two strips of plain dough. Everybody eats hotcross buns in the weeks before Easter (and afterwards too) The oldest pub in the UK is The Royal Standard at Forty Green just outside Beaconsfield a small town to the west of London. We used to go there quite often in my youth, they brewed a powerful ale, more than 50 years ago.
I met my late father there after he had been away for a year in Ireland, It was and still is one of the best memories of my life. Great choice ladies. Oh do the Bailey It will be a scream.
Now in my dotage, I rarely visit central London. When I used to do so, one of my favourite restaurants was Rules, near Covent Garden. I'm sure you'd love its ambience. It's been on the same spot since the 1700s, and has wild game as its specialty. When I was a schoolboy, a great treat when we had a Saturday exeat, was to be taken to Simpson's in the Strand by one of my roomies' parents. Back then, the downstairs restaurant was for males only 😅, but now that anachronism is long gone. As a nine or 10-yr old it felt very adult to be served from a silver salver holding a huge roast of lamb, beef, or pork. It was a special treat to be the one giving the carver half-a-crown - a tradition based on always giving a silver coin to a carver, so he wouldn't use his carving dagger against you. This is a great place for a "special" Sunday lunch.
Fish and Chips. You *can* get fish and chips in a pub, but you *should* get them from a fish and chip shop. Also, fish and chips is not complete without peas! I found it strange in the USA where fish and chips is known for being served in Irish pubs, despite being English and not really pub fare; and it always seemed to come with coleslaw instead of peas - wrong, wrong, wrong! What do Americans have against green vegetables? Anyway, fish and chips was culturally a cheap, working-class meal (referred to as a 'fish supper' in some parts of Britain) because it was made in bulk in fish and chip shops with big fryers. If you couldn't afford fish & chips, you could just buy chips, which were probably the cheapest hot meal you could get - hence the expression 'cheap as chips'. Also, fun fact: due to fish and chips being a working-class staple, they used to be the only hot takeaway food it was legal to sell on a Sunday, right up into the 1980s.
Hi girls Gin is my favourite drink so don’t know what they would call me in those days love from your 89 year young fan Just returned to uk been in Canada for a month still travelling on my own 💕🇬🇧
most 'home made' pub food comes from Brake Brothers nowadays, I agree that fish and chips better from a chippy, but at least Brake Brothers fish and chips is consistent.
We've been in The Old Cheese on one of our many theatre weekends in London. On my grandmother's knee, I learnt a little song, 'Hot cross buns, hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns. If you haven't any daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns!' Presumably the song was that of the many street vendors. We have hot cross buns every Easter here. They are delicious toasted and spread with lots of butter.
I used to live in Wapping and The Prospect Of Whitby pub was literally across the street from my apartment, so I visited quite a few times. It is as beautiful and fascinating as the video suggests. A bonus is that you can go down to the bank of the River Thames at low tide and quite easily find very old items, such as clay smoking pipes and bottles, which were thrown or accidentally dropped into the river by their original owners.
There is a chippie Between Queensbury and Canons Park stations (past Wembley on the Jubilee line) that I used to go regularly to get the most amazing fish and chips. Even when I moved to the other end of London I'd occasionally go there to get my food. I've been away from the UK for a few years now, so I don't know what it's like, but don't believe those who say not to get fish and chips from London, it's just harder to find good places.
The Olde White Harte (hidden down a covered alleyway between Silver Street & Bowlalley Lane in Kingston upon Hull) has only been a pub since 1881, but the premises where it's located were built around 1660, and the building is Grade II listed. It was originally the home of Sir John Hotham, the Governer of, and an MP for, Hull in the 17th century. During the conflict between the English parliament and King Charles I. the King arrived at the city walls, at the nearby 'Beverley Gate', demanding to be let in. (His plan was to gain access to the vast arsenal of weapons located inside, on the banks of the River Humber.) Sir John Hotham and other city worthies retired to the 'Oak Room' on the upper floor of Hotham's house, where after much discussion they made their decision to defy the King and refuse him access to the city and its weapons. This began the First Siege of Hull, and was the first direct action of the English Civil War! The Olde White Hart is preserved in pretty much its 17th century condition, and the upstairs room, where their decision was made is open to the patrons of the pub as a restaurant known as 'The Plotting Parlour'.
There used to be two more letters in the alphabet - eth and thorn. Thorn (þ or y) was pronounced like the hard th in "think", Eth (ð) was pronounced like the soft th in "then". Both letters are still used in Iceland. And yes, I learnt a lot of things in this video! BTW, where I live in New Zealand, there is an unusual pub display a few miles north of here. Believe it or not, it's a bottle of beer. A WWII soldier bought the beer but had to leave for his train, leaving for his deployment. He called to the landlord "keep it for me 'til I get back". Sadly, he died in Crete, and the 85-year-old bottle is still on display in the pub.
Old English had two different letters for the 'th' sound: thorn and eth. The thorn letter which looked a bit like. 'p' was a voiceless 'th' sound like the 'th' in the word thorn. Eth looks like a 'd' with a stroke through the ascender, and stood for the voiced 'th' sound (as heard in 'with' or 'this').
Thank you for the video, I love videos like these! Very informative and watchable. I’m off to watch more of her videos, lovely way to spend a Sunday morning! Another fabulous channel is ‘Free Tours by Foot-London’, all guides good, but Sinead is fabulous. She is walking the tours and very knowledgeable, videos are usually from 20-50mins long, so many too long to react too, but worth a watch. I will do one of Sinead’s tours, but love watching and not having to walk and I get to drink a coffee as I watch 😂 Sundays are sorted, watching yours followed by one of these videos.
That was an excellent video, enhanced by your reactions to it. London 'Open House' is part of a yearly series of events called 'Heritage Days', usually in September. Places that are not usually open to the public throw their doors wide and put on a little exhibition about themselves. I have been to synagogues, Masonic Lodges, backstage at theatres, private grottoes, tours of Government buildings, Church crypts, private gardens and once, memorably, to the huge hangers that stored the R100 and R101 airships.
I used to volunteer every Saturday at the Dr Johnson House Museum shown in this video and used to go and drink there quite often. Been to the Viaduct Tavern a few times, once taking some people on a tour of the area and got to blag our way into the 'cells'. Despite being an occasional tour guide, I didn't know the damage on St Bart's was from a Zeppelin raid. If you think the thorn is odd, check out the long s.
Pubs I know: The Bucket of Blood: Phillack Cornwall. The Jamaica Inn: Bodmin Cornwall, inspiration for the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name. The Spotted Dog: Cold Ash Berkshire. The Broad Face: Wallingford Oxfordshire. There are countless others with quirky names.
Theres a video on here about old letters which is very interesting . Just short of 11 minutes long "LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET: 9 letters we stopped using" it's by @RobWords
This is all you need to know, when planning your itinerary for your visit to these shores. The great thing about a "pub crawl" is you can extend it to the entire British Isles, (that being UK plus the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, the The Scottish Islands various, etc.). From that plan you can fit in all the regular sights you wish to see ... assuming you are still standing! Enjoy!! 🥳🇬🇧🇺🇲💖🙋♀️
She briefly mention Barts with the bombing so I thought you'd be interested to know that that is the St Bartholomew's Hospital which is the oldest continually running hospital. It was founded in 1123 and still has a reputation of being one of the best. 900 years of healthcare and teaching!!!
I watch people on the river Thames at low tide mud larking they find all sorts of things from the past, old bottles,clay pipes,cup,saucers,bones,jewellery ETC it's amazing what type of stuff is found.
There's one person who posts her mudlarking, but you need a licence to do it and a lot of inoculations as there's all sorts of diseases you can catch from the raw sewage.
I learned a loot watching this video! I am not really a city person so rarely visit, but it's still interesting to learn which I do from your reaction videos.
As a Brit born and bred I find these videos fascinating and learn so much! I think the Beefeater you're thinking of is a brand of Gin, whereas what's on offer there is an ale by Marston's brewery :)
I have been lucky through membership of The Ghost Club to have been in a lot of these pubs. The Viaduct Tavern was opened to host our Chairman's birthday party. It being part of the City of London it has no customers at the weekend as hardly anyone lives there. Also through a member who is a London Blue Badge Guide/actor she got us into The Tower of London at night including drinking at The Keys. Also she did a tour of the Watling area, and later we went to Ian MacKellen's pub The Grapes. On the bank of the Thames it has the Gandalf's staff from Lord of The Rings, behind the bar. After meeting monthly in a pub in The Temple area of London, we go to a pub on Fleet Street called The Old Bank of England. It has a double decker bus (My father used to drive one) parked in it's small beer garden with table and chairs for drinking. Then there is the French House in Soho, but that's a story for another time. As Samuel Johnson famously said " a man who is tired of London is tired of life"!
Hi there gorgeous ladies, In the Royal Borough of Greenwich, at the end of The Avenue in Greenwich Park stands a beautiful statue of General Wolfe, atop a large stone plinth. When I was a young girl my beloved Granny often took me to play in Greenwich Park, (which was once the site of Henry Viii's Palace Of Placentia, where Elizabeth 1st was born) and explained to me how the many holes in the plinth under Wolfes statue had got there. Apparently in the second world war there were many people standing around the plinth, when a german plane, flying up the thames to a bombing raid on the city, saw all the people and detoured to strafe as many of them as possible. Miraculously, the only damage caused was to the plinth! Also in the park once stood an old oak tree with a blue door in the trunk, the legend is that during one of her father Henry Viii's famous rages, the young princess Elizabeth hid in the tree! As children we were able to hide in the tree too as the door was still there. Sadly the tree blew down during a hurricane we had in the 80's, so I and my friends were never able to take our own children there. But there is a plaque marking where it once stood. When you get to the UK please venture south out of the city and come visit The Royal Borough Of Greenwich and experience all of its many many centuries of illustrious history. We would love to see you!
Fish and Chips should be from a 'Chippy' (Fish and chip shop). You'll pay probably 3 times the price, and get smaller portions in a pub. Chippies will be restocking the fish and potatoes more too, so it's usually fresher I'm sooo looking forward to you trips to the pubs. We want drunk ramblings!! :D Alot of pubs across the UK have history to them, and a few will have pictures and info about them on the walls. (Some just have random stuff though)
Beefeater Gin is indeed named after the yeoman warders. It's made by a company based in the Kennington district in south London. Another pub popular with American visitors is The Mayflower, Rotherhithe Street, across the river from The Prospect of Whitby. It's named after the famous ship that supposedly moored alongside on its journey to the New World in 1620.
😎💙 I love learning about this stuff with you beautiful people! Could you react to some Weird Al? I like Amish Paradise, Tackie, Eat It, Like a Surgeon and a whole lot more I can't remember but, I know you will get bit by the giggle bug! 😂
I used to travel to London for work and often had to stay over. I'd spend the evenings exploring a lot of these old pubs and have visited 2 of those featured. I did not know the bomb damage on the building was WW1, I had just assumed it was the WW2 blitz. So yes, we are all learning together.
At 6.40, It makes me so so proud my home was built in 1625, a lot earlier than the Great Fire!. Another mad fact is the that Charles Dickens was a constable in Liverpool. His favourite second city.
Did I know the word 'Ye' was actually 'the'? Yes I did! The old letter 'thorn' is quite commonly known amongst those with an interest in history or the the development of the English language. I didn't know about the First World War zeppelin damage, however! 'Mud Larking' along the Thames shoreline is fun- I've picked up a number of small shards of 17th Century pottery there. When I was young you could only get Hot Cross Buns at Easter time, but these days they are on sale all year round, and lots of people have them for breakfast often. I am a tradtionalist and only eat them at Easter, even though I love them.
If u can, your first chippy should be on the coast.....whitby, Grimsby any traditional seaside town. They are a rip off but you cant buy sea air and chips in most places..... oh, and the fish is fresh 😁
when I used to live and work in London in a street called Hatfields! the name literally meat making hats in fields! We were not far from the river Thames! I used to go to a pub that was new, but called the Dogettes coat and Badge! It was named after a group of mn that served on the Thames! In the early days! I cannot remember the time scale but they If my memory services me correctly collet revenue from those trading on the Thames! For me that is, nearly 60 years ago ok! That was great fun to listen to thank you for that!
If you are ever in Salisbury, visit the Haunch of Venison. It dates from the 14th Century and is another one with a pewter counter top. Instead of mummified cats it has a mummified hand - believed to be from someone who had cheated at cards!
We have a pub in Teesside that's now shut down, called the Mile House. I worked there in my late teens. My manager explained, It was called the Mile House because it had literal mile long tunnels in the cellar that went under a now housing estate. The tunnels went up to what was now a supermarket but used as underground tunnels in the war. Unsure if for hiding or moving weaponry etc, he didnt explain more. Thought it was quite interesting! My manager also told me there was a witch, i walked down with a torch as it had zero lighting, and someone had painted a witch on the wall quite a way into the tunnel. Was expecting Something, but still cr*pped my pants.
Great video, I learned a lot! There is a bar in northern Wi that has more taxidermy critters than I care to see. They are all over the walls and shelves. I don't know if it is still there but it was when I was a kid and was still there in the 70's.
I think the pub to definitely visit is the Red Lion at Avebury. The pub is smack bang in the middle of Avebury Stone Circle, a neolithic stone circle not far from Stonehenge and probably older. What can be better than going for a meal and a pint while surrounded by a load of gigantic, ancient stones?
I visited Dirty Dicks in the early 80’s before the deep clean took place. It was truly amazing, and impossible to really describe. Imagine somewhere where, literally everything, and anything was either nailed, or hung, on the walls and ceiling and never cleaned for many decades. Cobwebs and dust everywhere, not to mention the mummified cats etc.
The character that was incorrectly written "Ye" due to the lack of characters in the printing technology of the time actually still exists in modern Icelandic, although it looks a little different (Thorn - þ). A fragment of the Old Norse language that persistently lingers on in modern English 🤓😉.
Great video, I've been to The Keys Beefeater pub a few times as part of the Ceremony of the Keys, it is brilliant. Beefeater Gin's (original?) distillery is near the Oval Cricket Ground, I think they still do tours. Keep up the good work👍
So funny,roundabouts freak everyone when learning to drive,it's a right of passage. In all honesty the approach has plenty of information painted in each lane which is invaluable. The best tip to make it easy is to program a sat nav. It'll alert u with lane information and directions. Hope that u feel more reassured ❤
In 2018 a group of Falklands veterans were invited to the tower of London for a private tour by one of the warders who was also a Falklands vet, me and my wife were part of it. We did a small church service for those who died in the Falklands, watched the ceremony of the keys and had a 'few' drinks in their bar, we weren't allowed to take pics of quite a few things. Also there is a smaller bar with the main bar for warders and their families only.
It is truly amazing that although every single Pub basically performes the same or very similar service/product the sheer amount of variety is astounding. With the possible exception of certain establishments that are owned & ran by a national chain each and every Pub will have its own character. It is a hard thing to actually explain to someone who has never had the experience just how singular each place can be. Be it the genre of music, the volume of music or even the absence of music also the clientele of each establishment or more importantly perhaps the Landlord/Landlady and other staff has a great bearing on the 'feel' of a place some will feel like a nightclub yet others will have armchairs, an open fire & quite possibly even the Pub dog curled up at your feet. Some will have an amazing high end menu whilst many will do more basic and affordable food but still at a high standard, then some will have nothing at all to offer in the way of food except peanuts and crisps(chips). Trust me when I say I am only touching upon the smallest fraction of things that each pub does different & just one more thing before I get to my actual point and I am sure this will sound weird to the uninitiated but sometimes a single pub can have two or more characteristics in the same establishment simultaneously. This is because a high percentage of Pubs especially older pubs will have separate rooms/bars running at the same time each different to the other, almost as long as there have been pubs there has been a separation of what is usually called the public bar & the saloon bar. A saloon bar is still open to the public but it will be quieter, more luxurious with an atmosphere that is more conductive of quiet conversations. (Description taken straight from Google). A public bar is where you will find pub games such as darts, pool and the like, the furnishings will be functional more than comfortable it is also where you are more likely to find family groups either eating or just getting refreshments. Although obviously no longer the case for many years the saloon bar was strictly for men only women would always be expected to drink in the public bar and never alone. All of this is just to say that no matter your taste or how picky you are you can always find a Pub that is perfect for you and if you are staying longer than just a day or two please don't accept the first pub you walk into as being 'good enough' there are plenty of pubs especially in big cities or in tourist locations so without travelling too far or taking too long it is well worth trying out 3 or 4 to find one that you feel comfortable and relaxed in. This will then become what we all refer to as "the local" and then after deciding upon your very own "local" if you pop in each day even if it's just for the chance to sit down & take the weight off your feet for half hour with a cold lemonade you may experience one of life's better experiences which is being greeted possibly by name with the words "would you like the usual?" Whereupon the bartender will supply your favourite beverage with a smile and as you make your way over to your table other 'regulars' who also frequent this 'local' will smile and nod to you in recognition of the fact that you belong here. It's a glorious feeling.
I used to occasionally visit a pub in Essex called "The Mole Trap" which had its walls and ceilings festooned with various varieties of traps. I think there are other similar pubs around the UK.
WW1 really was a very transformational war. At the beginning you had armies marching forward in line like they had for centuries beforehand (either with muskets or pikes), wearing brightly coloured uniforms (the French uniform was a blue jacket, red trousers, and a red hat for example) and moving on the "spirit of Élan" or the idea of victory by being better than the enemy. There were few machine guns per unit, limited artillery, and cavalry still featured heavily in the theory of exploiting breakthroughs in the enemy line and flanking their forces. By the end of the war by contrast you had essentially every weapon you'd find in WW2, just at a more "primitive" stage - hand grenades, rifle grenades, light machine guns/squad support machine guns, submachine guns, mortars, timed fuses for shells, tanks, aircraft, putative radio communications (although they really weren't that mobile at the end of WW1), and tactics to match. It has been said by some historians that if you had a time machine and you brought one of the commanders of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 forward to 1914 they'd understand the battlefield and with some briefing on the advances in rifles they'd be as effective a commander as they were in 1815. However if you put them in 1917, just 3 years later, they'd be totally lost. Put a modern army commander in 1917 though and they'd also be very familiar with the tactics, the weapons etc, but they'd have no clue how to command in 1914.
Hello Natasha and Debbie, have you ever done a video about UK village annual traditions eg well dressing, scarecrow competitions, yarn bombs, gurning, welly wanging.
A lot of pubs here are named after the places that they were either built on or converted from. For example my local pub is called The Bell as it was originally a bell foundry. The company JD Wetherspoon, which operates many pubs around the UK - and is apparently named after a teacher of the company founder who told him that he wouldn't amount to much - name a lot of their pubs based on what they originally were. The one in my home town being called the Penny Black, after the very first postage stamp, as the building was originally the town's post office.
You might not have mummified cats but I'm fairly sure you have "trophy" heads of deer and other hunted and killed animals displayed on the walls in bars and homes too. Each to their own. Interesting video.✌
I worked at St. Bartholomew's ( Bart's ) hospital from 1985 -1997 . I worked in the operating theatres ( O.R ) I've been past the Viaduct pub , but not in it . I did jury duty at the Old Bailey .
I've been to the Viktor Wynd museum, it's only very small (living room size) but very fun! And stuffed with weird and wacky stuff! If you buy a tea for a few quid upstairs, that's also your entry ticket ❤😊
This was the most interesting video ever - I wasn't aware of 90% of that stuff and I know where I''ll be visiting next time I'm in London x Your vids are just getting better and better girls and yes lets have a look more of the museum guides vids. Thanks again girls loved it x
You two always put a smile on my face. A few months ago you were having trouble from RUclips and thus financial difficulties. I gifted a small sum at the time as you both seemed so depressed and upset. Has that all been resolved with RUclips now?
13:52 the "cells" were probably to secure stocks of alcohol in from being stolen, especially if the establishment above catered to the higher proced markets.
Yep. I do learn stuff from your videos. Stuff about my own country, and I feel a tad ashamed for not knowing in the first place. But it's fun learning along with you. Thanks, ladies.
I used to work just around the corner from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. Many a happy lunch break or weekday evening was spent in there with my work friends. Although it's not so easy to navigate after a few pints!
We're going on a rollicking tour of London's Pubs, uncovering the strangest, most unexpected tales. From mummified cats to underground jail cells and more, you'll learn it all! And some thought the United Kingdom was stuffy! You're going to love this! Who knew London's Pubs were hiding so much! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Mostly citizens north of the UK divide🙄, or London haters say "don't get fish and chip in London"🙄. Consider searching "Award winning fish and chips restaurants in London", but there are obviously great restaurants all around the UK of merit. Please understand, because London takes much of the worlds attention regarding British culture other parts of the country historically feel London is fair game for criticism (and that is fine). Of course if you eat "Fish and Chips" in a seaside location then psychologically you will unconsciously convince yourself its the best ever, ever-ever! What I would agree with is "value for money" as it is mostly cheaper outside London. UK is a small island so all areas are relativity close to the sea therefore any UK location could potentially have a great fish restaurant.
On another note. Google searched "Billingsgate Fish Market".
Located in Poplar in London. It is the United Kingdom's largest inland fish market. It takes its name from Billingsgate, a ward in the south-east corner of the City of London, where the riverside market was originally established. In its original location in the 19th century, Billingsgate was the largest fish market in the world.
Great content as usual ladies.👍
Hi Ladies,
I have drunk in most of these from time to time.
The Bun House was an OK Local, I visited occasionally on a Wednesday, it was a music venue for a while. Just down the road (Devons Road) was Kitsons (though I think its real name was the Builder's Arms, is now The Angel of Bow) which was also a music venue, Kitsons was for Older Folk, with Bun House as 20-30's folk.
Between them is what used to be a good Fish and Chip Shop 'Barrys', its still there does deliveries, worth a try.
Generally Fish and Chips is best from actual Fish and Chip Shops, Pub Fish and Chips is often for tourists.
Love your videos. Completely unrelated. But I think you two would absolutely love reacting to the 1994 Eurovision Riverdance. It's mesmerising
Come over here and go to a pub.
Some places more generally have some pretty damn cool things under the ground I mean, like some modern buildings under them have the old Roman things like their equivalent back then of central heating sort of (though is mixed the place generally like it being called essentially or within West Saxon named Wessex, plus then the seperate other former kingdoms like Middle Saxon Middlesex, East Saxon Essex and South Saxon Sussex, the Saxon states in the country.
You can get fish and chips anywhere but there is something about getting at the coast fresh from the sea, which is better than the inner city for twice the price.
In Nottingham where I live is Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, built in 1189 & is England's oldest surviving inn,got its name when King Richard the Lionheart and his men congregated here before embarking on the Crusades in Jerusalem.The building rests against Castle Rock, which Nottingham Castle is built on - also is attached to caves, carved out of the soft sandstone. There are a lot of cave systems throughout Nottingham
I’ve been. Great atmosphere!
I think there’s some dispute about this ‘old’ pub , like many others, as there is no evidence it’s as old as it claims. I think the George inn down near Frome in Norton st Phillips is the oldest fully proven pub from the late C14. Most older builders were timber and now lost to time.
Been there many times. However, the Sal (Ye Old Salutation) nearby also has a good claim for the oldest. How about the Royal Oak in the centre of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, it was an inn at the time of the crusades... And so on....
Know it well I want to return soon
We were there a couple of years ago it's quite amazing
Theres a really nice historical pub less than 5 minutes down the road from Bents Garden Centre. It was built in the 1500s! The Raven Inn its called. They tried to knock it down a few years ago till it was saved due to local uproar. Now its cleaned up and open for business again. The food there is sooo good. Its places like that you think "if these walls could talk"
The Raven, Captain Blood and Gunpowder plot, I took my American ex-in-laws there and they couldn't believe it, whilst my mother who was eating with us just thought it was a bit maudlin. It was also the pub of choice for discrete meetings (of all kinds) for the company I worked for.
Hi ladies ❤❤ Just to say, please don't worry if you want to go to pubs. You honestly don't have to drink alcohol. Plenty of people go just for light refreshments and food. We're not all heavy drinkers 😊😊
Yeah, I usually just have a diet coke. You can get cups of tea or coffee too.
@@lottie2525 My soft go-to drink is J2O with ice! I never drink alcohol in a pub and usually can be found in one having lunch with another elderly lady!!
If you drop a glass or drink in a UK pub you will get a cheer or round of applause. The sea side is the best area for fish and chips. You cant get scraps and mushy peas in London chipies. .
I love scraps. I used to work in Wigan and the chippie around the corner used to give you a big bag full with salt on.
And a cry of "Sack the juggler!"
ADORE Scraps......yummy!!! Salt and vinegar, hot into a paper!!!😋😋😋❤
I get mushy peas in London
Hey Natasha and Debbie, given you guys think a 1500s pub is old I thought you might like to know about the Rose & Crown in Ludlow, Shropshire! While its not always been a "pub" it has been a continuous drinking establishment (starting as an ale house) since 1102 when the de Lacy family were building the town to act as the main seat of power along the Marches and Welsh border to keep the Welsh out of England. This means that this pub has served alcohol since almost the first crusade (ended in 1099). The current owners even have documents that date back to this time in the form of the original ownership paperwork and licence as an alehouse.
I also recommend you look at Ludlow Castle. As mentioned it was the seat of English power in Wales and along the border. The main fortification in a string of border defenses covering the entire border with the aim to quell Welsh rebellion and protect English lands. It was the site of multiple royal assassinations, the death of a king and the location of the Welsh High and Crown courts. Next to the castle is an old manor house that recently sold. This particular house is famous for being the home of Henry the VIII's wife after her exile. There is a lot of cool history to see there xD
There’s The Feathers too. My paternal Grandma was from Ludlow (born and brought up on Mill Street and her Dad worked in St Laurence’s too) but my grandparents used to take my Dad and Uncle on holiday to Ludlow every year and they’d stay at The Feathers, which as a young boy my Dad hated as he found it really scary.
@@lynnejamieson2063 There is indeed :) it dates back to 1603 and is almost directly opposite the Rose & Crown with them both on the same road. It was built by an ambitious lawyer who wanted to settle and make it big in the Marches then became a hotel 50 years later and has been serving hotel guests since 1670. Which means this hotel has been in continuous service for almost as long as there were Pilgrims travelling to America. With the building itself serving its initial purpose for 17 years before the first pilgrims landed.
@@JackulaHD are you actually in/from Ludlow or is it just an area that’s history grips your attention? My Great Grandfather (before he worked in St Laurence’s) owned a stationers, but as my Grandma was the youngest child of his second marriage, she was quite young when he died (I think under 10 anyway) and all her half siblings were considerably older than her (she was born in 1912 and they were born in the 1880’s) so I don’t think she ever really knew much about her Dad and the only story I remember her telling about him, was that her last memory of him was watching him walk up Mills Street and that he never came home. His name was Charles Cobbin.
@@lynnejamieson2063 I am from there. Well born in Kent but moved to Ludlow at 3 and lived just outside of Ludlow in the countryside until I moved away for Uni.
@@JackulaHD my Grandma met a Scottish soldier during WWII, moved to Scotland and married him but by the time I came along in the mid 70’s she had this hybrid Shropshire Scottish accent that was so soft, I honestly never really even registered that she was English for most of my childhood, even though she spoke about her childhood in Ludlow all the time.
I really do love Ludlow, even though I’ve sadly only visited it a few of times, it really just felt right being there every time though. St Laurence’s just took my breath away when I visited it and I absolutely fell in love with Stokesay Castle. An absolutely stunning part of the world and one I keep intending to revisit in the not too distant future.
In Manchester in the 70’s we had a famous pub called Tommy Ducks.
When you went it you were welcomed by dozens and dozens of knickers attached to the ceiling.
In the dead of night without authority one evening the pub was demolished.
It was a sad day when we lost this pub😅😅😅
Oh god, I lived in Manchester in 1980s, and I recall Tommy Ducks very well. Sad to hear such iconic locations are disappearing.
Not somewhere I went often in my days in Manchester (80-87). If I remember correctly, it was a Greenall Whitley pub, which put it pretty close to the bottom of our ranking of where to get a *good* beer.
You mean they pulled Tommy Ducks' knickers down?!?
I remember that pub so well
@@DaveBartlett ha ha love the comment.
I think this is now one of my favourite of all of your videos. I want to go to London to have a look around these pubs now😊
Thanks!! We have to agree. So much in this one!!
YES!!! There are so many that are of similar vibe, as in historical artefacts and a fascinating history!
@@AM-dz2sh yes, literally every traditional pub in the UK.
I'm not much of a bread eater, but I love hot cross buns.
Sweet, doughy, spicy, with sultanas, and decorated on top with a thin cross made of two strips of plain dough. Everybody eats hotcross buns in the weeks before Easter (and afterwards too)
The oldest pub in the UK is The Royal Standard at Forty Green just outside Beaconsfield a small town to the west of London. We used to go there quite often in my youth, they brewed a powerful ale, more than 50 years ago.
I met my late father there after he had been away for a year in Ireland, It was and still is one of the best memories of my life. Great choice ladies. Oh do the Bailey It will be a scream.
Eating Hot-cross buns is common around Easter in New Zealand.
And Australia, except they often appear in the shops a lot earlier in the year.
Now in my dotage, I rarely visit central London. When I used to do so, one of my favourite restaurants was Rules, near Covent Garden. I'm sure you'd love its ambience. It's been on the same spot since the 1700s, and has wild game as its specialty. When I was a schoolboy, a great treat when we had a Saturday exeat, was to be taken to Simpson's in the Strand by one of my roomies' parents. Back then, the downstairs restaurant was for males only 😅, but now that anachronism is long gone. As a nine or 10-yr old it felt very adult to be served from a silver salver holding a huge roast of lamb, beef, or pork. It was a special treat to be the one giving the carver half-a-crown - a tradition based on always giving a silver coin to a carver, so he wouldn't use his carving dagger against you. This is a great place for a "special" Sunday lunch.
Fish and Chips. You *can* get fish and chips in a pub, but you *should* get them from a fish and chip shop. Also, fish and chips is not complete without peas! I found it strange in the USA where fish and chips is known for being served in Irish pubs, despite being English and not really pub fare; and it always seemed to come with coleslaw instead of peas - wrong, wrong, wrong! What do Americans have against green vegetables? Anyway, fish and chips was culturally a cheap, working-class meal (referred to as a 'fish supper' in some parts of Britain) because it was made in bulk in fish and chip shops with big fryers. If you couldn't afford fish & chips, you could just buy chips, which were probably the cheapest hot meal you could get - hence the expression 'cheap as chips'. Also, fun fact: due to fish and chips being a working-class staple, they used to be the only hot takeaway food it was legal to sell on a Sunday, right up into the 1980s.
Not any old peas it must be Mushy Peas.
And they were not rationed during the war
Yeah, don't get your first fish and chips in a pub, definitely at a proper fish and chip shop.
Hi girls Gin is my favourite drink so don’t know what they would call me in those days love from your 89 year young fan Just returned to uk been in Canada for a month still travelling on my own 💕🇬🇧
most 'home made' pub food comes from Brake Brothers nowadays, I agree that fish and chips better from a chippy, but at least Brake Brothers fish and chips is consistent.
As a Londoner I learnt a lot there ! Will definitely be subscribing to that lady’s channel
We've been in The Old Cheese on one of our many theatre weekends in London.
On my grandmother's knee, I learnt a little song, 'Hot cross buns, hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns. If you haven't any daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns!' Presumably the song was that of the many street vendors.
We have hot cross buns every Easter here. They are delicious toasted and spread with lots of butter.
There are some really weird things in the pubs! Now I want to go on a hunt to find more. 😊
I used to live in Wapping and The Prospect Of Whitby pub was literally across the street from my apartment, so I visited quite a few times. It is as beautiful and fascinating as the video suggests. A bonus is that you can go down to the bank of the River Thames at low tide and quite easily find very old items, such as clay smoking pipes and bottles, which were thrown or accidentally dropped into the river by their original owners.
I live in London UK we have so much history you will never be bored, so much to see you really need to plan your trip.
There is a chippie Between Queensbury and Canons Park stations (past Wembley on the Jubilee line) that I used to go regularly to get the most amazing fish and chips.
Even when I moved to the other end of London I'd occasionally go there to get my food.
I've been away from the UK for a few years now, so I don't know what it's like, but don't believe those who say not to get fish and chips from London, it's just harder to find good places.
The Olde White Harte (hidden down a covered alleyway between Silver Street & Bowlalley Lane in Kingston upon Hull) has only been a pub since 1881, but the premises where it's located were built around 1660, and the building is Grade II listed.
It was originally the home of Sir John Hotham, the Governer of, and an MP for, Hull in the 17th century.
During the conflict between the English parliament and King Charles I. the King arrived at the city walls, at the nearby 'Beverley Gate', demanding to be let in. (His plan was to gain access to the vast arsenal of weapons located inside, on the banks of the River Humber.)
Sir John Hotham and other city worthies retired to the 'Oak Room' on the upper floor of Hotham's house, where after much discussion they made their decision to defy the King and refuse him access to the city and its weapons. This began the First Siege of Hull, and was the first direct action of the English Civil War!
The Olde White Hart is preserved in pretty much its 17th century condition, and the upstairs room, where their decision was made is open to the patrons of the pub as a restaurant known as 'The Plotting Parlour'.
That was fascinating, I had no idea of the weird historical facts surrounding old London pubs.
So much to see and learn about! I'll have to check out some of these pubs next time I'm in London. Thank you ladies! Love from Northern Ireland ❤
Our love to the gorgeous Northern Ireland 😍😍
There used to be two more letters in the alphabet - eth and thorn. Thorn (þ or y) was pronounced like the hard th in "think", Eth (ð) was pronounced like the soft th in "then". Both letters are still used in Iceland. And yes, I learnt a lot of things in this video! BTW, where I live in New Zealand, there is an unusual pub display a few miles north of here. Believe it or not, it's a bottle of beer. A WWII soldier bought the beer but had to leave for his train, leaving for his deployment. He called to the landlord "keep it for me 'til I get back". Sadly, he died in Crete, and the 85-year-old bottle is still on display in the pub.
The thorn was eliminated from most European languages after the invention of printing, it is still used in Iceland
Old English had two different letters for the 'th' sound: thorn and eth. The thorn letter which looked a bit like. 'p' was a voiceless 'th' sound like the 'th' in the word thorn. Eth looks like a 'd' with a stroke through the ascender, and stood for the voiced 'th' sound (as heard in 'with' or 'this').
The pub The Keys is featured in the series Inside the tower of London.
Was a brilliant series. Very interesting. Definitely worth a watch.
Thank you for the video, I love videos like these! Very informative and watchable. I’m off to watch more of her videos, lovely way to spend a Sunday morning! Another fabulous channel is ‘Free Tours by Foot-London’, all guides good, but Sinead is fabulous. She is walking the tours and very knowledgeable, videos are usually from 20-50mins long, so many too long to react too, but worth a watch. I will do one of Sinead’s tours, but love watching and not having to walk and I get to drink a coffee as I watch 😂 Sundays are sorted, watching yours followed by one of these videos.
That was an excellent video, enhanced by your reactions to it. London 'Open House' is part of a yearly series of events called 'Heritage Days', usually in September. Places that are not usually open to the public throw their doors wide and put on a little exhibition about themselves. I have been to synagogues, Masonic Lodges, backstage at theatres, private grottoes, tours of Government buildings, Church crypts, private gardens and once, memorably, to the huge hangers that stored the R100 and R101 airships.
I used to volunteer every Saturday at the Dr Johnson House Museum shown in this video and used to go and drink there quite often.
Been to the Viaduct Tavern a few times, once taking some people on a tour of the area and got to blag our way into the 'cells'.
Despite being an occasional tour guide, I didn't know the damage on St Bart's was from a Zeppelin raid.
If you think the thorn is odd, check out the long s.
Pubs I know:
The Bucket of Blood: Phillack Cornwall.
The Jamaica Inn: Bodmin Cornwall, inspiration for the Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name.
The Spotted Dog: Cold Ash Berkshire.
The Broad Face: Wallingford Oxfordshire.
There are countless others with quirky names.
Theres a video on here about old letters which is very interesting . Just short of 11 minutes long
"LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET: 9 letters we stopped using" it's by @RobWords
This is all you need to know, when planning your itinerary for your visit to these shores. The great thing about a "pub crawl" is you can extend it to the entire British Isles, (that being UK plus the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, the The Scottish Islands various, etc.).
From that plan you can fit in all the regular sights you wish to see ... assuming you are still standing!
Enjoy!! 🥳🇬🇧🇺🇲💖🙋♀️
She briefly mention Barts with the bombing so I thought you'd be interested to know that that is the St Bartholomew's Hospital which is the oldest continually running hospital. It was founded in 1123 and still has a reputation of being one of the best. 900 years of healthcare and teaching!!!
I watch people on the river Thames at low tide mud larking they find all sorts of things from the past, old bottles,clay pipes,cup,saucers,bones,jewellery ETC it's amazing what type of stuff is found.
My dad like to go metal detecting in rivers especially around bridges. The amount of gold rings he's found over the years is quite surprising
There's one person who posts her mudlarking, but you need a licence to do it and a lot of inoculations as there's all sorts of diseases you can catch from the raw sewage.
@@dave_h_8742You only need a licence if you dig, if you just pick things up from the shoreline that’s ok.
I mudlark on the Thames, never had an inoculation, lol. I do have a permit though.
I learned a loot watching this video! I am not really a city person so rarely visit, but it's still interesting to learn which I do from your reaction videos.
As a Brit born and bred I find these videos fascinating and learn so much!
I think the Beefeater you're thinking of is a brand of Gin, whereas what's on offer there is an ale by Marston's brewery :)
I have been lucky through membership of The Ghost Club to have been in a lot of these pubs. The Viaduct Tavern was opened to host our Chairman's birthday party. It being part of the City of London it has no customers at the weekend as hardly anyone lives there. Also through a member who is a London Blue Badge Guide/actor she got us into The Tower of London at night including drinking at The Keys. Also she did a tour of the Watling area, and later we went to Ian MacKellen's pub The Grapes. On the bank of the Thames it has the Gandalf's staff from Lord of The Rings, behind the bar. After meeting monthly in a pub in The Temple area of London, we go to a pub on Fleet Street called The Old Bank of England. It has a double decker bus (My father used to drive one) parked in it's small beer garden with table and chairs for drinking. Then there is the French House in Soho, but that's a story for another time. As Samuel Johnson famously said " a man who is tired of London is tired of life"!
Hi there gorgeous ladies, In the Royal Borough of Greenwich, at the end of The Avenue in Greenwich Park stands a beautiful statue of General Wolfe, atop a large stone plinth. When I was a young girl my beloved Granny often took me to play in Greenwich Park, (which was once the site of Henry Viii's Palace Of Placentia, where Elizabeth 1st was born) and explained to me how the many holes in the plinth under Wolfes statue had got there. Apparently in the second world war there were many people standing around the plinth, when a german plane, flying up the thames to a bombing raid on the city, saw all the people and detoured to strafe as many of them as possible. Miraculously, the only damage caused was to the plinth! Also in the park once stood an old oak tree with a blue door in the trunk, the legend is that during one of her father Henry Viii's famous rages, the young princess Elizabeth hid in the tree! As children we were able to hide in the tree too as the door was still there. Sadly the tree blew down during a hurricane we had in the 80's, so I and my friends were never able to take our own children there. But there is a plaque marking where it once stood. When you get to the UK please venture south out of the city and come visit The Royal Borough Of Greenwich and experience all of its many many centuries of illustrious history. We would love to see you!
Fish and Chips should be from a 'Chippy' (Fish and chip shop). You'll pay probably 3 times the price, and get smaller portions in a pub. Chippies will be restocking the fish and potatoes more too, so it's usually fresher
I'm sooo looking forward to you trips to the pubs. We want drunk ramblings!! :D
Alot of pubs across the UK have history to them, and a few will have pictures and info about them on the walls. (Some just have random stuff though)
Beefeater Gin is indeed named after the yeoman warders. It's made by a company based in the Kennington district in south London. Another pub popular with American visitors is The Mayflower, Rotherhithe Street, across the river from The Prospect of Whitby. It's named after the famous ship that supposedly moored alongside on its journey to the New World in 1620.
😂Hey girls... Really pleased with your enthusiasm for English and British history and culture... Love to you both...🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸🥰🥰
😎💙 I love learning about this stuff with you beautiful people! Could you react to some Weird Al? I like Amish Paradise, Tackie, Eat It, Like a Surgeon and a whole lot more I can't remember but, I know you will get bit by the giggle bug! 😂
I used to travel to London for work and often had to stay over. I'd spend the evenings exploring a lot of these old pubs and have visited 2 of those featured. I did not know the bomb damage on the building was WW1, I had just assumed it was the WW2 blitz. So yes, we are all learning together.
I’ve subscribed thanks to you two and I’ve really enjoyed her Highgate cemetery videos ❤
Hi ladies, love your shows and try and watch as many as i can ❤
Looking forward to this. Your certificate has arrived by the way. I will post it to you at the weekend. x
At 6.40, It makes me so so proud my home was built in 1625, a lot earlier than the Great Fire!. Another mad fact is the that Charles Dickens was a constable in Liverpool. His favourite second city.
Did I know the word 'Ye' was actually 'the'? Yes I did! The old letter 'thorn' is quite commonly known amongst those with an interest in history or the the development of the English language.
I didn't know about the First World War zeppelin damage, however!
'Mud Larking' along the Thames shoreline is fun- I've picked up a number of small shards of 17th Century pottery there.
When I was young you could only get Hot Cross Buns at Easter time, but these days they are on sale all year round, and lots of people have them for breakfast often. I am a tradtionalist and only eat them at Easter, even though I love them.
Morning girls Richard the london cabbie here. Absolutly raining heavy here in london x
Hi Richard ...Really enjoy your videos...
@@jens9702 my pleasure Jens x
The best fish and chips comes from the Tobermory Fishermens trailer on the fish pier, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
I'm from Kent but have actually been to three of those pubs when visiting London! Didn't know all the cool interesting history! Great video!
The widow's son (bun house) has reopened now. It used to be my 'work' pub next door on Friday evenings!
If u can, your first chippy should be on the coast.....whitby, Grimsby any traditional seaside town. They are a rip off but you cant buy sea air and chips in most places..... oh, and the fish is fresh 😁
If go for fish and chips in the UK go coast only, half the price and 50x the flavour
when I used to live and work in London in a street called Hatfields! the name literally meat making hats in fields! We were not far from the river Thames! I used to go to a pub that was new, but called the Dogettes coat and Badge! It was named after a group of mn that served on the Thames! In the early days! I cannot remember the time scale but they If my memory services me correctly collet revenue from those trading on the Thames! For me that is, nearly 60 years ago ok! That was great fun to listen to thank you for that!
If you are ever in Salisbury, visit the Haunch of Venison. It dates from the 14th Century and is another one with a pewter counter top. Instead of mummified cats it has a mummified hand - believed to be from someone who had cheated at cards!
We have a pub in Teesside that's now shut down, called the Mile House. I worked there in my late teens. My manager explained, It was called the Mile House because it had literal mile long tunnels in the cellar that went under a now housing estate. The tunnels went up to what was now a supermarket but used as underground tunnels in the war. Unsure if for hiding or moving weaponry etc, he didnt explain more. Thought it was quite interesting!
My manager also told me there was a witch, i walked down with a torch as it had zero lighting, and someone had painted a witch on the wall quite a way into the tunnel. Was expecting Something, but still cr*pped my pants.
Great video, I learned a lot! There is a bar in northern Wi that has more taxidermy critters than I care to see. They are all over the walls and shelves. I don't know if it is still there but it was when I was a kid and was still there in the 70's.
I think the pub to definitely visit is the Red Lion at Avebury. The pub is smack bang in the middle of Avebury Stone Circle, a neolithic stone circle not far from Stonehenge and probably older. What can be better than going for a meal and a pint while surrounded by a load of gigantic, ancient stones?
I had my 40th birthday party in one of those basement rooms at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. It was really cool as it was lit by candle light.
I visited Dirty Dicks in the early 80’s before the deep clean took place. It was truly amazing, and impossible to really describe. Imagine somewhere where, literally everything, and anything was either nailed, or hung, on the walls and ceiling and never cleaned for many decades. Cobwebs and dust everywhere, not to mention the mummified cats etc.
The character that was incorrectly written "Ye" due to the lack of characters in the printing technology of the time actually still exists in modern Icelandic, although it looks a little different (Thorn - þ). A fragment of the Old Norse language that persistently lingers on in modern English 🤓😉.
I'd get fish and chips by the seaside, London is for light lunch bites, street food or going for dinner at somewhere nice.
Thanks ladies! I learned some great London history I didn't already know. And a great new youtuber to follow!
You should take a look at Gary’s Eats. He visited a posh fish ‘n’ chip shop in Mayfair recently. He’s a lovely guy 😊
Fish 'n' Chips is best from the coast, There is also London Prices to consider, For the cost of one meal in London you can get two elsewhere
A pint in an English pub is one of the few things I miss after leaving the UK 5 years ago.
Great video, I've been to The Keys Beefeater pub a few times as part of the Ceremony of the Keys, it is brilliant. Beefeater Gin's (original?) distillery is near the Oval Cricket Ground, I think they still do tours. Keep up the good work👍
So funny,roundabouts freak everyone when learning to drive,it's a right of passage.
In all honesty the approach has plenty of information painted in each lane which is invaluable.
The best tip to make it easy is to program a sat nav. It'll alert u with lane information and directions. Hope that u feel more reassured ❤
In 2018 a group of Falklands veterans were invited to the tower of London for a private tour by one of the warders who was also a Falklands vet, me and my wife were part of it. We did a small church service for those who died in the Falklands, watched the ceremony of the keys and had a 'few' drinks in their bar, we weren't allowed to take pics of quite a few things. Also there is a smaller bar with the main bar for warders and their families only.
It is truly amazing that although every single Pub basically performes the same or very similar service/product the sheer amount of variety is astounding. With the possible exception of certain establishments that are owned & ran by a national chain each and every Pub will have its own character. It is a hard thing to actually explain to someone who has never had the experience just how singular each place can be.
Be it the genre of music, the volume of music or even the absence of music also the clientele of each establishment or more importantly perhaps the Landlord/Landlady and other staff has a great bearing on the 'feel' of a place some will feel like a nightclub yet others will have armchairs, an open fire & quite possibly even the Pub dog curled up at your feet. Some will have an amazing high end menu whilst many will do more basic and affordable food but still at a high standard, then some will have nothing at all to offer in the way of food except peanuts and crisps(chips). Trust me when I say I am only touching upon the smallest fraction of things that each pub does different & just one more thing before I get to my actual point and I am sure this will sound weird to the uninitiated but sometimes a single pub can have two or more characteristics in the same establishment simultaneously. This is because a high percentage of Pubs especially older pubs will have separate rooms/bars running at the same time each different to the other, almost as long as there have been pubs there has been a separation of what is usually called the public bar & the saloon bar. A saloon bar is still open to the public but it will be quieter, more luxurious with an atmosphere that is more conductive of quiet conversations. (Description taken straight from Google). A public bar is where you will find pub games such as darts, pool and the like, the furnishings will be functional more than comfortable it is also where you are more likely to find family groups either eating or just getting refreshments. Although obviously no longer the case for many years the saloon bar was strictly for men only women would always be expected to drink in the public bar and never alone.
All of this is just to say that no matter your taste or how picky you are you can always find a Pub that is perfect for you and if you are staying longer than just a day or two please don't accept the first pub you walk into as being 'good enough' there are plenty of pubs especially in big cities or in tourist locations so without travelling too far or taking too long it is well worth trying out 3 or 4 to find one that you feel comfortable and relaxed in. This will then become what we all refer to as "the local" and then after deciding upon your very own "local" if you pop in each day even if it's just for the chance to sit down & take the weight off your feet for half hour with a cold lemonade you may experience one of life's better experiences which is being greeted possibly by name with the words "would you like the usual?" Whereupon the bartender will supply your favourite beverage with a smile and as you make your way over to your table other 'regulars' who also frequent this 'local' will smile and nod to you in recognition of the fact that you belong here.
It's a glorious feeling.
This was a really interesting one. Now even I wanna go to London, even tough I´m not that keen of big citys.
Can’t wait for you two ladies to go visit some of the places that you’re intrigued to go to and make videos of those places. ✈️🇦🇺🏺
I used to occasionally visit a pub in Essex called "The Mole Trap" which had its walls and ceilings festooned with various varieties of traps. I think there are other similar pubs around the UK.
There is no end to the curiosities of London - many Londoners do not know most of this stuff!
WW1 really was a very transformational war. At the beginning you had armies marching forward in line like they had for centuries beforehand (either with muskets or pikes), wearing brightly coloured uniforms (the French uniform was a blue jacket, red trousers, and a red hat for example) and moving on the "spirit of Élan" or the idea of victory by being better than the enemy. There were few machine guns per unit, limited artillery, and cavalry still featured heavily in the theory of exploiting breakthroughs in the enemy line and flanking their forces.
By the end of the war by contrast you had essentially every weapon you'd find in WW2, just at a more "primitive" stage - hand grenades, rifle grenades, light machine guns/squad support machine guns, submachine guns, mortars, timed fuses for shells, tanks, aircraft, putative radio communications (although they really weren't that mobile at the end of WW1), and tactics to match.
It has been said by some historians that if you had a time machine and you brought one of the commanders of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 forward to 1914 they'd understand the battlefield and with some briefing on the advances in rifles they'd be as effective a commander as they were in 1815. However if you put them in 1917, just 3 years later, they'd be totally lost. Put a modern army commander in 1917 though and they'd also be very familiar with the tactics, the weapons etc, but they'd have no clue how to command in 1914.
Hello Natasha and Debbie, have you ever done a video about UK village annual traditions eg well dressing, scarecrow competitions, yarn bombs, gurning, welly wanging.
A lot of pubs here are named after the places that they were either built on or converted from. For example my local pub is called The Bell as it was originally a bell foundry. The company JD Wetherspoon, which operates many pubs around the UK - and is apparently named after a teacher of the company founder who told him that he wouldn't amount to much - name a lot of their pubs based on what they originally were. The one in my home town being called the Penny Black, after the very first postage stamp, as the building was originally the town's post office.
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that was really kewl cheers ladies well worth the watch
You might not have mummified cats but I'm fairly sure you have "trophy" heads of deer and other hunted and killed animals displayed on the walls in bars and homes too. Each to their own. Interesting video.✌
I worked at St. Bartholomew's ( Bart's ) hospital from 1985 -1997 . I worked in the operating theatres ( O.R ) I've been past the Viaduct pub , but not in it . I did jury duty at the Old Bailey .
Hot Cross buns are so nice you can get them all year round now. You halve them, toast them and liberally spread with butter ❤
I've been to the Viktor Wynd museum, it's only very small (living room size) but very fun! And stuffed with weird and wacky stuff! If you buy a tea for a few quid upstairs, that's also your entry ticket ❤😊
P.s I'm watching this while eating a hot cross buns 😂
This was the most interesting video ever - I wasn't aware of 90% of that stuff and I know where I''ll be visiting next time I'm in London x Your vids are just getting better and better girls and yes lets have a look more of the museum guides vids. Thanks again girls loved it x
You two always put a smile on my face.
A few months ago you were having trouble from RUclips and thus financial difficulties.
I gifted a small sum at the time as you both seemed so depressed and upset.
Has that all been resolved with RUclips now?
A pub in Alnwick Northumberland called the dirty bottles is iconic for a window full of bottles that's not been touched for a century or so.
Natasha....love the color on your hair! Love from Barry South Wales...🏴🇬🇧
13:52 the "cells" were probably to secure stocks of alcohol in from being stolen, especially if the establishment above catered to the higher proced markets.
I had no idea about any of this, thanks for posting it, I will definitely be visiting these pubs when I do my next sightseeing tour of London
Yes I’m interested ❤ hope we get to watch that 😊
Guys!! Congrats! I must have missed a few, but halfway thru this I spotted your RUclips 100k 😄
Very cool, definitely learning with you today. Have a great weekend 😊
never get fish and chips in a pub, go to a proper chippie
The most memorable thing I’ve ever seen in Ye Old Cheshire Cheese was one quiet evening in the upstairs bar when a mouse ran across the counter top!
Yep. I do learn stuff from your videos. Stuff about my own country, and I feel a tad ashamed for not knowing in the first place. But it's fun learning along with you.
Thanks, ladies.
Really fascinating video!
Fish and chips in London are exspensive
We used to live near the Widows Son in Bow - my mum used to go to the pub and she often told me the Bun story
I used to work just around the corner from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. Many a happy lunch break or weekday evening was spent in there with my work friends. Although it's not so easy to navigate after a few pints!
Natasha's face went a tad scarlet at them tiles. 😂