Charles Tyson Yerkes Report: No mention of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Honourable mentions: John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette. It's a required mention whenever you talk about the London sewers, after all.
There are punk songs and rap diss tracks about Bazelgette and the London sewers. Well, there's a rabbit hole I didn't expect to fall down this Friday. Yerkes-core remains a sadly under-explored genre.
@@harbl99 I think the steampunk music of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing (available on wax cylinder, amongst other formats) would appeal to some viewers. Their Bazalgette themed song is appropriately called _The Big Stink._ There's also a good one about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Ah, Night Soil. A valuable resource. Collected and carted north to fertilise the market gardens that in turn fed London. Maybe that's why Grandma insisted on boiling the cabbage for 20mins. Inedible, but at least you didn't get dysentery 🙄.
It might have worked better if they composted the solid stuff first. It won`t work that well these days since there is tons of stuff like pharmaceuticals and other things that will not decay, but it was a solid idea back then.
Interesting to note that one of Bazalgette's innovations was to make the sewers egg-shaped, so that whatever the flow, they always had adequate velocity. Then it's Next Stop Becton.
Interestingly, Bazalgette himself actually believed the miasma theory and that was his reason for building the sewers, but getting rid of the sewage also improved the water supply, so he achieved the desired result but not in the way he thought!
1:34 - For someone who spent decades observing that view, with the NatWest Tower solely dominating the skyline, it still seems strange to me to see it now hemmed-in by other, taller buildings.
Around 2000, I had to do a little bit of computery stuff in the tower on the 40th floor. The floor was being refurbished and completely stripped of any furnishings etc. also missing one window. Basically, a hole from floor to ceiling leading to oblivion. I stayed well clear! Oh, and Nat West tower........ showing your age there!
The more I learn about London history, the more I realize that Terry Pratchett didn't really invent any of the ideas in his books. He just selected from the already available things.
That's what I love about his work. It's all recognizable but just a little weird. The more you know about the topic he's talking about the funnier it becomes (e.g.Raising Steam is a fantastic read for train junkies). GNU Sir Terry.
Oh yes, some things he exaggerated, others he toned down, but it's all recognisable and in a weird way, even make sense. It's one of the many reasons his stories are just so brilliant.
@@pintpullinggeek Agreed, also "Going Postal" for techie geeks. If there are Jago followers here who have not read Pratchett, go read my child; be amused and enlightened.
@@delurkor I work for Royal Mail, I recognised all of the characters in "Going Postal" from among my colleagues as well as the super duper sorting machine bullshit!
I'm fairly sure on one trip to London many years ago, that I bought an allegedly meat-based product from the inspiration for Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
Ah thanks for covering the water-gate: a frequent conversation piece when getting sloshed at Gordon’s, over the great houses which once populated the river’s edge in the parish of Savoy! Travel a bit further behind you can spot a blue plaque marking the tiny original naval intelligence office that eventually gave birth to MI5, 6 and GCHQ; also nearby is where Benjamin Franklin lodged while living in London. The neighbourhood an old place of work for me. Just on the other side of Hungerford Bridge opposite the theatre, and right on the waterside - turn right out of the tube stop’s riverbank exit - is a splendid bronze relief memorial to Bazalgette, whose whiskers are a welcome palate cleanser to the moustachioed-fiend Chicago gangsterish visage of you-know-who.
For the one or two of you who haven’t seen it, you may want to look up the episode of ‘Seven Wonder of the Industrial World’ TV series which covers this subject, as there is more to this topic than just well….what hits the fan.
Embankment is my favourite station funnily enough. During my first trip to London I wandered up the road to a bookstore up the hill and bought the first book in the Aubrey / Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien. Sat in the Embankment gardens and read it over 2 days. Now years later every time I come back to London I make a point of going and spending a few hours sitting on a bench in Embankment gardens as I did as a poor 24 year old backpacker… plenty of happy memories! Greetings from Sydney, Australia!
I have an idea of the stench. Some years ago a local farmer thought he would experiment by fertilizing his fields with human excrement. He had a huge mountain of the stuff sitting in a field for a while, totally uncovered and when the wind shifted, the smell was nauseating, you could smell it from a mile away, literally. He finally covered it in tarp which helped but it took him a while to find anybody willing to do the job. When he finally spread and ploughed it in, the smell went. Funnily enough, he never did use that form of fertilizer again.
The stench was so great in one year that MP's were forced to walk around the Commons wearing handkerchiefs doused in cologne.The workers on Brunel's London tunnel were faced with diabolical problems stemming from the make up of the water in the Thames.It also included discharge from chemical and other manufacturing along its banks
The link between the invention / widespread use of the flushing toilet and the rise of the pollution in the Thames is an interesting one where shifting the problem just causes a problem downstream just as Bazelgette's plan led to a huge deathtoll when the SS Princess Alice sank near the Beckton outflow.
"The population of London exploded" - well no wonder it was so unhygenic! Joseph Bazalgette is a real hero of mine. That someone could concieve a system that would still be functioning today is just brilliant. More please...
Yes, yes, yes! Sewers are a vast topic of interest we perhaps choose to forget but they are certainly in the genre with the tube, railways and canals of the historical development of infrastructure and should never be underestimated!!!
I live close to the northern sewer outfall pipe in Beckton so I've always been interested in this subject. The bomb damage seen at the base of Cleopatra's Needle is from a bomb dropped during the first air raid on London in September 1917.
This video was particularly good -- not that I've ever seen you release anything bad. I once watched a documentary in which it posited that the Bazalgette Sewer System could be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. I would think that would be a great subject for you to cover. Speaking of which, I would love to see a video from you on the dragon statues that mark the boundary of The City of London that are based on those which decorated the old London Coal Exchange building. (If you've already done a video on the that I am not aware of, then I apologise). Cheers, and take care.
@@JagoHazzard I'm aware. I was binge watching a heap of your videos (ruclips.net/video/eGqzKduocBg/видео.html) this afternoon when I spotted one, giving me the idea. All the best.
Good to hear of the Adventures of Bazelgette, he's definitely much too unsung. Sing Jago, sing of Joseph! Really, I think the invisible infrastructure of London would make a very worthy celebration.
Jago , my odiferous host , you have entertained me with a story on poop . Your story telling was first rate , but your subject was definitely a number two
it’s unbelievable how much of nowadays life we are taking for granted… running water, electricity, sewage, public transportation, paved streets… it’s amazing to think that only 150 years ago all of it was a commodity…
Is this the first in a series about managing the "other sort of water" I mentioned in a comment on one of Jago's previous videos? At least we don't have smellyvision.......yet
No. No smellyvision, but just take your cell (mobile for Europe) phone into the bathroom and watch the vid. And then you could have your smellyvision. 💩
The Thames in London is effectivley like a big bath sloshing up and down. This has a big impact on water quality. It is tidal but the travel of the water body toward the sea is about 200m per tide overall. If you through a body in it would appear to have dispeared off to sea only to return on the flowing tide 200m downstream. This is one of the reasons there was such a problem. More on the sewers would be great, Pumping stations, combined sewer overflows ( raw sewage still discharging to Thames today) and the lastest system for storm overflows at Beckton. Some excellent engineering.
You are certainly unique Mr Hazzard ' wonderful videos very informative and enriched with humour' any building or engineering projects from any time centred around the capital would most certainly be enjoyed by your following ' which may I say should and will be much higher than at present.
Great video, Jago. Another very interesting topic about London, the city where I grew up. Impressive vision and execution by Victorian thinkers and doers. Have to find and acquire books on this topic.
Ooooo. Yes please! Videos on London’s sewers. You could do one on Crossness the workers at the end of the Southern sewers. They have some amazing old steam engines there.
The "Dr Who: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." Peter Cushing movie featured several of the characters taking shelter inside the ruined remains of Embankment tube station. Interestingly though, when movie came out in 1966, there was no Embankment tube station (it wasn't given that name until 1976). Somehow they accurately predicted that, by 2150, there would be.
I gagged when our pipes blocked up at home and the Plumber was working on clearing them . Couldn't imagine what London and the Thames was like in the wet Foggy climate of the 1700's was like .
Still looking forward to your sewer series! It might be interesting to use old maps to walk what was the old Thames foreshore before the embankment - and of course to go as far as the pump stations in the east…
Well, I was going to set you a challenge when the section at 4:00 popped up, as one feature in it is nearly always ignored by people who use that illustration. "Tell us more about the feature labelled 4 down at the bottom", I was going to ask. Smart Alec that you are, you then not only proceed to tell us what it is, you also may be making a video about it. Which was going to be the other thing I was going to ask. Oh well.
Next time I’m on the Met I’ll have to remind myself I’m being transported at the same level as half of London’s effluence. Similar experience I suppose.
There is an excellent video on that subject by Robslondon - in which he points out that there were two of them. ruclips.net/video/aQDcWg5EaXQ/видео.html
You know when I'm overtired my brain suddenly goes really silly. So you mention Bazalgette and my tired brain goes "yaaay" like one does when watching a melodrama. And then it hit me. There is always a villain to "boooo". And my brain went "There should be a melodrama about the underworkings of London. And every time Bazalgette is mentioned or appears on stage everyone will cheer. And who do we get to do the "booo" for? Our favorite Mr. Yerkes! [I think I should get some sleep now. Hahaha]
Brilliant stuff! My favourite part ws all of it. Well, okay, no, it was the bit at the end of the 'main feature' - love it! And thus my sacrifice is made to the algorithm!
Many years ago I happened across a documentary on the London Cholera epidemic and how Bazelgette rebuilt the sewers to combat it, even though most thought it was carried by miasma, not…well…crappy water (literally). Can’t remember if said documentary mentioned John Snow. There’s a Map Men episode that talks about him in relation to his efforts to trace and contain the epidemic though.
That Map Men episode is every bit as chucklesome as their usual fare while still being a fine and fitting tribute to Snow’s work. Basically it’s great.
Jago, Thanks very much for the link to the Super Sewer video nice to know construction continues. Unfortunately what I feel, are less needed projects such as HS2 and Crossrail have rather put the Super Sewer in the shade.
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The dig at MPs who saw no further than their nose remains pertinent.
As ever 🙄
Just as true today as it was when the first English Parliaments gathered in the Middle Ages.
Charles Tyson Yerkes Report: No mention of Charles Tyson Yerkes.
Honourable mentions: John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette. It's a required mention whenever you talk about the London sewers, after all.
You have a whole video about rivers of shit, and doesn't mention Yerkes once.
Take your win and go home.
There are punk songs and rap diss tracks about Bazelgette and the London sewers. Well, there's a rabbit hole I didn't expect to fall down this Friday.
Yerkes-core remains a sadly under-explored genre.
Perhaps we need to play Yerkees Bingo. Where we predict at what time in the next video he first says the name?
@@archstanton6102 the winner gets a free tour of the entire sewer system in London's fare city...or maybe not
@@harbl99 I think the steampunk music of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing (available on wax cylinder, amongst other formats) would appeal to some viewers. Their Bazalgette themed song is appropriately called _The Big Stink._ There's also a good one about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Joseph Bazalgette removed London's sewage. His great-great-grandson gave us Big Brother.
And also directed the episode of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World about the sewers
Both heavily involved with sh1te then.😁
One took away the shit and the other gave us shit.
Ah, Night Soil. A valuable resource. Collected and carted north to fertilise the market gardens that in turn fed London.
Maybe that's why Grandma insisted on boiling the cabbage for 20mins. Inedible, but at least you didn't get dysentery 🙄.
Brilliant !
That explains the great British tradition of taking the joy out any food ingredient 🤣
Even in the 1980's in Hong Kong you had to look at the little pieces of pink paper sticking to you lettuce from China.
@@new-lviv yes , night soil
It might have worked better if they composted the solid stuff first. It won`t work that well these days since there is tons of stuff like pharmaceuticals and other things that will not decay, but it was a solid idea back then.
If you love Tales from the Tube, then you’ll go crazy for …… ‘Stories from the Sewer’.
You’d be potty to miss it.
😂😂😂
Interesting to note that one of Bazalgette's innovations was to make the sewers egg-shaped, so that whatever the flow, they always had adequate velocity. Then it's Next Stop Becton.
Well, the pumping station at West Ham first, then Beckton.
Inverted egg-shaped, in fact, or big endian, with the wide bit at the top and the narrow pointy bit at the bottom.
@@luxford60 Ah yes; the cathedral of sewage.
The working steam pumping station at Crossness might be worth a visit.
Interestingly, Bazalgette himself actually believed the miasma theory and that was his reason for building the sewers, but getting rid of the sewage also improved the water supply, so he achieved the desired result but not in the way he thought!
1:34 - For someone who spent decades observing that view, with the NatWest Tower solely dominating the skyline, it still seems strange to me to see it now hemmed-in by other, taller buildings.
Around 2000, I had to do a little bit of computery stuff in the tower on the 40th floor. The floor was being refurbished and completely stripped of any furnishings etc. also missing one window. Basically, a hole from floor to ceiling leading to oblivion. I stayed well clear!
Oh, and Nat West tower........ showing your age there!
"Night Soil" that's got to be a goth band name!
😁👍
For a finale they set off an explosion at the front of the stage that sprays sticky brown goo over the first ten rows of the audience.
@@lwilton 🤣😂💩
I was hoping the term 'gong farmer' might make an appearance. Maybe later.
The more I learn about London history, the more I realize that Terry Pratchett didn't really invent any of the ideas in his books. He just selected from the already available things.
That's what I love about his work. It's all recognizable but just a little weird. The more you know about the topic he's talking about the funnier it becomes (e.g.Raising Steam is a fantastic read for train junkies). GNU Sir Terry.
Oh yes, some things he exaggerated, others he toned down, but it's all recognisable and in a weird way, even make sense. It's one of the many reasons his stories are just so brilliant.
@@pintpullinggeek Agreed, also "Going Postal" for techie geeks.
If there are Jago followers here who have not read Pratchett, go read my child; be amused and enlightened.
@@delurkor I work for Royal Mail, I recognised all of the characters in "Going Postal" from among my colleagues as well as the super duper sorting machine bullshit!
I'm fairly sure on one trip to London many years ago, that I bought an allegedly meat-based product from the inspiration for Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
Watched this while eating breakfast....still clicked the like button.
You must have a hardy constitution.
I’m eating mine watching it now. I studied public health as part of Victorian history in my history degree. It doesn’t phase me at all anymore.
Ah thanks for covering the water-gate: a frequent conversation piece when getting sloshed at Gordon’s, over the great houses which once populated the river’s edge in the parish of Savoy!
Travel a bit further behind you can spot a blue plaque marking the tiny original naval intelligence office that eventually gave birth to MI5, 6 and GCHQ; also nearby is where Benjamin Franklin lodged while living in London. The neighbourhood an old place of work for me.
Just on the other side of Hungerford Bridge opposite the theatre, and right on the waterside - turn right out of the tube stop’s riverbank exit - is a splendid bronze relief memorial to Bazalgette, whose whiskers are a welcome palate cleanser to the moustachioed-fiend Chicago gangsterish visage of you-know-who.
For the one or two of you who haven’t seen it, you may want to look up the episode of ‘Seven Wonder of the Industrial World’ TV series which covers this subject, as there is more to this topic than just well….what hits the fan.
A great series. 👍
Parliament before 1858: You know nothing, John Snow.
Parliament after 1858: Umm, sorry. We still cool?
Please include the pumping stations in any future video on the sewer system.
"I've never met a problem I couldn't solve with lime!" -Old Timey London
Also great for gin
Embankment is my favourite station funnily enough. During my first trip to London I wandered up the road to a bookstore up the hill and bought the first book in the Aubrey / Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien.
Sat in the Embankment gardens and read it over 2 days.
Now years later every time I come back to London I make a point of going and spending a few hours sitting on a bench in Embankment gardens as I did as a poor 24 year old backpacker… plenty of happy memories!
Greetings from Sydney, Australia!
I have an idea of the stench. Some years ago a local farmer thought he would experiment by fertilizing his fields with human excrement. He had a huge mountain of the stuff sitting in a field for a while, totally uncovered and when the wind shifted, the smell was nauseating, you could smell it from a mile away, literally.
He finally covered it in tarp which helped but it took him a while to find anybody willing to do the job. When he finally spread and ploughed it in, the smell went. Funnily enough, he never did use that form of fertilizer again.
The stench was so great in one year that MP's were forced to walk around the Commons wearing handkerchiefs doused in cologne.The workers on Brunel's London tunnel were faced with diabolical problems stemming from the make up of the water in the Thames.It also included discharge from chemical and other manufacturing along its banks
My hopes for a Jago Hazzard/Martin Zero crossover just got inflated.
I'm with you on that one. brilliant idea.
I only like MZ videos about Manchester :(
The link between
the invention / widespread use of the flushing toilet
and the rise of the pollution in the Thames
is an interesting one
where shifting the problem
just causes a problem downstream
just as Bazelgette's plan
led to a huge deathtoll
when the SS Princess Alice
sank near the Beckton outflow.
So many wonderful euphemisms but "Night Soil" is my favorite!
*Bay Stated* - How about 'gong'? The men who emptied the communal shit-pits were known as 'gong farmers'.
@@21stcenturyozman20 Or Honey Wagon; the vehicle that took the ...stuff, away.
I remember when visiting London I was surprised at how wide the Embankment was.
"The population of London exploded" - well no wonder it was so unhygenic! Joseph Bazalgette is a real hero of mine. That someone could concieve a system that would still be functioning today is just brilliant. More please...
Great ideas for future videos; really enjoy these ‘content extensions’...
thank you for that very enjoyable history lesson
A video on the stunning Crossness Pumping Station would be great as part of a sewage series.
Great tale from the Tube , keep them coming Jago !
Yes, yes, yes! Sewers are a vast topic of interest we perhaps choose to forget but they are certainly in the genre with the tube, railways and canals of the historical development of infrastructure and should never be underestimated!!!
I live close to the northern sewer outfall pipe in Beckton so I've always been interested in this subject.
The bomb damage seen at the base of Cleopatra's Needle is from a bomb dropped during the first air raid on London in September 1917.
That air raid was covered by Mark Felton.
Those video ideas certainly sound like they could be interesting.
This video was particularly good -- not that I've ever seen you release anything bad. I once watched a documentary in which it posited that the Bazalgette Sewer System could be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. I would think that would be a great subject for you to cover.
Speaking of which, I would love to see a video from you on the dragon statues that mark the boundary of The City of London that are based on those which decorated the old London Coal Exchange building.
(If you've already done a video on the that I am not aware of, then I apologise).
Cheers, and take care.
Interesting suggestion! And I do have some footage of the statues...
@@JagoHazzard I'm aware. I was binge watching a heap of your videos (ruclips.net/video/eGqzKduocBg/видео.html) this afternoon when I spotted one, giving me the idea.
All the best.
@@Figulus Maybe the one on the lions from the Lion Brewery?
This covers a lot of development projects in 19th century London.
It also answers a couple of Station name anomalies I always wondered about.
I still remember it being Charing Cross with Strand etc etc etc I'm sure have done a video about that
Thanks Jago I learned something new today.
Thanks again Jago. And they still dump sewage in the Thames. At high tide and at night.
Great vid Jago. A future video on the sewer system would be something to get our hands dirty with
Excellent tale of the underground
Good to hear of the Adventures of Bazelgette, he's definitely much too unsung. Sing Jago, sing of Joseph! Really, I think the invisible infrastructure of London would make a very worthy celebration.
I've looked, but can't find a biography of him anywhere! Ridiculous: the man was clearly brilliant! 🤔
@@bryan3550 there was a whole thing on BBC about him building the sewer!
Jago , my odiferous host , you have entertained me with a story on poop . Your story telling was first rate , but your subject was definitely a number two
it’s unbelievable how much of nowadays life we are taking for granted… running water, electricity, sewage, public transportation, paved streets… it’s amazing to think that only 150 years ago all of it was a commodity…
Wine, public order.... But apart from that, what have the Romani ever done for us?!!!
I need to check dictionary first to know what Embankment actually means before watching this video. Thank you Jago. I learned something new everyday
Is this the first in a series about managing the "other sort of water" I mentioned in a comment on one of Jago's previous videos?
At least we don't have smellyvision.......yet
No. No smellyvision, but just take your cell (mobile for Europe) phone into the bathroom and watch the vid. And then you could have your smellyvision. 💩
The Thames in London is effectivley like a big bath sloshing up and down. This has a big impact on water quality. It is tidal but the travel of the water body toward the sea is about 200m per tide overall. If you through a body in it would appear to have dispeared off to sea only to return on the flowing tide 200m downstream. This is one of the reasons there was such a problem. More on the sewers would be great, Pumping stations, combined sewer overflows ( raw sewage still discharging to Thames today) and the lastest system for storm overflows at Beckton. Some excellent engineering.
Your videos are some the most educational and engaging on RUclips tbh, you're also funny as hell tbh.
8:22 Whenever I see pictures of the Villiers Gate, I am once more moved to mourn the demise of his wonderful Of Lane. It should be reinstated.
I appreciate the flow of this video. No mucking about.
Definitely cover the sewage system from start to present day! Excellent topic :)
Well this certainly puts the theft of my recycling bin into perspective
You are certainly unique Mr Hazzard ' wonderful videos very informative and enriched with humour' any building or engineering projects from any time centred around the capital would most certainly be enjoyed by your following ' which may I say should and will be much higher than at present.
Many thanks!
No stink at all, but I find myself flushed with fascination! One of your most fascinating tales!
seems that notification bot on Discord seemed to work, so i'm here now for more minding the gap and sewer things.
Watching this it becomes clear why Nigel Farage enjoyed driving up and down the Thames on a boat. He must have felt right at home.
"He must have felt right at home." - Doesn't he just slither down a drain hole of a night time?
Great video, Jago. Another very interesting topic about London, the city where I grew up. Impressive vision and execution by Victorian thinkers and doers. Have to find and acquire books on this topic.
You will soon have the Tideway Tunnel to write about. Looking forward to that.
5:51 - Bomb/shrapnel damage clearly visible at the base of the needle.
Ooooo. Yes please! Videos on London’s sewers. You could do one on Crossness the workers at the end of the Southern sewers. They have some amazing old steam engines there.
Thanks for this. Sewers, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, pneumatic railways-all would be of interest .
😂 😂 😂 😂 Thank you for another enjoyable tale from the past 😄
More sewers and plague pits please!!
Who owned this Underground Electric Railways Company of London? Could you show us a photo?
Charles Tyson Yerkes. Have a look here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Electric_Railways_Company_of_London
ITMA!
@@bryan3550 It certainly is.😊
The map at 3:48 is amazing!
Thank you, Monsewer!
The "Dr Who: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." Peter Cushing movie featured several of the characters taking shelter inside the ruined remains of Embankment tube station. Interestingly though, when movie came out in 1966, there was no Embankment tube station (it wasn't given that name until 1976). Somehow they accurately predicted that, by 2150, there would be.
A good follow up video would be one about the Thames Tideway scheme.
I gagged when our pipes blocked up at home and the Plumber was working on clearing them . Couldn't imagine what London and the Thames was like in the wet Foggy climate of the 1700's was like .
hilarious ending
'all thanks to sewage'
Still looking forward to your sewer series! It might be interesting to use old maps to walk what was the old Thames foreshore before the embankment - and of course to go as far as the pump stations in the east…
Well, I was going to set you a challenge when the section at 4:00 popped up, as one feature in it is nearly always ignored by people who use that illustration. "Tell us more about the feature labelled 4 down at the bottom", I was going to ask. Smart Alec that you are, you then not only proceed to tell us what it is, you also may be making a video about it. Which was going to be the other thing I was going to ask. Oh well.
Those were the days, nostalgia! Lol 😂
Another superb video Jago.
Next time I’m on the Met I’ll have to remind myself I’m being transported at the same level as half of London’s effluence. Similar experience I suppose.
You say: Underground Electric Railways Company of London
I expect: Subliminal pictures of Yerkes flashing up.
Jago, another great video! It would be interesting to get your take on the London Necropolis Railway one day!
There is an excellent video on that subject by Robslondon - in which he points out that there were two of them. ruclips.net/video/aQDcWg5EaXQ/видео.html
I would really enjoy videos on both the London sewer and the pneumatic railway.
this video must be RANK-ing high.
The Lavatory, flushed with success, moved its product to the Thames.
The drawing of the backs of houses is actually Manchester
I would greatly like the video on Bazalgette's sewer system overhaul plans to be made. Thank you, Jago.
Gordons Wine Bar at the bottom of Villiers St is worth a mention, and a visit.
I’ve been there! I love it, it’s unique.
2:37 Famous fall location
Thanks
You know when I'm overtired my brain suddenly goes really silly. So you mention Bazalgette and my tired brain goes "yaaay" like one does when watching a melodrama. And then it hit me. There is always a villain to "boooo". And my brain went "There should be a melodrama about the underworkings of London. And every time Bazalgette is mentioned or appears on stage everyone will cheer. And who do we get to do the "booo" for? Our favorite Mr. Yerkes! [I think I should get some sleep now. Hahaha]
Another slightly dull video
Excellent
You keep cracking me up, Jago!
To be both funny & interesting on a thing as sewage; now that’s classy 👌🏽
Fantastic video sir.
So well done
Yes please! Do try to do a video on the sewer system though it's perhaps too big a topic to put into one video.
Absolutely fascinating again ! Feel like I'm being potty trained again ,thank you jago !
The best way to get MPs interested in an issue to wave it under their noses.
To quote Bob Hale, that's why the Thames is full of ships instead of...
Really hope to bump into you one day in London.
me:-didn't exist...
Jago:-"didn't exist"
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me:-Parliament
Jago:-"that's right the Houses of Parliament"
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(uncanny)
Brilliant stuff! My favourite part ws all of it. Well, okay, no, it was the bit at the end of the 'main feature' - love it! And thus my sacrifice is made to the algorithm!
Many years ago I happened across a documentary on the London Cholera epidemic and how Bazelgette rebuilt the sewers to combat it, even though most thought it was carried by miasma, not…well…crappy water (literally).
Can’t remember if said documentary mentioned John Snow. There’s a Map Men episode that talks about him in relation to his efforts to trace and contain the epidemic though.
That Map Men episode is every bit as chucklesome as their usual fare while still being a fine and fitting tribute to Snow’s work. Basically it’s great.
Jago must feel flushed with success over this video...I am certainly relieved that he didn't make a stink....
But after all the work, he felt wasted...
Could you look at how your telecom system was run ? The exchanges and conduits runs would be interesting too
Jago, Thanks very much for the link to the Super Sewer video nice to know construction continues. Unfortunately what I feel, are less needed projects such as HS2 and Crossrail have rather put the Super Sewer in the shade.
Lol…😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂…just love that dry humour of yours…
Fragrant tale from the tube, yes very fragrant, thanks for that image 🤣