Hidden London Hangouts S2E1 - King William Street
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Your favourite Hidden London experts are back for a second season of Hangouts. This week they focused on King William Street, which has the honour of being the first disused Tube station in London. And for the first time, thanks to easing of restrictions, the team could go out on location!
Watch season 1 here: • Hidden London Hangouts 
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Recognised that bell-code straight out the box! 3-1: Stopping Pass.
Hi Guys, unable to watch the live broadcast so just caught up with you all and what a treat - it’s like meeting up with old friends (which you are!) and enjoying a day out with them! Thanks so much for coming back with a second series, my appetite is ‘wetted’ and so looking forward to the next episode.
Cheers Dave. That means a lot. Ep4 another big one - Brompton Road. Hope we’ll see you there too.
Thanks for the Scarborough mention!! 😊. Great to have hangouts back 😊
So glad to see you all back together again,and out and about ,stay safe see you next time.
So glad you’re enjoying what we do too!
It’s great to be back!
Welcome back! So good to see you all again! Can't wait for the rest of the season!
Another great hangout. King William Street has a fascinating history and this did a great job of telling the history and story, and it was fun too.
Brilliant episode. looking forward very much two serious two.glad you all are ok.
Love youuuuu! Glad you’re back with us
Hello from Ohio, USA! I’m enjoying this series very much, thank you for putting this together. See you next week on the KWS virtual tour!
Oh hi Ohio! Welcome along
Laura I hope you enjoyed the KWS tour. Just noticed you said you are in Ohio which is where a set of press photos of Clapham South deep-level shelter I found had survived after the war. I think it was specifically Cleveland.
I enjoyed it very much! I’ll probably sign up for Brompton Road at some point too. I’m in Dayton, about 3-4 hours southwest of Cleveland.
Laura Rigsbee great! Glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully next week’s episode will whet your appetite for Brompton Road.
Great episode! Always a pleasure to watch from the States.
WE LOVE OUR INTERNATIONAL VIEWERS!
Great to see so many friends watching in the States!
Can't believe I missed this live! Great to have you all back and see your faces again - especially the 'out and about' section. Fascinating to see the images of the BSCU work - have an interest in that as I used to work at the Bank/Monument complex. Looking forward to Brompton Rd and the rest of Series 2! (Amazed I had not noticed that plaque to KWS by Monument - time to hunt that down!)
ps. Mint choc chip for sure.
Have a lick of our ice cream anytime. Welcome back!
@@alexgrundon2346 Ooh, matron!
OMG I cant believe I missed the live broadcast. Another great episode, I love you guys!
We love you too Mr Dazzle. Welcome back to the mad house. Don’t forget the Museum Late on Thursday - I’m quizmaster. The museum’s open during the evening. Details on the museum website - should be a roar
Are you coming to the Museum Late tomorrow? If so come and say hi!
@@alexgrundon2346 sorry Alex I live a bit too far away. Next time I'm in London I will visit
Hello from Brisbane, Australia. Great to see you back for another series. We should have been visiting London at the moment, but sadly this is as close as we’ll get.
32:00 yes the tube carried freight. When I worked as a signalman on the Central line eastern section, the describer drums on the frame had the option of setting a GOODS description.
Thank you all!
Thankyou for sharing.
Hello, the wife and I really enjoy these Hidden London Hangouts looking forward to Saturday. A question , when the King William tube was being built the two entrances at each end had stair ways to the platforms, how did they get the locomotive and carriages on to the line.
I’ll ask on your behalf. Keep watching
Belle redécouverte de l'ancien terminus Nord de la Nothern line avec voie unique et quai en U comme Tibidabo à Barcelone !
There was a building in the one of the locations shown from where I went to the basement, borrowed a torch, I went along a very long cast iron tunnel towards the station... a wooden cabinet was found in the tunnel, I made two trips, was this the running tunnel shown in this video, and was I near the platforms please?, this was many many years ago?.
Many years ago we went on a Northern Line anniversary tour, and the train stopped, and they opened the doors twice, Once was to look at the Stockwell train lift, the other was to look at the grating covering the entrance to the KWS running tunnel.
One question I do have is could you do a report on precisely what will be left post Bank extension.
Not what you'd like to think. The worst of it is that the construction tunnel and shaft have crashed through the site of the bay platform, so beautifully drawn in that early image.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch You do have to consider that this is an operational network. But you would have hoped if elements of the old platforms were not destroyed, then the shaft could have used for museum access :-(
@@mikesnowden1054
Money men might even have a heart occasionally, but the finality of funding demands will out.
Your idea to have kept the shaft as basically a Hidden London tour access point is great though. It will at least exist in a parallel universe.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch LOL. I believe the shaft was completely backfilled, but I could be wrong. There MIGHT still be some access to check any voids left
@@mikesnowden1054
Indeed it was, but with "fluffy" concrete which is lighter than the norm and is akin to expanding foam.
Just like they did when they filled the tunnel under the Thames from the Harrods depositories at Barnes. Now there's a story.
You can't say you now know the answer about the letter stencils on the tiles, but not share it!! 😆
Oh my goodness! Series 1 episode 11 explains it at the end. Take a look
@@alexgrundon2346 😱 how did I miss that?! Thanks for highlighting it 👍
What was actually demolished during the upgrade? did we loose all of king william street station?
Too much of it and apparently and self-evidently when you think about it, not for s passenger facility, but only for the construction tunnel and shaft.
Ends with bell-code 2-1: Out of Section.
Did you notice the needles?
@@davekirwin ?
@@peebee143 The indicator that points to line clear/occupied, they moved accordingly.
@@davekirwin You know, I never even noticed the indicators move! Will watch out for that in future.
Pistachio & Salted Caramel.
will the original platforms and others be saved?
Alas, they've been smashed through.
Only the cut & cover lines follow the roads, or, rather, the roads follow where the cut & cover tube lines were built.
Tube lines did too - way leave was not an issue if tunnels were under roads
Way leave theoretically extends down to Hell and up to Heaven.
From the property in question's foundations down to the centre of the earth and from the top of its roof ridge line to the skies above.
I've always wondered why British Airways doesn't pay us rent rhough. Must be a way round way leave for airways.
You talk about amazing to dig beneath the Thames, but this pales to insignificance when compared to what they did to did through the mud beneath the Seine in Paris for their Metro. (Early use of freezing technology utilised within mining techniques.)
They did similar freezing the ground with Nitrogen when the dig the Vic line too in the 60s
@@alexgrundon2346 I believe also in the vicinity of Big Ben when digging another line. ( Did you folks miss me on the interactive chat? I was out getting blotto :) )
@@peebee143Yes indeed, special freezing grout is a clever answer to the problems with sodden sod, shall we say?
It was only used next to, ahem, [the Elizabeth tower housing the great bell that is] Big Ben when it was discovered that it had started to lean and was already 10mm out of plumb.
That was a great early use of the futuristic freezing fix, but was a little later than this here City and South London line's construction ~ by a matter of just over a decade.
Just a guess. Looks like that gradient could be around 1 in 40. Fairly steep for a railway by any standard.
Yes the gradient is vicious - these things never look as bad on screen but it is quite a steep hill. The gradient of the track bed beneath is an almost unbelievable 1 in 14 (yes 14) as it also curves sharply following Arthur Street. It’s a big part of why the station was abandoned.
I was privileged to commute from further up river down to Swan Lane modern day pier in my city bod days. But I had to climb that hill every day on the way to 10 Lower Thames.
It's a real climb, a huff and puff hill climb.
Only lived for ten years
I know - incredible!
That stuff stays in-situ because there is no monetary need to remove it. If infrastructure needs to be put in place on top, so be it. They tend not to spend money unnecessarily.
Yep - many a time I’ve been thankful that things are not removed unless they have to be 😉 just occasionally I wish they’d put the bolts for the new thing a little to the left to spare the artefacts but it’s all archeology and interesting to decode the layers!
Alex!...Never do it in your pants...
Who do I need to get permission off to go here
Sadly completely shut off now
Too much talking in these videos
Love you too