I went on a free public tour. Currently all booked up unfortunately but you can see their page here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/heritage-tours-of-raffles-london-at-the-owo-3016459
It's all part of the deliberate destruction of the western world and the genocide off white people. From illegal mass migration, soulless modernistic architecture, incompetent leftist governments (no mater if conservative or liberal party) the woke ideology, to selling off government buildings. All done by globalists to destroy us and they are even on record saying out loud that that's their intention.
@@paulashe61you may like to research how much of the defence estate was sold off under Labour during the Blair era. As well as historic government buildings.
My grandmother was one of Churchills canary girls. She would sit in on the meeting and then call the various commanders to advise them for their next move. I bet she heard Churchills update form the balancony more than once
Magnificent building with a stunning interior, the sympathetic restoration by the Raffles Hotel group looks to have been a success. Glad I now know what the OWO name stands for!
This is where I spent over 5 years of my life back in 1987 on a refurbishment. Many very happy memories. Sad that many of the men who worked under me are no longer alive. May you all rest in peace.
Christine Keeler must have been some persuasive piece of skirt: I was a humble bank clerk in c1976 when aged 23 or so when I met Lady Profumo who was STUNNINGLY beautiful - man was a fool!!!
Apparently my grandma knew her quite well, my granddad was an mp with the us air force so they could sort of circumvent the rationing rules so they got invited to a lot of socialite gatherings despite being from an estate in salford and a tenement in the bronx respectively
So the *JAMES BOND* author *IAN FLEMING* was a Mi5-6 Agent?? Which makes perfect sense really he must of got up to some shananigans then i just wrote what he'd done😂
Do you offer tours? I am usually just desperate to get in & get out of London & have only been a “tourist” when on work scavenger hunts or when a foreign friend comes to stay. I literally went on the London Eye for the first time last year, despite spending about 3 years walking across Waterloo Bridge morning & night! I would love to see the more hidden secrets that ye olde London has to offer!! 🏴
@@davidrobinson2294 Sure. But would YOU want to stay in a hotel named after a thief-especially if you had valuable items? I suppose being robbed by a “gentleman” would be some consolation, but I’d rather not be robbed at all.
@@davidrobinson2294 Sure, but branding matters. Would you sleep in a place named after Procrustes? (He made his guests fit his bed -- either cutting off parts if the guest was too long or stretching the guests who were too short.) Or would you eat at a restaurant named after Lucrezia Borgia?
First-rate example of the wise investment of public money. After all, how many of us have struggled really to concentrate, produce our best work and achieve our potential while we’re toiling away in less salubrious surroundings? Upon selling the building (leasehold, of course) in 2013 for £350m, our financially astute Ministry of Defence effectively doubled the investment forked out for its construction (ker-ching!!). A drop in the ocean compared to the size of their overall property portfolio of around £20 billion, but every little helps, eh? That’s at least two-thirds of a mid-sized modern hospital, right there! And to think, there are still people who criticise the government for being corrupt, wasteful, shortsighted and irresponsible with our money! While we’re all having to tighten our belts in these straightened times, it’s good to know that our economy remains under the stewardship of such a sagacious and thrifty leadership.
I went on a free public tour. Currently all booked up unfortunately but you can see their page here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/heritage-tours-of-raffles-london-at-the-owo-3016459
Feels a little sad that the government has sold off so many of these historic buildings of state
It's all part of the deliberate destruction of the western world and the genocide off white people.
From illegal mass migration,
soulless modernistic architecture,
incompetent leftist governments (no mater if conservative or liberal party)
the woke ideology,
to selling off government buildings.
All done by globalists to destroy us and they are even on record saying out loud that that's their intention.
Don’t vote Tory
@@paulashe61you may like to research how much of the defence estate was sold off under Labour during the Blair era. As well as historic government buildings.
Tories love to split divide and rule and secretly sell of the family jewels…. Works like a charm
@@zaidsayed3222 divide like establish different parliaments along tribal lines? Oh that was labour.
Thankyou for this short video. Very well made!
It is exquisite inside and out. ❤
Just magnificent!
White Allom had a hand in this with the interior architecture.
My grandmother was one of Churchills canary girls. She would sit in on the meeting and then call the various commanders to advise them for their next move. I bet she heard Churchills update form the balancony more than once
Always love listening to your story…Thank you 👌
beautiful building
Nice building...well kept.
What a beautiful historic interior.
Thank you for this virtual tour. i can no linger afford to personally travel to these wonderful places in Europe.
I love your videos dude- and the fact that this Edwardian baroque epic masterpiece is a hotel blows my mind
The chinese and the russians have already booked their suites under the guise of trade delegations
You have a great narrative and a smooth voice to match, like the guy from B1M 👍
Thanks for your videos. I'm going to the UK soon, and you've given me a lot to look for in London. 😊
Magnificent building with a stunning interior, the sympathetic restoration by the Raffles Hotel group looks to have been a success. Glad I now know what the OWO name stands for!
I don't think I've ever seen a corridor that WASN'T wide enough to ride a bicycle along.
This is where I spent over 5 years of my life back in 1987 on a refurbishment. Many very happy memories. Sad that many of the men who worked under me are no longer alive. May you all rest in peace.
Thank you 👍 🙏 what a beautiful place
Worked in there in early 90s on refurbishment.
Wow. Thank you. ❤
I remember going there for meetings - a wonderful building. So sad it has been sold.
Any romantic Keeler like stories to share? 👀
@@lisette2060 Sadly, no. But the Christmas parties were quite a hoot!
One billion pounds what the actual
I know ... for a hotel. 😳 That's a whole lot to have to recoup
The price for an overnight stay will reflect it. 😮
Luckily it's not one billion, that would be ridiculous.
It's £1.4 billion.
The do talk, if you put listening devices😅
Love your accent. I could spend eternity just doing a London tour with you. Lol.
It’s a fucking sin for a bloody Tory government to have sold this off.
Christine Keeler must have been some persuasive piece of skirt: I was a humble bank clerk in c1976 when aged 23 or so when I met Lady Profumo who was STUNNINGLY beautiful - man was a fool!!!
She was a PROfessional if u get my drift. He was into SM, bondage etc.
Apparently my grandma knew her quite well, my granddad was an mp with the us air force so they could sort of circumvent the rationing rules so they got invited to a lot of socialite gatherings despite being from an estate in salford and a tenement in the bronx respectively
If walls could talk? How many undiscovered hidden microphones from the cold war era?🤔
So the *JAMES BOND* author *IAN FLEMING* was a Mi5-6 Agent?? Which makes perfect sense really he must of got up to some shananigans then i just wrote what he'd done😂
Do you offer tours? I am usually just desperate to get in & get out of London & have only been a “tourist” when on work scavenger hunts or when a foreign friend comes to stay. I literally went on the London Eye for the first time last year, despite spending about 3 years walking across Waterloo Bridge morning & night! I would love to see the more hidden secrets that ye olde London has to offer!! 🏴
I can imagine we’ll need that building for its old purpose again in the near-ish future with how the state of the world is right now
The _building_ is one thing- it's _the people_ who used to be in it that are needed. 🤨 I'm afraid they don't make 'em like that anymore. 😞😭
@@thekingsdaughter4233 I am sure the civil servants at the ministry of peace will be neatly accomodated in Great Peter Street
I’ve stood on that staircase.
Tres interessant!
Was this building used in the filming of Foyles War?
Foyles War mainly used Georgian/Edwardian buildings in Dublin
Interesting ❤❤❤❤
That looks like where the Netflix show The Diplomat was filmed
I like how all your videos of London have a gray sky. Haha does the shine ever shine in England?
Is it still called Old War Office?
Did Kim Philby work here, too?
That’s obviously Gringotts the wizarding bank you muggles just can’t see it
😱!!!
1B restoration? How the hotel should pay off and turn profitable?
By asking around 500£ per night for a small room
No fighting in there then...
Nice and safe eh?!
Nearly?
sold off like everything else
1 billion
Interesting. But I’d be interested in why anyone would name a fancy hotel after a famous burglar and jewel thief…
Probably because he was known as the "Gentleman Thief"...seems to ring a bell.
@@davidrobinson2294 Sure. But would YOU want to stay in a hotel named after a thief-especially if you had valuable items? I suppose being robbed by a “gentleman” would be some consolation, but I’d rather not be robbed at all.
@CCoburn3 ..you do know its just a work of fiction right ?
@@davidrobinson2294 Sure, but branding matters. Would you sleep in a place named after Procrustes? (He made his guests fit his bed -- either cutting off parts if the guest was too long or stretching the guests who were too short.) Or would you eat at a restaurant named after Lucrezia Borgia?
@CCoburn3 don't over think it ...
Luxury and opulence while plotting international fisticuffs.
Neoclassicism?
First-rate example of the wise investment of public money. After all, how many of us have struggled really to concentrate, produce our best work and achieve our potential while we’re toiling away in less salubrious surroundings?
Upon selling the building (leasehold, of course) in 2013 for £350m, our financially astute Ministry of Defence effectively doubled the investment forked out for its construction (ker-ching!!). A drop in the ocean compared to the size of their overall property portfolio of around £20 billion, but every little helps, eh? That’s at least two-thirds of a mid-sized modern hospital, right there! And to think, there are still people who criticise the government for being corrupt, wasteful, shortsighted and irresponsible with our money!
While we’re all having to tighten our belts in these straightened times, it’s good to know that our economy remains under the stewardship of such a sagacious and thrifty leadership.
I suspect the MoD dodged a rather large refurb bill so there was some sense in selling the buildings off.
Beautiful building