A strange plaque near King’s Cross…

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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024

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  • @R0bobb1e
    @R0bobb1e 6 месяцев назад +233

    Honestly, how much more beautiful would London be if the rivers and streams had not been covered over?

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters 6 месяцев назад +60

      Depending on whether or not they were still emptying their chamberpots and industrial runoff into them.

    • @bigbossimmotal
      @bigbossimmotal 6 месяцев назад +21

      Now the healing waters are running thru the sewers.

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters 6 месяцев назад +8

      It's a storm drain now, so only the occasional brown trout.

    • @Mike8981
      @Mike8981 6 месяцев назад +9

      Boris wanted to uncover part of the Fleet I think; which would be fantastic

    • @m00zic
      @m00zic 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@AnnoyingNewslettersunderrated comment

  • @fionalowe1907
    @fionalowe1907 6 месяцев назад +153

    A Pinder was a person who’s job it was to impound stray animals

  • @lisathuban8969
    @lisathuban8969 6 месяцев назад +22

    I absolutely love that about London. So many tiny historical details everywhere.

  • @davidgillies620
    @davidgillies620 6 месяцев назад +11

    By the time the Fleet hit the Thames it certainly didn't have-giving properties, unless you count giving people cholera and typhus among those properties.

  • @dorothysay8327
    @dorothysay8327 6 месяцев назад +11

    This is SO. COOL.
    Never stop making these shorts, please!
    I’ve been fascinated by London all my life. 😊

  • @pmberry
    @pmberry 6 месяцев назад +44

    There's an old folk ballad about Robin Hood called "The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield
    "

    • @michaeldoolan7595
      @michaeldoolan7595 6 месяцев назад +3

      Pinderfields area is in Wakefield.
      We have a hospital with the name.

    • @pmberry
      @pmberry 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@michaeldoolan7595 Indeed: the Pinder's fields.

    • @emmaaustin123
      @emmaaustin123 5 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/u2JABXBNwO8/видео.html the ballad mentioned above.

    • @Ed19601
      @Ed19601 5 месяцев назад +1

      'pinder' being an old word for someone who would impound stray animals

  • @googlespynetwork
    @googlespynetwork 6 месяцев назад +7

    Fascinating history. And excellent presentation.

  • @MrJohn768
    @MrJohn768 6 месяцев назад +17

    Thank you again ! So interesting thank you 👍 🤔 👌

  • @Bobblenob
    @Bobblenob 6 месяцев назад +38

    Wakefield hospital is called PINDERFIELDS

    • @pmberry
      @pmberry 6 месяцев назад +4

      Yes. The fields belonging to the Pinder of Wakefield, whose name was George-A-Green.

    • @elwolf8536
      @elwolf8536 6 месяцев назад

      That's true

    • @cmsxjc
      @cmsxjc 5 месяцев назад +1

      I was looking for a comment about that 😂

    • @lisette2060
      @lisette2060 4 месяца назад

      ​@@pmberryany knowledge of his use of those fields?

  • @myrnajucar3498
    @myrnajucar3498 6 месяцев назад +5

    Thank you so much for your very informative and educational posts on History. Love and prayers from the Philippines.

  • @awdturbopowah773
    @awdturbopowah773 6 месяцев назад +94

    As American, I love that the “interesting little details” around London are older than my whole country 😂

    • @edgregory1
      @edgregory1 6 месяцев назад

      @@awdturbopowah773 Thanks.

    • @edgregory1
      @edgregory1 6 месяцев назад

      @@awdturbopowah773 Thanks.

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf 6 месяцев назад +16

      There are native sites in America you can checkout! The Serpent Mounds, Cahokia, the Peublo stone villages. Used to be lots more (like the Iroquois forts) that got demolished sadly

    • @Mike8981
      @Mike8981 6 месяцев назад +1

      Whole? As opposed to parts of your Country? I think you’ll find your country has been around about the same time as the United Kingdom. 😂

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf 6 месяцев назад +7

      @@Mike8981 i think they mean Britain generally right back to pre-Romans, just like how when people talk about Egyptian history they arent starting at 1922

  • @greenman6141
    @greenman6141 6 месяцев назад +19

    I wonder when the sign, complete with carved head, was made.
    I also love that ultra London plant...the ever present buddleia. That stuff can grow from just an 1/8th in of grime in a window sill corner.
    Was Sadler's Well also connected to the Fleet? Or was that a real Well?

    • @geeman4041
      @geeman4041 6 месяцев назад +4

      Sadlers Well and nearby Clerkenwell were both fresh spring water wells both drying up at some point, the river fleet still flows (can be seen through a floor grill on Saffron Hill ec1)

  • @kungazopa2831
    @kungazopa2831 4 месяца назад +2

    Waterlow House was another Nell Gwynne summer residence & Charles II used to visit her there. Lovely park open to the public and cafe, it is on Highgate Hill N6.

  • @ana419
    @ana419 5 месяцев назад +8

    Oh, Progress! Where healing rivers get buried in storm drains below metres of concrete.

  • @patstokes7040
    @patstokes7040 5 месяцев назад +2

    Love stuff like that. How interesting.

  • @Fatima-dj1sf
    @Fatima-dj1sf 6 месяцев назад +2

    It would be amazing if you could put a qr code near these plaques and we could hear your audio !

  • @velvetbees
    @velvetbees 6 месяцев назад +2

    We don't have things like this in the US. I mean small, historical tidbits going back hundreds of years. Everyday reminders that people had lives long before we did. It is kind of a sterile feeling. I think it has a decided effect on our sense of identity.

  • @donnster9585
    @donnster9585 6 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you! I love history, especially stories of every day living in London whilst we, in the US, were just getting started.

  • @Ed19601
    @Ed19601 5 месяцев назад +1

    for the uninitiated, a 'pinder' is a peanut. However, back in the day it was another form of a 'pounder': some one who would impound any stray animals which got loose from the fields or strayed from areas where their owners had rights to graze the verges beside the road.
    I presume the word 'dog-pound' comes from that as well

  • @Ääääääöäääööäååöööö1
    @Ääääääöäääööäååöööö1 6 месяцев назад +1

    That's the most random nonspecific place to to place the plaque.

  • @Rynewulf
    @Rynewulf 6 месяцев назад +14

    A city so dense with concrete even the rivers have been smothered. I love our British urban planning, makes me proud about all the heritage that gets sold (like London Bridge) or demolished for basic businesses (still mad about the unique Colchester Roman fountain levelled to build an odeon franchise cinema)

    • @WifeMamaArtist
      @WifeMamaArtist 6 месяцев назад +1

      1. The old London Bridge (that was sold) wasn't actually very old....
      2. The rivers where redirected in the 1800's. So, quite a while ago. Do you not like the architecture of the time?

    • @studiocalder818
      @studiocalder818 6 месяцев назад +2

      😬

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 2 месяца назад

    amazing how much history one can get in one minute.Well done indeed!!!!!!!!

  • @doretimothy
    @doretimothy 5 месяцев назад +1

    The Pindar of Wakefield was where Bob Dylan's first British appearance happened

  • @alancarlton8380
    @alancarlton8380 6 месяцев назад +2

    Thanx for this, I lived close by on Penton rise and wondered what this meant-there a old yard 50yrds along which I thought were connected, also round the corner is were Lenin stayed in London and more than once when I've seen tourists looking at blue plaque explained that Paul, Ringo, and George stayed around the corner..😂.❤❤❤

  • @julesjma
    @julesjma 5 месяцев назад +2

    Love all of the U.K. Magical.

  • @ande100
    @ande100 5 месяцев назад +1

    Is this why Fleet St is called Fleet st? Is this nearby? I need to come back to London!

  • @marjoriejonas8299
    @marjoriejonas8299 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you, good content!

  • @Julie-si3hi
    @Julie-si3hi 4 месяца назад

    Fascinating 😊

  • @kletops46
    @kletops46 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wonder what the connection between a London pub and the Pinder of Wakefield is ? (Update, apparently George Green was landlord way back, He was the Pinder of Wakefield)

  • @elfdreadz2017
    @elfdreadz2017 5 месяцев назад

    Thx for your posts. Do you do walking tours like Joolz tours,?

  • @karlperriment7763
    @karlperriment7763 6 месяцев назад

    Love your videos

  • @Xsh755
    @Xsh755 6 месяцев назад

    So interesting and something you are exceptionally good at 🇬🇧❤

  • @californiadreaming567
    @californiadreaming567 6 месяцев назад +1

    No wonder Princess Charles thought nothing of having a mistress

  • @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking
    @KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking 4 месяца назад

    "Pleasure Gardens." "Healing Well." Way to pave over Paradise...

  • @lissfirefly9517
    @lissfirefly9517 6 месяцев назад +9

    I love how London built over their rivers and think that's a good thing. In our city, they build bridges.

    • @silver47official
      @silver47official 6 месяцев назад +3

      London Bridge?!

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters 6 месяцев назад +2

      Main Street Akron, Ohio, used to be part of the Ohio-Erie Canal system. 🤷‍♂️

    • @Captbirdseye-v8h
      @Captbirdseye-v8h 6 месяцев назад +3

      Because it was also used as an open sewer.....not very conducive to public health, hence it being covered

  • @annass4972
    @annass4972 6 месяцев назад +1

    Omg that’s so amazing! Thank you so much for this video!

  • @VickyBerriman
    @VickyBerriman 6 месяцев назад

    Very interesting...thanks

  • @joeyk5
    @joeyk5 3 месяца назад

    Fascinating

  • @maigualidalopez1513
    @maigualidalopez1513 6 месяцев назад

    Wonderful!

  • @JohnGeary-e9e
    @JohnGeary-e9e 5 месяцев назад

    Some main roads of still have big lamp posts which originally were Trolley Bus electrical poles

  • @laziafdamha6714
    @laziafdamha6714 6 месяцев назад +1

    History daddy is back!! 😂

  • @Intellectual_Designs
    @Intellectual_Designs 6 месяцев назад +1

    It's like a time portal that teleports you to the pleasure gardens of past times. All you have to do to activate it is

  • @mikek9763
    @mikek9763 6 месяцев назад +1

    Nice work

  • @catherinemckeon8414
    @catherinemckeon8414 5 месяцев назад +1

    Why the frac did they build over the one with the healing waters?

    • @CzechAvailabilitie
      @CzechAvailabilitie 4 месяца назад

      It was thought to have healing properties. Key word "thought"
      If those properties were actually measurable and real it wouldn't have been built over.

  • @JuiceMyRandomness
    @JuiceMyRandomness 6 месяцев назад

    Could they ever unearth the lost river and make it a feature today? Just a random questions that popped in my head!

  • @elliottgetz8782
    @elliottgetz8782 6 месяцев назад

    In the US we have reminders all over town.. of fast food joints & dying big boxes..

  • @MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande
    @MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande 6 месяцев назад +1

    Reimbursement property near kings cross London

  • @azerial
    @azerial 6 месяцев назад

    I love historical things too.

  • @TheBlazingDead
    @TheBlazingDead 5 месяцев назад

    Im so glad its pronounced that way. I panicked a bit when I saw Bagnigge 😅

  • @bigdog517
    @bigdog517 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wait did they build over a river?

  • @Monicablackbelt24
    @Monicablackbelt24 5 месяцев назад +1

    They really have destroyed London architecturally .. all those well built old buildings destroyed in favour of concrete boxes .. the architects of the modern age really need to be punished for what they’ve done to our once beautiful capital city.. and Johnson and Khan too of course! Johnson single handedly destroyed all historical music venues in London for the cross rail that’s not even happening! Grrrrr

  • @Ed19601
    @Ed19601 5 месяцев назад

    The 'ST' probably refers to the London goldsmith Simon Thriscrosse who seems to have built the house in around 168

  • @ceegee5080
    @ceegee5080 6 месяцев назад

    Damn, and i walked past there hundreds of times for work 😅

  • @jamesjohno1180
    @jamesjohno1180 5 месяцев назад +2

    It’s sad how much our people our history and our culture is walked over and forgotten each day, it’s also being carved out to make room for others culture or for people who don’t have any and don’t care about what was once the greatest country on the earth and the greatest city London….it’s sad what native British have done to London and just let it all slip through their fingers
    This is our peoples land what we fought so hard for

  • @PopeLando
    @PopeLando 6 месяцев назад

    When the Full Moon shines full on the face... IT COMES TO LIFE!! 👻👻

  • @dodo1opps
    @dodo1opps 6 месяцев назад

    Will we have 3 days to find out?

  • @pamelabough2008
    @pamelabough2008 5 месяцев назад

    Bagnige House. That area- is it an historic property not to be destroyed. Pinder was a parliamentarian.

  • @jammiedodger7040
    @jammiedodger7040 4 месяца назад

    Imagine if they didn’t destroy all the Victorian buildings in London and build a horrible skyscrapers.

  • @gusgone4527
    @gusgone4527 6 месяцев назад +1

    London is lost to the British people. So few live there.

  • @roringusanda2837
    @roringusanda2837 6 месяцев назад

    😮ok, but who else thought that sign said "BadNixxxx"??!

  • @Crossword131
    @Crossword131 6 месяцев назад

    The plaque looks to read pinder av/ay Wakefield. So this is how the Welsh have "ap" and we have "of" I'm guessing...?

  • @carlkoh
    @carlkoh 6 месяцев назад +1

    👍

  • @Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb
    @Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb 6 месяцев назад

    Human ignorance is amazing! HA HA HA HA love the details in London!!

  • @WinkLinkletter
    @WinkLinkletter 6 месяцев назад +1

    The 'bearded face' is a representation of 'The Green Man' or a 'foliate head'.
    Here:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man

  • @VikiStorm
    @VikiStorm 6 месяцев назад +3

    Did something contaminate the water so it had to be covered up . Or why would you cover up drinking water if it was fresh ?

    • @NickLea
      @NickLea 6 месяцев назад +2

      It gradually became more and more polluted, parts of it nearer the Thames were first covered over in 1734.

    • @ianmaddams9577
      @ianmaddams9577 6 месяцев назад

      Most of the lost rivers of London are used as part of the sewer system now

  • @ericowensnyc
    @ericowensnyc 5 месяцев назад

    AMERICAN 100% but I always feel at home when I have visited Britain. #pastlife 🍸🍸🍸

  • @markwilliford4567
    @markwilliford4567 5 месяцев назад +1

    Sad. In 50 years the Muslim Majority will be pulling these all down

  • @KORGULL-ISOLATES
    @KORGULL-ISOLATES 6 месяцев назад

    But where's the Grey Poupon‼️

  • @duffman9
    @duffman9 6 месяцев назад

    Best plaque I have seen was "here in 1715 nothing happened"

  • @loreman7267
    @loreman7267 6 месяцев назад +2

    Amazing! And King's Cross is now one of the most claustrophobically built up areas, with a horrendous crime rate!

    • @connoroleary591
      @connoroleary591 5 месяцев назад +2

      The crime rate is King's Cross has substantially improved since the 1980's.
      It is now home to many Tech industries including RUclips!

  • @cosmicpsyops4529
    @cosmicpsyops4529 5 месяцев назад

    Everything is England seems to have its name, place, and time in history. Life in America can leave you feeling more disoriented.

  • @Flymochairman1
    @Flymochairman1 4 месяца назад

    ...Buddleia...!

  • @solinvictus--x
    @solinvictus--x 6 месяцев назад

    They ran out of space, so they had to leave out a letter

  • @Kierenstanden-qz7eu
    @Kierenstanden-qz7eu 6 месяцев назад

    The pointing on that house is so bad bet is causing loads of problems inside

  • @thePronto
    @thePronto 6 месяцев назад +1

    0:40 First 'nip-slip' in history? (Probably not: but maybe the first that got past the YT algorithm...)

  • @tianlan7358
    @tianlan7358 6 месяцев назад +2

    So many amazing historic signs around this area, I still wish Kings Cross to be called Battle Field

    • @nickmiller76
      @nickmiller76 6 месяцев назад

      Battle Bridge actually.

  • @r0der1ck_0nl1ne
    @r0der1ck_0nl1ne 6 месяцев назад

    cool

  • @shawnaweesner3759
    @shawnaweesner3759 6 месяцев назад +1

    Well, you can kiss them good-bye, Britain! Your country is being over-run . . .

  • @kbtred51
    @kbtred51 6 месяцев назад

    When covered over the ditches were stinking polluted sewers

  • @lmclm1755
    @lmclm1755 6 месяцев назад +2

    "for whatever reason"?! Isn't that something you would investigate in your line of work?

  • @marcopolitical7571
    @marcopolitical7571 4 месяца назад

    It reminds me to what you may find to see on old Dutch buildings in cities and shopping centers all over the country. In Dutch these figures are called ‘gaapers’. In Englush this would mean something like “yawners”. The Dutch yawners are kinda eccentric looking heads with the mouth open and the tongue flat over the low teeth. Ready to receive a pill from the drugstore that at the time was in that building.

  • @dominicdeluca6378
    @dominicdeluca6378 5 месяцев назад

    Nobody added an r?!?!

  • @SimonLloydGuitar
    @SimonLloydGuitar 6 месяцев назад +2

    heartbreaking what London has become

  • @NcessNasya
    @NcessNasya 5 месяцев назад

    6.9k Likes?
    NOICE!! 👑✝️

  • @DenkyManner
    @DenkyManner 6 месяцев назад

    Why is the frame rate so low on these videos? It's all juddery instead of smooth like literally every other video on RUclips

  • @jeromefitzroy
    @jeromefitzroy 6 месяцев назад

    Healing? More like the opposite

  • @howardlake6178
    @howardlake6178 6 месяцев назад

    Looks a bit structural to me 😂

  • @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM
    @JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM 5 месяцев назад

    >:-D UPside down world (the King's Cross)

  • @briancase6180
    @briancase6180 5 месяцев назад +2

    1678. The USA wasn't even a glimmer in anyone's eyes....

    • @IMustGoMyPeopleNeedMe
      @IMustGoMyPeopleNeedMe 2 месяца назад +2

      The first permanent English settlement in North America was in 1607

  • @DrPangloss
    @DrPangloss 6 месяцев назад

    You would not be allowed to call a place Badnigge House these days - it might cause offense.

    • @alexbernard8907
      @alexbernard8907 4 месяца назад

      Everything is offensive these days, a teacher can't even say good boy or good girl without being fired, the brainless politically correct liberalist have been in charge since atleast the 1970s/80s

  • @gordonbrooks9181
    @gordonbrooks9181 6 месяцев назад

    Media occasionally twist their stories but hey… eat it while u can.

  • @gordonbrooks9181
    @gordonbrooks9181 6 месяцев назад

    You seem to be indifferent to accepting the fact that we (as a society) did not build this . These structures have not been constructed & found but rather found. No horses, buggy’s & rope created the 16th Chapel.

  • @nassirbasalamah4213
    @nassirbasalamah4213 6 месяцев назад +6

    I miss London...it's been 2 years . Time to visit again ❤

    • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
      @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 6 месяцев назад +8

      I don't I think it's an absolute CESSPIT now sadly..

    • @CoCoSkylark1
      @CoCoSkylark1 6 месяцев назад

      I love the history but unfortunately there are things that I hate about it now. @@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13