@@Shalott63 Some of the people behind Dr Who created another TV series called Adam Adamant. On 29th September 1966 an episode called "Ticket to Terror" was watched by twelve-year-old me. $00 passengers disappear from a Waterloo & City train which rolls into Bank (I think) full of skeletons... I can't remember the plot, but the W&C train full of skeletons even in 405-line black & white was quite impressive.
@@roderickjoyce6716 Yikes, that sounds scary! Thanks for this little snippet. I'll try to look up Adam Adamant (and I'll see whether it asks me whether I mean Adam and the Ants ...).
@@Shalott63 Does anyone remember a horror film from , I think, the 70's called Deadline. It had to do with some Victorian railway workers who were thought lost after an accident but carried on living behind the walls of the Tube, occasionally emerging to snatch some poor commuter for lunch?
When the Bank extension of the DLR was tunnelled in the 1990s, it fractured a nearby sewer, which duly created a bit of a stink. My test equipment got to ride down on a flatbed truck. I had the dubious pleasure of walking down the tunnel to conduct commissioning tests on the fire systems at the station. It was a case of gingerly easing past the 210 litre plastic drum that was sitting on the walkway gently filling and stewing!
Vault of Skeletons was the name of our college 'Goth Boy Band' - a cross between Bauhaus and One Direction! It's a real shame the whole Goth Boy Band thing never caught on!
When the Tremont Street Subway was built in Boston,there were two major cemeteries on the route,some 900 bodies,were relocated! Also when the Subway in New York,was being built,there were cemeteries,in both Manhattan and Brooklyn! Greenwood Cemetery is one of those relocation areas,from earlier building operations! Lots of gory,and not so gory,Victorian history,on both sides of the pond! Happy Father's Day,Jago,and a most interesting commentary,on a morbid subject! Thank you 😇 😊!
When the IND was built the 207th St. shop complex occupied an area that had been an ancient burial ground. The remains were transferred to Woodlawn Cemetery and an appropriate monument installed there.
My old man was with the BR teams when they opened up by accident the bottom of a Newgate prison charnel pit in Snow Hill tunnel, dirt and filth, bones and skulls came a tumbling out and everyone was screaming they were gonna get the plague, he stopped doing the extra duties after that lol He was on the signalling team as he was one of the last Loughborough Junc passed out signalmen as well as Blackfriars before they were displaced, his unnatural knowledge of just about every train working in and around there was put to good use as winding in and out the Thameslinks into two ferociously busy main lines was a train pathing nightmare but somehow he managed to make it all work for BR to go ahead on those base operations but skulls and bones weren't in the job description lol
Another example of the use of the drawing shown at 1:21. This was made by the artist as a warning about the possible future horrors of urban life - if you look closely at the whole thing there are details that don't look quite right. I first saw it in a children's history book in the sixties and it has since been used many times as if it was a contemporary illustration of a real scene.
Imagine crowds dressed in victorian clothes riding an open carriage steam train in a tunnel with hundreds of coffins laying by the track to go to the Dancing On The Dead concert venue. What seems like a gothic horror movie of today's is just the Metropolitan Line opening ceremony of 1863.
Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is said to have supervised the mass exhumation necessitated by the construction of new railway lines close to St Pancras Old Church whilst working for an architectural practice. This gave rise to the legend that he arranged some old headstones that were stacked against each other in a circle around an ash tree. It became known as The Hardy Tree. In fact a photo dating back to the 1920s, showing children playing on the stones, with no tree in evidence, tells us the tree must grown up from amongst those already arranged stones. The tree fell on the night of boxing day 2022, but can still be seen lying on its side, with chunks of stone embedded in its roots.
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. When you started, I thought this was going to be another episode of Quatermass and the Pit (fantastic if you have never watched it) I saw it when it was originally shown late at night - scary!
Bodies had to be complete, but the bones weren't always stored together. Come the day, there was going to chaos as skulls roamed the charnel house, trying to find their necks, and tibias searching for the correct fibulas etc.
You've hit it in one Paul. I'm a Christian believer myself, but simply cannot accept the ignorence which lay behind so many of these ideas. What about those who died at sea (whose remains dissolve) or the classic charnel houses you refer to? It seems the 'theologians' never thought the thing through to its logical conclusion.......
My grandparents are interred in Manor Park Cemetery for which I still hold the deeds, there used to be a necropolois railway within its environs many many moons ago
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro B list actor know for horror projects. Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness being his biggest genre role. He also played the King of Thieves in the Hercules/Xena shows, Sam Axe in Burn Notice tv show, and the title character on the show The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. Being best friends with Director Sam Raimi means he's had a small part in most of his movies, including the wrestling ring announcer in Spider-Man and Pizza Poppa in Doctor Strange 2.
@2:56 "Vault of 20,000 Corpses" sounds like typical juke box fare in The Swan on Wood Street, Liverpool. Kind of like Accept or Iron Maiden, the sort of thing me and my mate would be dabbing a tear from our eyes to and saying "Aaahh, they just don't write slushy romantic songs like this anymore..." as we daintily sip another pint of Marston's Owd Rodger.
Crossbones Graveyard is at London Bridge and was used for Jubilee line extension works. The grey hoardings saying 'Jubilee line extension' were still there until about 15 years ago...
You caught the back of the block with the Betsey Trotwood at 03:18 . Good, Shepherd Neame, pub. The whole area is described in Dickens' Oliver Twist, including Saffron Hill, site of Fagin's training school.
Florin Court in Charterhouse Square was used as the location of Poirot's London residence in the TV series and Poirot is a individual who has had experience of a corpse or two
Chartehouse Square has long been said to be the site of a plague pit, and during the Crossrail (i.e. Elizabeth Line) construction work, thirteen skeletons dating back to the fourteenth century were discovered there.
There were similar problems at York when they were constructing the station. York has a large number of churches and the building cut through at least one graveyard. There is a small remnant of a cemetary across the road from the station, which was also disturbed. Its gravestones tell us that the inhabitants succumbed to typhoid. York within the wall was filthy in the 19th century.
Surely a video on the London Necropolis Railway and line down to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey is due after this. It might also answer the question of where all those disintered coffins ended up.
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. I was half expecting another episode of the BBC series about Quatermass - probably before your time. If I remember correctly (in the region of 70 years ago) they were digging a new underground station and came across a Martian space ship that had crash landed
Someone should, just for fun, make a pocket Tube map that shows the "London Underground" when it first opened. Same graphics and font as today's Tube map, but with only one line and 7 stations.
This is a fantastic bit of history I didn’t know about, even though I used to work in Farringdon. Though it would be interesting to see a video about the most popular/common ghost stories from the underground. Halloween special? 🤔
So interesting I have always found the area of Farringdon fascinating and steeped in history as not quite London nor the East end but a unique area in itself.
"Death and the Underground" sounds like an Agatha Christie novel. You know Charles Tyson Yerkes would be somehow involved at some point. That line about Bruce Campbell made me chortle. 😆
That's what happens when you build your railway through the dead centre of town.
😂😂😂😂
I see what you did there
(Rimshot)
Get your coat! You're leaving!
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“…but it was hardly a grave matter…”
(Standing ovation)
Boom... boom! (RIP Basil)
😂😂😂😂😂
He was dying to say that
Super obvious, but a good one
‘Dead and the underground have a long association’ … yes indeed
"enough dead people to make even Bruce Campbell think twice" is an underrated line
My favourite
If I ever get around to making a British Victorian zombie flick, this tale will be the starting point
I'm surprised it's not yet made it into an episode of Dr Who.
@@Shalott63 Some of the people behind Dr Who created another TV series called Adam Adamant. On 29th September 1966 an episode called "Ticket to Terror" was watched by twelve-year-old me. $00 passengers disappear from a Waterloo & City train which rolls into Bank (I think) full of skeletons... I can't remember the plot, but the W&C train full of skeletons even in 405-line black & white was quite impressive.
Seen Death Line (1972)? Not quite zombies but near enough. Inbred descendants of workmen trapped in a collapse still hunting for victims to eat.
@@roderickjoyce6716 Yikes, that sounds scary! Thanks for this little snippet. I'll try to look up Adam Adamant (and I'll see whether it asks me whether I mean Adam and the Ants ...).
@@Shalott63 Does anyone remember a horror film from , I think, the 70's called Deadline. It had to do with some Victorian railway workers who were thought lost after an accident but carried on living behind the walls of the Tube, occasionally emerging to snatch some poor commuter for lunch?
Perhaps they should have renamed it the Necropolitan Railway.
😂
forbidden icecream
Nah the necropolis railway was down the road.
I am impressed at how your delivery stayed Deadpan throughout - I'm certain I would've corpsed.
"Death and the Underground" would also be a great name for a metal band...
How about "Jago Hazzard"? 😁
My vote goes to Vault Miasma.
"Mind the Dead"
It's just a fleeting matter but with grave repercussions
Being poor in London and then suddenly finding yourself dead, is not necessarily a step up on the career ladder.
At least now you could sleep laying down.
Arguable ...
I'm interested as to how you would "find yourself dead" ?
When the Bank extension of the DLR was tunnelled in the 1990s, it fractured a nearby sewer, which duly created a bit of a stink. My test equipment got to ride down on a flatbed truck. I had the dubious pleasure of walking down the tunnel to conduct commissioning tests on the fire systems at the station. It was a case of gingerly easing past the 210 litre plastic drum that was sitting on the walkway gently filling and stewing!
Well that makes sense because Bank station stinks, in a different way to the rest of the central line.
2:54 🎵It’s a murder of human dignity on the dance floor you better not kill the groove🎵
Jago's puns killing it today
Vault of Skeletons was the name of our college 'Goth Boy Band' - a cross between Bauhaus and One Direction! It's a real shame the whole Goth Boy Band thing never caught on!
unlike black baby metal.... chortle ! Ya need to be more korean...
I use the Metropolitan Line, and Farringdon Station regularly but will never do so without thinking of this video now. Thanks Jago. 😂
Expression: “..skeletons in the closet.”
Metropolitan Line: “We have some and it’s more spacious than a closet.”
I see Jago has been boning up with his Metropolitan Line history.
ba-dum-tss 🥁
On seeing the title I thought this video might be a grave error but on watching it thought it was dead good - thanks Jago.
Make no bones about it, this was an excellent video!
When the Tremont Street Subway was built in Boston,there were two major cemeteries on the route,some 900 bodies,were relocated! Also when the Subway in New York,was being built,there were cemeteries,in both Manhattan and Brooklyn! Greenwood Cemetery is one of those relocation areas,from earlier building operations! Lots of gory,and not so gory,Victorian history,on both sides of the pond! Happy Father's Day,Jago,and a most interesting commentary,on a morbid subject! Thank you 😇 😊!
When the IND was built the 207th St. shop complex occupied an area that had been an ancient burial ground. The remains were transferred to Woodlawn Cemetery and an appropriate monument installed there.
Mortuary humour at its finest. You dissected this like an eighteenth century medical student
Thank you for the video so nice to hear how the London underground was installed ❤
You've attained peak droll with this one. Wonderful work as always!
A macabre and dramatic tale conjuring up images of the dead bursting forth into the tube. Great story telling Jago.
My old man was with the BR teams when they opened up by accident the bottom of a Newgate prison charnel pit in Snow Hill tunnel, dirt and filth, bones and skulls came a tumbling out and everyone was screaming they were gonna get the plague, he stopped doing the extra duties after that lol He was on the signalling team as he was one of the last Loughborough Junc passed out signalmen as well as Blackfriars before they were displaced, his unnatural knowledge of just about every train working in and around there was put to good use as winding in and out the Thameslinks into two ferociously busy main lines was a train pathing nightmare but somehow he managed to make it all work for BR to go ahead on those base operations but skulls and bones weren't in the job description lol
I love how you uploaded a video with that kind of intro… the day my sister moves into her new place
Another example of the use of the drawing shown at 1:21. This was made by the artist as a warning about the possible future horrors of urban life - if you look closely at the whole thing there are details that don't look quite right. I first saw it in a children's history book in the sixties and it has since been used many times as if it was a contemporary illustration of a real scene.
Imagine crowds dressed in victorian clothes riding an open carriage steam train in a tunnel with hundreds of coffins laying by the track to go to the Dancing On The Dead concert venue.
What seems like a gothic horror movie of today's is just the Metropolitan Line opening ceremony of 1863.
Someone should have issued a "decease and desist" order to prevent damage to corpses...
Cisterned deceased?
Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is said to have supervised the mass exhumation necessitated by the construction of new railway lines close to St Pancras Old Church whilst working for an architectural practice. This gave rise to the legend that he arranged some old headstones that were stacked against each other in a circle around an ash tree. It became known as The Hardy Tree. In fact a photo dating back to the 1920s, showing children playing on the stones, with no tree in evidence, tells us the tree must grown up from amongst those already arranged stones. The tree fell on the night of boxing day 2022, but can still be seen lying on its side, with chunks of stone embedded in its roots.
Very interesting one!
"Incursion of the Deceased" will be my first movie
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. When you started, I thought this was going to be another episode of Quatermass and the Pit (fantastic if you have never watched it) I saw it when it was originally shown late at night - scary!
An ideal subject for Jago's deadpan humour.
Yes, he's the man who puts the dead in deadpan.
Excellent video
As you said Jago, it was a grave matter! 🤣
Bodies had to be complete, but the bones weren't always stored together. Come the day, there was going to chaos as skulls roamed the charnel house, trying to find their necks, and tibias searching for the correct fibulas etc.
You've hit it in one Paul. I'm a Christian believer myself, but simply cannot accept the ignorence which lay behind so many of these ideas. What about those who died at sea (whose remains dissolve) or the classic charnel houses you refer to? It seems the 'theologians' never thought the thing through to its logical conclusion.......
My grandparents are interred in Manor Park Cemetery for which I still hold the deeds, there used to be a necropolois railway within its environs many many moons ago
Deadpan delivery when mentioning the Fleet is best.
"enough dead people on the tunnel to make even Bruce Campbell think twice" ... Groovy
Sorry - who's Bruce Campbell?
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro he plays Ash Williams in the evil dead franchise
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro B list actor know for horror projects. Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness being his biggest genre role.
He also played the King of Thieves in the Hercules/Xena shows, Sam Axe in Burn Notice tv show, and the title character on the show The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Being best friends with Director Sam Raimi means he's had a small part in most of his movies, including the wrestling ring announcer in Spider-Man and Pizza Poppa in Doctor Strange 2.
I like the suggestion of Vault of 12000 corpses as a metal band name! 🤟
@2:56 "Vault of 20,000 Corpses" sounds like typical juke box fare in The Swan on Wood Street, Liverpool. Kind of like Accept or Iron Maiden, the sort of thing me and my mate would be dabbing a tear from our eyes to and saying "Aaahh, they just don't write slushy romantic songs like this anymore..." as we daintily sip another pint of Marston's Owd Rodger.
'Hardly a grave matter' 😂
Crossbones Graveyard is at London Bridge and was used for Jubilee line extension works. The grey hoardings saying 'Jubilee line extension' were still there until about 15 years ago...
Mentioning Smithfield (0:55) reminds me of We'll Meat Again, surely Jago's finest exercise in non-stop punnery. See it if you haven't already!
You caught the back of the block with the Betsey Trotwood at 03:18 . Good, Shepherd Neame, pub. The whole area is described in Dickens' Oliver Twist, including Saffron Hill, site of Fagin's training school.
Florin Court in Charterhouse Square was used as the location of Poirot's London residence in the TV series and Poirot is a individual who has had experience of a corpse or two
Chartehouse Square has long been said to be the site of a plague pit, and during the Crossrail (i.e. Elizabeth Line) construction work, thirteen skeletons dating back to the fourteenth century were discovered there.
There were similar problems at York when they were constructing the station. York has a large number of churches and the building cut through at least one graveyard. There is a small remnant of a cemetary across the road from the station, which was also disturbed. Its gravestones tell us that the inhabitants succumbed to typhoid. York within the wall was filthy in the 19th century.
Farringdon was the nail in the coffin for the Metropolitan Line
😂
Surely a video on the London Necropolis Railway and line down to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey is due after this. It might also answer the question of where all those disintered coffins ended up.
As always, entertaining and informing. Thank you for your hard work.
A case of graveous bodily harm.
You would think that when you was dead they'd leave you alone !!
“They're removing Grandpa's grave to build a sewer.
They're removing it regardless of expense.
…”
@@stephenspackman5573 A Peter Sellers record from the 1960's. Very appropriate. My mate had a copy of it.
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. I was half expecting another episode of the BBC series about Quatermass - probably before your time. If I remember correctly (in the region of 70 years ago) they were digging a new underground station and came across a Martian space ship that had crash landed
Thanks for that comment. I never did understand what that programme was all about!
We never did find out which station it was - Southgate perhaps?
Below Ray Street bridge is Ray Street gridiron, which carries the Metropolitan line over the Thameslink tracks (originally the City Widened Lines).
This was a very grave matter. In fact, it stunk! But, your video came out smelling like roses. 😄
Totally digging that "grave matter" line!
credit to your thesaurus for assisting you with this project, your pun game is strong with this one
Thanks
This is an oddly hilarious video, considering the subject matter
Gives a new meaning to ‘gravy train’…
Someone should, just for fun, make a pocket Tube map that shows the "London Underground" when it first opened. Same graphics and font as today's Tube map, but with only one line and 7 stations.
🤘Vault Of Twelve Thousand Corpses 🤘
Jago Hazzard was a 70s prog band. I remember seeing them at Glastonbury, including a legenday 35 minute flute solo.
Their second album is called Strewn Bones!
Featuring the hit single "Dead Line"
7:35 "Death and the Underground", I'm sure I saw them at Wembley back in '84.
Another great Jago video! And one that would make a great scenario for a zombie movie...
"Hardly a grave matter" you have a way with words Jago😂 well played
Like a Victorian version of the swimming pool scene in "Poltergeist" superb!
Enon Chapel is now the site of the LSE - a place I visit regularly
This is a fantastic bit of history I didn’t know about, even though I used to work in Farringdon. Though it would be interesting to see a video about the most popular/common ghost stories from the underground. Halloween special? 🤔
When building a new station, Farringdon is a prime example of what NOT to do.
Of course it is highly likely that the Thameslink train featuring towards the end later passed through Lea grave.
Oooh, this will do nicely while I cook.😂❤
Should have saved this one for Halloween.
So interesting I have always found the area of Farringdon fascinating and steeped in history as not quite London nor the East end but a unique area in itself.
*BAM* - _vault of ｓｋｅｌｅｔｏｎｓ_
Why has Farringdon main line got such a wavy, curved platform?
Always find your videos both enjoyable and entertaining, Jago! 👍👍
Likewise.
Love that intro........BAMM! Vault of skeletons!😅
Makes 'Death Line' seem quite tame by comparison.
Only in London could you bury the dead, and later that day, the dead bury you.
So
"Into the cut'n'cover trench of death
dug the 600..."
I was on a jags binge and this just pops up- thanks
Sounds like a tale Russel T Davies could be interested in.
Well Jago, the puns in this one made me nearly choke on my coffee
"hardly a grave matter!" saw it come out my nose
Fascinating , Jago. ...& people think transit projects cost an arm & a leg these days...
I loved this and the amount of research you must do
What a great Father's Day video.
That was dead interesting Uncle Jago! Thanks!
Are you telling me that grave gases caused me asthma?
sometimes i forget how harrowing london history actually gets.
Well, that was quite a grave tale…
Incursion of the deceased would also make a fantastic metal band name!!!
Is this Tales from the Tube, or Tales from the Crypt?
Proof that building a railway can turn out to be a grave undertaking.
another famous tale from a famous man named JagoHazzard
"Death and the Underground" sounds like an Agatha Christie novel. You know Charles Tyson Yerkes would be somehow involved at some point.
That line about Bruce Campbell made me chortle. 😆
All this talk of skeletal matter made me think of the band 'Elbow Bones and the Racketeers' A night in New York. Enjoy 🤗
OK OK, you found my den where I send all of these comments from.
Could this be the start of a theme? There's a cache of skeletons by the District Line on Cloak Lane which you may also care to dig into.
You made me frantically wipe my monitor screen at 4:59-5:06
I’m surprised that this is not a Halloween Special!