Meet London Underground's 'Mind the Gap' Man | Thames News Archive Footage
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- Meet the man who provides the voice for London underground's 'mind the gap' message!...
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"mind-d the gap"
Isn't this guy different, the real one is Oswald Laurence not this stupid idiot Peter
@@ctra1ns Oswald **Lawrence
His wife was my doctor until she retired, wonderful lady
I'm sure I saw a comment on another video from a lady claiming that her husband recorded the 'Mind the gap' signal on one of the Tube lines, so might very well have been her!
I know what is happening with this property. Please have kids
There's a story about a doctor called Margaret McCollum married to the 'mind the gap' voice actor. But they say he was called Oswald Lawrence.
Weirdest Monty Python sketch I've seen.
His wife used to go to the Tube station just to listen to his voice after he passed away.
blakaeg that was Oswald Laurence at Embankment station. This is a different guy.
@Alex Gemi not exactly weird she must miss him too much and wants to hear his voice
@Alex Gemi I think that, if it helped her through her grief and didn't hurt anyone else, then it's all good.
@Alex Gemi how?
Alex Gemi easy to say when you’re not in her shoes
Listening to Peter's voice and the announcement at Embankment it is quite clearly not his voice and so the story of Oswald Lawrence has to be deemed has the actual voice.
isctony this is my grandad! the recording of him and Oswald are very very similar but with slightly different intonation. This one is definitely Peter :)
Ok
@@emmmlodg i think you should go down to Embankment station when Mrs Lawrence is there and tell her the truth
I’m sure they could change the pitch of certain words so it has a different tone to it.
I think they used Lawrence voice but said it was Peter's. That was a lot cheaper.
To clear up the confusion, this is the voice that often gets mistaken for a guy called Oswald Lawrence - including by Oswald’s widow in a story that is often repeated on social media. The voice heard today at Embankment erroneously attributed to Oswald is in fact Peter Lodge seen here, as confirmed by several members of his family over the years.
(it sounds different with him speaking it as this news report was recorded about 20 years after he first did the announcement)
so which one is Oswald's ??
@@aurahyhj They never used Oswald's recording as his agent asked for too high a fee (as said in this video at 0:17 ). It was always Peter's.
@@billyh88uk so...his wife never heard his voice? And all those years she just listens to a voice of some strangers? Dude...
I’m so confused 😂
I did a bit of digging and apparently the recording at Embankment today is still Lawrence’s, however it seems that this recording was only brought back for his wife and was never used. I could be wrong though
Love it! Thank you for great memories of Bank station
Wonderful human interest story. Thanks very much!
A true living legend, a hero of our times ❤❤❤
He passed away a few years ago. LU agreed to keep playing it for his widow however I believe she's now passed away and they've replaced his announcement with a new one of manual announcements. However apparently it still does play but very rarely.
@@Faulty720 thanks tomsee, interesting to know that 🙂
Legend has it he still chanting 'mind the gap' in that studio today
I have all he's records! Great artist!
Someone please clear something up for me. The Embankment announcement. Is that Oswald Laurence or is it Peter Lodge and Oswald’s widow has been thinking it’s his voice the whole time and it actually isn’t?
It’s Peter. The “actor” mentioned at 0:08 in this report is Oswald, basically they never used Oswald’s voice and his widow (and possibly Oswald himself) never realised.
Did he ever record a compilation? Just wondering if its on Spotify as id quite like to listen to it on the way to work....
Richard b erm bruh this is from the archives...and this guy has passed away if my facts are right. Just look at how old this video looks. The recordings date at least from the 60s...nowadays only the mind the gap announcement is kept at Embankment Northern line Northbound Platform 3.
i love his voice!
I always wondered where did "STAND CLEAR OF THE DOORS PLEASE!" part go? I used to here this throughout the 80's
And early 90's.
Bring that part back because you certainly have to stand clear of the doors, especially at peak times.
Starting in the 90s, the trains themselves have an alarm (the rapid beeping noise) which sounds before the doors close. The announcement, therefore, is redundant.
Nice to put a face to the famous "mind the gap" voice. Didn't realise they had distorted the voice too.
I wondered about that. They say 'carefully distorted'. I always thought it was just the speaker itself that made the recording sound distorted. Guess not. Either way it sounds good distorted.
Thank you people
How many of you said "mind the gap" after it had finished-- and me too.
Not me for example.
@L3P3.
Uncultured swine.
Nolstagic, wonderful memories ❤❤
Embankment is Oswald Lawrence...
Yes, Embankment is O. Lawrence
His wife went to Embankment as it was the last station to keep the recording after he passed away, just to listen to his voice :(
So who voiced the 'mind the gap between the platform and the train, mind the gap' announcement?
I always thought it was so precise.
0:59 me when someone’s blocking the entrance at work
🤣
It's the real life Steven Toast 😁
I’ll correct this, he tested it and got Oswald Laurence to record it.
Do I vaguely remember correctly (circa mid 80s) "Mind the Gap, please"?
The sound of my childhood on the tube 🤣
Who else is here from Archibishopofbanterbury
Karen I’m not
What's that?
What would his announcement be distorted by London Transport?
If one more person mentions the embankment story (the one we literally all know) I will implode
*gasp* The mind the gap announcement at Embankment is Oswald Lawrence because his widow wanted to hear him
I honestly always thought the mind the gap voice was American. Stand clear of the doors please is more obviously british sounding
Thats what she said.
Why was the speaker system so boomy in the station there?
Trident H acoustics of a tube platform and old tech PA system.
Millenials are triggered by loud noises and suffer anxiety, so many station masters turn it down a bit
Gonzo Gilberto ok boomer
@@sunsbasketballreview6307 true story
Anyone know who the woman's voice is that's used on most stations today?
There are no female mind the gap announcers
Tracy McFannydaddle.
Her name is Emma Clarke.
She also did the voice of the starship Avalon in the movie Passengers.
I'm not sure if Mr Lodge's voice is similar to Oswald Lawrence or not. If so, the voice of Lodge would be confused for Oswald, and the story of Oswald's wife hearing the old voice at Embankment station can have a twist...
in other words she thinks its her husband Oswald Lawrence and really it was Peter Lodge all the time
Someones got to tell her sooner or later
@@danwoodhouse9290 Didn't they change it for a while before Oswald Lawrence's wife requested that they went back to the recording of her husband? Could this have been during the inbetween period?
This love 🥰
The announcement sounds nothing like Peter. It is definitely Oswald's voice being used. I very much doubt his widow would have mis-identified his voice
It was "mind the doors" before that. Some cannibals repeated it in 1974.
Is it used now still ?
Jacob Davenport only at embankment as of his widows request
Only at embankment station.
Peters voice was like that?
His name is Oswald laurence
The narrator sounds like Michael Palin
Bit of a posh accent
Sounds a lil like Eric Idle
Did you know that “Mind The Gap” is also a SpongeBob episode
The gaps would be even more scary in the New York subways (tube). Many would have been sunk and swallowed -- *by their own feet* and lack of concentration.
look how uncrowded London looks
It’s nice isn’t it?
That was not in the rush hour mate.
I remember the rush hour back then. It was not nice.
Now you got bigger carriages to be able to breath.
And this was filmed in the 80s/90s
It looks that way, because it wasn't a crowded period. The same as many times of day today.
Only today there are bigger trains, longer trains, more space effective trains and more frequent trains.
London is famed for being a crowded city right from its creation. In fact, the Victorians documented it's overcrowding in great detail.
Why does it sound like he says ''Mind the the gap''?
Because he is saying that? 😂🤗
@@karent4347 did you miss the other 'the?'
@@rondaxen88 I did! Apologies 😊
@@karent4347 I missed it too :-D
He enunciates the 'd' at the end of mind very strongly so it sounds like an extra 'the'. It's actually 'mind-d the gap'
When I was 10 my mates mum showed us a pair of thongs she had with ‘mind the gap’ on em 😂
Lol did you smash?
I wanna have a turn. Has she aged well?
@@raregrimebeats1352 don't think it's thongs as in the undies but thongs as in flip flops
Someone
He got it right tbf!
A white pair with the ‘mind the gap’ quote incorporated into the London Underground logo...
Remember it well lol
so is it OSWALD LAURENCE or Peter... not sure anymore :D
Mine De The Gap!!
They probably both do it.
J p b Dude they both did it and their recordings are super similar! not entirely sure but I think my dad told me that they only did 1 recording of my Grandad (Peter), yet wanted others for other stations so got Oswald to do the others because of how similar their voices sound! Not entirely sure on that though :)
He said mind the the gap
Grind the Map
I think they should add another warning in London...Mind Your Language!!!!
Ironically he died after failing to mind the gap on the Northern Line.
hi
It was
Why did they play it so loud and distorted? Kinda lost all the charm of the guys voice. Good thing they didn’t bother with the voice actor 😂
So should i mind this gap or......?
yesss you should
Mind the flap
Mind the crap
Mind the slap
Mind the lap
Mind the map
Mind the nap
Mind the bap
Why does he sound American when he says "Mind the Gap" from the underground speakers?
I want to know this too
Sound nothing like it
James Brown Could have been edited and manipulated to sound different
Peter is old
I hate that voice, mInd the gap, my dad burst out laugh ing
Soon that announcement will be made in Arabic instead of English...
You people get everywhere, don't you? Please give it a rest.
@Mike D
What do you mean by 'you people'? Do you mean people, who point out unconvenient truths (albeit it being in an ironic and hyperbolic manner)?
I can understand that this annoys you. People prefer to look away and to ignore such things. However, the demographic change of Europe due to immigration and birth rates is a huge problem, and ignored problems only get worse. So, better to wake up sooner than later.
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@@christianrochat7919 I mean the 'Londonistan' brigade, who can't seem to watch any archive film from Britain without taking the opportunity to post an anti-immigrant comment.
@Mike D
Why do you think that is? Might they have a point?
@Mike D
Maybe those people understand what is at stake. And they want to avoid becoming like France (have a look, please!):
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Do you want to live in a society where such things occur on a regular basis?
This is wrong, the real one is Oswald laurence
This is binaural.
I wish this mind the gap crap was stopped now. Do LT think passengers are so stupid as to not mind the gap? I never heard it when I was a kid in 80s.
You never heard it in the 80s? It was played all the time in the 80s
Must’ve been earlier then.
London is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world.
Actually yes, with today’s obsessions with mobile phones and people being very distracted by them, it still feels reasonable to have this warning unfortunately. Governments are now resorting to phone only walking lanes in some city centres so a “‘mind the gap” warning for LT is still apt
Nigel
Heard it through out my life from the 70s. What are you on about ?
Sounds like some World war 2 announcement. Pathetic