@@tremensdelirious Though there's a certain charm to learning oddly specific stuff about places you've never really been to... Feels like I'm peeking in on something only meant for Londoners especially when combined with Jay Foreman and Geoff Marshall
Also worthy of a mention is Tweezer's Alley just off Arundel Street after you've walked past the cab mans shelter on Temple Place. Which is notable for the Quits Rent Ceremony in which every October since the 13th-15th century (no one knows precisely when) the City of London has paid 6 horseshoes and 61 nails as rent for a piece of land (even though it no longer rents the land). The horseshoes apparently date back to the 1360's and are loaned back to the City every year during the ceremony. What a weird city we live in.
I drove trains on the District for years but never went exploring to see where the stations were at street level or their architecture etc. Excellent video.
I've never lied to tourists (knowingly), but I went from being a tourist myself to being very annoyed by slow-moving tourists stopping at the top of escalators in about half a year. Quite amazing how London does that.
That's lucky. Normally, members of the public can't go inside, but they can get tea or food from the serving hatch outside. I think there's another cabbies' shelter near Charing Cross station by Hungerford bridge.
As someone who left London for a much more rural location a year ago, I just want to say thank you for providing this little mini-breaks back to London for me. Keep up the great work (and puns).
Great video. History with humour, love the picture of Rumpole. Been through Temple regularly but never exited there. May get off there one day just to look at the map and play ping pong on the roof.
Thank you, Mr Hazzard...This was great...the Temple is an area of great importance to juridical history...in that weird in-between land between London and Westminster...and yet we never knew the *local* history of the area until your video came along :)...And as an aside...speaking as a one-time Beck devotee...the pre-Beck underground maps are the BEST!
And "Headaches around Temple"...Rumpole of the Bailey..."worshipful episode"...how on earth do you come up with these inspired videos that are informative, educational, and ever so witty, all at the same time!?
Nice history lesson. One of the few central London stations I've never used. Go through only. The diagram you show at 2:43 is an update on the Beck design actually by Harold F. Hutchinson used about '61 to '63 only. I think of an episode of TV series The Professionals partly filmed here. They come out the tube and use telephone box opposite.
I’m a barrister based in chambers in Middle Temple - it’s always nice to get off at Temple, and it’s a handy station if you need to go to Victoria quickly.
I hardly ever use it but I really like this station also; it's very handsome and I like the fact that hardly anyone seems to know about it - so you'd probably be able to use that ping pong table without having to wait ;-)
The MDR (bastard, and unloved, offspring of the Metropolitan) should have realised that a station built adjacent to the hallowed precincts of London's legal fraternity was unlikely to produce lucrative passenger revenue. Lawyers habitually take cabs, and charge the cost to their clients. Which makes your shot of the redundant csbmen's shelter so wonderfully apposite and evocative.
@@pavlekodak2147 Also their office staff, who I guess are not paid top dollar; oh, sorry top pound(Or would that be: top tuppence?). And some of their clerks (pronounced clarks, for those this side of the pond) might have to come from Kent.
Dear Sir, votre site est le plus instructif et le plus émouvant de tous ceux qui nous font visiter Londres. Je regarde chacun de vos épisodes avec émerveillement. Merci.
I remember when Speights brewery in New Zealand sent over a shipping container filled with beer and converted it into a bar. It spent some time on the roof of Temple station, and was completely free!
Harry Beck's Tube maps were in two different styles. The ones I grew up with, in the 1940s and 1950s, were very rectagular and the most notable feature to me, living at Morden at the time, was that the Kennington-Morden section was vertical. Before and after these dates, there were 45 degree angles all over the maps and the Thames was different, too. The LT Museum gives a potted history of the Underground's tube maps. The map is now so complicated for colour-blind folk like myself, but TfL, to its credit, has produced a version for the colour-blind. I often wonder if my parents chose Morden to live, as the Northern Line is black. Colour-blind folk can't go wrong with black and white and my favourite colour is grey, very fashionable currently!!
Hi Jago, I really like your videos, it's not just the content, I like your delivery. It's almost therapeutic, takes my mind of all the other crap going on. Many thanks and happy Christmas
Temple is my favourite tube station. Nice and quiet, not much modernisation. No need to use escalators to reach the trains. Really enjoyed this history. Would have almost preferred the video be even longer because there is so much character there still, including the wooden platform seats and the old clock on the Eastbound platform.
i used to work on fleet sheet and always prefered getting off at temple. the walk saw alot of old scenery and history. was pretty cool. i liked it. seemed closer than blackfirers and chancery Lane. Just never knew tho
Wonderful video about a wonderful station in a wonderful location (the Inner and Middle Temples are like a different world, and I would have thought they and the other Inns of Court are worthy of videos). I believe Temple is the only London Underground station which shares its name with a station on the Paris Metro. I believe they're both called Temple as the areas they're in were both centres of the Knights Templar (like Simon Templar, but older).
Fun fact: I once chundered opposite the Temple station entrance in the early 2000s, in the middle of the day, with crowds of people looking on, with vom down my work shirt and trickling down the street. Norovirus, before it was even called norovirus. I've just realised the image of Temple station still haunts me to this day.
It is also one of the few stations that still has an italian style cafe built into the entrance area. I haven't been for a couple of years but back in the 80s London was full of such cafes. Maybe Pret was planning to take it over before the pandemic?
Could you do a video on cabman shelters? There's an active one down the road of Russell Square station, it's on one of the corners of Russell Square park there and I'm always walking past it, would be great to learn more about them
And do one quickly as the London Taxi trade is dying under the covid and the Shelters too as a consequence... you'll be lucky to find any open at the moment as work is so scarce
Thanks for another interesting vid. I would have liked to hear more about how Temple Station was named and it’s relation to Temple (former Templar) Church.
A few years back the station roof terrace and neighbouring trees were going to be destroyed by Boris’ garden bridge. I’m not sure if there are still plans to build on the station as there’s a lot of development happen in the area
To be fair the map outside Temple, while out of date, IS accurate as it shows where the tube stations are ACTUALLY located, as opposed to the diagrammatic Harry Beck map which completely distorts what London actually looks like 😁
I wonder how uniform the opposition to construction of the station was from the Inns of Court, and if they raised any similar objections on the construction of Chancery Lane station?
No mention of the recent SKY TV series that was based on a secret organisation working in a disused tunnel below this station which was accessed through a door on the platform...
We get that series, here, across the pond, at least, called "Temple" too. I was rather wondered also if there might have been a reference to the show here as well. What do you think of the show?
Yes another interesting fact , also confused with another so called Temple in Wales , Temple bar , used for advertising kroneberg , I also had to research this two Temple bars ? There must be a large modern 1950s building either at the London Temple or a power station control at a dam location in Wales , please tell me more on this !
www.templebarinn.co.uk/ in wales, no idea. Of course Temple Bar was a later gate to the city of london on the strand near the law courts. Removed to herfordshire and now back in paternoster square north of St Pauls.
Thank you for reply , yes if you simply Google temple bar many come to light , first up Dublin , maybe jago can do some research on this London Temple bar ,
I can remember from my childhood (I'm now 63) those gentlemen's urinals made of prefabricated cast iron sections. Worryingly, they look somewhat similar!
I think they're all listed. I haven't been past that one when it's been open but the one at Embankment used to do a lot of trade, to the public at least.
Well I work up at the Law Courts, the Cabbies shelter seems for the most part to be serving fried nosh, tea n coffee to the many and various builders that inhabit the surrounding area the shelter is quiet happy to serve anybody who bellys up to the counter ;-) doubt if it is listed though this one has always looked like it's about to be condemned, few years ago it reopened before that it was a bit 'tired' looking tbh not that its exactly spiffy now..
Good little video. One quibble though, the tube map you showed was the dreadful short-lived one designed by Harold Hutchinson in 1960, not the iconic one introduced by Harry Beck in 1933.
Why do the ads play even after I paused them? Any how Jago, your videos are a sheer delight. I wonder how many hold on a few days to mini-binge watch. Looking fwd to more as usual :-)
2:43 "Harry Beck's more famous diagrammatic map was introduced" >Shows 1960 tube map, designed by Harold Hutchinson and the first diagrammatic one NOT designed by Beck (Visible confusion)
Looks very unchanged from when I was a student at KCL (Early '90s). There were benches on the roof then but no table tennis. However, I usually walked to Charing + station to take the train back to my flat, as it was as much of a pain to walk from Embankment to Charing + or to tube it. I most frequently visited the station for the sandwich shop in the north of the entrance - which I would try go to for lunch at about 11am, so it was not yet busy. Is the sandwich shop still open?
Raise your glass of Château Fleet Street to Rumpole and Temple Station. 🍷 Geography/history question from a stranger 🍁: why wasn’t the Embankment extended further east from Blackfriars? Especially that in Victorian days, “environment” meant making things as tidy as possible; a natural shoreline was seen as unkempt, unsightly.
Two videos in a day? Tremendous content as always. If you ever ventured north, I'd love your take on the Primrose Hill station. A travesty if you ask me.
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I really love this channel, just some British man talking about English history, with some trains sprinkled about. Perfect content for 3 am.
This is indeed good 3 AM shit
Well, London history
I vote for your handle.
@@tremensdelirious Though there's a certain charm to learning oddly specific stuff about places you've never really been to... Feels like I'm peeking in on something only meant for Londoners especially when combined with Jay Foreman and Geoff Marshall
This is great for Londoners most of us pass these place daily and it’s fantastic to know a little bit about the history
Also worthy of a mention is Tweezer's Alley just off Arundel Street after you've walked past the cab mans shelter on Temple Place. Which is notable for the Quits Rent Ceremony in which every October since the 13th-15th century (no one knows precisely when) the City of London has paid 6 horseshoes and 61 nails as rent for a piece of land (even though it no longer rents the land). The horseshoes apparently date back to the 1360's and are loaned back to the City every year during the ceremony. What a weird city we live in.
I’ve been past the street but didn’t know about that ritual. Thanks for the tip!
I drove trains on the District for years but never went exploring to see where the stations were at street level or their architecture etc. Excellent video.
Oh, you couldn't do that - t'would be a Tubeman's holiday!
I've never lied to tourists (knowingly), but I went from being a tourist myself to being very annoyed by slow-moving tourists stopping at the top of escalators in about half a year. Quite amazing how London does that.
Oh! The cabbie shelter. Never been a cabbie and never will but went into one of these with a friend who was. What a place of interest.
That's lucky. Normally, members of the public can't go inside, but they can get tea or food from the serving hatch outside.
I think there's another cabbies' shelter near Charing Cross station by Hungerford bridge.
As someone who left London for a much more rural location a year ago, I just want to say thank you for providing this little mini-breaks back to London for me. Keep up the great work (and puns).
Great video. History with humour, love the picture of Rumpole. Been through Temple regularly but never exited there. May get off there one day just to look at the map and play ping pong on the roof.
I'm a total tube head and I never before knew that Temple was such a delight. It's exactly my favourite kind of Underground station.
Thank you, Mr Hazzard...This was great...the Temple is an area of great importance to juridical history...in that weird in-between land between London and Westminster...and yet we never knew the *local* history of the area until your video came along :)...And as an aside...speaking as a one-time Beck devotee...the pre-Beck underground maps are the BEST!
And "Headaches around Temple"...Rumpole of the Bailey..."worshipful episode"...how on earth do you come up with these inspired videos that are informative, educational, and ever so witty, all at the same time!?
I'm showing my age in recognising "Rumpole of the Bailey". Never mind!
Any man who quotes Shakespeare at a judge should never be forgotten, I loved that programme.
Oh dear, the puns are creeping into the titles now!
It's EXCEDRIN-ly obvious.
Nice history lesson. One of the few central London stations I've never used. Go through only. The diagram you show at 2:43 is an update on the Beck design actually by Harold F. Hutchinson used about '61 to '63 only. I think of an episode of TV series The Professionals partly filmed here. They come out the tube and use telephone box opposite.
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Perfect viewing for my Sunday morning, thank you!
A very special area of London. Perfect for a good walk up through Fleet Street to Lincoln’s Inn gardens.
I’m a barrister based in chambers in Middle Temple - it’s always nice to get off at Temple, and it’s a handy station if you need to go to Victoria quickly.
what a lovely little video, for a lovely little station
I hardly ever use it but I really like this station also; it's very handsome and I like the fact that hardly anyone seems to know about it - so you'd probably be able to use that ping pong table without having to wait ;-)
The MDR (bastard, and unloved, offspring of the Metropolitan) should have realised that a station built adjacent to the hallowed precincts of London's legal fraternity was unlikely to produce lucrative passenger revenue. Lawyers habitually take cabs, and charge the cost to their clients. Which makes your shot of the redundant csbmen's shelter so wonderfully apposite and evocative.
But their clients are poor, thus traveling by train to the court, and going back home even poorer after the proceedings so...
@@pavlekodak2147 Also their office staff, who I guess are not paid top dollar; oh, sorry top pound(Or would that be: top tuppence?). And some of their clerks (pronounced clarks, for those this side of the pond) might have to come from Kent.
Dear Sir, votre site est le plus instructif et le plus émouvant de tous ceux qui nous font visiter Londres. Je regarde chacun de vos épisodes avec émerveillement. Merci.
I think its a charming little station.
My regular stop for many years as a student at King's College. Happy days :-)
I don’t live in London but it’s interesting to see all these landmarks
I used to walk past this station on my way to university but have only ever used it once...several years later and I know more than ever about it 😂
Brilliant, so interesting and informative presented with an engaging and witty style! I really like all these videos
A charming station surely, Temple.
Indeed, lemonade stands everywhere....
I saw what you did there, very clever.
Don’t call me Shirley . . . 😂😆
Leslie Nielsen.
I remember when Speights brewery in New Zealand sent over a shipping container filled with beer and converted it into a bar. It spent some time on the roof of Temple station, and was completely free!
Poached eggs, hair of dog and a Jago video - what a lovely way to start Sunday - thank you jago !
Yes. Jago's vid's. are almost as part of Sunday as Yorkshire pudding!
@@stuarthall6631 🤔But not with Lancashire hotpot!
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat No disrespect intended to those of the Red Rose!
You seem to be very active, did we really get two in one day? Is that a first? I like it...
Sshhhhh. Make the most of it....
I feel like he's speaking quicker than usual in this one
The Viagra lasted a full 7 half minutes this time
Two videos in one day? You're spoiling us!
Two videos released nearly at the same time, you spoil us, sir!
Another excellent video!
Harry Beck's Tube maps were in two different styles. The ones I grew up with, in the 1940s and 1950s, were very rectagular and the most notable feature to me, living at Morden at the time, was that the Kennington-Morden section was vertical. Before and after these dates, there were 45 degree angles all over the maps and the Thames was different, too. The LT Museum gives a potted history of the Underground's tube maps. The map is now so complicated for colour-blind folk like myself, but TfL, to its credit, has produced a version for the colour-blind. I often wonder if my parents chose Morden to live, as the Northern Line is black. Colour-blind folk can't go wrong with black and white and my favourite colour is grey, very fashionable currently!!
One of my favourite stations.
I love these episodes for my 9am breakfast.
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@@VictorVonDoom. What?
Many years ago I remember that my wife & I met for a sandwich lunch on the roof of Temple station. Happy days ! 😎👍👍
Hi Jago, I really like your videos, it's not just the content, I like your delivery. It's almost therapeutic, takes my mind of all the other crap going on. Many thanks and happy Christmas
Temple is my favourite tube station. Nice and quiet, not much modernisation. No need to use escalators to reach the trains. Really enjoyed this history. Would have almost preferred the video be even longer because there is so much character there still, including the wooden platform seats and the old clock on the Eastbound platform.
Liked the detail of the map, that's quite a find.
Spent 5 years commuting in and out of this station. Always felt busy enough!
Table tennis in the wind is quite good fun actually.
like playing football with a cheap ball from Woolworths
i used to work on fleet sheet and always prefered getting off at temple. the walk saw alot of old scenery and history.
was pretty cool. i liked it.
seemed closer than blackfirers and chancery Lane. Just never knew tho
Wonderful video about a wonderful station in a wonderful location (the Inner and Middle Temples are like a different world, and I would have thought they and the other Inns of Court are worthy of videos).
I believe Temple is the only London Underground station which shares its name with a station on the Paris Metro. I believe they're both called Temple as the areas they're in were both centres of the Knights Templar (like Simon Templar, but older).
Temple was great because I used it when I use to go in walkabouts pub
Fun fact: I once chundered opposite the Temple station entrance in the early 2000s, in the middle of the day, with crowds of people looking on, with vom down my work shirt and trickling down the street.
Norovirus, before it was even called norovirus. I've just realised the image of Temple station still haunts me to this day.
It is also one of the few stations that still has an italian style cafe built into the entrance area. I haven't been for a couple of years but back in the 80s London was full of such cafes. Maybe Pret was planning to take it over before the pandemic?
2 Episodes in one day? What a Sunday!
As a somewhat regular user of Temple I too find it one of the more charming stations on the network
Something that is good for temple headaches is a temple bar (applied indelicately and at speed or slowly over many hours til closing time)
The Embankment is home to HQS Wellington and HMS President. One was a sloop that served with the Arctic Convoys and the other was a 'Q' ship.
Just found this channel through your comment on Jay Forman's channel. Really glad I did. I think I'll stay a while.
Glad to have you here!
Not a gorgeous 1933 Beck map at 2:43, but an early 60's Hutchinson monstrosity.
(Hmm, maybe I've been watching too much Geoff Marshall.)
Could you do a video on cabman shelters? There's an active one down the road of Russell Square station, it's on one of the corners of Russell Square park there and I'm always walking past it, would be great to learn more about them
And do one quickly as the London Taxi trade is dying under the covid and the Shelters too as a consequence... you'll be lucky to find any open at the moment as work is so scarce
It’s on my list!
Bloomin’ Marvellous!!
I really do miss the times when I'd just set off on the Tube and nonchalantly jump off anywhere at random.
Anyware-Atte-Random is one of the stations on Jago's model layout
Great video jago, very interesting and beautifully narrated👍👌😀
A lovely understated station
Thanks for another interesting vid. I would have liked to hear more about how Temple Station was named and it’s relation to Temple (former Templar) Church.
A few years back the station roof terrace and neighbouring trees were going to be destroyed by Boris’ garden bridge. I’m not sure if there are still plans to build on the station as there’s a lot of development happen in the area
I think the garden bridge has been abandoned.
The only thing lacking is,a siding for Excedrin,and a tonic for the weary! Punsters anonymous!! Thanks 😊!
My local station during my time at Kings
To be fair the map outside Temple, while out of date, IS accurate as it shows where the tube stations are ACTUALLY located, as opposed to the diagrammatic Harry Beck map which completely distorts what London actually looks like 😁
Don;t forget the piccadilly line tube cars have a touristy diagram map showing places of interest on the route that is broadly geographical
Just saw this one again on my TH-cam home page. Just "got" it. :-)
I wonder how uniform the opposition to construction of the station was from the Inns of Court, and if they raised any similar objections on the construction of Chancery Lane station?
No mention of the recent SKY TV series that was based on a secret organisation working in a disused tunnel below this station which was accessed through a door on the platform...
We get that series, here, across the pond, at least, called "Temple" too.
I was rather wondered also if there might have been a reference to the show here as well.
What do you think of the show?
I’m afraid I’m very out of touch on TV...
Two in one day. For me Christmas has, indeed, come early!
I think this could possibly be the best title for a TH-cam video I’ve ever seen 😂
You often can tell when a big lecture has finished at King’s College London!
Fantastic video!
Yes another interesting fact , also confused with another so called Temple in Wales , Temple bar , used for advertising kroneberg , I also had to research this two Temple bars ? There must be a large modern 1950s building either at the London Temple or a power station control at a dam location in Wales , please tell me more on this !
www.templebarinn.co.uk/ in wales, no idea. Of course Temple Bar was a later gate to the city of london on the strand near the law courts. Removed to herfordshire and now back in paternoster square north of St Pauls.
Thank you for reply , yes if you simply Google temple bar many come to light , first up Dublin , maybe jago can do some research on this London Temple bar ,
I do hope that cab-man's shelter is listed; it's a real gem, and these days a rarity. I wonder how much it gets used by cabbies?
I can remember from my childhood (I'm now 63) those gentlemen's urinals made of prefabricated cast iron sections. Worryingly, they look somewhat similar!
I think they're all listed. I haven't been past that one when it's been open but the one at Embankment used to do a lot of trade, to the public at least.
Well I work up at the Law Courts, the Cabbies shelter seems for the most part to be serving fried nosh, tea n coffee to the many and various builders that inhabit the surrounding area the shelter is quiet happy to serve anybody who bellys up to the counter ;-) doubt if it is listed though this one has always looked like it's about to be condemned, few years ago it reopened before that it was a bit 'tired' looking tbh not that its exactly spiffy now..
@@WMD4929 I do believe there is still one at Notting Hill Station, opposite the church
@@alan-sk7ky I've only been up there at weekends, glad they're doing OK. Shelters are all Grade II listed.
Strange little station temple 🚜🚜🚜
Good little video. One quibble though, the tube map you showed was the dreadful short-lived one designed by Harold Hutchinson in 1960, not the iconic one introduced by Harry Beck in 1933.
Great short little video
I think I remember the name of this station goes back to the Knights Templar. Might be some interesting history there.
They had a church nearby. It is still there.
I would have liked a little walk-through. Starting outside to understand the area then into the entrance and down to a platform.
You are, as always wickedly Cynical and witty. We love it!
Your banging out the videos at the moment ! Expensive Xmas ? 🤣
Temple is the only London Underground station that shares the exact same name as a Paris Metro station.
Sunday saved in rainy germany
Enjoyable as always,thanks.
Great to see..why you don't wander down past Chiswick, Brentford down by the locks and island,,another world down there...
I do have an unfinished video that I shot in Brentford. I should probably finish it.
@@JagoHazzard Great, I did a lot and I mean a lot of drinking in this area hic...stay well
Didn't they plonk a prefabricated pub on top of Temple a few years ago?
Don't forget to tell foreigners how much Londoners like to be engaged in conversation whilst travelling by tube train....
Thanks JH.
The louder the better! 😁
Two videos in one day? Amazing stuff.
Why do the ads play even after I paused them? Any how Jago, your videos are a sheer delight. I wonder how many hold on a few days to mini-binge watch. Looking fwd to more as usual :-)
_"Have you ever lied to tourists...?"_
HA HA!
TimeOut magazine used to have that feature 🤣
No, but I have sent someone driving in the wrong direction after being asked in a manner I took offence to.
Two videos in one day? Christmas has come early! 👏🎄🎁
2:43 "Harry Beck's more famous diagrammatic map was introduced"
>Shows 1960 tube map, designed by Harold Hutchinson and the first diagrammatic one NOT designed by Beck
(Visible confusion)
Looks very unchanged from when I was a student at KCL (Early '90s). There were benches on the roof then but no table tennis. However, I usually walked to Charing + station to take the train back to my flat, as it was as much of a pain to walk from Embankment to Charing + or to tube it. I most frequently visited the station for the sandwich shop in the north of the entrance - which I would try go to for lunch at about 11am, so it was not yet busy. Is the sandwich shop still open?
Luw your stories thanks 😊
I'll have you know that the cabbies shelter does the best Sausage, Bacon and Egg sarnie of anywhere in London. Fried in butter like it should be.
I’ll have to investigate...
Back to back uploads!
I know this station well. It's a delight.
I have never heard of that station before🤔...
The more I think about it, these would be great played at the stations they are about. They're just long enough to be watched in full by passersby.
T U station - a bit of history....
...but we're not going to explain how the station got its name.
A bite sized video to enjoy with my breakfast tea.
Raise your glass of Château Fleet Street to Rumpole and Temple Station. 🍷
Geography/history question from a stranger 🍁: why wasn’t the Embankment extended further east from Blackfriars?
Especially that in Victorian days, “environment” meant making things as tidy as possible; a natural shoreline was seen as unkempt, unsightly.
Good question. I should investigate that, the Embankment in general would be an interesting subject for a video.
I want to watch video now pls
My internet: how about no
Two videos in a day? Tremendous content as always. If you ever ventured north, I'd love your take on the Primrose Hill station. A travesty if you ask me.
Yes, loved the video.