Caledonian Rd is still pretty mixed and there is a lot of businesses, train lines, noise and social housing. Basically it isn’t gentrified and is a lot cheaper than the other side of Islington. Some beautiful houses though.
compared to places slightly further from central london this is a horrible deal as near me right now there is a 4 bed home for sale for about £800k whilst that place is probably 2 bed max
@@ahuman9143unlikely, they all seem to have a basement and there is a window out of the roof, so probably over 4 floors. Some might have been split into flats of course
It's very cheap for such a central location. The area is a bit shitty and those style of houses are poorly built not to mention from google maps their gardens look tiny and often without any green. Its also a reasonably ugly road and many of the houses don't have any parking.
Wow! I remembere seeing this crescent as a 14yr girl. 76 now. Me n my aunt were just passing time as we were early for our train. We crossed over rd from station and turned into this street.. It was liked being in Narnia.. Ive never forgotten it, and here it is!!!
Nearly lost the whole crescent in the 1990's due to the proposed new station for the channel tunnel. It would have been demolished to dig the hole for the new station.Only prevented by action taken by the residents
Appropriate? Don't get me wrong I love me some Chopin, but he was Polish - not English or German which would be far more appropriate for videos about Victorian architecture 😂
Unless your property is "listed" you can pretty much make whatever cosmetic changes you like to it. The American model of HOAs doesn't really exist in the UK.
That could really be a great concept for neighborhoods. All the kids could safely be in the circle between the inner/outer, traffic and parking on the outside of the outer circle. Could even have a park area, community garden, pool, rec center within that nitch community.
They were going to demolish it all British Rail that is. So happy that didn’t come to pass. I used to live off the Caledonian Road past the pool. Richmond Avenue.
The pavements are too narrow to plant trees. Imagine trying to get a pushchair or a wheelchair around them. Besides, there are plenty of trees in the nearby parks,and there are quite a lot of parks in this area. I live a few minutes walk from here.
I lived on this street mid-90s. The day we moved in, one of my housemates passed a group of cops surrounding a scraggy looking guy, ordering him, 'Put down the needle.' Next day I two two guys chasing the dragon on the steps across the road. The end of Caledonian Rd. around the corner was always full of drug dealers. Once, in the doorway of the Italian deli that used to be there, I found a bag of grass. Initially thought it might be oregano, because of where I found it.
Several of the houses do have cars parked. This terrace was built long before cars were even invented. Anyway, you don't need a car in London on account of buses, the tube, and what an American would call sidewalks. I'd hate to drive in London.
Just curious about parking really. The ones on the left have space for a car and vehicles parked. Nothing on the right though? Unless other side of property before garden looking at quick plan shown? x
Wtf. My dad got a mortgage for a _really normal_ house in frigging Brixton, South London for £1M. We're not a rich family- that's 's just property in London. Houses near Kings Cross (especially historic ones like these_ should go for £2-4MM easily.
Really a pity there are NO trees or greenery on that street . It would be lovely if they had trees and plants in huge containers to give it beauty , greenery and shade .
Our family home was 280 years old when I was born. Growing up, I loved hearing about the original and various upgrades carried out. The grounds are amazing. We had an orchard, vegetable garden, and ample space for playing.
Ours was the first house built in our tiny town in the 1800s to house the station master and his family after the railway was built, though that was only 1870s
It's bottom of Cally rd with junkies needles lying about....if you look at bottom of Cresent there's a history board hence clever clogs here....£1m for renovated dump with people hitting up on ya doorstep...good value😢😢😢😢
Probably a dealers house, allows addicts to find them. "Up to a blue house, up three flights of stairs Everybody's pinned you, yeah, and nobody cares, He's got the works, gives you sweet taste You gotta split because you got no time to waste"
That's what's funny about Edinburgh's Cockburn street, it's obviously where ladies of the night worked so the pronounceation was changed to couburn st 😂
Are the houses roomy enough inside? It's the sort of place I'd expect to see a couple on Grand Designs wanting to extend out or up with a wildly contrasting style like a mud brick or bamboo tower ...
Lived in England, houses ugly on the outside and can be beautiful castles inside. Germany has better castles on the outside. And France Beach everyone, they are the true artisans, the Louis XIV, had impeccable taste.
I’ve been there. I delivered food for UberEats, the girl told me she was renting with her boyfriend. It seems like most of the houses are subdivided into flats.
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This video was posted an hour ago so the houses are probably now worth £2.4 million
Very accurate...
lol, I was just about to say... £1m? Seems unlikely.
Weres 22 kings Road king cross
Hahahaha! You're probably right!
Ita been 2 weeks, in that time the house prices dropped back to £1 million, dont worry since then they have risen to £3.5 million
£1m? Seems cheap in London.
Caledonian Rd is still pretty mixed and there is a lot of businesses, train lines, noise and social housing. Basically it isn’t gentrified and is a lot cheaper than the other side of Islington. Some beautiful houses though.
compared to places slightly further from central london this is a horrible deal as near me right now there is a 4 bed home for sale for about £800k whilst that place is probably 2 bed max
@@ahuman9143unlikely, they all seem to have a basement and there is a window out of the roof, so probably over 4 floors.
Some might have been split into flats of course
There's probably prostitutes renting rooms
It's very cheap for such a central location. The area is a bit shitty and those style of houses are poorly built not to mention from google maps their gardens look tiny and often without any green. Its also a reasonably ugly road and many of the houses don't have any parking.
Wow! I remembere seeing this crescent as a 14yr girl. 76 now.
Me n my aunt were just passing time as we were early for our train. We crossed over rd from station and turned into this street.. It was liked being in Narnia.. Ive never forgotten it, and here it is!!!
That’s incredible!
That’s really cool.
Easiest house to find. Where do you live? The blue one on crescent.
Surprised that is allowed, these streets usually have preservation rules. Also means they can be used for movies.
@@kristin1980ukmight predate the rules. Can't really say "you have to undo all your work because changes aren't allowed to be made anymore"
I live nearby, and £1m sounds way too cheap for those houses.. that's the price of a decent two bed flat in the area!
Yes to be fair I thought it seemed cheap too but you can see some historic prices here: www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/n1/keystone-crescent.html
I live there 5 bedroom was 1.3 mill 3 years ago but most are 3 bedrooms
Maybe tiny back yards.
Nearly lost the whole crescent in the 1990's due to the proposed new station for the channel tunnel. It would have been demolished to dig the hole for the new station.Only prevented by action taken by the residents
I found this by chance when I was at a union rally last year. Was really pleased to walk around before having lunch on Caledonia.
The audio is so appropriate. I enjoy you history series.
Appropriate?
Don't get me wrong I love me some Chopin, but he was Polish - not English or German which would be far more appropriate for videos about Victorian architecture 😂
You should’ve mentioned the private members bar with the subtle understated door! It’s a nice place
My great-grandmother lived here until the 80s when I was small.
I bet the parking spaces cost more than the houses
How did the blue house get away with that change? I'm surprised the neighbours didn't freak out that it's changed the look of the street.
Unless your property is "listed" you can pretty much make whatever cosmetic changes you like to it. The American model of HOAs doesn't really exist in the UK.
Looking at that particular shade of blue, I have a feeling that is quite an old look for the house.
Why aren’t there any trees on the streets? I’m depressed.
If you had a nanny flying in on an umbrella, your neighbours would definitely leave you alone. Who knows what other shenanigans you get up to?
I think there's a few people who understand the "blue" house 💙
Love you channel, keep up the amazing work 👍👌
It's very surprising, when you see old film footage, that so much survived the last world war's bombs.
Rebrand in 1900s😮😮😮it took a long time for the rebranding to work, it was still a very scary place in the nineties😮😮😮
It’s where Peter Pan is set and where Paddington was filmed.
I grew up just around thr corner and used to always walk through there when going to the station, sure it added 4 minutes but its a lovely road!
That blue one is a punch in the eye.
That could really be a great concept for neighborhoods.
All the kids could safely be in the circle between the inner/outer, traffic and parking on the outside of the outer circle.
Could even have a park area, community garden, pool, rec center within that nitch community.
Chopin keeps following me everywhere I go 😂❤
They were going to demolish it all British Rail that is. So happy that didn’t come to pass. I used to live off the Caledonian Road past the pool. Richmond Avenue.
The 1900s rebrand didn't stick as the "reputation for prostitution" was reprised post-war and right up until the 80s.
And 90s!
My sister used to live in Caledonian Road in the early 90's it was dodgy AF back then.
It looks sad without any trees... 😮🌲🌳🌿
The pavements are too narrow to plant trees. Imagine trying to get a pushchair or a wheelchair around them. Besides, there are plenty of trees in the nearby parks,and there are quite a lot of parks in this area.
I live a few minutes walk from here.
Manchester also hides similar hidden gems. They are so amazing ❤ the Tower of London is my favorite time capsule.
I lived on this street mid-90s. The day we moved in, one of my housemates passed a group of cops surrounding a scraggy looking guy, ordering him, 'Put down the needle.' Next day I two two guys chasing the dragon on the steps across the road. The end of Caledonian Rd. around the corner was always full of drug dealers. Once, in the doorway of the Italian deli that used to be there, I found a bag of grass. Initially thought it might be oregano, because of where I found it.
Looks like the street in 'Paddington' bear, his adoptive parents lived in a house just like these. ❤️😂😍
Oh! I have walked there! I didn't even know this, so thank you!
The prices would be 24 million since you posted. 😂Love your video.
Notice the boarded up window at the start. Delightful place to live I'm sure, LOL.
Those street lamps are copies made from one dug up from Millbrae Crescent in Glasgow's South Side.
Driveways too! that’s awesome, I live in a small village near Oxford, could never live somewhere where I can’t park haha
_You are better off where you live, in comparison to this situation!_
Several of the houses do have cars parked. This terrace was built long before cars were even invented. Anyway, you don't need a car in London on account of buses, the tube, and what an American would call sidewalks. I'd hate to drive in London.
I love the blue hold out!
aah, those lovely wires hanging in the air... adds to the millions!
LOVE THIS Amazing history 🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️👍
My house was also built in 1846 and I also did not get the memo and painted it blue. What a coincidence.😮
I had to double take as I genuinely read that your wife was built in 1846. My eyes are tired.
@@TerraFirmaTyger ?????
Just curious about parking really. The ones on the left have space for a car and vehicles parked. Nothing on the right though? Unless other side of property before garden looking at quick plan shown? x
@@TerraFirmaTyger Sure will.😉
No trees, no lawns. It looks like a version of Hell.
This street was in the movie 'A Boy Called Christmas'
He was on the gear too?
😮😮😮😮😮😮❤❤❤❤. und jetzt... 😢 ..wo ist der Boy...
Whoever thought painting one house blue like that would be a good thing.
Wtf. My dad got a mortgage for a _really normal_ house in frigging Brixton, South London for £1M. We're not a rich family- that's 's just property in London.
Houses near Kings Cross (especially historic ones like these_ should go for £2-4MM easily.
I remember that Grindr visit
Actually just checked Zoopla - yes there is a 2 bed apt available for sale at £895k. I thought it was suspiciously cheap for central london
I enjoy your videos❤Greetings from Spain.
Still rough as hell at night
Just love your stuff, thank you 🌹
I wish I had 1 million pounds.
Don't we all?
Lol you don’t pay it all in one go 😅
Even over 25 years it would be nice.
Be careful what you wish for.
You have obviously never known any millionaires.
It causes more problems than good.
@@AliBaba-mb1pu takes the sting out of being poor
It’s London, I wouldn’t give 2 Bob 👍🏻🇬🇧
No foundations built on the clay these houses were originally built to house workers and were expected to be demolished after 50 years
Looks the absolute double of a street in Newcastle not far from the RVI hospital, actually looks bigger
£1mil. Because we cant have the UK natives affording houses in their own homeland
King Crustacean 😂 you mean a King Crab 🤣🤣🤣
Bad jokes are my specialty.
Really a pity there are NO trees or greenery on that street .
It would be lovely if they had trees and plants in huge containers to give it beauty , greenery and shade .
Where exactly would you put them on pavements as narrow as those?
London is one of the most tree covered cities in the world (I live here so I know). One narrow street isn’t the end of the world
Bro acts as if this is the US with cookie cutter houses and generic people living in said houses 💀
No more bloody trees!
What a charming place!
everyone having a go at blue but ignoring the white painted on the other side
Our family home was 280 years old when I was born. Growing up, I loved hearing about the original and various upgrades carried out. The grounds are amazing. We had an orchard, vegetable garden, and ample space for playing.
Ours was the first house built in our tiny town in the 1800s to house the station master and his family after the railway was built, though that was only 1870s
Charming wheelie bins.
I wish evey house was painted in a different color to brighten up those rainy and dark winters ❤
I agree...it looks dreary. A good powerwash or paint job would refresh that street no end.
I like the Georgian look. I imagine they’re all listed now so it’d be very difficult to change the colour even if you wanted to
Good afternoon Sir thank you good history and house ❤❤❤
He means £1m per room, including the toilets and built-in pantry.
It's bottom of Cally rd with junkies needles lying about....if you look at bottom of Cresent there's a history board hence clever clogs here....£1m for renovated dump with people hitting up on ya doorstep...good value😢😢😢😢
Some of these houses remind me of the illustrations on old Quality Street tins!
Gentrification...damn. let the middle class keep what little they have.
I actually stayed in one of these houses just a few weeks ago!! Beautiful place
It always looks a bit strange when one person in the Street decides to render and paint their house, when all the others are brick.
Well...that blue house is STILL brick...just painted.
@@kenc2257 I know I meant exposed brick then!
Probably a dealers house, allows addicts to find them. "Up to a blue house, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, yeah, and nobody cares,
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
You gotta split because you got no time to waste"
Hardly any place in London is a bargain. A town for the rich in essence.
As someone who has lived in rural area my whole life, I find looking at aerial views of cities and suburbs fascinating.
That's what's funny about Edinburgh's Cockburn street, it's obviously where ladies of the night worked so the pronounceation was changed to couburn st 😂
Wow take the cars away and you could be in the 1800's. What an incredible time capsule.
The reason they’re only £1m is the blue house’s fault!
Also there's one person that's like "f*** it I'm painting the house blue'
OH my! You covered where I live!!
Give us a tenner
@@user-ug8wx5er1w I thought you'd ask to come round for lunch?!
@@Baresi-Unico-Capitano nice homes hope it is nice and quiet in there.
I’m hoping you don’t have anything in common with it’s past!
Are the houses roomy enough inside? It's the sort of place I'd expect to see a couple on Grand Designs wanting to extend out or up with a wildly contrasting style like a mud brick or bamboo tower ...
Lived in England, houses ugly on the outside and can be beautiful castles inside. Germany has better castles on the outside. And France Beach everyone, they are the true artisans, the Louis XIV, had impeccable taste.
Early 1900s 😭 ..i was in elementary school then, just say 'a few decades ago' please
🙏🏼🥺
Aging is weird.
old ahh
My friend lived on this crescent and we used to play there as children.
A beautiful quiet hidden gem of a street? You couldn't pay me to live there. No trees, no plants, just bricks and concrete. Hysterical
That is Arsenal territory. The house should be red. I thank you.
You should do Primrose Gardens
Great electrical wiring 😂
Lots of greenery here.
They were selling for 130-200k from about 1996-1999
I'm just sitting here waiting for the house elf to snap and reveal Black manor.
Ohhhj God!!! I delivered lots of pizza in this area when I was studying in London nearly 20 years ago. One day I will visit London again...
Looks similar to St Thomas crescent in Newcastle upon Tyne
I’ve been there. I delivered food for UberEats, the girl told me she was renting with her boyfriend. It seems like most of the houses are subdivided into flats.
I love this little street 👍
OMG how cute is that street? 😍
U don't know how Wrong u are... it's a junkies hide out in WC1😢😢😢
Everything in London is over-priced and over-crowded. I would prefer to live elsewhere.
@@LoFi3it’s not ugly but you definitely are.
@@alexnelson9512capitalists importing millions of non Europeans is the problem
Would do good with some trees
Love that blue one..
Back in the early 1970s some of the houses were rented properties
I use to live and work in this area, but never even knew this existed. 😮
💂♂️🇬🇧
Looks like the street they used for the Paddington movies.
Chopin piano😂
is that where padington was filmed?
£1 million to stare at a brick façade across the street from you. No thanks 😂
You're never going to afford it anyway lad, stop playing imagination games in the comment section of TH-cam videos
@@kingofracism it was just a casual comment
King's Cross? I thought it was St. Pancras now.
The blue house is the best. Lovely color. Or, colour. And points for self expression.
I live in a town where sidewalks are almost nonexistent so to see those big beautiful sidewalks is nice.
They have their own police force ... the Keystone Cops ... :-)
One million a pop and still a millions power lines obstructing the sky.
They look where Jack the Ripper and Bob Cratchit worked.
Jack the ripper was a Jewish immigrant from Poland