I'm an Australian living in Amsterdam, and ever since my first visit to London at the beginning of last year, I've fallen in love with the city. The tube was also what made me realise how awesome trains are xD.
Love to see a walk on the Stamford Brook. Never covered by video as far as I'm aware. I've walked all the tributaries and artificial channels many times. At moment logging all the stink pipes.
There's a scene in the latest James Bond film of Bond taking a boat into an opening in the embankment wall supposedly near the MI6 building which is just downstream from the outflow of the Westbourne. I wonder where the actual location used in the movie was. in the film it led, I think I recall, to Q's lab/workshop.
I've passed that pond in Hampstead a million times and never knew its history since I've always been driving past. I'll never look at it, or Finchley road the same.
Vaguely reassuring that what the Saxons called "Westbourne" 1400 years ago is still in the West of the City.
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Here's a song where Westbourne, Fleet and a couple of the other lost rivers of London are heralded!! bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/track/lost-rivers-of-london-2
Great fun! But disappointing: I live a few yards away from the Westbourne's course but in Maida Vale, in that part between Kilburn and Lancaster Gate that Mr Scott doesn't mention !
If you're going to take the time to pull someone up on facts, then knowing some real facts might help. Sloane just designed the infirmary building which took a direct hit from German bombs in 1941 and was destroyed. Wren designed the chapel, The Great Hall, Long Wards (around Figure court as shown in the video) etc. Source: www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/architecture PS. You should get kudos points for knowing about Sloane though! :)
Awesome! I grew up on Westbourne Grove. My old man used to tell me it was in the path of an old river. Does the Westbourne river go down Westbourne Grove at all?
Rather sad and superficial. You stand at the corner of Kingsgate Rd & Gascony Ave and if you walk south down Kingsgate you can hear the Kilbourne flowing at a grill in the road. If you go down Mutrix Rd you see the stolen flood height plaque at the old Bird in hand. Follow Kilburn Vale into clear valley into at Belize Rd . The Kilbourne,/ Westbourne flows under the Euston railway and comes out at the Kilburn High Road at the bridge via Kilburn Priory. The spring at the Old Bell pub has little to do with the stream. Through the Borough of Westminster as the Ranelagh sewer under the Paddington Rec (Sir Roger Bannister training ground) via St Augustine's by Pearson ( aka "Kilburn Cathedral"). It then flows through the old Borough of Paddington down to the Serpentine. I know that you are limited by running time and old , but disappointed Geoff and not up to your usual standard of research and accuracy or indeed interest. The Londonist should be disappointed too in such a hatchet job. Sorry but that's my view as a local
So interesting and well-produced. Providing the map at the very beginning was very helpful. Thank you!
It's amazing how much history is hidden in plain sight just in the street names themselves...
Always a pleasure watching these videos.... I'm a Londoner but i live abroad and these videos always make me want to come back home.
I'm an Australian living in Amsterdam, and ever since my first visit to London at the beginning of last year, I've fallen in love with the city. The tube was also what made me realise how awesome trains are xD.
I like knowing about these lost rivers here in London. I'm a pushbike courier and I ride my bicycle and never knew these things before
Nice bit of history! Really nice to know about the hidden parts of London.
Been at the Swan Pub many times but didn’t know about the Westbourne! Thanks for letting me know, next time I’ll take a closer look around there!
If it were up to me, the river pipe at Sloane Square station would be made of acrylic glass so you could see the water flowing.
and the little turds bobbing along...
+Josephfuture Plenty of little Turds floating along the tube as well!
Is it still used as a sewer?
Full of blind mullet
QRHuggies and drugs
I'm a Londoner. This is fascinating. Wonderful.
Very informative video, thank you.
Thanks great to see Bayswater rd and the Swan, cheers
Love to see a walk on the Stamford Brook. Never covered by video as far as I'm aware. I've walked all the tributaries and artificial channels many times. At moment logging all the stink pipes.
Excellent and informative video. Sound quality is great despite filming in such a busy environment.
LOVE these videos. More please.
There's a scene in the latest James Bond film of Bond taking a boat into an opening in the embankment wall supposedly near the MI6 building which is just downstream from the outflow of the Westbourne. I wonder where the actual location used in the movie was. in the film it led, I think I recall, to Q's lab/workshop.
Great and informative video. As per usual!
Thank you for this it was so informative👍
Fantastic video - once again.
I've passed that pond in Hampstead a million times and never knew its history since I've always been driving past.
I'll never look at it, or Finchley road the same.
Although I live in New Zealand now I find Londonist videos very interesting.
New Zealand is awesome!
www.baywaterviews.com my bed & breakfast
Love the website. Always wanted to visit that part of the world. See you soon!
Great - please keep making these!
Very interresting.
I find mud larking bright at that portal.
These are absolutely fascinating videos - thanks for posting. Any prospect of you doinfgsomething with the London inner loop walk?
Great video as always
frognal actually does come from an area frequented by frogs, so that's why it's on the river
Maybe this series should be called "The London Underground Rivers."
Vaguely reassuring that what the Saxons called "Westbourne" 1400 years ago is still in the West of the City.
Here's a song where Westbourne, Fleet and a couple of the other lost rivers of London are heralded!! bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/track/lost-rivers-of-london-2
Why can't we see any water coming out into the Thames at the embankment opening in Chelsea?
Great fun! But disappointing: I live a few yards away from the Westbourne's course but in Maida Vale, in that part between Kilburn and Lancaster Gate that Mr Scott doesn't mention !
Great video. Thanks
Knightsbridge And then pont street (french for bridge) and beauchamp place (french for beautiful field)
Interesting video
Capture the sewage and carry it all the way to Beckton......... no wonder why Gallions Reach always sinks like hell 😂
There's a grill on Springfield Lane in Kilburm under which you can hear the river flowing.
They found something interesting in Lancaster Gate??
Great vid! The Royal Hospital building was actually construcked by Sir John Soane, not Chris Wren.
If you're going to take the time to pull someone up on facts, then knowing some real facts might help. Sloane just designed the infirmary building which took a direct hit from German bombs in 1941 and was destroyed. Wren designed the chapel, The Great Hall, Long Wards (around Figure court as shown in the video) etc. Source: www.chelsea-pensioners.co.uk/architecture PS. You should get kudos points for knowing about Sloane though! :)
Oh I do hope there will be more videos!
I wonder if there are any good maps of 18th or 19th century London showing these rivers intact and the various bridges, etc.
I have seen a car in the middle of white stone pond ,even though it was meant as a model boating pond
Awesome! I grew up on Westbourne Grove. My old man used to tell me it was in the path of an old river. Does the Westbourne river go down Westbourne Grove at all?
Although it is pretty much the some body of water isn't it correct that the Serpentine is in Hyde Park, in Kensington Gardens it's "The Long Water"?
That's right. It changes name at the bridge.
Whats the name of the District line station that has a lost river?
Sloane Square?
very informative
Hate the fact urban expansion does this to nature, if a rivers there it should stay there
Some of the underground rivers just became open sewers, as people used them like that, so they were put underground
Somebody should take a 360° Camera on a Floaty and use it all as a Camera Boaty to film the entire way of the River. Wonder how it looks like.
I love these videos :)
ah see I mostly know Sloane Square from that time a hairdresser was so busy they caught fire all around there
If the Westbourne flooded, wouldn't that piss water on to the railway?
Slone square station there is Westbourne river
the river causally flowed through some the most expensive areas in London 😂😂
I live in kilburn
Gotta dip your toe. Love it
Do river beck in Beckenham
I did'nt know there where so much rivers around london...
Stay in school.
Geoff-over...
Rather sad and superficial. You stand at the corner of Kingsgate Rd & Gascony Ave and if you walk south down Kingsgate you can hear the Kilbourne flowing at a grill in the road. If you go down Mutrix Rd you see the stolen flood height plaque at the old Bird in hand. Follow Kilburn Vale into clear valley into at Belize Rd . The Kilbourne,/ Westbourne flows under the Euston railway and comes out at the Kilburn High Road at the bridge via Kilburn Priory. The spring at the Old Bell pub has little to do with the stream. Through the Borough of Westminster as the Ranelagh sewer under the Paddington Rec (Sir Roger Bannister training ground) via St Augustine's by Pearson ( aka "Kilburn Cathedral").
It then flows through the old Borough of Paddington down to the Serpentine.
I know that you are limited by running time and old , but disappointed Geoff and not up to your usual standard of research and accuracy or indeed interest.
The Londonist should be disappointed too in such a hatchet job.
Sorry but that's my view as a local
i think i saw this video earlier this year
You would have seen "Walking the river Fleet", which is here: th-cam.com/video/YgX-UAoxKRM/w-d-xo.html
oh yeah got it confused with another walking a hidden/lost river in london
nice video
Slovenly enunciation makes this painful to listen to.