What a delightful lady…very informative….😊, I think you’re right about the very first plague victim was buried at St Olaves…..the stone skulls have often fascinated me…..
@@TheMuseumGuide Hello 👋 In this video I have just placed a comment. I don't know if it is of any interest to you & your channel community, but it has always spooked me : / I love your channel & can see it soaring in subscribers. Best of luck ❤
I Really, REALLY enjoy your content, and the way you present it. I hope you'll soon get the follower count you truly deserve! Thank you for showing us these treasures. I've been to the UK twice, but sadly didn*t have an opportunity to visit even one museum. I really want to go back and take my time exploring that city one day! Love from Bavaria, Germany!
@@TheMuseumGuide definitely! If you're ever in Norfolk, I can recommend the Norwich Castle museum, which is basically the only museum on british soil I visited so far :D I had a nosebleed in front of the egyptian cat mummy, and since it's an inside joke between my friend and I that, whenever we see a cat, "the mummy accepted my blood sacrifice and is out to get me". Lol.
Ok, that is definitely creepy! I love it. You should visit the British Museum and see the cat mummy there - and find out if you get another nosebleed...
Thank you, very interesting. Will be interesting to learn about London's synagogues. I was surprised to learn that Great London's synagogue was at Trafalgar Square.
Thank you for your comment! The Great Synagogue, destroyed by the Blitz, was actually at Aldgate. To my knowledge, there has never been a synagogue near Trafalgar Square? There is a beautiful old one in Fitzrovia, though! The Central Synagogue.
Jessica, I read in both of my local papers (SF Chronicle & East Bay Times) about the unfortunate demise of the Hardy Tree. I knew that I saw it on your website around Halloween. I have you to thank for informing me of this magical place of Saint Pancras Old Church with its religious significance and rich historical facts. (The Beatles were photographed there in 1968 which you may not have known!) Thanks & Happy New Year from Kathleen in California
Absolutely marvelous! You present so much interesting historical data in each episode. I booked a tour immediately in Edinburgh for the Medical museum and tour since we are lucky enough to be visiting in a couple of weeks! Thanks so much for what, I’m sure, will be an incredible tour! Greetings from the Pacific Northwest!
Thanks Jessica, for calling ur attention to these unique sites. Yes, Sir John Soane's House in Lincoln's Inn Fields is well worth your scrutiny, if their admin would permit. And Nicholas Hawksmoor's Five Churches are fascinating not merely from the architectural viewpoint, but in connection with their inspiration to prose poet Iain Sinclair, novelist Peter Ackroyd, and as site to one of Alexander McQueen's most daring collection shows, "Highland Rape."
I recently discovered your channel and am enjoying the interesting and informative videos this one has been my favourite so far thank you and I'm now hoping you have done one of the Sloan museum which I love
Drogheda Roman Catholic Cathedral in Ireland has the severed head of Oliver Plunkett on display. It's really gruesome to be seen in the context of a church.
I loved your view & knowledge, I born in Australia and will probably never go to England. Thanks so much for this video project, keep up the great work, peace & love to all...
What a fantastic and fascinating video. I have immediately subscribed, and have added all of these places to visit on my next trip to London next month!
I really enjoyed that, thanks! Your presentation was great. I am a bit of a history buff and love curious tales and artefacts but lots of this was new to me. Fascinating indeed! I am from up north (Manchester) but I love London and it's history. I have subbed and will binge watch the rest of your videos.
I live in Macon, Georgia, USA and the Catholic church I grew up going to has a colony of bats living in the bell towers, among other small places in the church. It’s not exactly the same as an incorruptible human hand, but the bats do get confused sometimes and fly down into the sanctuary. It’s a big 1800s gothic church with marble and stained glass, so it’s probably a bit odd-looking to normal people to have bats just doing whatever it is bats do in the church. There’s a BUNCH of them though, so it’s a beautiful sight, especially when they all come pouring out in the evening in the summer! Keeps the mosquitoes somewhat under control. Bats need the same hype as bees, because they’re also such important pollinators!
There are tons of gated streets all over the UK, but Ely Place is the only one in London to be considered 'private' by an old legal definition - as a result, it has its own police force called Beadles. It's so fascinating! larsonsinlondon.blogspot.com/2015/09/ely-place-last-private-street.html
I went to Barcelona right before the pandemic, and I did go to the hearse Museum, as well as go see the Giants in one of the churches, but I didn’t know about these dungeons. I can’t wait to go back to Barcelona!
Me and a mate went to Brookwood cemetery when we where younger spent the day walking around when the sun started to go down we saw two victoriana ladys walking down the path towards us we craped ourselves and run wow even now it gives me the creeps that was 43 years ago
Awww, I thought I did better on this video! Is the problem mainly between when I speak to the camera and the rest, or is it more than that? This is the one area I am absolutely hopeless!
To put that into perspective: the German 16th century executioner Franz Schmidt regularly dissected the bodies of criminals together with physicians. However, those were not medical students, but practitioners that wanted to have more insight.
Jessica, I can tell you for sure that the Rowan/Mountain Ash tree doesn't date back to Thomas Hardy's time. It's trunk isn't thick enough. I have several Rowan/Mountain Ash trees in my yard which were all seeded from a mother tree struck by lightning in my lifetime. Theses trees are twice the size of the "Hardy" one. Also, the Rowan is known as the Witches tree being the most desired for occult practice. Cross two twigs of equal length and bind the center with red cord. Keep this with you for protection or, any place you desire to be protected. I wouldn't take twigs from the Hardy tree. You might have the dead following you instead!😱
@@TheMuseumGuide Protection and Magick! I hope All protection and Magickal things keep you both safe, and bring all the good things only Magick can manifest in this lifetime and the next!
It WOULD be nice! But alas, the sound is really difficult for me. I even hired someone to help me equalise this one! I’m working on getting better with sound tech. :)
TH-cam knows me too well! You remind me so pleasingly of Caitlin Doughty. I think its obviously in part some of the subject matter, but also the style of presenting the information this entertaining and almost feels like a conversation with a friend who has just learned a new interesting fact. (But with much more effort and research!)
@@TheMuseumGuideI am so glad that person made the connection between you and Caitlin "The Redoubtable" Doughty😂❤ The WHOLE way through your ghoulish and rather thrilling tour I was trying to think who you reminded me of and it was bugging me!!🤔 I love Caitlin - she's as camp as a row of pink tents at Christmas time - she should have been an actress or opera singer 🤣🤣 You both share an irrepressible delight in your work, you're both like naughty school girls always in your eyes giggling even when trying to make a serious point - I love it that the two of you know each other but I advise not to collaborate together as you'd never get any work done!!😆 Anyway, you have yourself a new subscriber and I look forward to catching up on what seems like a bit of a back catalogue of you trying to manage the sensation of being horrified, while also simultaneously quite a lot delighted😏😏😆😆
Absolutely jam-packed with facts and stories, guaranteed to keep you hooked to the very end. No looking to see how much is left to go here, with this highly capable narrator and guide. Extremely well documented, exceptionally well told. Thank you.
I really appreciate your fact filled tours, as I am no longer fit enough to wander round these interesting place. Bless you for giving your time to help others.
The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) is a shiny emerald green beetle that kills living ash trees. Sadly here in Canada where I live and in the States we are losing Ash trees at an alarming rate.
I love your videos, which are clearly planned and have a lot of effort put into the tours. I've only ever been able to go to London once and loved it and love being able to explore places I didn't get to go through your videos. Thank you for putting so much work into great content!
I'm afraid you're right about The Hardy Tree. As soon as you said it was an Ash, my thought was "That's going to be a bugger to fell." It's terribly sad to see so many grand old trees affected. There seem to be a few that are resistant and younger trees are more affected, so far. Fingers crossed for this one. Loved this tour around the weird and creepy. No wonder so many Americans are currently fascinated with just how ODD we are.
The Hardy tree fell down last winter. It wasn't diseased, just old and affected by a storm the previous year. It was a stunning and much loved local feature but it simply came to the end of a long natural life
@@woofbarkyap Thank you for that. I think of that as the tree version of dying in your sleep at 101. Hope some local wood turners were able to make a something as a memorial. For the ash especially ,the Terry Pratchett quote "Don't think of it as dying, just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush." is very apt.
That was very interesting. How exciting to hear about St. Etheldreda! I knew exactly who you were referring to as soon as you said her name. I am Catholic. She was my confirmation Saint, and we used the English translation of Audrey as my confirmation name. I don't think many people are aware of her, and she definitely isn't one of the more popular Saints. What a rare treat to hear about her! Thank you. Theresa
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Just found your channel and I am subscribing right now! Wonderful, informative content. Well done video my friend.👏 Gearing up for a smoke fest and grabbed some snacks, prepared for a binge watch of your channel. It's going to be a great evening thanks to you friend. Be blessed and be safe 🙏. Peace ✌
Very interesting, thank you. Was the image you showed of the mummified nun in a glass case actually Etheldreda? And are any mummified remains visible in London churches now or are they all hidden away?
I wouldn’t know, because I am Canadian and British. Saint Etheldreda’s is not a street. It is a church. The street is called Ely Place. Ely place is indeed the last remaining private street in London, as defined as having its own police force. Ely Place is the only street in London that still has Beadles. Burlington Arcade famously has Beadles, but these are for the shopping arcade, and not strictly the street. It’s awfully sad when people try to correct me in a rude way and they are incorrect themselves.
@@emmalane9362 It is not! I believe that nun is in Italy - and I would love to go visit here. There aren't any incorrupted saints on display in London, to my knowledge - oddly enough, there is one on display at UCL, my alma mater! Look up Jeremy Bentham - I will be including him in a video soon.
What a delightful distraction from the madness of life! I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I thank you so very much for all of your hard work. It was most enjoyable and informative. Thanks again.
The tiered construction of wedding cakes was inspired by St Bride's church steeple. A baker on the same street as the church did the first known tiered wedding cakes
Great video thanks.A look at the Horniman Museum would be great.Such a trove of esoteric oddities .I haven't been for over a decade but I remember a synthesizer donated by Psychik TV being in their musical instruments gallery.May aswell pop in to Nunhead cemetery to get a full day of South London psycho-geographical fun.
If you go to the New England area in the US you'll be closer to that history you are missing...its weird somethings on the east coast you have to search for it's like a hidden treasure hunt which is a shame...like colonial cementaries hidden in woods overtaken by the wood line instead of displayed and upkeep done.....alot of places like that in NJ
@@girleyreds11-11 I should imagine that anything to do, or remind people of British rule, was not really loved lol. Seeing as we had that war…..ya know? 😂🙏🏽🌹
Im glad, Jimmy Garlic is no longer on display. He deserves some peace. I sure wouldnt want to be an exhibit in a couple of 100 years, so however interesting he might or the Egyptian mummies etc, I really dont think, ppl should be on display. Edit: Except Burke. He deserves every bit of it! I just still cant believe, that they let Hare completely off.
Loving your content. This is my kind of channel 😊 hope you continue to grow. Would love to see a tour of the RAMM in Exeter or Reading museum 😍 thank you for your awesome channel! X
Thank you 🙏. Thank you for this educational video. Love ❤️ that beautiful beloved old Catholic Church. Amen 🙏. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🙏🙏🙏🙏. Beautiful Great Britain 🇬🇧 love ❤️ you.
It's maybe not spooky, but I always thought it was unsettling. In our local church (I live in the south of Sweden) there is a large crucifix hoisted up to the ceiling. And Jesus look absolutely miserable but the thing I always thought was a bit iffy is that his hair is hair from a woman in town who lived in the 13th century
Really enjoyed this- fantastic stuff for the countdown to Halloween! Makes me really want to visit some of these churches. Temple Church is also pretty spooky- it was built by the Knights Templar so has some weird features that appeal to conspiracy types, but is also fascinating from a historical perspective. Ely was (sort of) an island in Etheldreda's time, as it was surrounded by marshes. The fens were drained from the 17th century onward to make way for farmland. An Edinburgh trip would definitely be brilliant- ridiculous amounts of great museums, art and history there, as well as plenty of creepy graveyards.
I love Edinburgh- I can’t wait to go back to film! I almost included Temple Church in this video, but I’m make one about “Mysterious Churches.” Thank you for watching!
I stumbled upon your videos by accident last night and I am addicted! In answer to your question about the strangest church I’ve ever been to, I’m reminded of the time I was visiting friends, with my family, in the Netherlands. We paid a visit to the Mummiekelder (Mummy cellar) which is housed in the crypt of a church in the village of Wiuwert, in the province of Friesland. It’s a mystery how the bodies there became mummified, and I seem to remember that it was rumoured the family practiced witchcraft. It’s really interesting to visit, I highly recommend it
I spent 2 days in london with a Nun & her nephew ,my roommate. She. "Eleanor" took us to a couple of churches. Simple pop in for functions & daily routines of spaces, then Next. Your extensive knowledge brings these places 2 life. I wish she was still with us to share these facts & highlights with her. Once again Thank you for sharing them with me.
Moreover, I found your red tatoo on the neck quite interesting, looking like a typical Baroque heart, surrounded by burning flames, a symbol of eternity often shown in paintings in Baroque cathedrals, my favourite era, the Baroque, regarding music, architecture, paintings, gardens and furniture.😊
Another informative ramble Jessica! London has so many historical oddments for you to explore and present and I look forward to seeing where you choose to go next! Truly fascinating and just the right balance. Thankyou!
Loved this video! As a serious Anglophile (two sides of my family are English) I enjoy learning about London and England. Please do Sone’s Museum. I’ve a lot of photos of parts of it but have never been able to figure out how it all goes together (the layout-not the interesting items shown there).
@megangreene3955Wow it’s amazing how much some Americans love Britain and its history, I’m English and I lived in London for 12 years and never visited most of these places, hope one day you get to visit Britain I’d definitely recommend Edinburgh over London much smaller than London and easier to get around and has more charm and friendly people, just done my family tree and my Great Great Great Grandfather was born in Shoreditch London his name was Ebenezer Squirrel, he sounds like a Dickensian character, thanks for loving my country.
What a wonderful tour. So many concentrate on the likes of Westminster and leave these beautiful churches out of view. Thank you for the very interesting commentary as well...⛪
There’s a church in kings Lynn that we used to refer to as the sinking church but it’s not sinking at all, plague corpses had no space to be buried so they are piled up higher that the foundation of the church giving it the appearance that it’s sinking
I'm personally a fan of Hawksmoor's churches -- both for their architecture and the occult angle of course. They don't contain any particularly strange or macabre artifacts but Hawksmoor himself was quite the interesting figure; a student of the occult among other things, and built into their design all manner of elements and symbolism that are very unChristianlike...
There's a church in Shere, Guildford Surrey & nearby is where i once lived. This church is famous because in the 14 century (not sure) a very pious woman, Christine Carpenter, deliberately asked that she be placed in a small brick cell that was facing north on the very coldest side of the church. No sun reached her in that cell & there she stayed holed up for quite a few years. She was fed by the locals a measly chunk of bread & lived a miserable existence there. At one stage she did leave, but to 'escape' the sins of the world was bricked up again. The church is ancient & I feel very luck to have lived there as a child in the 60's because it is a magical place....definitely worth a look
I’d heard of body snatching and the Resurrectionists, but I hadn’t heard of the auctioning of bodies at pubs! Very cool to learn more about this weird practice. All I had heard was of the bodies being sold to the hospitals/schools and how doctors put on autopsy “shows” for students and the curious- sounded a lot more secretive than “yeah, the body was displayed at the pub”.
President Washington house in London was filled with bones in the cellar about 12-14 people because he probably used the body snatchers to get him bodies to dissect..
I had to stop the video, screenshot, and examine… @33:15 the physician appears to be quite naked. He’s wearing protective garments, but I imagine he doesn’t want to ruin his pants? I realize this is a painting but I assume it’s an accurate depiction of an event. Anyone know?
Am So so breathtaking and so enthusiastic about the classic gothic medieval architectural structures in your videos i and words can not express enough how thankful for your time medieval stories facts and evidence and beauty remnants discoveries in your videos. From this point forward in our current millennial present and future i know how to enjoy the best of London that am in love with and to also appreciate what’s available to me here in New York City USA 🇺🇸 in the meantime. Thank You for your professional presentation of untold ancient gothic church illustrations and history in London Rick New York City, New York USA 🇺🇸 10/07/22 1:05AM
My grandad used to work at St Giles in the fields church around the corner from Oxford Street he was a deputy verger the church had a fire and was rebuilt I think around 1700s looks spooky inside there is alot of crime there my grandad would be going around picking up stolen wallets pen knifes needles and unfortunately some of the homeless would disrespect the church and be using the floor as a toilet but some things was fun my grandad would get out very old books of birth deaths and marriage and some survived the original church there was a special volt to stop them from deterioration ect he would some times get calls from people wanting to look up their family tree that they had to pay for any information
The history over in the UK is mind blowing. It is so fascinating. I would LOVE to see some of it before I leave this earth.
You should plan a trip!
Great channel. Well made videos with a lot of extra info and photos. Glad i've found it.
Welcome aboard! Thank you for your kind comment.
What a delightful lady…very informative….😊, I think you’re right about the very first plague victim was buried at St Olaves…..the stone skulls have often fascinated me…..
Me too! Thanks so much for watching and for your kind words.
Burke is the butcher, and Hares the thief and Knox was the boy who bought the beef. ... Victorian rhyme
Brilliant! How did I forget to add this?
@@TheMuseumGuide can't think of everything all the time
@@mikereilly7629 Amen.
@@TheMuseumGuideolá bom dia moça linda!tudo bem? Me inscrevi no seu canal .Desde já deixo o meu link 👍
@@TheMuseumGuide Hello 👋
In this video I have just placed a comment. I don't know if it is of any interest to you & your channel community, but it has always spooked me : /
I love your channel & can see it soaring in subscribers.
Best of luck
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I Really, REALLY enjoy your content, and the way you present it. I hope you'll soon get the follower count you truly deserve! Thank you for showing us these treasures. I've been to the UK twice, but sadly didn*t have an opportunity to visit even one museum. I really want to go back and take my time exploring that city one day! Love from Bavaria, Germany!
Thank you! The next time you come to the UK, museums should be your top priority. :)
I can only echo what you say. The channel is so new yet is 100 percent professional. I hope Jessica will get sponsors soon.
@@TheMuseumGuide definitely! If you're ever in Norfolk, I can recommend the Norwich Castle museum, which is basically the only museum on british soil I visited so far :D I had a nosebleed in front of the egyptian cat mummy, and since it's an inside joke between my friend and I that, whenever we see a cat, "the mummy accepted my blood sacrifice and is out to get me". Lol.
Ok, that is definitely creepy! I love it. You should visit the British Museum and see the cat mummy there - and find out if you get another nosebleed...
Save your money and don't visit this hell hole of a country go to France instead it's way better..
So glad I came across your channel ,finding it all very intresting ,would really love to visit London some day ,but such a long trip from Australia 🇦🇺
Please do!
Just found your Channel. Really love this, as EX Londoner I miss its history. Nice content. Will watch all your past stuff as a binge out!
Awesome, thank you! Glad to have you as subscriber.
Thank you, very interesting. Will be interesting to learn about London's synagogues. I was surprised to learn that Great London's synagogue was at Trafalgar Square.
Thank you for your comment! The Great Synagogue, destroyed by the Blitz, was actually at Aldgate. To my knowledge, there has never been a synagogue near Trafalgar Square? There is a beautiful old one in Fitzrovia, though! The Central Synagogue.
@@TheMuseumGuide Thank you. For some reason internet shows that it site was at Trafalgar Square.
You are so lovely ❤. Been enjoying these videos this afternoon
Thank you so much, Nicole!
What a pleasure it is to tour these places with you!! I feel as if I am right there.
Learning so much. Thank you!
In Philadelphia,
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I’m so happy to hear it!
Such curious details and pieces of true history, just wow!
Thank you for watching!
If you wanted to see Newgate’s door. It’s mounted on the wall at the end of the cell block in the central criminal court.
Thank you! I need to go have a look.
Just found this channel and it's great!! I'm excited to see what comes next
Welcome! Excited to post a new video in a couple days. :)
Jessica, I read in both of my local papers (SF Chronicle & East Bay Times) about the unfortunate demise of the Hardy Tree. I knew that I saw it on your website around Halloween. I have you to thank for informing me of this magical place of Saint Pancras Old Church with its religious significance and rich historical facts. (The Beatles were photographed there in 1968 which you may not have known!) Thanks & Happy New Year from Kathleen in California
Happy new year! Thank you for watching. ❤️
I just found your channel today. I love it! Thanks for giving me new ideas for my next visit to London. It's my favorite city! ❤
It is absolutely worth you going to Surgeons Hall in Edinburgh. I’d like to see that episode!
We definitely need a trip up to Scotland this year. Thanks for watching!
Oooooh I love this soooo much! More more more!!
Thank you so much! I have another spooky one coming up in a few weeks. :)
Oh, you must go to Edinburgh! If you like museums with a darker twist, Surgeon’s Hall is a must. Very much like the Huntarian.
When I went to Edinburgh for Hogmanay a decade ago, it was closed for the holidays! I must go back.
@@TheMuseumGuide Oh gosh. The best excuse to go back! :)
Absolutely marvelous! You present so much interesting historical data in each episode. I booked a tour immediately in Edinburgh for the Medical museum and tour since we are lucky enough to be visiting in a couple of weeks! Thanks so much for what, I’m sure, will be an incredible tour! Greetings from the Pacific Northwest!
Fantastic! I hope you enjoyed the visit, and r hank you for watching.
Thanks Jessica, for calling ur attention to these unique sites. Yes, Sir John Soane's House in Lincoln's Inn Fields is well worth your scrutiny, if their admin would permit. And Nicholas Hawksmoor's Five Churches are fascinating not merely from the architectural viewpoint, but in connection with their inspiration to prose poet Iain Sinclair, novelist Peter Ackroyd, and as site to one of Alexander McQueen's most daring collection shows, "Highland Rape."
I do love Hawksmoor's churches! Great idea.
Absolutely fascinating!!
Thanks for your effort!!
My pleasure!
I recently discovered your channel and am enjoying the interesting and informative videos this one has been my favourite so far thank you and I'm now hoping you have done one of the Sloan museum which I love
Thanks Judith! I’ve filmed one on Sir John Soane’s Museum but I have not written the video yet.
A very informative and interesting video
Thank you!
Drogheda Roman Catholic Cathedral in Ireland has the severed head of Oliver Plunkett on display. It's really gruesome to be seen in the context of a church.
How bad of a person does it make me that I NEED to go see that? 😂
@@TheMuseumGuide I've seen it a couple of times. It really is quite gruesome, given the setting.
Very fascinating thanks😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely brilliant
Thank you!
I loved your view & knowledge, I born in Australia and will probably never go to England. Thanks so much for this video project, keep up the great work, peace & love to all...
Thank you so much!
What a fantastic and fascinating video. I have immediately subscribed, and have added all of these places to visit on my next trip to London next month!
Welcome aboard! Thank you!
I enjoyed this, will check out more.
Thank you, Jane!
Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed it 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyed every minute of this, thank you. 🤗
You're very welcome!
I really enjoyed that, thanks! Your presentation was great. I am a bit of a history buff and love curious tales and artefacts but lots of this was new to me. Fascinating indeed! I am from up north (Manchester) but I love London and it's history. I have subbed and will binge watch the rest of your videos.
Thanks Leode!
Wonderful video 🎉
Thank you 🤗
Hi Jessica I'm a new follower to your channel and find your content very educational 👍👍👍💯💯💯
Welcome! Thank you.
This was very enjoyable indeed... thank you! But, sometimes the strangest things in churches are the people!😊❤
Very true! Thanks for watching.
Great video! Thanks so much!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching.
I live in Macon, Georgia, USA and the Catholic church I grew up going to has a colony of bats living in the bell towers, among other small places in the church. It’s not exactly the same as an incorruptible human hand, but the bats do get confused sometimes and fly down into the sanctuary. It’s a big 1800s gothic church with marble and stained glass, so it’s probably a bit odd-looking to normal people to have bats just doing whatever it is bats do in the church. There’s a BUNCH of them though, so it’s a beautiful sight, especially when they all come pouring out in the evening in the summer! Keeps the mosquitoes somewhat under control.
Bats need the same hype as bees, because they’re also such important pollinators!
I love bats!
There's a private gated street off Camden road
There are tons of gated streets all over the UK, but Ely Place is the only one in London to be considered 'private' by an old legal definition - as a result, it has its own police force called Beadles. It's so fascinating! larsonsinlondon.blogspot.com/2015/09/ely-place-last-private-street.html
I suggest you go to Spain and see the dungens in the bottom of the Churches, where they prefomed the Inquestion of 1270 years!
I’d love to!
@@TheMuseumGuide I did, Barcolona is the place, home of the Jesuits!
I went to Barcelona right before the pandemic, and I did go to the hearse Museum, as well as go see the Giants in one of the churches, but I didn’t know about these dungeons. I can’t wait to go back to Barcelona!
Me and a mate went to Brookwood cemetery when we where younger spent the day walking around when the sun started to go down we saw two victoriana ladys walking down the path towards us we craped ourselves and run wow even now it gives me the creeps that was 43 years ago
Sounds very scary!!!
Very interesting. Your sound level is all over the board, though.
Awww, I thought I did better on this video! Is the problem mainly between when I speak to the camera and the rest, or is it more than that?
This is the one area I am absolutely hopeless!
Why did the tree headstones not stay with the moved bodies? Were the bodies just thrown in the trash or something?
The bodies were moved to Brookwood Cemetery and a cemetery in Essex.
To put that into perspective: the German 16th century executioner Franz Schmidt regularly dissected the bodies of criminals together with physicians. However, those were not medical students, but practitioners that wanted to have more insight.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
Jessica, I can tell you for sure that the Rowan/Mountain Ash tree doesn't date back to Thomas Hardy's time. It's trunk isn't thick enough. I have several Rowan/Mountain Ash trees in my yard which were all seeded from a mother tree struck by lightning in my lifetime. Theses trees are twice the size of the "Hardy" one. Also, the Rowan is known as the Witches tree being the most desired for occult practice. Cross two twigs of equal length and bind the center with red cord. Keep this with you for protection or, any place you desire to be protected. I wouldn't take twigs from the Hardy tree. You might have the dead following you instead!😱
I carried Rowan in my wedding bouquet - wonderful!
@@TheMuseumGuide Protection and Magick! I hope All protection and Magickal things keep you both safe, and bring all the good things only Magick can manifest in this lifetime and the next!
It's not a rowan. It's a standard ash tree, and is experiencing ash die back.
Rowans are small/ medium shrubby trees in uk.
Wasn't a pair of shoes made for a doctor from Burke's skin as well?
come up
to scotland you won't regret it some amazing and creepy ones up here.
I LOVE Scotland - I can't wait.
also sadly our oldest cemetery, at almost the same age.... earliest Colonial era... most of it is under a golf course.
Oh, that is so sad! Where is this?
I would love to make a video about it.
Happy Halloween 🎃
🎶 it’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎶
I'd like to make clear, I too remain uncorrupted. But Sainthood would be a bother.
It’s so disgusting that people used to go to hanging as a day out! So effing weird lol
Cluny Museum in Paris, but don't miss the optical illusion of the three rabbits statue or "Tinkers. Rabbits"
The three hare symbols are all over Western Europe! I should definitely do a video on these.
"the bell toll for thee"
A very similar sentiment!
It would be nicer IF the volume was the same when you are not in front of the camera as when you are - turn the volume up a bit please.
It WOULD be nice! But alas, the sound is really difficult for me. I even hired someone to help me equalise this one! I’m working on getting better with sound tech. :)
It iss said that Henry and Catherine of Aragon were married in the crypt which you can hire forcparties
You didn't talk about Raheres stolen shoe !
You know, I’m not sure why I didn’t!!!
Hi New subscriber here from Ireland, I have a channel in Ireland, have you any thoughts on coming here to video at any stage?
Yes! I’d love to. I went to the gaol in Dublin a few years ago and I think fage would be a great video.
Sadly The Hardy tree is no longer 😢
Yes, it fell shortly after I filmed this!
TH-cam knows me too well! You remind me so pleasingly of Caitlin Doughty. I think its obviously in part some of the subject matter, but also the style of presenting the information this entertaining and almost feels like a conversation with a friend who has just learned a new interesting fact. (But with much more effort and research!)
She is actually an acquaintance of mine! I met her while volunteering at Bart's Pathology Museum, and I did writing for her website. :)
@@TheMuseumGuideI am so glad that person made the connection between you and Caitlin "The Redoubtable" Doughty😂❤ The WHOLE way through your ghoulish and rather thrilling tour I was trying to think who you reminded me of and it was bugging me!!🤔 I love Caitlin - she's as camp as a row of pink tents at Christmas time - she should have been an actress or opera singer 🤣🤣 You both share an irrepressible delight in your work, you're both like naughty school girls always in your eyes giggling even when trying to make a serious point - I love it that the two of you know each other but I advise not to collaborate together as you'd never get any work done!!😆
Anyway, you have yourself a new subscriber and I look forward to catching up on what seems like a bit of a back catalogue of you trying to manage the sensation of being horrified, while also simultaneously quite a lot delighted😏😏😆😆
That is exactly what I was thinking! Great videos 😁
@mellyk86 Exactly! I love Caitlin too! Does she still have her channel?
Absolutely jam-packed with facts and stories, guaranteed to keep you hooked to the very end. No looking to see how much is left to go here, with this highly capable narrator and guide. Extremely well documented, exceptionally well told.
Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much.
@@TheMuseumGuide the dead ripped jewish guy of their unforfilled jewish prophecy is really macabre!
I really appreciate your fact filled tours, as I am no longer fit enough to wander round these interesting place. Bless you for giving your time to help others.
So nice of you to leave such a lovely comment.
The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) is a shiny emerald green beetle that kills living ash trees. Sadly here in Canada where I live and in the States we are losing Ash trees at an alarming rate.
So sad. I hope they can sort out this tree!
Here in the UK the culprit is ash dieback - a fungal disease.
It’s too bad they are too small to use their wings in embroidery. They’re a pretty color.
I love your videos, which are clearly planned and have a lot of effort put into the tours. I've only ever been able to go to London once and loved it and love being able to explore places I didn't get to go through your videos. Thank you for putting so much work into great content!
Thank you so much Troy!
totally binge worthy channel. love your content. the youtube algorithm was cooking with this one.
Thank you! 😎
I went to see almost all of the places you highlight in this video. Thanks so much, you made my visit so enjoyable!!
I love to hear it!
I'm afraid you're right about The Hardy Tree. As soon as you said it was an Ash, my thought was "That's going to be a bugger to fell." It's terribly sad to see so many grand old trees affected. There seem to be a few that are resistant and younger trees are more affected, so far. Fingers crossed for this one.
Loved this tour around the weird and creepy. No wonder so many Americans are currently fascinated with just how ODD we are.
The Hardy tree fell down last winter. It wasn't diseased, just old and affected by a storm the previous year. It was a stunning and much loved local feature but it simply came to the end of a long natural life
@@woofbarkyap Thank you for that. I think of that as the tree version of dying in your sleep at 101. Hope some local wood turners were able to make a something as a memorial.
For the ash especially ,the Terry Pratchett quote "Don't think of it as dying, just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush." is very apt.
That was very interesting. How exciting to hear about St. Etheldreda! I knew exactly who you were referring to as soon as you said her name. I am Catholic. She was my confirmation Saint, and we used the English translation of Audrey as my confirmation name. I don't think many people are aware of her, and she definitely isn't one of the more popular Saints. What a rare treat to hear about her! Thank you.
Theresa
You're very welcome! I love Anglo Saxon hagiographies. :)
I'm a Catholic and I've never heard of her probably because I'm not Religious..
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Just found your channel and I am subscribing right now! Wonderful, informative content. Well done video my friend.👏 Gearing up for a smoke fest and grabbed some snacks, prepared for a binge watch of your channel. It's going to be a great evening thanks to you friend. Be blessed and be safe 🙏. Peace ✌
Amazing! I hope you had a great time.
Very interesting, thank you. Was the image you showed of the mummified nun in a glass case actually Etheldreda? And are any mummified remains visible in London churches now or are they all hidden away?
I wouldn’t know, because I am Canadian and British.
Saint Etheldreda’s is not a street. It is a church. The street is called Ely Place. Ely place is indeed the last remaining private street in London, as defined as having its own police force. Ely Place is the only street in London that still has Beadles. Burlington Arcade famously has Beadles, but these are for the shopping arcade, and not strictly the street.
It’s awfully sad when people try to correct me in a rude way and they are incorrect themselves.
@@emmalane9362 It is not! I believe that nun is in Italy - and I would love to go visit here.
There aren't any incorrupted saints on display in London, to my knowledge - oddly enough, there is one on display at UCL, my alma mater! Look up Jeremy Bentham - I will be including him in a video soon.
What a delightful distraction from the madness of life! I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I thank you so very much for all of your hard work. It was most enjoyable and informative. Thanks again.
Thank you for your lovely comment!
So they cut the hand off of an uncorrupted corpse of a saint? Seems like a bad idea.
Right? 😬
The tiered construction of wedding cakes was inspired by St Bride's church steeple. A baker on the same street as the church did the first known tiered wedding cakes
And some say it was the other way around, and Wren was inspired by the baker! It’s common lore, but no proof of either. A cute story, though!
Great video thanks.A look at the Horniman Museum would be great.Such a trove of esoteric oddities .I haven't been for over a decade but I remember a synthesizer donated by Psychik TV being in their musical instruments gallery.May aswell pop in to Nunhead cemetery to get a full day of South London psycho-geographical fun.
I loved Genesis! My husband and I went to see Psychic TV at Heaven in 2018.
Jessica I am loving your videos. I am English but living in USA. I miss being immersed in history.
Thank you!
If you go to the New England area in the US you'll be closer to that history you are missing...its weird somethings on the east coast you have to search for it's like a hidden treasure hunt which is a shame...like colonial cementaries hidden in woods overtaken by the wood line instead of displayed and upkeep done.....alot of places like that in NJ
I’m English but live in Australia. I feel the same, Melanie. I’m going home for a few weeks early November…..can’t wait! 😊
@@girleyreds11-11 I should imagine that anything to do, or remind people of British rule, was not really loved lol. Seeing as we had that war…..ya know? 😂🙏🏽🌹
Go to the state of Virginia. The first state of the nation is filled with history.
Im glad, Jimmy Garlic is no longer on display. He deserves some peace. I sure wouldnt want to be an exhibit in a couple of 100 years, so however interesting he might or the Egyptian mummies etc, I really dont think, ppl should be on display.
Edit: Except Burke. He deserves every bit of it! I just still cant believe, that they let Hare completely off.
I feel the same conflict about displaying mummies!
Loving your content. This is my kind of channel 😊 hope you continue to grow. Would love to see a tour of the RAMM in Exeter or Reading museum 😍 thank you for your awesome channel! X
Great suggestion! Thank you so much for watching.
I hope i get to visit the UK one day, until then i will tour through your videos.
You’d be incredibly welcome 🙏🏽🏴🇬🇧
Thank you 🙏. Thank you for this educational video. Love ❤️ that beautiful beloved old Catholic Church. Amen 🙏. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🙏🙏🙏🙏. Beautiful Great Britain 🇬🇧 love ❤️ you.
Thank you!
It's maybe not spooky, but I always thought it was unsettling. In our local church (I live in the south of Sweden) there is a large crucifix hoisted up to the ceiling. And Jesus look absolutely miserable but the thing I always thought was a bit iffy is that his hair is hair from a woman in town who lived in the 13th century
Not spooky? That's one of the spookiest things I've ever heard! Genuinely creepy - I love it.
Really enjoyed this- fantastic stuff for the countdown to Halloween! Makes me really want to visit some of these churches. Temple Church is also pretty spooky- it was built by the Knights Templar so has some weird features that appeal to conspiracy types, but is also fascinating from a historical perspective. Ely was (sort of) an island in Etheldreda's time, as it was surrounded by marshes. The fens were drained from the 17th century onward to make way for farmland. An Edinburgh trip would definitely be brilliant- ridiculous amounts of great museums, art and history there, as well as plenty of creepy graveyards.
I love Edinburgh- I can’t wait to go back to film!
I almost included Temple Church in this video, but I’m make one about “Mysterious Churches.”
Thank you for watching!
@@TheMuseumGuide I look forward to both of those.
This is the first of your videos I’ve seen. I love history so much. Thank you for this tour. Subbing now! 😊
Welcome aboard! Thank you for watching.
I stumbled upon your videos by accident last night and I am addicted! In answer to your question about the strangest church I’ve ever been to, I’m reminded of the time I was visiting friends, with my family, in the Netherlands. We paid a visit to the Mummiekelder (Mummy cellar) which is housed in the crypt of a church in the village of Wiuwert, in the province of Friesland. It’s a mystery how the bodies there became mummified, and I seem to remember that it was rumoured the family practiced witchcraft. It’s really interesting to visit, I highly recommend it
They were carrying the mummified Jimmy around laughing !? WTF? Who in the Hell thought that would be a good idea to let them do?
It became a strange tradition! It’s wild.
Would love a tour of the Soane museum! Thank you- these are wonderful.
It’s on my shortlist! I love it there. Thanks for watching!
I loved hearing the story of St. Etheldreda! Thank you. 😀💓
You're welcome!
I spent 2 days in london with a Nun & her nephew ,my roommate. She. "Eleanor" took us to a couple of churches. Simple pop in for functions & daily routines of spaces, then Next. Your extensive knowledge brings these places 2 life. I wish she was still with us to share these facts & highlights with her. Once again Thank you for sharing them with me.
You're very welcome, and thank you for the kind comments. I wish I could have met Eleanor!
Moreover, I found your red tatoo on the neck quite interesting, looking like a typical Baroque heart, surrounded by burning flames, a symbol of eternity often shown in paintings in Baroque cathedrals, my favourite era, the Baroque, regarding music, architecture, paintings, gardens and furniture.😊
I’ve been binging your videos all day! I absolutely love them. And, I’m in London so I can visit all the places you recommend! ❤
Yay! Thank you! So happy you like them. :)
Another informative ramble Jessica! London has so many historical oddments for you to explore and present and I look forward to seeing where you choose to go next! Truly fascinating and just the right balance. Thankyou!
You're very welcome! It's so nice to do what I love most and have folks react this way.
Loved this video! As a serious Anglophile (two sides of my family are English) I enjoy learning about London and England. Please do Sone’s Museum. I’ve a lot of photos of parts of it but have never been able to figure out how it all goes together (the layout-not the interesting items shown there).
The layout is WILD. It's such a strange place! I will go and film it soon.
@megangreene3955Wow it’s amazing how much some Americans love Britain and its history, I’m English and I lived in London for 12 years and never visited most of these places, hope one day you get to visit Britain I’d definitely recommend Edinburgh over London much smaller than London and easier to get around and has more charm and friendly people, just done my family tree and my Great Great Great Grandfather was born in Shoreditch London his name was Ebenezer Squirrel, he sounds like a Dickensian character, thanks for loving my country.
What a wonderful tour. So many concentrate on the likes of Westminster and leave these beautiful churches out of view. Thank you for the very interesting commentary as well...⛪
You’re very welcome!
There’s a church in kings Lynn that we used to refer to as the sinking church but it’s not sinking at all, plague corpses had no space to be buried so they are piled up higher that the foundation of the church giving it the appearance that it’s sinking
That sounds fascinating! Captain George Vancouver is also from Kings Lynn, so I definitely need to visit. Thanks for watching!
Excellent!!! I will be using this info to plan my trip for next year. These churches have got Harrod’s beat big time. 👍🏻
I very much agree!
I'm personally a fan of Hawksmoor's churches -- both for their architecture and the occult angle of course. They don't contain any particularly strange or macabre artifacts but Hawksmoor himself was quite the interesting figure; a student of the occult among other things, and built into their design all manner of elements and symbolism that are very unChristianlike...
I love them, too! My favourite is St Anne’s in Limehouse. I should definitely include Christchurch Spitalfields in my Part 2.
There's a church in Shere, Guildford Surrey & nearby is where i once lived. This church is famous because in the 14 century (not sure) a very pious woman, Christine Carpenter, deliberately asked that she be placed in a small brick cell that was facing north on the very coldest side of the church. No sun reached her in that cell & there she stayed holed up for quite a few years. She was fed by the locals a measly chunk of bread & lived a miserable existence there.
At one stage she did leave, but to 'escape' the sins of the world was bricked up again. The church is ancient & I feel very luck to have lived there as a child in the 60's because it is a magical place....definitely worth a look
Oh brilliant! My mother-in-law lives near Guildford. ❤️
Thanks again
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You’re very welcome!
I’d heard of body snatching and the Resurrectionists, but I hadn’t heard of the auctioning of bodies at pubs! Very cool to learn more about this weird practice. All I had heard was of the bodies being sold to the hospitals/schools and how doctors put on autopsy “shows” for students and the curious- sounded a lot more secretive than “yeah, the body was displayed at the pub”.
President Washington house in London was filled with bones in the cellar about 12-14 people because he probably used the body snatchers to get him bodies to dissect..
The Tyburn Tree was never a tree, it was just the nickname for the gallows. Dark humour and that...
I’ve got a video planned about the Tyburn Tree very soon! Thanks for watching.
I have heard that Charles Dickens had a book mark made from burkes skin, from a documentary called would you believe it.
I’ve only heard of the book! Wow.
I had to stop the video, screenshot, and examine… @33:15 the physician appears to be quite naked. He’s wearing protective garments, but I imagine he doesn’t want to ruin his pants? I realize this is a painting but I assume it’s an accurate depiction of an event. Anyone know?
The video length is 33"15, so I am not sure which image you're talking about? If it's the image at 10"13, those are just slim fit trousers.
Am So so breathtaking and so enthusiastic about the classic gothic medieval architectural structures in your videos i and words can not express enough how thankful for your time medieval stories facts and evidence and beauty remnants discoveries in your videos.
From this point forward in our current millennial present and future i know how to enjoy the best of London that am in love with and to also appreciate what’s available to me here in New York City USA 🇺🇸 in the meantime. Thank You for your professional presentation of untold ancient gothic church illustrations and history in London
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Thank you Rick! I also love the medieval architecture. As a Canadian, it is a true wonder to stroll past (and in) these churches on a daily basis.
My grandad used to work at St Giles in the fields church around the corner from Oxford Street he was a deputy verger the church had a fire and was rebuilt I think around 1700s looks spooky inside there is alot of crime there my grandad would be going around picking up stolen wallets pen knifes needles and unfortunately some of the homeless would disrespect the church and be using the floor as a toilet but some things was fun my grandad would get out very old books of birth deaths and marriage and some survived the original church there was a special volt to stop them from deterioration ect he would some times get calls from people wanting to look up their family tree that they had to pay for any information
That is so fascinating! Lucky you to hear his stories.