London's Top 5 Hidden Secrets

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  • Discover 5 secrets about London you never knew! Did you know there's a secret tunnel under the River Thames, a hidden entrance to the Tower of London, an underground network of tunnels for mail delivery, a buried river beneath the streets, and a secret station used by Churchill during WWII? Join us as we explore the hidden history of London!
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  • @lon3don
    @lon3don ปีที่แล้ว +396

    I think you need to look up the meaning of the word " Secret ".

    • @jomil8847
      @jomil8847 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was just thinking the same

    • @anaruizguti
      @anaruizguti ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂 yes

    • @BobSmith-vv5ic
      @BobSmith-vv5ic ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd loved to "make up shit" for" the intiweb" Every one who needs to know, knows Down St.

    • @corenmaryweijers1895
      @corenmaryweijers1895 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They better had given this video the name "secrets americans do not know about" 😂

    • @g-one6096
      @g-one6096 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The tunnels were used to transport MALES💀

  • @adam_p99
    @adam_p99 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    The traitors gate isn’t a secret. It’s very visible

    • @robwalker7575
      @robwalker7575 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tourist attraction.....but shhhh, it's a secret 😂.

    • @dotregan1506
      @dotregan1506 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha!! You can't miss it.

    • @kurtgodel5236
      @kurtgodel5236 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nothing of this is secret.

    • @davidorf3921
      @davidorf3921 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also it's original name was the water gate, created to allow Edward I to come and go by Royal Barge, later the tradesman used it to bring supplies and later still it was used to bring prisoners to the tower, many of whom were charged with treason, thus traitors gate

  • @hilaryc8648
    @hilaryc8648 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    There’s secret routes above ground known as “streets” that criss cross the city connecting secret areas known as “places”. Sometimes a secret liquid known as “rain” falls from the “air”. Man oh!

    • @richardlangly4635
      @richardlangly4635 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Holy shit dude, you should post a video, this sounds incredible. "Streets" you say, hmm. We must know more.

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@richardlangly4635 Some people actually walk along these 'streets' between places.

    • @AlistairClark99
      @AlistairClark99 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's shocking! How do you know?

    • @glockenspiel-ti1ms
      @glockenspiel-ti1ms 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Seriously hilary, you swore not to tell anybody!

    • @billisaac326
      @billisaac326 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@richardlangly4635They’re smothered with shit that should get your attention since you can’t put a sentence together without using that filthy word.

  • @davidmarchant9386
    @davidmarchant9386 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    being from UK i know all these pretty common knowledge if you are a Brit

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 ปีที่แล้ว

      Y oughta see the secret below Heathrow landing area, equal to that above where the Tommy greenhouses used to be spread.

    • @antonteslin8789
      @antonteslin8789 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@suzyqualcast6269have you been there?

    • @Internationalbruv60
      @Internationalbruv60 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No one cares

  • @mikekelleher6940
    @mikekelleher6940 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The Fleet isn’t the only river incorporated into the London sewage system. There’s at least a dozen of them.

  • @marksymons3329
    @marksymons3329 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    They’re hardly ‘secrets’ - you can buy tickets to visit half of them
    The tour of Down Street Tube Station is really cool - as is the ride on the Mail Train

  • @joebloggs5318
    @joebloggs5318 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So secret the Traitor's Gate has only been known about for around nine hundred years.

  • @Aaronsmith24
    @Aaronsmith24 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    No secrets here.

  • @MrChristbait
    @MrChristbait ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Traitor's Gate is hardly secret,it's a tourist attraction highly visible from the street.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @jamoco1
    @jamoco1 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    about as secret as the combustion engine

    • @Matelot123
      @Matelot123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's a combustion engine? Goddam it! The secrets are tumbling out today!!!

  • @gobbledygook5786
    @gobbledygook5786 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Mail rail train ride in London is super informative and cool! Highly recommend!

  • @frankmurray1549
    @frankmurray1549 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Why do idiots make these videos without doing any research? Everything mentioned in this video is very well known they are so secret. The River Fleet is by no means a secret. The Fleet is a tributary of the River Thames, and flows six kilometers from its start as two streams in Hampstead Heath, past Camden Town, King's Cross, and Clerkenwell, to where it eventually empties into the Thames near Blackfriars Bridge.

    • @stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080
      @stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder if it follows Fleet St.

    • @stephenlee5929
      @stephenlee5929 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080 Wow how did you guess that?

    • @frankmurray1549
      @frankmurray1549 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stevenandrewedwardsedwards3080 It was from t is river that Fleet Street got its name as did Fleet Road in Hampstead.

  • @derin111
    @derin111 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Iiterally knew every single one of these anyway.
    Number of people noticing a trend occurring here.
    👇

  • @strontiumstargazer103
    @strontiumstargazer103 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Interesting though none so far are secret

  • @samsprrr3548
    @samsprrr3548 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Lots of tube stations were used as shelter s in ww2.

    • @Poeticfloetic
      @Poeticfloetic 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No shite Sherlock.

  • @redparallax4442
    @redparallax4442 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And there’s a secret cabal running the city above these “secret” collection of tunnels:)

  • @barbaradyson6951
    @barbaradyson6951 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Tell me something I don't know.

  • @craighobbs3708
    @craighobbs3708 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    None of those are secrets!

  • @rachelriches9936
    @rachelriches9936 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Tell me something I not know please

    • @noobian3314
      @noobian3314 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There’s a secret overground location in London called the sky used to transport birds and rain

    • @YouTubesuckschlonge
      @YouTubesuckschlonge ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noobian3314 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @frankmurray1549
      @frankmurray1549 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noobian3314 Also used to transport aircraft.

  • @robertquinn3603
    @robertquinn3603 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Little-known facts……. That’s what you wanted to call this. They are not secrets or else you wouldn’t know them…… or they’re very badly kept secrets 😅

  • @GafftheHorse
    @GafftheHorse ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I believe there are more covered over rivers feeding into the Thames, the Fleet is just the most well known.

  • @your-local-fantasy-fan
    @your-local-fantasy-fan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes… the traitors gate, very secret. It’s only visible to tourists and the general public.

  • @johnlangs8821
    @johnlangs8821 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s a good job you have all these pictures of these “secrets”

  • @runitsacow
    @runitsacow 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was drinking water while only listening to the audio, and when i heard "mail rail" i spat it out so fast 💀💀

  • @lololo0000
    @lololo0000 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So thats why I keep finding screws in my garden

  • @karlharrison6544
    @karlharrison6544 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    About as secret as London itself....all of it

  • @anthony_mundane
    @anthony_mundane 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The picture used for the "secret" tunnel between parliament and south bank is actually the not so secret tunnel from the isle of dogs to Greenwich

  • @Rog5446
    @Rog5446 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He forgot the secret of the London Eye!

  • @Loki1815
    @Loki1815 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a South East Londoner, with an easy walk over any of all the bridges over the Thames, from Tower Bridge to Lambeth bridge, to reach Victoria in the west, Buck House, to St Paul's Cathedral and The Tower of London in the east.
    Two of my daughters were born in St Thomas's Hospital with views over the Thames and is opposite Big Ben.
    I can quite honestly say that these five London secrets are anything but Secrets!

  • @mpecassahgamez8075
    @mpecassahgamez8075 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well at least mail rail is a national tube train

  • @johnowenjones6440
    @johnowenjones6440 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe we should remember that people from other countries can be easily surprised by things that we have simply taken for granted as being there

  • @simonwhitlock9189
    @simonwhitlock9189 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Secret! what secret, common knowledge I thought.

  • @brianbonner7128
    @brianbonner7128 ปีที่แล้ว

    I knew about all of these “secrets “ traitors gate was originally called trader’s gate because that is the way a lot of the supplies entered via the river

  • @spacecoop7659
    @spacecoop7659 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wasn’t the mail train used to traffic children/could still be being used for that

  • @MickCampin-jp9kb
    @MickCampin-jp9kb ปีที่แล้ว +2

    are you kidding me. you missed the third tunnel.on the Victoria Line all the others are common knowledge to any Londoner

  • @K8thebest_Gaming
    @K8thebest_Gaming 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fleet ain’t the only one there’s also the Westbourne

    • @AzzurroBall
      @AzzurroBall หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Doesn’t the Westbourne go over Sloane Square

    • @K8thebest_Gaming
      @K8thebest_Gaming หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AzzurroBall dunno I know it goes near Kilburn though

  • @AugustDeb
    @AugustDeb 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Listed in every guidebook.

  • @TimStamper89
    @TimStamper89 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not only are none of these secrets, most of these are marked, but also are super common knowledge anyway

  • @graytherobot7
    @graytherobot7 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There’s also another river at an underground station (idk which one) which is covered up its the River Westbourne

  • @OffTheRailsUK
    @OffTheRailsUK 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mate, please define "secret" for me. As a rail enthusiast, I knew about a few of these which were not railway related such as river fleet and the tunnel under parliament

  • @lilacscentedfushias1852
    @lilacscentedfushias1852 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Other places in the UK have rivers hidden underground. I know there’s some in a city called Sheffield because I’ve seen documentaries on it

  • @edwarddebenham1416
    @edwarddebenham1416 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am 56 ...I new this when i was 15

  • @frankspencer5368
    @frankspencer5368 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is a lady who is flying with an umbrella singing, just a spoonful of sugar, and the fentanyl go down

  • @artguy1169
    @artguy1169 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Traitors gate is one of the tower of londons main tourist attractions there is a whole museum for the mail tunnels and the river fleet goes right above a tube stations that thousands see everyday lol I think you need to look up the meaning of the word secret

  • @john_smith1471
    @john_smith1471 ปีที่แล้ว

    Down Street station is abandoned but not secret, fire brigade have training sessions there and regular hidden London tours are taken there.

  • @pcbassoon3892
    @pcbassoon3892 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Traitor's Gate is straight-up labeled.

  • @guyfierispetfish4619
    @guyfierispetfish4619 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Literally NONE of these are secrets

  • @leoconway405
    @leoconway405 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The mail train is true but its now used as a museum called the bank of london i think

  • @turkeytrac1
    @turkeytrac1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you're posting this, they aren't secret.

  • @robertmoffett3486
    @robertmoffett3486 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like Harry Truman said, the secret is, there is no secret

  • @harryjohnson9215
    @harryjohnson9215 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All of these are common knowledge

  • @biglocc2209
    @biglocc2209 ปีที่แล้ว

    There’s also a tunnel under Buckingham palace

  • @salonikulkarni157
    @salonikulkarni157 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anyone else getting Neil Gaiman Neverwhere vibes?? Especially with Down Street?

  • @matthewlo55
    @matthewlo55 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    these are not secrets, we all know that.

  • @KhanivoreQniba
    @KhanivoreQniba ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Only Americans can get away with this bull 💩.

  • @TheGreatest1974
    @TheGreatest1974 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There’s a SECRET RIVER that flows through London called ‘the Thames’…..

  • @jamescale9431
    @jamescale9431 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have been in the tunnel it is in Greenwich and Mail Rail lots of times

  • @bartvanhoeck
    @bartvanhoeck 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is no one going to mention the eerie man standing in the River Fleet ? No ? Okay.

  • @anasbenomar7157
    @anasbenomar7157 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was not built in the 19th century, it's been there for thousands of years

  • @garryc1110
    @garryc1110 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's a Secret Palace in London where the Royals sometimes live, it is connected to a Secret Castle by a Secret Highway/Motorway (M4), outside London in a place called Windsor
    Ask me about more Secrets 😂

  • @JamesDelanoMcCarthysecondacc
    @JamesDelanoMcCarthysecondacc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The first one i heard from Oversimplified

  • @surferpip
    @surferpip ปีที่แล้ว +2

    None of theses are secrets 😅

  • @user-xh3lz9xt4l
    @user-xh3lz9xt4l 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where is the secret????

  • @leeomara1885
    @leeomara1885 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another little secret,London is the capital city of England but don’t tell anyone I’ve told you

  • @nicholasr39
    @nicholasr39 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The fleet is not a river, its just a sewer. It was made part of the sewage system over 100 years ago

    • @UrbanStories
      @UrbanStories  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It used to be a river before that

  • @Tuberuser187
    @Tuberuser187 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I found a secret TH-cam Short!

  • @andyd2528
    @andyd2528 ปีที่แล้ว

    Traitors Gate was never a secret.
    It was very public.
    Traitors were chained to the wall.
    Many years ago the tidal Thames would flood Traitors gate and drown the Traitors.
    Bazelgette built the main London sewer past the Tower of London .
    It's now known as the Embankment and provides a viewing point of Traitors Gate.

  • @fearsengar6341
    @fearsengar6341 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's this secret thing that everyone knows about and is a major historical fact that I recorded in millions of public sources. So many secrets. 😅😅😅😅😅

  • @WorldofWarcraftfan02
    @WorldofWarcraftfan02 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You forgot to mention the werewolf of London.

  • @chrisgironde6669
    @chrisgironde6669 ปีที่แล้ว

    These aren’t secret items.
    They’re not all very well known about.
    Quite a difference.
    Mail Rail is famous

  • @markdixon3632
    @markdixon3632 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely knew all those and so most people in the uk know

  • @GM-ii8gs
    @GM-ii8gs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Umm, I'm from the UK, but not a Londoner and I know all of these "secrets"...

  • @gordongoodfellow826
    @gordongoodfellow826 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You really need a reason to have people subscribe. Calling things "secret" when they are openly known in the public domain is not that reason.

  • @jonathancharles3719
    @jonathancharles3719 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They need reopen the Tower of London the crime rates are on the raise again

  • @paullewis2553
    @paullewis2553 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    none of these are secret lol

  • @tremensdelirious
    @tremensdelirious ปีที่แล้ว

    Every Londoner knows these

  • @TheGreatest1974
    @TheGreatest1974 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The ‘traitors gate’ is not a secret. It’s signposted…

  • @66PHILB
    @66PHILB ปีที่แล้ว

    None of these are secrets.
    Traitor's Gate has its name above it plus its mentioned on any Tower Of London tour.
    You can pay to ride on part of the Mail Rail network.
    Down Street was a public tube station from 1907 to 1937. Its a disused station, not secret.
    The Jubilee Line tube line was originally called the Fleet Line.
    I'm a Londoner. We know this stuff.

  • @pommiebears
    @pommiebears 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know all of these “secrets”! I’m English. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

  • @johncookson9751
    @johncookson9751 ปีที่แล้ว

    None of that is secret, and certainly not Traitors' Gate which derives from Traders' Gate, the entrance that Traders used to visit the tower of London by boat. As for the others, they're all well know places.

  • @stevetaylor8298
    @stevetaylor8298 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude STOP calling things a secret when they obviously aren't, especially while you're showing us the pictures.

  • @jbloomfield44
    @jbloomfield44 ปีที่แล้ว

    None of these are secrets, they are all common knowledge

  • @ritaandcharlescorley5668
    @ritaandcharlescorley5668 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting facts but none of them secret. Some just less well known 😂

  • @christopherbrown4619
    @christopherbrown4619 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All of the information has always been known, so why the secrecy crap, why create the drama when we Brit's are familiar with these tunnels..

  • @greglawton1
    @greglawton1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Marvellous to read how everybody says that they know all of these, when the very first one in the video is totally fictitious!

  • @nigelbuck3162
    @nigelbuck3162 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How the hell is traitors gate a secret? You can see it from the river?

  • @consueloharo-4911
    @consueloharo-4911 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yeah.. I can imagine…

  • @1janehunter
    @1janehunter ปีที่แล้ว

    These are NOT secrets we learned this in history at school back in the 60’s/70’s

  • @harrisonrobins3689
    @harrisonrobins3689 ปีที่แล้ว

    I already knew about the 3rd one. It was shut down in 2003, sadly 😔

  • @OSheaDean
    @OSheaDean ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Secret," lol

  • @user-xh3lz9xt4l
    @user-xh3lz9xt4l 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    None of this is a secret

  • @MrFalconhead
    @MrFalconhead ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm guessing you're only addressing Americans with that initial statement, these are not secrets or hidden.

  • @captainboing
    @captainboing ปีที่แล้ว

    So.... Not secret, Not secret, Not secret, Not secret aaand Not secret.

  • @MushyMan-eng
    @MushyMan-eng 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro I’m born and raised until 7 in Brixton nothing u can say or do is a secret, ITS LONDON

  • @jaceygilbert6135
    @jaceygilbert6135 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm from London and I know all off them lol

  • @JayDogZA
    @JayDogZA ปีที่แล้ว

    So 1 thing then. London has tunnels.

  • @MeTube3
    @MeTube3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another secret: London taxis are black.

  • @dannybarot4553
    @dannybarot4553 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My first love is LONDON❤😂❤

  • @jonboynz2093
    @jonboynz2093 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    None of those are secrets. All common knowledge.

  • @keep_it_real_1
    @keep_it_real_1 ปีที่แล้ว

    The only secret is that you are mad!!!!!