I was braced for the Bakerloo extension to bypass the two-track leg before reaching central London… or for the Second World War to leave infrastructure planners stumped
Theory about renaming Lord's just before it closed: If they're opening a new St John's Wood station and keeping the old station open for matchdays only, they could save a little bit of money on infrastructure costs by removing all the pre-existing station signage that says "St John's Wood" from the old station and taking it to the new station for re-use.
I counted 15 groan-worthy puns. Must confess though that I know nothing about cricket besides the fact that it is the second most boring national sport, beaten by only a small margin by baseball - although some people in the know seem to maintain that baseball really isn't a sport but a social event.
When I told an American that I was a member of my local cricket club he genuinely thought it was a club for people who kept and bred the insects of the same name!
Everything I know about krikkit, erm, cricket, comes from those books and radio plays. "A game almost incomprehensibly dull"... then again, what sport isn't?
Of course, the hotel that now lies there is equipped with the finest Bistromat system! Sadly the Breadstick Integration Matrix is on the blink, and doesn't like it when you try to land the hotel anywhere...
This is worth checking out- some very rare color footage of the area, shot in the late 40s. A very different St Johns Wood from today- war-weary and tattered. But right towards the end, a clear view of the soot- blackened overall roof of Lords station: th-cam.com/video/9skT80qwdL8/w-d-xo.html At least it's not that god-awful hotel, anyway!
That's a great film ! The curved roof fits in with Marlborough Road station - quite a few years ago I climbed over the wall to look at the remains of the station there and you could still see the remains of the curved girders poking out of the brickwork. Gone now - but that last second of the roof at Lords shows you what it must have been like !
@@mrb.5610 Very evocative, isn't it? The drab, war- weariness of a neighborhood. IIRC, in the 30s, the platforms were roofed over with a concrete slab, and the space above, under the original roof, was used as a parking garage. A very early example of selling the air rights, but it must have made the station quite claustrophobic on match days. There's hardly any photos of the interior. One, taken showing minor bomb damage in 1940, and all 3 of the closed stations are seen on that promo film from the footplate that the Met made in 1910. Apart from that, I can't think of anything else.
@@barneypaws4883 it was a while before I registered one so I know I missed earlier ones. Also, being American, any other specific cricket ones I probably would have missed.
We went to a the reception of a wedding held at Lord's - it was utterly wonderful and we all had a good time (official photos taken on the Long Room etc etc and the couple now have two beautiful kids who are my niece and nephew) ... all of which is utterly irrelevant except that we stayed the night after the wedding at the much shown Danubius Hotel. My three memories of this stay are my then 8-year-old daughter in her bridesmaid dress curled up asleep in a chair in the hotel reception after the wedding; the bride's mother (a lovely lady but one with whom you didn't mess, and sadly no longer with us) laying down the law to the night porter at nearly 1.00am because some people's carefully labelled luggage dropped off much earlier had been put in the wrong rooms; and finally getting to my actually rather dull point, the view of the train tracks from the hotel where I knew there once was a station. I have been on the train through that stretch many times and it was fascinating to get a view from above the cutting for a change.
Easiest way of explaining cricket You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game. Simple!
Nice to see the name is correctly given as Lord's, not Lords', or Lords. I used to lazily assume that the cricket ground was named after its aristocratic connections, but in fact it was founded by a chap called Thomas Lord, who was not a nob at all.
The repeated views of the Danubius Hotel were just possibly a little much, however it is the hotel where my daughter stays in London when she has flown in as part of an Air Canada crew so it had particular interest for me. Thanks for another delightful pun laden video.
@@Dave_Sisson It was built in the 1970s when HMG was giving grants for each room built. So the rooms were small and many hotels cheaply built to grab money of HMG. The buildings next to the hotel are high quality making a stark contrast.
Fascinating. I've been going to Lord's for decades, always using St.John's Wood Station to reach the ground, although more recently using Baker Street as St.John's Wood can get overcrowded, but never realised that a Station stood on the site of the Danubius Hotel, which always looks to me like a converted office block; a Station there now would be hugely convenient.
I thought the video wasn't long enough Jago. I thought you could have PADDED iit out a bit more with EXTRA content. This is my MAIDEN comment for one of your videos. So I will say BYE for now.
Quick glance: Danube Hotel? Cool. Ok, it's Danubis? Evoking Egyptian gods maybe? That's still cool- Danubius. Nope! That's a step too far. Too many syllables.That's pseud-y as f#£k.
Well that station had a....good innings! Seriously, these are all interesting. With the last station of the "hat trick" left, Swiss Cottage, wasn't there a period of a year where the Bakerloo extension and the Met jointly used it? And thus, for the longest time, the Jubilee platforms were marked 3 and 4, before someone decided it wasn't worth numbering for platforms that would never come into use again.
Jago , makes videos about tube stations, mentions cricket in passing. Brian Johnson commentor on cricket , mentions Double Deck buses down the Wellington Road , in passing.
If you do a 'St.John's Wood', then do not forget to mention Acacia Avenue...somewhat beyond the vision of the Eyre Estate and Heny Eyre. The villas and gardes around the High Street acquired a reputation as a red light district for Victorian Top People (recalled by Betjeman in 'Metroland')...the sound of cab horses stamping in the road outside, late at night, impatiently awaiting the 'gentleman callers'.
I played cricket on a club side at the University of Kansas in the States. We discovered that the official rules of cricket are published by the Marylebone (however it's pronounced!) Cricket Club. We also discovered that they could be ordered from a sport shop in Australia much cheaper than they could be from the MCC. To this day, I have no idea why!
Being from the West Midlands I have travelled into Marylebone too many times to remember. When the lines is parallel to the Met gets me thinking. Certain stations have 4 platforms but only the Jubilee ones are used. I’d I’ve to see a video I. Why the others still exist an their history!
Hadn't realised firstly that the rebuilt Lord's only lasted about 14 years, and secondly that it seems it wasn't even called Lord's until its very last months.
Wonderful video thanks Jago. Useless transport fact, Lords was also the name of one of the two original black cab licensed London radio Taxi circuits (deadly rival "Mountview" being the other - named after the block of flats in Highgate where the transmitter was put up) - Lords went on to become Dial-A-Cab. It took its name from the telephone exchange. And recently became bought out by an investment firm who wanted the firm's 'newer' HQ offices in Old Street to redevelop (it moved there decades ago). Being a co-operative, the cabbies (including my Dad) got a nice little payout from the proceeds just before the pandemic.
So the Bakerloo extension was constructed using a new line and new tunnels to Swiss Cottage...does that mean the old line and tunnels are still down there, lying abandoned??? Did they get re-used?
Your videos seem to be really grabbing me just recently, I'm unsure if it is down to the mannerism in your wonderful use of our language or if it is down to relevancy. A guy from my Hamlet has a good position at Lords, lovely Chap, rents his property now but I miss him and his wife down the local Pub. They were both very articulate.
Can I recommend a new novel by Jim Eldridge called 'Murder at Lord's Station'? One of a series of police procedurals set in World War 2. A fan of your YT channel, I was recently asked to review it ... and I immediately thought you might be interested.
As i dash out into the thunder and lightning ⚡ in LeviNZ you can retire for drinks.... passed a double heading...Ja and Ab class locos... steam excursion yesterday....
Some years ago, I watched the Ashes (is that what it's called?) on the picture box, all done and dusted I thought to myself...".what the hell did I just watch!?"....😳😲 Think that I'll stick with football and rugby! 😉😆😂
May I correct a small error in the otherwise excellent narrative accompanying this video? It is indeed true that Bakerloo Line trains were extended on 20th November 1939 in deep level tunnels from Baker Street up to the surface of the Metropolitan Line at Finchley Road to then takeover the service to Stanmore with new deep-level stations at St. John's Wood and Swiss Cottage. But on that date only the original Metropolitan stations at Lord's and Marlborough Road were closed, Swiss Cottage in fact stayed open until 17th August 1940 so that for a few months this station had both Bakerloo Line and Metropolitan Line services. Today, if you peer closely enough from a train window, you can still just make out the platform remains at Lord's and Swiss Cottage but the most easily spotted, of course, is Marlborough Road which is in an open cutting and as well as the razed platforms, stairways can also be seen and which can be used as emergency exits. The well preserved station building at street level was a restaurant under the charge of several different chains over the years but for some time now has been boarded-up and I don't know if the building is used for anything nowadays. Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984), a great hero of mine, visited Marlborough Road (he called it Maulborough Road) in his excellent one-off 1973 t.v. documentary "Metroland" where he is seen standing on a surviving piece of the southbound platform and also coming out the main door of the building as it was then an Aberdeen Steak House. The Bakerloo Line service to Stanmore was, of course, taken over by the Jubilee Line in 1979. KInd regards, David, Crouch End, N8.
Plenty of Brits can't either. Cricket was a Sport invented solely to let the audience have a nap over several days, interspersed with momentary shouting.
Superb, Mr H. I doubt that anyone else could have squeezed more cricketing references into a vid, and this was entirely up to your excellent standard. Thanks, Simon T
Do like the dry humour in your videos @jago hazzard. Is it just me that tries to guess the X and Y…Patreon subscribers, you are the X to my Y . I’ve come close. But never got it right :-)
The inside of Lord’s station is briefly seen in the BBC series “The Tube”, where they use the station to access the tracks (to remove a dead animal, IIRC). Incidentally, if you are ever able to visit an abandoned station, I would love to see that footage put into a video. Especially if it’s not Aldwych (which gets the most attention anyway).
Run out of puns. Bit of boring, fishy trivia, St. Johns Wood had the honour of being the only Underground Stn. on the old map, without having the letters of Mackerel in it, that's if the Station part is left out. Not sure anymore with the new map and stations that have been added.
I am English so let me share what I have learned so far about cricket. Someone throws a ball while another person tries to hit it with a bat. After each ball is bowled people seem to always clap (or there is a pigeon on the roof). After throwing the ball six times, they swap and throw the other way across the pitch. Everybody claps again, and then the players all go into the pavilion for a cup of tea and cucumber sandwiches. I don't think that there is any more to it than that is there?
Jago, bit of trivia for you, every year the American School in London does a senior class photo at the entrance of St. Johns Wood tube station. It's also just around the corner from the station.
You must finish the series now, dont want you to bail out. Will Allow a while but I am sure the appeal will be great and you will make a point to do it and ensure you extra cover all aspects.
John Betjeman’s BBC film “Metroland” has some images from the remnants of the platforms at the “Lord’s” station. Whilst it doesn’t seem to be available on the iPlayer, it can be fond down the back of the internet. Well worth watching for anyone with an interest in NW London suburbia.
Loving all the cricket references! Well done Jago.
I was braced for the Bakerloo extension to bypass the two-track leg before reaching central London… or for the Second World War to leave infrastructure planners stumped
Good catch.
I wonder if he had help to pitch ideas for puns.
He did cover what drives some of the decisions.
@@moe_dk I am regularly bowled over by Jago’s research and presentation skills
@@oldvlognewtricks No wonder, I'm always a bit googly eyed after watching Jago Howzat
Pretty sure there were more baseball than cricket references!
Theory about renaming Lord's just before it closed: If they're opening a new St John's Wood station and keeping the old station open for matchdays only, they could save a little bit of money on infrastructure costs by removing all the pre-existing station signage that says "St John's Wood" from the old station and taking it to the new station for re-use.
And the same with Swiss Cottage!
That's just not cricket 😁
This video needed a cricket pun counter.
Especially liked the "over" comment. BTW, I am an American and I love cricket!
I was going to say this as well, but I thought it would be a silly point
I counted 15 groan-worthy puns. Must confess though that I know nothing about cricket besides the fact that it is the second most boring national sport, beaten by only a small margin by baseball - although some people in the know seem to maintain that baseball really isn't a sport but a social event.
@David Bromage Howzat?🤔
I hope the restaurant in that hotel serves duck...
How many cricket puns can you fit in a video? Jago hits 50 before lunch...
When I told an American that I was a member of my local cricket club he genuinely thought it was a club for people who kept and bred the insects of the same name!
Your friend may equally be confused by 'pigeon fanciers'
i'm sorry. Not all of us are idiots, imbeciles and morons. . . just most of us !:-)
🙏💜⚡️
@@SamLowryDZ-015 - Your reply genuinely made me cry with laughter!🤣👏
@@SamLowryDZ-015 😂 .....or how about 'Ferret racers'!
It begs the question: why is this sport named after a bug? 🦗
They did not actually tear down Lord's. It was deemed too expensive so they painted it pink and set up a SEP field generator.
That requires a special award for a HHG2TG reference in a comment section.
Everything I know about krikkit, erm, cricket, comes from those books and radio plays. "A game almost incomprehensibly dull"... then again, what sport isn't?
No credit for Monty Python's bit about cricket being an exercise in ritual idioting?
"It seemed to the people of St John's Wood that yet another Westminster tube station had come and gone & that it was somebody else's problem."
Of course, the hotel that now lies there is equipped with the finest Bistromat system! Sadly the Breadstick Integration Matrix is on the blink, and doesn't like it when you try to land the hotel anywhere...
This is worth checking out- some very rare color footage of the area, shot in the late 40s. A very different St Johns Wood from today- war-weary and tattered. But right towards the end, a clear view of the soot- blackened overall roof of Lords station:
th-cam.com/video/9skT80qwdL8/w-d-xo.html
At least it's not that god-awful hotel, anyway!
That's a great film !
The curved roof fits in with Marlborough Road station - quite a few years ago I climbed over the wall to look at the remains of the station there and you could still see the remains of the curved girders poking out of the brickwork.
Gone now - but that last second of the roof at Lords shows you what it must have been like !
@@mrb.5610 Very evocative, isn't it? The drab, war- weariness of a neighborhood.
IIRC, in the 30s, the platforms were roofed over with a concrete slab, and the space above, under the original roof, was used as a parking garage. A very early example of selling the air rights, but it must have made the station quite claustrophobic on match days. There's hardly any photos of the interior. One, taken showing minor bomb damage in 1940, and all 3 of the closed stations are seen on that promo film from the footplate that the Met made in 1910. Apart from that, I can't think of anything else.
I was creased up with laughter at your cricket puns. This clip is definitely a keeper.
Offside!
I caught the stumped and over, but how many more did I miss?
It caught me out. When it was pitched, I almost dropped the ball at one silly point, I was creased but soon realised it was over
@@barneypaws4883 it was a while before I registered one so I know I missed earlier ones. Also, being American, any other specific cricket ones I probably would have missed.
Wicket. Sorry I mean wicked
We went to a the reception of a wedding held at Lord's - it was utterly wonderful and we all had a good time (official photos taken on the Long Room etc etc and the couple now have two beautiful kids who are my niece and nephew) ... all of which is utterly irrelevant except that we stayed the night after the wedding at the much shown Danubius Hotel. My three memories of this stay are my then 8-year-old daughter in her bridesmaid dress curled up asleep in a chair in the hotel reception after the wedding; the bride's mother (a lovely lady but one with whom you didn't mess, and sadly no longer with us) laying down the law to the night porter at nearly 1.00am because some people's carefully labelled luggage dropped off much earlier had been put in the wrong rooms; and finally getting to my actually rather dull point, the view of the train tracks from the hotel where I knew there once was a station. I have been on the train through that stretch many times and it was fascinating to get a view from above the cutting for a change.
Demoilished in 1969 - if it'd lasted another 15 years I doubt it would've gone at all. Short of being in the way of a HS2/crossrail.
Easiest way of explaining cricket
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Simple!
In, out, shake it all about. That's what the hoki coki is all about!😉
Cricket is a game for people who have nothing better to do for a few days.
@@eattherich9215 Or a few weeks in the case of a Test Match Series (several of which consist of five consecutive matches)...
So it's a British copy of Baseball?
@@davidjames579 No. Baseball was copied from cricket.
And you are the silly mid on to my googly. Howzat!
LBW.
After a century it was finally over.
Stop it!
That made me laugh more than it should have.
We can declare lunch if you'd like a break?
@@MrNeroDiablo No, you carry on.
Although, jam and cream sponge you say?
Jago, I've learned so much and bored so many of my friends watching your videos.
Thank you!
Nice to see the name is correctly given as Lord's, not Lords', or Lords. I used to lazily assume that the cricket ground was named after its aristocratic connections, but in fact it was founded by a chap called Thomas Lord, who was not a nob at all.
They get everywhere. th-cam.com/video/CpxJsy8nfjA/w-d-xo.html
Wait till you find out that, in the 1870's, there was another major cricket ground in London called Prince's. After the brothers Prince.
The repeated views of the Danubius Hotel were just possibly a little much, however it is the hotel where my daughter stays in London when she has flown in as part of an Air Canada crew so it had particular interest for me. Thanks for another delightful pun laden video.
I may have met her. The hotel has had many owners, Hilton amongst them. Air Canada always stay there no matter.
That hotel is almost agressively ugly. It's as if the architects were actually trying to cause offence to peoples eyes.
@@Dave_Sisson
It was built in the 1970s when HMG was giving grants for each room built. So the rooms were small and many hotels cheaply built to grab money of HMG. The buildings next to the hotel are high quality making a stark contrast.
Seams like this got you in a right spin. Your commentary had me creased up, you're a real beamer of light.
Fascinating. I've been going to Lord's for decades, always using St.John's Wood Station to reach the ground, although more recently using Baker Street as St.John's Wood can get overcrowded, but never realised that a Station stood on the site of the Danubius Hotel, which always looks to me like a converted office block; a Station there now would be hugely convenient.
I thought the video wasn't long enough Jago. I thought you could have PADDED iit out a bit more with EXTRA content. This is my MAIDEN comment for one of your videos. So I will say BYE for now.
That's a little 'underhand' of you lol
With all the cricket puns I was waiting for Duckworth Lewis to be dropped in somehow, but I think that would only put you on a sticky wicket.
Rain stopped play omited alas
Thanks for another fascinating video Jago, I was really bowled over watching it
Quick glance: Danube Hotel? Cool.
Ok, it's Danubis? Evoking Egyptian gods maybe? That's still cool-
Danubius. Nope! That's a step too far. Too many syllables.That's pseud-y as f#£k.
I was at a sticky wicket for something to watch as there was nothing on the box, but as always Jago bailed me out.
stop it
Well that station had a....good innings!
Seriously, these are all interesting.
With the last station of the "hat trick" left, Swiss Cottage, wasn't there a period of a year where the Bakerloo extension and the Met jointly used it? And thus, for the longest time, the Jubilee platforms were marked 3 and 4, before someone decided it wasn't worth numbering for platforms that would never come into use again.
Well, no, it didn't really did it. It was only open for a very short time.
For the first time in my life I wish I knew more about cricket so I too could make awful cricket related puns. 😁
There's plenty of puns flying around here already. There's no boundaries.....
@@stephenphillip5656 I notice nobody's mentioned 'googlies' (google lies) in case the whole video get's taken down lol
Jago , makes videos about tube stations, mentions cricket in passing. Brian Johnson commentor on cricket , mentions Double Deck buses down the Wellington Road , in passing.
Love the little throw aways… especially Stanmoreover 😂
If you do a 'St.John's Wood', then do not forget to mention Acacia Avenue...somewhat beyond the vision of the Eyre Estate and Heny Eyre. The villas and gardes around the High Street acquired a reputation as a red light district for Victorian Top People (recalled by Betjeman in 'Metroland')...the sound of cab horses stamping in the road outside, late at night, impatiently awaiting the 'gentleman callers'.
I played cricket on a club side at the University of Kansas in the States. We discovered that the official rules of cricket are published by the Marylebone (however it's pronounced!) Cricket Club. We also discovered that they could be ordered from a sport shop in Australia much cheaper than they could be from the MCC. To this day, I have no idea why!
Being from the West Midlands I have travelled into Marylebone too many times to remember. When the lines is parallel to the Met gets me thinking. Certain stations have 4 platforms but only the Jubilee ones are used. I’d
I’ve to see a video I. Why the others still exist an their history!
I lost count of all the cricket puns. Guess I’m not on the ball…
Andy Zaltzman would approve of this video.
"Step up to the crease" surely ... ... OK, I'll get my jumper
I hope you make bail after that criminal punfest!
Opportunity missed at 2:10 underarmed not underhanded
Now that you have reached the comment section, the video is: out.
Oh Lords. Jago has the most wicket puns ever in this one.
An absolute ripper of a video. Next can you do one on the Burnley Express?
Hadn't realised firstly that the rebuilt Lord's only lasted about 14 years, and secondly that it seems it wasn't even called Lord's until its very last months.
Your cricket puns....creased me up.
The puns might’ve crossed the boundary, but I still enjoyed it to the maximum
This was a Wicket video, Jago.
So Old Father Time got to it in the end...?
This video gave me a silly mid on leg side
This video is definitely a keeper.
Such a heavy load of cricketing puns, you really hit this one for six😁
Wonderful video thanks Jago. Useless transport fact, Lords was also the name of one of the two original black cab licensed London radio Taxi circuits (deadly rival "Mountview" being the other - named after the block of flats in Highgate where the transmitter was put up) - Lords went on to become Dial-A-Cab.
It took its name from the telephone exchange. And recently became bought out by an investment firm who wanted the firm's 'newer' HQ offices in Old Street to redevelop (it moved there decades ago). Being a co-operative, the cabbies (including my Dad) got a nice little payout from the proceeds just before the pandemic.
Drinking game: every time Jago uses a cricket metaphor, take a drink.
You'll be passed out by the four minute mark.
So the Bakerloo extension was constructed using a new line and new tunnels to Swiss Cottage...does that mean the old line and tunnels are still down there, lying abandoned??? Did they get re-used?
They are still used by the Metropolitan but the stations are disused.
Your videos seem to be really grabbing me just recently, I'm unsure if it is down to the mannerism in your wonderful use of our language or if it is down to relevancy. A guy from my Hamlet has a good position at Lords, lovely Chap, rents his property now but I miss him and his wife down the local Pub. They were both very articulate.
I find it very easy to explain the appeal of cricket to those neither informed nor interested.
Afternoon drinking.
I don't drink and I enjoy cricket. In fact, the drinkers are a pain
Oh how the cricket puns littered throughout made me bowl over with laughter!
Hit you for a 6 you could say?
@@roadwolf2 just that pun caught me out haha!
Will there be a test? 😉
Can I recommend a new novel by Jim Eldridge called 'Murder at Lord's Station'? One of a series of police procedurals set in World War 2. A fan of your YT channel, I was recently asked to review it ... and I immediately thought you might be interested.
"Stumped", "Over", "Hat trick", "Bails", ... you excel yourself, Mr Hazzard. 🙂
Its Clarchitecture at it's finest or worst depending on your viewpoint on such matters!
After a century it was finally over!!
Those kind of puns are just not cricket except they are !!
As i dash out into the thunder and lightning ⚡ in LeviNZ you can retire for drinks.... passed a double heading...Ja and Ab class locos... steam excursion yesterday....
John's wood. He he
Some years ago, I watched the Ashes (is that what it's called?) on the picture box, all done and dusted I thought to myself...".what the hell did I just watch!?"....😳😲
Think that I'll stick with football and rugby! 😉😆😂
May I correct a small error in the otherwise excellent narrative accompanying this video? It is indeed true that Bakerloo Line trains were extended on 20th November 1939 in deep level tunnels from Baker Street up to the surface of the Metropolitan Line at Finchley Road to then takeover the service to Stanmore with new deep-level stations at St. John's Wood and Swiss Cottage. But on that date only the original Metropolitan stations at Lord's and Marlborough Road were closed, Swiss Cottage in fact stayed open until 17th August 1940 so that for a few months this station had both Bakerloo Line and Metropolitan Line services. Today, if you peer closely enough from a train window, you can still just make out the platform remains at Lord's and Swiss Cottage but the most easily spotted, of course, is Marlborough Road which is in an open cutting and as well as the razed platforms, stairways can also be seen and which can be used as emergency exits. The well preserved station building at street level was a restaurant under the charge of several different chains over the years but for some time now has been boarded-up and I don't know if the building is used for anything nowadays. Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984), a great hero of mine, visited Marlborough Road (he called it Maulborough Road) in his excellent one-off 1973 t.v. documentary "Metroland" where he is seen standing on a surviving piece of the southbound platform and also coming out the main door of the building as it was then an Aberdeen Steak House. The Bakerloo Line service to Stanmore was, of course, taken over by the Jubilee Line in 1979. KInd regards, David, Crouch End, N8.
Count me in as a non brit that can't get cricket...
Plenty of Brits can't either. Cricket was a Sport invented solely to let the audience have a nap over several days, interspersed with momentary shouting.
@@davidjames579 🤣🤣🤣
Was
A Chinese Restaurant
Me and my Wife..
Had Dim Sum in there
Marlborough Road
I can rarely resist the temptation to pronounce St John's Wood as "Sinj'n's Wood", like the surname. Small pleasures.
Another fine video. Loving all the cricketing puns! For those that didn’t, well, they could always Boycott the channel.
Oh Jago! The number of cricket-inspired puns in this video surely flags you as a classicist. 🤦♂️🤭
Superb, Mr H. I doubt that anyone else could have squeezed more cricketing references into a vid, and this was entirely up to your excellent standard. Thanks, Simon T
Howzat for a video!
Bowled over by the amount of cricket puns..
I took a shot for every cricket pun: now everything's a bit googly...
Do like the dry humour in your videos @jago hazzard.
Is it just me that tries to guess the X and Y…Patreon subscribers, you are the X to my Y .
I’ve come close. But never got it right :-)
Ironically if Lord's station did survive it would probably be closed on matchdays now to avoid overcrowding.
The inside of Lord’s station is briefly seen in the BBC series “The Tube”, where they use the station to access the tracks (to remove a dead animal, IIRC).
Incidentally, if you are ever able to visit an abandoned station, I would love to see that footage put into a video. Especially if it’s not Aldwych (which gets the most attention anyway).
There is one on the abandoned bits at Euston. I'd certainly like to do more of the abandoned stations.
Love your videos, entertaining as ever and the crickett references of this perticular 'Tale from the Tube' bowled me over.... So to speak 👍
Marylebone: which I will pronounce however I like.
Nicely done.
4:41 Strategic feint. The Germans would never find it.
I want to go beyond that door!
Run out of puns. Bit of boring, fishy trivia, St. Johns Wood had the honour of being the only Underground Stn. on the old map, without having the letters of Mackerel in it, that's if the Station part is left out. Not sure anymore with the new map and stations that have been added.
Now THAT is a very ugly hotel.
If depression was a hotel, this is what it would look like.
I am English so let me share what I have learned so far about cricket. Someone throws a ball while another person tries to hit it with a bat. After each ball is bowled people seem to always clap (or there is a pigeon on the roof). After throwing the ball six times, they swap and throw the other way across the pitch. Everybody claps again, and then the players all go into the pavilion for a cup of tea and cucumber sandwiches. I don't think that there is any more to it than that is there?
I would only add there is 12 on each side . Only 11 go on the field , only 10 can get out and only 2 can Bat at all times.
Cricket is the greatest sport
I'm an American and even I'm bowled over by the number of Cricket references in this video.
What is it Prince Charles used to say? A Monstrous Carbuncle. That describes the hotel, it's hideous.
Us Australian's know all about cricket, but then again there aren't many of us.
Another wicket, I mean wicked, commentary (in the good way of course)
That hotel wishes it could be as pretty and as fitting for its surroundings as Colliers Wood Tower was before its renovation.
Jago, bit of trivia for you, every year the American School in London does a senior class photo at the entrance of St. Johns Wood tube station. It's also just around the corner from the station.
i lost count of the cricket related puns, needs a ruling by the third umpire...
howzat for a video. How long could you have kept going on the cricket puns before you run out?
Another great innings, I mean, video. As an aside, it’s a pity that Oval isn’t on the Circle line , or is it because an oval would fit..
I'm not sure if I love or hate the puns. Either way i'm coming back for more!
What a load of bails :) thought you were on a sticky wicket with all the puns but you seem to have them covers..i mean covered
Out👆, over and stumps, we all retired🏃♂🏃♂ to the Lord's bar or in this case the hotel bar. Just the twicket, Jago.
My favourite thing about this video is that about 10% of us will get the references.
You must finish the series now, dont want you to bail out. Will Allow a while but I am sure the appeal will be great and you will make a point to do it and ensure you extra cover all aspects.
I'd walked past the hotel a few times and admittedly I'd never noticed the relic of Lord's underground station. What a fascinating video!
I wonder if the match day crowds ever got unruly enough that they had to employ bouncers?
John Betjeman’s BBC film “Metroland” has some images from the remnants of the platforms at the “Lord’s” station. Whilst it doesn’t seem to be available on the iPlayer, it can be fond down the back of the internet. Well worth watching for anyone with an interest in NW London suburbia.
I don't know if you could have put in any more cricket references
This video was absolutely 'on pitch'!
Presumably Fred Trueman had an opinion on the matter?
5:23 - "it was finally... over". I see what you did there.