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I think a lot of Brits are barely aware of the depth of history that surrounds us, but some of us do appreciate it. I never stop being amazed by the fact that 10 minutes from my home is a pub that has been a pub since Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was alive, or 20 minutes away is a 13th century pub! Or a short drive takes me to the place where the Pilgrim Fathers spent their last night in England - I could go on, and on and on!
It is amazing how much history is around us. Just 10 minutes from me is a pub built in the 14th century and that is on the site of an even earlier hostelry that dated from 1180.
The fact that many Brits, especially the younger generation are so ignorant about our rich tapestry of history is a damning indictment of our education system. It's shameful.
It is true that we dont seem to appreciate what is on our door step. I went to a school that was established in the 12th century and worshiped in a church established in the 14th. I walked to school on part of a road created in the 3rd century and walked through a forest that can be traced back to the 4th century. We live in an amazing islands which is pregnant with history and existing architecture.
I advise anyone to research their family history, the stuff my family have found out is amazing, the closeness to history and historic events they would've witnessed through their jobs and location etc makes you think differently towards them events. From living and working on the sth bank opposite the tower of London from 1500, imagine the prisoners going down river towards traitors gate, and my 8th x grt grandfather being one of Henry VIII high constables.
As a history nut Aussie and Anglophile my observation is the last generation destroyed by left agenda public service all over the western world. Can’t destroy us oldies cos we had a largely neutral more objective education. And a love of books, no social media distraction etc. That’s now. Even on my first foray in ‘79 to dear old Mother England and a couple of months Holland, France, Switzerland, Austria and Northern Italy: suffered an overload of delicious being there. Michelangelo, to Maria Theresa, Prince Eugene of Savoy, and Marlborough to Apple Cider and Portsmouth. Turner to Bamburgh Castle. Shakespeare the biggest genius of all
(Without language there is limited transmission of info’. He was the reason for the Industrial Revolution and the Empire, without any doubt) along with Tyndale who had it so every ploughboy could read the Bible in their own tongue. Jane Austen to Dr Johnson, Dickens to Disraeli, Wordsworth, Wilbeforce and Wellington.
What a heart thumping head spinning time. Sitting in pubs sinking Newcastle Brown and banter with the locals…sheer bliss
But returning from this condensed expression of every yard of ground bearing the footprints of giants to the stiff upper lip of Londoners on the tube squashed between the gormless colonial tourists and Americans shouting unnecessary inanities, as they commute to the daily chore: history doesn’t feed you or house you. Once the necessities of life are secured, your proclivity to enjoy all the above is possible. Particularly felt this in Italy, where a mechanics workshop was replete with a domed ceiling covered in faded 17th century art, the fumes and petrochemical atmosphere assisting its obliteration that a lack of wealth meant such a thing was acceptable to the locals. Understandably.
And while Britain and much of Northern Europe have put finance into preservation the daily grind of getting on removes all of that splendour from attention, till it slides euphorically from view, the minds eye blind to its presence. I’ll just have to sit back with a single malt, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance rising in the background gazing on the sun bleached panorama of a perfect beach and say thank God for Captain Cook and Britain losing the American Revolution…
The statue you ask if it's Tiberius is actually Trajan, it's just outside Tower Hill tube station and behind him you can see the original Roman wall of London with medieval brickwork on top. You can see remains of the wall at several spots around The City.
The Becontree estate isn't a roundabout. I have relatives who Iive there.
The older buildings are hollow in the middle to allow sunlight into the rooms, as they were built before gas and electric lighting.
Ignore negative people and comments... its so easy to be negative hidden away in your bedroom.. you can't take a breath without your upsetting someone FFS. You're doing a good job mate. interesting to hear an Americans' views on UK.
Here in Victoria, Australia we had a massive bushfire called Ash Wednesday and as it approached a local town someone ask the senior volunteer firefighter what we would do if it got in and his response was "would bulldozer the houses on the outskirts. Because after the 1666 fire of London law was passed allowing me to do so".
It was really something as a backpacker to sit in a park knowing that the only language I have spoken my entire life was formed with a few miles of were I was. How at the hight of its power Queen Victoria and Karl Marx were living in the same city. While Darwin's theory of evolution was discussed within site of St Paul's cathedral. And then they bankrupted the largest empire in history to defeat fascism. Awesome
Buckingham Palace is not the official residence of the Monarch, it's St James's Palace. That's why the first proclomation of a new Monarch King Charles the 3rd took place there.
And there is Kensington palace too
In the early days of the "Walkie-Talkie" tower, its curved reflective surface was focusing the Sun's rays and causing the plastic trim of some nearby parked cars to melt. Adjustments had to be made to prevent this effect.
IIRC the architect who designed the Walkie-Talkie tower had previously designed another large skyscraper. Which also melted parked cars. Why did they employ him? And why were the plans not more carefully checked for this?
Well; that's London for you; always learning from past mistakes. :)
You are constantly educating me about my country..Thank you Connor..Happy Christmas from freezing cold London 🏴🥶 ❤
I'm surprised you didn't know about the great fire of London. Also, Norwich is pronounced like 'Norrich'.
The tall skyscraper you like is called The Shard - it has three cool and quite different restaurants on the upper floors with great views of London. The Walkie-Talkie building has the amazing enclosed 'Sky Gardens' on the top 2 or 3 floors. You can visit the Sky Gardens for free giving you an awesome 360 degree view of London, although you do have to book in advance. From one side of the Sky Gardens you look down from this uber-modern skyscraper onto to the 1,000 year old Tower of London below. There is also a restaurant in part of the Sky Gardens which is worth a visit - you need to reserve a table well in advance.
you can book a ticket to access the very top of the shard - it has a glazed bar for viewing and you can go upstairs so you are at the very top where you are outside, with only these huge glass 'shards' around you - amazing view - you look down on helicopters flying around.
@@philanderson5138 Wow - looking down on helicopters. That is amazing.
Connor, we're very lucky to have such a long history. I hope you get over to the UK again soon ❤️
There's hundreds of churches in the uk which date back as far as the 12th century - most old towns have at least half a dozen
I love British history my favourite periods are Tudor and Victorian
American street designs do look tidier but I love our winding little roads there's some secret pockets of areas we can discover on a drive out
When I first visited Spain I immediately felt 'at home' maybe it's my spiritual home 💃🤷🇪🇦
Theres lots of much older ones too. Especially in rural Kent and East Anglia theres quite a few late Saxon ones.
A lot of churches were built on pagan sites
My village has at least one building older than Westminster Abbey, probably more.
And yes we do tend to take it for granted.
The history of the British Isles goes back way before Rome by the way, there's a good video series on histocrat's channel. They're fairly long vids but they go in depth into Britain's history before about 1000 ce back to 1000s of years bce
We were here before the Romans and enjoy every bit of our history. It defines us and is so interesting. I'm glad you can enjoy it too and shouldn't be mocked for wanting to know more. xx I'm in the dry east and we are classified as semi desert. Unfortunatley, as a gardener, it is really annoying.
I went ‘Bella’s Knap’ last summer, in England, a burial ground that’s 5,000 years old, built by the Neolithic tribes of the region. You’d think it had been built 100 years ago, it’s hard to believe it’s been there since 3000 BC!
The gunpowder used during the great fire of london was to blow up buildings in order to create a gap between where the fire was and where it was heading to prevent it spreading further. Huge long hooks were also used to physically pull houses down.
Creating Fire Breaks exactly the same as those existing in every forest in the US
He’s using google earth for the visuals
Heritage is really awesome to look into,my family have tracked our ancestry all the way back to 1036AD all from South Yorkshire, took many years to map it out fully
IF you have a document trail, esp wills , that helps
@@highpath4776 what do u mean by esp wills my family did it through birth/death records and visiting grave sites throughout the uk, and the national archives were rather important in the quest to get a full family tree back that far, could have gone further but the family member who was so involved with it died due to covid last year, sadly & unfortunately, know we have a coat of arms that dates back even further but it’s hard to pinpoint when that was made unfortunately
@@chris747f Heralds Office in City Of London should help if arms granted in England
@@highpath4776 Ok thanks
Construction of the Thames barrier commenced in 1974. It was not "built in 1984". That was when it was officially opened.
1:59 It’s called The Shard, tallest building in the country.
The key thing isn't just having the history, it's having these 1000 year old builings still used in daily life. Near to me there's a castle that's approx. 1000 years old, and it's still used as the HQ of the local regiment.
Skipton (or is that still a jail?)
The building you like is called The Shard and the one you dislike is called the Walkie Talkie or Walkie Sorchie. It got the nickname walkie scorchie because the glass facade was causing the sun light to concentrate into one spot. This caused a politician's jaguar that happened to be parked by the building to melt in places due to the heat. They even fried an egg on the sidewalk.
Long live the king long live the uk 🏴🇬🇧
Thanks as always you bring brilliant videos to react to. Please get back to the UK as soon as you can as I am sure you will enjoy them. I hope you manage to spend enough time here as there is so much more to see per square foot in the UK that makes 100 miles of the UK jammed packed with sites to see. It might sound daft but 100 miles in the UK is different to 100 miles in the USA. Cheers, looking forward to your next reaction. Just one wee tip learn to breath like a singer as it helps anxiety.
I agree we are a bit spoiled with history. London is absolutely magical though - I’ll never get tired of finding crooked little alleyways with the most amazing buildings sandwiched in. Lots of UK towns and cities have incredible history - I had lunch on the Roman wall in Exeter a few weeks ago. It’s all knitted in to the modern day but it still gives you that little moment where time stops. If you know what I mean.
Hi, Great video, talking of the age of Britain it go’s way beyond roman times. Here’s a history of my accommodation (houses) house 1. 90 years old 2. 250 years old 3. 200 years old 4.25 years old and present day home was built in 1660 . Regards JH
20 mins on a train and I'm in the capital where I've been known to walk around all day looking at obscure pieces of history, there are so many hidden treasures to find and see, London is amazing!! And I agree the footage in this video is the best I've seen I think 🤔 😃
My grandfather was a native Londoner and also history geek. By the time I was born, he'd moved away from London but still within a train ride, so he used to take me there and he'd just walk randomly around the city going "ah X-road! This is where (famous historical figure) lived at this date. Then he'd turn a corner and tell me about the next street, the next house, why there was a weird kink in this particular road, a tiny plaque mounted on a wall etc. I don't think we ever came across a street where he didn't know something of it's history and had committed every scratch on every building to memory. Such a shame it was before the days of mobile phones because I'd love to have filmed him.
@@catbevis1644 I'd have loved to have met him 😍
Nelson was around 5ft 6 in height whereas the height of his statue is around 17 feet - giving a Horatio of around 3:1
I can not turn a Blind Eye to that joke,my friend..
@@Isleofskye 'twas a armless jest
@@mystified1429 An Admir ( able ) al one...
Mine doesn't really work so I'll come back to you on this....:)
..and hey, Connor! You're American... except for the Lancashire bit, of course, which is immortal and can't be diluted! 🌹
Regarding the Question why don't we build flood defences ,sometimes it's just not feasible or the cost is prohibitive, there's a town on the coast of Wales called Fairbourne where the land is mostly below sea level,only seawall and sandbanks keep the sea at bay ,the government in London has announced that after the year 2050 nothing more will be done to defend the town from the sea ,residents are having to come to terms with the fact they are going have move elsewhere.You might think fine ,sell up move somewhere else ,sell to who ,who would buy a house that's going to be under the sea .
The shard! It's architect is Italian and is Genoese. I'm English but have lived in Genova ( Genoa) since 1964, another city you should look at when you can. It is a port from where the crusaders left to conquer the holy land.
Check out the oldest ever film. of bustling streets of london in 1890. Only a short film but worth watching. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍
I live in a heavily industrial area, but there's a particularly well preserved Elizabethan house a short bus ride away, with a Norman Castle in the other direction. (Cromwell's army marched down the high street in my town to lay seige to the castle when it was still being used as a Royalist stronghold.) Not far away is a site which is still giving up prehistoric fossils to this day and the whole area was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. No big deal. LOL
Airspace is the busiest, behind nothing mate
But there are much busier Airports.
Annoying that he keeps pronouncing plague ("play-gh") as plagg.
Thanks Connor, great video :-)
The Jamaica Inn, which this video shows as the first coffee house is still there as a pub. The building is so old that the stone step as you walk in has a sort of semi-circle dip in it from being worn away over hundreds of years
Excellent pub, got rather drunk on beer one working day, it was a business lunch! Fond memories. Spent many a lunch time in my 25 years of working in the city just wandering around just facinating by the architecture. Happy days☺
If you think about it, a lot of American history actually comes from British history. I do not just mean the colonial period. If you think of Magna Carta which was the start of anything resembling civil rights eg habeas corpus. Then there were the basic notions of the separation of powers which were built into the American Constitution. We also gave you the English language and the office of sheriff.
It’s a housing estate not a roundabout.
lol
There are hundreds of comments, so I'm not sure if it's already been said but King Charles III became King immediately instantaneously on his mother Queen Elizabeth II passing away on September 8th 2022. Then then on September 10th 2022, he was offiicially PROCLAIMED King in the Proclamation. The video said he is "newly crowned" but his Coronation will not take place until May of 2023.
We Brits luv our city. towns. And. Country. I can't speak for anyone else. I've never taken anything or anybody for granted in my life that's the way I was brought up. Come over the pond and visit london and it might just change your mind to come again or even stay for good. either way You'll luv london and when you go back home you'll have wonderful memories to share with your family and friends. And maybe they'll come to visit to. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍 merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all where ever you are. ,🎄❄️⛄🕊️🍺🍷🍾🎁🦃
It's been a fantastic place to live for my first 57 years:). Highly stimulating with endless variety and change. I lived just 2 miles from these Central London areas and only moved 11 miles further away in 1983 and I thoroughly enjoyed my 29 years in the heart of London and my quieter but safer 39 years right on the very edge of S E London and Kent. Just today I went to a gorgeous 245 Acre Park just 2 miles from a London postal district and after 39 years in the same house,I still have no lock on my back door. Thank You, London you have been brilliant.
Get to know Queen Boudica. She was a Celtic Queen who almost defeated the Romans
No one likes 20 Fenchurch Street: the architect/Developer pushed the nickname "the Walkie Talkie", But I think it looks a lot more like an aeroplane's sick-bag. So I always call it "the Sick-Bag".
It’s only natural Connor to feel some affinity for the U.K. and England when you trace back your lineage and see your British roots. So many people from the British isles helped build America to be what it is today. So when you look back at your ancestry you realise we’re the same people, with the same values and outlook. Separated by the Atlantic Ocean and two separate countries, but in many ways, our peoples are like family. So when people say your American, ignore what they say, because it’s your own intuition that tells you otherwise… As for London, looking at its infrastructure, new and old, there was a proposal to build a major airport hub in the Thames Estuary to replace Heathrow airport, designed by Sir Norman Foster architect. In my opinion it was revolutionary and made complete sense, when the U.K. is surrounded by water, being an island. And the proposal would of helped free up more space for new housing developments, using the land at Heathrow airport for that. And the Thames estuary airport would mean, no more noisy planes flying over Heathrow and it’s surrounding, suburban areas, so residents can have a more quiet sleep at night. But alas, the proposal was rejected, aka, Boris island by the British commission as too costly a proposal backed by the mayor of London, which was Boris Johnson at the time. You see, if this proposal was for Dubai or Shanghai or Hong Kong, it would of gone ahead, but in the U.K., authorities, sometimes do not share visionary ideas, like our Victorian engineer ancestors once had, when they envisioned building a great empire from nothing.
Connor the present-day aerial fly throughs are indeed Google Earth - the logo is bottom right at 8:41 for example.
If your family have traced their decentants to Lincolnshire, see if some of them are from Boston . Your Boston in America is named after the Lincolnshire town and I believe a lot of people travelled to the USA from there
Worked in the city for 25years and love it, and still miss all these years later
Not sure if someone has mentioned it yet, but the video maker is using Google Earth Studio to make those 3D animations. It's a higher quality version of Google Earth and you have to sign up for it and have Google grant you access itself. I got it a few years back for some photogrammetry tests. It's really cool.
Yeah something 100 years old is quite modern here, there's a housing estate near where I live that was built in the late 70s, even today we refer to it as "the new estate" 😆
My flats were built in 1960 on the site of former stables(!) and are now the oldest buildings in the street. In the 1960s, they were the newest! All the other Victorian and Edwardian buildings have long gone.
...that's funny.... 😅
You seem to ask a lot of questions you obviously know the answer to!
The building named the Walk Talky that you eluded to at the beginning of the clip is known as 20 Fenchurch Street. It houses the Sky Garden, which has free entry and spectacular views of London including an outdoor terrace. You have to book in advance to obtain a timed slot. The other tall pointed building you mentioned is the Shard, which is the highest building in Western Europe. You can visit there day and night for views over the city. It also houses a 5 star hotel the Shang-ri-la. London was founded in 43 AD by the Romans, but there were bronze age settlements there long before Roman occupation. In fact there are still traces of the original Roman wall around the city if you know where to look.
The way the narrator is pronouncing 'plague' is making my testes crawl up inside my body.
The next time you visit Connor , you will view all these places through new eyes which will make them more exciting and interesting .🇬🇧
It's amazing how many people mishear the words " ranked in the top three most visited destinations on the planet" and somehow hear " ranked three in the most visited destinations on the planet".
3:10 That is Trajan
what gets me is that you can walk into any charity shop and find Victorian books for a few £. I once sat in a pub (they usually have bookshelves as decoration filled with books from charity shops) and picked up a beautifully annotated book from 1840, being used as a prop. Also as you walk the winding lanes (and roaring avenues) of the city you're replicating the winding paths of a cow to a watering hole from thousands of years ago.
Ah you can be even more creative if you like books. I've picked a second-edition Tennyson poetry book from a charity bookshelf within B&Q for 20p, and at a train station's old waiting room a Victorian complete works of Shakespeare for £2.
Only 6 people were reported to have died in the great fire.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel proposed a tunnel to France during Queen Victoria's reign. Her Prime Minister's reaction was "What on earth for? The French are close enough as it is!"
A lot of Londons Skyscrappers are weird shapes because of the Protected View Corridors aka The Sightlines of London that say nothing can obscure or spoil the view of St Paul's Cathedral, Palace of Westminster and the tower of London. So the Skyscrapers all lean back from those views.
The Real Reason London's Skyscrapers Are Oddly Shaped - Cheddar Explains
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hi mate hope you're well and happy new year from a Scotsman who lives in south London.
The 3D footage they've used, you can create for free with Google Earth Studio.
Well young fella,you're an American Brit as far as I'm concerned. Happy Christmas to you and ur loved ones.
Keep putting those videos out.Try a long Micheal Caine interview video next.Youll enjoy a great British raconteur.
Many of the old London streets that either burnt down or were pulled down were of the old Tudor style. And had overhanging rooms above the pavements. This meant that while people could open the window and shout "below!" Or something else, and empty chamber pots out onto the street below, it also meant that the upstairs windows above the street were also quite close together. This helped the fire to not only jump from house to house below but from window to window across the road, spreading the fire that much more quickly.
So, by the end of it, there were many destroyed houses and businesses that had been burnt down or blown up.
After the Great Fire of London, a memorial was placed near to where the fire started, called The Monument. Apparently if it was laid down, then the top would come to the place in Pudding Lane, where the great fire was supposed to have started.
Hey Conner, just remember, your home IS where your heart is. Your actual geographical location pales into irrelevance once you take that on board.
'This road is straight'
"Yeah, it's Roman"
'Exeter is pretty'
"Yeah, it's Roman"
'It has an old wall!'
"Actual Roman bricks"
Omg the first coffee house is now a pub! I go there after work sometimes 😅
Ice is heavier than water so sea levels aren't rising
Our friend worked on the pointy building, otherwise known as the Shard. Isn't the city just facinating I just love going there and being so I merged in the history. I worked there in banking and thanks to that retired at 55. It served me well. Great vid
We have structures going back 7,500 years. The triangular building is 'The Shard'.
You should visit Britain again good sir. Happy Christmas to you and yours
I'm really into history and genealogy, I've traced most lines back to the early 1500s, but one line back to 1404. One of my ancestors was Gervase Babbington, his cousin was Anthony Babington of the Babington plot. He was the last person to be tortured in public hung, drawn and quartered alive!
The pointy building you like is The Shard. It's next to London Bridge station on the south bank of the Thames, just west of Tower Bridge. 2:03, the buildings on the right, especially the "Walkie-Talkie" as it's nicknamed, are in the square mile, the City of London (which you've watched videos of before. The reason why all those buildings around there have incredibly strange designs is because of 'protected views'. It's a planning restriction which means that from a few various points around London, there must remain an unobstructed view of St Paul's Cathedral. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_view gives a quick overview. As you can imagine, it gives architects a bit more imagination to ensure the views are protected, plus lends the buildings to be given nicknames, such as The Cheesegrater, The Walkie-Talkie and The Scalpel. The design of The Scalpel when viewed from south of the river actually makes it look like a giant 'play' button.
The egg-shaped is the gherkin ... by the walkie-talkie and the cheese grater. The 'pointy' one you were looking for is the Shard on the other side of the river.
Yay, Thames Barrier was one of my favourite Primary School Trips.
London is wonderful, if you've already done the usual tourist stuff consider hiring a guide or recruiting a local to show you the city within the city. You could stay in London for two weeks and not see everything you want.
I’m from Lancashire and I seem to recall you saying you have family who were from the same village I live in
Llyods of London,is a insurance market/ organisation where a large portion of the World's Ships and their cargoes are insured underwritten.
Video: "Which makes it's airspace the busiest on Earth"
Connor: "Behind what?"
Uhhhhh...what? 😂
I think he was responding to an earlier statistic that London was third favourite tourist destination.
The M25 motorway is the biggest roundabout and sometimes the largest carpark.
My family has been in London since the 1600's at least. I was married in the church by London Bridge on the South side of the Thames shown at 3:15.
Yeah we take our history for granted a bit. I was ice skating at Belvoir castle yesterday, in a farm shop of an Elizabethan manor house today, 15 minutes I’m at an 11th century castle and a 12th century cathedral, within a Roman city that was invaded by Vikings, with Roman ruins and a Roman archway that you can still drive through. Viking and Roman history litter the area, including Viking and Anglo Saxon names. Norman churches, ruins of ancient abbeys, destroyed in the reformation within 10 minutes… an Elizabethan castle about 25 mins away, another castle just over half an hour away…
The aerial shots are from google earth… it literally says it in the images :)
Connor. If sea levels are rising, then why are millionaires buying waterfront properties to live in around the planet?
I live in the east midlands and have experienced two earth quakes here!
I'm glad the narrator dealt with this narrow minded lazy stereotype about how it's always raining and gloomy in London and the UK in general when the truth is so different.
Americans often say they don't have much history as if the USA popped out of nothing in 1776. If you're of European ancestry, European history is YOUR history. If you're African, African history is YOUR history. And if you're of Southern English extraction, the video being watched here (or at least the first part of it) is YOUR history and your ancestors were ruled by Romans, Normans, Tudors etc just as much as someone currently living in London. I know in the USA you're not surrounded by ancient architecture liker you are in Europe, but your history is just as old.
1) Cesar was not an emperor 2 around the 4th cenruty he was passed away for about 350 years, i would bet that emepror was Hadrien ( famous for his wall)
The pointy thing is known as The Shard. We see buidings created 2000 years ago and more. Stonehenge was created over 6500 years ago as a celestial observatory to predict he summer and especially the Winter Solstices. I say especially the winter one as th sun was at it's lowest and the population could see it's rebirth and knew that the world was not in fact ending. By the way the actual City of London is only around 1 square mile and is next to the city of Westminster, it is what is known as Greater London that most visitors think of when the envision London.
London & Liverpool are my 2 fave British cities
Well, Lincolnshire is where I`m from ( I now live in Yorkshire ). Ten minutes listening to "Farmer Wink" will tell you how traditional folks used to sound in Lincolnshire, because Farmer Wink and his brother still talk like we used to, and as a few of us still talk. Fmr Wink can be found here in YT.
I don`t have to spend long in Lincolnshire before I revert to talking as we used to.
I've lived here all my life and I think some days can just be all "cool, more old stuff" but been wandering around from a young age and enjoying weird little bits I still find all over. Particularly enjoy open house and getting in places normally not open, been in most of the skyscrapers this way, then next booking would be roman baths for instance found in an office building basement, just layers everywhere. My dad's deep into his genealogy too. Got family here going back centuries so I've been sent out to take photos of places where a building stood where my however many great grandparents were born, etc. I don't see it as a point of I'm more of a Londoner of whatever so I don't get why people are like that. I see it as some people moved here before I was born and have known the city longer so whatever if that makes sense. I think a lot of those images actually are Google earth it's incredibly well 3d mapped by now. Still throws me I think in tube lines mostly.
This was just meaningless babble!
The menagerie in the tower was yes essentially a zoo. It came about because of all the animals gifted to the Royal family.
It was open to the public in later years and you could supposedly gain entrance if you brought a small animal to feed the large carnivores with.
It was transferred to regents Park ..in 1826 and closed in 1835 when it sold on all its animals.
I thought the animals ended up starting Windsor safari park ?
@@carllawrenczuk9173 apparently they went to the London zoological society in regents park (zsl London zoo) mostly.
My family have lived in London for at least 500yrs, having trouble going back further in the records.
Connor has never used Google Earth.
There is a reason for this building looking like that. The architect who designed it likes St. Paul's cathedral so much he didn't want to obstruct the view. If the building would be straight at least part of the cathedral view would be obstructed.
My favourite building is GHERKIN -the oblongish one.
In Britain. 100 miles is a long way. Because we have too many corners, and too much traffic.
But many of us live in houses, use tools and equipment and travel on a rail system. That is older than 100 years.
I work in a factory. Making American kitchen units. The same building was used in victorian times to make railway carriages.
I live in a victorian terrace. Everything in England is just reused.
Personally I would never want to live in London or such cities. I live on the Isle of wight and could never live in any city so chaotic and urban. It does have beautiful places though.
The Royal Exchange had been founded by English financier Thomas Gresham and Sir Richard Clough on the model of the Antwerp Bourse. It was opened by Elizabeth I of England in 1571.
Just a small point, but the narrator of the video pronounces ‘plague’ as ‘plag’, to rhyme with flag. In English it is pronounced ‘playg’ to rhyme with vague. Is this perhaps a US usage?
A lot of that modern CGI looking footage is from Google Earth rather than Google Maps