American Reacts to 101 Facts About London 

I have to say that you are the nicest, most gentle and most enjoyable reviewer on this platform I have yet seen.

One reason only 6 people reportedly died in the Great Fire could be that for them to class a death in that time they would've needed a body. Seeing as the fire was estimated to be over 50% hotter then the heat needed for cremation, it is very likely many bodies where entirely incinerated and could not be identified as a body.

OMG! How many times did the guy in the video say tiburn, instead of TIEBURN, which is how you say TYBURN!

Teddington Lock on the Thames is in Southwest London not as Southeast London as it says in the video.

I have to say JJLA that when I first started watching your videos I wasn’t sure. But now you are probably my favourite American reactor because I love your voice - it’s American but softly spoken and that’s rare. You’re quirky but sensible and have a great sense of humour.

The oldest corporate brand (trade mark) is the Bass Red triangle oh for a pint of Bass ..

London's bus routes do not have any zeros before the number. The route would not have been 007, just number 7. There were no individual roller blinds on the buses so you could not display 007 on them

Soho is also the centre of the film and music industries

Lots and lots of people were executed on Tower Hill which is OUTSIDE the Tower officially

The ‘CITY OF LONDON’ OR ‘THE CITY ‘is also called THE SQUARE MILE. All the Banks, Stock Exchange and all things Financial are sited within THE SQUARE MILE. very few people live there.

Travelling from Chorley Wood to Amersham on the Met line years ago the train was going over 60 MPH (driver going home for tea) the bloody thing nearly bounched off the tracks.

There is an open river running through London into the Thames, called the river Lea. The Lea Valley is a nature reserve in East London , and worth a visit. This was reallly only about centrsl London, but there is far more to explore.

As an escapee from the Isle of Dogs ... My Mum always said, "You don't cross the water" (the Thames) Strange as we used to walk through the foot tunnel to Greenwich to do our shopping!!

London was a settlement before the Romans, they just gave it the name.

The distance to London is actually measured to the Eleanor Cross at Charing or Charing Cross as we now know it.

8:49 I don't think this was just people killed, a lot of people moved away from London. Also the post war era saw increasing suburbanisation with people moving out of the capital to surrounding counties etc.

I love this guy's earnestness. His reactions are so heartfelt and genuine. He seems so calm and gentle, and genuinely curious. A lovely departure from the usual over-the-top, loud extroverted people who do reaction vids.

Big Ben was made in the same London foundry as the Liberty Bell

The other rivers flowing into the Thames are not brackish, but are freshwater - they rise mile away and flow downwards towards the tidal Thames, and eventually the sea. Some of them, like the River Lea, are still above ground, but there are several 'lost rivers' like the Westbourn and the Tyburn mentioned here which are now underground. (Incidentally, the guy mispronounced Tyburn as Tibburn, when it is usually pronounce TIE-burn.)

Just a suggestion as its coming up to Christmas. If you get chance , watch something called 'Christmas in a day' its a compilation of videos edited together during a campaign by sainsburys supermarket in the uk during the Christmas of 2012. It shows the entirety of a British Christmas, from many different perspectives, from people of all walks of life in the uk. From families, to elderly, to the homeless. Its a family favourite of ours, and we always watch it every year. Massive love from south wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Ian Fleming was assisted in writing his books by a former SOE and MI6 spy called Peter Mason whose clothes, tools of his trade as well as his weapons which are on display at The Combined Military Services Museum (Bruce Crompton from Combat Dealers is it’s patron, the museum appeared in an episode) in Maldon Essex, his silenced Walther PPK with the numbers 007 on it (his wife was also a spy and some of her things are also on display). I visited the museum in September it has lots of military uniforms, equipment, weapons as well as one the of kayaks (it was damaged as it was removed from the submarine, you can see the damage on it) from Operation Frankton a Royal Marine Commandos raid to blow up ships in Bordeaux harbour the mission was a success but only two returned the rest were captured and murdered by the SS, there is a memorial to The Cockellshell Heroes as they were known (there is a film of the same name starring Trevor Howard) at the former Royal Marines barracks and museum in Southsea

Norway gifts a Xmas tree to London and to Edinburgh every year.

I enjoy your videos they’re fun and your comments are never intrusive it’s a real skill

Anorak here. The Metropoliton Railway, (now the Metropolitan Line ) is not an underground railway really. Yes it incorporates the original underground line but it extends out to leafy Amersham (28 miles), until 1961 it served Aylesbury (50 miles) it was part of an empire run by Sir Edward Watkin who was Chairman of the Great Central railway from Manchester to c.Aylesbury, The Met, the London Chatham and Dover railway, the Channel Tunnel Company and the Paris Nord railway. His death in 1901 put paid to this dream of Manchester to Paris by train.

The city of London has its own laws and police force. You’ll note around its borders little red plaques denoting the square mile …..

There was a settlement on the site of London (bridge) when Johnny Roman came over, but it is there because it is the lowest bridging point until technology allowed bridges to be built downstream, ask Mr Cooper-Jones, he was a Geography teacher

Both my partner and I both did an hour on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square I was on a Sunday at 5am and a beautiful falcon was flying around the square keeping the pigeons away

"Tyburn", the name of the subterranean river under Buckingham Palace, is pronounced "Tie-burn", not the way he said it. It gave its name to one of the main places (now the site of Marble Arch in the NE corner of Hyde Park) where criminals were executed centuries ago.

Elizabeth Tower was called St Stephens Tower previously. Video is wrong yo say it was unnamed

These ads are not for marketing they are there to raise awareness, that's why they hit hard and awaken people.

Back in 1968 my now husband and I were in Trafalgar Square feeding the pigeons and had our photo taken by a street photographer. We went back earlier this year and thought we would revise the photo but there was a demonstration going on at the time so it didn't happen. We will try again some time. Tyburn is pronounced Tie burn. There are loads of parks in London to the point it is classified as forest.

"The London Eye" not actually a ferris wheel per se, it's an observation platform and is mounted (boarded) whilst its miving (unless pre-booked to board it in a wheelchair) and it takes 30 minutes to complete a full turn.

Got to hand it to you, you do retain the information you watch (unlike other reactors) 😊

Fun fact, I live in West Norwood near or where Adel lived. Also the cemetery which is huge has a mausoleum to the inventor of the machine gun.

fleet street is the river fleet covered over

The ravens are trained to keep the pigeons away ,so they don't poop on the building.😊

It's not the "bald" one, it's the bold one. He did say, "that's bald with an O, not an A".

Tyburn is normally pronounced Tie Burn. All the executions there may be why not many occurred at the tower. That and the facts that the Tower of London was a royal residence and a prison (is there a difference?)

Google 23-24 Leinster Gardens. My favourite of London’s quirks.

There is a great vid. here on Yt about the great fire of London from hour to hour.

Most of the executions at the tower were taken just outside to Tower Hill. There is a small memorial there.. the 22 are the people executed inside the Tower and I know that many unofficial executions were also carried out inside the Tower grounds 😊

Technically London is a seaside city, until Teddington lock. But you wouldn't really set up a deck chair in the mud flats when the tide goes out. 🤣🤣 2x👍

The man who comments on this video, drives me mad. Why can't he do it without being downright silly? He spoils,which could be, an interesting video about London.

11:27 his face after those weird noises 😂

I read somewhere that,in the day, the king gave the London bridge to the queen for an income, tax & tennants, she liked the income but didn’t careabout the upkeep.

21 minutes in and really enjoying this (in other words 'you had me at hello' lol) That is all for now, cheers!

Battersea power station has now changed to a shopping centre. Still retaining is former life as a power station. It's worth looking to as a project for you as they spend millions and millions. This upgrade

Thanks for this fascinating video about my wonderful Home Town of 69 years 😀😀

Fun fact, I live in West Norwood, fact 101, very near the cemetery. One of its most famous tombs is the inventor of the machine gun.

We don’t have bridges in east London but we have tunnels, they lead from east to southeast London, when they are open. When we want to go to the Westend of London you can travel through the city of London to get there.

That Doctor Who reference was pretty cool actually

Number 25 you can go up to the walkeways as a tourist attraction

On the subject of pigeons in Trafalgar square, I live near Accrington in Lancashire and because they had a lot of pigeons around the town hall they decided to add the contraceptive pill to food they would eat to keep the population down and the place cleaner.

There's still a gallows along the bank of the thames in Wapping, it's been there since the 1700's and was used to hang pirates.

Yes, the centre of London is nowadays SO 'diverse' that you'll even occasionally find ENGLISH people in it. If you look hard enough...(no - that isn't a myth!).

I hate the relentless bonhomie and forced "humour" of the narrator. He obviously thinks he is wildly entertaining. He's not. Someone should tell him.

He keeps pronouncing Tyburn as Tiburn for some reason. It is pronounced Tie-burn.

You may find it crazy that 1 body a week gets pulled out of the river thames in london, but if you consider that the poppulation of london is more than the 'COMBINED!' Population of the US states ,of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Alaska, and Hawaii, it is probably fairly average or low statistics. I wonder how many people drown in the rivers every week in all of them states put together? Or i wonder how many policeman get shot each week in them states? I know (acording to statistics) only 14 metropoliton police officers got killed by a fire-arm in the whole of the 20th century. It wouldnt surprise me if 14 US police officers have been killed by fire-arms in them states in the last couple of years alone.

I live in a semi rural area, the only time I’ve seen a fox in the wild was in London. It was just hanging out in my hotel car park.

If Greece gets the marbles back, I want that bloody bridge back! 😅🇬🇧🇺🇸

Never heard another living soul pronounce the River Tyburn - sounds like Tie-burn - as the Ti-burn.

Buildings show at 2:28 are in the City of Westminster.

Yeah, the snarky comment about stupid people not liking Saddiq Khan isn't looking so clever now.

London Bridge classically marked the tidal limit of the Thames, especially because Old London Bridge had a strong flow through its arches. That's why the Tower of London was built where it was - to offer a harbour for sea ships and extract customs dues.

How about a look at York? Also Yorkshire? There's enough for two!

I am not surprised by Bangkok airport statistic, having been there myself. (Actually there are two international airports servicing Bangkok). Coming from Perth, Western Australia - not a very big city at all by world standards - it was overwhelming for me to a very unpleasant level. I loved Thailand but the thought of the airport puts me off returning. 🥴

Couldn't make it through 3 mins of the original video. Congrats on putting up with it all the way through. I think the original video creator thinks himself a comedian.

The Edward Jones story may have been the basis of a novel and film called The Mudlark made in 1950, but this was a fictional work qith a happy ending

"a fact that makes stupid people, very mad indeed" - I wonder if he still thinks that now that those stupid people were proven right?

Oh I've not seen the London 101 😮

All the dock area is a located in east London and some in south London down river from tower bridge

14:26 Number 31 - "London is not a city, never has been a city, and never will be a city" end of fact.

The reason only a few people were execution in the tower is because there is an execution site a short distance from the tower of London. People were taken there for a public execution. Today you can stand on the site and read the name of those souls on plaques surrounding it.

Best 2 yet

was renamed Agustis Goop

I don't think the British Empire has anything to apologise for. We were paternalistic. Misconduct was punished. We were even ahead of the game on abolition of slavery.

Those Billionaires must live in Wimbledon, everything so damn expensive there🥲💸

I'm proud of the empire

We drive on the left yet stand on the right of escalators 😂

Just to confuse you further; there are two cities in Greater London (London to you) The City of London and the City of Westminster. The seat of Government is therefore in the City of Westminster and not in London at all. I must get out more ...

I thought all distances in London were measured from Charing Cross, or so I was told.

Jack the Ripper was from New York.

Those variations of London are just declensions - a feature of Latin

Ravens....... history..... something sadly missing in America ....

Check out the secret City of London .

The Huguenots are not are fictional family their decedents are still alive in the Uk.

Albert was Victoria's son

I found the guy for horror movies lol

Tyburn is pronounced tie-burn.

The video is wrong about Big Ben as usual. "Big Ben" is just a nickname, and it can be and is commonly applied to to the bell, the clock, and the tower. The official name of the bell is "The Great Bell".

Where does American land in the 300 languages spoken in greater London?

The superstition of 13, and leaving out the pod wasn't for the benefit of the locals. And it's Tyburn like 'tie'.

The ravens at the tower cannot fly

Do not drink water in London rivers :)

GO ON EDWARD JONES

Read Samuel Pepys.

11:50 scared me, can we not do that again please e

The then King Charles the second joined the fire fighters during the height of the fire.

London foxes are very brave, well the one that nicked my brothers shoe from his back door, im sure it must have killed, that poor fox because it would kill a man or two.

No it's only one of the London Bridges. If that story was true which I don't know you don't know who Jack the Ripper