@@Shalott63 Some of the people behind Dr Who created another TV series called Adam Adamant. On 29th September 1966 an episode called "Ticket to Terror" was watched by twelve-year-old me. $00 passengers disappear from a Waterloo & City train which rolls into Bank (I think) full of skeletons... I can't remember the plot, but the W&C train full of skeletons even in 405-line black & white was quite impressive.
@@roderickjoyce6716 Yikes, that sounds scary! Thanks for this little snippet. I'll try to look up Adam Adamant (and I'll see whether it asks me whether I mean Adam and the Ants ...).
@@Shalott63 Does anyone remember a horror film from , I think, the 70's called Deadline. It had to do with some Victorian railway workers who were thought lost after an accident but carried on living behind the walls of the Tube, occasionally emerging to snatch some poor commuter for lunch?
Vault of Skeletons was the name of our college 'Goth Boy Band' - a cross between Bauhaus and One Direction! It's a real shame the whole Goth Boy Band thing never caught on!
When the Bank extension of the DLR was tunnelled in the 1990s, it fractured a nearby sewer, which duly created a bit of a stink. My test equipment got to ride down on a flatbed truck. I had the dubious pleasure of walking down the tunnel to conduct commissioning tests on the fire systems at the station. It was a case of gingerly easing past the 210 litre plastic drum that was sitting on the walkway gently filling and stewing!
@@JohnDavies-cn3ro B list actor know for horror projects. Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness being his biggest genre role. He also played the King of Thieves in the Hercules/Xena shows, Sam Axe in Burn Notice tv show, and the title character on the show The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. Being best friends with Director Sam Raimi means he's had a small part in most of his movies, including the wrestling ring announcer in Spider-Man and Pizza Poppa in Doctor Strange 2.
My old man was with the BR teams when they opened up by accident the bottom of a Newgate prison charnel pit in Snow Hill tunnel, dirt and filth, bones and skulls came a tumbling out and everyone was screaming they were gonna get the plague, he stopped doing the extra duties after that lol He was on the signalling team as he was one of the last Loughborough Junc passed out signalmen as well as Blackfriars before they were displaced, his unnatural knowledge of just about every train working in and around there was put to good use as winding in and out the Thameslinks into two ferociously busy main lines was a train pathing nightmare but somehow he managed to make it all work for BR to go ahead on those base operations but skulls and bones weren't in the job description lol
Buying more land than needed and then reselling the surplus once you’ve rendered it more valuable by providing transportation: that’s how many American railways made solid profits. In fact, that seems to be the idea behind making the Brightline passenger rail in Florida profitable.
Imagine crowds dressed in victorian clothes riding an open carriage steam train in a tunnel with hundreds of coffins laying by the track to go to the Dancing On The Dead concert venue. What seems like a gothic horror movie of today's is just the Metropolitan Line opening ceremony of 1863.
When the Tremont Street Subway was built in Boston,there were two major cemeteries on the route,some 900 bodies,were relocated! Also when the Subway in New York,was being built,there were cemeteries,in both Manhattan and Brooklyn! Greenwood Cemetery is one of those relocation areas,from earlier building operations! Lots of gory,and not so gory,Victorian history,on both sides of the pond! Happy Father's Day,Jago,and a most interesting commentary,on a morbid subject! Thank you 😇 😊!
When the IND was built the 207th St. shop complex occupied an area that had been an ancient burial ground. The remains were transferred to Woodlawn Cemetery and an appropriate monument installed there.
Another example of the use of the drawing shown at 1:21. This was made by the artist as a warning about the possible future horrors of urban life - if you look closely at the whole thing there are details that don't look quite right. I first saw it in a children's history book in the sixties and it has since been used many times as if it was a contemporary illustration of a real scene.
Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is said to have supervised the mass exhumation necessitated by the construction of new railway lines close to St Pancras Old Church whilst working for an architectural practice. This gave rise to the legend that he arranged some old headstones that were stacked against each other in a circle around an ash tree. It became known as The Hardy Tree. In fact a photo dating back to the 1920s, showing children playing on the stones, with no tree in evidence, tells us the tree must grown up from amongst those already arranged stones. The tree fell on the night of boxing day 2022, but can still be seen lying on its side, with chunks of stone embedded in its roots.
Crossbones Graveyard is at London Bridge and was used for Jubilee line extension works. The grey hoardings saying 'Jubilee line extension' were still there until about 15 years ago...
My grandparents are interred in Manor Park Cemetery for which I still hold the deeds, there used to be a necropolois railway within its environs many many moons ago
You caught the back of the block with the Betsey Trotwood at 03:18 . Good, Shepherd Neame, pub. The whole area is described in Dickens' Oliver Twist, including Saffron Hill, site of Fagin's training school.
Bodies had to be complete, but the bones weren't always stored together. Come the day, there was going to chaos as skulls roamed the charnel house, trying to find their necks, and tibias searching for the correct fibulas etc.
You've hit it in one Paul. I'm a Christian believer myself, but simply cannot accept the ignorence which lay behind so many of these ideas. What about those who died at sea (whose remains dissolve) or the classic charnel houses you refer to? It seems the 'theologians' never thought the thing through to its logical conclusion.......
There were similar problems at York when they were constructing the station. York has a large number of churches and the building cut through at least one graveyard. There is a small remnant of a cemetary across the road from the station, which was also disturbed. Its gravestones tell us that the inhabitants succumbed to typhoid. York within the wall was filthy in the 19th century.
Florin Court in Charterhouse Square was used as the location of Poirot's London residence in the TV series and Poirot is a individual who has had experience of a corpse or two
Chartehouse Square has long been said to be the site of a plague pit, and during the Crossrail (i.e. Elizabeth Line) construction work, thirteen skeletons dating back to the fourteenth century were discovered there.
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. When you started, I thought this was going to be another episode of Quatermass and the Pit (fantastic if you have never watched it) I saw it when it was originally shown late at night - scary!
Surely a video on the London Necropolis Railway and line down to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey is due after this. It might also answer the question of where all those disintered coffins ended up.
@2:56 "Vault of 20,000 Corpses" sounds like typical juke box fare in The Swan on Wood Street, Liverpool. Kind of like Accept or Iron Maiden, the sort of thing me and my mate would be dabbing a tear from our eyes to and saying "Aaahh, they just don't write slushy romantic songs like this anymore..." as we daintily sip another pint of Marston's Owd Rodger.
So interesting I have always found the area of Farringdon fascinating and steeped in history as not quite London nor the East end but a unique area in itself.
This is a fantastic bit of history I didn’t know about, even though I used to work in Farringdon. Though it would be interesting to see a video about the most popular/common ghost stories from the underground. Halloween special? 🤔
Have you read 'Necropolis', by Katharine Arnold? A truly fascinating, horrifying, and disgusting history of London and it's dead. I thoroughly recommend it. It's superbly researched, beautifully written, and unputdownably horrid.
Oh, Jago, won't you have fun when you do one of your regional videos and it's the connection between Leeds City station and Leeds Marsh Lane... Let us put it this way, your peaceful grave is now a railway embankment, and your mortal remains are in it! There's headstones on one side of the embankment, roughly, very roughly where your original grave was. 😅
Someone should, just for fun, make a pocket Tube map that shows the "London Underground" when it first opened. Same graphics and font as today's Tube map, but with only one line and 7 stations.
Good evening Jago from sunny Spain. I was half expecting another episode of the BBC series about Quatermass - probably before your time. If I remember correctly (in the region of 70 years ago) they were digging a new underground station and came across a Martian space ship that had crash landed
Jago, you didn't have to dig deep for this video. In fact, it seems like you barely scratched the surface to get to the bare bones for this story, but it is true that the meat of this tale is lost to the bin of history.
