Exploring Greenwich

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It’s December, it’s wet, it’s windy, it’s cold, so the perfect opportunity for Andrew to lose his fingers to frostbite taking a look at Greenwich. The playground of kings and queens for centuries, join him as he learns about families picnicking on the dead, Romans forging roads all over Greenwich park, the saint who said no, the queen who said no, and the king who said yes to enough mistresses he had to put a castle aside just to house them all.
Massive amount of credit to John Chaple who has written a thoroughly well researched an entertaining page all about the roman roads in greenwich (and much more): www.johnchaple.co.uk/watling.html
- I’ve basically taken a lot of that as gospel, but I understand that some of what he says is not perhaps mainstream historical opinion, yet on the other hand I don’t mind that at all.
Thanks to Conor Feely for his architecture insight and acting talent
Follow me on twitter: / andrewjd

Пікірлер: 82

@Dave_Sisson 5 жыл бұрын

A quick note to say I found your channel after I saw the video you made for The Londonist. I've just binge watched all your stuff and subscribed. Keep up the good work. :)

@Gyroglle 4 жыл бұрын

same

@rayslinky 5 жыл бұрын

keep up the great videos, handsome stranger!

@mrrsriley 5 жыл бұрын

I switched off after 11:54 minutes. Too entertaining, but that’s when it ended. Great sound affects! I love the wind you added to it! Glad I found these! Thanks for making them!

@Adam-xs1qv 5 жыл бұрын

Great video as always! A west London special would be interesting, Notting Hill / Holland Park / Kensington Gardens / Kensington etc

@AussieGlenn 6 ай бұрын

Hi Andrew. I regularly visit London from Australia, and love it. Sadly though I have only just found your VLOGS. I love the way you present them, your research, humour and presentation style are so engaging. I note you haven’t VLOG’d for a while, I trust your well, but I can tell you put a lot of time and effort into each one. I thought the line in this VLOG “but handsome stranger”, was so funny :-). Now I’ll have to binge watch them all.

@PharmAcademy2018 Жыл бұрын

These videos are amazing. As another anaesthetics trainee, kudos for finding the time to make these alongside the joys of FRCA

@harrysmall8705 5 жыл бұрын

These videos deserve much greater viewing figures. I wondered whether you had perhaps considered teaming with The Londonist, whose audience would appreciate your style ( I think). Thank you as ever.

@ExploringLondon 5 жыл бұрын

I'm always gonna do my own stuff here, even if not a lot of people see it, but I'm in touch with the Londonist people as well, so watch this space

@CuriousPavel 5 жыл бұрын

any news from the Londonist?

@thecockerel86 4 жыл бұрын

See, it worked. All these views and subs ( me included) from The Londonist.

@Ethan-ik1nm 5 жыл бұрын

Really great video as always. You deserve more recognition

@gazzer210 2 жыл бұрын

At the risk of parroting other comments, this guy deserves waaay more views than he gest. Brilliant stuff

@lolageez1 5 жыл бұрын

It's like Limmy is giving me a tour of London. Nice Btw maybe look into getting one of those fluffy mic covers, the wind was very loud in a few bits

@CuriousPavel 5 жыл бұрын

good tip. I was going to say the same thing

@Wikeford 5 жыл бұрын

There’s a whole load of big sewers under Greenwich Park and a cave network under Blackheath, which is only a minute from the top gate of the park.

@onecupof_tea 9 ай бұрын

Greenwich is lovely to visit by boat up the Thames, it's like stepping back to Victorian times with the Cutty Sark, and Maritime Museum. There's also people selling pieces of clay pipes and old coins, which are washed up on the shore. If you walk on the small beaches, remember the Thames is tidal, so can rise by ten feet.

@abhishekbanerjee6140 3 жыл бұрын

I'm literally binging ( is that a word ? ) on your videos man. You're sense of humour is amazing!

@ajpatterson57 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great video! You could also cover part of it on the many tunnels that run under the park and that are rumoured around other parts of Greenwich.

@Paseosguiados 2 жыл бұрын

Very creative as always, thank you!

@evilsisterslol 5 жыл бұрын

These are amazing! watched all your vids, please make more!

@dylantierney6407 4 жыл бұрын

Your account deserves way more subscribers. Amazing stuff. Love the accent too ;) xoxoxo

@__ryan 5 жыл бұрын

Would've liked to hear more about this Palace of Placenta.

@gabbagooey 5 жыл бұрын

Great video!! I would love a Woolwich/Woolwich Dockyard episode, I used to live there and have been missing it a lot recently!

@cottonwood992000 5 жыл бұрын

Love your videos and look forward to more!!!

@petervaughan6854 3 жыл бұрын

Continuity error 🤣🤣 love your stuff so much

@xario1126 5 жыл бұрын

You're an absolute lad. I did scream when u mentioned the road.

@CuriousPavel 5 жыл бұрын

lol

@LondonRider12 3 жыл бұрын

Love it, thank you. I'm a big fan of Watling St, but didn't know it went through Greenwich. I'll have to check out it's route across central London. 🤓

@rontanser9369 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I have just nicely found your channel very pleased I found it you’re very good

@slugwrench 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks , a very good vid , A fun perspective of my home town .

@Rufnokable 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant stuff!

@Yamauzura10 5 жыл бұрын

I spotted Regina and Columbia Point in one of your videos before - So any chance of doing exploring Rotherhithe?

@MatthewJBD 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, pretty funny. Top stuff 👌🏻

@bb32112 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Funny and interesting 👌🏻

@gamegnome 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video

@alternativevlog1180 4 жыл бұрын

Like you humor and editing 💥👍

@4hesr6kefb3y- 5 жыл бұрын

This is so useful!

@MrAmelia500 5 жыл бұрын

Great video!!! Could you do a video on Hackney please!

@CuriousPavel 5 жыл бұрын

good video. surprised how you did not find anything interesting about Cutty Sark as being one of the fastest ships in the world in its time.

@dbc55 4 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@iloveaespaaa 5 жыл бұрын

I live in greenwich

@hoptop77 5 жыл бұрын

Great vid, you should do more south London places.

@CuriousPavel 5 жыл бұрын

whats the most Curious place in South London for you?

@hoptop77 5 жыл бұрын

@@CuriousPavel Camberwell and dulwhich with its healing springs.

@alternativevlog1180 4 жыл бұрын

Would like videos about events currently happening in London. Like winter wonderland so people considering atend it or not. I came here after WW video. Good luck!!!

@anandaprada. 5 жыл бұрын

You are awesome!

@niviamaeva 3 жыл бұрын

You are awesomely clever and funny 😆

@sonsofanoraks 5 жыл бұрын

The Danish raiders were not Vikings, but did go a-viking, thier term for exploring and all the other things which were quite naughty by our modern standards. Great videos by the way, very interesting.

@patrickwilkinson721 5 жыл бұрын

Explore Wimbledon

@kestag2110 11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂. Brilliantly done

@lozzy992010 4 жыл бұрын

I live on was Watling street (now called Holyhead Road) in Shropshire and I’m moving to Greenwich soon 😂

@transportandtheatrekid2298 2 жыл бұрын

3:40 Wheeew

@1258-Eckhart 3 жыл бұрын

What always worries me about this standing with one's feet in two hemispheres caper is this: in the middle of the Pacific, the foot which is in the Eastern Pacific is in the Western Hemisphere and the foot which is in the Western Pacific is in the Eastern Hemisphere.

@ScottAmbroseTV 5 жыл бұрын

these are good. I would like to work with you and help polish them off. If I could help please get in touch.

@___-yy8ud 3 жыл бұрын

This is fucking great

@craiglogistics2092 4 жыл бұрын

You should explore Ally Pally and Chrystal Palace and Kew Gardens

@MatthewJBD 5 жыл бұрын

I shan't share, but I did like.

@sawahtb 4 жыл бұрын

You didn't mention Lord Nelson. That's what I want to hear about more..

@hellfirepictures 4 жыл бұрын

The person or the pub? :D

@prasenjitdey4222 4 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@jesussavesanus9790 5 жыл бұрын

Do one on Ealing you lascivious lad.

@satishkadam7002 Жыл бұрын

😆😝

@railwaypremium1952 5 жыл бұрын

You should be the new jay Forman

@1258-Eckhart 4 жыл бұрын

what happened to the old one?

@railwaypremium1952 4 жыл бұрын

@@1258-Eckhart got a bit boring after a while

@jamiehollywood7681 5 жыл бұрын

I did actually share this video with my most loved person before I heard you ask it of me towards the end of the video, and now I wished I hadn't.

@ExploringLondon 5 жыл бұрын

If it's any consolation, I hate myself for that too.

@mrviniful 5 жыл бұрын

Oh I always ask myself why fountains want to be my friend but not real people

@1258-Eckhart 4 жыл бұрын

Francis Petrarch (he of the sonnets) made best friends with the Fontaine de Vaucluse and bought a house there to be near it. The restaurant in the village has the most exquisite trout btw.

@railwaypremium1952 5 жыл бұрын

Explore wapping I live there brunel

@thetomhfh 5 жыл бұрын

do vauxhall!

@loriwallace3222 5 жыл бұрын

Aldgate/Whitechapel would be great

@manuelcheta 5 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. Tom Scott should give you a boost :D He also talked about prime meridian and its location kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etOme71l1NOmYnU.html

@SmilingWooperHjalle 4 жыл бұрын

Only place ive been offered drugs

@lindenbeck 5 жыл бұрын

Could you do me a favour please? Next time use a better microphone which doesn't record the noise of the wind. It's really annoying. Thx.

@ExploringLondon 5 жыл бұрын

This isn't the first comment about audio quality in my videos but I'll address it here for anyone who's thinking it. I spend a lot of time during editing trying to get the sound as good as I can get it, but I know it doesn't always sound perfect. You spend 5 minutes watching one of these videos, I spend 2 months making them in my spare time, and spend endless hours poring over them trying to craft them into the finished video. I know very well what it sounds like, I see every flaw. I do however believe that it is always clear what I'm saying, and wouldn't publish something that was inaudible or quality-wise was embarrassingly bad. But please note, this is not my job. You'll notice there's no advertising, no sponsors, no one is funding me. The equipment I have is hilariously basic and scraped together from things I have anyway for other purposes. I'd love to have a nice microphone just as I'd love to have a proper camera, or a better computer to edit the videos on, or better software. But these cost large quantities of money which I don't have, so for now I'll spend a lot of blood sweat and tears trying to get the kit I do have to be as good as it can be. And sometimes that'll mean the wind will blow a bit. There's nothing I can do about that.