If you’re curious to see how it looked before the massive closure and refurb, here’s a vid from museum friend Fred Ivey showing the neglect and how much work was done: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epiVnrGj3t22eYE.html

Always enjoy the visits. Re Mornington Crescent, that wasn't the name of the program; it was called 'I'm, sorry I haven't a clue'. I think Willy Rushden was one of the comedians on the panel. The original question master was Humphry Littleton.

Excellent, really good. Lovely touch the plaque to Willy Rushton and recalled memories of wonderful Humphrey Littleton who used to chair that radio show with his ever glamorous assistant Samantha

Interesting fact for when you're sitting on the dock of a bay. OTIS Lifts are based in Reading England. As i learned on Radio One many years ago. They phoned the company live on air, who answered "Hello, OTIS Reading" 🤣🤣

The lovely Samantha could have been your guide to the disused lifts. She is an expert on elevators. She knows her way around a shaft, and is especially knowledgeable where going down is concerned 😊

Brings back so many memories of being involved in the refurbishment of the station in the 90’s. We had a great team working closely with the main contractor carrying out the work.

I did enjoy that, great stuff, team. And a nice nod to" I'm sorry I haven't a clue" and good old Humph!

Well done for using Mornington Crescent old school rules, so many people use modern rules but I'm a self confessed purist.

Was my Grandfathers local station and, I bought a Northern Line mug from your museum which had the reopening of Mornington Crescent on it. 😊

Beautifully refurbished station but the main takeaway for me as a foreigner was learning about this quirky game played nicely by the team!

Was a daily user of Mornington Crescent station from the mid 70's for a decade but haven't revisited since refurbishment. The lift(s) - there was only ever one in use on a daily basis back then, used to have a travelling lift operator. I recall the the usual operator was a large, jolly West Indian chap whose name evades memory. Also faded from memory but pretty sure the lift operator also issued tickets from his booth inside the lift. They certainly checked them. The original spiral staircase was a regular route down when in a hurry and occasionally up when the old lifts were playing up. I'm certain the walls were lined but it was a dingy place to be with very dim lighting in the stairway - and damp. In those days the platforms were a typically scruffy place compared with the present day but it always seemed to have a unique charm about it - and that smell of the tube emitting from the tunnels instead of the hoped for '59 stock to get home!

I often think of Victorian/Edwardian eras as being bland and colourless, but seeing those lovely coloured tiles proves how beautiful and vibrant they must have looked walking through those Stations. 👏👏👏

I prepared the signage scheme for this station. Unusually, the normally grey frames around the signs were coloured bronze, in order to enhance the heritage nature of the station

I love all of the Lesley Green stations. Not enough of this style has been saved. This is the first time I've seen Mornington Station post-refurb, and a respectful refurb it is too. Alex rushing on ahead, like an excited little boy. Bless. He would be playing catch-up with me, though. Loved it.

I hope you're playing using one of the appropriate variations such as: Standard Metropolitan Variation, Central Standard Rules or the Ancient Ceramic League Ruling.

I have never been to Mornington Crescent. It’s somewhere on the bucket list now

Just Brilliant- the 1st episode that I have watched (almost) live. The lift machine room gave me fond memories when I did two stints at Mornington Cres. in the mid to late Eighties. The access to the lift machine room was up a vertical fixed ladder, the old lifts were still running and I remember the glass framed Electric shock warning posters with Edwardian men pictured. Rescuing passengers stuck in a lift was hazardous using levers that caused arcing and fusing. A nice renovation but those original tiles ❤

I lived in Arlington Rd in the late 80s and early 90s, and this was my station. I loved it because it wasn't busy but it was so. dark. The whole station looked like the stairwell with the 46 steps. The tiles and the wood were dingy with a layer of neglect. There was a sense of the beauty underneath just waiting to be revealed. I'm so happy to see that it is back to it's well-lit glory. Thanks for the tour!

Great video HL team and fantastic to see this famous station - I have played Mornington Crescent and today I have seen the lovely station in 2023.

What an impressive station ....as a former wireman of industrial panels and motors I really admired the lift gear installation.

Ok the Mornington Crescent game brought back a flood of memories. So bold… When I retire, which is soon , I will make tiles or at least have a lot of cleaning products. You guys are just brilliant. You encapsulate a really interesting explore when we can’t go there ourselves. So enjoyable… much love Alex.

I used to use this station in the late 80s to 1991 but hated the spiral staircase, especially if people were coming the other way and you had to walk on the narrow part of the steps. I’m sure the walls of it were tiled back then. When on the platform, sometimes you’d think your train was coming but it would just be the echos of a train going from Camden Town around the Bank branch

How awesome indeed! I love the engineering tech, the tiles, and the talk! Cheers

Alex, lovely to see your excitement at Mornington. I agree not enough blue in the world. It was great meeting you and Chris at the recent filming, I won't give it away. I didn't take a photocopy but was very tempted 😉

When I regularly used it in the 80s, it felt like it was a station designed with the option of enlargement towards the City branch lines which are close by. The lift access cross-tunnels ended in blank plastered, untitled walls just past the lifts. And what about the second footbridge over the platform - there didn't seem to be any way to get to it then.

LOL at the reference to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Thank you thank you for showing me Mornington Crescent. I’m a Leslie Green fan. I have added this station on my list of ones to visit.

Thanks for an amazing trip round my local station, always a stunning place to travel through, great to see parts of the station not normally open to the public.

I hope getting to Mornington Crescent isn’t the end!

Thankyou team for going to Mornington crescent it was one i wanted to see and i mentioned it to you last year . I was not disappointed thankyou . Warren.

Mornington Crescent was first heard in series 6 of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, broadcast on 22 August 1978. Well before the refurbiishment.

Good to know that there’s always someone outside the lifts who are trained to help if they breakdown

Great episode which I’ve watched in the hotel gym in New York. Been using the subway system here, and I cannot wait to get back on our London Underground TfL system. The subway here isn’t a patch on what we are so lucky to have back home!

The best visit I have seen so far

Another brilliant episode guys. A station I've only ever passed through, but it's definitely worth a look around. 😊

Fabulous station. It's so beautiful and tastefully done. Thanks again for another amazing episode.

Only a few minutes in watching the vid, but have to comment on the lights, even further to your excellent observations: It's not just the amount of light that's increased dramatically, it's the colour temperature, *even if* the modern ones are filament bulbs, they are 'burning' at a much hotter temp, thus far more blue content to the spectrum (reaching up to UV).

I lived in Golders Green when I spent the summer in England. Mornington Crescent was closed for refurbishment at the time. I worked at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and I still regret not visiting Aldwych while it was still in regular service. I wasn't enough of a transit nerd at the time, though I did visit the Transport Museum and bought several books there.

Love the ISIRTA reference!

Thanks for a great video, it didn't seem to be a very busy station, compare to some of the others you have been too

I've been looking forward to this episode. Such a beautiful station and I love the cobalt blue tiles!

Another brilliant episode !!

Missed the live stream, gutted but will watch this with the wife (she's a new fan) tomorrow.....have a goid weekend

My regular. Love it ❤

Many years ago I managed to get myself taken into the machine room at Elephant & Castle when the original lifts were still in service. Does the museum have in its collection a copy of the booklet ‘REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF LIFTS AND ESCALATORS’ dated 1978? It covers amongst other things the procedure for hand winding the old lifts.

I've always wondered why you guys didn't carry some spray cleaner and a cloth with you so you could show off the tiles you find. At least a small cloth would really come in handy for when you guys get your hands so dirty. Loved this episode, the station is beautiful and the restoration was obviously done with a lot of love here. So nice to see that gorgeous green tile in the entry, and that beautiful cobalt blue original tile was stunning.

I believe the number of cables is to provide the traction needed when accelerating and braking the lift in normal operation, rather than just the redundancy.

Can't believe you attempted a game of MC and no one came up with Dollis Hill. Samantha would have been shocked. Expect a letter any day from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales.

unkle - be there 🖤

10:52 66 steps to the Northen line platforms. As there's 18 steps in a floor, that would be somewhat between 3 (54 steps) and 4 storeys (72 steps) deep.

I'll be watching, Ive left a blankety blank space in my diary.

I remember when they closed it for a while!

Was there with a colleague. Pointed out Willie's plaque. He said: "oh he's dead, I liked him."

Mornington Crescent! 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' how you came up with the idea of visiting this station! A station I use on occasion when seeing a show at the Koko Club which is just across the road. Great episode! Seeing the blue plaque honouring Willie Rushton reminded me of a novelty song he recorded in 1972 entitled 'Neasden'- very funny where he mentions that you can travel there by the Bakerloo which is a bit out of date now. Maybe the team could visit the station or even the depot which would be very interesting I should think.

I would love to acumpun you on one of those tours of those magnificent places I'm quite happy to act just like a tripod because going places you guys go looks fun and interesting to me but I'm quite happy just acting like a tripod

Dual Hampstead rule 😆

Love your vids! You’ve turned me into such a Moquette fan! Do you know anywhere I can obtain a piece of Roundel bullseye 1947 Moquette? It’s utterly gorgeous.

Be careful not to get yourselves in nid!

Absolutely lovely station and nice to see it's retained most of original features and any parts replaced have done faithfully to the originals. I especially like the old style opal glass lights. Any thoughts on exploring British Museum Station please? I know there's no street access and you would have to enter at track level, the same as your visit to Brompton Road. I'm sure it would be fantastic.

I used to live just round the corner from it… looking forward to watching 😁

They made a huge effort to make you think that Mornington Crescent spent a century in suspended animation. A lift is one of the safest things you can travel in. But I get that people may be afraid of using one due to claustrophobia or being packed in with many strangers. Elisha Graves Otis stressed the safety of his lifts by cutting the lift cable & proving it could not drop to the bottom of the shaft. Aldwych had very few passengers and the original lifts needed replacing. Which was never going to happen.

11:29 Look how they shine ~ across the ages. Oh no! I'm in danger of turning into a tile fan. Help!!!

"...before becoming the icon of the Radio 4 panel game - I'm sorry I haven't got a clue. " Sorry but the station was an icon on the radio series LONG before the refurbishment. Mornington Crescent, the game, first appeared in the opening episode of the sixth series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, broadcast on 22 August 1978.

This station is in my top 3❤

Nice trio, I like them best,

Been to a victoria line station that still uses the spiral stair cases

No memorial plaque to Tim Brooke-Taylor?

I love your vlogs, I have a question, can I use the underground with a wheelchair as I'm looking to make a visit to London this year.

Thanks team for another tantalising trip into the time/tube tunnel and congratulations Siddy if I may and here's to a happy honeymoon.

I love the old stations, I never understood the obsession of putting in new just for the sake of new.

For Alex, the Fan of Blue, and lover of music: _I'm Blue, daba-dee daba-di, daba-dee daba-di, daba-dee daba-di..._ 🎶🎶🎶

I remember using that station after Kings Cross fire

Hi evening

Opposite the entrance to the station is the Lyttelton Arms pub, named after Humphrey Lyttelton the original presenter. There's an ongoing campaign to have the names of Humphrey Lyttelton and Tim Brooke-Taylor added to Willie Rushton on the blue plaque.

I think in ISHAC "Mornington Crescent" was in use before the refurb, as even then part of the Joke was it was closed more often than open (wasnt it weekdays only at some time)

I really like that poster @ 24:43

Wonderful story - I love blue too - though it does take a beating on older cars. Please: try to avoid talking over each other; the echos are hard on the ears. Also, you promised a ride in the lift! Don't worry though: as a boy I did ride once the Mornington lift in about 1949. An old Londoner here! Rodney Vancouver Island Canada

My brother was a fireman for 27 years and when people get stuck in a lift you never realease the brake and lower the lift, you wind it up to the next floor on a ratchet ........

Just up the road from me. I live a bit closer to Euston but always avoid and go to Mornington Crescent if going north and Warren Street if going south.

Was also the title of an album by My Life Story and an album track by Belle and Sebastian

How did a person clearly in to design (Lura) really not know the term "door furniture"?

So this will be the last video that you guys ever make then is it? Once you land on Mornington Crescent it is literally "game over".

What always puzzled me about the lifts on the underground is they were oblong or square, yet the lift shafts were always round. Therefor they must of had large gaps to each side.

Why don't they call the handrail brackets, 'wall furniture'?

Help me, please. I'm struggling to figure out what a "panel station" is.

This station was always bogus to me in the 1960's 70's and 80's. I always thought it was never open.

Wasn't this station used by the spy ring in the fifties as a meeting place to exchange files?

What is the retangular box that Alex is leaning on at about 23 mins ??

Shame about the platform tiles, as they never matched the originals, also, we’re those titles at ticket hall level the same as at Holloway Road please?.

I suppose there is the trio of stations that need to be considered in a row (and are they on the same tunnels to Camden Town ?) South Kentish Town, Mornington Crescent and the Original Euston station

❤great

25:45 😃

I thought you would have found a maker's tile though....

3:11 "This station hasn't changed massively sicne it open in 1907" - 6,000,000 CCTV cameras 🤣😂🤣

I’m sorry, I haven’t a clue!

🌟🌟🌟⭐⭐

When you use without noticing

"ANTIDOTE" (sp.) P.S. - See me after class.

20:25 need to reference a big train user and nerd here geoff marshall - he's always looking for bin bags...

What was Alex leaning against at 23:31?