Lol

Yes, Jago goes down very well with a crass aunt.

I think Yerkes was sadly misunderstood. It seems he got things done. AND by the way he founded the Yerkes Observatory which was only wound up around 2010 or so.

Quite right too.

Or deny bike lanes to pass through its fiefdom.

@@lohphat They do allow bikes but only if they are used by the domestic staff

Heck, it doesn't seem a great stretch to think the PM is owned by a shady Russian businessman.

Throw in a few football clubs and you have a full set.

To be fair shady English businessmen historically owning property in other places to the detriment of those locals is also not uncommon

@@mrshannonite4016 Don't forget shady characters from the Vatican.

He's Ukrainian.

The entrance from that subway to the V & A would have been very handy when I was commuting on the Piccadilly to my job at the museum. Unfortunately it was blocked off for whole of my time there because of worries over potential IRA attacks.

It does indeed - was a proud Officer of the Squadron for a number of years!

You think Uncle Vlad is a fan?

@@foamer443 who do you think Firtash hets his polonium from?

@@dangerouslytalented I meant of Jago

If only there were a proverbial saying about making omelettes from eggs that was revelant here.

There are a few who got many difficult things done, while being very pleasant. Ed Mirvish, for example.

@@harbl99 Thanks for the chuckle this gave me

@Professor McClaine - DODGY RUSSIAN OLIGARCH: "I will ask you once again, professor - Where. Is. Your. Boy?" MAC: (Checks watch) At this very minute, he'll be setting demolition charges in the shaft, to bring your computer hub screaming down, sixty odd feet, and will be exiting the site by the roof of an adjacent building with the use of a jet pack." DRO: Laughs uncontrollably, and ushers MAC into the Brompton evening. (As MAC drives off, there are several dull thuds, and the ground shakes. The DRO looks up and sees something bigger than a bird, smaller than a plane, shoot into the sky. As the DRO looks at Brompton Road station, it collapses into a huge pit, leaving only the Leslie Green oxblood tiled façade standing. Brickdust and plaster flutter down like snow. The DRO clenches his fists in impotent rage.)

Many people who are senior managers even nice ones had to have made difficult decisions on the way up. I think many managers have an iron hand in the velvet glove (to quote from Biggles books).

The worrying thing is recognising him before Jago even says his name!

I played a strong moustache game sir

Did the correspondent go on to work for the BBC?

I remember another rumour that there is a secret exit in Holy Trinity Church, although if its true, then its not very secret. Quite a plausible rumour though!

Is that a typewriter in his pocket or is he just happy to see us?

Yes, the gap between the two stations is to great.

It’s worth pausing the video and reading the comments. They are priceless!

I for one am most displeased by this

I'm thinking of getting a t shirt made with a posterized picture of C.T. Yerkes esq. on it, and underneath, the single word:, 'DODGY'.

Off you go, then. Don't forget your camera and notebook.

Hollywood would turn into some crappy action "thriller" with Jago having to save Ye Olde Londone Heritage(e) from the Evil Ghost of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Or possibly the other way round, as Hollywood can't cope with the concept of a British hero and an American villain.

In London for our daughter's wedding in Sept 2016 , No 2 son and I were making our way along ..some busy street,,,,,one where the WRNS chapel is....and lo! on the other side of the street was a Leslie Greene station ( ret'd). Made my day. ...your LevinNZ correspondent.

Thanks!

tease!

well, today is another day… Tea is made, cones fresh out of the box, waiting fot the story, please 🙇🏽‍♂️

Well, it's a bit long-winded and I hope there's no Catholics reading this, so here goes. I get a job in Brompton Oratory to clear a fault on a phone line in this monk's cell. I think they have some kind of priest's school there. He had on this long dress, hood, everything, and I thought they wouldn't let me work in there as I'm a women, but he did, and he showed me to this tiny cell where he was living, with a single bed and a small cupboard squeezed in. So, I'm like, where's the socket, and he says behind the bed, so, I say, you'll have to pull the bed out, which we manage to pull out about a foot away from the wall. So, I have to lay down flat on this bed to get to this phone socket, and there I am, laying on this bed with my arse in the air and a monk leering over me, who was very red in the face, and I'm trying not to laugh and thinking to myself that this is the only woman he's ever gonna have on this bed! Anyway, I cleared this fault and left unscathed. I hope he went to confession and said three Hail Mary's!

@@angienorthey I’m a Catholic and think it’s a great story. He could probably hammer nails in with what you left him with, under his cassock, poor soul. But you don’t ever have to go to confession for anything sinful that you think, just for what you do. And I’m sure when you left he had a really, really good hard think, that night.

@@angienorthey The Angie of the North...

My brain hurts !

Well, hopefully not permanently cheerio ...

If you want to get rid of your liver, this game sounds as a great idea!

I do want to look at the outer suburban stations on the Piccadilly in more detail, there’s a lot of really interesting architecture.

what is coming??? yerkes for sure

Geoff and Vicki will have their own outlier :-0

In NZ we are often enough described as having a dry, dark sense of humour.

"healed"?,,, well, the Oratory is very close....

P.S. Snow on their boots is another giveaway.

We do that a lot in Sydney. They just have each train skip about the same number of stops so no train catches up to the one in front. On my line, there's 5 different stopping patterns, all repeating every 30 minutes, during the morning peak. I think it does help to spread the loads evenly so that there is still capacity further down the line. It can be a bit confusing though, even for the train crew, who occasionally stop at a station they weren't meant to stop at.

It seems counterintuitive doesn't it, but we have it here in Perth WA on our suburban double track network, they call them 'Stopping Patterns', in one example a train bound for Thornlie, which is a single track spur off the Armadale mainline will leave Perth (Central) as an 'all 9 stations' stopping train ahead of the 'express' which only has 3 stops, the slow train reaches it's last mainline station about 3 mins ahead of the 'express'. The slow train then leaves the mainline being non-stop to the spur terminus, the 'express' then continues on the mainline as a an 'all stations' train, this a permanent 'day pattern' on the Armadale mainline, on the return service it is the same pattern, but the order is reversed, 'express' first, stopping train second. On the other lines it is more common during peak times but how they do that is another story. ...Drew

The Northern Line used to have express trains too, many years ago you could see the disused passing loops at Brent (now Brent Cross).