Thanks!

When I went to London in 2014 I made a point of visiting the London Stone on Cannon Street. I got the impression that tourists never, ever went there. Not sure why it's so obscure, to me it was fascinating.

Griff laughing inside the bell tower of London is like witnessing pure, true living experience in my book.

I Love London.

I just adore all the old traditions of London that are still kept alive today, would be a poorer city without them!

I absolutely love the way our guide and narrator keeps cracking up, even with the ringing of the bells of Big Ben, his happy mood is contagious ☺

Griff Rhys Jones is simply brilliant.

In 1967 I walked up to the front door of #10, Downing Street. I was 17 yr old. There was a policeman there but he didn't stop me from knocking on the door. There was no answer to my knock....oh well.

Grew up in London always amazing a glittering diamond at night 😇🙏💎💍💎🎉🎊❤️👋

Visited the British museum on marathon weekend. Wow! Spent all day in there and only saw half of the exhibits. Its a world history and culture museum. From dinosaur fossils to Roman antiquities. Amazing and free.

Fantastic and well presented documentary. Well done. Thanks for sharing

My family is from the UK, and now, more than ever, I must visit! Griff's tour was wonderful!

Another great travel video & thoroughly enjoyable.......thanks Griff......you're a fantastic tour guide for us armchair travelers!

A wonderful love letter to a great city.

Just loved it! London Stone. Have to go and find!

I love London. I always stay in Southwark as close to the Thames as possible. That's my hood. Love Borough Market. Love The Queen's Walk.

Such a fascinating city!!!

This was truly fascinating!

14:30 - ohhhh, darrrrlings. Ones so wealthy we ride to our exercise. Who else remembers when the pubs used to close after lunch and open for evening trade?? Imagine going back to those days.... 😁🇬🇧🙏🏼

Well done! Well done indeed!!

Sitting on the beer bench to test it has got to be the highlight of this video...fine funny stuff!!!

I enjoyed this video a lot. I'm from British stock, as a Canadian, and love seeing stories about the hidden parts of any city, especially London.

At 3:15. I used to live in London for roughly a year. I was maybe a 10 minute walk from Smithfield Market. It was such a lovely structure. I was always curious as to why it was closed/abandoned every single time I went by it. NOW do I finally learn that it was a night-time place and closed up shop during the day. That explains a lot...

charming host for a charming discovery of THE fascinating London city! A moment of pleasure thank you.

I was curious: this was originally aired in October 2008, according to IMdB.

Is it just me or does Griff Rhys Jones remind me of an old Hugh Grant in this?

I love to visit London but I’m afraid those days are gone. Thanks you for this wonderful video

That was amazing

Smithfield market is awesome! lol especially early in the morning when it’s super busy.

The British are unpopular in Europe today due to recent history, but the same spirit that caused us to insist on our independence is the spirit that saved Europe in 1940, no deals , no agreements, if Britain was to go down she was to go down with her guns firing like a Royal Navy ship. And miracle of miracles the free world coalesce around this stubborn streak and Europe was saved by the bravery of all peoples and the aid of friends abroad. Best wishes to all who wish us well.

Really good this

I just love the choice of music! It's Very epic and dramatic!

This is so cool to hear the history, and this has interesting facts.

Thank you.

Hi Griff thank you for the video....but...you did not show us the dead center of London...for your info if you imagine you are leaning on the Balustrade looking down on Trafalgar square..then take your hands off the Balustrade and walk to your right about fifty paces you will come upon a black circle about 18 inches in diameter and a meter or so from the Balustrade..that's it.....as an apprentice joiner in the sixties i was tasked to find this spot.

What the hell is going on in the background at 15:01 lol

A great city👍

I spent many enjoyable years engineering-tunnels under London and drinking-in it's culture

Let's hear it for the London Welsh , huge community , but low profile. Well done Griff. More than dairies, teachers, police, singers and rugby players , though that's part of it too. Diolch yn fawr iawn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Remarkable

so good

It is heartbreaking to see our once wonderful country as it is now. And still the boats come.

Really enjoyed Griffs enthusiasm in this doco haha

God's gifted city= London

The bit he didn't mention is that the bulk of the entire worlds commodity and shipping trade happens in London. Almost every physical thing you use or eat was traded in raw material form or transported on a ship traded, contracted, or insured through London at some stage on its way to you.

watching form New Zealand

a great insight into London and some amazing places you never knew existed...Griff is a great tour guide and gets up to some amazing tricks...just a pity now that London has become the capital of knife crime murders...

we flew on a new 747 with a piano bar in the 1970s to England and I need to do it again. it is too bad the Concord is not flying anymore.

Amazing & interesting in a completely different way than my city- the holy city Jerusalem.

History

19:31-19:35 location where please ? Near Furnival Street, Holborn, but more main road?

At 12:39. I lived in Beijing, China. Most would be surprised to find out that the Chinese are not that different from the British. Most of the politics go on there behind closed doors, away from the prying eyes of the public, in a palace complex taken over by the Communists called Zhongnanhai. This area is a collection of sumptuous garden palaces and temples that the Qing Emperors built along these artificial lakes Khublai Khan had constructed right to the west of the Forbidden City. Whereas the Forbidden City itself is now a museum open to the public, the Zhongnanhai complex is now maybe the scariest spot in China. No one goes there. That's where all the big honchos of the Communist Party have their head offices. When they make big decisions in Zhongnanhai, those decisions are then rubber-stamped by the National People's Congress in a giant hall on Tiananmen Square. But everyone knows the real center of power is Zhongnanhai.

Please tell me what is that music from 43.25. I can't find it and it's just so uplifting.

Anyone able to tell me that beautiful haunting music at the end? I know it but don't know where from. It starts at about 43 minutes in. I think it was used in gladiator. It's hans Zimmer now we are free from gladiator soundtrack. Sorry it's been bugging me all night.

I was watching a different program that showed a rock in the wall of a store framed and behind thick glass that was supposedly where all distances are measured from. Now this guy says it’s a statue that’s where everything is measured from. So who do I believe? Well time to check out Joolz Guides KZfaq channel and see what he says lol

Where is the church where Griff is ringing the bell?

I think any man that got to drive a crane that hire would have gave the same smile

Watching, and enjoying this, post Brexit, I wonder how far down the pecking order the City has now fallen.

At 11.05, why do they have an illegal fire extinguisher on the bracket? Great video.

i read somewhere that Big Ben is the name of the bell, not the name of the tower or clock

My you are fit to do all that!

I love London ✌️💜🙏👍❌⭕️❌🇨🇦👸

London is an amazing city, innit?

I feel the need to make a correction of sorts. There were people living in the area we now call London long before the Romans showed up. Yes they gave it the name Londinium but they weren’t the first people to live there. Just sayin. Cheers

I have become near comatose many a time in the Butlers

I think Bruce is a god too.

I wonder where the BT tunnels are, I bet them people got a shock when Griff walked in to that tube walkway

This is my Capital, and obviously pre-Brexit/Covid. Today, the scenes on the street won't get much busier during the day than they were at 7am.

This should be called "How people who don't live in London think London is like"

Gryff looks the same as he did in Alas Smith & Jones!

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

he still missed a lot Lonndon has to offer. London never sleeps ny the way.

Why does this have parts of the 'You've got mail' score on it?

Bambi!

What the hell is going in at 15:02?? funniest thing I’ve ever seen!

For seconds i thought he is someone who says " order " 😂

Makes you proud to be English!

We need a pay raise we need to balance ⚖️ things

Not a true representation of London atall. He makes you feel everyone knows each other and everyone is so friendly.

2008-2008 I reckon?

The golden egg was well sad

Not sure why it's called Secret London when he visits all the big clichés.

Happy 😊 Halloween 🎃 and 1 November. 2021.kizz fra Ane Johanna Skintveit

yoo he got the harry potter accent. we gonna do some magic tonight boys!

15:02 what the hell was going on there????

Contemporary Art is like betting on your horse to win.

I love seeing London and all it's history. Visiting is another matter. It's overpopulated so people are like rats in a sewer and most are too busy rushing around to notice anything around them. I'm always happy to leave and wouldn't live there if you paid me.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.' F. Scott Fitzgerald.

this guy still says peking. incredible

I would LOVE to live in England/Scotland. I love who America used to be, but my nation is no more. We are literally destroying our history and these kids will not stop.

If London's financial city is the hart of London, it's a very very cold hart

All pre-Brexit and pre-Covid, of course.

Um....why would you carpet the Albert Hall with....oh. Never mind. I wouldn't give you a nickel for the egg with the wholes in it.

Lads wtaf is happening at 15:02

No one should have to Walk unless they want

CITY OF LONDON///OR THE OTHER LONDON/////

trading is now just super computers

I lived in London 5 years not so long ago. I can’t imagine it with no heat food or petrol as in October 2021.

A carpet of meat would be interesting

23:18 Beer 🍺 ! Is this documentary of 2007? 38:55 Foolishness at extreme