All Saints and the Most Bombed Station in Britain

Not the band, the DLR station.
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[@AndreiTupolev]

And let's just give respect to that dude's backwards rollerskating skills at0:40🎉

[@archstanton6102]

That was Jago

[@apolloc.vermouth5672]

@@archstanton6102 It was but one of Jago's many manifestations...

[@ZGryphon]

Things I wouldn't dare to do anywhere near a train station platform, #49248 in a series. :)

[@archstanton6102]

@apolloc.vermouth5672 notice how he has not denied it yet?

[@idot3331]

No matter how wicked awesome your skills may be, using rollerskates on a platform with a 750 volt third rail just a small slip away does not seem like a good idea...

[@jeremypreece870]

Today the excuses for train late running seems to whimpish. Staff shortages, previous train was late or this train started from the wrong location etc. You see back in the early 1940's they had a proper excuse for delays to your train. "we apologise for the late running of this service because the previous station has just been blown up" or "the signal box has been destroyed" or even, "please wait while staff relay the track to the next station"

[@richard-mtl]

My family has gotten so used to hearing your soothing voice while I listen to your videos, that while watching this one, everyone came to watch with me (wife and 2 teens). You've won them over!

[@JagoHazzard]

Splendid!

[@ajs41]

@@JagoHazzard Thank god all those idiots who used to accuse you of talking in a strange way have disappeared. Glad to see the back of them.

[@rachelcarre9468]

The original DLR station design/architecture scream peak 80s! 😀

[@phaasch]

The Asda school of architecture.

[@eattherich9215]

@@phaasch: the supermarket superstore school of architecture.

[@ZGryphon]

That teal color, meanwhile, says "redecorated in the '90s" to my every sensibility. :)

[@danieleyre8913]

Yup. And may it forever keep that timestamp of contemporary fashion.

[@ianmcclavin]

Yes, the surplus canopies from the stations from Tower Gateway to Poplar, West India Quay and Heron Quays, all of which were rebuilt, were installed at these stations on the Stratford branch, to lengthen the ones along there!!

[@michaeldonahoo461]

Having your track brown up. Then having your signal box blown up. Then having your station blown up. These events do not assist in on time running. In an attempt to keep things together, I can understand why the naming powers decided that assistance would not be asked from just one or two Saints, but all the Saints!

[@borassictime918]

I’ll need to check TRUST tomorrow to find what the delay/cancellation code is for exploded track…

[@michaeldonahoo461]

@@borassictime918 "Saints preserve us". Perhaps it would be 666!

[@AcornElectron]

Brown up 😂😂

[@iankemp1131]

There were heroic efforts by railwaymen throughout WW2 to keep the trains running, and the Stratford District was one of the most heavily bombed areas. They survived the Blitz of 1940 and steady raiding after that, but just when things seemed to be getting better, the V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets came along in 1944. Night goods trains were worked through the blackout with anti-glare sheets over the cab and tender, which made the footplate airless and roasting hot.

[@michaeldonahoo461]

@@iankemp1131 They were a fine generation of human beings. Saints in their own way.

[@PhilMakesThings]

Imagine getting something running again in two weeks these days? Wouldn’t happen. At least 6 months for a multi million pound feasibility study first.

[@DeathInTheSnow]

I would love to see you trace the old train route from Brimsdown station to what used to be the Royal Small Arms factory in Enfield (now Enfield island village). There's been a lot of development in the area since the second world war, but elements of it (and maps) still remain.

[@apolloc.vermouth5672]

I bet wartime commuters responded to news of bomb damage by tutting and looking at their watch.

[@pinkthing999]

Don't forget a rolling of eyes.

[@emjackson2289]

Then demanding a refund

[@HSMiyamoto]

"I shall write a letter to the Times about this!"

[@msg5507]

Wartime East Enders writing to the Times?

[@HSMiyamoto]

@@msg5507 - Maybe they lived in Essex.

[@claireclarkson3191]

I grew up in Poplar, I was actually born in a flat above the 😅 the derelict train lines before the DLR was build. Where Poplar Station is now used to be land known as The Stone Yard, where many camps were built by us local children. As for the Clock Tower, it is loved by us all young and old but has never in my 50 years worked...😅

[@sianwarwick633]

Thanks. I worked with people from Leytonstone and Poplar, and Stratford and Beckton, and they all mentioned the Chrisp Street market as being a really good place. I won't forget the pride that people had. I wandered over to the Spice Docks, and Mudchute and Island Garden. If the fish market fair is still on at Canary Wharf basin, then that is a good thing.

[@Ribeirasacra]

I was hoping for a bit about All Saints. That famous all girl pop combo.

[@JagoHazzard]

I never ever thought of that.

[@samuelfellows6923]

I used to hear their song “pure shores” on the radio and liked the tune, and years later I identified it and bought it in the iTunes Store and had it on my laptop and smartphone, but I got serious about the message of the lyrics in the song and did I like/agree with it, and I think this song got deleted as I had a clear-out of my secular music on iTunes

[@Ghauster]

@@samuelfellows6923 my personal go to has been Never Ever.

[@hampstersquared]

It's a little known fact that most of their songs are actually about Chrisp Street Market

[@luxford60]

I quite like those curved canopies on the original DLR stations. There aren't many of them left.

[@jabbertwardy]

Regarding the renamed stations, to misquote the Dowager Countess: "If I were to search for logic, I should not look for it among the English public transit system."

[@Blade_Daddy]

Another detailed episode. I enjoy pausing at the old maps. Thanks.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

There’s an episode of ‘Danger UXB’ that covers the story of an unexploded bomb on a railway line in the East End.

[@derekmills5394]

Masterful writing in that series - Saw the first episode with heart in mouth and thought "He'll be ok - main character and all that" Nope! Characters introduced in one episode regulrly did not make it through the next even after lengthy charater creation. Really brought home the danger those good people faced on the regular.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@derekmills5394 Every episode was based on a real incident. The officer wounded on Brighton Pier still used to be invited to Regimental dinners in the 1980’s…

[@batman51]

Great video (used to use the station for the market a lot when working in Canary Wharf) but "most bombed"? In "War on the Line" by Bernard Darwin (1946), there is a map of Waterloo with 67 bomb craters marked!

[@ronmac9522]

I used to have a stall in crisp street market back in the day. Loved the area.

[@andeegreen]

What a brilliant history lesson yet again. Thank you Jago!

[@emjackson2289]

When it comes to naming new stations, a lot of vocabulary ran through TfL heads, their map book went right from A to Z. . . . . .

[@bryansmith1920]

Jago old boy, I'm still loving that which you do, so for my sanity please don't stop, In the early 70's b4 I left London for the East-Midlands I had a HGV vehicle maint's job I had to leave my home in the burbs of Kent and travel to Richmond Surrey to a furniture companies Yard, I had to arrive by 6AM no later, I had to ensure all vehicles, were fault free, and left the yard b4 I could then travel back across London to Isle of Dogs where my head office was and work till 4pm, Driving all that way, every day, I do wish we had then the Transit system that London has now, I'd quite happily lug me spanners on the TFL stinking of diesel 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I rode the line to Poplar Docks, on a 7 car DMU, on a railtour around 1981. The train stopped at the junction where the lines split to go east and west. We were allowed to just jump down from the train and have a wander around. There was a class 03 shunter there plus some freight wagons. Later on we went to North Woolwich and on the way back to Stratford Low Level, we branched off left towards Bow Junction on a curve that no longer exists....... happy days!

[@richard-mtl]

Oh, and I was forgetting that I intended to give you a superthanks for all your hard work. It's a small contribution but expect more in the future, thank you Jago!!

[@JagoHazzard]

And a big thank you to you too!

[@verumignis4778]

Those damn inconsiderate so-and-so's keep blowing up the track!

[@clairebear9971]

Lived just off Chrisp Street for a year and would commute to Cricklewood from All Saints. This was a lovely trip down memory lane. I’m now old enough to justify using such clichés but very enjoyable and informative nonetheless.

[@thisiszaphod]

Chrisp Street Market - where you could get the best takeaway Saveloy and Pease Pudding in the world.

[@Tsass0]

Ah, I see their naming strategy, name it All Saints and you've got protection from all things that go bang and boom.

[@roundron76]

I still live next to All Saints and didn't know all this history , thanks Jago . Chrisp st is being redeveloped soon but they have to keep the festival of Britain buildings and our beloved clock tower !!

[@happytrain9354]

Thank you for including where to find all the engines and rolling stock

[@phaasch]

"That nice Mr McGoering from the Goat and Compasses has found a place which rents bombers by the hour"

[@HSMiyamoto]

You get the prize for first Monty Python reference on this thread, Mein Dickie, old chum!

[@richieixtar5849]

We lived in one of those flats over Chrisp St Market, pronounced Chris St, for years, was a fun busy place to live :)

[@alejandrayalanbowman367]

Hi Jago from Spain. Thank you for another interesting tale even if it was not from the Tube. I know those lines quite well from before the DLR.

[@ianpatterson6552]

Think the new station needs a blue plaque commentating the old one.

[@mrbluesky2050]

.. and you NEVER mentioned the 90's Girl Group, shame on you !

[@mrsapplez2007]

Indeed😂

[@JagoHazzard]

I never ever mentioned them.

[@SeverityOne]

In the past, I've complained about London being a hotchpotch of styles of architecture. But part of that is due to the old building no longer existing at the end of the war. Go around Europe, and there are many, many such places, "because of the war". And not necessarily just WW2 either.

[@ninebangtrojan4669]

Fond memories of taking my mum Christmas shopping at crisp street back in the day.

[@chrishorner7679]

Great video, as ever. The Luftwaffe bombed it in 41? I'm sure they did! If a flying bomb hit it then that'd be late Summer 1944 at the earliest. Unlucky Station..

[@alanmoss3603]

I Never Ever watch a Jago video without a Black Coffee - and Surrender to his dulcet tones. I recognize this station - because I Know Where It's At. All Saints! It's a great place If You Want To party! It's a little piece of Heaven - even if it's not quite Pure Shores! So lets have One More Tequila and Lets Get Started!

[@irkibby]

I went to visit Chrisp Street Market last year and it was as good as it appeared in photos. The clock tower built with two interlacing staircases was fascinating. It was all planned by Frederick Gibberd, who also designed Nuneaton Library and the RC Cathedral in Liverpool

[@davidholt7883]

Fred also designed much of Harlow New Town but his estate was insolvent on death due to the amount of claims against him arising out of his designs.

[@MadMax76er]

Love the rollerskater at about 40 odd seconds

[@brettpalfrey4665]

Blimey Jago! Don't you ever sleep? Another top vid...Just get some sleep sometime!

[@SiVlog1989]

Wonder what the most name switched station in Greater London is. I reckon New Malden is a good candidate. Opened as "Malden", over the years it has been known as "Coombe and Malden," "Malden and Coombe," then "Malden" before the current name was selected

[@sunglassesron9464]

I spent a week at Poplar DLR station one day in 1995... Had a job counting people getting on and off the trains.

[@stephenspackman5573]

I think I am glad that humans are not compulsively competitive about _all_ records.

[@obelic71]

allegedly the Luftwaffe was not happy with All Saints. They thought the trainservices bombed

[@baystated]

My, those are some exquisite examples of Britain's architectural... talent.

[@Neil070]

I thought Poplar Dock was the dictator of Haiti.....

[@bregawn]

Good to see a Truman, Hanbury and Buxton sign

[@tardismole]

Historically speaking, "smile and nod" seems to be the most common reaction to railway "upgrades", including renaming, moving, removing and closures of stations, lines and tunnels. "Inconsiderate so-and-so" works well. Because we can't call them sauer krauts any more. (Before I get fried, I'm part German.)

[@IlfordRetro]

As well as the detailed information we all tune in to hear (plus this station was on my route to work), I love that your videos capture a snapshot of life on a day; the stage at which buildings are at, the scenery and even the fashion of the time.

[@roberthuron9160]

Reincarnation railroad style! Another,never say die!! Poplar,is popular,and other assorted puns! Thank you Jago,for another piece of obscure history! Thank you! 😇!

[@alfsallander3400]

Nowadays is DLR owned by London Docklands Development Corporation? Today's catchphrase guess: "You are the saints to my Pop(u)lar station videos."

[@Tevildo]

No, the LDDC was wound up in 1998. The DLR is currently in joint ownership of Amey (the road construction company) and Keolis (the light-rail division of the SNCF).

[@scythal]

@@Tevildo A road construction company and a light rail French company division owning a British railway? That sounds like the unholiest of holy corporate alliances I've ever seen!

[@seanbonella]

fine history as ever from the Jago

[@General_Confusion]

The missus smiled and nodded, then explained it to me.

[@colchestercreek]

I once suggested that to understand the cultural differences between the UK and the US one should perhaps watch a Jago video followed by a Geoff video. Both excellent and informative in their own right, yet both so different in style and presentation. Thank you Jago for another first class posting. Truly the Betjeman of our times :)

[@johnsamu]

British people "let's call it a roundabout". Question: "is it actually a roundabout?". Answer: "No it's aBOUT square" 😉😁 That's why the Germans failed to conquer Great Britain, they landed and after that they got lost completely. At night you might encounter a lost WW2 era German soldier still looking for a way out of this maze 😉😁

[@hb1338]

The Germans have *never* landed on Britain, let alone in WW2.

[@neilbain8736]

I love these tales and how they are presented. The format is just right and that's no doubt why they're so poplar.

[@RogersRamblings]

"...visible from passing goods trains..." Apart from the train crew, who could have seen the remains and verified this statement? Was Jago illicitly riding east London goods trains at an exceptionally young age? 🤣

[@GeorgeChoy]

Lovely way to chill out after work, I now await John Roger's walking video.

[@foxontherun6082]

That GOERING chap had a lot to answer for

[@foxontherun6082]

@@TheBadLieutenant yea i bet that was a real BALL ACHE !!!!!!

[@trevorelliston1]

He did less damage than Beeching….

[@MrDavil43]

But I read that he was a railway enthusiast with an extensive model layout. He must have felt very guilty about the damage and death he inflicted on our system, (Sarc).

[@AndrewGruffudd]

But was it the luftwaffe, though? Perhaps the monotesticular maniac just reminded the local football crowd their club, like their station, wasn't actually in Milwalll. Chelsea residents are petrified...

[@TechRyze]

Spotted the thumbnail while browsing - this was the station I used to travel daily into Canary Wharf and South Quay back in 2019 before all of the pandemic madness had me leave London temporarily. I was back last year, but now I'm away again! Your videos bring back memories. I watched the Waterloo & City video earlier, and that was also part of my commute to Canary Wharf before I moved closer, when I had to travel from Wandsworth via Waterloo and onto the DLR at Bank. Loved those days, and I'll be back soon!

[@MrSloika]

Here's a bit of WWII London Blitz trivia for you: Great heaps of Luftwaffe generated London rubble ended up in a swamp in New Jersey. After 'Liberty Ships' from America unloaded their cargoes of food, weapons, fuel, machines, medicines, etc, they headed back to the US. Under normal trade conditions a nation pays for its imports with exports, but these were not normal circumstances. The Liberty ships headed back empty of cargo. An ocean going ship can not head out into open waters without cargo. Under such conditions it takes on some form of ballast. Modern ships are equipped with ballast tanks for that reason. If the ship has no cargo it fills the ballast tanks with water to provide the weight that's required to make the ship stable. During the Blitz London had a big problem, lots of rubble and nowhere to put it. The Liberty ships had a problem, no cargo to weigh down the ships for their return trip to America. It was decided that loading the rubble onto those Liberty ships would solve two problems. Once back in American the ships unloaded that London rubble at the Port of New York/New Jersey where it was in turn loaded on to train cars and hauled to a swamp in New Jersey and dumped. Today there is a plaque at the New Jersey swamp marking the spot filled with London debris.

[@camenbert5837]

All Saints most bombed? You'd think that would never ever be that...

[@SmudgeThomas]

The myth of WWII Londoners being indestructible in the bombing is a powerful one. Sadly people did in fact struggle as we did today, it just really helped that cost wasn't a huge issue in the war and you didn't need a complex planning process to replace something that was there the day before. The worst example for the "hey actually these guys had mental health issues in the war like we would" is the tragic accident at Norton Fitzwarren of 4th November 1940. The driver had had his house bombed out the previous night and then gone to work. A simple mistake led to 26 deaths, and the driver became the 27th within a year.

[@hb1338]

The board of inquiry did not seem to think that confusing / incorrect placement of signals contributed at all to the crash. CYA then and now.

[@stepheneyles2198]

Did I hear you say "now back to dry land" at some stage in that video? I'd like to remind you that this is the UK, it's July now and there is no such thing as dry land. It keeps raining... 🌿

[@nigelclark1823]

Thank you as always for this informative and very enjoyable story, keep them coming, Nigel, Perth WA

[@calculusbrainrot2558]

I always found the name of this station really funny becuase it felt like the creators of the station got sick of dedicating stations to saints so they just decided to name one after all of them

[@hb1338]

It is named after All Saints Poplar, a nearby church. Most CofE churches are dedicated to a single saint, but some are dedicated to all saints.

[@AndreiTupolev]

It's the people responsible for naming churches that did that. I think it sounds very presumptuous; "their church over there is St Mary's; the one down the road is St Genevieve's; well, we'll name ours after ALL of them. That'll get the crowds flocking in"

[@thesteelrodent1796]

perhaps the station should've been called "Bomb Crater"

[@stuartpeacock8257]

Superb historical summary

[@tedcopple101]

Ah All Saints, im glad youve made this Jago, as ive got a few questions, i need to know.

[@AFCManUk]

All Saints isn't all that bad.....after all, it DID get a 90's All-Girl Pop Group named after it ;)

[@lordpitnolen2196]

Signal Box working again after a fortnight ! Nowadays, a risk assessment probably couldn't be carried out in that time.😮

[@brick6347]

Alas we are ruled by petty bureaucrats these days.

[@DavidWilson-hh2gn]

Good vid,interesting I can remember visiting The Festival of Britain also can recall the considerable bomb damage caused during WW2.The Londoners certainly had stoicism to stand the blitz and the flying bomb attacks.

[@PenryMMJ]

I guess the original name of Millwall Junction was because that was where you turned off if you wanted to go to Millwall.

[@Firitesen]

Unfortunately, not all saints alight here

[@trumptontally3383]

Shout out to the guy going backwards on roller skates!

[@teecefamilykent]

Cracking video sir, again, the puns are awful lol.

[@peabody1976]

Thank you for this A to Zed tale of All Saints and its history. May it never ever be subject to its past tumult.

[@NubianPrince85]

Love it home and work turf!

[@jgodfrey546]

Informative as ever! Interesting the nearby church survived Luftwaffe's thoughtless redevelopment plan..

[@1258-Eckhart]

From Germany with a slight German accent: The Luftwaffe in fact had orders to be highly accurate in their use of bombing material. Churches weren't seen as essential to the British war effort. The City got carpet bombed because you can't sort the churches (museums, schools etc.) out from the banks, stock exchange, insurances etc.

[@camenbert5837]

Also, often the priority was to save local landmarks (see st Pauls) at the expense of non-descript housing/factories etc, to ensure newsreels could show "London can take it". Isn't war a complete waste...?

[@Rog5446]

We must be eternally grateful to the Luftwaffe, for their generous contribution to London's Town Planning department.

[@VickersDoorter]

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and their former incumbent have over the decades destroyed far more perfectly good Victorian and Edwardian housing stock than the Luftwaffe. The poor quality replacements are principally responsible for the resultant social decay.

[@hb1338]

Generous, but not architecturally discerning.

[@brettpalfrey4665]

Actually its quite shocking to think that the damage that the Luftwaffe did in 1940-45, pales into insignificance to the damage that Bomber Command and the 8th Air Force USAAF did to Germany in that time...just sayin...

[@johnreed8336]

A necessary evil though to finally end the war however unpleasant as it was .

[@TheTimGowen]

Colindale was bombed once but it was decisive!

[@mickeydodds1]

I liked that doggie mural.

[@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial]

UERL should have expanded into shipping, imagine the profit.

[@davidsummer8631]

That is a Festival of Britain site I didn't know about

[@Roland-yb4nx]

Chrisp Street Market with its distinctive clock tower was designed by architect Frederick Gibberd, who also designed Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral and the earliest part of Harlow New Town. He sported a fine Yerkese-esque moustache.

[@davidsummer8631]

@@Roland-yb4nx Yerkese-esque moustache you say ? the sign of across the board quality

[@pavo45]

Why are Plate layers so called?

[@JagoHazzard]

Because early railways were called plateways.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Because in the VERY early days of rail (horse-drawn tramways) the rails were laid on stone discs (resembling plates) rather than wooden sleepers, and I guess the name stuck.

[@AndreiTupolev]

I never ever thought you'd do a video about All Saints 😂😅

[@sianwarwick633]

Let's not forget the (fairly) contemporary bombing at Heron Quay and South Quay, which followed the bombs at Bishopsgate and St Mary's Axe.

[@unclenogbad1509]

'Demolition finishing what the Luftwaffe had started'. Sadly, that's so true of so much of London, especially the East End and Riversides.

[@StevensPaul]

Those German's were causing confusion and delay......

[@timothybird4264]

Couple of nice pie and mash shops in the market

[@JagoHazzard]

I went to one of them for lunch!

[@marthaanderson2656]

This was one of your better outro quips

[@adiggle5022]

Why Poplar? I come originally from Central Alberta where 3/4 of the trees are poplars. That doesn't sound like a reason to name a dock "Poplar" though.

[@karlosh9286]

I remember the development of the DLR from Stratford down to Docklands in the late 80s . At first they only had 2 car trains. These soon turned into a good impression of Sardintral, I mean Central, line levels of overcrowding. So then the trains were doubled in length !

[@jonathandumke5595]

While my last London stay your Videos are usefull for uncommon tours. Have you ever thought to make up a business out of it: "Nerdy Citytours by Jago Hazzard. All you need is fully loaded Oyster and a lot of time!"

[@ukmoshinist4595]

Thanx for drawing attention to Christ St market, but nul points for ignoring the architectural gem that is (or was), poplar baths! 😤 Hope you have a return ticket! 😉

[@alanlittle4589]

Let's hope All Saints Never Ever gets 💣 again. That song is stuck in my head now 😂

[@jimmyadams628]

Great😊

[@Joald]

I was hoping for a "you are my Luftwaffe pilots to my destroyed signalbox" at the end :P

[@kidmohair8151]

this is me dropping a "like" through the usual method of clicking the upthumb, and the leaving of a comment so that the algo-deities are satiated. at least I haven't yet been unsubscribed