Edinburgh's HIDDEN Streets - The Real Mary King's Close

[@markshrimpton3138]

I lived in Edinburgh from the late 1970s until about 1990. I had a friend who worked for Edinburgh City Council’s Estates Department and it was she who told me about this close underneath the City Chambers. This was long before it became an official attraction. I went down there twice equipped with a reliable torch because only the rooms off the main close had no illumination. Now of course it’s a major tourist attraction.

[@heatherjones6647]

Definitely something to put on the must see list. Through Lucy's Lens focuses on English museums and historical sites that reproduce ordinary people's lived history. I recommend her channel to those who enjoyed this episode. These sites mean a lot more to me than palaces.

[@lindageorge8209]

I like palaces, too, but I want to see the palaces' bones. The architecture, the foundations, the ancient kitchens...

[@annebell7274]

Excellent episode. Brought back memories. Done the tour and yes, left a little dolly for Annie. It was fantastic to see again. Many thanks 🙏💛💯💯💯💛🙏

[@moonlightshadow2664]

@annebell.....I was poked really firmly in the side of my waist by invisible fingers. I'll never ever forget the feeling of it, and there was definitely nobody behind me.

[@robertamity3563]

Very Cool Scotland Unplugged, 👍😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🇺🇸 !

[@lorifromtemeculaca426]

Thank you for the tour, lad, it was fascinating! Thank you to mary kings close organization as well, for creating such great visuals & letting the filming be done... ;-)

[@scotlandunplugged]

Well worth doing the.full tour 😃

[@KSilverlode]

Fascinating! Thanks Robert!

[@skp7577]

It always good to see a new Scotland Unplugged video has been uploaded.

[@Raineyluwho]

As always, this was an amazing video. Love your content. ❤

[@nenaelliott8058]

Thanks Robert. I found this so very interesting. I can't begin to imagine what the streets were Lik to walk through when the townspeople where emptying their chamber pots out the windows... Much less the odor. . ... We were taught about the Black plague in elementary school.. it would have been a horrible time to be alive that's for sure. Please keep up the awesome work I love to hear you tell your tales. Wishing you and yours a very very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁❤

[@herstoryswitness]

Wonderful tour! Thanks so much!

[@herstoryswitness]

Family time? Nice. Slainte agus bliadna m'hath ur!

[@sharonm3677]

Incredible that all this was able to be preserved and the history of it is able to live on. What hard times that must have been and can’t imagine the suffering. Excellent video Robert, really enjoyed it. ❤❤

[@cheryl4811]

This is great history. Thank you Robert, enjoyed it very much!

[@salchipapa5843]

Love your content, Robert. Many thanks for sharing.

[@henryDzieciontko]

Looking forward to this one ! Heard about this but never saw any of it .

[@TX-biker]

Excellent venue 🤠 Thanks

[@MarzNGrama]

Fantastic tour! Don't know if I will ever make it to Scotland. This would definitely be on my list sights to see. Thank you for taking us along! 🎩💖✨

[@alicegamble6145]

Great video. Amazing how people lived centuries ago.

[@frankgellenthin3733]

Thanks Robert! Makes me appreciate our 21st Century lifestyle even more. You did a wonderful job describing wjo and what is down there.

[@rebeccachristians2506]

I'm sooooooo glad you posted another video! I've watched ALL your other videos and was anxious for you to post a new video! Thank you!!

[@jbyrne3851]

Great video, I found it fascinating. The noise's from outside Mary King close, at the beginning of the tour, certainly helped to create the atmosphere.😊

[@eileenbass952]

That was amazing, thank you Robert.

[@bethotoole6569]

'You never know what's buried underneath all this history'. Yes, I do! Time Team taught me.... MORE HISTORY!! No religion but lots of death, just up my close! Lovely video as usual...

[@Feline_Frenzy53]

Oh Robert, I want to visit so badly !!! Thank you.

[@mendo35]

Amazing place definitely worth a visit.

[@shelliewerner5624]

Awesome video...great look into the past...❤

[@lindastreet-ely9780]

What an excellent episode! Thanks, Robert!

[@jodifinnegan4453]

So cool!!! I love the stories about the people that once lived there. Excellent video!

[@Allie-x4t]

This is where I’ve always wanted to go in Edinburgh 🎉Excellent tour! With all the close quarters and lack of efficient sewers, isn’t this where the expression “Raining cats and dogs” came from due to flooding? And the grim children’s game Ring around the rosey🐦‍⬛👻 Thanks for your hard work! 🇺🇸SC

[@lwilson123]

wellworth a visit

[@greenghoul157]

Thanks for the lovely Edinburgh content 💚 Mary King's Close is a fantastic tour experience, well preserved historical old street whether you believe in ghosts or not

[@ladyliberty417]

Thanks Robert❣️ just sitting down to watch - been to Edinburgh and know of these streets but never went down- can’t wait to see it🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌🏼

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Thank you for showing this--I was always interested in Mary King's Close, but I'd never never go underground!

[@jared1870]

Thanks once again, Robert, this was fascinating. Until this video, I never thought of surviving the plague as a punishment. Now back to work, oh who am I kidding, I will just find another distraction. No, I didn't get that report written, but ask me about Mary Kings Close.

[@scotlandunplugged]

It's a feeling I know well 😆

[@loreencharlesworth6960]

I enjoyed seeing the close it’s well worth going. Another excellent unplugged adventure told .

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thanks, Auntie Loreen :-)

[@EbbandFlow1234]

Excellent, Thankyou ✌️

[@debrahennen5286]

Thanks for showing this interesting history. I thoroughly enjoyed it

[@sueaspinall8124]

That was something quite awesome .... thanks

[@tessinman]

This was great! I love what they've done with the place!

[@stephenoran2019]

Wow! This was a great presentation! I had no idea (being from the US and never having had the pleasure of visiting Scotland, except in dreams, of course) that any of this existed! Thank you for sharing! I dearly love the "creepy histories" and this one was quite fascinating! Thanks again!

[@DesireeReeves-c7x]

The facilities in the middle of the room 😂 this would be an exciting tour. So many things under the city with much history. Fascinating

[@danaridings6387]

Wow! Very cool!

[@yef122]

I visited Mary King's Close in 2016 and thought it was really interesting. The plague doctors' costumes were wild!

[@pjk1714]

Incredible experience, thanks from 🇨🇦

[@colettemack3690]

Wow, that is to cool

[@kathleenmuller306]

Thank you Robert, that was wonderful as well as educational! K.

[@patriciamccormack7626Teashee]

Thank you so so much Robert for this amazing tour/history of underground streets in Edinburgh 😲👍 💯 It must've stank fae the high heavens back then, poor folks😢 I'd heard the story of Annie, poor wee mite 😢 That plague man 😱 (I've a fear of going underground) so thank you for sharing this 🤗 Have a wonderful day Robert and family ❤

[@irene3196]

I used to work above the Close. It's entrance was in what was then The City Architect's Dept within the City Chambers. A room at the top of the Close was used to store old records, and apart from some junk the rooms were empty. It is now tarted up like a creepy Disney version of itself. However, it is worth a visit.

[@madeleinekarlssonbengtsson]

Thank you for the history.

[@lauriegunn9636]

Thank you, sir. 🍁

[@KnitWitch]

Might be my favorite video so far!

[@bronwentillman8385]

Glad you're back in the saddle, Robert! I'm planning a far-in-the-future trip to Scotland with my dad, with Edinburgh and Wigtown high on the list!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Both highly recommended 🙂

[@diannegloyn2558]

Thank you, that was so interesting

[@LoveSaidNo]

I did the tour, definitely recommend it!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Me too. No beating the in-person experience. 🙂

[@lindageorge8209]

I'd love to see this!

[@camerongibson6342]

A great video Robbie didn’t know that you could go and see the secret street.

[@scotlandunplugged]

You can take an hour long tour, with much more info than I could manage in a video 🙂

[@mariarobinson-jh7dm]

Wow, how it’s changed for the better. It was fairly dark when I took the tour. Plus I don’t think they had all of the models. Thank you Robert.

[@kellyturnbull3257]

I just went there I loved it! I'm going again!

[@JudyHart1]

I really enjoy your channel.

[@michellevv46]

will add this to our Edinburgh "to do" list!

[@lechatbotte.]

Fascinating. There are things like this under the area around DC

[@TroutFly]

Proof there’s lots of stuff buried

[@irene3196]

?As in Washington DC? There are medieval underground streets in Washington DC?

[@Seekerfilms]

Great video.

[@bcgrote]

We were so happy to visit Edinburgh this summer. We didn't get to see the Close, we had caught the modern plague in Glasgow and were still quite tired out (although not contagious!) by the time we made it to Edinburgh. We did see the Tattoo, and had a dinner in Queen Ann's Hall beforehand. We spent a full day in the National, and could happily spend another week there! So many things we just didn't have time to see... but we ate great food and saw so many wonderful things and met fantastically nice people ❤ Hopefully we'll get back again soon! Could you possibly find out about Sargeant Thomas Lowry of Canongate? 1470 - 1558. My 17th Great grandfather! I know about the End of the World and Canongate, but how would one become a Sargeant of it? Was it like Police or Deputies or was it an actual military position?

[@kathleennagwak1761]

Very interesting.

[@davidcreager1945]

This is something a lot of travel shows don't mention. Thanks for sharing this adventure !!! Watch out for the Wee Free Men !!!! 😂😂 🇺🇲 / 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Jyn58]

There is the old main streets underneath Seattle Wa. dating back to the early 1800's, turned into a museum now. I've never been there but my Granddaughter and her girlfriend went last summer and said it was really cool.

[@nicolayoung7973]

Fabulous experience, haunting thought. To think they were just shit away and build on top of Up and up. Talk buried and forgotten about. The faint smells still linger. Nor loch as we now know it as the beautiful garden's on princess street x

[@silverhearttribe]

Visited it many years ago. They added more and opened more up. Need to revisit

[@davidnichol6282]

Intriguing.

[@winmarfbd909]

Very interesting place, but also kinda..... creepy! ❤️ from Michigan USA

[@scotlandunplugged]

Must admit it didn't feel that way when I was in there. Too much to see! 🙂

[@David-sk9vv]

This has changed so much since I was there back in 1997. There was nothing down there other than empty rooms.

[@robinsmith5442]

I've torn down enough lath and plaster in Missouri it makes me want to blow my nose and cough!! 😊

[@scotlandunplugged]

Haha. Yeah, it makes a mess when it comes down!

[@karelcindrich1975]

Once again, an extremely fascinating look back! Edinburgh seems to have a lot of mystery! ❤ Maybe, this was the inspiration behind Rowling's Digon Alley (spelling)!! Was wondering, any good history in Wigtown? Understand it to be the beginning of Christianity! 😮 Can you expand? 😊❤❤ Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄🎅

[@scotlandunplugged]

There's a video on the Wigtown Martyrs from May last year. 😄 Merry Christmas when it comes!

[@cindyrissal3628]

Any word on whether the offerings eased the distress of Annie's spirit? I hope she was pleased w/ all those great toys that she has been given...❤

[@duneideann9241]

Never been doon 😵 Due to no filming policy it’s good to see at last

[@nicolayoung7973]

Gilmerton close, is my next adventure x

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

I love the plauge doctors costume iv got one of the beaked masks imagine walking about Edinburgh back then seeing them beaked guys walking about .....they think the plauge even started in Edinburgh around these times as it was the most populated place in Europe

[@alba7519]

The gardens that everyone loves to sit in, have picnics and relax... if you knew what it was to begin with.. it would give you the fear...

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

Edinburgh gotta be one of the most haunted city's on earth.. I didn't know Edinburgh was never bombed during the war

[@Alf1eN0akes]

On 27 September 1940 a 500lb bomb dropped on the Caledonian Distillery (“the Cally”), the largest distillery in Scotland, on the corner of Duff Street and Springwell Place. Gallons of whisky spread down the street causing an enormous fire which spread to tenements in the surrounding streets. Hundreds of residents were made homeless. Overall, however, Edinburgh was fortunate not to experience large-scale air raids during the war and avoided the worst of the Blitz

[@scotlandunplugged]

That, I didn't know! (Used to live just round the corner). I stand corrected. 🙂

[@Alf1eN0akes]

@@scotlandunplugged future vid mate

[@lorigraham2496]

Went there. Very interesting and slightly creepy

[@charlesmnadeau]

Life would have been so tough, only the strongest survived.

[@mschoy1597]

Excellent video! Would you mind doing a video on how the Scottish accent came to be?!? And why it differs from the English speaking accent!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Haha. I'm not even sure how MY accent came to be. I've been accused of faking it. 🤣 Definitely one for a future video!

[@jeremy1350]

Hello Mr. Story Teller. Inquiring minds wish to know if there was a descendent of the Hoof GP in the Byre ??? Were there 17th century hoof trimmers ??? (that was supposed to be a funny !!)

[@scotlandunplugged]

Haha. No hoof timing required back then. It didn't really take off until the latter half of the 20th century, with concrete floors. 🙂

[@cindyrissal3628]

I saw this notification pop up on my phone & said, "Oh goody! Scotland Unplugged!!" & came right over. Many thank yous to you & the caretakers of Mary King's Close for the fascinating tour! (BTW, have you seen the videos on here about the wild Haggis that roam the Highlands? They're great! 😂) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHOkmKmpqL-rhKs&si=Ta_kTrqXgFR-KyFE

[@markrutlidge5427]

Butchers were also called fleshmoungers esp. In England

[@stuartjambo8541]

Edinburgh was bombed in WW2, my street literally has buildings that have half missing due to bombing. Unless we are being pedantic and saying Portobello/Leith wasn't Edinburgh back then.