Goodge Street: Eisenhower's Favourite Station

[@mathewperring]

You wrote an entire script just to use the Goodge enough joke. I salute you Sir!

[@Scodiddly]

The whole episode was very high quality.

[@gracewenzel]

I need you to promise your viewers to say “bussin” in every video you publish henceforth, Jago

[@danglebum]

😂

[@YetAnotherGeorgeth]

fr fr

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

As long as it isn’t prefaced by “temporary replacement “

[@ltdowney]

Just waiting to hear Skibidi somehow used as a transport pun in British English.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@ltdowney is that as in ‘ski bidet’? That’s a very niche piece of plumbing?

[@ShadowDragon8685]

I lost it laughing at "This overpaid, oversexxed, and over here tale from the tube." Thank you, I needed that laugh.

[@khidorahian]

where does he say that?

[@ShadowDragon8685]

@@khidorahian at the end, he makes up a "[something] Tale from the Tube" outtro for videos that involve the Underground.

[@khidorahian]

@@ShadowDragon8685 Yes, but I didn't hear that particular one...

[@khidorahian]

@@ShadowDragon8685 oh now i hear it, pfft, im so sorry

[@raymondmuench3266]

What? That quotation and Ike, but no mention of Miss Somersby? Sigh.

[@hatroq]

I'm a simple man. I am successfully baited into audibly saying "here it comes," when the inevitable UERL/Yerkes reference is made and paid off with the photo. Like button activated. Carry on...

[@roderickjoyce6716]

While not a fan of background music, I do feel that Mr Yerkes' appearances should be heralded with a sinister chord.

[@prismaticmarcus]

skol!

[@mikerichards6065]

Yerkes appears - and I drink.

[@Scodiddly]

Luckily I had a drink handy.

[@lordmuntague]

"I hate drawing maps so much." But, but... yours is the definitive portrayal of Harry Beck!! 🤯

[@phaasch]

Jago, thank you. You had me laughing out loud several times here. This reminded me of a story which my mother told me how many years ago, about Goodge street One Saturday afternoon in September of 1940, she was travelling into London, but the train was stopped short at Goodge street as the alert had sounded, and the flood doors under the Thames had been closed. She came up onto the street, with a fierce air battle going on overhead. I remember her telling me, that as she made her way down Tottenham Court Road into Charing Cross Road, she saw, and heard, cartridge cases pinging down into the street from the battle overhead. It brought home in no uncertain way how close the war had suddenly become.

[@daffyduk77]

It has been said that the anti-aircraft guns of London during night time Blitz may have killed more civilians than German flyers

[@brianartillery]

CTY, Jago. I had three beers in the fridge at the start of this video, and, thanks to a powerful subconscious imperative that kicks in whenever CTY is mentioned on your channel, they have been drunk. As am I.

[@peterharvey1762]

😂 same here

[@walterxplinge3867]

In the day, when Tottenham Court Road was filled with small electronic shops (nothing like the road as it is today; there used to be bins outside with circuit boards ready to be re-used or stripped for components. Yes I am that old) I used to use Goodge Street station as a starting point for foraging, making my way back to Tottenham Court Road, hopefully laden with electronic booty to be taken home and "enhanced"

[@RadioJonophone]

Oooh! I remember Proops for war surplus and other exciting electronic bits and pieces. I did the opposite to you, starting at TCR and finishing at Goodge St., stopping at a café on the way. It's also handy for The British Museum.

[@martinross5521]

@@walterxplinge3867 I remember all those electronics shops too! A strange little oasis of specialists in the middle of a big city; I’m glad you had successful visits for kit to reuse! 🤩

[@juliansadler6263]

@@RadioJonophone Samson's Electronics was the place for ex-Service kit. Massive transformers and ex-Admiralty stuff for a couple of quid.

[@batchint]

I got my first radio circuit board that worked on a large 9 volt battery #clearance #laskies

[@rmbflk]

It's a useful move in Mornington Crescent

[@emjackson2289]

The Tim Brooke Taylor Manoeuvre to outflank rebellious Scottish doctors..... Goodge-Goodge-Goodgies.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@emjackson2289Goodgie-Goodgie Yum Yum?

[@willum223]

particularly under a Rename Cascade scenario

[@NikolaHoward]

Yes, but what about the Finsbury Park counterpoint? What day is it?

[@bordershader]

As a UCL student, I spent a lot of time wandering those streets, and always had a soft spot for funny old Goodge Street. It's curious and odd. I remember walking around the streets behind it, and discovering a really fantastic sandwich shop. I know I'm going to sound like an olde fahrte, but hell - I am: I miss those days.

[@johnsowerby7182]

Yeah, Goodge Street was a good one to get home after a few beers in the various pubs around UCL, and saveloy and chips from Gigs round the corner...

[@thewyj]

I used to work at the Eisenhower Centre (or IKE) when it was owned by Recall Ltd. There`s graffitti from the troops who were stationed there in the 50s and signs like "NO SMOKING - BY ORDER OF THE MINISTRY FOR WAR". A fascinating place to work. I still have photos somewhere. Happy to dig them out and share if anyone is interested.

[@leebanthorpe3100]

Before that it was Security Archives, I used to work for them, that's how I managed to get into Belsize Park, Camden Town and North Clapham, then under IM I've since been in Clapham Common, Stockwell and of course, Ike 😊

[@pj_naylor]

My sister once had a terrible time at the mainline ticket office at Euston trying to buy a ticket to visit me at Goostrey, with the guy behind the counter insisting that she needed the Northern Line ticket office.

[@420greatestqueen]

I lived in the dorms near Goodge St when I studied at University College London for 2 summers over 20 years ago. Watching the scenery brings back great memories

[@echosonicmusic]

Goodge Street has the University College, Birkbeck, SOAS, ULU and Senate House university traffic and when I was a student there, a building close to the northern entrance of the bunker was used for exams. It's the smart stop for the British Museum too to avoid the madness of TCR

[@scythal]

6:35 The legend himself makes an appearance in the ticket office window!

[@bryan3550]

Yep, noticed that too! 😉

[@danielm.1441]

Jago: "The Hampstead tube was built by Underground Electric Railways of London which used a lot of American expertise thanks to its co-founder..." Me: It's going to be Yerkes. Totally Yerkes... Jago: "Charles Tyson Yerkes" Me: I *knew* it.

[@peterdawson2645]

My Dad had friends in a rather swish flat not far away in Ridgemount Gardens. A very useful stopover on student money and where my now wife and I spent our first weekend in London together back in 1976. And I remember being intrigued by the bunker entrance as well. So lots of good memories of Goodge St.

[@brianartillery]

The Goodge Street bunker was also the base of operations against the Yeti and Great Intelligence in the classic Doctor Who story, 'The Web Of Fear'.

[@151mattwilson]

Came down to the comments to say this :)

[@jezheywood9608]

One of my favourite stations, been waiting for you to do a video on it. The low passenger numbers compared to its neighbours is why I like it so much. And it’s a quaint little place

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Jago being Poggers made my day, month and year 😂

[@drsenseihugo]

Jago be skibidi bussin' no cap fr fr.

[@6yjjk]

I love that YT put a "Translate to English" link under that. (It has no idea what to do with it, but it knows it's not English.)

[@sea80vicvan]

I'm guessing that Goodge Street itself was something of a bohemian hangout in the 60's if Donovan's song Sunny Goodge Street is anything to go by. These videos about the smaller stations that don't get as many users but with their own history are as fun to watch as the Waterloo/Tottenham Court Rd./King's Cross stations.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I worked (for 11 months) at the now sadly (mostly) demolished Middlesex Hospital (previously sited in Mortimer St,) in 1980, and living in Brockley, London, S.E.4 at the time, caught trains from - and to - Brockley Station to Charing Cross to catch the Tube to Goodge St. station quite frequently, then walk from there to the Hospital... I liked a sign seen on the tunnel wall prior to Goodge St.station which read: "Please don't cross the lines... It takes us ages to untangle them" ... Later, I changed from taking the Tube, to just getting a bus... I think one morning the lift hadn't been working at Goodge St. and climbing up the (many) stairs to the street put me off underground travels to work!! I always bussed back to Charing Cross after work anyway, so decided that I might as well bus to work too, as it involved less walking overall anyway, from Regent St. to Mortimer St. (where The Middlesex Hospital main entrance used to be). It was nice to see Goodge St. station again though. Thanks for covering that station, Jago. 👍🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤭

[@martinross5521]

@@brigidsingleton1596 Thank you the great stories; fascinating to read about your experiences in and around Goodge Street station - I can sense the memories and history in that almost a backwater of LU.

[@geoffbarry9540]

For a time in 1966/7 Goodge St was "my" tube station. Not because I worked nearby (I was ensconced in the bowels of the Cabinet Office Distribution Section behind 10 Downing Street at the time), but because it was the closest station to the Rising Sun hotel on the corner of TCR and Windmill Street which, at the time, was operated by the Piggott family whose son Tony was a school mate from 1965 and prior. I enjoyed many an evening of hospitable company there with him and John Duffy, whose folks were also publicans at the nearby Green Man in Riding house Street. Both pubs still exist and to all appearances still thrive, although by 1973 I believe both had changed hands. More than half a century ago, but only yesterday...

[@RaspberryWhy]

Jago Hazzard keeping it real and getting down with da skidz!

[@010101110100]

Straight outta (Richmal) Crompton

[@paintedpilgrim]

You know you've been around Jago too long when you could have predicted just by looking at the title the 'dad joke' at the end would be "its Goodge enough"..... That being said its one of my favourite "little stations" and was my preferred station when going to UCL over the other nearby stations and it cut out the 'bus crush' when trying to get back to the little bedsit/studio I had near Holloway Prison, I could always walk it from Camden or jump on a bus there.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

Quite, UCL and IIRC the rather nice university grade bookshop which became a Waterstones and which I cannot find any more. A quiet Northern Line station in central London with no lift queues and short flight of stairs down to platform level, what's not to like about it?

[@paintedpilgrim]

@@etherealbolweevil6268 now my memories are quite sometime ago (20 years nearly) but there were 3, Waterstones-esque bookshops. One on Tottenham Court Road near TCR station, one on Gower street near ULU, Birkbeck & SOAS, and one across the road from Euston. Though a quick Google suggests they has been a degree of consolidation and moving to new premises. The University itself seems to have got rid of their dedicated bookshop....

[@telemachus53]

My mum and I used Goodge Street quite a lot as it was next to the (then) Middlesx Hospital. But she always called it Goodge to rhyme with "should". I presume she was wrong, but this was in the late 50s... The unique timbre of the call to "stand clear of the doors" in the lift still echoes through the decades!

[@michellebell5092]

When I was young I told it was pronounced Good Street.and I have referred to it ever since

[@russbetts1467]

Hi Jago, with regard to your comment about the 'usefulness' of Goodge Street... It's the Recommended Station for the GPO Tower, which is a Six Minute walk away. I know this, because I used to commute from Tooting Broadway to Goodge Street, when working in the Revolving Restaurant at the top of the tower... that is, when it was still open to the public, prior to the IRA bombing London, during the early 1970s. The GPO subsequently closed the Tower to the public on Security grounds, so only staff were able to use the restaurant thereafter.

[@tsegulin]

Hi Jago I spent a day at the Acton Depot last year and it was utterly fabulous. I grew up in Sydney, Australia and took ancient AEC and Leyland double decker buses to school. I was even able to find the usually never seen deep-throated under-floor horizontal engine for a Leyland Royal Tiger there. Totally recommend the place for anyone interested in transport history. For me, Goodge St. is just another of hundreds of tube stations I've maybe transited but never heard of. Always impressed by the expanse and frequency of the tube service (less so by the peak hour crowding). There is so much history to it, I can't imagine how you can remember it all. Thanks again Jago.

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

Stayed on Goodge Street on my first visit to London. I have an expense record showing what the B&B cost. Single digit per person.

[@jeanpeuplu5570]

In 1895, maybe? ^^

[@highpath4776]

@@jeanpeuplu5570 he didnt say where the digit was, or went

[@leebanthorpe3100]

Hi Jago, I've been inside the Eisenhower Centre many times over the last 7yrs, I've also been in the Belsize Park, Camden Town, Stockwell, Clapham North and Clapham Common Deep Level Shelters over the last 30yrs. I'm planning to go down Clapham South in the 12 months, completing the 7 Northern Line shelters (Unfortunately Chancery Lane is completely out of bounds 😞). In parts of the Eisenhower tunnels, there is left over equipment from the American occupation, namely Mercury Arc Rectifiers, these were used to convert A/C into D/C to run their electrics, a machine for sending messages from one part to another (similar to the cash tubes in supermarkets), War Office signage and thousands of messages written by the troops stationed down there from WW2 until the fire in the 1950's. Most of these messages consist of the soldiers name, rank, where they're from, the date they were there and where they're being posted. There are also some amusing drawings and rude things written about their supervisor officers 😂 Keep up the good work, Jago 👍🏻

[@TestGearJunkie.]

Interesting about the mercury arc rectifiers, fascinating things, a friend used to have one..! The tunnels under Goodge Street were also featured in the Stephen Poliakoff film "Hidden City", starring Charles Dance, which is well worth a look if you haven't seen it.

[@leebanthorpe3100]

@@TestGearJunkie. I've seen the clip on KZbin, but not the entire film. The Camden Town tunnels were used in a Tom Baker, Doctor Who serial in the 1970's and the Mercury Arc Rectifier was used as a villain I believe?

[@ktipuss]

I got on a train at Aldwych 20 moths before it closed in 1994. It was a time capsule in so many ways: the station entrance, the quaint lift, and serviced by 1938 tube stock. I got on the first train to run in the evening peak, and got in 20 minutes before it was due to leave. Train staff were curious why I did that because I could have walked to Holburn in that time. My Australian accent immediately told them most of the reason, and also I told them that I wanted to experience a soon to be replaced part of LT history. Even though closure wasn't officially decided on until January 1993, it was obvious that its days were numbered.

[@ktipuss]

Whoops, an error: not the 1938 tube stock but their successor serviced that line by time of closure. I had also ridden the Aldwych line in 1980 when although not well patronised it was not yet under a cloud. It was then that it had the 1938 stock that stuck in my mind.

[@floridabrit]

Hi from Sarasota Florida. This great video takes me back to my very first job around the corner from Goodyear St station at Warren St. I always remember the over filled elevator (sorry lift!) every morning

[@acmehorse]

Good ol' Goodge St station; used it quite a bit as I stayed at a b&b on Gower St when visiting London in my youth. As far as stations go, it's a bit of a step child; not bad but not quite good enough either. I didn't care for lifts as they could get quite crowded. This was an awesome vlog as you showed the American Church, Starbucks and Tottenham Court Rd, even the Eisenhower Centre which I used to walk past. Thank you for the memories!

[@brianjrichman]

I used to use Goodge Street for a couple of years, when I was working at the north end of Tottenham Court Road.

[@johnlawrence2757]

You’da used Warren Street innit

[@brianjrichman]

​S​@johnlawrence2757 I used both of them.😊

[@brianjrichman]

@@johnlawrence2757 That one too.

[@horatiohuskisson5471]

Prove it

[@brianjrichman]

@@horatiohuskisson5471 It was in the 1980's so impossible to 'prove'. I also don't have access to the surveillance videos from the MI5 people who were in Euston Tower, pointing down Tottenham Court Road, so...

[@lea4642]

Been waiting 3 years for Jago to cover this little station. I lived near this wonderful station for some time but unfortunately it was more likely to be closed then open! Thank you for this fantastic episode!

[@sssdddkkksss]

Could you do a video on transit-oriented-development around existing stations? Especially Kidbrooke. But you could look at Southall, Hayes & Harlington, Croydon, Sutton, Nine Elms, Elephant & Castle, Lewisham, Deptford Bridge, Woolwich, Plumsted, Beckton Riverside, Barking Riverside, Rainham (Beam Park), Barking, llford, Stratford, Wembley Park, Walthamstow Central, Tottenham Hale, Meridian Water, Brent Cross Town, All the Actons, Cheshunt, Luton Airport Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, Carpenders Park, Chelmsford, Queens Park/Kilburn High Road, Canada Water, Tolworth, Wandsworth (Gasworks), Neasden, and more.

[@davidsirett5560]

Goodge Street shelter was featured in the Doctor Who story The Web Of Fear staŕing Patric Troughton as the second Doctor. This is the story that introduced Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart.

[@robertward7449]

❤love it! You've brightened a dull and damp weekend. I used to work opposite Warren St Station, so I remember goodge st station, which always seemed to be a forgotten orphan sort of station ... I couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for it. So thank you for featuring it!

[@Saint_Dan132]

ya wee gangster who knew .. great video thinking of taking my jamie here for a visit , thanks again my brother

[@eedss05]

Goodge Street Station holds a special place in my heart, as it was my first destination during my early years in London when I had to go to Store Street. I still love how pristine it looks compared to other stations.

[@alandargie9358]

Always interesting, thanks!! I remember going for an interview for UCL (University College London) in early 1979 but can't remember whether I had to get out at Goodge St or Warren St. I ended up going to Imperial so never had to think about it again!

[@willwhite1575]

Brings back happy memories of busking at Goodge Street Xmas 87 while living as a student nearby in halls. Only 1 lift meant we only needed 3 songs.

[@CaptainCalculus]

Hurray!! A Yerkes video!!! This video has a Yerkes number of 206. A classic innit.

[@elih9700]

I worked under this station for a few weeks, data tapes for business groups. A funky and break down often lift with a long spiral staircase to get out when needed. Very warm down there, and as I understand it, they grow veg down these places.

[@thisiszaphod]

Nice to see TCR at the junction with Chenies Street - the building that is now used by west elm was called 'Marconi House' for decades, where, as was, my Dad worked for thirty odd years - and to see the Bunkers are still there. Goodge Street Station was useful for him!

[@martinross5521]

Thank you Jago for all the research into this less used station; I’ve felt as though I was in a time machine to the past when using the lift. Rarely crowded, for sure…

[@chubbylegend]

Not far from Mornington Crescent, which deserves a good deal of explanation, regarding the rules, and whether the addition of stops not on the London Underground map was the point when ISIHAC jumped the shark. Oh, I guess the actual tube station and its idiosyncratic relationship to Camden Town, alongside Chalk Farm, on Sundays might be worth a mention as well.

[@adamski-l5w]

Goodge Street is at 1:08 in Jay’s song. Never heard of this station before and never noticed it in Jay’s song even though i have heard it 20+ times. Thanks Jago!

[@johnbeer4963]

Ah yes, Dwight D Eisenhower. Most notable for being the first recorded user of the word "skibidi".

[@MrTonyHeath]

When working in Charlotte Street in the 60s, Goodge Street was my station. It may not have many passengers overall but, in the time before the 9am business start, there were enough to cause delays catching a lift. So I used to run up the stairs, which was always much quicker. In the evenings, when heading for West Finchley, it made sense to travel back one stop to ensure a better chance of getting a seat. It didn't always work but it was worth the effort more times than not as many people alighted at Tottenham Court Rd and very few did at Goodge Street. Thanks again for a very pleasant way of passing a dozen minutes remembering.

[@MrTonyHeath]

The brief shot of The Spaghetti House also brought back happy memories.

[@hampstersquared]

The original tiling is so lovely! Is there any info on whether it was in a state of disrepair following the fires and so needed to be replaced, or do you think it was just because they saw an opportunity to get rid of the old 'Tottenham Court Road' tiling which must have confused a few unwary passengers? Personally, I always love seeing the old tube names in titling, am particularly fond of Gillespie Rd at Arsenal which was closest to us growing up

[@ShadowDragon8685]

"Copied when other stations have been renovated." How often were those renovations precipitated by an unplanned surprise demolition by the bloody Luftwaffe? It seems like every other time you mention stations predating the war, it comes up... Still, those lamps are frankly amazing. Wish I had some.

[@TestGearJunkie.]

Sad what they've put in them now, though 😿

[@ShadowDragon8685]

@TestGearJunkie. eh? What do you mean?

[@TestGearJunkie.]

@@ShadowDragon8685They've fitted corn-cob LEDs which totally destroy the image old fixtures like these should present.

[@ShadowDragon8685]

@@TestGearJunkie. Eh, progress should not held back because of nostalgia, especially when it's not simply 'artistic' progress but environmental. Leslie Green didn't fit gas lighting to his buildings after all. He'd probably be all about saving the dosh by fitting LEDs instead of incandescent.

[@TestGearJunkie.]

@@ShadowDragon8685 LEDs are not progress, they are a retrograde step. I for one won't have them in the house.

[@tantaf123]

Happy friday everyone! There's nothing better than starting my weekend watching the latest Jago Video :)

[@peterhughes7099]

A pun laden episode! I had heard of the underground offices of Eisenhower used during WW2, but had no idea to which station it was linked to! Many thanks for the clarification 😊

[@recklessroges]

Lovely closing pun! Delicious!

[@Rog5446]

CTY popping up twice is less than a week, and a bonus at time mark 6:35 when his picture appears on the ticket office counter. Does it get any better?

[@J.Bliszko]

You've been bizzay producing all these videos...!

[@gsygsy]

Excellent, thank you. Goodge St is actually a useful station for students at Birkbeck and University colleges, and for office workers north of Oxford St and south of the Marylebone Road. I think the lowish passenger numbers probably reflect the absence of line interchange more than anything else.

[@Blade_Daddy]

I am convinced that the inevitable pictures you post of Yerkes are really pictures of you!

[@sglenny001]

When i was in london early thus year this was actually my favourite area if london fitznova felt very much at home the architecture abd overall vibe of the area was very interesting plus the GPO tower pub/ufo club us somewhere i want to experience more next time i go to london

[@MrDportjoe]

Wound up using that station a lot during our time in London because we got lost less getting from our rooms to anywhere. Just something about our Seattle brains,

[@dave_nyc1897]

This was my local station when I lived on Store St. in 95-96 on a student work visa when I was 21. Near the Eisenhower Center. Mornington Cresent was closed the whole time I lived there. It was usually easier just to walk to Tottenham Court Road because there were more lines.

[@dorianlovell5479]

"It's Goodge enough", excellent. I was waiting the whole video for that pun.

[@yalova84]

There was a certain group of people who used Goodge Street regularly. I was a student at Imperial College (South Kensington) in the late sixties and one of the few people who actually went to ULU (the University of London Union at Malet Street). We played water polo there in the University of London League and Cup - all the matches were held there. So most Tuesdays and Thursdays from October to March a bunch of us who were not local would come to the Station, get in the rickety lift and be disgorged onto Totty Court Road. Those were the days!

[@binarydinosaurs]

I thought you'd been spotted top left at 00:34 but who knows exactly what was going on there. Also a Friday night DRINK, splendid. Cheers Jago!

[@topazklub]

When you came down one of the stairs from the lifts to the platform, at the bottom opposite was some door, as I remember when I used the station in 1981

[@Hrafnskald]

Good video. :) It's fascinating how similar sound the word "Goodge" is to to the rather ribald (or at least trimmed) slang term "Gooch".

[@Scodiddly]

I love those lamp brackets on the station exterior. Both elegant and clunky at the same time.

[@john1703]

In 1970 Heal's (11:30) displayed a new Lamborghini Muira in the front window on the Totty Court Road

[@highbury1972]

One of my favourite bands are My Bloody Valentine. The bass player is called Deb Googe minus the D.

[@christopherbutler7588]

Great video thank you for showing. Have a nice weekend. 😊

[@djsmeguk]

3:01 guy i briefly worked with at ofsted when it was on kingsway in 98 lived in the flat above that shop on the right. We all went round for curry one night. His place was full of complimentary CDs for AOL and stuff. Dead handy for getting home after too many beers - you could literally fall down into the tube 😂

[@stephenburrows5302]

I always find myself humming the Donovan song when passing.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Goodge is always a good move when playing Mornington Crescent.

[@tommoore7143]

Something weird I sometimes think about is if scientific advances bought Charles Tyson Yerkes back to life, and he is taught about the internet, and discovers KZbin and discovers there is some guy who makes videos featuring him on an almost weekly basis

[@roboftherock]

That's a chilling thought.

[@JB-ek4yx]

Goodge Street is one of my favourites. I found it after arriving at Euston once during rush hour & didn't fancy the scrum for the underground, so took a walk instead. I missed the station signs & only realised it was the tube when I noticed the one building in the terrace that was oxblood tile. After rush hour, I went there to jump on the underground & saw how special it was inside!

[@johnlawrence2757]

Goodge Street : very important stop - handy for UCL and for Senate House and RADA,and SOAS amongst other smaller colleges affiliated to the University of London . Also some handy pubs and decent priced restaurants on Tottenham Court Road and for one of London’s first present day coffee shops, The Pride of Cockayne, which has since been swallowed up by the ever-expanding Dillon’s book shop. Mind you you would expect a book shop to do well adjacent to a very large university college. Anyone remember the accordion player who used to busk at the exit? Turned up later outside Madame Tussaud’s. I think I’m right in saying he was part of The Happy Wanderers who used to busk up and down Oxford Street after WW2

[@ianhelps3749]

Back in the 1970s we had a school trip.to the British Museum. We took the train to Waterloo then the Northern Line to Goodge Street. I think it's the only time I have used the station.

[@DrewsRailwayWorld]

Another great in depth look at the Underground. I notice the BT Tower close-by in one of your shots, is Goodge Street the closest station? ...Drew

[@JagoHazzard]

I think it is, just about.

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

I always had a soft spot for Sunny Goodge Street, as Donovan referred to it.

[@grahampaulkendrick7845]

Goodge Street is a legend, thanks to the song that Donovan wrote about it back in '65. 😊

[@robertward7449]

One problem with escalators at Goodge St is that you'd have to make a completely new entrance (cf Angel) in a heavily built up (expensive?) area

[@Alan_UK]

I found Goodge St. useful in the late sixties as I worked nearby and I was travelling south on the Northern Line from East Finchley. I guess current workers in the same situation also find it useful but maybe waiting for a lift is slower than getting out the stop before or afterwards and walking.

[@danielsellers8707]

I like a lot of the original tube stations with the ornate tiling, especially on the Northern Line into London from Golders Green.

[@davidchurch5932]

Bravo, I knew CTY would be mentioned at least once. I'm thinking a starting a drinking game where any post without CTY references causes us to guzzle booze like it's going out of fashion.

[@TestGearJunkie.]

Sounds good, count me in 🍺🍻

[@PassiveAgressive319]

I was at the fire at Goodge Street fire in 1982. It. I remember having to walk upstairs during fire and it’s scared me ever since😮

[@RealSweetTom]

Goodge street isnt as quiet as you may think. I commute to Mornington Crescent regularly and I find that in the morning rush hour a large portion of the carriage get off there. I've often wondered what multinational office must reside in Goodge Street.

[@inversneckie1418]

On the firefly platform on sunny Googe St. Song by Donovan 1966.

[@sunjamm222]

All hail Charles Yerkes. Once again a great video from Jago.

[@lengos1962]

As a student at nearby London University I commuted there in the 80s-- esp when crossing over TCR and reaching Senate House through Chenies Street and Gower Street.

[@Slycockney]

That's two videos in a row for a mention for our Mr. Yerkes, will it be a hat-trick?

[@KeithCambs]

I was there that same weekend, on the Saturday. Ended up joining the Friends of the Museum whilst there.

[@Boffin55]

You make us wait all the way until 3:26 until we could drink; playing the Yerkes drinking game

[@EmperorJake]

Nice, I used this one a fair bit when I visited London last year, as I was staying in the nearby UCL student housing

[@iansanderson4664]

Around about the 1980s, there was a tragedy in Goodge St. staiion when a child was killed by lift doors.

[@SeventhSwell]

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

[@borassictime918]

I agree Goodge Street would be better named Tottenham Court Road, and what is today Tottenham Court Road (formerly aka Oxford Street) should have been called St Giles Circus, which is the correct name for the junction on which it sits. But then I also think Marble Arch should have been called Cumberland Gate, so no-one’s going to listen to me 😂

[@TestGearJunkie.]

Is it me, or did anyone else start singing the Lonnie Donegan song 'Cumberland Gap' just then..? 🤣

[@logwhitley]

Wow, this video features London... And i use to live in London. It's a small world.

[@keith800]

Thank you for another interesting video , perhaps they had to have lifts due to the constraints of the size of the site that may have made escalator shafts hard to accommodate and even though the passenger numbers are low at Goodge st , it reduces the crowds that other nearby stations would have had to put up with ( same could be said for other low use stations ) ,