Wish You Were Here? On the Northern Line, that is.

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Jago Hazzard

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@robertsmith4830 2 ай бұрын

"Affordable mortgage" and "Golders Green" - two phrases that are very seldom used together in the 21st century.

@drsenseihugo 2 ай бұрын

There should be a playlist with every video featuring Yerkes in it. You know, for the drinking game where you take a shot whenever Yerkes is mentioned.

@prismaticmarcus 2 ай бұрын

skol!

@captainjoshuagleiberman2778 2 ай бұрын

I think Jago should stand us a round for each Yerkes reference. Make mine a Rum. 🙂

@ricequackers 2 ай бұрын

That game is called alcoholism 😅

@jappedut9009 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@Damien.D 2 ай бұрын

@@ricequackers =))))

@rupep2424 2 ай бұрын

Ah, the old Bait & Switch - think I've been to that pub..

@swedneck 2 ай бұрын

i believe it has since been turned into a combination fishing supply and miniature railway store

@davidpeters6536 2 ай бұрын

Uncle Joe Stalmer just took over as the master of "bait & switch".

@jijichooo 2 ай бұрын

I have a postcard about metroland with a beautiful landscape on it; that field is now the secondary school right by my house

@fjkelley4774 2 ай бұрын

One day, Jago will have to visit Chicago to make "Charles Tyson Yerkes: The Chicago Years" ... Maybe Reese could go with him to discuss the current state of the CTA or Metra.

@johnplampin7274 2 ай бұрын

Yes please! Also visit Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. CTY donated it to the University of Chicago to try to prove he was respectable.

@shereesmazik5030 2 ай бұрын

Yes, you could ride the “L” , just bring armament for protection .

@martinwtaylor 2 ай бұрын

@@shereesmazik5030 I've been on the "L". It's not that bad, just very clanky and very noisy.

@maedero05 2 ай бұрын

Metroland, M25 greater london border, beyond probably cities like Milton keynes satellite suburbia hard to escape ! Somewhere in between with direct service in to central London probably better !

@Krzyszczynski 2 ай бұрын

@@johnplampin7274 Yes, and the cunning old sod apparently included a clause in the legal paperwork saying that the land and buildings would revert to him or his heirs if the place ever stopped being used for astronomical research - which is pretty much the case now.

@brick6347 2 ай бұрын

Ah, the hamster tube. Well done subtitles. Feels oddly accurate though.

@PokhrajRoy. 2 ай бұрын

2:05 YERKES NATION PLEASE RISE

@a11oge 2 ай бұрын

Ah. Good to see a return of Charles Y.... We always thought he would have a hand in this.

@jonasrosengren9093 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@JagoHazzard 2 ай бұрын

And thank you!

@pwn3dname 2 ай бұрын

"Say the line, Jago!" "…Charles Tyson Yerkes" "Yaaaaay!"

@roderickmain9697 2 ай бұрын

CTY - the AntiHero of the Underground. The guy everyone hates to love. Less than 100 years later and its all cars and houses and if it wasnt for the Heath you''d struggle to find green space. Can you imagine if they'd advertised moving there a bit more honestly "Come to the Countryside of Golders green, grab a slice before its all gone".

@stephenspackman5573 2 ай бұрын

Nowadays in America we see the reverse pattern, homeowners opposing public transport because … because … honestly, I'm having trouble ending this sentence. Because they never want to go in or out of their house, I suppose, or because they like having their children run down by cars. Something like that.

@shawnli4746 2 ай бұрын

In America, transit is welfare. There's a sense of entitlement regarding car ownership. Hence you get some parts of it with 16 lane freeways offering no solution to the congestion problem

@calmeilles 2 ай бұрын

Transit is for poor people. If poor people can get here we might have to see them. And if they bought homes locally it'd be the end of our world.

@ahirschfeld1974 2 ай бұрын

Its this mentality that is causing almost half of the USA to vote for a certain past it politician.

@kjh23gk 2 ай бұрын

Like many problems in the US, it's because racism.

@johndwilson6111 2 ай бұрын

Cynic@@calmeilles

@alanbeaumont4848 2 ай бұрын

I remember a photograph published in the Barnet Press (in the late 80s I think) showing the view from the entrance of the newly opened Golders Green, amongst many others. It showed a field with a cow in it.

@billsinkins361 2 ай бұрын

4:34 now I'm hungry for Heinz Tomato & Chilli pasta sauce but it's a UK-only product 😢

@yusufturner1971 2 ай бұрын

I went to school at Archway School, Scholefield Road, N19, (no longer exists) with an annex on Highgate Hill opposite the Dick Whittington monument and the hospital, so your videos ring bells and bring back memories for me as I live in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where I have now spent most of my working life, not bad for a kid from North London, but thank you for all your interesting videos from my old stomping ground! 😊🙏🏼👍🏽

@martinwtaylor 2 ай бұрын

I went to school at St Aloysius, just up on Hornsey Lane above the Archway Road. The Old Bull and Bush became a frequent visit in later years.

@template16 2 ай бұрын

Charles Tyson Yerkes, the tycoon and ex-convict. Don't hold back Jago.

@teecefamilykent 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant video sir, any chance you would do a video on the (originally) two Romford stations?

@geoflay4372 2 ай бұрын

My father’s father was a farm worker in Golders Green (until the Great War when he worked in Animal Hospital No. 9 on the Somme.)

@sianwarwick633 Ай бұрын

That is a story in itself, I'm sure

@Mark.Andrew.Pardoe 2 ай бұрын

Whato Jago, The last card shown is, if I've identified it correctly, still green as I think it's now Waterlow Park. That dome looks like St Joseph's church, Highgate Hill. I spend many happy hours in there (the park not the church) and next door in Highgate Cemetery with my wife-to-be Shirley (now my ex-wife, hey-ho).

@eggyboy123 2 ай бұрын

I saw two postcards of Mill Hill. The first one was 1901; a country cross roads with sign post. The second on was the same place in 1911. Built up with tramcars in the roads

@williambecwar7939 2 ай бұрын

"America had seen the rise of streetcar suburbs." Close, but no cigar. The image of a streetcar show signed for Queen Street is a Toronto Pete Witt car. Not the U.S. of Mr. Yerkes (rhymes with jerky). TTC was a bit cleaner of soul than Chicago Surface Lines, as in the Windy City of that era, aldermen did everything but hand out fee schedules for how much it cost to bribe them. With sufficient palm greasing, you could have run your traction line right through the Garfield Park fountain.

@AliAling-qy1ih 2 ай бұрын

Was about to comment the same thing! In fairness, the TTC has a lot better and more accessible archive photos given that Toronto has had streetcars for long enough to be a cultural icon.

@AliAling-qy1ih 2 ай бұрын

*hence why they’re usually among the first images to come up when searching for streetcars.

@williambecwar7939 2 ай бұрын

@@AliAling-qy1ih TTC also still runs a Witt in charter/special event service, plus there are a couple in working order at Halton Radial Museum. Back in the 1970s, the last of that breed on the street was doing the famous trolley tour. My bride and I got to take that. Wish they were still doing it, but the lines are probably too busy now.

@jasonbevan6275 2 ай бұрын

One of the postcards appeared to show Golders Hill House - near the Bull and Bush - that was parachute bombed and destroyed during WWII. Very rare, I should think.

@bordershader 2 ай бұрын

I'm actually rather fond of the inter-war semi - as housing, it's incredibly versatile, as is testament to it still being viable a century on. For anyone similarly inclined with kindness towards these areas, I recommend "Dunroamin: The Suburban Semi and Its Enemies" by Paul Oliver, Ian Davis and Ian Bentley.

@Krzyszczynski 2 ай бұрын

There's another book - which I've not yet been able to get a sight of - called Semi-Detached London. Author Alan A Jackson was rather well-known for his histories of the capital's railways (Rails Through The Clay; London's Local Railways).

@Alan_UK 2 ай бұрын

@@Krzyszczynski Lots of "Semi-Detached London" on ebay but £36+

@HuggyBob62 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps if Yerkes was around today, he'd get the Bakerloo extension built, and Crossrail 2.

@brettpalfrey4665 2 ай бұрын

Nice little vid, Jago! maybe you should start a Charles Yerkes Appreciation Society!

@jgodfrey546 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see I'm not the only postcard collector left. BTW, 3:03 -that's Toronto, Canada

@OofusTwillip 2 ай бұрын

A Toronto Transit Commission, Peter Witt streetcar, heading eastbound on Queen Street.

@gmcnewlook 2 ай бұрын

Yeah somewhere along Queen street going eastbound towards woodbine

@sianwarwick633 Ай бұрын

Yes, that's what I thought too. I love thd Queen St Streetcar 🚊

@dbolt6543 2 ай бұрын

I love the TTC Peter Witt #2438 on Queen St East at the Russel car barn I believe.

@jackiespeel6343 2 ай бұрын

As the intention was to have a Bull and Bush Station perhaps the pub meal served as a Works Outing.

@tonywise198 2 ай бұрын

The GWR must be top of the list of ultimate companies for advertising blurb/jigsaws etc.

@trevorelliston1 2 ай бұрын

Classic Jago. Excellent.

@ricequackers 2 ай бұрын

Fortunately, people worked out how to defeat this diabolical bait-and-switch. You move in, take advantage of green belt laws and vigorously oppose any and all further development. You get your house in an idyllic rural locale with a connection to London and don't have to worry about the area becoming another sprawling London suburb. Of course, there's knock-on effects on overcrowding, rents and property price affordability, but that's not your problem. 🙂

@andrewscolari5724 2 ай бұрын

That is how alot of suburbs in the eastern US got started. Basically you'd have a rich nan who gets tired of living in the city and builds a house in the country. Other rich people get the same idea and pretty soon you have a new community. Just add a church, post office, bank and train station and you had a fully incorporated suburb

@BulletNoseBetty 2 ай бұрын

At 2:57, that streetcar is from Toronto. As near as I can tell, the inimitable Mr. Yerkes never got involved with anything in Canada. Does this qualify me as a train/streetcar nerd?

@simonmeadows7961 2 ай бұрын

It reminds me of a novella I read a few years ago when I was living in zone 2. It was written around the mid to late 19th century (forgive me, I don't have it to hand to get a precise date); it described getting a train out of London and across the countryside to visit Dulwich picture gallery. Oh, the part of zone 2 I lived in at the time was East Dulwich - just a few minutes' walk from the gallery.

@sianwarwick633 Ай бұрын

Dulwich Gallery is very elegant

@iancruise6927 2 ай бұрын

Another great video. Yerkes was an early version of Del Boy lol

@PeterGaunt 2 ай бұрын

I have a Children's Encylopedia from 1933 (Volume 1). I lived in Cheshire as a kid and knew nothing of London but one thing in the book which fascinated me was a pair of pictures showing Golders Green before and after the arrival of the Tube. What a contrast.

@Anonymoususer_8823 Ай бұрын

I do like those postcards. They do bring back such memories of what it was like before London expanded and what we know of London today.

@PokhrajRoy. 2 ай бұрын

Jago’s Archive should be a Twitter account or an Instagram page.

@merlijnwiersma7801 2 ай бұрын

In a distant future there will come a time where you'll run out of suitable descriptions for Mr. Yerkes and you will just have to pick random words and phrases to describe him. (Something like 'Year-round Tootsie Roll and appreciated roof tile, Charles Yerkes.' )

@sianwarwick633 Ай бұрын

Have you considered writing the musical: 🎼 'Yerkes !'

@StevensPaul 2 ай бұрын

Yerkes. The Dick Dastardly of the early 1900's. 👀 Glad to see another Postcard Collector....we DO exist you know....🤓😉(!).

@bendrawer 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, I'm on Yerkes' side here. The dishonesty isn't good, but building lots of new housing in London and connecting it via rail was very good!

@swedneck 2 ай бұрын

Exactly, it's a great thing if you just.. keep the nature around! I like to point at the northeastern suburb of Gothenburg called "Bergsjön" as a great example of this, it's a tramway in the forest with almost exclusively apartment buildings all concentrated to ~400 meters from the tracks, and even within that distance there's a good amount of nature left between groups of buildings. This means Every. Single. Person. there lives within trivial walking distance from honest to goodness forest, AND nature remains accessible to everyone else as well! Back in the summer i took the train to gothenburg central, hopped on the tram to Bergsjön, and walked from the second-to-last stop on the line to the lake that gives the suburb its name, and that experience honestly broke something inside me. Seeing and feeling how amazingly comfortable and enjoyable it can be to get around, and how these people get to live their everyday lives, yet this isn't how EVERYTHING is built for some utterly forsaken reason.

@antharro 2 ай бұрын

Ah, the bin bag blowing in the breeze at the end there. A shot that dear Geoff would be proud of. 😁

@dancedecker 2 ай бұрын

Excellent as ever, Jago. Edwin Watkins of the Metropolitan Railway of course effectively invented "suburbia" or Metroland as he called it. Not only getting you Mon to Fri, but by building parks and attractions, to get you on Sat. Sun and bank hoidays too. Kerching!!£££.

@0KiteEatingTree0 2 ай бұрын

That second postcard is almost certainly Shepherds Hill near Highgate Station No sheep, but a small park, and below that, agricultural land, albeit in the form of around 200 allotments Such a familiar sight

@martinbalmforth2665 2 ай бұрын

It has been a while since old Chucky had turned up. He was like a bad smell, or an itch you cannot scratch

@Julius_Hardware 2 ай бұрын

Yerkes! (Checks wallet - its still there)

@rainyfeathers9148 Ай бұрын

There I was enjoying the postcards when BAM!🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡

@nawbus 2 ай бұрын

We haven't heard from Yekes for a while!

@davidjamessussex1671 2 ай бұрын

Time to do much more of it I say. Let’s build some people some desirable, affordable, connected houses! Let’s get building.

@graemeclifford6358 2 ай бұрын

And the same thing happened at the other end of The Northern Line... When Morden station was opened, it was surrounded by fields and a couple of shops. Now look at it today!!!!

@JoseMorales-lw5nt 2 ай бұрын

For some sick, psychotic reason.... Every time I hear Yerkes in a Jago video, I wait for a shot of Benny Hill slapping the short, old man on his head! As an America kid who grew up during the 80's, Benny Hill was my real introduction to British culture. That, and the Barnabas Collins character from DARK SHADOWS. At any rate, I always appreciate seeing transit videos about my native NYC and her sister city, London. Thanks!

@ianstanley7230 2 ай бұрын

Ahh, a mention of Charles Tyson Yerkes. My day is complete! I think I may start a game of Yerkes bingo. How many days until the next mention. Whatever we think of him, he was instrumental in transforming the embryonic tube into what we know today.

@binarydinosaurs 2 ай бұрын

An unexpected Wednesday night DRINK, thanks Charles.

@phaasch 2 ай бұрын

Loved this! And a CTY mugshot, too. 2 things - on the footage of Hampstead and Golders Green stations, what are the small yellow "RVP" signs for? Second, years ago when I lived in Hampstead, I remember a big brick viaduct on the Heath, which seemed to do no more than carry the footpath up towards Kenwood House. Was this a piece of abortive development, or just a folly, does anyone know?

@peterdavy6110 2 ай бұрын

Jago, you're a knowledgeable chap. Can you tell us (me?) what the yellow "RVP" plate at 1:03 means?

@simonbarton3363 2 ай бұрын

Rendezvous point in event of an incident.

@sianwarwick633 Ай бұрын

@@simonbarton3363 👍

@johndaarteest 2 ай бұрын

"Come.come.come and buy a house from me down at the old bait and switch - da da da da da"

@artistjoh 2 ай бұрын

As the beneficiary of the development around a new station model (Oakwood in my case for a short time) I must, in all honesty, applaud these rapacious station builders/property developers in the 19th century. It is because of their greed the tube network became so good. Cities that did not facilitate this practice ended up with poor suburban rail networks in comparison. In Sydney the current rapid expansion of the metro network is being facilitated by a state government that develops towers above new stations, and changes zoning laws to encourage development in the kilometer around the station. As a model, it works very well and the new lines and stations are doing what car based development did not - the rail based development is in higher density development, while car based development lead to low density suburbs with miles of mc-mansions, and poor services because low density means not enough people to support good public transport etc. The rail associated medium and higher density development is revitalizing communities across the city.

@grahampaulkendrick7845 2 ай бұрын

Drat that accursed Yerkes!

@mcarp555 2 ай бұрын

Oddly enough, just yesterday I was in Uxbridge, which I assume started out in a similar fashion.

@wentonmastermind 2 ай бұрын

I am amazed Yerkes did not produce postcards with himself on them. Mind you, his head would probably have been too big for the cards.

@highpath4776 2 ай бұрын

I went to a local book sale and picked up some old books. One on Railway Ghosts , the other was a 1950s kids whodunnit secret 7 type mistery with a tube platform/train illustration on it a bit like jagos central line bank footage

@SeverityOne 2 ай бұрын

It may no longer be bucolic, but those low-rise houses, not too far from the centre of London, do look attractive.

@rallymodeller 2 ай бұрын

Interestingly, the photo you used to illustrate American "Streetcar Communities appears to be from Toronto, given the Queen/Woodbine signage on the trolley and the c.1936 license plates on the car

@barbaraprest783 2 ай бұрын

Thank you 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@eizbeer 2 ай бұрын

Charles Tyson Yerkes.....so we meet again.

@neilbain8736 2 ай бұрын

That's weird. I'd just been watching Wish you were here (Thom Yorke cover version) and this turned up in my feed. It had only been up about 15 mins or so. I just saw on tonight's news that the Elizabeth Line has won the Stirling Award. A video about that might be an idea.

@watchmakersp9935 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video ; p.s Im surprised Mr Yerkes did not have a tube station named after himself!

@Djarra 2 ай бұрын

I’ve recreated a couple of walks that the Metropolitan Railway publishes for the same reason. I have to amend them to avoid the traffic. Although I do get a pub at lunch.

@dondesmond7969 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if it's the same Bull & Bush from the song they sang at the end of The Good Old Days? (For over 50s only.)

@neville132bbk 2 ай бұрын

Thursday Bridge night is rendered complete with a visit from the esteemed Yerkes FRIRD....says LeviNZ

@jeremypreece870 2 ай бұрын

Building houses where millions can live in solitude: What could have possibly gone wrong?

@Damien.D 2 ай бұрын

Maybe tube tycoons (and ex-convicts) ruined countryside by turning them into suburbs, but at least, the newly promoted commuters didn't have to own and use a car. In France we built brualist "new towns" in the 70's, in the countryside around Paris, mostly linked to the capital by highways. Say hello to traffic jams and pollution. In comparison to horrible french urban planning of the 70's, I think we should promote the famous ex-convict and other of your victorian railroad sharks as a would-be climate activist....

@MrGreatplum 2 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’ve ever been tempted to move because of a postcard, but those were simpler times!

@davidsheriff8989 2 ай бұрын

Interesting video as usual...

@Tevildo 2 ай бұрын

🎵 Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? 🎵 Hopefully not, if you're a prosepective house purchaser. And is that a crossword clue on the Channel 4 poster at 1:50? It doesn't appear to be a sentence designed to convey information.

@grahamrowntree5573 2 ай бұрын

Ah, the old "Wish you were here" reference, nice.

@highbury1972 2 ай бұрын

Jago! Speaking of Trans…. How about a visit to Ostende in Belgium to cover The Kusttram, Europe‘s longest tram network at 67KM.

@stephensaines7100 2 ай бұрын

lol...@2:59 / 4:58...that's Toronto, not Chicago, but carry-on with your otherwise excellent video on Glasgow.

@stephensaines7100 2 ай бұрын

All ribbing aside, there's an interesting history to that Toronto streetcar depicted. That's the Queen St streetcar, and although that one is posted to loop (this, but not all Toronto tram lines at this time were only single-headed) at Woodbine, it was of the 'Toronto' track gauge, unique, and the a whole story in itself, but this tram connected with a 'radial tram' (standard gauge) to ride farther out into the unspoiled suburbs, thus: Along the line of the Toronto and Scarboro Electric Railway: Toronto's future pleasure resort Date 1894-01-13 Google that, there's an in-depth pdf from Toronto's archives to read on the matter. It's not the 'tube', but the social marketing was close to identical to London's at the time.

@himthatis6698 2 ай бұрын

TBH this is nowhere near the top of the list of Yerkes most diabolical schemes. But as a man of nefarious plans, it is very apt he chose to be a railway tycoon, I can't imagine an occupation quite so fitting to mischievously twirl one's moustache to.

@MarkHyde 2 ай бұрын

Again with the sus Mr Yerkes - love it. Another great minutia detail video.

@anononomous 2 ай бұрын

I have a thing that replaces the default thumbnail with a still from somewhere in the middle of the video. It's amazing how many videos on this channel show up as that picture of Yerkes 🙂

@kiwitrainguy 16 күн бұрын

One day Jago will make a video simply entitled "It's That Man Again" and we'll all know who he means.

@highpath4776 2 ай бұрын

Of course state owned railway companies now cannot leverage direct funds from selling houses, like places like Dagenham Dock and Barking Riverside.

@davidchurch5932 2 ай бұрын

About time CTY appeared once again. Bravo.

@raymondmuench3266 2 ай бұрын

CTY inspires some grudging admiration at least at the level of electrification of tube lines and unification of the underground as a system, albeit to make himself rich off the public weal. Today, he’d paint himself orange and run for office,

@kjh23gk 2 ай бұрын

Metroland/streetcar-suburbs could have been much worse; they could have been car dependent suburbs. And most suburban places in London are TODs and 20-minute neighbourhoods. If there had been enough money available in the 60s London might have ended up looking more like LA. 😯

@Krzyszczynski 2 ай бұрын

LA could have looked a lot more like London - and did, for a time, with electric railroads to the outer suburbs. But then oil companies bought up all those railroads and dismantled them.

@HighWealder Ай бұрын

Have you done one about Morden, I remember seeing a photo of the tube station in fields

@highpath4776 2 ай бұрын

Many land sales had a condition of no more than one dwelling house with a value of not less than £475, which meant the rise of the not exactly cheap semi.

@ianthomson9363 2 ай бұрын

Charlie Boy's back! Hooray!

@6yjjk 2 ай бұрын

Yerkes, the 'tache with the cash, pulling a fast one? Surely not....

@quintuscrinis 2 ай бұрын

2:01 and there he is!!!

@kidmohair8151 2 ай бұрын

do you have any info on where the picture of the streetcar was taken? the "Queen" route sign intrigued me. and the thank you to your patreons and "supporters on youtube" made me chortle...such honesty, your bête noir Yerkes, would never employ.