| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 58842 views | colinallcars |
True ones please.
Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish.
When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years.
Notta Lotta People Know That. |  | | |  |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:03 - Apr 23 with 1916 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:14 - Apr 23 by robith |
The Fleet Sewer is about 4 to 6 metres below street level, the central line at Bank is a deep level line so was built with a digging shield and is c.20m below the street at Bank and St Pauls. But the Central and Piccadilly lines despite being deep cover still had to roughly follow the streets, especially when people in the area had a few bob to sue!
Though funnily enough the Fleet did cause the original tunnel at Farringdon to collapse when the sewer it was turned into burst |
I could look it up but you probably know….when was the first line under the river?
I was trying to look up the world’s longest interchange between lines at the same station, without success, but I did see the answer for London. No peeping… [Post edited 23 Apr 17:06]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:28 - Apr 23 with 1842 views | PeterHucker |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:44 - Apr 23 by MrSheen |
It must be way down to have gone under the Fleet along Farringdon Street/Holborn Viaduct. Fingers crossed digging that one. [Post edited 23 Apr 12:46]
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talking of Holborn, I was over that way last week and my mate pointed out to me the smallest listed building in London.
https://www.fairhurst.co.uk/project/ostlers-hut-lincolns-inn |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:40 - Apr 23 with 1801 views | PeterHucker |
When passing through Oxford Circus last week, I noticed the massive Nike shop on the corner is closed & seems to be getting converted into an Ikea.
Back in the days when it was a department store called Peter Robinson, it also housed a recording studio up on the 4th floor.
Here are just a few of the many albums recorded there, presumably while people were shopping unaware of what was going on above them:
Imperial Bedroom & Punch The Clock (Elvis Costello)
Never Mind the Bollocks (Sex Pistols)
Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
Pretenders 1st album
Meddle (Pink Floyd)
Sheer Heart Attack (Queen)
For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music)
Rio (Duran Duran)
Tug Of War (Paul McCartney)
0898 (The Beautiful South) | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:50 - Apr 23 with 1770 views | NewBee |
Thank you for that.
Meanwhile, your reference to Ostler caused me to wonder whether that came from London slang for a horse eg Harold Steptoe referring to "the os"
But not so:
The word "ostler" derives from Middle English "(h)osteler," which itself comes from Old French "(h)ostelier," meaning "innkeeper" or "steward in a monastery". This ultimately traces back to Medieval Latin "hostilarius" ("the monk who entertains guests at a monastery"), which is derived from "hospitale" ("inn"). The meaning of "ostler" shifted from "innkeeper" to "stableman" or "one who tends to horses" at inn.
Meanwhile, it may be apocryphal, but the story goes that Oliver Reed once bought a horse and named it "The Horse", as in "What do you call the horse, Olly?" [Post edited 23 Apr 18:51]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:20 - Apr 23 with 1757 views | izlingtonhoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:40 - Apr 23 by PeterHucker |
When passing through Oxford Circus last week, I noticed the massive Nike shop on the corner is closed & seems to be getting converted into an Ikea.
Back in the days when it was a department store called Peter Robinson, it also housed a recording studio up on the 4th floor.
Here are just a few of the many albums recorded there, presumably while people were shopping unaware of what was going on above them:
Imperial Bedroom & Punch The Clock (Elvis Costello)
Never Mind the Bollocks (Sex Pistols)
Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
Pretenders 1st album
Meddle (Pink Floyd)
Sheer Heart Attack (Queen)
For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music)
Rio (Duran Duran)
Tug Of War (Paul McCartney)
0898 (The Beautiful South) |
Never mind the bollocks was recorded at Wessex Sound Studios, highbury |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:24 - Apr 24 with 1571 views | qprxtc |
Michael Caine never actually said “not a lot of people know that”.
Adam Ant wrote a song about Hitler shagging his niece.
None of Big Country were born in Scotland. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:30 - Apr 24 with 1566 views | HantsR |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:24 - Apr 24 by qprxtc |
Michael Caine never actually said “not a lot of people know that”.
Adam Ant wrote a song about Hitler shagging his niece.
None of Big Country were born in Scotland. |
Michael Caine said that in Educating Rita - many folk don't know that!  |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:49 - Apr 24 with 1542 views | qprxtc |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:30 - Apr 24 by HantsR |
Michael Caine said that in Educating Rita - many folk don't know that! |
Dammit.
Well, two out three ain’t bad.
I should write a song about that. | | | |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:53 - Apr 24 with 1542 views | robith |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:03 - Apr 23 by MrSheen |
I could look it up but you probably know….when was the first line under the river?
I was trying to look up the world’s longest interchange between lines at the same station, without success, but I did see the answer for London. No peeping… [Post edited 23 Apr 17:06]
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Under the Fleet, I think it might actually be the Central Line as I think the C&SLR (now the Bank Branch of the Northern Line just skirts it - but that was the first line under the Thames - the bit from Borough to Bank. Opened in 1890.
Edit: The first tunnel was the Brunel's Thames Tunnel which opened mid 1840s. Now part of the Overground on the old East London Line around Wapping
Oh my, that's a tough one. Time or distance? Paddington or Green Park gotta be up there but I'm not sure if something on the Elizabeth Line trumps it, like Liverpool Street.
Longest in the world, I'm sure there's worse in Asia but sometimes I feel like I'm perpetually still changing in Les Halles in Paris [Post edited 24 Apr 14:45]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:59 - Apr 24 with 1458 views | Superhoop83 |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:03 - Apr 23 by MrSheen |
I could look it up but you probably know….when was the first line under the river?
I was trying to look up the world’s longest interchange between lines at the same station, without success, but I did see the answer for London. No peeping… [Post edited 23 Apr 17:06]
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Is it Tottenham Court Road? I've seen a film of a werewolf chasing a commuter along it, but he didn't make it to the top of the second escalator, so I'm not sure how far the whole interchange takes, especially if you're not running for your life and carrying a briefcase. |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:05 - Apr 24 with 1442 views | Monkey_Roots |
The night Michael did THAT moonwalk to Billie Jean – Motown 25 – Adam Ant was the headline act. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:09 - Apr 24 with 1377 views | dmm |
Just learnt the origin of the term, 'hipster'. It was the word used for Chinese opium smokers in the mid 19th century because they lay on their sides (hips) to smoke. All aided and abetted by the British, of course, who sold the Chinese the opium. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:24 - Apr 24 with 1305 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:53 - Apr 24 by robith |
Under the Fleet, I think it might actually be the Central Line as I think the C&SLR (now the Bank Branch of the Northern Line just skirts it - but that was the first line under the Thames - the bit from Borough to Bank. Opened in 1890.
Edit: The first tunnel was the Brunel's Thames Tunnel which opened mid 1840s. Now part of the Overground on the old East London Line around Wapping
Oh my, that's a tough one. Time or distance? Paddington or Green Park gotta be up there but I'm not sure if something on the Elizabeth Line trumps it, like Liverpool Street.
Longest in the world, I'm sure there's worse in Asia but sometimes I feel like I'm perpetually still changing in Les Halles in Paris [Post edited 24 Apr 14:45]
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I read that it was from the Bakerloo to the Ham/City and Circle at Paddington, which until recently included a walk along a main line platform as well as a fair stretch underground. 18 minutes by the article, though I doubt it’s that long. I don’t know if the Elizabeth Line has beaten that. Les Halles takes for ever. Tokyo has a few where you have to walk along a different platform to get between the two you use, including Otemachi, where I saw a sign telling me I was 1380m from the one I wanted.
Special mention to Chamartín Station in Madrid. I was there a couple of weeks ago, no idea where I was going, except that it took forever. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:30 - Apr 24 with 1298 views | Northernr |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:53 - Apr 24 by robith |
Under the Fleet, I think it might actually be the Central Line as I think the C&SLR (now the Bank Branch of the Northern Line just skirts it - but that was the first line under the Thames - the bit from Borough to Bank. Opened in 1890.
Edit: The first tunnel was the Brunel's Thames Tunnel which opened mid 1840s. Now part of the Overground on the old East London Line around Wapping
Oh my, that's a tough one. Time or distance? Paddington or Green Park gotta be up there but I'm not sure if something on the Elizabeth Line trumps it, like Liverpool Street.
Longest in the world, I'm sure there's worse in Asia but sometimes I feel like I'm perpetually still changing in Les Halles in Paris [Post edited 24 Apr 14:45]
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Liverpool Street station is a bit mad now. Technically it and Moorgate are joined as one, but you have to do the full length of the Liz line platforms to do it, and it's a walk to even get to the Liz Line platforms. I've walked it above ground, and below, and I don't know where go down there but it is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR.
Still yet to come out of Bank the same way in 30 years of trying. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:03 - Apr 24 with 1150 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:30 - Apr 24 by Northernr |
Liverpool Street station is a bit mad now. Technically it and Moorgate are joined as one, but you have to do the full length of the Liz line platforms to do it, and it's a walk to even get to the Liz Line platforms. I've walked it above ground, and below, and I don't know where go down there but it is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR.
Still yet to come out of Bank the same way in 30 years of trying. |
I’m like that walking round the Barbican, both the centre and the Estate. Practice and experience are no help at all. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:18 - Apr 24 with 1136 views | colinallcars |
Brunel was the first to build very big ships, as alluded to in a folksong:
Down below the cargo hatches
There was room for football matches
With fans and referee
Oh! what a sight to see. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:46 - Apr 24 with 1091 views | THEBUSH |
I'm so old, I've even seen, Stanley Matthews play |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 21:37 - Apr 24 with 1057 views | lightwaterhoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:24 - Apr 24 by qprxtc |
Michael Caine never actually said “not a lot of people know that”.
Adam Ant wrote a song about Hitler shagging his niece.
None of Big Country were born in Scotland. |
And none of the original Eagles plus Joe Walsh were from California. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:18 - Apr 24 with 1003 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 21:37 - Apr 24 by lightwaterhoop |
And none of the original Eagles plus Joe Walsh were from California. |
Similarly none of the original Eagles could hover at great heights in the sky for prolonged periods
of time then suddenly swoop at speeds of up 100 miles an hour to feed on snakes, fish, scotch eggs etc. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:36 - Apr 24 with 974 views | HantsR |
Mark knopfler was born in Glasgow and Rod Stewart was born in Highgate, London | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:54 - Apr 24 with 956 views | PeterHucker |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:20 - Apr 23 by izlingtonhoop |
Never mind the bollocks was recorded at Wessex Sound Studios, highbury |
You’re right you know. Sorry about that.
I accidentally told a lie lie lie lie tell me why tell me why, why’d you have to lie?
I knew about the 2 Elvis Costello albums, I got the list of other albums recorded there from the Air studios website which erroneously lists the Pistols album there.
To make up for it here’s some more trivia about another studio not far from Wessex …
Elvis Costello recorded his debut album My Aim Is True at the tiny Pathway Studios which is on Grovesnor Avenue in Islington (near the Snooty Fox pub if you know that)
Damned Damned Damned & Madness’ The Prince were also recorded there.
It’s no longer a studio, these days it’s just a flat and the current resident is ex Only Ones frontman Peter Perrett. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:05 - Apr 24 with 918 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:36 - Apr 24 by HantsR |
Mark knopfler was born in Glasgow and Rod Stewart was born in Highgate, London |
Was Rod a Brentford junior? | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 05:42 - Apr 25 with 759 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:50 - Apr 23 by NewBee |
Thank you for that.
Meanwhile, your reference to Ostler caused me to wonder whether that came from London slang for a horse eg Harold Steptoe referring to "the os"
But not so:
The word "ostler" derives from Middle English "(h)osteler," which itself comes from Old French "(h)ostelier," meaning "innkeeper" or "steward in a monastery". This ultimately traces back to Medieval Latin "hostilarius" ("the monk who entertains guests at a monastery"), which is derived from "hospitale" ("inn"). The meaning of "ostler" shifted from "innkeeper" to "stableman" or "one who tends to horses" at inn.
Meanwhile, it may be apocryphal, but the story goes that Oliver Reed once bought a horse and named it "The Horse", as in "What do you call the horse, Olly?" [Post edited 23 Apr 18:51]
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Speaking of celebs and horse names, Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler once owned a couple of racehorses called: 'Some Horse' and 'Another Horse'.
Allegedly so they and racegoers could giggle at the commentary....not half as much as we laughed at them in their white suits! |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:56 - Apr 25 with 651 views | robith |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:24 - Apr 24 by MrSheen |
I read that it was from the Bakerloo to the Ham/City and Circle at Paddington, which until recently included a walk along a main line platform as well as a fair stretch underground. 18 minutes by the article, though I doubt it’s that long. I don’t know if the Elizabeth Line has beaten that. Les Halles takes for ever. Tokyo has a few where you have to walk along a different platform to get between the two you use, including Otemachi, where I saw a sign telling me I was 1380m from the one I wanted.
Special mention to Chamartín Station in Madrid. I was there a couple of weeks ago, no idea where I was going, except that it took forever. |
Whilst I think it's more of an optical illusion than actually long, the first time I went to Primavera we had to change at Passeig de Gracia every day and on a hangover with 4 hours sleep, that tunnel is haunting, it's about 7 blocks above ground | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:02 - Apr 25 with 644 views | robith |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:30 - Apr 24 by Northernr |
Liverpool Street station is a bit mad now. Technically it and Moorgate are joined as one, but you have to do the full length of the Liz line platforms to do it, and it's a walk to even get to the Liz Line platforms. I've walked it above ground, and below, and I don't know where go down there but it is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR.
Still yet to come out of Bank the same way in 30 years of trying. |
I work in Southwark but run a work darts team who often play around Liverpool street. One day we decided to tube to moorgate so we could leave through Liverpool street. It was.... Ill advised | | | |
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