Things To Do In London: The Ones You Might Not Know

hi I'm Matt and I'm John and this is the park bench yes and I got a tweet the other day asking about intro I really flooded complaining what was I talking about you got to eat the other day um asking about things do in London ah that well not in the tourist guides that were off the beaten track I couldn't think of anything right then this is this is our answer to that we've both written a list of things we can think of on the spot just now and we zip up my yeah and we've we've not told each other about it so either we both written the same things down or we gonna supplies each other Twila - are you gonna drop me following one other one other - um yeah did do and you are tears of them if you if you were coming to London as a tourist and you were the kind of person who watches these videos save the jokes um what would you go for I lost everything that I did the other day yeah and my brother came down from the north yep for uh TfL transport for london live on the tubes and the buses everything so I'll start by saying the London's transport network is a hundred and fifty years old yeah the tube network is yeah there's all bits that are shut down they do tours of those old bits yes they do several different laces you have to get this in advance the tickets go like that yeah and there aren't many a good a good place to watch for the tickets is Ian visits and current UK and other yeah random stuff yeah the guy called in yeah it's Robbie in Mansfield I met him a couple times it's really nice he he he has a list of all stuff you wouldn't have thought of going on yes if you want events to go to that's always a good thing to check um depending on what your interest in there may be not a lot of noise in the signal but he's got enough signal for enough diverse groups of people these diverse groups of deaky people that they're all probably something that interests you so what I did the other day was I went on a tour down the disused part of Charing Cross underground station oh yeah okay right what do you see the Jubilee Line used to stop there is it yeah Oh until like 99 okay then decided they wanted to extend it a different ways yeah that station isn't yeah did you believe one anymore so there's platforms with a low two platforms that no one ever gets to go on because they haven't been used for that for the last so you need so do you just catch all the platforms also so it did now the cool thing about the platform's yeah I'm a geek it's alright I film its filming in the tube yep they will film in those disease platforms because they look like regular plug like regular platform so Skyfall Bourne Supremacy Paddington Bear it's got a proper escalator it's got yep yeah and they can still run tubes into them the tracks are running so yeah yeah and then they took us through a ventilation shaft so there's the running tunnels of damn right so as well as the tunnels that the trains and the people go in there are other tunnels for the hot air of people and trains to go out and call cold air to go back in so then I just threw a tunnel and livers are grating if you look down with standing right above where the trains were running good clinical I've done strand station in the past over tight old which station strand station which is equally been disused for a couple of decades get used to get used to filming sometimes and if you spot the tickets in advance you can go down and tour around and it is just to dis use it's in I mean you could get the same thing by going to a really quiet tube station okay but it's it's somewhere you're not supposed to be in for many many years we're completely locked up and it's the the Transport Museum which I haven't been round yet but the the tickets for that event if give me her present I go if you're watching this in the future you may also be able to get down the mail rail tunnels no one's watching this right now okay if you're watching this in 20 17 or 18 you might be able to go down the mail rail tunnels the postal archive is opening their disused railway I was lucky enough to get down there on one of the first tours cuz I had spotted the tickets they went like that I went on one the same jazzier but they are opening up the the private rail system that was used for just sending mail between two depots in London and the black fox camera so before where all the mail was sorted in a in a Depot then you had to go to the train station to go to the rest of the UK yes and they built an underground tiny little railway yeah - to take it between the two places yes so uh one you'vetold infrastructure stuff what's what's your next one it's a little one yep there is a place called granary square oh there is yes it's near Kings Cross station they bulldoze the little rail yard put a load of fancy offices up yep um and they've made a new square a five minute walk north of Kings Cross yep and it has a fountain yes where's a lot of help it has lots of fountains it's it's an array of fountains so meant by so many each one has a light under yeah RGB LEDs underneath it they spray six foot high at least and they're all go different colours so if you go there at night it looks really really really quick I was once able to play snake on those fountains I don't think the apps running anymore dodgy but sometimes there was a sign up saying go to this site download this app and you will be able to play snake against other people on the fountains so yeah oh did it rise up where your snake yet oh um another small one that is kind of nearby is the grant Museum of Zoology I've only been there once and it's not a big place but it's all the weird I think it's university colleges London University College London zoology music okay and if nothing else they have a jar full of moles they have a jar of preserved moles along with all like that's a good exile of the no mo le s o little little fuzzy earrings yeah yeah they have a lot of stuff that gets exactly that react if that's your kind of beef weird biology and exhibits and preserved specimens in jars is your kind of thing they're worth a visit I can do a 1-up yep if you want to travel a little bit further to somewhere that's slightly more planning to get to you can go to the Horniman museum yes in South London yeah it's on the overground it's probably half an hour yo from central London and that is a taxidermy museum it also has a musical instruments bit yeah and some gardens yeah it's you go around and it's got weird taxidermy it's it's big thing there their main object yes is a stuffed walrus big stuff walrus but it's not just a stuffed walrus it's an overstuffed walrus it's Matt Grey's over stuff waters which in sell is named my prog band's new album yes so there's lots of taxidermy in there which made me go younger knowing around it um a really weird Museum is Sir John Soames oh yes that's tiny it's a tiny little Museum you're not allowed take care take your phone out in there they will tell you off you do that sometimes do night viewings by candlelight it just appears to be a load of stuff that one man collected in his house but if you like weird museums that's a good one that's near joven isn't it yeah they have suffered yeah something not to do in Kings Cross while we're while we're talking about things across things like that it's probably not worth doing platform 9 and 3/4 at Kings Cross it's just a queue for a sign Hugh all right it's lovely if you're a Harry Potter fan I can see why you would want to go there and get the folk they put it they've cut it a baggage trolley in half so it looks like you're going through the actual wall but the queue is normally about an hour or something like this enormous Lee long queue a busy time it is yeah and it's and so on and so on from the Harry Potter shop next door we'll be there to take your photos and hold the hold the this your the scarf they give you behind to making it like you're running yeah I can see why I want to do it if you are going to do it go when it is quiet at the start of the day because it's a massive while everyone's waiting for their train is something to do is you ever and I'll be there yeah um what was next on your list parks parks people will go to hide / green park Regents party dance part was the Queen's once in James Park so James Park there are four big parks in London they're great to have that much green space in the middle of a city is great problem of that is though everyone goes haha if you travel that little bit further out you can get some lovely parks yeah which are all of you all yours yeah so there's we're not saying we're not saying where this one is and it's someone in the comments will we know that so this is a bit too far out yeah but what Phoenix missile is like um there's Holland Park Holland Park is lovely Battersea Park Finsbury Park it's alright Alexandra Palace heck of a view it has an amazing view of London yeah it has a path and grounds it's yeah on a weekend it can be a big venue in the National Railway yeah we could model know the other day there was a model railway come filled with people they did that final of the darts there yes I saw Slipknot there the other week really yeah not at the same time stuck darts is not a sport really watched outside the UK right away oh isn't it the idea no it's like throwing darts at a board could be a televised sport is not really really it and if you haven't seen the is it not the nine o'clock news does get yeah well know about well obviously haven't seen that watch it's hilarious they also do a street food of your festive if you're doing Alexandra Palace art the view on the other side of London is our Hampstead Heath Parliament here on Hampstead Heath sounds of round nothing than a bit yeah it's round a bit yeah um also same kind of wonderful view um what's the one what's the Fenton one Fenton Vantage 'men / Richmond Park why there is I've done a video about this a telescope that will give you a line of sight about 12 miles and Paul's Cathedral that must legally be kept open cool uh link and yes he's Greenwich Park as well yes which has got oh yeah time stuff going on yeah that's er I'd say that's acid that's well-known yeah the one that's on here is Bletchley Park which I realize is also well-known not technically in London but is a really easy trailer ride from Euston to see where Alan Turing and all the team that he built actually cracked me and I still have made it National Museum of computing is there as well I thought that was in Cambridge there might be more than one look at I showed me a personal museum if there isn't something we'll just come up correcting because any went to a museum of computing at Bletchley Park I think there yes I think yeah one of these uh I've only got a couple of things left on here um but one you have two more I've got two more okay okay go well mine it connected so let's let's see yours okay number one yeah Barbican oh yeah it is a 1960s brutalist concrete monstrosity yes I love it it is a housing estate come event venue come conference center come cinema yeah good to it so London got bombed in the Blitz that bit of London got comprehensively bombed in the Blitz in World War two and it didn't get rebuilt until 1970s 70s 60 60 70 had come along and right let the film high-rise let's just come out the Tom Hiddleston one never even heard it okay if you have seen that and I haven't I'm going off the stuff I'd heard of people talking about it it is essentially inspired by a book that was inspired by the movement that created the Barbican okay it's not the Barbican about brittle is it yeah it's it's brand it's it's dystopian version of the market that's actually um but it's if you like that kind of dark buuuut it's it's 60s concrete statement these architectures you can wander around it it is so weird I like it to guess it I'm also on yours told you I'll be the two together here the other ones are dinner suggestion oh yeah go for it the Hawksmoor haha no that's so that's outside my price range so yeah yeah this is a special occasion yeah uh meat place if you want to the best the best cyclist steak in London yeah this is not a product placement or sponsored bottom line of it it's it's all the kind of roast dinner I yeah if you want if you want the best I've been there once on someone else's dime which was wonderful and it was the traditional British Sunday roast of meat potatoes vegetables I have never had a better one in my life I have I think I stay home I hope my mom doesn't watch this video I was taken there for my birthday yeah and I could it would happen to be on a Sunday but I was having steak not a rest I could see someone else's roast yeah so I let let's leave because I've got a couple of things here I'm on it so in general if you are a fan of escape rooms the idea where you get you get locked into a room for up to an hour and you have to solve a series of puzzles get your way out there are some really good ones in London I would recommend clue quest about all others but the one I have on here to close off and dementia and you know what I'm going to do it's not technically an escape room but I got to do it and Americans will not will not know what I'm talking about the rest of the world won't know what I'm talking about but oh hello that's a dog that's not um hello don't come I don't um but if I say the crystal makers dun dun dun dun Dada oh right if you don't get that we'll put a link below trying to explain it it is a TV show we got right the closest so for Europe Fort Boyard oh yeah yeah for America legends of the Hidden Temple is the closest that you get to so imagine if whichever show that is for you imagine if someone said we're going to make a version you can just come along and play I looked at that and it's a 50 quid ticket like it's expensive I thought it's there's no way to me what and then the reviews came out ISM and then a friend of mine got ill and said I've got a ticket didn't you don't want to go with me and my with the French yes yes I do I am a real tight fisted person when it comes to entertainment i i i rarely paid for a show in london because I don't spend that much water it's worth the money I can't show you photos from inside phones and I aren't allowed inside but if you know the show it's only worth the money if you know the show oh yeah if you don't you're going to be going around scrambling a lot of puzzles and wonderful mice up on in an eccentric dress is shouting at you but yes for the Europe it's as if there was a Fort Boyard experience for America its if someone suddenly opened up the Hidden Temple and so you get to do that shall it is worth it it's also booked up until December right now but seriously it's worth so yeah that's that's that's the list we can't think of anything else but if we do it'll be linked somewhere yes so you can do all the other touristy stuff but it's other stuff you probably haven't thought also I know people are gonna add their own in the comments so please do yeah that's our city we I was going to be Londoners so I got used to that how long do you count yourself with Londoner now because you never get it you used to say you weren't going to come down here and move to the big city is it worth it oh that's something for another time and setup for the sequel that was the wrong mine that wasn't the setup for the sequel mine that was the knocks out the park mine yes did the room mine

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Length: 16min 13sec (973 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 15 2016

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[u/gerrywastaken]

As a kid I remember London being extremely boring. I'm now thinking that might not have been because I was a kid.