London Monopoly – Old Kent Road – Live Walk

London Monopoly – Old Kent Road – Live Walk

And we should be live welcome again Michelle Katherine and let me know in the chat if you can hear me properly so we’ve got uh 11 minutes before to start we’re just waiting for let me know in the chat if if um if everything everything is

Okay and we’ve got about 10 minutes to go so we’re just waiting for everyone and getting to know each other as well so and if any of you are watching this in the future on replay if you’re not watching the live but if you’re watching

It in the next few days if you wanted to skip skip the hells if you want to skip the the first 10 minutes feel free to do so we’ll be kicking off in 10 minutes and matu is here as well welcome matchu and hello again Katherine I can see a

Plane you can hear me good good and I can’t hear you that’s probably good as well and Tish is here welcome Tish and Lori as well welcome Lori so we’ve got a few minutes before to start let me check how many 10 minutes I’ll show you of

View can you hear the birds I can hear quite a few Birds it’s starting to look like Springs with a few flowers but it’s actually freezing am I going on vacation again no there’s nothing nothing booked ever I don’t think I’ll go anywhere apart from uh I’m probably going to SK

Ness for a job actually I have a few location in the UK for kids football photography I don’t know where I’m going but that’s for work so no nowh massively exciting I think I might be going to somewhere in Somerset for a photography job as well netball

Tournament but that’s about it no no where no we’re very exotic we are know little Park here where we’ve never been before it’s a fairly residential area we are in the well we are in the borrow of sok just in wal Ruth do I off I work for a t tour group

Lori no well I don’t really do um any group tours where I go away on a coach um well I do technically but they keep sending me requests for places that I’m not trained to do they just sent me one a few weeks ago for Scandinavia I’m like

As much as I’d love to do it I just don’t have have the knowledge um and if sometimes they want to they want to send me to Liverpool or you know but I I cannot do it like you need to know where you can park a coach and you know and

You never know in advance if it’s going to be um a British driver or a Belgium one CU When I do French they could come from Belgium and that’s a nightmare when you have a foreign driver because you have to tell them the life of Henry d8

At the same time as you’re doing the satnav and telling them which lane to be on the road um so no I don’t do uh I wouldn’t mind doing those big tours but if I had a better company to work for like someone that pays okay and that

Actually sends you to places where you’ve been before am I ever coming to the states Roberta I should I’m planning to go to Florida eventually because I have a good friend in Tampa and also I have some dollars to spend cuz as a tour guide you know

Sometimes you get tips and sometimes you get tips in dollars which is amazing but what people from the US sometimes don’t realize is that the American dollars they are um you know they’re made with paper so they they get damaged very quickly and sometimes people write on

Them and uh those dollars that that are slightly damaged or that have a a pen mark on them you cannot change them anywhere so uh so you can only spend them so I have to come to the USA and spend them I don’t have much but there’s

Nothing else I can do with it um Arizona I’d like to and Mark is here welcome Mark so we’ve got let me tell you 6 minutes and let’s me show you the view again you get bored of my little face so this is actually my local area I

Live 5 minutes away from here on the bicycle welcome TR so we’ve got about 5 minutes to start we’re just waiting for everyone to connect and sandrin is here welcome sandrin let me see what did I do go away what did I want to do that’s what I yeah five minutes to go

Sorry so we are just above um boures Park some of you might remember we’ve done um the all cant Road about a year ago at the end of hego and um we had a little walk in this area but not over here we were actually south

Of bers Park so this time I’ve chosen the north so we’ll have a completely different um experience and we need to go and see a haunted Pub as well huh Mark interesting question mark is saying on the Monopoly B this is the cheapest um yes so it was 60 uh uh when

The Monopoly was created in 1935 I think it was the the English one um it was the the cheapest then with White Chapel uh and it’s still the cheapest now actually White Chapel went up all Kent Road went down well nothing goes down in London but proportionally it went down so it’s

Definitely still the cheapest by far very far it is the only location on the Monopoly board that is south of the river so it’s actually much further away from all the other ones that are around Westminster and uh and uh a couple in the city and MIT is here welcome

Mitsy so we’ve got about 4 minutes to go so I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I’ve scheduled for tonight 2 hours after this tour we’re going to be throwing the dice again from home so we’ll check which uh which Monopoly location we’ll explore next time and Wendy is here

Welcome Wendy let’s see who have missed hi suzan and cherill welcome cherill did I miss anyone no I don’t think so and welcome anyone that I might have missed the apartment yeah they have a nice view you know what when you are up there you have a lovely view on The

Shard well not on this side but on the other side yeah I would buy here so let me check minutes so we have uh why does it keep doing this let me do this 2 minutes and yes happy International women’s day everyone we’ve got uh quite a few

Interesting woman of History to talk about today four well maybe three there’s one I might forget cuz I didn’t know she existed before to walk that street so let’s say sorry in case I forget her I’ve actually just ordered a book about uh woman of London I went into the

Library to warm up cuz it was freezing and there was a nice book but I didn’t want to borrow it from the library because I always forget to bring them back and then I get charged so I’ve ordered it from eBay three about uh interesting um historical wom’s of

London have I recovered from the jet lag yet uh Wendy is asking yes I have it took me well the jet lag alone it took me a few days but um I was really bad first week um I I’m 99% % sure that it was actually because of um uh a a

Jellyfish that uh that beat me the day before departing so I had the jellyfish plus the the jet lag so it was not very well for a week but after that I was completely fine from from one day to the next actually I recovered I Linda Monopoly was invented by a woman

Yes exactly Lizzy Maggie she sadly had her um idea stolen by a men uh and uh and it was commercialized making them a lot of profit and not for her but yeah she had actually created the Monopoly and the anti Monopoly that was meant to expose

Hello I had a little friend but YouTube doesn’t like kids so well pink hand waving pink it’s not that he doesn’t like kids but you need permission to to film them right let me see what time it is now and it is 5 so it’s official officially time to go let me gracefully

Stand up so welcome everyone welcome to those Monopoly tours for the ones that don’t know me I’m Natalie and if you don’t know what we’re doing today what’s happening it’s that I’ve been throwing the dice on the board at home and I ended up on the all Kant road so

We’ll have a little work in this area we’ll have a look at property prices and I’ll tell you Snippets of local history and uh your teacher you don’t like kids either and sorry and um uh the allant road will actually try to spend as little time as we can on the alant road

Itself cuz it’s very noisy very busy it’s actually the A2 going down towards Kent so we’ll explore around the main road but we won’t stay on the road too long if I could add any Monopoly location to the original Monopoly board what would it be on

Why I think I’ll change one of the train station I’ll remove uh fener fener Street and I’ll put Paddington Paddington is better busier you have a canal you have some interesting statues so you had put Paddington in there exactly Mike the cheapest property on the board and uh well at least it was

When they created the board and now it’s even cheaper um I’ve got a little graph with all the locations that have gone up or down since the Monopoly was created on allant road it’s one of the rare ones that have actually gone down um anyway

Let me flip this and let’s go so we are in a little garden called farad Gardens because Michael Faraday was born around here so Michael Faraday uh you probably know him because of the uh his importance into science and into electricity he uh he uh he was actually

Born around here in poverty you know as a as a boy you probably did not have food every night and um as a teenager he took a job as um a a book binder so you know he was putting the books together and sometimes he had to take those books

At home to uh to to to finish them and apparently was reading a lot of them especially the one the one about science and it was basically self uh self-trained completely then later on he took a job as a as an assistant for a scientist called Davey and uh he was

Really annoyed with dav’s wife because she treated him like a servant when he was not a servant any anyway I’ve got a property already for you in that uh Tower block here it is a flat share so you’ll be sharing a flat so it’s a one uh it’s a

Two-bedroom flat so you it’ll be you on a on another person and um it’s going to be a monthly rent so we’re looking for a monthly rent how much would you pay for one bedroom in a flat chair in this Tower block why does your video reset and

Start over oh I have no idea ktie you should be able to move the little cursor at the bottom to go back to the the the moment where it’s live live you find Paddington the little bear it used to be I think Mike but I think

Now they have some cool statues and I like the canal there you can walk to Little Venice and yeah so anyway let me show you the photos so one uh that’s the one so bear in mind you’ll be sharing with a stranger ooh Lori I think it’s a bit

Less uh to to be honest that’s the type of property I would not look into myself because as much as I live with strangers you know I live with 48 of them Linda you quite close you’re very close actually so I don’t mind living with strangers plural but not only the one

Because if it doesn’t go down well uh you know there’s no Witnesses and uh uh I prefer to have at least two flat maids and this one it’s uh it’s a it’s a well it’s a decent price for for what it is but the thing is a short contract

Apparently the contract the contract finishes in I think it’s June or something 650 says Lor 900 says Ash so yeah you don’t know it might the price might go up after um after the end of the contract so let me show you I think Ash I think you’re quite spot on let me

Show you the answer that there we go well done Ash and welcome um well done Linda as well you were very close so 900 per calar month but they have a balcony large living room to share of course but and probably a lovely view so that’s

Yeah am I per month yeah for the for the bedroom itself cuz obviously you have one flat made to share with all right let me remove the photo and let’s go into Trafalga Street this lovely area it’s all made with uh uh Georgian and Victorian homes so it’s quite

Cool and we had a let’s you know what let’s see if you can guess there’s a a fascinating woman of history that lived yes Emma for one person so the the total of the flood would be 1,800 yeah until June then it might go up

Yeah it is the price in this area it’s the price for something it’s actually not bad because they have such a large space you know my rubbish well you’ve done you’ve done well just now um so let’s see if you can guess trer Street we might have mentioned it before

Because I actually consider taking you here cuz there’s a lady that you might know very well um that lived here at some point I’ll give you a clue she lived here with her husband William her dad a blacksmith her brother and her first two kids I think

The first one died here actually who Could That Be I actually know people living to my right if they come out they’ll be like what are you doing so who do you think that could be a lady that we’ve mentioned in uh in my tours before a few times actually quite a few

Times who Could That Be she lived in in one of those little homes here those have would have been built probably in Georgia and time but they were family homes since since then they’ve been divided into many many different Flats if you want another clue I’ll give

You another clue later because for now we have a property sorry so there’s a flat here apologies I don’t actually know which one cuz they didn’t publish any photos of the uh oh Linda yes it is Mitzy yes it is which one though which one 600 months for a four bedroom flat

Wow Teresa yes yeah that’s the that’s the thing about living in such uh okay Queen Victoria I know um so yeah one of those probably not the one I’m showing you but they’re all the same on and I didn’t have a photo of the outside so I don’t know

Which one it’s uh to buy it’s a three bed uh flat to buy let me show you the photos where is it so it’s quite nice on you inside uh Mark it’s a man it’s a oh sorry it’s a lady not a not a man Oh you

Mean the husband no no it’s not uh it’s not uh no is is she my favorite no she’s not no not that I really should have a favorite but yeah so how much would we pay for this little flat three bedroom right here and we’re looking to

Buy and it’s a fairly average price for the area how much would you pay bearing in mind you’re very close to elephant and Castle you know you’re in zone one she’s not my favorite victim uh but she’s uh I’ll give you another clue um but guess the price first let’s go with

The the price forget about my Victim for now let’s go with the price are we looking to buy to buy Ash Mark says 350 no a bit more Lor says 450 Oh Linda you’re so good a little bit less Linda JV yeah you’re quite close as well Tish it’s a bit

Less 500 casesa it’s a bit more yes Emma it’s Maran Nichols um she lived here before to move into the pebody building um uh with uh with our family okay I’ll show you the answer uh oh what is I think I got mixed up done right I think I’ve got let’s guess

Again this one is to rent I think I’ve got mix St we had one to buy on the same street and I’ve actually uh selected the one to rent so I’ll tell you the one to buy was actually six uh 620,000 but uh for rent how much would you how

Much would you pay monthly for so for the full flat for the four bedrooms how much would you pay so we looking we’re not looking for a monthly rent sorry about that for the three bedroom I don’t know how I got mixed up but we we had two on this flat I only

Selected one on this road so 2,800 you get yeah Amanda you quite spot on you know what I’ll show you I think uh you guys are getting very good at this game I’ll show you it’s um it’s 2550 for the full Flats ohsh very close as well very close well

Done so yeah it is indeed poly nickol that lived here she um to be honest when she lived here she wasn’t doing too badly because she you know at the time the the the the well-being of the family really depended of how how many working

Men you had um uh in the family at that point she had a brother a husband and a dad that were working and only two kids uh one passed away I think so they were not doing too bad but when she started to have more and more children that’s

When um that’s when her financial financial situation Went Done even more anyway we have another flat share here and it’s just in this little building here it’s the room at the top um this is actually a good price because the bills are included so bills included it’s a four

Bedroomroom flat so we looking for a monthly rent for only one bedroom so you’ll be living there with four I mean three flat Maids let me show you the inside so it’s not a it’s not a very large room so we looking for a monthly rent for for one little bedroom in a

Four bedroom flat chair oh that one was too modern for you well this one this one is not this one is more so how much would you pay 1,200 1,100 oh it’s less guys let’s let’s this one is actually a good deal because all the bills are included Mark you quite spot

On Linda you’re very close as well very very close so yeah that’s um that’s actually not bad at all it’s really rare now to find a to find a bedroom that is less than 900 in this area um plus bills included that’s actually that’s very nice it’s um it’s

Uh rare it might be something wrong like humidity or something but yeah if I was looking for a place I would I would consider it anyway let me remove the photos Straight Ahead this is the Asbury estate you might have heard of the estate it’s the most infamous uh Cil

Estate in in Great Britain really um and it’s also the large it was in its Heyday the largest in um in uh in Western Europe um but let me not tell you too much about the estate now because we’re actually going to go inside this is

Phase two because it’s all going to be knocked down very very soon those guys are phase two no uh phase three so I still have a few years I’ll take you to the to the building that the part of the estate that is going to be knocked on

Very very quickly see the new build there they’ve already been built on top of the estate so the destruction and on the uh re ofation has already started let me show you it’s quite a contrast with those uh you’ve got those lovely little Georgian and Victorian street that PO Nichols would have

Probably walked into right next to the uh the the quite gray uh uh quite ugly I guess we can say a conil estate and the new build right next to it prices are similar than one so Yes actually I think they’re quite uh although we are we are much more

Central um it’s it let’s say didn’t have the best reputation it’s not still today it’s not the safest uh area to give you an idea where we started on Trafalgar Street uh I met some people that were buglar very recently they were inside uh they forgot to lock the door but they

Were sleeping inside they know exactly what time they were buglar because they stole the um Internet modem so they know what time the internet got disconnected and um yeah the buglars don’t care they they’ll get in even if you’re inside you know and um and of of course we’re right

Next to the Ellsbury estate so um it’s not uh yeah I didn’t have the best reputation I do feel quite safe today I mean I Live 5 minutes away and I never never feel unsafe but yeah hello night all so I told you we’ll mention a few a

Few amazing ladies of History well there’s a new life Library here all this new blog this is very new very very new I think there’s no one inside quite yet um and the uh the um the library has just opened it’s named after her after her lady called Yuna Yuna Marson she was

Uh one early black feminist um and and political activist really um she was the first black lady hired by the BBC she was born in Jamaica in uh in 1905 and she um she was a writer there she was actually middle class at the time Jamaica was you know it was part of

The the British Empire and um people there were treated as British uh subject you know so this is the unamar library so brand brand new all uh all freshly opened and it’s a great choice to have chosen yaa because when she moved to um there’s a portrait of her at the back

I’m not going to get in but this is uh this is UNA at the back there let me zoom in a bit there she is so yeah she um she started working as a writer on a on a poet in Jamaica she actually um had her own magazine that

She published there and in 1932 she came to to London and well she had a bit of she had a bit of a shock you know she did not expect the level of racism that she was going to experience here so writings kind of changed she was

Suddenly writing as a black woman um o sorry it’s very windy it might move the the gimbal a bit and this is again the elbury estate this is going to be knocked down they’ve got a a few months I I think so yes suddenly um our poems

Were really uh exposing the uh the level of um of of racism and segregation that uh uh she experienced there between the between the wars for example she wrote one called um I think it’s called Little Bron girl when she says she the little girl meets someone on the street and

They’re like oh you speak English you speak English very well like if you owned it I mean yes he owns it you know and uh another one another poem called uh with the N word um so yeah very interesting writing and so and in a way

We’ve evolved a lot but not so much you know she has another poem about um going to the cinema um because at the time you’d go to the cinema and and everyone was white you know um so the mommy is telling the little girl I’ll let you go

To the cinema when you can see some black beauties as well and you know um anyway interesting uh interesting lady and um she ended up being a radio producer at the BBC uh through the time the times of World War II so uh quite quite astonishing you know from a young

Lady for a from um the the the colonies to be able to take a role in such a uh an iconic British institution so yeah I’m glad the the library is named after her and let me tell you about the estate so this is still the um elbury estate it

Was in it in its he about I think it’s 60 acre it is huge um it was built fairly quickly and probably not with the best uh materials between 1967 and 1977 and we never knew how many people exactly lived in there were about 2,700 Flats so that’s between 7,000 and 10,000

People in total we don’t we never knew exactly how many and uh uh it’s let’s say it’s been used for many years as a as an example of um failure failure of the the the the social housing in this country failure failure of the the government um in 9 seven Tony Blair um

Came here to do his first uh Speech he called it the Forgotten people let me cross over I’ll show you a photo I think do I have Tony BL let me see I think I’ve got a photo of Tony oh no I don’t think I’ve let me see where is he

Where are you Tony I’ve lost oh there he is there he is so he’s one of those little balconies there giving his speech um toner was quite harsh about uh about the estate he said uh the main employer here was uh the the drug industry and we are going to sneak inside but before we

Go let me show you in this part of the estate there I’m not going to show you the photographs because um I did found a bedroom to rent but when it’s a bedroom in a in a social block I don’t want to show you the photos because we never

Know it could be illegal I mean some people own their flat so they can of course rent a room but if you live in a uh social housing and you don’t have any permission uh special permission from your Housing Association you’re not allowed to rent the bedroom so I’m not

Going to show you but there’s one there that was um there’s one there that was 700 and uh 90 PBS um I think that’s quite a lot to live in the Asbury estate um there may have been a mistake the CU the um the ad actually says said per week it cannot

Possibly be per week it’s a it’s a monthly one but yeah were the people going to be rehoused well Teresa let me explain what happened first um cuz basically they had a plan that came out in uh in 2001 they were going to uh they they

Wanted to knock it all down rebuil and instead of being run straight by the council it would be run by um um Housing Association and uh let’s go inside if we run into anybody we’ll uh we’ll have to pretend to be from the BBC so yeah they they wanted to knock it

All down they had a plan and they actually asked the local resident if they were happy with it so they were going to knock down everything rebuild some new flats and do some private ones as well so the money they’ll get from the private ones that were going to be sold was be

Reinvested into uh into the new flats and um they asked the local resident to uh to vote 76% took part they voted 73% voted no so that didn’t go down and um so I’m a bit out of breath cuz we’re going to have to go through a few floors so that

Didn’t develop and some people actually bought you know since Margaret Tater you you have the they created what they call the right to buy so some people actually bought their um Apartments their social housing they they became owner and uh the uh the the thing is

They said no so that was not going to happen the next thing you know four years later in 2005 the the s ccil decided to knock it down anyway despite the vote so yes people were going to be rehoused um but some people just refused

To go so the people that were owners we talking about 500 flats that had been bought they had to be compulsory uh purchased by the by the Cil and at their price and some of the local residents obviously were not happy because the price were well one of them in

Particular I read about was 1, 180,000 sorry 100, 80,000 well sorry 180,000 which is like a third of of the price value of a flat in this area so some refuse to go it’s a bit scary to be here you see they’re all blocked up because all those people have already

Been evicted um but some refused so they’ve man manag to delay the project so much to give you the we are now in phase two so this should be knocked down in a few months in phase two you still have well I’ve seen an article from two

Months ago you still have about 600 Flats uh six no sorry 60 Flats out of 370 60 Flats where people are still inside they refusing to live so they live in terrible condition with some squatters as well uh some big power cut and um some water licks and everything um and

Uh that you know they’re just fighting for their right to stay but it’s um you know it’s not going to happen when sok wants to destroy something they will I’ve actually been into one flat ha on this side and to be honest it wasn’t

Too bad let me show you I’ve got a photo of a lady that was refusing to go that’s actually very nice I they have amazing Windows some of them have an amazing view i t and um so yeah it’s uh it’s very sad now but um you know it’s probably wasn’t

Always too bad but apparently they um so basically there were some leaks that were untraceable every time the Cil wanted to fix it they couldn’t even figure out where the water was coming from so it’s going to have to you know they knew that it was going to have to come down

Eventually let’s go down as well we’re going to have to go down and uh so yeah it’s meant to uh it’s meant to be um to be destroyed let me show you it’s it’s a ghost town all of this is meant to be knocked down in a few uh in a few months

So see we see one L One Flat across the the the the park here um that trying some stuff so there’s a few a few flats that still have people the rest of it is all empty and uh the new development it’s going to be so the new the new plan now

Has been given to a different Housing Association called the nting hill Association look at The View with The Shard and they’re going to rebuild 4,000 Flats so it’s about 50 almost 50% more than they used to be but um only a third of them are going to be social housing

So we’re talking about 1,300 Flats when it used to be 2,700 before so it’s a worse deal you know um and uh most people have been rehoused by now in terms of the the social tenant my understanding is that the the last few that are still here it’s because they

Refused what uh what they were offered um oh there’s someone behind me I’m going to I suppose if oh we could interview them I did once come into a flat here but at the time I didn’t quite realize um it wasn’t someone I knew very well um

So I didn’t really dare to ask any uh question about their um housing situation but there are still a few people I think someone has heard me so he’s come out but I suppose I should have approached him on ask some questions but you never know if they’re going to be friendly or

Not anyway let’s go back down so that’s uh quite cool you can uh you can see how it’s it’s a bit Grim really but inside the flats they have a lot of light and some of them have an amazing view so you know I don’t think it was that

Bad the uh there was a politician uh uh uh Tory politician that called it the uh the wait the oh hell hell’s waiting rooms I don’t think so I think it’s it’s not too bad run no that’s okay I’ll survive I’m not going to be knifed

Here what if I did I mean there are a lot of witnesses so I’ve got I’ve got a lot of you that could um take a screenshot anyway let’s get go back down and uh take a good look because it’s probably one of the last time you

See this building we’ll have a little skyscraper 26th floor and uh and a lot of new Flats in U in a few years at the moment it’s meant to be all done so we’re talking the full estate rebuilt in 2032 but we never know I mean the local

Residents have already manage to delay everything for 15 years so if they really refuse to go I mean at some point there’s not you can do you cannot destroy it when people are there you know um a lot of them have already been rehoused and eventually they’ll uh they’ll

Manage you know the the Cil here they’ve they’ve done they’ve read a lot around um elant and Castle it’s all new built now and they’ve managed to uh they managed to get everyone out everywhere else so there’s no reason why they’re not going to manage

Here and uh who did I miss I think a few people came in so um welcome everyone that uh just joined and let’s go towards the allant road so I call it the allant road because if you don’t say the people are going to think uh you probably not

From here uh it’s actually called allent road but everyone calls it the allent road like the Strand you know the Strand is actually called strand but everyone calls it the Strand and um it’s actually one one of the oldest Road in uh in in the country and it’s a Roman Road but

Apparently there was already a Celtic pass done this way because it’s the road down to um Canterbury and uh and and DOA and so if you want to go to the continent you know you have to go through there a lot of people coming and going from the continent like Charles II

When he came back from his 10 years of Exile in France he came he came back up through the theant road and uh and we had for many years of course a lot of uh pilgrims going to contur because it was a a big pilage road from St Mary ovaries known as s

Cathedral today and um and and contary so they’ll they’ll go down this road you were asked to do a tour of Starbucks well why not you can definitely hear yeah we back on so yeah I think Emma was asking about the tube earlier the closest Tube Station

It’s as well right we should be back so yeah about the underground they they have some plans of enlarging the B line so one day the B line f um I’ve got a flat here to buy it’s a very bedroom flat let me show you oh no no no oops I flat right

Here I’m going to move so the signal might be a bit better a bit further down three bedroom on 20K exactly which to be honest it’s it’s not it’s not a bad price why is my transmission unstable I’ll show you the price again I don’t understand why I keep losing the

The signal it’s well it could just be a bad signal but it went from very good to on and off anyway hopefully it’ll be better at the end of the road that’s where we get to finally to the Old Kent Road and across the street here I have a flat chair for

You again I don’t know which one because they are all the same and um and I didn’t have a photo of the outside so I don’t know good now perfect good good so hopefully we’ve uh We’ve escaped the bad signal area and we should be good now so one

Bedroom to share uh uh to share in a flat of two so it’s like the first one we saw earlier again not my type of flat because I wouldn’t want to live with only one stranger but yeah if you if that was your type of of thing let me show you the photos

Uh there we go it looks like they sponsor sponsoring Netflix um so yeah one bedroom to share the flat with another person a stranger um and we’re looking for a monthly rent so how much would you pay monthly to live here tar says 900 you’re not too far but it’s a bit

More so a little bit more than 900 Tish Linda a little bit more J says 1,400 Amanda you’re very very close Lori says 1,000 Rose says 1,400 as well Linda very close as well yeah it seems quite new it seems like everything’s been redone so that’s uh

Rose very very close as well let me show you the answer there we go so 1,21 so yeah it’s it’s it’s a lot but it is the prices for if you want a flood that is new um yeah and if you live with someone that

Is nice it’s not bad to be sharing with a friend but the thing is when you take the room you never know if they’re going to become a friend or not and if they don’t it can be horrible you know to to share a flat with one person that

Is uh that I mean I’ve I’ve had a lot of flat maids in the last 16 years and I can tell you I’ve lived with a few Nutter and I was was happy it was not only the two of us in the flat so yeah

It could go it could go very well and it could go quite bad as well yeah oh you should rethink your Sparrow absolutely Linda you can you can make a bit of money out of it anyway let me show you just for a love another one that is meant to be a studio

Flat and I don’t know where uh where are we yeah so apparently according to the ad this is a studio flat here on this street now I can tell you I’ve been studying all the windows on this street I did not find any that matched so I

Think the pin drop is not correct how much would you pay for a studio flight on this street I I actually saw it I was like yeah I should take it I’ve never seen a studio flat that is that cheap um the cheapest Studio that I found since I do

Those Monopoly tours was actually 1,100 it was also on theant road but it was quite bad very dark and on the ground floor it’s not necessarily an area when you want to be on the ground floor um and when I saw this one I was like thank

You jov exactly so I clicked on it I was like wow if it’s that price I should uh I should take it I’ll show you the answer because it’s not uh Rose Mike well Ros Mike if it was a bad studio flat hair that actually be the price r

That could be the price here but let me show you cuz it’s not actually a studio flat um then you click on the ad it says uh on a studio flat inside uh a four bedroom home so it’s not a studio if you have to share the kitchen with four flat

M it’s not a studio it’s called an end Street um so big big F Li and it’s not even here so it’s probably I don’t know where they’re hiding but it’s not on this street and it’s not a studio that’s the little tricks they do to make you

Click sometimes but it’s not a studio yeah some Fair it would be uh if it was an actual Studio that’ll be the price here yeah anyway Straight Ahead finally that is the allant road so big road today so that’s why we’re not going to stay too long on it the main

Attraction on the allant road we’re not actually going to go uh because it’s all the way up it is a guy that lives in a skip um it’s an art project he wanted to highlight the the the the ridiculous prices to live in London so he lives in

A skip again I’m not going to show you because uh it’s like it’s a good 15 minute walk it’s a long street but if you want to see him I’ve actually met him so if you go into my short on YouTube I have a short where I met him

Um we are going to take a right because we’re going to go and take a look at a pub and it is a very historical Pub it’s no longer a pub today it’s a Vietnamese restaurant it used to it’s used to be known as as Thomas a Becket not Thomas

Becket Thomas a Becket because it refers to um uh a spot that was here known as Thomas watering because back in the day um that was the road that the pilgrims would take to go to contury and we had a Lost River here a little river that’s an arm of the an

Arm of the peek you might know the Lost River peek that gave its name to pekam so people on their way to Canterbury would would stop here to give water for for the horses in the Peck and uh so it was always a very busy spot and it was

The end of the jurisdiction as well for the the city of London after that you were in um uh uh you were really in in Kent and the um the spot was also used for executions in the uh in the 16th century you had a lot of executions of um

Religious execution whether it was Catholics or even Protestant we had uh uh well one famous so not only were they executed right here but they they’ll also be placed in a jibet you know like um like the uh the the cages for the for the Pirates we

Talked about jets in the past we actually even have a link to the uh the Mayflower here one um Protestant separatist was uh was um executed right here at the time of Queen Elizabeth the he was um his name was was John penry he was placed in a jibet right here but

Before to be killed from the prison he sent a letter to his followers um telling them they should um immigrate they should leave this this Kingdom and of course you might know what happened after that some of those um separatist Puritans they went to the Netherlands they went to to leaden and

Then eventually they decided to go to America on a ship the Mayflower now as we mentioned it’s very noisy so I’ll show you the pub and then I’ll tell you a bit more about the pub from the park but I can tell you already it’s got ghost it’s got boxing history it’s got

Jack theer history and guess what it’s got a bedroom up there it’s a it’s it’s a haunted place to live um let me show you the bedroom so it’s again a flat chair where are we let me show you the photos oops didn’t mean to move the

Photo sorry my fingers are a bit Frozen so I’m doing rubbish oops stay there what done all right so it’s up there and we looking for a monthly event so you’ll be uh living with a few flat Maids with a a Terrace at the top a few ghosts apparently quite a few ghosts

And um we’re looking for a monthly rent so again the pub is full of history but I’ll tell you when we go to the park cuz it’s a bit uh noisy here so we’re looking for a monthly run in this uh historical location 800 says Linda it’s a little bit

More you hope the ghost pays its share yeah well I hope so too but I don’t think they’re very present anymore I think it’s back in back in the day 1,500 says uh TSH uh 1,200 says tar 1,125 says Rose it’s a little L soare you quite spot

On 1,200 500 says Linda it’s not too far either let me show you the photo honin I think with sare you’re the closest so far let me show you the answer uh where are we there we go so one time exactly so to be honest for a a bedroom

With a modern bathroom a bathroom to share but it looks modern on the roof Terrace it’s not bad it’s not bad at all it’s probably very noisy cuz the old Kant road is a very noisy road but it’s not it’s not bad it is really the the prices

Oops so we’ll leave the Old Cant road because as you can see it’s busy and we’ll go uh we’ll go into the park so the pub itself in uh in uh 18888 there was a customer apparently that left a bag a very shiny bag inside there was a pair of uh very

Curious long scissors a dagger and a very sharp knife the man was arrested in relation to the White Chapel murders that’s all I know um I find the story a bit funny because there’s no name I found this story in many different sources but they never said

The name of the suspect so if indeed he was still a jack derer suspect why don’t we have a name um so anyway at least that’s what the pub claims it’s that uh the gentleman was arrested he was probably then um found you know s quite quickly but

Yeah furniture store oh you got an ad well actually they probably are a few furniture store on this road the rest of the allant road is um um do you have a lot of big shops you know like bnq Asda McDonalds it’s not very uh it looks like

You you you’re on a big road outside of town really anyway we are now in boures park bges park it’s um it’s an interesting Park because it was not uh it was not a cemetery or anything uh as as opposed to many of our Parks this used to be built

Up there were a lot of Victorian streets here we’ve literally knocked them down to do a park and exactly mik Henry Cooper so basically above the pub um there was a little gym and and it was used uh it was used for boxers to to to train so some very

Famous boxers came here including Mohammad Ali and Henry Cooper was the the the manager at some point and uh um what’s the American one Joe Fraser as well or Frasier I don’t know what how you pronounce it but yeah very famous um uh uh boxers came to train above the pub

And um some people also came to uh to rehearse um including someone that you might have heard of David Boe apparently he came here to uh to uh to rehearse zigi Stardust and other songs so quite um a famous landmark really and um uh it’s always been an important spot

You know for for for the executions for the watering of the horses then the pub so it’s often forgotten but really quite an important Pub oh Wonder ghost I forgot to tell you about the ghost so yes apparently according to one of the landlord he could never sleep alone in

The pub he was he was just petrified and the um uh well he was obviously telling his customers that about The Ghost and some customer started to take bets they were like yeah I don’t care I’m not scared of ghosts one of the customer actually made

Fun of well I don’t know what he exactly said but he spoke about Deo about derogatory terms about the Paranormal and apparently the moment he said that like oh it’s all rubbish boom his glass fell out of his hands uh so some people thought it was the ghost uh being all

Offended and um apparently there were two gentleman that took the beted they were like yeah I’m not scared of ghost I’ll sleep up there one was gone in 15 minutes and the other one a butcher that was like yeah I’ll take the bed I’ll go and sleep up there he was he actually

Came back down straight away and run out of the pub so that might have been massively exaggerated but that’s the that’s the story sometimes the pubs they actually use the uh the ghost as marketing the the thing that I find quite interesting it’s that the pubs

That are often very um hunted um like the The vadu Tavern there’s a underwater stream running underneath the building um so because here you still have the you know the Lost River the little arm of the peck it still runs under underground so could it be the water can maybe the

Water noise or or or or vibration or or or whatever it might be I don’t know I don’t know some said that it might even be the magnetic fields of the water that wake up the ghost I don’t know anyway you have a few of those interesting little homes in the

Park this one I might be able to afford I don’t know how much you’d have to pay to live in this one they are there to symbolize all the victims of um bombing uh I think it’s 19 of October 7 um 1917 uh so through the first world war there

There was um a bomb that was dropped with Zeppelins on um on top of the streets here so again at the time we didn’t have a park it was streets and at the street corner you had a a fish and chips shop and the doctor surgery and

Quite a few flats and uh the fish and ship had already closed they closed at 10:30 on it was 11:30 there was um a a young girl staff she was upstairs uh counting the money and some of the neighbors had had heard some noise and

They came to uh to to shelter in the basement of the the doctor surgery um when the bomb was dropped and it basically destroyed everything some of the kids in the B the basement survived some of the police officers were extremely Brave and they they run into

The basement to save the kids um despite the risk of of um of everything falling down one of the kids that was saved her name was gr she actually lived 101 years uh through World War II she joined a woman um Air Forces um but yeah they were I think

It’s 10 dead and 24 badly injured so that’s why they’ve placed those little buildings in the park to remember the one that were um that that lost their life in the in the bombings and the park itself it’s got a it’s got an interesting history so you

Had a lot of homes here but a lot of them had become slums and of course you had the bombing from the first World War there were a lot of factories as well that were getting disused you even had a canal so the lake itself it’s artificial

Now they’ve used the um the water from the little underground river to uh to to supply the lake but it’s um it’s been dug up and uh so yeah that this was all built up although it was getting very old and there’s a lady Jesse Burgas that’s uh bores sorry so that’s

Why it’s called bores Park she um well she’s actually my neighbor if I was born 100 years ago she’d be my neighbor cuz she lived in the peod building on cumberwell green so it’s literally just next to me um she was the first lady Mayer of cumberwell and uh uh cumberwell so at

The time cumberwell was a was a borrow you might know we had in 1965 some of the boros were matched together so cumberwell bman and sok became sok and uh uh so she did a lot through the um through the second world war she

Did a lot to to reome a lot of the victims of the the bombings and all that and then she wanted to create um an open space here a large open space it was known as the aom project and that was unseen before I don’t I don’t think

There’s anywhere else in in the UK where we have a park that has been made of out of destroying urban area usually you have a park that used to be private land and then became public or you have a park that used to be a graveyard and

Then they remove the the graves actually I’m lying a little little proportion of the park used to be a graveyard next to the church over there but we talking a tiny tiny little bit and um this destroying destroying streets to create an open space it’s uh it was very new

And some people were completely against it of course so they had to fight for the project originally it wasn’t named after after Jesse um uh they only called it bores Park in the 70s I see I think it took it was a 50 years project because of course the ccil again had to

Compulsory buy um some uh some accommodations this is still the Asbury estate we see from here and uh so of course it it took a while to get people out of their homes you know even if they were they were slums and uh uh they they actually

That’s quite sad but the the canal is gone they they say it’s not the conil it was the port of London Authority because they couldn’t really uh they couldn’t really manage it but it’s not fair cuz in North London you have a lot of canals that are not really used it would be

Cool to have the canal here as well but they’ve they filled it up apparently when they filled it up they found a lot of items guns and safe from bugies and stuff and um so yeah no more Canal some said that it’s also a risk for the kids

Playing in the park but if they can fall in the canal they can also fall in the in the lake so I don’t really um I don’t really uh um take that sorry hi Natalie and uh I think at at the time it was called the north northern cumberwell open space before to

Be called uh uh bores Park and it’s one of the only parks in London where you can cycle everywhere cuz some of the royal parks and all the other Parks it’s like you’re not meant to be on a bicycle to be fair Sometimes some bicycle go very fast when you have kids

Playing in the middle of the way so it’s good for me cuz I cycle a lot but I don’t know if everyone loves it and it’s still so you don’t have a lot of large or old trees because it’s still uh quite plain because again it was um

Built up before and apparently they’re still open to suggestion cuz it’s it is a little bit plain uh you have a BX uh bicycle track you have a uh a tennis court but there’s still a lot of space here so yeah when they uh when they were

Fighting for the project they even had to do badges let me show you the badge so that’s uh there was to convince the the local population and let me show you the map I think I’ve got a map yeah so the uh uh C the area before

Completely built up so you can see the canal you can see all those streets and they’ve destroyed all of that to make uh to make the park the park still has a funny shape because on both the the East and the West they were a couple of Victorian streets that they were

Fighting to save so they’re still here today so you have a it’s got a funny um a funny shape let me show you the Asbury estate again from here so you can see how big it is really and it’s very I mean it’s probably the most famous estate in in in

The UK it’s been visited by um King Charles when he was the prince of Wales even William uh William came on a jour geography trip um with Eon College uh in 1999 I think geography lesson the the biggest uh conil state in in the uh Western Europe but yeah soon uh soon

You’ll have a big uh 26 floor skyscraper here instead of the instead of the the building and I think I forgot to show you the yeah the pub I had the photo so I I say it’s a very old but they’ve changed it a lot from uh from uh the the photo

At the top it’s the time of Jack drier well I think 1890s and this is what the pub looks like now so they’ve they’ve changed it a lot but still uh still uh interesting o it’s windy anyway uh guys it’s going to be the end of the tour let

Me know if you have any questions before we go if not thank you coming today if you want to see a bit more of me in two hours we’ll be uh throwing the dice to uh to find out which Monopoly location we’ll explore next time and I

Think I might have oh good the the chat was um have I done nothing h no you know what I’ve never done a tour there um I probably should yeah and I think there’s also a few murders over there so maybe I probably should thanks for coming everyone thanks

Emma oh thanks Diane and um hopefully I’ll see some of you in two hours for the dice rolling and um I’ve not scheduled anything yet for next week but I’ll probably be doing a tour next week and I’ve scheduled Jack the rer again so that’s in a couple of weeks so if you’ve

Missed uh that one it’s on the 24th I think thank you Natalie thanks everyone for your support if you dropped me a a little tip on um on buy me a coffee or on PayPal that’s very much appreciated and uh uh if you were if you were completely new to me hopefully

You’ll uh you’ll subscribe to make sure you don’t miss out on the fun next time oh Mel that’s absolutely fine you can say you can say hi anytime if I’m busy I might not reply but feel free to to chat in I don’t um you know I don’t

Get too distracted by the chat if it’s a very long message I might be like oh I have to ignore it for now but if you say hello I really don’t mind um yeah was it your birthday Linda well happy birthday sorry I didn’t uh I don’t

Know if you mentioned it but I didn’t know happy birthday glad you spent it with us and hope you celebrate a bit more tonight cool thank you for coming guys uh have a good evening or good morning uh whatever time it is for you late and stone oh maybe maybe and um

And I’ll see you soon have a good one bye-bye

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