Tottenham Court Road W1 is one of London's most famous addresses and, as I'll be showing you in this video, it's a place that's packed with all manner of dark history- including tales of highwaymen, bodysnatchers, war, murder and more...
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:55 Body Snatchers & Highwaymen
06:54 The Great Beer Flood
08:53 The Fairyland Arcade
13:04 Tottenham Court Road's Tube Stations
18:31 Tottenham Court Road at War: Bunkers & V2s
21:49 Outro
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Credits
Footage & Images:
Tottenham Court Road Electronics Shops: Danny Robinson, Creative Commons (via Geographs)
Capper’s Farm image: heals.com
Flood footage: Sanjeewa Wijebandara (pexels)
Beer footage: Cottonbro Studio
Tottenham Court Road Paolozzi Escalator mosaic: Mike Quinn, Creative Commons
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Music:
Whole Tone Limbo (Godmode)
The Colonel (Zachariah Hickman)
Greaser (TrackTribe)
A Mission - Scoring Action by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Ether Oar (The Whole Other)
Basant (Aditya Verma)
Dreamlike by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Floating Home (Brian Bolger)
Sneaking Up by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Classic Horror - Madness Paranoia by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Tribal War Council (Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions)
Moonlight Haze (Bird Creek)
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