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  • Very intersting !!! Outstanding work !

  • Very well presented and informative - light hearted without dumbing down.

  • I walked along what remains of the trackbed beyond Mill Hill East and noticed several concrete posts just in front of where the trees are, it suggests to me that they were in the process of electrifying the section beyond Mill Hill East before funding was cut...

  • You should submit this to the BBC you would make a good presenter, i have seen so many home documentrys on here and i was shocked to find you was not a bbc production,

    Please do more your great

  • Great work mate! Witty and perfectly explained. Come over to Rome to see tons of unfinished, illogical and tax-waged (rail) business!

  • Its a pain in the ass to have to change at Camden to get from Edgware to Barnet. Plus I always wondered why a very populated Elstree/Borehamwood area wasn't connected to the underground, they remain soo isolated as they have to put up with the crap rail system. Perhaps its not so bad, Borehamwood is full of chavs

  • Brilliant video well done.

  • Bit fast and furious, but getting facts wrong after all that research is annoying. 4/10

  • ACTUALLY, a good ten years ago, i used the bridge. and I jogged quite happily in Mill Hill east. But times have change and I now live in Vienna. Mill Hill East Rocks!!! I loved my time there.

  • 4:00 makes me wanna play The Neverhood

  • @MrQbek85 God! I miss clayman so much

  • This is the 5th time I've watched this. Glad there's another episode of unfinished london

  • he talks fast but he's not a fag.

  • i was watching dubstep

  • @seomoz lol yea underground dubstep.

  • LoL, Wikipedia.

  • 13 people wanted the Northern Heights Project

  • interesting video but this guy is a massive fag

  • @harryforeman he's a massive cigarette?! WTF?

  • @YesIamEccentric woops i meant to type twat, not fag. my mistake cheers for pointing that out

  • @harryforeman XD Thats Awrite XD XD XD

  • im pleased by the use of Terry S. Taylor about midway through

  • OMG this is genuinely epic! :D

  • great video, what is the music that starts at 1:12?

  • Well presented! Good video! What a good way to present piles of bricks, roundabouts and other unassuming objects.

  • some onew from israel watch this .. and i love it good job :)

  • This is absolutely brilliant! Totally miss growing up in Edgware and going to my old primary school up on Mill Hill (Ridgeway)... made me lol in places but it's so true!

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  • Fantastic. As a bit of an Edgware historian, I used to often think about doing a documentary about the Northern Heights. Glad you did it. Well done indeed.

  • Absolutely brilliant.

  • Beardyman - PLEASE keep the project going. This needs to go on the Beeb!

  • Beardyman - PLEASE keep the project coming. This needs to go on the Beeb!

  • rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrr

  • Superb!

  • It took me fourteen attempts to stop at the frame of the plover with the bulldog head ... but it was worth it.

  • This is brilliant thanks:)

    I am learning about this kinda stuff in my town planning decree- although I am only first year at the moment.

    I have to say a station at Bushey Heath would be very useful as to get into Euston for uni every day I have to either get the Northern line at Edgware or go London Midlands over ground from Bushey station- where the train is usually cancelled and if not is very expensive for a 20 minute journey.

  • YAY Grandma! :D Nicely done, thanks :)

  • beardyman without his beard hahaha

  • Greenbelts were intended to be narrow and used for recreation by the urban inhabitants. Recreational uses disappeared and they became barriers to keep large numbers of urban inhabitants from mixing with a very small number of rural residents - backed by large landowners. This is a clear case of the few exercising their will over a massive majority. Instead of being a sports jacket for the urban dwellers geenbelts became a straight jacket.

  • Nice use of the intro to Henry Kissinger too :D

  • Excellent. More please. This is interesting and very watch-able and needs backing. BBC4 for sure.

  • Are there any new episodes in the making?

  • This is terrific. I loved it! I hope you make more! (even better, I hope you get paid by someone to make more!)

  • Fascinating topic; brilliantly presented.

  • awesome vid!

    Familiar places makes me feel like I lived in a famous area ;)

    not that aerodrome road and the surrounding regions aren't full of history...

  • Damn good video !

    Nice one.

  • Fascinating video. Pity it degenerates into a finger-wagging eco lecture about the 'evils' of urban expansion and the 'sanctity' of green fields.

    Lesson 2 will be on why housing in this country is so astonishingly expensive and in short supply...

  • @bywestonbay

    Spot on. I did not like the "'sanctity' of green fields", either. It should have been more factual and down the middle.

    Yes, we are short of homes, with no shortage of labour and skills and land to build them, while fields remain empty subsided by the EU.

  • Great to see Harold Shipman at 4:20

  • Quality little video, superbly done mate! :D

  • This is type of film I love. It takes me back to Geography lessons at school.

  • Really interesting stuff that. And very well presented!

  • I now no longer feel like I'm the only person that does exactly what you do. I've done exactly the same all over London, particularly down in the South East where I live. I agree with plenty of your points, the sadness of the loss of these lines, the stupidity of building crap in their wake and the fact that huge chunks of London have lost out because of it.

    Keep up the good work!

  • This is excellent.

  • Love this! Interesting and entertaining, could see this on BBC4 - it would suit an evening also featuring the lovely Jonathan Meades. More please!!!

  • Well done sir, very nicely put together and entertainingly presented.

  • BBC must employ you. Excellent stuff!

  • As someone living in Barnet, I'd always been confused why the diversion to Mill Hill East existed, glad to have got my answer.

  • Thank you very interesting.

  • -Do you want your house to get knocked down?

    -...no!...

    I've seen many documentaries but this was even entertaining!

    Nice Job!

  • wanna see more unfinished London well good that like...

  • Give him a beard and he would be Beardyman!! Throw down a beat to your bro doing his rap "that these this this that him what this"

  • There has to be more video's like this! is there any other video's your brother has done?

  • 12 people are dogbirds

  • ...like a bizarre crossover of Chris Morris and Tony Robinson? Brilliant, nice one.

  • lol goos stuff, hope about a doc on the paris mines

  • "And this nature reserve I'm not trespassing on"

  • great documentary, please post more, you should work on tv, you are great ..tnanks jay

  • You don't want you're house knocked down do you?

    ...No!

  • Thats not Bushey heath, thats Queensbury!

    :p

  • lol 'this one's got a swimming pool' great vid :)

  • Well done! Fascinating topic presented in a humorous and informative manner. Excellent work - would love to see additional Unfinished London episodes.

  • I have 3 destination boards from a 1938 tube stock which feature names of 3 stations from planned Northern Line extensions.

    They are enamel, white on black, with brass end plates.

    They are double sided, and carry the names, "Elstree", "Bushey heath", "Alexandra Palace", "Finchley Cen", "Moorgate", and " Special".

    They have been verified as genuine by the LT Museum from pictures I sent them.

    Any offers?

  • You? Are adorable. This was fascinating. 

  • hahahhahah

    'you dont want your house knocked down do you'

    'no'

  • Nice.... He definitely took a page out of James Burke's book... not that there is a thing wrong with that. Reminds me a lot of "connections"

  • How has this not been picked up by some money loaded channel, approach sky one, this is entertainment gold. Brilliant. Spoken a Bit quick for some of the slower populous, but absolutely fucking awesome............... DESERVES A SERIES ON A NATIONAL CHANNEL.

    (love the guitar bits on the utter shambles gigs)

  • Hi Jay,

    Fascinating documenenterette! I saw this video on your brother's channel, looked it up on YT so I could offer you my thanks. I'm frum Midlends, that's t'north to you London folk that think we in Midlends talk like them as in Yorkshire. Well researched, well edited and witty, give us more. I had the unfortune to live in Reading for 11 years so know bout trains I also originate from a town that has a railway station that no trains stop at it - Rugeley, Staffs. Do a docco on that! Thanx

  • This is great. Really clever and witty

  • Somehow the family has a knack for introducing comedy into typical things. Music and documentaries to name but two.

    If he grew a beard, that would just be freaky.

  • are you insane?? wicked stuff,i thought first he is beardyman

  • 1. It was awesome

    2. that was beardyman's grandma!

    3. I would like to see more

    4. .... I ran out of stuff to say

  • Great documentary, please make more!

  • which is now a NOTHING lol

  • Beardymans nan = Legend

  • really like this, nice animations and funny coverage. Hope you do more.

  • Excellent documentary however will you tell Jay that Bushey Heath is NOT in London as it is in Hertfordshire just like Watford .....please show us more of these type of documentaries...thanks

  • OMG!!!!!!!! The house with the swimming pool at 2:46 is where I live!!!!!!

    You can't see the dungeon with my slaves in it on the video though.

  • Normally I couldn't care less about some unfinished railways but the way you presented it all made me watch the whole thing. Topnotch.

  • he reminds me so much of his brother

  • I don't know what I was expecting but this was better than whatever it was that I was expecting. You should get a slot on the ONE show.

  • There's relevant further information if you search for Brent Cross Coalition.

  • Just watched this on underground History website - great stuff... professional and funny to boot!

  • Fantastic - found by accident but thoroughly enjoyed!

  • holy crap i really enjoyed this documentary .. and im german :x

  • Very good job! I like to see more of this.

  • Yes please... BBC pick this up... Woud love to watch more.

  • This is very good indeed!

  • If all history related stuff was this interesting.. I might learn shit.

  • Was Elstree South going to be an ''UNDERGROUND'' station below the earth.

  • I have very little interest in trains and stations and that, but I watched this from start to finish with complete attention. Brilliant work. I'd love to see your show idea get picked up by somebody.

  • Thank you, friendly Joe Cornish!

  • great presenting Jay, only 8 out of 10 though because you talk way to fast which makes it feel less professional. if you spoke a bit slower and more controlled I would honestly believe I was watching something off of TV

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  • Completly useless and if anybody else would have made this documentry it woud be so fucking boring but you make this subject so funny and interesting that we want moar!!

  • There are proposals to reuse some of the abandioned line on the "Brent Cross Coalition" web site...

  • Is the title music a variation of that used for London Tonight.

  • Never comment on Youtube videos (I mean, there's only so much you can say about kittens in boxes and chavs filming each other on mobile phones). But this is genuinely excellent - funny, informative and well thought out. There must be a slot for you on BBC4.

  • Excellent job, excellent choice of music!

  • awesome ! I was just looking at abandoned rail lines in my old home town - I share your fascination. Brilliantly presented and shot and scripted and edited, you should do very well !

  • brilliant

    both presentation and subject

  • what is the roundabout at the end?

  • This is marvellous, very well made and entertaining.

  • heh Jay, Chris here. We met in the small man's garden.

    Found the scrap of paper you wrote for me on return to Canada. Loved to see my old running path so well described - you do a great job, very funny doc. More please!

  • Your a good presenter man, would like to see more.

  • Brilliant !!! Any more ???

  • Nice work, guys! ;-)

  • Excellent clip ... fascinating subject made even more interesting by brilliant presentation and creative editting ... thanks for sharing it.

  • Excellent ... fascinating subject made really interesting by brilliant presentation and creative editting ... thanks for producing it.

  • really good... thanks

  • How the hell did he get into the central reservation of the M1?!? Can't you get arrested for that sort of thing? :D

  • that branch line was intended to become the mainline with the current mainline becoming a branch line, wouldnt guess that today

  • This is ace! Nice work :)

  • Dammit! I was planning a little documentary on this subject myself, and then I found this.

    Which is excellent and far better than mine would have been.

    DAMN YOU and well done.

  • Are there more of these documentaries?

  • Very good! The way Middlesex was developed to become 'London' is interesting indeed.

    As an outdoor runner I really appreciate NW London's green-belt (and the undeveloped Mill Hiil line).

  • cranley gardens thats it

  • they were going to make a crouch end, muswell hill, alexandra palace and another station ( i forgot ) aswell

  • Where could I find the arches and the bridge over a random road? I tried by Google Maps, just to find out more myself... And i found Brockley Hill, but where exactly?

  • 8:37 and 8:41 > huh?

  • @jesusfreakmusic 8:37 is the former Blackfriars railway Bridge - I think they have reused those piers in the new station

  • @ReneIgnacio Thanks though I actually meant the columns just in the grass standing nowhere at all :P.

  • really professional and well done. i highly enjoyed this film

  • LMAO! Best part!

    "You don't want you're house knocked down, do you?"

    "NO!"

  • This video is a very highly polished production, entertaining and informative. I really enjoyed it.

  • Bloody brilliant! Well done Jay. Makes me miss my hometown.

  • Fantastic! Thanks so much for making this really interesting film.

  • "And this nature reserve I'm now trespassing on" hahaha nice.

  • That has answered a few questions I had about the field by Spur Road roundabout!

    Excellent!

  • Videos like this make me regret every other video I have ever given a 5 star rating, because this is SO much better. This is just fantastic. We want more! :D

  • Excellent!

  • More please :-) What's next?

  • Excellent! I hope to see more of Unfinished London.

  • Absolutely brilliant, if only because it confirms that I'm not the only one to see what isn't there........ if you know what I mean!

    And why, pray tell, is this not being broadcast to my tellybox by mainstream TV, instead of the stream of junk TV we seem to be getting these days.

    A full 5 star rating for this one.

  • We want more! :D

  • brilliant film always known about this but ace presentation any more planned

  • very interesting, good work.  :-)

  • Ace film Mr. Foreman!

  • Is any more Unfinished London going to be made? This was fascinating, I'd love to watch more.

  • was you trespassing again at 8:05 lol

    very good video ive always been interested in the northern hieghts plan and you have shown the 1 part of it i couldn`t find any clues of

  • Bravo!

  • watched this vid a few weeks back, will watch it again. very entertaining Mr Foreman and informative, what an anorak I am!

  • i'm exactly the same. hooray!

  • What a great documentary. More please.

  • fantastic thank you for making it

  • Brilliant!! I love London's geography.

    This should definitely be entered for that YouTube contest for a good videoclip that they just announced!

  • can Jay beatbox aswell?

  • haha this nature reserve im currently trespassing on haha

  • he is indeed beardyman's brother.. just without the beard.. ahha!.. they both have great talents.. haha!.. keep it up dude.. this is something new and useful.. :D

  • awesome vid:)

  • What a brilliant and funny and informative video. Fucking loved it

  • Absolutely Brilliant! It is a shame the never completed the Muswell Hill line as well.

    Thanks

    Gerry

  • 3 Bushey Heathniks love this! You've made this interesting and fun. Well done!

  • Very good, that guy will end up on BBC1 next.

  • Love it, came looking for some Beardyman Monkey Jazz action and instead found a very informative video on a subject that I did in a presentation at school, where was Youtube 17 years ago? That presentation would have been so much easier. I doth my cap to you good sirs.

  • (: wow. its a little beardyman

  • very interesting indeed

  • very interesting! from the area so learnt a lot, was funny too

  • Mind numbing production values. Bravo!

  • This video is excellent...well done

  • this is great

  • Somebody give these guys a job!

  • Please get picked up by the BBC. Kudos.

  • I have learnt something new about my area!! thnks!!!

  • that was so interesting! my mom's family is from edgware and it was really neat to see all those local landmarks explained. i liked hearing about the local history and it was really funny, too. great job!

  • A, its all Really Interesting, true, and educational, But its not boring, its holarious xD, B your brother almost has as much humour as yyou, Your brother should appear live with you LOL

  • Fantastic documentary - get injection of fun into a seemingly dull story. I wrote some articles for this very subject for the local papers back in 1997, so it's great that someone's taken it to a new level. Nice one!