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...

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)
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Basant (Aditya Verma)


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Tribal War Council (Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions)

Moonlight Haze (Bird Creek)