don't cancel my grave my heart my
Tallyho and Bernhard's your uncle jewels
guides here and welcome to our Highgate
walk stroke pub crawl thing with my
friends Tom and Laura hello yes and so
this is Swain slain it's called Swain
slain because in the 1300s the swine
herders used to drive their pigs down to
the meat market down in Smithfield it
was spooky walk this is quite a lot of
Legends and ghouls and ghosts stories on
it and apparently in this street there
was a lot of talk of a tall man in a hat
who used to jump out in front of people
and then disappear into a wall
just up here on the left up Swain's lane
is a house number 59 where the Beatles
had a photograph taken it was just off
to something called the man day out I
don't know what that was was that film
or something was just a day out that I
just heard an out they tried to get him
to Highgate Cemetery couldn't do the
photo shoot by Karl Marx is great out of
shape it's quite a steep hill but this
is Highgate Cemetery and then the 1800s
all the church yards apparently couldn't
handle all the dead bodies they were
having to bury so Parliament passed an
act requiring seven cemeteries
specifically just to be cemeteries to be
built and this is one of them there's
53,000 graves here apparently and some
famous people buried inside oh that's
rather nice the modern famous people are
in the eastern side which is to our
right and then the older Victorian side
where the catacombs are to our left
so it's Malcolm McLaren and the manager
of the Sex Pistols Douglas Adams
he wrote each hikers going to the galaxy
that's Bruce Reynolds one of the great
train robbers when they built the
eastern cemetery they had to find a way
of moving the body between the two
graveyards without physically taking it
out of the graveyard itself which was
seen as a bad omen
so they constructed a tunnel underneath
the road so that they could take the
body under the road and then bring it
back up still within the cemetery
grounds
a little scream is usual this is all
solo part and you don't actually have to
pay to go into the cemetery if you don't
want to you can just peep over the gates
what I do yes if you want to see Karl
Marx's tomb you can actually just go
through this undergrowth just through
there yeah there he is
excellent got a leaf in front of his
face yeah he was the father of communism
and he wrote this capital that's all I
really know about Karl I'm so ignorant
do you know more about him I feel
terrible
he came to England because he thought he
could start the workers revolution here
and leading off the or delightful stroll
in Waterloo Park you can either turn
right and go down towards archway which
is where you'll find the Dick
Whittington stone about which I have a
wonderful film or you can go up the hill
too high a village which is where we
going to go now for a points of beer
so this is highgate village and up there
is highgate school where I was a student
should I tell people that yeah okay
yes I went to Highgate school that's my
school up there we'll walk past in a
minute spitter
this was a really high points on the
sheepherders trail they'd used to take
their sheep down Swain's Lane to the
meat market but they would stop and had
a little rest which is why so many pubs
sprung up around here so up there you've
got the gatehouse and you got the Prince
of Wales and this is the angel in which
is supposed to have the hardest Pub Quiz
in London that's pretty Wales Prince
away okay so this is just the angel in
which is quite my favorite sports and I
was the last person to leave it last
night
this is pond square called pond square
because they used to be a pond minute
what are the odds
it's a another story about spooky ghosts
the ghost haunts this square is that of
a white plucked chicken and it all
started with an argument between Sir
Francis Bacon and his friend dr. winter
born in 1626 at the bottom of Highgate
Hill the cause of the disagreement was
dr. Winterbourne skepticism over Bacon's
hypothesis that fresh meat could be
preserved if frozen so the frozen
chicken was actually invented in
Highgate Sir Francis Bacon considers
himself to be a bit of a scientist as
well as a philosopher we had this idea
of how to refrigerate things so he
bought a chicken off no lady
and then he plucked it and stuffed it
full of snow and he brought it here to
pond square where he buried it in the
snow unfortunately was so cold
he caught a chill and they ended up
having to take him to Lord Arryn dolls
house which is just over there they took
it back to his house where he had a damp
bed I don't know why his bed was damp by
the way maybe from incontinence his bed
was damp and he put him back in his bed
and he caught a chill and he died but
ever since then there has been reports
of a ghost of a chicken running around
the square
so motorists for example have reported
driving along and then suddenly this
chicken jumping out in front I'm not
sure if he was a six foot six chicken in
a hat this is where Oh Aaron do live
which is where Sir Francis Bacon was
taken to die it's now occupied by by
Terry Gilliam the guy from Monty Python
this Francis Bacon he's deceased
he's no more than X Francis Bacon so
this is the flask where you used to be
able to buy a flask to fill up because
down in Hampstead which is just a short
walk that way they used to have lots of
wells and Springs over quite a few
Springs around here as well so people
would buy their flask from here and and
fill them up and this is called the
committee room and it was in this room I
believe that one of the first autopsies
was ever performed in the UK they used
to go down to Highgate Cemetery and get
bodies and bring them in here and just
through there is where the Spanish
barmaid hanged herself and her ghost now
haunts this pub I think the landlord
rejected her advances or something she
couldn't handle anymore
he's old places keeps Byron and Shelley
used to drink here Cheers own reduced
the drink in this pub and they actually
used to live just over there
he wasn't the only famous person so he
lived over here in the Grove
so all this paraphernalia around here
which actually has made the place look
rather messy won't do for an area like
bits is actually because George Michael
used to live just over here in the Grove
wanting all this positives for George
Michaels now look sting used to live
here and I think Kate Moss lives in the
house that used to be Cody's house
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another pub which you may choose to have
a tipple in is the gatehouse over here
named as the gatehouse because it's
where they used to be a toll gate there
used to be a big part over here used to
be owned by the Bishop of London and
anyone wanting to go from Highgate down
towards Hampstead would have to pass
through this toll gate and actually the
word Highgate comes from this toll gate
because it's the highest toll gate in
London I imagine and just opposite is
Highgate School and the music which you
may be able to hear now but it's written
by my sister for my amazing film take me
to pick there and I've been obsessed
with Pitcairn Island my whole life what
I didn't know the whole time I was at
Highgate school is one of the mutineers
from the Nucci on the bouncy is buried
in that little churchyard these names
Peter Hayward and he's been buried in
that in that church I've ever since he
was the one that got caught he actually
got condemned to be hanged but then they
let him off because he had a rich family
and he was very posh or something
now that really was the scene of much
boredom here's a child that Chapel oh my
goodness yeah this school was founded in
the time of Queen Elizabeth the first
it's absolutely engine it felt pretty
ancient but now who's in there as well
it's just so Victorian and old-fashioned
because it was a boys school here when I
first came here and um I went back there
recently and it was this big security
guard on the door and I was coming up to
see one of my old teachers for something
and I said um don't you mind if I just
go inside and have a quick look around
you know just for nostalgia purposes
been a long time and he was our why I
don't know if I should really let you in
there and I'll go on you know I just
want to go and see why I used to put my
bag before having lunch and then he
cinema woori and he was actually coming
over to my way I think he was he was
gonna let me in and then I saw a girl
walk past in Highgate school uniform
I don't like you've got girls here any
well sorry but no sorry yeah copy
because I was amazed they had girls
because it was a boys school when I was
there was there was nothing untoward I
assure you just over here is John
betterments house and he and she went to
high school he was taught by TS Eliot's
that John Betjeman lived in buyer and
house
got sixteen pubs in its postcode 1616 so
to do the Highgate Pub Crawl cool
no shorter when these were built this
phone box actually is probably the only
phone box in London that doesn't smell
of urine quite remarkable and over there
we got high points which is quite often
featured in TV series like Poirot when I
was young was always film there because
of the Art Deco style and in the 60s TV
series The Avengers she lived in there
Emma Peel who was played by Diana Rigg
but my dad used to be in the Avengers
he's in a few of the episodes that he
used to choreograph the Fenton scenes
and I see myself as a bit of a John
Steed character actually so it features
in quite a lot TV shows that and now in
this feature did Jules guide the honor
and a perfect place to finish your
Highgate pub crawl is the wrestler's
which is the oldest pub still in
business in high gates apparently
according to a Victorian newspaper
article it is where drunk people come to
gets even more drunk and a lot of people
come to settle their differences and
have fights that was in the old days
hence the name let's go time
so this pumps been here since 1547 the
barman assures me and apparently there
was a fire though in 1921 of the only
part that survives of this beautiful
fireplace so they thought this is a very
ancient custom in here called swearing
on the horns I believe that even a
little Byron did it I what does it mean
something about rolling in a bed with a
pig and then you get to kiss the
prettiest barmaid at least that's all I
remember cuz I don't cook Matilda so
there we go I can kiss the horns because
I'm tall enough to do so take notice
what I now say to you so that is the
first word of your oath let's knock it's
the barmaid well you can kiss the
mistress and now my good son if you are
travelling through this village Highgate
go call for a bottle of wine at any
house you may think proper and book it
to your father score basically you would
be made a free man of high gates
which presumably means you could get
free wine you then finish by kissing the
horns or a pretty girl alright so there
we go
so I'm suing I don't know what that says
about her she said she's sworn in yes or
not I think you're just gonna swear now
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