We join antique collector and dealer Chris Berry to look at an amazing collection of early maps of the London Underground. More links below ↓↓↓
Objectivity on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/objectivity
Check out Chris’s website here: https://www.iconic-antiques.com
Take a look at some more Objectivity episodes…
Climbing the Royal Albert Hall: https://youtu.be/Sfyd-0tXArc
The Underground Telescope: https://youtu.be/efic_G2wwcc
Subscribe to Objectivity: http://bit.ly/Objectivity_Sub
Films by James Hennessy and Brady Haran
Royal Society website: http://bit.ly/Royal_Society
The Royal Society’s own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalSociety
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ObjectivityVideos
Twitter: https://twitter.com/objectivity_vid
Patron thank you page: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/objectivity-patrons
Objectivity T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/objectivity
source
Harry Beck… top fella
Cool artwork and great cinematography!
Quality video and beautiful maps! There is an interesting series on various London tube maps by Jay Foreman that is also worth checking out.
If there's something I love more than maps is Tube maps!
some maps are just ridiculous , like 10k for a tube map?
Map men map men map map map men men men men
Jay Foreman of Mapmen(men(men)) seems to have some competition 😀
Wow… Bradys is gettin fit AF hahaha
i always find it fascinating about the tube, that people like Darwin, Jack the Ripper, T. E. Lawrence and others could have travelled on the tube
7:28 They could have put the reference data in the upper right or lower right corner of the map without interfering with the line routes, so why didn't they? 🤔
This was so interesting, and massive kudos to Mr. Harry Beck, his maps were an integral part of my childhood and teenage years growing up in London, mostly getting to music venues.
Mornington Crescent!
Holy shit brady's getting in shape!
where does Elephant&Castle station name come from?
Wow brady is looking good
I saw this notification and I thought, "Great, another video from Geoff or Jago". Imagine my delight to discover it's my YouTube worlds colliding! #GeoffMarshall #JagoHazzard
Jay Foreman has two great videos about the Tube map: "The Tube Map nearly looked very different", and "What went wrong with the Tube Map?"
Did Chris see Brady's legendary tennis shot?
map men map men map map map men men men
somebody get the Map Men in here!
You can still be reproductions of the London Wonderground map.
I actually prefer a mix between schematic and real maps.
Sure, remove all the intricate curves and such, straighten things out and fade the background. But i actually prefer to KNOW just how far apart stops are and whether i can choose one or the other and still be just as close to my final destination.
I hate google maps for this reason, it's excellent at showing the streets and whatnot but WHERE is the closest bus/tram/tube/boat etc? It doesn't have a way to highlight public transit, if it did that would have been an awesome map for when going places one doesn't normally go to.
And our public transport has two sets of maps, one "local" map (centered on the current stop or covering a region) where everything shows up and one that just shows the stops in a schematic layout.
I find myself looking at the real map more often than i do looking at the schematic map.
Map Man, Map Man, Map Map Map Man Man Man
But does Chris Berry know about "The tennis shot of the century"?
I had a print of a different version of the Max Gill pictorial map. The wording around the edge was different to the version shown here. Alas, it was lost in a move.
Jago Hazzard should also have been here. You are the underground maps to my Objectivity.
Brady: "I'd like to introduce you to Chris …"
My (from the title) biased brain: "Nix from the London Transport Museum"
Brady: "Berry"
My feed hung as the vid started and (with a little blur) it looked like (Former) Prince Harry was presenting!
Great episode.
This station stop is Objectivity. Change here for Underground Maps, Transit History, and Significant Objects. Please mind the gap between the train and the platform.
I don't know why, but after watching this video I am hungry for a bowl of pasta
First I got excited for another Jay Foreman video, then realised it was an Objectivity video, and then I got to get excited all over again!
These are incredibly influential to graphic artists, up there with Swiss typography. +1 for Jay Foreman’s videos on the subject.
You look great Brady! Keep up the tennis.
No mention of Mornington Crescent? 🙂
For a few seconds I had hope for a Map Men collaboration.
Map men map men map men map men men men
Thought this was gonna be a map men vid when I first clicked!
Now i need to play mini metro again
Perman! What a lovely map he made! And to see a copy opened for the 2nd time only… Thanks for sharing!
I love maps.
Wait. This map men isn't a map men!
As an American visiting London, at age 19, when my parents showed me how to use the Underground map, then at age 23 being able to navigate pretty well and finally at age 27 with a friend, who I had to show how to read the map I was always impressed with the design of the modern map. Looking at the "spaghetti maps" is very interesting because I've never seen kind of the actual layout of the system.
9:49 There might not be a giant snake in Hyde Park. But you might find something a little but serpentine.
Underground trains must have been a nightmare in the age of steam engines.