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Why does London have 32 boroughs?

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- - UNFINISHED LONDON EPISODE 9 - - -

Written by
Jay Foreman @jayforeman
Paul Kendler @kendlerpaul

Edited by
Jay Foreman

Director of Photography
Paul Kendler

Camera Assistant
Urs Robbe

Props, Costume, Fight Director and Production Runner
Jade Nagi @jade_nagi

Additional (invaluable!) research
Ian Pleace @lccmunicipal
Further reading: https://lccmunicipal.com/

VFX (The Brent Monster)
Chris Walker @BigDamnArtist
https://www.zangrethordigital.ca/

Political maps by
Matt from @ElectionMapsUK
http://Ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk

Stressed office worker
Dodie Clark @doddleoddle
doddleoddle

Kid on climbing frame
Alexander Wolf Fraser

Priest
Barry Kendler

Funeral Widow
Ailsa Mainwaring

Keith Sinjohn Joseph
Tim Byrne @TheTimTraveller
@thetimtraveller

Mr. Wembley
Paul Kendler @kendlerpaul

Miss Willesden
Funso Foluso-Henry
@itsfunso (insta)

Thanks to:

New London Architecture at The Building Centre
Pipers Models - creators of the New London Model

Liz Clutterbuck @lizclutterbuck
Nikki Druce @MacabreLondon

Shaan Ali, Daniel Bloom, Ed and Douglas Finch, Andrew Fisher, Matthew Gabriel, Simon Kendler, Ryan McNish and Lakshman Pathak.

20 Comments

@starship2277 6 years ago

Of course the Brits put way more effort into splitting up a single city than they did for the entire Middle East.

@LowBudgetHistory 6 years ago

So there's essentially 2 reasons why London has 32 boroughs.
1.) 33 was too many
B.) 31 was too few

@joyphobic 6 years ago

I still love the little "ad is incoming" mark on the top right screen. No one makes better ads than Jay Foreman.

@PoleTooke 1 year ago

3:10 Do you have a video where you talk for hours about what makes the City of London weird? I would quite like one

@rahmathkakkotkallery854 6 years ago (edited)

1:50 can we just appreciate that he gathered a dozen men in suit and priest just for that one bit.

@Tvimadur 6 years ago

Wasn't expecting Dodie here. But well, convincing portrayal of a stressed office worker.

@thederpygoatman9300 6 years ago

He's been doing unfinished london for so long that it's going to be finished london before he is done

@elvastan 2 years ago

7:50 Brent is actually named after the Brent River, which flows directly though the center of the borough and is the very reason Wembly and Willesden were so isolated from each other in the first place.

@christiandaniell6835 6 years ago

Things I learned:

A: Penguins can't use computers
B: Some stuff about London

@jihongji8452 6 years ago (edited)

Reasons why this channel has been inactive the last couple months:
-Had to record a scream for Tom Scott
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@ThatOneIrishFurry 6 years ago

Me: ugh why does it take jay like 6 months between uploads
Me watching the videos: ah that's why

@teh-maxh 4 years ago

New York is divided into four iconic boroughs, and also Staten Island.

@TheRealRocles 6 years ago

Wait let me get this straight. The british were so good at redrawing maps and making people pissed off for generations... that they did it to themselves?