This episode is the 11th stop in Danny Hurst´s history tour of the place names on the London Monopoly board. Today, it is the turn of Marylebone Station, the board location nobody knows how to pronounce. Learn about the origins of its unusual name and the connection with several other London area names. 

The station has frequently been used as a film set, find out why and which films were shot there. Also, discover how cricket held up its opening and why it nearly closed down in the 80s.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Marylebone is the newest mainline station in London.
• The opening scene of The Beatles film A Hard Day's Night was shot here and it has been a shooting location for many others.
• Sherlock Holmes lived just around the corner and, today there is a museum there, but not at 221B as you might expect.
• Cricket delayed the construction of the station. Danny explains why.
• If you are playing Monopoly, buy every station you can get your hands on.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Nobody outside London says the word Marylebone unless they are playing Monopoly. ´

‘This part of London is littered with blue plaques.’

‘Players are four times more likely to land on a station than any other property.’

 

EPISODE RESOURCES

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HOST BIO

Historian, performer, and mentor Danny Hurst has been engaging audiences for many years, whether as a lecturer, stand-up comic or intervention teacher with young offenders and excluded secondary students. Having worked with some of the most difficult people in the UK, he is a natural storyteller and entertainer, whilst purveying the most fascinating information that you didn't know you didn't know. A writer and host of pub quizzes across London, he has travelled extensively and speaks several languages. He has been a consultant for exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum and Natural History Museum in London as well as presenting accelerated learning seminars across the UK. With a wide range of knowledge ranging from motor mechanics to opera to breeding carnivorous plants, he believes learning is the most effective when it's fun. Uniquely delivered, this is history without the boring bits, told the way only Danny Hurst can.

CONTACT AND SOCIALS

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Podcast Description

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." James Joyce.

That was me at school as well. Ironically, I ended up becoming a historian. The Unusual Histories podcast is all about the history you don't learn at school, nor indeed anywhere else. Discover things that you didn't know that you didn't know, fascinating historical luminaries and their vices and addictions, and the other numerous sides of every story.

We start with the Monopoly Series, in which we explore how the game came to be, the real-life connection between the cheapest and most expensive properties, the history of each location, how proportionate the values were then and are today, what the hell a "community chest" is and whether free parking really does exist anywhere in London. 

If you love history; or indeed if you hate history, this is the podcast for you…