31x18:18How the World's Copper Capital Poisoned an Entire City: Swansea, Wales
50K views · 4 months ago
Lost British Cities
@lostbritishcitiesDocumentary & FilmUnited StatesView on YouTube
18,100
Subscribers
+3,500 in 28 days
3.7M
Total views
+1.3M in 28 days
18,000
Median views per video
average 30,734
123
Videos
~5.4 uploads a week
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Last 15 days with a reading.
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Lost British Cities's biggest outliers
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31x18:18
19x18:55The Rise and Fall of Europe's Richest Oil City: Aberdeen
68K views · 3 months ago
15x1:09:06The Most Destroyed British City in WW2 Nobody Knows About
83K views · 5 months ago
14x43:30The Horrors of Being Sent to Australia
256K views · 1 week ago
13x52:40How beautiful Plymouth was before the Second World War
32K views · 5 months ago
11x36:19How One Gangster Secretly Ran Europe's Biggest Vacation Empire: Tenerife
294K views · 1 month ago
9.9x26:14The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Jute Millionaire Capital: Dundee, Scotland
35K views · 4 months ago
9.4x21:53How the Mob Secretly Ran an Entire British City: Brighton, England
131K views · 2 months ago
9x59:50Once upon a time, there was a city: Old Liverpool
62K views · 5 months ago
8.5x49:17The 1960s Masterplan That Destroyed Victorian Glasgow
20K views · 4 months ago
7.9x18:52How Britain's Richest Town Per Capita Lost Everything: Campbeltown, Scotland
57K views · 3 months ago
7.5x41:50How Billionaires Are Quietly Killing Britain's Most Glamorous Region Right Now: The Cotswolds
112K views · 3 weeks ago
Latest uploads
0x42:08How One Family Wiped England's Biggest Wetland Off the Map: The Fens
273 views · 1 day ago
0.1x43:59Why 34,000 People Live on a Rock With Zero Resources: Gibraltar
3.2K views · 2 days ago
1.1x38:18The 400-Year Cover-Up That Poisoned Britain's Biggest Lake: Lough Neagh
20K views · 3 days ago
2.9x41:14Why Britain Deliberately Destroyed Its Richest Region: The Welsh Valleys
53K views · 4 days ago
2.6x42:40Why Britain's Most Extravagant Estate Fell Apart: Stowe
45K views · 5 days ago
14x43:30The Horrors of Being Sent to Australia
256K views · 1 week ago
0.6x45:30Why Britain's Greatest Racehorse Empire Fell Apart: Newmarket
19K views · 1 week ago
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2.1x41:55Why Britain Can't Save Its Greatest Lake: Windermere
39K views · 2 weeks ago
3.4x40:41Why Nobody Wants to Visit Britain's Famous Holiday Lakes Anymore: The Norfolk Broads
60K views · 2 weeks ago
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About
We explore the rise and fall of Britain's (and lately not only Britain's) once-thriving towns and cities. Through detailed documentaries, we uncover the historical forces, economic shifts, and changing times that transformed once-bustling urban centres into forgotten places. Each video is a deep dive into what went wrong, why it mattered, and the lessons from Britain's lost urban landscape.
- Joined
- 2013-01-09
- Format
- documentary
- Topics
- Historical Documentary, Social & Cultural Documentary
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Lost British Cities has 18,100 subscribers and 3.7M total views across 123 videos, and gained about 3,500 subscribers in the last 28 days.