Come for the DIY stay for the history. A serious CZcamsr. Respect. I don’t know how anyone could live in London and not be captivated by all the rich history.
Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece! I've always thought a video on the old London cemeteries would be quite interesting. Or maybe some of the infrastructure that few people cover.
Its a great little documentary I think any filmmaker would be proud of. More and more CZcams creators with a cameraphone and a drone are just completely humbling mainstream or large production companies.
@@SkillBuilder Abney cemetery work will be over soon, they are finishing a cafe on the east entrance and refurbishing the chapel in the middle of the park
@@SkillBuilder ditto, the best thing happened to me today is to learning a few things about London from your video. Thank you Roger. Have been to Limehouse basin many times (my parents had owned one of the flats on Narrow st for more than 30 years ever since I could remeber as a child) and how it had connected all the places in London that I know and visited many times with my kids, through the coal trade, it is so fansinating.
This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece!
Yeah but what about a really dramatic edit into the Wapping riots, some really hyped up music into silence and "Events would unfold in ways *NO-ONE* saw coming!" or something like that? He could really use some professional video making flair!
Very nice. I live in Limehouse Basin so it was all “I can see my flat!” And then you proceeded up my favourite canal. Learned new things and entertained. 👍
He's got one on here. I discovered him by accident. CZcams is where it's at now. Mainstream TV is finished. Who needs to pay a licence fee to be brainwashed?
Thanks, Roger. I'm a Londoner through and through, but I learn something new every time I watch one of these. Appreciate the time and energy you put into each one.
Thanks mate, I enjoy doing them and I learn a lot as well. The trouble is that I can't stop looking at new angles. Where did Homer go? He was sentenced to 7 years in Australia but his name doesn't appear on any of the records and there is no record of his death. Maybe he changed his name and disappeared or maybe he is under that canal.
Please keep going...I am following this channel from many years and it is a pleasure to see how it has evolved into this. WOW an absolute gem on the internet.
Absolutely loved this video, we grew up (hehe) never! , next to the canal in greenford, and it has featured in our lives ever since despite living in various places. The canals are an asset to london.
Excellent documentary Roger. I often have a walk around Limehouse and the Regents canal and never once thought about the history of the area. Thanks for the informative video 🙂👍
As an artist (painter of architectural subjects - mainly ruins in the landscape); with a passion for the history of buildings, and their materials, your excellent, well-researched and narrated productions (including this one) tick many boxes for me. Congratulations on your success! I look forward to viewing more of your work.
I discovered this channel by accident. It just popped up on my feed, probably something to do with the algorithm because I like history. Great watch! This guy really knows his stuff and presents it in a watchable and honest way. I had absolutely no idea people could now live inside one of those old gas holders' frames!
Roger, I'm not even a builder (I'm a furniture designer and maker) but I come and watch your videos because I've always been interested in building and construction and your way of presenting is fantastic. These new history/documentary style videos give me even more of a reason to come and watch. They're fantastic and really interesting.
Greetings from Australia, and I absolutely love learning British history. Always have since I was a kid. This stuff is our roots. My Great x 4 grandfather fought at Waterloo with 40th of foot REGT. Thanks for this history lessons my friend!
The Grand Union Canal in West London was my playground in the late 70s, early 80s. As kids we would play on all of the old closed down factories that lined the canal. We also use to cycle for miles & miles without our parents knowledge. Great memories. Thanks Roger.
Would have loved to be in a tour that took me around these places which included all the information. You’re a very good narrator and such endless knowledge on all this. I imagine that there are millions walking around London with very little knowledge of its history as in any city
What an amazing video, I run almost all the time in the canal and I am stunned by the engineering behind the locks and all the infrastructure getting all the story behind it just makes it so much interesting.
I get so much crap coming up on my CZcams channel that I’m not remotely interested in, and then this comes up! Really fascinating, well put together, beautifully told - thanks so much for telling these stories. Great to not have all the music, editing on speed etc that so many people feel are necessary to ‘sell’ their videos - your content and delivery stand alone. Will be watching more
That is good to know. We do put music on our videos and sometimes even speeded up bits but we try to keep it unobrusive. It is impossible to get it right for everyone. Thanks for your comment and I hope you find something else you like on our channel. Try this one czcams.com/video/671PxfI37hg/video.html
Love seeing pics and history of London. Love to visit for a few days, but it wears me out. Used to commute 2 hrs each way for a year, so not ideal. Still getting the train to London, now retired, is exciting! Thanks for the history, shame you didn't teach @school!!
This was a great video; an excellent piece of journalism on some fascinating architecture. Please do keep these mini docu-series coming and I look forward to one on the railways.
Hi Roger, i been following your skills for years. . Lovely video, as a Londoner i still learned something. A delightful branch away from fixing up bathrooms. Thanks
This guy summed it up by summing up that other guy........ "This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms.....
I really enjoyed this. I knew you only as a brilliant presenter of building issues, so I'm so pleased to see you have grown into this. I shall look forward to more of it. Well done!
Such a great video...I lived on royal college street, not too far from Regent's Canal, in 2016 for 2 years. This gives a great history of the walks me and my dog did....thank you.
I think the first time I looked at skill builder was to get a grip on scarf joints. Been watching ever since. Now I use it as a way of trying to escape from the reality of today's uk. Keep it up we all need a dose of sanity.
When I visited London two years ago I stayed in an AirBNB right along the canal. Spent many a morning or evening strolling along it and saw many of the things you talk about here, reaching both Limehouse and the Union Canal junction. Such a lovely time. Those sharks though. Them I remember vividly. Humm.
Such a passionate and knoweldgable presenter. You my man are keeping history alive and I salute you. Understanding the history of where you live, your ancestors and why things are as they are is so important. Subbed.
Watched quite few of your building vids and always found them very interesting. So I was taken a back when you came up on a history vid. Can I just say you are a natural presenter, I enjoyed this video so much, your style is spot on. Keep up the good work.
Yes, superb video and it looks like you've being doing it for a long time! I was born in Paddington and lived a short distance from the Basin and Little Venice. It's not changed a lot from my youth and you did a good job explaining how it was all put together.
What a wonderful surprise and so well presented, produced and of course, an extremely interesting subject. Thanks and I look forward to seeing more of these in future 👍👍👍
It says in the description "captivating". Does exactly what it says on the tin, thank you very much Roger, looking forward to the next one. And a brilliant touch to use w3 words.
I hope you make more videos like this Roger. Informative and entertaining. When I was growing up in the 1980s in Bethnal Green I remember those Gas holders when they were in use on the canal when me and my friends would ride our BMX’s from Victoria park to Regent’s Park canal or when we would go fishing with our fishing nets to catch small fish in glass jars before throwing them back in the canal and heading home for Sunday roast dinner.
What a brilliant video, got any more??? Would also enjoy a video going thru a sewage treatment works and water works, they have some interesting detail s and history, especially around London
Super . Left shoe to Liverpool, Right to London, that sounds a fantastic logistic nightmare, I really want to believe it . the rope wear in the stone I will look out for in future. Great video.
I absolutely loved that Roger a nice departure from all the building related content which I've also enjoyed (I'm in the trade), looking forward to more content like this....👍
Glad you mentioned Fred Dibnah. You both possess similar levels of practical expertise and bring unique insights into historical building technologies. Unlike the academics who generally present these programmes. Looking forward to the next one. Regards
Come for the DIY stay for the history. A serious CZcamsr. Respect. I don’t know how anyone could live in London and not be captivated by all the rich history.
I'm actually building a canal and this vid was a great help!
This man is excellent.He’s a native Londoner who really loves his city .
He should have his own series on television.
Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece!
I've always thought a video on the old London cemeteries would be quite interesting. Or maybe some of the infrastructure that few people cover.
Also non of that crappy vocal fry that the youngsters use, does my head in
I like the cemetry idea. A history of how London disposed of its dead would be interesting.
Its a great little documentary I think any filmmaker would be proud of. More and more CZcams creators with a cameraphone and a drone are just completely humbling mainstream or large production companies.
Agreed 💯
@@SkillBuilder
Abney cemetery work will be over soon, they are finishing a cafe on the east entrance and refurbishing the chapel in the middle of the park
This was great Roger! Look forward to seeing more history videos from you 😊
Thanks so much
@@SkillBuilder ditto, the best thing happened to me today is to learning a few things about London from your video. Thank you Roger.
Have been to Limehouse basin many times (my parents had owned one of the flats on Narrow st for more than 30 years ever since I could remeber as a child) and how it had connected all the places in London that I know and visited many times with my kids, through the coal trade, it is so fansinating.
No long periods of a presenter looking into the distance over some music not saying anything.
Absolutely, this was delightful.
This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece!
Yeah but what about a really dramatic edit into the Wapping riots, some really hyped up music into silence and "Events would unfold in ways *NO-ONE* saw coming!" or something like that? He could really use some professional video making flair!
Loved this, fascinating and well produced. Thanks Rog
Very nice. I live in Limehouse Basin so it was all “I can see my flat!” And then you proceeded up my favourite canal. Learned new things and entertained. 👍
Roger should have his own show.
He kind of does and you sort of just watched it 😂
A very enjoyable video.
He's got one on here. I discovered him by accident. CZcams is where it's at now. Mainstream TV is finished. Who needs to pay a licence fee to be brainwashed?
A fabulously well researched and presented film. Thank you Roger.
Roger is such a great tour guide. Magnificent. Thank you.
Another fascinating insight to London heritage Roger. Your vid on the London bricks was superb. Keep it up. 😁😁
A really excellent mini documentary Roger - thank you. I'm looking forward to your next one.
Many thanks!
Roger is a great presenter on this type of programme, absolutely loved this!
Well done buddy.
Much appreciated!
Thanks, Roger. I'm a Londoner through and through, but I learn something new every time I watch one of these. Appreciate the time and energy you put into each one.
Thanks mate, I enjoy doing them and I learn a lot as well. The trouble is that I can't stop looking at new angles.
Where did Homer go? He was sentenced to 7 years in Australia but his name doesn't appear on any of the records and there is no record of his death. Maybe he changed his name and disappeared or maybe he is under that canal.
Me too.
Love your informative easy going presentation
Please keep going...I am following this channel from many years and it is a pleasure to see how it has evolved into this. WOW an absolute gem on the internet.
Thank you! Will do!
Really enjoyed that Roger. Better than TV. Please do another one soon.
I have one in edit now.
Absolutely loved this video, we grew up (hehe) never! , next to the canal in greenford, and it has featured in our lives ever since despite living in various places. The canals are an asset to london.
Your enthusiasm and love for your subject shine out from this excellent video Roger. Very well done indeed. More Please. Much more.
More to come!
Excellent documentary Roger. I often have a walk around Limehouse and the Regents canal and never once thought about the history of the area. Thanks for the informative video 🙂👍
As an artist (painter of architectural subjects - mainly ruins in the landscape); with a passion for the history of buildings, and their materials, your excellent, well-researched and narrated productions (including this one) tick many boxes for me. Congratulations on your success! I look forward to viewing more of your work.
I've honestly learned more from this channel than the past 18 years of CZcams videos.
I discovered this channel by accident. It just popped up on my feed, probably something to do with the algorithm because I like history. Great watch! This guy really knows his stuff and presents it in a watchable and honest way. I had absolutely no idea people could now live inside one of those old gas holders' frames!
Roger, I'm not even a builder (I'm a furniture designer and maker) but I come and watch your videos because I've always been interested in building and construction and your way of presenting is fantastic. These new history/documentary style videos give me even more of a reason to come and watch. They're fantastic and really interesting.
This is only the second video I 've seen from this guy and it is just as outstanding as the first. Some network should grab him as a presenter.
Fascinating insight. Thanks SB.
Greetings from Australia, and I absolutely love learning British history. Always have since I was a kid. This stuff is our roots. My Great x 4 grandfather fought at Waterloo with 40th of foot REGT. Thanks for this history lessons my friend!
what nothing about the Abos history mate
you know the people of australia and Tasmania where you live ?
@@chrisbennett6260 thats downright racist mate
@@chrisbennett6260First nation people’s please !
Fascinating stuff Roger, more please.
The Grand Union Canal in West London was my playground in the late 70s, early 80s. As kids we would play on all of the old closed down factories that lined the canal. We also use to cycle for miles & miles without our parents knowledge. Great memories. Thanks Roger.
Same here but river lee from Edmonton to the Thames at poplar.
Loved exploring old factories and bomb sites
West Cheshire dweller love the video of bits of the city I never would get to see.A good history lesson and interesting footage.Thankyou.
You have talent Sir. Loved your channel for years. Keep giving us a treet
Nice new style of video! Love a bit of history!
Bout time they gave you a tv show mate 🙌🏼
then out of ten, this blokes a natural presenter , really does his research
Fabulous video guys. Makes me want to buy a barge and go exploring!
Same here! ❤
Would have loved to be in a tour that took me around these places which included all the information. You’re a very good narrator and such endless knowledge on all this. I imagine that there are millions walking around London with very little knowledge of its history as in any city
Thoroughly enjoyed my trip along the canal. Thank you😀
That is good to hear
London receiving the right shoes and Liverpool the left to stop pilfering is a superb bit of history!
Sorry, sounds extremely unlikely to me.😮
Same I think its wonderfully interesting! Would love to find a reference to this!
As others have said, loved this, fascinating and well produced, look forward to part II
Nice bit of piano playing at the end there, Roger. Mad skills bro!
Love these little history films on London. Keep em coming. Cheers
You have so much information in that brain! It's fantastic listening to your London stories, especially. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Roger
What an amazing video, I run almost all the time in the canal and I am stunned by the engineering behind the locks and all the infrastructure getting all the story behind it just makes it so much interesting.
I get so much crap coming up on my CZcams channel that I’m not remotely interested in, and then this comes up! Really fascinating, well put together, beautifully told - thanks so much for telling these stories. Great to not have all the music, editing on speed etc that so many people feel are necessary to ‘sell’ their videos - your content and delivery stand alone. Will be watching more
That is good to know. We do put music on our videos and sometimes even speeded up bits but we try to keep it unobrusive. It is impossible to get it right for everyone. Thanks for your comment and I hope you find something else you like on our channel.
Try this one czcams.com/video/671PxfI37hg/video.html
Totally different and totally excellent 👍
I love these videos. They have become family favourites. Brilliant presentation, eloquent and smart.
These need to go on TV
TV is dead Grandad.
TV production would necessitate a lot of noisy underscore music being inserted drowning out Roger's commentary.
And only Toby-jugs watch TV. @@nickhickson8738
Not enough far left and global warming messaging in it, Roger would have to sell his soul and make amendments to the script to get on TV
@rocketmunkey1 Roger wouldn't meet the ideological criteria..
Thank you for such superbly presented and fascinating insight into the industrial history of London.
Love seeing pics and history of London. Love to visit for a few days, but it wears me out. Used to commute 2 hrs each way for a year, so not ideal. Still getting the train to London, now retired, is exciting! Thanks for the history, shame you didn't teach @school!!
Thanks you for keeping our history alive. I for one needed this. Please keep them coming.
This was a great video; an excellent piece of journalism on some fascinating architecture. Please do keep these mini docu-series coming and I look forward to one on the railways.
Hi Roger, i been following your skills for years. . Lovely video, as a Londoner i still learned something. A delightful branch away from fixing up bathrooms. Thanks
This guy summed it up by summing up that other guy........ "This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms.....
I really enjoyed this. I knew you only as a brilliant presenter of building issues, so I'm so pleased to see you have grown into this. I shall look forward to more of it. Well done!
Really EXCELLENT. Who needs to travel abroad with all this under our noses?
I love travelling abroad. I used to hear Fred Dibnah say that we had everything in this country but how did he know if he never left it?
Beautiful scenery and a relaxing charm of the area. Thank you Roger for sharing this with us.
Lovely honest view of this feature of London. Keep it up Roger - marvellous job.
Thanks Roger! now looking forward to more in this history series of videos. Cheers Alan in Christchurch New Zealand.
Brilliant! Cheers Roger, I really enjoyed that, and I wasn't aware of just how extensive the canal system is still existing in London. More please. 👋
fantastic channel - superior to TV
Trying to think when I last saw a documentary of this quality on mainstream TV. Quite honestly, at least 30 years ago.
Such a great video...I lived on royal college street, not too far from Regent's Canal, in 2016 for 2 years. This gives a great history of the walks me and my dog did....thank you.
also I really loved the drone shots...it gives such a unique of an area of London I grew so fond of.
Just watched this again and it is by far some of the best content Roger has been involved in. Keep it up brother!
Love all the bright color boats along the canal!
Excellent, thank you. You should have your own programme
“ London was a very dodgy place “ No change there then 😂
I assume you do not live in London ?
Brilliant stuff!!! Best person to narrate this forgotton history.
I loved the Chopin at the end. A perfect finish.
loved this one , i lived 100yds away at Haggerston from the Regents up to 15yo , its deffo gone rather up market all the way up to what it was!!
You have a great presenting style, Roger, keeping the interest going better than many established professionals. Nice one .. 😉
I think the first time I looked at skill builder was to get a grip on scarf joints. Been watching ever since. Now I use it as a way of trying to escape from the reality of today's uk. Keep it up we all need a dose of sanity.
Not much has changed. You still get screwed over by big business and get forced out when you get to a certain age. History repeats itself.
You must be a treasure at the dinner table 😂
@@az55544 I am golden and can bury you deep.
Most of history has been falsified
You must be a boomer @@az55544
its up to you to protect your self first. No one else cares and if anyone assures you they Reaaalllllly Do most likely they are Lying
Thanks Roger. I found that extremely interesting. Look forward to many more.
When I visited London two years ago I stayed in an AirBNB right along the canal. Spent many a morning or evening strolling along it and saw many of the things you talk about here, reaching both Limehouse and the Union Canal junction. Such a lovely time.
Those sharks though. Them I remember vividly. Humm.
That is good, I am glad it brought back some nice memories.
London is such an amazing city.
Nice to see Roger putting down his Dewalt's and into his historian shoes - Love it :)
I like these stories, great format
Ace video, such an interesting place London, such a history.
Yessir Roger! I love docklands history and love any source. Cheers
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Thank you.
Such a passionate and knoweldgable presenter. You my man are keeping history alive and I salute you. Understanding the history of where you live, your ancestors and why things are as they are is so important. Subbed.
Sadly most people now living in London neither know nor care. Hence the graffiti
roger, you're a gem!
please do more of these, they're so well made and you're an amazing presenter
Another well researched video of historical interest, thanks Roger!
Love this series of history lessons. Super presentation. Thanks Roger.
Glad you like them!
Great video! I've been walking many times through Regent's Canal enjoying the walk, without knowing how it came about. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watched quite few of your building vids and always found them very interesting. So I was taken a back when you came up on a history vid. Can I just say you are a natural presenter, I enjoyed this video so much, your style is spot on. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Chris for the encouragement, we all need a bit of that
Really interesting. I have learnt a lot. Thank you.
Yes, superb video and it looks like you've being doing it for a long time! I was born in Paddington and lived a short distance from the Basin and Little Venice. It's not changed a lot from my youth and you did a good job explaining how it was all put together.
What a wonderful surprise and so well presented, produced and of course, an extremely interesting subject. Thanks and I look forward to seeing more of these in future 👍👍👍
It says in the description "captivating". Does exactly what it says on the tin, thank you very much Roger, looking forward to the next one. And a brilliant touch to use w3 words.
I’m my gosh this answered all the little passing questions I’ve ever had!! I loved this video 😅
I hope you make more videos like this Roger. Informative and entertaining. When I was growing up in the 1980s in Bethnal Green I remember those Gas holders when they were in use on the canal when me and my friends would ride our BMX’s from Victoria park to Regent’s Park canal or when we would go fishing with our fishing nets to catch small fish in glass jars before throwing them back in the canal and heading home for Sunday roast dinner.
What a brilliant video, got any more???
Would also enjoy a video going thru a sewage treatment works and water works, they have some interesting detail s and history, especially around London
Super . Left shoe to Liverpool, Right to London, that sounds a fantastic logistic nightmare, I really want to believe it . the rope wear in the stone I will look out for in future. Great video.
The shoe story is true. It is not as hard as you imagine. Back in the day shoes made in South America, for example, were not boxed out there.
Loved your London stock bricks video.
I'm a Londoner and you taught me loads.
Yellow stocks !
Red rubbers
Cheers
Glad you like them!
superb !! great to see london through the eyes of a builder , top job
Brilliant content as always
I absolutely loved that Roger a nice departure from all the building related content which I've also enjoyed (I'm in the trade), looking forward to more content like this....👍
Hi John
It is supposed to be building related. I am making a series on the building of London but it is not chronological
very interesting and informative - thanks
Glad you mentioned Fred Dibnah. You both possess similar levels of practical expertise and bring unique insights into historical building technologies. Unlike the academics who generally present these programmes. Looking forward to the next one. Regards
Thank you. I wish I had Fred Dibnah's talent.
they did a whole Britainology episode on the Trashfuture podcast explaining Dibnah to someone from the American Midwest. Need to go watch some
The closing shots with the music is beautifully executed.