Walking the Secret Alignments of London (4K)
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- A walk linking together Bunhill Fields, Bunhill Row, Old Street, St Luke's, and City Road. Taking in the burial places of William Blake, Daniel Defoe and Hawksmoor's obelisk on St Luke's church.
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This walk starts near Liverpool Street on the edge of the City of London and heads along Worship Street to Finsbury Barracks, home of the Honourable Artillery Company. Next to the Barracks we find Bunhill Fields an old burial ground were numerous religious dissenters were buried including Daniel Defoe and William Blake. We walk along Bunhill Row where John Milton lived and wrote both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.The secret alignments of the City lead us to Old Street believed to have been a Roman road between Silchester and Colchester built along an even older trackway. Here we find St Luke's Church designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Our route takes us past Ironmonger Row Baths to Peerless Street once the site of a notorious pool that became a Ducking Pond and later a bath house with a library. We then emerge on City Road and our walk ends at The Eagle pub in Shepherdess Walk which is mentioned in the nursery rhyme, Pop Goes the Weasel.
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Right on my doorstep, wish I had known as I would have loved to had the opportunity to say hello to you in person. Thanks and great work John teaching me a few more things I never knew about my surroundings. My wife and daughter now will be subjected with me passing that knowledge onto them and in return they will look at me with that face of trying their best to look interested.
Ha wonderful Steve - really glad you enjoyed it
The nursery rhyme used to be
"Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Hock goes the Weasel"
The story behind this refers to the poverty in the wig makers trade in the Goswell rd / Old St area. The reference to rice and treacle referred to the cheap food being all they could afford. When they ran out of money they would pawn (or "Hock") their weasel (a weasel being the stand for a wig)
Strange how Treacle mining came to be a phrase to be out of work and on the dole !
That's how I remember it too although we never said 'Hock'. We said the more familiar 'Pop'.
Up and down the city road
In and out of the Eagle? (Pub?)
Thats the way the money goes
POP! (Shouted or a popping sound made with a usualy dirty finger in the mouth) goes the weasel. Was the way us street urchins used to sing it
Such freedom of expression
Surprised you have not been stopped/searched by the paranoid police for going about armed with a suspicious camera. Enjoyed your tour as a former been there done that resident. Including Friday night is Bath night at the local behind Sadlers Wells.
is what we used sing
I was told that 'pop' was the then current expression for 'pawn' and that a weasel was the smallest size iron- in general domestic use. (In the days when you heated your irons on the fire and had several sizes depending what you were ironing. So the smallest one was the most expendable.)
"Weasel" is also rhyming slang for coat (Weasel and Stoat).
Thank you as always for this video. I worked around this area between 1966 and 1971 and had my lunch in the company of Issac Watts, Daniel Defoe, William Blake, John Bunyan and all the other great names in Bun Hilll, including my 4 times great grandparents, many a lunch time on warm days.
As I understood things, "to pop or pawn your wiesel" referded to the rag trade that existed to the east of New North Road and north of Old Street. The wiesel being a cutting toll that was not vital to production, when you ran out of money (Victorian and pre Victorian era) buying groceries (Rice and other bits) to buy beer of a weekend you could pawn your wiesel to raise the cash to spend in the Eagle.Get the wiesel out of hock on Tuesday, when you had made a bit of money.
Again thank you, what a change in City Road since my day.
I do like your sessions. "Pop goes the Weasel" is related to when the tradesman pawned his working instrument. The weasel is a last on which a hatter stretched the fabric when stitching items such as hats or in the case of "Petticoat Lane, the fine silk undergarments for ladies.
The garments were so finely stitched that Ladies worked closer and closer to the item resulting in eye injuries,
Pop=to pawn
Weasel=A last over which things are stretched.
As much as I enjoy the hustle and bustle of the city, it’s good to know that it’s not just me that takes it all in.
The history of this part of London is wonderful. It's such a pity to see it change so unrecognisably. East London has been destroyed.
I would say changed, not destroyed,which is one of the strengths of London and which sets it apart from other cities
What a channel. Informative, entertaining, relaxing. Well beyond the 'travel' channels focussing on London on CZcams. The stories, history, and psychogeography are so key to understanding place. Can't believe it took me this long to find!
Solstice Blessings and a Blessed Yule xxx
And to you xx
There’s a real feeling of antiquity around Old Street/City Road, The Angel, Saddlers Wells etc. I spent some time around there in my early 20s and I remember the atmosphere at night being slightly sinister. Not been there for a good 25 years. I might take a look soon. Love the video as always John. Good work.
Cheers Jay - there’ll be a few more videos round this area in the coming months
@@JohnRogersWalks thanks John. Looking forward to seeing them.
Early 80's used to bunk the last train to Euston and walk to my squat in Newington Green, from Kings Cross through the Angel to Highbury tube was a dark and dodgy stroll. I was offered and asked for it all. Cheers
@@willtricks9432 Kings Cross was especially dodgy back then. I remember meeting my mates up there to go raving as a teenager. Some weird characters hanging about that station.
@@StarWarsJay Outside the Vue on Upper street was something else after midnight.
From Bexhill last week to Bunhill this, you treat us to such a variety of views, tales and worlds John. Magical stuff. Thank you.
4:51 The view is from the approximate location of the resting place of my 3rd great grandfather Robert Finch (1806-1848). I have a photo of the site from the opposite direction. He lived on Brewer St., now called Paget St., and several of his neighbours are buried at Bunhill as well. It seems the Luftwaffe had a knack for erasing evidence of my family in that location as well as in others. My uncle would probably have found that funny. He was one of the Distinguished Service Order recipients who survived the war.
This has such a relaxed and well researched feel to it... It's like I'm watching a radio 4 program. Lovely stuff.
A very interesting film as always. When my great-great grandfather arrived in London from Germany in the mid-19th Century, he settled in St Lukes, where, I established, he and his brother ran a bakery in Whitecross Street. I spent a very interesting morning in the area once trying to identify addresses where they had lived.
Excellent Tour John , my family lived in Bartholomew Square behind St Luke's which was a plague burial site and they regularly used the Ironmonger Row baths loved it thank you
Keep up the good work , Your videos are amazing, I feel so sad that London history is getting demolished and modernized for profit .Big thumbs up 👍🏼👍🏼
thanks Angie
My first job after leaving school in the early 60`s was in Wharf Rd that ran to City Rd, that became St Peters St. the other side of the canal and ran to Islington Green.
When walking down City Rd from The Angel I used to pass the HP Sauce factory that must be long gone by now. I think Reilly snooker tables were once made their.
Anthony released "Pop Goes The Weasel" in the early 60`s. He said that a weasel was a hat makers tool that they pawned when they were skint?
Probably one of several definitions of old terms?
I visited Bunhill fields when reading Defoe’s travelogues and Blake’s poetry (not to dissimilar to your own lyrical observations), and instantly sank into a gloomy depression. It was a place so profound when faced with humankind’s lost creativity…all those unwritten books and not so Eternal ideas.
It definitely is unique.
Many thanks for all your films and musings throughout the year, John.
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I preferred Bunhill Fields when it was slightly tawdry and a bit over-grown. They've tidied it up enormously since. As for the rest of the way the city of London is going - I travelled over to London Uni (from N. Ireland) in 1982, and remained in England -not all the years in London.
It's spectacular. Even photos from ten years ago show the extent of the new build, especially the skyscrapers. Yet you're still wandering around mazy little mediaeval streets even at the base of some of those monstrosities. There was a sense of innocence when the Natwest Tower was the only big building higher than St. Pauls when you looked out. Dickens of course is the novelist par excellence of London. I do think though that ideas are eternal.
I love spending time alone in Bunhill, there is certainly something magical there. It has inspired me to write poetry many times. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks
The honorable artillery company has its head office within the grounds of the honourable society of Lincolns Inn, Chancery Lane which is one of the inns of Court where people go to train to become barristers.
I worked on the gardens here between 1988-1999.
Thanks for an enjoyable video of an area I know very well. Others may have already said this, but you missed Blake’s actual burial place, which is just round the corner from the old ‘nearby’ one you filmed, and where the candles coins and flowers are now left. The exact site of his burial has now been identified and on the 12th of August 2018 there was a ceremony to unveil the new stone, which I attended. Various people spoke and read poetry at the ceremony, the most memorable being Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. You must look out for it next time you are in Bunhill Fields.
"William Blake... Will you stop eating those mushrooms? You know you see things when you do!"
I used to work in a building that is now that upmarket hair salon opposite St. Lukes. during the late 1970's. Lots of memories. The food market in Whitecross St. was never too amazing back then, but some of the shops sold a great sandwich.
Ooo this sounds intriguing lol . Thank you xxx
I worked in the city over the years , many times at weekends and nights when it was quite and all weathers . It’s a magical place with no shortage of history . It’s so captivating in the right setting it’s almost like travelling back in time . New follower and your footage is amazing . Thank you for sharing it means so much . All best for the new year 👍☘️
I have got as far as Defoe walking to see people throwing themselves in mass graves, just yesterday.
When I lived in stokenewington, the local Library was very proud of him.
Blimey!
This was the first video of yours I´ve watched John and you end up outside The Eagle.
I was born in Islington in 1973 and we lived diagonally opposite in Eagle Dweillings..
In early 1981 we moved to Germany and I have been living in here ever since.
I haven´t been to London for quite a few years now.
Love your channel, I´ll be back for more.
Greetings from Berlin!
Back in the 60s i worked for the GPO , as a telecomms apprentice, they had a training school in Paul St , near Old St tube station ,had to go there on training courses, havent been back there since. and i dont recognise any of it , Thanks John for a very nostalgic vid, thanks mate..
Thank you for another very entertaining video. Full of nostalgia for me even though sixty so years have passed, during which so much has been altered, since the area was just one of many familiar backdrops to my childhood and youth in London.
I was born in Ironmonger St off Ironmonger Row (now gone) and playing in the church yard and "Toffee Park" as a very young boy! Thank you John for this!
Another cracking winter warmer - you really bring alive that area north of the City which has such deep roots into London and wider British history - thank you
I once worked in City Road at the International Harvester HQ by City Rd. basin. Once Pickfords had a wharf on the west side of City Rd. ( the canal used to go under the bridge) Pickford ran a daily packet boat from here to Birmingham so I’m told. My goodness it’s changed so much!
The area you’re walking around is where a large number of my ancestors lived. Every time I found an address on the census records, it had been knocked down and redeveloped. Very interesting to see the streets and locations though, as they are now. Always love hearing the history and back stories you give on locations as well.
Very oddly, couple of mine moved from south london suburbs to the city (Golden Lane), where they remained as builders c1880, (most folk were going the other way !)
Absolutely loved this one… I used to live on City Road, even met you John one morning going to work. And before that, I used to haunt Blake’s grave and the Artillery Arms with the OTO. Lots of great memories, and a fantastic commentary as ever. A very happy Yule to you!
@Starfire we used to meet with potential new candidates there. I wrote about my own experience with OTO (mostly farcical) on my website. You can find the link on my channel here on CZcams.
Great video. Bunhill is such a sweet sounding name.
I read yesterday that Charles Dickens started every day with a cold shower and I investigated and found that the fad of bathing was just beginning when he was a young man. Coincidentally, a tour guide once told me that the holy healing springs in France originated at about the same time by the newly developed railroads. According to him, springs located near rail lines in France acquired their reputed therapeutic properties, their saint and their rail station at the same time.
9:20 notice the change in colour of road surface... those are old wooden cobbles :). S small patch left from times gone by.
I think there may be more tarmaced over, sometimes on view when utilty companies dig the road up !
Imagine forgetting your signature ending - you cowboy you!! 😂
A very fancy video this time John, very neat and tidy. Interesting to see a few "pieces to camera", rather than always walking while you film. These bits give the whole thing a very professional feel, even more than usual. Same goes for the maps on this one. It looks like you put in a wee bit of extra effort, bits of animation etc. For me at least, the maps are important. As well as showing our progress, they look good too.
Here's a wee idea for you re. the maps; some extra work for you but might prove interesting. How about tracing our route on a map, flicking back to it every few minutes but leave the route there as we progress. At the end of our walk, we'd see the whole journey on th map, with points of interest marked. I made a meal of explaining that but 𝑰 know what I mean. 😂
This has been a Christmas morning stroll for me, so Thank you and I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas.
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
I often do this walk when I have time from Liverpool Street station to Holborn. The John Rogers slant always adds something to what I already know.
I love that area of London and it was so interesting to learn more about the history of it. I too worked in catering at an event in the Finsbury Barracks in December 1987 I believe. At the end of the night there was a spectacular fireworks display which was like being in the middle of WW3 as the fireworks were so close to the crowd. Great memories!
More memories sparked form a Mr Rodgers video.
About 20 years ago I worked in an office block on Bunhill Row that overlooked the HAC grounds. Many a lunch hour was spent in Bunhill Fields and a Friday night in the Artillery Arms. Then there was the walk from work up City Road to meet the better half who worked in Wakley Street at the Angel.
Merry Christmas to you and yours and here’s looking forward to the walks of 2022.
as soon as you started this walk I was singing "pop goes the weasel"
More brilliant education for a Sunday evening!!
Fantastic thanks Rick
An American here who took a few minutes to remember where I'd heard of Bunhill Fields before. It dawned on me that I'd come across it while researching one of my family lines. Got it back to my 9th and 10th great grandfathers, who were buried at Bunhill Fields in the 1600s. They were very early Quakers. Great walk, always learn so much from your videos!
great video John , I love your old city of London walks as much as your field walks.
Thanks Richard - I feel exactly the same
Your love of history is so uplifting. I enjoy your walks so much. I am a Londoner and my father showed me so much when I was a child. You’re carrying on the tradition of oral history. I too enjoy history and it’s refreshing to know there are others! Thanks for your videos.
Incidentally i was on one of my random walks around that area a few years ago and popped in 'The Artillery' to rest my weary feet. Brilliant pub. Very atmospheric. I tarried a while before stumbling off into the cemetery.
It always amazes me that we have so many beautiful old buildings in our great city. The Finsbury barracks look so much like a prison. So much overlooked history on our doorstep. . Hope you had a pint in the Eagle. Merry Christmas John to you and your family 👍🏻 peace ☮️
But how long will they remain these old buildings... 😪
Remember 'Operation Burberry'?
Fireman's strike way back when.
I had the pleasure of working from Finsbury Barracks.
An amazing place and local pubs were marvellous.
Blake-Donne - what's not to love about the idea of walking in the footsteps of those giants ? I also walk in Shoreham and underriver (nr sevenoaks) where Blake is reputed to have walked with the painter Samuel Palmer . It's wonderful to read the stories in the Comments . For a short while these actors were players on this ancient stage , to be replaced by other actors against a changing backdrop .
Weasel is the name for a cloth workers iron. Popping is a word for pawning. Merry Christmas.
Thanks for that Red
30 years ago l went to some tai chi classes off Whitcross Street. There was such a feeling of a new Age of Enlightenment at the beginning of the 90s and all we got was Oasis. Still l remember Bunhill Fields and all the friends at the time when we all learnt the Short Form. Thanks John
Sinclair's Lud Heat is amazing. I really appreciate seeing these places again in this video. So very interesting!
Never seen a graveyard look better or been filmed better. Great Vid once again. Thank you.
I used to work around that area back round the millennium. Drank in the Artillery Arms and the Eagle, often walked though Bunhill Row on my way to work. I thought "pop goes the weasel" was a reference to pawning the iron the textile workers used, so they could pay for Friday night, before getting paid on Saturday and getting it back out of hock.
Lovely video, great memories and yes, a lot has changed.
Such a fantastic storyteller - thank you for making these great videos and keeping history alive
Thanks so much Oliver
Another fascinating walk, John. Quite a comfort to see London during the pandemic. More so the stories behind the streets I trod a decade ago.
John your videos are poetry in motion
Thanks so much zcam
Thanks. A brilliant walk - I remember the area well from the late 60s / early 70s. A note of "recent" history is that in the council flats in Bunhill Row, a major gangland era came to an end when The Kray Brothers were arrested there by Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Reid, of the Metropolitan Police.
You're right, the mythos associated with historical events is important and adds zest to life. Fact and fiction are intertwined as even fables have at least a semblance of truth. Have a great Festive Season John.
That's funny when you went past Moorfields I was thinking he's going up the City Road, wonder if he's going in the Eagle. The story I heard was that the Weasel was a hat makers tool and to 'pop' it was to pawn it as all his money was spent in the Eagle. Great video. Thanks.
There were some old pawn shops top end by the Angel so "up and down the city road" fits.
A happy Solstice and merry Christmas to you and yours, John, from snowy Winnipeg. Thank you for keeping me walking the streets of my beloved London this (plague) year
Solstice Greetings and Merry Christmas to you too Pat - hope you manage to stay warm through the Canadian winter
love the old buildings and the history. so interesting especially to see The Eagle. You learn something every day, thank you
Subbed it was too short I could listen to you for hours. Where have you been, why did I not find you sooner ? I lived in Greenwich all my life until a few years ago, so anything London and the Thames resonates with me. Have a good celebration of our history and of course Christmas. Love and Light ☺🎶✨
I so look forward to John's videos.
Pop goes the weasel refers to having to pawn one's weasel to raise some money. Unfortunately there is no agreement as to what 'weasels' actually were. One theory is that it's cockney rhyming slang for coat (weasel and stoat). It's also been suggested it was a type of iron used by tailors who worked around City Road.
20/25 years ago, St Lukes on Old street was derelict. Someone decided to do it up and let the LSO rehearse there. My daughter used to sing in the Community choir which was run by Gareth Malone. The BBC did a series of concerts there. We went to the Randy Newman gig. Elton John did a show as did Bert Jansch, there were others that I don't recall but I do remember the guy on the door telling me that Bruce Springsteen did a Woody Guthrie set; apparently there were not many people there so the staff went out onto Old street to ask passers by if they'd like to come in and hear some Springsteen. Paradise regained.
brilliant stories David - thanks for sharing
Thanks John, I haven’t been around that area for 35yrs. The Eagle public house, next door to City road metropolitan police station. Many a good night spent in there. Merry Christmas to you and your family. All the very best for 2022.
We have such an incredible tapestry of history in this country
Love all this City stuff @John ---thanks for yet another year of pleasure - take care and thanks again for delivering such insight, joy and optimism.... thank you!
Happy Christmas to you John. The videos have been a weekly highlight and the back catalogue somthing to emerse yourself in during the dark days of lock down early in the year. To at least get some sense of space. I have enjoyed your book looking forward to the next. So thank you
When you stood at the end of Bunhill Row at the junction of Old Street on your left used to stand the Bovril factory
Also in Bunhill Rd the Kray twins mother lived after moving from Valence Rd Bethnal Green.
I worked in Chart st. Which is just off Old st roundabout up City rd. In the 90’s. Bun hill cemetery we used to sit in there during summer days, for lunch. These where great memories for me.
Very interesting thanks for posting John. I think the occult references in Hawksmoor's church are certainly clear no less for the obelisk that strides its steeple. The city of London of course is rife with freemasonic and occultic symbolism so no surprises there. More interesting still is the alignments which i will look into.
I used to work in City Road at Old Street many years ago so am familiar with these landmarks but appreciate the details and knowledge.
Used to work in Great Sutton Street EC1 walked City Road more times than I care to remember, Glad I got out in the late 90's !
Anthony Newley (A Hackney boy) had a hit with a record of 'Pop Goes The Weazel' in about 1960.
I lived on Central Street for a bit this summer right next to Ironmonger Row Baths and used to walk around the area after work but had no idea about the history. Very interesting and lovely area. Felt rather residential and lived in despite being 15 minutes from the City. I even walked through Bunhill Fields a couple of times but did not realise its significance.
Brilliant walk again John thanks 🙏
Thanks Michael
loved the walk John. Happy Christmas.
Happy Christmas Lee
Excellent walk, John ,brought back great memories of the area from my time studying at City and East London College on Bunhill Row in the Eighties, looking forward to more of your walks in 2022,wherever ever they might be Happy Christmas John
Thanks for video John!
Cheers Tom
Thanks John for a great walk,not long enough for me, you covered my old milk round as the Co-op milky as I was in the city and west end for fifty years,great memories as I sit and write this at 3am ,old habits die hard. Thanks also for the old music,so atmospheric.Mike.
Very enjoyable, have so missed doing my walks during the last 2 years, thank you for these
Another great video John. Happy Christmas 👍🏻
Happy Christmas Kevin
Wherever you go you always manage to extract the magic out of the place! Merry Xmas John!
Very kind Alex - a Merry Christmas to you
A very interesting walk. I've never heard of Bunhill fields before. The history of the street name Peerless Street is fascinating. Looking forward to your 2022 videos. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all.
It looks like a Sunday, and I would think the day of the week is more important for being quiet in that area.
Thanks John , lovely to see that area of London and yes it's changed beyond all recognition since I knew it in the sixties ,have a cracking Yuletide to you and your family ,thanks for an amazing years worth of walks and information ,see you on Boxing Day , all the best and brightest my friend !
Thanks John. Part of my university course involved my reading of the ‘Journal of the Plague Year’, by Daniel Defoe, which my brother Ed describes as being the first English novel, and the book by Peter Ackroyd about Nicholas Hawkesmoor. So, the final exhibition of our university work took place at the Old Watney’s building…….or brewery as it now is. As a curious Sussex lad l spent a fair amount of time wandering around the area you have just described, including the market, where as Hugenot descendants our ancestors must have lived their lives. Going up to ‘the smoke’ from Hove means the West End etc, not the East with all its intrigue. The area opened up a new and fascinating world to me. I’ve subsequently visited it quite a few times. My first visit there was in 1987, then my brother had a studio in Brick Lane, and I was working at the other end of the Lane for a while, which meant we could meet up at the wonderful curry houses. Then I was back there again in 2016.
When I heard the story of the origins of pop goes the weasel I saw the mispronunciation of a French word, previously I'd always wondered how a stoatlike weasel could pop. This reference to Brick Lane and the Hugenots confirms it. Now I want to know exactly what a weasel is (ouisal)? Oui sel, sel coming from selvedge not salt? An English corruption of a French work phrase?
A walk I have done many times. You manage to really invigorate the locations John. Thank you.
Squirrel at 4.55? Loving the contemporary spin on Peerless Pool . . . totally brilliant bit of PR.
Whether one believes in Secret Alignments or not, as you rightly say it still makes for great storytelling. Wonderful tour around fascinating places, John.🇯🇪
I learned something about Pop Goes the Weasel I'd never known before. Thank you.
What a gem 💎 these are, you’re giving us all a precious gift!
that was great, john! i like seeing the literary connections with locations around the city 😊
There's a lot of bustling history within that particular area around old street & clerkenwell although around city road has changed some much since I lived round in 2005 loved the nature of this trail walk you done John 👍
Happy and peaceful Christmas to you and family John
Many thanks Raj - seasons greetings to you and your family
I know the Antony Newley song " Pop goes the Weasel". Did you know he wrote the song " Goldfinger" for the James Bond film. The music was by John Barry.
Thanks John , great video as usual , thanks for all the fantastic facts , brilliant
my pleasure Rich - many thanks for watching and leaving a comment
Delighted to have discovered this wonderful CZcams account!
I used to do security at the honorable artillery club back in the early 2000... Corporate events around Christmas and summer.... It's massive inside. Really enjoyed your video.
Great one! Have a Merry Christmas 🎅 All the best!
Cheers Peter
And a Merry Christmas to you John, love your videos
Merry Christmas Mike
Fascinating insights as always John. These videos are a real treasure. Thanks for all your great work and wishing you and your family a very happy Christmas.
many thanks John