Lea Valley Walk from Walthamstow to Waltham Abbey (4K)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Lea Valley Walk from Banbury Reservoir and Folly Lane Walthamstow then along the River Lea Navigation from Edmonton to Waltham Abbey.
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Music:
Tupelo Train by Chris Haugen
Little Drunk, Quiet Floats
Puddle of Infinity
Nevada City
by Huma-Huma
Fresh Fallen Snow by
Chris Haugen
Waltham Abbey by John Rogers
Seeing all the litter & flytiping was sad, but then the walk turned out to be a great London stroll. It always suprises & interests me to see comments from all over the world. Very insightful reading them 😊
I love reading too Kat - I posted this the day I went on holiday so only catching up on them now
@@JohnRogersWalks l hope that you & yours had a great time on holiday 😊
John, your view of the world is soothing and connects me to a deeper part of myself. I'm not joking. Thanks mate.
Thanks for that David - very much appreciated
Hi John thanx for another walk mskes me so sad seeing all that rubbish dumped iam disabled and i still pick up litter afer the able bodied all that plastic so awful x
Thanks Norma - so difficult to understand the mentality of the people who dump that rubbish
Lovely timing,the cricket is on the radio the washing is gently billowing in the wind and I have a sweet cuppa in my hand......perfect.
that's a great image Stephen - thanks
In front of the incredible mound of rubble, "keep your goods stored safely..."
Many years ago "late 60`s/early 70`s"we used to drive down King`s Head Hill of a Sunday afternoon,and park in Wharf Rd,and walk past Waltham Abbey,no M25 then.The pub you mentioned"The Navigation" was then I believe a rowing club.Between there and Enfield Lock was the big coal fired power station,coal barges used to unload there.(There was another at Lea Bridge opposite the old water treatment works)Both dominated the landscape for moles around.All long gone,and the land totally redeveloped.I think the Royal Enfield Arms Factory as in BREN/STEN guns EN for Enfield & BR for BRNO/ST for STIRLING was just about still operating.At Waltham Abbey is the dragonfly sanctuary area,well worth a visit.
wonderful memories Anthony - never heard that about the Bren/Sten gun makes sense
excellent
I loved the boat greenhouse and garden convoy, unique stuff!🌻
That was such a wonderful thing to see chugging down the Lea
That was a really great walk and video, thanks so much John.
Thanks Little Acorns
Edge lands what an amazing word.
Wonderful moments in this walk - the purple flowers with pylon in the background, the barge with sunflowers, the swans, and the Kotting-craziness under the bridge. Thank you, again.
thanks Mariana - this is always such a magical walk
Another wonderful walk. Your videos make me realise why i love the London Loop so much. Its all about the Edgelands. Thank you.
Thanks for that Neil - can’t wait to get back out on the London Loop from Kingston
Fantastic video - especially interesting seeing as I'm on a narrowboat currently moored along the River Lee Navigation having followed the same route you walked - I even passed the floating greenhouse earlier today!
Brilliant- I really want to paddle up the Lea one day.
Great video. The first third especially reminded me of my walks, which not long ago I didn't appreciate as much, but once I came across the phrase "working landscape" (and these videos) I have a greater respect for my local environs, unspectacular though they may be. Thanks!
that's a good phrase David - 'working landscape' - thanks
Lovely walk John. Unbelievable amount of fly tipping, a metaphor for the state of the planet. You certainly feel the mood of the edgelands. Loved the wildflowers; buddleia is always covered in bees.
Thanks Tim, yes the fly-tipping is extreme in that corner. The wildflowers always find a way to win back
Wasteland but wild land John. The nature likes it. Good walk. Mark
Very true Mark, thanks
@@JohnRogersWalks A pleasure. It was an interesting walk.
John thanks for a particularly enjoyable and real walk, that is to say, the best and worst of the edge-lands. The soft-edged building blocks of psychogeography. Keep 'em coming my friend.
Thanks for that insightful comment Mark
Wow. Interesting.
Even though I live on the other side of the world, thanks for taking me on another walk with you John, apart from the first part with all the illegal dumping, the rest was really beautiful and probably a part of greater London that not too many people know it exists and that probably even includes quite a few who live within a stone's throw of it.
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thanks Peter - I was completely unaware of this part of London for many years and it's been such a wonderful discovery
I see Folly Lane hasn't changed much. That used to be one of my walks when I lived in Walthamstow 7 years ago, I wouldn't want to move back there now, that's for sure. The upper reaches of the river Lea are beautiful, I've walked up as far as Ware.
that's a great walk up to Ware Paul, I always imagine that if I left the area the Upper Lea would be one of the places I'd miss
Very addictive videos!
Interzonal/Liminal. Fascinating.
Where have these videos been all my life?? Wonderful stuff, and can't wait to dig into your other walks as well as your book. Cheerful greetings from the US. Years ago I lived in London and was lucky enough to count some folks from Waltham Forest friends, so this was a treat to see. Take care.
Yeah I love DR Who too. One reason I search for these kinds of areas actually is my fascination by the atmospheric sort of backdrops you'd expect to see in Waking the dead ,Silent Witness , Lynley or A touch of frost. But these are beautiful places in their own right. Thanks for taking us on this great walk.
Great video. Very interesting area far from the tourist areas. Fly tipping monuments everywhere as we are running out of space. Always wanted to visit Waltham Abbey with its pre-Conquest ambience sadly knocked about by Henry VIII. Keep 'em coming John.
One thing I like about the Waste Recycling side of the Lea is the mythical legs-akimbo road-straddling pylons on that side of the river. Where the service road curves round away from the North Circular and goes alongside the Lea, there are at least two of them that arch over the roadway itself. Quite an odd scene to witness. I know of only one other instance in London where a road goes between the legs of a pylon - at the power station just west of the Dartford Tunnel [southern end]. Pylons are a very odd thing though... like the exo-skeletal remains of some lost race of giant insects from a Quatermass film.
They do have a mythical quality to them. I walked that side a few years back (video on here somewhere) and there was a shrine to somebody high up on one of the pylons
Hi John. Happened upon your channel recently and now on a mission to watch a whole load of the old ones (really enjoying em). A note on what was Pickett's Lock - it was renamed in 2015 in honour of the former lock keeper Alfie's 86th birthday. He lived in the lock house until his death a few years ago and was considered one of the many icons of the navigation.
Hi John, wonderful video...love that time of day for a lovely walk into the sunset, something magical about it...your music was spot on. Thank you for this wonderful walk...till next time! take care...
thanks k - the golden hour/magic hour
Ah wanted to be the first to comment, but was beaten to it! I'm veiwer 21... Great to catch a new walk, hot off the heels of the man himself. I wanted to go on the guided walks when I was visiting the UK but they were all sold out!
sorry you couldn't make to one of the walks - if you're ever back this way I'll hopefully make it a regular thing
I visited the Lea Valley Velodrome a couple of years ago and stayed at a hotel in Stratford.
The whole area had a very liminal atmosphere, like you were skirting around the very edges of the graphics computer game, ready to zone out into a void.
Great walk (or stroll as you call it). Nice to see a part of Walthamstow I never saw when I lived there. And that 'hill' of rubbish reminded me of a modern day version of the mountain of broken Roman pots in Testaccio, Rome. Will people be visiting it in a few hundred years time?
Thanks Douglas - I think when aliens discover the rubble of human civilization in a million years it's places like this that they study
Mate you are a star thank you happy memories for me the river ching i was about 9 by walthamstow dog stadium
Great stuff Dave - video of the walk along the Ching is on its way
Lovely video. You may have walked past it but have you ever seen the cork tree at Cork Tree Retail Park? Dates back to when there was a huge cork manufacturing plant on the site. Incredibly a single cork tree still stands.
I had no idea Sheridan, thanks for the info
Hello John. Thank you for sharing that lovely video. As Norma mentioned it is such a shame to see so much litter and fly tipping, unfortunately it is everywhere. Regarding ' do what thou wilt ' I do know that it is also in a Bruce Dickinson song. Bob.
Pleasure to share the video Robert, yes the fly-tipping is so disheartening, really difficult to understand what’s going through someone’s head when they’re doing that
another great video, it was beautiful and also a bit depressing to see all that fly tipping
thanks morgan
Great video as always. I find it interesting to see places in your videos that I otherwise only know from song lyrics, like Walthamstow (from "Poppy Bird" by Bromheads Jacket) or Manor Park a few weeks ago (from Mitchell Brothers songs).
That’s an interesting angle on these places Thomas, not aware of either song so look forward to discovering some new music
Love it !
Lovely stuff keep it coming
Thanks so much for all these videos John, they really are very special, I've watched this one 3 or 4 times now (and walked the route a similar number of times).
I think you have built up a wonderful collection of videos that create a beautiful picture of the outer edges of London woven together by just the right amount of historical insight and personal narrative. I guess that in a different medium one might pick an authoritative selection of your videos to be released as a box set or some other "art object" much like a collection of short stories or poems might have been released together in a beautiful bound edition in past centuries. How lucky we are to have them all on youtube!
Thanks for pointing me towards Andrew Kotting (I had heard of him, but not seen any of his films). Edith Walks is currently available to watch for free on his Vimeo channel if anyone is interested. Its a great film, definitely different if like me you're used to more mainstream fare, the soundtrack is brilliant as you say.
Edith Walks video: vimeo.com/186181781
Many thanks for that kind comment Mallard - I’m so grateful to have this platform to share work. Great that you found Andrew’s work - make sure you watch Gallivant
GreaT VideO John.
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What a great document you´ve made John !
Thanks Daniel
Hi John. Great videos. Do you happen to know the song battle of epping forest from Genesis? Greetings from Sgo del estero, Argentina. PS: I love your videos!
thanks Leoncio - never heard of that Genesis song but I'm going to look it up
@@JohnRogersWalks u must listen to that song of genesis matey! its fort epping forrest council just next door to waltham abbey/leytonstone... greetings
Great videos. I'd love to see videos on specific nature reserves, like Stave Hill ecology park, or Sydenham Hill Woods. These are my favourite places to visit, and I'd like your take on them
Thanks for that - love both of the places you mention and they did feature in a couple of my videos - ‘Mysterious Mounds ...’ and ‘walk to Crystal Palace’ - hope you enjoy them
That place must rate near the top of the 'Most untidy and litter strewn area in the Country'. Says a lot for the type of people who live and work there.
A Roman town unearthed last year in Newington Kent is to be saved.Just now on Google news
thanks for the info Georgina
Hey John I have a request, could you walk from woolwich to central London on the Thames path on the south side. Also I subbed!
That’s a good idea Bisarad, there are bits of that route on the channel but spread across various videos. But it’d be good to connect it to the walk I did from Waterloo to Putney on the south side
Hi John. When's your next video coming out?
9am on Sunday- apologies for the delay
@@JohnRogersWalks No problem John, You don't need to apologise. Appreciate your hard work.
Bones found under pub. Faversbam Kent.Google.
A bronze find Egglestone. County Durham Google. Lancashire.
COME ON YOU SPURS
8:33 Trouble is the anglers hate the otters, and they control the banks, so the otters wont be allowed to exist, it's true! ask any serious angler you know if they will share the river banks with otters, go on, I did, was shocked.
That’s interesting- I guess I’ll have to look further up the Lea by the lakes