East End Echoes - London walk from Mile End to Poplar via Limehouse (4K)
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2024
- From the 18th Century Novo Cemetery to Hawksmoor's St Anne's Church Limehouse via the Regent's Canal then two historic locations in Poplar.
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Featured in this video: Mile End Road and the story of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, Novo Jewish Cemetery established in 1733, Regent's Canal and the story of the failed Regent's Canal Railway, Mile End Park, The Ragged Museum, Commercial Road, the Limehouse Cut, St Anne's Church Limehouse, East India Dock Road, Grundy Street and site of the African Queen Pub, Chrisp Street Market, Balfron Tower, Aberfeldy Street, East India DLR Station.
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For people like me ,who grew up in the 60's , seeing that mural of Queenie Watts was very nostalgic . Real name - Mary Spenton - really epitomised the East End . She was in so many films and TV shows that were iconic of 6O's London - and not the Carnaby Street bit . She was in a 1978 Play for Today called ' Waterloo Sunset ' . How London was that !? .
Tommy Flowers was typical of how the working class contribution to British history has been down played. Without Tommy Flowers none of that Bletchley Park stuff could have happened, or happened so quickly . R.I.P Mary and Tommy . You were what we used to call ' salt if the earth ' . ✌️🇬🇧
She is one of my favorites as well. The film Waterloo Sunset, as you know, features Queenie Watts in a rest home actually playing the piano and singing the klassic Kinks song:
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Tommy Flowers is an absolute legend!
Tommy Flowers BUILT Colossus, the first programmable computer. Turing did the theoretical stuff, which would have been as useful as a chocolate teapot without an engineer to build the frickin thing.
But Turing went to a posh public school and King's College Cambridge. Flowers was an East End bricklayer's son, who got an electrical engineering degree through evening classes.
And they filmed Turing's life with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley both from posh schools as well.
Not that there's a class system in England or anything.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw Let us not forget other unsung heroes like Marian Rejewski. Often overlooked just like Tommy.
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Yes. I'm of Polish descent. Don't get me started on Rejewski et al.
I'll just say that when Rejewski (and Zygalski and the other bloke Rutkowski ?) arrived in England they weren't allowed to work at Bletchley because they were a "security risk". They spent the war working on very low level cipher stuff.
Imagine how lovely all these places would look and feel without the graffiti that covers every inch of every surface. Such a blight on this great cityscape.
I worked as a gravedigger many years ago . In one corner was a seperate jewish graveyard. The last burial was at least 100 years ago but still there were fresh stones placed on the ( upright ) gravestones. I never saw any visitors myself which added to the mystery and charm ✌️🕊️
Dear John, I notice when it's a cloudy, dreary, cold day like today, wearing a bright color like yellow or red picks up my mood. Great video!
Your dad's music should DEFINITELY be the regular playout song, after all, practically everywhere was once meadows and streams etc.. A real piece of folk culture, you should put it to the best use possible. A lovely walk, I do hope it cheered you up John! 🌟👍
I find it astonishing that all of us alive today had ancestors who survived history! Thanks for another excellent walk - wonderful photography - love all the sights.
What a great walk John. I have visited all the Jewish Cemeteries in the area (including the three not open to the public). It was a wonderful experience last year. The older cemetery is on the campus near the Novo but is locked. I got permission to visit and spent a wonderful couple of hours there. The Ba’al Shem of London (Samuel Falk - believed to have associated with Emanuel Swedenborg ) is buried in Alderney Road Cemetery. St Anne’s is a wonderful church. I managed to visit the inside of it in Sept last year and get up into the gallery. The pyramid is the entrance to Fu Manchu’s lair in the Sax Rohmer novels.
Never seen a cemetery like that, really striking sight. Nice to see Spring has arrived in London, we are still in Winter in the welsh mountainside.
It’s slowly turning Sean but there’s been a lot of rain. Your old allotment would be really muddy. Hope all is going well in the Valleys
Drove a truck round London for 5 years,The East End was always my Favourite Location you take me back to a time i knew the streets of London like the back of my hand. 👍
I lived at Sturry Street, next to the African Queen mid 70s and passed it every day on the way - to and from - the Mayflower school on the next corner. Queenie Watt's had the pub the Rose and Crown (she had a parrot in the bar area too) in Penny Fields across the East India Dock Rd and near to West India Dock Rd. Great video John, thanks.
From 1987 to 1994 I worked as a Traffic Policeman at Bow Garage in E3, so this area was my ground. I watched with interest as it all changed with the advent of nearby Canary Wharf and it is still changing now. Thanks for an fascinating video
A Sunday evening wander around London sets you up perfectly for the week ahead. Cheers John!
Fascinating and very enjoyable - those images of the Jewish cementary were very poignant and completely new to me. Thank you.
Your route was wonderful, it is always nice to walk next to a body of water. Thanks for taking us along.
What a fantastic looking place Aberfeldy Street is. Thank you for opening our eyes to East End wonders John.
my pleasure William
As a former history student at Queen Mary university who lived on commercial road this was a lovely walk down memory lane, almost literally as I used to go this way back and forth to campus for lectures.
The cemetery is an amazing thing that you come to take for granted as a student and perhaps even slightly an inconvenience to more direct routes between buildings on campus, yet was always a source of astonishment to outsiders when mentioned. For history students at the time tours of it and the Velho cemetery served as a teaching resource on the opening module of the course on history of the local area. Even as the rest of the campus changes (half those buildings and that alleyway didn’t exist nearly a decade ago when I was an undergraduate and it’s a shame to see the canal side area has been blocked off) it’s comfortingly bizarre that it will continue to be there.
I’m not sure I can add much to the info about the area beyond commercial road but I do know that the pulp song refers to elmslie point a council tower block where the bands members once used to live and considered an example of the deterioration of east end council support in the 80s. The song also soundtracks a sequence in the movie trainspotting where the main character moves to Mile End to try to escape his addict lifestyle and go straight. The building still stands on Google Street view just south of where the railway line crosses Burdett Road
Hope you are feeling better John, thank you SO much for your walks ❤
Many thanks
I laughed aloud at your joy with discovering Taboo. My husband and I rewatch it once a year and can annoyingly quote at length from it. What a lovely walk it was in such a history steeped part of London from cemeteries to pubs to vibrant blocks. Perhaps a James Delaney walk in your future?
Excellent as always. I did a nice walk last summer starting near Limehouse to the Docklands Museum, across the Isle of Dogs and through the tunnel to the Cutty Sark and Greenwich. Interesting to see the contrast of what Docklands used to be at the museum to what it is today.
Thank you John for a wonderful walk around the east end, Limehouse was a regular spot for my youthful dancing in the Limehouse town hall 🕺🏽
The graveyard, the canal, the street art, the history, your company, thanks for all of it. Enjoy the ups, the downs and the neither ups nor downs X
I love your walks but you put your thoughts so articulately than I ever could.I try and simulate your walks such as the one In cannonbury which happens to be my favourite ever London Walk apart from walking from Waterloo to craven cottage fc.
I travelled down from Norfolk last year to walk the whole route of the Regents Canal and what a wonderful treat for the sensors it is.. The landscape almost appears to change with every bridge you pass by with beautiful quiet riverside gardens and locks to the hustle and bustle of industries.. It really was an incredible experience.. I think my favourite section was the east couple of miles, the regeneration really makes a beautiful and interesting walk.
I must get round to editing the video I'd filmed..
Thanks for another fascinating video as always. 😊
in regards to Taboo, I'm on the other end of that story, on Vancouver Island, it was wonderful to have where I live mentioned in such a brilliant show.
Great walks on the history across London John👌..I cover all you do with cycling...(& can cover an awful lot more in a day across London by bike, than walking). Greatest regards & best wishes John👍... Stevie M 😊👌👍👍🙏
Great one, John. Sorry you're not feeling tip-top, but my bad hip has increased my admiration for the way you soldier on despite your own challenges. I'm glad they are not more, and we both, I know, wish everyone could enjoy such light travails.
What a fabulous episode. We've always approached St. Anne's via the riverside. We're going canal-side next. Thank you!
Thanks so much Jacq - very kind
There’s a lot happening these days that can bring you down. You are great and your vlogs are extraordinary! Thanks for your continuing effort. My in-laws live in North London and Suffolk and I’ve shared your pieces with them. Cheers!
Thanks for another wonderful walk and talk John. Know exactly what you mean about the occasional low day or as I call them a 'Blue' day. Infrequent as they are, I find looking forward to a forthcoming holiday, event, gathering or even a lovely meal etc elevates me back to my normal positive, chirpy levels. And playing with my dog lifts me flying past 🥳
Thanks for sharing John , my father was born and grew up on the streets of Poplar in the 30's , he would have loved this walk .
Hi John, thanks so much for your latest video around the East End of London, you certainly make these walks very interesting and enjoyable. The area around Regent's Canal and Commercial Road triggered a memory of where my Great Great Grandparents would have lived in the 1870's. I have been working on my family tree for quite a few years now & discovered through the UK Census of 1871 where they lived. As I live in Australia I appreciate being able to see, via your video, what that area is like today. Take care & hope you are feeling much better!!
Tomorrow the sun will come out and we'll all have a brighter day. Great vid, as always.
Edit to add: You must certainly add your dad's ditty in your video ending!
cheers
Grand walk today, thank you! It’s always a joy to walk along Regents Canal
Great job John. You've got alot to feel good about. Hang tough, see you next walk. Thanks.
Thanks very much William
Velo - old in Portuguese, possibly as simple as that. Nice try with the pronunciation btw. Your Spanish is serviceable 😊 ....a part of London dear to my heart...stayed around there a bit in Summer 2018 after 30 years in the southern hemisphere...arrived jetlagged from Heathrow one sunny morning and the people I met that day, from the youth centre near Poplar DLR to a pensioners lunch at an old church closer to Limehouse "please join us!" they said... "born under Bow bells love", said an elderly lady...some Windrush folks too...St Anne's possibly...there's nowhere like London for rich purposeful unscripted walking and marveling...Chrisp St Market and the boxing club...big shout out to all Street Sweepers! Tower Hamlets Cemetry will blow your mind John....an urban wilderness...my photos of it are on the Google space for that location --- the bombed children's home 😢😮
You need Spring 🌿🌷! Some sun and a warm breeze. Lovely walk today. Thank you for braving the miasma and getting out there.
You missed the converted Victorian coffee house for wayward girls "St Agnus house" on Follett street. Now private residence.
Other side of the road is the remains of the rest of the estate which was in the BBC drama Call the midwife.
I used to live there, so if you want to know more I can direct you to a document about it created by the local council as part of the local listing process.
Great walk John, put Me in a good mood. Cheers
Well done John . I see what you have done in the early part of the walk . You risked cancellation. ✌️🕊️
Street Mattress at 23.46 :D "a street mattress is a sign that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you are on the right path"
Love that
Love your walks in the east end… my grandad was in the river police during the blitz and must have survived through hell ( with his family including my father). Then I was born in the east end… so interesting to hear about the Hackney brook. I’ve always been strongly drawn to water and now live by the sea!
Thanks again for your wonderful knowledge xx
Great walk and it's funny that you said your feeling flat at the minute I've heard this from alot of people I think its coming out of winter and waking up to spring it's strange energy indeed. Chin up your doing great 😊 x
Thanks Jennifer
The Pulp song "Mile End" is about a flat Jarvis Cocker squatted in a tower block "off Burdett Road," which is just down where Mile End stadium is.
A great video John - your videos have really opened up the East End for me - an area I was unfamiliar with until relatively recently
Many thanks Glenn - great to hear
….and Yes!!! Please include your Dad’s ditty 😊 each week. Love to hear it. It makes me smile.
Another wonderful video John, I can relate to that flat feeling, a regular occurrence last few years. Walking, running and watching your videos are the best remedy I find.😊
So glad you this walk, it was perfect and brightened my day thank you.
My sister calls this the fag end of winter, a horrible word for the yucky bit of winter. Spring is on its way.
good stuff john, please keep it up. and your dad is deffo the perfect outro music for any vid,,,
If you walk East along one side of Mile End Station, then cross the road at the first crossing, the next turning on the left is a quadrangle of once very upmarket Edwardian three story houses built around a park.
Not anything like the rest of old Mile End, but I would imagine when first built it was probably where London met the Countryside.
Lovely walk around familiar places John, thank you.
Thanks for showing St Anne's Church, Limehouse. At one point, it was possible to hear the bells of St Anne's tolling away, within Canary Wharf, where I was working. And in a spirit of community, the rector?/vicar of the Church came by to introduce himself at my shop.
Lovely John, Thank You 🤗
Really interesting film-love your comments and descriptions.
I know all about low moods, thanks for this great walk.
Perfect timing, thanks John.
Oh John incidentally hope your feeling better I get them now and again old age creeping in my old sun
thanks Stephen
Brilliant detail....so enjoyable
That was a great walk to share with you - greetings from New Zealand
I am going to do part of this walk next week, when I am in London from the USA. Will start in Hackney and end up in the docklands. The canal looks great to walk down.
Another great walk John, really enjoyed it. Nice to see Mile End park, my paternal great grandparents lived in Totty St. when they married, one of those demolished streets.
Mile End by Pulp was in Trainspotting
Wonderful walk, thank you John. Really like the idea of having your Dads song at the end of the walks, certainly works for me.
Love the videos John. The sun was out on Saturday morning and I went for a walk in the forest on my own. Took big deep breaths of forest air and it felt good.
Chin up John!! I watch your videos from my home/base of recent years Cape Town, so particularly enjoyed your showcase of the South Africa pub!
I often think about Peter Ackroyd when I watch your videos!
I found my grandfather in the 1891 census at 52 Grundy Street. The pub was number 46.
Thank you, greetings from Ontario
Wonderful - you've inspired me to do some more canal walks when I go to London this summer.
I find your walks fascinating. I live in Ontario Canada and will never be in London. I was wondering if maybe you could explain a bit more on your walks . I feel I’m left wondering and wanting more. But I still in enjoy your videos.
I wonder what other information would help you more ? If you made a little list I am sure John would take it on board.🇨🇦✌️🇬🇧
Thanks John, excellent walk & listen as always.
Best Wishes
Another fantastic walk there John. Thank you. It’s always a good day when I seen you’ve posted. You’ll soon be full of the joys of spring.
Top vid John!!!
Love hearing your pop at the end of the episode.
Loved this!
Thank you.
Fantastic video!
Everyone in Limehouse has their own story about the pyramid - its not a tomb. I think the most plausible story I've heard was that it was originally intended to top the church but the navy needed to top it with the navigation marker (still there) and so it was relegated to the church yard.
Of course a thousand more exciting theories abound if you get a dog walker talking and i'm not one to discourage a bit of local folklore!
Cheers John!
Wonderful as always.
Thank you for the walk mate!
My pleasure
Great video John, thanks 👍
Truly amazing, Thanks for taking me along 😃
Bought my first ever single (This Old Heart of Mine by The Isley Bros) from the long defunct Woolworths in Poplar High Street.
Thanks John. Great walk.
Absolutely brilliant series taboo John, me and my hubby enjoyed it from start to finish.👍🏻
One of your best John.
thanks Graeme
Thanks for the walk, John. I watched it while getting ready for my early morning walk. It helped lift my mood; a perfect prelude to my own walk! On my longer early morning walks I think I can see St Anne’s church; I need to cross the river to explore there again soon!
great video John - thanks, martin jackman
Thanks John, great walk, great film and great outro. (perfect whatever the walk)
Thanks for sharing this time and history with us. Enjoyed it very much.
Thanks John. Great Post Keep Well.
Thanks Dave
Yes loved taboo. Cheers
Thanks! Very interesting and well done🎉
Thanks very much- greatly appreciated
Thanks John! Totally agree about Taboo absolutely brilliant!
Well this is mad John. I've also been re-watching taboo lately. It's amazing
As always. Another Great video, Thank you John. Also at 8 mins 50 your hat blends so well. Identical infact
Hi John, just wanted to let you know I love your videos. I'm an expat and I don't get to return to London as often as I'd like to. Your videos are a great way for me to touch base with home.
thanks for that Dan - glad I can take back to London through the videos
Nice one John, wonderful walk...
Thanks Ralph
I’m glad I stumbled upon this page! Great video
Many thanks Emma
Wonderful walk today, John.
Thanks very much Elizabeth
Very interesting, John
enjoyed this one
yeah !!! so glad you enjoyed Taboo !!! the best ever !!! ..the set construction ..., the direction , the acting , the story ... super bloody superb !!!!!
Magic walk, John! Hope you’re well! ❤
Thanks Ashley