Spirits of London Night Walk around Holborn & Covent Garden (4K)

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  • Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025

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  • @lizstevenson7801
    @lizstevenson7801 3 года назад +13

    It's correct pronunciation is 'Sow an'. Thank you for this walk, I lived at Holborn from 1961 to 74 then my Dad still lived there until he passed in 1991. It brought back many memories, thank you 🇦🇺

  • @FriendlyChorf
    @FriendlyChorf 3 года назад +32

    Favourite RUclipsr hands down, can’t get enough of these walks. Hope to one day bump into you!

  • @jazzman9042
    @jazzman9042 3 года назад +22

    There's a staircase in Madame Tussauds on the staff side, that goes down several flights into darkness, at the bottom of which is a windowless room with just the one doorway . When I worked there no one would dare go down those stairs. I think I made it about halfway before turning back because of the increasingly heavy atmosphere. The Planetarium control room was said to be haunted as was several other locations around the building. Great walk as always John, the ghosts enjoyed it I'm sure.. AA++

  • @Suho1004
    @Suho1004 3 года назад +7

    I found this walk very peaceful and comforting, for some reason. Ghosts can be scary and malevolent, but there is something comforting about the idea that the world we see is perhaps not all there is--that the imprints of our lives might remain long after we are gone.

  • @michaelkiehn9254
    @michaelkiehn9254 3 года назад +2

    My wife and I went to see The Woman In Black in London a number of years ago. There is an especially scary part with a rocking chair which scared my wife so much that she threw her entire bag of Skittles up in the air and they rained down on the people in the circle below us. This in turn got them screaming. Absolute theatre going highlight for me! :D

  • @gavinguitar2194
    @gavinguitar2194 3 года назад +3

    Great night walk on halloween! Enjoyed that tour of London encompassing a few boozers along the way. I really like your presentation & narration. Please try & come up the vale to the midlands & the north; plenty of subject matter for you to get stuck into. Godbless ya & take care.

  • @ashleysgaze
    @ashleysgaze 3 года назад +3

    A terrific walk, John. I reckon Charlie Dickens would be proud. 🎃

  • @maggielarkin9314
    @maggielarkin9314 3 года назад +5

    Samhain...the Irish pronounce it as 'Sow - wen or win' ...it's apparently the day the veil between the world of the living and the dead is at its thinnest...Oooooooooo....I hope the Lady in Black is still playing by the time I get to London..love to see it....thanks for the nighttime video John...great as always....

    • @Beachcomber95
      @Beachcomber95 3 года назад +1

      Great comment. If you want to piss off Irish people pronounce it Sam Hein ;)

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  3 года назад

      thanks Maggie - I think I've got it now

  • @ZL54JK8
    @ZL54JK8 3 года назад +3

    Another marvellous walk led by John. He makes it all so interesting wherever he goes. Great atmosphere for this Hallowe'en walk and I learned lots. I didn't know anything about 'Samhain' but I'm sure I remember that The Muffin Man "lived down Drury Lane". I loved the music too. Really spooky!

  • @StarWarsJay
    @StarWarsJay 3 года назад +7

    Happy “All Hallows’ eve “ John and everyone.

  • @nodarkthings
    @nodarkthings 3 года назад +5

    Excellent video! Your enthusiastic musings really capture that spooky haunted urban feel. I have friends who see themselves as ultra-rational and I sometimes think it's as if they have killed some part of themselves. They're so taken by this whole "skeptic" thing that they can't indulge in such wonders as telling ghost stories around a fire. I see life and consciousness as one big ongoing mystery. According to family lore my great grandfather was into the whole Victorian psychic thing and was a gifted medium who used to manifest an Indian spirit. I always had the image of a native American in my head but I recently researched his life and in the late-1800s he was posted in India. I suppose he could have encountered all sorts of crazy shamanic stuff there. I'd give anything for a half hour chat with him! I also learned that he lived in London for a few years and my great uncle was registered being born in Kennington at the same time as Austin Osman Spare was living and working there. When I found this out I felt there was some kind of connection between Spare and my great granddad. I'd always felt drawn to Spare and his work. I'll never really know though. After London he moved up here to Hull for some reason and he lived a couple of streets away from where another hero of mine, JRR Tolkien, was convalescing during World War One! It's highly likely that they at least passed in the street. There's so many "what ifs" hiding in these streets

  • @janebaker966
    @janebaker966 3 года назад +3

    That was a fabulously spooky film. Thank you. I believe that Halloween and Bonfire Night are a manifestation of Samhain. I think the earliest settlers took it to USA so that is why Halloween is the big thing over there but due to political and religious reasons it became Bonfire Night here. I once saw a tv show about the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and in it, Michael Ball said that it is very unsettling to be in that theatre after hours when it's dark and empty. I have a spooky London story. In June 2019 I had a day up to London to visit Columbia Rd Flower Market,one of my favourite places. I intended to walk back down Brick Lane but I lost my way in the 70s housing estate and ended up somewhere else. I had a map but I was quite enjoying being lost,so I carried on and saw a little short cut through. It was a hot sunny day and I was in an upbeat mood but as I approached this short lane I felt apprehensive. As I walked through it was cold as cold or so it felt to me,and it was gloomy and dark like the sun had gone in. The minute I stepped out it was hot and sunny and I felt alright again. I glanced at the name and it was Little Nichol St. I don't know if that was the site of one of the Ripper murders but it felt like it. I must say here,this happened,that's all. I don't actually believe in the supernatural,the paranormal,ghosts any of that stuff and I'm not a sensitive person. But this happened.

  • @sallypassmore8748
    @sallypassmore8748 3 года назад +10

    That was magical. Thank you. Looking forward to the next walk.

  • @TheIainMay
    @TheIainMay 3 года назад +4

    Evening John, thanks for another great walk, always learning something from you.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  3 года назад +2

      wonderful to hear Iain - hope you have a great evening

    • @TheIainMay
      @TheIainMay 3 года назад +1

      @@JohnRogersWalks you to, John

  • @vickiekostecki
    @vickiekostecki 3 года назад +3

    I loved all the Rivers of London references. I did the tour of first book locations myself when I was in London a few years back, but it's better at night.

  • @другПараферналия
    @другПараферналия 3 года назад

    I adore walks at late night.

  • @ShireWitch
    @ShireWitch 3 года назад +4

    Samhain blessings to you John 🖤🧡

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  3 года назад +1

      many thanks Celt

    • @ShireWitch
      @ShireWitch 3 года назад +1

      @@JohnRogersWalks You can pronounce it sow-in or sow-een btw

  • @stevet1963
    @stevet1963 3 года назад +1

    Fantastic walk and so interesting
    Pretty sure it’s your calming voice that does it 😉
    Really enjoy all you channel 👍🏻👍🏻✌️

  • @gwinniboots
    @gwinniboots 2 года назад

    I love the way you express feelings about these places, you can feel people of the past. I visited a local hall years ago to buy tickets for an event. I could feel servants still bustling about in the corridor I had to use for access to the ticket office.

  • @suecondon1685
    @suecondon1685 3 года назад +3

    Happy Halloween John 🎃 I have so many memories of great Halloweens spent in London pubs, including the Princess Louise. Some beautiful mirrors in there. Never knew Senate House was in Ghostbusters! From Birkbeck bar I once saw the sun go down and light up Senate House in bright orange. Beautiful sight. I love this video, thanks for this.
    🎃🧡🎃

  • @LadyCalverley
    @LadyCalverley 3 года назад +3

    An atmospheric stroll-- a perfect spooky treat for tonight! Thank you, John.

  • @josephfranklin7711
    @josephfranklin7711 3 года назад +1

    I love that you reference Ben Aaronovitch's books. Such a great series. Cheers.

  • @davidshearer8793
    @davidshearer8793 3 года назад +1

    For about 6 or 7 years in the 1980s I worked in an office at the corner of High Holborn and Drury Lane. Your walk brought back many happy memories, especially slipping into the Louise for a quick pint on the way home from work. Now the big question - why is it that theatres are supposed to be haunted?

  • @stanleyharrison7031
    @stanleyharrison7031 3 года назад +1

    you have become such an animated story teller - i think you could describe a massive tesco in merseyside poetically enough for me to want to spend time there

  • @greg9871
    @greg9871 3 года назад

    Brilliant 🤩 my old stomping ground indeed! I adore London 😍 thank you John.

  • @derekpyne
    @derekpyne 3 года назад +2

    Hi John. Interesting evening walking by you . When I lived in London I loved these evening walks especially in the city or along the river . Thanks for the walk 👍

  • @kskssxoxskskss2189
    @kskssxoxskskss2189 3 года назад +1

    So nice to see real people onnthe streets of London again! But keep those distances, friends, it's only partway through.

  • @morriganwitch
    @morriganwitch 3 года назад +4

    So looking forwards to this , and enjoying the ancient sights of Ipswich , appearing in the arts festival , at the moment pub grub and some real ale for Mr Chris . We wish you a Blessed Samhain xxx

  • @Seaqueen66
    @Seaqueen66 3 года назад +13

    Really appreciate your videos John. It's pronounced 'Sow - an''. Magical time of year ;-).

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  3 года назад +2

      thanks for that correction Tess - I'll remember for next year

    • @Seaqueen66
      @Seaqueen66 3 года назад +1

      @@JohnRogersWalks not that I'm a pronunciation pedant or anything 😉. I was born at Lughnasadh so.. 😂. Sunday evenings are all the better for your content. Happy wanderings!

  • @katevalentine7075
    @katevalentine7075 3 года назад +1

    So Cool John!

  • @karenbaillie5612
    @karenbaillie5612 3 года назад

    Glad I found your channel I have really enjoyed this bank holiday Monday sitting and watching places in London I have walked, worked and had great times. Thank you.

  • @jenniferlevine5406
    @jenniferlevine5406 Год назад

    Such a great walk and great tales! Please consider another ghostly walk this year!

  • @luminar5
    @luminar5 3 года назад +1

    Lovely spooky walk John, could be a thing for these long dark nights. I’ll be watching wherever it may be.

  • @raymondpenalver7095
    @raymondpenalver7095 3 года назад +2

    This was a real treat to watch on Halloween John 🎃

  • @daveconyard8946
    @daveconyard8946 3 года назад +3

    Thank you John, a chilling end to Sunday Keep safe . 😱😱

  • @darrenfry4695
    @darrenfry4695 3 года назад +1

    Great channel,can't get enough lol👍💯

  • @chriscollins5058
    @chriscollins5058 Год назад

    Hi John. Another fantastic video thankyou! Also the princess louise is my favourite pub in London, I remember reading the serial killer Dennis Neilson picked up one of his victims in there

  • @jpl2283
    @jpl2283 3 года назад +1

    Thank you. This saved my Sunday. Before COVID I used to visit London every January attending education technology conference (BETT). Your videos have both comfort me (in my longing to experience London again) and given me insight and ideas what to see next time I come to London.

  • @john80c
    @john80c 3 года назад

    Brilliant John. Theatre Royal where Nell Gwyn sold her oranges-would like to meet her ghost. Went to a book signing at the Ols Bell Tavern near St Pauls now that does have an atmosphere.

  • @dannorth3138
    @dannorth3138 3 года назад

    Nice to see your beard is whitening up just for time for Christmas John 😉 great video as always.

  • @robbojax2025
    @robbojax2025 3 года назад +2

    Nice spooky walk. Enjoyed it.

  • @helentucker6407
    @helentucker6407 3 года назад +1

    What beautiful buildings there are in London. Thanks for the tour. Happy Halloween 🎃

  • @seanjamescameron
    @seanjamescameron 3 года назад

    I went into London last Thursday for a theatre show and it was very quiet in the street, I liked it.

  • @luluandmeow
    @luluandmeow 3 года назад +1

    Hi John, Holborn is pronounced Hoe-bn, you're too much of a Londoner not to know this!!!! I love your channel, thank you for the excellent videos from a fellow East Londoner

  • @X-HyperlapseTravelChanne-jz9ww
    @X-HyperlapseTravelChanne-jz9ww 3 года назад +1

    New follower here!! Love to see creators putting heart on their craft! awesome work!Thanks for the share!

  • @returnofthegmac9203
    @returnofthegmac9203 3 года назад

    I used to work at The Covent Garden Hotel on Monmouth Street
    It used to be a WW2 hospital it is said to be haunted.
    I used to hate working the late shift as I would fear of something bad happening.
    I always had a bad feeling on the top floor in the eves.
    We was always told by ex workers that they could hear the trams late at night within the hotels basement
    Love your video I have just stumbled across this.

  • @itssafeinthecity
    @itssafeinthecity 3 года назад

    Drury Lane methinks. Great walk John - as usual - X

  • @clanceypants
    @clanceypants 3 года назад +1

    I enjoyed this so much. Look forward to your videos every Sunday. Thanks John!

  • @robertbarling5601
    @robertbarling5601 3 года назад +1

    Thanks John as always. Bob. 👍

  • @colinricgmailcom
    @colinricgmailcom 3 года назад

    I use to go to meetings at Freemasons Hall and partake of Feastive Board at the Conaught Rooms... Many years ago!

  • @lauraleemarshall2424
    @lauraleemarshall2424 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful video John :). Makes me want to wander and explore through the pathways of London ....
    Samhain is pronounced
    sow - wen . It's a pagan festival honouring the dead and our ancestors . One of the major festivals of the pagan wheel of the year.

  • @ivanhockenhull2604
    @ivanhockenhull2604 3 года назад

    I really enjoyed this London Halloween vignette. The film came across as Otherwordly and was all the better for it. Captivating, John. 🇯🇪

  • @giovanamonteiro832
    @giovanamonteiro832 3 года назад +1

    I loved it! Your videos are awesome!!!! Thank you so much for these moments of delight watching them 😊🙏

  • @Seanchai59
    @Seanchai59 3 года назад +4

    Another amazing walk, John. Samhain is pronounced like zow-inn.

  • @Pierlover
    @Pierlover 3 года назад +1

    Very atmospheric! Great choice of music. I went on a London ghost walk once - actually it just seemed an excuse to visit a number of pubs! And many years ago I met Susan Hill - she was staying with friends, when I lived in Coventry. It's my only claim to fame!

    • @suecondon1685
      @suecondon1685 3 года назад +1

      I watched The Small Hand tonight, another creepy Susan Hill tale. 😳

  • @richbutler718
    @richbutler718 3 года назад +2

    Great video as usual John , and fantastic visual and audio quality, thank you

  • @kevincross9206
    @kevincross9206 3 года назад

    Can’t say I’m into the whole Halloween but, but do enjoy a good ghost walk. Have been on some crackers, particularly one in Edinburgh 👻

  • @tomgirldouble3249
    @tomgirldouble3249 3 года назад

    Love your take on the Masons🤗

  • @briancox144
    @briancox144 3 года назад

    I let my mind run wild and imagination get the better of me thinking of how London looked in dickens time people who had nothing begging on the street and what terrible things that occurred during that period brilliantly done John Rogers big thank you for sharing sleep tight to night .

  • @CthulhuInc
    @CthulhuInc 2 года назад +1

    that was a lot of fun! next time take a pillow case, so you can do some trick or treating along the way 😊 edit - also, there's a theatre somewhere where it is said, that if you are in there after closing, you can go and sit in one of the seats in the dark, and, if you are patient, someone [thing?] will come and sit beside you, for as long as you can stand it. it doesn't matter which seat you choose, either, it will come and sit beside you.

  • @AliceGoss
    @AliceGoss 3 года назад +1

    Great video John. You can't beat a good ghost story, especially at Halloween!!

  • @howdymartin6258
    @howdymartin6258 3 года назад

    Always entertaining - well done John

  • @michaelgoodwin1891
    @michaelgoodwin1891 3 года назад +1

    Enjoyed the walk on all hollows eve thanks John 👻

  • @johnfoster7996
    @johnfoster7996 3 года назад

    As you said, "A lot of fun". Thank you for publishing this.

  • @CaratacusAD
    @CaratacusAD 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful video John as usual :) and happy Halloween :) I remember Free Masons hall being used as M15 headquarters in the BBC series Spooks. The spookiest place I ever spent Halloween was down in Wapping wandering along the river front looking for execution dock and some pirate ghosts

  • @Sojourner1
    @Sojourner1 3 года назад

    Wow, what an awesome treat. Thank you.

  • @RajSinghKhalsa
    @RajSinghKhalsa 3 года назад

    Some wonderful scenes of night time London John

  • @colinmorand129
    @colinmorand129 3 года назад

    When you mentioned Dury lane I couldn't help thinking of the nursery rhyme, The Muffin Man

  • @Laughsonly24
    @Laughsonly24 2 года назад

    I so enjoy your walks wherever they may be. Thank you from this Anglophile American. I have a dear friend from the U.K. that has lived his whole life in Goff's Oak so of course I am curious if any of your walks have taken you there. Walk, on!

  • @redfred70
    @redfred70 3 года назад

    Lovely video John, lots of fun. My favourite part of the West End. I was once one of the last punters to leave the Royal Opera House after a performance, I promise you I felt the ghosts of yesterday there, a strange, but not scary, experience, imbued with so many years of radiated enjoyment.

  • @gwinniboots
    @gwinniboots 2 года назад

    Fascinating as always, thanks! 👍👻

  • @earinsound
    @earinsound 3 года назад +2

    wonderful!!! have you considered doing an "occult London" walk? i for one would be entranced. thanks John

  • @dandandan389
    @dandandan389 3 года назад +1

    The Peter Grant series are indeed excellent, I don't know London at all so when I re-read the first book again I will be able to picture it properly 😀

    • @dylvasey
      @dylvasey 3 года назад +1

      Get yourself to London and get lost. Something which is hard given there is a tube station every three feet.

  • @kskssxoxskskss2189
    @kskssxoxskskss2189 3 года назад +1

    One of the best! When I finally get tickets to visit the UK (someday), I'll review this for my London itinerary.

  • @pumpkinprincess1031
    @pumpkinprincess1031 3 года назад

    Here for my second viewing. I enjoyed this so much! Happy Halloween 🎃💀👻🎃💀👻🎃

  • @mabelbartolome8782
    @mabelbartolome8782 3 года назад +1

    Thank you John! I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next blog. Happy Hallooween! Greetings from Switzerland.

  • @rossybink
    @rossybink 3 года назад

    The first time I've heard you say "traipsing around". Made me laugh as its something I'm also guilty of. Love this walk.

  • @ChrisWoutdoors
    @ChrisWoutdoors 3 года назад +1

    Excellent as usual John, would love to spend the night in one of those theatres but will never happen... Take care ATB Chris.

  • @pedallinraw
    @pedallinraw 3 года назад

    I’m late to the party.....but hey spooky creepy things happen all year round.... 😁🎃👍🏻

  • @mamnisel4815
    @mamnisel4815 3 года назад

    Nice one John for a spooky Halloween walk which was very atmospheric!!!

  • @bakerloobadboy
    @bakerloobadboy 3 года назад +1

    Fantastic video and so much better at night, just a shame the clocks went back and we had to wait an extra hour for it. I saw "The woman in black" in July 1995, yup super scary. Sadly, I hate to correct you but the Kingsway tram tunnel is not abandoned. It's used by TfL and the London Borough of Camden pretty much 24/7. TfL used it recently for something to do with Crossrail and the London Borough of Camden use it for storage. There is talk of opening it up for "Open House" weekends. It was also used for a while as a flood control centre (whoever thought of putting a flood control centre underground need a lot of help) It has also been used as emergency fire station during the fireman strike in 1977, they parked Green Goddesses down there. It is still used but not as much as it could be

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  3 года назад

      Thanks for the info John - shame they didn’t bring the trams back

    • @bakerloobadboy
      @bakerloobadboy 3 года назад

      @@JohnRogersWalks trams again would be nice. I think when Ken Livingstone was mayor they were proposing the return of trams but nothing came of it

  • @traceyspark7127
    @traceyspark7127 3 года назад

    Love the Rivers of London series, the scene in covent garden was a bit spectacular too.. great walk, as ever. Samhain is pronounced "sow Inn" x

  • @dannybb2000
    @dannybb2000 3 года назад +1

    Evening John. Have a great oiche shamhna.

  • @mariannehawes9609
    @mariannehawes9609 3 года назад

    Really enjoyed this walk...as usual it was fascinating..thank you

  • @justwalk-travelasmrchannel518
    @justwalk-travelasmrchannel518 3 года назад

    this is a pro-level video! super awesome!! New fan here!

  • @bryan3550
    @bryan3550 3 года назад

    Wonderful work, Master John.
    As an ex-trammie, I would guarantee that spirits have passed over in the Kingsway Tram Tunnel... Believe me, the Freemasons Hall most certainly has a benign and honorable Spiritual Element to it...
    Hilarious reference to"The Man in Grey" for any older folk where I live: he was the official Victorian Railways fount of knowledge on Platform 1 at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne (Oz)!

  • @johnbanks3054
    @johnbanks3054 3 года назад +2

    Happy Halloween to you, John

  • @roymeadway3592
    @roymeadway3592 3 года назад +1

    Great walk,thanks John

  • @philburdett
    @philburdett 3 года назад

    Good stuff sir! Not a great fan of Halloween but a big fan of your walks no matter the theme...

  • @athoshadjiantoni6403
    @athoshadjiantoni6403 3 года назад +1

    Another walk with John Rogers, but this one is dark, and creeping. Just for one night only.

  • @flower-ld5id
    @flower-ld5id 3 года назад

    5:30 that spooked me !

  • @talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198

    Great walk and very informative as ever John

  • @nigelheasman6356
    @nigelheasman6356 3 года назад

    Brilliant video once again John, really caught the atmosphere of your topic as always. Never knew there was a abandoned tram tunnel in that part of London. never fail to learn something new from watching your walks.

  • @waynejacksonofficial
    @waynejacksonofficial 3 года назад

    As always..... A pleasure Mush.. Thank You!

  • @jackiefoster1641
    @jackiefoster1641 3 года назад

    As I’ve just discovered your videos I’m Not sure if you’ve done a walk around St. Anne’s Church Limehouse, all my extended family from way back have been christened and married there, way back I believe the area was called Radcliffe, my grandmother was born in London Street which I think backed onto the Thames in 1882. As a true londoner I’m loving your walks.

  • @SMILEVIDEOTRAINS
    @SMILEVIDEOTRAINS 3 года назад

    What a wonderful presentation. Spookily produced. thank you

  • @dornierdo2172
    @dornierdo2172 3 года назад

    Hi,John I've just discovered your channel and I'm really enjoying it, I can't believe any one can give you a thumbs down but they are probably just trolls. Anyway keep up the good work. 👍

  • @lionelmarytravels6003
    @lionelmarytravels6003 3 года назад

    One of those ghostly videos only you can make. Well done

  • @LeeJohn70
    @LeeJohn70 3 года назад

    Excellent video as always John.
    John you are so knowledgeable
    I enjoy your videos very much.
    Look forward to the next one
    Best wishes
    Lee

  • @diogenesagogo
    @diogenesagogo 3 года назад

    Fabulous! Now delving into the realm of special FX I see. At least I hope you were ....