Probably my favourite walk if ,2024, best till last! I think it's important not to take the politics out of Fisher's work. The promised future is stolen from us by neoliberalisms rebalancing of the economy taking from the less wealthy and giving to the very rich. In Capitalist Realism he posits this stolen future as a contributing factor in contemporary mental health problems. Capitalism is the problem and culture is how Fisher traces the damage. Bifo Beradi is a good thinker to read on this too. Sorry for the splurge. Top walk John.
That's kind of you to say so John. I think your films are practising an embodied version of what Fisher does with culture. Since Thatcher we've been told. Tere is no alternative way to organise our world but the spectres of these lost futures whisper otherwise. They allow us glimpses beyond the capitalist horizon. Your walks mine the histories of place and as Walter Benjamin says allow us to see other ways of being in the city and adopt the struggle for a better future that those in the past began.
I have been coming to terms with grief recently having lost two of my closest friends from my time in the Army to suicide in a very short period of time between them. Your videos are always a beautiful way to lose myself for an hour or so and this one has been no different. Thank you for putting so much care and belief into them. I hope to one day make the trip east across the Atlantic to see some of the places you show us in person. I feel closer to them than places ten minutes down the road from me.
There's nothing like a coastal walk, especially in winter. I loved the glitter of the pale sun on the sea near the start of the walk & the beautiful, pale sunset at the end. A beautiful walk, thank you.
I am watching with my 92 year old mother. Our winter drink of choice is also eggnog, but spiced up with Disaronno liqueur. ( rum is great with boiling water, butter and a teaspoon of dark brown sugar). I’m waiting for mom to tuck into the holiday fruitcake, (another favourite thing this time of year. )
This was lovely John and very nostalgic . As a young man (23) barely out of my apprenticeship with Austin Morris Engines when I sailed out of Felixstowe bound for Gothenburg Sweden to start a new job with Volvo. That was 1979 and I regret not exploring Felixstowe before embarking on the ship.. I was never to return to work in England again and now am retired in Canada 🇨🇦. Thank you for this wonderful look at what I’d previously missed.
Another gem,living near the sea I often walk along the front seeing a three year old me running along now middle sixties with a stick plodding along.the sea never changes only the land and life.stay safe.
John for me personally this is your Magnum Opus. I have waited for your Fisher film for literally years. And here it is. Absoloutely magnificant, Thank you
If you go to Shotley Peninsula the view is quite surreal.....looking inland you see the Suffolk Country side but look the other way and the massive industry of Felixstowe container port is at complete odds to the countryside!
I was a bit worried about your knee when I didn’t see a video posted, but decided to check one more time at 7pm (Texas time) and there you are! And a 45-min gift at that!!! We were all excited and sat to watch it together. A John Rogers Classic! Thanks for treating us this week with a brilliant walk. I’m going to watch it again tomorrow. Thanks, John.
Thank you, John. What a magical, mysterious stroll you gave us here. I have mobility issues, so walking the flatlands of Suffolk is ideal. My wife and I often stay in Woodbridge and wander along the banks of the Deben - never a dull moment. Next time we are up that way, we are going to do the same along the Orwell. Blessed, are we not?
Fantastic video, I always enjoy your breakout walks to the coast. I’d be lost without the sea on my doorstep! A personal observation, I pass the cranes at Tilbury docks in the distance quite often, and I always imagine them as giant metallic dinosaurs with their necks reaching up and surveying the landscape!
Nice walk. I spent a year living on the north side of Woodbridge in... 2001. I was on the west side of the Deben, opposite Sutton Hoo (which is on the east side of the river) as well.
@@JohnRogersWalks Indeed it is. You should do a walk from the village of Woodbridge up to the RAF base of the same name and RAF Bentwaters (or even in the reverse direction come to think about it) to speculate about the UFO event that happened there. Also Orford Ness and the research station up there where its desolate and mysterious.
Lovely to see some of my fellow New Zealanders along the water front in Felixstowe (Torbay Palms - otherwise known as the NZ Cabbage Tree/Cordyline Australis). Another great walk, John, and a lovely day for it..
I started watching your videos because I was born and lived in Leyton in my early years and enjoyed your walks in that area. But it was a nice surprise to see you doing a walk in the area that I now live. The Orwell and Stour Valleys are a real favourite of mine. 🙂🙂🥾🥾
Lovely! Suffolk is indeed beautiful, and this augers well for the rest of the walk. In my view, Herzog is a genius. In fact he describes himself principally as a writer, and in filmic terms as a documentary maker, but for those unfamiliar with his films I recommend 'Aguire The Wrath Of God' and the 1979 classic 'Nosferatu The Vampyre', which is Herzog's attempt to rehabilitate the German film making tradition, as it's partly modelled on Murnau's 1920s (unsure of date here) classic. There certainly is something other worldly about the huge container port, but I'm sure there are loads of perfectly normal folks in there, who are every bit as desperate for a decent coffee as WE sometimes are. Nice one John! 🌟👍
. Werner Herzog film, My Best Fiend, is one I have lined up to look at. Very pleased to see many of your signature portraits of buildings here, the nearly amber colouring of white plaster, and held ocean waves.
Christmas came early 😊 love this walk and so glad you got to the station on time! The ferry from Old Felixstowe to Bawdsey is stunning in good summer weather. Once you get to the other side you have the Radar Museum as well as the huge mansion built by the Quilters. If you wait for low tide it is possible to walk from the Bawdsey Ferry point along the beach front to the Martello towers at East Lane - a bizarre landscape of approx 1.5 miles which is littered with rusting military defences of all kinds. If you get that far it’s only a couple of miles to Shingle Street an enigma with its shifting stone dunes and swimming lagoon that makes you feel as though you’re walking on the moon 🌑 well worth a look. Anyway, thank you again for the wonderful video , already looking forward to the next one 😎
I live in West Suffolk and Felixstowe is my go to summer; beach day trip! It's such an underrated place, the sea front and gardens, old Felixstowe at one end and the docks and languard Fort at the other!
Incredible indeed. Thanks John. A little longer than the usual RUclips movie I’d watch, but loved every minute. Walked from Manningtree to Harwich a couple of years back but I’ve never been to Felixstowe, other than to catch a cross channel ferry back in the day. Vague plans for a walk involving train to Harwich then ferry to Shotley, and walk to Ipswich along south bank of Orwell. Butt and Oyster pub looks vaguely interesting.
Enjoyed the walk, I never imagined Felixstowe quite like that. It looks a decent town, hotel looked very inviting. I have memories with my family hiring out beach huts on various holidays, the local councils owned them mostly. I have vivid memories of the kettle boiling on a primus stove.
Awwwww this brought back some memories. I cycled from Sutton Ho to Felixstowe and on to Landguard and across on the ferry to Shotley and beyond!! A beautiful ride ❤ Thank you for sharing xx
Brilliant video John! I was so excited to see you in my neck of the woods. If you are returning to Suffolk, you might like to walk the Shotley Peninsula. River walks, farm walks, historic churches and interesting pubs.
You do the walking and we get to enjoy it! Thank you and it is amazing the knee is coming back so fast. There are always unique tidbits of literal and natural curiosity to ponder and go back over.
This is wonderful and I’m only 20 minutes into it. The North Sea is so magical at sun rise, we scattered my parents ashes at Southwold one summer’s morning at 4:30 a few years ago. They lived in that area in their twilight years, I have had some lovely times on the East Anglian coast. Keep op the good work.
Brilliant and educational walk as usual john..im exactly the same as you..i love norfolk/suffolk more than anywhere..it always feels like home to me..i grew up on teesside but lived in sussex since 98..but luckily i grew up with the north sea..il mare nostrum(our sea) ..in particular the harwich/,felixstowe peninsula is outstanding..the view from manningtree towards the sea is as good as anywhere..if i was lucky in life..southwold for me all day long..followed by cromer/overstrand and kendal in cumbria..but in general anywhere in east anglia..ive not walked that bit from felixstowe to bawsdey yet that is on my list..ive done most of the suffolk coast path..cant wait for your return there..i must say your knowledge and enthusiasm and passion is perfect for me..and its great to watch. keep up the great vids/walks john.
Great video John. My PhD dissertation (back in 2005) was entitled ‘An Aesthetics of Hauntology’ and addresses Derrida’s use of the term (one of the chapters was on Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’). I enjoyed Mark Fisher’s books and love the recording, ‘On Vanishing Land’ which is a recording of Fisher and a friend walking and talking on that very coastline. It’s a great recording if you can get hold of it. Also love a bit of M.R. James - particularly, ‘A Warning to the Curious’ which is also set in that part of the world.. The Herzog book sounds great!
Thanks Mark. ‘On Vanishing Land’ was the original walk I wanted to repeat but scuppered by the non-running ferry - should’ve done it in September when I had the idea. However it’s there for the Spring. And next time I’ll watch the M.R James in the Orwell
To anyone wanting to do this walk, it gets even prettier as you get closer to nacton sands. Would recommend getting the bus on the edge of Ipswich as the walk beyond there is less enjoyable. Save yourself an hour of tired legs. From Trimley rail station to the edge of Ipswich is about 3.5 hours at a good pace.
A great walk, even if you didn't go as far as you intended to. My Father-in-Law lives near Harwich and on visits there I just love sitting on the seafront and watching Felixstowe, the huge ships off/onloading their cargo. Thinking of the logistics of it is mind boggling. I've read Merlin Coverley's book on Hauntology after discovering the "Scarfolk" book. I consider it as a sort of very aggressive nostalgia that refuses to lie down and die. Revenant pop culture from a forgotten future.
Thank you John. I have no idea why i do not know about Mark Fisher (his books and thinking). Thank you so much for introducing him. ❤️. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.
brilliant walk today, john - thanks for taking us along. i've finished your first book, and i certainly enjoyed it! i'm on to the second title, cheers! ps - i've just recently watched the hordern-acted adaptation of the james short story - spooky stuff, that!
Beautiful. Thanks for a grand Sunday walk. Watching from Canada, I’m constantly envious of the rail system there: it’s utterly impossible in most parts of my country to do a walk like this, a distance from any city, without relying on a car
Another wonder walk and I must say my favorites are the coastal walks. Nice mention of MR James and that wonderful ghost story. Reminds me of Christmas at my grandparents cottage in Norfolk.
An amazing video. I spend a week in Felixstowe with my family every year. My family and I always treat ourselves to fish & chips at the Regal restaurant (as seen in the video). When we visited the museum earlier this year, we discovered that the writer Henry Williamson (of Tarka the Otter fame) was garrisoned at Landguard, Felixstowe during WWI. Coincidentally, he grew up just around the corner from where we live in Lewisham, South East London and there's a brown plaque on the front of his former home. The staff at the museum couldn't believe it when I told them. We were told by a local resident, three years ago, that Benny Hill used to stay in Felixstowe at weekends because his disabled sister lived there and he was her part-time carer. He was regularly seen pushing her along in her wheelchair along the seafront. The local resident said it was Benny Hill's "girlfriend", but I looked it up online and found out it was his sister (according to a local history site).
You're in for a real treat when you do the Deben walk. You could pop in and see my aunty in Waldringfield. She knows ALL the best footpaths around those parts,
Wow that brought back memories. My father worked on the mainframe computer at Felixstowe port in the 80s, and we would sometimes visit as children. The cranes and enormous ships always impressed me. Also spent many hours exploring the abandoned WW2 tunnels and buildings at landguard. I love all your videos John, but this one was like going beck in time.
Another excellent video and interesting. It looks a nice place to explore. I must say that watching your videos has a very calming effect on me. It's almost as if we're walking along with you. I look forward to your next video as always. I have at last got a copy of you're book 'This Other London' which was very interesting.
Great to see you in our neighbourhood! (We live in Stowmarket, beyond Ipswich, nearer to the true source of the Orwell beyond Rattlesden village). You made me quite anxious in this video, as we’re familiar with Trimley Marshes (I have a circular walk from the station round the marshes on my channel). When you were still at the river and the sun was setting, I thought there’s still quite a way to go to get inland to the station and it’s pretty much across country and not advisable in the dark!! So I’m glad you made it. The marshes are very ‘other worldly’ in places. My wife and eldest daughter did the Sandlings Walk last year. 70 miles from Ipswich to Southwold (in stages). If you get the urge to walk further up the Orwell as it becomes the River Gipping and into Stowmarket, I’d be happy to buy you lunch and tell you about the Stowmarket Gun Cotton explosion of 1871 in the industrial area by the river, now owned by PPG paints. Thank you also for introducing me to the word ‘Hauntology’ - off to research more about that now! 😀👍
Just watching this a second time , it's wonderful , I think it's one of your best films , it has a beautiful atmosphere , it is definitely hauntology and edge lands , I love that it's the result of a impulse which took you from Stratford to Felixstowe and that you had to adapt your original idea , also that it took longer to walk than you thought it would so you never reached Ipswich and there was this element of jeopardy towards the end , the shots of the sea crashing on the shore and the ethereal estuary are sublime , those vast cranes of the container port are truly overwhelming in their size , just like Martian Fighting Machines , thank you for taking us upon such a profound journey , a philosophical musing on life the universe and everything , see you again soon 🌈🙏💞
I stayed at the Orwell Hotel at the end of 2020 and walked from Felixstowe to Felixstowe to Dunwich. Mark Fisher released a wonderful album called On Vanishing Land where he reads about his walk to Sutton Hoo. Thanks for another wonderful video, Mark is much missed.
Yes, what an amazing walk ! I think that you’ve succeeded in rending all the beauty, the difficulty, the uniqueness of both the environment and the walk. Also, I like the way your thoughts are never intruders, on the contrary they match very well with what we see.
John! The romance of it all. Today I bought at our local british expat shop cider, crumpets, brandy butter and a nice piece of leister cheese. I miss England.
(Was trying to get my head around being 'haunted by the future'... is it a deliberate oxymoron? Isnt it being haunted by memories of what we wrongly thought the future would look like? So it's still being haunted by the PAST?? All your videos are great John, but I especially love the video walks in North Essex by the sea. Great to 'get out of London' when watching you... the blue light and low sun in that flat sea - top cinematography John 🌅 Felixstowe was the most depressing seafront I'd ever walked down, but that blend of the ambient with the railway crossing(?) siren at 16:42😌👌)
Read some of Mark Fisher's texts or listen to his lectures on youtube and you'll get it. It's really a call to action; to change everything. For eg, consider the difference between Labour's vision of the future drawn together by the various people working on The Corbyn Project's 2017 Manifesto (unrealised plans that haunt the future) Vs Starmer's reiteration of Thatcherism's T.I.N.A.
I probably didn't do a great job of explaining that aspect of it Alex - this video here is good breakdown of the concept and its origins ruclips.net/video/gSvUqhZcbVg/видео.htmlsi=4pq6JpvmNHPtSr0N I definitely need to get out of London more often. Thanks for the kind words
@@JohnRogersWalks that was a brilliant video John - I think the penny has dropped. Explains why I love the Caretaker"s 'Everywhere at the End of Time', Al Bowlly, and watching replays of Ch4 closedowns turning into 4tel.👍
Adding Mark Fisher to my reading list right now, John. Although the speed I go at these days I haven't even got to Sebald yet. I am, therefore, not sure how long that might be so will cheat and check out what YT has to offer first. Thank you very much for the latest reference as well as the walk itself. Only thing missing was a pint of Adnams - Ghost Ship IPA springs to mind for some reason - cheers from up north.
Really enjoyed the video. So much so that I was inspired to seek out a copy of the Sebald book at my local library here in Plano, TX, USA. Sure enough a copy was available for borrow, with an unbroken spine no less, so I'm probably the first to borrow. Start reading today. Thank you for the recommendation 🙂
Hi John, I really enjoyed this video - I like to read the British Library collections of Tales of the Weird this time of year and this video really hit the mark for me. I'm reading Into the London Fog - atmospheric Victorian ghost stories. As a keen walker, I've not walked this stretch of coast and I'll definitely be staying at the hotel you stayed the night at. Very MR James. Thankyou. I found this film very relaxing and meditative as always. Btw, I always enjoy the music you put to your videos. you're a legend mate. Thanks.
Good call, John Fisher and James, two of my faves. Fisher akso worked at Warwick Uni, my old alma mater. By the way, my book of Crouch End should finally be out in the new year. Will let you know.
Hi John this is a great walk, one that my wife and I have done once and 50% of once. (I have been involved in importing containers from the Far East for many years) When you were at Landguard; you mentioned you fancied a coffee- there is a good cafe next to container port where you can get a hot drink and wholesome food and then sit and watch the unloading of the ships, Did you know some of these ships are 400 metres long and can carry over 20, 000 containers. Felixstowe is a charming and fascinating town/resort that still has that tangible feeling of its lingering past. (My take on hauntology). Like you, my wife and intend to walk more of the Suffolk coastal path, particularly taking in the Deben ferry. We will do this in summer as you definitely needs the daylight hours to fully enjoy the delights of this area.
Love this! My home county and my favourite place to go ❤ Felixstowe, ate many chips in the Victorian shelter by the big house. There is so much to discover on the Suffolk Coast. But shhh don’t tell everyone.
What beautiful views of the beach. Such heavy haunting thoughts~ to ponder. Loved this walk. Thank you John Rogers. Blessings from (East) Tennessee.🙏🙂🙋
John - wow - you mentioned The Stalker -- I did not know anyone else had seen it or was aware of it.. an incredible film. I do believe the film was made twice; in that it was completed and the film stock was destroyed and the filmmaker embarked on the project again from scratch ------- wonderful that you mention the film!
Wow. Fabulous walk and really great photography as always. Shipping ports for me are haunted by season 2 of The Wire (about the Baltimore dockworkers unions and gangsters). Definitely have a nostalgia for the future of film-making promised by that incredible series but arguably not delivered. Thanks for curing me of my obsessive need to get the horizon exactly horizontal in landscape photos. Im actually enjoying sliding off the world in yours now. Erm. I will not hear a word against Sebald especially one that doesn't exist. 🙉
Probably my favourite walk if ,2024, best till last! I think it's important not to take the politics out of Fisher's work. The promised future is stolen from us by neoliberalisms rebalancing of the economy taking from the less wealthy and giving to the very rich. In Capitalist Realism he posits this stolen future as a contributing factor in contemporary mental health problems. Capitalism is the problem and culture is how Fisher traces the damage. Bifo Beradi is a good thinker to read on this too. Sorry for the splurge. Top walk John.
Thanks very much for that note Sue - very important point
That's kind of you to say so John. I think your films are practising an embodied version of what Fisher does with culture. Since Thatcher we've been told. Tere is no alternative way to organise our world but the spectres of these lost futures whisper otherwise. They allow us glimpses beyond the capitalist horizon. Your walks mine the histories of place and as Walter Benjamin says allow us to see other ways of being in the city and adopt the struggle for a better future that those in the past began.
I have been coming to terms with grief recently having lost two of my closest friends from my time in the Army to suicide in a very short period of time between them. Your videos are always a beautiful way to lose myself for an hour or so and this one has been no different. Thank you for putting so much care and belief into them.
I hope to one day make the trip east across the Atlantic to see some of the places you show us in person. I feel closer to them than places ten minutes down the road from me.
amen. take care
May your memories be blessings x
Bless you!🙏
Do not wait to long. The romance is here for you.
There's nothing like a coastal walk, especially in winter. I loved the glitter of the pale sun on the sea near the start of the walk & the beautiful, pale sunset at the end.
A beautiful walk, thank you.
Oh this one is going to be a real corker - saving it to watch with a rum and eggnog tonight! 46 minutes! Yay!
Hope you enjoy it - sounds like good prep
I am watching with my 92 year old mother. Our winter drink of choice is also eggnog, but spiced up with Disaronno liqueur. ( rum is great with boiling water, butter and a teaspoon of dark brown sugar). I’m waiting for mom to tuck into the holiday fruitcake, (another favourite thing this time of year. )
@@helenbugsynelson Oooh thanks for the recipe - I'm going to try it out!
I don't know about a feeling of a lost future but I sure miss the lost past. Great video Roger. Many thanks.
This was lovely John and very nostalgic . As a young man (23) barely out of my apprenticeship with Austin Morris Engines when I sailed out of Felixstowe bound for Gothenburg Sweden to start a new job with Volvo. That was 1979 and I regret not exploring Felixstowe before embarking on the ship.. I was never to return to work in England again and now am retired in Canada 🇨🇦. Thank you for this wonderful look at what I’d previously missed.
Another gem,living near the sea I often walk along the front seeing a three year old me running along now middle sixties with a stick plodding along.the sea never changes only the land and life.stay safe.
Many thanks Keith - that’s a lovely image
@@JohnRogersWalks all the best.
John for me personally this is your Magnum Opus. I have waited for your Fisher film for literally years. And here it is. Absoloutely magnificant, Thank you
Thanks so much David.
If you go to Shotley Peninsula the view is quite surreal.....looking inland you see the Suffolk Country side but look the other way and the massive industry of Felixstowe container port is at complete odds to the countryside!
thats where I live
Thank you, John! RIP Mark Fisher, I miss you. We all miss you.
I was a bit worried about your knee when I didn’t see a video posted, but decided to check one more time at 7pm (Texas time) and there you are! And a 45-min gift at that!!! We were all excited and sat to watch it together. A John Rogers Classic! Thanks for treating us this week with a brilliant walk. I’m going to watch it again tomorrow. Thanks, John.
Thank you, John. What a magical, mysterious stroll you gave us here. I have mobility issues, so walking the flatlands of Suffolk is ideal. My wife and I often stay in Woodbridge and wander along the banks of the Deben - never a dull moment. Next time we are up that way, we are going to do the same along the Orwell. Blessed, are we not?
An absolute classic. Watching those shots of the estuary was a perfect way to end a Sunday.
Thanks so much. It’s a walk that’ll stay with me for a long time
Fantastic video, I always enjoy your breakout walks to the coast. I’d be lost without the sea on my doorstep! A personal observation, I pass the cranes at Tilbury docks in the distance quite often, and I always imagine them as giant metallic dinosaurs with their necks reaching up and surveying the landscape!
Nice walk. I spent a year living on the north side of Woodbridge in... 2001. I was on the west side of the Deben, opposite Sutton Hoo (which is on the east side of the river) as well.
Such a great area Brian
@@JohnRogersWalks Indeed it is. You should do a walk from the village of Woodbridge up to the RAF base of the same name and RAF Bentwaters (or even in the reverse direction come to think about it) to speculate about the UFO event that happened there. Also Orford Ness and the research station up there where its desolate and mysterious.
Every year I wait for a North Sea walk and it’s always worth the wait
Looking forward to this. Thanks for making it John 👏
Cheers Steve - I had such a great time making this video
@@JohnRogersWalks It's a brilliant video - I love the references to the War of The Worlds, and the composition of that shot at 17:13 was epic!
Lovely to see some of my fellow New Zealanders along the water front in Felixstowe (Torbay Palms - otherwise known as the NZ Cabbage Tree/Cordyline Australis). Another great walk, John, and a lovely day for it..
Another JR classic, really enjoyed this one!
Many thanks Peter
I started watching your videos because I was born and lived in Leyton in my early years and enjoyed your walks in that area. But it was a nice surprise to see you doing a walk in the area that I now live. The Orwell and Stour Valleys are a real favourite of mine. 🙂🙂🥾🥾
Lovely! Suffolk is indeed beautiful, and this augers well for the rest of the walk.
In my view, Herzog is a genius. In fact he describes himself principally as a writer, and in filmic terms as a documentary maker, but for those unfamiliar with his films I recommend 'Aguire The Wrath Of God' and the 1979 classic 'Nosferatu The Vampyre', which is Herzog's attempt to rehabilitate the German film making tradition, as it's partly modelled on Murnau's 1920s (unsure of date here) classic.
There certainly is something other worldly about the huge container port, but I'm sure there are loads of perfectly normal folks in there, who are every bit as desperate for a decent coffee as WE sometimes are.
Nice one John! 🌟👍
Werner's episode of This Cultural Life (BBC Radio 4) well worth a listen- bet the interviewer needed a drink after !
Waited all year for a walk like this … a unique landscape … super film ❤
. Werner Herzog film, My Best Fiend, is one I have lined up to look at. Very pleased to see many of your signature portraits of buildings here, the nearly amber colouring of white plaster, and held ocean waves.
Christmas came early 😊 love this walk and so glad you got to the station on time! The ferry from Old Felixstowe to Bawdsey is stunning in good summer weather. Once you get to the other side you have the Radar Museum as well as the huge mansion built by the Quilters. If you wait for low tide it is possible to walk from the Bawdsey Ferry point along the beach front to the Martello towers at East Lane - a bizarre landscape of approx 1.5 miles which is littered with rusting military defences of all kinds. If you get that far it’s only a couple of miles to Shingle Street an enigma with its shifting stone dunes and swimming lagoon that makes you feel as though you’re walking on the moon 🌑 well worth a look. Anyway, thank you again for the wonderful video , already looking forward to the next one 😎
I live in West Suffolk and Felixstowe is my go to summer; beach day trip! It's such an underrated place, the sea front and gardens, old Felixstowe at one end and the docks and languard Fort at the other!
Incredible indeed. Thanks John. A little longer than the usual RUclips movie I’d watch, but loved every minute. Walked from Manningtree to Harwich a couple of years back but I’ve never been to Felixstowe, other than to catch a cross channel ferry back in the day. Vague plans for a walk involving train to Harwich then ferry to Shotley, and walk to Ipswich along south bank of Orwell. Butt and Oyster pub looks vaguely interesting.
Enjoyed the walk, I never imagined Felixstowe quite like that. It looks a decent town, hotel looked very inviting. I have memories with my family hiring out beach huts on various holidays, the local councils owned them mostly. I have vivid memories of the kettle boiling on a primus stove.
Awwwww this brought back some memories. I cycled from Sutton Ho to Felixstowe and on to Landguard and across on the ferry to Shotley and beyond!! A beautiful ride ❤ Thank you for sharing xx
Brilliant video thanks John
Thanks very much Danny
@@JohnRogersWalks We had lovely fish and chips at the Orwell Hotel
A great video John, I look forward to seeing your return there to complete the journey
Brilliant video John! I was so excited to see you in my neck of the woods. If you are returning to Suffolk, you might like to walk the Shotley Peninsula. River walks, farm walks, historic churches and interesting pubs.
You do the walking and we get to enjoy it! Thank you and it is amazing the knee is coming back so fast. There are always unique tidbits of literal and natural curiosity to ponder and go back over.
This is wonderful and I’m only 20 minutes into it. The North Sea is so magical at sun rise, we scattered my parents ashes at Southwold one summer’s morning at 4:30 a few years ago. They lived in that area in their twilight years, I have had some lovely times on the East Anglian coast. Keep op the good work.
Brilliant and educational walk as usual john..im exactly the same as you..i love norfolk/suffolk more than anywhere..it always feels like home to me..i grew up on teesside but lived in sussex since 98..but luckily i grew up with the north sea..il mare nostrum(our sea) ..in particular the harwich/,felixstowe peninsula is outstanding..the view from manningtree towards the sea is as good as anywhere..if i was lucky in life..southwold for me all day long..followed by cromer/overstrand and kendal in cumbria..but in general anywhere in east anglia..ive not walked that bit from felixstowe to bawsdey yet that is on my list..ive done most of the suffolk coast path..cant wait for your return there..i must say your knowledge and enthusiasm and passion is perfect for me..and its great to watch. keep up the great vids/walks john.
Thank you for another fine hike, John. Looking forward to whatever you have planned for next year 😊
GLORIOUS! Thank you for taking us along, John!
Great video John. My PhD dissertation (back in 2005) was entitled ‘An Aesthetics of Hauntology’ and addresses Derrida’s use of the term (one of the chapters was on Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’). I enjoyed Mark Fisher’s books and love the recording, ‘On Vanishing Land’ which is a recording of Fisher and a friend walking and talking on that very coastline. It’s a great recording if you can get hold of it. Also love a bit of M.R. James - particularly, ‘A Warning to the Curious’ which is also set in that part of the world.. The Herzog book sounds great!
Thanks Mark. ‘On Vanishing Land’ was the original walk I wanted to repeat but scuppered by the non-running ferry - should’ve done it in September when I had the idea. However it’s there for the Spring. And next time I’ll watch the M.R James in the Orwell
Great and interesting content. I love your content very much. Thanks. 👍👍👍👍😍😍😍😍😍
Many thanks Sharon
To anyone wanting to do this walk, it gets even prettier as you get closer to nacton sands. Would recommend getting the bus on the edge of Ipswich as the walk beyond there is less enjoyable. Save yourself an hour of tired legs.
From Trimley rail station to the edge of Ipswich is about 3.5 hours at a good pace.
A great walk, even if you didn't go as far as you intended to. My Father-in-Law lives near Harwich and on visits there I just love sitting on the seafront and watching Felixstowe, the huge ships off/onloading their cargo. Thinking of the logistics of it is mind boggling. I've read Merlin Coverley's book on Hauntology after discovering the "Scarfolk" book. I consider it as a sort of very aggressive nostalgia that refuses to lie down and die. Revenant pop culture from a forgotten future.
Thank you John. I have no idea why i do not know about Mark Fisher (his books and thinking). Thank you so much for introducing him. ❤️. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.
Loving this video, as I do all your videos. Just wished this one was much longer than 45 mins...
That’s very kind - thank you
brilliant walk today, john - thanks for taking us along. i've finished your first book, and i certainly enjoyed it! i'm on to the second title, cheers! ps - i've just recently watched the hordern-acted adaptation of the james short story - spooky stuff, that!
Thanks for another fascinating adventure John . Brightened a dull damp day . Mr therapy 👌.
Beautiful. Thanks for a grand Sunday walk.
Watching from Canada, I’m constantly envious of the rail system there: it’s utterly impossible in most parts of my country to do a walk like this, a distance from any city, without relying on a car
Do you know a YT Channel called ' Adventures and Naps ' by a charming Canadian named Alana who now lives in the UK- Kent - loves our rail system .
Another wonder walk and I must say my favorites are the coastal walks. Nice mention of MR James and that wonderful ghost story. Reminds me of Christmas at my grandparents cottage in Norfolk.
An amazing video. I spend a week in Felixstowe with my family every year. My family and I always treat ourselves to fish & chips at the Regal restaurant (as seen in the video). When we visited the museum earlier this year, we discovered that the writer Henry Williamson (of Tarka the Otter fame) was garrisoned at Landguard, Felixstowe during WWI. Coincidentally, he grew up just around the corner from where we live in Lewisham, South East London and there's a brown plaque on the front of his former home. The staff at the museum couldn't believe it when I told them. We were told by a local resident, three years ago, that Benny Hill used to stay in Felixstowe at weekends because his disabled sister lived there and he was her part-time carer. He was regularly seen pushing her along in her wheelchair along the seafront. The local resident said it was Benny Hill's "girlfriend", but I looked it up online and found out it was his sister (according to a local history site).
What a bleakly beautiful landscape, thanks for another great video, John. And for explaining the interesting concept of Hauntology.
Thanks John for sharing, what a landscape..Best Martin.
You're in for a real treat when you do the Deben walk. You could pop in and see my aunty in Waldringfield. She knows ALL the best footpaths around those parts,
I’m really looking forward to it
Wow that brought back memories. My father worked on the mainframe computer at Felixstowe port in the 80s, and we would sometimes visit as children. The cranes and enormous ships always impressed me. Also spent many hours exploring the abandoned WW2 tunnels and buildings at landguard. I love all your videos John, but this one was like going beck in time.
Thanks for sharing your trip with us all ❤ it
Great video John 📗📗📗📗📗📗📗📗
Thanks Alan
Really beautiful John; thank you!
Another brilliant video,
Love the info and enthusiasm 😉👍🏻
John ,what a great video loads I can relate to was only down at Felixstowe yesterday from sunny Essex.
Another excellent video and interesting. It looks a nice place to explore. I must say that watching your videos has a very calming effect on me. It's almost as if we're walking along with you. I look forward to your next video as always. I have at last got a copy of you're book 'This Other London' which was very interesting.
Thoroughly enjoyed that John. Thank you!
A hidden gem this walk
Thanks for sharing my home area, happy you loved it ☺️ definitely come back and complete it, some glorious sections ahead.
My home county! Showing us places I never knew of! Lovely journey! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks John. Have been waiting a long time for your return to Suffolk. Look forward to the next videos.
Great to see you in our neighbourhood! (We live in Stowmarket, beyond Ipswich, nearer to the true source of the Orwell beyond Rattlesden village). You made me quite anxious in this video, as we’re familiar with Trimley Marshes (I have a circular walk from the station round the marshes on my channel).
When you were still at the river and the sun was setting, I thought there’s still quite a way to go to get inland to the station and it’s pretty much across country and not advisable in the dark!!
So I’m glad you made it. The marshes are very ‘other worldly’ in places.
My wife and eldest daughter did the Sandlings Walk last year. 70 miles from Ipswich to Southwold (in stages).
If you get the urge to walk further up the Orwell as it becomes the River Gipping and into Stowmarket, I’d be happy to buy you lunch and tell you about the Stowmarket Gun Cotton explosion of 1871 in the industrial area by the river, now owned by PPG paints.
Thank you also for introducing me to the word ‘Hauntology’ - off to research more about that now! 😀👍
Many thanks for that info - much appreciated. Planning to head back that way in Spring
Great walk John thank very much
Thank you. I love to see and hear you exploring Suffolk. I have lived there, but never visited Felixstowe. I feel like I’ve had a taster now.
What a treat; so enjoyed this John. Thank you very much!
Just watching this a second time , it's wonderful , I think it's one of your best films , it has a beautiful atmosphere , it is definitely hauntology and edge lands , I love that it's the result of a impulse which took you from Stratford to Felixstowe and that you had to adapt your original idea , also that it took longer to walk than you thought it would so you never reached Ipswich and there was this element of jeopardy towards the end , the shots of the sea crashing on the shore and the ethereal estuary are sublime , those vast cranes of the container port are truly overwhelming in their size , just like Martian Fighting Machines , thank you for taking us upon such a profound journey , a philosophical musing on life the universe and everything , see you again soon 🌈🙏💞
Thank you so much for that Leslie - I got such an immense amount from this walk and the making of the video.
Wow loved that video. Loved the edge lands hauntology element … amazing looking place. Thanks John
I stayed at the Orwell Hotel at the end of 2020 and walked from Felixstowe to Felixstowe to Dunwich. Mark Fisher released a wonderful album called On Vanishing Land where he reads about his walk to Sutton Hoo. Thanks for another wonderful video, Mark is much missed.
Cracking video John. Love Fishers writing. I also think all of us here are pleased your knee is in better shape!
Many thanks Ben - it held up brilliantly well - just need to build back the strength in the rest of my legs
Yes, what an amazing walk ! I think that you’ve succeeded in rending all the beauty, the difficulty, the uniqueness of both the environment and the walk. Also, I like the way your thoughts are never intruders, on the contrary they match very well with what we see.
Sometimes its not about watching the video in one go but coming back and competing it later :)
Great walk John, views at dusk are beautiful
Just caught up with this adventure - Bravura John! ❤
Absolutely beautiful.
Not a journey I would ever have considered doing but I am glad you did and shared it with us!
John! The romance of it all. Today I bought at our local british expat shop cider, crumpets, brandy butter and a nice piece of leister cheese. I miss England.
Nice one John, wonderful vid...
Thanks Ralph
fabulous ❤
amazing walk -- and loved the info on hauntology. glad the knee is getting better!
Thanks Timothy
(Was trying to get my head around being 'haunted by the future'... is it a deliberate oxymoron? Isnt it being haunted by memories of what we wrongly thought the future would look like? So it's still being haunted by the PAST??
All your videos are great John, but I especially love the video walks in North Essex by the sea. Great to 'get out of London' when watching you... the blue light and low sun in that flat sea - top cinematography John 🌅 Felixstowe was the most depressing seafront I'd ever walked down, but that blend of the ambient with the railway crossing(?) siren at 16:42😌👌)
Read some of Mark Fisher's texts or listen to his lectures on youtube and you'll get it. It's really a call to action; to change everything. For eg, consider the difference between Labour's vision of the future drawn together by the various people working on The Corbyn Project's 2017 Manifesto (unrealised plans that haunt the future) Vs Starmer's reiteration of Thatcherism's T.I.N.A.
@_....J........................ Thanks J 👍
Nostalgia for the future ain't what it used to be. Attributed to Yogi Berra but maybe apocryphal.
I probably didn't do a great job of explaining that aspect of it Alex - this video here is good breakdown of the concept and its origins ruclips.net/video/gSvUqhZcbVg/видео.htmlsi=4pq6JpvmNHPtSr0N
I definitely need to get out of London more often. Thanks for the kind words
@@JohnRogersWalks that was a brilliant video John - I think the penny has dropped. Explains why I love the Caretaker"s 'Everywhere at the End of Time', Al Bowlly, and watching replays of Ch4 closedowns turning into 4tel.👍
Thank you John.A very enjoyable video.
Adding Mark Fisher to my reading list right now, John. Although the speed I go at these days I haven't even got to Sebald yet. I am, therefore, not sure how long that might be so will cheat and check out what YT has to offer first. Thank you very much for the latest reference as well as the walk itself. Only thing missing was a pint of Adnams - Ghost Ship IPA springs to mind for some reason - cheers from up north.
The RUclips videos are a great reference point Michael. I also missed that pint of Ghost Ship - great reason to go back
Thank you. Enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed the video. So much so that I was inspired to seek out a copy of the Sebald book at my local library here in Plano, TX, USA. Sure enough a copy was available for borrow, with an unbroken spine no less, so I'm probably the first to borrow. Start reading today. Thank you for the recommendation 🙂
Great walk, John. One of your best!
Thanks Trevor
Hi John, I really enjoyed this video - I like to read the British Library collections of Tales of the Weird this time of year and this video really hit the mark for me. I'm reading Into the London Fog - atmospheric Victorian ghost stories. As a keen walker, I've not walked this stretch of coast and I'll definitely be staying at the hotel you stayed the night at. Very MR James. Thankyou. I found this film very relaxing and meditative as always. Btw, I always enjoy the music you put to your videos. you're a legend mate. Thanks.
Very enjoyable walk thanks John😊
Good call, John Fisher and James, two of my faves. Fisher akso worked at Warwick Uni, my old alma mater.
By the way, my book of Crouch End should finally be out in the new year. Will let you know.
"Whistle..." was made in 1968. I thought it was based on Aldeborough, though I might be wrong.
Container ports are anything but "bucolic"!!
Best of luck Trevor
Hi John this is a great walk, one that my wife and I have done once and 50% of once. (I have been involved in importing containers from the Far East for many years)
When you were at Landguard; you mentioned you fancied a coffee- there is a good cafe next to container port where you can get a hot drink and wholesome food and then sit and watch the unloading of the ships,
Did you know some of these ships are 400 metres long and can carry over 20, 000 containers.
Felixstowe is a charming and fascinating town/resort that still has that tangible feeling of its lingering past. (My take on hauntology).
Like you, my wife and intend to walk more of the Suffolk coastal path, particularly taking in the Deben ferry. We will do this in summer as you definitely needs the daylight hours to fully enjoy the delights of this area.
Love this! My home county and my favourite place to go ❤ Felixstowe, ate many chips in the Victorian shelter by the big house.
There is so much to discover on the Suffolk Coast. But shhh don’t tell everyone.
Hugely inspiring.
Beautiful photography. Nice work John❤
Thanks John
Fabulous! Loved every minute, makes me want to set off and explore that haunted coastline myself :-)🎉
What beautiful views of the beach. Such heavy haunting thoughts~ to ponder. Loved this walk. Thank you John Rogers. Blessings from (East) Tennessee.🙏🙂🙋
Many thanks Janet
Wonderful stuff John👍
John - wow - you mentioned The Stalker -- I did not know anyone else had seen it or was aware of it.. an incredible film. I do believe the film was made twice; in that it was completed and the film stock was destroyed and the filmmaker embarked on the project again from scratch ------- wonderful that you mention the film!
What a great video! Many thanks Mr Rogers.
Thanks Elvis
Wow. Fabulous walk and really great photography as always. Shipping ports for me are haunted by season 2 of The Wire (about the Baltimore dockworkers unions and gangsters). Definitely have a nostalgia for the future of film-making promised by that incredible series but arguably not delivered.
Thanks for curing me of my obsessive need to get the horizon exactly horizontal in landscape photos. Im actually enjoying sliding off the world in yours now.
Erm. I will not hear a word against Sebald especially one that doesn't exist. 🙉
Just watched this and…wow. Nothing else to say John. Thank you
Thanks very much Franssens!
@ 🤣it’s Mark, Franssens is my surname but cool you responded at all. Thank you