Through Epping Forest to Chingford (4K)
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2020
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A walk from the Hollow Ponds in Leytonstone through Epping Forest to Mansfield Park in Chingford passing through Walthamstow Forest, Highams Park, Pimp Hall Park & Nature Reserve and Ridgeway Park. I'm partly guided by E.N Buxton's essential book Epping Forest and the Corporation of London official Epping Forest map.
Epping Forest was preserved as 'the People's Forest' through the Epping Forest Act of 1878 which Buxton helped bring about. A further Act of Parliament in 1891 allowed the purchase of Highams Park to be added to Epping Forest.
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That was a lovely walk. It’s hard to believe it’s in London. It looks more like the countryside. Those paths you were walking along and the ponds have been there for ever. It’s so lovely and quiet and peaceful.
You mentioned the London Hospital. My grandmother was one of the very first nurses. They lived in Brighton but she persuaded her father to let her go and stay with her sister in London and in the early 1900s she trained at Whitechapel Hospital and met my grandfather who was a chemist. I have her diamond and sapphire engagement ring. It has “Whitechapel” and the date engraved on the inside of the ring.
great story Liz thanks for sharing that
Great to see Chingford John. I’m originally from Chingford and would love to move back there one day...... I’ve just got to win the lottery first 🤓👍
It's a great area eh Colin, but yes I can imagine it's pricey now. Fingers crossed for that lottery win
That pub on Friday Hill used to be called "The Sir Loin"
Sunday afternoon, feet up, another John Rogers walk. What's not to like? Really pleasant 25 minutes. Thanks.
Chingford, my childhood home. I lived in Waterhall Ave literally a stoves throw from Friday Hill. Thanks for sharing, John.
my pleasure Mike - glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for answering a question that has bugged me for years. My Dad took me on that model railway when I was a kid, for years I couldn't remember where in Chingford it was, great to see it is still there.
Adore your Sunday videos. Thank you!
My pleasure Matt
A ‘grand day out’ indeed, John! Many thanks.
cheers Ashley
Lovely walk John full of history and memories .....always a pleasure to watch
cheers Richard
Hi John, you could have popped by for a take out cuppa! The building was indeed the old Chingford Town Hall, which was the planning dept for Waltham Forest Council a while back . I believe it was sold a few years ago now.
great area John, funny I'd never noticed the Old Town Hall before, what a great building
@@JohnRogersWalks It is indeed John. The pub on Friday Hill used to be called "The Sirloin" funnily enough... now I know why! Always educational watching your walks, thank you.
I took a walk around Walthamstow Wood and the Gypsy Stone during May, ironically 1 day before I found this channel. It’s interesting to see your take on it.
Ridgeway and Mansfield Park are both wonderful. My mum used to take me to the model railway as a kid, great memories. While I’ve only been to Mansfield Park once, it’s certainly underrated with the reservoir views. I pass the area a good few times a week on my way to work.
Yet another superb video. Lyrical and informative. Such a valuable balm in these troubled times!
Beautiful content John! Love , like you said, to think about the importance of places to local people. How a place can be so special for us or for someone else- thats what really keeps a spot alive. Its so charming how nature has the power to make us feel better. And in this times we need it more than ever. Hope you have a great week!
thanks so much for that comment Fiona - more walks planned for the week ahead
Can't help but think of the Paul McCartney lyric, 'there was a lead guitarist, who lived in Epping forest...' Lovely walk - thanks!
Great walk - thank you, John. Loved the story about sirloin.
thanks Mariana
Hi john...1st pond 2nd pond and 3rd pond(most magical)...and devil's dip all the way down to highams park lake is a lovely walk. That's where I grew up....access from top of Oak Hill....fantastic fishing at the 3rd pond in the 80's..
Lovely, cheers John - a cracking tour of Chingford parks - genius.Cheddar cheese and piccalilli - marvellous. But I think eating those molluscs when you were a boy made you the clever guy you are now. I haven't tried Barney's Seafood Store but there's also one outside The Sirloin maybe you could try both one evening. Nice detour up Friday Hill to the old manor house and Pimp Hall. That's quite a tiring walk actually Friday Hill's always knackers me off.
I've definitely got to return for a tub of cockles and a pint, perhaps some chips from the great chippy opposite the church as well
Great walk John with good insight to our locally history
thanks Dominic
Thanks , often walk around where you finished. Would have been shocked to bump into you, but would have been nice to meet you after watching your videos
Fantastic video as ever John and your choice of sandwich is my favourite as well. I was really looking forward to a video from you today and you didn't let me down. Cheers mate stay safe.
thanks Andy great to hear
Just wanted to drop in and say I found your channel about two months ago and have finally caught up. Informative and so calming. Love trying to follow along on google maps. Cheers from Nashville!
Thanks Christopher, that's wonderful to hear. Hope you're doing well there in Nashville - would love to visit one day and spend a week watching some great live music
Thanks John, more memories walking across the ice at Hollow Ponds. Learning morse code at Friday Hill house, and many more.
Excuse me for asking.. I knew a Pauline Gee when I lived near hale end road in the 1950's ..Are you a relative ?
anne dunn sorry no. Gee sounds like it should be an uncommon name, there are loads. In fact there’s at least 20 Steve Gee’s on Facebook.
Thanks Steve - learning Morse Code at Friday Hill House sounds mysterious
Lovely walk john nice views of the city and epping forest look forward to meeting you someday cheers
Thanks Paul - we're bound to meet one day
Thoroughly enjoyed this walk John. You always manage to bring a variety of memories flooding back to my mind. Me and dad scoffing cockles as we were leaving Canvey Island. Barking Lido with my two brothers in the 50's and Hollow Ponds night fishing for Tench in the 60's.
Beautiful photography and great commentary make for superb viewing on a Sunday afternoon. A pat on the back my friend!
thanks Michael - great memories and thanks for sharing
Lovely video, you walked right near my road off Friday hill
My old haunts 40s and 50s on our bikes from the Archway
Hi John. Another great film. So much greenery around London. Cheers Jon 🍺
thanks Jon - we are blessed that it's such a green city
Great video John . It takes me back to my childhood when my parents often took me and my sisters to either epping forest or hainault forest. It passed down the line as I took my two children there as well. Bob.
Thanks Bob - great places for the kids
absolutely lovely. you tell it so well. thank you
my pleasure - thanks for watching
Thanks John, splendid walk.
Thanks Ralph
So many memories, I grew up in Highams Park. Bunking into Larkswood pool from the forest over the concrete slab wall. Walking the Ching from HP lake to Walthamstow dogs catching sticklebacks in a 10p net purchased from Mr Lees sweetshop, all long gone now. Thank you for the nostalgia.
So nice,, as always
thanks Brian
Thanks John .... waving from Newquay.
Hi there in Newquay Paul
Thanks John! Another great vid. I actually look forward to your Sunday videos
cheers Sean
John thanks, it makes your videos even more comforting when I have walked the same route.
thanks Little Acorns
My home is in Chingford and its been a great place to live. 🏠👍
Brilliant John, such a fantastic insight into Chingford.......
thanks Daz
Brilliant. Thank you. Used to walk my dog from Forest Gate out to Epping. Never forgotten the Chingford mud.
yes that mud is a real factor about 8 months of the year
Awesome following you in my old London A-Z which I finally dug out
Lovely John. I'll watch this several times over the span of time. Keep on keeping on.
cheers Stephen
Thank you for all your lovely walk videos. I was also a student at CLP and lived in the East End in the late 70s - my it has changed! You mentioned the Lidos. There was one close to me at Victoria Park that was very popular. I also remember the one on the Rye. I learned to swim there in the early 60s as my Grandma lived in High Wycombe.
Was that City Poly Jackie? That was my alma mater. Yes the area has changed a lot but there are places that still feel the same. Great to hear from another person who learnt to swim in the Lido on the Rye in Wycombe
@@JohnRogersWalks Yes, I was at City Poly 1976-9 :)
Brilliant video john allways very interesting. Paul loves the videos and mentioned about the NB cap. Stay safe and well john .. Ann
thanks Ann - I'll make sure to wear the NB cap next time
As usual John- entertaining, knowledgeable and concise information for which I thank you. Stay Safe.
thanks Bob
Glorious John! Thanks as always for sharing. I particularly enjoyed the music choice and the tone it created for the film. Glad to see you're keeping well.
thanks Henry
Just watching your vids big thank you as just makes hard times a littie more happy
A lovely walk John - Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it Medway Rwly
Another great wind down video 👍I guess we owe a huge debt to the Quakers for there mostly unhearelded work helping to protect and preserve what we have today.
I remember going to Ruislip lido and thinking there was soap bars on the bottom as you walked out ( I was young then).
Great stuff as always John, stay safe.
Fantastic Jag - Ruislip Lido is still on the list. Hope you're doing well
Great! You went passed my road, St. Peter's Avenue - that area has hardly changed by the looks of things. Amazing to think that is so close to central London. Fantastic place for kids to grow up in. I can remember them building out the North Circular - and I wonder when that was. I think we had moved away by then but probably saw all the excavation going on when we visited relatives.
The building of that part of the North Circ was some time ago Douglas I think the 20's & 30's I guess you witnessed the post-war upgrades to the road
Another nostalgic walk so interesting 👍👍👍👍
I spent some time at Chingford Plain and High Beech today John. Lots of people were out and about. Many cyclists too, meeting up opposite the Kings Oak pub this morning. A good day to visit the area!
Rod Stewart used to love to visit the Kings Oak apparently (He sold his Grade 2 listed manor house, not far from Copped Hall last year).
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Thank you, John. So pleased that the little railway in Ridgeway Park is still there. Childhood memories of getting the bus up there from Walthamstow with my Mum.
Super video John. The houses don't intrude into the forest so watching it it is like stepping back a couple of hundred years-very relaxing
Loved the closing frame where you go back and fetch the camera.
I'm glad you saw that Kathleen, that shot was there for you after the question in the livestream
Another informative & enjoyable walk, thank you.
my pleasure Mathew thanks for watching
Excellent film John. Many thanks 👍
cheers David
Thanks John you have shown me some more things about the area that I didn't know.
That’s great Richard thanks
Brilliant walk again john we realy look foward to your blogs Ann will put a comment aswell i actually send these on to some less fortunate folk who love them.. ohl john wheres the NB cap mate come on ha ha ha.. take care and all the best .stay safe mate Chat soon
thanks Paul - I'll have to wear the NB cap next time! This one was a gift from two RUclipsr viewers in Canada
Hello John, delighted to have found your channel today just as I'm about to take the family out to Epping Forest. Looking forward to watching videos from your extensive back catalogue, really enjoyed what I've seen so far. Is your banner the Woolwich Tunnel? I live just by the north entrance. Cheers!
I'm not far from there. We must be neighbours. I just checked out your channel. Wonderful! I wish you worked at The Practice (now called E16 Health) in Albert Road. It's a dire surgery.
Nice view to finish the walk from Mansfield Park👍🏻btw previous video (before today’s) about best views in Chingford and Waltham Abbey was inspired by your videos, so thanks 😀
thanks for that I'll take a look at your latest vid
Lovely little vid. I always like visiting chingford, as a Palmer's green soul. Great relaxing music as ever. Interesting details. Hope u well John....inspired to get walking myself now. Almost given up the jalopy. 😂
I love watching your videos with Google maps open on split-screen, trying to increase my knowledge of North London and the surrounding areas.
I wish I had known about Ridgeway park when I lived in Loughton.
There is a great fish and chip shop along Chingford high street, well there was 4 years ago.
ah yes, the one opposite the Assembly Hall? I often stop off there on my walks through the area
Sam's fish & chip shop station road on the corner Opposite the Co op.
Another lovely video. I used to drink in the Dovecote pub when it was called the Sirlion and now I know why it was so called. Thanks John.
cheers Chris - I saw that it used to be called The Sirloin but I've only seen it was the Dovecote - shame they changed the name in a way
I value our local woodlands heavily. After work today, I am going to one of ours for a stroll!
Really lovely walk John! Sirloin steak...names have to come from somewhere, so that sounds just as good as any that I've heard! 😊 Friday Hill manor house does indeed look very grand, without looking over-the-top, handsome, I think. Love seeing the building architecture & nature a bit of everything....just wonderful. Hope you had a nice pint waiting for you when you got home! Thank you so much...take really good care...stay safe!
thanks very much k - I picked up a couple of nice bottles of ale from the corner shop on the way home, including one from just down the road in Leyton
Fab walk thanks john
thanks 4thEye
nice to see you in an upbeat mood, John!
thanks Syed, yes I still feel in good form, hope you're well
@@JohnRogersWalks I am fine thank you
Never been there; but I’ve admired it on the map as a child. There’s a lake there with three islands in it; I used to fantasise there were little Lilliputians living on them!
Does anyone know if there is another way into Pimp Hall Nature Reserve, aside from the entrance from the recycle centre? I was informed that there was one but, like John, have yet to find it!
Wow very nice and brilliant.
thanks Imran
Lovely video. I've been wanting to do walk through Epping Forest. I drove there to park up and do some exploring several months ago, and I was astounded by the crowds! I didn't think so many people would be out and about during a pandemic! Though, of course, I was too :) When the weather gets a wee bit warmer, I think I'll head out and get some exercise. Your video has inspired me. Thanks.
Thanks you
cheers Stephen
I used to go to the Bull and Crown after a ghastly rename to the Slug and Lettuce (I think). Used to have a very good live jazz night there, some headline musicians used to turn up. Wonderful building.
Hi john . I used to visit high Wycombe in the 80s . I had a friend there called Ernie shankster and I used to go to a pub called The Red Cross Knight .
great days in Wycombe Tony - that was quite a notorious pub
John Rogers that was part of the attraction John . Spent many a good night around the Pool table with dub reggae pounding out of the heavy duty speakers ...The landlord and landlady were like something out of an Ealing movie ......really charming people as I remember.....
Excelente video! Saludos desde Mexico 💖
Danke für die schönen Touren in und um London 👌
sehr gern geschehen
Nice video
Used to spend very good days at Larkswood Lido. What a shame kids these days don’t have it.
Do you remember The Dips? In the fifties and sixties they were areas of low ground alongside the Woodford road, not far from Whipps Cross. It was fun to roll down the steep sides. They got filled in at some point, probably to prevent kids from injuring themselves doing that.
I can remember doing that on the forest side of the road heading towards Wadham bridge !
@@kohedunn
Wadham Road, I believe! Cheers ;)
Thanks Mate keep safe
thanks Dave
Isn’t London extraordinary for green parks. I’ve never experienced that last part and that great view of the Lea Valley. Now I must. Thank you for this, another piece of your historic knowledge. We always learn from you. Greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for the walk , although Leytonstone was my early stamping ground , we used to get the 69 bus from the thatched house, to Chingford Mount , and have a day at the larkshall lido , it was a fantastic lido , it was sort of American looking to me , a lot posher than the whipps cross lido , but I suppose it was posher being in Chingford, I know the area quite well , my parents live just off the ridgeway near the kings head pub , the prezzos was a proper pub bar , love
thanks for sharing that Rich
Oops hit the send button by mistake Cont... loved having a beer in there with my dad in the late 70s Sunday lunch time
love to see areas my granny walked over. she loved her early life here. usa turned into a down grade... 2 generations to be cheerful again.
Hi John, Larkswood lido and Leytonstone lido massive wagon wheels, we lived at Larkswood as a kid wonderful memories, especially in 76 and 77. I now live in Norfolk we have a public run lido in Beccles with beautiful views, saved from the land grabbing developer's. It's funny how they start making a profit when in public hands. It's a shame the pools of my childhood couldn't have had a extended life.
San Diego is so fortunate that early founders set aside Balboa Park. If you include the zoo it's larger than Central Park.
'Last time *we* walked to...' - 'We'... I like that a lot. I'm sure many people consider their vicarious meander the highlight of Sunday. It does feel like a bit of an event, a virtual gathering of souls... Shall *we* go for a walk? Yeah, why not..? Have the trees given you any 'intel' recently..?
Great that you feel that way Paul, it's certainly how it feels to me, that this is a collective experience that is accumulating over time. The trees are keeping their counsel lately, I don't think they're impressed by the increasing traffic
HI John. Always really enjoy your sincere and heartfelt love of the landscape. There was an enticing local story I heard that Walt Disney had visited the model railway in Ridgeway Park and that it had provided some inspiration for his own modest efforts at theme and amusement parks. If this is not actually true, it ,kind of, should be if you know what I mean as a local myth at least.
Brilliant story Martin, thanks for passing along. I shall repeat that story as often as I can and spread it far and wide
Such a great video again John, wonder how things in the forests would have been if the great underated Alfred Russel Wallace had been made General Superintendent of Epping Forest in the 1870s.
Thanks Raymond - I'll have to look into Alfred Russell Wallace now
Once again a pleasant trial. A walk I have never been on and shall I hope to go on one day..I knew of Gypsy Smith but not of the Memorial stones, His ashes are supposed to be buried under there according to one record. Thank you for your walkig commentry,Makes it so more pleasent,
I know the memorial stone well.... i lived in Hale end road, and this beautiful forest was mine...I shall always think of it as mine, even though I am now thousands of miles away... My heart is still there..
Thank you, John. As the World appears to be at peak madness, this is just the antidote.
thanks PK - walking is our salvation
Nice. One of my favourite walks. Though I continue to Loughton and take the tube back. The nice thing you can go on all the way to Epping or Theydon Bois which will probably make some 30km...
the pub on Friday hill was called the sirloin before the dovecote
Prezzo's used to be the Bull & Crown pub and before that was the town hall I believe.
loved cockles :P
Hey John, really enjoy your videos. You should take a trip up through Loughton through to York Hill and have a pint in the Gardeners Arms (once lockdown is over) you have views all the way across London from the top of the Hill. There is a bit of history there too with the mistress of the Duke of York (hence the street name) who was sent there in disgrace plus Dick Turpin apparently used to sell Black Mutton (poached venison) there.
Hi John, I enjoyed your wonderful video very much. I grew up in Chingford, just down the hill from Mansfield Park. I now live in Sidney BC Canada, so I was amazed to see you wearing the "Sidney by the Sea" cap. Do you have a connection to Sidney also? Why don't you come over here and make a video on the Saanich Peninsula?
Hi again John, my best friend who lives in Banstead tipped me off regarding your June 2019 walk from Wanstead Flats to East Ham, during which you relate where the Sidney cap came from (or the "provenance" if we were on "Fake or Fortune") - great story. We need to start a Sidney chapter of the John Rogers fan club !
Buxton's is a great book. Have you ever come across the letters he said he carved on the trees? Of course people wouldn't do it now but I just wondered if they were still visible.
That's a great question Dominic - I want to go looking for them now
Lovely video. However, surely its cheese and chutney... Piccalilli is for sainsbury's pork breakfast sausage...
you're making me hungry now Peter
Thankyou.
YAH Bless