East End Echoes - London walk from Mile End to Poplar via Limehouse (4K)
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
- From the 18th Century Novo Cemetery to Hawksmoor's St Anne's Church Limehouse via the Regent's Canal then two historic locations in Poplar.
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Featured in this video: Mile End Road and the story of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, Novo Jewish Cemetery established in 1733, Regent's Canal and the story of the failed Regent's Canal Railway, Mile End Park, The Ragged Museum, Commercial Road, the Limehouse Cut, St Anne's Church Limehouse, East India Dock Road, Grundy Street and site of the African Queen Pub, Chrisp Street Market, Balfron Tower, Aberfeldy Street, East India DLR Station.
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For people like me ,who grew up in the 60's , seeing that mural of Queenie Watts was very nostalgic . Real name - Mary Spenton - really epitomised the East End . She was in so many films and TV shows that were iconic of 6O's London - and not the Carnaby Street bit . She was in a 1978 Play for Today called ' Waterloo Sunset ' . How London was that !? .
Tommy Flowers was typical of how the working class contribution to British history has been down played. Without Tommy Flowers none of that Bletchley Park stuff could have happened, or happened so quickly . R.I.P Mary and Tommy . You were what we used to call ' salt if the earth ' . ✌️🇬🇧
She is one of my favorites as well. The film Waterloo Sunset, as you know, features Queenie Watts in a rest home actually playing the piano and singing the klassic Kinks song:
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Tommy Flowers is an absolute legend!
Tommy Flowers BUILT Colossus, the first programmable computer. Turing did the theoretical stuff, which would have been as useful as a chocolate teapot without an engineer to build the frickin thing.
But Turing went to a posh public school and King's College Cambridge. Flowers was an East End bricklayer's son, who got an electrical engineering degree through evening classes.
And they filmed Turing's life with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley both from posh schools as well.
Not that there's a class system in England or anything.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw Let us not forget other unsung heroes like Marian Rejewski. Often overlooked just like Tommy.
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Yes. I'm of Polish descent. Don't get me started on Rejewski et al.
I'll just say that when Rejewski (and Zygalski and the other bloke Rutkowski ?) arrived in England they weren't allowed to work at Bletchley because they were a "security risk". They spent the war working on very low level cipher stuff.
I worked as a gravedigger many years ago . In one corner was a seperate jewish graveyard. The last burial was at least 100 years ago but still there were fresh stones placed on the ( upright ) gravestones. I never saw any visitors myself which added to the mystery and charm ✌️🕊️
Imagine how lovely all these places would look and feel without the graffiti that covers every inch of every surface. Such a blight on this great cityscape.
Dear John, I notice when it's a cloudy, dreary, cold day like today, wearing a bright color like yellow or red picks up my mood. Great video!
Never seen a cemetery like that, really striking sight. Nice to see Spring has arrived in London, we are still in Winter in the welsh mountainside.
It’s slowly turning Sean but there’s been a lot of rain. Your old allotment would be really muddy. Hope all is going well in the Valleys
I find it astonishing that all of us alive today had ancestors who survived history! Thanks for another excellent walk - wonderful photography - love all the sights.
Drove a truck round London for 5 years,The East End was always my Favourite Location you take me back to a time i knew the streets of London like the back of my hand. 👍
From 1987 to 1994 I worked as a Traffic Policeman at Bow Garage in E3, so this area was my ground. I watched with interest as it all changed with the advent of nearby Canary Wharf and it is still changing now. Thanks for an fascinating video
What a fantastic looking place Aberfeldy Street is. Thank you for opening our eyes to East End wonders John.
my pleasure William
I lived at Sturry Street, next to the African Queen mid 70s and passed it every day on the way - to and from - the Mayflower school on the next corner. Queenie Watt's had the pub the Rose and Crown (she had a parrot in the bar area too) in Penny Fields across the East India Dock Rd and near to West India Dock Rd. Great video John, thanks.
What a great walk John. I have visited all the Jewish Cemeteries in the area (including the three not open to the public). It was a wonderful experience last year. The older cemetery is on the campus near the Novo but is locked. I got permission to visit and spent a wonderful couple of hours there. The Ba’al Shem of London (Samuel Falk - believed to have associated with Emanuel Swedenborg ) is buried in Alderney Road Cemetery. St Anne’s is a wonderful church. I managed to visit the inside of it in Sept last year and get up into the gallery. The pyramid is the entrance to Fu Manchu’s lair in the Sax Rohmer novels.
As a former history student at Queen Mary university who lived on commercial road this was a lovely walk down memory lane, almost literally as I used to go this way back and forth to campus for lectures.
The cemetery is an amazing thing that you come to take for granted as a student and perhaps even slightly an inconvenience to more direct routes between buildings on campus, yet was always a source of astonishment to outsiders when mentioned. For history students at the time tours of it and the Velho cemetery served as a teaching resource on the opening module of the course on history of the local area. Even as the rest of the campus changes (half those buildings and that alleyway didn’t exist nearly a decade ago when I was an undergraduate and it’s a shame to see the canal side area has been blocked off) it’s comfortingly bizarre that it will continue to be there.
I’m not sure I can add much to the info about the area beyond commercial road but I do know that the pulp song refers to elmslie point a council tower block where the bands members once used to live and considered an example of the deterioration of east end council support in the 80s. The song also soundtracks a sequence in the movie trainspotting where the main character moves to Mile End to try to escape his addict lifestyle and go straight. The building still stands on Google Street view just south of where the railway line crosses Burdett Road
A Sunday evening wander around London sets you up perfectly for the week ahead. Cheers John!
Your dad's music should DEFINITELY be the regular playout song, after all, practically everywhere was once meadows and streams etc.. A real piece of folk culture, you should put it to the best use possible. A lovely walk, I do hope it cheered you up John! 🌟👍
Your route was wonderful, it is always nice to walk next to a body of water. Thanks for taking us along.
Hope you are feeling better John, thank you SO much for your walks ❤
Many thanks
I travelled down from Norfolk last year to walk the whole route of the Regents Canal and what a wonderful treat for the sensors it is.. The landscape almost appears to change with every bridge you pass by with beautiful quiet riverside gardens and locks to the hustle and bustle of industries.. It really was an incredible experience.. I think my favourite section was the east couple of miles, the regeneration really makes a beautiful and interesting walk.
I must get round to editing the video I'd filmed..
Thanks for another fascinating video as always. 😊
The Pulp song "Mile End" is about a flat Jarvis Cocker squatted in a tower block "off Burdett Road," which is just down where Mile End stadium is.
Excellent as always. I did a nice walk last summer starting near Limehouse to the Docklands Museum, across the Isle of Dogs and through the tunnel to the Cutty Sark and Greenwich. Interesting to see the contrast of what Docklands used to be at the museum to what it is today.
Fascinating and very enjoyable - those images of the Jewish cementary were very poignant and completely new to me. Thank you.
The graveyard, the canal, the street art, the history, your company, thanks for all of it. Enjoy the ups, the downs and the neither ups nor downs X
What a fabulous episode. We've always approached St. Anne's via the riverside. We're going canal-side next. Thank you!
Thanks so much Jacq - very kind
Thank you John for a wonderful walk around the east end, Limehouse was a regular spot for my youthful dancing in the Limehouse town hall 🕺🏽
in regards to Taboo, I'm on the other end of that story, on Vancouver Island, it was wonderful to have where I live mentioned in such a brilliant show.
Street Mattress at 23.46 :D "a street mattress is a sign that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you are on the right path"
Love that
Cheers John!
Thanks for sharing John , my father was born and grew up on the streets of Poplar in the 30's , he would have loved this walk .
Truly amazing, Thanks for taking me along 😃
Wonderful as always.
One of your best John.
thanks Graeme
I laughed aloud at your joy with discovering Taboo. My husband and I rewatch it once a year and can annoyingly quote at length from it. What a lovely walk it was in such a history steeped part of London from cemeteries to pubs to vibrant blocks. Perhaps a James Delaney walk in your future?
Loved this!
Perfect timing, thanks John.
Great video John, thanks 👍
Top vid John!!!
Thanks! Very interesting and well done🎉
Thanks very much- greatly appreciated
Great one, John. Sorry you're not feeling tip-top, but my bad hip has increased my admiration for the way you soldier on despite your own challenges. I'm glad they are not more, and we both, I know, wish everyone could enjoy such light travails.
You missed the converted Victorian coffee house for wayward girls "St Agnus house" on Follett street. Now private residence.
Other side of the road is the remains of the rest of the estate which was in the BBC drama Call the midwife.
I used to live there, so if you want to know more I can direct you to a document about it created by the local council as part of the local listing process.
Grand walk today, thank you! It’s always a joy to walk along Regents Canal
Thanks John. Great walk.
Tomorrow the sun will come out and we'll all have a brighter day. Great vid, as always.
Edit to add: You must certainly add your dad's ditty in your video ending!
cheers
Absolutely brilliant series taboo John, me and my hubby enjoyed it from start to finish.👍🏻
Thanks John, great walk, great film and great outro. (perfect whatever the walk)
There’s a lot happening these days that can bring you down. You are great and your vlogs are extraordinary! Thanks for your continuing effort. My in-laws live in North London and Suffolk and I’ve shared your pieces with them. Cheers!
Great walk John, put Me in a good mood. Cheers
love the railway history lesson.
Thanks John. Great Post Keep Well.
Thanks Dave
Nice one John, wonderful walk...
Thanks Ralph
Great job John. You've got alot to feel good about. Hang tough, see you next walk. Thanks.
Thanks very much William
Thanks for another wonderful walk and talk John. Know exactly what you mean about the occasional low day or as I call them a 'Blue' day. Infrequent as they are, I find looking forward to a forthcoming holiday, event, gathering or even a lovely meal etc elevates me back to my normal positive, chirpy levels. And playing with my dog lifts me flying past 🥳
I love your walks but you put your thoughts so articulately than I ever could.I try and simulate your walks such as the one In cannonbury which happens to be my favourite ever London Walk apart from walking from Waterloo to craven cottage fc.
As always. Another Great video, Thank you John. Also at 8 mins 50 your hat blends so well. Identical infact
Well this is mad John. I've also been re-watching taboo lately. It's amazing
Wonderful walk today, John.
Thanks very much Elizabeth
Thanks for sharing this time and history with us. Enjoyed it very much.
good stuff john, please keep it up. and your dad is deffo the perfect outro music for any vid,,,
Magic walk, John! Hope you’re well! ❤
Thanks Ashley
I know all about low moods, thanks for this great walk.
A great video John - your videos have really opened up the East End for me - an area I was unfamiliar with until relatively recently
Many thanks Glenn - great to hear
You need Spring 🌿🌷! Some sun and a warm breeze. Lovely walk today. Thank you for braving the miasma and getting out there.
Another fantastic walk there John. Thank you. It’s always a good day when I seen you’ve posted. You’ll soon be full of the joys of spring.
Thanks John, excellent walk & listen as always.
Best Wishes
Hi John, thanks so much for your latest video around the East End of London, you certainly make these walks very interesting and enjoyable. The area around Regent's Canal and Commercial Road triggered a memory of where my Great Great Grandparents would have lived in the 1870's. I have been working on my family tree for quite a few years now & discovered through the UK Census of 1871 where they lived. As I live in Australia I appreciate being able to see, via your video, what that area is like today. Take care & hope you are feeling much better!!
Love your walks in the east end… my grandad was in the river police during the blitz and must have survived through hell ( with his family including my father). Then I was born in the east end… so interesting to hear about the Hackney brook. I’ve always been strongly drawn to water and now live by the sea!
Thanks again for your wonderful knowledge xx
Very interesting, John
That was a great walk to share with you - greetings from New Zealand
Really enjoyed this one! Spent a year or two living on that estate, around the time the pontoon subway was put in under the Blackwall Tunnel Approach. Brought back a few memories. Thanks John!
A very fascinating walk. I don’t think I’ve ever seen London without any form of crane or development, it’s constantly changing in some way. But it’s always great to see echoes of the past of what was.
Thanks for the walk, John. I watched it while getting ready for my early morning walk. It helped lift my mood; a perfect prelude to my own walk! On my longer early morning walks I think I can see St Anne’s church; I need to cross the river to explore there again soon!
Yes loved taboo. Cheers
Thanks for showing St Anne's Church, Limehouse. At one point, it was possible to hear the bells of St Anne's tolling away, within Canary Wharf, where I was working. And in a spirit of community, the rector?/vicar of the Church came by to introduce himself at my shop.
Great walks on the history across London John👌..I cover all you do with cycling...(& can cover an awful lot more in a day across London by bike, than walking). Greatest regards & best wishes John👍... Stevie M 😊👌👍👍🙏
enjoyed this one
….and Yes!!! Please include your Dad’s ditty 😊 each week. Love to hear it. It makes me smile.
Thank you for this. I was at QMC in the mid-80s so spent a few years in the 80s with this as my stomping ground. Fascinating to see what has changed. It's been gentrified since those days. No houseboats on the canal then!!
Thanks John! Totally agree about Taboo absolutely brilliant!
Wonderful walk, thank you John. Really like the idea of having your Dads song at the end of the walks, certainly works for me.
Love the videos John. The sun was out on Saturday morning and I went for a walk in the forest on my own. Took big deep breaths of forest air and it felt good.
Another wonderful video John, I can relate to that flat feeling, a regular occurrence last few years. Walking, running and watching your videos are the best remedy I find.😊
Chin up John!! I watch your videos from my home/base of recent years Cape Town, so particularly enjoyed your showcase of the South Africa pub!
The great late Ian Dury john! Reasons to be cheerful pt3. Helps always when one feels a little flat. Lovely walk. So interesting.
thanks Heidi - love that song
The Sephardi cemeteries are named from the Portugese, Velho (Old) and Novo (INew), The tradition of flat tombstones is to show that death is the great leveller: no-one is higher/greater than anyone else.
Great video, once again. Thank you!
I’m glad I stumbled upon this page! Great video
Many thanks Emma
Velo - old in Portuguese, possibly as simple as that. Nice try with the pronunciation btw. Your Spanish is serviceable 😊 ....a part of London dear to my heart...stayed around there a bit in Summer 2018 after 30 years in the southern hemisphere...arrived jetlagged from Heathrow one sunny morning and the people I met that day, from the youth centre near Poplar DLR to a pensioners lunch at an old church closer to Limehouse "please join us!" they said... "born under Bow bells love", said an elderly lady...some Windrush folks too...St Anne's possibly...there's nowhere like London for rich purposeful unscripted walking and marveling...Chrisp St Market and the boxing club...big shout out to all Street Sweepers! Tower Hamlets Cemetry will blow your mind John....an urban wilderness...my photos of it are on the Google space for that location --- the bombed children's home 😢😮
Youre dead right about Taboo, amazing cast and stunning cinematoghraphy!
Another great walk John, really enjoyed it. Nice to see Mile End park, my paternal great grandparents lived in Totty St. when they married, one of those demolished streets.
Mile End by Pulp was in Trainspotting
John,to cheer you up your new book was fantastic!,done my usual read it twice
brilliant - many thanks Amanda
Very very informative.....than you JOHN form Sydney oz. Have a great easter....
Thank you for the walk mate!
My pleasure
yeah !!! so glad you enjoyed Taboo !!! the best ever !!! ..the set construction ..., the direction , the acting , the story ... super bloody superb !!!!!
If you walk East along one side of Mile End Station, then cross the road at the first crossing, the next turning on the left is a quadrangle of once very upmarket Edwardian three story houses built around a park.
Not anything like the rest of old Mile End, but I would imagine when first built it was probably where London met the Countryside.
Lovely walk around familiar places John, thank you.
Well done John . I see what you have done in the early part of the walk . You risked cancellation. ✌️🕊️
Lovely John, Thank You 🤗
It was Sir William Walworth the Lord Mayor of London(twice) who killed Wat Tyler in 1381. The name was also spelled Wallworthe in the 17th century before becoming Wallwork.
Really learned something today. First the Novo cemetery, then the Tommy Flowers pub. Tommy Flowers worked with Alan Turing on building Colossus from components from a telephone exchange main frame - hence the name for a main frame computer. Tommy Flowers worked at the Post Office Research Department at Dollis Hill.
Great! I tell that story in my book This Other London when I passed the Dollis Hill GPO on a walk. Pretty sure it’s in a video somewhere
Nice 360 shots along the canal.
I did a walk from leyton to limehouse few weeks back..mostly river/canal side via marshgate lane ended up at The Grapes pub for lunch..v nice
lovely, and also sad , the last bit to be knocked down for more hi towers,,,,thanks for the history, your personal perspective, and the music....happy spring!,,,mo from ca
Wonderful - you've inspired me to do some more canal walks when I go to London this summer.