Thanks Rob, I had no idea there were so many Frying Pan Alleys in London and I also didn’t know what the name meant. Your knowledge knows no bounds! 😊❤
Fascinating documentary Rob. The diversity of your productions never ceases to amaze me. Your research library appears to be endless. Thanks for such interesting content. Lance
This content is far superior to anything I've ever seen in the mainstream media. Please keep up the good work. This sort of well-researched content is needed to educate future generations and help them avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
Ah! Bennett’s of Frying Pan Alley, I’d forgotten Mr Bennett. His adverts used to appear every month in ‘Angling’ magazine - a far better journal than anything published today. And Bennett’s adverts were equally tasteful and filled with gentle humour. Thanks for a very interesting video. Les
Rob, there are so many channels on RUclips that are complete rubbish . Yours will never fall into that category . Yet again, another feast of interest with amazing detail, Only a week ago, I was wandering the streets and passage ways of the city out as far as Liverpool Street Station so close yet so far away from this excellent video
Don't think I have ever caught one of your videos before. I really enjoyed this. Your diction is clear, you enunciated your words, didn't rush the subject. Accent is lovely. Thank you x
Goodness that took me back. My husband and I had coffee somewhere around there when we were on our honeymoon. I hadn't remembered it in years! I have a photo of him somewhere. It was a really good photo. I'll have to dig it out.
As I was weeding my garden yesterday, I thought it would be cool if someone posted videos about their town. London was the first place I thought of. And voila, here we are. New subscriber.
I've been watching your vids for some years. I'm a NE lad, now returned to my home town, but I spent a lot of time in London, living in Pimlico, working as a taxi dispatcher in Hammersmith, and other jobs elsewhere. I know London probably as well as a Londoner half my age of 71. So much for history: I've subscribed - long overdue, I concede - because of a continuing fascination with our capital city. Thanx for what you do; long may you do it ❤
Wow! Amazing video. I lived in Frying Pan Alley Spitalfields for a brief period several years ago. Given it was so close to Liverpool street, it was pretty quiet really, the only footfall was for the Hummingbird Bakery! To think of all that had happened there, fascinating and disconcerting all at once!
I had to look up the spelling? But thanks mate, you've turned me into a PHILANTHROPIST,, something I've never been👍🇬🇧💪🙏💯 Thanks for that, hope you have a good bank holiday...... I wish banks would have MORE time off🤑😁🎬
I live in the US now, but my roots are from the ration-era of1950's Manchester. Thank you very much for your excellent videos. With gratitude and love ❤
Lovely stuff Rob. I knew of Frying Pan Alley, from my Jack the Ripper readings, but bever knew there was so many of them. The new buildings in Spitalfields, have definitely taken a lot of the old east end charm.
Hi Rob, Hope you are keeping well, Great video subject, The production values are excellent, And I am continuing to enjoy your fantastic content, Thank you
Thanks Rob for another great video on London Town! London is one of my favorite towns but sadly I've only been there though various authors like Dickens, Doyle, and Arronnovitch. One of the reasons I love your channel because your videos bring these places to life. It's also sad to think of the living conditions our ancestors went through, just to repeat and do it all over again. I'm fairly certain most of us couldn't live that same life today.
Another brilliant film. Having researched my family history in the years circa 1980- 2000 I've had glimpses of the sort of research you've done to make these films and I appreciate how much work goes in. I don't know how much of your sources is now online and available digitally but the searching is still time consuming. In my experience you always found that tiny but highly significant detail on the last page you looked at! I have The Abyss on my Kindle but I stoped reading it halfway. I CANT READ any more. It hurts TOO MUCH. There is an interesting story in my family history,I mean a London one,a chap called William Roupell is in my family history but not a direct ancestor. I am descended from,or my line you could say from his grandfather + mother. My gt gt grandfather William Henry Brand was first cousin to his father Richard Palmer Roupell. I'll stop there or I'll lose the plot! Thanks for yet another enlightening video and London scenes of today.
I used to work 2 minutes walk from the extant Frying Pan Alley, and had previously worked 5 minutes walk from the lost Frying Pan Alley in Clerkenwell.
If anyone could write a historical book on London it would be you Rob and make a series of them I am sure anyone of us would buy them :) So well researched as you usually are would make interesting reading :) Award winning stuff even for a topic such as this sadly the same people exist today are homeless and in the same predicaments as the people featured sadly though we are in a modern world poverty still exists without a street name. Is interesting over time how London has changed to hide such a history I am glad you have brought it back up to discussion. Thanks Rob :)
Hi Rob! I have missed one or two due to study but latched onto this one and pleased to be yet again educated in a most interesting and friendly way! Brilliant!Thank you. Rob
Sat down to dinner this evening and we said: what shall we watch and lo and behold Rob had posted his new video! Great always interesting, this one being a very sad one.. This is such a London story. and i know ! such funny strange street names! bit scarey too...Not long ago i found out about how the Salvation army was wonderfully and really actively helping the poor under William Booth all over England and Scotland in the 1800s, really changing peoples lives. He wrote a book called: Deepest darkest England' to highlight to others the harsh lives of the poor during the 1800's even though England boasted of being a wealthy nation. Any way we always love watching your films Rob and im always impressed with the background music you pick. Great stuff.
Hi Rob, I live in Scotland and will probably never go back to London, haven't visited since the nineties, there's too many people. Thanks to your videos I can see so much of that grand city. I picture you spending hours researching in the British Library 💚
I've just been in town for the BAFTAs. I watch this, and I want to go back! As much time as I've spent in London, I still don't feel like I know the town. Thanks for the guided tour! Cheers!
I hugely enjoyed this. I work on Middlesex Street, right accross Frying Pan Alley which in fact many a colleague and I frequently walk through to reach the backstreets or the Market at lunchtime. Amazing to learn so much about an area I find so fascinating in just one 16 minute video! I have subscribed! 👏
@@Robslondon My pleasure! I can tell I will learn a lot from your channel, just what I had been looking for for some time now! You too take care and keep more extraordinary content coming for as long as time and health allow! 😊
Love your video's, I've said it before, I was a cycle courier in London in the 80s and 90s, and the amazing changes since then( kind of sad ) great stuff learning about the streets that I knew so well, Nice one👌👍
Used to live a short distance away in Vallance Rd and walked through the alley when it was fairly nondescript mainly in the 70s. Also worked fairly close almost opposite Aldgate tube as a post room assistant. Needless to say, its changed almost beyond recognition even in the last 25-30 years. Yet another case of the City invading this corner of the East End
Rob's videos showcasing London are indeed THE best on London. I agree with Jake ... someone give Rob his own series on TV although Rob you might have to be seen but that could be your USP. Never being seen, just heard and people will start wondering who the man is behind the cartoon bird. A social historian a la Banksy!! You really are mega fab.
Ah, bless you... 'Smallcake' ;-) Good to see you here! Pictures of me can be found online if you do a bit of detective work.... and I have a very good tour guide friend who knows exactly who I am! Hope you're keeping well and thanks again; really appreciate the support and kind words.
Worked near Spitalfields for four years in the early 1990s. Used to take long walks around the area at lunchtimes, fascinating history, as everyone probably knows it's also Jack the Ripper territory. You could feel the history oozing out of every brick & cobble. When I started there it was the last days of the fruit & veg market and I watched several entrepreneurs turn it into something more like Camden Market. Great film, you made me nostalgic for London, but I wouldn't want to live there now - too old!
9:13 "Who on earth was naming these places?" I imagine this was just a joke, but in case anyone's curious: The names on maps were usually taken from locals' names for them, they often didn't have official names. As an early part of the video alluded to, Frying Pan Alleys were usually named for ironmongers' shop signs, but what it didn't mention is probably that the reason these signs were taken as the name is because they were probably the best identifying mark for those particular alleys, perhaps visible from near the entrance to the alley. The various "Naked Boys" most likely referred to pub signs or other images of mythological/allegorical characters such as Cupid, Bacchus, or putti, a not uncommon sight on houses and pubs, their intended meaning opaque to the uneducated locals.
I’m a romantic at heart, I’ve worked in the city for years and always wanted Frying Pan Alley as my address. I still walk around it regularly just to remind myself how great a name it is. Never photographed a street name as much as this one. Lovely video, thank you!
Surprise, it’s not about cooking! This episode was very interesting. I don’t suppose there will come a day when all the history of London has been explored. Thank you.
Another person from that area was Mickey Davis. He lived on the south east corner of the Spital Fields Marker. He was a local councilor, dentist and set up what was known as 'Mickey's Shelter', accross the street during the blitz. Appauled by the state of the place, he organised cleaning rosters, entertainment and tea. I think she should at least have a blue plaque.
@@Robslondon I've just submitted a blue plaque nomination. It'd be nice to not just see them representing the 'great and the good'. For more details, just Google Search - "Mickey Davis", shelter - so you don't get basketball players etc.
dyskelia as a child Rob was a great story writer and a brilliant artist. His ambition was to illustrate children's books, sadly this never happened. Thanks for your kind comment as it brought back happy memories for me. Much respect Robs dad.😊
Great video Rob. In some of the older London libraries (try Purley) there might be a book that lists every street name that the London County Council changed in the 1920s. My street Plough Way changed from plough Road so not much change but some streets were completely renamed. I'm sure frying pan alleys were among them. Hope this helps
I have family who lived in similar places in the mid 1800s. Clerkenwell and Islington. St Pancras. Stepney. Some were in and out of the workhouse. This was very interesting.
Coo, I used to work at Steamship Mutual Assurance right on the corner of Frying Pan Alley and Goulston St as it went up to Spitalfields market. Used to love that part of East London.
Interesting and sad. Nice tho' that you showcased these alleys and the people who lived there. The part of history that never gets covered. Didn't know about Jack London. As a young person I enjoyed his books. Hello from lovely Oregon US.
Have to wonder if the US term "Tin Pan Alley" originates from similar. It's mostly associated with a type of music, but maybe it was likely music that would be found in a tin pan alley. I have a hard time believing "tin pan alley" just came from nothing to describe a type of music, despite what a google search turns up.
That’s a very good point. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was a similar meaning. When making the video I was also thinking of the American term ‘Skid Row’
It's fairly sure it's slang, because of the cheap music shops in NYC in the late 1800s that made and sold lesser quality pianos etc. They sounded a bit rubbish, like banging a tin pan. I always thought it was associated with the Florida panhandle (that strip that protrudes west like... well, like a pan handle) but apparently unrelated.
Another fascinating video Rob thank you! I have a question, where did the people go when a sum area was cleared? Also, I learned about the green cabby boxes this week. There is another great Historian like you whom I learnt this from, but they are only shorts and not as much detail and research as your videos. Love yours so much more :-)
Thank you so much Caroline! And that's a good question... from what I understand, in many cases, folk were just expected to find somewhere new to live with no help. Although this would've improved as more social housing (such as Peabody flats) were built. Thanks again ;-)
@@Robslondon The Peabody Trust is still going and recently amalgamated with the housing association where I have been a tenant for many years. Without housing associations there would be little or no housing for those on modest incomes in London.
Give this man his own television series. As always, thanks so much for all your hard work.
Thank you so much Jake! That would be nice wouldn’t it…. Thanks for all your support.
I remember London before it was gentrified & i miss it. I'm so grateful for historians. 🙏❤
Thank you. And I know what you mean…
Same thing happened to San Francisco :(
Most of the world gets gentrified, by colonizers or later the folks they colonized who come home to roost 😂😂😂
Thanks Rob, I had no idea there were so many Frying Pan Alleys in London and I also didn’t know what the name meant. Your knowledge knows no bounds! 😊❤
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Fascinating documentary Rob. The diversity of your productions never ceases to amaze me. Your research library appears to be endless. Thanks for such interesting content. Lance
Lance, thank you so much for the kind words mate- really appreciate it. Hope you’re keeping well.
This content is far superior to anything I've ever seen in the mainstream media. Please keep up the good work. This sort of well-researched content is needed to educate future generations and help them avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
Thank you so much. That means a great deal to me.
Ah! Bennett’s of Frying Pan Alley, I’d forgotten Mr Bennett. His adverts used to appear every month in ‘Angling’ magazine - a far better journal than anything published today. And Bennett’s adverts were equally tasteful and filled with gentle humour. Thanks for a very interesting video. Les
Great comment, cheers Les.
Rob, there are so many channels on RUclips that are complete rubbish . Yours will never fall into that category . Yet again, another feast of interest with amazing detail,
Only a week ago, I was wandering the streets and passage ways of the city out as far as Liverpool Street Station so close yet so far away from this excellent video
Thank you so much Butch. I filmed this last week… so we may well have crossed paths! 😉
Out of the frying pan and into one of Rob’s splendid documentaries… 🍳🍳🍳
You bring the streets of London to life every time 👌👌👌
Bless you Phil, thank you. Much appreciated mate.
Don't think I have ever caught one of your videos before. I really enjoyed this. Your diction is clear, you enunciated your words, didn't rush the subject. Accent is lovely. Thank you x
Your kind words mean a great deal to me Glamrockqueen, thank you so much. (Great name and avatar by the way!) Stay well and thanks again.
@@Robslondon Always honest love. xx
@@Glamrockqueen Cheers ;-)
Goodness that took me back. My husband and I had coffee somewhere around there when we were on our honeymoon. I hadn't remembered it in years! I have a photo of him somewhere. It was a really good photo. I'll have to dig it out.
Ah! Would love to see that 😉
Love the endless stories of the history of our city London. Oh to have a time machine and just go back for a day to experience.
Would be quite an experience 😉
Yes that does sound good, but I’d be afraid the Time Machine would get stuck, and that would be awful!!😣
As I was weeding my garden yesterday, I thought it would be cool if someone posted videos about their town. London was the first place I thought of. And voila, here we are. New subscriber.
Brilliant comment! And it's great to have you here :-D Thank you.
I've been watching your vids for some years. I'm a NE lad, now returned to my home town, but I spent a lot of time in London, living in Pimlico, working as a taxi dispatcher in Hammersmith, and other jobs elsewhere. I know London probably as well as a Londoner half my age of 71.
So much for history: I've subscribed - long overdue, I concede - because of a continuing fascination with our capital city.
Thanx for what you do; long may you do it ❤
Paul, I really appreciate that mate, thank you so much. Lovely comment. And it’s great to have you here. Thanks again and stay well.
Wow! Amazing video. I lived in Frying Pan Alley Spitalfields for a brief period several years ago. Given it was so close to Liverpool street, it was pretty quiet really, the only footfall was for the Hummingbird Bakery! To think of all that had happened there, fascinating and disconcerting all at once!
Wonderful comment, thank you! I know the Hummingbird Bakery ;-) Thanks again and stay well.
That was an emotional journey Rob and I agree, so glad to be living in the relative comfort of the present. Thank you, this is a gem.
Bless you Anne, thank you so much.
It’s good to have such a balance of subjects - your videos zip by because they’re so interesting and absorbing.
Much appreciated Jon, cheers 😉 Hope all is well.
Another great journey Thanks.
I myself am just another LONDONER 🇬🇧💯🆘 With a HARDENED INDIFFERENCE 🤕🎬🙏👍
CHEERS MATE💪🤩🥇🇬🇧
Gary, that's so kind of you mate. Really appreciate your support and kind words! Thanks again and enjoy the bank holiday ;-) Cheers.
I had to look up the spelling?
But thanks mate, you've turned me into a PHILANTHROPIST,, something I've never been👍🇬🇧💪🙏💯
Thanks for that, hope you have a good bank holiday...... I wish banks would have MORE time off🤑😁🎬
I live in the US now, but my roots are from the ration-era of1950's Manchester.
Thank you very much for your excellent videos. With gratitude and love
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Beautiful comment. Thank you.
Thanks for the videos, a lot of fascinating facts about London
That is so kind. Thank you so much my friend; I truly appreciate your kind words and financial support. Stay well and thank you again.
Just love these stories of old London! An amazing city. Thanks again Rob and please do keep them coming,
Thank you Paul! Will do ;-)
Rob your videos are so interesting. You are definitely one of the best social historians on RUclips by a country mile. ❤
That’s so kind of you Missmuffet, thank you! ☺️
First time viewer, here in Texas USA.
Fascinating story telling!
Thanks ❤
Thank you so much 😄 Good to have you here.
Really fascinating. Hours of research must have gone into that video so thank you.
Much appreciated Nick, thank you.
Lovely stuff Rob. I knew of Frying Pan Alley, from my Jack the Ripper readings, but bever knew there was so many of them. The new buildings in Spitalfields, have definitely taken a lot of the old east end charm.
Good comment Paul, and thanks for the kind words. Stay well mate.
Hi Rob, Hope you are keeping well, Great video subject, The production values are excellent, And I am continuing to enjoy your fantastic content, Thank you
Dave, I truly appreciate your kind words and financial support- thank you so much. Stay well sir.
Thanks Rob for another great video on London Town! London is one of my favorite towns but sadly I've only been there though various authors like Dickens, Doyle, and Arronnovitch. One of the reasons I love your channel because your videos bring these places to life. It's also sad to think of the living conditions our ancestors went through, just to repeat and do it all over again. I'm fairly certain most of us couldn't live that same life today.
Beautiful comment. Thank you so much. I hope you make it here for real someday Ted.
Cheers Rob for another informative slice of Londons history. Keep up the great work
It’s a pleasure Davo. Thank you for watching and thanks for the kind words; I really appreciate it. Stay well.
Another brilliant film. Having researched my family history in the years circa 1980- 2000 I've had glimpses of the sort of research you've done to make these films and I appreciate how much work goes in. I don't know how much of your sources is now online and available digitally but the searching is still time consuming. In my experience you always found that tiny but highly significant detail on the last page you looked at! I have The Abyss on my Kindle but I stoped reading it halfway. I CANT READ any more. It hurts TOO MUCH. There is an interesting story in my family history,I mean a London one,a chap called William Roupell is in my family history but not a direct ancestor. I am descended from,or my line you could say from his grandfather + mother. My gt gt grandfather William Henry Brand was first cousin to his father Richard Palmer Roupell. I'll stop there or I'll lose the plot! Thanks for yet another enlightening video and London scenes of today.
Fantastic comment Jane. Thank you and stay well.
Nice work! Very thorough, informative, and interesting. I also enjoy your voice. Keep up the good work, and thanks!
Thanks so much, really kind of you to say 😊
Thanks Rob. I always appreciate your interesting and well narrated videos. Grim reality is best not swept under the carpet.
Thank you, much appreciated.
Absolutely brilliant & enlightening. Those poor people. Very well narrated. You bet I'm subscribing !
Really appreciate that Bob, thank you. And it’s good to have you here!
Cheers mate! It's just mad what people went through on those streets I'm passing by now and then. Absolutely mad.
Thanks ;-) It is isn't it...
Thanks for a fascinating, although quite sad, video. I love all the history in London. You do a great job bringing it to your subscribers.
That’s really kind of you to say Joan, thank you.
I used to work 2 minutes walk from the extant Frying Pan Alley, and had previously worked 5 minutes walk from the lost Frying Pan Alley in Clerkenwell.
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Absolutely interesting. I love hearing about the street names and I hope you continue to do more of them! Thanks Rob
Thank you Deb…. And I certainly will be 😉
If anyone could write a historical book on London it would be you Rob and make a series of them I am sure anyone of us would buy them :) So well researched as you usually are would make interesting reading :)
Award winning stuff even for a topic such as this sadly the same people exist today are homeless and in the same predicaments as the people featured sadly though we are in a modern world poverty still exists without a street name. Is interesting over time how London has changed to hide such a history I am glad you have brought it back up to discussion. Thanks Rob :)
Lovely comment, and thank you so much for the kind words. Much appreciated 😉 Stay well.
I have lived near London (Crawley) for over 15 years and only now am I really getting a closer insight into the city - thank you very much 👍👍!
Thank you Andrea!
Crawley? Just up the road from me! (Waves from Horsham👋)
Very well done. Thank you for the Jack London information. May they all rest in peace.
Nice sentiment Christina, thank you.
Hi Rob! I have missed one or two due to study but latched onto this one and pleased to be yet again educated in a most interesting and friendly way! Brilliant!Thank you.
Rob
Thanks so much Rob! Hope the studying is going well
Sat down to dinner this evening and we said: what shall we watch and lo and behold Rob had posted his new video! Great always interesting, this one being a very sad one.. This is such a London story. and i know ! such funny strange street names! bit scarey too...Not long ago i found out about how the Salvation army was wonderfully and really actively helping the poor under William Booth all over England and Scotland in the 1800s, really changing peoples lives. He wrote a book called: Deepest darkest England' to highlight to others the harsh lives of the poor during the 1800's even though England boasted of being a wealthy nation.
Any way we always love watching your films Rob and im always impressed with the background music you pick. Great stuff.
Such a lovely video Sharon, thank you! Pleased to know I can help in some way 😉
Hi Rob, I live in Scotland and will probably never go back to London, haven't visited since the nineties, there's too many people. Thanks to your videos I can see so much of that grand city. I picture you spending hours researching in the British Library 💚
Such a lovely comment Evelyn, thank you! I hope you do make it back sometime... worth it even if you don't like crowds ;-) Thanks again and stay well.
So much fun to watch and recognize areas.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Exceptional work Rob, brilliant video. Absolutely loved it, thanks once again.
Thank you as always Slycockney. Much appreciated mate. Hope you’re keeping well.
A bit of History with a coffee, perfect Sunday evening pass time, thanks Rob 🙂
Enjoy 😉
@@Robslondon I did very much, thank you 🙂
@@RobbieHall1984 Cheers Rob. And thank you for your support; it means a lot to me mate.
Another great video Rob, top class.
Much appreciated, thank you!
Another great video Rob. It's always great to no about old london days gone by. 👍👍👍👍
Thank you Sharky! Hope you’re keeping well
@Robslondon always welcome Rob. Great video . I'm doing good. Hope your doing well mate .
Great stuff as always Rob, thanks for your hard work uploading this. Cheers, Robert.
Always a pleasure! Thank you so much for watching 😉
My my what a trip! Both geographical and chronological, how diligent thou art, thank you for all your efforts.
Lovely comment, thank you so much! Hope you’re keeping well 😉
Great video, I'm fascinated with how London streets were named. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos! 😊
Thank you!
Thank you Rob, once again you have brought to life a piece of London history. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks so much Neil ☺️
Great video Rob! From Brooklyn, NY.
Thank you! Good to have you here my friend 🇺🇸
Thanks for a wonderful story of lost London streets 🎉
Thank you David 😄
Brilliant work as always rob keep up the good work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Cheers Mick
Blimey, what a brilliant video! I was about to ignore it… gladly I didn’t. New subscriber, most certainly! 😃
Ah! Thanks Gerard, much appreciated! Good to have you here 😉
I've just been in town for the BAFTAs. I watch this, and I want to go back! As much time as I've spent in London, I still don't feel like I know the town. Thanks for the guided tour! Cheers!
Thank you! Hope you make it back soon 😉
Thanks!
Really appreciate that Zen, thank you!
I hugely enjoyed this. I work on Middlesex Street, right accross Frying Pan Alley which in fact many a colleague and I frequently walk through to reach the backstreets or the Market at lunchtime. Amazing to learn so much about an area I find so fascinating in just one 16 minute video! I have subscribed! 👏
I really appreciate your kind words Missq, thank you! And it’s good to have you here 😉 Thanks again and stay well.
@@Robslondon My pleasure! I can tell I will learn a lot from your channel, just what I had been looking for for some time now! You too take care and keep more extraordinary content coming for as long as time and health allow! 😊
@@missq4724 Thanks! And will do 😄
Excellent as always my friend. Thankyou . You deserve more viewers and subs .
That means a lot to me. Many thanks indeed.
Love your video's, I've said it before, I was a cycle courier in London in the 80s and 90s, and the amazing changes since then( kind of sad ) great stuff learning about the streets that I knew so well, Nice one👌👍
Ah, cheers Larry!
Used to live a short distance away in Vallance Rd and walked through the alley when it was fairly nondescript mainly in the 70s. Also worked fairly close almost opposite Aldgate tube as a post room assistant. Needless to say, its changed almost beyond recognition even in the last 25-30 years. Yet another case of the City invading this corner of the East End
Good comment, thank you. I’m hoping to cover Vallance Road at some point.
@@Robslondon Brilliant, that'll be great.
New Rob’s!Im so exited!!
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Nice work once again, Rob...
Just love the phrase "Curious of prying into futurity"..!
Thanks Bryan! Yes, they had a way with words back then 😉
Very interesting and informative glimpse of history. You've clearly done your homework well. Many thanks!
Much appreciated, thank you.
Rob's videos showcasing London are indeed THE best on London. I agree with Jake ... someone give Rob his own series on TV although Rob you might have to be seen but that could be your USP. Never being seen, just heard and people will start wondering who the man is behind the cartoon bird. A social historian a la Banksy!! You really are mega fab.
Ah, bless you... 'Smallcake' ;-) Good to see you here! Pictures of me can be found online if you do a bit of detective work.... and I have a very good tour guide friend who knows exactly who I am!
Hope you're keeping well and thanks again; really appreciate the support and kind words.
Worked near Spitalfields for four years in the early 1990s. Used to take long walks around the area at lunchtimes, fascinating history, as everyone probably knows it's also Jack the Ripper territory. You could feel the history oozing out of every brick & cobble. When I started there it was the last days of the fruit & veg market and I watched several entrepreneurs turn it into something more like Camden Market. Great film, you made me nostalgic for London, but I wouldn't want to live there now - too old!
Lovely comment and thank you for the kind words.
9:13 "Who on earth was naming these places?" I imagine this was just a joke, but in case anyone's curious: The names on maps were usually taken from locals' names for them, they often didn't have official names. As an early part of the video alluded to, Frying Pan Alleys were usually named for ironmongers' shop signs, but what it didn't mention is probably that the reason these signs were taken as the name is because they were probably the best identifying mark for those particular alleys, perhaps visible from near the entrance to the alley. The various "Naked Boys" most likely referred to pub signs or other images of mythological/allegorical characters such as Cupid, Bacchus, or putti, a not uncommon sight on houses and pubs, their intended meaning opaque to the uneducated locals.
Thank you for your contribution. And yes, the rhetorical question was intended to be humorous.
I worked in Rowell House alongside which was the Spitalfields Frying Pan Alley. Fond memories.
Thank you so much for your amazing research Rob! I enjoy these stories from London that I wouldn't normally know. I look forward to your next one
Thank you so much Nanou :-)
I’m a romantic at heart, I’ve worked in the city for years and always wanted Frying Pan Alley as my address. I still walk around it regularly just to remind myself how great a name it is. Never photographed a street name as much as this one. Lovely video, thank you!
Really nice comment; thank you 😉
Hello Rob
Another excellent researched and edit video. Love old maps of London. Thanks for the video. Take care Chris and Sandra of Canada.
Thanks so much Chris and Sandra! Hope you're both keeping well.
Very interesting and enjoyable!
Thank you Emily!
Good job Rob, as ever :)
Thank you!
Surprise, it’s not about cooking! This episode was very interesting. I don’t suppose there will come a day when all the history of London has been explored. Thank you.
Thank you!
Another Sunday night made, thanks 😊
A pleasure as always mate. Hope you’re keeping well.
Well researched - good stuff 👍
Thank you John
Takk!
Ronny! Thank you so much my friend, that is incredibly kind of you 🙂 Much appreciated; hope you're keeping well.
@@Robslondon Thanks to you. Your videos are highlights.
@@ronnyskaar3737 Thank you so much Ronny.
The amazing thing is that none of your rivals on here has found this fascinating subject before.
It is difficult to think of original topics!
Another excellent Sunday evening video.
Thank you Paul, glad you enjoyed it.
Another fascinating video. Thanks!!
Thanks Stephen! Much appreciated
Another person from that area was Mickey Davis. He lived on the south east corner of the Spital Fields Marker. He was a local councilor, dentist and set up what was known as 'Mickey's Shelter', accross the street during the blitz. Appauled by the state of the place, he organised cleaning rosters, entertainment and tea. I think she should at least have a blue plaque.
Interesting, thanks Jenny
@@Robslondon I've just submitted a blue plaque nomination. It'd be nice to not just see them representing the 'great and the good'. For more details, just Google Search - "Mickey Davis", shelter - so you don't get basketball players etc.
I love this guy’s adorable voice. He should narrate children’s books.
That's so kind of you to say :-) Many thanks!
dyskelia as a child Rob was a great story writer and a brilliant artist. His ambition was to illustrate children's books, sadly this never happened. Thanks for your kind comment as it brought back happy memories for me. Much respect Robs dad.😊
Great video Rob. In some of the older London libraries (try Purley) there might be a book that lists every street name that the London County Council changed in the 1920s. My street Plough Way changed from plough Road so not much change but some streets were completely renamed. I'm sure frying pan alleys were among them. Hope this helps
Much appreciated, thank you ;-) Good tip.
This was excellent! Thank you so much!
Thank you! And thanks for watching 😉
Brilliant video Rob. Very interesting indeed. I’ve walked around there a few times but never noticed the street name? 😊 Cheers Rob.
Thank you Greg!
Thanks, Rob.
Thanks Jonathan
Wonderful video, as usual Rob👍🏼
Thank you Russell!
I have family who lived in similar places in the mid 1800s. Clerkenwell and Islington.
St Pancras. Stepney.
Some were in and out of the workhouse.
This was very interesting.
Thank you Judy
Coo, I used to work at Steamship Mutual Assurance right on the corner of Frying Pan Alley and Goulston St as it went up to Spitalfields market. Used to love that part of East London.
Lovely comment ;-) Cheers.
Interesting and sad. Nice tho' that you showcased these alleys and the people who lived there. The part of history that never gets covered. Didn't know about Jack London. As a young person I enjoyed his books. Hello from lovely Oregon US.
Much appreciated Melissa, thank you.
Thanks again John in Chicago
Thanks John.
Very interesting and informative Rob❤
Thank you Vicky 😄
Have to wonder if the US term "Tin Pan Alley" originates from similar. It's mostly associated with a type of music, but maybe it was likely music that would be found in a tin pan alley. I have a hard time believing "tin pan alley" just came from nothing to describe a type of music, despite what a google search turns up.
That’s a very good point. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was a similar meaning. When making the video I was also thinking of the American term ‘Skid Row’
It's fairly sure it's slang, because of the cheap music shops in NYC in the late 1800s that made and sold lesser quality pianos etc. They sounded a bit rubbish, like banging a tin pan. I always thought it was associated with the Florida panhandle (that strip that protrudes west like... well, like a pan handle) but apparently unrelated.
I think it's very likely. I guess a skilled but poor musician could beat out a tune on a frying pan and probably pretty good too!
So educational. Well done
Thanks so much Robbojax. Hope you’re keeping well
Thank you for this fascinating video.
It’s a pleasure. Thank you for watching!
Another great video my friend ❤️Thank you Thank you 😊
It’s a pleasure! Thank you ☺️
Love your video's! Greetings from Victoria across the pond on another island.
Much appreciated Graham! Thank you ☺️
Really interesting, thanks Rob
Much appreciated Victoria, thank you :-)
“Razor Blade Alley”- Madness 1983. 🥁🎤
Wow, this unique video really shows how lucky we are today.
thank you Rachel
Another fascinating video Rob thank you! I have a question, where did the people go when a sum area was cleared? Also, I learned about the green cabby boxes this week. There is another great Historian like you whom I learnt this from, but they are only shorts and not as much detail and research as your videos. Love yours so much more :-)
Thank you so much Caroline! And that's a good question... from what I understand, in many cases, folk were just expected to find somewhere new to live with no help.
Although this would've improved as more social housing (such as Peabody flats) were built.
Thanks again ;-)
@@Robslondon The Peabody Trust is still going and recently amalgamated with the housing association where I have been a tenant for many years. Without housing associations there would be little or no housing for those on modest incomes in London.
@@stevebarlow3154 This is very true Steve.