Nothing like a bit of ordinary, everyday history. It doesn't really matter where it is, it's the sort of stuff I often muse at during my benign travels. Nice idea, and I've learnt something about buildings too. Keep it up Rog!
I have to say, I loved this video. Everything you notice is an eye opener. I'm 37 and have been laying for just 2 years after a career change. So everything is quite new to me. But I still have 30 years left to learn. Great video 👍
I think you and I are of the same vintage and I too remember The Nutley with great affection. My father worked at Reigate Station and regularly bumped into Cliff Michelmore along with other notables including one of the Great Train Robbers. I wish they would re-open the caves as I am sure they still have plenty to offer and if I recall correctly, I believe it is possible to cave all the way to Dorking!
This was a most enjoyable video, around a town that I've never been through. Of course Cliff and Jean were such nice people , on TV. We could do with some, today. Maybe you could take walks around Tunbridge Wells , and even Canterbury. Thanks for this one.
Nice on Roger - you and many like you are the reason I stopped watching telly and now spend my time hopping around RUclips content instead. I bet you lot used to have some right tear-ups with Crawley back in the day 😉
Great commentary Roger, just shows how we are advancing backwards with modern buildings. How do you think the dry verge/ ridge , fiberglass canopies/dormers , pvc facias and composite doors will look in just 50 year's let alone 200.
Really happy to hear you say these modifications to these houses will date within 10 years or so - I've never, ever understood the idea of buying an old house and then trying to make it "modern" looking.... Very odd indeed. Just give me a Georgian house and i'm a happy man - very attractive imo.
Great walk Roger… like going anywhere with my dad, who was a building surveyor/site manager and couldn’t turn off his eye for these details. To this day I walk past houses and check to see if they “mixed the brick batches properly” 🤣. I agree with you on those ultra modern house conversions (anthracite windows, etc). Anything that’s the height of fashion will date! Someone round our way has just done one with every modern trope going. Grey everywhere, cladding. I give it until 2024! Reigate seems archetypal of so many British towns and villages; “that was a pub once, and that”. Except with some serious affluence. Nice houses! And boy weren’t the builders of yesteryear craftsmen. There’s a place called Great Yeldham in Essex with one of those “old long walls”… except the whole thing curves in and out in a perfect wave for well over 100 meters. Edit: I’ve just googled it and they’re called “Crinkle Crankle” walls apparently and are more common in neighbouring Suffolk. Might have to go and find some more!
Fantastic! Reigate is local to me so it was great to see you go through and explain some of the history of the buildings and walls etc. More of these please Roger!
I do like Reigate. Many years ago I was a student at the old Art School down Blackborough Road, it was based in a lovely Victorian house. All gone now I believe, knocked down with new houses built on the site.
most people walk past a building without noticing anything ,as a bricklayer i notice things i once worked with a very good carpenter and commented on an old telephone exchange next door to where we working and mentioned how it was all built in soft reds in flemish bond ,he didnt realise there were different brickwork bonds !, also did a lot of re furb round east london asked some lads why do you think those windows are bricked up ? they didnt know back in the day there was a window tax
What an absolutely fascinating video! Beautiful, interesting (and, most importantly I think) varied architecture along with an expert commentary. Great camera work as well. A perfect accompaniment for tea and a piece of cake! Thanks very much for making this, looking forward to more!
Really enjoyed this. Fascinating looking at building history. I would be interested to hear your ramblings on everything from the highstreet (lovely buildings when you look above the facades) through to new build "urban extensions".
It was interesting,engaging and full of energy talk flavoured with history, I would request you to make such videos regularly about each town you work. I always find similar questions in mind while roaming any British town, luckily you also offer answer while inspecting any structure
Nice to see something different, Roger. Glad I'm not the only one that goes round looking at brickwork. 😁 One thing that bugs me is when a house is extended to take up the whole plot. Usually no longer symmetrical, just filling the whole plot with house! sometimes losing any access to the rear gardens. The original architecture seems lost even when similar materials are used. More rants about building design please 😁 PS Is there a way we could contribute with photos of good or bad architecture?
I have been living your videos Roger, and was overjoyed when I realised you lived in Reigate and are a near neighbour (I’m in Redhill so not quite as salubrious!). Loving to hear a bit of local history, and glad this is just part 1
That was a Brilliant Walk-Through Roger .. Very Interesting ..... Puts my #Wargrave Tour Video to shame 😄 ..... Talking of those 'Brick Panels' ... Have you seen the 'Flint Panels' ?? ....... AARRGGHH!!!!!!!
Interesting to see, this kind of stuff is all around when you stop for a minute to look for it. The nap flint walls are a very south downs are feature.
I will never say I know more about stuff than you Rog but I do know that that knot your referring to is called a girth hitch or larks foot and not a clove hitch. I'm an rope tech though so I should know!
That knot Roger is known as a "Cow hitch" or "Lanyard Hitch" ... very similar to a "Clove hitch" ... good ranting btw pal ... we all do this as we get older, reflection and comparisons, all healthy view points.
Nice little stroll round my old stomping ground. Used to go to the Nutley on a Sunday for the music. It was the boxer Alan Minter's local I believe. If you want a rant just go 2 mile east and visit Redhill. But then you know how they have wrecked that town.
The man deserves his own TV show
I'd watch it.
I’d watch it too!
Please continue with this series Rodger, really interesting stuff, great insight
Nothing like a bit of ordinary, everyday history. It doesn't really matter where it is, it's the sort of stuff I often muse at during my benign travels. Nice idea, and I've learnt something about buildings too. Keep it up Rog!
Brings me back to growing up in dublin. More please.
This wasn't a rant, more like a pleasant documentary of your younger working life. Got anymore??? 😊👍👍
Romancing Roger regaling of the old times !! Love it!!! Keep it up Rodg
Roger's talents know no limit. Yes, I used to visit Reigate, Redhill and environs a lot
The Skimmington Castle comes to mind.
Nice video Roger , I could listen to you all day long, stories , advice etc very interesting bloke
Perfect. Your best rant, informative, rambling, good-natured, funny.
Wow, thanks!
Rog you LEDG that was brilliant!!!
This is why I love this channel. Lots of different stuff all of which is very very good. To class guys.
More of these Roger . I love your views on modern , and old building techniques .
Excellent
Lovely walk and commentary around my local town. Thanks Roger.
"Roaming Roger" should be a regular segment, in my opinion.
Lovely - more of this please - what a great channel this is entertainment and education .
Yes, exactly. There are some outstanding trades channels on RUclips, but I think the prize must go to this one.
I have to say, I loved this video. Everything you notice is an eye opener. I'm 37 and have been laying for just 2 years after a career change. So everything is quite new to me. But I still have 30 years left to learn. Great video 👍
Why only 30????
that was refreshingly interesting, nice one
You were right by the entrance to Reigate rifle range ... amazing what you can find in England
I think you and I are of the same vintage and I too remember The Nutley with great affection. My father worked at Reigate Station and regularly bumped into Cliff Michelmore along with other notables including one of the Great Train Robbers. I wish they would re-open the caves as I am sure they still have plenty to offer and if I recall correctly, I believe it is possible to cave all the way to Dorking!
This was a most enjoyable video, around a town that I've never been through.
Of course Cliff and Jean were such nice people , on TV. We could do with some, today.
Maybe you could take walks around Tunbridge Wells , and even Canterbury.
Thanks for this one.
A remarkable departure from the normal blog Roger and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 👍🏻 More!
I remember Cliff Michelmore very well. I'm from South Wales his broadcast from Aberfan after the disaster was very, very poignant.
Nice on Roger - you and many like you are the reason I stopped watching telly and now spend my time hopping around RUclips content instead. I bet you lot used to have some right tear-ups with Crawley back in the day 😉
Great commentary Roger, just shows how we are advancing backwards with modern buildings. How do you think the dry verge/ ridge , fiberglass canopies/dormers , pvc facias and composite doors will look in just 50 year's let alone 200.
What a lovely video.
Please do more like this
Great video Roger very interesting 👌🏼🧱👍🏽
That was a nice little look into your neighbourhood and some of the local architecture. It was really interesting for a Ozzie 👍
Really happy to hear you say these modifications to these houses will date within 10 years or so - I've never, ever understood the idea of buying an old house and then trying to make it "modern" looking....
Very odd indeed.
Just give me a Georgian house and i'm a happy man - very attractive imo.
Great walk Roger… like going anywhere with my dad, who was a building surveyor/site manager and couldn’t turn off his eye for these details. To this day I walk past houses and check to see if they “mixed the brick batches properly” 🤣.
I agree with you on those ultra modern house conversions (anthracite windows, etc). Anything that’s the height of fashion will date! Someone round our way has just done one with every modern trope going. Grey everywhere, cladding. I give it until 2024!
Reigate seems archetypal of so many British towns and villages; “that was a pub once, and that”. Except with some serious affluence. Nice houses!
And boy weren’t the builders of yesteryear craftsmen. There’s a place called Great Yeldham in Essex with one of those “old long walls”… except the whole thing curves in and out in a perfect wave for well over 100 meters. Edit: I’ve just googled it and they’re called “Crinkle Crankle” walls apparently and are more common in neighbouring Suffolk. Might have to go and find some more!
Fantastic! Reigate is local to me so it was great to see you go through and explain some of the history of the buildings and walls etc. More of these please Roger!
Really good to hear about old property's I often look at buliding's and think that must have some history
Keep up the good work mate, appreciate the realness.
I loved this one Roger
Brilliant little watch that ,top bloke is Roger
Don't normally comment but enjoy all the vids and this tour of your local area was really interesting.
You never fail to entertain Rodger, keep on keeping on!
Very interesting & always a pleasure to watch 👌🏽
Roger…. don’t stop sharing your thoughts and knowledge. You are a legend and if ever in MK let me know 🙏🏽
Nice Roger. There’s so many great looking buildings about that we just take for granted.
Really enjoyed this. Nice mix of building knowledge and history
That was really enjoyable and educational. You have a knack. Well done.
Need more of that fellas!
New style. I like it. Keep em coming..
Enjoyed that Rog. More please 🙏
Great vid. More of these please, Roger!
A great bit of history , well enjoyed , thanks Roger .
Really interesting look at the surroundings. Feel free to do more.
I do like Reigate. Many years ago I was a student at the old Art School down Blackborough Road, it was based in a lovely Victorian house. All gone now I believe, knocked down with new houses built on the site.
The Georgian property with the modern extension brickwork set back makes it look "eye sweet" . Don't try to hide it
Absolutely fascinating, Roger. More, please!
Thank you that made a very nice change, well done good walking commentary and interesting look at the old buildings.
Great idea..and I can see it getting better
ROGER great video love to see more like this thanks 😊🔨🔩📐
Great video. very relaxed , we could all take a bit more interest in our local surroundings.
You're a right old Clarkson Roger. No matter what you put out it's always worth a squint.
Nice little vid Roger... The next Michael Palin! 🤩
Love this style of video Roger
I love how English people care about their history and culture I am so glad that I am part of this amazing people
most people walk past a building without noticing anything ,as a bricklayer i notice things i once worked with a very good carpenter and commented on an old telephone exchange next door to where we working and mentioned how it was all built in soft reds in flemish bond ,he didnt realise there were different brickwork bonds !, also did a lot of re furb round east london asked some lads why do you think those windows are bricked up ? they didnt know back in the day there was a window tax
Would be fun having you tour some of my towns shoddy new developments! Brickwork like grandmas teeth
What an absolutely fascinating video!
Beautiful, interesting (and, most importantly I think) varied architecture along with an expert commentary. Great camera work as well.
A perfect accompaniment for tea and a piece of cake!
Thanks very much for making this, looking forward to more!
Loved this, Roger's a wise man.
nice to see some different building styles - don't see much old stuff here in oz -- fantastic - keep 'em cummin'
This was great Roger.
Really enjoyed this. seeing things that are usually overlooked as mundane or ordinary from a different perspective. Thanks.
Really enjoyed this. Fascinating looking at building history. I would be interested to hear your ramblings on everything from the highstreet (lovely buildings when you look above the facades) through to new build "urban extensions".
Couldn’t agree more with the Grey plague.
If you watch the ghastly Homes under the hammer, the finished houses are all grey inside.
Right on my doorstep and not really appreciated ......until now! Not really a Rant but nearly and much appreciated! Thanks!
Enjoyed that. Snappy, to the point and really quite interesting. Please do some more.
It was interesting,engaging and full of energy talk flavoured with history, I would request you to make such videos regularly about each town you work. I always find similar questions in mind while roaming any British town, luckily you also offer answer while inspecting any structure
This is an excellent format and an idea for videos, very interesting. Reigate is a lovely place.
More of these Roger, can you tell us some of your apprentice stories. What was it like to be an apprentice back in the day.
Yes, I second that!
Great video..!
Lovely little tour and chat 👍
Great interesting video Roger with great commentary as alway - keep up the good work!
Enjoyed that cheers.
Brilliant video. More of this please
Brilliant.
Love ya work Rog , all the best from your mates in Oz 🇦🇺👍
Enjoyed that video. Nice to come home from work ( refurbing a house) and switch off. Nice one Matey
Really interesting!
Nice to see something different, Roger. Glad I'm not the only one that goes round looking at brickwork. 😁 One thing that bugs me is when a house is extended to take up the whole plot. Usually no longer symmetrical, just filling the whole plot with house! sometimes losing any access to the rear gardens. The original architecture seems lost even when similar materials are used. More rants about building design please 😁
PS Is there a way we could contribute with photos of good or bad architecture?
Excellent video Roger, thank you so much. It's a cow hitch, or a lark's head for our colonial cousins, not a clove hitch.
Not a clove hitch, a larks head. Love the videos, keep them coming
I have been living your videos Roger, and was overjoyed when I realised you lived in Reigate and are a near neighbour (I’m in Redhill so not quite as salubrious!). Loving to hear a bit of local history, and glad this is just part 1
Hi Andy
Good to know you are round the corner, give me a shout if you have something interesting to share with our audience
👍 Not too far from me, and I've only been to Reigate once in 40 years! Shame you don't drink much, you could do a pub crawl episode 😉
As an alternative to having a TV programme, how about “An evening with Roger Bisby” - tour of the U.K. I bet it would be very popular.
That was a Brilliant Walk-Through Roger .. Very Interesting ..... Puts my #Wargrave Tour Video to shame 😄 ..... Talking of those 'Brick Panels' ... Have you seen the 'Flint Panels' ?? ....... AARRGGHH!!!!!!!
Glad I'm not the only one who will purposely go out looking at buildings and walls of interest, old age does funny things to the mind 🤣
Interesting to see, this kind of stuff is all around when you stop for a minute to look for it. The nap flint walls are a very south downs are feature.
Love this video, more please :-)
This is really interesting. More like this please.
Love this guy
That was an interesting bit of building history. Thanks, I enjoyed that.
ps. The knot in bricks was a cow hitch.
Just you wait Roger, give it a few years and pebbledash will be back with a vengeance
Enjoyable and informative.
That cavern looks great. Bet you've been chucked out of a few gigs there!
That picture is Chislehurst caves not Reigate. We did not have any archive of the Reigate caves which were a much smaller affair.
I will never say I know more about stuff than you Rog but I do know that that knot your referring to is called a girth hitch or larks foot and not a clove hitch. I'm an rope tech though so I should know!
That knot Roger is known as a "Cow hitch" or "Lanyard Hitch" ... very similar to a "Clove hitch" ... good ranting btw pal ... we all do this as we get older, reflection and comparisons, all healthy view points.
Nice little stroll round my old stomping ground. Used to go to the Nutley on a Sunday for the music. It was the boxer Alan Minter's local I believe. If you want a rant just go 2 mile east and visit Redhill. But then you know how they have wrecked that town.
It was always a hole