A Walk in Victoria Park with Travis Elborough
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2016
- John Rogers takes a wander round Victoria Park in Hackney with Travis Elborough author of A Walk in the Park - the life and times of a people's institution amzn.to/2aRRgID
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The worlds needs more people like Travis Elborough.
A most instructive and enjoyable walk about Victoria Park. I really love Travis's contagious enthusiasm and deep knowledge that he shares with us so apparently effortlessly. Nicely filmed and edited too, John.
thanks Alistair
My parents met in Viccy Park. Mother was a Bethnal Green girl and Father was a Canadian soldier. As they are no longer with me, it is nice to watch this video.
your work is packed full of inspiration John, your walking a path of
eloquence for the entire world to bask in one on one
What a brilliant guest, thank you Travis & John
Thank you! John and Travis for this very informative video on the park's💚🌲🌳👍
My playground as a child. I lived opposite during childhood. Didn't appreciate the view but would so have loved it now.
Fascinating insight into something many of have rarely given any thought to. Many thanks.
thanks for watching Darren
the deeper you go into this subject the more striking it becomes
Stunning Kudos!
many thanks indeed - greatly appreciated
The sound focus in those alcoves, is quite something. Would have been a good place for a quiet chat, with a lovely friend.
I don't know when it disappeared but, when I was a kid, there used to be a Lido swimming pool in Victoria Park. I can see from pictures now that it no longer exists. It's a bit of a shame. It's where I first got sunburned as a kid back in the late 50s.
your collaboration's are what make you who you are John
That's a lovely thought Oliver - thanks
Some history behind Victoria Park then. Great stuff Travis. The talk of Botany Bay pricked my memory from when I studied Forest Law which was a later separate piece of legislation put together from the forest clauses of Magna Carta after they revised it. A contender for the origin of the saying: 'one law for them, one law for us', maybe. I have never believed that warring baronial factions acted out of an altruistic common good when the select few who put together the Great Charter cornered King John into signing it way back in 1215. The Normans erected jail houses or adapted hunting lodges on the edge of royal forests. I was wondering if such a building is known to have survived the transition from royal hunting ground to public park in the immediate area. None of those we see in this video as interesting as they are look quite old enough. Some of the makeshift Norman castles obviously did not survive but I would have assumed for such a building to be practical for the intended purpose it would have some decent foundations.
Thanks for this video. Love to know the history of London and beyond.,😊
That was lovely! So informative.
Twas an interesting video. Such a nice change to hear from someone who has passion and knowledge of a subject instead of reading from Wikipedia.
He's a so great to listen to - made editing this video a real pleasure.
Fantastic video. I think it's so cool the way you support others in the same/similar field of London history.
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Another interesting video John.
Thanks Stewart
Very engaging, hope Travis does more like this
I do too Tim - he'd be brilliant on RUclips
Such a wealth of facts, like the name Botany Bay and its connections such delight
An excellent video about a park I have yet to visit. At 28:30 - not so. Public libraries are a statutory service in England and Wales under the Public Libraries Act, 1963. Sadly, the legislation is now so old that it's been easy for local authorities under financial pressure to make up their own minds as to what a "comprehensive and efficient" service is.
Part of West Ham Park is very sadly being sold off to developers to build flats. Local people are protesting
So when is this guy coming back. What a brain!
Travis has a young Austin Powers look about him... and clearly has experience of time machine travel
I cannot believe Travis was born in 1971, he looks about 12!
lol he's not really aged at all.... I've known him since school days in Worthing and I concur... good for him
Large parts of Crystal Palace park are being sold off for flats
That ant down there on the right somewhere is me in a different universe. I have a number three crop with shaved parting - bleached, if I remember correctly. I'm wearing an orange, red and white picnic tablecloth check Brutus trim-fit shirt. a Crombie, claret and blue toniks, and dubbined soft-leather industrial worker Doc Martens with square toes.. I think I must have stuck with that look for about three weeks everything was moving so fast....ruclips.net/video/xnszIr8_EBM/видео.html
Usually you walk and talk showing the surrondings, now Travis was most in focus. More filming of the park, please.
Thanks Tommy - I realised on the day that I had a lack of cut-aways of the park but we ran out of time and I never made it back to shoot some more. The next video will be almost exclusively of the surroundings
It's not in Hackney..
He never said it was in Hackney. Hackney does however run along the edge of Victoria park, so I suspect it's part of it anyway.
How important this and other parks have been during the Pandemic. 5 years after this film Victoria Park was heaving with locals escaping lockdown for their "exercise" revealing just how over populated the capital is.
I like these little films-but there does seem to be an awful lot of pretentious ponces strolling around London.
glad you enjoy the films Johnny
Who are you referring to?