London Districts: Shadwell (Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2019
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Shadwell is rich in history. It was first registered as a name in about 1222 and it came from the Old English for 'shallow stream'. The 'well' followed when they built the basin here and then it became Shadwell.
Here we are in the beautiful, quiet and peaceful St Paul's Church gardens. Now if you'd have been here with me say 350 odd years ago, during the Great Plague when they were going to the houses shouting "bring out your dead, bring out your dead!"; those dead were brought here to St Paul's and they were buried beneath just where I'm sitting now.
Among the sea captain's who regularly worshipped here was perhaps, arguably, the most famous of his generation, Captain James Cook. The explorer who discovered Australia. He worshipped here regularly and his eldest son was baptised here, as was the mother of the future president of the United States Thomas Jefferson. So St Paul's has had a big say in history.
My 3 brothers and I were all choristers here in the immediate post-war years and this was the foundation of our life really. This particular building was built in 1822. Of the 75 sea captains who were buried here in St Paul's, about 20 of them were in the crypt.
I moved there in 1980-81. My mum used to take me down to Shadwell; we'd go to a shop called Casers. Then you had Watney street market, one of the street markets in the area people would go to. At that time, I think Shadwell was the poorest ward, or certainly one of the poorest wards in London.
It was a proper run-down area, there was a pie & mash shop, there was a chip shop. The pie & mash shop closed at 2/2.30pm and the chip shop... even the chip shop closed at 7pm!
London Districts!
There was a lovely little pub called 'The Old House at Home'. Sailors used to drink in there... a bloke called Paul used to run that. When people toppled off the bar drunk, he'd use the soda syphon just to spray their face to wake them up. Everyone would be laughing!
The tube station was the East London line when the East London line only went up the Shoreditch. In rush hour, it went down to New Cross and New Cross Gate. Shadwell used to close at 9 o'clock at night and it'd be closed at weekends. There was no bus that went there, it was unbelievable!
I've spent 14 years as a scriptwriter for 'This is your Life' and I've written 110 books; 20 books with Jimmy Greaves, 4 books with Frank Bruno, 4 books with Henry Cooper... they know that I know their careers better than they do.
The Highway and Cable Street are the main arteries of Shadwell made famous, or infamous, by the Oswald Mosley march of the black-shirted fascists in 1936 and I'm proud to say that my father was among those who managed to get a few punches in before the police broke it up.
Always got new records coming out. I've got a new album coming out with my old friend Bill Laswell (The Invaders of the Heart). We've got Brexit single coming out called 'A Very British Coup', that's with Mark Stewart and Keith Levine so I've always got records happening, festivals, shows... Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart, we do a good show.
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Jah Wobble (Live 'Invaders of the Heart' Performance)
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Norman Giller's website - www.normangillerbooks.com
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Just discovered this channel today, and I have binge watched all the videos! And with every series, the improvement is huge! Definitely learned a lot about London, so thank you very much ♥
We do this precisely for comments like this - thanks! :)
I'm from Shadwell , lived there from 1981 to now. Beautiful place.
Only ever knew of shadwell via the DLR. so much diversity and a sense of community. Shows exactly why those in power could make things so bad for us individually but as a community we'd survive whatever was cast upon us.
We always do in the end. Resilient.
What a great documentary and soundtrack.
We agree Kevin. Stay tuned.
I have never heard of shadwell until this video, thanks for sharing
Always a pleasure Simone. Thanks for supporting, I hear Bellingham calling...
London Districts oh you remembered 😊
Depends if you an east londoner.
I live in Shadwell and it's very interesting to hear the history of a small area which I lived my whole life
Itz i been there, lovely place
It's down to the failure of our education system that is currently in place!
yeh, to sir with love was filmed there 1965 ish, plus to the south, juniper street, tench street, rreardon street, and later during 1995, wapping lane...for number two...
Born and bred there amazing history.
fascinating oral histories in this episode and good quality sound recording of the interviewees - kudos on such professional work
Loved this, fantastic, a hearty well done, to all of you. Great filming.
this is a terrific one - quite emotional
Wonderful films. Shadwell has been my 'manor' since '91. Has changed so much since then, so it's lovely to hear what it was like, back in the day. Great stuff!
you can see me skate past the shop at 6:55
Wow so many hidden gems round London thanks for sharing this videos i thorougly enjoyed every single one of the videos it's me proud to be a Londoner .
Our pleasure Sandra! Appreciate the comments.
Just wonderful
Brilliant. Very professional.
Lee, you're the man. Thank you as always. Forever encouraging to hear from you. Stay well mate.
Amazing history and story tellers🤗
We agree!
Did anyone else spot the man dancing at 4.50. He's giving it his all. Great video by the way.
Never even noticed it behind the camera but yes, he's going for it, full on. Well spotted and thanks for watching.
I vaguely remember a grave at St. Paul's marked "Pirate Jack" (or similar) with a skull and crossbones on it -- couldn't find it the last time I went.
Shadwell is Great!!!
Should do camberwell next love the vids
Thanks. Wish granted :)
Ramadan Mubarak to everyone
Oitho
"Paul the pub landlord used to spray people with the soda siphon if they passed out in the pub".. lol that's entertainment - I'd drink there any time
Hey dewyne, awesome video! The guest storytellers was a great add but definetly missed your smooth narration!
Thanks Peter. Yes Norman and John were both very nice to work with and as Shadwell natives, they were able to offer insight I could have never researched. Kudos!
Norman Giller has seen a few things, seen the people. good guy.
My grandma lives around here. It’s a pretty nice area.
It sure is!
E1 brova i used to live there shadwell gardens isn’t it?
Is that george at the end in the green tshirt and the shades
If shadwell had a face hed would be it
Indeed very different, Not sure about the narrators, although they do add to the background tales. Your voice, informed of what to say would be just as acceptable.
Maybe something of th background of arrivals of peoples and its past history if you do another of this place.Thanks for your time, well done
Those 'narrators' are proper locals, Paul. *Maybe* put in to tell us what it was really like.
Really nice video and song could u please tell me the singer name ?
Hi. Not sure of the singer, but the music is from Yeth Thar (in the credits).
Check out the new London Districts Soundtrack here yeththar.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Shadwell Army
intrusive music. had to watch on mute and read subtitles
How's Norman? Is he ok?
Norman is fine. Check out his RUclips channel!
Great narrator, terrible background muzak.
Only here to do homework
As valid a reason as you can get.
Iraq
Super annoying background music ruined this video.
Very interesting- shame about the unnecessary annoyingly distracting musaque & the butchers porn.