Barnes to Mortlake ¦ Love Your London ¦ (3/3) ¦ Barnes Bridge, Mortlake, Sir Richard Burton
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Tristán White and Sharon Crawford finish their journey from Barnes to Mortlake, starting off at Barnes Bridge railway station, and walking towards Mortlake. They visit Ye White Hart (recently rebranded as just "White Hart"), pass by Rick Stein's restaurant, and John Dee's garden. They talk about the Mortlake Tapestries, as well as the pottery industry (Sanders and, especially, Kinshere). Then it's time to visit the two St Mary churches: the Anglican church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake, and the Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary Magadalen, where there is a mausoleum for the intrepid explorer Sir Richard Burton who, alongside John Hanning Speke, searched for the source of the River Nile. A trip to Mortlake rail station follows, and a pint at the Jolly Gardeners pub. They talk about the history of the Mortlake Brewery (aka the Stag Brewery) and The Ship pub, at the end of the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race course. They also talk about the struggles that the local community faces with developers who are wanting to redevelop the site of the Brewery.
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USEFUL RESOURCES:
We love the Mortlake History website, curated by David and Helen Deaton. So many amazing photographs and artworks. A gem of a site, and very useful.
www.mortlake-history.org.uk/
To follow the Mortlake Brewery Community Group, and their struggles with the developers, head to: www.mbcg.org.uk/
They are on Facebook: / mortlakebrewery
and on Twitter/X: x.com/BreweryMortlake
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AFFILIATE LINKS:
For the book on Joseph Kinshere's Mortlake pottery, by Jack Howarth and Robin Hildyard: www.amazon.co.uk/Joseph-Kishe...
(there are also some sellers with very cheap second hand copies)
For Sir Richard Burton's writings on his pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca, there are three volumes. Volume 1 can be found here:
www.amazon.co.uk/Personal-Nar...
However, if you have a Kindle, you can get all three volumes for just £1.99 here: www.amazon.co.uk/Personal-Nar...
The Mountains of the Moon DVD is ridiculously expensive, but there are Amazon sellers in this link selling second hand versions at more reasonable prices here: www.amazon.co.uk/Mountains-Mo...
The Blu-Ray version is here: www.amazon.co.uk/Mountains-of...
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FURTHER VIEWING:
We referred to both the previous episodes of this series:
episode 1: • Barnes to Mortlake ¦ L...
episode 2: • Barnes to Mortlake ¦ L...
We also refer to our Mudlarking special:
• Mudlarking special ¦ L...
We also mentioned the episode in our Aldgate series where we talked about the Huguenots: • Aldgate ¦ Love Your Lo...
See the 4K snippet from the restored version of "Sympathy for the Devil" on ABKCO Records & Films' RUclips channel here: • Sympathy For The Devil...
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Barnes Bridge
04:37 Ye White Hart, Barnes
08:22 Rick Stein's restaurant, Barnes
09:33 John Dee's garden, and Mortlake Tapestry Works
12:08 St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake
13:43 Mortlake pottery (Sanders, Kinshere)
15:49 St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church
16:13 Sir Richard Burton, explorer
25:16 Mortlake station
27:03 The Jolly Gardeners
29:13 The Mortlake Brewery (Stag Brewery) and The Ship
31:40 Origins of the name "Mortlake"
33:34 Mortlake Brewery redevelopment and opposition to it
36:02 Outro
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This last episode on Mortlake was excellent. Really informative packed with interesting buildings and pubs and churches. Loved it.
Thank you very much! Filming in Battersea on Sunday
Brilliant show. It was like someone walking on my grave even though I am not dead. I grew up in the area, went to Mary Mags church and primary and spend many days walking all the areas you visited. Thank you
Wow, that's amazing feedback!!! Thank you!!
Your history content is great :) especially as mainstream tv seems to regurgitate the same old topics, where as you are bringing lesser known subjects to light. I had barely heard of Richard Burton (apart from the actor) and I had forgotten about the word Ye not being said as Ye. These are delicious nuggets of knowledge that I am glad I now know. I'm not interested in seeing inside the pubs though as one pub looks much the same as any other to me, and they are only interested in themselves.
Thank you. That is true about the pubs. Although there is one pub in Battersea, where we're filming over the next few days, which will be worth seeing inside: The Falcon. Looking forward to getting to Borough, when of course we'll be visiting the famous George Inn!
Love this one, particularly the information on Sir Richard Burton. Did you find out why he was thrown out of Oxford university?
For going to a steeplechase, which was against the rules. However, the teachers were tired of him as he insisted in speaking modern Athenian Greek at his Classical Greek lectures (even though he spoke fluent Classical Greek), so they didn't need much of an excuse. Their loss!
Thank you so much for the additional info. I wonder what he was like at school lol
Watney's beers were certainly not held in high regard by ale drinkers, including the staff at the brewery, during the 1960s-80s. The Tapestry was originally a Watneys pub called The Jolly Milkman but The Jolly Gardeners opposite was actually the nearest pub to the brewery by a few yards and belonged to arch competitors Young & Co from the Ram Brewery in nearby Wandsworth. On their lunch breaks, the Watneys workers preferred to congregate at The Jolly Gardeners to drink superior Young's ales rather their employer's insipid offerings in The Jolly Milkman across the road! No doubt that didn't go down well with the brewery owners who by the 1970s was the Grand Metropolitan conglomerate. Coors bought the brewery and so for its final few decades produced even more insipid US style lager.