Barkingside & Fairlop ¦ Love Your London ¦ (1/2) ¦ Fairlop Waters, Fair and Oak, Aldborough Hatch
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In the first of two episodes on Barkingside & Fairlop, Tristán White and Sharon Crawford take a look at both stations and explain the origin of the areas' names. They visit Oakside Stadium (Redbridge FC, Newbury Forest FC), visit Aldborough Hatch and Aldborough Hall Equestrian Centre, walk through Fairlop Waters Country Park, check out the lake with its geese and its many activities (sailing, rowing, pedaloes, miniature trains) and find out more about Aqua Action, the water amusement park. They chat to Peter, who tells them about the boulders as well as Trevor, a mysterious wizard from Hainault Park! At The Boat House, they reveal everything about the former giant old oak tree, Fairlop Fair and its eccentric founder, Daniel Day. They end with a visit to the Bearded Butcher (Forest Farm Shop), followed by a trip to the New Fairlop Oak pub near the replacement oak tree.
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AFFILIATE LINKS:
"GREAT TREES OF LONDON" (TimeOut) includes the New Fairlop Oak:
www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Trees-...
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FURTHER VIEWING:
We reference 4 previous episodes.
Ep 2 of Barking & Dagenham (re: St Margaret's):
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
Ep 3 of B & D (River Roding):
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
Ep 6 of B & D (FORD connections):
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
Our "Save Brick Lane" special about the future of Brick Lane:
• Truman Brewery ¦ Love ...
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FURTHER READING:
Read the full poem on the Spitalfields Life blog here:
spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/...
@thegentleauthor furthermore acknowledges Sian Rees (from the Planting Diaries blog, plantingdiaries.com/) and we in turn acknowledge The Gentle Author!
(See acknowledgements)
There's a fascinating article on Daniel Day's grave here, in a blog by David Bingham called "The London Dead: Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards". thelondondead.blogspot.com/201...
An article also appeared in 2018 in The Ilford Recorder, "Heritage: The man who started the great Fairlop Fair", which is well worth a read: www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/life...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The photos of the Wizard of Hainault in a carpark are courtesy of Rosie 'Roro' Bortoluzzi.
The Brawling Badger / @thebrawlingbadger (Brawling Badger Film Productions) filmed Mr Wizard in Hainault. Please visit his channel! He has a good sense of humour, and talks about gaming as well as his life in Essex.
Spitalfields Life is a daily blog by @thegentleauthor and is a wealth of information, not just on Spitalfields but on London in general! We recommend his blog!
spitalfieldslife.com/
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MUSIC USED:
At The Shore - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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Baltic Levity - Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro: Barkingside & Fairlop, ep 1
00:51 Barkingside station
06:34 Oakside Stadium (Redbridge FC)
08:24 Aldborough Hatch (name origin)
09:05 Aldborough Hall Equestrian Centre
13:04 Fairlop Waters Country Park, RAF Fairlop
16:39 Geese beside the lake, pedaloes, sailing, rowing
18:08 Aqua Action
20:06 Peter tells us about boulders, wizards and more
24:01 A pint at The Boat House, and more geese!
26:09 Fairlop Fair, Daniel Day, how Fairlop got its name
34:04 Forest Farm Shop, and The Bearded Butcher
38:03 Fairlop station
39:18 King Solomon High School
40:11 The new oak tree on Fullwell Cross roundabout
41:18 The New Fairlop Oak pub (Wetherspoons)
44:37 Outro
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33 minutes into the video you actually show the memorial - thank you for doing that.
Brutal😮
The 'watch tower' you identified in the grounds of King Solomon High School (formerly Fairlop High School) is actually a water tower.
I think Fairlop school probably needed a watchtower!
It looked like a SparrowHawk to me 🦅
Thanks! 🙂
Loving your videos especially the Barkingside showing me to my new area have shaded and liked 😁
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Thank you! Delighted to hear it.
RAF Fairlop had several squadrons that spent some time there. None took part in the Battle of Britain - the main reason why it is not commemorated in St Clement Dane Church
Ahhh. Thank you for the clarification. We did manage to source some excellent photographs of RAF Fairlop that were free to use. So many more we could have used but they involved paying a company a pretty penny to use. A fascinating part of history. To think that that could have turned into a major London airport is unthinkable today, and thank goodness that the beautiful park isn't now a big noisy runway.
The Boat House is what I called the club house. If you looked away from the lake, while you had your pint, you would see, slightly to your right, a raised up area. That is where the war memorial was, when I last saw it
Thanks. We'll have to go back there in a later episode. Would love to go for a nice row across the lake, perhaps on one of those electric boats. Looked very peaceful and serene.
Great you mentioned RAF Fairlop. Did you know it was briefly an RAF base in the First World War? Fairlop Plain (the geographical term for a lot of the area in this video) is the only area in the country that can claim to have had a base for all 3 air services. In the First World War there was a Royal Flying Corps base called Hainault Farm. There was an offshoot of the Royal Naval Air Service training base in Chingford and RAF Fairlop in the Second World War. (I was a founder member of the Fairlop Heritage Group. We got the slightly unusual war memorial erected outside the club house.)
Love the war memorial. It does feature briefly in our montage as we leave the area and head for the Farm shop.
It would have been even nicer if you made a comment or two on it.
You say Barkingside Station opened in 1903, as memory serves I grew up thinking Barkingside Station was opened so that Queen Victoria could use it when she visited Dr Barnardos (their head quarters being in Barkingside). As Victoria died in 1901, one of us has misremembered. (I spent most of my life in Barkingside. I was born in Newbury Park, in February 1967. I moved to Barkingside in August 1971. I left Barkingside 47 years later. I now live in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.) I apologise if it is me that has got my facts wrong, but that is what I grew up believing
The lake is not as old as you think. It was two lakes converted into one in the 1980s. It came about from the (post Second World War) gravel extraction works on the area that is now Fairlop Waters Country Park?
Thank you. The lady I spoke to would probably have been in her 40s so it makes sense that she rowed across it with her mother when she was a child. Thank you for the update!
RAF Fairlop closed down before the end of the war.
Sorry the ? at the end of the last post was in error.
You said, earlier in this video, you do your research, so why don't you realise you are looking at a water tower when it is quite easy to find that is what it is?
Barkingside got its name because the land was the property of Barking Abbey.