Looking for Leytonstone's Lost Lido (4K)
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- Looking for Leytonstone’s lost Lido at the Hollow Ponds. Whipps Cross Lido opened in 1905 and was demolished in 1983.
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Well that takes me back!!! in the 1950`s we lived in Morgan Ave just the other side of the Woodford New Road,about 5 min`s walk from the lido,so that was a regular Summer Holl`s day out. We walked past what we called The Dip`s probably old gravel pits between St Peters Ave & Forest Rise.Great place for kids,but the "suit`s" up at the Town Hall had them filled in in the late 50`s leaving just a solitary oak tree. The road to the Lido was tar covered,so in the hot weather your feet stuck to it. The original entrance entrance round the side,& the exit at the front by the access rd. We would line up for an hour or more to get in,but we were there for the day. There were two fountains,one by the changing rooms & one opposite the cafeteria. The game was to sit atop and by skilled arse manipulation direct the spray onto sunbathers until the body building attendants chased us off. The pool was huge with two slides plus a circular diving area 10' deep. Early mornings swimming was free with no staff,so you took a chance leaving clothes,but we never had a problem.One side of the permitter was in a dip & collected flood water.When we did cross counter running at school the sadistic bastard P.E. teacher would ofter make us go waist deep through it.
How sad all these wonderful places have gone. Larkswood,The Kingfisher,Vik`i Park,Bexley to name just a few
thanks for sharing those brilliant memories Anthony - really brings the place to life again
love that jon - I now want to go looking for the Kingfisher hotel
The Kingfisher was a private members club with a medium size pool that was open to the public in the day time. I was on the right half way down Oak Hill going from the Napier Arms towards Highams Park.
It closed down in the late 60`s early 70`s and became The Waltham Forest Hotel.
One of the nicest outdoor pools was in Valentines Park Ilford by the tennis courts.I lived there in the 1980`s and used it a lot.
it was not big,but remained unchanged since it was built when they did the Perth Rd part of the Commonwealth estate in the 1930`s. There were still the original enamel adverts for Bovril & Virol.
Alas all filled in now.
Because I`m a bit sad i looked at the old Kingfisher site on Google Maps. The Hotel is still there,now a Best Western hotel. BUT!! The Napier Arms is no more.After a hundred and fifty odd years it `s now something called "Lokkum"?????so Transport For London had better change the name of that bus stop.
Sounds like "Larkswood".A bit posher than Whipps Cross with lots of grassy areas.The pool was in the shape of a cross to make the diving area separate. The turned it into a water park with slides etc,but that closed after a fatal accident and was a wilderness for years. I think its a retail park now.
I have happy memories of being taken by my mum to Whipps Cross lido in the 1960s. She would take me and my brother and a few friends tagging along during the summer holidays. We lived in a council estate on Aldersbrook Rd and would walk up Blake Hall Rd, through Bush Wood to the Green Man roundabout, and then catch a bus the short way up to Whipps Cross. It was always on hot days of course and so many memories of the wonderful old swimming pool and its cafeteria. I was never a great swimmer but boy did I enjoy the sunbathing and ice cream! Thanks so much John Rogers for evoking all these memories (as have all your other videos of life on the east London/ Epping Forest borderland.
thanks for sharing those great memories Dave
@@JohnRogersWalks Can you do something on the river Alders sometime John. I have always wondered whether there was still a river Alder and whether it ran underground by our old council estate on the Aldersbrook Road. I have now discovered that it is called the Alders brook (surprise, surprise) and is a tributary of the River Roding. It's source may be somewhere in the City of London Crematorium at the other end of Aldersbrook Rd from where we lived, and from there it travels down to Little Ilford. All this stuff about lost and underground rivers really stimulates my imagination and always has done. The first Dickens novel I ever read was Barnaby Rudge in my early teens (yes, ensconced in Brading Crescent opposite Wanstead Flats) and that book has a character travelling from London to the old Kings Head tavern in Chigwell. I used to picture in my mind his journey on horseback out of the City via Forest Gate through Wanstead and on to Chigwell. Happy days! The imagination of a child is a wonderful thing.......
Just discovered that you have already covered the Alders Brook in your video 'Wanstead to Barking' so I am now fully genned up on this tiny stream.....many thanks
I was a border at Forest School in the late 70’s and remember having to do cross country runs around Hollow Ponds. I seem to recall the lido, but don’t remember it being open. I have a memory of peering through gates and seeing a swimming pool and changing cubicles, but it’s a very distant memory. I had almost forgotten about it but this video brought it all flooding back. Happy days exploring the ponds, fishing the Eagle Pond and getting lost in Epping Forest to the north :)
Thank you John for uploading this interesting video. When I attended what was once The Royal Wanstead School now Snaresbrook Crown Court as a young boy we used to be taken to the Whipps Cross Lido in the early 1960's and I remember it well. A few years ago I was visiting a friend in nearby Leytonstone and we took a walk across the Forest so I could once more see the old school building and we also checked out this Lido site which he told me is now buried. Amazing how over the passage of time things change. I enjoyed watching this.
Brings back so many good memories in the 60s I swam in Whipps Cross Lido with my brothers every weekend amazing to see
I remember taking boats out on the Hollow Ponds. Ten Bob deposit and half a crown an hour. You could get eight boys in one of the bigger boats. No life jackets of course, explored the islands and played Vikings ramming and boarding other boats crewed by our mates. More liberated times.
Spent a lot of time at the Lido as a kid. Also, As a pupil at Nightingale C. Sec. Mod, used to come here for swimming lessons. Happy Days!
Oh John, since discovering your video's by accident, I have been inspired to walk my old haunts, most of which you have opened to my memory. Wanstead Flats, sadly now badly burned, Hollow Ponds, Wanstead Park, the Drapers Ground and Forest Gate. Thanks so much for your inspiration, please keep it up!
When I worked at Whips X Hospital I used to swim at the Lido. If I remember correctly, the fire brigade in ?1976 used water from to lido to put out the forest fires.
Spend a lot of time at the hollow ponds , fishing , cycling , and remember the lido well , it did close down in the late 60s/ early 70s , but it did reopen , because I went there during the 1976 heat wave , I also found something very strange in the bushes , by one of the tea huts, it was on the front page of the two local papers, can anyone remember ? It was in 1969 , my name wasn't published in the newspapers because of my age , I was 12 years old . The lido yes I did look for it after it was demolished , yes they did a good job, another thing I remember about when it was closed down , me and a few mates went in there and made a raft and paddled it around the lido , until the old bill showed up , and we had to make a run for it , there were ducks and frogs swimming in the lido.
many thanks for sharing that - love to hear personal recollections of the Lido, really brings it to life
The Whipps Cross Lido was very well used by me and my mates in the 1950's and the Hollow Ponds was always an attraction for us as well we all lived in Wanstead at the time and we are still friends to this day. Those were the days.
Very interesting John, thank you for sharing.
Watching this from the Bronx NYC. Been here for 10 years, but grew up in 11 Forest Glade opp the hollows. Swam in the lido as kids, eating Frazzles and Chewits from the tuck shop. Water was always freezing, and trying to get to the top of the fountain as a 9 year old was impossible. A width seemed like a length, the pool was massive but there was hardly anyone ever there (1981-2). Still, very happy memories of my childhood in Leytonstone, what freedom we had, no parents around, playing over the hospital and the lido and the hollows. Sob! My Brother still lives there, and we'll be sinking a pint in the North Star hopefully this year. Keep it up John, you're a diamond!
Fascinating. Thanks John.
As a lover of lidos it's sad to think of it being filled in. I've just looked it up and found a superb picture of it being constructed - worth a look if you haven't seen it.
thanks Kate I'll take a look
Fantastic video. Thank you. I spent many a happy hour building dens climbing trees and skimming stone at the Hollow ponds.
Spent many a summer there. Jumpers for goalposts. I'm remembering a turnstile, fountains, terracing. Think light blue and white was the colour scheme? Always remember the dank changing rooms and that the refreshment kiosk sold little apart from wagon wheels.
Years ago while fishing the Thames you would see condoms floating past. We called them Thames trout. After watching this I have changed that to Lido lampreys. Excellent video.
After seeing all the evidence “thanks for coming with me” isn’t necessarily what I’d have said emerging from that area......but fascinating nevertheless - love your films - keep it up (oops)
Once again your showing a Place of my youth the hollow pond and local area where I spent a week with my Uncle bill back in 1956 and still have great memories of playing in the ponds and forest area. Thanks for the posting George.
Another wonderful film. Thank you for risking your health to bring us this informative piece. I admire your determination to keep on searching for concrete (😀) evidence. Also, great to see you’ve kept the orange carabiner. All the very best. Ian
Thanks hanian - yes the orange carabiner is now a permanent fixture even though I don't use it anymore
Thank you for an interesting video as usual John .I much appreciate your enthusiasm for local history
Thanks Humble
I was born in Livingstone Road, Leyton in 1934 and regularly used the Lido until my late teens. Long queues on hot days to get in and remember seeing a huge sign boasting room for 2,000 bathers. The bottom of the pool was usually a little dirty with debris, possibly thrown over from the forest area? Great for hot summer days, but the Leyton indoor pool at Bakers Arms, was more popular throughout each year.
Used to be a lifeguard at Whipps X Lido in 1964. Great time. Sun and girls all summer long. Midnight swims. Oh to be young again!
Sounds idyllic Tony
As a swimmer John I was naturally attracted to this video. I enjoyed the explore and imagining the times had there beside the modern off the radar wet wipes activity (all free will). I think Roger Deakins (Waterlog) would like this. Of course in his book he speaks of the decline in Lidos. We had one in Hereford once but its been filled in a long time. Some good traces revealed here mind you. Enjoyed the mooch about. All the best. Mark
Hi John, I have been enthralled by your travels for a few weeks now. As a child in the 1960's my Father took me to Epping regularly and living in Stratford, Wanstead, was my favourite bit of green, The Red Rover took my Father and I to the Blue Bore, (No10 Bus) and the 69 to the Royal Forest Hotel. Great Videos, please keep posting! Oh by the way now I live overlooking the Royal Docks.
Many thanks for sharing those memories - it's such a magical area, keeps me inspired to continue sharing these videos. the next one is waiting to be edited
This is really amazing! I remember the lido on a hot summers day we would get a bus from Loughton to Leytonstone the lido was a vast swimming pool not deep but great fun to swim in, strange that it has disappeared for the most part thanks for bringing it back to life.
Thanks John for your stirling effort of this posting, spent a week their as a young lad some 60 years ago while staying with an Uncle Bill , who lived in leytonstone.
You could take your lorry inner tubes into the lido whereas you couldn't at Larkswood. The Lido was always colder though as it was fed by springs which also meant the water wasn't always clear.
Many Happy times at both pools though & the Borough is a poorer place without them.
I love this I need to get back to the site for pt2 of my own video on this area quite overgrown at the moment
I do also remember there was some sort of electricity type building there also. Use to see it in the early to mid 80s when I used to ride my BMX over there with a few mates. I was v young going to the lido from Thomas Gamuel early school back then, not the new Gamuel which has a park. These were Queen's Road adventure playground days
Great stuff as always John. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you.
thanks Den
Great video, the reason for it’s closer were many. The infrastructure was in a bad way and needed to be replace. Unfortunately because it is on forest land, the City of London did not agree with the plans. Also many people were going on foreign holidays which reduced the usage. Being on forest land one of the stipulations was that the first hour of the day was free. Which with cost of 4 to 6 life guards and other staff was expensive. So the walls the wooden changing cubicles were ripped down, thrown into the pool area and covered with soil.
thanks for the info Steve
This is our old cross country running grounds when l was at the Royal Wanstead boarding school
Whips Cross Lido was one of the summer trips my parents took us on in the mid/late 1960s. I say 'out into the country' because that's what it seemed like to us at the time, although from our house in Forest Gate (Elmhurst Rd), it can't have been much more than 3 miles! It seems amazing that the site is so overgrown and hard to find, just 30 odd years after closing...
I remember going swimming there and much late rafter it had closed down, I remember climbing over some railings and seeing it derelict. The condom wrappers weren't mine.
The summer of '76 I virtually lived at Whipps Cross Lido. Odd to think that as a nine year old I was allowed to go there with my friends. How things have changed. I certainly don't remember the water being muddy but I do remember the noise. On a hot day it was a wall of sound as we approached the gap in the fence.
Spent many a day there as a child. My father and I did go looking for it once and found a dip filled with water. Maybe that was it. My dad was quite convinced it was close to the road.
Just come across this thanks for the memories! Used to spend a lot of my time as a child here, it was always seen as the slightly down at heel brother to Larkswood which was somehow grander (probably because it was in the shape of a cross and had more diving boards!)
Another great video! I remember going there in the early 50's with my dad and brother - not far from where we lived in St. Peter's Avenue. I remember I had to wear woollen swimming trunks! It always seemed crowded - you couldn't really swim. And everyone seemed to gather round the fountains. Perhaps there weren't so many hot days then! Incredible how nature has reclaimed the area - no respect! Did you claim that bit of tiling? It reminded me of chipping off my own bit of Berlin Wall here! I also did that with my dad and brother when they visited!
thanks for sharing those memories Douglas. I thought about taking away a souvenir but decided to leave it all for others to find
It certainly did get very crowded,but every now and then there would be an area of the pool devoid of swimmers.
A strong indication that somebody had launched a brown battleship.
Yes, sorry about that - I used to get frightened when I was out of my depth!
In the changing rooms there were no lockers.Instead glavanised steel baskets with a hook and number on top.One handed these over the counter to an attendant who issued a numbered disk.If you lost your disk there was a major interrogation about the contents before getting your clothes back. If your disk was found before it was lost you then walked home in wet trunks.
Fabulous,i spent much of my childhood at the hollow ponds and the lido as i lived in essex road, where james lane crossed.great memories. I saw your epping walk also.
Swam there once in the late 60s when we lived in Leyton. It had a reputation for being a bit grim. Even now I recall being confronted by a dead frog floating in the pool. Never surprises me how nature takes over.
Hi John
Please forgive me if you have already done this but the doomed Romford canal would be a good idea to explore. The only infomation I have is it was to link the River Rom to the River Beam and at the Beam end is visible however the construction company went bust and steam trains were becoming popular and investment could not be found to complete the project.
That's a fantastic idea Andrew - never heard it before
this is definitely the site of the old lido, i used to live in wanstead and used the lido in the 70s. i can remember the closure in 82 and the demolition in 83, the contracors demolished everything and bulldozed it all into the pool, i think a lot of other waste was used as landfill there too. the last i can remember of it there was still some of the old steel fencing that surrounded the perimeter in the trees at what was the back of the site.
Loving it John, or should I say Indiana Rogers !
I'm getting that on a t-shirt
Fascinating. Many thanks.
I went there a couple of times in the late 70's, it was so different from Larkswood in Chingford which is near where I live.
I lived in Hainault Road Leytonstone with my late aunty Mary and uncle Ted, Mary used to take me and my cousin Mikey to the Lido in the summertime, 1976 was a very hot summer and we would go swimming every day. such a shame it was demolished.
Really interesting. I went in the 1970's. Fun times. I would have thought you might have headed for Whipps roundabout, where on one of the corners there always seems to be the smell of TCP. It's a great shame that the forest as well as so many places are treated with such disrespect.
Coming in from the corner of Snaresbrook Road/Whipps Cross was my fall-back if I couldn't find it from the Hollow Ponds. That smell of TCP is the odour of childhood summers
And the public toilets built under a group of trees in the middle of the roundabout were a notorious pre 1967 meeting place.[ Iv`e been told] :)
At the entrance to the lido was a blackboard ,where the water temperature was written ( it was either cold or freezing!)
When we moved into Leytonstone in the late 70's i remember visiting the Lido It was aa large concret lined pool and fences around it. I rememeber entrancing it fron- the whips cross/snarebrook end end and wondering why it wasnt being used much.
I did think the entrance was from the snarsbrook end where ther is now a car park towrds the whips cross road. It had sort of beach hut changing rooms and raised diving boards in those days. Towards the end the council claimed not enough folk were using it as their excuse to close it..and no doubt save money
Have you seen the wikeda insert?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipps_Cross
or some of the images of the place
www.google.com/search?q=whipps+cross+lido&client=firefox-b-ab&sa=X&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwigkeagpoPcAhUKfMAKHRqRBmIQsAQIQg&biw=1600&bih=753
thanks for that comment Paul - the map reference on the wiki pages shows the location nicely
To the best of my recollection I remember an entrance just past the hospital (coming from Walthamstow). You walked down a path amongst the forest and there was a fence with a tall iron turnstile gate. You put your money in the slot and went through the turnstile and into the pool surround. I remember it being similar to an amphitheatre on two sides with concrete steps that people could sit on. Trees overhung from the forest outside. Fairly sure the pool and flat area on the opposite side were blue painted concrete, so no tiles I believe. I think there was a water fountain and pool surround for toddlers to play in separate from the pool itself. One end was, I think, nine feet deep where the diving boards were. I recall getting thrown in there by my big brother and his pals to 'learn how to swim'. The lifeguard pulled me out and slung me out of the place, leaving the others laughing up on the steps!.this would be late fifties or into the sixties. I don't recall when it closed, just aware that at some point it wasn't there anymore. Personally I much preferred Larkswood pool in Chingford. Seemed a lot cleaner but probably didn't care at the time anyway. Great memories, but I never did learn how to swim. Apologies if I have anything wrong. It was a long time ago.
Leytonstone looks like the countryside - amazing!
Another fantastic video, John! I am totally fascinated by your Country’s history. Even though I live in a mildly historic official ghost town here in Oregon, the white man’s history here only goes back to the early to mid 1800’s. Keep up the great work and we’ll see ya on the next video. ✌️
i saw you did a walk recently to hertford and that used to have a really nice lido when i was a child, its been built over and is now a leisure center which is a real shame.
Spent many a summers day there in the 50"s and in current heat wave it would have been packed,though saying that the size of the pool was massive.
I was dreaming of taking a plunge - Tooting's a bit far
I learn't to swim in Chingford lido (absolutely freezing!) which sadly no longer exists. Well done Chingford Council
I’ve always been confused by the information in books and on the info boards in the car park in Snaresbrook road saying the lido closed and was demolished in the 1980’s
I lived & Worked in the area in the late 1970’s and the lido was long gone by then and there were well established trees on ‘The mound’ as it was called then.
If someone had told me the lido closed in the late 60’s early 70’s it wouldn’t have surprised me.
Hello John .. many thanks for another very interesting walk. I love Hollow Pond area, wild and free, and, I hope this area stays this way. The trees are magnificent, some must be very very old ... I must say, it’s disgusting how some humans seem to think it’s ok just to dump their wet wipes/rubbish when they leave areas of natural beauty/streets. The amount of masks/gloves, since CV-19 I’ve seen just dropped in the streets of Leytonstone 😡😡 ... long live Hollow Pond and it’s heathlands 👍🏻👍🏻😁👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent video, but I did miss a confluence or two, I always pour myself another large one at every confluence.
The Girls grammar school (Leyton County High School in the 1960s) had its own swimming pool. We used to throw frogs over the fence in the hope of scaring the girls. We were horrified to find out that the frogs ended up in the biology lab for dissection!
You were in the right spot I remember the bank around it I think it had to close because of problems with water quality and a need for a lot of maintenance towards the end and because of the lack of use I the end deemed uneconomical such a shame
thanks for the info Ian
Another gem.
You better take your Malaria tablets, John. Great video I love Urban/edgeland Archaeology
Thanks Dave - I'll have to use that term more often now
Very enjoyable John. Just a thought that might be right up your path. Did you know there is the lost National athletics stadium at Kendal Rise NW10. There is no known photo of it and it has completely dissapeared. I believe it was somewhere around college rd area. Might be worth a walk on a sunny day. I enjoy all your videos.
I live in OZ now But I swan in the lido as a child and a teen Sad to see it gone would have mad people happy Still what GOV wants that Let then eat cake CHEERS
Awesome video thanks
I never knew there was a Lido there. The nearest one to me is Tooting Bec - been past it thousands of times, never been there.
That was very interesting but now I’m itching all over from seeing those mosquitoes and wanting to bathe in hand sanitizer after seeing all those wet wipes! 😱 you were very brave to go in there.
thanks Roxy - I was very determined to properly survey the site - suffered with those bites for days afterwards, both hands swelled up into little puff balls
'Edge-Land Archaeology' for the win!!!
Definitely the Lido you found there.
On Whipps x roundabout there was a public convenience with a sign, something like 'whipps x lido . . 2000 people' .. my grandmother was said to have wondered how they squeezed 2000 people into that tiny space .. i.e the public convenience.
Went to the lido in the late 60's the other lido was on the corner of prince regent's Lane in custom house
there was once a lido or perhaps just a skinny dipping hole outside the Rising Sun boozer in Upper Walthamstow_
That would be the Rising Sun Boating pond run by Mrs. Sandy and family.They had paddle boats and canoe`s.
Opposite was a tea bar run I believe by the same family.All now long gone.The pond is largely dried up now and you can walk to the island. I think this is because it was fed by an overflow stream from the old pumping house at "Waterwork`s Corner",but many years ago they moved the storage tanks to the other side of the North Circular Rd,although I think the old pump house still works.I was shown round it in the 60`s by a mate who worked there.It was all electric,but the wonderful old diesel pump engines were still there for emergency use (worth seeing if they are still there Mr Rogers?) In the early 70`s the roof was blown off courtesy of the I.R.A.
I was walking past the Rising Sun Pub in the early 80`s and noticed one of the bar windows smashed in.I read later that it was a bungled robbery resulting in the murder of one of the staff,so I must have gone passed between the time of the criminals escaping and the arrival of the police . Spooky or what!!
Yes there were peddle boats there made of tin that you could hire .
@@anthonyhatfull5484 I remember the boating pond well.
Would be a different adventure after dark 🙈
great stuff as usual really enjoyed that why do they litter because they only care for them selves looking forward to the next one
I think you're right steven
Why not get recycling? might get enough for a few bike tyres.
Good video
It was always hard to find the Lido, it was right in the forest, my bother and his mates would get over the railings at night for a swim til they got caught. It was always busy in the 60's and roasting on a Summers day, I remember as a kid hearing " Bus Stop" by the Hollies over the Lido on someones Tranny . When I met my late wife we were teenagers and our first date was on the rowing boats at Hollow Ponds, she was green and felt sick cos she hated boats but didn't want to spoil the day by saying anything x.
wonderful memories pinkyman - thanks for sharing
I was brought up in Leytonstone and well remember the lido. Walthamstow council got rid of the lido in 1982. They thought it was a white elephant and cost to much to maintain. I use to love going swimming in the lido as a child of the 1960s. It was a bygone age where children were children and we had a brilliant time. Shame the council saw fit to get rid of it.
Did you keep the pieces of ceramic with the corn motif?
Not sure if it’s the same lido but I remember going to an open air lido behind or not far from whipps Cross as a kid with my friends, I know it’s gone now I know but not sure if there were two or just the one I remember. Do you mind if I mention your channel on mine when I do part two of my vlog (I did part one but only a small part) but you have made me remember so much more. (Thankfully I don’t remember any of the bad parts) 😱 note I would hate to see that stuff with my kids they need to hire a room 😡
Next time you explore try a product called "Smidge". We use it here in West Scotland against the Highland midges, and believe me, those little horrors will beat a soft Southern mossie into a cocked hat!, 😃
Lido survival tip- always have a dog, a pair of binoculars and a walking stick. Just to make it clear why you are there!!
a camera is also quite effective
10:15 Shades of Phil from Time Team! You might like this record from Darren Hayman (ex-Hefner frontman): an instrumental evocation of English open-air swimming pools darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/lido
brilliant thanks for that link Weldon
You mentioned the lido was fed by a natural spring. Did you ever find a spring near the lido?
Quite sad that really but some good finds for sure. I think somebody once said romance was dead. I don't fancy getting bitten on the you know where by one of those little bleeders.
Thanks for the video can you plz tel me what map you are using
It's the OS Explorer Map for the Lea Valley and Epping Forest
Where can I obtain one sir
Yes got the Os from apple store quiet good
they sell them in WH Smiths and most other bookshops too - but yes the digital ones are good as well
Sir plz can u tel me where I can camp for free or little money in leytonstone I recently became homeless
Did you find the spring? The spring must be the reason the mosquitos are so abundant...
Is "Rislip Lido" still around?
Good question Anne - it’s been on my list for about 7 years but I keep by-passing it
@@JohnRogersWalks Be interested to know, spent many happy days as a child
Do you know the location of the demolished Victoria Park Lido ? - I do :-)
Not off the top of my head, be good to go looking some time
John Rogers Alas there's nowt to see as it's been completely demolished and clinically covered with grass and now just part of the park
As ever.
:)
Loved that place as a kid but the forest area directly around was a haunt for homesexual dogging and still is.
18 seconds 😂😂😂
You seem to be walking in the tracks of Dick Turpin at the moment John. Your recent perambulations in and around Osterley ran right through the celebrated Highwayman''s former stomping ground in the immediate vicinity of Hounslow Heath; whilst this one is pretty much equidistant from another of his depredations outside Leytonstone's 'Green Man'!
pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/Leytonstone/greenman.shtml
Yes, very true - he was a local I believe (Plaistow) - also my Wycombe video crossed paths with one of his hideouts on the London - Oxford road
Here's another of his legendary haunts out along the Bath Road not so very far from where you were the other day. Just thought I would throw a few good pubs in there on the off chance you might get a bit thirsty if this hot weather continues for the rest of the summer!
www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/05/05/ostrich_feature.shtml
I can feel a Turpin Trail video brewing
Oh Lord! Condoms and and wet wipes??? What have we become?
I think you need a woman mate
Why would you bother commenting if you're just gunna comment that and be a d*ckhead? Get a life. Maybe he has a woman, maybe you don't. Maybe you need to get out there. Maybe you should mind your own business. Maybe you should f*ck off?
After seeing all the evidence “thanks for coming with me” isn’t necessarily what I’d have said emerging from that area......but fascinating nevertheless - love your films - keep it up (oops)
ha, yes stumbling over double entendres was a real risk