Come for the DIY stay for the history. A serious TH-camr. Respect. I don’t know how anyone could live in London and not be captivated by all the rich history.
Wow Roger! You just opened a whole load of memories for me. When I was a young pilot with BOAC I was living in London and having quite a lot of spare time on days off I teamed up with another chap that I trained with and he had an enduring love of narrow boats. We met up with John James who used to run Jason's Trip in narrow boats (Motor and Butty) from Blomfield Road (Little Venice ) down past the zoo to Camden Lock where there was a winding hole(a place where you could turn round. and back again. We had regular runs ,school parties, wedding receptions, you name it we did it. Later in life I was (and still am) living in Scotland but based out of London. This gave me the odd day off when going home was not realistic and I was staying with my brother in Putney. I had a wee Brompton bike and pedalled my way from Teddington Lock all the way down the Thames towpath and revisited the Regents canal(Not all in one day ,obviously). This filled the days off and over the years I covered most of the places all the way down to the docks (Dockland and across to Greenwhich). The advantage of the Brompton was when it got late I folded it up and got the tube home. Your video just rekindled those happy days, thanks.
Hi Charles I am very happy to hear that this video brought back some great memories, I had hoped it would inspire people to visit but also mean that people who have been to London could gain something more from it. I think some may think that they missed a lot of good things and want to come back. I love cycling the tow path, though the bit around Hammersmith is often flooded so you have to time it right. On another note, have you read Nick Eade's books on his time flying 747's for BA? It is highly entertaining.
@@SkillBuilder Not seen Nicks book, I shall look out for it. It was a great career. I was VC10, then short haul 1-11, Scotland on the HS748 flying the Highlands and Islands(more fun than you are supposed to have with your clothes on), then 757&767 down south and finished on the 777. Retired for a wee while and then Loganair on the Saab 340.
We lived in Delamere Terrace overlooking the canal. Bloomfield Villas was just around the corner. The place where the boats turned was called The Basin and Jason's boat was moored there. Over the years The Regents canal became very fashionable and then the Basin with all the luxurious boats which very rich people lived in became Little Venice. It was a great place to live as it was a mixture of Bohemian people and now Famous artists, Lucian Freud lived next door. on Sunday morning the shrimp man came with his barrow of delicious cockels and mussels and fresh shrimps. Then in summer when it was hot the Ice man came and we bought big chunks of ice as we had no fridges. The Rag and Bone man with his cart and horse calling out Rag and Bones. It has so much character. Last and not least The Fog. You could not see in front of you. Many people died of chest problems. So, that's my childhood in a few sentences. There's so much more but it would take forever to write. Thanks again for reminding me of my interesting days in Paddington. 😅😅😅
Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece! I've always thought a video on the old London cemeteries would be quite interesting. Or maybe some of the infrastructure that few people cover.
Its a great little documentary I think any filmmaker would be proud of. More and more TH-cam creators with a cameraphone and a drone are just completely humbling mainstream or large production companies.
@@SkillBuilder Abney cemetery work will be over soon, they are finishing a cafe on the east entrance and refurbishing the chapel in the middle of the park
@@SkillBuilder ditto, the best thing happened to me today is to learning a few things about London from your video. Thank you Roger. Have been to Limehouse basin many times (my parents had owned one of the flats on Narrow st for more than 30 years ever since I could remeber as a child) and how it had connected all the places in London that I know and visited many times with my kids, through the coal trade, it is so fansinating.
What an amazing video, I run almost all the time in the canal and I am stunned by the engineering behind the locks and all the infrastructure getting all the story behind it just makes it so much interesting.
This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece!
Yeah but what about a really dramatic edit into the Wapping riots, some really hyped up music into silence and "Events would unfold in ways *NO-ONE* saw coming!" or something like that? He could really use some professional video making flair!
He's got one on here. I discovered him by accident. TH-cam is where it's at now. Mainstream TV is finished. Who needs to pay a licence fee to be brainwashed?
Very nice. I live in Limehouse Basin so it was all “I can see my flat!” And then you proceeded up my favourite canal. Learned new things and entertained. 👍
Please keep going...I am following this channel from many years and it is a pleasure to see how it has evolved into this. WOW an absolute gem on the internet.
I was very young the first time mum took us through Little Venice, to go to The Zoo. We entered through the very beautiful, and then very new Snowden Aviary. I loved the aquarium and reptile house.
I discovered this channel by accident. It just popped up on my feed, probably something to do with the algorithm because I like history. Great watch! This guy really knows his stuff and presents it in a watchable and honest way. I had absolutely no idea people could now live inside one of those old gas holders' frames!
Roger, I'm not even a builder (I'm a furniture designer and maker) but I come and watch your videos because I've always been interested in building and construction and your way of presenting is fantastic. These new history/documentary style videos give me even more of a reason to come and watch. They're fantastic and really interesting.
As an artist (painter of architectural subjects - mainly ruins in the landscape); with a passion for the history of buildings, and their materials, your excellent, well-researched and narrated productions (including this one) tick many boxes for me. Congratulations on your success! I look forward to viewing more of your work.
Thanks, Roger. I'm a Londoner through and through, but I learn something new every time I watch one of these. Appreciate the time and energy you put into each one.
Thanks mate, I enjoy doing them and I learn a lot as well. The trouble is that I can't stop looking at new angles. Where did Homer go? He was sentenced to 7 years in Australia but his name doesn't appear on any of the records and there is no record of his death. Maybe he changed his name and disappeared or maybe he is under that canal.
Absolutely loved this video, we grew up (hehe) never! , next to the canal in greenford, and it has featured in our lives ever since despite living in various places. The canals are an asset to london.
Excellent documentary Roger. I often have a walk around Limehouse and the Regents canal and never once thought about the history of the area. Thanks for the informative video 🙂👍
Hi Roger, TH-cam recommended this video to me. I’m now going through all of your videos about the building of London. Thank you so much for the content and for educating me. I’m a Londoner born and bred but I’ve been in the US for the last 20 years. Thanks for bringing me back home again. Stephen!
This was a great video; an excellent piece of journalism on some fascinating architecture. Please do keep these mini docu-series coming and I look forward to one on the railways.
The Grand Union Canal in West London was my playground in the late 70s, early 80s. As kids we would play on all of the old closed down factories that lined the canal. We also use to cycle for miles & miles without our parents knowledge. Great memories. Thanks Roger.
This series is just unreal. The knowledge and dedication and construction of these videos? Is better than anything I’ve ever seen on any tv station either celestial or network. The guys sheer class. Roger man’….. unbelievable!!!
This just appeared whilst browsing YT. Amazing content, just loving it. Great work so have subscribed Observation re 10.59 minutes. Those 'horses' in the photo are mules! These animals until recently have been essential to transport and industry since ancient times. Horses were used as well I know, but being a 2 mules owner and nut, I just had to point them out!
Greetings from Australia, and I absolutely love learning British history. Always have since I was a kid. This stuff is our roots. My Great x 4 grandfather fought at Waterloo with 40th of foot REGT. Thanks for this history lessons my friend!
Would have loved to be in a tour that took me around these places which included all the information. You’re a very good narrator and such endless knowledge on all this. I imagine that there are millions walking around London with very little knowledge of its history as in any city
Thank you for taking me to travel through London. Due to health issues, I don't think I'll ever be able to travel, but you've given me a beautiful trip. Many Blessings
Your video was quite an eye-opener. I've not heard of these canals. I'm glad they were not filled in. Just an ad to that. I love your choice of accompanying music.
Wonderful ! You make all the history so interesting and easily understandable It's great to have someone who links everything together Cause and effect.
Thanks for the Video, I grew up fishing on that Canal mainly between Bethnal Green and the Broadway lock, where you showed the renewed Gas Tanks and the old renovated warehouses. I was Canadian-born but raised by fantastic Gran, due to problems after and related to the war. I remember the Canal Horses, Coal deliveries for the house brought there by horse and Cart and Guys bringing it into the "Coal Hole" under the stairs in Baskets on their backs. It was amazing how many services were still dependent on the Horse and Cart until the mid to late 60s. Great memories and it was an enjoyable place to grow up, until we were forced out and my family split again.
Brilliant and so informative. I lived in Paddington near Little Venice before it was called Little Venice. I could see the coal barges being pulled along by the shire horses. My brother and I spent a lot of time canoeing on the canal and my parents used to visit the Bridge Pub overlooking the canal. It was a very poor area then and a barge called Jason's used to take people up and down the canal. I could tell you so much more but I think this is enough. I loved your video and presentation. You are so good and knowledgeable. Thanks again for bringing back happy memories. 😅😅😅
Paul Please do tell us more, I am interested in your early life and I am sure others will be too. I struggle to find anything in archives about the 'ordinary' lives of people in London. The fact that it was a poor area is telling, nobody could have imagined those houses being worth millions.
If you haven't already read it, East London Canal Tales by Carolyn Clark has exactly those kind of stories. [I haven't watched your vid yet! Hopefully you don't mention it halfway through 😂]
This is awesome! Thank you so much. London is my favorite city in the world and this is such a great show on it. Roger, it’s as a good as a BBC documentary. You really have this city dialed in. My son, wife and I went looking for the sharks last time we visited and found them! So happy to see a quick shot of them. And I learned lots of new things. I am going to follow the canal and see the places you mentioned next time we are in town. Thank you again! Wonderful.
Brilliant! The 'staples/clamps/dogs' at 11:40 are almost certainly an addition to stop the stone blocks from cracking open/splitting further. On some canal bridges you will see large iron plates to guard against the 'rope rub' and even these have deep groves cut into them!
Super video Roger. I've been following your stories for 20 + years since before Professional Plumbing. I really enjoy these stories of the building of the country.
I really enjoyed this. I knew you only as a brilliant presenter of building issues, so I'm so pleased to see you have grown into this. I shall look forward to more of it. Well done!
Excellent presentation. The canals are a hoot for gentle boating, cycling, running or just a quiet stroll. You covered the change of use very well. Excellent camera work and sound.
This guy summed it up by summing up that other guy........ "This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms.....
I absolutely love these videos on London. They make me want to revisit London to seek out all these more or less hidden places the city i full of. Great work!
I think the first time I looked at skill builder was to get a grip on scarf joints. Been watching ever since. Now I use it as a way of trying to escape from the reality of today's uk. Keep it up we all need a dose of sanity.
Love seeing pics and history of London. Love to visit for a few days, but it wears me out. Used to commute 2 hrs each way for a year, so not ideal. Still getting the train to London, now retired, is exciting! Thanks for the history, shame you didn't teach @school!!
Thank you Roger for a very interesting video. Forty something years ago I used to wander around Camden Lock and sometimes Little Venice when I lived in London. All the best from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
I absolutely loved that Roger a nice departure from all the building related content which I've also enjoyed (I'm in the trade), looking forward to more content like this....👍
Hi Roger, i been following your skills for years. . Lovely video, as a Londoner i still learned something. A delightful branch away from fixing up bathrooms. Thanks
This man is excellent.He’s a native Londoner who really loves his city .
He should have his own series on television.
😮😢 I don't watch TV ...only YT...
Much prefer him doing his own thing on YT. Might not be as slick as a TV production (for now) but is far more personable, interesting and in-depth.
He does have his own series. He is also Independent.
Not on television. The TV producers will just fill it with clever camera shots and stretch 5 minutes talking into 30 minutes.
Come for the DIY stay for the history. A serious TH-camr. Respect. I don’t know how anyone could live in London and not be captivated by all the rich history.
I'm actually building a canal and this vid was a great help!
Wow Roger! You just opened a whole load of memories for me. When I was a young pilot with BOAC I was living in London and having quite a lot of spare time on days off I teamed up with another chap that I trained with and he had an enduring love of narrow boats. We met up with John James who used to run Jason's Trip in narrow boats (Motor and Butty) from Blomfield Road (Little Venice ) down past the zoo to Camden Lock where there was a winding hole(a place where you could turn round. and back again. We had regular runs ,school parties, wedding receptions, you name it we did it. Later in life I was (and still am) living in Scotland but based out of London. This gave me the odd day off when going home was not realistic and I was staying with my brother in Putney. I had a wee Brompton bike and pedalled my way from Teddington Lock all the way down the Thames towpath and revisited the Regents canal(Not all in one day ,obviously). This filled the days off and over the years I covered most of the places all the way down to the docks (Dockland and across to Greenwhich). The advantage of the Brompton was when it got late I folded it up and got the tube home. Your video just rekindled those happy days, thanks.
Hi Charles
I am very happy to hear that this video brought back some great memories, I had hoped it would inspire people to visit but also mean that people who have been to London could gain something more from it. I think some may think that they missed a lot of good things and want to come back.
I love cycling the tow path, though the bit around Hammersmith is often flooded so you have to time it right.
On another note, have you read Nick Eade's books on his time flying 747's for BA? It is highly entertaining.
@@SkillBuilder Not seen Nicks book, I shall look out for it. It was a great career. I was VC10, then short haul 1-11, Scotland on the HS748 flying the Highlands and Islands(more fun than you are supposed to have with your clothes on), then 757&767 down south and finished on the 777. Retired for a wee while and then Loganair on the Saab 340.
We lived in Delamere Terrace overlooking the canal. Bloomfield Villas was just around the corner. The place where the boats turned was called The Basin and Jason's boat was moored there. Over the years The Regents canal became very fashionable and then the Basin with all the luxurious boats which very rich people lived in became Little Venice. It was a great place to live as it was a mixture of Bohemian people and now Famous artists, Lucian Freud lived next door. on Sunday morning the shrimp man came with his barrow of delicious cockels and mussels and fresh shrimps. Then in summer when it was hot the Ice man came and we bought big chunks of ice as we had no fridges. The Rag and Bone man with his cart and horse calling out Rag and Bones. It has so much character. Last and not least The Fog. You could not see in front of you. Many people died of chest problems. So, that's my childhood in a few sentences. There's so much more but it would take forever to write. Thanks again for reminding me of my interesting days in Paddington. 😅😅😅
Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece!
I've always thought a video on the old London cemeteries would be quite interesting. Or maybe some of the infrastructure that few people cover.
Also non of that crappy vocal fry that the youngsters use, does my head in
I like the cemetry idea. A history of how London disposed of its dead would be interesting.
Its a great little documentary I think any filmmaker would be proud of. More and more TH-cam creators with a cameraphone and a drone are just completely humbling mainstream or large production companies.
Agreed 💯
@@SkillBuilder
Abney cemetery work will be over soon, they are finishing a cafe on the east entrance and refurbishing the chapel in the middle of the park
Roger is a great presenter on this type of programme, absolutely loved this!
Well done buddy.
Much appreciated!
Loved this, fascinating and well produced. Thanks Rog
This was great Roger! Look forward to seeing more history videos from you 😊
Thanks so much
@@SkillBuilder ditto, the best thing happened to me today is to learning a few things about London from your video. Thank you Roger.
Have been to Limehouse basin many times (my parents had owned one of the flats on Narrow st for more than 30 years ever since I could remeber as a child) and how it had connected all the places in London that I know and visited many times with my kids, through the coal trade, it is so fansinating.
No long periods of a presenter looking into the distance over some music not saying anything.
Absolutely, this was delightful.
What an amazing video, I run almost all the time in the canal and I am stunned by the engineering behind the locks and all the infrastructure getting all the story behind it just makes it so much interesting.
This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms, ridiculous out-of-focus shots, or the dreaded crappy pizzicato music - just a straight to the point well researched piece!
Yeah but what about a really dramatic edit into the Wapping riots, some really hyped up music into silence and "Events would unfold in ways *NO-ONE* saw coming!" or something like that? He could really use some professional video making flair!
Roger should have his own show.
He kind of does and you sort of just watched it 😂
A very enjoyable video.
He's got one on here. I discovered him by accident. TH-cam is where it's at now. Mainstream TV is finished. Who needs to pay a licence fee to be brainwashed?
The BBC should commission him..
Very nice. I live in Limehouse Basin so it was all “I can see my flat!” And then you proceeded up my favourite canal. Learned new things and entertained. 👍
Another fascinating insight to London heritage Roger. Your vid on the London bricks was superb. Keep it up. 😁😁
Roger is such a great tour guide. Magnificent. Thank you.
A fabulously well researched and presented film. Thank you Roger.
Just Discovered you,,,
Well documented Video , I’ll look forward to seeing Many more in future
A really excellent mini documentary Roger - thank you. I'm looking forward to your next one.
Many thanks!
Please keep going...I am following this channel from many years and it is a pleasure to see how it has evolved into this. WOW an absolute gem on the internet.
Thank you! Will do!
Thank you for sharing this story with all of us !
Cheers From California 😎
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow!! Well done Roger. A brilliant production. More Please!!!
Bout time they gave you a tv show mate 🙌🏼
I was very young the first time mum took us through Little Venice, to go to The Zoo. We entered through the very beautiful, and then very new Snowden Aviary. I loved the aquarium and reptile house.
Thank you Roger
Really EXCELLENT. Who needs to travel abroad with all this under our noses?
I love travelling abroad. I used to hear Fred Dibnah say that we had everything in this country but how did he know if he never left it?
Wish I could travel and see this. Will have to enjoy your videos. Thank you from the USA
I discovered this channel by accident. It just popped up on my feed, probably something to do with the algorithm because I like history. Great watch! This guy really knows his stuff and presents it in a watchable and honest way. I had absolutely no idea people could now live inside one of those old gas holders' frames!
Roger, I'm not even a builder (I'm a furniture designer and maker) but I come and watch your videos because I've always been interested in building and construction and your way of presenting is fantastic. These new history/documentary style videos give me even more of a reason to come and watch. They're fantastic and really interesting.
Your enthusiasm and love for your subject shine out from this excellent video Roger. Very well done indeed. More Please. Much more.
More to come!
As an artist (painter of architectural subjects - mainly ruins in the landscape); with a passion for the history of buildings, and their materials, your excellent, well-researched and narrated productions (including this one) tick many boxes for me. Congratulations on your success! I look forward to viewing more of your work.
Probably the best presentation I have seen in years. I shall watch it again !
Thanks, Roger. I'm a Londoner through and through, but I learn something new every time I watch one of these. Appreciate the time and energy you put into each one.
Thanks mate, I enjoy doing them and I learn a lot as well. The trouble is that I can't stop looking at new angles.
Where did Homer go? He was sentenced to 7 years in Australia but his name doesn't appear on any of the records and there is no record of his death. Maybe he changed his name and disappeared or maybe he is under that canal.
Me too.
Love your informative easy going presentation
Another TV Potential programme here -" London By A Londoner" Great production
Absolutely loved this video, we grew up (hehe) never! , next to the canal in greenford, and it has featured in our lives ever since despite living in various places. The canals are an asset to london.
Really enjoyed that Roger. Better than TV. Please do another one soon.
I have one in edit now.
Fascinating stuff Roger, more please.
fantastic channel - superior to TV
Excellent documentary Roger. I often have a walk around Limehouse and the Regents canal and never once thought about the history of the area. Thanks for the informative video 🙂👍
West Cheshire dweller love the video of bits of the city I never would get to see.A good history lesson and interesting footage.Thankyou.
Great to see all the beautiful places in London. Your knowledge of the place is windetful.
Hi Roger, TH-cam recommended this video to me. I’m now going through all of your videos about the building of London. Thank you so much for the content and for educating me. I’m a Londoner born and bred but I’ve been in the US for the last 20 years. Thanks for bringing me back home again. Stephen!
This was a great video; an excellent piece of journalism on some fascinating architecture. Please do keep these mini docu-series coming and I look forward to one on the railways.
The Grand Union Canal in West London was my playground in the late 70s, early 80s. As kids we would play on all of the old closed down factories that lined the canal. We also use to cycle for miles & miles without our parents knowledge. Great memories. Thanks Roger.
Same here but river lee from Edmonton to the Thames at poplar.
Loved exploring old factories and bomb sites
As a North Londoner i found this fascinating.
This series is just unreal. The knowledge and dedication and construction of these videos? Is better than anything I’ve ever seen on any tv station either celestial or network. The guys sheer class. Roger man’…..
unbelievable!!!
I love these videos. They have become family favourites. Brilliant presentation, eloquent and smart.
Nice new style of video! Love a bit of history!
This just appeared whilst browsing YT. Amazing content, just loving it. Great work so have subscribed Observation re 10.59 minutes. Those 'horses' in the photo are mules! These animals until recently have been essential to transport and industry since ancient times. Horses were used as well I know, but being a 2 mules owner and nut, I just had to point them out!
Thanks, I am always happy to learn
Greetings from Australia, and I absolutely love learning British history. Always have since I was a kid. This stuff is our roots. My Great x 4 grandfather fought at Waterloo with 40th of foot REGT. Thanks for this history lessons my friend!
what nothing about the Abos history mate
you know the people of australia and Tasmania where you live ?
@@chrisbennett6260 thats downright racist mate
@@chrisbennett6260First nation people’s please !
I learn a lot from your videos. London is my favorite city after New York. Thank you for detailed stories.
Would have loved to be in a tour that took me around these places which included all the information. You’re a very good narrator and such endless knowledge on all this. I imagine that there are millions walking around London with very little knowledge of its history as in any city
Nice bit of piano playing at the end there, Roger. Mad skills bro!
Love these little history films on London. Keep em coming. Cheers
Thank you for taking me to travel through London. Due to health issues, I don't think I'll ever be able to travel, but you've given me a beautiful trip. Many Blessings
Fascinating insight. Thanks SB.
Thanks you for keeping our history alive. I for one needed this. Please keep them coming.
This is only the second video I 've seen from this guy and it is just as outstanding as the first. Some network should grab him as a presenter.
Your video was quite an eye-opener. I've not heard of these canals. I'm glad they were not filled in. Just an ad to that. I love your choice of accompanying music.
Wonderful ! You make all the history so interesting and easily understandable
It's great to have someone who links everything together
Cause and effect.
Thanks for the Video, I grew up fishing on that Canal mainly between Bethnal Green and the Broadway lock, where you showed the renewed Gas Tanks and the old renovated warehouses. I was Canadian-born but raised by fantastic Gran, due to problems after and related to the war. I remember the Canal Horses, Coal deliveries for the house brought there by horse and Cart and Guys bringing it into the "Coal Hole" under the stairs in Baskets on their backs. It was amazing how many services were still dependent on the Horse and Cart until the mid to late 60s. Great memories and it was an enjoyable place to grow up, until we were forced out and my family split again.
You have talent Sir. Loved your channel for years. Keep giving us a treet
I've honestly learned more from this channel than the past 18 years of TH-cam videos.
London receiving the right shoes and Liverpool the left to stop pilfering is a superb bit of history!
Sorry, sounds extremely unlikely to me.😮
Same I think its wonderfully interesting! Would love to find a reference to this!
@@virtualcircuit No, that story is too good to check.
It sounds like a Scouse joke that got taken a bit too seriously.
Beautiful scenery and a relaxing charm of the area. Thank you Roger for sharing this with us.
Fabulous video guys. Makes me want to buy a barge and go exploring!
Same here! ❤
Thoroughly enjoyed my trip along the canal. Thank you😀
That is good to hear
Thanks Roger, very interesting and so well presented
The content and delivery for this video are the best - clear, informative and captivating.
As others have said, loved this, fascinating and well produced, look forward to part II
Thank you for such superbly presented and fascinating insight into the industrial history of London.
Brilliant and so informative. I lived in Paddington near Little Venice before it was called Little Venice. I could see the coal barges being pulled along by the shire horses. My brother and I spent a lot of time canoeing on the canal and my parents used to visit the Bridge Pub overlooking the canal. It was a very poor area then and a barge called Jason's used to take people up and down the canal. I could tell you so much more but I think this is enough. I loved your video and presentation. You are so good and knowledgeable. Thanks again for bringing back happy memories. 😅😅😅
Paul
Please do tell us more, I am interested in your early life and I am sure others will be too. I struggle to find anything in archives about the 'ordinary' lives of people in London.
The fact that it was a poor area is telling, nobody could have imagined those houses being worth millions.
If you haven't already read it, East London Canal Tales by Carolyn Clark has exactly those kind of stories.
[I haven't watched your vid yet! Hopefully you don't mention it halfway through 😂]
roger, you're a gem!
please do more of these, they're so well made and you're an amazing presenter
I really enjoy your historical walks and talks about the interesting history around London.
This is awesome! Thank you so much. London is my favorite city in the world and this is such a great show on it. Roger, it’s as a good as a BBC documentary. You really have this city dialed in. My son, wife and I went looking for the sharks last time we visited and found them! So happy to see a quick shot of them. And I learned lots of new things. I am going to follow the canal and see the places you mentioned next time we are in town. Thank you again! Wonderful.
That is great to hear Kier, if I can help people find something extra in the buildings my job is done.
I got a feeling this is going to become my new favourite channel 😊
Brilliant! The 'staples/clamps/dogs' at 11:40 are almost certainly an addition to stop the stone blocks from cracking open/splitting further. On some canal bridges you will see large iron plates to guard against the 'rope rub' and even these have deep groves cut into them!
Super video Roger.
I've been following your stories for 20 + years since before Professional Plumbing.
I really enjoy these stories of the building of the country.
Totally different and totally excellent 👍
I really enjoyed this. I knew you only as a brilliant presenter of building issues, so I'm so pleased to see you have grown into this. I shall look forward to more of it. Well done!
Great down to earth natural presenting style!!
Excellent presentation.
The canals are a hoot for gentle boating, cycling, running or just a quiet stroll. You covered the change of use very well. Excellent camera work and sound.
London is such an amazing city.
Brilliant! Cheers Roger, I really enjoyed that, and I wasn't aware of just how extensive the canal system is still existing in London. More please. 👋
Simply great video Roger, hated hostory at school but now just love it Thanks for that one.
Glad you enjoyed it
This guy summed it up by summing up that other guy........ "This guy summed it up............. " Excellent work Roger, better than a TV documentary. No shaky cam, crazy fast zooms.....
That was brilliant! Thanks, yet again, for sharing your polymath's perspective on the built environment's history.
You have so much information in that brain! It's fantastic listening to your London stories, especially. Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love these videos on London. They make me want to revisit London to seek out all these more or less hidden places the city i full of. Great work!
I lived in Copenhagen once, I love it there
I think the first time I looked at skill builder was to get a grip on scarf joints. Been watching ever since. Now I use it as a way of trying to escape from the reality of today's uk. Keep it up we all need a dose of sanity.
You have a great presenting style, Roger, keeping the interest going better than many established professionals. Nice one .. 😉
Very fluid storytelling, sir! The drone shots are excellent quality and a great addition.
These need to go on TV
TV is dead Grandad.
TV production would necessitate a lot of noisy underscore music being inserted drowning out Roger's commentary.
And only Toby-jugs watch TV. @@nickhickson8738
Not enough far left and global warming messaging in it, Roger would have to sell his soul and make amendments to the script to get on TV
@rocketmunkey1 Roger wouldn't meet the ideological criteria..
Thanks Roger. I found that extremely interesting. Look forward to many more.
Excellent, thank you. You should have your own programme
Another fabulous video, loved the closing music.
Thank you Roger
Love seeing pics and history of London. Love to visit for a few days, but it wears me out. Used to commute 2 hrs each way for a year, so not ideal. Still getting the train to London, now retired, is exciting! Thanks for the history, shame you didn't teach @school!!
Thanks Roger! now looking forward to more in this history series of videos. Cheers Alan in Christchurch New Zealand.
Thank you Roger for a very interesting video. Forty something years ago I used to wander around Camden Lock and sometimes Little Venice when I lived in London. All the best from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
I absolutely loved that Roger a nice departure from all the building related content which I've also enjoyed (I'm in the trade), looking forward to more content like this....👍
Hi John
It is supposed to be building related. I am making a series on the building of London but it is not chronological
Lovely honest view of this feature of London. Keep it up Roger - marvellous job.
Hi Roger, i been following your skills for years. . Lovely video, as a Londoner i still learned something. A delightful branch away from fixing up bathrooms. Thanks
fantastic video roger, a true natural of presenting! More of this sort of thing!
Really good reportage, history. Should be on telly aswell as here. Big up.