Mystery Walk from Leyton to Wherever that May Be (4K)

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  • @IlfordRetro
    @IlfordRetro 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Sometimes just heading out for a walk with no prerequisites can be a thing of beauty in itself.

  • @paulhutchins6019
    @paulhutchins6019 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    My Mum lived in one of the four blocks of flats in Ponders End for a good few years. They've since demolished three of them. From the 16th floor she had fantastic views of all the Lea Valley. From another window you could see right into London and could make out the dome of St Paul's on a clear day.

    • @Dirt-Diggler
      @Dirt-Diggler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I lived in kestrel house 8th floor for 13 years 👍
      Allways had a great free view of pickets lock fireworks display 👌

  • @AFCManUk
    @AFCManUk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Ahh,,,,Sunday afternoon. Time for a lovely walk with John :D

  • @TXMEDRGR
    @TXMEDRGR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I've doing something similar lately, I go to the bus stop and whichever bus is leaving next I get on board. When I reach an interesting area, I get off and walk around. Thanks for sharing.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Great stuff - that's a classic TXMEDRGR

  • @colinpearce5856
    @colinpearce5856 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In my sallow youth used to multi drop in a van all over E & N London with overlaps into Herts / Essex borders. Longingly looking from the North Circular or M25 at The Lea and its tow path wondering what delights were hiding and your wandering vlog has revealed the missing parts of my journeys of old. Many Thanks.
    PS I await your revelations of Turkey Brook & all its twists, turns & as yet hidden treasures. Don’t leave it another year……neither of us might not be here!!

  • @richardwhite4832
    @richardwhite4832 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great walk. Brought back many happy memories of my youth - in days when the M.25 was not ven a dream. The Lea Valley was an integral part of my childhood.

  • @heidismit5261
    @heidismit5261 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    John! My kind of walk. I will watch this film on a cold autumnal evening whilst drinking a glass of wine. Something to look forward to. Thank you.

  • @rickwills4281
    @rickwills4281 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Perfect lazy Sunday afternnoon viewing.

  • @lestorhaslam
    @lestorhaslam 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Let us hope the River Lea and remnants of the green areas remain untouched. Thank you for this lovely video.

  • @nwlondontimemachine9484
    @nwlondontimemachine9484 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video John..classic John Rogers. When I lived in E11, back in the late 1990s I did walks like this. Very special areas. A wonderful blend of nature and man-made.

  • @davidfarrell7373
    @davidfarrell7373 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My favourite type of walk. Thanks John. Dave

  • @leslielutz6140
    @leslielutz6140 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I LOVE IT WHEN YOU DO THIS. SO EXCITING !!! An adventure.

  • @andrewtucker3943
    @andrewtucker3943 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The opening shot reminded me that there is a very good book called "Ghost Signs- A London Story" by Sam Roberts and Roy Reed that uncovers the archaeology and history of 250 faded advertising signs like that one. I must get that book.
    A lovely local London ramble, with the utter freedom of having no goal to aim for, just go where whim takes you and see what you discover. The walk of a proper "flaneur" and all the more interesting for it. Thank you, as always, for inviting us along on it.
    PS. Must also go to visit the Pumphouse Museum some time soon.
    PPS. "Change in the seasons", yeah. My sister-in-law mentioned it a few days ago, she said someone had "flipped the Autumn switch" and she was right, you can smell it in the air.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for that Andrew

  • @CthulhuInc
    @CthulhuInc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    great walk, john - there's nothing like just following your nose, to see what you can see - and i'm glad you made the train! 😊

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Many thanks- I got to the station with a couple of minutes to spare

  • @TheWalnut47
    @TheWalnut47 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was an excellent ramble and commentary. Thank you, John. Greetings from Bodmin Moor, Cornwall - the remote bit.

  • @paulwilson7234
    @paulwilson7234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A great video to watch on a Sunday afternoon.

  • @lesliegprice6652
    @lesliegprice6652 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Roll up for the Mystery Tour ........ wonderful ❤😂

  • @VickyAllum
    @VickyAllum 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Really enjoyed watching your mystery walk John, really calming for my lazy Sunday day off ,

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks Vicky - so glad you enjoyed it

  • @drewb8r
    @drewb8r 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Rivers are so important to cities. More so than roads. Without a river(s) the city has no veins. It connects us. It is the navigation of our head to our heart. We are somehow drawn to them. Even trying to find the lost ones. We find something of ourselves.

    • @Chris-mf1rm
      @Chris-mf1rm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Without rivers there’d be no city. They’re nearly always founded at the confluence of two rivers.

  • @kellyspurgeon538
    @kellyspurgeon538 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Good morning John Rogers. Just back from a similar walk to wherever here in Lawrence, Kansas USA. Curiously, my walk also included a Carnegie Library. No sausage roll but a tasty pastry at Wheatfields. Good day to you and many thanks for your videos. kelly

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Many thanks Kelly - great to hear you had a good walk

  • @ianpennell3626
    @ianpennell3626 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A really enjoyable video for me, full of nostalgic memories of growing up in Waltham Abbey in the 60s when my Dad worked in Brimsdown at Enfield Cables; you still occasionally see their cable drums although the company hasn’t existed since then. They made the high voltage cables that you see so well in the video strung between the pylons that make up the National Grid, as well as their underground equivalents. It’s a reminder of how important the Lea Valley was in the 20th century manufacture of modern electricity components, electric consumer goods and the rest of the electric environment we take for granted. And Brimsdown is clearly still an electric hub in a different way.

  • @markriley4665
    @markriley4665 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    What a great walk John. Your narrative makes any journey special. I have been inspired by you and heading to the ends of the Tube lines and mapping a walk. Fascinated by Stanmore, High Barnet, Edgware and Mill Hill East and West Ruislip last week. I always think of you when I find a river or stream.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks Mark - you’re in for a real treat at the end of those lines

  • @robertbarling5601
    @robertbarling5601 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video John, that was my dad's stomping ground in his younger days

  • @lindasueanderson8024
    @lindasueanderson8024 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh a classic ramble of indecision and sudden detours…and a new tshirt! An excellent walk

  • @atometer1718
    @atometer1718 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely walk and video John. Some of my favourite places up and down the River Lea.

  • @morriganwitch
    @morriganwitch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Just what was needed xxx

  • @mitchelluk1445
    @mitchelluk1445 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "you get a feeling about a walk when its ended" those words are so true mr rogers

  • @CaroleMora22
    @CaroleMora22 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A lovely mystery meander.

  • @ashleysgaze
    @ashleysgaze 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A very nice walk, John. Cheers!

  • @AmandaBrown-nu7wo
    @AmandaBrown-nu7wo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved your walk yesterday,very relaxing love when you amble.

  • @barbarapowell9905
    @barbarapowell9905 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great getaway. Thanks for following your intuition for this beautiful tour.

  • @w.g.hunter1300
    @w.g.hunter1300 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Something strangely beautiful about 17:15 - glad you were there to capture the image!

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Completely agree- I was slightly mesmerised and filmed about a minute of the scene

  • @danielamaschtall8433
    @danielamaschtall8433 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    In Quebec, they call it ''un nowhere'', when they set out without any precise plan about the destination.

  • @dannybb2000
    @dannybb2000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    ❤ a lovely Sunday evening 👋

  • @annahemmings3437
    @annahemmings3437 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely entertainment John! Thank you. I absolutely adore hearing all the history of the area 👏👏

  • @TrevorBarre
    @TrevorBarre 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My son and one of my daughters live round this way, John. Lovely presentation and love the "the travelling is the main thing rather than the xestination" theme.

  • @honsten
    @honsten 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Shoutout to Armstrong audio. Had my amp repaired there and love their ethic of mending. The coffee is VERY good, too.

  • @RosieWood-g3i
    @RosieWood-g3i 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Love that my home town xx

  • @drfo5t3r
    @drfo5t3r 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These walks are the best. Thank you John

  • @TimBoss2000
    @TimBoss2000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This walk was well overdue.
    Obviously not the most fashionable part of London but it took me back to 2018 when I spent twelve months camping at the lee valley leisure centre.
    The cloudy skies. The asda discounts.
    Incredibly odd landscape. The crash barriers. Perhaps the most odd part of London that makes the least sense unless you're broke and down on your luck and needing to be within a certain distance from the city but crave solitude.
    Thank you John from the Gold Coast, Australia 🇭🇲

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad I could take you back there Tim

  • @FranssensM
    @FranssensM 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks John, I needed that walk.

  • @shaunjeffries2628
    @shaunjeffries2628 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've always loved the idea of leaving the front door and just meandering, with no route or destination in mind. There should be a word for the sort of decision, often made on those walks, to take one road or path over another just because you look down it and it feels like the right way to go.

  • @trevorjenkins3934
    @trevorjenkins3934 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    John, as always an interesting video. I find that watching them and listening to you leaves me in a happy place.

  • @liberty_and_justice67
    @liberty_and_justice67 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the walk and the music🎉

  • @michaelmiller641
    @michaelmiller641 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great walk, John. Thanks for that!

  • @sharrison3974
    @sharrison3974 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really enjoyed this one - great to see you following where your feet took you and it felt right that you headed up the Lea. Have a good week.

  • @gparry42
    @gparry42 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Once again a lovey walk,wonderful !

  • @TracyPicabia
    @TracyPicabia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Soothing the Seething! Happen to be rereading Sinclair's London Orbital! His masterpiece? So beautifully written. The sentences are music, like listening to the most dancable syncopated Cuban rhythms. I'm 'Up the Lea Valley with Bill Drummond (and the Unabomber)', so this walk could not have been more resonant. Absolutely fabulous. I lived in Seven Sisters for most of the 1980s and am ashamed to say barely set foot in the Lea Valley. Students didnt walk back then. Looking forward to you rambling up Turkey Brook.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So glad I posted this video while you were reading the classic. I always think about Iain when I pass that bridge. I have a wonderful clip in one of my Lea Valley videos where he talks about the London Orbital walk while stood under that flyover

    • @TracyPicabia
      @TracyPicabia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I thought it was the Ching walk (4 years ago) but no. Cant find it now. Can you post a link to it? I'm definitely going down this rabbit hole!

  • @alanarmer882
    @alanarmer882 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another great video John 📗📗📗

  • @ralphwinter6421
    @ralphwinter6421 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice one John, wonderful walk...

  • @edenjs1503
    @edenjs1503 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really enjoyed the mystery style walk. Thanks as ever John!

  • @shiprapandey43172
    @shiprapandey43172 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice walk ❤I hope you enjoyed Essex walk perfectly 👌 river lea is a holy river 😊I think coffee was good ❤and it's a proper walk we want more walk near around river lea ,England is a dream land for me ❤I hope your next video will come soon 😊

  • @ianscotty1931
    @ianscotty1931 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely. , one of these walks that clears the mind. :-)

  • @bmanne8247
    @bmanne8247 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video john!, reminded me of when my family would pile into the car and go get "lost" finding many cool places in toronto before we found home lol. Your video brought back many good memories. Thanks

  • @SteveInskip
    @SteveInskip 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cheers John. A wonderful roam around. 👍

  • @maggiemitchell4359
    @maggiemitchell4359 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you😍

  • @edwardwilliamson1
    @edwardwilliamson1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks John again for an evocative journey. I would love to see a Turkey brook video.

  • @KhrystynaBraverman
    @KhrystynaBraverman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good

  • @Slycockney
    @Slycockney 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great walk John, perfect end to my Sunday evening, cheers

  • @brotherjohnno
    @brotherjohnno 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely a change in the air over the last few days. Just been out with the dog this evening and you can feel dewpoint happening in the fields and the smell of the blackberry bushes beginning to fade away. Lovely clear skies tonight and red sunset out to the west. Never tire of the beginning of Autumn, a lovely time.

  • @dannorth3138
    @dannorth3138 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice one John as you know I like finding a new craft beer place to visit and definitely will check out Libertalia next time I'm in Leyton

  • @Mouxbar
    @Mouxbar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Nick on a video would be good to see again. Been a long time. Wandering approved :-)

  • @sianwarwick633
    @sianwarwick633 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good walk John. It's about 10°C here today, so i'm happy to see sunny warm days on screen.

  • @AlphaBee6
    @AlphaBee6 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ah, the Lea Valley. My most frequent and favourite rambling route - mostly between Tottenham Hale and the A406 (and occasionally crossing the river to the Walthamstow Wetlands if I have the time), but have made it to Cheshunt and the Cody Dock rolling bridge either end. Closest I got to Leyton was Lea Bridge via the vole marshes and the Lea Valley riding farm, a lovely bit of countryside within the historic and growing urban developments around Hackney and Waltham Forest. Still haven't managed to get the gumption to make my way further into the area yet - maybe soon if a more pleasant autumnal period comes, or maybe next spring? Fantastic walk and video as always!

  • @kskssxoxskskss2189
    @kskssxoxskskss2189 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Not to call you wrong, John, but you are very much an educator. It's no coincidence that your next book will finally out your whole project by being a textbook.

  • @kevincross9206
    @kevincross9206 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very chilled walk 😊

  • @vselenautika
    @vselenautika 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, John.

  • @PaulReynolds-q2p
    @PaulReynolds-q2p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great to see Armstrong Audio - one of my favourite spots for coffee, and so good that they REPAIR things - have to get away from the throwaway culture!

  • @lpgmorton
    @lpgmorton 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That brought back memories from... a couple of weeks ago. We walked from Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge in Chingford across to the Lea Navigation and then down to Blackhorse Lane and... all the microbreweries. It was a lovely afternoon and evening.

  • @janispope4295
    @janispope4295 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A nice place to go and sit …(Lea Bridge Library) words reminded me to seek simple but so important pleasures. Ironic for a walking channel! Really great walk today. Thanks John

  • @patanna7452
    @patanna7452 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely walk!

  • @henryporter5466
    @henryporter5466 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A lovely coddiwomple John.

  • @Steveoaudioandstuff
    @Steveoaudioandstuff 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful walk, thanks for taking us with you John. Pongys End and Frogspawn as we used to call them. Lovely flaneurial end to a Sunday. And I dont even know if that's a word. Thanks John.

  • @Christina-ge3xr
    @Christina-ge3xr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I kept thinking about your father’s delightful ditty during this walk 😊 Very appropriate tune for a Sunday stroll.
    Cheers.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ha certainly Christina - I spoke to him on the phone on the way home

  • @yrobertson7504
    @yrobertson7504 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Luv ya John. You’re normal 🩷thank you for your walks & narrative

  • @williamrobinson7435
    @williamrobinson7435 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These 'wandery' walks have a special feeling to them. Indeed, I think they reflect the spirit in which most of us set out on a walk, so I guess they embody an element of public empathy. I love the mild excitement which comes from not QUITE knowing where one's going, yet in these films there's always enough latent London knowledge for informed improvisation.
    I see you have made the highlife. Walls' Cumberland Sausage All Day Baguettes eh?
    Nice one John! 🌟👍

  • @helenfawcett9685
    @helenfawcett9685 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Used to live on Vicarage Road! The first Saturday sounds my newborn son heard were the chanting from the Orient! Same son then lived on Essex Road for a while as an adult!

  • @andrewfield8523
    @andrewfield8523 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful video. Used to live at both ends of Coppermill Lane and walking across the reservoirs/wetlands was like traversing different phases of my life, almost like time travel. Everything near the reservoirs is a liminal zone, the ultimate in my view being Sewardstone where multiple worlds and landscapes collide. Would love to see a video including there.

  • @mungmungie
    @mungmungie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One thing I really enjoy about your walks is when you focus in on some of the plant life. It is fascinating to see what is different and what is the same, when compared to the other side of the planet. Some plants are familiar, yet often much bigger or much smaller. I guess people just wanted to bring something with them that reminded them of their ancestral homes.
    Another thing I like about your River Lea walks particularly is that you show a different point of view from that of people who film the same scenes from the water. Sooner or later, I imagine you will run into a guy with a Dutch sailing barge which is flying a Jolly Roger. That would be an interesting conversation to be sure.

  • @likeakite
    @likeakite 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My wife and I love your voice

  • @freemanjackmsiradio
    @freemanjackmsiradio 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After a recent heath scare, I've started taking daily 'constitutionals' around my area, the day before yesterday was more or less following your New Cross to Nunhead Cemetery walk past your old gaffe on Pepys but more often doing the lanes and alleys off the 'cheap end' of the Old Kent. I almost feel inclined to take a camera myself but you do such a fine job, it would be a very poor imitation. I really should do something documenting the Haberdashers Askes development of the area including the evolution of the terrace decoration and the stratified property types according to the class of tenants expected to occupy them, it is a literal story writ in brick and mortar. Wonderful exploration of my ancestral origins with Leyton(stone), where my grandparents lived and my parents came from, thank you.

  • @RubbishGimpy
    @RubbishGimpy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Organic exploration and thoughtless wandering.

  • @rogernelson9029
    @rogernelson9029 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I enjoy using Google Earth to tag along with you on your walks. A subscriber from West Virginia.

  • @LondonTubeVisited
    @LondonTubeVisited 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice walk :)

  • @TimothyHalkowski
    @TimothyHalkowski 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent wander/ramble - maybe do one every few months or so?

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think I will Timothy - thanks

  • @Listermintsluesh
    @Listermintsluesh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice walk john. Must get over to the Lea some day myself. I fancy a cycle along the Lea into the city to see the sights.....

  • @RichardSewell-qk5jc
    @RichardSewell-qk5jc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Honoured John, as you went by my abode as you started
    your way to Waltham Cross station.

  • @timothybird4264
    @timothybird4264 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pickets lock lane, used to be a lovely cut through road, now blocked off and full of abandoned trailers full of god knows what
    Great walk , my mum comes from Enfield lock

  • @philipgallagher3234
    @philipgallagher3234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Manor Park has a lovely Carnegie library on the corner of Rabbits Rd/Romford Rd. Now used as an arts centre I think.

  • @2Sugarbears
    @2Sugarbears 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:00 Looks like the building use in 84 Charing Cross Road. Anthony Hopkins and Dame Judi Dench with Anne Bancroft.

  • @histmanuk
    @histmanuk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A great mystery walk: had a feeling early on that it would end up in Waltham Abbey. It would be great to see you and Nick Papadimitriou on a walk again.

  • @luxford60
    @luxford60 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A lovely walk. I've covered most of it at various times, but am intrigued by the footpath to the river from Blackhorse Lane. Must seek that out.
    I've never waljed to Waltham Abbey, but have cycled to it both from my current home in Leytonstone and my previous place in Limehouse.

  • @johnhughes1762
    @johnhughes1762 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another great video. Just a Q; when you do a walk away are you concerned about your camera ?

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks John - no, but I'm quite careful when and when I do that

  • @AFCManUk
    @AFCManUk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    John, are you still planning to finish the South Bucks Way, between Great Missenden and Wendover (Coombe Hill), that you started 3 years ago?
    If you are, could I suggest waiting for a frosty day?
    It used to be one of my ritual walks, albeit in the opposite direction, on the first really frosty day of winter - when the leaves in the woods crunch beneath your feet and the duck pond at Cobbler's Hill is completely frozen over.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's a great idea - many thanks - I'll add this to my list with your comment

  • @micheleheddane3804
    @micheleheddane3804 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When the kids were small ,I would take them on drives in countryside, the always wanted to know where we were going I would tell them wherever the road leads

  • @JTTW1455
    @JTTW1455 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It seems to me you made that walk only recently because I’ve been catching up on your past videos. It is a lovely walk.

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes - it was 21st August - still nice and warm

  • @anthonyhatfull5484
    @anthonyhatfull5484 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mother (Born 1905) and Grandparents lived in Capworth St. They ran a shop making & selling shopping bags. Kneeling mats ETC from something called "Oil Cloth"
    I was very, very young but I remember the smell of the stuff. She told me about the Silvertown WW1 munitions factory explosion. She said it was several miles away, but rattled the windows.
    I had several uncles & aunts who lived on the Warner Estates. I remember the red break glass & pull handle fire alarm posts, as hardly anyone had a private phone. I remember when Brimsdown Power Station was operating, along with the one at Lea Bridge.

  • @paulasser1589
    @paulasser1589 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The smell you had at Edmonton was probably the sewage works, not the London Energy plant. Another interesting walk, thanks

    • @JohnRogersWalks
      @JohnRogersWalks  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah yes Paul / I was going to add that as text on screen when I realised it was Deephams Sewage Treatment Works

  • @barrymayhew6700
    @barrymayhew6700 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would be lovely if you could walk a few miles of the river Colne…I live just a few miles from the source of that river, which is at Colney Heath. I would be fascinated with any history with that waterway that you could uncover.

  • @flyinghedgehog3833
    @flyinghedgehog3833 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great wander thanks.I get back to North London once a year...last year I found myself concerned regarding safety especially walking after dark..with all the crime around do you feel less safe ? Greetings from KL.