London's Village of Visionaries - Stoke Newington (4K)
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- A walk across the Lea Valley from Leyton to Stoke Newington.
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Described as "the village of visionaries" in the Time Out Book of London Walks, Stoke Newington has strong associations with non-comformism, the arts and literature. Our walk starts in Leyton and crosses the River Lea then goes over Hackney Marshes to the Hackney Cut. We then visit the Millfields Community Orchard in Clapton.
From here our path takes us across Millfields and up Southwold Road to Lower Clapton Road where I'm pleasantly surprised to find draft pale ale to take away from the garden of the Crooked Billet pub. We turn into Evering Road with its notorious association with the Kray Twins. Following Brooke Road N16 we feel the presence of the Hackney Brook running beneath the ground through the area. This leads us across Stoke Newington Common to Stoke Newington Church Street which follows the route of the Roman Ermine Street.
We walk through the beautiful Abney Park Cemetery, opened on the site of Abney House as a model 'garden cemetery'. I include an excerpt of the interview I shot with stone carver Nigel Mantel in 2012 ( • Secret Life of Abney P... ).
This leads us into Stoke Newington Church Street and a visit to the Ecstatic Peace Library Record Shop. Our walk ends in Clissold Park.
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Born and raised in Hackney, moved to US 1980, don't get home much so this is such a treat for me, Thank you John.
I lived in Stoke Newington in the 80s as a child from the North East. It was pretty much a slum back then. Everyone was either an immigrant or very poor. Clissold Park was my local park and I spent pretty much everyday there escaping the torture that only children from incredibly poor families know. I'm torn between being extremely proud of how far the area has come and feeling slightly depressed that all those friendly people I met from that chapter in my life can no longer afford to live anywhere near there.
Gentrification is a double-edged sword isn't it. But I think in a long run it's good. But they do need to cap the FDI for empty apartments allocated for Airbnb. Like Netherlands actually trying to do smtg about it. I'm sure we will figure smtg out in the future. Gentrification is good. It also makes places better to live safer. But we really need to figure out how to primarily make houses to cater for people who work there to efford it. That's what houses are for.
I remember my father Harold Arthur Drury telling me the story about his best friend Errol Phillips, A reader one day walked through London and kept walking through the marshes. So it’s great to have you show us the proximity between London and the marshes. Errol was arrested just for walking through the marshes and put into a mental hospital. This was in the 1950s. Errol was a quiet shy man. He was a walker and a reader.
Watching this again to remind myself what a sunny day is.
Like sitting in front of a roaring fire on a wet day or the cool wind that blows through the window on you at the end of a hot day, John's walks and videos are a soothing relief and comfort from the week.
or sitting in front of a roaring wife.
I remember I fell in the pond when I was a kid! More than 60 years ago!
ooh, a pint from a plastic milk bottle never looked so good! Wish my local would do that. If it ever opens again.
This was brilliant seeing my old Manor, I used to live on Stoke Newington Church Street, the estate next to St Mary's Church. I now live in Switzerland, so don't get see the area much. Family and friends still live there, it really does look wonderful. Cheers for bringing back the memories.
This walk lifted my spirit by quite a measure. To see the streets and houses, parks and all, so well cared for and appreciated was wonderful.
In the 60's and 70's I used to help my dad go on breakdowns from Homerton Motors in high street, and a lot of the local areas were very rundown, starved of proper support from the local council and finance from government. But now....wow what a transformation.
Great job John, as always.
Thanks Michael - wonderful to be able to help lift the spirits.
With all the wins, it's also important to recognise the losses. Money has transformed neighbourhoods, sure, it is what it is.
I was born and raised in Stokey, my parents were, as were their parents. My grandad and great grandad are buried in Abney Park. I visit regularly and it never ceases to amaze me how ignorant many of the current occupiers are of what living in SN was like only 30/40 or 50 years ago, a very different place. When I do go back I feel like an outsider and yet my family going back virtually 200 years schooled, lived, worked and raised families in SN, like so many others, kind of made SN.
Great walk! Recently I walked from EC2 area to Stoke Newington & continued through Green Lanes Haringey, then to Muswell Hill. I love Stoke Newington & Abney cemetery. Walked through Stokey many times! Thanks John.
cheers Ralph glad you enjoyed it
A lovely glimpse of my old home. I used to live on Stoke Newington High Street, opposite the old (then derelict) Vogue Continental cinema. Used to love sitting by Beckmere in Clissold Park, reading a book, in the summer. Plus the lovely Turkish food on the High Street. I've been hankering to go back lately and take a look, so feeling inspired to do so sometime this summer after watching this video. Shame the old Routemasters don't still run up that way. The 73 was always the party bus (!) on a Friday night, due to the friendly bohemian vibes you describe, especially with the bus conductor, Duke Bassey hanging off the back playing his harmonica. Stokey was always a world apart from London. Hope it still is ... it certainly remains so in my mind and moreso in my memories of it. Magical place.
Although I am a new subscriber, I am quite addicted to your channel. I do wish you could be on the t.v with your wonderful and expertise knowledge, and your excellent presentation skills, I have learnt so much information, by watching your channel. I am so grateful to you, why can't we have television presenters like you on the box, showing us parts of London as you know it to be. Your attention to detail is phenomenal. Thank you so indeed much for gem of a TH-cam channel.
thank you so much for this Halo - I love making these videos so it's great to see this appreciation
If it was on tv they would ruin it with excessive sfx & innapropriate music, just to eat up an inflated license fee fueled budget
Trouble is--there'd be endless interruptions by moronic hysterical adverts.
@@hamjazz exactly if this was on tv it would be instantly worse
Couldn’t agree more. John’s videos are amazing and have taught me so much about the borough I live in and the buildings I walk past daily
Just thank you John, this was very special, my childhood place , you really lifted me up , cheers my dear friend ....
My pleasure Leslie
@@JohnRogersWalks and at the end you playing a telecaster, I've got one of those and a couple of Strats, but my days of playing in Bands is over due to hearing problem, keep that Amp down to four not eleven !!!!
The water shots were gorgeous. Interesting area.
Thank you for making these wonderful videos. I really miss living in London.
Draft bear in a bottle, I would not drink it. Looks like a urine sample! Lovely video. Some parts of London are so crowed with people just happy to be allowed out again. You make walking look like a art form. Nice guitar playing.
What an absolutely lovely video, thank you!
You have a lot of feelings. And you really know how to articulate it.. very interesting breed of human..
Now you have gone into my old family history. Both sides of my family lived off of Chatsworth Road. At one stage one of my uncles own 3 newsagents. Around that area, and finally my Grand must have been one of the last people to have been buried in Abney Park 1987. I believe that it was already closed but due to my Grandfather being there she was allowed in.
Marvelous life is coming back like green shoots after a fire stronger and more vibrant than ever 👍
I went to Stoke Newington once. Friday night it was, thought I had gone to another country.
Another smashing walk,all of your effort and vitality conveyed,Just thinking about a stroll around Erith and Slade Green to draw up all those aquintances and bring them into refreshment. Cheers John
Thanks Neil
Music by John Rogers... A line has been crossed 😂. Love abney Park cemetery, a mythical place, wonderful wildlife. Apparently you can hear the odd owl in the evening. The venerable yum yums Thai restaurant also not to be missed and to top that londons best comedian lives there, Stewart Lee of course. Thanks John for a great walk.
I went to clisshole park when i was little girl its a very good park john well done putting the park on your video cheers
That was a trip down memory lane. Ain't it posh now!
John, you could walk us around a parking lot and make it interesting. Thanks so much. I am a Londoner but there are so many places you show that I knew nothing about.
I moved to stoke Newington in 2007 it was still rather run down then and moved out in 2015. I Was passing through a few weeks back and could barley recognise the place.
Thankyou, very enjoyable.
Great video John. After seeing the tow-path I can understand why Iain Sinclair has a bit of a thing about bicycles. Cheers 👍🏼
Normally I find your trips away from London more alluring, but this is so enjoyable. I really want to go to mid-summer London right now, and just enjoy its vibrancy.
Your face when you took a swig of that beer,, eyes like saucers!! I was really excited to see this one as my grandfather and Great Grandfather were both born in Stoke Newington in the 1800s. They were fairly well to do, My Grand father was an artist and his father was a chemist for Tate and Lyle I believe.
There's no finer thing on a hot day than a cold draft ale. You have some very interesting ancestors Julie
Nice walk John! i remember Hackney when it was like that too loads of Punks living in Squats. the Prices of Records these days is unbelievable i got a lot of those when they came out mine are still in good condition too
They were interesting days Gaz - a whole other world
John would you consider doing a video that shows the kit you use on your walks and video work. Tools you need for the job. Happy to have found your channel as so conversational and natural. Good work from you.
Another interesting walk. The beer in the milk container looked a bit like a urine sample! 😂 But I guess that it was actually very refreshing in the heat, and the nearest thing to pubs being fully open. You help us see beauty in local architecture. 👍
Ha, I'm glad I didn't think that at the time
I've had that beer , from the milk carton, it's a lovely drop
John Rogers I’m sure the thoughts were totally focused on the prospect of cold draught beer on a hot day. 😀
The electricity sub station you passed used to be part of Mill fields power station which closed about 50 years ago and was next the Clapton dog track where the Os played in the 1930s.
sick video.
I used to live in Homerton, now I am living in Clapton.
Hackney marshes are my second home.
Great place to live Gary
you were really close to my house indeed
you are right , the Rochester is a Wetherspoons
The 3 crowns was a pretty lively place in the 80s, i remember splodgenous abounds played there on a Sunday. Dated the landlord's daughter too. Happy memories of Stokie. 🤗
I like the way that whenever you are near water, your walks tend to intersect with the vlogs by the narrowboating community. Seeing the same places from the towpath and from the water adds dimension, and makes it feel like I have actually been there. Getting tidbits of history and context from both directions is quite interesting.
The reference to Animal Farm was fun. "Two Wheels Good." Love it. There is an apiary near the neighbourhood I live in called "Six Legs Good."
Thanks John. I haven’t come across your vids before. I lived with my late wife in our first flat from 1993 to 1998 on Lordship Rd. Church Street and Clissold Park our favourite places in all the areas of London we lived. Brings back wonderful memories of Debbie and London. Thanks
Glad the video could bring back those happy memories Chasbot. Sorry to hear of your loss
John Rogers - Very kind of you.
Hi John
It was good to see Stoke Newington, I have not been there for years. I used to go there regularly to see bands. I saw The Jam and The Adverts at the Rochester Castle amongst many others, and the Sir George Robey was a great live music venue. Some of the LP's were pricey, glad I have some of them. Arthur Machen was mentioned, I have a few of his books, they are fantastic and quite difficult to get. Nice video. Gary
Hi Gary - I remember the Robey from that 89-93 period, there always seemed to be a gig you could go to somewhere. I quickly worked out all the records were super collectible, I think that place has something to do with Thurston Moore as well.
Cheers John.
Lovely walk, John. I get the reference to London's centre having a 'gravitational pull'.
Superb video as usual keep them coming 👍
You can get out to the Suffolk coast now and it’s quieter than usual. We spent two weeks in April in Orford, great walks and trips out to Aldeburgh and Southwold (picking up some Mosaic alas in a can)
Another great walk John, so glad to have found you and your amazing videos
Thanks James - hope you enjoy the other videos
At 19:49 you can see on the facade of the Town Hall some of the wartime camouflage paint that was put on it in the hope of preventing the Luftwaffe from bombing it. This type of paint job is very rare and the paint is protected and cannot be removed or covered.
Majestic magical walk indeed
Clissold Park is a beautiful place , I cycled from Hackney to there several times a week when I lived in London .
Thanks for reminding me how wonderful the area is . Great guitar music by the way .
A walk from Lower Clapton through Newington Green to Covent Garden would be very interesting , maybe do it in two parts .
Happy New Year " 2022 "
That was a nice walk. I've downloaded your book on my Kindle. I will enjoy reading it I'm sure. My great grandparents lived in Hackney in the 1880s but at the time of the Jack the Ripper scare they moved to Southampton where great grandpa was from so I'm not a Cockney!
Hope you enjoy the book Jane
Yet another great video from John. Thanks for that.
my pleasure G.T thanks for watching
enjoyed your walk through stoke newington very mutch
Great to see you back John😀
thanks wombat
I’ve always seen those beers dumped on the sides of roads and in carparks. Always ignored them! May have to start picking them up 😆
Another wonderful video John. Noticed the reference to Edgar Allen Poe. In Hedgesville, West Virginia, where I live, there was a doctor who was a great friend of Poe's and when Poe visited he stayed in a tavern just down the road from me, it is the oldest building in West Virginia but is now a private house. Poe allegedly wrote "The Raven" there but other places also claim that. The tavern was attacked by native Americans in 1854 during the French-Indian wars against the British and in fact George Washington stayed at the tavern also when he was surveying for the Virginia State Governor.
great story John thanks - I love connections between places like that
A wonderful walk worth repeat watching Great day out taking advantage of the good weather Nice one John Thanks 👍🇬🇧😀smiles
thanks for watching C Gj
Not only do make great interesting videos your great on the guitar too !
thanks Raymond - I need to start playing again
Looks like John was sitting with his beer outside the Northwold Estate where I grew up and lived til 1993 .Also Marc Bolan went to Northwold School and Howard Devoto (Magazine & ex Buzzcocks) lived off Northwold Road during late 80s, early 90s. We used to spot him a few times , and was even once in my local launderette in Northwold Road!
Great video, I’m missing out on my summer visit to Stokey and a few beers at the Rochester. Thanks
Another great video. In the 80s I used to commute by car in and out of London along the A10 and thru SN. Gentrification of Stoke Newington is astonishing. Cannot wait for the next walk.
Thank you John a Gem as usual Keep safe Mate, Dave x
cheers Dave
Sitting in upstate New York on the 4th of July, I came upon this video - wonderful. Took me back to my days in Stoke Newington (just by Clissold Park) and also walking down the River Lea in the early 80s. A really nice rhythm of image and voice - and I do like your added details and corrections via yellow subtitle. Great, funny and don't interrupt the flow. I'll be digging into your other videos in the days that come. Best RCR
thanks Russell
Thanks for the videos I really enjoy them, I have just got your book and I am enjoying that. I have no real connection to the area other than went down the lea on a boat as a kid 40 years ago with my dad, somthing I will always remember. it's fascinating stuff.
Top draw brilliant video John Rogers
Thanks Brian
What a sense of joy out of this video! The sun, the music, the different- peculiar in their little way- shops. I hope in Argentina things would come up to being this kind of normal and beutiful some time soon, we are in strict lockdown still. Thaks John for this content like every week!
John, have a look again at your footage of Stokey Town Hall, you will see it is still painted in WW2 camouflage.
Great video, the ornamental water feature in Clissold Park is redundant section of the New River which brought water from Ware in Hertfordshire to New River Head in Islington
Thanks for that Deena - I completely forgot to mention the New River
Ah, there are the fish ponds at the bottom (orig. fed by the New River?) and the New River section proper, passing in front of Clissold House. It falls along the contour at 5" per mile, amazing engineering for its time.
Subbed! Love these videos mate, I have recently started picking up my walking and absolutely love it. Winchmore Hill to Waltham Abbey and back the other day. Good stuff mate!
Never really explored Stoke Newington John -- you find so many oasis of calm in the metropolis!
Glad you got to cross that psychological barrier, John. I went on my own hauntological perambulation, and despite lockdown regulations and no travel permitted to the UK, managed to visit the interesting town of Scarfolk, stuck in the 70s, where I collected not a pint, but a beer mat, and perused a series of sobering public information posters.
Thanks Mariana. Scarfolk is a wonderful place- loads of memories of childhood holidays. The books look good too
Thanks for this vid. This popped up on my feed and I couldnt be happier. Hackney is what I call home, tho I have not lived there for 3 decades. My family is still there. I went to Southwold primary, Milfields was a mainstay where I played footy and cricket. My dad lived in Homerton. I lived in upper clapton, I was well familiar with the laundrette shown about 10 mins in.
You have better legs and lungs than I do, on such a hot day you covered some significant miles trekking from Leyton to Clissold Park with detours along the way.. Pale ale more than justified.. and well earned!
Got yerself a new sub!
Thanks Thomas, glad I could take you back to your old stomping ground
Fascinating stuff as usual John
Great walk john and a nice beer and great weather.. ..brilliant stuff
thanks Paul
Magnificent! (Particularly because you called out the streets and I could follow block for block through the London A-Zed.) Ecstatic Peace is Thurston's label so that book/record shop has got to be his. Watching you walk this summer while writing the Bucks/Berks summer of '85 is a splendid convergence. Happy trails!
probably my favourite upload of yours John, Many thanks. Let's see your guitar skills sometime ?
Great stuff as ever John & that was a nice bit of gee-tar throughout also. Bravissimo!
Brilliant John. Thank you so nice..
This was so interesting as my eldest daughter lives in stoke Newington and in evering road where you walked . Thanks again
Thank you John and thanks for the heads up on summer on the estate i will watch it now. it seems to be here on youtube 😊
Great work John, your humanity and passion for the subject matter shine through. Subscribed!
Great work! Keep doing your thing Bruv...
very interesting walk thanks
Superb John, thank you.
thanks Swoddy
Just re-read your This Other London. Worked out its fundamental flaw. It's not four times as long. What a blinder.
thanks so much Mark
Very good job John on the video! keep it up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks saywhen
An ancestor of mine is buried in Abney - William Calcraft the last public hangman in London.
That was a wonderful vlog, really lifted my spirits, thank you!! How lovely to see people enjoying the outdoor spaces, keeping their distance and just enjoying being outside!! It can be done. And very jealous of your mobile IPA, possibly something to be kept once normality returns?? 😃 once again a very interesting, informative and inclusive vlog, definitely felt I was “along for the walk”, thank you John, keep ‘em coming !!
Love your videos John! I also live in Leytonstone quite close to the Leytonstone / wood house tavern. Look forward to the next one, I also visit Wanstead park quite regularly
Thanks Ricky - I walk right past the Leytonstone Tavern in the next video
Great stuff John, isn't it a shame that we let so many fine buildings go to rack and ruin only to then spend millions restoring them years later. I hope you didn't get too sunburned, stay safe and see you on the next one wherever that maybe. Cheers!
cheers Andy - I know, the neglect in the 60's-80's is incredible. I managed to avoid getting sunburnt although my nose does look a bit red in this video
Nice walk ,Very interesting .See you walking past on your way last week.
Nice walk, John! Just two little bits of info you might find interesting.. As you mentioned the electric sub station on Millfields South, which was previously a coal burning power station. The housing estate beside it in the park is actually the sit of the former Millfields and then Clapton Stadium. I believe it was the ground for Clapton Orient FC in the early 1900s and was subsequently a greyhound race track before being demolished in the 1970s to make way for the Millfields house estate.
Also! as you mentioned Thurston Moore earlier on in the video living in Stoke Newington... the record shop you wandered into later 'Ecstatic Peace' library is Thurston's own pop up record shop and also the name of his record label ! Many thanks, John. Always enjoy the videos.
Thanks for that info Luke - I've got a photo of Clapton Orient at their old ground in the 1920's from Wonderful London, I wonder if that's the same ground? I did wonder whether that was Thurston Moore's pop up - inside it was mainly collectible zines and music magazines, very interesting collection. Is the record label still going do you know? I've had trouble finding them online.
@@JohnRogersWalks Hi again John. That photo could well be the stadium as they moved to the Millfields grounds in 1896 if wikipedia is correct.
As for the label, I think it's also a kind of publishing house run along side his The Daydream Library Series.
@@JohnRogersWalks Hi again John. That photo could well be the stadium as they moved to the Millfields grounds in 1896 if wikipedia is correct.As for the label, I think it's also a kind of publishing house run along side his The Daydream Library Series.
meant to link these..
www.discogs.com/label/1560253-The-Daydream-Library-Series
www.discogs.com/label/1536184-Ecstatic-Peace-Library
again many thanks for the videos, John. Cheers
lovely to have you back! how are you?
I'm well thanks Syed, hope you're good.
Brilliant thanks 😁👍👏👏👏
Thanks David
Have you ever thought about doing the Hackney Brook, as a 'Lost River' from Holloway via Stoke Newington, to the Lea at Old Ford, surrounded at the Western end by a long disappeared loop of the New Rive around Highbury. Despite being Islington born, I've only recently become aware of it, but it seems o go under the old North Bank stand at the old Arsenal stadium. It seems to be right up your street!
Hy John , great video , took me back to my youth in the 50's, Clissold park used to have a small zoo in the centre with deer and goats if I remember rightly, and I have not heard of the Hackney brook but I know that the New River used to meander its way through the park on it's way to Clerkenwell, I could nearly taste that beer, cheers!.
The deer are still there. Though they made a new aviary
Glorious, absolutely bloody Glooooorious! Lundin - get in!
John on the axe! Who knew? May I recommend (HiGHLY) the track Sketches for Summer by The Durutti Column, I heard an echo of it.....
Ha, I need to get on the axe a bit more, my fingers have gone soft. I’ll have to check out that track
Claybury Hospital and Asylum is also worth a local London jaunt and deep dive John.
Hakka's Island. Hakka Chinese Heriditary. Hackneyed.
The Banjo like Lute musical soundtrack is a personal favourite. Exquisite performances.
The Three Musketeers and Dogtanian. Erebus, Egypt Mytology. And Anubis and the Great Sphinx.
Mare Street, Dalston. Homerton, Hot Spurs, White Hart Lane.
Sugar by Sonic Youth, from 1988era I think. Thurston Moore
Bravura John! A mild summer’s day by OZ standards (as you would well know), but nonetheless glorious! Terrific intertextuality on this walk! Cheers! 🍺
Foreign lands to me John - west of the Lea! I have a vague target of doing the Big 7 eventually as I find them fascinating. One for my list there when life returns to some level of normal. Many thanks, really interesting as ever.