A Walk around Greenwich Peninsula | 'New London' on Thames (4K)
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- A Walk around Greenwich Peninsula | 'New London' shot in 4K.
The development on Greenwich Peninsula is being described in the marketing literature as 'New London'. Situated by North Greenwich Station and the O2 Arena/ Millennium Dome on a peninsula jutting out into the River Thames, the development boasts of 17,000 new homes and 12,000 new jobs. It's built on what was once Bugsby's Marshes or Greenwich Marshes. It was at the centre of Britain's Millennium celebrations with the building of the Millennium Dome. This walk starts and ends at the Dome - heading up onto The Tide then walking along Parkside East to Millennium Village and Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park before following the path along Bugsby's Reach to Blackwall Point, passing Antony Gormley's Quantum Cloud sculpture along the way. The walk also has great views across the River Thames to Silvertown, Trinity Buoy Wharf and the Isle of Dogs.
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Another excellent video John. As a Greenwich resident I have seen the peninsula change beyond belief in the last 25 years. Small bit of trivia, the row of houses next to The Pilot pub was where Blur filmed the Parklife video.
I was wondering if you know why just those row of houses and The Pilot pub are all still as was, when every else around them has been completely redeveloped? How have they escaped the redevelopment schemes? I am very pleased they have, but am curious, how?
I don’t live in Greenwich, but have visited and walked the area for many years, the changes I’ve seen is unbelievable. Each time I visit it becomes more and more unrecognisable to the old peninsula I use to know. I use to love the vastness of it.. now it feels like where I live in London, very hemmed in. Such a shame.
Hi John, a very interesting video.
The buildings remind me of photos and videos of “tall” buildings in Vietnam. I like the colourful panels on the balconies.
Good wildlife. The buildings with drab grey panels are a bit depressing. I’m going to watch this video again
Great walk, I do this down to the Barrier quite often. I think all these new developments look so alike and soulless places myself. Wind canyons abound.
No expense spared on creating welcoming vibrant places to foster the community.
All that rich history expressed and celebrated, fostering a sense of permanence and belonging.
All that wonderful history encapsulated and preserved for eternity for us by the architects and planners ......in a street sign
I feel very lucky to live in our 1930's semi in Stanmore with a small wildlife garden, wonky pond and bumblebees. Thanks for sharing John 🍀
The section of container ship is an artwork by the artist Richard Wilson. I went on it, during an open house day a few years back (the artist and his children were on it). It has a whole artist studio on it including a pool table. Quite impressive. “A slice of reality”, is the name of the artwork.
This is my favourite channel on the internet, I came across your channel a couple of months ago, and now look forward to your videos every Sunday, great narration, great voice, your timing and your cadence is perfect👍🏾I've now gone from watching these on my laptop to my 55inch with popcorn lol. You're like the David Attenborough of psychogeography.
Thank you very much indeed - deeply flattered
I feel exactly the same!
I concur... started on my laptop, now watching this on my 55" but with a keurig coffee in hand.
This channel and good 'ol Joolz Guides truly make my day and make me miss London dearly.
I was born in SE9 and most of my family history is around this part of London, Surrey Docks and the Woolwich Arsenal. The Peninsular was just one giant Gasworks so not often visited unless you worked in the Gasworks. The place looks soulless so another missed opportunity to create new homes for working people
Hello John. In hospital at the moment just watched the new video and it made me feel like I was safe at home. Great one again John thank you.
Great walk John, the cut out ship is called "A Slice Of Reality" by artist Richard Wilson commissioned by the Mellennium Dome it a slice of the former Dredger "arco trent"
My last visit to London was in the mid 1990s. This is a whole other London , a completely different city, indeed!
The boat sculpture is 'A Slice of Reality' (2000) by Richard Wilson
Thanks for this info, I’ve walked by it scores of times always trying to figure out why it was there.
I don't believe it!
Richard Wilson told me it was his office for a while, and sometimes his sons would hold parties in it and get complaints from the other side of the river. But primarily it is a sculpture, and part of a commissioned set around the peninsular; and this was actually a slice of a ship, in line with the Greenwich meridian.
Greenwich resident here. The cross section of the ship is an artwork. It has a sign next to it. There are a number of sculptures along the Thames path on the peninsula all exhibited as part of the same project.
Maybe as the area has a lot of nautical history, Reminder Lane may be named after the Thames barge 'Reminder' if you google it The National Historic Ships UK website has loads of info and pictures of this beautiful ship: 'Legend has it that in the 1928 Thames Barge Match, Fred Horlock promised his victorious rivals that he would give them a ‘reminder’ of the speed of his barges. In the following year, 1929, REMINDER was launched from the F W Horlock yard in Mistley, Essex, for F W Horlock’s own fleet. She fulfilled Fred Horlock’s expectations, becoming champion barge in her class in both the Thames and Medway matches in her first year'. I may be completely wrong, but I hope not, it would be a great origin for the street name. Thanks again John for a brilliant and insightful video
Yay hi John , guess what ? We walked around Rochester Today , it was fab . First time since lockdown. Xxx thank you for inspiring us to keep going xxx
The millennium dome looks to me like they forgot to remove the cranes!🤣
I thought they were still building it but it's not. Definitely looks unfurnished
Inspired by your walks I had ventured to Stratford and where you are in this one last summer during lockdown.
I returned home afterwards feeling quite depressed and feeling very negative about the new face of these areas.
I found them quite desolate and very depressing, completely lacking any soul or character.
I actually found myself feeling quite sad, not because of change, but more that this would be a vision of anyone's for a future, given that they have a blank canvass.
I agree with the sadness.
Tartarian was a period of beauty unmatched
An interesting fact is that Blur filmed the music video for Park Life outside the houses by the Pilot Inn.
We have a holiday camp in our town which had the same type of millennium dome and material. Sadly 21 years since it was dumped on us it's supposedly high tec covering is a filthy shade of grey and a complete eyesore.
The blocks seem so stark and lonely. How do you ever cultivate neighbors or a sense of community?
Being notified your 15 year old block was built using flammable materials and that residents may have to pay for remedial works has really helped cultivate neighbours in my street, as we’ve had to come together to fight the ‘social’ housing association landlord.
I guess every cloud has a silver lining.
Looks like rows of office blocks, nothing being built for the ordinary worker either.
I'd forgotten about that ship section at the edge of the embankment.
I do hope someone can enlighten me on its history - it is indeed a strange item.
Personally I wasn't impressed by the housing in Grenwich', New London. I grew up when they were hailing places like Tavy Bridge in Thamesmead, and it's concrete towerblocks - generations down the line these did not look iconic in a good way. This new development has the appearance not of permanent homes but of transitory hostels to me I'm afraid.
I appreciated the walk round though, always interesting and informative. 👍👣👣👣
@@forecast_hinderer goodness! Is that on this New Millennium development too?
@@juliahartshorn2473 I very much doubt it. I’d hope building regulations have changed for the better recently.
Residents here will have to hope other less unfortunate means propose themselves to elicit a sense of community, as the developers seemingly continue to omit factoring in that vital little detail.
My brother lives right next to the O2 Arena in one of those blocks,I love the view from he's balcony across the Thames to East London. Thanks for another great video John as always. I learnt a lot about North Greenwich that I didn't know before like the Whale oil information that was quite interesting. I started one of my favourite walks to date from North Greenwich along the Thames Path all the way to Waterloo Station. Also a week or so ago I went on one of those cable carts to try to conquer my fear of heights....it didn't work out and as soon as I got up to the highest height the wind picked up and the cart started to sway from side to side,I will never again get on one of those things no thank you lol
The ship at the end 30:53 is a modern art piece called "A Slice of Reality" - it is cut from a real ship, yes! And it's a popular place to squat. On Open House weekends it's sometimes open to visitors.
Thanks Conni
At least the 60s and 70s concrete tower carbuncles were housing the British who badly needed affordable social housing.
Subsequently those high rises mainly pulled down as not beneficial for decent family life but good for crime and squalor.
So what, why and who are these hideous blocks built for?
(Answer: foreign investors)
John you are wonderfully natural and expressive, love your personality. Thanks from all of us who can't travel anymore.
That’s very kind of you Camille
Woo hoo, evening complete. Happy Easter John 🐣
Happy Easter!!
Bloody hell, not the Greenwich I knew in the 60's, but then London is always evolving, that history shows. A beautiful part of South London. I'm from Bermondsey and that has changed beyond recognition too.
was that area a huge gas works in the 60's?
Thanks for making my sundays more interesting John ❤️👍🏼
New London looks like a place waiting for something to happen. Great video as always 👍
I think the yellow containers are to do with waste removal/disposal. They get carried on barges to the power generating incinerator plant at Erith, just further downriver from Crossness sewage plants. I think it's non-recyclable waste that gets burned, the heat turned to energy, and the ash used for something like fertiliser.
Great music in this one! Best bit about walking this stretch now is heading east to the Anchor and Hope pub down in Charlton. The whole year zero thing from Barking to Battersea is astounding to see.
Lovely pub and yes love that part of the walk too.
@@welshcake8086 it’s, how can we say, rather traditional, but very much a slice of the old dockside Thames
I went there a couple of months before Covid. Everything shouts at you. All the signs and shops are in BLOCK capitals. The colour on buildings is like bunting on soulless blocks of concrete cathedrals. The place is so windy and everything is too big. The cable car soars high in the air for no apparent reason except to spy on the people below as the aircraft roar above it. The dome has the elegance of a blister on the landscape. However the Antony Gormley is superb. The work seems to contain a figure trapped within it and all the real people that pass it, that look too small to inhabit the folly of building on the marsh, are perhaps reflected in that image. Great vlog John. I am far less impartial than you about this place built on pillars of salt and sand. Thanks for taking us along. I really love you films.
Those new Apartments reminded me of the Rubik's cube
Very interesting John. It took me back to when I was about eighteen when through a friend of mine I met a man called Johnny Westfallen and he had an old barge moored at the Isle of Dogs which was used as a youth club. The yellow containers on the boat could be re-cycling but may also be clinical waste as hospitals use yellow bins for that. The birds at the end were indeed herons. Bob.
another excellent video John! always nice to put the feet up in the evening and learn about the history of London!
This is one of the best videos john has done!! I have often watched it as repeated viewing, i used to love doing these walks myself as i am very facinated by London and its history and chsnges once agsin thankyou john for a great video ,and shall always look firward to future ones ad i have also have been watching this brilliant series from the start god bless!!
Excellent walk, as usual. Thank you.
As a man living in a quiet suburb in NW England the feeling I get from this place is one of melancholy. I cannot for the life of me understand why so many people want to live crammed together and no doubt pay exorbitant prices for the dubious pleasure of doing so. Sartre said that "hell is other people" and he wasn't far wrong. Incidentally, when watching with subtitles enabled, William The Conqueror comes out as "William McConkerer".
Maybe he was really Scottish. :)
These places are dormitories for a compliant worker bee population also scrambling for scraps and selling themselves on a daily basis. They are a population willingly, gleefully molded to participate like this. Only their psychiatrists know how awful it all truly is.
Reluctant as you are (so far) to voice an opinion, it does seem to remain the sort of area where nobody would miss it if there was a large explosion. I hasten to add I'm referring only to the banal architecture, not the people
Love your videos. Thankyou
Hi John - Perhaps I am old but those blocks of flats look so out of place and heartless . You would feel the occupants would just go to and from them without speaking to their neighbours . The colours just dont look right either , but this type of deign seems popular with developers as there are some similar near me at Chatham docks.
Keep Safe Cheers Kev
That’s exactly how it looked to me too. Just a strange kind of out of place weird buildings
That ship thing you mentioned is a sculpture called Slice Of Reality - Richard Wilson
The exposed living quarters of a dissected sand dredger.
Thanks Jenny - only realised there was a sculpture trail when finishing the video last night but didn’t know this was part of it
Great work. Thanks John.
Thanks John for another great historical adventure - a perfect end to Easter weekend 👍
Most enjoyable walk Thanks
In my way of thinking, New London looks like it would be a photographer's paradise. As with all of London, An artist and writer's future landscape!
I think you're right Tom
Great walk ,love the Riverside walks so much.
Excellent walk as usual John,always look forward to the next one wherever that may be!!!
Thanks Mam
Fantastic walk, perfect end to an Easter Sunday.
I really enjoyed your walk today....I can't wait to be able to get back up to London and take some photos
Beautiful! Great Virtual Tour! 👍👍😊😊 AWESOME!
"Not much of a Viking.." Classic. It doesn't really matter what people think of the new areas. Some will work and some will not. Time will tell. Thanks to you we get to see them with a good commentary.
Great one John, keen em coming matey
Wonderful. Thanks!
Another great video John. The developments have made good use of a brownfield site that was basically toxic, some of the housing looks fine but the bigger blocks look a bit Soviet. I lived in the Scandic Hotel opposite Canary Wharf while working in London, the hotel was built on an old dock and even had a barge in the grounds that they used as a bar.
Loved the Herons, fantastic as always John thank you.👍🏻
awesome place for a walk!
John's vids are great to chill out to, very relaxing.
Thanks so much for this video, John. Learned so much about the area.
Great video thanks John
I'm sitting watching your latest video as part of a smart Phone group I run in a children's hospital. I dreamt last night that your videos of London were in fact Fred Housgows history on for doorstep. This has shaken me up a hit. Great posting and really enjoyable
Hi John, I think you made reference in this video to my question in your Q&A about horrible buildings - glad to see you're embracing some of the new ones they do create a nice space, great vid as usual!, Thank, Rob
A really fascinating video. Speaking for myself I found the ambience of the area very melancholic. I hated those blocks of flats, despite the attempts to give them character with a few random splashes of colour. The ubiquitous chain outlets, Wagamama and Costa added to the desolation.
So true.
just like canary wharf, sanitised for the bankers and their ilk, who will be living there, on the other side are the local authority houses, which look awful now the weather has got at them.
Enjoyed this video! Slightly different outlook had there been some currant bun!Great insight to this part of London!
Another great video thanks
Another enjoyable video , its like a personal tour thanks to your narration. Keep up the good work..
Should be playing Whale Meat Again in the background?
brilliant
Another great video. Thanks John ..
Making my time in hospital more bearable 👍🏻
Once again thank you so much for the history delivered in such a marvellous way. You have brought me a sense of the timeless within history, which is comforting in a troubled and financially decadent time.
Nice video john love those thames walks so much history hope there is more in pipeline cheers
There certainly is Paul
The structure you highlighted towards the end of the video looked like it was the control bridge of the Woolwich Ferry.
Your videos are making me miss my days in Greenwich as an Erasmus student 😩❤️
So many fascinating details in the commentary. Lovely to sit here with a glass of Chateau Aldi and imagine I am walking along with you, making smartarse remarks.
Talk about Year Zero. Apart from the Dome itself, the Gormley sculpture and the Slice of Reality are the only things I recognised. (I was last there in 2003.)
I worked on the Millenium Village back in 2000 for a few years. I was working as a steel erector and structual glazing, we built all those balconies and glazed them etc, and the staircases and terraces. Really enjoyed that job.
I’ve been to London five or six times. Your walks show me areas I’ve never seen and are fascinating. The history is much appreciated. I guess for me any way Samuel Johnson was right when he said that when a man is tired of London he’s tired of life
Nah....sick of the gun, knife and gang crime
Amazing channel, one of my favourites. Cheers from Brazil.
I was surprised by how much I liked the brightly coloured apartment blocks, I also liked the wide grassy verges. When my sons were growing up, we used to get the DLR to Island Gardens and walk through the foot tunnel to the Cutty Sark. It was a great day out and cheap too.
More boxes 😳 Great to hear the histories John. Thanks 🙏
Brilliant stuff (as always).
Cheers David
Hi John, Thanks for your walk around the Greenwich Peninsula. Very , very interesting to see all the new development. Great shots of the Millenium Dome - what can I say - it looks like a deconstructed gasometer.
Another great walk and talk. Thanks, John! I got a good chuckle out of your comments on the Vikings in particular.
It was such a privilege to meet you John, having watched your videos and recently moving to the area, it’s really been useful getting to know the history of South East London and the surrounding areas. Thank you for the shout out, we hope to bump into you again on one of our walks! PS if you ever need a hand with the films, Andrea has a degree in video art that she needs to put to use ! Andrea and Musa x
that's lovely Musa, thank you - and please tell Andrea Cathy remembered her well from their time at Maidstone. I'll certainly bear that offer in mind
Really enjoyed you trying to be neutral. Along with a hundred other performers I was part of the Millenium Experience. I was issued with a huge security tag on a lanyard which I still have my main memory was a fellow performer from NZ being able to get on something called the Internet and send messages home for free.
Fantastic video ,New London looks interesting and more interesting is to see the walk ways and open space with less traffic about ...
cracking good episode. I been to O2 and on the cable cars about 5years ago. quite enjoyed the ride. Massive blocks of flats reaching for the sky. how high can the go before there's a catastrophe I wonder. Really enjoyed this John. thank you
Loved the video.
Happy Easter from Ukraine, John! You might not know, but they have renovated an underground pedestrian crossing in Moldova after Bald`s video))) Keep up the great work and stay fit.
I hope all goes well for you and your country folk. God bless.... From the UK.
@@user-itschad1954 Thank you
Great to see as always....
What do we have here? Quasi-Gotham City. Street signs denoting empty spaces. The same Faux Singapore development has happened in my Manchester Hometown. Peerless, John.🇯🇪
Thanks Ivan
Hi John thanks for sharing. The stand out reason for you appreciating the new living area developments is simply wildlife which is usually abundant near waterways. It doesn’t take long for nature to pleasure us.🐝🦆🌳🌸
Great video John. I believe that all the new developments on the peninsula are connected to a communal heating system powered by the gas generator that can be seen as you approach the blackwall tunnel from south to north on your right hand side (has an angular silver chimney) known as the Energy Centre.
Thankyou as usual John,but wot a sight...
very nice walk, I'll do it next time im in London
John, yet another intertesting walkie talkie for us to enjoy, nice video and I got the feel of a German city looking at some of those developments. I spent a few years out there working in construction and that coloured plaster you see on those buildings is used extensively in Germany. I watch Bald and Bankrupt and hace enjoyed his work for a while now, he has another channel as well, The Daily Bald!
I think I almost prefer Daily Bald for some reason- it’s all great though
Would love it if you did a video around shoreditch/Bethnal green!
Good video keep up the good work, all the way from ilford Essex 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Drawn to your walks as my son has just moved to East india dock and I wanted to learn the area. Now addicted thank you I have learned so much
Thanks for another one John
6:38 I thought that Deptford was the main whaling area in London, but it looks like Greenwich was too
32:29 The containers on those barges look like the ones that get picked up from a Wandsworth council facility. The barges towed by tug boats are just about the only commercial traffic you see on the Thames in central London these days
Great transformation
Great video, John... and a nice little shout out to top chap Si-Finds too 👍
At a rare family get-together in the late 80s, my two sets of grandparents took the opportunity to reminise about the 'old days'. The conversation turned to the Silvertown explosion during the First World War.
I must admit that up to that point I had never heard of Silvertown. The name sounded vaguely glamourous (!), like 'Tinseltown', for instance.
Less than twelve months later I had the opportunity to find out, as I started working there in one of my first jobs!
great story Jon - thanks for sharing