Very late to the party but I only saw London yesterday on Mubi; I was blown away, an absolutly brilliant film, I can't believe I hadn't either seen it or know of Keiller until that point. I didn't know anything about Keiller until then, and I immedialty thought of your films, John. Of course, when I put in his name into UA-cam you immedialty came up. Everything is connected...
@@JohnRogersWalks We must hook up when I am down in the smoke next. I suggest a Hammersmith to Barnes and Richmond walk, where I can talk about the famous Victorian Barnes Murder case by Kate Webster. :-)
@@JohnRogersWalks The story takes you to David Attenborough's house as he lives next door to where the murder happened. And the missing skull of the victim was dug up in his garden in 2010.
Thanks Karl - it’s an amazing place, and really interesting to read about afterwards. Have you watched the Richard Rogers documentary? There’s a link in the description
@@JohnRogersWalks I haven't but I will :) I'm a huge fan of 60s and 70s housing and visited and documented Robin Hood Gardens, Balfron, Trellick etc etc. - would love to see/hear your take on the Barbican
I saw London when it first came out - at the National Film Theatre. Your film took me back in a very good way - thank you so much. I will be getting London to see again.
Absolutely wonderful walk, loved it! Great choice in music. Hope you enjoyed your pint...very well deserved! Can't wait for your next walk. Thank you John, take care!
Nice to see a stroll around the Wandsworth area.. Great ambience to the video too.. Hope you never stop uploading these wallks.. I learn so much about London
I have always adored Keiller’s film LONDON, ever since I first saw it as a Fine Art degree student at Falmouth Art School in 1997. They had a copy in the art school library. I feel like it changed my life completely. And then later Robinson In Space. Have watched both films over and over. It’s wonderful to see your walk dedicated to such an important film and I love the reverence you obviously have for it. I’ve often visited places featured. It resonates so much with me too. Wonderful video
Really enjoyed this superb and beautifully made film. I love the film London and this is a wonderful companion piece. Would highly recommend watching this film before seeing London. It also communicates so well why the film London is so cherished by those that love it.
Absolutely loved that. Full of nostalgia, for a rapidly changing city. A far cry from the Manila cityscape I see here under lockdown in the Philippines...
Art. History. Geography. Music. Visual. English Language and English Literature. Public Houses. Mythology. Personal Conjecture to name but a few topics/subjects...just another educational and meditatively informing audio visual adventure from the Master of the Guided Walk. Thanks John. Over and out...!
Absolutely fantastic walk John. This was a great tribute to Keiller’s film. Funny how many parallels resonate today. Also glad to finally see you get to Richmond Park which I haven’t seen since my trip in London twenty years ago.
I've watched several of your films during 'Lockdown' as we've come to know it. I began with your very recent films, then drifted off, looking specifically for films featuring Iain Sinclair - which prompted me to buy "The Last London" - and have now begun jumping in at random. This is by far my favourite of those I've seen. I've visited London possibly only twenty or so times in my 63 years and have rarely strayed beyond the main hubs of Westminster, Whitehall, Soho etc. Your films have given me an appreciation of what lies without ... and I thank you for that. Greetings from Leicester! 👍🏼
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One thing annoying about the end or the year and the beginning of another, the days are too short! You can fight the cold, the wind and rain but you can't make the sun shine longer. Never mind, great video never the less! Thanks once again for more fascinating content. I must now find the film that this was based on.
Your videos are always brilliant John, but to repeat this walk is just sublime. 'London' was / is a huge influence on my London experience and blew my mind when I was studying at Birkbeck. "Listen to the gateposts".
thanks so much Lindsay - I've been wanting to do this walk for ages - right back to when I was doing the radio show on Resonance. It was even better than I'd imagined
Hello from Thailand, enjoy all your walks but this one was really good, a combination of Parks, Commons and the Urban Environment plus you were filming around my old neck of the woods, I have lived in Wimbledon as well as in Streatham and Mitcham, good finish having a pint in the Battle Cruiser..
Hi John hope you're well. I was pleasantly surprised to see this segment included Roehampton [some scenes from Fahrenheit 451 were filmed here in the mid 60s]. Roehampton was one of my suggestions for a walk so glad you covered it within this video. You also recently covered Crystal Palace [#101 maybe?] so you do get around! Any chance you will consider the vicinity of Henry VIII's Nonesuch Palace? Don't think there's much to see and it may be too far outside your typical range but hopefully you'll consider. Take care John and keep up the good work. Steve
thanks so much for the suggestion Steve - I was just scrolling through the list of potential walks and there was Roehampton from your note a while back - and oddly I was just flicking through my Master Atlas of Greater London and the page opened on Nonesuch Park
Hi John mere coincidence [?] I think not! Since I returned home from my first trip to London, April this year, I find myself re-watching your videos because they seem to resonate even more [if that is even possible] now that I've actually spent a week in London. Through your journeys I'm able to virtually re-experience my trip - so thank you. Hope you and your's have a great, safe, holiday season....and onward to Nonesuch..... Steve
That was a really great tribute to Keiller. It would be interesting to see you update the other walks. I remember being enchanted - and then haunted - by "London" on its first broadcast. Definitely in my top films list, along with Raban's "Thames Film" and John Smith's "Slow Glass".
thanks very much. Oddly I was down in Stockwell with Iain Sinclair last week visiting Van Gogh's home and he asked if I included the Apollinaire scene in my Keiller video, but that I believe is a different walk, one that goes to Stoke Newington. It would be interesting to do more, perhaps from his earlier films such as Stonebridge Park (covered in a podcast I made a while back), and Norwood. Funnily enough I've just written something about John Smith, love his films videographynotes.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/single-take-videos-by-john-smith/
So you have! I know 'Home Suite', and the subsequent 'Blight'. London has inspired some very _deep_ film-makers - and I include you in that, John. I've been enjoying several of yours here over the holiday period.
@@JohnRogersWalks That's right! The word is вокзал (vokzal). And Russian speakers usually have no idea about Vauxhall and where it is. By the way, amazing video
Brilliant idea for a walk. I love that film, and remember seeing it back in the 90s. I recently saw the film again. It's surprising how much London has changed. London in the early 1990s was a bit more run-down and litter strewn. London's population has probably grown by more than a million since then, its economy feels more robust, the transport system much better. The last ten years has brought a lot of redevelopment, making the city feel more modern, more gentrified and of course less authentically London, especially areas like Dalston and Shoreditch. (Dalston features in the film for an instant in showing Ridley Road market, which is still there and retains its character surrounded by an altered landscape and mood.)
Brilliant, brilliant walk! Especially since Keiller's London is still fresh in my mind - I watched it about a month ago (after your recommendation on one of you earlier blog posts) - it blew my mind about how a film can be made. Also loved the swan in one of the windows at 4:41 - an unintentional (?) nod to that film with Andrew Kotting and Iain Sinclair the name of which escapes me now. BTW, I am always amazed at how clean the urban areas are in your videos - no rubbish, papers, fast food containers, plastic bags lying around! Do you have people picking up 24/7 or do British people just not litter?
Great stuff Mariana - worth watching the other two films in the Robinson trology as well (Robinson in Space and Robinson in Ruins) and some of Keiller's earlier shorts are online too. Funnily enough I was watching Swandown this morning
Nice film, you went through Clapham, I know that place quite well and still visit mates up on the Wandsworth Road. I thought you were being a tad ambitious on that walk when I saw the map and the objective, you did well to get as far as you did and still pack in a load of information. Look forward to the next one.
Hi John, great video I have Kiellers London on DVD and have always loved it. The point at 16:34 when you say that you can't tell where the place is that Robinson speaks about psychic landscaping I think it may be Burgess Park that is shown as there is a pond there and a church in the background that may be the one where one of the founders of the Rolls Royce brand is buried, I cant remember the name of the church. Similarly, the large McDonalds shown in the film could have been on the Old Kent Road? That's the only place nearby I could think of.
Thanks John - I think you're right about both locations. I accidentally filmed that McDonald's during my London Overground film with Iain Sinclair that you can find on the channel here. I recently interviewed Patrick Keiller for my blog about the book version of the film which actually lists all the locations in the back thelostbyway.com/2021/01/patrick-keiller-interview-london-the-book.html
@@JohnRogersWalks I've just finished watching the first one. It's very prescient but also shows how everything just goes around in the manner of 'plus ca change', if that's not too much of a paradox. Maybe some of these patterns imprint themselves on time, or are always happening, as Robinson (perhaps) seems to believe when he 'time travels'. Have you ever seen it with the subtitles? The subtitles sometimes match the sound of, rather than the spirit of, the words. So, towards the end, with around four minutes to go, you get the immortal line "The English fear of potpourri and socialism". Now I understand why all those people who march against Potpourri on 12th July are called Orangemen...
The structure on which the Violette Szabo mural was painted is one of eight deep-level shelters dotted around London that were contructed during WW2. Geoff Marshall did a video about them for Londonist.
Did you go past St Mary's Parish Church, Battersea ? It's a nice little spot overlooking the Thames. I think it was used as a location in the film "Alfie" (the original, not that rubbish with Jude Law in it).
Not on this walk Jason but I went there with Iain Sinclair for our London Overground film and also went back last summer - both videos are on this channel
According to the Royal parks website. Richmond Park and the nearby Bushy park are not very safe because of the ticks and the Lyme disease they transmit. Ticks during the cold months are less active.
A wonderful walk in a fantasia corner of London that I was totally unfamiliar with apart from Richmond Park which is still so glorious as it was when I went there in the sixties and seventies, didn't Turner paint a landscape there,isn't there a poem, forgive my ignorance, thank you.....
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/marble-hill-house/history-and-stories/the-view-from-richmond-hill/ Not found any relevant poems sadly, but the paintings are lovely , all the best, Leslie
Nice one John! I thought that the night time view at the end was de,ightful, it proves that even after dark you can find a view if you chose we.l and your kit is up to it. Maybe you could finish it another day?
Loved this! Stumbled upon it as I was brought up on the Alton Estate. The clip you showed of the 170 bus you might remember from the first episode of Minder! Also just off Putney Heath near where you walked was where the Great Train Robbery idea was concocted, close to the old Putney Hospital. Keep up the great work, really enjoy your channel😊
great stuff f section sounds like a football firm from abroad notived all the telephone boxs was vanderlised what is the matter with this country how many miles was that one john thanks ahain steve
Another great wee film there John. We spent many an autumn Sunday at Richmond Park, so thanks for the memories. Morrissey had an album ‘Vauxhall and I’, but I’m not sure what it had to do with Vauxhall. Wish I could make films like you John, you are an inspiration.👍
that's incredibly kind Jag - I love watching your channel. I can't remember the Morrisey link, I had assumed it was a reference to the Vauxhall Tavern think I read a different story many years ago that I've forgotten
I think the iron post is an old gas street light. We had a few that looked exactly the same around the Southend area. They were a lovely homage to lost Victorian heritage. About 5 years ago the Council in their infinite wisdom dug them all out and dumped them in a scrap yard for £100 each. Made a lot of locals very sad. I love the bit with the underpass under the A3 - so 'romantic!' Sad for those deer... It's not nice to see them happily grazing unaware of their potential fate, and then you emerged from the park at an archway that mentioned 'cruelty to animals'. I found that very profound and ironic.
Turns out DW Gillingham went to my alma mater, the University of British Columbia (where I am also presently teaching). I always like to follow up on your book mentions, so I'll be looking for a copy of "Unto the Fields"...
ah interesting link Weldon. I went down along the River Roding yesterday - in the areas he writes about in the book, will be the subject of the next video
Fantastic work John. I was also hugely influenced by Patrick Keiller. We’ve just been watching and are desperate to know what the string quarter music is in the opening sequence. It’s really beautiful stuff!
thanks very much Mike - the music at the beginning is Pachabelly by Huma-Huma from the UA-cam Audio Library - your comment made me realise I hadn't put the music credits in the video description
John, I want to do a 'New Malden three' - NM to Shepperton (via Kingston); NM to Richmond (via Kingston); NM to Hampton Court (via Berrylands). Watching your video here for ideas. Cheers⛳
@@JohnRogersWalks I saw London on Film Four one afternoon back in the early 2000s. I was totally captivated. Pat K got me into Defoe and the whole walking thing. I have been exiled from London due to being priced out, but here in Nottingham is worth exploring, so I might do that. Ha! As I type this I know that there are sheep smuggling tunnels below me somewhere! Every place has history. The red brick down the road from me was dug up by a Quaker and makes up most of St Pancras station for example. In fact, where I am looks a LOT like Stoke Newignton, just a LOT cheaper!
In 2010 the V&A had an exhibition on Horace Walpole (son of GB's 1st PM) and Strawberry Hill. Like a lot of the V&A's exhibitions, the title seems dull and uninteresting but the exhibition proves to be excellent. ('Quilts' was another). Link below to the V&A reference, which has further links for those interested, www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/horace_walpole_exhibition/
Here as promised John, considerably later than I would have liked, are three interesting places that you could have visited along the way but didn't have time to due to your late start. The first is an excellent pub on Putney Common called the Green Man. The reason why I decided to include this is because it has a legendary association with your favourite highwayman, Dick Turpin, who is said to have hidden his guns in an upstairs room. More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man,_Putney Another key location along the route, which affords one of the best views of the Thames Valley in London, is a Prehistoric Earthwork in Richmond Park called King Henry VIII's Mound. It is only a very short distance from the Park Gate and is also well worth a visit: www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond-park/richmond-park-attractions/king-henrys-mound And, last, but not least, and just a stone's throw from Caesar's Camp, which you have already visited, is the Windmill on Wimbledon Common which has an interesting anecdotal assocation with Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbledon_Common I am sure you will be doing the walk again when the days are longer so bear all these in mind for future reference!
The problem of London is now clearer than it was in 1992 - the city (and City) has been defaced by rapacious developers and the Profit Motive, which successive governments has connived with and encouraged. Keiller's film now looks like a study in nostalgia.
Very late to the party but I only saw London yesterday on Mubi; I was blown away, an absolutly brilliant film, I can't believe I hadn't either seen it or know of Keiller until that point. I didn't know anything about Keiller until then, and I immedialty thought of your films, John. Of course, when I put in his name into UA-cam you immedialty came up. Everything is connected...
God. The music "Pachabelly" must one of the most beautiful pieces of music that I have heard in years. What a wonderful discovery this has all been.
thanks Bob - yes that's a really lovely piece of music - there's some great stuff in the UA-cam Audio Library
@@JohnRogersWalks We must hook up when I am down in the smoke next. I suggest a Hammersmith to Barnes and Richmond walk, where I can talk about the famous Victorian Barnes Murder case by Kate Webster. :-)
great suggestion - I'm visiting a friend there soon but won't be making a video so one for the new year
@@JohnRogersWalks The story takes you to David Attenborough's house as he lives next door to where the murder happened. And the missing skull of the victim was dug up in his garden in 2010.
When I watch your video's I walk with you. England must be amazing. Through you, I am able to enjoy. Thank you, John.
thanks Tom - it's a pleasure to be able to share these walks
Fab as ever - great to see Roehampton - been fascinated by that area since seeing Fahrenheit 451
Thanks Karl - it’s an amazing place, and really interesting to read about afterwards. Have you watched the Richard Rogers documentary? There’s a link in the description
@@JohnRogersWalks I haven't but I will :) I'm a huge fan of 60s and 70s housing and visited and documented Robin Hood Gardens, Balfron, Trellick etc etc. - would love to see/hear your take on the Barbican
Very interesting video as per usual.Cheers.
Thanks Stewart
thank you for sharing
I saw London when it first came out - at the National Film Theatre. Your film took me back in a very good way - thank you so much. I will be getting London to see again.
Absolutely wonderful walk, loved it! Great choice in music. Hope you enjoyed your pint...very well deserved! Can't wait for your next walk. Thank you John, take care!
thanks K - that pint went down beautifully with a prime view of the dark river sliding past outside
Nice to see a stroll around the Wandsworth area.. Great ambience to the video too.. Hope you never stop uploading these wallks.. I learn so much about London
Thanks so much - I can’t imagine a time when I’m not making these films
Fantastic, thanks for sharing!
I have always adored Keiller’s film LONDON, ever since I first saw it as a Fine Art degree student at Falmouth Art School in 1997. They had a copy in the art school library. I feel like it changed my life completely. And then later Robinson In Space. Have watched both films over and over. It’s wonderful to see your walk dedicated to such an important film and I love the reverence you obviously have for it. I’ve often visited places featured. It resonates so much with me too. Wonderful video
Thanks John epic as always
thanks so much for watching Leo
John Rogers 👍🏽
another great walk buddy thanks very much.
thanks very much David
Another relaxing half hour makes my week always .
fantastic to hear Gary
Really enjoyed this superb and beautifully made film. I love the film London and this is a wonderful companion piece. Would highly recommend watching this film before seeing London. It also communicates so well why the film London is so cherished by those that love it.
Absolutely loved that. Full of nostalgia, for a rapidly changing city. A far cry from the Manila cityscape I see here under lockdown in the Philippines...
Another wonderful film beautifully and evocatively shot of London in the Autumn in all it's glory.Thank you for an other vicarious trip.
many thanks indeed Humble
I've discovered your walks recently and have fallen in love with the simplicity and beauty of your vlogs. Thank you.
thanks so much Lisa, I love making these videos, hope you enjoy the others
that was beautiful, thank you
Art. History. Geography. Music. Visual. English Language and English Literature. Public Houses. Mythology. Personal Conjecture to name but a few topics/subjects...just another educational and meditatively informing audio visual adventure from the Master of the Guided Walk. Thanks John. Over and out...!
thanks so much for that Bruce
Absolutely fantastic walk John. This was a great tribute to Keiller’s film. Funny how many parallels resonate today. Also glad to finally see you get to Richmond Park which I haven’t seen since my trip in London twenty years ago.
thanks Ross - yes things seem to go round in cycles
I've watched several of your films during 'Lockdown' as we've come to know it. I began with your very recent films, then drifted off, looking specifically for films featuring Iain Sinclair - which prompted me to buy "The Last London" - and have now begun jumping in at random. This is by far my favourite of those I've seen. I've visited London possibly only twenty or so times in my 63 years and have rarely strayed beyond the main hubs of Westminster, Whitehall, Soho etc. Your films have given me an appreciation of what lies without ... and I thank you for that. Greetings from Leicester! 👍🏼
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Beautifully done John - a great tribute. Must watch Keillor again
Thanks Mark
Enjoyed this after flicking through the book. It's very much my own hinterland
Thanks John, your video's have become my favourite 'tele' programme of the week !
brilliant - thanks Little Acorns
And at last you get a pint 😁 another fascinating walk, thanks John 👍
thanks tomgirl - this was a special one
Thanks for a lovely walk by the way x
thanks Norma glad you enjoyed it
Thanks John. Another fascinating video.
One thing annoying about the end or the year and the beginning of another, the days are too short! You can fight the cold, the wind and rain but you can't make the sun shine longer. Never mind, great video never the less! Thanks once again for more fascinating content. I must now find the film that this was based on.
very true Leon - and despite my best efforts I find it difficult to get out of the house earlier. Hope you found the film ok
Beautiful walk John - so enjoying catchup.
please keep em coming.... you're a top man
Just discovered your channel. Nice video's.
thanks Tomas
Your videos are always brilliant John, but to repeat this walk is just sublime. 'London' was / is a huge influence on my London experience and blew my mind when I was studying at Birkbeck. "Listen to the gateposts".
thanks so much Lindsay - I've been wanting to do this walk for ages - right back to when I was doing the radio show on Resonance. It was even better than I'd imagined
I studied Archaeology at Birkbeck - I really miss the wonderful times spent in London. Thanks John for your fascinating vlogs.
Dear John,
Thank you for this interesting video, we thoroughly enjoyed it and also your choice of music.
Kind regards
Dave and Lyn ….. Australia.
Thanks Dave and Lyn
So a good film excellent stuff
Thanks The Pootle
This was gr8 really enjoyed this.
Thanks monty
a really good hommage to a really good movie 5 stars john
thanks so much John
@@JohnRogersWalksyour welcome still awaiting an up date on nicks war-game
Great video as usual John. Always interesting and thought provoking.
Thanks Neil
Hello from Thailand, enjoy all your walks but this one was really good, a combination of Parks, Commons and the Urban Environment plus you were filming around my old neck of the woods, I have lived in Wimbledon as well as in Streatham and Mitcham, good finish having a pint in the Battle Cruiser..
“Shlep” how I love that word! You certainly do some shlepping!
Hi John hope you're well.
I was pleasantly surprised to see this segment included Roehampton [some scenes from Fahrenheit 451 were filmed here in the mid 60s].
Roehampton was one of my suggestions for a walk so glad you covered it within this video.
You also recently covered Crystal Palace [#101 maybe?] so you do get around!
Any chance you will consider the vicinity of Henry VIII's Nonesuch Palace? Don't think there's much to see and it may be too far outside your typical range but hopefully you'll consider.
Take care John and keep up the good work.
Steve
thanks so much for the suggestion Steve - I was just scrolling through the list of potential walks and there was Roehampton from your note a while back - and oddly I was just flicking through my Master Atlas of Greater London and the page opened on Nonesuch Park
Hi John mere coincidence [?] I think not!
Since I returned home from my first trip to London, April this year, I find myself re-watching your videos because they seem to resonate even more [if that is even possible] now that I've actually spent a week in London. Through your journeys I'm able to virtually re-experience my trip - so thank you.
Hope you and your's have a great, safe, holiday season....and onward to Nonesuch.....
Steve
That was a really great tribute to Keiller. It would be interesting to see you update the other walks.
I remember being enchanted - and then haunted - by "London" on its first broadcast.
Definitely in my top films list, along with Raban's "Thames Film" and John Smith's "Slow Glass".
thanks very much. Oddly I was down in Stockwell with Iain Sinclair last week visiting Van Gogh's home and he asked if I included the Apollinaire scene in my Keiller video, but that I believe is a different walk, one that goes to Stoke Newington. It would be interesting to do more, perhaps from his earlier films such as Stonebridge Park (covered in a podcast I made a while back), and Norwood. Funnily enough I've just written something about John Smith, love his films videographynotes.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/single-take-videos-by-john-smith/
So you have! I know 'Home Suite', and the subsequent 'Blight'.
London has inspired some very _deep_ film-makers - and I include you in that, John.
I've been enjoying several of yours here over the holiday period.
it was Amazing walk thanks John
thanks 4thEye - it was one of those walks that I know will stay with me
Fantastic walk - wonderful autumn colours! I'm always amused at the thought that Vauxhall lent its name to the Russian word for railway station!
Thanks Douglas - I had no idea about the link to Russian railways
@@JohnRogersWalks That's right! The word is вокзал (vokzal). And Russian speakers usually have no idea about Vauxhall and where it is. By the way, amazing video
Brilliant idea for a walk. I love that film, and remember seeing it back in the 90s. I recently saw the film again. It's surprising how much London has changed. London in the early 1990s was a bit more run-down and litter strewn. London's population has probably grown by more than a million since then, its economy feels more robust, the transport system much better. The last ten years has brought a lot of redevelopment, making the city feel more modern, more gentrified and of course less authentically London, especially areas like Dalston and Shoreditch. (Dalston features in the film for an instant in showing Ridley Road market, which is still there and retains its character surrounded by an altered landscape and mood.)
Wow - interesting content and well done for walking that!
Thanks tomask
Brilliant, brilliant walk! Especially since Keiller's London is still fresh in my mind - I watched it about a month ago (after your recommendation on one of you earlier blog posts) - it blew my mind about how a film can be made. Also loved the swan in one of the windows at 4:41 - an unintentional (?) nod to that film with Andrew Kotting and Iain Sinclair the name of which escapes me now.
BTW, I am always amazed at how clean the urban areas are in your videos - no rubbish, papers, fast food containers, plastic bags lying around! Do you have people picking up 24/7 or do British people just not litter?
Great stuff Mariana - worth watching the other two films in the Robinson trology as well (Robinson in Space and Robinson in Ruins) and some of Keiller's earlier shorts are online too.
Funnily enough I was watching Swandown this morning
Thanks. I'm going to watch 'London' later.
hope you enjoy it Rob - it's a near perfect film in my opinion
Nice film, you went through Clapham, I know that place quite well and still visit mates up on the Wandsworth Road. I thought you were being a tad ambitious on that walk when I saw the map and the objective, you did well to get as far as you did and still pack in a load of information. Look forward to the next one.
Thanks John - I thought I'd give it a go and gutted I didn't start a couple of hours earlier
Hi John, great video I have Kiellers London on DVD and have always loved it. The point at 16:34 when you say that you can't tell where the place is that Robinson speaks about psychic landscaping I think it may be Burgess Park that is shown as there is a pond there and a church in the background that may be the one where one of the founders of the Rolls Royce brand is buried, I cant remember the name of the church. Similarly, the large McDonalds shown in the film could have been on the Old Kent Road? That's the only place nearby I could think of.
Thanks John - I think you're right about both locations. I accidentally filmed that McDonald's during my London Overground film with Iain Sinclair that you can find on the channel here. I recently interviewed Patrick Keiller for my blog about the book version of the film which actually lists all the locations in the back thelostbyway.com/2021/01/patrick-keiller-interview-london-the-book.html
Just ordered the DVD of London (incl. Robinson In Space) based on this...
I think you'll love both films Malcolm
@@JohnRogersWalks I've just finished watching the first one. It's very prescient but also shows how everything just goes around in the manner of 'plus ca change', if that's not too much of a paradox. Maybe some of these patterns imprint themselves on time, or are always happening, as Robinson (perhaps) seems to believe when he 'time travels'. Have you ever seen it with the subtitles? The subtitles sometimes match the sound of, rather than the spirit of, the words. So, towards the end, with around four minutes to go, you get the immortal line "The English fear of potpourri and socialism". Now I understand why all those people who march against Potpourri on 12th July are called Orangemen...
Yes wonderful video you certainly know your business John
Wonderful walk!
The structure on which the Violette Szabo mural was painted is one of eight deep-level shelters dotted around London that were contructed during WW2. Geoff Marshall did a video about them for Londonist.
Did you go past St Mary's Parish Church, Battersea ? It's a nice little spot overlooking the Thames. I think it was used as a location in the film "Alfie" (the original, not that rubbish with Jude Law in it).
Not on this walk Jason but I went there with Iain Sinclair for our London Overground film and also went back last summer - both videos are on this channel
@@JohnRogersWalks Nice One.I'll take a look.
According to the Royal parks website. Richmond Park and the nearby Bushy park are not very safe because of the ticks and the Lyme disease they transmit. Ticks during the cold months are less active.
A wonderful walk in a fantasia corner of London that I was totally unfamiliar with apart from Richmond Park which is still so glorious as it was when I went there in the sixties and seventies, didn't Turner paint a landscape there,isn't there a poem, forgive my ignorance, thank you.....
I shall look up those references Leslie thank you
@@JohnRogersWalks www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-richmond-hill-tw0788
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/marble-hill-house/history-and-stories/the-view-from-richmond-hill/
Not found any relevant poems sadly, but the paintings are lovely , all the best, Leslie
Nice one John! I thought that the night time view at the end was de,ightful, it proves that even after dark you can find a view if you chose we.l and your kit is up to it. Maybe you could finish it another day?
thanks Jacqueline - I think I have to go back soon
Very good film John. Here you are down my manor!!!
I didn't realise Henry - thanks for watching and brilliant to see TPA Tales getting plenty of exposure
Cheers John. Yes it shows free at The Muse Gallery in Portobello Rd this Friday 14th at 6pm
Loved this! Stumbled upon it as I was brought up on the Alton Estate. The clip you showed of the 170 bus you might remember from the first episode of Minder! Also just off Putney Heath near where you walked was where the Great Train Robbery idea was concocted, close to the old Putney Hospital. Keep up the great work, really enjoy your channel😊
thanks James
great stuff f section sounds like a football firm from abroad notived all the telephone boxs was vanderlised what is the matter with this country how many miles was that one john thanks ahain steve
Thanks Steven - my phone said it was 14-miles, which did surprise me
Another great wee film there John. We spent many an autumn Sunday at Richmond Park, so thanks for the memories. Morrissey had an album ‘Vauxhall and I’, but I’m not sure what it had to do with Vauxhall. Wish I could make films like you John, you are an inspiration.👍
that's incredibly kind Jag - I love watching your channel.
I can't remember the Morrisey link, I had assumed it was a reference to the Vauxhall Tavern think I read a different story many years ago that I've forgotten
I think the iron post is an old gas street light. We had a few that looked exactly the same around the Southend area. They were a lovely homage to lost Victorian heritage. About 5 years ago the Council in their infinite wisdom dug them all out and dumped them in a scrap yard for £100 each. Made a lot of locals very sad. I love the bit with the underpass under the A3 - so 'romantic!' Sad for those deer... It's not nice to see them happily grazing unaware of their potential fate, and then you emerged from the park at an archway that mentioned 'cruelty to animals'. I found that very profound and ironic.
I often think of the grazing deer unaware of their fate - it’d probably be kinder to re-introduce a predator or two
more of these walks please. really enjoying all your content though. cheers
Many thanks- I must pick up the Keiller trail
Turns out DW Gillingham went to my alma mater, the University of British Columbia (where I am also presently teaching). I always like to follow up on your book mentions, so I'll be looking for a copy of "Unto the Fields"...
ah interesting link Weldon. I went down along the River Roding yesterday - in the areas he writes about in the book, will be the subject of the next video
Would love to see you do some more of these Keiller's 'London' walks, perhaps an ongoing series when the London Loop is completed?
That red shop in the background is my parents shop Jajajaja love that
Love it
Could you take the route of the 88 bus from Clapham Park to Oxford Street. My route to work when I worked in Grosvenor Street 1990-1995
Fantastic work John. I was also hugely influenced by Patrick Keiller. We’ve just been watching and are desperate to know what the string quarter music is in the opening sequence. It’s really beautiful stuff!
thanks very much Mike - the music at the beginning is Pachabelly by Huma-Huma from the UA-cam Audio Library - your comment made me realise I hadn't put the music credits in the video description
Great! Thanks for that. Perfect choice.
John,
I want to do a 'New Malden three' - NM to Shepperton (via Kingston); NM to Richmond (via Kingston); NM to Hampton Court (via Berrylands).
Watching your video here for ideas. Cheers⛳
Sounds like a classic Alex
Thank you kindly 😐
the intersection of spellbinding Genius
wow - thanks very much
I truly enjoyed this walk and the pint at the end. Although it did give me gas. burp.
can we expect any output of any kind from nick p in the near future?
Good question- I have no idea, I believe he is writing but not sure when/how it’ll be public
Lovely video, fella.
Thanks Bob
@@JohnRogersWalks I saw London on Film Four one afternoon back in the early 2000s. I was totally captivated. Pat K got me into Defoe and the whole walking thing. I have been exiled from London due to being priced out, but here in Nottingham is worth exploring, so I might do that. Ha! As I type this I know that there are sheep smuggling tunnels below me somewhere! Every place has history. The red brick down the road from me was dug up by a Quaker and makes up most of St Pancras station for example. In fact, where I am looks a LOT like Stoke Newignton, just a LOT cheaper!
In 2010 the V&A had an exhibition on Horace Walpole (son of GB's 1st PM) and Strawberry Hill. Like a lot of the V&A's exhibitions, the title seems dull and uninteresting but the exhibition proves to be excellent. ('Quilts' was another). Link below to the V&A reference, which has further links for those interested,
www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/horace_walpole_exhibition/
Thanks for that info Paul
what do you mean when you mention the deers "some of whom won't make it through the night" ? Thank you. Great programs. Gently addictive.
how many miles from Vauxhall to where you finished ?
Looks like a ventilation pipe John we have a very ornate one in the outskirts of Chester looks like a dovecote the Victorians were so clever
thanks for that Norma - I'm never sure
what i didn't understand about the film was did they just sleep in the parks or get hotels?
good question Duncan - I think they mostly went home apart from that night in Brentford (or was it Twickenham)
@@JohnRogersWalks marble hill park, Twickenham, I think they walked to Brentford the following day after drinking with some Peruvian musicians.
Here as promised John, considerably later than I would have liked, are three interesting places that you could have visited along the way but didn't have time to due to your late start. The first is an excellent pub on Putney Common called the Green Man. The reason why I decided to include this is because it has a legendary association with your favourite highwayman, Dick Turpin, who is said to have hidden his guns in an upstairs room. More here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man,_Putney
Another key location along the route, which affords one of the best views of the Thames Valley in London, is a Prehistoric Earthwork in Richmond Park called King Henry VIII's Mound. It is only a very short distance from the Park Gate and is also well worth a visit:
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond-park/richmond-park-attractions/king-henrys-mound
And, last, but not least, and just a stone's throw from Caesar's Camp, which you have already visited, is the Windmill on Wimbledon Common which has an interesting anecdotal assocation with Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbledon_Common
I am sure you will be doing the walk again when the days are longer so bear all these in mind for future reference!
john do you have letterboxd
Hi John. What are the other top two favourite films?
Pachelbel provides a perfect counterpoint to John's narrative.
Don't tell me, your other 2 films are: Finding Nemo and Deep Throat 5
you've rumbled me
@@JohnRogersWalks lol or I think they're Honey I Shrunk The Kids 2 and The Bodyguard?
The problem of London is now clearer than it was in 1992 - the city (and City) has been defaced by rapacious developers and the Profit Motive, which successive governments has connived with and encouraged. Keiller's film now looks like a study in nostalgia.