@@JohnRogersWalks I hope your right with all my heart john been worst and saddest of my life losing mum to covid so need the comfort of the good things of life and the simplicity thankyou John
Trivia for you John, Within the animal cemetery you past lies Able Seacat Simon. Simon was the ships cat on HMS amethyst during the Yangtse incident in 1949, Simon was the first cat to be a warded the Dickins medal for animal bravery and morale boosting for the crew. Simon was injured by shrapnel and later died of a virus complicated by his wounds becoming infected in quarantine back England and was buried with hundreds of people at the burial including the whole crew of HMS Amethyst. Hes headstone reads ------ IN MEMORY OF "SIMON" SERVED IN H.M.S. AMETHYST MAY 1948 - NOVEMBER 1949 AWARDED DICKIN MEDAL AUGUST 1949 DIED 28TH NOVEMBER 1949. THROUGHOUT THE YANGTSE INCIDENT HIS BEHAVIOUR WAS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
I patrolled that area while working for Redbridge Council's parks department on a Suzuki DR350 in the early '90's. It gave me access to some very unique places including Claybury. Got shown around inside just after it closed. I was based in the big house Ray Park in Snakes Lane. Alas the job only lasted 6 months but it was fun while it lasted.
So much development since I lived at Wipps Cross 50 years ago. Re. your comment about Christmas street lights in November. I now live in Torquay,and in a large store "The Range"they had their Christmas decorations up in late August !! I expect by December the place will be full of Easter Eggs :(
The bus stops meant something different to me. I use to go off the the West Country every weekend during the warmer months, in my old van. When coming home, I knew I was home when I saw the first London bus stop.
Just starting a 12 hour night-shift on a wet rainy and miserable night in deepest darkest Willesden and need something to get me enthused. As always John, your video's are just what the doctor ordered
First visit to my old home turf John. Surprised you missed out the Art Deco(ish) staircase tower at Roding Junior School. Can't remember the architect and neither can the web but an unusual structure - late 30's from memory. The Three Jolly Wheelers used to be a grand locals pub until they threw a Travelodge on the back and it went all chain friendly. The Crown and Crooked Billet up the road is likely a better choice these days although it's many a year since my last visit. Great fun as always :-)
Cool route, and love the information overlays, John. Might have been twelve minute wait at Chigwell, but it's the most relaxing tube station to wait at? You get a carriage to yourself to Woodford. (10:40 - Melin - formerly 'La Sala': high-end premiership footballer-funded venture that folded last year, and was replaced by Melin. Out with the footballers' wives of IG7-IG10, and in with the Lamborghini owners from IG1-IG4... In August, the new management were recorded threatening to take staff down the basement for a kicking if they didn't hand over their tips. Sure it was simple misunderstanding. If you prefer something quieter, Three Jolly Wheelers and Cricketers are great these days).
Thanks Alex - I think that's the shortest wait I've had at Chigwell to be fair. I did look up Melin when I got home and listened to that recording. Seems like another world in there. Will have to try the Three Jolly Wheelers some day.
Love everything about these walks John - the pace, the observations, the music --- each video is a way to wind down and enjoy the perspective of an eternal optimist - thanks
I love these walks. We lived and worked in Redbridge, Newham and Barking in the 90s and our children were born there. It brings back all sorts of lovely memories for me. Thank you John.
Hi John. Enjoyed your walk. Lived in Chigwell for 20 years. You must walk past the pub King William and turn right on the road known as Courtland Drive. There's a giant meadow not far down that road. A small bridge in the bushes leads you directly into the meadow itself. Absolutely fantastic views and very tranquil. You'll enjoy that.
Hi John, welcome back to my manor! Keep doing these walks, you can see how people enjoy them. IHS publishing my article about the Cran Brook soon, I’ll send you a copy. Regards, Vincent Goodman
Hi John. Great walk and as is often the case one that brings back sweet memories of growing up. One sweet memory was the Trebor Refreshers factory in Roding Lane South. From about half a mile you could smell the distinct aroma if you were downwind of the factory. Roding Lane North has the very steep hill that was such a good place for sledging. Cars could never make it up the hill in very cold snowy conditions so just occasionally you had a car free hill. Also did you know that in the 70's there were plans to construct a new M12 motorway and it would have crossed Roding Lane North roughly at the gates Claybury woods you featured in the video. I bet it would have been very different round there if it had been built. Best wishes, Richard
My dad worked at Dr Barnardo's and we lived in The Residence 119 Roding Lane ( now ELHAP ) at the bottom of the hill until 1976, we always got up the hill in bad snow conditions because we had a Land Rover and Fordson tractor :)
I always look forward to these late autumn / wintry walks. I love that point when out on a walk when it gets dark, when the streetlights come on - that moment that writer John Burnside calls 'the point where day become night'. That's always the magical time for me when out on a walk - whend arkness hits - probably much the same feeling that you get about an hour before sunset - a kix of euphoria and memories all mixed up together.
excellent video. any thanks for making and sharing! You walked near past my house, and your walk along Rodinng Lane North to Woodford Bridge and Chigwell is one I make nearly every day. A lovely, walk, and thank you for making it. A visit to the nature reserve at Salix Lane is also well worth it, with the double circular ponds. That short climb at Roding Lane North is a lovely little leg burner. and the views at the top of the hill are great as you mentioned. At the top, in Claybury Park wgere the woods are, is an old Roman Road, with a sign visible indicating the road. There is an apple orhcard in the woods/park too. All the best!
Enjoyed this walk with you. I too used to get on a bus at one terminus (usually a bus station) and travel to its other terminus and it does indeed feel special.
thank you John you legand. Short sweet and beautiful as always. I absolutely love the choice of music you have and please pass my thanks over to the music producer as its so relaxing just too listen to your voice over these incredible journeys you take the world on.
Like the the bit about how you would catch the first bus that came along and ride it to its terminus great sense of adventure and curiosity brilliant and as always a Bonny video John.
Great walk again John around my local area. The Three Jolly Wheelers is a decent enough pub just don't expect Wetherspoons prices though. Cheers John see you on the next one.
Thanks for your latest video John. This one is near me and my daughter lives near chigwell station. When she was working in London before leaving to look after her son TFL decided to reduce the service towards the city despite much protest from the residents of Chigwell. Well, there you go!
The Three Jolly Wheelers is a great little pub. It is now mainly a restaurant but they do have a nice area near the bar if you just want to pop in to have a few beers. Of all the local pubs I would say that they serve the best Sunday lunch. Having recently moved out of the area I am really going to miss it. I am sure I will be back at some point, perhaps after a nice walk through the forest at Hainault Country Park.
Nice walk John. I think that newish looking building you saw was the Bupa Roding private hospital. I used to go there fifteen years ago for chiropody meetings. Happy days
I know what you mean about travelling to the end of bus routes. The one I wanted to do but never did when I lived in London, was the 277 to Leamouth. And intrigued by that industrial estate in the film- it's on my list when I can go to London again.
Watching your videos on a Sunday highlights my afternoon - cheers! Listened to your book This Other London on audible last week absolutely fantastic John. Must get a copy of the book.
Really wonderful to hear. And thanks for listening to the audio book - it was such a great experience writing that book and recording the audio version
Another great walk John very informative and interesting as always . I love the historical references included Claybury Hall etc . Great camera shot of the inside of the pylon , superb . 😊👍
The Jolly Wheelers is a great pub. A group of my old pals from West Hatch High School, which you passes shortly after, meet there annually for a get together lunch (Bit hard for me to join them from Australia!)
I love the nature reserve you mentioned. It feels like a real overgrown lost wilderness, with some great high up views. I read a sign at one of the entrances that said something along the lines of it being dangerous though and you enter at your own risk! I entered anyway.
The blue and grey factory building by the subway used to be a place where chocolates and candy was made. Wish I could remember the name of what they made in there. My mother had a job in there during the late 1960's when it was still all quite new. The PDSA was definitely a landmark in the area. Despite not living in that part of the world since 2001, I remember many of those places well. Feelings of nostalgia, creeping in.
Brian it was Trebor, the famous sweets. That building was its headquarters. I think Trebor (Robert spelt backwards) moved out in the 80s. I know because I used to live very near it
That cemetery at Roding Lane North you said was new is actually quite old. I have no idea why there is still very few graves there. Perhaps it’s the cost of burying there is quite expensive compared to others or it could be something about owning certain amount of space. In that cemetery there is a section for Ahmediya Muslims who can bury their dead, because mainstream Muslim graveyards don’t accept Ahmediyas as Muslims and refuse to have them buried there. Also at the cemetery there are some Commonwealth war dead from the wars.
Wonderful video as always John, last couple of days I've been inspired to venture around Hackney and walthamstow Marshes, unfortunately still haven't found the Viking boat from one of your previous videos, I was wondering if you could recommend any walking guides of Roman London?, keep up the great work and hopefully see you on the highway sometime
Thanks for the video John, almost finished reading This Other London im hooked! Know the areas you walk in very well I used to cover all of NE London region for work
Thank you for yet another lovely walk. Your channel is always at the top of my subscription queue - so much goodness in every adventure. You've inspired us to hunt down Maine's lost rivers once we move out of town a little ways. Also! Curious if you have any copies of your book left? Would love to buy a copy, especially if it's signed. Tough to track down in the states, and I'd rather have you benefit directly.
There goes my pang of anxiety at 7:10 I've decided to term this feeling in your videos "the pang of delight" to give it some positive spin.... The building immediately prior to that subway is Teresa Gavin House (building contractor Mulally HQ as you probably noted). I always wondered who Teresa was.
. I'm so excited you did a video of my area. 👏👏🌹You can pick apples, pears and black berries in the summer.♥️ Did you see the little path to the right? I've never explored the area but will do so because I've never seen this side before. Huge thanks. That's where 66 and 366 buses route.
A similar story happened with the old Warley Hospital which was a psychiatric hospital located in Brentwood, Essex that originally opened in the late 19th Century; but because of its close proximity to a US air force base during WWII it was used to house pregent women and their children to "save the families name/blushes" sadly institutionalisation obviously negatively affected those children as inmates. However, the building was listed and had to retain most of its original outward architecture, which really is a lesson in how menral health wals viewed in the 19th Century. I worked there as a teenager as a kitchen porter.
Glad to see some bus & pylon love going on!...I used to spend Sundays taking a random bus & alighting at a stop that took my fancy to explore a new area, chat with strangers & local weirdos & do some writing, songs, poems, in the most intriguing cafes & pubs...always found something useful in whichever community I visited...every place has a resonance of its own if you stay long enough, I feel...anyway, great video as usual...another triumph, sir!
A really nice atmospheric walk. I love how you have enticed me to love edge lands. Do you ever think that the (unreasonable?) hatred of pylons is unfair? We deride them as ugly while greedily sucking on their teats
Termini marked the boundaries of ancient Rome. Trying to sight the last bus glowing through the fog, and not daring to look over the cemetery wall by the shelter.
I very much enjoy your walks. Whose is the voice of the person reading information ? That's s very nice feature. A walk is lovely, but a walk with a story or history is an adventure.
thanks Helen - that's me doing the reading. I used to get my wife to do the readings for my radio show 10 years ago, but I really quite enjoy doing it myself now
Hi John, thanks for the lovely walk , I was just wondering if you have ever felt or been threatened by people when in such places, underpasses, subways, isolated areas at all
The building you liked at 6:37 of the video used to be the headquarters of Trebor (the famous sweets named after Robert spelt backwards). I can't remember when it was moved, but I'm guessing it was sometime in the 80's. A wikipedia article on Trebor can be found below en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebor_(confectionery)
@@JohnRogersWalks they were very local. I used to live near to that building and I remembered as a kid one of the schoolboys cheekily gone in the building asking for a free sweet. Didn’t get any but I gave him 10 out of 10 for the effort!
"Brighter days are just up ahead" overwhelmed by this bit of hope in gloomy times, thanks John
I'm glad that reached you Raj - I genuinely believe it, there's always light and hope
@@JohnRogersWalks I hope your right with all my heart john been worst and saddest of my life losing mum to covid so need the comfort of the good things of life and the simplicity thankyou John
Always find these areas deeply melancholic and at the same time comforting.
Yes I can understand that.
Trivia for you John, Within the animal cemetery you past lies Able Seacat Simon. Simon was the ships cat on HMS amethyst during the Yangtse incident in 1949, Simon was the first cat to be a warded the Dickins medal for animal bravery and morale boosting for the crew. Simon was injured by shrapnel and later died of a virus complicated by his wounds becoming infected in quarantine back England and was buried with hundreds of people at the burial including the whole crew of HMS Amethyst. Hes headstone reads ------
IN
MEMORY OF
"SIMON"
SERVED IN
H.M.S. AMETHYST
MAY 1948 - NOVEMBER 1949
AWARDED DICKIN MEDAL
AUGUST 1949
DIED 28TH NOVEMBER 1949.
THROUGHOUT THE YANGTSE INCIDENT
HIS BEHAVIOUR WAS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
Whatever the landscape, and whatever the weather, your glass is always half full. It's invigorating, inspiring, and a joy to share.
thanks John
I patrolled that area while working for Redbridge Council's parks department on a Suzuki DR350 in the early '90's. It gave me access to some very unique places including Claybury. Got shown around inside just after it closed. I was based in the big house Ray Park in Snakes Lane. Alas the job only lasted 6 months but it was fun while it lasted.
Ray Lodge House - burned down in 2003 - would love to see photos of the inside of it.
@@wadeslea A bloke and his elderly mother lived upstairs when I worked there, very 'Bates Motel'!
Love these. In the early 70s I lived in N. Leytonstone and did many of these walks myself. It's very evocative to see it all again. Thanks.
So much development since I lived at Wipps Cross 50 years ago.
Re. your comment about Christmas street lights in November. I now live in Torquay,and in a large store "The Range"they had their Christmas decorations up in late August !!
I expect by December the place will be full of Easter Eggs :(
Great to be back on a walk with you after that one last Sunday.
3 jolly wheelers nice pub nicely refurbed.
The bus stops meant something different to me. I use to go off the the West Country every weekend during the warmer months, in my old van. When coming home, I knew I was home when I saw the first London bus stop.
Just starting a 12 hour night-shift on a wet rainy and miserable night in deepest darkest Willesden and need something to get me enthused. As always John, your video's are just what the doctor ordered
Keep safe. My heart with all of you in this time. ♥️🌹❤️
First visit to my old home turf John. Surprised you missed out the Art Deco(ish) staircase tower at Roding Junior School. Can't remember the architect and neither can the web but an unusual structure - late 30's from memory. The Three Jolly Wheelers used to be a grand locals pub until they threw a Travelodge on the back and it went all chain friendly. The Crown and Crooked Billet up the road is likely a better choice these days although it's many a year since my last visit. Great fun as always :-)
Cool route, and love the information overlays, John. Might have been twelve minute wait at Chigwell, but it's the most relaxing tube station to wait at? You get a carriage to yourself to Woodford.
(10:40 - Melin - formerly 'La Sala': high-end premiership footballer-funded venture that folded last year, and was replaced by Melin. Out with the footballers' wives of IG7-IG10, and in with the Lamborghini owners from IG1-IG4... In August, the new management were recorded threatening to take staff down the basement for a kicking if they didn't hand over their tips. Sure it was simple misunderstanding. If you prefer something quieter, Three Jolly Wheelers and Cricketers are great these days).
Thanks Alex - I think that's the shortest wait I've had at Chigwell to be fair.
I did look up Melin when I got home and listened to that recording. Seems like another world in there. Will have to try the Three Jolly Wheelers some day.
Three jolly wheelers is a lovely pub, very relaxing hardly packed too. Good food and drink ☺️
Sunday evening video therapy. Magnificent!
Very Nice Walking Tour! Interesting :) Thank you for sharing and Enjoyed it 😍😊😊
Short but sweet, thanks John. Keep safe, keep warm.
Lovely job John.
thanks Little Acorns
great stuff thanks jiohn enjoyed that one steve
Love everything about these walks John - the pace, the observations, the music --- each video is a way to wind down and enjoy the perspective of an eternal optimist - thanks
Thanks very much for that Martin - really wonderful to hear
Another wonderfully philosophical walk. Thank you for the journey John. I loved your closing statement.
I love these walks. We lived and worked in Redbridge, Newham and Barking in the 90s and our children were born there. It brings back all sorts of lovely memories for me. Thank you John.
my pleasure Don - it's such a rich landscape to explore
@@JohnRogersWalks Yes, it's so diverse, urban, industrial, forest and farmland, often on the same bus route.
Totally I get that feeling of wandering out to somewhere on the edge , the energy of adventure remain xxx see you soon xxx
Hi John. Enjoyed your walk. Lived in Chigwell for 20 years. You must walk past the pub King William and turn right on the road known as Courtland Drive. There's a giant meadow not far down that road. A small bridge in the bushes leads you directly into the meadow itself. Absolutely fantastic views and very tranquil. You'll enjoy that.
Nice walk John. Wanstead is my neck of the woods. You always manage to find a world in a grain of sand...
It's Sunday. Time for a walk with John!
Another great walk. It seems most of London areas were covered on those series?
How about SE around Peckham, New Cross?
Hi John, welcome back to my manor! Keep doing these walks, you can see how people enjoy them. IHS publishing my article about the Cran Brook soon, I’ll send you a copy. Regards, Vincent Goodman
It's great to know there are many of us who like these industrial edgelands and pylons!
a walk with you with all the information is spot on.glad i can enjoy the walk via my laptop in the warmth
Lets hope so .Great video , take care and stay safe.
Long wait for tube, 12 minutes! Lol from people watching outside of London. Love the videos.
Hi John. Great walk and as is often the case one that brings back sweet memories of growing up. One sweet memory was the Trebor Refreshers factory in Roding Lane South. From about half a mile you could smell the distinct aroma if you were downwind of the factory. Roding Lane North has the very steep hill that was such a good place for sledging. Cars could never make it up the hill in very cold snowy conditions so just occasionally you had a car free hill. Also did you know that in the 70's there were plans to construct a new M12 motorway and it would have crossed Roding Lane North roughly at the gates Claybury woods you featured in the video. I bet it would have been very different round there if it had been built.
Best wishes, Richard
My dad worked at Dr Barnardo's and we lived in The Residence 119 Roding Lane ( now ELHAP ) at the bottom of the hill until 1976, we always got up the hill in bad snow conditions because we had a Land Rover and Fordson tractor :)
Thanks for getting out , even if it was rainy, still nice.
I lived in Savage Gardens in the early 70's. We used to walk to the Docks and see the huge boats coming in and out, magical times.
I always look forward to these late autumn / wintry walks. I love that point when out on a walk when it gets dark, when the streetlights come on - that moment that writer John Burnside calls 'the point where day become night'. That's always the magical time for me when out on a walk - whend arkness hits - probably much the same feeling that you get about an hour before sunset - a kix of euphoria and memories all mixed up together.
excellent video. any thanks for making and sharing!
You walked near past my house, and your walk along Rodinng Lane North to Woodford Bridge and Chigwell is one I make nearly every day. A lovely, walk, and thank you for making it.
A visit to the nature reserve at Salix Lane is also well worth it, with the double circular ponds. That short climb at Roding Lane North is a lovely little leg burner. and the views at the top of the hill are great as you mentioned.
At the top, in Claybury Park wgere the woods are, is an old Roman Road, with a sign visible indicating the road. There is an apple orhcard in the woods/park too.
All the best!
Enjoyed this walk with you. I too used to get on a bus at one terminus (usually a bus station) and travel to its other terminus and it does indeed feel special.
Another great video John. I used to go to the Three Jolly Wheelers a lot when I dated a lady who lived in Chigwell. Nice place!
Great walk John , many thanks
thank you John you legand. Short sweet and beautiful as always. I absolutely love the choice of music you have and please pass my thanks over to the music producer as its so relaxing just too listen to your voice over these incredible journeys you take the world on.
Thanks so much Grandmaster Beats!
Like the the bit about how you would catch the first bus that came along and ride it to its terminus great sense of adventure and curiosity brilliant and as always a Bonny video John.
thanks Darren
Great walk again John around my local area. The Three Jolly Wheelers is a decent enough pub just don't expect Wetherspoons prices though. Cheers John see you on the next one.
Thanks Andy - will have to give it a try one day
Thanks for your latest video John. This one is near me and my daughter lives near chigwell station. When she was working in London before leaving to look after her son TFL decided to reduce the service towards the city despite much protest from the residents of Chigwell. Well, there you go!
Beautifully filmed. I share the mystery of termini of buses more than trains and don’t know why.
Great part of the world love the Roding and surrounding area’s another beautiful video John well done mate
thanks Brian
Brilliant and so informative as usual John stay safe
So many memories around there ... definitely a classic
Thank you John for another interesting video. Always appreciating your efforts . Stay safe and wishing you and your family good health
Thanks so much Humble
Your walk's are a great comfort to me john. I hope for more during second lockdown.
That's great to hear Graeme - plenty more to come
Your walks make me appreciate all seasons. Happier days are ahead. Thank you!
very nice John. thank you
The Three Jolly Wheelers is a great little pub. It is now mainly a restaurant but they do have a nice area near the bar if you just want to pop in to have a few beers. Of all the local pubs I would say that they serve the best Sunday lunch. Having recently moved out of the area I am really going to miss it. I am sure I will be back at some point, perhaps after a nice walk through the forest at Hainault Country Park.
Thanks john keep safe . Dave 👍
Nice walk John. I think that newish looking building you saw was the Bupa Roding private hospital. I used to go there fifteen years ago for chiropody meetings. Happy days
Nice walk, John..........always enjoy ..... Merv .........BC Canada
I know what you mean about travelling to the end of bus routes. The one I wanted to do but never did when I lived in London, was the 277 to Leamouth. And intrigued by that industrial estate in the film- it's on my list when I can go to London again.
He’s back! Nice one John!
Thanks Star Wars Clips - just filmed a classic walk for next weekend as well
@@JohnRogersWalksAll good John. Looking forward to it. What do use to edit your footage by the way?
Thanks John for another amazing walk
many thanks James
Thanks John !
"I'm not entirely sure where this path leads " best way to start, "brighter days ahead" epic finish, thank you John for my Sunday afternoon sanity.
Watching your videos on a Sunday highlights my afternoon - cheers! Listened to your book This Other London on audible last week absolutely fantastic John. Must get a copy of the book.
Really wonderful to hear. And thanks for listening to the audio book - it was such a great experience writing that book and recording the audio version
Very informative video; thank you
Your hair is gorgeous, John!
Great walk John these edgelands walks are always special the tentacles of the city reaching out into the beyond feeding the urban heart
Great video John, lovely way to spend a Sunday evening, especially now the evenings are drawing in. Thank you 👍🏼👍🏼
Many thanks Steve - glad you enjoyed it
Nice to see you back walking this week John! 👍
great to be back Francine
Another great walk John very informative and interesting as always . I love the historical references included Claybury Hall etc . Great camera shot of the inside of the pylon , superb . 😊👍
cheers Terry
@11:30 Three Jolly Wheelers: used to work and live there. many tales to tell. Out in the sticks, for sure.
brilliant Arthur - what a great location
The Jolly Wheelers is a great pub. A group of my old pals from West Hatch High School, which you passes shortly after, meet there annually for a get together lunch (Bit hard for me to join them from Australia!)
I love the nature reserve you mentioned. It feels like a real overgrown lost wilderness, with some great high up views. I read a sign at one of the entrances that said something along the lines of it being dangerous though and you enter at your own risk! I entered anyway.
the nature reserve in chigwell was a landfill site in 1980s ,good to see nature take its course.
10 out 10 again john
Thanks Matt
The blue and grey factory building by the subway used to be a place where chocolates and candy was made. Wish I could remember the name of what they made in there. My mother had a job in there during the late 1960's when it was still all quite new.
The PDSA was definitely a landmark in the area. Despite not living in that part of the world since 2001, I remember many of those places well. Feelings of nostalgia, creeping in.
I'll have to find out what was made there Brian - many thanks for the tip
Brian it was Trebor, the famous sweets. That building was its headquarters. I think Trebor (Robert spelt backwards) moved out in the 80s. I know because I used to live very near it
@@dee74razTrebor yes. That sounds right. Everyone used to come home with bags of rejects at the end of a shift.
That cemetery at Roding Lane North you said was new is actually quite old. I have no idea why there is still very few graves there. Perhaps it’s the cost of burying there is quite expensive compared to others or it could be something about owning certain amount of space. In that cemetery there is a section for Ahmediya Muslims who can bury their dead, because mainstream Muslim graveyards don’t accept Ahmediyas as Muslims and refuse to have them buried there. Also at the cemetery there are some Commonwealth war dead from the wars.
Wonderful video as always John, last couple of days I've been inspired to venture around Hackney and walthamstow Marshes, unfortunately still haven't found the Viking boat from one of your previous videos, I was wondering if you could recommend any walking guides of Roman London?, keep up the great work and hopefully see you on the highway sometime
4.54 'Maybe if Id stayed over at someone's house' OK John, no need to brag.
Yes, nice walk. Hadn't thought to do it myself but I think I will now.
Absolutely splendid video as always... many thanks for sharing, Have a good week!!
thanks Neil
Found your reference to being told one of the industrial units had been converted to temporary housing quite sobering.
Thanks for the video John, almost finished reading This Other London im hooked! Know the areas you walk in very well I used to cover all of NE London region for work
Thank you for yet another lovely walk. Your channel is always at the top of my subscription queue - so much goodness in every adventure. You've inspired us to hunt down Maine's lost rivers once we move out of town a little ways. Also! Curious if you have any copies of your book left? Would love to buy a copy, especially if it's signed. Tough to track down in the states, and I'd rather have you benefit directly.
Great vid john i did the Ravensbourne peal and chaffinch yesterday stunning walk and today walked the Pymmes brook thanks for your guidance sir
Thanks Stephen - sounds like you've had a fantastic weekend
@@JohnRogersWalks thanks john i did thinking doing Hogsmill river next weekend
There goes my pang of anxiety at 7:10 I've decided to term this feeling in your videos "the pang of delight" to give it some positive spin.... The building immediately prior to that subway is Teresa Gavin House (building contractor Mulally HQ as you probably noted). I always wondered who Teresa was.
. I'm so excited you did a video of my area. 👏👏🌹You can pick apples, pears and black berries in the summer.♥️ Did you see the little path to the right? I've never explored the area but will do so because I've never seen this side before. Huge thanks. That's where 66 and 366 buses route.
Wanstead, I know it well! Good luck John
A similar story happened with the old Warley Hospital which was a psychiatric hospital located in Brentwood, Essex that originally opened in the late 19th Century; but because of its close proximity to a US air force base during WWII it was used to house pregent women and their children to "save the families name/blushes" sadly institutionalisation obviously negatively affected those children as inmates. However, the building was listed and had to retain most of its original outward architecture, which really is a lesson in how menral health wals viewed in the 19th Century.
I worked there as a teenager as a kitchen porter.
Glad to see some bus & pylon love going on!...I used to spend Sundays taking a random bus & alighting at a stop that took my fancy to explore a new area, chat with strangers & local weirdos & do some writing, songs, poems, in the most intriguing cafes & pubs...always found something useful in whichever community I visited...every place has a resonance of its own if you stay long enough, I feel...anyway, great video as usual...another triumph, sir!
A really nice atmospheric walk. I love how you have enticed me to love edge lands. Do you ever think that the (unreasonable?) hatred of pylons is unfair? We deride them as ugly while greedily sucking on their teats
perfectly put Tomas - they're also wonderful pieces of public sculpture
That blue fronted building opposite the Toby Carvery used to be the Trebor factory in the 70's.
So cold
Termini marked the boundaries of ancient Rome. Trying to sight the last bus glowing through the fog, and not daring to look over the cemetery wall by the shelter.
Roding Lane South and North are very strange roads. They feel very sporadic and accidental which is odd considering where they are and where they run.
In the darkened underpass I thought 'Oh God! My chance has come at last'. But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask.
Smiths 😊
I very much enjoy your walks. Whose is the voice of the person reading information ? That's s very nice feature. A walk is lovely, but a walk with a story or history is an adventure.
thanks Helen - that's me doing the reading. I used to get my wife to do the readings for my radio show 10 years ago, but I really quite enjoy doing it myself now
Hi John, thanks for the lovely walk , I was just wondering if you have ever felt or been threatened by people when in such places, underpasses, subways, isolated areas at all
never Richard - you rarely see anyone in these areas
The building you liked at 6:37 of the video used to be the headquarters of Trebor (the famous sweets named after Robert spelt backwards). I can't remember when it was moved, but I'm guessing it was sometime in the 80's. A wikipedia article on Trebor can be found below
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebor_(confectionery)
brilliant thanks for that Dee - there's a comment from Brian here whose Mum used to work there when the factory was built
fascinating to learn how Trebor had its roots in Forest Gate and one of the founders was from Leytonstone
@@JohnRogersWalks they were very local. I used to live near to that building and I remembered as a kid one of the schoolboys cheekily gone in the building asking for a free sweet. Didn’t get any but I gave him 10 out of 10 for the effort!
John i will get out and walk the Roding
Have you or will you walk in the Roding Valley at Loughton?
What is the best resource to use for checking the locations and routes of footpaths and bridleways? I'd like to explore them more in my local area.
I find the Ordnance Survey Explorer maps the best resource for footpaths
Maybe those bus terminuseses were where the trams finished their routes before returning?
Cemetery Gates heh
You’re probably right there Stu
Hiya! Do you know Yardley Hill epping forest? Near Danny Dyers house! If so do you know if it is public!? Like can horses go on there? X