Thanks Rob, I had no idea there were so many Frying Pan Alleys in London and I also didn’t know what the name meant. Your knowledge knows no bounds! 😊❤
Rob, there are so many channels on UA-cam that are complete rubbish . Yours will never fall into that category . Yet again, another feast of interest with amazing detail, Only a week ago, I was wandering the streets and passage ways of the city out as far as Liverpool Street Station so close yet so far away from this excellent video
Fascinating documentary Rob. The diversity of your productions never ceases to amaze me. Your research library appears to be endless. Thanks for such interesting content. Lance
As I was weeding my garden yesterday, I thought it would be cool if someone posted videos about their town. London was the first place I thought of. And voila, here we are. New subscriber.
Ah! Bennett’s of Frying Pan Alley, I’d forgotten Mr Bennett. His adverts used to appear every month in ‘Angling’ magazine - a far better journal than anything published today. And Bennett’s adverts were equally tasteful and filled with gentle humour. Thanks for a very interesting video. Les
I've been watching your vids for some years. I'm a NE lad, now returned to my home town, but I spent a lot of time in London, living in Pimlico, working as a taxi dispatcher in Hammersmith, and other jobs elsewhere. I know London probably as well as a Londoner half my age of 71. So much for history: I've subscribed - long overdue, I concede - because of a continuing fascination with our capital city. Thanx for what you do; long may you do it ❤
This content is far superior to anything I've ever seen in the mainstream media. Please keep up the good work. This sort of well-researched content is needed to educate future generations and help them avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
Don't think I have ever caught one of your videos before. I really enjoyed this. Your diction is clear, you enunciated your words, didn't rush the subject. Accent is lovely. Thank you x
Wow! Amazing video. I lived in Frying Pan Alley Spitalfields for a brief period several years ago. Given it was so close to Liverpool street, it was pretty quiet really, the only footfall was for the Hummingbird Bakery! To think of all that had happened there, fascinating and disconcerting all at once!
Goodness that took me back. My husband and I had coffee somewhere around there when we were on our honeymoon. I hadn't remembered it in years! I have a photo of him somewhere. It was a really good photo. I'll have to dig it out.
I live in the US now, but my roots are from the ration-era of1950's Manchester. Thank you very much for your excellent videos. With gratitude and love ❤
Lovely stuff Rob. I knew of Frying Pan Alley, from my Jack the Ripper readings, but bever knew there was so many of them. The new buildings in Spitalfields, have definitely taken a lot of the old east end charm.
Thanks Rob for another great video on London Town! London is one of my favorite towns but sadly I've only been there though various authors like Dickens, Doyle, and Arronnovitch. One of the reasons I love your channel because your videos bring these places to life. It's also sad to think of the living conditions our ancestors went through, just to repeat and do it all over again. I'm fairly certain most of us couldn't live that same life today.
Hi Rob, Hope you are keeping well, Great video subject, The production values are excellent, And I am continuing to enjoy your fantastic content, Thank you
Another brilliant film. Having researched my family history in the years circa 1980- 2000 I've had glimpses of the sort of research you've done to make these films and I appreciate how much work goes in. I don't know how much of your sources is now online and available digitally but the searching is still time consuming. In my experience you always found that tiny but highly significant detail on the last page you looked at! I have The Abyss on my Kindle but I stoped reading it halfway. I CANT READ any more. It hurts TOO MUCH. There is an interesting story in my family history,I mean a London one,a chap called William Roupell is in my family history but not a direct ancestor. I am descended from,or my line you could say from his grandfather + mother. My gt gt grandfather William Henry Brand was first cousin to his father Richard Palmer Roupell. I'll stop there or I'll lose the plot! Thanks for yet another enlightening video and London scenes of today.
Hi Rob! I have missed one or two due to study but latched onto this one and pleased to be yet again educated in a most interesting and friendly way! Brilliant!Thank you. Rob
Love your video's, I've said it before, I was a cycle courier in London in the 80s and 90s, and the amazing changes since then( kind of sad ) great stuff learning about the streets that I knew so well, Nice one👌👍
I hugely enjoyed this. I work on Middlesex Street, right accross Frying Pan Alley which in fact many a colleague and I frequently walk through to reach the backstreets or the Market at lunchtime. Amazing to learn so much about an area I find so fascinating in just one 16 minute video! I have subscribed! 👏
@@Robslondon My pleasure! I can tell I will learn a lot from your channel, just what I had been looking for for some time now! You too take care and keep more extraordinary content coming for as long as time and health allow! 😊
Hi Rob, I live in Scotland and will probably never go back to London, haven't visited since the nineties, there's too many people. Thanks to your videos I can see so much of that grand city. I picture you spending hours researching in the British Library 💚
Sat down to dinner this evening and we said: what shall we watch and lo and behold Rob had posted his new video! Great always interesting, this one being a very sad one.. This is such a London story. and i know ! such funny strange street names! bit scarey too...Not long ago i found out about how the Salvation army was wonderfully and really actively helping the poor under William Booth all over England and Scotland in the 1800s, really changing peoples lives. He wrote a book called: Deepest darkest England' to highlight to others the harsh lives of the poor during the 1800's even though England boasted of being a wealthy nation. Any way we always love watching your films Rob and im always impressed with the background music you pick. Great stuff.
If anyone could write a historical book on London it would be you Rob and make a series of them I am sure anyone of us would buy them :) So well researched as you usually are would make interesting reading :) Award winning stuff even for a topic such as this sadly the same people exist today are homeless and in the same predicaments as the people featured sadly though we are in a modern world poverty still exists without a street name. Is interesting over time how London has changed to hide such a history I am glad you have brought it back up to discussion. Thanks Rob :)
I used to work 2 minutes walk from the extant Frying Pan Alley, and had previously worked 5 minutes walk from the lost Frying Pan Alley in Clerkenwell.
Used to live a short distance away in Vallance Rd and walked through the alley when it was fairly nondescript mainly in the 70s. Also worked fairly close almost opposite Aldgate tube as a post room assistant. Needless to say, its changed almost beyond recognition even in the last 25-30 years. Yet another case of the City invading this corner of the East End
I've just been in town for the BAFTAs. I watch this, and I want to go back! As much time as I've spent in London, I still don't feel like I know the town. Thanks for the guided tour! Cheers!
Your research my friend, is so different and involved, I take my hat off to you. Thanks for this. Question for you though, what would be your specialist subject be on Mastermind (with Magnus Magnusson of course)?
Thanks so much Michael! And a great question! Would probably be the history of the London taxi trade if I had to pick 😉 Or possibly the Metropolitan line!
Coo, I used to work at Steamship Mutual Assurance right on the corner of Frying Pan Alley and Goulston St as it went up to Spitalfields market. Used to love that part of East London.
Another fascinating video Rob thank you! I have a question, where did the people go when a sum area was cleared? Also, I learned about the green cabby boxes this week. There is another great Historian like you whom I learnt this from, but they are only shorts and not as much detail and research as your videos. Love yours so much more :-)
Thank you so much Caroline! And that's a good question... from what I understand, in many cases, folk were just expected to find somewhere new to live with no help. Although this would've improved as more social housing (such as Peabody flats) were built. Thanks again ;-)
@@Robslondon The Peabody Trust is still going and recently amalgamated with the housing association where I have been a tenant for many years. Without housing associations there would be little or no housing for those on modest incomes in London.
Great video Rob. In some of the older London libraries (try Purley) there might be a book that lists every street name that the London County Council changed in the 1920s. My street Plough Way changed from plough Road so not much change but some streets were completely renamed. I'm sure frying pan alleys were among them. Hope this helps
Rob's videos showcasing London are indeed THE best on London. I agree with Jake ... someone give Rob his own series on TV although Rob you might have to be seen but that could be your USP. Never being seen, just heard and people will start wondering who the man is behind the cartoon bird. A social historian a la Banksy!! You really are mega fab.
Ah, bless you... 'Smallcake' ;-) Good to see you here! Pictures of me can be found online if you do a bit of detective work.... and I have a very good tour guide friend who knows exactly who I am! Hope you're keeping well and thanks again; really appreciate the support and kind words.
Have to wonder if the US term "Tin Pan Alley" originates from similar. It's mostly associated with a type of music, but maybe it was likely music that would be found in a tin pan alley. I have a hard time believing "tin pan alley" just came from nothing to describe a type of music, despite what a google search turns up.
That’s a very good point. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was a similar meaning. When making the video I was also thinking of the American term ‘Skid Row’
It's fairly sure it's slang, because of the cheap music shops in NYC in the late 1800s that made and sold lesser quality pianos etc. They sounded a bit rubbish, like banging a tin pan. I always thought it was associated with the Florida panhandle (that strip that protrudes west like... well, like a pan handle) but apparently unrelated.
I had to look up the spelling? But thanks mate, you've turned me into a PHILANTHROPIST,, something I've never been👍🇬🇧💪🙏💯 Thanks for that, hope you have a good bank holiday...... I wish banks would have MORE time off🤑😁🎬
Surprise, it’s not about cooking! This episode was very interesting. I don’t suppose there will come a day when all the history of London has been explored. Thank you.
Worked near Spitalfields for four years in the early 1990s. Used to take long walks around the area at lunchtimes, fascinating history, as everyone probably knows it's also Jack the Ripper territory. You could feel the history oozing out of every brick & cobble. When I started there it was the last days of the fruit & veg market and I watched several entrepreneurs turn it into something more like Camden Market. Great film, you made me nostalgic for London, but I wouldn't want to live there now - too old!
I’m a romantic at heart, I’ve worked in the city for years and always wanted Frying Pan Alley as my address. I still walk around it regularly just to remind myself how great a name it is. Never photographed a street name as much as this one. Lovely video, thank you!
Interesting and sad. Nice tho' that you showcased these alleys and the people who lived there. The part of history that never gets covered. Didn't know about Jack London. As a young person I enjoyed his books. Hello from lovely Oregon US.
Thanks Rob! As always damned well researched. Can I ask did you deliberately include Lime Bikes in a lot of your shots or are they simply now difficult to NOT include?
Give this man his own television series. As always, thanks so much for all your hard work.
Thank you so much Jake! That would be nice wouldn’t it…. Thanks for all your support.
Thanks Rob, I had no idea there were so many Frying Pan Alleys in London and I also didn’t know what the name meant. Your knowledge knows no bounds! 😊❤
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Out of the frying pan and into one of Rob’s splendid documentaries… 🍳🍳🍳
You bring the streets of London to life every time 👌👌👌
Bless you Phil, thank you. Much appreciated mate.
Rob, there are so many channels on UA-cam that are complete rubbish . Yours will never fall into that category . Yet again, another feast of interest with amazing detail,
Only a week ago, I was wandering the streets and passage ways of the city out as far as Liverpool Street Station so close yet so far away from this excellent video
Thank you so much Butch. I filmed this last week… so we may well have crossed paths! 😉
Fascinating documentary Rob. The diversity of your productions never ceases to amaze me. Your research library appears to be endless. Thanks for such interesting content. Lance
Lance, thank you so much for the kind words mate- really appreciate it. Hope you’re keeping well.
As I was weeding my garden yesterday, I thought it would be cool if someone posted videos about their town. London was the first place I thought of. And voila, here we are. New subscriber.
Brilliant comment! And it's great to have you here :-D Thank you.
I remember London before it was gentrified & i miss it. I'm so grateful for historians. 🙏❤
Thank you. And I know what you mean…
Same thing happened to San Francisco :(
Most of the world gets gentrified, by colonizers or later the folks they colonized who come home to roost 😂😂😂
Ah! Bennett’s of Frying Pan Alley, I’d forgotten Mr Bennett. His adverts used to appear every month in ‘Angling’ magazine - a far better journal than anything published today. And Bennett’s adverts were equally tasteful and filled with gentle humour. Thanks for a very interesting video. Les
Great comment, cheers Les.
I've been watching your vids for some years. I'm a NE lad, now returned to my home town, but I spent a lot of time in London, living in Pimlico, working as a taxi dispatcher in Hammersmith, and other jobs elsewhere. I know London probably as well as a Londoner half my age of 71.
So much for history: I've subscribed - long overdue, I concede - because of a continuing fascination with our capital city.
Thanx for what you do; long may you do it ❤
Paul, I really appreciate that mate, thank you so much. Lovely comment. And it’s great to have you here. Thanks again and stay well.
This content is far superior to anything I've ever seen in the mainstream media. Please keep up the good work. This sort of well-researched content is needed to educate future generations and help them avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
Thank you so much. That means a great deal to me.
Don't think I have ever caught one of your videos before. I really enjoyed this. Your diction is clear, you enunciated your words, didn't rush the subject. Accent is lovely. Thank you x
Your kind words mean a great deal to me Glamrockqueen, thank you so much. (Great name and avatar by the way!) Stay well and thanks again.
@@Robslondon Always honest love. xx
@@Glamrockqueen Cheers ;-)
Wow! Amazing video. I lived in Frying Pan Alley Spitalfields for a brief period several years ago. Given it was so close to Liverpool street, it was pretty quiet really, the only footfall was for the Hummingbird Bakery! To think of all that had happened there, fascinating and disconcerting all at once!
Wonderful comment, thank you! I know the Hummingbird Bakery ;-) Thanks again and stay well.
That was an emotional journey Rob and I agree, so glad to be living in the relative comfort of the present. Thank you, this is a gem.
Bless you Anne, thank you so much.
It’s good to have such a balance of subjects - your videos zip by because they’re so interesting and absorbing.
Much appreciated Jon, cheers 😉 Hope all is well.
Love the endless stories of the history of our city London. Oh to have a time machine and just go back for a day to experience.
Would be quite an experience 😉
Yes that does sound good, but I’d be afraid the Time Machine would get stuck, and that would be awful!!😣
Goodness that took me back. My husband and I had coffee somewhere around there when we were on our honeymoon. I hadn't remembered it in years! I have a photo of him somewhere. It was a really good photo. I'll have to dig it out.
Ah! Would love to see that 😉
Rob your videos are so interesting. You are definitely one of the best social historians on UA-cam by a country mile. ❤
That’s so kind of you Missmuffet, thank you! ☺️
Just love these stories of old London! An amazing city. Thanks again Rob and please do keep them coming,
Thank you Paul! Will do ;-)
Really fascinating. Hours of research must have gone into that video so thank you.
Much appreciated Nick, thank you.
First time viewer, here in Texas USA.
Fascinating story telling!
Thanks ❤
Thank you so much 😄 Good to have you here.
Thanks for the videos, a lot of fascinating facts about London
That is so kind. Thank you so much my friend; I truly appreciate your kind words and financial support. Stay well and thank you again.
I live in the US now, but my roots are from the ration-era of1950's Manchester.
Thank you very much for your excellent videos. With gratitude and love
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Beautiful comment. Thank you.
Cheers Rob for another informative slice of Londons history. Keep up the great work
It’s a pleasure Davo. Thank you for watching and thanks for the kind words; I really appreciate it. Stay well.
Lovely stuff Rob. I knew of Frying Pan Alley, from my Jack the Ripper readings, but bever knew there was so many of them. The new buildings in Spitalfields, have definitely taken a lot of the old east end charm.
Good comment Paul, and thanks for the kind words. Stay well mate.
Thanks Rob for another great video on London Town! London is one of my favorite towns but sadly I've only been there though various authors like Dickens, Doyle, and Arronnovitch. One of the reasons I love your channel because your videos bring these places to life. It's also sad to think of the living conditions our ancestors went through, just to repeat and do it all over again. I'm fairly certain most of us couldn't live that same life today.
Beautiful comment. Thank you so much. I hope you make it here for real someday Ted.
Thanks Rob. I always appreciate your interesting and well narrated videos. Grim reality is best not swept under the carpet.
Thank you, much appreciated.
Absolutely brilliant & enlightening. Those poor people. Very well narrated. You bet I'm subscribing !
Really appreciate that Bob, thank you. And it’s good to have you here!
Nice work! Very thorough, informative, and interesting. I also enjoy your voice. Keep up the good work, and thanks!
Thanks so much, really kind of you to say 😊
Thanks for a fascinating, although quite sad, video. I love all the history in London. You do a great job bringing it to your subscribers.
That’s really kind of you to say Joan, thank you.
Absolutely interesting. I love hearing about the street names and I hope you continue to do more of them! Thanks Rob
Thank you Deb…. And I certainly will be 😉
Hi Rob, Hope you are keeping well, Great video subject, The production values are excellent, And I am continuing to enjoy your fantastic content, Thank you
Dave, I truly appreciate your kind words and financial support- thank you so much. Stay well sir.
Another great video Rob, top class.
Much appreciated, thank you!
Another brilliant film. Having researched my family history in the years circa 1980- 2000 I've had glimpses of the sort of research you've done to make these films and I appreciate how much work goes in. I don't know how much of your sources is now online and available digitally but the searching is still time consuming. In my experience you always found that tiny but highly significant detail on the last page you looked at! I have The Abyss on my Kindle but I stoped reading it halfway. I CANT READ any more. It hurts TOO MUCH. There is an interesting story in my family history,I mean a London one,a chap called William Roupell is in my family history but not a direct ancestor. I am descended from,or my line you could say from his grandfather + mother. My gt gt grandfather William Henry Brand was first cousin to his father Richard Palmer Roupell. I'll stop there or I'll lose the plot! Thanks for yet another enlightening video and London scenes of today.
Fantastic comment Jane. Thank you and stay well.
Cheers mate! It's just mad what people went through on those streets I'm passing by now and then. Absolutely mad.
Thanks ;-) It is isn't it...
Brilliant work as always rob keep up the good work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Cheers Mick
Exceptional work Rob, brilliant video. Absolutely loved it, thanks once again.
Thank you as always Slycockney. Much appreciated mate. Hope you’re keeping well.
Great stuff as always Rob, thanks for your hard work uploading this. Cheers, Robert.
Always a pleasure! Thank you so much for watching 😉
Hi Rob! I have missed one or two due to study but latched onto this one and pleased to be yet again educated in a most interesting and friendly way! Brilliant!Thank you.
Rob
Thanks so much Rob! Hope the studying is going well
Thank you Rob, once again you have brought to life a piece of London history. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks so much Neil ☺️
Another great video Rob. It's always great to no about old london days gone by. 👍👍👍👍
Thank you Sharky! Hope you’re keeping well
@Robslondon always welcome Rob. Great video . I'm doing good. Hope your doing well mate .
Great video, I'm fascinated with how London streets were named. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos! 😊
Thank you!
Great video Rob! From Brooklyn, NY.
Thank you! Good to have you here my friend 🇺🇸
So much fun to watch and recognize areas.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for a wonderful story of lost London streets 🎉
Thank you David 😄
Blimey, what a brilliant video! I was about to ignore it… gladly I didn’t. New subscriber, most certainly! 😃
Ah! Thanks Gerard, much appreciated! Good to have you here 😉
Excellent as always my friend. Thankyou . You deserve more viewers and subs .
That means a lot to me. Many thanks indeed.
I have lived near London (Crawley) for over 15 years and only now am I really getting a closer insight into the city - thank you very much 👍👍!
Thank you Andrea!
Crawley? Just up the road from me! (Waves from Horsham👋)
Very well done. Thank you for the Jack London information. May they all rest in peace.
Nice sentiment Christina, thank you.
Very interesting and informative glimpse of history. You've clearly done your homework well. Many thanks!
Much appreciated, thank you.
Love your video's, I've said it before, I was a cycle courier in London in the 80s and 90s, and the amazing changes since then( kind of sad ) great stuff learning about the streets that I knew so well, Nice one👌👍
Ah, cheers Larry!
Nice work once again, Rob...
Just love the phrase "Curious of prying into futurity"..!
Thanks Bryan! Yes, they had a way with words back then 😉
A bit of History with a coffee, perfect Sunday evening pass time, thanks Rob 🙂
Enjoy 😉
@@Robslondon I did very much, thank you 🙂
@@RobbieHall1984 Cheers Rob. And thank you for your support; it means a lot to me mate.
My my what a trip! Both geographical and chronological, how diligent thou art, thank you for all your efforts.
Lovely comment, thank you so much! Hope you’re keeping well 😉
I hugely enjoyed this. I work on Middlesex Street, right accross Frying Pan Alley which in fact many a colleague and I frequently walk through to reach the backstreets or the Market at lunchtime. Amazing to learn so much about an area I find so fascinating in just one 16 minute video! I have subscribed! 👏
I really appreciate your kind words Missq, thank you! And it’s good to have you here 😉 Thanks again and stay well.
@@Robslondon My pleasure! I can tell I will learn a lot from your channel, just what I had been looking for for some time now! You too take care and keep more extraordinary content coming for as long as time and health allow! 😊
@@missq4724 Thanks! And will do 😄
New Rob’s!Im so exited!!
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Well researched - good stuff 👍
Thank you John
Thank you so much for your amazing research Rob! I enjoy these stories from London that I wouldn't normally know. I look forward to your next one
Thank you so much Nanou :-)
Hi Rob, I live in Scotland and will probably never go back to London, haven't visited since the nineties, there's too many people. Thanks to your videos I can see so much of that grand city. I picture you spending hours researching in the British Library 💚
Such a lovely comment Evelyn, thank you! I hope you do make it back sometime... worth it even if you don't like crowds ;-) Thanks again and stay well.
Hello Rob
Another excellent researched and edit video. Love old maps of London. Thanks for the video. Take care Chris and Sandra of Canada.
Thanks so much Chris and Sandra! Hope you're both keeping well.
Good job Rob, as ever :)
Thank you!
Sat down to dinner this evening and we said: what shall we watch and lo and behold Rob had posted his new video! Great always interesting, this one being a very sad one.. This is such a London story. and i know ! such funny strange street names! bit scarey too...Not long ago i found out about how the Salvation army was wonderfully and really actively helping the poor under William Booth all over England and Scotland in the 1800s, really changing peoples lives. He wrote a book called: Deepest darkest England' to highlight to others the harsh lives of the poor during the 1800's even though England boasted of being a wealthy nation.
Any way we always love watching your films Rob and im always impressed with the background music you pick. Great stuff.
Such a lovely video Sharon, thank you! Pleased to know I can help in some way 😉
Very interesting and enjoyable!
Thank you Emily!
If anyone could write a historical book on London it would be you Rob and make a series of them I am sure anyone of us would buy them :) So well researched as you usually are would make interesting reading :)
Award winning stuff even for a topic such as this sadly the same people exist today are homeless and in the same predicaments as the people featured sadly though we are in a modern world poverty still exists without a street name. Is interesting over time how London has changed to hide such a history I am glad you have brought it back up to discussion. Thanks Rob :)
Lovely comment, and thank you so much for the kind words. Much appreciated 😉 Stay well.
Wonderful video, as usual Rob👍🏼
Thank you Russell!
Another great video my friend ❤️Thank you Thank you 😊
It’s a pleasure! Thank you ☺️
Another fascinating video. Thanks!!
Thanks Stephen! Much appreciated
Very interesting and informative Rob❤
Thank you Vicky 😄
This was excellent! Thank you so much!
Thank you! And thanks for watching 😉
Thank you for this fascinating video.
It’s a pleasure. Thank you for watching!
I used to work 2 minutes walk from the extant Frying Pan Alley, and had previously worked 5 minutes walk from the lost Frying Pan Alley in Clerkenwell.
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Another excellent Sunday evening video.
Thank you Paul, glad you enjoyed it.
Really interesting, thanks Rob
Much appreciated Victoria, thank you :-)
Another Sunday night made, thanks 😊
A pleasure as always mate. Hope you’re keeping well.
Love your video's! Greetings from Victoria across the pond on another island.
Much appreciated Graham! Thank you ☺️
So educational. Well done
Thanks so much Robbojax. Hope you’re keeping well
Used to live a short distance away in Vallance Rd and walked through the alley when it was fairly nondescript mainly in the 70s. Also worked fairly close almost opposite Aldgate tube as a post room assistant. Needless to say, its changed almost beyond recognition even in the last 25-30 years. Yet another case of the City invading this corner of the East End
Good comment, thank you. I’m hoping to cover Vallance Road at some point.
@@Robslondon Brilliant, that'll be great.
I've just been in town for the BAFTAs. I watch this, and I want to go back! As much time as I've spent in London, I still don't feel like I know the town. Thanks for the guided tour! Cheers!
Thank you! Hope you make it back soon 😉
Your research my friend, is so different and involved, I take my hat off to you. Thanks for this.
Question for you though, what would be your specialist subject be on Mastermind (with Magnus Magnusson of course)?
Thanks so much Michael! And a great question! Would probably be the history of the London taxi trade if I had to pick 😉 Or possibly the Metropolitan line!
Coo, I used to work at Steamship Mutual Assurance right on the corner of Frying Pan Alley and Goulston St as it went up to Spitalfields market. Used to love that part of East London.
Lovely comment ;-) Cheers.
Thanks Rob. Really enjoyed that. 👍
Cheers Tony 😉
I worked in Rowell House alongside which was the Spitalfields Frying Pan Alley. Fond memories.
Another fascinating video Rob thank you! I have a question, where did the people go when a sum area was cleared? Also, I learned about the green cabby boxes this week. There is another great Historian like you whom I learnt this from, but they are only shorts and not as much detail and research as your videos. Love yours so much more :-)
Thank you so much Caroline! And that's a good question... from what I understand, in many cases, folk were just expected to find somewhere new to live with no help.
Although this would've improved as more social housing (such as Peabody flats) were built.
Thanks again ;-)
@@Robslondon The Peabody Trust is still going and recently amalgamated with the housing association where I have been a tenant for many years. Without housing associations there would be little or no housing for those on modest incomes in London.
@@stevebarlow3154 This is very true Steve.
Very cool video! 🤗
Thanks asheland!
@@Robslondon any time! ☺️
Brilliant video Rob. Very interesting indeed. I’ve walked around there a few times but never noticed the street name? 😊 Cheers Rob.
Thank you Greg!
Great video Rob. In some of the older London libraries (try Purley) there might be a book that lists every street name that the London County Council changed in the 1920s. My street Plough Way changed from plough Road so not much change but some streets were completely renamed. I'm sure frying pan alleys were among them. Hope this helps
Much appreciated, thank you ;-) Good tip.
Rob's videos showcasing London are indeed THE best on London. I agree with Jake ... someone give Rob his own series on TV although Rob you might have to be seen but that could be your USP. Never being seen, just heard and people will start wondering who the man is behind the cartoon bird. A social historian a la Banksy!! You really are mega fab.
Ah, bless you... 'Smallcake' ;-) Good to see you here! Pictures of me can be found online if you do a bit of detective work.... and I have a very good tour guide friend who knows exactly who I am!
Hope you're keeping well and thanks again; really appreciate the support and kind words.
Have to wonder if the US term "Tin Pan Alley" originates from similar. It's mostly associated with a type of music, but maybe it was likely music that would be found in a tin pan alley. I have a hard time believing "tin pan alley" just came from nothing to describe a type of music, despite what a google search turns up.
That’s a very good point. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was a similar meaning. When making the video I was also thinking of the American term ‘Skid Row’
It's fairly sure it's slang, because of the cheap music shops in NYC in the late 1800s that made and sold lesser quality pianos etc. They sounded a bit rubbish, like banging a tin pan. I always thought it was associated with the Florida panhandle (that strip that protrudes west like... well, like a pan handle) but apparently unrelated.
I think it's very likely. I guess a skilled but poor musician could beat out a tune on a frying pan and probably pretty good too!
Thanks, Rob.
Thanks Jonathan
Another great journey Thanks.
I myself am just another LONDONER 🇬🇧💯🆘 With a HARDENED INDIFFERENCE 🤕🎬🙏👍
CHEERS MATE💪🤩🥇🇬🇧
Gary, that's so kind of you mate. Really appreciate your support and kind words! Thanks again and enjoy the bank holiday ;-) Cheers.
I had to look up the spelling?
But thanks mate, you've turned me into a PHILANTHROPIST,, something I've never been👍🇬🇧💪🙏💯
Thanks for that, hope you have a good bank holiday...... I wish banks would have MORE time off🤑😁🎬
Thank Rob fascinating as ever.👍
Thanks Budd!
Surprise, it’s not about cooking! This episode was very interesting. I don’t suppose there will come a day when all the history of London has been explored. Thank you.
Thank you!
Worked near Spitalfields for four years in the early 1990s. Used to take long walks around the area at lunchtimes, fascinating history, as everyone probably knows it's also Jack the Ripper territory. You could feel the history oozing out of every brick & cobble. When I started there it was the last days of the fruit & veg market and I watched several entrepreneurs turn it into something more like Camden Market. Great film, you made me nostalgic for London, but I wouldn't want to live there now - too old!
Lovely comment and thank you for the kind words.
Thanks again John in Chicago
Thanks John.
rob sterling work my friend thanks for putting in the steps for us well done my friend
You’re a gentleman Richard, thank you as always my friend
@@Robslondon rob i just love your vlogs my friend so entertaining and so full of facts well done
@@richardcoombes9491 😀
I’m a romantic at heart, I’ve worked in the city for years and always wanted Frying Pan Alley as my address. I still walk around it regularly just to remind myself how great a name it is. Never photographed a street name as much as this one. Lovely video, thank you!
Really nice comment; thank you 😉
The amazing thing is that none of your rivals on here has found this fascinating subject before.
It is difficult to think of original topics!
Are you stalking 👀 me?!? 😂wink wink thst frying pan alley E1 is just yards away from my home😮. Keep up the awesome work!
Ha ha! ;-) Cheers dingo!
Thanks, that was fascinating. ❤
Thank you!
Interesting and sad. Nice tho' that you showcased these alleys and the people who lived there. The part of history that never gets covered. Didn't know about Jack London. As a young person I enjoyed his books. Hello from lovely Oregon US.
Much appreciated Melissa, thank you.
Thanks Rob! As always damned well researched. Can I ask did you deliberately include Lime Bikes in a lot of your shots or are they simply now difficult to NOT include?
Thanks Peter! Those bikes are everywhere now; impossible to avoid them.