A Walk Through 2023 - a great year of London walks .. and beyond (4K)
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2023
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Massive thank you for all your support in 2023 and joining me on these fantastic walks and explorations. We've walked rivers and brooks from the Quaggy, Shuttle, Brent, Wye, Medway, Lea, Beverley Brook, Norbury Brook, Stonebridge Brook, and drifted down the River Roding in a coracle. We've explored London North, South, East and West from Barking Riverside to Streatham Common, and from Perivale to Crouch End. The City of London has offered up some of its many secrets and mysteries with many many more to uncover. And we've ventured beyond along the Medway Estuary and the Kent Coast, out to Buckinghamshire, Norwich, Woodbridge in Suffolk and even to explore Seville in Spain. What an amazing year it's been and none of it would be possible without you coming along.
Here's to another great year of walking and exploring in 2024.
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There are a million videos of London and the surrounding areas on the internet but few give us honest views of England like your videos. I always feel like I'm walking with an old friend. Thank you and best wishes for 2024.
Thanks so much for that, I can feel you all walking along with me
Perfectly put! I feel like i've known John for years! :D
I had a tough start to the year but I always find by watching one of your walks I can just lose myself, switch off and be beguiled by them, almost like you forget any troubles for 30 minutes, so that thank you John.
Happy new year to you your family and all fellow subscribers.
Thank you for taking the time to film and post all the videos.
Thanks John for presenting your unique, refreshing view of urban life (in London). It's always a pleasure to tune in to the good vibes here - positive and surprising. Just great
Thanks very much Sian
Great memories of a year of wonderful walks created and captured by you, JR, thanks so, so much. All happiness and good health to your whanau (Maori, from Aotearoa New Zealand for family) and loved ones
I had a whole day of exploring Gravesend on my birthday last year. Lots of amazing old houses and green spaces.
I had a dreadful 2023…due to illness and other things. But one thing I enjoyed and was a real positive for me were your videos. So thank you
Aww John keep ‘em coming for 2024. I love the elegiac quality you bring to these walks.
My favorite was the walk looking for London's lost churches. Thank you for taking us on your adventures, looking forward to 2024's explorations. 👏👏👏👏
John i discovered you this year and for that im grateful my wife Gillian and I have been travelling to London for years now to watch Surrey at the Oval from Northern Ireland but we always walk thanks to you we have broadened our horizons thanks again and believe me its been much needed
Nice job John. I watched all of them over the year from my home in New England. How about a walk this year where you visit places related to prominent American founding fathers and colonists with ties to London? Ben Franklin comes to mind but I could also suggest Roger Williams, John Winthrop, Cecil Calvert, William Penn, Benedict Arnold, Samuel Slater.
Mahlon Stacy from Handsworth Sheffield founded trenton on the delaware
I always enjoy your walks and when you talk about lost rivers and rivers covered over I think of a book by Christopher Fowler called "The Water Room" in which a woman who has recently bought her house in London is puzzled by her very damp basement and "the ghostly sound of rushing water." I look forward to accompanying you, from my arm chair in Massachusetts, on your walks in 2024!
Thank you! Great memories of great walks. I look forward to seeing where you go in 2024.
Thank you for another year of fantastic (and inspiring) walks, John 🙏
Wonderful memories over the year,looking forward to your perambulations this coming year.
A great series of highlights, John! Bravo! 🎉🚶♂️
Happy 2024 John. Onwards to another great year of amazing walks!
Many thanks Marco!!
Thanks John I always enjoy your walks. Your love of your environment both natural and urban shine through in every video.
Just finished the book an unexpected chronicle of the small communities emergence and decline in London. Many echoes of my parents and grandparents who lived in SE London Peckham, Camberwell and Dulwich. I couldn’t put it down. I suspect it is the first of many! Thanks John Happy New Year.
So interesting that in the course of pursuing the path of all the smaller rivers in London you go to so many corners of the city and outlying areas. Have a wonderful 2024. I’m planning to purchase your latest book. Cheers John!
Some really interesting and enjoyable walks. My favourite was the Wye, which illustrated both its beauty and also its sad neglect, in places. The Brent, similarly. The strangest was the drift along the Roding - quite amazing how the current simply propelled you along until that railway bridge got in the way. Best wishes for more great walks in 2024.
Thank you for a great year of walks. Your February ramble in Norwood Grove took me to the neighborhood where I was born in a house on Crescent Way. Cheers and all the best to you in 2024, where ever you may go!
Just the best way to end the year 😊
I just had to binge watch your last 3 videos as I moved house at the beginning of December and things were hectic - and they were fantastic - including the Seville one - it was like coming home watching them all this morning - thanks John and Happy New Year ! (*_*)
John, thank you for the beautiful video. The editing was excellent and brought back many happy memories of "cyber walking" with you in 2023. I live in the other London (Ontario Canada) and we also have all of the street names you walk, but the architecture just does not compare (the oldest are only 175 years). I am wishing you the best for 2024. I noticed you missed mentioning Barking Mad which is just the other side of Riverside Barking. I have always wanted to go there. Perhaps in 2024.
Very enjoyable compilation of 2023 walks. Thank you.
thanks very much for watching Marty
As i linger in exile in west Australia it was lovely to re-visit the walks that saw me through the year. Mightily looking forward to the next batch. Happy New year Mr Rogers.
John ,great video moving back up to london after 30 yrs in cornwall,my home town nevrous but your videos are so great!,how could i notx
Hi John, I just had a thought.
With the biblical deluge of rain we've been having in the South over the past few days, I would imagine that a lot of the smaller Lost Rivers in London and most of their tributaries, that might have been just a tiny trickle beforehand, will currently be quite substantial in size and easier to find and map.
I look forward to many more great walks with you this year, your videos are always so enjoyable and uplifting 😊
John there is an American folk singer Otis Gibbs who is vey similar to you in both his passion for great storytelling and adventure, he is actually playing out your way at the Leytonstone social club on the 29th May, worth checking it out, like yourself his writing and good sense of humour is wonderful, he is a great singer too. Hope you dont mind me sharing this recommendation.
All the best for 2024 John 💪
Happy 2024 John.. Looking forward to see where you take us this year.. Old prisons? Work houses? Up some lazy rivers? Wherever it is we're sure you will make it interesting.. The guarantee off your watch? 😅😅😅
Happy New Year..looking forward to the 2024 walks..wherever they may be..
Well it’s been an epic year of wonderful walks that you have taken us on. I thank your for letting us join you and look forward to the next years adventures. Happy new year to you and your family John 👍🏻
cheers Ian
Happy New Year, John. I noticed that the road you filmed the intro was where I used to live in the 1970s at number 31 in E11.
Well, now I have to rewatch all these episodes! My first 2024 project! Thanks and Happy New Year John!
I look forward to sunday evening's. Happy new year John. And all your viewer's 🎉🍺👍
Quite the variety. If its wet and flows John will find it. Dowsing Man, every deserts favourite UA-camr.
Some evenings I set up a UA-cam playlist of your walks interspersed with old editions of Jack Hargreaves Out of Town programmes. I recommend it for a marvelously entertaining and educational experience like telly used to be.
I really love your videos with Kate Spencer. She's so academically knowledgeable but also so into getting down into the mud and smelling the ooze! Happy New Year John. May 2024 be full of wondrous walks for you.
thank you john outstanding work in 2023 looking forward to 2924 teve
cheers Steve
Thanks John, for a great yr of footage..
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You were at the Quaggy, I looked down just to get a biscuit and you were at Barking Riverside. I thought ‘blimey you got there quick’ 😂
As always John; Majestic!
A wonderful year of walking John, I've enjoyed every one of them, from Epping forest to the Thames marches! Thankyou very much. I wish you a very happy new year !
Nice one John, have a wonderful 2024...
Happy 2024! Happy walks! :D
Wow, what a wonderful year you gave to us John. Thank you doesn't even begin to say how grateful I am to have been able to share time with you on your awesome walks. Sentimentality weaves it way through all of your perambulations but never mawkish. I now live on the west coast of Canada but spent my first 40 years as a London resident. I truly appreciate your channel. Happy and healthy 2024. Cheers . Lance.
Fantastic review, John, covering places I know very well...and lots not at all! Just to also say I'm really enjoying your new book, which I got for Christmas!
Happy new year John. I’m visiting London later this year and your videos always get me really excited!
Quaggy new year John! Looking forward to more in 24.
Wonderful 😊! Thank you
Love your walks John
Looking forward to where you take us in 2024 John 👍🏻
Happy New year 2024 👍
i wish you a happy and healthy 2024, john - all the best to you and yours. love from canada
John - great stuff..... I think I had watched well over 90% of the videos across the year and enjoyed them all immensely. I sat down to this thinking "I'll watch 10 minutes and then get on with other stuff"... next thing I knew it was ending. Great videos and a great way of making us all feel inclusive - thanks! and Happy 2024...
brilliant - many thanks Martin
Thanks and happy New Year!
Just watched this...loved it...thank you
thanks Jonathan
A very very happy new year John , thanks for a wonderful year of walking, it's so much appreciated 👍🌈☯️💞🌹 see you on the next one 😎
Thanks so much John 🙏 What a treat 👌 I hoped the rivers would be the star of the show, and you didn't disappoint 👍
Plus your journey in the coracle... although I'd have preferred you not show yourself 'over-commiting' to your entrance 😉🤕
Not sure how you'll top '23, but I'll enjoy watching you try.
Have a Marvellous New Year 🤩
Happy New Year - another great year -walking - many thanks
Happy new year sir, and all, it's all about love, love being the opposite of fear 🎉
thanks for that wonderful sentiment Kyran
Many thanks John, looking forward to another year following you wherever that may be. 👍
happy new year John. You share a name with my youngest son, though we call him Jack. thanks for sharing your wanderings
Happy new year to you and your family John,thanks for all the great videos 👍👍👍
Happy New Year, John!!
As much as I only discovered your wonderful channel in 2023 it's been a wonderful year of discovering new paths and areas in places that are familiar to me, yet seen in much more detail, in a different light and from a new angle,
Long may it continue :D
Happy new year to you and yours
Have A safe And Happy 2024 John, 👍
Ah, just seen your links. Missed the signings but if I bump into you on any travels I have around London, I’ll make sure I have a pen 👍🏼
Paul, I live in Edinburgh in a large house, used to live in East London. If you did an Edinburgh walk would be great
Thanks!
thank you very much Dianne - Happy New Year
Happy New Year, John, Family and All. Ah, mawkish sentimentality...also early fifties, remembering (mostly) falling into the River Flit (Beds) at the end of our garden as a kid and the summer of '76...
Happy New Year, John! Thank you and wish you and family all the best in 2024🎉
Thanks for your wonderful work John. Looking forward to another year of walking in 2024 🙌
Happy New Year John and thanks for a great year of videos. I have wandered round the City-The Square Mile many times and always enjoy it. If I am ever in London I would love to wander round with you. A lovely person bought me your new book for Christmas which I am currently reading and enjoying.
A happy and healthy 2024, keep up the good work!
Thanks
Many thanks indeed!!!
Happy new year. Thanks for all the great walks
Happy New Year to you and yours John you lifted my 2023:::no pressure 😊
ha, cheers Terry - here's hoping 2024 is even better
Happy 2024 John. Keep 'em coming!
All the best for 2024 John 🍻
nice one - happy new year !
Happy belated New Year John…. Hope you and the family are well!
I’ve never been to England but my forefathers were from there. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into your world ! It’s really a blessing ! Have a great year ! ❤️
When did they go to America 🇺🇸? 🧐
Where did they come from any idea
Happy new year to you John, and thank you for these lovely walks.
Happy New Year Timothy
Happy New Year JR.
Happy New Year John & family ✨
Happy New Year John ( and fellow subscribers). Can't quite believe the amount of walks in 2023, but I'm sure looking forward to 2024's excursions.
HNY Sally!!!
Happy New Year, John from Berlin
A nice new year compilation! Would you ever do another coracle trip?
I'd love to John - and hope I get better luck with the wind
Thoroughly enjoyed this montage John, been following you for years now, you still keep that great interest in every video, many thanks for your work.
cheers Little Acorns - massively appreciated
Happy new year John,wouldn't know what to do on a Sunday without your walks and relaxing narrations..been watching for years..keep doing what you do..we love it..Marcus and Joanna
Many many thanks Marcus and Joanna
Brilliant Year Well Done & Many more 🎉
Happy New Year John. A wonderful year of walking treats - thank you so much.
Happy New year !
Happy New Year John!
Thank you John for this round up of the year; I remember each & every one of these great films with real pleasure.
To you, your family, associates and all supporters of your brilliant channel, a very Happy New Year, and look forward to more such treats in 2024!⭐👍
Happy new year John !
John your walks have been part of my Sunday night joy. I really enjoyed them - thank you so much.
Happy new year