Nice orangey glowing street lights at the end like a Van Gogh painting.

We used to call it front line lol Oh man..I used to live on Newington Green..Mildmay..Cromwell lived there..all the back ally's behind the shops connected..I played pool in the Turkish cafés... My kids loved Highbury fields..the park and water feature..the pulley and the sand pit..seven steps bagels..I worked there lol wow flash back..I could tell you a thousand stories 💞

My old stomping grounds. I lived in London for 20 years. I also love Highbury Fields. Now live in NZ

Greetings from Barbados. Memories of highbury grove as I did a year of secondary school at highbury grove school in the 80s. Lived on the avenell road. Loving this video

Aaah Homerton and Dalston. Great memories from when I lived there, also in the early 90s. Definitely agree that it took an age to get out of Hackney to go elsewhere in London.

Your walks bring back so many memories... I was born in 65 St Pauls Road and lived in Highbury Place opposite the swimming pool and Highbury Barn.

ha! i JUST noticed the title "Highbury Fields Forever" ! good one! 😊

This is the borough I'm born& raised in and I love to see how significant its been for others in there own way..I enjoyed that!

That's my old area, Islington!! 🙂So many good memories.

Architecture that will never be seen again with these modern buildings going up around London they are a pleasure to look at stunning buildings which we will never see the likes again great video John Rogers .

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian

Hackney is and always will be my home, I've lived here for 25 years

Watching this as an ex pat who once lived in Highbury pk opposite Addington mansions. Left in 1975 aged 15, nice to see my old stomping grounds. Memories of my late Father waiting for me outside St Joan of Ark primary school, then walking to the Lido in Highbury fields for an evening swim, 10 pence admission. The bike shop opposite the school where i bought a new one for 6 pounds in 1970. Going to watch the Gunners in the old stadium and an evening chipper meal from beside the Barn pub. Walking to Highbury Grove when older and having Rhodes Boyson as head master. Fishing in Clissold pk and the solo walk home through the spooky lane. Lovely memories altogether long live Highbury.

Great walk as always. Me and rhe Mrs met are Ridley Rd market. We both had shops there. Happy walking.

Just found this. Grew up in Calabria Road from 1947, and grandparents lived in Sutton Place

Wonderful video which really brings back memories to me as I was at school in Homerton in the 1960s and used to do the journey between home (Dalston) and the school four times a day. I used to rush (and I mean rush!) home for lunch- the dash along Sutton Place, through the churchyard to Mare Street to get a bus along Graham Road to Dalston (child fare 2d!). Those were the days, and this video brought them all back.

That was enjoyable. The bit I really knew was Dalston market. Would get taken there from Leyton, on a single decker bus by my mother in the mid 1960s. Ravel Shoes had one of their first shops in Dalston I recall!

@marichristian1072

3 жыл бұрын

Ravel Shoes! I used to gaze into the windows but couldn't afford their luscious shoes.

what a great video, made me laugh when you stated the Arse have nothing to do with Highbury haha....anyway back in the day I used to walk to see my Club, Tottenham from St Pancras, there were several ways I could go but I remember walking down to Tottenham from Dalston on many occasions, used to have a Pie n Mash shop on the High St Dalston, not forgetting I could rarely walk past a decent looking Pub without going in for a quick Beer, no wonder I started walking at around 09.00 hours to get to White Hart Lane for a 15.00 kick off...Happy Days, yes John the History, love it so much, keep the videos coming.

Hi my mum come from Highbury fields when she was young it's very good place to live back in the day

Re-watched this------ and from Homerton, past Sutton house and through the churchyard, past the tower and down Amhurst rd, was my walk home from Upton House school 63 or 64 on thanks for memory rush John.

Mate this video is so nostalgic for me. I'm from Stoke Newington and I had a mate who lived on Greenwood Road off Graham Road. And I went to school at Canonbury primary school, the whole Highbury Barn segment of this video take me back! Thanks for bringing back good memories of North London. 🙂

Great video Thanks. I lived on Holloway road in the 60s ( next door to what is now the court) and then moved to Copenhagen street. Went to Hackney tech after leaving Maggits school on Penton rise. Now live in Bulgaria, so these are great to watch, my old manor. I was a van boy on the Evening News, my run started at Penton Rise and finished at Highbury corner. RIP Manzies at Chap.

Hi John, I used to drink in a pub called the Duke of York on the kingsland road ever Wednesday evening religiously In the late nineties A wonderful period of my life Lovely memories.

I don't watch telly. (Because it's rubbish.) So I do enjoy KZread but of all the people I subscribe to John I always make a bit of me time to watch your vlogs. They are totally immersive and with all the awful things that have been happening this year your walks are just a breath of fresh air in every sense. Thank you so much for sharing.

Born and bred in Mildmay Road in 1937 I remember when the New River flowed through Clissold Park, and my first taste of jellied eels in F Cookes pie shop Dalston. I really look forward to your New River Walk. Keep up the good work.

Another fascinating history walk! Most of us would walk past those old buildings completely unaware of the history you shared. Thanks for another great video. 👍

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks so much Walks and wanders

Once again, this video ends at my favorite time of day in this series of walks. At dusk when the street lamps are coming on and the lights are visible in people's windows. I can't help but think how beautiful it all is and what those folks might be doing - sitting down to supper or watching TV or reading their kids a story. Some of the architecture is lovely - more than it has a right to be. Old houses and apartments built centuries ago, are weather-worn and grey, yet they look so warm and inviting. Thanks to John, we get to see these sights and hear about these areas that we otherwise would never know about - even know existed. Wonderful stuff.

Lovely film. Your ability to find beauty in the urban and workaday, root out the past amid the present and express it, is a rare gift.

The perfect ending to a Sunday night, great video John, can't wait for you to that New River walk, I'm counting the days till summer !

Highbury definitely on my 2022 itinerary. So cheerful in the cold dusk!

Good video, brings back a lot of memories, keep up the good work God bless you 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you John , brilliant especially the end . I ve always like Highbury it feels proper and as a town should be . Walking vicariously with you xxx

That walk was definitely too short. Enjoyed all the sights thanks for sharing.

Look forward to the new river walk, come summer!

Highbury, my Highbury. The green plaque on the side of the pub (20:13) commemorates the Peasants Revolt of 1381 and Wat Tyler's attack on the local Manor. Leigh Road lost most of its old buildings to a 2000 kilo bomb in WWII, another failed attempt to destroy the Cossor radio factory, which was a centre for radar manufacture during the war; the Film School opposite was the old head office. Most of the bombed sites in the area (Gardner Court, by the pub; where the "new" buildings are in Grosvenor Road, Highbury Crescent and Fieldway Crescent etc) were missed attempts on Cossor.

Homerton Grove Adventure Playground is just behind St Barnabus Church where the film started. This was begun as a community occupation of bombed land in 1969 for the purpose of children's play and involved some of the people who started Chats Palace. A local man paid for a JCB to clear the site of rubble, still piled in two humps on the site. It was a squat until it received the first Lottery grant in Hackney and the Lottery demanded a lease before they'd release the money. The first anarchist club in the land was upstairs at The Lamb on Homerton High St, which no longer exists, although Lamb Lane does. Sutton House, during it's 'derelict' phase was a squatted community centre offering gigs, cinema, cafe and theatre. The National Trust has preserved a 'squatters room' and a mural. In St John's churchyard at the crossing of the footpaths there is a small metal sign on the railing which says 'Round these parts for many years was seen Blind Fred. A sunny soul'. It also says it in braile.

Many memories of Highbury. A glad place. The Garage venue, the Italian cafés, the Buffallo bar, The swimming pool, The corner and the Union Chapel Daylight Gigs, the Green, The plane trees, gardens abutting the railway line.

Wonderful walk.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Timothy

Been looking forward to this all day. Cheers John.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

hope you enjoyed it Star Wars

@StarWarsJay

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks I always do mate. Have a good one, Jason.

cracking beautiful buildings and that wonderful market. You have a magical memory to be able to feed us all that information as you walk around.

a superb 20 mins ... thanks from Cornwall.

One hidden gem in Highbury is Estorick Collection of Modern Art!

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

I love the Estorick Priscilla - one of my favourite galleries - I will do a video on Canonbury another time and include it in that one

My part of town. Lovely to hear your thoughts on the place St Augustines Tower is I believe the oldest buildings in Hackney.

@shauntodd7123

3 жыл бұрын

Role on the summer and your walk along the New River John

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Shaun - I'm looking forward to it already

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael. I did read that about St. Augustine's tower but then it didn't give a date only that it was early 16th Century(same period as Sutton House). However at least one person in the comments here has said that it's much older than that.

@emilyjost1852

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks there’s been a church on the site since the 13th century at least, but the tower would have been extended upwards in 16th century. Used to teach children about changing Hackney in that tower! I really enjoy the walks you do especially of new and old haunts of mine. You always seem to go a different way than my routes.

Hi john great video in Hackney two good chaps bob mills and Daniel mays come from there .both Leyton orient fans .who I have seen from time to time at the field of dreams.lovely to see the empire and the Rio cinema in good health .enjoyed your video old son .

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

cheers Gary - thanks for watching

@leytonorient1973

3 жыл бұрын

And thanks for the mention last week .on my Hitchcock tours and my thanks for going to the grave of jack cornwell and keeping his memory alive .

Love it, a wonderful commentary. Also nice to see how the solid architecture around Hackney and Islington hasn't been eroded or indeed butchered like it has been in pockets of Redbridge.

21.30 Established in 1888 The Mildmay Club and Institute Union is one of the few surviving working men’s clubs in London. Grade 2 listed.

Ooh brilliant. From here, in East London, E5 to where my sister used to live in Newington Green was a walk I used to do daily (actually I was living in Graham road at the time but had a boyfriend in Chatsworth road) I used to walk up Navarino Road and up to the back of Ridley Road, Cross over at Dalston and walk up one of the roads on each side of the railway to Cannonbury. Sutton Place is one place I would love to live! those houses with their shutters etc are beautiful as is St Johns Churchyard and the little secret or walled herb garden. I was watching Modern History channel and Jason, the Knight, was saying things called The Ship or Ship street which are not geographically near anything nautical are remnants of the old Compost collectors from Medieval tines but they changed a letter or two as our sensibilities have changed over the centuries lol! Highbury Barn is where a friend of mine lives and I always tended to walk everywhere and once youre at Finsbury Park or Highbury if coming from W1, youre basically the most part of the way home from the West End. I used to really enjoy walking from Soho to Hackney and used to do it weekly. I think its about time I started again as your fitness takes a massive hit if you cant go for long walks. Once the lockdown is over I am starting walking again as I dont like the idea of Public Transport post Covid.

Wonderful walk especially the Highbury bit, not really my part of town but makes me want to visit pre Christmas Shopping, Thanks again John

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Raj - it’s a great area

The place of my childhood in the fifties and sixties.

Seeing the Empire reminded me that the last time I went in person to get a copy of my Birth Certificate was to Hackney Town Hall, almost next door! Oh yes - and guess who's parents got married in that same Town Hall? Was born not too far from where you ended the walk; Woodbury Grove off Seven Sisters Road.

St augustines tower I think goes back to the domesday book!

Sutton house was a squat in the 80s lots of bands played there, great fun

Beautiful walk great sites and landmarks takes me back about forty years Oh to be young and mobile again SMILES happy wanderer 👍🇬🇧👌

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks C Gj

Hi John, I can't wait till Sunday to see where you've walked,I'm lucky to I live near epping forest and I hope one day to see you walking there again. Julie

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Julie that's lovely to hear - can't wait to get back into the forest, it's been a few weeks now, sure I'll paths will cross

You walked right past my front door on homerton High Street. Tha graffiti covered block is being pulled down and replaced with a 12 storey building. There was a petition by local residents to make it lower but of course, we were ignored. Great walk! Nice vid.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex. I was reading a bit about Marian Court and wondered whether there'd been much objection.

I walked the new river from finsbury park to somewhere a little beyond essex, I think near it's origin, to a place where men wore union jack trousers

Fantastic walk My mother's family were Hackney born Well Street pre war My aunt moved to rent in Graham Road before moving to Enfield Saturdays in my early teens spent walking the market of Ridley road and highlight of pie mash and liquor Jellies eels scared the life out of me Mum used to tell tales of seeing famous acts at the Empire pre and post war and hiding under the seats so that they could see the second and third performances for free

I love your videos! As a historian and a person who use to live in Hackney/ East London this made me so so nostalgic- so informative too!

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Saheera

Thanks for another great walk, John. When I left school in '87 my first job was at the Hackney Gazette on Kingsland Road. So many fond memories from that period and this brought them flooding back! You're certainly right about the Hackney Empire seemingly being under perpetual threat. I remember attending a Billy Bragg benefit gig there in 1988 (for the princely sum of a fiver!)

Wonderful! Most informative and a very engaging presentation style! Thank you!

@JohnRogersWalks

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tara

@taramilton8695

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Great work! All the best and Happy New Year !

There was a Lido at Highbury Feilds near to Highbury corner...I lived by the Junc of Southgate rd and Balls pond rd until 1963

@adscri

3 жыл бұрын

In the 50’s and ‘60’s if you went for a swim before 9am, it was free admission - tolerable as a kid in the summer if the sun was out. The water temperature was always written on a small chalk board by the turnstile gates - Fahrenheit only. Never higher than upper 60’s that early. Learnt to swim there. Very dangerous diving board - eventually removed - as the deep end was only just over 6 feet deep.

You mentioned the lottery for hard to let council housing. Back in the early 80s i slept the night outside the council offices in Hackney in February to get into one of these lotteries. We were lucky enough to get a maisonette on the 7th floor of a block on the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs. It was fantastic with views across London . From the front balcony we could see the Greenwich Naval College. The Isle of Dogs would be a good place to do one of your walks.

Ahh lived in Homerton for years until 2011. Really enjoyed it.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Liam

You walk through decades of my life so swiftly. But thank you for the walk and the "heckling memories".

brilliant stuff, so cathartic.

Foreign Mission's Club - great place to stay near Highbury Fields, which you walk through back and forth from the tube station. Highbury Baptist Church, beside the Fields - lovely people, and here's a great tip - if you're staying in that locale and need to get to Heathrow, get yourself to Arsenal station which is nice and quite (except on match days!) and a lovely way to ease out of London and prepare yourself for the looooong journey back home to New Zealand! cheers John, John.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that insight. And that is a very long journey- I’ve never managed to get past Sydney

Thanks you John for all your excellent vlogs, I found them early on in lockdown and I can honestly say they have been a massive part of keeping me sane during these difficult times. Your calming tones as you wander the streets of London and surrounds have ended up being my comfort blanket when I'm feeling stressed. Your enthusiasm and simple enjoyment of walking have helped ground me in difficult times. I've even been motivated to follow in your footsteps (your walks in the High Wycombe area) and I've been re-enthused by you for my own walks with my two dogs up and down the Thames, which is my own little area of rambling. Keep up the good work, I look forward to each new vlog and am thankful that I still have lots of your back catalogue to enjoy !! Thank you again

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks so much for sharing that Stephen - great to hear you're exploring the area around Wycombe and along the Thames. I hope to be back out that way soon again

Thanks John, great walk to finish the weekend.

Another top quality video, great stuff. It always amazes me how much there is to see just by walking along the road; some of that architecture is fantastic.

Didnt know of Highbury Fields at all !!

As to me I like the special rithm of your walks . Each of the trip starts from someting very material and turning into some lovely irrational in the end. Thank you !

Lovely video with some great memories for me, as I grew up in Canonbury, which is very close to Highbury Fields. It would be nice, if you could, to do a walk around Canonbury as there are some wonderful buildings and history there, including the Tower theatre, a house in Canonbury Square George Orwell lived in, and you can walk up Upper Street to the Regents Canal, and Chapel Market. You mentioned the new river, you were not that far from New River Walk.... Just off Essex Road. When you were in Highbury Grove, you passed the school. It's a very modern building nowadays, but still has the old columns (for wont of a better word) of the original Highbury County school, which then became Highbury Grove. Parts of four weddings and a funeral were filmed at Highbury Fields, and the singer Sade used to live in a house in fieldway crescent (I think it was) and used to see her around a bit. Also, the football pitch at the top, I used to play football on with Tony Hadley and Steve Norman from Spandau Ballet on!! Subscribed!!

thank for the upload really enjoyed the walk looking forward to the next episode

I saw Sun Ra's Arkesta in the Empire in 1990. All good.

Thank you for that, i miss London so much.

Kingsland high rd does indeed have some great cafes. One of my favourites is Kingfisher cafe on a corner almost opposite Ridley Rd. Old school English grub, really really nice. No airs and graces, but proper food. Speaking of Ridley Road, who remember's the bagel shop on the corner?

that was lovely, i used to live around stoke newington, great to see the old place again

Brilliant film. These old places to have some charm to it and it's great to see you make such videos 📹 ❤

Interesting and enjoyable as ever over in Gloucester. Keep up the good walk(s)!

When I was an au-pair in London I used to live on Baalbec Rd, next to Highbury Fields: I absolutely loved it! Thank you for bringing back very fond memories.

Another super walk - thank you so much.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

my pleasure Sally, glad you enjoyed it

Great walk as usual but this time covering my stomping ground. Having just consulted The London Encyclopedia I think Sutton House followed by St Augustine's are, as you say contenders for oldest building in Hackney and 52-55 Newington Green, which you glanced at, goes back to 1658.....above a great cobbler's shop. Keep up the great work John!

Thanks John

lovely to watch as the sun sets here.

Just caught up with this one John....wonderful ! The scenes around Highbury Fields and Highbury terrace were really special. Thank you..

Fascinating walk as always. Thought I knew North and East London but there is something or somewhere new to discover. Never heard of Highbury Barn, but I have now. Looking forward to the next Walk.

Fascinating walk and talk I loved the mixture of different architecture. Interesting reference to Highbury possibly being an ancient burial ground . 😊

Another great video as always. I used to live close to Homerton many years ago and have passed through many of these roads

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks John

Thank you John a lovely walk. Another place on my Bucket list. 😆

Brilliant film John! Haven’t been to Hackney for a good few years, I will pass through soon since I go to Stratford pretty often. 👍🏼

Thanks John :)

Great stuff, John! ❤️

Always my Sunday high spot John and this was full of interesting buildings and your memories of living around there and your research with all those interesting bits of history you weave in as you walk..as ever a real treat

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard - I really look forward to sharing these films on a Sunday

Thank you John for another interesting and informative walk

This is a great video, and really informative. Thank you so much, Sir. I miss London, so dearly.

Love it John, you almost went past my house in Hackney. Great historical knowledge as ever, but just that little bit more interesting for me as its on my home turf.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

wonderful - thanks Ian

I'm getting Johns book for Christmas :)

@lamiaitaly2549

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, well worth reading (or listening to with the audiobook in my case)

Thank you John! So full of reminiscences for me. I walked many of these streets in my childhood but without your knowledge. Keep it up mate!

@JohnRogersWalks

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Les

Lovely Homerton road remind me of life 2014-2016, Love your video, Thank you

What a beautiful time of day.

Looking forward to your walk along the New River.