John. I only discovered this channel about five months ago and I’ve had so much pleasure watching the back catalogue. I’ve been through some hard times lately and these films just take me away from all worries and troubles and transform me to another world, there so calming and engaging and walking has now become one of my best hobbies, thank you so much John.

@welshhibby

Жыл бұрын

Hope you have a great 2023 Dan !

I was at the London Hospital from 1969 to 1973 training as a nurse and living in the nurses homes in the streets behind the hospital. We used to pop across the Whitechapel Road to Kossof's bakery for fresh poppy seed bread, which we would demolish with half a pound of butter! Oh, and their cheescake too! Fantastic! Brings back many memories, although a lot of the streets I used to walk arond look unrecognisable, interesting to see the Outpatients' Department looks unchanged though, at least from the outside!

@jasonantigua6825

26 күн бұрын

That’s a lovely story Brenda!

Sunday mornings down Petticoat Lane and onto Brick Lane with my Dad . He bred and sold Canaries down there , a family hobby going back to the Hugenot silk weavers of the East End from who we descend . In the winter it was so cold we used to get hot Sarspirella from a coffee stall on the market . John , you never disappoint . Thanks for the memories.

@JohnRogersWalks

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing that

@missj.d9187

3 ай бұрын

Me too but with my Nan. The rest of my family run market stalls down Roman Road market. We originate from the Hugenots too so you never know we could be distant relatives. Sad how it's changed so much I'm grateful we got to see it in it's heyday. We were all mainly from Stepney but moved over to Bow. Lots of love to any true East Londoner's out there we are a dying breed ❤

Great blog John, My distant family spent around 200 years in the Whitechapel/Hoxton area and gradually moved east to Bow, Mile End, Forest Gate, and eventually Woodford and Chigwell . My mother died in the Royal London Hospital in Decmber 1958. I have a very strong draw to that area, I didn't know why until I researched my family history. My Great Grandfather had a workshop in Shoreditch New Inns Street EC2 he was a member of a livery company and had the freedom, he was a Drawing Room cabinet maker as were several generations, My Greeat Great Great Grandmother had a music business in the Bow Road.. Its changed so much from when I was a kid, it used to have its own smell like the tube trains.

Oh my word, the excitement of getting a tiny glimpse of Ann’s Place, off Wentworth Street, where my great great grandmother Alice was born in 1889 ❤❤❤

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic Jo!!

Brings back memories of Sundays before Christmas visiting the area. Dad worked for the Electricity generating Board and had keys to substations. So we parked up in one and walked from Liverpool Street station to Petticoat Lane, the markets, Kossofs for bundles of rolls and bread. Club Row market to see the animals for sale. Walking around the remains of my Grandfathers beloved Bishopsgate Goods Railway Station. No visit would be complete without popping into to the Houndsditch Warehouse - The Selfridges of the East End.

Thank you John. I love this series of walks where you bring the old London back to life. Wishing you health, happiness, good luck and great walks in 2023!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Ali

My Dad was born and raise during the 1920's in Welclose Square when it was a Jewish Tenement. My mother was a little girl living above her fathers Tobacconist shop on the south side of Southwark Bridge all until WWII and the blitz. What you say about change and new sights is especially true and for London.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that Brian - I’ll be going back down there soon

@harrybongo2002

Жыл бұрын

Still home to the famous Wilton’s music hall. My mum grew up in neighbouring Swedenborg Square in the 40s. I myself also grew up ‘in the manor’.

@brianjrichman

Жыл бұрын

@@harrybongo2002 Outstanding.

@jamesjameson4566

Жыл бұрын

"change" I can thing of a few phrases to better describe this gentle unassuming word

@arriesone1

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesjameson4566 It saddens me so much what London has lost.

The shop that John Merrick ( The Elephant Man ) was exhibited still exists in Whitechapel Road. It's number was 123, now renumbered 259..

I work in Whitechapel. I rode near the Tower of London and the old Roman Wall. Instantly thought of you and this channel. Happy New Year.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Letago

@gaylereid8264

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Happy, Prosperous, Enlightening New Year, John ❣️🫵🤟🙌

The Bell Foundry was marvellous… I hope the building is rescued…its part of history 🙏🏻 Happy New Year John 😊

@MartinJames389

Жыл бұрын

I hope so, too, but not as a "bijou hotel". A museum would be a better use for the building.

@moisturisedgnome1181

Жыл бұрын

@@MartinJames389 more like more tenements for immigrants

@MartinJames389

Жыл бұрын

@@moisturisedgnome1181 Since it's Grade II listed it can't be what you call, in quaint old language, "tenements". Who do you mean by "immigrants"? Are you denigrating refugees from horrors you've never seen and can't imagine?

@moisturisedgnome1181

Жыл бұрын

@@MartinJames389 haha didn't take long did it

@jasonantigua6825

26 күн бұрын

@@moisturisedgnome1181never does! Haha

Fascinating walk to end 2022 and kick off the 2023 season, this area simply oozes history..I look forward to your next walk(s) regaling tales from the Whitechapel streets. Thank you John !

What a stellar walk, I look forward to more in this series. Absolute tragedy that the bell factory closed!

@WOLFROY47

Жыл бұрын

they can use the scrap waste from the bell casting, and call it, a henry moor statue, you could add, an unmade bed, a wire basket for paper waste, and, any left over paint slung at a large piece of canvas ? that they are calling art these days ? ? ? my hero is the guy that put different sorts of excrement, into glass cases, and when he won the first prize from the arts council, he then, released a statement to the press, that said ? i told you that they wouldn't know the difference between art and shit. the connection ? they take the oldest continualy running business inthe city of london and just dispose of it, and what will they use the factory space for ? another towering termites building ? more profi9t for someone, and screw peoples jobs and history. yep i am expressing IRONY

Its been many years since I walked down these streets and I must admit I never recognised Petticoat Lane as it is now. I can remember stopping at Tubby Issacs on many occations for jellied eels or bowl of cockles in my younger time. It all looks so different with all the glass skyscraper buildings. The history of this area is amazing, I never tire of listening to the stories. Thank you so much. Wishing you and your family a wonderful healthy, happy new year. 💕🇦🇺

@jamesjameson4566

Жыл бұрын

We've been replaced, that's what you can't put your finger on

@TracyPicabia

Жыл бұрын

It is a memory lane for me too. I found John's images of it now, the street furniture and traffic signage, quite painful to look at

@jamesjameson4566

Жыл бұрын

@@TracyPicabia the street furniture and the traffic signage? nothing else a bit amiss

@wasATsea

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesjameson4566 everything is amiss. The double yellow line, the towering modern architecture in the background, the crude signage between the shops and the rooms above them, the depopulated atmosphere of christmas eve....

@jamesjameson4566

Жыл бұрын

@@wasATsea Christmas doesn't live around there

Hi John, my dad worked as a tea blender in John fisher Street in the 60s and on Saturday's he used to take me with him to work from Battersea to aldgate East and then walking down towards the river and under the railway to John fisher Street. Brings back so many memories thank you

@jasonantigua6825

26 күн бұрын

My friends uncle was a caretaker in some flats on John Fisher Street

I took a tour of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in about 2005. I’m so glad I did.

Happy New Year to you and all your family and team, John. I recall a chat many years ago with a gent who was a retired town planner, I would bump into him in S. Ken and we'd have a pint. He was of the opinion that the nature of the substrate in Whitechapel was such that the bomb damage suffered there went further than was superficially apparent, and that many buildings had to be demolished because thier footings had been undermined, leading to the perhaps greater changes to the area than one might expect.. I do hope the bell foundry site can be preserved in some form. Thanks for another fascinating film, a great start to 2023!🌟👍🎉

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry tour was one of London's finest and its closure and broken historic links has left the city a less rich place. Luckily, we have your videos to plug the cultural gaps. Looking forward to your 2023 output.

The deli` in Wentworth Street was I think Marks Deli`. In the 60`s and early 70`s we would queue on Sunday morning for freshly cooked lutkas. In Wentworth St was Jackie Braffmans dress shop. He made a fortune in the Rag Trade, but loved to hold court Sunday mornings, and auction of unsold stock. Other traders would buy from him. He craved publicity, and featured in the film A Kid For Two Farthings. He would "obtain" tickets to posh events, and have a photographer on hand then he would go up and put his arm round an unsuspecting celeb` then the snapper would do his stuff. The photos would be plastered all over the walls of his shop. I remember a snap of him with Mohamed Ali who looked as surprised as he did when Our `Enery knocked him down.

You look so excited by everything around you. What a treat to start my year watching you in Whitechapel. And yes Lord Profumo did indeed volunteer at Toynbee......my brother David was doing legal advice for Peckham Citizens Advice Bureau and Citizens Advice at Toynbee all on top his regular legal work in Shipping Litigation and had meetings with him throught the 1980s , he told me at first he had no idea who Lord Profumo was. David died in 2021 such a loss for us all. He helped so many Londoners with his legal advice .

I worked on Aldgate High Street between 2014-19 and spent many lunchtimes wandering the streets and marveling at the history. As you know there are so many things to cover, including a lot of buildings demonstrating Victorian philanthropy.

@jamesjameson4566

Жыл бұрын

Did you marvel at the lack of English people, or was your head in the clouds

Interesting to see how Whitechapel continues to ‘develop’ - it really is something of a jumble of different buildings and commerce. Back in the late 1980s I was working for an American Bank who occupied 25 Cannon Street, a lovely place to work with St. Paul’s on one side, the Financial Times across the road and on the other side Bank of England offices. It even had a pub on one side of the building (the ‘Dandy Roll’). But as part of a cost saving exercise everyone was moved to a building at 1 Alie Street. That provided quite an experience for City Bankers because at that time it was rather an island of Finance in the middle of the traditional East End. I doubt that anyone considered it a success, other than the Finance people. Eventually a further move was made to Canary Wharf. But with hindsight it was one of the precursors of the City’s move east.

It is fascinating to get a visual sense of this area of London. My family lived farther west, but an unfortunate ancestor, Richard Finch, died in the area and was immediately buried at St. Mary's Whitechapel in 1707. Like almost all of my family who lived and died in London, all trace of their final resting places was erased by the Luftewaffe. The neighbourhood in which I live in Vancouver BC has a tiny high street called Commercial St. I suspect that early settlers may have come from the east end of London, as other street names suggest. One of the streets that intersected Commercial St. was once known as Montegue, and there are a couple of other names in common as well.

This place has an outstanding atmosphere !

Although I live in Glasgow I’ve always had a fascination for East London. Such an interesting video!

I lived in Spellman Street in 91, and it is shocking to see how the area has changed. Thanks, John. Lovely work again!

Great Video as always. I used to live at Denning Point until 1995, backs onto old castle street. I often go back to take a look around the old place. Great memories.

@highpath4776

Жыл бұрын

Always felt like I would not have minded living there, but were the bins always full of old tellies in the 1980s !

@kyran333

Жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 I live at denning point, it has greatly improved since then lol, the bins have some modern tvs occasionally 😂

《 What a lovely guy, isn't he? I'd love to spend an afternoon, or rather, a whole day, wandering the streets with him. I am sure I am not the only one. Happy New Year to you, John.... and thanks for what you do here.》

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

many thanks Effy - Happy New Year

@sandypearce7302

Жыл бұрын

Loved watching this video. How times have changed the face of this area where I lived, played and worked. I live abroad now but look forward to seeing more of your historical walks.

Do you remember the great old English actor David Kossof, or his son Paul Kossof who was in the band 'Free' who had lots of hits in the 70's. ? Gotta love Will Self with his dry humour. Do you remember seeing him in the many great 'Grumpy Old Men' tv series that the BBC did for years ? I was watching some of them yesterday. The actor John Stride is a family relation. Petticoat Lane was one of my favourite haunts to visit every Sunday morning as a 16 year old back in 1969, and Aldegate East Station. They should preserve the bell foundry as a museum. It's part of London's history. Interesting video John, Happy New Year mate! 😊

In the mid eighties I worked in East Mount Street which is to the left of the front of The London Hospital. The company I worked for was a bespoke shoemakers that had previously been located a few doors away from the half moon theatre in Stepney and moved onto an old egg processing building at the end of east mount street which at that time led into the London Hospitals consultants carpark. The private post office underground line runs underneath East mount street although I’m not sure if it is still in use.

I appreciate the way your walks can be either country, city, or somewhere in between but all interesting and entertaining. Thank you for all the wonderful videos in 2022, I'm looking forward to your walks in 2023, where ever that may be.

As a former student at Sir John Cass ISchoo of Art, 've always loved that area, I was lucky enough to be there when it went gentrified.

My home turf John. I look forward to more fantastic videos in 2023. Happy New Year!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Mark

Great Video John - since my son moved to Wapping a couple of years ago I’ve been exploring the area east of Liverpool st - there is so much history in the area - and once again you’ve helped bring it alive for me.

Been to London 19 times directly from Chicago Love it John in Chicago

These are my top favourite videos John,capturing that older era ....love the old taverns ....🙂👍🏻

Many happy memories of my old dad who worked for watneys at the man and crossman brewery where sainsbury is now

Really great perspective John. A mix of the new with the history. Thank you for showing it!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure David - glad you enjoyed it

I'm not an academic, but your videos of London are fantastic, very informative, I love the gems the churches, old terraces. Thank you

I went to City of London Poly at the same site as you John in the early 90s. John Profumo could sometimes be seen in a local pub (I forget which one) having a quiet drink after work, which as a Politics student was a strange experience...

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

That’s brilliant Calvin - gutted I didn’t know that at the time, my Dad did some work at Clivenden at the time of the scandal. Also studied Politics at City Poly btw

Brilliant John happy new year to you and your family

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Anne

Astounding show and narration. Thankyou.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Tony

Happy New Year to You and Yours xxx

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Morrigan

@morriganwitch

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks I ve a good feeling about this year the astrology is really looking hopeful cxx

A wonderful tour as always - Happy New Year!!!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Carole

@sr3d-microphones

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Happy new year John, did you get my last email by any chance?

Back in the real heartlands of London, got given your book for Christmas which I must confess I'd still not bought for myself.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it Michael

An area I know well, I once lived in a block close to Sainsburys and my daughter was born in London Hospital and its now an area I deliver around. Happy New Year John.

Thank you John,and a very happy and healthy new year.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

A very happy new year Heather

So much to see in such a small area of Whitechapel. Happy new year John!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Tom

Brilliant John 😊

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kim - much appreciated

Thank you for this amazing walk! This is my fave area of London, I spend svereal weekend trips there with my Dad until 2017 where we went to London for the last time. Interesting history lesson and images of a quite changing area.

@santorini8423

Жыл бұрын

@World_official64GFY

Excellent stuff as always sir...

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

cheers Phil

Fascinating, you do bring lost history back to life. Thanks John.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gary

Thanks John. The perfect treat for the start of the new year. All the very best for 2023.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

HNY Gary

I've just discovered your vlogs. I started my career at the royal docks working for a ship's stores in Silvertown called international Watts Fincham and finished my career at the London Metropolitan university, initially the London Guildhall when I started at Goulston street. I'm really enjoying binge watching having been born in Stratford and till 2017 still living there. You have opened my eyes to so much that I didn't realise was on my doorstep. Thank you

@billford5395

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year to you and the rest of your family how are you celebrating your holidays so far?

Hope you've had a wonderful holiday season, John. God bless you and your family.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Ace - and the same to you

Cracking walk. Happy new year John 🎉

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ian - Happy New Year

Great video once again John,looking forward to the next one already.Happy New year!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Christian

Thanks for the last years videos, and I’m looking forward to the new year! Best wishes!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers John

‘Ripper’ of a walk, John! Terrific insights. Cheers! ❤

I hope you and your family are well John and wishing you a happy new year, I hope you do many more interesting walks into 2023!!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Jack

Happy New Year, John. Crikey hasn't it all changed around 'the lane'! Looking forward to more in this series and the rest of the 2023 walks.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Sally - a Happy New Year to you

Happy new year John, looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2023!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Chapman

Fantastic video as always.

Used to work in this area very interesting Happy new year

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks John - Happy New Year

@johndoyle1866

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Hi are you planning to do the St Katherines Dock area and the seamens mission

Can’t help but feel a deep underlying sadness watching these at the architectural atrocities we have committed over the centuries.

Like you I did a great walk around Whitechapel, inspired partly by Stephen Berkoff (the actor!) and his Jewish-roots walks around Whitechapel, and also by the fact that my dad worked in Commercial Road. I looked for his office in the shop where he worked but it had long since gone. Highly recommend the Cable Street murals, the strange manhole covers I found and of course Kossov's bakery off Whitechapel road, not far from Stepney Green station. This of course in addition to the wonderful sights you pointed out in the vid. Thanks!

Happy New Year, John. God bless You and Your family.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Mykola- all the best to you and yours

An other amazing tour.Thank you so much to teach me about London,Im learning a lot with you,Happy new year from Argentina!!!

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Marta!!

Thanks John Happy new year

Love your walks Smiler 👍 stay safe n Happy New Year to you and your family 💐🎉💐🎉💜☮️

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Rosco - long time since I’ve been called Smiler - thanks

Great start to the year.

Thank you John. old and new and historic. nice start on NEW YEARS DAY with Cod n chips and you. Thank you

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks SmileVideo

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year John.. Cannot wait to walk through London 2023 with ya. 🤠

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Brandon - it’s going to be a great 2023

@brandondean8060

Жыл бұрын

I'm in hospital now with pneumonia but should be home tomorrow and fighting fit 4 2023. Atleast I had a great view of Downtown Dallas to see our firework/Drone celebration to ring in the new year..

Great walk John great start to 2023. Happy new year

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Jimmy

Wow you have a knack for taking me back in time John. Back in the seventies in my Hippy days I squatted in Fieldgate Mansions for a while the whole area was like a bomb site, hard for me to envision it these days now I'm in my comfortable retirement. Good work.

I really enjoy your videos! Keep up the great work, ... looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.

@JohnRogersWalks

25 күн бұрын

Thanks John

Thanks John, and a happy New Year.

Brilliant walk - bravo!! & happy new year!

This was amazing John, I thoroughly enjoyed it. So great to see Whitechapel again. Some of my family managed the Whitechapel Bell Foundry for many years. They lived above it and it was so interesting to go there and see how the bells were made. I live in Western Australia now and coincidentally we visited a town here called York and their local church had the Whitechapel Bell Foundry bells and there were photos on the wall of when the bells were installed. I was born in London Hospital and lived in Cable Street, Stepney until I was 6 years old. My Dad had a grocery shop on the corner of Cable and Devonport Streets but sadly when all his customers were re-housed in new developments the people who owed him money “on the slate” moved away without paying him and he went bankrupt. Poor Dad passed away a couple of years later, I think it was the stress of it all.

Thank you John; it's always an absolute pleasure joining you virtually on your walks and delving into the local history; wish you a very happy and prosperous new year.

Thank you for the wonderful Christmas eve walk! Bringing the past and present together on your walks is definitely one of my favourite aspects of your videos. Thanks also for a great year of videos! All the best to you in 2023!

Happy new Year, have A Good 2023. Thank's For all Wonderful The Post's. "keep safe"

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Dave - really looking forward to 2023

Thanks so much for this John.. every time my phone pings to tell me of a new video from yourself - I smile 😀. Happy new year.. and as you said... This definitely will be a better one 🤗🍻

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant- thanks Shay

Thank you John. A very happy and prosperous 2023

thanks mate happy new year to you an the family

Happy new year to you, John, and thankyou so much for producing these videos! A modern Ian Nairne!

We also have the Rack and Tenter pub at Moorgate I was in The Bell the other week, it would seem the6 don’t switch the heating on so you have to drink with your coat on 😂

Another great video john .you always make it so interesting ❤

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Margaret

Thanks!

Great video John!

Thank you John - most enjoyable

Really enjoyed this ...can't wait for more x

Happy new year

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

Happy New Year hi hi

@nicetry492

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks thank you 😊

Happy New Year John!! Thanks for video!!

Thank you so interesting I work with a chap Mr Harry Brown Who worked in the Whitechapel Bell foundry when he was a young man. His skills came in very handy when he was in the army and had to cast some metal work for a bridge they had Cross a river. One of his stories he told me was saw Gandhi on one of his marches and talking in the park. Happy New year 🎉

Thanks John

Another interesting great video John, happy new year to you.

I Worked And Squatted In And Around Whitechapel Late 90s onwards.. Ever Changing ... Brilliant Memories Come Flooding Home... Thank You John.

@JohnRogersWalks

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure Wayne

@highpath4776

Жыл бұрын

I had too much stuff to squat ! Got a fairly cheap flat out in zone 4 instead.

Thanks John. I can spend hours just listening to all the facts and stories in your videos. Looking forward to 2023

I heard Tony Benn speak in Calcutta House It was one of the student society events put on, he spoke a lot of sense in terms of UK and World affairs past and present at that time ( Met his son, Hilary, much later more recently at a Leeds charity he was a patron of )