London-based film-maker and writer John Rogers, author of Welcome to New London - journeys and encounters in the post-Olympic city bit.ly/3I7E8hN and This Other London - adventures in the overlooked city bit.ly/3UQcwFn
My blog The Lost Byway thelostbyway.com/
Profile photo by the brilliant Jake Green
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That was a wonderful walk of history. Thank you so much.
Love this video John! Very familiar with Northampton but you managed to shed light on previously unknown features. Next time , lets see Pete Murphy (from Bauhaus) with yourself, Ian and Alan Moore. Was wondering about the soundtrack and I was pleasantly surprised that it was you! nice one it worked really well!
This video is a treasure. There’s so much wisdom imbedded in each sentence in this conversation, that watching it just once is virtually impossible. Thanks so much for this John.
Hi John , love your walking ways, my family are from Hackney and Leytonstone now I dwell in Canada, so your trips are a delightful ramble along memory lane, best wishes mate. ❤
Faboulous walk. And a great conversation between two - three! - great artists. Many thanks.
5:24 Ever thought of doing Birketts Brooke..That ran through , Hounslow.Whitton ,Isleworth.. Twickenham border...There's only a bit of it left..the mouth runs into the river Crane in St Margaret's..Middlesex ... West London..
Mr. Rogers let me from the outset say that I believe London is the greatest city. No other city comes close to it. Your channel brings me close to London. It's almost like I am there in body. Thank you so much for your channel.
Love to go into the pub. Thanks 🙏
Beautiful film❤
Thanks Danny
Doesn't get much better than this.
A cracking video John , after just finishing Jerusalem a few months ago it was wonderful to see some of the streets and hear the fantastic stories , thank you 💕🌈☯️
I’ve got to be honest John, I can only understand about 20% of that is but it was so fascinating. I watched it three times and there’s a lot more in it than I can understand, but thank you for sharing it since it made a delightful evening pass trying to come to terms with something I struggled to understand..
Cheers Terry- it was a real joy to make this film
Fascinating, super film. Thank you.
Thanks John
This was absolutely delightful John! It's always great when Iain Sinclair shows up as well as Alan Moore. Northampton just looks and sounds like a captivating place.
Its so good how you and your friends show how ordinary places are all extraordinary really. Everywhere is. I know nothing about Northampton but I know just one of my ancestors lived there but I know nothing about him but his name and trade. Thomas Woodford of Northampton,rope maker in the mid 1700s. The peoms of John Clare are beautiful. I once heard on the radio I think,a long piece by John Clare describing how unsettling he and no doubt many others found The Enclosures. Not being able to walk over ground and along streams and in woodland where once they could roam freely on possible pain of death,well it was as physically and mentally painful as life today where all our certainties are being cast away.
Crying out loud your in my manor! Did Mr Moore tell you how much history has been destroyed by previous councils.
Wow! That was fascinating! Thanks for that!
Excellent,we really are blessed having you produce such high quality and fascinating content.
Thank you so much
You guys, like myself, are just getting very much older, where the present loses its significance, but I can't tell whether it's a relief or a burden yet! If the past is anything to go by it's the latter.
Knowledge of the past can rescue us from a horrible future,or if it doesn't rescue us,because there's not enough of us,at least we will recognize the LIES. Like "it'll all be over by Christmas" ,in the right circumstances war is good and noble", young people are eager to volunteer and even fight to protect our way of life, ......
Montage it is and an somewhat impressionistic one at that. Lovely and seems like you had a great trip.
Sadly not the original postern gate but a Victorian attempt at a folly using castle stone. How accurate the recreation is may be seen from studying photographs of the original which was on the west side of the inner bailey of the castle.
Thank you, John, Iain and Alan. What a wonderfully absorbing film and conversation: elemental and flavoured with some kind of subtle magick. A visit to Northampton is definitely required.
I wasn’t going to watch this as I prefer the longer London hikes but found it really interesting and thought provoking … the future is dissolving the past in an upside down world … good film ❤
Thanks for this good video john rogers
Somewhere on the BBC's iPlayer there's a three part 1972 series by the great architecture critic Ian Nairn, "Nairn Across Britain". The first episode includes a visit to Northampton ("A rather drab, south midlands town") with a passionate defence of the Market Square and the Emporium Arcade, both of which were then under threat of redevelopment (Spoilers: They were). The whole series is a delight - probably on KZread as well.
BUSINESS STUDIES....AGE OF WILD....METRIC POUND...BUY WIN SWITCH...BAUBLES AND BENEFITS...BUST !!
PLYMOUTH GIN....GENUINE SINCE...1797
Excellent walk. Did another walk a month ago from High Wycombe to Saunderton via Dashwood.
Remember when there was a Sunday Market in Edmonton. All now built on with the Meridian Water development.
I could watch your videos all day. Very enjoyable content. Well done!
Thanks Steve
I'm an ex-Londoner now living in Northampton and working and volunteering at St. Andrews. So much interest here for me. Thank you John.
Much more of Ian Sinclair, featuring in your videos, John, and I will end up becoming cultured, try and explain that to my family? In other words, John, a brilliant video yet again, with masterful Narration coming from Ian....as usual.
From viewing your video, John, Ljubljana appears to be beautiful in the old parts but not so in the modern parts. Is that true? Me never having been there.
Hi Peter - tbh I’d like to go back to explore the modern parts but then I am interested in 20th architecture
Welcome to Northampton John!
Really so great hearing the two of them diving in and out of these ideas. Thanks for the context of Stephen Moore too.
past-present-future remind me of this ...kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJdm27dwf7izk6w.html
As a Jerusalem reader I appreciate this immensely. PS: Did y'all catch the Moon and Serpent manuscript at 20:20?
Very educational - excellent.
Fascinating interview-politicians are changing the past- the pandemic removed the presence-the monk carrying a large stone cross. These guys think outside the box.
I moved out of London 10 years ago, and I watch your walks to remind me of old days. Now you are walking around my new home of Northampton! I love it here, loads of history, down to earth people
Is it haunted?
Deeply
Great video 👍👍📗📗📗📗📗📗📗📗📗👍👍
Thank you Alan
OK, in my defence I'm a rationalist idiot, but as far as Sinclair's tedious invocation of all things magical and energetical the following may be germane : " ... the supernatural which (take it any way you like) is but a manufactured article, the fabrication of minds insensitive to the intimate delicacies of our relation to the dead and to the living, in their countless multitudes; a desecration of our tenderest memories; an outrage on our dignity." Writ by the deepest psychogeographer of the 20th century by a country mile imo. ' ... Whatever my native modesty may be it will never condescend to seek help for my imagination within those vain imaginings common to all ages and that in themselves are enough to fill all lovers of mankind with unutterable sadness.'
Think Northampton, think quality England made shoes since the 1800s
wow
Fantastic ! Very Very Interesting - #ART #Writing
Hi Alan From #Loughborough !
I was born in 1956 on The Spencer Estate in Northampton, and met Alan Moore a few times. I have a passion for history. Northampton has a very interesting history and has beautiful architecture. The county is on par with The Cotswolds---Good video.