Hi, I enjoy making Travel Vlogs and being creative with expressive Video Creation through ongoing experimentation. I particularly enjoy riding Heritage Buses and Train s and filming such. I also film local History videos with regard to where I grew up in Essex. I also dabble in Poetry too. The best to you all out there 👍😎
I grew up in Stratton walk and Dorking road , I went to neave school in the 80s and remember cross country and we could still see the remnants of we called it the roman pond . Happy days growing up in Harold Hill
Thanks- we must have been contemporaries- I left early in 1968 in the 4th year. We'll remember all those teachers you mentioned- poor old McLaren who had 'behavioural management' problems as we'd now say. Geoff Lawes who used to cane the bad boys in assembly as I recall (or have I made that up) Appy days......
I grew up in Harold and remember the Harold Hill carnival , never secondary school, the havering play leadership in Central Park, not so nice now . I moved away 20 years ago
Nothing beats riding a Routemaster & reminiscing over old times. You were lucky to get Mike the conductor, what he doesnt know about Routemasters isnt worth knowing, by the way he is a youtuber too. Great video so pleased you enjoyed the ride.
@@guyhorner8165 thanks Guy, glad you enjoyed the video. Yes Mike the Conductor is quite a character in the short moment he took my fare, on reflection I wish I had got around to chatting to him. He seems to have a great wit about him. Are you able to give me a link to his channel ? I get the feeling it’s going to be interesting. Cheers !
@@eirlysseldon7834 thank you for posting your Harold Hill connection. I used to know a David Lawrence who was in the same class as myself at Quarles school back in the late 1960s.
I know that family in the first photo. It was taken in Poplar. The little girl wrapped in the blanket is my mother in law and still alive, the two girls in the pram are her sisters. Her.Mother is carrying her and her father is rhe ARP warden. The other lady is an aunt of the baby. We dont know who the little boy is.👍👍👍
Wow, I hope it was ok to use the photo Martin ? I lifted it from the Internet at random, thought it was a meaningful photo to fit in with the important story I was telling. Had you seen the photo before ? I guess it must have come as a bit of shock to encounter it. Best wishes Pete Riley 👍😎
Hi Pete, No problem with using the photo, it actually comes from a very short film with them walking down the street towards the camera. It has been used in books and videos about the blitz. We told the lady, my mother in law about it and she is the babe in arms in the photo. Sadly the two young girls in the pram, sisters of the baby, have both recently died, one in December and other one died only last week. As I said, nobody knows who the little boys was, there were 9 children in that family, but he is not one of them. I found out that the picture was taken on sept 8th 1940, the day after the first day of the Blitz. This is Poplar High Street. I was interested in your video, as I used to live in Romford and spent sometime in Harold Hill and knew people in that area. We had seen the photo before and we have a blown up photo in a frame in our house, I also found the video and slowed it down a bit, as it is short and added some poignant music to it. It was a pleasant surprise to see it on your video.
@@martinfey4134 thank you Martin. Thank you for sharing the very interesting back story to this photo taken on 8th Sept 1940 during the Blitz. I can see why this photo means a lot to you and your family. The photo now has an extra resonance for me. Being you have lived in Harold Hill you might be interested in a video I put together regarding Lady Neave’s newspaper account of the time, telling the story of day one of the Blitz (7th Sept 1940) AKA “Black Saturday”, as it hit her Dagnam Park Estate on Harold Hill and London. If you have not already seen it you will find it on my You Tube Channel. Cheers !
Cheers Eric. A downside of Vlogging is that you don’t always take everything in around you, so would love to go on the Tour again and absorb more of the special experience but without the camera this time. So yes Eric we must plan a Tour together sometime in the future. 👍😎
I was there! I spent September 1971 in London visiting from the USA. I stayed at the Manor Court Hotel on Courtland Gardens and wished I could have stayed in London forever. ❤
I really enjoyed watching your video,at 8.48 the guy says the officials room is good size to keep them sweet,didnt do us many favours at home this season,lol.Anyway best of luck to you Riley
@@jimpackard8059 cheers, didn’t know that. Great song to get pulse racing at a game. We have used Tijuana since 1968 apparently with a brief interlude when Barry Hearn changed it to “we will rock you” by Queen - the fans revolted 😎
That looked a great day out, I liked the shot with the sun coming through the statue very artistic and I WANT THE CAT!!!!!! 😂 I hold for a couple of seconds on information posters so that those that want to can pause the vid and read them 😊
Aww thanks Matilda. Much appreciate the feedback. I will let you into a couple of my editing secrets 😉 on that video. To get the front view of the statue I couldn’t avoid the sun, so I thought it was a gamble taking the shot. But hey it paid off, glad you spotted my skills 😂. As for the cat. I wanted to break the footage up with something unusual and I thought of the Coronation street Tv cat. That actual cat I’m afraid doesn’t hail from Brisbane road but from stock footage I have on my Editing package program.
We moved to Petersfield Avenue in 1951 when I was 4 years old ,I remained there until I got married and moved away in 1968 . Mum & Dad lived there until 1989 , it truly was a great place to grow up what with playing in the woods in Leamington road and going over the Manor fishing either in the Carp lake or the lilly pond which was in front of the old house,it was knocked down by that time but the debris remained there. I can honestly look back on a very happy childhood .
Very enjoyable Vlog. Some quality buses on show . Never seen the layout of that RLH low height effort before. I think i might struggle riding on that one.
Mr Norris was wonderful, i had him at Albany School, a lovely man. I also went to Quarles in 90 s, pre services course. PT Brooks was a beast, a good one. I got expelled for foing donunts in the snow covered rear car park. Good times
I have a whole video reel marked “Eric” . I have to use it sparingly as to unleash too much “Eric” on the You Tube Public would be madness. 😂. More “Eric” will appear on future episodes as and when. The last version had a spelling mistake and also i was not happy with some of the text I had written, so some small adjustments had to be made. Good day. 😉
Thank you for your reply. Obviously I respect your decision. Maybe the world is not ready yet for too much Eric. However I believe my time will come. 😀👍🥦
