Along the River Lea from Hackney to the Thames | River Lea Walk (4K)

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River Lea Walk from Hackney to the Thames shot in 4K
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This walk starts on the Eastway at Hackney Wick and follows the Old River Lea through the London Olympic Park. We pass the Waterworks and City Mill Rivers near the London Stadium, home of West Ham United and find the last trace of the Pudding Mill River before it runs beneath the stadium.
We meet the River Lea Navigation / Hackney Cut at Old Ford Lock and continue along the towpath beneath the Bow Flyover. We visit Three Mills Island then continue as the Bow Creek joins the River Lea at Bow Locks. Passing through Cody Dock we walk along Stephenson Street and Bidder Road to the Bow Creek Ecology Park. The final section of this River Lea walk goes through City Island and along Orchard Place to Trinity Buoy Wharf where the Lea makes its confluence with the Thames at Leamouth.
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@johnharney6548 3 года назад

Hello John, till about 2 months ago I was in Hospital with this blessed virus and had the sense to take my IPad In with me. Every one in there just sat there starting across the ward, bored rigid, but I had your wonderful films Thanks a million for all that. Kind regards. John. Harney

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

So sorry to hear about your illness John but glad my films could bring some entertainment. Good to hear you're on the mend now. Take care. Plenty more walks coming to RU-vid

@johnharney6548 3 года назад

@@JohnRogersWalks m

@TheHigherCraft 3 года назад

@@CS88754 What makes John so special is that he acknowledges his fellow humans need for sanity,. No law against that sweetheart! least not yet!

@earinsound 3 года назад

@@CS88754 hello mother, yeah everyone would be on the edgelands and walking obscure places if not for lockdown. Right.

@TheHigherCraft 3 года назад

@@CS88754 Nope sorry you're wrong! I am a SUPER FREEk. You may continue saving lives with your opinions now , bye bye.

@thekentishpilgrim 3 года назад

You speak of City Island having no soul but is it possible for the soul of a place to be ripped out of it? East London is being ruined by developers and politicians. How many tiny, ugly, unaffordable flats does one place need? What a mess.

@luxford60 3 года назад

"blue" is probably a reference to a product added into a white wash. you'll have heard "bluey whiteness" in washing powder adverts. My wife grew up in Cumbria and there was a factory on the way which used to make "Reckitts Blue" and when it was still working the whole area around it was blue from the dust. The blue they made in Stratford would have been a rival to that company.

@Fees-Shed 3 года назад

Sometimes known as Dolly blue bags that you used in your white washing to make it whiter 👍🏻

@harrysmith4780 3 года назад

Lush & Cooke also had a large dye works at Hackney Wick. Their youngest-ever manageress in 1939 was my mum.

@waterloosunset7784 3 года назад

@@Fees-Shed Lancaster football club are known as the Dolly Blues

@petergml 3 года назад

Reckitts in the 1970s built the tallest chimney in Hull to make synthetic ultramarine in Hull for use in various products including Reckitts Blue laundry whitener, spewing out sulphur dioxide at 463ft. The acid rain resulting from this mainly fell on Scandanavia, doubtless causing forest dieback, and it was only around 2000 that a desulphurisation plant was fitted. Reckits's had sold the plant in 1994 to Yule Catto and it later became part of Holliday Pigments, and then Hunstman, who are still the largest producer of synthetic ultramarine in the world but it now comes from their more modern French plant. The chimney is still standing.

@amateurknight235 3 года назад

Was a truck driver from late 80s till mid 2000 delivering London from the Midlands and I cannot believe the change in this time thank you John for another fascinating video keep em coming cheers to you Sir

@andrewcroft6855 3 года назад

Fabulous stuff as ever John, please don't change "Wherever that may be", that just signs off superbly

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

cheers Andrew - I will say it with added gusto from now on

@jamiemorris5177 3 года назад

You definitely don’t require a new sign off the one you’ve got is perfect I always say it with you at the end Keep up the great work

@tomgirldouble3249 3 года назад

Me too love the sign off😀

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks Jamie and Tomgirl

@thewalkingman777 3 года назад

Exactly...."wherever that may be"....ahhh, it's like a snug comfort blanket!

@phillthomas5211 3 года назад

aLWAYS BRINGS BACK MY CHILDHOOD, THIS ONE PARTICIULARLY.........KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK JOHN, KEEP WELL KEEP SAFE

@bernaldelcastillo1768 Год назад

A beautiful lecture. Wonderful description of the river Lea, past and present. Thank you Mr.Rodgers

@GreyGhost. 3 года назад

Excellent ... the deprivation holds it's own beauty.

@grassamupson 3 года назад

Wish I had thought of that line when I flogged my house!!!

@JTTW1455 7 месяцев назад

I didn’t realize London was such a watery world. Makes sense for such a wet climate .. such a grey day. Loved Three Mills Island. Very interesting thanks.

@michaelcaine8311 3 года назад

Hi John, I have enjoyed many of your films, keep it up. As a child I would go fishing in the River Lea where you started the walk. We knew that part of the River as The Gush.

@annoyingbstard9407 2 года назад

Thanks John. Some memories for me…my first job was at Tidal Basin Dock on the other bank from Trinity Wharf, which was a steel dock unloading mainly rebar from S. Africa. My job was collecting all the railway sleepers the bars were stacked on and I remember building a little log cabin in the middle of the huge stack that all the blokes could hide in.

@georgerobartes2008 8 месяцев назад

It was at 3 Mills near Bow Bridge where George Hodgsons had the Bow Brewery that brewed the India Pale Ale that quenched the thirst of the Empire in the late 18th and 19th centuries . Ideally placed near the old road that brought the grain from Essex and Suffolk , and the river down to the moorings and later dock of the East India Company . No link between the Ironbridge Tavern and the Bridgehouse except they were both demolished in the early 80s to make way for new development. The Bridgehouse was more famous than you think being the venue where bands like Iron Maiden and Depeche Mode learned their trade with visits by such greats as Rory Gallagher to jam with bands . You can't leave the Lea Estuary without a shout out to the vast complex of the Tate & Lyle factory , the company that brought forth sweetness to the World. Its wharves once heaved with raw cane from the West Indies .

@stevenspraggs4953 3 года назад

proper old east end goose bumps love the old buildings never seen three mills that close up only from the tube on the distrect line god bless yer guvnor loved that one more old east ends one please john steve

@bernardjakob8959 3 года назад

Watching your regular jaunts on the river Lea I’ve been hoping you’d confirm what I’d heard about the hemp industry during Tudor times, i.e. that it was mandatory for farmers to grow a certain amount of hemp to supply the canvas (canvas = cannabis = hemp) to provide sails for the navy. Hertfordshire was the heart of the hemp producing area (e.g. Hemel Hempstead = Hemel’s Hemp farm). The river Lea was the main route from the Hertfordshire Hemp farms to the London based sailmakers… Sounds feasible to me!

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

That's really interesting Bernard and I have to say I haven't come across that bit of info in my reading on the Lea Valley but sounds perfectly plausible

@shauntodd7123 3 года назад

Absolutely love the Lower Lee and Trinity Buoy wharf as i love Islands. All the fantastic sites and hidden gems.

@Hope-bn9xz 3 года назад

Being a East Londerner myself ,love your video content. I'm your new subscriber 👍

@julierogers7685 3 года назад

Just came out of hospital after being in for 10 days with the covid - I Love your videos, they kept me sane and balanced, and I could escape from my situation for a short while x

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Hi Julie - so sorry to hear you were in hospital all that time - great to hear that you're out now and pleased the videos could help. More to come over the winter into what I believe will be a glorious Spring

@earinsound 3 года назад

@@CS88754 hello mother

@ianmaddams9577 3 года назад

@RichardTheThird . I wonder why you have no subscribers 🤔

@paulusrailton 3 года назад

Hi John, another wonderful episode. I only have one gripe, they're never long enough. Every week I look forward to watching another walk, and then it's over. Watching your channel is my time of stresslessness. Thank you for that. PS. Don't change anything!

@Buscolin 3 года назад

I lived near Hackney central and used to cycle along the river from Hackney marches to Bow . so peaceful in the middle of London

@mungmungie 3 года назад

I liked the passing mention of Clarnico. One of my ancestors was a manager of the company, and my great great grandmother was the girl whose face appeared on some of their cookie tins--some of the earliest use of photography and decoration on commercial prodiucts.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

that's brilliant Peter - I was reading about them a bit in the summer - what a wonderful bit of family history

@mungmungie 3 года назад

@@JohnRogersWalks, interestingly, the girl on the biscuit tins was not from the English (patrilineal) side of my family, but from the Scottish (matrilineal). Margaret Mathieson (1835-1899) was the niece of a manager at Clarnico. I often wondered if the photo was the real thing, because it was not uncommon for families to frame such images and even adopt them as "Aunt So-And-So." However, a photo of Margaret was found by members of the Stephen family (the family she maried into) taken shortly before her death, and there can be no doubt that it's the same person.

@nickjung7394 2 года назад

I believe the tins were made by the Metal Box Company.

@nickjung7394 2 года назад

@@mungmungie The Metal Box Company employed Lithographic Artists who retouched and edited pictures by hand. Very talented individuals who would have been capable of producing full colour images from photographs that showed a person's best characteristics.

@markcoombs5887 3 года назад

Hello John A bit late to reply to this film, I have already watched this weeks one, great as always!! Please don't change your sign off!!! When you say, ' Join me on the next walk, wherever that may be', I always get bit choked up!! Keep walking, all the best, Mark

@jazzman9042 3 года назад

I couldn't help but think, as you strolled among those tall new apartment blocks and said how it felt soulless; it's because you are walking into the future. Change always takes us to the future, and I believe it's that that gives us a strange slightly out of body feeling. Another great walk John. AA++

@ashleysgaze 3 года назад

Bravura John, bravura! ⼮🚶‍♂️

@zennor_man 3 года назад

Hi John..a welcome post. Re the "Blue works" It was common for Reckitts blue bags to be added as a whitener to laundry. My dear late mum used it no doubt along with millions of other houseproud mothers. Dad worked in Marshgate Lane for Messrs Pickfords in the 1960s & 70s & I can assure you the smell in the area was overpowering. In the 1980s I bought a property alongside the Lea in Wheathampstead....Happy days.......sorry to ramble on!

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks for that great info - the Lea at Wheathampstead is a glorious spot, wonderful place to live

@Mudhooks 3 года назад

Blueing helped counteract any yellowness to washed whites that would give the impression of clothes not being entirely clean. The clothes didn’t come out blue, of course but just a cooler shade of white that gave the impression of them being very clean. Once liquid bleach was widely available, blueing sort of fell out of favour.

@kendonovan6312 3 года назад

Hello John. This video brought back many, many memories as I grew up knowing many of the areas and streets that you name. It's a pity that over the decades with a little foresight, determination and of course money much of the land on either side of the river could have been developed into park land, gardens and wild life habitat which would have made a wonderful amenities for local people to go during summer evenings.

@Backs4more 3 года назад

I fished the Lea as a kiddie and loved the place. Mostly around Waltham Abbey, but also lower down. I now live 700 miles north in Northern Scotland and these videos bring back such fond memories. Thank you.

@patrickatkinson4024 3 года назад

Excellent!

@Pur9leRain 2 года назад

My heart stopped @29:04 because I thought it was me (spoiler alert, it isn’t). I wear a red coat and ride a sit up and beg bike as well, and this is part of my daily commute. I really appreciate the historical tidbits and fun facts sprinkled in this video, so pleased RU-vid recommended you. The River Lea seems to go through Hackney then Newham then Tower Hamlets then Newham again. I think this is the best river. All these years using the towpath and I just referred to it as “the canal”. New found respect

@carolynjones6116 3 года назад

Thank you so much for the walk , spent a lot of time with my grandmother in cedars road and it was like memory lane

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

my pleasure Carolyn

@thefishingone.7520 3 года назад

Really enjoyed this one and it was lovely to meet you when you were filming this whilst I was out for my run. Thank you for documenting a fast disappearing history of where I live for posterity.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Great to meet you too Dennis and thanks again for the recommendation of the Flitch Way, on the list for the summer

@hadror13 3 года назад

Thank you sir

@roll-in-peace231 3 года назад

Wow I'm back to my childhood again thank you for the amazing experience I used to fish under that bridge . Loving all your video's

@TimLondonGuitarist 3 года назад

These productions are engaging & relaxing, very good work

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks Tim

@luxford60 3 года назад

Lee has been in several of the Rivers of London books, including the very first one. She's rarely been a major character, but was there when Peter first meets the Rivers at Mama Thames's house in Wapping. She's the only one of the rivers who is white, and is much older than the others, but defers to Mama Thames because she is only a tributary to the main river.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks for that Christopher - I shall recover the first book from my son and take a look

@briancox144 3 года назад

Always a pleasure to watch brighten up my day The River Lee I have been along the whole length of this fine river fishing well done John Rogers another fantastic watch .

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks Brian

@ianmaddams9577 3 года назад

Yet another grey video John. Great to see you using the way finder maps along your walk. Many of which I installed all over London . Love your videos and your sign off is just great 👍🏻

@Geffo555 3 года назад

You started close to Eastway I believe. The area between the Cut and the Lea was called Bully Fen when I was a kid. It was an army training ground with pillboxes and shell houses. We used to jump over the fence and look round. Then the area was redeveloped in the late 70s and the Eastway cycle track laid out. Now that has gone also. Making way for the Olympic Park.

@marting652 3 года назад

Just wanted to say thanks for this wonderful channel. I found you around 2 weeks ago, and cannot get enough of your fantastic walks John. I lost my Soulmate in 2019 and I've lost 4 other relatives recently, the latest an uncle 5 days ago. These really do help as living on my own now, help me lessen the dark nights. Thanks again, love em!

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

so sorry to hear of your loss Martin. Good that the videos help bring solace - I'll keep going out there walking and bringing these videos on a regular basis. Take care - brighter days ahead

@marting652 3 года назад

@@JohnRogersWalks thank you John, so much history around the rivers and lost rivers,and so many wondrous places I've never heard of. One day I shall visit the London I've never seen. Thanks again .

@ronaldm8235 3 года назад

I did a walk from lewisham to tower bridge that same day. And yeah I remember the low clouds and the atmosphere.Ghostly.

@johnpearson591 3 года назад

The original Bridge house was a music venue at Canning Town. it was A music venue for rock/ punk rock,.. it also had its own record label , you could purchase a record fresh off the press of the same night. regular appearances from CHRIS THOMPSON. JACKIE LYNTON. FLOCK OF SEAGULLS. And The fantastic WASTED YOUTH !!!!

@ajrblues79 3 года назад

Plus Mods Mayday '79 album, Terry Murphy's book is a great resource

@seriousoldman8997 23 дня назад

I saw Dr Feelgood, The Groundhogs, Nine Below Zero and The Selecta amongst others at the Bridgehouse in the 70s and 80s.

@lycan36 3 года назад

Thanks, John great walk n talk! always learn watching your vids .

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks Shaun

@Theoobovril 3 года назад

Splended video yet again, John. Do keep to your current sign off it suits your videos perfectly.

@CYPRUSINSIGHT 3 года назад

Fabulous as always. Please keep the ending, its awesome.

@johnbanks3054 3 года назад

I didn’t live that that far away from where you went John, those we’re the days my friend!

@llux Год назад

YES! I walked through london city island a couple of weeks ago and I felt the exact same as you, it was odd! It felt very strange. Glad it wasnt just me that thought that. I couldnt picture the type of person that lived there

@chrisb4504 3 года назад

Thanks John. It’s always a pleasure.

@davidh1821 3 года назад

Brilliant as ever, John! Your videos are really helping to break the monotony of being stuck indoors working from home. I’ve been watching your videos for a couple of years or so now and have just ordered a copy of This Other London, don’t know what’s taken me so long! You’ve got me looking for clues to the past and off following streams while out walking down here in Kent

@Pierlover 3 года назад

Really interesting walk! The flats seem a bit soulless because you don't see many people about. Probably nice to live there though. I do remember back in the early 50's the Thames had a very strong characteristic smell. You knew when you were getting near it!

@rouse81 3 года назад

Is that the old ford lock, that used to be home to The Big Breakfast. TV show ? Another awesome walk John, I love London and the way you share and tell it.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

That’s the one - thanks for the kind words

@nzd3742 3 года назад

And Big Brother.

@rouse81 3 года назад

@@nzd3742 looks like original big brother was at three Mills and not Old Ford lock

@nzd3742 3 года назад

@@rouse81 Yes! I actually knew that. What I hadn't appreciated for some reason was that Three Mills and Old Ford Lock were different sites. Thanks!

@MrJonno85 3 года назад

Who could forget Bow Locks as the postal address of the show?

@LoisDavidsonArt 3 года назад

What a treat, lots of info and stunning edgelands imagery to enjoy and digest, thanks so much John. I love the sign off, I always say it along with you, and reading the comments, it seems like I'm not the only one!

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks Lois glad you enjoyed it - yes classic edgelands environments and a great artistic community around Trinity Bouy Wharf you'd enjoy

@danielboulton98 3 года назад

so looking forward to this

@jasonfarr4195 3 года назад

love these walks many of them I have done on a cycle but its so nice to get some of the history ty John

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

cheers Jason

@johndaarteest 3 года назад

Thanks John for this, your mention about modern places being soulless when they are built is interesting. I find the new developments bland but, as you say, it takes time for a place to have a soul. Contrasting those with the previous images of the industrialised, though near derelict, streets and areas they seem to have more life in them to me even though they are messy, probably because they have had people in them for decades.

@bryan3550 3 года назад

Lovely stuff, John. By chance, I've just finished reading "Afloat" by Danie Couchman. In it, she recounts her time on a narrowboat, principly on the Lea Navigation... A fascinating read. 😎

@thetrophiethetrophie3977 3 года назад

I Love yuor video keep it up

@minijames2777 3 года назад

Great walk John 👍🏼thank you. Don’t lose the sign off John.

@GeorgeChoy 3 года назад

great stuff

@pauljones5066 3 года назад

Man, your channel is absolutely phenomenal I am a northerner (not a Londoner) but I love every second. Intelligent commentary and somehow spiritual, so many thanks

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks very much Paul - greatly appreciated

@margaretgreenwood4243 Год назад

As an ex Londoner, now a Loiner, I appreciate John’s work too and your lovely comment

@richardsuperfine826 3 года назад

Another great video and walk John. From your fan in Minneapolis! P.S. No need to change the signoff!

@markszawlowski867 3 года назад

Reassuring to know that even you occasionally talk Bow Locks, like the rest of us :) Lovely video - cheers

@diogenesagogo 3 года назад

I belonged to a fishing club when I was about 15 & there was a guy on coach trips who would occasionally chirp up with "why don't we go to Bow Locks" Funny at first hearing but lost its charm after the umpteemth repetition.

@mattruff4408 3 года назад

What a fantastic pleasure to get out in hard times John a big thank you for doing your walks as being still ill indoors I did buy the books you mentioned (yours) and the Essex serpent. New walks by fieldfare. London loop. And a book on the thames. +wafarings round London. Omg cost on this 1 wasn't cheap for someone who doesn't read. Highway man's heath You have to stop mentioning to us about all the books you read as is costing me a fortune lol

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

It's great that you're tracking them all down Matt - yes I think my copy of Highwayman's Heath set me back about £35 or more

@lameduck3630 3 года назад

I was hoping you might start near the IKEA in Edmonton and walk through the charming Tottenham Lock with its hippy vibe.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

that's in a couple of other videos on here - there are some links in the description

@lameduck3630 3 года назад

@@JohnRogersWalks Thx.

@colinlovett6367 3 года назад

Hi John,love your walks,i wonder if you would consider doing a south London walk along the historical river Wandle? i think you would find it very interesting. thanks.

@grandadontour1963 3 месяца назад

I love your videos John, I walked the Lee all the way from its source in luton sand published 9 videos of this expedition. Only difference was mine were just full of personal ramblings and no decent historical facts , went on too long and only about 20 people watched them 😂😂 once you get onto the navigation it’s incredible how many weird and wonderful boats there are especially those North Sea oil rig life boats 😂

@stephenpinder9567 3 года назад

Had no idea

@donlefrigo4027 3 года назад

Definitely keep the sign off

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks Don - that seems to be the consensus

@matthewstraney4709 2 месяца назад

John a blue works is place that 'blues' steel an early form of rust protection that pre-dates chrome plating, used acid and bases/mineral compounds fairly toxic

@chrismccartney8668 3 года назад

Gliksten Glue Works Bonds Sweets Cat and Dog Foods I remember the stink !!

@StarWarsJay 3 года назад

Hey John. You alright mate? Just going to get a brew and settle down to watch this.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks Jay - I'm in good form thanks - hope you enjoy the video

@StarWarsJay 3 года назад

@@JohnRogersWalks Cheers. Your mate Gary Lewis has been posting his videos on our Leytonstone group. Please feel free to do the same. facebook.com/groups/1687869448146197

@eastendswede8501 3 года назад

You're the best 👌

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

very kind of you Stuart

@eastendswede8501 3 года назад

@@CS88754 He is being safe, walks on his own and keeps a 2m distance. You hardly see anyone else in the videos. Why don't you just have a cup of tea, relax and watch one of his videos. We can forget about your last comment as we know these are hard times and we feel angry sometimes. It will get better 😃 Have a good day Rich.

@groovytirma2409 3 года назад

Stumbled across your channel while looking for content on London, happy to have come across it! PS: You sound an awful lot like Alan Smith, the football commentator.

@Pur9leRain 2 года назад

I live in Newham and have worked in Hackney and Tower Hamlets for past 12 years. I’ve walked and cycled these paths and never realised the names of the different locks or waterways or tiny rivers. Of course I’ve seen tremendous changes and never get bored of the this hidden part of north east London

@IrrationalRecreation 3 года назад

When I first walked the river many years ago, I was surprised to walk past the closed Lesney factory (now demolished) but an instant connection was made as memories of Matchbox cars came flooding back. BTW Much of the Euston Arch was known to be in the Lea since Dan Cruickshank found chunks of it in 1994, well before the Olympic developments.

@RyanX1899 3 года назад

This is great. I live around the Springfield park section of the River Lea. Was thinking of trying to walk to Waltham Abbey, have you done that walk? Think i saw that was possible mostly also the Lea but not really looked into it. Also you are an encyclopedia of knowledge, I'm learning so much about my own area where I've lived all my life, fascinating stuff! Edit: No worries, just seen your other video where you do exactly that, well all the way from Leytonstone in fact! Awesome stuff. Will definitely be giving that walk a go

@alisontuffnell5250 3 года назад

Another fab video! My dad and I love watching your videos every week John. He is a Radical Rambler and I got him a river Lea mug and eastern avenue bag for his birthday this year, and your book for Christmas. For someone who was born and raised in London but now lives up north and misses it terribly it has really been a life saver since the pandemic for him to be able to binge your videos and visit London with you as he hasn’t been able to go himself. So thank you! And don’t change your sign off - we both love it! :)

@trevorbarre5616 3 года назад

An appropriately liquid soundtrack.

@ttv2951 3 года назад

Every time a new build goes up something important that cant be measured or quantified is lost Thanks for helping us remember. Looking forward to the next walk "where ever that may be " 👍

@michelinman666 3 года назад

Great video as usual. Where you turned from Stephenson St into Bidder St you may not have realised the building in the background of your shot is actually a very good nightclub called Fold, based on the clubs in Berlin and operates very long opening hours. It doesn't give anything away from the outside! Like you say, at some point they will also likely get forced out by the march of development. Echoes of the pre-olympics Lea Valley of the St Etienne film.

@rubbberrobbie 3 года назад

✨ Perfect John! This is my patch of the Lea - it's been some time since I've been down as far as the confluence with the Thames. That will be the walk for this weekend. The stretch between Hackney Wick and Bow Locks is very special. I just hope it's not all taken by developers. We need little affordable workshops and spaces to retain the community and soul. ✨Rob

@nickjung7394 2 года назад

I remember the Lea from the fifties and sixties. Filthy, polluted and disgusting. What a difference. Thanks for this John.

@PeterGaunt 3 года назад

Lovely walks John. I'd been wondering whether you liked the Rivers Of London books :-)

@davesnelling3812 3 года назад

At Leamouth peninsular now called city Island development stood a large factory called Pura foods known as pure lard, around 1980 there was a large fire there and large quantities of lard and oils flooded the road, fire engines were up to their axles in all this hardening fat and had to be recovered after the fire by tow trucks, hose lines disappeared into and under the surface of the melted lard and were impossible to trace what went and where. I joined the LFB in 1981 so was not there but many old hands told me about the fire.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

that's a fascinating addition to the story of the area - thanks Dave

@blossie33 3 года назад

Hi John, Parkesine was actually invented by Alexander Parkes in his home city of Birmingham and then later produced in premises in Hackney Wick (as a Brummie but Hackney resident I have to make that point 😄)

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks for that info blossie - I think I got that from the plaque on the side of the factory a few years ago

@blossie33 3 года назад

@@JohnRogersWalks yes, I expect you are right John, Hackney like to claim that but technically Parkes 'invented' it in Birmingham 😁

@Ange1166 3 года назад

keep the same sign off good walk enjoyed

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks Angelo

@LADmob 3 года назад

The LEGEND posted another video, yaaaaaay .

@SteigerSteigerfoto 2 года назад

Always loved this area ever since I moved to Hackney. Before the development of the Olympic park, the Carpenters Road hinterland was a mysterious wonderland full of history that was is forever lost now. Stephen Gill (photographer) did some great tours of the area back in 2005/6. Worth checking his books.

@IanPhillipsWildlife 3 года назад

Great stuff John, I always particularly like your River Lea and Marshes videos. I went for a quick walk round the filter beds and Hackney Marsh this afternoon, couldn't believe how high the river was running.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks Ian - today was good weather for the marshes - I got cut off by flood water last time I was down there and had to go in a big loop

@MrJonno85 3 года назад

Three Mills was a bonded warehouse in the late 80s - I occasionally worked there in 1989.

@ReadySaltedCrisps 3 года назад

Blue or Bluing is a type of finishing of steel that partially prevents rust. It's often used on gun parts. It's rather nasty stuff, 'noxious' as you mention.

@johnclements6614 3 года назад

The brickwork at 28.45 is a bridge abutment. The bridge was removed about 2001 as part of the A13 upgrade. The other abutment was removed as it clashed with the new slip road. The bridge deck was removed by floating in a barge at low water. When the tide came in and lifted the deck the barge was turned. Not sure what the bridge was maybe something to do with the Thames ironworks. It it was narrow so only one way. Or it may have carried a large gas main. Also in Stephenson Street is the Durham Arms which was reportedly owned by the Police so they could listen to the local criminals.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks for the info John

@davesnelling3812 3 года назад

yes it did carry a gas main pipe it was painted green and was about a ft in diameter, I remember it, the pipe probably came from Bromley gas works nearby.

@petergml 3 года назад

@@davesnelling3812 You are right it was a gas main but I think probably from Poplar gas works which was a lot closer. The pipes from Bromley go over Bow Creek next to Twelvetrees Crescent. They used barges on Bow Creek to take the toxic earth away from Poplar gas works - I was commissioned to photograph this being done back in 2011. mylondondiary.co.uk/2011/10/oct.htm#barging

@sclarke1221 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing John why change a great sign off any other wouldn't be the same

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks- I agree

@paularnold4440 3 года назад

Used to go to the original Bridgehouse early seventies mostly on Sundays. It was adjacent to Canning Town BR station. Some top bands there including Tull and U2. Split level pub always heaving with people. Used to walk to and from West Ham underground to get there. Very dark and desolate at nightime. Great video . Thanks

@houzbizness303 3 года назад

I'm addicted to the content of this channel. I watch way more than I should. Sometimes many hours go past without a single other thought occupying my mind :) I was born and lived in London for the first 30 years of my life. I still miss it and feel instantly at home on those rare occasions that I visit. The big problem I had with living there was the amount of rubbish, waste, destruction of property, and general disregard for nature. Even now when watching these posts whether they are along the Thames, in a city park, or in some suburban woodland, I just feel the need to 'tidy up' everything I see. Probably best that I never move back :)

@mattruff4408 3 года назад

Check out this guy jonh he owns the red light house boat in your vid Harry dwyer and he is sailing the life boat from the red light boat around the UK

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

thanks for that Matt - I'll look him up

@welshcake8086 3 года назад

Great video. I did this walk myself in the summer, but got lost around Three Mills and ended up using public transport to get me back on track, so will now use your video as a guide. I love Trinity Wharf area.

@tentringer4065 3 года назад

Never mind the Bow Locks. Fascinating video.

@juliewilliams9441 3 года назад

I miss the old place of my birth thanks again for this great memories 😢 ❤️👍

@richardpalmer6061 3 года назад

Another brilliant walk, John. My Dad was a welder at a now defunct firm called Gray and Connolly in the 1960s and early 70. We lived on Abbott Road, Poplar behind the second set of gas ometers on Leven Road. We used to walk over Canning Town Bridge to go to Rathbone Market and Caters the supermarket. The old Canning Town Station was on the north side of the main road and was fairly decrepit and served by the occasional clapped out diesel then electric trains that ran from Stratford to North Woolwich.

@davewalker5706 3 года назад

Would like to do a photo walk along there sometime but given the dodgy ‘ends’ it passes through I have some concerns about safety especially if your toting expensive camera gear