Camden Town Walking Tour - Pubs, Market, Venues, History (4K)

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Camden Town Walking Tour - Pubs, Market, Venues, History in 4K.
Our walking tour of Camden Town starts on Haverstock Hill at the Sir Richard Steele pub then passes Chalk Farm Station. From here we see The Enterprise pub and the Camden Roundhouse, scene of the Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation in 1967. After a detour down Belmont Street we visit The Lock Tavern, and The Monarch/Barfly before heading into the recently refurbished Stables Market. From here we pass into Camden Lock Market and visit Black Gull bookshop where I buy a couple of Terry Pratchett books. We cross the Regent's Canal and look back to Dingwalls before heading down Camden High Street past the Electric Ballroom and the Good Mixer in Inverness Street. Over the road from Camden Station we have The World's End, formerly the Mother Redcap and the Underworld. Further along the High Street we pop in on The Camden's Head home of the brilliant Camden Comedy Club before making our way to Camden Palace, now Koko. We double back along the High Street to have a look at the Jewish Museum and then pay homage to Madness at The Dublin Castle. Our Camden Town walking tour concludes at Cecil Sharp House.
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@glesgamail 3 года назад

I once sat behind Ivor Cutler on a bus in Camden Town. I was chatting to my partner and didn't notice him until we got up to get off and he turned and said: "You have a wonderful accent." (I'm from north Lanarkshire). I recognised him, but couldn't get his name out, but replied: "You're, you're ...". To which he replied (in that lovely Cutleresque lilt): "I am."

@howdymartin6258 3 года назад

A genius of a man - always loved hearing him in John Peel's shows.

@estherdoyle8175 3 года назад

My parents came over from Ireland in the 1950s and settled in Camden Town. I was born into a house in Harmood Street. In the intervening 60+ years I have done everything from cajun dancing in Cecil Sharp House to dancing/drinking/carousing in most of those pubs in all their incarnations, and taking acid on the banks of the canal in the middle of the night. I was down there only today in the new epicentre of Camden Town, ALDIs on the High Street. One place you missed on your travels was the Rowten House on Arlington Rd. A hostel for the working (and non-working) person and often the first port of call for the incoming Irish back in the day - Camden Town for the great lie-down was the saying. Still going strong today and a refuge for those who don't have much, God bless them.

@ronaldm8235 3 года назад

My dad moved into the big house in 1947. Came from Ireland and stayed for 50 years. I now live in Kentish Town and also was in Aldi today! It’s not bad really is it!

@estherdoyle8175 3 года назад

@@ronaldm8235 My aul fella had spells in the Rowten House too. If the newly landed Irish had no relatives it was either there or down to the Irish Centre in Murray Street to see if the priest could get them a home and the start. And we're spoiled for choice with the German supermarkets these days!!!

@tinkhefferon9934 3 года назад

@@estherdoyle8175 my father came from Mayo started off in Liverpool then Birmingham headed to Peterborough where his brother stayed he moved on to Newport Pagnell where he then met my mother to be and had 6 boys , and set up home until his passing at a young age of 57 , I suppose I followed in his footsteps went to London and worked on the Brent Cross shopping centre met some great Irish men working there used to go to Camden, Harlesden, Cricklewood, Willesden, drinking, the Rising Sun, the Spotted Dog, Mean fiddler, just a few to mention great memories and great times

@ruthbrierley1798 3 года назад

I loved Camden Market in the mid-90s. Bootleg cassettes and second hand clothes. Went back a couple of years ago and it seemed to be mostly trendy street food. Thanks for this walk down memory lane!!!

@WheelieMacBin 3 года назад

Used to be 'Goth and Alternative central'. Today it is nothing like it used to be. At least Cyberdog are still there.

@johnneville403 2 года назад

@@WheelieMacBin It's now just a tourist trap, sadly. Even the resident 'punks' appear only to be there to charge for tourist photo opps.

@trevorbarre5616 2 года назад

Possibly the worse food I have ever eaten was bought from Camden Market. A rank 'soup' that was swimming in grease. Utterly revolting. (I am in no way a 'foodie', and will eat anything in reason. This, however, was beyond reason.)

@tilerman 2 года назад

@@johnneville403 'Plastic punks' or 'weekend punks' i call them. Was in Camden recently and there was a 'punk' with a sign, 'help a punk get drunk' (LOL). I'm old enough to remember real London punks and this 'punk' looked like that during the week he holds down a city job. I find it all quite sad really, like i do most of London, it all just seems so plastic, fake, and empty. The real characters have gone, replaced by hipsters, who think the are really different and individual, but in fact all look and sound the same. Dull, boring and uninteresting. I remember London in the late 70's and 80's and it felt raw, and dirty. Hippies, squatters, travellers, punks, rockers, all gone. Camden market really is a pile of shit now.

@loganstroganoff1284 Год назад

@@tilerman sounds like london went the same way as NYC. new york is absolutely nothing like it used to be. The real new Yorkers are gone. Rich hipster trust fund kids took over bc normal ppl can't afford it anymore and most of the classic old locally owned joints are gone. So many storefronts empty. It's just a tourist trap and playground for the mega rich now.

@paulwhite6626 3 года назад

I came to Camden in 88 and although I sometimes move away, somehow I always find myself pulled back. The Camden Falcon that as you quite rightly pointed out, was a great gig venue, but sadly closed quite some time ago...20 odd years back. It is now flats. I was walking up Kentish Town Road 5 years ago and was astonished to see the pub sign for The Camden Falcon in the window of Oxfam so went in and bought it for £5. Bargain! And a real bit of Camden history as well it now hangs on my bedroom door. When I first arrived in Camden I got a job at Dingwalls simply by approaching the manager and just like Yosser Hughes said "Gisser job!" and amazingly got one, so got to see Lemmy coming in to play his favourite fruit machine. I REALLY miss Compendium, and the Camaervon Castle.......a part of what made Camden special died the day Compendium closed. Still Walden is a fine bookshop so I make the effort to continue being a patron, but Waterstones closed maybe a year or so ago because so many now buy their books through the behemoth that is Amazon. It is terrible seeing pub after pub closing down to become flats and it would be a tragedy if bookshops went the same way. For those in the area with a radical bent who miss Compendium, take a trip to Kings Cross and take a look at Housmans Books at the Scala end of Caledonian Road....it isn't Compendium, but we should cherrish the bookstores we still have.

@ThePoushal 2 года назад

I take London for granted. Thanks for reminding how great a place it is!

@ralphwinter6421 3 года назад

Thanks John, brought back some great memories of being totally off my head on Acid and Magic Mushrooms- Camden Palace on a Friday in the early 90's on E and Acid,.. Good Times..

@squirrelgirl2068 3 года назад

Nice one Ralph!😜👍🏻🍄🍄🍄

@ralphwinter6421 3 года назад

@@squirrelgirl2068 Do you remember The Supernatural ? Spaced Out Baby !

@kevinpowell7948 3 года назад

Mental, mental..... Green laser, the twins, nuthouse Crowland rd after, Lennie McLean, calli, purple omms. 😜

@squirrelgirl2068 3 года назад

@@ralphwinter6421 yes Ralph.. salvia sessions...Ahh those were the days! 🍄👍🏻

@trevorbarre5616 2 года назад

Oh Christ, give me a break. My trips and my e-breaks. Ffs, grow up.

@MrScipio72 2 года назад

Lived in a share house just off Camden Parkway back in '93/94. BEST time of my life - World's End was our local. Great great times.

@marialooksaround 3 года назад

I‘ve only been to London twice for 5 days total and on one of the visits I managed to get to Camden Town. It was 2015 I think, O found it amazing! The Camden Lock Market convinced me I want to someday live in London for at least a couple months. It is a bit of a hipster place, for sure, but it breathes history and I can only imagine how cool it was 30 years ago. Thank you for this tour!

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it Maria - London is an amazing place to live even if just for a few months

@hereiskinder 3 года назад

Lovely walk! Perhaps a more recent memory of Camden from me - myself and my friends would get the train up to Camden Town from Kingston upon Thames most weekends in the mid-2000's so we could lark about the markets buying weird novelty t-shirts and lighters. It was a completely different world to the side of London we grew up in, with all the futuristic shop fronts and street food. I have a fond memory of buying what I thought was ecstasy (while dressed in a named guantanamo bay one piece) only to get home to find I had a bag of Smints.

@russellsprout2223 3 года назад

Fantastic tour which I reckon could *easily* have been extended into a mini-series. Brought back so many happy memories of my misspent youth. Atb.

@jansammut9557 3 года назад

I was born in Albert Street, way back in the 50's. I have nice memories of Camden Town back then. It has changed a lot since the 50's /60's but I am still fond of it.

@rbrowne2998 3 года назад

A regular tramp, a grime encrusted small man, used to sleep under the statue (for depositing orphans) of St Pancras in Parkway near the park gate. I commuted that way at the time and very early morning would see him clear out from his shelter.

@ulricvoncatalyst1507 3 года назад

Delighted to see you're finally taking a comprehensive tour of my old London stamping grounds. Just pouring myself a beer and sitting down to enjoy this, ready to get all misty-eyed as the sun sets over old Glasgow toun.

@kerryannestevenson6099 3 года назад

I used to love Compendium,I was heartbroken and bereft when it closed.I remember being chatted up by Desmond Dekker in Dingwalls.And before I moved to live in Camden,coming up from Stockwell with a gang to the Roundhouse to see Siouxie and the Banshees and Poly Styrene.

@rbrowne2998 3 года назад

I think that shop sailed close to the wind. They sold "Class War" (of Ian Bone fame) and some Anarchist stuff as far as I remember. The police were always raiding them. Once the Conservatives got in I guess their days were numbered. I don't see any government putting up with them today, either.

@VisionsofChina 3 года назад

@@rbrowne2998 My buddy (a communist) had an "alternative bookshop" in Bridgwater Somerset when Tom King was Minister of Defence and MP for Bridgwater. He sold various stuff Palestinian pamphlets, Sinn Feins newspaper An_Phoblacht, the usual stuff and so on. It regularly got broken into and nothing was ever stolen. The clue was the big men sat in black Range Rovers parked around Bridgwater.

@lesliegprice6652 3 года назад

Hey John Great to see you walking again , Camden, what can I say, two places, Roundhouse 69 to 72, so much music and bands, virtually every Sunday, I saw PinkFloyd there, Soft Machine, Hawkwind, also folk and poetry, it was a steam locomotive shed with a turntable in the middle, also Primrose Hill was a favourite, lots of squats and mad times in that area, also the original market and the Alternative Book shop, it was because of a book I found in there John Michell New Atlantis that started my love affair with Glastonbury, Camden High Street and also Regents Park, a great area with an amazing history, thanks John,take care mate ♥☮️☯️🌈

@user-oq2pl6xq7c 3 месяца назад

I only visited Camden when visiting my son in East Finchley but was captivated by the stories of the stables and the coal moving from the canal, similar to Kings Cross with the railway. He loved the music, I loved walking on the wooden boards in the market where the horses were stabled at night. You can imagine it after they had finished their work tied up, fed and watered to rest for the night. Evocative.

@stue9391 3 года назад

This was 1 of the last things that I sat down with me mam to watch. She loved Camden, and this video too

@TrevRaynsford 3 года назад

I used to go to Camden Town every Sunday when I lived in London. Went round the market and had a pint or two in The Worlds End. My favourite part of London and just 35 minutes on the Tube from Tooting Broadway near where I used to live.

@athoshadjiantoni6403 3 года назад

The great wonder of Camden Town, so many colourful and bright places.

@angelajones9129 Год назад

Hello John l was glad to hear you give Walden books some well deserved publicity it's a great shop thank you for a very interesting and nostalgic for me .video

@mandylovett3980 3 года назад

Thanks for a lovely tour, I have fond memories of 'clubbing' at Camden Palace in the 80's as the music was more indi unlike the usual dance music played in Ritzi or Eltons in Tottenham, I remember all the bar staff had mohican hair do's , we had to get the night bus N29 home back to Enfield

@marcocoppelo6543 24 дня назад

From Finland i lived in London for experience in my 20's I remember you could still get onto the double deckers from the back. Just grab the hand rail and pull yourself in. And my rental had milk bottles delivered. I loved it. Blockbuster movie and take away food Fridays.

@suecondon1685 3 года назад

Black Gull book shop, oh joy! I went in there in 2011 and there was a book on the shelf literally calling out to me. "In Camden Town" by David Thomson. Absolutely fabulous book, part autobiography, part history of Camden. It was the best £2 I ever spent. A truly wonderful book, if you're not aware of it, please give it a go. It's what got me into psychogeography. Dublin Castle... 🥰... Has the dubious honour of having the stinkiest pub loo I've ever been in, but that was years ago... Spent many a night in all these pubs.

@GreyGhost. 3 года назад

brilliant half hour from the master.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks very much Paul

@GreyGhost. 3 года назад

@@JohnRogersWalks True story, regards from sunny Cornwall.

@alanpitts6326 3 года назад

Great video John. My memories are some years earlier and maybe more Hampstead but one of my favourite venues in the late 60’s early 70’s was The Country Club, Haverstock Hill. Saw John Mayall, Pink Floyd, The Nice, The Taste, Spooky Tooth, Fairport Covention and many others. Others who played there were Hendrix, Bowie and even Roland Kirk, the blind jazz multi instrumentalist!

@bryanmartin295 3 года назад

Watching too many of these videos. My grandchildren come for lunch each day and as they leave I say”See you tomorrow for lunch…… whatever that may be!

@erj145jet 2 года назад

Nice stroll through Camden as a frothy tourist destination living off the glory days of the late 70's and 80's. I was born there in the 50;s and my memories are of dark dilapidated, industrial buildings surrounded by dilapidated Victorian terraces converted into rooming houses. It was deeply working class in the industrial sense of Northern steel towns. My great grandparents were rural immigrants in the mid 19th century who worked the railways and Gilbey's Gin as manual labour, living in parts of Camden now buried under council flats, but described at the time as the pit of depravity. I remember the market on Inverness Street where fresh chickens were gutted in the street to order and the fruit and veg stalls. The meths drinkers huddled in little groups, which were replaced by Tennents lager drinkers and I suppose by drug addicts more recently. The further away from the Canal the better things got, the big Co-Op and Bowmans were nods towards a normal London village. Its lovely to see people using Camden Town as a tourist spot, but a bit of a shame that its hard edged past has been forgotten.

@antispindr8613 Год назад

Sorry to go a little off-topic, but does not this contain shades of Notting Hill - years before Notting Hill (the film)? Then again, how many people are interested in dirt poor people or race riots?

@erj145jet Год назад

@@antispindr8613 I think you have a point. I used to get taken to the Notting Hill market when it was mainly fruit & veg, which became bric a brac, then antiques. It became an immigrant area quite early and was more deprived than Camden, whereas Camden felt more working poor, although a popular destination for Irish immigrants as well. I don't think the race riots of NH have been forgotten at all, there was a successful drama on TV set around them quite recently. The plight of the Irish, though, is rarely mentioned, although it was indirectly referenced in Call the Midwife with itinerant characters working in the rebuilding of the east End in the 60's. The tragedy of modern London is that the Inner parts got gentrified and the poor just got moved out to the outskirts. Places like Enfield which were quite genteel are now like war zones!

@antispindr8613 Год назад

But the media always been a little hostile towards the poor. For why would the press call people forced out of London "Over-spill"?

@maria8399 2 года назад

Camden is always in my memory as the place where many of my Cypriot family lived and worked. My mum got a job on the high street when she came to the UK in 1962! Camden used to be more of a mix between the everyday shops and the bohemian ones - your lovely film shows how much the alternative/tourist vibe kind of took over. My dad used to go shopping on Inverness Street for fruit and veg, I used to buy records from Out on the Floor and sweets from Woolworths! There was a cool material shop called 'Ruby in the Dust' I think. Plus the delicious and hugely missed Olympic bakery. Always had a great vibe did Camden.

@smacker2182 3 года назад

Great memories John. I worked in Somers Town in the early 80's and was a regular visitor to Camden Town and the market at weekends which was more of a flea market then with crafty type stuff and some dodgy fashion things of the time like the Ian Curtis type raincoat - more like Frank Spencer on me. I was also in a band that did a couple of gigs at Dingwalls and with stage that had a pole in the near middle of it - those who played there will remember it. Madness were everywhere. Arlington House from their song "one better day" is just off Inverness Street which was a fruit and veg market. Also about 1981 I saw a pre Eurythmics post Tourists Annie Lennox walking past the Electric Ballroom. Saw countless gigs at the Music Machine notably Iggy Pop and Slade. Such great memories all exciting for a young man in his early 20's.....now in my mid 60's.

@zigowl1193 3 года назад

You've inspired me. Heading there tomorrow for a walk around. Thanks. 😁

@munozmontenegro 3 года назад

Cada vez que viajo a West Worthing a visitar a unos amigos ingleses, paso a Londres por una semana, es un ritual para mi dar una vuelta a Camden Town. Gracias John por comentar este lugar. Desde Chile, América del Sur

@dambrooks7578 3 года назад

I very much appreciate you using the name of Camden Palace, I cannot abide the name of Kokos, it is another venue that I have seen loads of bands in.

@ronaldm8235 3 года назад

I think it was called the music machine before? Well I did get beaten up by the bouncers once!

@dambrooks7578 3 года назад

@@ronaldm8235 I don't recall it being Music Machine particularly, or maybe we always just called it Camden Palley or something...

@markbushy 3 года назад

@@ronaldm8235 wow much respect! That goes back some ways!

@JC-om6vk 3 года назад

For a short time, before it was the Music Machine, it was called "Nero's" (mid 1970's).

@troymphoto 3 года назад

Excellent walk John, brings back all the memories of my teenage years going to gigs and spending my early 20s there as well.

@chrisrute9627 3 года назад

Fantastic walk around of one of London's gems!

@oc2phish07 2 года назад

Brought back many happy memories. I used to drink in The Elephant''s Head myself years ago, with my publisher and other writers of early computer adventure games. Great days.

@stevenmccart5455 2 года назад

Camden Town!!! One of my favorite places in the city but ,I say that about nearly everywhere I go in the city. Definitely my favorite for shopping.

@philipreddaway6410 3 года назад

Thanks John. My first job in London was in Greater London house at Mornington Cresent in 1978, and we lived in a studio flat in Albert street off Parkway ( shared bathrooms - cant believe it!!) when this part of London was mainly owned by Greek Cypriot landlords and was almost completely ungentrified- My second job was pulling pints in the Spread Eagle at the end of our street - then a mostly Irish boozer though not as hardcore as The Dublin Castle. Fond memories of the early days of the market, gigs at the Roundhouse ( Roxy music etc) , the Odeon on Parkway when it was a single gigantic screen, and bumping into Alan Bennet at the great deli Delancy stores on a Sunday morning!

@johnfoster7996 3 года назад

Thank you John - Your walk recorded many flakes of my past!

@LondonTownWalk 3 года назад

I never lived in Camden Town proper but it has been one of my main spheres of activities for more than 30 years, and I have a lot of good memories. Thank you very much.

@lionelmarytravels6003 3 года назад

What an interesting place. So much to see, with pubs, markets and all kinds of shops. Amazing to think all those big name entertainers played in those places.

@Winniedex Год назад

Popped into the book shop when I stayed a few days across the road from it in Harmood Street. Was there for Camden Rocks weekend. Harmood Street was really quiet & just a walk away from the hussle & bussle! Lovely walk with history, thank you ..

@selbino 3 года назад

Fabulous video as always John. Those pubs and streets could tell some stories.

@johncarter2573 3 года назад

Great stuff john, what an historic part of our great city. Thank you.

@seant666 3 года назад

The Electric Ballroom is still a gig venue. Obviously shut at the moment.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Great to hear

@Curiousdriving 3 года назад

Absolutely fantastic walk - thanks for this wonderfully colourful and interesting tour of Camden. Looking forward to visiting in the summer as we move out of lockdown.

@mikebarton 3 года назад

Ready? Here we go....it's all changed since my day. 😉 In 1987 my friend said, of the market area, it was all changing and there was money to be made. Did we? Of course we didn't. *sigh* There's the Bucks Head where I had my 30th. It got messy. Nostalgia, nostalgia. Thank you John.

@djlewis5149 3 года назад

Glad your leg is better John. Had visions of a tour around your back garden this week😄

@djlewis5149 3 года назад

One of Sharp’s main collaborators was Ralph Vaughan Williams whose music was heavily influenced by English folk. The Norfolk rhapsodies are a good atmospheric starting point

@jeffmason3785 Год назад

Great walk in a part of London we wanted to get to, but didn't. Watching this makes me put in high on the list for our next visit to the UK. Hope you enjoyed your voyage into the wonderful world of Sir Terry. I began with "Guards, Guards!" and worked outward from there in both directions. Everyone develops their own strategy for the Disc series.

@danivloger 3 года назад

I moved into London in 1990 and being an old hippy I have come to live in Camden I am still here !

@councellingthecouncillors 4 месяца назад

1988 1993 I was at Air TV and then Air Studios so Camden & Hampstead so this reminds of so many stories, some unrepeatable lol.

@sandrasmith3207 3 года назад

Another great video with lots of memories. I used to visit Camden Town a lot for my work in the early 80's. Also went to see Henry IV at the Roundhouse with my school in 1973.

@marklife_ox4 3 года назад

Brilliant video. I go to Camden at least twice a year from Oxford since the '90s. Loved the Hawley arms, good mixer and the elephant. Saw many bands from blur to madness. Great times and memories. Hopefully back there in the summer!

@warlockofwordsreturnsrb4358 3 года назад

Fond memories of browsing books here and riding down the canals on a barge, on a London trip!

@ivanhockenhull2604 3 года назад

What a great odyssey, John. Never been to Camden but I lived in East Acton for a while. I was a fervent devotee of NME and I remdmber the magical roll call of venues...Camden Electric Ballroon, Dublin Castle. Transported me back to the 1980s. Great stuff, John. Glad the ankle has improved. 🇯🇪

@cdamiano100 3 года назад

Thank you John, I really enjoyed this video with all the interesting nooks and crannies of Camden. You do excellent work.

@JTTW1455 4 месяца назад

I’m learning so much about London watching your videos John. Thanks for the eventful walk.

@1966babysnakes Год назад

How did i miss this one? Fantastic! ❣

@rumirill 2 года назад

All gone now, but Rock On, Ted Carrolls shop was just round the corner from the station, have fond bygone memories of this and many another Camden attraction… cheers n thanks for an enjoyable stroll thru it’s history

@2H80vids 3 года назад

I started watching this half-hour episode about four hours ago John. One of the things I love about these videos is the rabbit holes and there were plenty in this one. I always chart our progress on RailMapsOnline, nothing new there, but google was getting hammered too this time. One of my main interests is railway history and Camden is knee-deep in the stuff. You cover places in a very different way to Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazard (not better, not worse, just different) and often visit similar areas, for different reasons. By watching all three of you, I tend to get a more varied/balanced view of these places. The rabbit holes crop up frequently on all three channels and are just by-products of fascinating channels, an occupational hazard. Thanks for taking me along once more. Cheers for now,🍻 Dougie.

@sahu 3 года назад

Love Camden Town...Lived there for 2 years...My dog and I miss the walks to regents park and walks along the canal. Thanks for yet another great video.

@tomcook7676 3 года назад

Thank you, John, I have been watching and waiting for you to include a few bookshops in your walks! If I were young and able to visit Camden, I would be another soul that would stay on, God only knows how long that would be. It is appealing for sure!

@Ben_Mdws 3 года назад

Saw my first gig at the Electric Ballroom. Great memories.

@mamnisel4815 3 года назад

Superb walk round Camden John and you covered Alot of ground.Very interesting as usual and I will have to pay a visit myself again soon.

@FrenchRiviera4K 3 года назад

Such a wonderful walk !!! Greetings from France !!! 🧡💛

@nickbwalks 3 года назад

Another brilliant video John, Yes great memories of Camden.

@waynedrayton 3 года назад

Great walk with memories for many different ages. For me 89/90 two very important shops for a b-boy....4 Star General and the Soul II Soul shop with the baddest sound system.

@dornierdo2172 2 года назад

Totally agree with you on Black Books great comedy 👍

@seanmurphy5770 3 года назад

Thanks John, i was born in the old St. Pancreas ward,now part of Camden. I remember we shared a pint together back in the 1990's in Islington, long time ago.

@videocurios 3 года назад

Loved it ,Thankyou John for reminding me of my homeland as a King's Cross and Camden Town kid who moved to the Eastend in 1996.

@mariannehawes9609 3 года назад

Loved this video...both my other half and I have so many memories of Camden.....going to gigs and drinking in pubs...being shocked at the prices in the sir Richard steele when we went there before seeing killing joke at the roundhouse...oh and enjoy your terry pratchett books....he is brilliant

@TimothyHalkowski 3 года назад

Brilliant walk - did not know that Dickens hung out at 'the world's end pub.' Love that place. Camden is always my first stop when I pass thru London. Glad your ankle is feeling better.

@mikemorris9636 3 года назад

good to see you're still Rocking and rollin along

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks Mike

@alisonedwards8810 3 года назад

I have many memories of shopping in Camden Town market. Thanks for the video!

@raymondpenalver7095 3 года назад

Your great video certainly took me back to the days of the new romantics and punk, this was the best place to buy music and not forgetting my Nine Inch Nails tshirts. Thanks for bringing back a few good memories for a Sunday evening John.

@hArtyTruffle 3 года назад

I always take my Grandaughter there for a treat. It’s her favourite place in London for clothes shopping. Great to hear all about the history. Thanks John 👍🏼

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Many thanks for watching- it’s great that this place spans generations

@greg9871 3 года назад

Wow cheers Dave! What a great trip down memory lane! My days where the 70s gigs, joss sticks, T-shirts as of Kensington market just a great place to buy your patch work jeans man! Brilliant days! 🤗🤗

@2Sugarbears 3 года назад

That was so wonderful. So many places I recognized and so many I didn't. Thanks for that John.

@SOUTHALLAlanTMobilityScooter 3 года назад

Thank you for getting me to Camden Town once again.

@terryflynn1956 3 года назад

Camden has to be one of the best days out in London. Have been to the markets many times and always discover something new. Thanks for a really interesting tour John crammed with so much information and facts galore about a truly iconic part of London . 😊👍

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks for watching Terry

@geoffbell9670 2 года назад

Roundhouse was home to the Middle Earth club in 67. Great music Saturdays/Sunday am.

@rooneye 3 года назад

Camden is such a cool place. Vibrant and full of life. This is how all highstreets should be. There should be LIFE and hustle and bustle and action. Highstreets are DEAD in a LOT of places. Dying before COVID and COVID just absolutely decimated some that might not recover. The government need to step in and make sure highstreets thrive as everyone moves over to shopping online. We still NEED highstreets. They're culturally vital for our society.

@ianmaddams9577 3 года назад

Many great days out and heavy nights too. Glad to see your walking better John . Thanks for the video 👍🏻

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Cheers Ian

@cdeldn2012 3 года назад

great video John, glad the excellent 'Out On the Floor' Record shop gets a mention and First Choice takeaway, many a 2am battered sausage and chips had in there!

@orgorg5055 3 года назад

Great video as always...had many great visits to mega city comics

@helenevans6134 3 года назад

I loved that John. Thanks. Soooo many memories esp of Camden in the 1980's and introducing our son to it in the 1990s and beyond. I remember following Ian McCulloch around The Camden Palace, much to his annoyance. Dancing to the Stray Cats in Dingwalls, going to the market in the eclectic ballroom in the day time then going back in the evening to dance, buys DM's in Holts. And yes, I did have my 1st piercing in Camden-, in Cold Steel, when my son was about a month old, and the wonderful guys who worked there helped carry his pram up the steep stairs! The only omission was Marine Ices near Chalk Farm station. Wonderful as usual

@TomWats0n 3 года назад

Great trip down memory lane for a Glasgow boy who ended up in Camden while working in the music biz in the early 80s. Must go back and visit sometime.

@patjackson8649 3 года назад

Oh, I'm so homesick! Thank you for this wonderful walk. Can't wait to get back there to have a pint in the Dublin Castle or the Good Mixer with London friends

@basilwatson1 4 месяца назад

72 camden street those who know, know great times ...was barred from the worlds end and steels was a favorite!

@robertcollins1583 3 года назад

Great video, John. I have great memories of many Gilles Peterson nights at Dingwalls :). A great video would be a few stops up the Northern Line starting in Highgate, stroll around there and down famous North Hill then an amble back up the hill and then down along Holloway Road

@wendyrual7179 3 года назад

Loved the old Camden Market.....thanks for the tour 🤗💜

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

My pleasure Wendy

@richardjohnwhite4971 3 года назад

Richard White. How things have changed - as they must. I worked in Camden until I left on my travels in 1973, and apart from brief holidays I have been away ever since. But it was good that you finished up outside Cecil Sharp House. It was there that I, like many other folkies, studied guitar with a wonderful teacher, John Pearse. John is no more, but I am still playing away in my own mediocre style. I flatter myself. This is for all the guitarists who learned to play Big Bill Broonzy's 'Story of Love' from the great John Pearse.

@JPLamoureuxsTravels 3 года назад

Simply my favourite part of london ive been going there for 35 ish years, many friends and characters i mey along the way ❤️ great video buddy!!! X

@sibaker4018 3 года назад

These walks are a perfect Sunday watch!! Great watch as always John👍

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Thanks Si

@lukeharris8806 3 года назад

Thanks John for another fantastic video - so many great gig nights spent in The Underworld in my youth - such wonderful carefree happy days - brought it all back - cheers 🍺🍺

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Cheers Luke to all those memories

@suecondon1685 3 года назад

Love Camden Town! This popped up and I'm on a bus! Can't wait to watch it later. 😊

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

Hope you enjoy it Sue

@margaretdrew2844 2 года назад

Two years ago my husband and i came to london to see cher at the o2 the next day we caught the bus to camden . Love it ,it is so diverse loved the walk and all the things you knew about the groups that had performed in the different venues. It must have been so enjoyable watching them all i ,would have been so happy to look back on those times , thank you for that john.

@Chingfordassociates 3 года назад

The photo of the band on the cover of the first album by The Clash , which was taken round the back of the Stables back in the days when it was derelict always makes me think of Camden. I suppose everyone has their own Electric Ballroom moment, for me it was seeing Teenage Fanclub.

@scorpionbooks 3 года назад

What a interesting walk, we will definitely try a few of the pubs when next in London, thank you 🍻

@interpoluk 3 года назад

Madonna first UK gig in Camden but the first appearance was on The Tube from The Hacienda Manchester.

@warriorsoflego 3 года назад

I was about to say that. She didn't exactly excel herself on that occasion either. 😊

@NymphZoic68 3 года назад

The Tube was filmed in the old Tyne Tees studio in Newcastle

@interpoluk 3 года назад

@@NymphZoic68 Yes, the curved canopy tunnel (tube) is still there. They did plenty of outside broadcasts too, including that night a link up with the Haceienda, Manchester.

@NymphZoic68 3 года назад

@@interpoluk Aha, I see :)x

@gabriellaclarke9834 3 года назад

Thanks John, absolute gem of a walk , so much I didn't know about Camden. Also love the nod to the mother Redcap pub in wooburn, remember drinking there in my teens as a local Wooburn girl and used to enjoy the stories of its connections with a local witch

@JohnRogersWalks 3 года назад

That pub had such a powerful hold on my imagination as a young kid. We used to sit in the garden, slightly terrified by a ramshackle shed that the older kids said was haunted. I also spent my teens in there with my Dad and his mates midweek. That would've been mid-late 80's - I wonder if we were in there at the same time?