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The crew of the Bounty...were "dragged from the gin house's and gutters" of Deptford High Street...1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty...great little video Joolz...I lived on the Pepys and surrounding area in the 70s, 80s and 90s...I currently live by Waterloo Station on a Peabody estate.. It's like living in a theme park...The Globe, London Eye blah blah blah...but not being able to afford the rides...Deptford is a real bit of London history...old and new..don't forget Deptford Fun City records...thanks for posting geez👉🇬🇧👉👁️👁️👉☑️
I love watching not only for the interesting history , but for the genuine fun you all have while presenting it. It gives one a lift in these gloomy time , Thanks so much and please , keep em coming !! Cheers from the USA.
I'm so glad your videos are back! Had to rewind quickly when you mentioned Samuel Pepys diary; I thought you said "Bagwell." You did, indeed. That is a name our family is associated with, so now, because of you, I have to go and read his diary. Love the education one receives while watching. So much better than the dry books and boring history professors in college.
Just want to say that your "tours" have been my salvation through struggling with COVID CRAP and my mental health......THANK YOU SO MUCH ,JOOLZ ! Baz x
Yes. Sometimes after work I used to go to the Duke in Deptford, on the corner of Gonson Street. It’s still there, but totally different from how I remember it. For a brief period, it was renamed ‘nail in the heart’ after that Jools Holland song. Same with other parts of Deptford.
Another great video. I only discovered your channel recently and subscribed immediately. Great production, excellent presentation of historical information that is so important to preserve, now so more than ever.
hi Joolz, lovely to see you again! Can I make a suggestion for people not from London, and have a map in the beginning of each video just give where the suburb is in reference to what ever landmark in central London you think is appropriate? Just so we can get our bearings. Love and appreciate all your work !
Was hoping when he got to Creek Road that he might have mentioned my old school, South East London Technical School, otherwise known as Creek Road school. In 1922 my dad was born in 24 Czar Street
I love the story of the stretcher railings and the bollards that were cannons with the ball's in the top. When I go to London I will look out for these and Parish boundaries. Thank you 😀👍
I was brought up in New Cross 5 minutes from Deptford and even went to secondary school Deptford green school. However have moved out now but its interesting to see Deptford when my gran used to take me to the market every weekend for food shopping.
If i may add some trivia: Mydiddee was not the first tahitian to visit europe. Ahutoru was brought to Paris by Bougainville in 1768. He also died of smallpox on his way back to Tahiti. Mydiddee also was not the first Pacific islander in London. That honour came to Omai from Raiatea who was brought along by capt Cook. Cook brought him from from Tahiti though. Czar Peter learned ship building predominantly in the Netherlands. He came to England after he discovered that the dutch, though superior in shipbuilding, were less usefull than the english builders as the latter used reproducible procedures. The Czar definitely out stayed his welcome with king Billy. While in Britain he had an affair with an acrice who probably was about 16 yrs old then. When he left after some 3 months he gave her 500 pounds for her services (thats roughly 200.000 pound in todays money). Rumour has it that she found it not enough while Peter thought he overpaid. He never paid the 350 pounds damage to the evelyn house BBC presentor impersonation was great
That is one of my favourite pubs in London, it's called The Dog and Bell. Before covid every Wednesday evening a bunch of people would band together to play Irish traditional music just for fun, needless to say the atmosphere was greatly improved by them. I recommend this Pub to everyone, especially if you like continental craft beers as you wouldn't be able to try them all before falling into a coma and dying as the selection is quite extensive. Thanks for the great video
Great video as always Joolz! Sadly they can no longer raise Ha'penny hatch ( or Creek bridge as I know it) due to the rail that runs across it being continuous and without the necessary break.
Yeh I worked there in 90 s and Lewisham and Brockleyy -very rough places ,Deptford estates like the Milton court people didn’t even go off estate to burgle ,even one case where they burgled their next door neighbour!Looked a rough place too Deptford.Lewisham few years ago was voted the least peaceful place in the country to live ,Heard Brockley now got cafe culture but years ago that was bad for burglary and Murder
Deptford Creek bridge, a listed structure, has been welded in the down position for many years. However, up to the 1960s, ship-owners could request it to be raised at times convenient to themselves i.e. when the tide was in, which was a tad inconvenient when this was during the rush hour. An Act of Parliament was needed to sort this out.
Could I please ask a question? It is mentioned that the bridge would be raised if a tall ship needed through. However, it seems a very narrow space. Is it just the view that we are getting from the video that makes it look small or was the space for small, sailed vessels? I was thinking more of commercial sailing ships when Jules was discussing the bridge
Deptford Creek Bridge was up a few weeks ago. It’s part of my run route in the mornings, New Cross Station to The Trafalgar pub and back. It definitely still opens and closes.
A most welcome return. Ta for a fascinating unfolding of historic bric-a-brac & more! By the by, is it not the case that Cpt Bligh was the opposite of how 'M. on the Bounty' depicts him, and that he was a highly respected man of the sea, as necessarily strict as all his contemporaries, and indeed, crews returned to work for him, which betokens the esteem within which he was held? Weren't the mutineers being rather silly?
My local and favourite pub in London featuring at the end there! The Dog and Bell, highly recommend if anyone’s ever in the area. Lovely atmosphere and stunning range of craft and European beer
Pretty sure it’s a marker for distance for toll payment stages. Tickets bought at toll booths allowed travel between a number of markers without further payment.
Great to see a notification pop up from you. A pleasure to once again watch you explore parts of London that I otherwise wouldn't have known existed. And you do it so well.
I believe Peeps wrote his diary in his own shorthand code so his wife couldn't read it. You put yours on RU-vid and everyone sees it. The best 24 mins of the day.
Yes, that's right. I was going to put that, but you beat me to it. Even though it was coded, he wrote the naughty bits in French, as I expect you know.
Verrrrrrrrry interesting Mr. Bond..............go a little farther back..........especially how hackney, which incorporates Shoreditch and stokey has changed from sooooo poor to sooooo trendy within approx', three decades.........ta..........
Another tid-bit about Albury Street... Legend has it that Lord Nelson used to meet up with his mistress, Lady Hamilton at number 34 Albury Street. Also, it’s a shame you missed the caskets stored in the entrance walls of the Crypt at St Paul’s Church. Last time I went there, you could see them clearly through a hole in the wall. They may have been moved now but it was well creepy. Don’t suppose you could get into St. Nicholas church, but if you had, you’d have seen the most marvellous wood carvings by Grinling Gibbons.
Yes, I’ve heard that about Lord Nelson. I used to live in Albury Street just a few doors down from there. If only I could have bought that house! A great place to live. But that’s real fantasy land thinking of course.
I love all these videos about London, I love hearing how people from Liverpool played a part in the development of it too, loved the story of Ferranti, also His granddaughter Valerie Hunter Gordon invented what is considered the world's first disposable nappy and an early sanitary towel system.[1]
You mention that this area was heavily targeted in the war. My grandad George Albert Jessep (33) was guarding an unexploded German bomb in Borthwick Street in September 1940. The war had only just started in May 1940. The bomb exploded and he was mortally injured and taken to The Miller Hospital in Greenwich the next day he died. He was married 8 years before at St Nicholas Church. My dad was nearly 5 when he lost his dad. I took my dad back there last year. The first time in 80 years for him
So Close yet so far! Oh wo is I guvner! Blackheath whereby I was buried alive. Start the. At the pond beside the Princess of wales pub uopn the heath. I had the misfortune of growing up in that pub.
If you want a "different" pub experience in Deptfors, check out the White Swan on Deptford High Street. In there midweek at about 3pm and they were playing some Hard Trance and everyone was on coke and pills. We stayed for a drink, then ran away as we were freaked out!!!! It's a must!!!
Was waiting for you to go to Deptford! I lived just around the corner from Drakes Steps for 11 years, so much history in such a small space. Love this video, so glad to see you back!
AWESOME video !!!! I'm glad that y'all are safe and doing good !!!! Thank Y'all for all that you do !!! I love the banter that Louisa brings and her factoids also !!! Hank y'all foe telling things I never knew and for showing things that I may never get to see .
My grandfather was born on Watergate Street, the same street where Marlowe was stabbed. As a toddler in the mid-19th Century, he was whisked away to America because Watergate neighborhood was a slum then, as well as in Elizabethan times, and still when my mother (who was named Evelyn--who says babies can't remember?) and I visited in the 1980's. It must have been greatly gentrified recently or you have selected the best parts of Deptford to show.
Joolz has finally visited SE London (proper), he'll now need 6 months to recover from the mental trauma, contagious diseases and sightings of mythical beasts.
I had everything crossed there would be a new video today! I love your videos so much and they’ve certainly kept me entertained this year. I discovered them in March time I think! Perfect! Lots of ideas for when I can get back to London. Can’t wait for more!
Ooo Dire Straits, The Chords (kinda lesser version of the Jam), Gary Oldman, Percy Dalton's, Peek Freans biscuits, The Squeeze (who used to drink on occasion at Bottoms nightclub), The Specials Ghost Town vids captures a fair bit o' Deptford and of course me old mucker Gary Dignam who lives by the old Mansion House pub still... Oh and Danny Baker who sadly lived at back of my ex wife's family who tormented the poor chap for years til Lewisham council rehoused 'em to Downham Est oh and a special mention to Cooper's Transit Breakers in Creek Road by the old power station who kept my MK2 Ford Transit's running oh so cheaply and ol' Ian and Terri French who had many late nite taste-ins at the Deptford Arms with hehe
Funny thing too was the electricians shop opposite the job centre, chap in there did all manners of under the counter naughtiness in regards to electric meters ranging from powerful magnets to full authentic crimp sets, remember when they raided the chap and I seem to remember the chip shop nearby got done for selling questionable meat pies e.g. weren't beef or chicken, more likely alsatian with a hint of labrador...
I was walking past when you was filming the pub scene and you and your crew was trying to explain to the bloke outside that it’s for RU-vid lol. Love the vids ps can’t believe how tall you are
