Historic Whitechapel Walking Tour: Uncovering the Hidden Gems of East London (4K)

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Join me on a journey through the streets of Whitechapel, one of London's most vibrant and storied areas. Our East London walking tour begins at Petticoat Lane, a bustling market dating back to the 1600s now known for its lively atmosphere and diverse range of goods. From there, we'll make our way to Wentworth Street once the heart of the Jewish East End and still a weekday market and centre of textile shops.
As we continue our walk, we'll visit Commercial Street, where we'll see Toynbee Hall, a social reform centre that has played a crucial role in the development of the area. From there, we'll head to East Tenter Street, where we'll see the impressive St George's German Church dating from 1720.
Next, we'll make our way to Commercial Road then to the site of the original White Church that gives Whitechapel its name. From there, we'll visit the iconic Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a historic business that has been casting bells since the 1570s and the site of Whitechapel Fort, one of London's Civil War defences. Finally, we'll end our tour at the Whitechapel Mount, located next to the London Hospital.
Throughout our walk, we'll delve into the rich history and culture of Whitechapel, learning about the fascinating sites and stories that have shaped this vibrant neighbourhood.
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@danspencer862 Год назад

John. I only discovered this channel about five months ago and I’ve had so much pleasure watching the back catalogue. I’ve been through some hard times lately and these films just take me away from all worries and troubles and transform me to another world, there so calming and engaging and walking has now become one of my best hobbies, thank you so much John.

@welshhibby Год назад

Hope you have a great 2023 Dan !

@brendawordsworth9232 Год назад

I was at the London Hospital from 1969 to 1973 training as a nurse and living in the nurses homes in the streets behind the hospital. We used to pop across the Whitechapel Road to Kossof's bakery for fresh poppy seed bread, which we would demolish with half a pound of butter! Oh, and their cheescake too! Fantastic! Brings back many memories, although a lot of the streets I used to walk arond look unrecognisable, interesting to see the Outpatients' Department looks unchanged though, at least from the outside!

@jasonantigua6825 4 месяца назад

That’s a lovely story Brenda!

@davidsmith2356 Год назад

Great blog John, My distant family spent around 200 years in the Whitechapel/Hoxton area and gradually moved east to Bow, Mile End, Forest Gate, and eventually Woodford and Chigwell . My mother died in the Royal London Hospital in Decmber 1958. I have a very strong draw to that area, I didn't know why until I researched my family history. My Great Grandfather had a workshop in Shoreditch New Inns Street EC2 he was a member of a livery company and had the freedom, he was a Drawing Room cabinet maker as were several generations, My Greeat Great Great Grandmother had a music business in the Bow Road.. Its changed so much from when I was a kid, it used to have its own smell like the tube trains.

@jog1546 Год назад

Oh my word, the excitement of getting a tiny glimpse of Ann’s Place, off Wentworth Street, where my great great grandmother Alice was born in 1889 ❤❤❤

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Fantastic Jo!!

@AliBees Год назад

Thank you John. I love this series of walks where you bring the old London back to life. Wishing you health, happiness, good luck and great walks in 2023!

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Many thanks Ali

@RedcoatsReturn Год назад

The Bell Foundry was marvellous… I hope the building is rescued…its part of history 🙏🏻 Happy New Year John 😊

@MartinJames389 Год назад

I hope so, too, but not as a "bijou hotel". A museum would be a better use for the building.

@moisturisedgnome1181 Год назад

@@MartinJames389 more like more tenements for immigrants

@MartinJames389 Год назад

@@moisturisedgnome1181 Since it's Grade II listed it can't be what you call, in quaint old language, "tenements". Who do you mean by "immigrants"? Are you denigrating refugees from horrors you've never seen and can't imagine?

@moisturisedgnome1181 Год назад

@@MartinJames389 haha didn't take long did it

@jasonantigua6825 4 месяца назад

@@moisturisedgnome1181never does! Haha

@malcolmwinter6797 Год назад

The shop that John Merrick ( The Elephant Man ) was exhibited still exists in Whitechapel Road. It's number was 123, now renumbered 259..

@davy2022 Год назад

Although I live in Glasgow I’ve always had a fascination for East London. Such an interesting video!

@MsSmudge14 5 дней назад

Thank you for letting me know other sites now and in the past in 'Whitechapel'. I was there once in 1999 and would love to go again to see more. There is so much to know. Hello from 'Toronto, Canada'. I like the accents there.

@williamrobinson7435 Год назад

Happy New Year to you and all your family and team, John. I recall a chat many years ago with a gent who was a retired town planner, I would bump into him in S. Ken and we'd have a pint. He was of the opinion that the nature of the substrate in Whitechapel was such that the bomb damage suffered there went further than was superficially apparent, and that many buildings had to be demolished because thier footings had been undermined, leading to the perhaps greater changes to the area than one might expect.. I do hope the bell foundry site can be preserved in some form. Thanks for another fascinating film, a great start to 2023!🌟👍🎉

@jchanning72 Год назад

I worked on Aldgate High Street between 2014-19 and spent many lunchtimes wandering the streets and marveling at the history. As you know there are so many things to cover, including a lot of buildings demonstrating Victorian philanthropy.

@jamesjameson4566 Год назад

Did you marvel at the lack of English people, or was your head in the clouds

@LTMM_ Год назад

I work in Whitechapel. I rode near the Tower of London and the old Roman Wall. Instantly thought of you and this channel. Happy New Year.

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Happy New Year Letago

@gaylereid8264 Год назад

@@JohnRogersWalks Happy, Prosperous, Enlightening New Year, John ❣️🫵🤟🙌

@markturner1970 Год назад

An area I know well, I once lived in a block close to Sainsburys and my daughter was born in London Hospital and its now an area I deliver around. Happy New Year John.

@mungmungie Год назад

It is fascinating to get a visual sense of this area of London. My family lived farther west, but an unfortunate ancestor, Richard Finch, died in the area and was immediately buried at St. Mary's Whitechapel in 1707. Like almost all of my family who lived and died in London, all trace of their final resting places was erased by the Luftewaffe. The neighbourhood in which I live in Vancouver BC has a tiny high street called Commercial St. I suspect that early settlers may have come from the east end of London, as other street names suggest. One of the streets that intersected Commercial St. was once known as Montegue, and there are a couple of other names in common as well.

@bnpandsc Год назад

Fascinating walk to end 2022 and kick off the 2023 season, this area simply oozes history..I look forward to your next walk(s) regaling tales from the Whitechapel streets. Thank you John !

@glennparfitt8068 Год назад

Great Video John - since my son moved to Wapping a couple of years ago I’ve been exploring the area east of Liverpool st - there is so much history in the area - and once again you’ve helped bring it alive for me.

@glenbooth-martin7722 Год назад

In the mid eighties I worked in East Mount Street which is to the left of the front of The London Hospital. The company I worked for was a bespoke shoemakers that had previously been located a few doors away from the half moon theatre in Stepney and moved onto an old egg processing building at the end of east mount street which at that time led into the London Hospitals consultants carpark. The private post office underground line runs underneath East mount street although I’m not sure if it is still in use.

@BumblebumBear Год назад

One of the best channels on RU-vid…

@roba7345 Год назад

Hi John, just to say that I was really pleased that you focused on other aspects of Whitechapel rather than just the Ripper murders, thank you for another great video. I absolutely adore your channel and all the videos you create and share with us: fascinating and so detailed with little nuggets you simply couldn’t find elsewhere combined with your humour and warmth. Wishing you a very happy new year and I look forward to seeing you on the next walk, wherever that may be!

@AnthonyHatfull Год назад

My own thoughts about Jack The Ripper was that he was probably an insignificant nobody. After all who ever heard of Peter Sutcliffe, and he murdered twice as many, although people have made lots of money from Ripper theories.

@yorkyfozzy2867 11 месяцев назад

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@TodayFreedom 11 месяцев назад

The Whitechapel Murders are an absolutely crucial element in the history of London. They highlighted centuries of violent poverty and triggered national outrage at the disgusting conditions endured in what was the most powerful city on this planet. Every area “has more to it” than just one event, but there’s no point ignoring the absolutely colossal importance the autumn of 1888 played in London’s history. The tenement clearances in large part stemmed from memories of what happened to those poor women in Whitechapel.

@catieoates1726 Год назад

What a stellar walk, I look forward to more in this series. Absolute tragedy that the bell factory closed!

@WOLFROY47 Год назад

they can use the scrap waste from the bell casting, and call it, a henry moor statue, you could add, an unmade bed, a wire basket for paper waste, and, any left over paint slung at a large piece of canvas ? that they are calling art these days ? ? ? my hero is the guy that put different sorts of excrement, into glass cases, and when he won the first prize from the arts council, he then, released a statement to the press, that said ? i told you that they wouldn't know the difference between art and shit. the connection ? they take the oldest continualy running business inthe city of london and just dispose of it, and what will they use the factory space for ? another towering termites building ? more profi9t for someone, and screw peoples jobs and history. yep i am expressing IRONY

@wibblewabblewoo6249 Год назад

Wandered around this area in summer. Entrance of Toynbee hall has a lot of interesting historical information, I remember spending a good half hour reading it all!

@LauraValcarcelRodriguez Год назад

Hi John, Happy New Year! Thanks for this video! I work in Aldgate Tower and go for walks at lunch time every day, I think you got the correct development where the remains of the theater were found, however they can be appreciated better from Middlesex St, there is a plaque and even an area on the pavement marking the layout, part of it can be seen through the new building's glass windows, probably entry is allowed too (I have not tried though)

@billford5395 Год назад

Happy new year to you and the rest of your family how are you celebrating your holidays so far?

@johnmiller5630 Год назад

When I worked in the city pre covid I’d stay in Shoreditch and often go for an evening wander down towards the Thames and go through Whitechapel. There’s so much to take in round there, it’s fascinating. Thanks yet again John for another superb video. I’m a huge fan of your work.

@JW-yt7lr 8 месяцев назад

Sunday mornings down Petticoat Lane and onto Brick Lane with my Dad . He bred and sold Canaries down there , a family hobby going back to the Hugenot silk weavers of the East End from who we descend . In the winter it was so cold we used to get hot Sarspirella from a coffee stall on the market . John , you never disappoint . Thanks for the memories.

@JohnRogersWalks 8 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for sharing that

@missj.d9187 7 месяцев назад

Me too but with my Nan. The rest of my family run market stalls down Roman Road market. We originate from the Hugenots too so you never know we could be distant relatives. Sad how it's changed so much I'm grateful we got to see it in it's heyday. We were all mainly from Stepney but moved over to Bow. Lots of love to any true East Londoner's out there we are a dying breed ❤

@terryblack2219 Год назад

Once again John outstanding …funny I grew up there in the 60s and was a motorcycle dispatched rider in the late 80s to mid 90s in London now it looks like another city! Though it looks even more built up there then I ever recall.

@CaroleMora22 Год назад

A wonderful tour as always - Happy New Year!!!

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Happy New Year Carole

@sr3d-microphones Год назад

@@JohnRogersWalks Happy new year John, did you get my last email by any chance?

@charlesjames799 Год назад

John you were correct Tubby Isaac’s on one side and Barneys on the opposite side. I didn’t realise that he had died and the stall was no longer there. I’d not been back to London since 2016.

@markmiwurdz2248 6 месяцев назад

@charlesjames799. You may already know this. Apparently the famous seafood stallhlolders Tubby Isaacs and Barney were brothers. There was some kind of falling out/family dispute many years ago. So - even in the same line of business, they traded separately - setting up their own stall opposite the other’s! And the story goes that they never ever spoke to each other again. And just to let you know, I was born and raised in Whitechapel. We lived in a block of council flats in Sidney Street, built on the site of No.100 where the famous “Seige Of Sidney St” took place. Stay safe and well.

@calvinmarkpayne Год назад

I went to City of London Poly at the same site as you John in the early 90s. John Profumo could sometimes be seen in a local pub (I forget which one) having a quiet drink after work, which as a Politics student was a strange experience...

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

That’s brilliant Calvin - gutted I didn’t know that at the time, my Dad did some work at Clivenden at the time of the scandal. Also studied Politics at City Poly btw

@John_C-ng9eu 4 месяца назад

I really enjoy your videos! Keep up the great work, ... looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 месяца назад

Thanks John

@medwaypeninsulaMR Год назад

As an old Leytonstone man its always good to see my old haunts . Cheers Kev

@alltheteam69 Год назад

Thank you John. Nothing like the Whitechapel I know working and going out in 1970….. I took little interest then, so enjoying your videos. Always learn something

@timsmith2279 Год назад

Someone upset the left?

@andrewlong6438 Год назад

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I worked at the NatWest Goodmans Field location back in early 2000 and it has really changed. Fascinating area.

@timothylunt2907 Год назад

Another cracker John! Really enjoyable. I'll certainly look out for the raised pavement around Mount Terrace! In 20 years I've never really noticed. Great little fact. Happy New year, can't wait for more in 2023

@theslowwalkhome7314 Месяц назад

So incredibly interesting

@CaroleCollins-e3k 5 месяцев назад

My first teaching position was in Walthamstow and White Chapel was a frequent haunt. The difference in the area makes it unrecognisable from familiar streets that I saw in the 70s the station alone is so developed,back then there was a small sign and a very unprepossessing entrance.

@johnbarnes888 Год назад

Great video John. Proper Eastend cockney territory. Great balance of hidden side streets and Churches.

@QatarSandMan Год назад

Great start to the year.

@danieladams9950 Год назад

Fascinating, particularly about the Civil War earth work..

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Thanks Daniel

@mykola_kanyuk Год назад

Happy New Year, John. God bless You and Your family.

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Happy New Year Mykola- all the best to you and yours

@lizstevenson7801 Год назад

Its been many years since I walked down these streets and I must admit I never recognised Petticoat Lane as it is now. I can remember stopping at Tubby Issacs on many occations for jellied eels or bowl of cockles in my younger time. It all looks so different with all the glass skyscraper buildings. The history of this area is amazing, I never tire of listening to the stories. Thank you so much. Wishing you and your family a wonderful healthy, happy new year. 💕🇦🇺

@jamesjameson4566 Год назад

We've been replaced, that's what you can't put your finger on

@TracyPicabia Год назад

It is a memory lane for me too. I found John's images of it now, the street furniture and traffic signage, quite painful to look at

@jamesjameson4566 Год назад

@@TracyPicabia the street furniture and the traffic signage? nothing else a bit amiss

@wasATsea Год назад

@@jamesjameson4566 everything is amiss. The double yellow line, the towering modern architecture in the background, the crude signage between the shops and the rooms above them, the depopulated atmosphere of christmas eve....

@jamesjameson4566 Год назад

@@wasATsea Christmas doesn't live around there

@davidshearer8793 Год назад

Delightful John - time spent watching one of your walks is never wasted. What’s happened to Blooms restaurant? I can remember queuing up to get a salt beef sandwich years ago. Those sandwiches were so generous, you could feed a family of four on one. Hopefully the Whitechapel Bell Foundry will be kept out the hands of developers, and get a heritage listing.

@maurice8607 Год назад

I've a feeling Blooms moved to Golders Green.

@Britaininformation Год назад

Thanks for sharing this video! We also love our walks there.

@luxford60 Год назад

Another interesting video. Surprised you didn't mention that the shop building behind you when you are giving your farewell is the place where Joseph Merrick "The Elephant Man" was put on display as part of a freak show.

@jerrysartain2539 Год назад

Great historic facts,l love it.Thank you tremendously John.

@stephanbach1652 Год назад

I took a tour of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in about 2005. I’m so glad I did.

@johncubbidge2237 Год назад

Thanks for another fascinating trip John, and I hope the New Year is kind to you and your loved ones. Bethnal Green has to be included, especially the tube entrance during an air raid bombing, where thousands of people piled on top of thousands more because the gate was across the stairs and more people died than if they hadn't tried to shelter in the Underground. The Bagel shop in Brick Lane deserves a mention, as does Spitalfields Market, and the only Gasometer I know just off Hackney Rd by the 19th century public housing. Hackney Empire has a place in history....as does the Georgian four storey square around a central garden comparable to the smartest in Chelsea. Mitre square rings a bell. Have a gander.

@Andrew-cr5fo Год назад

Cheers John for taking me around the East End whilst laying in my bed in Norway. Keep up the great work mate

@slomo947 Год назад

Great vid of one of my favorite places to explore . Would like to have seen the horse statues of Leman st. , remembering the time horses escaped from goodmans Field and caused havoc in Leman St.

@stevefleming3083 Год назад

John I really liked this one. I work near Spitalfields and often visit the street food vendors in Pettycoat Lane during the week for some lunch. Your video makes me want to explore more of the area! Thank you

@maggiemitchell4359 Год назад

Brilliant walk thank you👍

@andrewhead6267 Год назад

Brings back memories of Sundays before Christmas visiting the area. Dad worked for the Electricity generating Board and had keys to substations. So we parked up in one and walked from Liverpool Street station to Petticoat Lane, the markets, Kossofs for bundles of rolls and bread. Club Row market to see the animals for sale. Walking around the remains of my Grandfathers beloved Bishopsgate Goods Railway Station. No visit would be complete without popping into to the Houndsditch Warehouse - The Selfridges of the East End.

@Mike-dk7wj 3 месяца назад

You have a great sense of humour. From the age of 14 I had Sunday and holiday jobs at the Hounsditch in the 60s when I was at school. At different times I worked in kitchen flooring, men's clothes and the toy dept. Selfridges it was not.

@scottwallace901 Год назад

I ecco others here by wishing you and your family a Happy New Year. Thank you for taking us on all the walks.

@chippychick6261 Год назад

My Irish ancestors lived on Old Castle Str in 1850s!

@steveallen1635 Год назад

Happy New Year John! Looking forward to following your adventures in 2023, wherever that might take you!

@djpj9174 Год назад

Thank you John. A very happy and prosperous 2023

@shaunjeffries2628 Год назад

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry tour was one of London's finest and its closure and broken historic links has left the city a less rich place. Luckily, we have your videos to plug the cultural gaps. Looking forward to your 2023 output.

@classicraceruk1337 Год назад

I was born in the London Hospital Whitechapel, I know it well.

@cdeldn2012 Год назад

Great video John!

@clivelangham435 Год назад

Thank you very much. Looking forward to further walks in 2023. A very happy new year to you.

@sianwarwick633 Год назад

John, i didn't realise Will Self is now a lecturer at Brunel University, thanks for that tip, and for the many links you provided for this video , in the description. A fascinating tour around the area.

@brianjrichman Год назад

My Dad was born and raise during the 1920's in Welclose Square when it was a Jewish Tenement. My mother was a little girl living above her fathers Tobacconist shop on the south side of Southwark Bridge all until WWII and the blitz. What you say about change and new sights is especially true and for London.

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Thanks for sharing that Brian - I’ll be going back down there soon

@LordMayorOfStepney Год назад

Still home to the famous Wilton’s music hall. My mum grew up in neighbouring Swedenborg Square in the 40s. I myself also grew up ‘in the manor’.

@brianjrichman Год назад

@@LordMayorOfStepney Outstanding.

@jamesjameson4566 Год назад

"change" I can thing of a few phrases to better describe this gentle unassuming word

@arriesone1 Год назад

@@jamesjameson4566 It saddens me so much what London has lost.

@andyl4565 Год назад

A great way to end off 2022. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it.

@timothybird4264 Год назад

Was walking around there a couple of days ago

@AnthonyHatfull Год назад

The deli` in Wentworth Street was I think Marks Deli`. In the 60`s and early 70`s we would queue on Sunday morning for freshly cooked lutkas. In Wentworth St was Jackie Braffmans dress shop. He made a fortune in the Rag Trade, but loved to hold court Sunday mornings, and auction of unsold stock. Other traders would buy from him. He craved publicity, and featured in the film A Kid For Two Farthings. He would "obtain" tickets to posh events, and have a photographer on hand then he would go up and put his arm round an unsuspecting celeb` then the snapper would do his stuff. The photos would be plastered all over the walls of his shop. I remember a snap of him with Mohamed Ali who looked as surprised as he did when Our `Enery knocked him down.

@MyHomeTutorial Год назад

Than you 🙂

@AFCManUk Год назад

Happy New Year, John!

@tcpip9999 Год назад

Brilliant ! Watching this on a train to Paris

@morriganwitch Год назад

I used to go to a particular club in Whitechapel , sadly closed . Xxx

@thekentishpilgrim Год назад

Happy New Year John!

@eastendswede8501 Год назад

Happy New Year John. Your vids are the best! Love from 🇸🇪

@JohnC2009Edin Год назад

Thanks for the last years videos, and I’m looking forward to the new year! Best wishes!

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Cheers John

@MrBestfootforward Год назад

You look so excited by everything around you. What a treat to start my year watching you in Whitechapel. And yes Lord Profumo did indeed volunteer at Toynbee......my brother David was doing legal advice for Peckham Citizens Advice Bureau and Citizens Advice at Toynbee all on top his regular legal work in Shipping Litigation and had meetings with him throught the 1980s , he told me at first he had no idea who Lord Profumo was. David died in 2021 such a loss for us all. He helped so many Londoners with his legal advice .

@indepthcardetailing2254 Год назад

Great Video as always. I used to live at Denning Point until 1995, backs onto old castle street. I often go back to take a look around the old place. Great memories.

@highpath4776 Год назад

Always felt like I would not have minded living there, but were the bins always full of old tellies in the 1980s !

@kyran333 Год назад

@@highpath4776 I live at denning point, it has greatly improved since then lol, the bins have some modern tvs occasionally 😂

@pinkmoondoll9shihtzu Год назад

john rogers videos are not just videos. they are a bedtime story to me.

@chippymc Год назад

Cheers John, more great stories from London’s past. Happy New Year.

@ArthurStone Год назад

Nice angles on the videography. Thanks John and best for 2023 :D

@lilasphotosandvideos43 Год назад

Happy New Year to you 🍀

@williamross2579 Год назад

Always welcome, always good! Thankyou John, and Happy New Year fella!

@vaunmalone3064 Год назад

Happy New year 😀

@ramblinactivist Год назад

"Now it's whatever this is" Sir! You are a logician par excellence!

@highpath4776 Год назад

Its also semi-dismissive of the present samey architecture of buildings that dont really statement , or sign themselves, as to purpose, ownership or tenancy

@ramblinactivist Год назад

@@highpath4776 Utilitarian Victorians embellished their architecture -- even little sewage pumping stations -- to signify functions (admittedly that was funded by colonial theft of wealth). Today's hyper-utilitarian world of short-design-life commercial buildings, there is virtually no embellishment (now the result of advanced 'neocolonial' theft); and residential tends to be stamped from a pattern repeated from Newcastle to Newquay to save money/get greatest economies of scale. I think we can quite rightly dismiss many aspects of modern architecture which have abandoned design for formless corporate hegemony. As development economics have become increasingly short-term and seek maximised returns, so design elements have been reduced to mass produced affectations, not a true reflection of place OR function.

@wobblebottom1 Год назад

Hi John, yet another cracking video. I've just been watching a Documentary (The London Nobody Knows) made by Norman Cohen and narrated by James Mason. Have you seen it.?

@markgreen6788 Год назад

Another awesome video John... Can't wait for the second part... Happy New Year!

@nicetry492 Год назад

Happy new year

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Happy New Year hi hi

@nicetry492 Год назад

@@JohnRogersWalks thank you 😊

@susanmitchell4744 Год назад

I'm told that I'm descended from Tom (Matthew) King by way of an Una Monk... Tom died of his wounds. Tubby Issacs jellied eels. Used to buy my Chola loaf in Kossoffs; so delicious. Such a shame its all changed.

@markriley4665 Год назад

My home turf John. I look forward to more fantastic videos in 2023. Happy New Year!

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Happy New Year Mark

@effyleven Год назад

《 What a lovely guy, isn't he? I'd love to spend an afternoon, or rather, a whole day, wandering the streets with him. I am sure I am not the only one. Happy New Year to you, John.... and thanks for what you do here.》

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

many thanks Effy - Happy New Year

@sandypearce7302 Год назад

Loved watching this video. How times have changed the face of this area where I lived, played and worked. I live abroad now but look forward to seeing more of your historical walks.

@peterhastings703 Год назад

Re: the word 'tenter' - several of my ancestors worked at the Tenter House Mill in Norden, Lancashire. This was described as a woollen mill and later as a dyeing and bleaching mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

@highpath4776 Год назад

So much in the area from Middlesex Street/ Hounditch and then over to Wheeler Street / Brick Lane - basically everwhere south of Bethnal Green Road south to the Thames is of interest

@ibrahimhossain2776 Год назад

I might be biased here but damn East London is just sooooooo London if you know what I mean It's got the most actual history of real London! The city of Londonium is there! And even today both of London's core financial centers are there! It's got the most diverse community in any part of london as far as I know. A testament to London metropolitan history I was kinda annoyed of the fact how east london, specially in its far Eastern parts, are not the most affluent, modern and whatnot. Old old infrastructure and everything. Much history but not great current times...but guess it ain't that bad

@pedallinraw Год назад

These are my top favourite videos John,capturing that older era ....love the old taverns ....🙂👍🏻

@angelacasey8446 9 месяцев назад

We are now on the cusp of 2024, but thank you for this and the other videos I am about to discover.

@iTomAnks Год назад

So much to see in such a small area of Whitechapel. Happy new year John!

@JohnRogersWalks Год назад

Happy New Year Tom

@nickbenton4881 Год назад

I ordered The Situationist City on your recommendation, John. Got it a couple days before Christmas and really enjoying it!

@aljo54 Год назад

I attended the London College of Furniture on Commercial Rd T the end of the '70s. Some of the students lived in a squatted Fieldgate Mansions (I think it was called). My dad spent his working life at the London Hospital.

@Tom_J23 Год назад

Happy New Year John!! Thanks for video!!

@rbagrizzly Год назад

Great walk! All you hear about is the Ripper associated with Whitechapel but I always figured there had to be more!

@GWJUK Год назад

We also have the Rack and Tenter pub at Moorgate I was in The Bell the other week, it would seem the6 don’t switch the heating on so you have to drink with your coat on 😂