The Lost River of Walthamstow | secret underground stream (4K)

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Walking the Lost River of Walthamstow - secret underground stream in northeast London, tributary of the River Lea (in 4K)
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Watch this video of my walk along the Philley Brook • Leytonstone's Lost Riv...
I go in search of an underground river in Upper Walthamstow on the edge of Epping Forest following reports of the sighting of the stream flowing beneath the street.
We start at Whipps Cross, Leytonstone and pick up the course of the stream at Bisterne Avenue, Walthamstow E17. Our walk takes us across Wood Street and along Brooke Road, Shernhall Street, Raglan Road, Peterborough Road to Forest Road Leytonstone where we meet Leytonstone's lost river, The Philley Brook (Fillebrook).
Philley Brook walk in 2010 with Nick Papadimitriou and David Boote • Through the 'Urethra o...
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Length of Light by Amulets
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@PVAPPE 3 года назад

Another excellent, educational and therapeutic video. Who cares what’s on TV when work of this quality is available?!

@jackrutter9250 3 года назад

Hi John. Lived on Chadwick Road. Can confirm had a water course in the basement cellar discovered digging down during building work. Was always suspicious as the cellar floor had damp only in one section. Had the water analysed and was definitely a stream not some leaking drain. Considered bottling it and selling it as Leytonstone spa!

@richardhavell4492 3 года назад

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@georgerobartes2008

I worked as a surveyor for an approved contractor for LB of Waltham Forest and the scope of works included void work , remedials including unexplained damp issues and as result locating drainage runs . You missed the biggest clue for the head at Upper Walthamstow and walked past it along Bisterne Road . Avon Road is the course of the river as "Avon " is old Brythonic for ' river '. Yep the River Avon is actually the River River .

@robbojax2025 3 года назад

Never thought of an electricity sub station as a temple to a river before. Thank you for another relaxing (for the viewer) walk.

@bw_digitalphotography 3 года назад

The sound of running rivers is just magical. truly love walking beside them

@bxckdoor9113 3 года назад

If you go to the Coombes Croft Library in Tottenham you can see the Moselle Brook river under a thick sheet of glass, the river goes underneath a lot of the main roads in the area

@pumpkinprincess1031 3 года назад

“Their spirits insist on breaking free”. Such poetry in your storytelling. Thank you.

@DavidCoverdale2000 3 года назад

Hello John. I hope you are well. I used to live in Southwest Road (the Phillebrook flowed directly behind you from the shot of the manhole cover at the end of your video). We had those massive pipes (like those you highlighted in Peterborough Rd in this vid) inserted into the ground near to where the phone box is/was in our junction with Bulwer Rd around late 1992. This was because our house in Southwest Road flooded pretty badly several times in the mid-80's. Ironically, our neighbours from the back of us in Drayton Rd owned the land immediately behind the manhole cover shot and proposed building flats there (over the course of the Philli) around 15 years ago. Us and our neighbours in Southwest Rd successfully fought this off. However, our family moved out of Southwest Rd ten years ago and I saw from your Philli video that they have now built flats there (the irony here being that they probably cited the improved drainage from the Philli there when being successful with their building proposals second time round). One more little thing, I do remember as a kid boring a hole in the ground to our garden in Southwest Road during normal weather conditions and hitting the Philli around 6 ft down! Thanks again John. All the best.

@Pierlover 3 года назад

River detective! I like the idea of you being stalked by Thames Water - they want to keep the river secret! The first part was my area - my brother and I used to play with some children in Bisterne Avenue. They were always digging tunnels in the back garden so you could roll a ball from one end to the other. (Except it always got stuck somewhere!) My first school was in Wood Street and I had my appendix removed in Whipps Cross Hospital. Even though I left there in 1955 when I was 5 my memory of the area is very vivid. I remember going to Sunday School in Shernhall Methodist Church - a huge (it seemed to me) Gothic building but it doesn't seem to exist anymore. I couldn't find it when I went back in the 1980's.

@boondoggle6 3 года назад

What a treat to join you on this fascinating exploration looking for a lost stream. Your enthusiasm and excitement is so infectious I was on the edge of my seat several times as you came close to uncovering that elusive watercourse.

@koningbolo4700 3 года назад

Lovely mystery hunting... Very good to read the land and the way people of the past were forced to respect the river by not building on them or in a special way...

@arrabellawillow7943 2 года назад

I’m from North Yorkshire I love your walks, I’m disabled so I feel like I’m walking around London, my mother was born in London thank you for such interesting adventures

@stevec00ps 3 года назад

Brilliant - loved this one John! I can't help noticing things like valleys and gaps in buildings now!

@davidshearer8793 3 года назад

Thank you John. Most interesting to an Old Leytonian now living in Western Australia. And there are plenty of hidden water courses in our beautiful suburb of Bayswater.

@Mick_Holland 3 года назад

It’s taken me almost a week to find the time to settle down in front of this film and it was worth the wait. The blue shack on Marlow Road and the frontage of the covered market were particular highlights for me.

@cgj3888 3 года назад

Recollections of memories working back in the 80s a couple of days a week in Hoe Street and spent lunch time and evening walks around Walthamstow

@holeephuc007 3 года назад

Go to Chelmsford Road Leytonstone off Fillebrook rd. Walk down the hill to the bottom and in the middle of the road is a grate. You can hear the brook flow below. Your welcome. I understand from our house title deeds that the land on which the brook flowed belonged to the Earl of Mornington. If you can find it online or at Vestry House Museum/Leytonstone Library there exists a black and white photograph of the brook before it was built over.

@fwof3347 3 года назад

Currently sitting in the Southern Highlands in NSW Australia. I spent from 1979 til 2011 living in Walthamstow, the River Lea was the main area to play growing up as a child in the 80's the fields white hill etc, all been built on now... changed so much around the Wood Street area.