Walk around London Olympic Park Stratford 2018 (4K)

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A walk around the London Olympic Park from Stratford Station down Westfield Avenue, through the International Quarter, past the Aquatics Centre. Then a look at the site of Stratford Waterfront 'Olympicopolis cultural quarter' before walking along the City Mill River to the View Tube. We then go past Pudding Mill Lane Station and Cooks Road to the Bow Flyover. Here we turn along the river Lee Navigation on the edge of Hackney Wick before walking along the banks of the old River Lea past the London Stadium and on through the Olympic Park to the Eastway.
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@paulr7496 6 жыл бұрын

As someone old enough to have got the first 2000AD comic (if only I'd kept it!), Stratford is looking more like MegaCity 1 every year. Before you get excited people, it was a dystopia.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

I still haven’t got over my Mum giving away my collection from circa ‘79(?) - 84

@paulr7496 6 жыл бұрын

Mums really do test our love, don't they?

@bumbumbumbum1000 6 жыл бұрын

I still have the first 2000AD, minus the free space spinner sadly.

@tomgirldouble3249 5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks this mum loved 2000AD. Some great insight, The Cola wars etc one fav character was Feral in Strontium dogs if I remember correctly?😀

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

@@tomgirldouble3249 Great to hear - Strontium Dogs was my favourite

@Richardsrailway 5 жыл бұрын

At 17:19 you can see the tall building next to the railway bridge . That’s the old ford fan shaft built by London Transport in 1946 . This was built as an emergency escape route from any evacuations that happened on the central line between mile end and Stratford because there is such a long gap between stations , at track level there is a set of spiral stairs that go up to the surface and out of the metal grey doors at the side .

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

I had no idea Triplealve - it's a bit like the Central Line WW2 lift shafts along the Eastern Avenue

@daniyartussupbekov4067 5 жыл бұрын

I doff off my hat Sir, for your awareness and interest in the entire life of this amazing historical area of London. Thank you for your vids, they gave me an air of rhetorical questions to think about.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Daniyar - much appreciated

@paulgalleyblackpool 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed that. Thanks for taking the time to make it. It's fascinating to see the development of the Park and the surrounding area. It was interesting to see how quiet it was, I expected it would be alot busier?

@MrOasis316 6 жыл бұрын

I think the park is awesome I love walking through it gives me great memories of the olympics.

@richardpicking4459 6 жыл бұрын

Stratford has probably seen as much change as London docklands, but perhaps quicker due to the urgency of the Olympics. I recall the area quite well with the old industrial roads like the original Carpenters and Waterden Roads towards Hackney Wick. The greyhound track, Eastways cycle track, British rail diesel locomotive depot and carriage sidings, and even a container depot. All gone.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing that Richard - I'd forgotten about the dog track, I've written quite a lot about this area for my next book, so much now buried beneath the park

@ArthurStone 6 жыл бұрын

Worked in the Carpenters Rd. area early 90's; kinda post-industrial. Rode my bicycle just like the guy in the St. Etienne video. The traces of WW2 were still close on a misty morning. In daylight it was Buddleia Land. Along the canals the outlines of re-forested factories reminiscent of lost Mayan temples, an illusion aided by a healthy intake of charas. The barges were part-covered by old tarpaulins, a bit tatty, often blue, discreet. Nice to see people enjoying their time there now, as I did then. Thanks John; much appreciated.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing those great memories Arthur

@JagBetty 6 жыл бұрын

Mega-city! Fantastic walk. Always enjoy your strolls.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jag

@lesliegprice6652 5 жыл бұрын

It's definitely a whole new city and eastern District of the evolving Mega City of London + I think it will fulfill its correct usage when the housing market slumps and the bubble bursts, there will be places for everyone in the future, London is growing and evolving and it will survive as will it's inhabitants, Londoners are strong and resilient, thanks John, I remember it as industry and docks, it's a brave new world ....

@NorthernCitrusParrot 2 жыл бұрын

No question the greenery and the presumably much cleaner waterways, are the best bit of the Olympic Park.

@CyclingSteve 6 жыл бұрын

I've tried to navigate through the olympic park twice in the last month, both times I was blocked by either hoardings or wire fences. I think I'll by-pass it for a couple of years, I prefer the Lea anyway. I've been cycling under that bridge for 30 years and have always slowed down or stopped for others, it's a shame the redevelopment of the area didn't include any new cycleways to help people commute without disturbing the bimblers. They certainly didn't hold back on building roads.

@CyclingSteve 6 жыл бұрын

I use the word bimblers in the most positive of ways, I consider myself a bike bimbler...

@paulr7496 6 жыл бұрын

it's the only way to roll....

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s so frustrating and I think it’ll be a long time till the construction is finished. I think they claim to have opened up new East-West cycle routes, but I wouldn’t know how effective they are. I plan to adopt the term Bimbler from now on

@CyclingSteve 6 жыл бұрын

I've not used the East-West one yet, I much prefer the old Camden/Islington/Hackney council one through Bloomsbury. Lower Thames Street has always struck me as being best viewed from a highwalk (on foot of course). Keep up the bimbling, it's always a pleasure to see your adventures.

@leonardthemachine 6 жыл бұрын

I've only been over that neck of the woods a few times and likewise, with my kids/family. We did the Orbit and a youtube boxing event at the copperbox arena, but other than walking to those events from the station, I've not really had a proper good look around! Your video does good to make us think, that whilst walking around in this quiet and peaceful little area that it all comes at a price, is it worth it? I guess it all depends on who you ask. One thing is for certain; affordable housing for good honest people on low incomes or that have disabilities is vital. In general, older generations miss the way that it was, and the younger generations of today will miss it in the same way when its their turn to look back. Now time to check out 'What have you done today, Mervyn Day?' Thanks John! I hope to make it to the Wanstead Tap!

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for those thoughts Leon

@motorheadmalc 6 жыл бұрын

The old iron bridge used to provide access from Carpenter's Road to the old British Rail carriage sidings called Thornton Fields. There are now two new streets called Thornton St and Sidings St there.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic thanks for that

@markwilliamson6884 6 жыл бұрын

Random. Walked through there this morning (walked from Bloomsbury to Stratford) was thinking about you when I crossed the Lea

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

That would have been a walk of many contrasts mark

@Erin-yp7vt 4 жыл бұрын

Do you ever feel like people stare past you when you walk past them or is it just me ?

@CruisingTheCut 6 жыл бұрын

I think my favourite bit was the "stink pipe"!

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

they're really peculiar artefacts David - you see them in the suburban streets of north-west London around the sewage pipe that runs out to Mogden

@srfurley 3 жыл бұрын

A couple of structures I’m surprised you didn’t mention. The first was briefly seen, just South of the Olympic stadium is Carpenters Road Lock, with its unusual lifting radial gates. It was totally derelict and overgrown when I first found it in the early ‘70s, but it was possible to walk up and over the original concrete structures and examine the operating mechanism. This isn’t possible with the replacement steel structure built after the Olympics, but at least it’s now possible to take a boat through again. Also surprised that while walking along the sewer bank you made no mention of the Abbey Mills ‘A’ pumping station. Interesting area, I remember it as it was a few decades ago.

@JohnRogersWalks 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding that Stephen, there are so many points of interest it’s difficult to include them all in one video which must be why I keep making them in this area; I’ve done quite a few now some of which include the places you mentioned and I’ve just shot one on East Village and Chobham Manor

@jeandunlop2922 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Thank you.

@RajSinghKhalsa 3 жыл бұрын

The greenaway from source at Victoria Park to Beckton is a walk although a bit featureless

@littleacornslandscapes2935 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and enjoyable video, thanks again John.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

thanks Little Acorns

@dai19721 6 жыл бұрын

ah another great one John. thanks a lot.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks David

@davewelch9089 6 жыл бұрын

Dear John; As usual, very interesting Video and thank you for your knowledgeable commentary. If ever you venture to the west country then consider the Cotswolds. I used to go to school at Sherborne Northleach and would cycle all over the area. Great little Villages and Pubs Thanks again Kind regards Dave and Lyn ……. from Australia.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip Dave and Lynne

@LeeDonel 6 жыл бұрын

Great watching this on my 4K TV 👍🏻

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

fantastic - great to hear, I really need a 4k monitor

@rosswebster7877 6 жыл бұрын

A very lovely albeit slightly dystopian walk John. It’s hard not to think of Alex deLarge walking home to his flat in A Clockwork Orange on some of those empty streets. Sums up perfectly my mixed feelings about Olympics venues. I dread the eventual economic devastation and societal/environmental displacement that comes with the village and stadium construction but I’m still such a sucker for the games.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Yes Ross there’s an inescapable dystopian element to some of the development, then on the other hand it’s clearly become a place people enjoy using

@rosswebster7877 6 жыл бұрын

John Rogers Indeed. I recommend a great video on the channel City Beautiful on the ruin the Olympics had in Athens, parts of Beijing and Rio, but also some possible solutions for a better more sustainable Olympics

@4thEyeVision 6 жыл бұрын

Super video John

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks 4thEyeVision

@arthurscargill8010 6 жыл бұрын

Another fantastic video John. Though 5:28 made me angry: a scandal.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Arthur - whenever I find myself liking elements of the park (e.g my kids' enjoyment of it) - the economics of it all always holds me back

@davidknell8831 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah scandalous !😡

@rashadahmad302 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent 🏟

@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198 6 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable and informative John

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Henry

@razvanburada1648 5 жыл бұрын

I love your videos !!!!

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Razvan

@paulmorris3613 5 жыл бұрын

In all the years i have lived in Leytonstone this is one area I have never explored...only once to the Olympics and then Stratford when I have to. I must admit the video doesnt encourage me to want to walk it anyway,looks a bomb and almost deserted.I'm sure some of the folks do not think the same. The cyclists seem to enjoy using it though. Thanks for walking it John and giving your thoughts.Soon it wont be recognised at all, buried under hi -rise building,exactly the same thing that has happend by the O2 and currently under way in Walthamstow and Waltham Forest where the council wants to build some 260.000 dwellings, with few council homes in that build.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Paul - it’s certainly a strange zone that will continue to evolve- and as you say mirrors developments elsewhere in London

@qacqacosman5716 5 жыл бұрын

I love Stratford East London From Somaliland

@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS 4 жыл бұрын

quite an eyeopener.. very intersting. flats look lovely but i'll keep my victorian terrace thank you.. thanks a lot John

@tayonacummings 5 жыл бұрын

High John, I really enjoy your videos as I am from Hackney Wick, Trowbridge est to be exact but I'm working abroad so don't get back much so it's a good way to what's happening around the way. Do you think that you could do walk around Trowbridge est because I've heard that so much has changed since the Olympics, new people due private housing development (no social housing I bet) and businesses have popped up and the station has had a major make over I think that would be a good to see not just me. Thanks and look forward to your next walk. 👍

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that comment Tay, certainly a lot of change round that way, I’ll take a wander round Trowbridge Estate one day

@MrCampbell633 6 жыл бұрын

loved it thks John

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching Mark

@WyeExplorer 6 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyable John. It's a warren and a whole intricate network of waterways around there. I can only but imagine that it was a world within worlds - a culture all of its own back in the day. Fascinating! I find it a bit disturbing how many shiny buildings there are. As you mentioned earlier very few affordable homes. Do they think the low waged don't exist or something? Good overall view and I liked your memories of your youth. All the best. Mark

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for that Mark - it's a real shame you can't travel through the park on the waterways - only along the navigation.

@WyeExplorer 6 жыл бұрын

A pleasure John - yeah that would be something. perhaps do a gorilla style navigation with a pack raft. Nobodies going to shoot you....have a good one.

@Na5tyify 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this. Great little informative film.

@mariana4059 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting walk, thank you, John. I guess with time one mellows towards unwanted changes, or at least try to find positive aspects to it - what else can one do? Though it must have cost many millions of pounds, I have to confess to loving the Kapoor red twisty tower sculpture - what do Londoners think of it, I wonder?

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think that's right - you develop a relationship with places that evolves over time and I in this case I've built up my own associations that run in parallel to the economics of it all. The Anish Kapoor thing just seems to be there, to be honest I never hear anyone mention it anymore

@MH-ln6pv 6 жыл бұрын

I suspect that the property 'loss' you mention at the sIx minute point had a gain for someone, somewhere. I imagine that for the tentacular reaches of politics and money it was more of a 'gain deferred'.

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

I think you’re probably right Malcolm

@cdssheps 6 жыл бұрын

Info come across well John nice walk......clive..

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

thanks Clive

@borderlands6606 5 жыл бұрын

Looks like a watery predator on the hunt at 20:00. Probably a perch, you can see the fry jumping. Classic ambush spot.

@kathleenfleming6993 6 жыл бұрын

Alas tickets are already sold out for the Wanstead Tap. Was ready to book my flight from Boston...

@kathleenfleming6993 6 жыл бұрын

However I was pleased to discover that a few tickets are still available through the Newham Bookshop (but there are 2 fewer than just a few minutes ago!)

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

sorry you can't make it Kathleen although Boston is quite a journey - you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a bit of a schlep

@graceonline320 4 жыл бұрын

Thank God it's still kept open during the virus.

@ThePORTYDAVE 4 жыл бұрын

I lived in Clays Lane for a few years. An anthropologist's dream!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

I've just uploaded a new video of the Olympic Park Davie and give a mention to Clays Lane. I walked around the site with a former resident a few years ago for the book I'm about to finish writing

@john80c 4 жыл бұрын

Another great video John. I am probably wrong but there seem to be hundreds of apartments with hardly any roads and very few car parking places whic could cause problems. is that correct, John?

@gavinredknap3280 4 жыл бұрын

at 10 minutes in, that's not Sweetwater, that's part of London Concrete's batching site. They bring in gravel by train and crunch it up and keep it there, then process it into concrete. The path under the Waterworks River is now open, as f October 2019

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info Gavin

@leophillips5723 6 жыл бұрын

Wicked video bro

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

thanks Leo

@alanbrown1848 4 жыл бұрын

Back in 2007, there was a pre-Victorian/ Regency House, dated 1828 in Angel Lane, off of Stratford Broadway. I sometimes used to pass this landmark and was on the right handside travelling towards Leyton. The following year, I discovered it had been demolished. I have lived in the Leytonstone/ Leyton area since 2005. John or anyone else, was this historical structure yet another casualty of the 2012 Olympic Complex? Can anyone shed light on a piece of history that has vanished?

@AlFred-cc6wm 6 жыл бұрын

worked @ mcgregor-cory in the 80s/90s off carpenters rd - is probably all flattened there now

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

the estate is still there Alfred but everything else along Carpenters Road seems to be part of the park now

@johnleach7358 5 жыл бұрын

Just watched this .. Another very good film. It's local too.. personally I love the lea etc .. but the mass luxury flats who will live in them? It will be out priced for local working class people .. What time at Wanstead tap on 18th Oct?

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Quite agree John. The Tap events usually start at 7.30 but worth checking

@Richardsrailway 5 жыл бұрын

Stratford was originally the home of the largest Locomotive works and marshaling freight yards in the country , I grew up in the area and remember how Stratford was , it’s not the same now , when I think of the Temple mills complex , and even the Green way was a former railway line towards beckton gasworks. Now it’s all for the affluent and wealthy , Marsh gate lane and cooks road is where I believe the old yardley soap factory was , back in the day the smell of boiled bones and chemicals used in the soap manufacturing process combined with the sulphuric atmosphere-of the nearby loco works was a toxic mix of awful air quality I was told !

@Richardsrailway 5 жыл бұрын

John . The structure at 17:19 next to the bridge is known as “ The old ford fan shaft “ . When in 1946 the London Transport constructed the Central line , because of the density of the service between mile end and Stratford , an escape shaft was built in case of emergency evacuation from track level in between mile end and Stratford , it comes to the surface via a set of deep level spiral staircases from the track below to the top here .

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant info - many thanks indeed

@TheBazza1701 5 жыл бұрын

John, many thanks for that video it was very interesting indeed. I visited the Olympic park a couple of weeks ago for the very first time. Like many patriotic Britains I was so proud of the Olympics we staged, it was truly rememorable and one I won't forget as they opened on my sons 16th birthday. Some of the points you make sadden me a bit, the fact that still, nearly 7 years on areas are left unfinished and not quite as they should be, hopefully as you eluded to, that given time the legacy will be completed as promised. I also find the sale of the Olympic village at a loss is criminal, there should have been a concentrated effort to either turn those facilities into social housing or at least recoup some of the tax payers billions in selling those areas. Thank you again for the video, I found it very informative.

@normathomas8276 6 жыл бұрын

I understand why you feel as you do about the park but then they say there is austerity but they found 9 billion whilst the disabled and the homeless continued to suffer

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

I know Norma it's really scandalous, not a justifiable use of that amount of money when there is such need elsewhere

@CaroleMora22 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is great to have a determination to somehow romanticize places that have begun to disintegrate or gentrify. It seems to me that urban areas and built environments need to be infused with as much imagination as possible. Maybe in time, many of these areas would be better planned for human enjoyment than they tend to be. That said, the "theme park" mode of enjoyment is not what I'm referring to...

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

I agree Carole - maybe we can reshape them with our imagination. I used to see psychogeography as a form of CBT to help deal with all the change in the built environment over which we have no control

@stuartwhittaker5363 6 жыл бұрын

If you look under the bridge that links the aquatic centre there is some bat boxes infact if you go to naturesmartcities.com there is a good project going on in the area about the bat populations

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

fantastic thanks for that info Stuart - I remember mentions of bats when I was given a tour of East Village a few years ago

@adelegeorgemcneil3709 4 жыл бұрын

Are you doing more vidoes on youtube john

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Yes Adele - there's a new one every Sunday

@stevenspraggs4953 6 жыл бұрын

west ham united played inplaistow not east ham was enjoying it untill the soulless bowl came in to view

@JohnRogersWalks 6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of you at that point Steven - very sad they moved there

@stevenspraggs4953 6 жыл бұрын

they have killed my club mate money is there god i can not put in to words my hatred for them

@saltalgilmour9745 4 жыл бұрын

i lived in plaistow.... till july 2012

@CthulhuInc 2 жыл бұрын

there is beauty in this world, yet this world is not for me...

@thfccfht 4 жыл бұрын

so Happy we, Tottenham, didnt opt for the Olympic Stadium..I think it was a D Levy Ploy to force West Hams hand and they got lumbered with it, their fans aint happy sitting a large distance away from the pitch...nice around there though, especially the river Lea.

@Genevasplaytime 3 жыл бұрын

Not so happy now are you?

@thfccfht 3 жыл бұрын

@@Genevasplaytime do you get binoculars to watch the match, a bus ride from the pitch..

@grahamwood333 4 жыл бұрын

Despite being born there it's not for me. Blocked walkways people in hi fizz telling u to go another route. Fences going up ,roads like North Rd around the Velodrome closed indefinitely. I would rather have real swans than pedals.

@georginacox3909 5 жыл бұрын

I put it on yiutube

@georginacox3909 5 жыл бұрын

Stratford E20

@georginacox3909 5 жыл бұрын

Oops just in on Google. V& A building etc plans granted

@grahamwood333 4 жыл бұрын

I'm like you I visit but I feel alien ther

@cmw3737 3 жыл бұрын

The spirit of anarchy is still alive on the barges. Thanks to billionaire yacht owners who keep the laws on their side so police can't sett foot on boats. This still applies to canal boats for now so the canal boat raves are a small enclave of freedom from the corporate takeover.