I’ve been watching lots of your videos since last night - thank you .. keep flipping between them all .. as it’s enthralling to see all the walks you do .. gonna make a roast today and just click play and let them all run through their entirety while I peel spuds & get the dinner on! .. absolutely joyful 🙏 p.s I was so happy to watch your walk in east Ham- as I was born in whitechapel in 73 and lived in East Ham till I was 5, my early childhood there never left me, you’ve inspired me now to do a walk around the area of my old home . Thank you 🙏

Oh... Bankside next week - Looking forward to that. I have lots of connections to the south side of the river. My maternal Grandfather owned the newspaper/tobacconist/sweet shop that was on the south side of Southwark Bridge before and during WWII. I even spent a few years in the late 1980's working on the top floor of the building (City Gate House) that is now the Motability Operations location (22 Southwark Bridge Road) that was next door to my Grandfathers shop. My mother used to play with her school friends in and around Southwark Cathedral and the market in the 1920's and 30's.

Hi, John! I was always intrigued by the bricked up doors and outlines of stone doorways in Edinburgh closes, and mused about producing a booklet called “Lost Doors”. You occasionally include a shot or two of a lost door along your walks. Any chance of a short video of Lost Doors of London? You featured lost advert signs once.

Thank you for answering my question John. Have a great week ahead 😊

Wonderful q&a, John, made for a grand Sunday evening watch. If you’re venturing inside Southwark Cathedral don’t miss Hodge the resident cat! 🖤

Great Q&A thanks John

would love a samuel pepys tour...need to read his book which has been on my bookshelf for years...i wandered around london city homeless for a couple of years so enjoy your church tours etc... popped in from time to time to many of these....to look in but didnt know what i was looking at the time....oh and more pubs mentioned....please....love your videos...

Thanks! Such a pleasant break! Agree post Roman London is fascinating.

I want to second the recommendation that you do an oral history project. Your insights and experiences would be invaluable to future historians. Thanks for answering viewer questions, it was very interesting.

Yes!! Looking forward to this!

Fascinating, as always 👍

I think the question means; taking a guided walk...leading a group of people on a walking tour.

Everyone has such great questions! Great chat - so interesting to hear your responses!

i enjoy these Q and A sessions, as they can give ideas for new walks - love from canada! 😊

Thank you John for reading my suggestion for a walk along stane st.lots of history along that route.looking forward to the film about Southwark.

Greetings from Norway. Love your videos. Keep it up🎈🇳🇴

21:30 Architect John Nash would be interesting to walk with. ⛪️

To add to "@calcium90's" question - I was at that Wanstead Tap podcast recording and would love to hear more of your story told on oral record! It would make for a fascinating insight into the field of psychogeography in London of the last few decades, from your lived experience and perspective. (The recording was excellent, by the way - thank you John for a wonderfully entertaining evening!)

Hi John, I watch most of your videos when I can. When was that David Hepworth article in the Radio Times ? I've been buying it every week for over 40 years, and I must have missed reading that one. I still remember David from the OGWT years back, and he does a really good music podcast at the moment. I remember chatting to Bob Harris at Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth concert at the Crystal Palace Bowl back in 70s or 80s. Procul Harem were the support band. Cheers!

Thanks for answering my question on Forest Gate pubs, Jon! Maybe see you down the Wanstead Tap one day!

I think a better question is are you a wizard like Peter Grant. I will always be grateful for your recommendation for the Rivers of London series! Top Notch.

I’m the tiny wizard from South Pekin, Illinois 😂 Nice to meet you!

Great questions, I've visited a few London Parks and Gardens, as a gardener in Filey, a video of London Gardens would be wonderful viewing at some point 😊

Cheers John - look forward to seeing your adventures in Brighton. Local and happy to assist.

Hi John, I did an interesting series of walks in search of sites damaged by bombing during WW 1. It’s an interesting bit of overlooked history around the City, West End, up into North East London and south of the river too.

Hi John. I know you've touched on Deptford a few years ago with the jack in the green video, but there are some very historic spots round Deptford way. I'm a local so would be cool to see you explore some more of Deptford too! Christopher Marlowe, Golden Hind, Deptford Dockyard etc.

The lost river of Walthamstow needs to be looked at again because at the bottom of the Bisterne ave because behind the houses of fifield road the railway run in a deep cut so the river can’t run that way. And when Wood st floods it always by the station.

Really loved this one - so nice to see all the interactions with some genuinely great questions too, I actually learnt a few things I was unaware of... Thank you John!

Love your walks and I love to read about London. Any tips for good books on London?

Doing more around Southwark? Would love to see your reactions to the redevelopment of E&C! They've put up the famous statue a while back now in a lovely park

Great video as always, for your next Q&A session: I'm often in London with my job and try to walk as much as possible, I love trying to spot damage on buildings from the Blitz plus the odd sign for shelters etc. Any chance on including wartime features where still evident?

Nice one John...

The post-Roman London answer would have been mine as well! The thought of wandering streets full of semi-ruinous buildings and roads (only semi, because of course people were still living there after the Romans left, why wouldn't they?) just gives me a frisson of...I'm not sure what, but it's just an idea that haunts me a bit.

A Brighton walk would be fantastic.

London is a big city, so there are a lot of places to visit, a lot of theme of walk. I am walking in Moscow and I don't know how much time I need to see it all 😊

A few things I'd like to see: Huguenot, Quaker, Jewish, Puritan London. When did they arrive (expelled/returned.) I've been studying the Bills of Mortality, with the 129 parishes, but what about these 'outsider' groups? In the 17th Century the St Giles Rookery had a lot of Irish Catholics, did they have churches? (When I look for this information it usually says something like Huguenots started arriving in the 16th century and there's a Huguenot church in Soho (that wasn't established until two hundred years later.) Contemporaries. I was excited to learn that before the Civil War, while serving in Parliament, Oliver Cromwell lived in St Giles in the Fields, during the Commonwealth John Milton lived in St Giles Cripplegate (Barbican) and translated government letters of George Downing. So it would be really interesting to know who lived at the same time, where did they live, did they cross paths, and where did they cross paths? Execution sites. These moved around a bit. Also who's head was staked where? (I can almost see Cromwell's skull glaring down from Westminster Palace.) And what would be interesting is how London grew. What was still countryside until when? What was it used for? And the course of the Commonwealth defensive wall/berm. Anything left of it? streets that followed its course, any extent 'bumps?' Fictional places and why. Why did John LeCarré put his intelligence service in Cambridge Circus? Why did J.K. Rowling put Cormoran Strike's detective agency on Denmark Street, Why did Ben Aronovich put The Folly on Montague Sreett? (My son and I stayed at the Astor Place Hostel there and I was thrilled that it could be the place. ) London for the most part is just a modern city, with a lot of good but bog standard modern office buildings... but when you know the history of course it all springs to life. Greenwich is always interesting. What confused me as a Yank with my U.S. iPhone. Standing on the Prime Meridian at the Greenwich Observatory, it didn't read 0°0'. 00 was off in a copse of trees. (Later I learned that the North American Geoid for mapping is just a bit different. What about GPS from different other parts of the world? Where does Glonass think it is? Think about Boudica for a moment. She burned London to the ground. Putting up her statue is a bit like an Osama bin Laden sculpture in New York City. I remember seeing and thinking, cool, wow and then remembering what she did in London... a bit inexplicable. Shakespeare? I'm all in. There's a book "Shakespeare's Metrical Art" by George T. Wright that raises his status even more. Between Chaucer and Shakespeare's generation most English poetry was not at all good. I always find the Liberties interesting and fun. St Paul's 99% of anything about St Paul's is fire, Wren, 35 years.... I've never seen an aesthetic analysis of it. My son suggested we go see it. I grumbled, it's £18 and no photography. But okay. Then as we walked across Millennium Bridge I took a good look at what until then had just been a navigation point. I thought it's use of massing and negative space was really remarkable. Up until then, I think, the Baroque was mostly just pack it in, or space it evenly as was the Classical sources. Even Michelangelo. I mentioned this to two architects one time and they just sort of looked at me for a minute and changed the subject. Maybe not your channel. (I think a redesign and different spacing of the elements would make this apparent.)

Hi John I picked up the actor Alan Bates in the 90s in my black cab, and I took him to Shakespeare’s Globe when they first discovered the floorboards ✌🏻

Wonderful! Thank you for answering. Look forward to a potential exploration of the pedway.

What a great way to spend some time after lunch. Really enjoyed your Q&A session. Looking forward to an update of the Fillebrook video.

Thanks for answering my question 😊

Really enjoyed that Q&A love your chanel Annette Dolan Ashbourne Ireland

thanks john hope you and the family are well mate i would like more east london walks steve

Hi John! Would love to see you cover Henley

Always enjoyable videos John.Thank you.

Wonderful as always. Planning a visit to London this July - hope to cover some of the territory in the city that you have shared with us. Also hope to hit some of your recommended pubs - cheers!

From the very centre of London, amongst the hustle and bustle, where would be the best place to escape for a walk with a real outdoors or remote feel, Epping Forest?

I've been exploring (online as I now live in NZ) what the Edgeware Road and surrounding areas used to look like before the Westway was built. I have so many happy memories of living around there especially Lisson Grove in the late 80's. Would love a walk around there and Church Street market too.

Hey @johnrogers Can you do a walk of Dalston/Kingsland? I haven't seen any walks of this area online although there is so much there. Would love to know more of the history

Great Hatchard's chat with Iain the other day, John. Great to meet you, however briefly.

David Hepworth's article about John was in the 27th May 2023 edition of Radio Times.

Another very interesting video, some people had some great suggestions. I look forward to you Southwark video(s) as my wife and I often walk along from Waterloo to Tower Bridge and beyond. Also Stane St would be of interest having grown up around Morden and Wimbledon. Keep up the good work!

Hi John, love the books and your channel. I was going to suggest Brighton too, but someone beat me to it. I lived there for 5 years back in the 80's whilst working as both a post and dustbin man. I have spent many hours trapsing the streets there. You will find plenty to fill an episode with. Look forward to seeing one in the future.

John would you ever consider coming to Great Yarmouth? I can take you round AND possibly get a local tour guide as well to help out! We have some great history and a few connections to London. Love the videos bud.. great bath time viewing 😂

Long thought a tunnel - built at the time of the Victoria Line - goes fm the US residence in Regents Park to Euston, the GPO Tower, Bush House (BBC), Buck Palace, Victoria Station and under the river to the US Embassy

Really? Iowa? You’re a sweet soul. Welcome to the Midwest ❤

Always look forward to your videos. Between yours and Jaggo hazards videos on transport history, what else do I need. I'm sure you already know this. But just in case, the sun dial on top of tower Hill Station depicting the history of London with a joke from the designer. Hope I see you in Wapping one day.

Hi, new to your channel and loving it! Not sure if you have done one already but wanted to know if you've done a video on the Grand Surrey Canal? It went through areas such as Deptford and Peckham through to Camberwell.

If you want to do a Saturday walk we have a £5 fundraiser for a homeless aid project in Wimbledon . covering five faith centres (Mosque/Synagogue/Buddhist Temple/CofE Parish Church and Hindu meeting place ( about 6k steps and its not flat) Sat 13th April 11am Wimbledon Station.

Excellent as always mate

Brummie here, love London and your walks. I saw you came to Brum once, you should come again and walk some canals and the Jewellery Quarter.. I recall that you liked Birmingham, what is it you particularly liked? I know we sometimes get a bad press which I feel isn't always justified.

Good evening John

5:40 I never knew that David Hepworth was a fan of this channel. I regularly watch his and Mark Ellen's 'Word In Your Ear' YT channel.

John, there's a great book about Boudicca called The Eagle & the Raven about the tribes -tuathes at time of Roman invasion, with many historical characters in play, it's a great novel

Thereafter great story about the Sultans of Swing pub that l sent you you about 2 years ago. Paul FitzPatrick

Great Q's Great A's. Historical figure I would like to be Sir Thomas Fairfax. Two people to walk with Henry V and Charles Dickens. Cheers, John.

Interesting John...You so ARE a Wizard ✌️...we need more Wizards 🤞🙏

You're in my sister's hood now. London Bridge station and Southwark cathedral. Makes me miss my visits there.

Also London to Dartford is 48 minutes by train and you wouldn't have to leave Dartford station. Just stand on the platform where Jagger and Richard met, say your piece, and return to London.

What about some walks covering Fictional Characters ( I think in a way of (Richard) Sharpe , and his interaction with London - The War Office / 1800s residences and the South Essex Forts on the Thames Estuary

The rock and roll tour of London could be whole series! Maybe you could collaborate and walk with someone who remembers (Andy Summers?, Eric Clapton?, John Mayall?). David Hepworth might help!

Did you ever do a video on The River Neckinger? Is it still there?

I hope you don’t mind if I ask a question .. have you done a walk with the churches of Islington? Thanks really enjoying your videos

John can you tell me anything about new river walk in Islington , trying to find out if the walk has changed since it’s been cleaned up last year . Have emailed your website

of COURSE he’s a wizard!

that kid towards the end wasn't annoying at all!

How about Reading? Tons of history and links to London. 😉

GCHQ have an office in the Nova building in Victoria.

Jaipur in the Red Lion, and William Blake - as if I needed other reasons to admire you more or find deeper kinship! 🙂

Nice...👍.

A wizard !? I knew it. I have been telling anyone who would listen that you are at wizard . A whiz of a Wiz ! ✌️☮️

John, do not get confused between South Bank, Bankside - boundary Bargehouse Street or conveniently Blackfriars Road, and Borough - the boundary is the St Mary Overy Dock with the Golden Hind replica. If you include Borough Market mention the point that the only leasehold mainline railway tracks are those over the market. Also if you cover Southwark Cathedral, ignore the foundation myths the church promotes.

So I have a question about a road name....I have seen a video where you are on Green Lanes in Highgate. I know of a Green Lanes in Seven Kings. Why is the name Green Lanes plural...and not just Green Lane...I dont kmownof other Lanes that are pluralised.... Or are there just the 2 of them?

Could you do something around Mortlake & Dr Dee 🔮

How about a tour of blue plaques?

Abandoned Roman London? I'm dubious about that, too, but what was likely to have been happening is stone buildings being dismantled to use the stone elsewhere. There wouldn't have been many stone buildings in Roman London, but there were certainly some, and the walls were certainly of stone. So free stone, come and get it while you can! Often nicely dressed stone, too. Churches of the 7th and 8th centuries were sometimes built in stone, which could well have been recycled. If you say "Glyndower" that would be an Anglicisation of "Glyndwr", but a Welsh person might find it passable. "W" is a vowel in Welsh. How did the name "Tiwdwr" get Anglicised? As "Tudor", that's how. "Tudower" would have been more accurate, I think.

Wait, wait, which tap, JOHN? 😂😂😂😂😂 (can you say it 12 more times) ❤

Recently discovered my great gran , Joan Beaufort married the Earl of Somerset at Southwark Cathedral!

Bit of a silly one for the next Q&A: Has anyone remarked that you look a wee bit like Thom Yorke of Radiohead?! I personally think there's a passing resemblance. Also, are you a fan of his music? David.

Hi John I love your videos which I watch from my home in Sydney Australia. However I was born and bred in North East London (Edmonton). Do we really have our own accent? I hope we do!

Dollis Hill - I am sure someone told me there is a secret Government Bunker there.

Hi John Would you have a consider doing a walk around London? Finding out all the second world war bomb sites what remain. For the famous wartime buildings what they were used for.😊

Are you holding any book signings or talks in March?😊📚

have you been to the Brixton windmill?

Best pub in that neighbourhood that you'd recommend?

Has London become too "unsecret"? The sale of Admilarity Arch as a Hotel for example and the ownership of real estate by Chinese and similar.

Italian restaurant in vauxhall is now a KFC.

Celebs walking - try St James Park - saw Nigel Green & Guy Doleman ...

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Red Lion! Surely you mean the North Star, that is the go to for the Wanstead and Eton Manor brigade, leave the Red Lion to the youngsters :-)

John thets organise a black path pub cruel.