Leytonstone's Lost River - the Philley Brook (Fillebrook) (4K)

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Leytonstone's Lost River - the Philley Brook (Fillebrook) (4K)

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4 жыл бұрын

A walk along Leytonstone's Lost river, the Philley Brook or Fillebrook. This is the first of a series of walks for Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019.
The route of the walk following the Philley Brook / Fillebrook is:
Start at St. Andrew’s Church - go behind to patch of land beside St. James Lane - Bury Field Farm - note church on boggy high ground - gas lamp beside church - note course across Forest Road
Follow the footpath beside St.Andrew’s Church and turn left into Coleworth Road
Turn right into Hainault Road to block of modern flats - brook runs through car park
Turn left into Lytton Road
Turn left into Wadley Road
Brook cuts across Ripley Mews and Temple Close (linking to carpark behind flats) - can hear under street iron
Continue back along Lytton Road
Turn left into Esther Road - see where brook comes through metal gate continues under houses - flooding
Back to Lytton - look down across back gardens
Turn left into Wallwood Road - Wallwood Farm Estate - Stratford Langthorne
See where brook comes through opposite Kings Passage
Listen to river in Kings Road (be careful of cars) - then it goes through St. John’s Ambulance
Along Kingswood Road to Queen’s Road - see brook running across - listen (watch out for traffic)
Kingswood Road - ex-Fillebrook Road
Turn right into Fairlop Road - then left into Bulwer Road - left into Chelmsford (alt. route goes from Grove Green Road straight into Fillebrook Road)
Turn right Into Fillebrook Road from Chelmsford Road opp Damon Albarn house and Leytonstone & Wanstead Synagogue www.lawsynagogu...
At end of Fillebrook Road turn right into Drayton Road - Drayton Road sound of river opposite flats - then left into Southwest Road
Turn right into Avebury Road - right into Cavendish Road - left into Scarborough Road
Turn right into Grove Green Road - look at Stuart Freeborn Murals on other side of the railway - Heathcote and Star Pub
Turn right at Heathcote into Pretoria Road - then left into Newport Road
[Ian Bourn diversion not in the video but on guided walk: Grove Green (Farm) - Stuart Freeborn - Claremont Rd - Northcote Arms -Francis Road]
Across Francis Road - alleyway into Dawlish Road
Through Sidmouth Park
Cross Leyton High Road - note - Brooke House - go through Coronation Gardens - maze + water feature
Exit onto Oliver Road - note Leyton Beach - turn left
Turn right into Dunedin Road - (note Ruckholt Road) go through new development to Orient Way - end at Allotments
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Shot and edited and written by John Rogers
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@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Here's a full playlist of all five Waltham Forest psychogeographer in residence walks kzfaq.info/sun/PLHD6uTQLDf_NVcNgQzVOCUK9QYmmcDMnA

@stevegee7593 4 жыл бұрын

The Philley was always trying to break free especially along Newport Road. I had to wear wellies so that I could get to Newport school. Back in the 1950’s

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks for that Steve - love hearing stories like this

@reshlanda1964 4 жыл бұрын

What an absolute masterpiece of a video, so passionate about the history of our borough! Thank you John

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Resh

@seasmacfarlane6418 5 ай бұрын

I was born in Leytonstone, as were my grandparents. My great granny came to London from France, and made lace to earn a living; she sold the lace door to door and her best sales were to Ladies living on Fillebrook Road.

@mykolakanyuk 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much John for discovering the history of Leytonstone, the area where I lived about 20 years ago. And the walk along the river I never knew existed. Warmest Regards from Ukraine. Keep doing what you do (amazing videos).

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks very much mykolakanyuk - love the idea of the videos being watched in Ukraine

@dazio7035 4 жыл бұрын

What an amazing video....... Absolutely fantastic. Thank you.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Daz io

@kdean9537 4 жыл бұрын

Just wonderful John! Another enjoyable walk with you...great choice in music. Thank you...take care!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks very K

@marybeck5236 4 жыл бұрын

I love your lost river walks.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Mary - me too - more to come

@pamelabedding4458 2 жыл бұрын

I have just watched this video with great interest. I lived in Letonstone from 1947 - 1960 and went to Fillebrook Methodist Church. Thank you

@effyleven 2 жыл бұрын

What a super little film. Thank you John. I used to live in Leytonstone, and had my tonsils out at Whips Cross Hospital.

@4thEyeVision 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks what a great walk

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks 4thEye

@BritishBoy1971 4 жыл бұрын

Another well made film. Thank you! By the way, back in the 1970s/80s there was a really nice Met Police Beat Bobbie who used to patrol around all those streets on foot and on his push bike. PC John Taylor was his name. He was such a nice man. *We need his sort of calibre walking the beat nowadays, what with all the crime going on! 👮🚲

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for that Rottie - you know I think I've heard that Bobbie mentioned before

@sanjilford803 3 жыл бұрын

I had to reply to this! Thank you Rottie for remembering PC John Taylor! I used to live in the house opposite his house on the corner of Poppleton Road. I was there from 1975 to 1988(?) I used to know this part of Leytonstone like the back of my hand. I used to walk to Norlington Road up Fillebrook Road and back again, then years later the other way on Peterborough Road to get to Leyton Senior High! @JohnRogers, I really enjoy watching your videos and I am still fortunate enough not to live far from Leytonstone to visit Hollow Ponds occassionally but these roads have certainly changed. Who remembers the Christian Library on Whipps Cross Road? That is now the temple

@BritishBoy1971 3 жыл бұрын

@@sanjilford803 Thank you for your reply Sanj. I sadly heard from someone midway through last year, that PC John Taylor had passed away the year previously. He possibly died up in Lincolnshire, where he went to enjoy his retirement. He was such a splendid and kind family man. Best wishes to you.

@sanjilford803 3 жыл бұрын

@@BritishBoy1971 Hello Rottie, thank you for taking the time to reply. Unfortunately, I think I heard the same, PC John (RIP) was a very nice man. He also visited the schools in the area and conducted visits around the police station on Francis Road for visiting groups. He actually used me as a guinea pig to show everyone how to hold someone's arm behind them whilst arresting them, purely because I had a Leyton Orient scarf on! warmest regards to you, Sanj

@BritishBoy1971 3 жыл бұрын

@@sanjilford803 That was so nice to read. Thank you. I imagined you being restrained with your Orient scarf on! lol. My dad said that John attended many match days at Leyton Orient, to control the crowd. A great day out that would be on a Saturday, a sort of busman's holiday. Thank you again, have a great week ahead! 🙂👍

@keithjoseph100 4 жыл бұрын

Sublime, as always John. Brings back memories of living in Leyton fifteen years ago reading Sinclair, Self and Ackroyd and wandering those streets divining that very river. Yet again although we have never met, our footprints lie in unison. can't wait for the next one.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks so much Keith and for painting that evovative image of your Leyton years

@richardpicking4459 4 жыл бұрын

Hi John. Fascinating walk as always. Even though I spent about five years at the beginning of the 80's bombing around Leytonstone and Leyton fixing phones from a little Yellow BT van the walk uncovered places I had never knew existed. Sidmouth Park was one, tucked away behind the houses, and the little alleyways linking the roads that you only see when on foot. I remember there used to be a dual carriageway road underpass below the railway from what is now Dyers Hall playground to Church Lane that used to flood. I wonder if that was water from the Fillibrook?. Best, Richard

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard - and also for your wonderful photo. When I did the research for the walk back in 2009 I heard about flooding around that area and further up towards the High Road, I can only assume that was cause by springs in the area and water running down off the higher ground - there's similar reports around Wanstead Flats. The old OS maps show numerous ponds and springs in Leytonstone near the brook and around the Flats and also lots of drainage channels cut heading towards the Fillebrook. But you wonder if there were other tributaries

@cosm1cstar 4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks John for your walk/video of this ancient, now hidden Philleybrook River. I have lived in Walthamstow and am now in Leytonstone, never knew this river existed. So sad that urban sprawl didn’t include the keeping open of the Philleybrook River. So much history has been lost all across the U.K. due to urbanisation and the incessant need for yet more and more roads/housing ... I’ve only just come across your channel, will be looking at your other walks, I love history and how places once were before the human population exploded ☹️🙄

@humble4533 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John again for a terrific and informative walk and I look forward to your other 4 walks.I appreciate all your efforts in producing a wonderful video

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks as ever Humble - appreciate your continued support

@Mouxbar 4 жыл бұрын

Sunday morning and John drops a video - I'll enjoy this this evening :-)

@MeTheRob 4 жыл бұрын

Same for me.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it Mouxbar

@timbuthfer901 4 жыл бұрын

So relaxing... Lovely walk and sublime soundtrack. I used to live in colworth Road, blissfully unaware of the babbling Brook beneath. Thank you John once again.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim, glad you enjoyed the video

@rogerharman5738 4 жыл бұрын

Christened in Fillebrook Church (now the Leytonstone United Free Church I see, courtesy of Google Street) so long ago. Many years of roaming the area you walked, but when young nobody cares about the history. Very enlightening and a pleasure to watch the video.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Roger

@normathomas8276 4 жыл бұрын

Your a wonderful advocate for your area Jon loved this walk x

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks so much Norma - I do love it

@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 2 жыл бұрын

I am a northerner and love all these walks most of which I had been thinking I have been nowhere near in person. But then I realise I have because I have visited London several times (although I do appreciate is a massive place including the outskirts). There is something I can't quite figure which draws me to Leytonstone though, probably historical, maybe past lives. I got goosebumps when you mentioned the Templars. I also got a bit of a flashback at the end there where your enthusiasm reminds me a little of David Bellamy. All these underground rivers - incredible. Great stuff!

@chrismccartney8668 4 жыл бұрын

I lived in Leyspring Road off Bushwood and the house on the corner of Woodville and Leyspring road there was trap door in the basement with the leyspring gushing thru ..

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

wow Chris - I'm now determined to see it for myself - thanks for the info

@lesliegprice6652 4 жыл бұрын

Great video John am really enjoying your lost rivers series, looking forwards to your next one in the guided walks series,catch you later my friend .....

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Leslie - two more river walks in this series to come

@mariana4059 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting walk, thank you, John. I was happy to see the river eventually peeking out at us - I was getting claustrophobic on its behalf. I wonder how big the culverts/tunnels keeping it confined are. Would a diver be able to swim through parts of it, for example? But I suppose if it is a brook, it would mostly be narrowish pipes? Also interesting to note the Pretoria Road and Pretoria House - goodness, who knew that the city where I was born and bred would appear in a Lost Byways video ...

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mariana - I imagine it's not particularly large but I have an article somewhere when they relaid the pipes and mentioned the size

@neilfromdownunder9204 4 жыл бұрын

What a really interesting walk, thanks for sharing it with us John, your walks are always greatly appreciated & really enjoyed even from afar here in rural South Australia!!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Neil

@tomaswest6541 4 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of bringing the river to life on the walk. What a tre6at the end to see it in person. Thanks John really appreciate the channel.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tomas

@cdssheps 4 жыл бұрын

Nice one John, very informative and pleasant to watch all the best clive .

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Clive

@patsie1888 3 жыл бұрын

That was great. I get a clear feeling of the area. I only know the Barking area of your east London area. But I really get a great understanding of the underlying physical, social and cultural geography from your walks. I take an early evening walk from Southwold pier to Gun Hill regularly, and at your inspiration, think about the Battle of Sole Bay. You’re an inspiration!

@bobmansfield1226 4 жыл бұрын

Hi John. I was born and lived in Leytonstone and Leyton from 1941 till the 1960,s. I went to Newport Primary School and then Mayville Primary School until I went to Raines Foundation School in Stepney Green ( still living in E.11).After getting married I moved to Vicarage Road in Leyton and then to the tower blocks newly built in Oliver Close (by the Leyton Orient F.C. Ground). From here I moved to Highams Park and am still there. I cannot believe how Leyton and Leytonstone have changed. Although the roads and streets names are easily known by me they are almost unrecognisable. In fact I got little pangs of excitement everytime I did recognise something or some place.Thank you for these memories of my past John your videos are well made and your dialogue is brilliant.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

cheers Bob

@DaveFord 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video. So relaxing to watch and so interesting too.

@neilthomas9244 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent vid. No connection at all to this part of the country, but just love your passion and interest in this area. Re this vid, fascinated at peeling back the urban landscape to glimpse what was.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Neil - I'm always fascinated by the layers of history beneath our feet

@llessibm 4 жыл бұрын

Probably one of the few who can entertain you on a subject that you hardly ever see - almost inspires me to head south and take a look for myself, brilliant work, thanks.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks very much Martin - sometimes I think the hidden nature of these watercourses makes following them all the more rewarding

@JAMMYDODGER5678 4 жыл бұрын

What a great video to start my Sunday with - cheers John!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Jko

@robertbarling5601 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you John, very enlightening. I had no idea that the stream existed.

@roberthollands5777 3 жыл бұрын

Hi John really enjoy all your walks. Grew up in Woodford so the areas you go really interesting. Your walk 4 years ago to W G C finishes showing the old Shredded Wheat factory now gone and by the station trucks loading where I sometimes go as a hgv driver 😀 👍👍

@littleacornslandscapes2935 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John, my Sunday evening is complete.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

great to hear Little Acorns

@daveconyard8946 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John brought back so many memories of 50 years

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

my pleasure Dave - thanks for watching

@asimmirza3361 3 жыл бұрын

THIS IS AMAZING 👏 I grew up in this area and loved walking and discovering the area. This puts an entirely new depth to it. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

@shane19959 4 жыл бұрын

No ! Thank You John Rogers. I enjoyed every footstep, each utterance and sharing of this knowledge. A wee saunter lived vicariously, for sure. Greetings to you from Cincinnati, Ohio.

@man.in.the.woods.artist 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! This was a particularly magical one. The glimpse of the stream at the end was such a lovely surprise: a religious vision at the end of a pilgrimage. Thanks John.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Scott

@paulosborne6517 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, the zigging & zagging of hidden river walking, up & down residential roads looking for clues and glimpses... Reminds me very much of when I lived on the 'Harringay Ladder' and first encountered the New River. Oddly, every place I ever lived in London was on the New River - Harringay Town, Wood Green, Bounds Green, Bowes Park... I've now walked the NR right from the Sadlers Wells through to a delightful little pub in Enfield village reached via a footbridge.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

It's a great little aquaduct Paul - I still have ambitions of attempting to walk it all in one day

@luismells 4 жыл бұрын

Temple Close off Wadley Road used to be a Bonds sweet factory. I remember the floods down Wadley Road and the works to remedy them.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant note many thanks

@trevorhartley4874 4 жыл бұрын

And before that it was Ivanhoes sweet s where my Nan was a Sugar boiler

@rogerkearns8094 4 жыл бұрын

A lot of nineteen sixties' memories for me here, thank you.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

my pleasure Jack, glad you enjoyed the video

@mrchasey123 4 жыл бұрын

I live just off James Lane and notice the dips in Fairlop, Kings and Queens Rd and now realise thanks to your video it is the route of the stream, I have since found an old photo of the ' the old phille brook' in my book of Leyton and Leytonstone photos, it shows the tree lined stream crossing a field where now Kings and Queens Rd is now. I was at St Andrews recently and people there tell me that they have problems with subsidence, I wonder if it is due to the stream running below? interesting walk again John.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks for your comment Colin - I'll have to check my books of Leytonstone now as I haven't seen any photos of the brook before. Yes I believe that is the brook running beneath St. Andrews and causing problems with the newbuild flats next door. The first time I did this walk we went in the Church and they predicted this would be a problem. I think the residents have been investigating.

@yellosello 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you SO much for producing this. What a beautiful video. We live on Newport Road and hear the brook gushing beneath a manhole cover. I knew there was a brook running through the area but until now assumed that the gushing was just... neighbourhood sewerage. I'll think differently for evermore when I walk by there.

@markames3688 4 жыл бұрын

excellent as always sir.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark

@darkpurpleshadow3240 3 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell Temple Mills = Knights Templar, crazy i love the crusades never knew it was so close to home.

@Road-tramp 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers for that really enjoyed the walk John and information, watched a few now, so all i can say is keep on stepping

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Baz

@tayonacummings 4 жыл бұрын

Now I know why my celler would flood occasionally. I lived at the corner wallwood rd and bulwer rd. Thanks John.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Tay - there's no suppressing the river

@petg12340 4 жыл бұрын

Really interesting, thanks. I live in Huxley Rd, Leyton and had no idea about the river

@patjackson8649 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, a fascinating walk and lovely addendum to our own walk there in April this past year, when we walked from a certain blue plaque down to Hollow Pond and had the most wonderful day.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

that sounds like a lovely tribute Pat

@patjackson8649 4 жыл бұрын

John Rogers it was great to discover another beautiful London neighbourhood and we will make more time for East London on our next visit

@hoxby1 4 жыл бұрын

Lived in Queens road. We all had cellars, and our friends who lived up the end used to get their cellar flooded out often. I always wondered as a child why ours didn’t flood. Now I know ! I’m getting so nostalgic for Leytonstone with your walks. Lived there from 1951 to 1975

@akali83 3 жыл бұрын

I've lived in and around this area my whole life and never knew about the river - I've heard it often, but I just always assumed it was sewage!

@darkpurpleshadow3240 3 жыл бұрын

I went to Newport and Norlington, never ever heard of the philleybrook or any of the history of Leyton. Crazy to think that there was so much here.

@judithscott4353 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos. So interesting, so well filmed. Thank you.

@lesliegprice6652 4 жыл бұрын

I hope you are OK, really missing your videos massively, take care if you don't come back soon I'll have to start again at the beginning and watch them all again....all the best John....

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Leslie- nearly finished the next one. Been quite busy so haven’t had enough time to edit but I have 3 videos waiting to go up

@GreyGhost. 3 жыл бұрын

wicked tnx John.

@andrewcroft6855 4 жыл бұрын

fascinating stuff, a pleasure to watch and to listen to you

@KhyberArmoury 4 жыл бұрын

Lived in Waltham Forest all my life and never realised that I was walking over this history regularly! Great video, Thank you for sharing. How could I join in on the walks?

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Kyber - unfornately the programme is finished now but I'll most likely continue next year or even add some outside the borough in November and December

@KhyberArmoury 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Ah okay, no worries. I love these types of tours as it's a great way to preserve the History here.

@johnmurray8428 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@JohnRogersWalks 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure John

@john80c 4 жыл бұрын

Heathcote and Star should have a blue plaque that you wrote most of your book in there! Interesting video though. Our creeks around here all flow into the Potomac but are not covered by roads or buildings.

@hungbearlover 4 жыл бұрын

I really like your videos John. I’ve recently moved over to East Ham.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Paul - hope you're settling into the area ok

@anthonyhatfull5484 4 жыл бұрын

I had a mate who lived in Fillerbrook Rd. I remember back in the 90`s standing outside his house watching the fire brigade and the police removing "protesters" who had tied themselves in the tops of trees in order to disrupt the felling required for the new road system. They also took a chunk of his back garden for the same reason,but he was well compensated.

@Richardsrailway 4 жыл бұрын

My old hometown ❤️

@chrismccartney8668 Жыл бұрын

I lived Leyspring Road and yes there was Ley Spring came culverted under house and it was mentioned by solicitor in 60s search. And later lived in east ham stevenage Road near the Roding Pub and when someone requested a huge tree be removed and surveyor and arborist came to review and pointed out that the tree drew thousand of gallons out of the ground which was riverbed gravel and was very productive water cress beds cos river was very clean at this point and If this tree was removed we would all suffer rising damp as our little terraced house from 1908 had only rudimentary damp course as cheep jerry built houses when built. So tree was not removed fortunately.

@umarakhtar1326 4 жыл бұрын

Im pretty sure the fillebrook splits in two with one going under Sidmouth Park and the other under Huxley Road and it seems to join together again maybe. I lived on Huxley rd for 15 years and clearly remember when one of those round metal drainage covers gave way under wheel of a garbage truck which got stuck into the night. A stream was visible under the rd throughout the repair works

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

that's intriguing Umar and highly possible. I've heard that there were two more rivers roughly to the north of Leyton Orient so perhaps it's one of those

@kellyfunua569 2 жыл бұрын

Love you John Rogers

@JohnRogersWalks 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kelly

@Walksandwanders 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Only discovered your Channel last year. Interesting to track a hidden river. I’m just about to start filming along a local Suffolk river, thankfully mostly still open though inaccessible in parts. Only really passed through Leytonstone on the tube (?) I think. Love your commentary along your walks too. 👍

@vfd8165 4 жыл бұрын

On Chelmsford road John, the river runs along the next alley way, not the one you pointed out, I know because you're not allowed to build on that land due to the river passing through..at night, when all is silent, you hear nothing but a sound of a stream running, nonetheless, twas a great video.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

many thanks for that info - I did a couple of takes in Chelmsford Road at different locations, so I wonder if my first guess was the one you mention

@Pierlover 4 жыл бұрын

I had no idea Leytonstone had an artists' colony! And I wonder if Lytton Road and Bulwer Road had anything to do with the writer Lord Lytton of whom I'm a great fan incidentally. My uncle Arthur lived in Leytonstone all his life until he retired and then moved to Lytton Fields in Knebworth which has a more obvious connection with him. And I lived in Pretoria, South Africa for three years. Small world! Wonderful walk as ever! Many thanks!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Funny you should say that Douglas because I was desperate for that connection also but it was actually named after a Lytton Bulwer - that didn't stop me telling the Vril story on the guided walk though

@Pierlover 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Would that be the connection with Bovril? Nobody believes me when I tell them that. I have two first edition copies of 'The Coming Race' - one I bought in Tunbridge Wells and was quite expensive, the other in Antalya, Turkey of all places which cost next to nothing! Fascinating book - and totally different from his earlier historical romances.

@Richardsrailway 4 жыл бұрын

Hi John , may I comment that I grew up in Claremont road Leyton in the 70’s , my mum and three generations did also , there was a lady who lived in Claremont road at the time , who told my mum that before the railway ran alongside claremont road , she remembered as a young child there being a brook running there . Loved the video .

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for that info - it's interesting to hear of other watercourses in the area - apparently people have said there was another in Cann Hall

@diverte 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant

@katcankan7129 4 жыл бұрын

Good Afternoon John. What a wonderful & informative east London walk. I really enjoyed it thank you. I really like Russell Frost hooksmith press, l don't know why🤗😉💜

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kat - so glad you enjoyed it

@katcankan7129 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks 😊

@Viator19 4 жыл бұрын

The theory of not building over subterranean rivers makes perfect sense. Im a Building Surveyor and know from experience of the hazards of building on running water. It could be done with expensive piling so I guess not viable for housing, hence leaving them as roads. Oh and BTW Up the O's!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

great info many thanks. Full house at the Orient this coming weekend

@georginacox3909 4 жыл бұрын

Biggest bronze haul found in Havering. Exhibition at Museum of London Docklands next April.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic- thanks Georgina

@georginacox3909 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Morning. Ok.

@georginacox3909 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. And the great great great nephew of Bonaparte got married in Paris. Works and lives in London.

@ccjelley2390 4 жыл бұрын

@11:07 Did you get a tug from the cops, John? Filming in E11? Veeeery suspicious! BTW it's St John Ambulance, not "John's " Fascinating as usual.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

No the Police just passed by, I only noticed that car when I was editing

@RossRoams 4 жыл бұрын

Great channel John..!! Can I ask what video equipment you are using and also what editing software you are using to create your films? Thanks, Ross.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ross. I used a Panasonic GX80 and edit with Premiere Pro

@lesliegprice6652 4 жыл бұрын

Just a thought John,I was watching Jules Guides on You Tube and he was saying that Serpentine was originally part of the Westbourne River which joins the Thames at Pimlico, have you walked the Westbourne River yet ??? All the best loving your new videos mate......cheers

@bigguy64 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent film John. I'm living vicariously from the other side of the planet ..I've sent an email off to Hooksmith to procure a set of the maps. Regards, Boyd

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Boyd - hope you manage to procure a set of maps - Russell's actually a Kiwi

@georginacox3909 4 жыл бұрын

Clap clap. And there was one about Leyronstone in the 60's. Very short.

@georginacox3909 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@georginacox3909 4 жыл бұрын

Theydons TV . A video just popped up Leyronstone in the 30's. On my HOME you tube channel

@RossRoams 4 жыл бұрын

Subbed

@LiamOFarrell 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers John Stupid question, but i suppose it will all be devoid of fish and such like?

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Painting & Drawing that’s an intriguing one - I don’t know how fish get on underground

@relaxace9441 3 жыл бұрын

When I was younger I accidentally ended up on the lowest floor of Leytonstone Library and remember seeing a stream flowing there. Are you aware of this and does this link to the Fillebrook? If you go into the basement of the library im sure you'll find it. That building has so many rooms above also.

@zieffbumagat5097 4 жыл бұрын

hi Jhon.. a fan from the philippines

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant Zieff - thanks for watching from so far away (but so close)

@chrismccartney8668 4 жыл бұрын

I remember reading how water from what is now wanstead flats made its way to wanstead park and works but the flows Have you visted the little round stone edged pond behind snaresbrook court ?

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

The Birch Well? Yes that's a mysterious little pool - it's in a video from earlier in the year (Spring in Epping Forest)

@arriesone1 3 жыл бұрын

So sad that so much has been lost ....fields, streams, open countryside.. when will it end?

@antonwilson2960 3 жыл бұрын

When the people themselves are replaced. (Then the folk memory is conveniently gone)

@howdymartin6258 3 жыл бұрын

It would be nice - for a change - to hear "and this is where a road was demolished up to make way for houses"... rather than the other way round..

@stevec00ps 4 жыл бұрын

Following you on Google maps like I always do, I see at the end of the walk, the brook ends up in the water works, but on the opposite (north western) side of the water works is that where the Dagenham Brook starts?

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

I think Steve that they join somewhere underground where that bit of rough ground is on the roundabout - you can see it at the start of the Dagenham Brook video

@nobbilc 4 жыл бұрын

I used to live in Fillebrook Ave in Enfield. Any link?

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

That’s interesting I’ll have to investigate

@andyreid1553 4 жыл бұрын

i lived there 8 yrs ago moved due to gang violence on cathall estate

@MrJoncando 4 жыл бұрын

you may need dowsing rods, m8_

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

I've resisted the rods for many years now Johnny

@MrJoncando 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks earlier last month we had a new water meter installed, the chap used a long metal tube with a listening device attached to the top so he could find the water pipe buried in the driveway, I had a listen as well, you could hear the water running clearly after you turned the outside tap on, I was well impressed_

@harrydavis797 4 жыл бұрын

How tragic, and perhaps foolish, was this destruction of a major world artists center! And how powerless artists/and the rest of us seem to be against someone's economic progress! (My mother did warn me not to go into the arts.) What demolishment do you see is next for London's nearest future?