“When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England.”- Hilaire Belloc

Many, many memories...and probably more never remembered... Back in the mid 80's, my late teens, early 20's...me and a great drinking buddy of mine once spent a long weekend beginning at Aldgate, along the Whitechapel, Mile End road, Stratford Broadway, Maryland point, high rd Leytonstone and ended in the green man. Can barely do 3 pints now....great job again Johnny.🍻

Thanks John for that beerless pub crawl , been in all of those pubs, except, the wetherspoons next to Mc Donald’s , it was a coop (LCS) when I lived in South Woodford 1982, we bought a tumble dryer from there on higher purchase!!! Also The new craft ale pub that opened just before lockdown, I promised myself a good walk around Leytonstone after lockdown , I bought my wife’s wedding ring in the jewellers opposite, just over the footbridge 1979. I used to live in selby road opposite the plough and Harrow , and used to listen to the bands music blasting out outside. Maybe you know about the loss of some good pubs and dives , going down Leytonstone high road from the plough , was the half way house , then of course the thatched house , do a left at the thatched house , into Cann Hall road , down to on the right hand side , the Colegrave Arms , this was a shrine to me, my granddad , dad, brother , godfather , all used to drink there , and when we all moved away from the immediate area , we all went there on Christmas Day lunch time session, I’m sure you would have loved it in there , that’s if you never went there, Further along Cann Hall road , towards the flats the Lord Rookwood a fantastic looking pub. Last I heard they were all gone, Got a bit jealous watching beer being served at the North Star, how we all took it for granted !!! I think after this episode , hopefully we will see the beauty around us wherever we live , and how good it is to stand at a bar in a pub (in Leytonstone for me ) have a nice pint of craft/ real ale talking to a mate about how brilliant Orient are , and watching people just come and go !!!!! Priceless Cheers John thanks and stay safe

I was always wondering why the roads around the North Star looked villagy, as you've correctly said and now I've got the answer. Definitely my favourite part of Leytonstone! As always, thank you so much John, amazing work once again! What you're doing is so unique, so much information we wouldn't know otherwise! Stay safe and looking forward to seeing the next one!

Great Video, thanks for taking me back (via KZfaq) to The North Star.

Wonderfully amazing John....perhaps you could retrace this particular pub crawl post-pandemic????

I do love an old pub! They're like the stately homes of "ordinary" working class people and their history, a bastion of community camaraderie. Nice story about Micky Rourke 👍

Fantastic video John.Such memories to savour. Although not a big drinker I have been in most of the pubs shown. 60 years ago I played with my skiffle group at the Northcote Pub. Played snooker upstairs in the Crown regularly. Such memories are priceless and I really thank you for the time and effort (you were panting a bit.lol) you give.Best Wishes and Stay Safe.

Yesterday I jogged from WG to Barking. Went past The Roding, the Inn Business, former Avenue Hotel, the Vernon Arms, and the Earl of Essex... in terms of pubs, it is a tale of two East Londons... - E10, E11 and E17... growing, blooming, flourishing. - E6, E12 and E13... dead, dead, dead. Great video, John - I'll check out the Filly Brook.

Thanks John. Like to see an updated pub crawl video, if and when they all open again - featuring the same pubs after 13 pints of ale ! You'd be wrecked !!! You've become Sunday evening for so many of us !

Thank you again for taking us on a tour of your community. Wonderful!!

Great video John ... I lived on langthorne road few years back .. nice to see them pubs I drank in Leyton and Leytonstone still there.. hopefully I get back there one day and enjoy a few beers 🍺

I know I'm about a year behind but what a great post. Brings back fabulous memories of working in Leyton and Leytonstone during the 90's. It's amazing to see the changes that have occurred of the past twenty years. Most of them for the better, I might add !!

Blakey off On The Buses is buried in St Patricks. In the late 90s The Heathcote was a right toilet. It always had the same alcoholics in, showed football, different manager every 6 months. Lots of drug use and violence.

Hi John, I worked in The North Star in 1966. I grew up in Hackney and moved to Fairlop Road in 1959. I've just discovered your walks and really enjoying watching them.

Great video John, frightening to think of all the pubs that have shut. The Plough and Harrow was renamed The Laurel and Hardy for a while in the 80s and owned by Sir Trevor Brooking footballing legend.

Thank you John, for starting my Bank Holiday Monday off in a wonderful way this morning! Have a great day yourself!! 🙂👍

I really do hope a pint or two were waiting for you home after you came back after this! Thanks a lot!

The weekend is never complete for me until I see your new walks John !

I can really relate to this. Fortunately for me, some of the pubs in Vancouver BC have opened again. Many of the craft breweries have been open, but no tasting rooms yet. The re-opening of such places is eagerly anticipated, hopefully as much for the connection and community as for the great libations.

Wonderful walk! You're so creative - I love the concept. Watching post lockdown, you put a bright light on those difficult times that we are hopefully done with.

Deep end was Jane Asher

Hi John. I showed this to my wife as Terry her Dad dug graves in St Patricks' Cemetry, frequented most of these pubs and she well remembers sitting outside The North Star on a Sunday lunch time with her brother having a packet of crisps and a lemonade while he had a pint or two inside. Happy memories for her, so thanks.

just a note on those old iron railings you came across John, i have read, as im sure many others have the refence in Emily Cockayne's book RUMMAGE to the fate of the iron that was taken from streets during the war years for munitions. It was too impure to be effective and was dumped into the Tames and became a shipping hazard due to its magnetic pull. What a pity ,the streets would look very different if it had remained. Thankyou for a wonderful walk, Tim.

My only memory of The Heathcote was not from drinking there but passing it on my way Norlington School between 1956 and 1960. Great video, as always, John.

I'm a bit late to this, it's been a bit of an involved few days. I love the fact that you always give us the background info on whatever it is you're looking at, in this instance the local pubs. It also gives me a buzz hearing about the history embedded in street names, very early history in some cases. Super job as always John, now I must fly as I can hear the fizz of a pint of IPA hitting the glass. Cheers!

What an absolute treat. I used to work in the Green Man......thank you

Hi John, great Pub Crawl...thank you for taking us along! Really enjoyed the walk with you! Take really good care...stay safe!

What a great video. Brought back some memories!

Fabulously insightful John, as I have come to expect from you. Excellent stuff and a real time travel back into my childhood. Thank you.

thank you so much for your video ! I lived in Leytonstone for almost four years (I m italian) from 2009 to 2011. You showed me a lot of things i didnt know about this place. Keep on editing videos !!! your are good at it

The three big entertainment pubs in the sixties through to the seventies to go to in my younger days going along Leytonstone high road from Sratford to Leytonstone used to be the Plough and Harrow the Red Lion and the Greenman on the roundabout at the A12, good times and some good bands

Looks like it was a beautiful day for a walk. Thanks for the delightful tour of the pubs in that area and offering bits of history. I always vicariously enjoy your explorations :-)

I love the history, I used to live down the road in e5 & e9 in the 60's and 70's before moving to north essex in 75. Later on I was involved in the construction of the link road too. Great video's and I could listen to you all day. Hope you enjoyed those beers ;)

Absolutely great John makes me feel like everything normal again

You were in my trending as a creator on the rise I think you are going to blow up

I love the thought of sitting in pubs where long gone better men than me have drunk through history. I don't believe in ghosts but sometimes in an old atmospheric pub......

Fantastic video as usual! Keep up the good work John!

Cheers John! 🍻 great walk - gorgeous buildings!

Thanks John. I enjoyed another nice walk with you

Amazing as always! Can't wait to visit all of them again 👌🏻

Your videos John are just fantastic! Just came across them recently. Have helped me get through the lockdown. My guilty pleasure. Nobody does this better. Such a simple concpet. But so hard to pull off. Well done. Take a bow!!

Great video! John and I think it's wonderful that you always mention the famous people from the areas you visit.I love the bird's painted on the corner of that building the Bird's is 1 of my favorite Hitchcock film's of course all of his work was awesome 👍👍👍

Really nice walk! Thanks for taking us

Excellent. and cheers

Thanks John. I like to follow along your walks on Google maps and this was the easiest walk to follow along with so far. Keep safe and keep smiling.

A well earned pint! Thanks for another great video.

I am desperate for a Sunday morning veggie breakfast at my local The Elms. The Elms Pub , Leigh on Sea started life as a farm. The house was built in 1861, and nearby stood a fine elm called Ellen's or Adam's Elm, which measured about thirty feet in circumference. It became the Elms Hotel in the 1930s. Sadly the tree didn't make it

Chin Chin John. Fantastic film. Thank you. 😊 Dave

ah loved this one, the pubs all looked fantastic.

There's something so relaxing about watching some bloke going to the pub.

I’m moving too the area and we spotted two of these pubs as to be locals! Fascinating videos, many thanks!

Crikey John, 50% of pubs in Leytonstone gone ! Now that is a tragedy. Bob.

Thanks John. I've been (technically) drunk in at least one of the featured pubs...possibly more. The swaying camera shots at the end were a nice touch : D

A lovely story and well told

Once again really interesting. I've only come across your channel this week and I'm really enjoying it, as I live in Leyton, but my business is around all of Leyton, Leytonstone & Walthamstow as I'm a pet sitter & dog walker, so I know all the roads you're walking down really well. Moreover on this particular video the lady who runs Artefacto tattoo studio is a friend of mine. I've sent her the link to this

Too many pubs have closed sadly. Otley where I lived is a small market town in West Yorkshire, it used to have 30 pubs now reduced to 20 but the need for real ale is keeping them going. Wonderful video John thank you.

A true chronicler of London

Enjoy you doing your walks.

Great walk john.. and lovely NB cap up the scousers mate..

Great vlog john love the history of those old pubs interesting story about st Patrick's cemetery atb

Nice video, keep up the good work

I saw Mike Reed in the Green Man in 1972? before he became famous, hilarious and very blue!!

Hi John . Another great film. Some great pubs . Pub have great history n if they could tell you of stories to tell . Hope to to a pub crawl sometime. Cheers Jon 🍺

Really enjoyed this one, can’t wait for my Bristol pubs to reopen!

A tour Defoe would be proud of John! Does Keiller mention a gibbet - positioned opposite The Green Man - in one of his Robinson films? ‘London’ perhaps? 👍🍺

I'm a bit late to party but great video John, i grew up in Leytonstone, Ferndale rd and have had a pint in everyone of those pubs apart from the newer one's the Filly brook and the Lunar lounge. I spent most of my youth in the pool hall above the Red Lion and The Green Man/The Cube.

Sadly, only been in one (maybe two) of these John. Not really my old stomping ground being Walthamstow based back in the day. Fascinating as ever, some grand old ladies here. I'm sure I remember the Green Man advertising outside as a strip joint back in the 80's. Possibly an unreliable memory. Great to see the subscriber count rocketing now. 10k special soon I think!

Watched this recently again. Another intresting video John. Hope you get to visit Hampshire some day.

I'm watching this right now in Rochester New York USA and enjoying a pint. Excellent!!!

Another great video John. It reminded me of the Bull and Crown in Chingford, and how a once fabulous pub is now little more than an Italian themed restaurant.

Great video John, so miss a pint of good ale

Brilliant history JR.....just came aboard....and following your trail on google.

We walked Hainault Forest on Saturday based and inspired by another of your films. It was very windy. Terrific views of the City of London. You could easily make out the old Post Office Tower, now BT. Cheers

The filly brook is the old Leytonstone Air training corps hut where i was a member of in 1966/7 always enjoy your video's they bring back many memories, thanks

Enjoyed this video. Missing the Northcote & Birbeck Taven when going to see the mighty Orient. Up the O's!

Another great and informative video. Once again this reminded me of a song, as Dick Turpin is mentioned in "Ground" by SK Invitational featuring Ty (sadly the latter just died earlier this month from COVID-19).

Had many a pub crawl from Maryland point to the Green man, a pint in every pub with a stop off for pie mash along the way, lots of great pubs sadly gone now The Plough was my local from about 1970

Thanks for the videos John, found the channel recently and find the videos really interesting and quite calming! I specially enjoy this video because during the portion where you talk about St Patricks, you were stood outside where I live! haha. Fun fact, behind the Blue and Black railings there, it was where the former Goodall Road School (Seen it referred to as Corpus Christi Senior High School?) stood, although I don't really know much about it other than the pictures I've seen shortly before it was demolished (not sure if you or anyone that watched this does know more about it?). The other fun fact, being the former road bridge you walked over, used to have the rear entrance to Leyton Station on it, before we lost that and the bridge to the A12.

The place for good quality , interesting , informative broadcasting is now so obviously KZfaq. Beats the excrement that passes for entertainment on TV and Netflix. Keep up the good work.

Very nice London .

Top video Jon. I think attempting this crawl myself might do me in but it's bloody tempting. I'd probably skip the walnut and the bell but the rest are all great.

A great watch, as always, John. Of particular interest to me was the reference to the Wanstead Tap. I lived in Station Road (Forest Gate!), which becomes Winchelsea Road (Leytonstone?). If anyone had told me back in the day that someone would open a bar in the railway arches I would have laughed myself silly/sillier. As you may imagine, I really enjoy your Wanstead Flats stuff. Keep up the good work and keep safe.

Let us just hope that when we get back to some sort of normality that the pubs can survive as there have been so many lost over the years in more normal times. Great video John, stay safe and see you on the next one, wherever that may be.

Oh! my favourite London walker on one of my favourite subjects, local pubs and real ale 😀🍻looks like there's some gooduns in Leytonstone. I'm getting beer from my local brewery in town, it's a real treat and glad you managed a pint or two as well. Cheers 🍻stay safe and well both you and the family. Thanks for another great walk 👍

Great walk john, ive noted some of those pubs, that northcote looks full of character, Last time i went to orients ground would have been 2015, a pub on leabridge road had the orients teams letters to family from ww1, was very moving to read, great walk as ever cheers john.

nice video! thanks 😊

Started to watch your videos on lockdown. I seen the Alfred Hitchcock hotel on one of your other videos . I stayed there on my first trip to London in 84 . Keep the videos coming .

This was a joy to watch. The only one of these I can remember from my childhood was the landmark Green Man and then the Red Lion from my teens. Love you to do a 'crawl' around Leyton. Friend's parents were landlords of one but sadly I cannot remember pub's name or location. Somewhere near St Mary's. Oh yes...Cathall Road. We used to pronounce it Cat-Hall. Swam in the baths there. Not great even the 60s! Bakers Arms better.

I think you'll find that Hank Wangford was also a medic... Proper job. An amazing ale...

Fabulous John. Look forward to a real crawI. If you are around Bow Cem we could have a distanced cuppa

Very interesting. Hic!

Awesome video I living very close to the area.

This film is making me thirsty...I'm feeling a Coopers stout coming on John. Alas it's still a dry argument here in Sydney mate. All in a good cause.

I have a drink problem, but I never drink during daylight hours, so that was just my kind of pub crawl. Well done John for thinking of such a neat theme to give shape to the walk. Jealous of your weather. 60mph winds up here, beginning to ease up a bit.

Glad to see the Heathcote's still around ( though not serving enough real ale) - I used to see folk gigs there - Martin Simpson once.The dilemma in a pub crawl (though long gone for me) is whether to miss out on a pint of the best, or your favourite, ale in a extremely comfortable pub. I preferred the latter and then the abandonment of the crawl - followed by a visitation to the pubs you missed out on later.So in fact many pub crawl's should never be completed out of respect for great ales and the pubs. I shall raise a glass of strong ale to you John when my local Wetherspoons, the King's Forde, reopens - I look forward to it. I'll also try out the Red Lion, the Byrds, The Filly Brook and the North Star - sooner than later I hope.

My spiritual home. I miss Leyton/Leytonstone. I used to live near the king Harold , I know it's called the Leyton Star now.

I miss the pubs and draught beer so much.

Great film as always John. My beer fridge is nicely topped up with quality ales. My uncle Ernie used to take his dog for a walk, over 30 years ago and would always stop at the Bell for refreshment. I don't think that dog got a lot of exercise. Good health!!

That ale at the end looked amazing. A packet of pork scratchings and I would have needed a lay down.