Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Walk Southwold to Dunwich (4K)

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Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Walk Southwold to Dunwich (4K)

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A walk in the footsteps of W.G. Sebald from his book The Rings of Saturn from Southwold to the lost city of Dunwich via Walberswick.
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@usimatagibuemon 3 жыл бұрын

When I first learned of Sebald in the Japanese translation of DIE AUSGEWANDERTEN, he was no more of a person of this world. His writings were so few compared to his talent that it didn't take long time to read through with surprise that there was such this writer. Ten years have passed since then, but the surprise at that time is still fresh in my mind. from Japan

@tmsztrsz Жыл бұрын

Reading The Rings of Saturn in those places where Sebald was walking must be an exceptional expierience! Thanks you for sharing!

@Westwoodii 5 жыл бұрын

Delightful video of a delightful walk in a delightful area! Tragic that WG Sebald was killed in his prime in a car accident. The book has a wistfulness about it that is reflected in the landscape, and captured in your video.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Westwoodii - yes I often think about the tragedy of his early death and you wonder what else he would have written

@vwright1021 3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks I read recently that his death was probably due to a brain hemorrhage suffered whilst driving his car and thus causing the accident.

@paulosborne6517 5 жыл бұрын

Well, that makes two books I now need to read, whilst this good weather lasts - This Other London *and* Rings of Saturn... I'm so pleased when you post new videos. They are as refreshing as they are relaxing to my jaded homesick self. You are the urban-Herzog of chance-filled meandering,- time travelling through often unintended byways & unexpected landscapes, lured only back to the 21st century & civilisation by the whiff of a chippy, the promise of a tepid can of something vile & foamy from an off-license and the rhythmic clatter of the railway that invariably carries you home. I want that life for myself. I do.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks so much for this comment Paul, all I can say is that it gives me so much pleasure to share these videos

@timbuthfer901 5 жыл бұрын

Superb walk. Around 30 years ago my friends parents used to own the lighthouse cottage and a group of us, 18 year olds, would spend boozy weekends visiting every pub in Southwold. Marvellous times.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant memories Tim - I can imagine - really love our holidays in Southwold

@JDs-zm1ov 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant John! And just when we were despairing in not having not seen a new posting of late, although we knew you had been on vacation...And just days after having a copy of Sebald's Austerlitz ( literally ) fall into my hands for helping out at a recent sorting party at my local Friends of the Library and which, of course, I had begun rereading...to see you retracing Sebald's walk in your latest seemed nothing short of cosmic! And now thanks to you I'll have ro reread The Rings of Saturn as well and also make Kathleen read it too, but then again that's the nature of Sebald's work isn't it? One keeps returning to it and each time one gleans yet more insight and delight, however sometimes harrowing, from each new perusal of any of his works. Keep them coming, John, and we will keep watching from here on the other side of the Pond.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for this wonderful comment John - I think I originally read it in a pub somewhere and thought I needed a keyboard to reply rather than my phone. I was telling Kathleen today how I have an Austerlitz walk planned, hopefully for this autumn - Iain Sinclair has given me the route, so should be a special one. Sebald's work is so rich, I visited the landscape of Vertigo with my wife long before I read the book, such an uncanny place but captured perfectly in the book. If you speak to Kathleen please tell her I was sorry to miss her at the end of the walk today - shame she couldn't join us for a pint in the Coppermill.

@kathleenfleming4222 5 жыл бұрын

Pints at end of Pole Hill walk next month for sure!

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

@@kathleenfleming4222 excellent - looking forward to it

@michaelvandromme 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience. Fascinating part of history. Who knows what lies out in the ocean. Especially when you think about Doggers Land.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

my pleasure Michael - can't wait til they start exploring Dogger Land properly

@johnnyrich1 3 жыл бұрын

And after finding your video through my old stomping ground by the Cran Brook earlier, I'm watching you walk near my current stomping ground of Aldeburgh. The coastal erosion at Dunwich is shocking to unwind isn't it? And unfortunately the whole Suffolk Coastal area is now totally under threat from the likelihood of the new power station at Sizewell about to be commissioned . The power stations decade long construction will destroy Minsmere and accelerate coastal erosion either side from Dunwich to Aldeburgh and take 900 football pitches worth of the beautiful Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB and once operational, will be burying its toxic waste underneath in huge concrete sarcophaguses to be dealt with by future generations,if the salt water and heavy erosive currents don't get it first. It's a heartbreaking part of our country's efforts to progress. We just have to hope those in charge show some compassion to save as much as they can of the Sizewell Belt, the SSSI and the beautiful Sizewell beach. It doesn't look very hopeful though.

@llessibm 5 жыл бұрын

As ever enchanting, both the walk and the story

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Martin

@neilfromdownunder9204 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you John for a peaceful & interesting start to my Monday morning here in South Australia, I always enjoy sharing your walks with you & learning about things along the way too as I have to admit I'd never heard of the lost city of Dunwich before so now it's off to explore more about it via the net...Cheers!! .

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Neil - I think there's a Dunwich in Australia as well somewhere

@neilfromdownunder9204 5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks you are so right too, it's a small town and locality on the western side of North Stradbroke Island in Queensland, Australia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwich,_Queensland

@unchattytwit 5 жыл бұрын

About 30 years ago I walked from Sizewell B to Southwold passing through Aldeburgh and Thorpeness. One of the great British walks - magical place ( especially remembering the horror stories of M.R. James, several of which were set in that area and listening to Future Kings of England, inspired by the history and regional environment). I think I walked along the seashore for most of the journey although I didn't go into the Sailor's Reading Room or the Harbour Inn. Must do that next time.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Not in the video but my favourite pub in Southwold is the Lord Nelson - I miss it just typing the name

@philhomes233 5 жыл бұрын

I love the area from Orford to Southwold, my favourite part of the world.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

It's amazing eh Phil

@davidzauhar6813 5 жыл бұрын

This is great. I assigned W.G. Sebald's TROS in first year College literature class last year, and was shocked by how much the students liked it. It will probably go over even better next spring with this video!

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much David, that’s wonderful to hear

@medianexchanges 4 жыл бұрын

your firing on all cylinders John the level of your work is stunning and inspiring beyond my wildest imagination

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, that's very kind of you

@humble4533 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you John for another wonderfully interesting video. Whilst watching I felt like I was on holiday with you. Very relaxing. I look forward to your next video. I hope you had a great holiday.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Humble - it was a great holiday and I even got the family out walking too

@johnnyfrisco5354 2 жыл бұрын

I always enjoy your walks... watching my way through all of them. Discover and learn so much and from this one I find out about WG Sebald, a German born in Bavaria in 1944, studied in Manchester, and at the age of 26 in 1970 made England his home moving to East Anglia. Love this area around Blythburgh, Dunwich, Walberswick and Southwold. Used to live in North Finchley and made many weekend walking trips to this fascinating region. Definitely going to track down a copy of the Rings of Saturn... also Unto the Fields by DW Gillingham referred to by John on another excellent walk. There is an excellent video on KZfaq of WG Sebald reading from his book Austerlitz.

@garypettengell6816 5 жыл бұрын

Another wet and windy Sunday afternoon in Iceland saved .Thanks John.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

great to be able to bring you some sunshine Gary - it's in the 30s again today in London

@garypettengell6816 5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Perfect cricketing weather .

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed- just like on Sunday

@littleacornslandscapes2935 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thank you John. The editing and music choice was so good.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Little Acorns - I spent a little more time on this one so that's much appreciated

@bigguy64 5 жыл бұрын

Many thanks John. Another corker and yet another book to add to my collection.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching Boyd - it's an excellent book

@WyeExplorer 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Boyd, I'm glad I found you. I went through your liked videos in the hope I would find a comment also. I see your comment on my video 'Birthday Hike' in notifications but it's not anywhere below. I can't reply or talk back. I just wanted to let you know. Mark

@WalterSobchak101 3 жыл бұрын

I just finished The Rings Of Saturn, and discovered your channel while looking for the East Anglia that Sebald travelled. What a beautifully shot video. I wish you could have travelled the whole length of the place! I really admire your work.

@richardcurant454 4 жыл бұрын

Aahh, Southwold, "The town that time forgot" I must re-visit someday. Good to see the old rowing ferry is still going. Thanks John.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

It’s such a wonderful place Richard, already thinking of the return

@markmeechan1671 5 жыл бұрын

Just fabulous, John. Your regular walks are what first drew me to this site but these themed one-offs are great also. Very good of you to find time on your holiday to make a film, that's commitment. W G Sebald was indeed a great writer but sadly, died just before I first read any of his books. Who knows what he would have gone on to create. That's brilliant that your first book was linked to "The Rings Of Saturn" in the Time Out review.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Mark, I really enjoy making these themed videos from time to time - they take a little extra effort but are really rewarding

@peteking4958 4 жыл бұрын

Adding to previous comment, it was great to see the old railway path and the Bailey Bridge crossing the river Blyth, as I cycled that very same route, going from Southwold down to Aldeburgh, as part of a week long cycle tour of Norfolk & Suffolk with a few mates back in June this year. Lovely area and your film brings it to life so well.

@spleeeen4it 5 жыл бұрын

Another fantastic, calming walk

@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 2 жыл бұрын

Poor old Dunwich, I got a bit of a tear in my eye there. We have some villages which were flooded to form reservoirs where I live. It can be quite a moment of reflection visiting such places with knowledge of what has gone before.

@paulg.1883 5 жыл бұрын

Another really interesting walk. I really loved the whole Sebald connection and your readings from his Rings of Saturn.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Paul

@Flatscores 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could have shown this to my late late father. This was his favorite book and I'm sure he'd have loved to get the visuals of the walk. Oddly enough I was born in the exact month and year that Sebald made the walk.

@mykolakanyuk 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video and walk, thank you for sharing

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thank you

@mickeythompson9537 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyable and captivating as ever, John. Plus a nice shot of chicory flowers at 3:24

@davidandrews8963 3 жыл бұрын

I used to fish with my dad all round Suffolk coast night fishing was the best we had this little tent and windbreak make a fire dad would hang our 2 Tilley lamps up and a fishing we would go trouble was I did this from the age of 8 to about 15 and dad would pack loads of sarnies and 2 large flasks one was full of home made soup usually chicken dad was a fabulous cook and the other was coffee from our own ground beans in our shop in Saxmundham plus about half a pint of brandy in the coffee lovely I was an alcky by the age of 10 lol no seriously the whole Suffolk coast is beautiful would love to move back one day great vid as always John from David now in Cromer

@JohnRogersWalks 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing those wonderful memories David

@gregoryharris3480 4 жыл бұрын

Superb john...see ya on the next one...wherever that may be

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

cheers Gregory

@1293ST 2 жыл бұрын

Sebald died three days after my birth. I read his entire œuvre these past weeks after being an avid Bernhard reader for years, and I can only say I'm impressed. It's more than unfortunate to know that he's left us with only so few works. I'm thankful in way of necessity that he at least left us with said works. Austerlitz being just brilliant, maybe squashed by the thought of what could have come after.

@lesgoody3141 5 жыл бұрын

Well done John, another masterpiece!

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Les very kind

@chrismccartney8668 5 жыл бұрын

My friend is in Southwold marina this weekend he sailed up saturday morning.. Fantastic area..

@CaroleMora22 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited to watch this one John! My dissertation topic is anchored in a Jungian interpretation of The Rings of Saturn, so seeing some of this landscape through your walk and lens, is going to be amazing I'm sure. Many thanks, as always, for your wonderful work and engagement in psycho-geography.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Carole - hope you enjoyed the video

@CaroleMora22 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I very much enjoyed it.

@morganthedruid1 5 жыл бұрын

Weirdly I watched "Patience (After Seabald") on Sunday and then your latest video popped on my feed. This interconnectedness is exhilarating.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Ah that’s a wonderful film

@ThePootle1978 5 жыл бұрын

Happy days been looking forward to this one 👍🏻

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

hope you enjoyed it Pootle

@marybeck5236 5 жыл бұрын

A beautiful walk. Thanks.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Mary

@sobo1956 Жыл бұрын

very nice walk john always love that part of the coast

@kevinbarry3380 3 жыл бұрын

We have spent many a day in this area, often cycling across the marshes from Dunwich (turning off before the little garden centre) often just on railway sleepers. Happy days.Cynthia B

@lesliegprice6652 5 жыл бұрын

Great video John hope you had a nice holiday, that's another book on my list to read, thank you, see you on the next one.....I guess that will be back in Londinium.....I also remembered that this place was the inspiration for HP Lovecraft Dunwich and the idea of drowned towns , cities and civilisations, there are places in Cardigan Bay where you can see the remains of forests, the Drowned Cantraf or Drowned Hundred they call it.....at high tide on wild nights you can hear the sound of bells....

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Leslie - yes the next one will most likely be the London Loop walk I did the day after coming home from Southwold. Thanks for the Lovecraft connection - will look up

@lesliegprice6652 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks here is a review of another walking book that mentions the HP Lovecraft connection via Arthur Machen pagan-wiccan.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-on-walking-psychogeographical_81.html

@mollymiddleton8365 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely. As a family we love the area along the Suffolk coast. Our son has just had a few days in Orford one of our grandsons will be near Bacton next week. From Molly (Charlies wife) Following a long period of ill health we hope to visit the Suffolk seaside soon.

@stanleycrockett9285 5 жыл бұрын

Dear John We are followers of your walks and really find them interesting. We enjoy your excellent mixing of scenery and music. We have just watched your Suffolk walk and would like to recommend a book to you: The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland. Thank you for your superb productions! Best Wishes Stan & Margaret Crockett

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Stan and Margaret, I'll take a look at that book

@redfordgrange3507 5 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to watching this!

@trevorbarre5616 2 жыл бұрын

My wife struggled with Austerlitz, but I got a copy of Rings of Saturn the other day, and will give it a go after watching John's film.

@suecondon1685 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, haven't been to Southwold and Dunwich for 25 years. Must go back to this lovely place. Haven't read Rings of Saturn yet but I've now ordered it. Love your videos.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sue - I think you’ll enjoy the book

@suecondon1685 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks I meant to say of course I've ordered yours as well!

@nagynoda3732 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for this video. love Sebald

@kdean9537 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you John for a another really interesting & relaxing walk, it was just wonderful. Hope you had an equally wonderful relaxing holiday! Look forward to the next walk with you! ...take care!

@julieblackstock8650 2 жыл бұрын

How did I miss this gem? Its only because I was searching for Walberswick that it came up.. Better late than never

@MH-ln6pv 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks John, that was brilliant. I read TROS a few years back and it's a book that keeps pulling at you: like a particle in the rings being circulated but always at a distance, in thrall to a denser mass - which I imagine might be Sebald's idea of human destiny. It was great to actually see some of the places he describes at last. You might be interested in a free app called 'What3Words': the entire planet is divided up into grids that are given a random set of three words, which are easier to recall than Lat and Long, especially if you're in a wood and need a paramedic. Cheers John, great video today!

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks M H and also for the info about the app which sounds fascinating

@SCOTTBULGRIN 5 жыл бұрын

A lovely seaside holiday, what could surpass that.🌅

@MrJoncando 5 жыл бұрын

a terrific vid, m8, well done_

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Johnny

@jharris947 Жыл бұрын

Know the area well......That was a most enjoyable walk.

@borderlands6606 5 жыл бұрын

A real M R James landscape, with a ghostly addition from George Orwell at Walberswick Church.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Ah yes thanks for the reminder. A spooky echo was that I randomly discovered this story when looking in the Orwell letters on the date that letter was written (or perhaps it was Orwell’s birthday)

@ReadySaltedCrisps 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful walk! And an absolutely fascinating video too. I must pick up a copy of Rings of Saturn!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Highly recommended - currently planning another Sebald walk so hopefully have that online in a couple of weeks

@glennswalks7693 5 жыл бұрын

Hi John I enjoyed your video I’ve had a walk around Walberswick back in 2006 a very good area for Birdwatching in the marshes and there is a famous RSPB Nature Reserve at Dunwich called Minsmere but I didn’t know there was a lost City in the sea you learn something new every day atb mate Glenn

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Glenn - I also didn't know about the nature reserve. The River Crouch just a little further south is also excellent for bird-watching apparently

@peteking4958 4 жыл бұрын

So spooky! Currently enjoying The Rings Of Saturn and on a tediously slow train journey home from London this afternoon read this very part of Sebald's wonderful book - the walk from Lowestoft to Southwold and all the fascinating side-stories. I've been to Southwold a number of times but never stepped foot in the Sailors' Reading Room and to read about it in the afternoon and see it on video in the evening is just wonderful!

@stephentodd6936 3 жыл бұрын

Have done that walk, lovely and a book recommendation, 2 actually must read yours, thank you.

@MarkWright75 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, yet again John! Utterly wonderful to follow along with you. I just purchased The Rings of Saturn and very much look forward to diving in a s planning my own trek. Also, the often used track - Fresh Fallen Snow never fails to cause me such joy. Have you started a Patreon yet?? ;)

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Mark - no I haven't started the Patreon yet, thanks for asking. I need to work out how the walking club element of it would work in practice

@lesliegprice6652 4 жыл бұрын

Dear John, I hope you are well and had a great summer,just to say I just finished your book,what a wonderful experience, thank you, I learnt so much about my childhood city, I do hope you can do another walk together soon, Southwold was incredible, thank you, see you soon.....

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Leslie, it was such a great experience to write the book. I’m hoping to post a new video on Sunday. I’ve shot 4 new walks but the editing has been a bit slow

@jim..... 5 жыл бұрын

i was just rereading this book last week, funny you should upload this. you should check out Mark Fisher's 'On Vanishing Land' which was released posthumously quite recently. no doubt inspired by Rings of Saturn.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip Jim - I’ll check it out

@TheDavidfowler Жыл бұрын

Love all your walks but only just caught up with this one. Southwold has been my and my family's favourite seaside holiday town since the kids were 7 or 8 (now both in their 40's). On your recommendation I've just bought a copy of The Rings of Saturn. Just been delivered (under £3 free delivery). Staring it this afternoon. Thanks.

@JohnRogersWalks Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy David - it’s a great book

@GreyGhost. 3 жыл бұрын

did this in 2019 John ... many thanks.

@drewperotti7969 10 ай бұрын

Many thanks for this.

@JohnRogersWalks 10 ай бұрын

My pleasure Drew

@martinjohnston6685 5 жыл бұрын

I walked alone on the Suffolk coast look up the stranglers song except replace it with Norfolk.

@Pierlover 5 жыл бұрын

I love this area. Great to get a breath of Suffolk sea air here in a very hot and sticky Berlin! I don't know if it's still there but one of the last grave stones still standing in Dunwich is/was in memory of one John Easey - and by coincidence a cousin of mine married a John Easey (in Australia)! I took the ferry across to Walberswick once and was so fascinated by the waves rolling in that I wrote a piece of music for flute and harp and called it 'Waves at Walberswick). I straight away ordered The Rings of Saturn - I didn't know it was about this area. So thanks for that as well as the video!

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for that Douglas - I'd love to hear your composition - is it available online anywhere

@Pierlover 5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Unfortunately not. It had one performance which we didn't record. My computer plays it quite nicely!

@rogerkearns8094 5 жыл бұрын

I must have missed the walk from Leytonstone to Southwold.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

this made me laugh (and my kids too)

@rogerkearns8094 5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks Here to please. Cheers :)

@4thEyeVision 5 жыл бұрын

Great walk thanks. I walked with my daughter from lowestoft to kessingland just a few weeks ago when we was on holiday 👍😁😊

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

I must walk the Lowestoft leg one day

@4thEyeVision 5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks You must when i was about 12 years old i walked Lowestoft to Southwold i think it was about 12 miles. I wish you would visit Barking and Dagenham again 🤞 But just keep the vids coming i love them 😁👍👏

@jona5482 2 жыл бұрын

See ref to Rings of Saturn in last LeCarre book out this month. I first encountered Sebald through Austerlitz. The Rings of Saturn was introduced to me by friend and now author Dan Gretton. The structure of Dan's 2020 book "I You We Them" is in large part inspired by Sebalds Rings of Saturn.

@pauljones5066 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John, my favourite book and a beautiful and haunted piece of coast line. My mate in Norwich cycled out to Sebald's grave a few weeks back

@tomaswest6541 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks John for another nice walk.

@paulhunter6178 Жыл бұрын

I'm really not sure why it's taken me so long to discover this video as it reflects so many places local to me. The Greyfriars Priory at Dunwich is a truly special place, and its hard to imagine the amount of land lost to the North Sea. Another inspired walk!

@trevorread9115 3 жыл бұрын

Hi John I’ve done that walk from aldeburgh to soutwold hard going on shingle ship at duwich great stop for lunch

@diogenesagogo 3 жыл бұрын

I walked (most of) this at dusk, with the bird calls echoing across the meres & the power station humming in the distance. At one point a ruined church appeared out of nowhere, lit up by the last of the sun. Eeriest experience I've ever had. PS can you still see bones sticking out of the cliff below the priory ruins? You could in the 1970s.

@SirPrancelot1 3 жыл бұрын

In 2011, Grant Gee made the documentary Patience (After Sebald) about the author's trek through the East Anglian landscape.[9] This is cut and pasted from Wickipedia. Sorry if you mentioned it and I missed it. Could be interesting. Thanks for a wonderful walk. I've done bits of it, but never in one go. There is excellent fish and chips at Mrs T's at Southwold Harbour. Gets very busy so be prepared for a long wait. Closed over winter. Didn't make it this summer unfortunately but assume they were able to open despite Covid, even if just for takeaways.

@DaraM73 3 жыл бұрын

Just like to take to opportunity of thanking my old prof, Graham Ellard. A marvellous educator, filmmaker, and turn of the century influence. Even though I had to return to him his long loan 1st edition, what a privilege to be handed such a book. Thankfully, I have my own first Ed, and various travelling thumbed reprints.

@rupertferguson9673 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! youtube actually sent me a notification of this one! First time I've had a notification for one of your videos for weeks. I usually have to go and look to see if a new one has been uploaded.

@stewartconacher6552 5 жыл бұрын

A very interesting video.Great to be able to see where this fine writer walked.Cheers.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Stewart - I'll have to do the walk from Lowestoft to Southwold sometime

@roydini1 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely stuff!

@GianniinJapan 3 жыл бұрын

I read the book a couple of months ago - while taking walks around my house - and it was a wonderful read. This video is a beautiful companion to the book. I wish you had included the mysterious army site, but I guess it was too far down the road.

@chrismccartney8668 5 жыл бұрын

Above Bailey Bridge was a number of wharves and buildings and very good summer grazing but walls not maintained it was lost to the tides.. and a railway and also barges sailed up to Blythburgh. Last church fell into sea about 1890 i think...

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for that info Chris

@robertbarling5601 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent John. Did you visit Adnams brewery while you were at Southwold?

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

Not on this occasion Robert but I’ve been before - we were staying right next to it this year

@xfilion 2 жыл бұрын

Have you read the book written by M R James simply titled Suffolk and Norfolk?

@hanktheblesseddeejay 2 жыл бұрын

Walberswick of course used as a backdrop for the first episode of Lovejoy if I remember correctly

@rosswebster7877 5 жыл бұрын

Great to join you on your holiday John, this is one of the best! I never knew about this fascinating and somber history of Dunwich before. I can’t help but think H.P. Lovecraft knew about this when he was making up his fictional haunted New England fishing village. I’ll definitely have to check out Sebald now.

@CthulhuInc 2 жыл бұрын

oh, i've read rowland parker's 'men of dunwich: the story of a vanished town', an interesting story of the sundered town. "A popular local legend says that, at certain tides, church bells can still be heard from beneath the waves" - parker. this town is not to be connected to the fictional location found in hp lovecraft's short fiction "the dunwich horror"

@connortren1853 4 жыл бұрын

Just see you at Leytonstone station. Do some more vids 👀

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Ah great- I was off out along the Essex Way, have 4 vids shot, just need to crack on with editing

@CyclingSteve 5 жыл бұрын

Hi John, do you know about the Dunwich Dynamo? On the Saturday night nearest the first full moon of July every year thousands of people cycle from London Fields to Dunwich. I've done it once, 13 years ago. I intended to go this year but that number 13 supplied me with a cold, I'll try again next year. I'll have time to read The Rings of Saturn before I return to the lost city.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

I only found out about it a couple of years ago via a fella in Leytonstone who does it - sounds like a proper adventure

@trevorbarre5616 2 жыл бұрын

Was Dunwich a city though, or just a sizeable town? There are other sunken settlements further up the coast, I think, up by Spurn Point (take the road east from Hull and don't stop till you hit the North Sea).

@dai19721 5 жыл бұрын

ah cheers great show buddy as always...... I stumbled across a great utube show last week I think you an the other viewers would like its called ActionKid. Basically a guy walking around New York talking about its history. He did one show for 10 hours walking around NY. lol. Anyway its a good show, like yours its heart is in the right place. again cheers buddy see you soon.

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

that sounds great David I'll take a look

@tomgirldouble3249 4 жыл бұрын

Why is it called the rings of Saturn?

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

That’s a really good question- I’m not entirely sure

@montystelevision3238 4 жыл бұрын

How did he get to Southwold? Did he walk there? Can't see a station nearby on the OS map. I like following these walks on the OS maps.

@williamjordan811 5 жыл бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyable video! You need a sailor's hat and a pipe! hehe or at least a sailor's hat... Cheers and God bless

@JohnRogersWalks 5 жыл бұрын

I think you're right William - there is a nautical side to my family as well so it'd fit

@greenbank234 3 жыл бұрын

I love the London walks but this one is much prettier! I'm reading This Other London at the moment, but I'll re-read Rings of Saturn soon. Does anyone know Time Out's four other recommendations?