Secrets of the City with Iain Sinclair

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4 жыл бұрын

A walk through the City of London and then out to Stepney with the great London writer Iain Sinclair. The route takes us from Liverpool Street Station through the City of London to the Thames then East through Wapping to the street mentioned in W.G Sebald's novel Austerlitz at Stepney Green.
Includes a reading from Downriver by Iain Sinclair shot in January 2016 for our film London Overground • London Overground - Ia...
The route:
Liverpool Street, Old Broad Street, London Wall, Great Winchester Street, Austin Friars Passage, Austin Friars, Old Broad Street, Royal Exchange, Birchin Lane, Gracechurch Street, Bulls Head Passage, Leadenhall Market, Leadenhall Street, Mincing Lane, St Dunstan’s Hill
Thames Path at Billingsgate, Tower of London, St. Katherine’s Dock, Wapping High Street, Wapping Lane, Tobacco Dock, Chigwell Hill, Swedenborg Gardens, Cable Street, Watney Street, Watney Market, Sidney Street, Mile End Road, Globe Road, Alderney Road, Bancroft Road
Mile End Road.
Watch related video: The World's End - walking with Iain Sinclair in Tilbury
• The World's End - walk...
Shot on a Panasonic GH3 + Rode Videomic
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Huma-Huma
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@mikebarton 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing you two out walking brought back this memory. My girlfriend and I moved to London in 1987. My friend joined us a few months later. To figure London out we'd take a tube ride to a random station then get off and walk back to home in Camden Town. Every Sunday for months. Sort of like doing 'the knowledge' but an abridged version. There were so many places, people and things to be found. Wonderful time.

@ronscholefield1894 4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure many viewers will agree, when you and Iain get together for a tour, it's always worth watching. Well done.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ron - it’s always a huge pleasure for me

@PB-mo1fs 4 жыл бұрын

What joy! One of my favourite film makers with one of my favourite writers. This is a dream team.

@LadyPercy. 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately having been extremely active and an avid walker for the first five decades of my life arthritis has now rendered me a shadow of my former self. John and associate contributors, I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am for your London uploads on KZfaq. Each one is a veritable treasure chest of historical knowledge and immensely enjoyable. I now, not only eagerly await each video, I enhance the experience by planning ahead. By equipping myself (note book and pencil) and ensuring I am not disturbed, I can now vicariously participate (just as an eager classical and social history student, attending a much anticipated lecture would) in each, splendid walk and talk event. My notes act as a reference aid so I can then visit specific locations at a later date. By 'cutting to the proverbial chase' so to speak, with your help John, I am able to keep the walking distances and physical fatigue to a minimum.Those that say London is an expensive city to explore are just going about it in the wrong way.

@bjwnashe5589 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. I could listen to Iain talk about London all day long.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

It was a real pleasure as always to walk with Iain - realised today that we’d walked the Lud Heat Map you see at the end

@bjwnashe5589 4 жыл бұрын

Big fan of Iain's books. Just now getting into your video explorations. Really like what you are doing with this channel. Great work. Cheers!

@morriganwitch 3 жыл бұрын

Me too xxx

@ringscircles142 4 жыл бұрын

the crown jewels of a walk

@FireflyOnTheMoon 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing for 76 yrs old

@Occamsrazor35 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Iain for the ever addictive narratives and John for the superb visuals that, as always, carry you along with them. No glossy, fabricated, 'airbrushed' graphics, but the true sense of being at one with your subject and a deep, deep respect for his companion. I adore your channel and recommend it to all. I miss my hometown and it's accelerated loss of history and spirits.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks indeed

@markmeechan1671 4 жыл бұрын

Magnificent. Always good to hear Iain elucidate the hidden overlapping of London's history. Great atmosphere you've conjured up in this one John, top notch stuff.

@littleacornslandscapes2935 4 жыл бұрын

A Sunday's not a Sunday without your work, thanks John.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Little Acorns - I pulled out all the stops to get this online today

@rambling_rob7035 4 жыл бұрын

Worth the wait for the up loading! What a fascinating walk and wealth of information by Ian Sinclair. Thanks John.

@andrastetriformis6241 4 жыл бұрын

What a truly wonderful mystery tour! Hope you'll do more with him in the future.

@Shungabali 3 жыл бұрын

Your channel is one the best finds on KZfaq and I'm so glad I came across one of your delightful walks following a lost river on top of that your two films with Iain Sinclair are little Masterpieces so enjoyable for someone who ❤ London and its history.

@lesliegprice6652 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John and Ian, London is like a layer cake,so much hidden in the bones like a oracle Ian interprets the hidden connections and secret history,I Amin awe of his learning and his connection with place, he has lived his knowledge with a lifetime of the cities windings and weavings, truly inspiring.......cheers

@user-xc8pv4ip2f 4 жыл бұрын

I used to live and work in this area and made a million steps around . Lovely walk. Every single corner is so familiar.

@tonyb67984 3 жыл бұрын

As I write it's new year's eve 2020 and normally i would be in the pub but decided to sit down indoors with the mrs under tier 4 lockdown in my home city of Portsmouth with "several beers" and binge on your videos ....this one is a masterpiece..thankyou

@hArtyTruffle 3 жыл бұрын

When you mentioned The Levellers, I was reminded of the time, a year or two after we’d been evicted from St. Paul’s Cathedral, we Occupied a piece of land just up from where the Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede. I felt very much like a cross between a Leveller and a Hobbit, levelling the land so I could build my temporary residence. It felt blissful, sleeping in that quiet place, showering in the rainfall, planting and building. On looking towards London, the Shard became Mordor. I imagined a fiery watching eye atop that monstrosity, and cried when I finally had to leave.

@IanOSullivan1965 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely mesmerizing, John. Thanks so much for posting. I love IS's books. What a tour guide to have!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

I feel very fortunate to walk with him Ian

@wendybrown5935 3 жыл бұрын

Utterly facinating, 4am in the morning and I could not stop watching. Have subcribed and now catching up on past vids. Ian was amazing, what a treat. Thank you.

@ashleysgaze 4 жыл бұрын

Bravo John! A tremendous walk alongside the great (and erudite) Iain Sinclair. More! More! More!

@morriganwitch 4 жыл бұрын

I could listen to you guys all day . I’m Going to dig deeper and actually look beyond the surface of London xxx spent many a notorious night in cable street at The notorious Stunners Nite Club with the Gurls xxx

@timbuthfer901 4 жыл бұрын

Endlessly fascinating, so many links and connotations, Iain's knowledge of London is encyclopedic. Thank you John and Iain for the delightful imagery.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

my pleasure Tim - thanks for watching

@user-ks4dh4be8q 2 жыл бұрын

Well what can I say!!! You know I'm completely hooked now and will be binge watching and rewatching your films and heading towards buying a good few books by Iain. Inspirational. I feel like a painting or two coming from this. Thank you sincerely.

@michaelbrown984 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic walk.with two experts on London..proper walk into the history of this great city

@daveconyard8946 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks john! a real treat a brilliant start to my week best regards, Dave.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Dave

@RandomUser25122 3 жыл бұрын

Love this video and i admire Iain Sinclair’s honesty and knowledge in this area.

@tomgirldouble3249 4 жыл бұрын

That was excellent Ian is such a knowledgeable man, be watching again as too much to take in on one go. Thanks john and Ian 😀👍

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

It’s always a huge education and a real pleasure walking with Iain

@redfordgrange3507 4 жыл бұрын

There’s a great deal on Thomas Rainsborough in The Leveller Revolution (Verso, 2016) by John Rees - one of those who unveiled the plaque - especially chapter 12, “Revolution”. A very significant moment in the English Revolution, on Rees’s account.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Redford will look for the book

@davidhallard7427 4 жыл бұрын

Great film John. Nice to see Iain Sinclair looking so well.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

He’s unstoppable David - would have walked all day and night

@rpm1796 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you gents for a truly amazing stroll.

@northlondonallotment6745 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thank you.

@FIO6271 4 жыл бұрын

A pleasure again to walk with you two! So calm and interesting to know new little aspects of the city. Best wishes from Argentina one more time. Keeping up with your content

@neilanscombe7348 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fascinating to watch and listen to, many thanks, Have a great week!

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Neil

@jpete190 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this channel.

@Rameman33 4 жыл бұрын

What a massively interesting man Iain is John, i'd bend his ear for hours ! Thank you for this film, really enjoyed it.

@monkeytrousers6180 4 жыл бұрын

Love it....great stuff...Iain is always interesting.

@annjuurinen6553 2 жыл бұрын

What a fascinating walk and so much information about the City of London. Ian Sinclair has quite the mind. Love this commentary. I really enjoy these walks. Inspiring during this fourth wave of pandemic.

@solobrouk 4 жыл бұрын

Learnt loads on that walk. Excellent stuff.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stuart

@michaellabram5980 4 жыл бұрын

Loving your work...Great stuff...Thanks.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael

@AMcF54 Жыл бұрын

What a great unravelling of the mysteries and myths of London. Always an unpredictable journey, with Iain Sinclair. Always thought-provoking. And beautifully filmed and crafted by your good self, John. Many thanks.

@mariana4059 4 жыл бұрын

Marvellous walk with lots to think about.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mariana

@john80c 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating video with the lesser known history of London. Swedenborg and Rabbi Low sound like fascinating dinner guests. The Golem is one of the all time great literary creations-an original superhero with feet of clay.

@katcankan7129 4 жыл бұрын

This was a fascinating walk. Agreed that Mr Sinclair is a fountain of knowledge a real treat. Maybe a London building decode walk one day.😊

@neilprice1968 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Excited to visit london again soon. Absolute Genius.

@BerniM10 3 жыл бұрын

In the mid-late 70s, I worked for a company called the Amalgamated Metal Corporation who were situated above the London Metal Exchange in Leadenhalll Market. The LME was then an "open outcry" market, so twice a day there would be a frenzy of traders, each trading a particular metal and each metal having a short time-slot in the session. I think - and I'm happy to be corrected - that what was known as "soft" commodities (aka "softcomms") were similarly traded at Plantation House. Softcomms comprised the likes of tea, coffee, wool, etc. Leadnenhall Market itself was still a market at that stage, mainly serving the restaurant and hospitality trade, I think and it wasn't unusual to walk through the market first thing to see a brace of deer, hare, pheasant or grouse hanging from a market trader's window. There was also a fishmongers which used to have the most elaborate and colourful displays.

@neilfromdownunder9204 3 жыл бұрын

There used to be a pub in the Leadenhall Market that used to do a good ploughman's lunch that I had many times when I worked in and around the city area in 1973/1974.

@mctasty6094 2 жыл бұрын

I've just watched this and i love it, many thanks.

@levilm69lovecoldplsywillia9 3 жыл бұрын

Lost for words awesome journey into the past almost hypnotizing !

@Underthevolcanobooks 4 жыл бұрын

Phenomenal. So trippy suggestive and cool.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers

@rossybink 4 жыл бұрын

This was the best walk, really enjoyable. At 32.50 when he says Sebalds train would regularly stall from Norwich to London, this actually continues to present day 😁

@milkmanofhumankindness5118 4 жыл бұрын

A great talk, and very true sites do reveal themselves bit by bit when you visit them.

@timnoonan2498 4 жыл бұрын

Wow what a walk through the belly of the beast that is London, fascinating ,what a font of knowledge and insight. i really appreciated the change in atmosphere after dark, thankyou.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Tim

@angelenoof206 9 ай бұрын

I keep going back to this one so rich

@ralphwinter6421 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic walk John, Cheers mate.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ralph

@frikaleoteras 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you John!

@g.t.36 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Thanks

@hanian 4 жыл бұрын

Just wonderful.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ian

@CthulhuInc Жыл бұрын

jeepers, this is another that i'll have to immediately re-watch - there's so much to unpack, so much to digest!

@louistracy6964 3 жыл бұрын

Just great. Thanks.

@smilevideobritain499 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing walk.. your dead right.I've never been too interested in history, Always geography, mostly because I listen but don't absorb. This presentation had me hooked and I really did enjoy it. Thanks to both of you.

@rosswebster7877 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic collaboration with Ian Sinclair as always John! The City of London seems like such a surreal place; the past, present and future are chaotically meshed together. The only thing linking them together being money and capital whether it is Medieval times, 18th century Colonialism or 21st century Cyberpunk. Much of what I know about the City of London comes from Oliver Bulloughs’ great book, Moneyland. Didn’t know about the connection between Swedenborg and Rabbi Lowe. Also recently I found out that one of the early devotees of Swedenborg in America was John Chaplin AKA the semi-legendary folk character Johnny Appleseed.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ross - it's always such a pleasure to walk with Iain. Swedenborg was a really intriguing figure. The Swedenborg Society is still flourishing in London, we screened London Overground at their film festival in Bloomsbury. They have a great publishing imprint that has published a few slim volumes by Iain - well worth a look.

@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 2 жыл бұрын

Once again, what a treasure of interesting information Iain Sinclair is. I think this one tops the lot for me so far though.

@NewingtonBoy 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting boys! Many thanks!

@martinpotter1517 5 ай бұрын

Love this video. Im travelling next week from Baltimore to London

@vickywitton1008 2 жыл бұрын

So interesting and so peaceful too seeing as you use the same music as my yoga teacher does!

@danhope77 4 жыл бұрын

So Rambo was a poet before Vietnam.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

The poetry drove him to extremes (true)

@danhope77 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRogersWalks so true. Maybe the same poetry that our Prime Minister has been reading.

@Mathemagical55 4 жыл бұрын

When Eric Cantona first came to England he expressed an appreciation for Rimbaud during an interview. Unfortunately the sports journalists then reported that he was a fan of Rambo.

@bazangelopoulos 4 жыл бұрын

What great stories with lain Sinclair.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Baz

@Ben_Mdws 3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t read one of Iain’s books and I need to rectify that quite urgently.

@stevec00ps 4 жыл бұрын

I keep looking for myself in this one!

@brianwaterhouse7975 2 жыл бұрын

I lived in Isleworth, west London, where there is a blue plaque for Van Gogh. He used to walk along the Thames to Tower bridge area, set off early, then return to Richmond on the first District line train's in the evening, I believe he sketched many of the London bridges on these weekly trips.

@dai19721 4 жыл бұрын

ah a great one liked it a lot cheers John.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks David

@stewartconacher6552 4 жыл бұрын

Excellenr video full of fascinating info.

@JohnRogersWalks 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Stewart

@stevegee7593 4 жыл бұрын

As you may have gathered my past in London goes a long way back. With things like my dad taking part of the battle of Cable Street. His Carson of it was just a bit of pushing and shoving. To where you walk down Corn Hill where in 1795 my many great grandfather was born in Sun Court.

@LilStevie369 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. I enjoyed this so much. It's funny how I got here. I was watching a show called A Discovery of Witches. The episode takes place in 1590 and I was curious about London back then. So one thing lead to another and I ended up here. A truly, happy accident. Not my last visit to be sure!

@JohnRogersWalks 2 жыл бұрын

That’s funny Stephen- I’ve just uploaded a video where I walk through Manningtree, home of Mathew Hopkins who wrote The Discovery of Witches in 1647, which I talk about (there’s a link to Iain Sinclair via his friend Mike Reeves who directed the film about Hopkins - The Witchfinder General)

@shaunlanighan813 3 жыл бұрын

A good walk with a knowledgeable companion.

@Berry-fr5wj 3 жыл бұрын

Vincent Van Gogh lived in Isleworth (not far from the Thames) near Twickenham

@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@JagBetty 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed that one John.....wish Dundee was a bit bigger🕍

@mickmcguire4571 2 жыл бұрын

Good work

@Czechbound 2 жыл бұрын

This is very, very interesting.

@annaracker1444 4 ай бұрын

What an interesting man. Loved this

@lassepeterson2740 2 жыл бұрын

Wow , and i thought Kew Gardens was just a strange railway junction in London . What detail .

@J_PhD 2 жыл бұрын

15:20 "IT'S THE NATION'S FAVOURITE" as Iain Sinclair walks away... :-D

@suecondon1685 3 жыл бұрын

"I love this wall". Speaks volumes.

@raysargent4055 11 ай бұрын

Isleworth is where Van Gogh lived and worked as a Sunday schoolteacher London rd near west Middlesex hospital the building is still there with a blue plaque on it .

@chrisb4504 3 жыл бұрын

6:50 what a beautiful piece of music??

@dodgyg3697 4 ай бұрын

Supreme walk.

@ednorton47 3 жыл бұрын

Thomas Jefferson's mother was from Shadwell.

@johnbettano6026 8 ай бұрын

Oh my well done. well done indeed

@johnho2006 4 жыл бұрын

Sadly the book Lud heat is not availble on Audible or ebooks, i fancied a good listen

@elliottjohnson967 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, all this talk of lost heads, since Sebald wrote about the travels of Sir Thomas Browne's skull in Rings of Saturn. I was recently at St Peter Mancroft in Norwich, where Browne was interred. His skull was stolen from the grave under the chancel by workmen doing repairs, sold to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital's collection of medical curiosities, and bought back decades later. When it was reinterred the vicar had to record the burial on the parish register, and he put 'Thomas Browne - aged 317 years.' They have a cast of the skull in a display cabinet.

@borderlands6606 4 жыл бұрын

Kew, home of Bio-Piracy. Should be on a street sign. Fascinating walk, John.

@rubenmartin6394 2 ай бұрын

Great video! What is the book at 16:00?

@polo-kf6yh 2 жыл бұрын

mr sinclair, so interesting.

@j0nnyism Жыл бұрын

Anyone know the music please?

@stanleyharrison7031 4 жыл бұрын

I know this place well

@maxdexter2690 2 жыл бұрын

Worth watching but very very revealing about how this Great city of London is the very manifestation of Colonial conquest and power. Its kind of interesting to note that a lot of Londoners seem so standoffish, cold and distant. Could it somehow be that the ghosts of all those countries that the British Empire conquered have cursed London and Londiners? As Ian said the light exists with the dark, interesting.