when I was a child, I lived in Kentish Town, and was always told that there was a river underneath our House!!

was hoping for a stroll around Queens Sq and maybe down Colonade but im sure they'll be in here somewhere shortly, Many thanks..

Hello sir, I’m from North Carolina and I’m looking forward to only my second trip during my lifetime to London. I can’t wait. I’ve been watching a lot of good KZbin videos about the history of London. It’s a part of my own history and I’m fascinated with it. I simply lucked up on finding your channel. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the quality of what you’re doing. Yours is the best information on KZbin regarding the beloved city of London. Please know how much I appreciate the work that you’re putting in. I’m trying to figure out the best place to stay in London in terms of location so that I might have the easiest access to the locations that you have illuminated. Again, thank you for your channel. The BBC owes you at least $1 million.

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Thank you & all alike a good people unselfish for sharing environments and far away locations to the many interested but unable to visit or revisit perhaps. Great uploads of all your videos over the years. This is good work admired &appreciated when revisiting who cared and put forth effort towards eventual remedies brought to old new world problematic reconstructions of past events never forgotten by the spirit heart of mind that lived those experiences even if not known or chosen to be remembered. Documentation uploaded by good people as yourself on public bulletin board platforms seen by the learning public & private sectors of mediums space recognizes this material and journalistic journal truly indeed spreads the independently reviewed worldwide available window into a geographical area perhaps remembered by a wandering mind that connects one’s physical realm. Rekindling a spark of familiarity to a forgotten lived reality to another lived space in time with such memorial memory lends thoughts of past middle & presence bringing correction to many of histories uncorrected human errors affecting man wombman & children there here and everywhere when the unavoidable is continuously avoided that void will be revisited than vamoose change comes. Thank you for the upload & beautiful intriguing terrific I must say content you’ve shared. Sincerely with love, JL

There's a great Sandwich shop, L'Express City, down Burgon Street which I discovered with my Dad when we did a very similar walk to this. Another great video. Thanks!

Thank you, Very educational heartfelt & insightful 🙏🏽 You are sincerely appreciated with love from the most extreme west. Blessings friend and do take care, Joseph

I remember reading Lonesome Traveler, travelling around Venezuela. Jack Kerouac's time in London really stood out. It's a great book. Thanks for taking us back in time with this informative video.

u were visited by granny weatherwax's bee's

Another absorbingly interesting video John! We love your videos... For your enthusiasm and your take on where ever we find ourselves, with you! Thanks John!😊

Another great walk, John. Really looking forward to this series. I find your videos shot in fading light to be the most atmospheric. Thank you for sharing them!

Lovely !

When did your ancestors get married?

Hey John, I’ve been relaxing to your east/Thames estuary/dockland related videos. Love them! Thanks

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I enjoyed your tour very much. I am looking forward to your next!

Lucky you,to get to converse with David Icke,there's a man who doesnt need to go to Specsavers. There is a true ( I'm sure) portrait of St Paul's area immediately post WW2 in The World My Wilderness,a novel by Rose Macauley. Good twist at the end too.

Glad you walked in your old neighborhood. Was nice to hear your personal memories. Please don't apologize.

Hi John, thanks for another great video. I discovered the beat generation authors when I was an impressionable teenager and fell in love with it all. Many years later I was driving out of London one afternoon on the A40 and coming towards me on the other carriageway was Ken Kesey's pranksters bus. I was so shocked I don't know how I kept my driving together. Turned out the bus was in London for some sort of promotion event. I was also fortunate to spend time in the company of Neal's wife Carolyn, an amazing lady and herself a Londoner for many years. Hope to cross paths with you someday.

This was lovely John and very nostalgic . As a young man (23) barely out of my apprenticeship with Austin Morris Engines when I sailed out of Felixstowe bound for Gothenburg Sweden to start a new job with Volvo. That was 1979 and I regret not exploring Felixstowe before embarking on the ship.. I was never to return to work in England again and now am retired in Canada 🇨🇦. Thank you for this wonderful look at what I’d previously missed.

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Thank you for that wonderful evocative walk!

it's Dieppe to Newhaven, isn't it?

Love the Sydney bus ticket John. Same as the ones I used when I arrived here from London in ‘98. Such tangible tokens are lost nowadays, same as concert tickets and airline boarding passes. What will future generations use as memorabilia or bookmarks? 😂

Great video and Satie music! Thanks!

Super cool! Thanks so much!

I like the concept of this video and the Kerouac theme. Have you read Bohemia in London by Arthur Randsome? Would be interesting to see you follow some of the jaunts mentioned in that book.

When I visited London, it blew me away to see the Roman walls. Crazy to think how old the wall is, and London. Thx for sharing these fun videos. This one was filmed during the global shutdown. Good for you for using the time in such a happy way.

In the early '70's London went quiet around midnight. Now it's bumper to bumper 24 hrs a day. Now, a very different place to what it was then. Ruined in my opinion. Too many cars, too many people, too many tourists and too many immigrants.

It's 35 years since I left London to go back north after despatch riding for 3 years, I still miss the place and all it's nooks and crannies I frequented back then,. Thanks for the memories John.

From Dieppe the ferry would have docked in Newhaven. Lots of routes lost due to the Chunnel.

If he has come from Dieppe he will have landed at Newhaven. The cliffs will be the 7 sisters and beachhead I expect on the south down. That would also tie in coming in to Victoria.

That's what I love about London, the canals, the parks and of course the achitecture and the history. So many great spots!

Lovely walk, John and congratulations on the BBC interviews. That memorial dedicated to the war animals really is wonderful and good to see. I remember hearing in another one of your vids that your dad now lives in Barnstaple. It's a small world as I'm from Barnstaple but now live in East London. I do miss it down there!

Beach looked good enjoy 🌊 i always have a mega catch up if im off sick from work😂 Thankyou for showing us this place i live in the north west so probably will never visit here...

Great video John. Read 'On the Road ' some years ago, just ordered a copy of 'Lonesome Traveller ' after watching this. Thanks.

Lovely walk and poignant as still got two episodes of Wolf Hall to watch. I wonder what happens! Was involved in the reconstruction of Temple Bar at Paternoster square a few years ago, the stainless steel bridge which links across to the adjacent building. You can just see it from Paternoster Square looking up on the left hand side of the Temple Bar!

Brilliant walk!

love your walks so much, only found your channel in Nov 2024 and as i am house bound I so love u going on walks on my behalf, sometimes they make me sad when i see deralict buildings and nature spaces being built on, but other times love the open spaces, parks and little bits of nature that the local communities have made. happy walking for 2025.

Great video John. I was 10 years old in 1957, I remember the beat generation especially Dave Brubeck but sadly not Kerouac

Kerouac’s journey, your journey, overlaps with a commute I used to take. I shared a room with five others in Paddington but worked at Bush House. Every morning, I would take the tube in, but on the way home, I would run; Aldwych, The Strand, Trafalgar Square, The Mall, St James Park, Green Park, HydePark, Paddington. The big challenge was navigating Trafalgar Square without stopping. There was a lot of running on the spot, even in 1985, when there was a significant amount of traffic and pedestrians. However, once I traversed Trafalgar Square, I felt a great sense of liberation, freedom, and space as I entered the Mall. I was free of work and people, and I was no longer in danger of being run over. I remember once being stopped by an incredulous Scandinavian tourist demanding to know if THIS was really Buckingham Palace? He was viewing it from the good side.

Born in the Scoatish borders in 1953 arrived in London in 1969 as a homeless street urchin...soon found the warmth in the needle ... I cashed my scipt in every day at Boots 24hr pharmacy in Piccadilly Circus for the then legal Diamorphine Sulphate...saw Burroughs in the 3am queue once and exchanged unpleasantries...I had no idea who he was...just some old yank with ideas above his station...months later I was "Alex the droog" getting ECT in the Government "experimental" psychiatric Borstal at Feltham with all the other runaway kids with mental health issues from growing up in a home of psycotic "domestic violence"....the staff were brutal ex-army thugs...the drugs were untested on the public,,,,all records are "lost" according to the Home Office ...It was scary shit and I may be the last survivor of something rather sinister.....oops rambling....came here through my love of the Beats and Alan Moore...loved the walk and splother...One Love

More than likely Dieppe to Newhaven and sight of the stunning white cliffs of the Seven Sisters between Seaford and Eastbourne. 18:37

The engraved design coupled with the dual color really makes it nice.

January 1957 was my first year at Barnsbury Girls N.1, with bomb sights in most of the streets around that area. We still had coal fires to heat us but had to mux the coal with coke nuggates and even though rationing ended many things were scarce, such as clothes and certain foods. We were happy and everyone helped everyone else in those days. Fog was the norm and sleet too. Thank you John, nice vlog 💕🇦🇺

Unforgivingly enjoyed the view of Buckingham Palace at 5:16. Obscurity peaks my interest.

wait The Bldg. carried on until 1963 1964?

Thanks again John in Chicago. I have done that walk

Absolutely wonderful, I’m fascinated by this period in history. Looked a tad chilly tho! Greetings from Auckland NZ (born in Shrewsbury Shropshire. Love my history.

'Jonesonianally' = To have a strong desire or craving for something. Jonesing for an ice cream or solitude ?