Brick Lane & Columbia Road - Lazy Sunday in London's East End Markets

Why not spend a lazy Sunday afternoon in London's east end markets, including Brick Lane and Columbia Road Flower Market.
(For music details check below!)
We start near the Geffrye Museum on Kingsland Road.
Then we walk down the Columbia Road Flower Market.
Then we visit Hackney City Farm.
After that it's off to Brick Lane and the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
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featuring Shane from “The Band Rudy Warman & The Heavy Weather” ➜ www.rudywarman.co.uk
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When I was a child in the 50s and 60s Brick Lane Market was a great place to go on Sunday mornings. They had puppies, kittens, parrots, tropical fish, budgerigars etc. There was a man that sold hot fresh Apple fritters. Six fritters in a paper bag and sprinkled with sugar. He would cook them while you waited. There was also a stall that sold hot and cold sarsaparilla by the glass and there were stalls selling hot dogs and hamburgers. Thanks for the video.

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Yes they are cute,you think they would look after them,still it's only part of our history so don't really matter

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I moved out of London to Australia 20+ years ago. These videos take me back. I can remember working as an art student in the Atlantis art shop which used to be below the Truman Brewery on Brick lane, buying my bagels at lunchtime, checking out the stalls to see I could get some good deals on the art supplies that had just been freshly nicked from the art shop that morning.

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When we visited in 2016, we went into the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, bought a little engraved bell :-) There was a small museum at the front of photos and history, and the gentleman in the store said that there wasn't a lot of call for new bells, that most of their business was maintenance. Sort of hoped they would be working on Big Ben during their renos. Really gutted to hear they closed the following year, wanted to go back and get another bell. You always think when a place has been around forever and in a grade listed building, you will have time. It was quite the place inside, and a factory just out back. Seems it will be turning into a hotel by new owners. Such a history, at least it was merged with another bell company, and the Whitechapel name will live on on some of those bells.

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I believe that is where the Liberty Bell was cast

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The shops that only take credit cards started appearing in NYC a few yrs ago and drove me crazy. Lots of New Yorkers complained until eventually (pre-pandemic) a law was passed that ALL shops in the City had to take cold hard cash...

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[@brian9731]

My Dad, now 92, was born at 118 Columbia Road in his grandparents' flat above their shop. They sold bedding but we've looked a bit into the history and later on it became a carpenter's workshop - as apparently many of the shops on Columbia Road were - and more recently, it was a hat shop, whose owners had to shovel tons of sawdust out from under the shop. Now, as far as I know, it's a shop that sells jewellery.

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On a snowy day, housebound, I re-visit some of your best visits around London....an absolute favorite last spring was to go with a friend to look for her roots in the east end....we strolled Brick Lane, Columbia Road flowers, Tower Hamlets, Spitalfields City Farm.....on our bus, out the window we saw Hackney City Farms....and seeing your stroll on this video, made me so pleased....on the next trip in June, it goes on the list. Thank you for showing the colorful, unique parts of London......

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Excellent tour, as always! My favorite market used to be Bermondsey. It started in the dark, in the wee small hours of the morning, & over the years I bought some wonderful things there. Portobello Road was wonderful also, & I have many, many things from there, but going to Bermondsey early, having bangers & mash, or a jacketed potato, in the cold morning air, before starting the hunt, will always remain my #1 market memory. Thanks so much, Joolz!

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Puerile quips aside it was very informative again! Will. be checking out that farm! 😎

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My ancestors were French Huguenot silk weavers in the Brick Lane area, who moved to North after the silk weaving trade collapsed and became servants at Chatsworth House.

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Brick lane reminds me a bit of Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk on a summer weekend, quite a cross section of society. Great watch and thanks for posting......

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I’ve been to that market (fantastic) and have also had the most delicious bagel at that bakery. Felt like I was there again with this lovely video. Love the background music! Jolly good, mate.

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Yea but he went to the new bakery that locals do t go to, it’s says est 1865, mate I remember it opening, it tries to pretend to be the first on brick lane, a total loada bull, go to the original next time yr there ;-)

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One of my favourite museums the Geffrye is. I t was closed for 2/3 years for refurb and by the time it opened back up again, I'd moved down to Devon. Time to plan a trip back!

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First, congratulations on 100,000 subs, how exciting! I’m also excited for the new video. I can’t wait to go to these markets I love them. It would be a great place to people watch. 😊 ❤️

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Columbia Flower Market are my favorite along with Broadway Market also in East London

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I really REALLY miss the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. I was lucky enough to have a tour of it, in its last year. Amazing craftsmanship and specialist equipment. Pity it did not survive. It just could not compete with some newer-equipped foundries in Europe.

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Monty's....... Love that bar in Bricklane. Streetartist hangout spot !!

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That was good, Julian; I enjoyed my walk down memory lane. I used to like to go down Brick Lane with friends to the Indian cafe/restaurants. I liked going to Columbia Road Flower market too. The East End opened up a whole new world to me. I liked the music.

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the pub with the black horse on Hackney Rd was originally called The Nags Head. Closed in '91

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I LOVE Columbia rd flower market. That's defo worth a day trip up to London. Hopefully will again unless life has changed forever who knows.

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Great videos, takes me back to my days living in London many years ago. Hope you can make one about Broadway market, London Fields, Mare Street, The Narrow Way, all those places join together. Would love to see you walking around that area.