Echoes of Tudor London & the Elizabethan City - Smithfield to Blackfriars (4K)

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

A walk full of the atmosphere of the past - which as you say, is probably better captured at night, when the 'present' has faded back into the shadows. Very enjoyable. Keep them coming! Thank you!

[@KateVeeoh]

Never clicked on a video faster! Been looking forward to this, the first episode was brilliant. I was just visiting Hampton Court Palace yesterday, and I also walked from Vauxhall to King's Cross. Passed many a street and building that I've seen in your videos, John :)!

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Brilliant Kate and what a wonderful prelude to the video. Hope you enjoy it - lots of new discoveries for me

[@KateVeeoh]

Very fitting :)! And another cracking video, very atmospheric. Yes to the series idea and many more discoveries! I'm Belgian but I pop over to London a few times a year, to visit museums and to walk and wander just like you do. I find London so very peaceful, wonderful for 'headspace' (as soon as you walk away from the A roads and tourist hotspots, like you say). It really is like walking through layers in time.

[@huw_griff2064]

Love these videos. Having recently moved away from London after studying there, watching your vids makes me miss exploring the city.

[@2Sugarbears]

Each time you showed me a church or church yard I'd say outloud, I was there, I sat there. Thanks John you brought back some lovely memories for me. Happy New Year and blessing to you and all your family from Canada.

[@morriganwitch]

Thank you John xxx

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks for watching Morrigan

[@morriganwitch]

Love London in the Darkness xxx

[@electraruby]

Your videos of another London hidden within our busy modern day city make me believe in parallel dimensions.

[@robbojax2025]

am always glued to the screen when you do a City walk

[@terryblack2219]

So engaging John so engaging to paraphrase you walking in peoples footsteps before. The closest we will ever get to time travel I imagine thank you for your effortI will watched it again tomorrow night

[@peterspencer396]

Absolutely loving these Tudor walks!!! Excellent!

[@stephenblake3158]

Your filming even In the low evening light is still excellent and all ways informative in an interesting way thank you John

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks so much Stephen

[@lindasueanderson8024]

I love it when you find a tiny place that you have never seen before

[@KimGen712]

As an American obsessed with Tudor London - I loved this video. My first stop in a time machine would be London 1530s. Can't wait to visit again next year. Your walks inspire me!

[@LizmarieDB85]

The way that i just announced to my whole family that new video was out was priceless ❤❤❤❤ I love this series¡

[@JohnRogersWalks]

That’s brilliant Liz - thanks for letting me know

[@suzana.9255]

Thank you for another fantastic upload. You walk through centuries just by turning a corner. Wishing these relics from bygone times could talk. Anything Tudor are my favourite walks aside from Epping Forest ❤

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks for watching Suzana

[@Upe-f9c]

Yet another fascinating walk. Thanks!

[@johndavies5184]

John, another classic walk. Interesting and informative. Atmospheric, and your enthusiasm is contagious.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Many thanks John

[@AFCManUk]

Another wonderful John Rogers video. Always enjoyable spending time with you on another walk John.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Many thanks

[@jacquelinemacleod9699]

Been so looking forward to part 2 of the Tudor walk and again you havent disappointed. I use to work around there and cannot believe there is so much history I wasn't aware of ! Thanks John for all this information. Look forward to hearing about the changes of the London landscape during Medieval and Norman times, an exciting year ahead ! Look forward to it. Thanks again !

[@rpm412]

love John's comment @ 7:50 - "walking through layers of time". sounds like we have a lot to look forward to this year!

[@marty9011]

I so enjoy the videos where you show us the remnants of historical London. This one was good as you didn't show much modern traffic & I felt the atmosphere of an earlier city, especially as it got darker. Amazing to know that there are Tudor fragments still. Thank you.

[@margaretcopley8880]

Best walk. Thankyou John.

[@chrissslike-n1h]

Just beautiful how the runis are preserved!👍👍

[@paulwilson7234]

Excellent Sunday evening video.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Paul

[@downtonviewer]

Bravo, sir! I have enjoyed (and shall continue to enjoy) this series immensely.

[@vjary8142]

Mesmerising, thank you for sharing the history with the audience.

[@alanarmer8069]

Great video John 📗📗📗📗📗📗📗

[@barbaramassey3787]

The night time filming is extremely beautiful. The colors are rich. ❤❤❤

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Barbara

[@chrisblay]

The golden boy on Pye corner appears as though someone maintains it, as looks freshly polished. Must be an interesting back story to that.

[@christopherbutler7588]

Another great video, John.Thank you for sharing this history with us. So very interesting and its wonderfully that you can still Physically touch Those very very old Building how lucky we are 😊 thank you have a great week ahead.

[@Jpkjr52]

Always a pleasure Thanks again John in Chicago

[@TimothyHalkowski]

Excellent walk - thanks for the beautiful scenes!

[@goofe.washington953]

These videos are outstanding.

[@sharonleong7120]

I love it. Great sharing. Thanks . 👍👍👍😍😍😍

[@liamness5155]

Love all your videos but my favorites are ones like this and the roman on where you take a certain period of history to view london

[@AngelaDavis-yz3xf]

Thank you John It looked lovely in the evening.

[@davidpendry7731]

Remarkable walk and your coverage was excellent with so much informative information. I live in Australia but my passion for the Tudors and Stuarts started in my childhood living in the U k Now Subscribed

[@lesliegprice6652]

Great video John , yes please lets have aome more , fascinating, i used to work in Smithfield back in the early seventies, used to walk through that gate every day 😎

[@cdeldn2012]

Great video John, thanks for filming 👏

[@vincerobinson6144]

Great vlog as per usual John. I think it’s sad that we weren’t always as history focussed, and much is lost. It does make the preserved buildings, and parts thereof seem more precious, but I feel we’ve lost too much to the dissolution, great fire, blitz and unsympathetic town planning, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.

[@jonathannash5754]

Wonderful video John, having worked around that area for many years in the 1990s great to see. Stationers Hall off of Ava Marie Lane another Livery Company worth a mention. Looking forward to more in the series.

[@williamrobinson7435]

Certainly the darkness plays to the atmosphere of a video like this. I hope you had a pint in The Blackfriar, it's got such a brilliant Art Neuveau interior, when you're nearby, well, for me it's not to be missed! Some words on Henry Vll's palace at Richmond might be apposite, maybe a pic or two as there is a bit of it still there! It's almost impossible to put into words, the strange feeling one gets upon seeing a bit of London from a different historical point of view, especially when it's a familiar spot. A certain shiver down the spine perhaps. A pint of decent ale usually sorts it out. A most atmospheric and well presented film! Thank you so much John. ✨🌟👍

[@keithprater310]

Wonderful and enjoyable as always.looking forward to future walks.if only stone could talk.stay safe.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Keith

[@filmbuffo5616]

Excellent video of olde London.

[@tomgirldouble3249]

Hahaha, Amen Corner was a band in the 60's😅great video, love the dusk filming, does add atmosphere, fascinating series, thanks, John❤

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Ha, that’s exactly what I was thinking at the time and also the part of Augusta National Golf Course with the same name

[@ralphwinter6421]

Nice one John, wonderful vid...

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Ralph

[@redjacc7581]

Nice one JR, Happy New Year to you and yours.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Redjacc - HNY

[@luapnosboh7421]

Yea I love the off track filming , one day ya gunna pick up a ghostly , great John loved it 👍

[@chrisblay]

Another Sunday evening walk. 👍

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Hope you enjoy it Chris

[@calimonkey1836]

Thanks John, another very interesting walk, its an area I know well, I lived in Amen Court from (I think) 1968, my dad worked at St Paul's and I went to school at the Gatehouse School, named after the Gatehouse of St Bartholomew the Great, where Phyllis Wallbank started the school on Montessori lines.. her husband was the vicar and we did our nativity plays in the church. I used to walk from Amen Court to Dalington Street (where the school relocated) via Smithfield Market every day..

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Wow what a wonderful image of childhood- thanks so much for sharing

[@gaffersteve]

i was wandering around the area on Thursday and went and had a look at St Sepulchre for the first time and noticed John Rogers thought it was a funny coincidence and wondered if you’d covered it in a video ! Great video as always

[@JohnRogersWalks]

It’s in a few Steve - I remember discovering that plaque late one night about 30 years ago

[@gaffersteve]

@@JohnRogersWalks Really enjoyed the film Looking forward to seeing more in the series. Im 56 lived in London since 78 and it never ceases to amaze me. Always out walking and filming / photographing and have done over the years and still feel that sense of discovery and fascination that you convey so well and share a lot of your sentiments. And completely agree about the City at night it is like time travel at times. What an incredible city we live in

[@markriley4665]

A great walk for the New Year. So familiar with this area but always good to see it with fresh eyes. I walked this area before Xmas (including visiting the famous bell in St Sepulchre’s) and need in a wonderful recital in St Bartholomew’s. It’s such an atmospheric place. On your recommendation, I am working my way through the Ben Aaronovitch ‘Rivers of London’ books (currently on book 7) - thoroughly enjoying them.

[@joedellamura9015]

Another good and interesting walk John Thank You for sharing 🤝

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Joe

[@stoker1931jane]

The King's WARDROBE was NOT just about storing the King's clothing...but it also held all his tapestries, bedding and other soft furnishings and furniture. Which his servants would move when the King/Royal Court went on PROGRESS across England to his castles/manors and to the houses of his wealthy Courtiers. ✌🏻😊

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks for that note Jane - that must’ve been a massive job. I believe Henry VIII renovated Bridewell Palace just to accommodate the Emperor Charles and his retinue with all of his stuff on a visit to London - it was a huge party

[@ColinBarnes-h6s]

I'm about to start your video (just waiting for the kettle to boil) and I'm intrigued that I haven't been back to this part of the city since the mid 1980s, and I'm anxious that so much will have changed since then that I may not recognise my old stomping ground in your film. Yet you're tracing places from half a millenium ago. Deep topography mate. I love these walks. Happy new year by the way.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Happy New Year Colin. Love the mention of Deep Topography. Hope you enjoy the video

[@ColinBarnes-h6s]

@@JohnRogersWalks Thoroughly enjoyable, thank you. There are links in this film to my home in Lancaster as St Andrew by the Wardrobe is responsible for the upkeep of the small church of St John's in Lancaster city centre.

[@NealMurfitt]

Here's me looking at Google maps to see where you are. Great video John.

[@monicacall7532]

Wonderful video! I’m so glad that Henry VIII didn’t destroy (or completely destroy) St Barts and some of the older churches. He certainly didn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason with regard to what got torn down and what was saved.

[@ccjelley2390]

A brilliant little known area. Carter Lane was the well-known location of the central London hostel of the YHA for many years. Seems quite incongruous today. The Observer newpaper used to be printed at the bottom of St Andrews Hill [now Mellon bank now]

[@dodgyg3697]

Happy New, John

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Happy new year!

[@vjary8142]

Hi John, before London loses Smithfield's, the market and surrounding area, any chance you can do a walk to share its history.

[@richardwager283]

Happy New Year John 🍻Inspired to go on a city walk soon 🍻 Do you track your walks on an app like Strava?

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Happy New Year Richard - no, I tried tracking but it didn’t really work and I keep an analogue record of where I’ve been in my notebook

[@UKCheeseFarmer]

Ones money has to be on Christopher Wren for setting the Great Fire of 1666... Great video John really enjoyed the evening footage has a certain serenity and ambiance about it. Thank you and all the best for 2025 dear Sir. ❤

[@JohnRogersWalks]

That just made me laugh out loud in Spoons! Thanks

[@UKCheeseFarmer]

@@JohnRogersWalks I'm happy to have made you laugh! Mr Wren did rather well out of it. The Robert McAlpine of his day. Have a fine evening and enjoy your pint John. All the best :)

[@timelordvictorious]

Founds out a year ago the pub that Shakespeare and John Marley hung out in was near saint Paul’s in london

[@GeorgeChoy]

Good morning john

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Hi George

[@barrycard-y3e]

Seeing the blue plaque for Newgate reminded me that as a nipper my Grandad used to say that if it was dark it was "as black as Newgates knocker".

[@JohnRogersWalks]

That’s great thanks

[@XNA2NW3]

100% agree about the darkness.

[@chrissslike-n1h]

Why was the wardrobe in that location??

[@luapnosboh7421]

Owd William didn't have far to go to hospital tho rog !

[@WorldwideGhostsTV]

Oh yes, Cock Lane with the curious "ghost story" of scratching Fanny of Cock Lane. Another good walk, John. All the best for 2025! Cheers!

[@zcam1969]

Rome goes back centuries before London proper , is London more preserved than Rome ?

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Good question but I seriously doubt it. Aside from other factors London went through a huge development in the Victorian period

[@annemurray3913]

hi

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Hi there Anne

[@zzzland1]

Interesting as usual! You have a fascinating way of explaining thongs. BTW, when was this shot? 👨‍🦳 Michel (Toronto, Canada)

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Michael - it was shot in January this year over 3 days (2 days of pickups)