East End Echoes - London walk from Mile End to Poplar via Limehouse (4K)

I worked as a gravedigger many years ago . In one corner was a seperate jewish graveyard. The last burial was at least 100 years ago but still there were fresh stones placed on the ( upright ) gravestones. I never saw any visitors myself which added to the mystery and charm ✌️🕊️

For people like me ,who grew up in the 60's , seeing that mural of Queenie Watts was very nostalgic . Real name - Mary Spenton - really epitomised the East End . She was in so many films and TV shows that were iconic of 6O's London - and not the Carnaby Street bit . She was in a 1978 Play for Today called ' Waterloo Sunset ' . How London was that !? . Tommy Flowers was typical of how the working class contribution to British history has been down played. Without Tommy Flowers none of that Bletchley Park stuff could have happened, or happened so quickly . R.I.P Mary and Tommy . You were what we used to call ' salt if the earth ' . ✌️🇬🇧

Imagine how lovely all these places would look and feel without the graffiti that covers every inch of every surface. Such a blight on this great cityscape.

Dear John, I notice when it's a cloudy, dreary, cold day like today, wearing a bright color like yellow or red picks up my mood. Great video!

I find it astonishing that all of us alive today had ancestors who survived history! Thanks for another excellent walk - wonderful photography - love all the sights.

Fascinating and very enjoyable - those images of the Jewish cementary were very poignant and completely new to me. Thank you.

I found my grandfather in the 1891 census at 52 Grundy Street. The pub was number 46. Thank you, greetings from Ontario

The graveyard, the canal, the street art, the history, your company, thanks for all of it. Enjoy the ups, the downs and the neither ups nor downs X

Your dad's music should DEFINITELY be the regular playout song, after all, practically everywhere was once meadows and streams etc.. A real piece of folk culture, you should put it to the best use possible. A lovely walk, I do hope it cheered you up John! 🌟👍

Drove a truck round London for 5 years,The East End was always my Favourite Location you take me back to a time i knew the streets of London like the back of my hand. 👍

What a great walk John. I have visited all the Jewish Cemeteries in the area (including the three not open to the public). It was a wonderful experience last year. The older cemetery is on the campus near the Novo but is locked. I got permission to visit and spent a wonderful couple of hours there. The Ba’al Shem of London (Samuel Falk - believed to have associated with Emanuel Swedenborg ) is buried in Alderney Road Cemetery. St Anne’s is a wonderful church. I managed to visit the inside of it in Sept last year and get up into the gallery. The pyramid is the entrance to Fu Manchu’s lair in the Sax Rohmer novels.

From 1987 to 1994 I worked as a Traffic Policeman at Bow Garage in E3, so this area was my ground. I watched with interest as it all changed with the advent of nearby Canary Wharf and it is still changing now. Thanks for an fascinating video

Street Mattress at 23.46 :D "a street mattress is a sign that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you are on the right path"

Never seen a cemetery like that, really striking sight. Nice to see Spring has arrived in London, we are still in Winter in the welsh mountainside.

I lived at Sturry Street, next to the African Queen mid 70s and passed it every day on the way - to and from - the Mayflower school on the next corner. Queenie Watt's had the pub the Rose and Crown (she had a parrot in the bar area too) in Penny Fields across the East India Dock Rd and near to West India Dock Rd. Great video John, thanks.

….and Yes!!! Please include your Dad’s ditty 😊 each week. Love to hear it. It makes me smile.

Velo - old in Portuguese, possibly as simple as that. Nice try with the pronunciation btw. Your Spanish is serviceable 😊 ....a part of London dear to my heart...stayed around there a bit in Summer 2018 after 30 years in the southern hemisphere...arrived jetlagged from Heathrow one sunny morning and the people I met that day, from the youth centre near Poplar DLR to a pensioners lunch at an old church closer to Limehouse "please join us!" they said... "born under Bow bells love", said an elderly lady...some Windrush folks too...St Anne's possibly...there's nowhere like London for rich purposeful unscripted walking and marveling...Chrisp St Market and the boxing club...big shout out to all Street Sweepers! Tower Hamlets Cemetry will blow your mind John....an urban wilderness...my photos of it are on the Google space for that location --- the bombed children's home 😢😮

A Sunday evening wander around London sets you up perfectly for the week ahead. Cheers John!

Your route was wonderful, it is always nice to walk next to a body of water. Thanks for taking us along.

As a former history student at Queen Mary university who lived on commercial road this was a lovely walk down memory lane, almost literally as I used to go this way back and forth to campus for lectures. The cemetery is an amazing thing that you come to take for granted as a student and perhaps even slightly an inconvenience to more direct routes between buildings on campus, yet was always a source of astonishment to outsiders when mentioned. For history students at the time tours of it and the Velho cemetery served as a teaching resource on the opening module of the course on history of the local area. Even as the rest of the campus changes (half those buildings and that alleyway didn’t exist nearly a decade ago when I was an undergraduate and it’s a shame to see the canal side area has been blocked off) it’s comfortingly bizarre that it will continue to be there. I’m not sure I can add much to the info about the area beyond commercial road but I do know that the pulp song refers to elmslie point a council tower block where the bands members once used to live and considered an example of the deterioration of east end council support in the 80s. The song also soundtracks a sequence in the movie trainspotting where the main character moves to Mile End to try to escape his addict lifestyle and go straight. The building still stands on Google Street view just south of where the railway line crosses Burdett Road