Questions Answered in this video
@jacquelinemacleod9699 What made you decide to do these videos and podcasts ? Don’t ever stop – they are fantastic! I look forward to them each week
@michaelessig6376 have you ever thought of returning to a past walk but at a completely different season or weather to get a different feel for the walk
@danspencer862 John I’ve always wondered what you keep in that rucksack of yours? Your videos are just the best.
@Jim196819 I’d love to see a walk around Canterbury or York with so much history . Have you ever considered one of those cities ?
@mrbensharman Would you consider recording a podcast series of London walks that people could follow whilst listening.
@CharlieGeorge_ If you could spend a month walking around another city anywhere in the world, where would you choose and why?
@jpingram966 I was wondering if you’ll ever feature neighbouring Queenstown Rd?
@_richie I’d like to ask if you have a favourite modern London building – maybe one constructed in the last 20-30 years?
@alib344 Out of all the historical figures in London’s history, who intrigues you the most and why?
@miqueln1996 would you be able to elaborate more on the concept of psychogeography?
Would a video about pagan London be a possibility? Thanks, Tom.
@helenshiner6793 I would love to see a walk including the history of the Huguenots in London
@paulfrancis8764 Would you be up for a sideline in guided walks?
@lindsaymanary9150 how do you determine which areas you start your walk in.
@TXMEDRGR I love your London walks but would you consider doing some other cities?
@niels.brouwer What has been the most meaningful or thought-provoking conversation you’ve had during your walks?
@marylaplante7261 Is there any area of london that makes you feel a bit sad when considering how much history/architecture has been lost to modern development?
@WoodsideWalker Have you recently found something out about London that’s surprised you and made you say “well I never knew that?”
@dpeastman If you were to draw the route of all of your walks around London onto a map, what do you think would be the two most distant points that you could connect with a continuous line?
@williamrobinson7435 Have you done much on the various Guilds, Worshipful or otherwise, of old London Town?
@timgallivan1614 What’s your scariest experience while walking in London or surrounding area?
@edit511_channel What is/are your favourite pub/pubs in London
@michaeldillon3113 If for some unforeseen reason you were granted one last walk wish – which of the many perambulations you have completed would you choose to do
@robertgarvey5652 I was reading an online article about the Essex Way. Are you aware of this route or covered any part of it yet?
@princegears8673 what is your favourite tube station. Favourite Underground tube line ?? And favourite bus route?
@bnpandsc Have you considered walking the historic River Wey from it’s rising at Haslemere to confluence with the Thames at Weybridge?
@paddyharvey6101 Do you miss the walks through larkings orchards and fields, I can remember you and your dad and the jack Russell trotting off for your evening walks
@robertcollins1583 Could you recommend a Sunday afternoon walk within zones 1 and 2 that ends in a great area or place for lunch.
@battleoftheelements Are you planning to do a walk with those two chaps, can’t remember their names, but they joined you at Maiden Bower and at the huge barrows in Essex some years back.
@NorthernCitrusParrot Have you had any issues with your knees? I recently started with arthritis in mine and I’m less inclined to walk. Any tips?
@lewiswalker7803 Why not once a month do a ‘Notorious’ walk, depicting the atrocities that happened there, for example, the blitzed east end, Jack the Rippers Whitechapel/Spitalfields, area of 10 Rillington place, Plague pits, Dickens Victorian squalor walks
Devils acre etc. Just a thought.
@user-gu1we4si4z can you please visit Cornwall and do a late summer coastal walk ?
@ianjohnson2198 Where do you think is the most relaxing place in all of London? Or maybe even top three?
@AndrewDickson-bb1jl Would you consider doing a meet and greet/talk in a pub at some point?
@re_patel How tired are you after a walk?
@christineduke6096 Just wondered if you would be interested in some facts of Leyton around Skeltons Lane.
@donniedarkomtb7048 You must do a piece on Hill Hall in Theydon Mount, Epping.
@sianwarwick633 Would you ever do a night walk, provided its safe and moonlit or streetlit or torchlit enough ?
@robbojax2025 I can’t remember you doing a Marylebone area walk.
@chrisprobert5340 If you were going to take a couple of kids out on a London trip
@CliveMarchant How many pairs of walking boots do you get through each year?
@andrewramsey7405 Would you ever do a walk with Russell Brand around his home town of Grays?
@minijames2777 Do you have a driving licence,
The Lost Byway: http://thelostbyway.com/
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Here are some of the links I mentioned in the video:
Essex Way
https://youtu.be/0hzNHNILC20
https://youtu.be/v554btw7LEo
Norton Folgate/ Spitalfields
https://youtu.be/_7fPIY_eA40
Somers Town
https://youtu.be/8_gMBhQloiQ
Halloween Night Walk
https://youtu.be/7MsNt7xFR5w
Whitechapel
https://youtu.be/IP8mjHhCnzc
One of my favorite walk when I'm in London is going to Regent Park (wonderful Park indeed) and from there going climbing to Primrose Hill (which it is just outside the Park) and having a spectacular view above London. Keep on posting these well done Videos and Greetings from Spain
I love your simple fascination with the sound of rain. Also, your recycling of unwanted clothing…especially the grubby hat.
Your best Q&A yet and loved the on-screen graphics. As others have said the time flew by so I was disappointed when it ended! Looking forward to the new book and hopefully an audiobook to go with it which would accompany me when walking myself. Also I will keep an eye out for your walk around Borough High St/Borough Market area, one of the highlights (so far) of my walk along the Thames Path.
Loved the video. Would love to see an evening with Sinclair, Kötting, Rogers at the white rock theatre in Hastings lol. ❤
What a great episode
Great Q&A. Something that may work for you without having to do an edit which may prove very popular viewer wise is a London point to point walk. For example always start at the zero mile marker in Trifalgar Square and walk to a pub or something on the outer boundary of London on every direction as a different walk with no set path how to get there and just comment on the way. Maybe lasts for hours but you just then upload it and that’s it done with no editing if that makes sense.
That was stupendous, John! Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤
Great use of a rainy day – thanks John – got lots of fresh walking inspiration- including have recently done much of the epic walk you did along the river Lea navigation – albeit in smaller chunks – ( and took in part of the Stort valley path up to Roydon – can see why you found that so entrancing). Keep it going – great channel.
What I like about your stuff is its real and commucated & i appreciate it.
don't bother with 10 Rillington Place, knocked down, newish gated mews … but if you ever need a petrol station (unlikely i guess !) there is one hidden away right there off Ladbroke Grove . Do i win a book for this useless fact ?
if you ever want to talk to a resident expert on Primrose Hill and Regents Park, let me know as he has written the books on the area eg Primrose Hill : A History
Hi John, enjoyed watching this one and the questions, I personally like your vlogs on the outskirts of London, the hills and the ones a bit further out with the ancient and ww11 history.
all the best from sunny Portsmouth.
Love the format, btw. Talking about the most relaxing places in London, my favourite – years ago – was the top of Parliament Hill, with a kite. I don't know if people still do it, but there always used to be a group of kite-flyers there.
Fantastic, better and more entertaining than anything on TV, keep up your great work.
Looking forward to your next video 😊
Thank you for answering my question. I really enjoy the Q&A sessions 😊
Hi John, thank you so for much answering my question about psychogeography – it has been really helpful and it is such an interesting concept! I will make sure to keep my eyes and ears open for when your new book comes out and of course when I go through the rest of your videos.
Thank you for doing these great videos John I look forward to seeing them whenever or wherever that may be, keep up the great work and again thank you for your time.
What a ton of work you put in here! A real state of the art accomplishment. Thanks.
Loved this, especially the moments of course where you've mentioned Eastern parts of town 🙂 Looking forward to your next book.