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Forest Hill, Sydenham, Honour Oak, Horniman - Splendid London Walk
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Forest Hill, Sydenham, Honour Oak, Horniman – Splendid London Walk



This is a rather splendid London walking tour from Sydenham to Honour Oak through Forest Hill with music by ➜ https://www.youtube.com/@roxey_sound
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We visit the legendary cue-maker John Parris and hear his wonderful stories. Then we go to The Horniman Museum and see the fantastic taxidermy and other items in the collection.
There are also locations connected to Aha and Ernest Shackleton.
Forest Hill is, understandably, hilly!! Nevertheless it is one of my favourite walks and I was suitably impressed!

Music by ➜ https://www.youtube.com/@roxey_sound

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24 Comments

  5. David Bradley

    Here in Washington DC, for some reason that even a fan like me can't quite understand, "Take On Me" has become a sort of unofficial theme song for our baseball team, the Nationals, and is played at every game. And it Drives. Me. Crazy. Eagerly awaiting the book, btw.

  6. christopher withers

    could you do tours of london going to places where the old movies where filmed like the street scenes in the carry on movies and the sixtees films

  9. chris Owen

    Hi I went to the Secondary modern school ,and was in Shakleton house in the sixties .what a school it was 👍😁

  12. Stephen Swift

    Hi! The box on the side of the Post Box is to put a second bag full of post to be picked up after you’ve finished your first bag. Very briefly I was a temp Postie. I’m also dyslexic, so that worked out as about as well as you might expect! Great video!

  14. Phil Burkin

    That house in Honour Oak Road (Ashberry Cottage) was the home of King William IV’s mistress, the Irish actress Mrs. Dorothy Jordan. They had 10 illegitimate kids together allegedly. You zoomed in on the blue plaque and didn’t mention it?!?!? 😁

  17. Bazroshan

    The canal was firstly superseded by the Atmospheric Railway. It was efficient in principle but rats kept eating the leather seals on the propulsion tube between the rails, or rats would be sucked into the works. It could probably be made to work nowadays. I remember the disused tower at F. Hill station which had been a pumping house, I think, for the Atmospheric Railway. The structure of the canal is visible at Sydenham station.

  20. Pete Hall

    My parent's families both lived in Westwood Park, Forest Hill and I have happy memories of visiting my maternal grandparents at no.132 in the 1960s. Visits to Hornimans Museum were always wonderful. My parents watched the Crystal Palace burn down on Sydenham Hill in 1936; they said it was a terribly sad sight and the heat was intense. They picked up a piece of melted glass as a souvenir the following morning, which we still have.

  23. Rob Baskerville

    Pre-ordered my book today, even though it will be at least 10 years till I get to London. I hope history doesn't change in the meantime.

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