[Music] in which I wander around London and tell you fascinating facts don't forget to hit the Subscribe button if you like these videos today we're heading just down to uh sorry keys and a what better way to arrive than on the splendid it's called an Uber boat um Tim's Clipper or something it's really quite a glorious way to travel down there actually some people get to do this every day I think it's rather Pleasant [Music] just opposite Canary wall they used to have a pair of horns on a pole here for many hundreds of years
it was called cuckolds points it was because back in there like the 12th century King John or something was found in the arms of a Miller's wife from Charleston the husband this Miller was a bit upset about it and as recompense King John let him have all the land as far as he could see and it so happened that he could see uh three miles from Charlton to rotherhide so he said you can have all that land as long as once a year you walk that route wearing a pair of bucks horns that was that
was his records it's a bit mean of him anyway that's why that area is called cuckolds points a couple is somebody who has had someone else sleep with their wife is that right I think it comes from the word cuckoo maybe because a cuckoo lays its eggs in another bird's nest anyway it's sort of just that little area opposite Canary wall s excellent so look down that way we've got Deptford if you're doing this walk or something you could actually watch my Deptford video which starts just a little bit beyond there but we're going to
go this way instead and uh we're starting here in excellent boundaries though I'm very fond of boundary stones and I like it when they write the information so I don't have to remember it this is so what's the boundary between Saint Mary's parish rather Hythe and Saint Paul's Parish Deptford until 1899. it also was where the Kent Surrey border was but isn't actually its original position this was uh this was nearby and I like the fact that they relocated it it shows that they care about these old things and they didn't just Chuck it in
the bin anyway good that like it let's go he drops there was Ice I don't know why I'm singing the damn Busters because that's a completely different incident but um this is this is South dock there's quite a few of these stocks I mean this one's been converted into a Marina and back in the 19th century there were a lot more of these docks around here a lot of them have been filled in but this one was empty during the second world war to prepare the floating Mulberry Harbors you know for D-Day the ships that
were carrying all the machinery and everything they couldn't get close enough to the land in order for them to offload tanks and God knows what so they had to create these floating Mulberry Harbors they landed two and a half million troops and half a million Vehicles before it was decommissioned but anyway this is where they assembled or got them ready feels like I'm on the south of France or something [Music] look the tide gauge house this in the old days would have had a man in there to check on the levels of the tide and
decide you know when these Gates needed to be closed and whatnot because look yeah because look over here down here in the ground there are these kind of pistons and stuff now I suppose these are probably what operate these Gates over here these big lock Gates which are open at the moment enormous aren't they they're huge and I think they are probably operated from that little cabin over there so this this little funny Hut here that had the gauge or in a bloke sort of measuring the tide or whatever and then that little Hut over
there operated these Pistons here I think it did anyway you see the bridge over there that opens up I don't know if it still does anymore I don't think so it looks like you can't go through anymore but in the old days you could uh no we're swing around look you can see the wheels all right okay so that's why it's called it like that's why it's called a swing breed oh it is called the Spring Break and and all this Machinery down here look hydraulic lock gate engine the Machinery was installed in 1902 the
sluice gate inside the pit was raised and lowered using high pressure water beautiful engineering though isn't it I mean it really is and it looks great too see you on the other side [Music] now this next one is the biggest of all the docks and used to be called Howland great wet dock when it was first built back in like the 1690s the Russell family with the Earls of Bedford dug this massive dock on their land here and it was used for refitting the ships for the East India Company do you remember when we were
in in Peckham in a Peckham video there was this kind of empty Canal it was like a Parkland walk right yes yes that was originally the grand Surrey Canal which back in 1807 ran all the way past here and connected camberwell with the Thames but after the main docks got moved to Tilbury in the 1970s they filled it all in anyway in the 1700s they renamed this dot Greenland dock because it was famous for having all these whaling ships that came over here from Greenland and they used to boil blubber and stuff around in these
boiling sheds in order to I know extract whale oil and things like that these days it's more used for water sports and stuff around it really is massive that Doc and oh look here's James Walker he was one of the main Engineers here designed quite a few docks I think that was his thing docks he needed a dock James Walker's your man they're going to talk about this rail probably a giant trolley I've got a giant train tracks loading unloading whatever Timber maybe like you you mentioned because the trees wouldn't have been here there would
be no Greenery here these trees are new and the whole area was completely rejuvenated in the 70s and 80s they look very 80s don't they those buildings they're unrecognizable from how it was and it's at the end of the dock here is one of these basket Bridges I think we went over one of these in our whopping video this would have connected the Greenland dock with I don't know there probably would have been a canal going to one of the other docks Canada dock or whatever they pumped water into that container at the top and
then that would come down and this whole section would lift up and you can see over here all the kind of the lever what would you call that with like a big Cog I love looking at this sort of stuff because it's the sort of thing that you might have as a toy or in your meccano set or something a small version of this but it's just on a giant scale all these knobs sort of go into these little bits yeah such beautiful stuff I suppose it had to be beautiful though in a way I
think it's the bolts as well I mean look at all the rivets and bolts they sort of add to decoration because they become a pattern I think this is red riff Road I mean this used to be rogue's Lane back in the old days because we're approaching rather high this whole Peninsula is kind of rubber hide really and locals used to call rather high red riff something old Saxon Anglo-Saxon one of those old languages anyways Mariner And Hive meant Haven which became redriff and so people called it redriff back in those days so it was
like a Haven for Mariners so it's actually indeed why rather Hive it's called royal Hive because that's a landing place for cattle or something I don't know how you pronounce it [Music] filthy ugly sailor I'll make you crying more we've just come around that little bit called Surrey water it's a rather nice Lagoon with these rather newly built houses around it and I'm going up to meet my friend Yen at the top of Steve Hill there's a bit of a wall but I call this the Avenue of the grumpy trees because it's Cyclops tree here
every tree has a little spirit in it kind of angry looking grumpy tree looks like he's hailing a taxi that one been waiting for ages what are you looking at sounds like Grande my Lord Grande what's that the adventure game no I've never seen that Planet [Music] they had the vortex at the end it found murmurous I will Rend an oak and Peg thee in its knotty entrails till thou Hast how old away 12 Winters I always think of that quotation from The Tempest where Ariel has been trapped inside a tree anyway look we're heading
up this hill this is at the top is Stave Hill where you get a lovely view of the whole area it's quite a long hill this reminds me of being in Kill Bill she has to climb the stairs to go and see pie May I'm like oh no not more not more stairs she better be here brought me all the way up here I was expecting to find you in a Lotus position and sort of uh you know floating and meditating the camera does everything exactly this is where the magic happens highest point in rather
hide you can see because London here yeah that's sort of risen from the waters in the 90s so right now we'd be standing in the water would we yeah in Russia dock this is quite cool look so they've got the whole map of what the docks used to look like here look we're here currently this one is Russia dot this is Russia dot yeah you can see all of these areas were underwater all of these areas were docks that have now been filled over and turned into land that we can see around so what have
we got here what's that building so that used to turn out the Daily Mail the evening standard and the metro and then in 2017 it was taken over by a company that was running night club events there and it was voted the seventh best nightclub in the world by DJ mag which is quite impressive for something here oh I think one of the what's the best in the world what was the best you know I don't know when no one I've seen it change so much it's incredible I mean I've been living here what since
the 90s so here it used to be just very wild no past so it was just a grass that people were throwing rubbish to and there wasn't anything around with the Russian dot woodlands and this whole area now is also managed by a group of people and there are many volunteers who have come to transform the space there's now lots of footpaths that they've created okay and here you go welcome to the orchard so he's even got a sign the orchard I think okay I mean there must be apples this is a pear right oh
sorry I didn't mean to do that that's an apple come on it just didn't look like okay it's an apple it's lots of different sections of this park now there's it's very scary yeah no crime perfect piece in the area apart from Apple theft yes [Music] changed a bit I used to know this place vaguely rather live down here this is Canada Dock and uh it was built in 18 or opened in 1876 to hold grain and Timber from Canada now it's called Canada water completely different from in the 1960s and there are some remnants
though that more remnants of the old days that building over there look the superintendent's officers of Surrey docks built in 1887 that rather nice I like all the mixture of different types of Market I think I think they've done quite a good job if I'm honest nice little reminders of what the area used to be like I think these guys are called deal Porters Hardly Working Man yeah look dressed like me that fella the Norwegian church of Saint olab there's another church around it there's a Finnish church as well I think there's a Swedish church
one of them's got a sworner in it I don't know which one it was built in 1927 it was actually used by King hark on the seventh of Norway to broadcast speeches to the Norwegians when they were under Nazi rule in the second world war but there was a lot of these Scandinavians who would be working in the docks and sometimes they might get stranded here and they would need somewhere to go and worship so they built a few of these Scandinavian churches in Saint olabs I really like because if it's Weathervane if you watch
my Weathervane video you'll see me going on about the great Weather Vein up there which has got I think that is Saint olav on it now King Olaf was king of Norway and back in the 11th century when London was occupied by Swain forkbeard the son of Harold Bluetooth and husband of Sigrid the haughty Old King Ethel red of the unready he wanted to get London back and so he Enlisted the help of King Olaf no way the guy in writing his little boat there on the weather to come and help him sail up the
River Thames and they tied ropes around the supports of the London Bridge like the old kind of rickety wooden London Bridge whatever was there in those days and he helped pull down the bridge giving rise some say to the rhyme London bridges falling down falling down falling down London bridge is falling down my fair lady yes I had to think about that for a second it's like a little while the singles out singles out next week folks [Music] it's Diana so you can't tell me about the building so the old Mortuary it was built in
the late 1800s because there's a bit of a bend in the river right here and my understanding is this is where the bodies would wash up oh yeah so this is why the the mortuary was built here it was a working mortuary until the 80s we have turned it into a beautiful Community Center that doesn't feel at all like a mortuary okay let's check it out Devin you're in danger of being on camera here yeah but yeah you'll notice that all of the all of the very tall because is where they would do the season
things so you want a lot of light to come in but you also want privacy so that the locals are not having to see all of the icky bits understanding is this beam up here is where they would hang the bodies as a sort of I guess like if you are in a meat locker with a butcher you know that's what I'm picturing so I don't know how accurate it was that they were hanging bodies from it but this is certainly what I've been told yes so now we are a community center that provides free
activities for children under 11 supportive activities for older adults over 55 all ages got a lot of gardening things going on now not not death related [Music] but yeah we're not going to stop in there today it's got a beautiful view of the Thames and they say that some of the Timbers from the actual Mayflower ship that sailed the pilgrim fathers to America were used to build the pub I don't know if that's true or not the Mayflower did rot away on the banks there just on the river behind look up on there they've got
an old sign it says Metropolitan borough of burmansey these days it's the borough of southwark so I suppose that's probably an old sign but anyway look and above there you can see Saint Mary rather Hive must be some sort of Parish marker or something in fact that's the church of Saint Mary's rather Hive just opposite one of these Graves here is the grave of Captain Christopher Jones captain of the Mayflower I don't know which one he's buried in he's on Marx his grave for the crew of the Mayflower rather Hive men heard it say that
Jonathan Swift got the idea of Gulliver for Gulliver's Travels when he was in rotherhithe and apparently he described the character so well in his book that rather Hive people swore blind that they actually knew the person that he was based on as Jonathan Swift never went up in a lift nor did the author of Robinson Crusoe do so it's my favorite player anyway so just opposite the church is this lovely School old charity school you can tell these charity schools because the figures wearing blue the dye was very cheap kind of die it was much
cheaper to dye the clothes blue and that's why their uniforms were blue but this one was founded by what Peter Hill and Robert Bell I assumed they were two seafarers who founded this school in 1613 so that the sons of their fellow Sailors would have a place to be educated and just along from there look there's is the watch House you'll often got these watch houses in the cemetery such as now a lovely rather nice cafe you've got these watch houses near cemeteries so they could keep an eye out for any grave robbers and for
other misdemeanors and just a little way along from the old fire station as well it's all nice dragged me Kicking and Screaming into here you've changed into your uh yes because we need to be in proper attire Simon's off uh doing some filming and we come for fish and chips because it is fishy Friday now and I felt in the mood fish and chips but there's plenty of other things on the menu Lawrence is it when I decided to open my own restaurant I thought where would I like to go for dinner with my partner
and all the restaurants I like to die in they're all missions died and all really expensive so I thought Simplicity take good quality products simply cooked them a good value price we were listed the top three best cheap restaurants to time out and I'm going to be going since 2007 so good job and you've opened just for us which is really kind I have your much appreciated lovely chunky chips as well I love mushy peas you have to have mushroom peas with fish and chips but this is very very good Jules guides recommends we did
do a video about Robert hiding which I walk from Tower Bridge all the way up here and I feel a little bit annoyed because I left a few things out I know I mentioned this before which is you can't go through on a hive without mentioning the Brunel Museum so vintage Jewels will explain this is now the Brunel Museum but it used to be the engine house which pumped the water out from the original Thames tunnel which was the first underwater tunnel in the world Bruno I won't get confused there's two brunelles is izombard kingdom
rudel was was the Sun but I think Mark Brunell is the guy who designed this tunnel he actually escaped from the French Revolution his wife nearly got excess she was uh she was condemned to death in France because he was French the Dems Donald was the brunel's big projects the dad Brunel and the San Bruno yeah the dad Bruno died during the construction they got into a lot of money problems financial difficulties whilst he was in debtors prison he spotted a worm apparently it was like a special kind of worm that had a hard front
and he'd burrow and sort of I don't know remove the Earth and put it behind him and he had this special method of tunneling and it gave Mark Bruno the idea of how to it's a tunnel underneath water and so he then showed the world how to do it this is the engine house that they built for the tunnel this is there is the shaft so I guess originally you'll go round and round this shaft to get all the way to the bottom these days they do concerts and stuff down there originally it was a
foot tunnel but like everything in tools guys it ended up attracting prostitutes themes and pickpockets so they ended up selling it to the London Underground and that's now where the trains run through it's a nice handsome small station it rather it is I agree [Music] we're back outside the Brunel Museum I know we just had fish and chips but for the love of the Arts we're having more food because rather hide would you believe is a culinary Center no one would tell you that except me but here we have a Vietnamese food truck man you
have a choice of button me which is the Vietnamese baguette or rice or noodles and here I would really recommend the baguette because it's very authentic to the way that it would be served in Vietnam well I'm gonna have the honey pulled chicken what would you want that word Baker forgets myself every morning recipe if you know about the history of Vietnam it was colonized by the French wheat was really expensive to import they tried growing it in Vietnam but the tropical weather didn't work and then when they left the country and Vietnam became independent
the Vietnamese decided to make their own baguette but because we was expensive they had to use less wheat so that meant the baguette was fluffier and lighter and crispy on the outside compliments to the chef I know it's not new year but I should say oh come on it's only there it's a Vietnamese that's exactly what I said these are good no this is very very good thank you highly recommended the love yet van now right next to the La Viet Food Van and above the Brunel Museum there's this beautiful Secret Garden full of herbs
the money that you pay goes towards the Brunel Museum as well who are raising money to improve the shaft tunnel and you know bring it back to it the Botanicals which I use in the garden I use to make the syrups and I use for the cocktails oh it's called Midnight's Apothecary Roof Garden what do you suggest I have go for the Paloma a Paloma yeah all right then but this is all made with stuff from the garden or stuff that's foraged locally oh wow cool those butterflies I rather like this I'm quite jealous of
all the herbs here nothing seems to grow in my garden but they've done a good job here so these are all to be sampled in cocktails on cocktail Friday or whatever it's called midnight [Music] we've stopped here in Cherry Gardens is aware of Samuel peeps used to stop and buy his wife cherries after being down in Deptford you remember in depth when we were talking about how it used to go and sleep with that ship Builder's wife and then on his way back home he bought cherries for his wife he's a bit of a mean
so and so and it's also from here that jmw Turner painted the fighting temerare that famous painting which is in the National Gallery good day for mud laughing Simon yes that's the tides out Monica it's friend of the show Monica oh yeah you found anything good so here's a box of treasures these are ones I found earlier not today it's like it's a light blue Peter so this when I found it was flat as anything absolutely covered in the deepest darkest mud you can imagine no shape to it at all as I was pulling it
out I was thinking what the blooming heck is this and when I finally turned it around I saw like a wooden shoe sole it's made of Elder wood and Alderwood is a really really tough wood it's like Willow it should have had a metal toe and a metal heel right um to protect the wood from wearing out but this shoe never had them and there's a reason for that it was a docker's shoe and the docker if he had had metal Taps when he went on board a ship to unload he would have damaged the
deck of the ship yeah the other thing also if he had metal and he went into one of the big warehouses the Sparks could cause an explosion this is about 1800 to 1850. how do you know all this how does she know all this stuff that's what I want to know how do you know that what else have you got in this box of Tricks what would your average person up there want to wear if they didn't want to walk in their muddy dirty streets the roads were really filthy so basically people would have these
things they're called patterns um so this is yeah it's basically a metal almost like a stilt and it would have had a wooden bit on there and you'd put it on your shoe like that and then you tiptoe through the mud and it would lift you just to you know a couple of inches out the Slime so your skirts wouldn't get too dirty again a pattern now we're talking 1600s Tudor down so you'd also have these things which are really pretty they're called little dress Hooks and they've got a little hole at the top for
a ribbon so you'd have the ribbon around your neck your various different skirts going generally a gray over skirt which was very demure but your Petticoat might be red and quite quite pretty you'd kind of want to show off your petticoats but you were pretending that you were trying to keep your skirts clean from the mud and you would use these and you would hook them up and you'd hook up your over skirt to allow a little bit of your pretty red underskirt to show dates for about the time the Mayflower was found not that
far away from it and it has IHS on it which is basically the first three letters of Jesus but in the Greek alphabet Jehovah starts with an eye it belongs in a museum and the last thing I've got um is a padlock that was owned by the Queenie Brothers oh look and it was in Paradise they were in Paradise Road which is literally around about a minute and a half walk but when I cleaned it off it was really lovely because just here WM and a quilly London but Quinny turns out he was a Nail
Maker and he had Warehouse a Stones Throw from here and this was obviously one of the padlocks that tried to stop people from nicking their nails but this dates to about 1880 this padlock so we're taking this back to its home we're re-housing this uh this lot over there would be Mr Quinny these three major warehouses and the poor bugger if he came back now he wouldn't recognize them anymore no they've been flattened by the council oh there it is it's home at home sweet home cheers Mr Quinny [Music] okay it's called The King's stairs
this little bit around here actually look at these remnants here of the 14th century manor house built by King Edward III I would have been standing in the moat right now I reckon there was a moat that went all around this Manor House according to that sign up there yeah it's a bit beyond repair now and it is a ruin could do with getting the builders in that that's a lovely Pub there though the angel which I keep meaning to go to this one here but uh this is a 15th so it's been a pub
here since the 15th century and uh it's famous for its smuggling you know because in uh they've got these trap doors out the back which the Smugglers used to use so they wouldn't have to pay taxes or something and then just over there you've got Alfred Salter this kind of thing which we spoke about in in my benches video but that's right some people didn't watch my Adventures video Simon so let's cut two vintage Jewels who will explain all about the statues over there and just over here is Alfred Salter who was a much-loved MP
back in the 1920s this whole ensemble here of statues and this fell on the bench is it's known as Salter's dream now Alfred Salter was a doctor originally who lived near here and he entered politics in order to help improve living conditions for the poor and of course being a doctor he saw the effect that living in slums had on people's health and he set up Mutual health insurance schemes started treating people for free and together with his wife they worked on improving conditions in the burmancy slums by building houses like those that we saw
in Wilson Grove around the corner there used to be another version of him but someone stole him I don't know I don't know but I felt it was sorry for him because the other one he looked a lot more comfortable he was sort of recline on a nice bench his wife over there Ada she is one of the only 20 statues of women in London she's carrying a spade because she campaigned to get some of the public spaces turned into playgrounds for children Aid is concerned for working women led to her election in 1909 as
the first woman counselor in burmancy and the first labor woman counselor in London this must be the daughter who died of scarlet fever some say that her death could have been avoided if they had taken her out of the school here and sent her to a posh Place elsewhere but they decided to stay living in amongst the the slums here in birming but unfortunately it didn't do her any good and she ended up dying as for the cats I think that's just our cats [Music] cheers thanks everybody don't forget if you like the video don't
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