Deptford London Walking Tour - Salty Saucey Sailor's History Romp

pieces of eight prepare to haul anchor and set sail milady jewels guys here in which i wander around london and tell you fascinating facts and it's good to be back with you again isn't it simon it is indeed yeah it's marvellous i've been away in turkey but i'm back now and we're in dentford and it's called betford because of the deep ford just along there we'll come to it in a minute is the river ravensborn which then comes out into the river and there was a creek there but anyway deep four became betford now back in 1513 king henry viii established the first royal naval dockyard here in deptford and for the next few hundred years great voyages of discovery set sail from henceforth like captain cook for example who got his ships repaired here and i just wanted to remind people that captain kirk and the starship enterprise is actually based on captain cook in case you didn't know did you know that i didn't know that i i'm actually fascinated captain james kirk of the enterprise captain james cook of the endeavour that's what the remit of um the endeavor was with uh captain cook he was heading out to discover new worlds and new p populations he was the first european to chart australia and then he just stuck a flag down said yeah we'll have this typical really 150 years ago this would have been a hub of bustling activity with ships from all over the british empire bringing goods back silk and spices and all sorts so all these buildings around here all part of the old royal victorin yard victuals were like food supplies for the ships that were heading off so captain cook for example would need supplies captain bly when um when before he went off on the the bounty if you've seen my amazing film take me to pitt can you know all about music on the bounty he came to detford to refit the bounty to get it all sort of ship-shaped before heading off on his disastrous trip to tahiti these are called drake steps and in 1581 queen elizabeth the first commanded that francis drake's ship the golden hide be drawn into a creek near here at detford as a perpetual memorial for having circuited round the whole earth they've got a replica of the golden hind down there near borough market she banqueted on board and forthwith knighted drake on his ship so he became sir francis drake on his ship here in dedford and some people claim that this was the famous location of the cloak incident where sir walter raleigh laid down his cloak for um queen elizabeth the first to step on but i heard that was in greenwich but some people claimed that it was here and no doubt uh so walter ali did did come up these very steps oh sir walter really and every time i cried my mama blocked me handsomely hey it was heavily targeted in the war but also they had these slum clearances luckily these ones survived i believe these are the ones where the naval officers stayed if you just were looking at that you could be in bloomsbury or you know some quiet village somewhere and then you come over there and it's all right next to that i was nearly 10 years old bought me a fishing pole and off we went to fishing to the ale [Music] 10 points for spotting one of these that's a proper cannon these are real cannons with real cannonballs stuck in in the end like the ones that we saw over there i mean look at they're real proper ones aren't they these and look you can also see one of these wonderful queen victoria post boxes in recessed into the wall is it a parish boundary marker or is it a milestone or is it something different difficult to say it says 1856 dickfoot per turnpike road rather higher than deckford turnpike road right roll high what is it 1856. if you lived in one of these ones up here then when you look out your window you get to look at this which is rather beautiful and those are probably much more well made as well less subsidence a loyal young man they said was i hey ho when i sailed the sea with captain whilst we're just walking along i must implore everybody to follow me on instagram and my instagram got deleted and my old is i had 10 000 followers and it got deleted so yeah so um so please pretty please with the cherry on top it doesn't cost anything if you've got an instagram account and you like jules guides please follow me on the new account which is at jules guides official [Music] it's irritating me these lamp poles they're purposefully on the angle i thought because when we were back there i thought it was because someone had you know knocked into it but no they're all like that just over here is peeps park and it's named after samuel peeps used to come and visit betford quite often if you read his diaries he's always heading down to deptford in his capacity as a clerk of the navy board whatever that is he's a bit of a bounder and a cad was old samuel peeps he used to come down here and visit mrs bagwell at her home she was the wife of a ship's carpenter he writes young bagwell and his wife waylaid me to desire a favor about getting him a better ship which i shall pretend to be willing to do for them but my mind is to know his wife a little better finally i had my way with her his poor old wife was a bit of a martyr i can't believe he wrote this in his diary but who would write that in their diary and keep it under their bed amazing that his wife didn't find it but originally this used to be says court this big residence owned by john evelyn another famous diarist although we've never heard of him now it's just this ugly big development but he had this huge house with beautiful ornate gardens and he had many magnificent guests here whom we will get to later that's why you've got evelyn street named after john evelyn and says court park where we're going now i made it back to dry land with the tail to turn this over here is says court park named after the huge estate that john evelyn lived in which would have been just over the back of that fence over there but this tree over here mulberry tree they say that it was planted by tsar peter the great who was a guest here and it's 300 years old other people just say it was planted around that time by somebody else but if it's good enough for detford council it's good enough for me here we go around the mulberry bush here we go [Music] i like this little area these 70s 60s 70s estates and whatnot i love it actually [Music] i want to show you my old street sign no that's not an old one it is the one above it oh yes you're right she spotted it yes yes five points to louise uh because look at the old hyde street original i'm not they're all right completely mental opposite that albury street this is we don't need to go down there but this is where all the old sea captains houses were all those ones down there on the left who knows maybe captain cookie himself stayed there when he was staying in detford although he actually lived just across the river pretty close this is detford station look that for station opened in 1836 and the first railway in london was along this viaduct up here it was um it went from london bridge down to greenwich excuse me not in your way was it [Music] at the end there is a new crossroad which is i think the a2 is don't know i think it's the a2 used to be watling street back in roman times and that was the road that in chaucer's canterbury tales the pilgrims would start down there near a london bridge and they would go along there to canterbury interestingly did you know that the word canter to canter on a horse comes from the word canterbury because it was a comfortable pace for pilgrims on the way to canterbury to ride a horse so that's why it's called cantering [Laughter] [Music] just to point out this mural here detford as a naval hub the hms cambridge launched betford's dockyard in 1755 and the other ship there all the guns is the royal george the royal george they put it onto its side to repair it and then all this water gushed into it it sunk it turned out to be one of the biggest naval disasters in british waters of all time um and they salvaged some of the cannon from it and they turned them into the bass reliefs at the bottom of nelson's column other stupid tour guides will tell you like me that they were actually cast from guns captured about the battle of trafalgar they weren't a pox on me for a clumsy fool for telling you so it's uh it was the royal george um do you think anyone in the future is going to pick up the fact that you're calling that mural and it's actually a print you're right it's a print some of us this is saint paul's one of these 18th century churches and there's a little memorial to one of the first tahitians to visit london he's called my diddy because when captain blair i'm completely obsessed with beauty on the bounty a lot of people don't realize that captain blair he's most famous for the mountain for the mutant on the bounty and everything going wrong but he actually went back to tahiti on the second mission in 1793 to go and collect more bread food because that was his original mission on his way back he brought with him a guest from tahiti called my diddy my did you when he first arrived sailing up the thames he was completely shocked by all these miscreants and criminals who were hanging in gibbets he thought it was terribly barbaric poor fella he didn't last very long himself he uh died from a misguided attempt to inoculate him against smallpox vaccination vaccination yes no please don't bring up vaccinations i don't want lots of people to write in and all they ended up doing was actually giving him smallpox the poor fellow died and captain bligh paid to have a memorial and a tomb in this church for him but sadly they didn't put it up even though he paid for it until recently [Music] my diddy a native of tahiti sailed to england with captain bligh on hms providence died in deptford hello you're the you're the rector here i'm at saint paul's paul butler i often see these gravestones around the edge of a churchyard does that mean that they've that they've actually cleared the bodies no the bodies are here an active parliament was made in the early part of the 20th century to enable churchyards in populous places to make their spaces a bit more like open green spaces for people so the gravestones normally indicate that a space has been reused above ground but the bodies are normally still there below ground for example in this church there's a crypt below crypts were were often built in the 18th century with new churches so that the rich could be buried rather than dug up and taken to guys or thomases for um shall we say illegal uh medical research drench the steeples drown the this is the that crowed in the morn that woke the priest or shaver and sean this is the priest all shaven and shaun who married the man and married the maiden he married the man or tattering torn that kissed the maiden all for lauren the milk out of the crumpled horn the top of the world the cat that killed the rat they ate here you see that house over that's called farah house and the number one is where dire straits was formed that's where mark knopfel lived in the house just at the end yeah i thought they were all northerners yeah they're from newcastle it was the first cd to sell a million copies the uh brothers in arms yeah it was so popular because the cd came onto the market and i think phillips brought out you know the cd player and that was one of the first albums that's martin knopfler's house over there and i just want to say hello to my friend lace in in brazil because she's a massive dice straights fan so there it is there it is shall i do a bit like a bbc presenter here at the ravensbourne river we have an old victorian piece of engineering called happening hatch this is more than bbc 1950s i was thinking here we are in this wonderful urban setting and it's today that we celebrate the diversity and also the beautiful nature of the people in this community oh i think i see someone over there come on well look at this this is the ravensbourne river coming up here into the creek there now look at that oh that building you can see just through there is one of sir joseph basil it's pumping stations you know after the big stink in the 1850s was it they had this terribly hot summer and uh the whole of the river thames was smelling so much so they said to boat joseph basil jetty had this big beard like lemmy from motorhead can you sort out all this smell for us and so he decided to build the sewers huge suit with any part of it was that building there which pumps all the poos and everything god knows where down to the sewage treatment works or something but right here you've got this thing called happening hatch and it's called happening hatch because it cost a halfpenny a half penny in order to have it open so the train would have to stop there and if a big ship came past and they wanted to it was too big to get under the bridge they'd lift up that section of track it's amazing that that whole section there lifted up look up those runners you can see so there was these blokes eight blokes would i don't know use some winch hooks or something they'd raise it up and uh yeah and and up it would go and not do it anymore well i don't think so i mean it looks like this bit does kind of come up itself just in case i dare say they can if they need to but it's not there's not much uh not much call for it these days [Music] over here is the trinity laban conservatoire of music and dance i know that because it says it but yeah laban he was a guy who actually invented modern dance where they paint each other funny colors and sort of lying around and leotards you know modern yeah abstract dance the medium of modern abstract dance building itself won some architectural prize in seafaring dancing was very good for morale um captain blair who i keep talking about because i'm obsessed with the mutiny on the bounty he mentions it in his log book after four o'clock is laid aside for their amusement and dancing i had great difficulty before i left england to get a man to play the violin and i preferred at last to take one two-thirds blind and to come without one he describes michael byrne as being one of the mutineers the poor fellow was almost blind he didn't know what was going on everyone was going crazy on a ship he could hardly mutiny couldn't he so in 1791 they sent this ship called the pandora to hunt down the remaining mutineers in tahiti but on its way back it sank near the great barrier reef killing quite a few of those on board so a lot of the mutineers died anyway but then a few of them did make it back to england one of whom was michael byrne the fiddler the blind fiddler and he got led off i think only about two people hang for the meeting anyway [Music] i don't feel that long ago when canary wharf was the only skyscraper but now they're they're all just smothered in a cacophony of it looks like chicago imagine this full of ships tall ships with squares oh but over here look zar peter the great there he is and apparently he was very tall he was apparently about sort of six foot seven yes i don't know why he's got such a small head more to the point i don't know whether he really had a dwarf as well i'm not quite sure what this dwarf is doing okay back in 1698 zapita the great headed over to england and stayed here in order to learn about shipbuilding because our techniques were so advanced and um and he stayed with that fellow john evelyn at sage court but we were talking about early on but apparently he was a very bad guest john evening writes june 9th 1698. i went to deptford to view how miserably the czar of muskovy had left my house after three months making it his court having got sir christopher wren his majesty's surveyor and mr london his gardener to go down and make an estimate of the repairs yeah and apparently he liked to get incredibly drunk and get wheeled around the garden in a wheelbarrow and ruin the geraniums so so the property owner got christopher renova a builder to get a quote 20 builders you know any bills here chris will do it [Laughter] [Music] now by 1889 the east india company had vacated this area and these landing stages all these abandoned things here were used to bring coal and stuff up here to what was the world's largest power station built by sebastian de ferrante who sounds italian but was from liverpool actually and ferranti had 400 kilowatt alternators in his power station here sending 10 000 volts of alternating current right into london to light it up 10 000 gigawatts marty [Music] look at these spooky skulls with crossbones they're amazing legend has it captain morgan used these as the inspiration for this jolly roger ensign i i applied to be him in an ad they didn't choose me but yeah apparently this is where they got the idea from because the original pirates they they had a black and white flag but they weren't skulls and crossbones some one of them was a skeleton with someone running him through or something like that but um it then develops into being the skull and crossbone from saint nicholas church here in deptford and actually these two were put there because they used to be this building where they used to keep the bones charles house that's a charm house yeah and then that's just to represent it because it was all knocked down that channel house [Music] somewhere around this side which is the west wall is the grave of george shevlor now you know have you ever heard the expression oh it was a bit of an albatross around my neck now you know where that comes from so that's from the rhyme of the ancient mariner meaning because um that started when this captain george shevlock captain of the speedwell he was trying to round cape horn and they got scared by this bird that kept following them around and there was his albatross and one of the one of the sailors shot the albatross and he was made to wear the albatross around his neck as a sort of a punishment for having shot it and brought them all his bad luck and he told this story to samuel taylor coleridge who wrote the rhyme of the ancient mariner and um i don't know he originally had one of these chest tombs but it says that it's been removed but it was by the west wall so i wonder if it was this one here god save the ancient mariner from the fiends that plagued theed us why looks thou so with my crossbow i shot the albatross oh well a day what evil looks had i from old and young instead of the cross the albatross about my neck was hung in 1593 christopher marlowe was buried here christopher marlowe was one of the most famous playwrights and they say that he even inspired william shakespeare some people even think that that he wrote shakespeare's plays i don't believe that was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of illium sweet helen make me immortal with a kiss he was accused amongst many things it was claimed he was an atheist a homosexual and were still a catholic and the famous double agent an informer at the time richard baines even accused mahler of saying that christ was a bastard and bad fellow of saint john and leaned always in his bosom he used him as the sinners of sodom now you could get hanged for that kind of thing back then but even now i feel quite bad even saying it in a graveyard so please forgive me for quoting it i'm just reading i mean no disrespect eventually he was murdered uh in a house down here aged only 27. quite weird that the most famous playwright just got buried in an unmarked grave and then the guy that murdered him went to prison and just sat there for 28 days waiting for the queen to pardon him which he did i told the wenches [Music] who blow your hornpipe knight today but behind this big wall here that's where evelyn house was the one that i keep going on about where john evelyn lived and where the czar of russia stayed they then had a big meat market behind there in victorian times and this whole area was filled with poverty in fact charles booth who the social reform who wrote about it he writes in 1899 south along watergate street cattle market wall on west side faint fetid smell prevails overpowered in places by disgusting stenches rough women one with head bandaged others with blank eyes one old harridan sitting on a doorstep with a dirty clay pipe shoeless children sort of people you well he knew me yes how did how did he know look stretcher railings these railings these were stretchers from the second world war because of the war effort they had to remove all the metal and stuff around london and but it was required for bombs and god knows what and weapons this would be the handle and that's where they laid them on the floor because they were made out of metal they were easily sterilized in the event of some sort of gas attack or chemical attack so they removed all these rains and everything and then they turned them into things like stretchers but then after the wall i couldn't be bothered to turn them back into railings again because they already look like they they could do the job like this that's my guess i don't know let's go to the park they call me jolly roger and now you know the reason why hey louise cheers simon nice to be back and thanks if you enjoy the videos don't forget to hit the subscribe button it really makes a big difference and it doesn't cost anything so just hit the subscribe button it makes me look good and also pretty pleased with the cherry on top could you follow me on my new instagram which is jewels guides official see you next time

Channel: Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films

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Length: 24min 18sec (1458 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 25 2020