A relaxing Stroll around Covent Garden & St Giles / London Walking Tour (4K)

This London walking tour takes us around one of London's most famous districts - Covent Garden. But first we check on the developments in Denmark Street, the historic home of London's music industry. From here we walk down St Giles High Street, setting for Hogarth's famous Gin Lane, and turn into Monmouth Street. At Seven Dials I noticed a drop in the land and a later comment alerted me to the presence of the Cock and Pye Ditch that drained the area around Seven Dials when it was known simply as Marshland. So we then embark on a walk around the Cock and Pye Ditch and Bloomsbury Ditch which opens up more of the area's rich history. This walk takes us from Embankment Gardens, up Strand Lane and across the newly pedestrianised section of the Strand. We then head Drury Lane, Shelton Street, Neal Street, Shaftesbury Avenue and West Street. Our walking tour resumes in Shorts Gardens and Neal's Yard before crossing Long Acre into Covent Garden Piazza and Henrietta Street where our walk ends.
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[Lola-AreaCode]

If I could go back in time I'd go to the mid to late 60s and hang around Denmark St, hoping to bump into Steve Mariott, Ray and Dave Davies, and other musical greats in their younger years.... 💗 I've read so much about it in the auto/biographies.

[mheuman]

So much fun, loved 5he stories. Thanks, John!

[TXMEDRGR]

What a lively, interesting, and historical area of London, I remember walking through part of it. An Anglo-Saxon walk would be wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

[keithprater]

Wonderful tales, a haunt of mine back in the 70s.sci fi shops with wonderful names one called dark they were with golden eyes.may you walk forever.

[AMcF]

Gutted to see what they've done to Denmark Street. Bought my first set of guitar stings there, back in the '60s. Have purchased many guitars there, since, and numerous other instruments. Great clip of the brilliant Henry Scott-Irvine, who did so much to try and save Tin Pan Alley. Like you, I loathe that plastic lego building right by St Giles. What were they thinking? Much uplifted, though, by the remainder of your excellent walk around the area. Always so much to see and learn. Thank you. And I look forward to the next one, wherever that may be.

[seanjamescameron]

That’s an amazing redevelopment outside LSE, will have to check it out. Am keen to get the rambling boots back on now the lighter evenings and drying weather is back.

[Bones-breaks]

Well worth the wait thanks John! You always make the streets we walk down a thousand times new and magical. You got to love London

[dominicrivron]

Love the shot up the building frontage in Strand Lane! Has a strangely disconcerting, dreamy quality.

[marty]

I enjoyed seeing Covent Garden, a place I've heard of & read about . Nice to see the theatre where the " Mousetrap " is still running.

[hognatius_valentine]

Well this brings back memories. Around 1979-very early 80s when I was a kid, I used to go to Denmark Street to go to Forbidden Planet before it went all corporate 😄. Also, in that alleyway used to be a shop that I used to go into that used to be filled with memorabilia like Annuals, vinyl records, toys etc. used buy Beach Boys singles in there, books, Man From U.N.C.L.E. annuals and things like Six Million Dollar Man action figures. I felt a bit like Mr. Benn going in there because I don’t remember anyone else being in there when I went other than the bloke who ran the place.

[brucehosie]

Played at the Rock Garden as an awe struck teenager in the late 80's, and have met a gazillion folks through the years outside that very same station as a non Londoner. Do enjoy your vids, relaxing but good, like a nice Guinness.

[MF-fgcg]

Great video great to see aldwich and Bush House with echoes of the BBC World service before they moved out due to tory cuts.

[crieffsands]

Interesting walk about in an area I knew and worked in 36 years ago fascinating info, I wonder if that miasma that I used to feel around 7dials was because of its marshy history ? ...thanks for the vid👍

[davidstarling]

There use to be a pub in Ipswich called the Cock and Pie also known locally known as the Prick and Pastry, great video as usual. from David Starling.

[williamrobinson]

John Rogers at his brilliant best! The blend of factual info and spontaneity in this superb film is simply stunning. I shall comment properly on this tomorrow, so be warned.. Don't even THINK of reading William Comment The Second unless you are prepared for some WORDS!! Til then, nice one John! 🌟🌟🌟🌟👍

[alltheteam]

Thanks John, even when you know a place well, there’s always something to learn………easy informative watching

[thewalkingman]

The woman roller skating in the square at 16.48 with the music playing over is amazing! What a serendipitous thing to capture on film! It's almost like she's there but no one knows she is...

[JBLewis]

Our visit to Covent Gardens was too short! Our day started at Sir John Soane's museum, then lunch at the café in Lincoln's Inn Fields. In the afternoon we took in the London Transport Museum, with supper at Seven Dials market. It was during the mourning week, and we found ourselves down at Trafalgar Square, drawn back through the Admiralty Arches, somehow, almost magically right up to the gates of Buckingham Palace as the day's last light faded away. I think I could spend the entire day recreating John's walk from Temple Underground station up and around Seven Dials. So many more things to see and experience in London!

[damedavidfrith]

Thanks for another cracking trip around London very interesting 🧐

[AFCManUk]

Great walk, John, around one of my favourite parts of London.
There were so many quirky little comic, toy and nic-nak shops crammed into that small area.
It's still a bit of a Nerd-vana...a geek's paradise.