The Triumph of Tudor London – Cheapside, Royal Exchange Historical Walking Tour (4K)
This walking tour of Tudor London starts at St Paul’s Cathedral and continues down Cheapside, one of the great markets of the Tudor City. We explore the world of the antiquarian John Stow, born in Cornhill 1524/5 and chronicler of Elizabethan London. We then discover the story of Sir Thomas Gresham who founded the Royal Exchange which positioned London to become an international trading hub. The final section of our walk goes down Walbrook past some of the halls of London guilds to Dowgate and the banks of the River Thames.
Related videos:
The Guildhall https://youtu.be/QSr_iIbb0KU?si=TtA6CL8hpUAWvffU
The Walbrook https://youtu.be/bGo4o2lYr_8?si=U33GGBD2tMYSPRkb
Walking Tudor London – part 1 https://youtu.be/i2b-1wzFJ9k?si=vgAdkChm2eJ_fAlB
Echoes of Tudor London – part 2 https://youtu.be/7m00YZn8Cnc?si=ch0x57SXydwdsJdB
City of London Churches Walks https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHD6uTQLDf_MGi1A4sGWDIUgJ60HsM22V
Music
Evening Fall Harp by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100236
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Clima – Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
https://share.epidemicsound.com/ftphix (affiliate link)
Over the Meadow, Over the Stream – Alan Rogers
Thanks to my supporters on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers
Please subscribe for regular videos: http://bit.ly/1EJjIB8
Join this channel to get access to perks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1qvhkPMbF703QHR8qj8og/join
Image Credits:
Thomas Gresham portrait – Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gresham#/media/File:Anthonis_Mor_004.jpg
Antwerp – Public Doman
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antwerpia_in_Brabancia,_anoniem,_ca_1540,_MAS.jpg
John Stow – Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Vertue_-_Mr._John_Stow,_Historian_-_B1977.14.15083_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg
_________________________________________________________________________________
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers
My shop: https://teespring.com/stores/the-lost-byway
My Books:
Welcome to New London https://amzn.to/3LTK9Rv
This Other London http://amzn.to/2zbFmTd
Audiobook & Kindle: http://amzn.to/2xLGb8s
Blog: The Lost Byway: http://thelostbyway.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fugueur
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelostbyway/
Make a donation to help support the channel https://paypal.me/JohnRogersLondon – many thanks!
Shot in 4K on a Olympus OM-D EM-1 mark 2 with audio recorded with a Rode Wireless GO
My Walking kit (amazon affiliate link – I earn a small commission on purchases)
https://amzn.to/2Xky2UA
49 Comments
We're loving watching this, thank you for making this series! Next time I'm in London I think I might go and find that map 🙌🏼
Edited to add: I'm from Antwerp, if you ever feel like a walk around here, always welcome!
THANK YOU, THIS IS A FABULOUS VIDEO. I'VE SUSCRIBED❤❤
Thank you for another great video showing all the places I walked by when I worked in the City without noticing.
a History of Control…even today our Democratic rights are at risk, Islamophobia, the old bill, pawns in a game of silly bollocks just to amuse the Elite, they Pose just as the Greek Gods did before on mount Olympia/Olympus, us mere mortals exist just for their Entertainment.
Just spent a few days wandering around London with my wife for our 25th wedding anniversary. We live in Durham, so we’re used to historic cities, but London is a bit special.
Saxon London would be interesting 😊
That map looks fascinating, John, so I have just ordered one for myself. I go out most weekends, and sometimes during the week, taking photographs all over London so the map will be great to use to seek out different locations. Thanks for this, and ALL your videos. Best Wishes.
I sobbed through this, John. Many happy memories of walking these streets with my late husband, who adored his precious London home. He would have loved watching your great walks, talks, and knowledge. Thank you so much. (Happy tears, BTW!) 🎉
Lovely, lovely film, always a great way to spend a quiet 45mins, thanks John 😊, always interesting….
Excellent. Was The Banker's not open for a pint?
Hi John really enjoyed the video
Just been watching Bernard Falks tour of hidden London on YouTube well worth a watch if you have not already watched it
I absolutely love this walk. Thanks.
Great video highlighting the changes in London from a walled and somewhat rural place to a concentration of merchants and guilds. Didn't really grasp a central idea about late Tudor London so I looked a few things up.
What a joy! Regency London?
Thanks John , Sunday Complete' Keep Safe .
Thanks John, another very informative video , looking forward to seeing your next one.
Ace
What a pleasure to watch and listen to John wandering the streets of the City of London imparting his knowledge. Thank you gentle sir.
An oasis of calm and permanence and welcome respite from a world being turned on its head. Thanks 🙏🏻
Thanks very interesting ❤it
PEPYS please! And then the oldest:Bronze Age, Iron Age!
Time Travel is a Worthy Passtime. The Mithraeum is indeed a good experience…..
You seemed a bit nervous whilst talking about the privy council towards the end there
It was a privy-lege to watch another fascinating video John! Always look forward to the next one, wherever that may be 👍
You clearly love London, I'd love to know your thoughts on Sadiq Khan and his running of London….
Thank you once again John. Absolutely wonderful walk.
Pepys London, John please.
Loved all the history that you included in this walk John, so interesting. Thank you 💕🇦🇺
Been many years since I was involved in turning the old Lloyd’s building into a terrible yanky hotel that starts in the hundreds of Pounds for the cheap rooms for the night and it’s decorated by someone who believes that expensive means quality. Otherwise it’s a beautiful piece of architecture. A wonderful bit of London and the local butcher shops that make sandwiches like you would imagine Subway thinks they produced.
I really like that you noticed the double sided privy and everything that means,is it mockery being sent to the public because what could we do?
Brilliant ending time for a beer 🍺
Another informative London walk Thanks again John in Chicago
Bronze age John ,that would be interesting 👍
Whenever I go into the city I always wish I could see you filming one of these amazing videos. Still to find you..
A Canny bag o Tudor 😂🎉
I bought the map…sooo interesting, absolutely brilliant 😊
Blitz London? What was there that is no more.
Crowds of people in the City at weekends now. On the whole good it's being used and explored.
Another wonderful walking history lesson…Thank you.
The Lord Mayors used to live in their own house during their year of office before the Mansion House.
Think will have to get that map.
Well done – a well informed video. When I worked in Barts Hospital I was struck by how few people, compared with other boroughs, actually live in the City. Barts mostly served other East End Boroughs and out to Essex. I loved the City but I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life there. I think it was Ackroyd who wrote or said somewhere, something like, when you live and work in London you become London, your energy becomes London and eventually London uses you up. I got out whilst I could, but I’m proud to be a Londoner. Me and the wife make frequent visits there. Your videos open our eyes a bit more to what is there. Cheers.
John! Great film as usual. What do you think, should I come over from rotterdam to attend I stclair event in wanstead?
Super film, John, lots of fascinating information. Pepys' London next please.
Loved it – always fascinating and renews London for me again and again. Thank you! Would love Bronze Age London sometime 🙂
Great video. I've lived in the City for 30+ years. You painted a great vision of the period.
I learn so much through you, John! Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful videos, I always look forward to what adventure you go on next!
Super video John, my favorite period of English history. Would love one on Saxon London.
THE TALLOW CHANDLERS, although thier chief business is the oil industry, have members who are not connected with this, and some who are in related fields, geology, minerology and so forth.
Sorry not to have disgorged this priceless nugget o' knowledge thus far, but a very distinguished gentleman who happens to be my boss mentioned them today and it jogged my memory (I knew he'd know but forgot to ask)..
I am AMAZED by the speed at which they put the roof on The Royal Exchange, in consideration for how long it can take to get building work done rahnd 'ere..
Stone the crows!!
Even better on rewatching. Thanks for your great work John! It's made my execrable Sunday night cooking taste better MANY times indeed! ✨🌟👍
Hello John.
Whilst looking back through some of your older Lost Rivers of London videos from 3/4/5 years ago, you mentioned that some of them were going to be 'Daylighted'. Do you know of any that actually have been yet, and do you plan to retrace your footsteps along any?