London’s Little Italy & the Legends of Islington (4K)

London’s Little Italy & the Legends of Islington - London Walking Tour in 4K Support my channel on Patreon   / johnrogers   Watch: City of London Churches Walking Tour    • City of London Churches Walking Tour | Med...   A walk through London's Little Italy up to the fields of Islington, starting at Chancery Lane Station on High Holborn. We go into the curious anomaly of Ely Place, owned by the Bishops of Ely and once technically part of Cambridgeshire. We visit the Old Mitre Pub where Sir Christopher Hatton danced with Elizabeth I. The walking tour goes along Hatton Garden, the centre of Britain's diamond trade, and into Leather Lane Market. The walk through Little Italy takes us in search of Fagin's den in Saffron Hill, a place visited by Charles Dickens who drank in the One Tun pub. We walk along Hatton Wall into Portpool Lane where the Kings Ditch ran and through the Bourne Estate. The heart of London's Little Italy lay in the streets falling away from Clerkenwell Road into the Fleet Valley - Back Hill, Eyre Street Hill, Herbal Hill. From here we go up Crawford Passage to Coldbath Square and Mount Pleasant. We stroll through Spa Fields - now Exmouth Market and Wilmington Square where Merlin was said to have a cave in the heart of the hill. The Merlin's Cave Tavern stood in Merlin House on the site of Charles Rowan House. Next we walk through Lloyd Square to Percy Circus where Lenin stayed in 1905. Back on Amwell Street we recount E.O Gordon's powerful mythology of London at the head of the Pen Ton Mound, now the New River Head Upper Reservoir on Claremont Square. Passing down Penton Street our walk ends at White Conduit House, once a celebrated pleasure garden and the true home of cricket. Music The Two Seasons by Dan Bodan Somnolent by The Tides Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt Dream Escape by The Tides.mp3 Gymnopedie No 1 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Gymnopedie No 2 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Pachabelly by Huma-Huma Maps: “© OpenStreetMap contributors” https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright _________________________________________________________________________________ Please subscribe for regular videos: http://bit.ly/1EJjIB8 My shop: https://teespring.com/stores/the-lost... My Book: This Other London http://amzn.to/2zbFmTd Audiobook & Kindle: http://amzn.to/2xLGb8s Blog: The Lost Byway: http://thelostbyway.com/ Patreon   / johnrogers   Twitter:   / fugueur   Instagram   / thelostbyway   Make a donation to help support the channel https://paypal.me/JohnRogersLondon - many thanks! Shot in 4K on a Panasonic GX80 (affiliate link) https://amzn.to/2QUrtXo My Walking kit (amazon affiliate link - I earn a small commission on purchases) https://amzn.to/2Xky2UA