Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
American Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, visited London in April 1957 while on a big trip just before the publication of his most celebrated book, On the Road. He recorded his trip in his book, Lonesome Traveler. This video follows the walk he took when he arrived by train at Victoria Station and walked past Buckingham Palace, up the Strand to Fleet Street to St Paul’s Cathedral. He then went to the King Lud pub for a ‘sixpenny Welsh rarebit and a stout’, before taking the bus back to Buckingham Gate. In Lonesome Traveler Kerouac wrote, ‘Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub’.
Music
Debussy_ Suite Bergamasque, CD 82_ III. Clair de lune - Mira Ma
All in Your Eyes - Nocturnal Spirits
J. S. Bach_ Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007_ V. Menuets I & II - Eric Jacobsen
Monkeys and Parrot - Hara Noda
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Photo
Jack Kerouac by photographer Tom Palumbo. circa 1956
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American Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, visited London in April 1957 while on a big trip just before the publication of his most celebrated book, On the Road. He recorded his trip in his book, Lonesome Traveler. This video follows the walk he took when he arrived by train at Victoria Station and walked past Buckingham Palace, up the Strand to Fleet Street to St Paul’s Cathedral. He then went to the King Lud pub for a ‘sixpenny Welsh rarebit and a stout’, before taking the bus back to Buckingham Gate. In Lonesome Traveler Kerouac wrote, ‘Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub’.
Music
Debussy_ Suite Bergamasque, CD 82_ III. Clair de lune - Mira Ma
All in Your Eyes - Nocturnal Spirits
J. S. Bach_ Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007_ V. Menuets I & II - Eric Jacobsen
Monkeys and Parrot - Hara Noda
share.epidemicsound.com/ftphix (affiliate link)
Over the Meadow, Over the Stream - Alan Rogers
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Maps:
Open Street Map “© OpenStreetMap contributors” using data available under the Open Database Licence
Photo
Jack Kerouac by photographer Tom Palumbo. circa 1956
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerouac_by_Palumbo.jpg
#londonwalk #jackkerouac
_________________________________________________________________________________
Patreon patreon.com/JohnRogers
My shop: teespring.com/stores/the-lost-byway
My Books:
Welcome to New London amzn.to/3LTK9Rv
This Other London amzn.to/2zbFmTd
Audiobook & Kindle: amzn.to/2xLGb8s
Blog: The Lost Byway: thelostbyway.com
Twitter: twitter.com/fugueur
Instagram instagram.com/thelostbyway
Make a donation to help support the channel 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)
amzn.to/2Xky2UA
