Wapping Music Videos (1)

Walking on Sunshine - Part one of a series of short posts on the East End in popular culture.

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves

The video for Walking on Sunshine was filmed in 1985 and features Wapping prominently. Some of the highlights include:

• New Crane Wharf pre conversion into flats (all of the warehouse shots)
• Dancing about in the old St John's churchyard on Scandrett Street/Wapping High Street (first appears 00:40)
• On the river in front of what is now City Hall before any railings present (00:58 and 01:50)
• Various bits on the foreshore

 

A woodcut of what the churchyard looked like before the Waves were lounging about on the tombs: