If you'd like to hire me as a film maker please contact me on my production website joolz.tv If you enjoy watching my films why not throw me a one-off contribution via paypal! www.paypal.me/julianmcdonnell Or if you want to chip in a couple of ££ a month you can support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/joolzguides Or contact me on my website for a private guided tour of London joolzguides.com/ Thanks everyone....one of these days I'll be a star!!!!!!!
What would be really neat if there was a visual map with all your video locations on it...hmm I smell a project :) I love distractions from the work I'm supposed to be doing :P
Maybe if you go see my 19th Cousin Prince William & Kate & tell them I use to live in Nashville, im in Lewisburg, Ky now ask if he will come see me again. And please dont video it. Maybe he will give you some money maybe. As for me we are struggling again. Hes my Moms 13th Cousin! Alot closer to my moms mother, my Grandma E. Debbie
I am an art historian and I love when you show old paintings of the streets of London while you present the same view in your videos. Thank you for another wonderful promenade with you in London!
Finally something I know about! I think you may be thinking of potatoes, as tomatoes and potatoes are both in the family Solanaceae, in the genus Solanum, also known as, the nightshade family! Along with angel trumpets, petunias, peppers, tobaccos and eggplants etc. Cabbage (and Brussels sprouts) is a brassica which hold mustads, broccoli, kale and the flower stock. While Rose is of the Rosaceae family including: apples, apricots, raspberries, pears, strawberries, cherries, peaches and almonds!(etc.) Sorry to drop a whale on your bowl of petunias there, Joolz, but i did work in a Seattle nursery for a time out of high school, so I felt I earned just one fascinating flower fact check.
My maternal grandparents used to live at 48 Belsize Avenue, letting off the ground and top floors to tenants. Many happy hours in that house, so thanks for this trip down Memory Lane!
I live between primrose hill, Camden Town and Belsize Park and I find these videos so fascinating, I’ve never known anything about the history of where I live
Was last in London 2012, just before the Olympics. In the last few weeks, I've become addicted to Geoff Marshall, Londonist - and now Joolz Guides. Damn you, UA-cam algorithm...
The best series on UA-cam! These Joolz Guides are pure gold. Fascinating and funny. Thank you Joolz for this top quality entertainment during lockdown. Nothing on TV could beat this for the wit, humour and hilarious sound tracks. I'm learning much more about the big smoke than when I lived there. Please keep making more of these. They're excellent.
The tennis court was called Russell’s when I used to play tennis there back in the 70’s when I went to Haverstock school and the building with the mosaic flooring was a cafe used by taxis and van drivers, really enjoyed this UA-cam, thank you!
I was champion of our local space invaders table version. It was at a pharmacy or some building in our small town. Nice to know someone still remembers those!
We would highly recommend hiring Julian as your personal guide to London. He's just as he appears on his Joolz Guides, very personable and entertaining! Julian, I also wanted to say that I remembered where I heard the tune for the nursery rhyme you were singing, Oranges and Lemons. It's played as the intro to Ivan Meets G.I. Joe by the Clash.
I travel from Northern Ireland annually to attend the Royal Free Hospital featured in this video for Amyloidosis as they treat rare diseases and conditions. Thank you for the extra information so I can appreciate a bit more the next time I have to visit. Most interesting. 🤗
I wonder if you know, having roots in the area, that at 50 Belsize Lane there used to be a rather wonderful coffee bar and music venue called The Witch's Cauldron. I liked it so much I used to journey there all the way from Walthamstow. I was devastated when I did a nostalgic wander of my own and found it was now a launderette. I used to also sink a pint or three of ale in the Belsize Tavern, and on that same wander saw it had gone up-market and become a gastro-pub. And now it's gone altogether, so serves them right. Just behind the Witch's once lived Twiggy. I know this because I used to work for BT and could find all the ex-directory phone numbers, and there she was. Maybe she still is. Maybe your mum sees her in the launderette.
Feeling quite nostalgic, having rented rooms in Pond Street, just opposite the Hospital and 30 seconds from the Laundrette... very handy. The rooms had no curtains, and so I learned to ensure I was fully clothed when getting out of bed at around 7am.... lest those riding on the top deck of the bus would get a nasty shock.... Only did that once
now this is proper documentation!!! Loved it. What a beautiful area of London... it made me want to jump in a plane and go there. Which I can't. But still. Love it so much it hurts. Geriatric break dance... oh, you tease!
Spent a good few nights in the roebuck at top end of pond street back in the day, also remember the belsize tavern, my future wife worked around the corner so many a pint in there too,and of course visited the old classic cinema on a few occasions along with what seemed a yearly visit to the royal free for my many broken bones when growing up lol
I love your videos Joolz. It saddens me when you show all the places as they once were, as beautiful open countryside and gardens, and then you see what they’re like now, all destroyed and under concrete. How much more of our green and pleasant land is going to be lost?
I’m addicted to this channel. Joolz is so entertaining I’ve stopped talking to my wife as she has nothing of interest to say. Anyway keep up the great work.
Who is it that religiously gives me a thumbs down on every video? I'm sure it's the same person. I mean, why do they bother watching if they don't like them?
@@watson956 It's so weird though...I mean it must be someone with a personal grudge. It's always a solitary thumbs down with 5 minutes of the upload. Not sure whom I've offended. Maybe a rival umbrella manufacturer!
Your first critic perhaps?! It wasn't me as I enjoy your trolls now and again! Can't you see who hits the dislike button? Oh maybe not. I used to walk about London many years ago and Belsize was one of many locations; used to love the surprise of a blue plack (plaque). Do a bit more of 'Do you know who used to live there?'.
I'm guessing that's an automated dislike, could have been bought by someone with London Walking Tours videos to make sure competing clips don't get too much above his. So don't worry about it, 1 dislike and over 200 likes at under 1500 views shows your videos are greatly appreciated.
I watch your videos again and again intermittently. Mostly the older ones where the style was consistent and lovely. Thank you for making such amazing videos.
Thanks for all the videos. I subscribe and not only appreciate your knowledge of all your subject matters but with a great deal of sense of humor...And to think I live in Washington state. Thanks again.....great info for an advice traveler.....presently in Ao Nang.
I love this.It really feels like rambling around with a friendly and well-informed acquaintance. I remember that Marillon song by the way. Love these videos.
Greetings Jools. You mentioned the Marillion song Kayleigh, when referencing Belsize Park, and questioned, I wondered how many hits Marillion had. Well. I’m sure you’ll be interested to hear that they are still going strong, selling out two night at the Hammersmith Odeon (Apollo) just last week (November 2021). New album in Mar 2022. Happy to help.
Certainly nostalgic for me, since Belsize Park was the first place in London that I lived in when I went there as a very young man more years ago than I care to remember. It was the first for so many things for an 18 year old from out in the sticks. Working in a proper job. Living with people who weren't my parents. Getting drunk as a skunk. Finding a serious girlfriend. Wonderful days, wonderful memories!
Sir I have been watching YOU for the last few days and by the look of it I have more to go!!!! I ENJOY all of YOUR videos GREATLY!!!! Having fun at YOUR account!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!
I also saw Star Wars at the Classic. Lived in Belsize from 1977 to 1985. The best years of my life! So much talent there then, in all sense of the word. I also remember the spider faced man. I worked in the Belsize Tavern for a good while. Were you a customer? My favourite love-hate customers were the double act of Ronald Fraser and James Villiers
Thank you sooooooo much to introduce my city ! In fact, it is an amazing city !!! Thank you for your video ! Soooooo much culture ! I love it ! =) What a beautiful trousers you have by the way ! Where did you buy it ?
That was a tremendous vid, Jules. A tour de force of facts combined with family lore. Really impressive stuff. I suspect the only thumbs down came from someone who thought you described Spencer Perceval as, "Prime Minister of England". There must have been a crackle in the audio as I know you'd never make such a gaffe...
Me too, I watched the new Royal Free Hospital being built when my family lived in Haverstock Hill Road from 1967 (when I was 2) to 1972 - the houses were very run-down and full of immigrant tenants from India etc. such as ourselves.
I only discovered this channel a few weeks ago I think it's a very good channel!! I grew up not far from Belsize park. Perhaps you can do a video about Hampstead heath and Highgate and maybe Camden Town!?!?!
Darling I should have articulated it better, what I did mean, was I belly laughed at the words "geriatric break dancing" (in my minds eye I saw a bunch of old pokes break dancing) there is no question here, of course you are the very embodiment of youthful splendour who possesses the dance moves to prove it! LOL :)
Yea! A new Joolz video! Ahh Space Invaders on a table top. I remember those. Thanks for another awesome video. I am travelling to London in March and have been watching so many of your videos and I must say I have learned so much.
Steele did write a bit of poetry, but he is most famous as part of the double act, Addison and Steele who wrote an early humorous periodical called The Spectator. It was a print version of your VLOG. You'll find it a hoot.
Cannot believe I have only just discovered you and your brilliant tour videos. They are so full of all my favorite things, trivia and anecdotes both ancient and modern, from the famous to the more obscure, place name origins, superb old architecture, ideas for great places to shop, drink and eat ~ humour and so much that is pure joy to listen to your running commentary . The only thing I find myself wishing for, is that the videos were longer as always loathe so see them end . Better still however would be to be there in person to walk along in almost any of these areas, listening to all your fascinating info and intimate knowledge on so many places and to be able to also ask questions !. Naturally I subscribed immediately to your channel and looking forward to bingeing on all that I have missed !
Excellent Sir. Your childhood connection with this gaff gives this extra resonance. Those local adverts in the cinemas were great. Dull yellow maps showing the location of an Indian restaurant with an awful voiceover and scratched print 😂
Great tour!! It was cool to see where you hung out as a kid. When I returned to a place I grew up everything appeared so much smaller and closer. I wonder if you had the same experience?
Absolutely loved this! ❤ Kinda jealous, I'm looking out my window at blowing snow & it's in the minus 30's outside, so this was such a nice video to watch 😊Take really good care, till next time...
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Thanks everyone....one of these days I'll be a star!!!!!!!
What would be really neat if there was a visual map with all your video locations on it...hmm I smell a project :) I love distractions from the work I'm supposed to be doing :P
Maybe if you go see my 19th Cousin Prince William & Kate & tell them I use to live in Nashville, im in Lewisburg, Ky now ask if he will come see me again. And please dont video it. Maybe he will give you some money maybe. As for me we are struggling again. Hes my Moms 13th Cousin! Alot closer to my moms mother, my Grandma E.
Debbie
I am an art historian and I love when you show old paintings of the streets of London while you present the same view in your videos. Thank you for another wonderful promenade with you in London!
They are a wonderful "photo" of what the place looked like before cameras. It's remarkable how it's all changed.
I'm a piss artist and really enjoy these videos. 😐
The best London videos on the internet.
That's what I think!
@@Joolzguides Great!Your style is a bit out of an ordinary.
Well they are mate, top man!!
"You have a nose that doesn't sit well on a young girls face" lol makes me chuckle such innocent honesty
too harsh. nobody can choose😊 their facial features
Finally something I know about! I think you may be thinking of potatoes, as tomatoes and potatoes are both in the family Solanaceae, in the genus Solanum, also known as, the nightshade family! Along with angel trumpets, petunias, peppers, tobaccos and eggplants etc. Cabbage (and Brussels sprouts) is a brassica which hold mustads, broccoli, kale and the flower stock. While Rose is of the Rosaceae family including: apples, apricots, raspberries, pears, strawberries, cherries, peaches and almonds!(etc.) Sorry to drop a whale on your bowl of petunias there, Joolz, but i did work in a Seattle nursery for a time out of high school, so I felt I earned just one fascinating flower fact check.
Take you mother for a walk and let us also hear about her memories. I think your subscribers will like it. :)
Aj why with the Insults
@@sharonabdi8569 sorry, what insult?
Bless your mom !
Some mothers do 'have 'em. Another great video. Why you're not a star on BBC is beyond me.
I went to the Rosary School in Belsize Park in the late 1950s. I rode the Tube alone, at the age of 6, from Camden Town -- a different time.
My maternal grandparents used to live at 48 Belsize Avenue, letting off the ground and top floors to tenants. Many happy hours in that house, so thanks for this trip down Memory Lane!
I saw Marillion when they opened for Rush, in April 1986, at the Nassau Coliseum, on Long Island, New York.
Lovely way to end the day having a drink with Mum. God bless you all.
Whenever I go to London, I go on London Walks, they are good but this is much better!
I live between primrose hill, Camden Town and Belsize Park and I find these videos so fascinating, I’ve never known anything about the history of where I live
At 02:11 'mums' you gotta love 'em 😂🤣
She still does that actually!
Two of my favourite youtubers
Was last in London 2012, just before the Olympics. In the last few weeks, I've become addicted to Geoff Marshall, Londonist - and now Joolz Guides. Damn you, UA-cam algorithm...
The best series on UA-cam! These Joolz Guides are pure gold. Fascinating and funny. Thank you Joolz for this top quality entertainment during lockdown. Nothing on TV could beat this for the wit, humour and hilarious sound tracks. I'm learning much more about the big smoke than when I lived there. Please keep making more of these. They're excellent.
How lovely to get a moment with your Mum!
Nice to meet you, Mum!!! Happy holidays!
So nice that your mother goes to her local for an end of day drink - to maintain good health. That's excellent. Good on her.
Your brain must hold so much information. So impressed
Love this video! Love all of them so far to be honest. So wonderful to see your Mum pop in for a pint! Lovely!
Ah... finally... a new video. I'll have you know I recommend your channel to my friends who are planning to visit London. Cheers!
I try to do them every 2 weeks but they really do take a long time to make
Awww, give my love to your Mum x
I stayed in Belsize Park in 2017 for 5 days and loved it!! Of course, The George was my favorite place to hang out and eat!
It was a treat to see the Great Lady, I have heard so many wonderful things, your mum.
The tennis court was called Russell’s when I used to play tennis there back in the 70’s when I went to Haverstock school and the building with the mosaic flooring was a cafe used by taxis and van drivers, really enjoyed this UA-cam, thank you!
I was champion of our local space invaders table version. It was at a pharmacy or some building in our small town. Nice to know someone still remembers those!
We would highly recommend hiring Julian as your personal guide to London. He's just as he appears on his Joolz Guides, very personable and entertaining! Julian, I also wanted to say that I remembered where I heard the tune for the nursery rhyme you were singing, Oranges and Lemons. It's played as the intro to Ivan Meets G.I. Joe by the Clash.
From the 🇺🇸........love you and your vids!!! I especially love the music. Keep up your fabulous work.
It is amazing way to spend a spare time in the lockdown! Thank you!
I lived in a rented room in Belize Gardens for a year in 1998. Was only £200 a month, now would be about £2000 I guess.
Beautiful area round there.
I love these, I find them very soothing in these odd times, speaking from solitary confinement.
I travel from Northern Ireland annually to attend the Royal Free Hospital featured in this video for Amyloidosis as they treat rare diseases and conditions. Thank you for the extra information so I can appreciate a bit more the next time I have to visit. Most interesting. 🤗
Great as usual Julian! Fully relate(way into bmx back then also) to the rad pic of your brother doing a one-footed table top on his bmx bike!
Love the personal feeling of this video. Love the historical tidbits too.
Lived in belsize park 2005 to 2010, now Switzerland but I miss it so much that almost crying to see the view... Beautiful beautiful area.
I wonder if you know, having roots in the area, that at 50 Belsize Lane there used to be a rather wonderful coffee bar and music venue called The Witch's Cauldron. I liked it so much I used to journey there all the way from Walthamstow. I was devastated when I did a nostalgic wander of my own and found it was now a launderette. I used to also sink a pint or three of ale in the Belsize Tavern, and on that same wander saw it had gone up-market and become a gastro-pub. And now it's gone altogether, so serves them right. Just behind the Witch's once lived Twiggy. I know this because I used to work for BT and could find all the ex-directory phone numbers, and there she was. Maybe she still is. Maybe your mum sees her in the launderette.
Loved the cameo by your mom, cheers to another great video!
Thanks Emily. How's the new job been going?
Feeling quite nostalgic, having rented rooms in Pond Street, just opposite the Hospital and 30 seconds from the Laundrette... very handy. The rooms had no curtains, and so I learned to ensure I was fully clothed when getting out of bed at around 7am.... lest those riding on the top deck of the bus would get a nasty shock.... Only did that once
The addition of old pictures comparing with current is a tasteful style. Love his all videos. Very thankful.
I love the M&S when in the 1900s it was a cinema 📽️🎥 called the Picturehouse.
now this is proper documentation!!! Loved it. What a beautiful area of London... it made me want to jump in a plane and go there. Which I can't. But still. Love it so much it hurts. Geriatric break dance... oh, you tease!
Spent a good few nights in the roebuck at top end of pond street back in the day, also remember the belsize tavern, my future wife worked around the corner so many a pint in there too,and of course visited the old classic cinema on a few occasions along with what seemed a yearly visit to the royal free for my many broken bones when growing up lol
Nice to see back like tours of London very interesting enjoy any parts London thack you
Thanks
You speak so much about your Mum I was wondering when we see her pop up
And Lo! There she is
One of the nicest parts of London. Love to live there, but I can't afford it!
U and me both 😊😭
Just amazing love watching your videos
Yay! you're back! Thank you for uploading Joolz, always love your videos.
I love your videos Joolz. It saddens me when you show all the places as they once were, as beautiful open countryside and gardens, and then you see what they’re like now, all destroyed and under concrete. How much more of our green and pleasant land is going to be lost?
One of the funniest tours to date! Cheers Joolzie!
I’m addicted to this channel. Joolz is so entertaining I’ve stopped talking to my wife as she has nothing of interest to say. Anyway keep up the great work.
I love your channel! So informative and entertaining! 👍
I think I need a production crew
Ahhhh, North London in the 70s 🤗
Who is it that religiously gives me a thumbs down on every video? I'm sure it's the same person. I mean, why do they bother watching if they don't like them?
somebody named 'Pip', I imagine
@@watson956 It's so weird though...I mean it must be someone with a personal grudge. It's always a solitary thumbs down with 5 minutes of the upload. Not sure whom I've offended. Maybe a rival umbrella manufacturer!
Your first critic perhaps?! It wasn't me as I enjoy your trolls now and again! Can't you see who hits the dislike button? Oh maybe not. I used to walk about London many years ago and Belsize was one of many locations; used to love the surprise of a blue plack (plaque). Do a bit more of 'Do you know who used to live there?'.
I'm guessing that's an automated dislike, could have been bought by someone with London Walking Tours videos to make sure competing clips don't get too much above his. So don't worry about it, 1 dislike and over 200 likes at under 1500 views shows your videos are greatly appreciated.
Would subscribe twice if allowed, your mum is priceless. Belsize is definitely a place I need to visit next time in London.
I watch your videos again and again intermittently. Mostly the older ones where the style was consistent and lovely. Thank you for making such amazing videos.
Thanks for all the videos. I subscribe and not only appreciate your knowledge of all your subject matters but with a great deal of sense of humor...And to think I live in Washington state.
Thanks again.....great info for an advice traveler.....presently in Ao Nang.
Thanks Lisa. That is greatly appreciated.
Been missing ya, thanks again for another exploration!
Thanks....back soon!
Used to live on Belsize Park Gardens for a couple of years. One of the most amazing neighbourhoods in London. Video doesn't do it justice!
I love this.It really feels like rambling around with a friendly and well-informed acquaintance. I remember that Marillon song by the way. Love these videos.
Oh great! That is the intention.
Greetings Jools.
You mentioned the Marillion song Kayleigh, when referencing Belsize Park, and questioned, I wondered how many hits Marillion had.
Well. I’m sure you’ll be interested to hear that they are still going strong, selling out two night at the Hammersmith Odeon (Apollo) just last week (November 2021).
New album in Mar 2022.
Happy to help.
1:35 Hello! Haha I love when people stare at your camera!
Anyway, another great video! Loved it!
Always love all the content of this channel. Keep it up!
Aww, bless! Your mum seems so sweet. I’d be the same ‘come on Mum! I’ll get you a little drink.’ 😊
Splendid video. Thank you so much!
Certainly nostalgic for me, since Belsize Park was the first place in London that I lived in when I went there as a very young man more years ago than I care to remember. It was the first for so many things for an 18 year old from out in the sticks. Working in a proper job. Living with people who weren't my parents. Getting drunk as a skunk. Finding a serious girlfriend. Wonderful days, wonderful memories!
Most amusing and informative. I lived in Belsize Park Gardens in the 70's, school at Hampstead Parochial. Love Bel & Ham
I love this channel mate.
Jadey
Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺
Sir I have been watching YOU for the last few days and by the look of it I have more to go!!!! I ENJOY all of YOUR videos GREATLY!!!! Having fun at YOUR account!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!
Hello, Joolz! Here's looking forward to more videos from you. Cheers!
Thanks Bernadette. Yes...coming right up!
Another lovely trip around London Joolz, your mother looks an eccentric character, fantastic .
I also saw Star Wars at the Classic. Lived in Belsize from 1977 to 1985. The best years of my life! So much talent there then, in all sense of the word. I also remember the spider faced man. I worked in the Belsize Tavern for a good while. Were you a customer? My favourite love-hate customers were the double act of Ronald Fraser and James Villiers
Lived in Belsize Avenue from 1985 -98. Happy days! I couldn't possibly afford to live there now...
Another great video of an area where I lived! (opposite the bomb shelter) Love it!
Thank you sooooooo much to introduce my city ! In fact, it is an amazing city !!!
Thank you for your video ! Soooooo much culture ! I love it ! =)
What a beautiful trousers you have by the way ! Where did you buy it ?
Ha ha...They were tailor made but they still don't fit! A bloke in Kentish Town.
My mate lives near there.
Love it
That was a tremendous vid, Jules. A tour de force of facts combined with family lore. Really impressive stuff. I suspect the only thumbs down came from someone who thought you described Spencer Perceval as, "Prime Minister of England". There must have been a crackle in the audio as I know you'd never make such a gaffe...
Just testing! Indeed...he was "also" PM of England...a well as the rest of the UK! It would be hard to dislike the whole video for it though!
Royal free hospital I was a junior Dr there so many years ago I feel so old now
Me too, I watched the new Royal Free Hospital being built when my family lived in Haverstock Hill Road from 1967 (when I was 2) to 1972 - the houses were very run-down and full of immigrant tenants from India etc. such as ourselves.
Jools you had a good childhood.
Thank you for asking, it’s going well, started saving for my next trip to London! Long way away but every $ counts😎
Glad to see you back.
I try to do one every two weeks but they take a while!
I'm not rushing you. I'm just glad to know you're still around.
I would love to have seen it in the 60s.
Finally we know now how Joolz mum looks like after hearing all this funny things she said and did :) soooo cuuuttteee
I only discovered this channel a few weeks ago I think it's a very good channel!!
I grew up not far from Belsize park. Perhaps you can do a video about Hampstead heath and Highgate and maybe Camden Town!?!?!
Already have, my friend.. they're all on my channel. Highgate, Kenwood, Belsize, Primrose, Camden....many more too
Fabulous and informative! belly laughed at the geriatric break dancing....thanks for another wonderful relaxing tour.....x
You mean you didn't think I still had the silky moves of a teenager? Pah! 😂
Darling I should have articulated it better, what I did mean, was I belly laughed at the words "geriatric break dancing" (in my minds eye I saw a bunch of old pokes break dancing) there is no question here, of course you are the very embodiment of youthful splendour who possesses the dance moves to prove it! LOL :)
Happy 2019 from New York, Joolz! LOVE your videos! ❤️
Thanks. I must do some in New York!
Just love him,the hat an umbrella. LOL.
absolutely delightful
Yea! A new Joolz video! Ahh Space Invaders on a table top. I remember those. Thanks for another awesome video. I am travelling to London in March and have been watching so many of your videos and I must say I have learned so much.
MustangErin - I preferred Galaxians (Or Galaga).
@@AtheistOrphan Galaga one of my favorites as well.
And don't forget Gorf!! Remember that one?
Loved it. ..fantastic as always 👍👍😊
Hi there Jonathan. I'm glad you're still watching!
@@Joolzguides i wouldn't miss them....they're fantastic....I,ve lost count of how many times I watched everyone of them...I'm a massive fan 👍👍😊
Great video, especially as I live locally, I remember going to the cinema at the bottom of Pond Street in the 1970s.
I probably saw you there....if i wasn't asleep
Happy 2019 Joolzie! Another excellent video. Informative and fun. The family says hello.
Hi folks!
Steele did write a bit of poetry, but he is most famous as part of the double act, Addison and Steele who wrote an early humorous periodical called The Spectator. It was a print version of your VLOG. You'll find it a hoot.
another great video Joolz, its been awhile. i look forward to the next one, would love to see more grizzly tales of the darker history of London :)
Cannot believe I have only just discovered you and your brilliant tour videos. They are so full of all my favorite things, trivia and anecdotes both ancient and modern, from the famous to the more obscure, place name origins, superb old architecture, ideas for great places to shop, drink and eat ~ humour and so much that is pure joy to listen to your running commentary . The only thing I find myself wishing for, is that the videos were longer as always loathe so see them end . Better still however would be to be there in person to walk along in almost any of these areas, listening to all your fascinating info and intimate knowledge on so many places and to be able to also ask questions !. Naturally I subscribed immediately to your channel and looking forward to bingeing on all that I have missed !
I enjoy your videos. Watching from Dallas Texas
Thanks. I'd love to go there.. I like hats you see!
Excellent Sir. Your childhood connection with this gaff gives this extra resonance. Those local adverts in the cinemas were great. Dull yellow maps showing the location of an Indian restaurant with an awful voiceover and scratched print 😂
Dave Henshall And they were always called the ‘Ganges’ or ‘Taj Mahal’ and were only ever a ‘Two minute walk from this cinema!’ 🤣
Great tour!! It was cool to see where you hung out as a kid. When I returned to a place I grew up everything appeared so much smaller and closer. I wonder if you had the same experience?
Welcome back!🍿🎸
I'm still here.... back soon!
Absolutely loved this! ❤ Kinda jealous, I'm looking out my window at blowing snow & it's in the minus 30's outside, so this was such a nice video to watch 😊Take really good care, till next time...
Me too but we've been enduring 40+ Celsius down under in Aussie.
@@lindsaybrown7357 oh wow...In central Canada temp is still dropping with the wind chill suppose to go to possibly -40 c tonight....
@@kdean9537, that's bloody cold, I'm not sure what would be worse, extreme cold or extreme heat.
I suppose the thing about London is it's never too hot or too cold....just generally grey!