Marvellous Kings Cross - London Walking Tour
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2020
- A marvellous historical walking tour around London's King's Cross. Joolz Guides talks all about the amazing plot that tricked Hitler in Operation Mincemeat. The hell raising lovers and French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine and James Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
St Pancras Gardens
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
Thomas Hardy
#Coal Drops Yard
The Granary
#Kings Cross Station
#St Pancras
The Ladykillers
#St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
Wannabe by the Spice Girls!
and much more!!!!!
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In the name of history , culture , tourism and economy you should have free reign to film pubs . ?
Have you ever done a War of the World's location walk?
@@samandpoppythedog719 I was at the bottom of Primrose Hill today and thinking the same thing! Visualizing the Martian 👽
Jools, please, would you consider adding subtitles to your videos. They are beautiful to watch and enjoy, but we can’t rely on the auto generation subtitles to be correct. Please consider being inclusive and getting these fixed - at least in future videos.
Thanks
OC myself and do history tours. Nice sitting in Poet's Corner with Betjeman's memorial on a pillar in view.
Mate, we're all feeling sorry for ourselves, with good reason. But, an impromptu sing-a-long with a road-worker is just balm to the soul. Thank you for all that you know and do.
Yes that was very heartwarming 😍
@@friendlywomble why it is heartwarming?
That little bit of song made me miss London immensely 😢
@@patjackson8649 oh, I see 🤗
CONSIDER YOURSELF AT HOME!
"I didn't do nuthin'!" - best Rambo impression ever! LOL
Every time I click on one of your videos I think, “I don’t have 20 minutes to spend on this”. And every single time they’re so damn fascinating I watch every second. So Hello from the middle of Ohio, there are a whole bunch of us who think you do an excellent job, and someone should pay you more for doing it
Dude, I used to live in London. I had to move back to Brasil. Your videos help me remember that beautiful City of yours. Thank you for the videos
"What's the difference between a phone and a camera?" No answer from the Jobsworth...LOL! What's he going to do-call the police?
What a prick he sounded. There's not rules to prevent it at all. 'that looks more professional' I'm sure that'd hold up in court.
@@sepez On private property they can demand anyone leave -- like when you're in a shop the shopkeeper can ask you to leave without question -- it's bollocks and shouldnt be allowed on outdoor estates like this
@@annother3350 It’s time for a mass trespass-with-professional-looking-cameras in these pseudo-public spaces to show the stupidity of these ‘no cameras’ edicts
Yeah, bleeding jobsworth... what's the big secret??? Sorry that it ruined an otherwise wonderful video
Damn "third spaces".....
I think you are absolutely amazing - can't believe you know SO MUCH about everywhere in London. I think you are a National Treasure!!
Could never imagine a Brit would WANT to do an impression of Stallone, let alone actually DO a really good one! Cheers, Simon! And Joolz, spot on with Jimmy Stewart. Old movie on a dreary rainy day. . . just the thing . As always, a bouquet of sunbeams, you are.
I think they are both wearing US Army M-65 field jackets (65 for the year they were introduced). Don't think either is an M-51, the previous version, as the collars look too rounded.,
Damn good impression I'd say. The Pez dispenser in his pocket was the tell it wasn't really Sly.
and an impression of one that’s hard to do as there’s not many lines that the character spoke in the movie in the first place! but he nailed it!
@@LeeBv9983 considering Rambo is stated as being in the Army starting in 1966 it’s right in line with the M65 being worn especially after dix years of service
That was the best Rambo impression I have ever seen.
Bless you dear Joolz.What a lovely treat to make our day.Your chanel is quite delightful.🇷🇺
Dearest Natalya your English is so eloquent it pleases me so much.
@@siliconjim2554 My pleasure.Wishing you well dear friend.
did you know a few years ago when they was doing up the St Pancras hotel a builder found a hidden room and it was a very old untouched freemasons lodge, very little is known about the history of the lodge
Joolz being harassed by the Gestapo. Papers please.
Your are right. Proper PC snowflake in chief who would be better served doing a proper days work!
Can’t resist… In 1964 at 13 years old with my sister 14, returning from France, unaccompanied, we sat on the steps of the arched entrance to Kings Cross station for 6 or seven hours waiting for our French cultural/language exchange student guests to arrive. They had been delayed at the French side of the channel… immigration nonsense, of course. We knew they would eventually pass by there on their way to catch the train north to Berwick on Tweed. We gave up eventually and using the five pound note that was safely squirrelled away, we spent the night in the Great Northern Hotel, travelling home the next day. Our guests, it transpired, came through the archways within a half hour after we gave up! Sweet memories. I’m a Scot and live near Montreal, speaking french, of course. However I spent a couple of years in London and and I’m captivated by your Walks. Thank you.
Simon's 'Rambo' was bang on! I grew up round there, I remember the old gas works and asking my mum who all those women were hanging round on the bridge?
The worst thing about lock-down is not being able to watch more of your splendid videos.
Agree. Do love just walking around London Town and rediscover germs that I have not seem despite living here for years
@Spanish John stfu
2 things freaked me out in that excellent vid. The first was when that geezer was strongly trying to suggest that recording objective reality was subject to terms and conditions and the second was the Spice Girls erm.. Anyway, top people and ta from t'north.
Now I've got that song stuck in my head "dirty old town dirty old town..."
What a treasure to watch on Sunday morning in the US as I have my English Breakfast Tea!!!🎩💂🥇🏅🏆🎯🌂🇬🇧
Hope you boiled the water 😁
You should try “PG Tips” and of course “Tetley’s British Blend”.
Those of us from Britain 🇬🇧 drink those not that Earl Grey nonsense lol
Also, if its called “English” breakfast tea its for tourists lol
Cheers mate
Thanks .I lived all over London from 66 till 72 i loved it .I lived all over the world now in the North of England 🇬🇧 .its a pleasure the way u take me back. And with history of it.
Your Jimmy Stewart voice impression is spot on!!😄
Love learning about the history of the area. I grew up around there and can remember when Kings Cross was practically a no go area in the 80's. Now look at it! Whenever I walk past that hotel I think of the Spice Girls, thanks for the great rendition!
14 : 12 A Parrot
A very clever parrot...enjoyed!!!
The first time I visited London, I wanted to stay the rest of my life (after about ten minutes there). It remains my favorite city. I appreciate you providing a ‘small window’ into it. I especially love that you visit the less well traveled places. Best of luck with lockdown part 2.
When me come to a Londin i come to this place is nice am from dover fist in bot. I live in hotel is nice. food not nice not more money for me i like to win monys on horse but no today's me go to they give me mors monys
Studied history at uni in the 90 s much which dealth with Victorian London. Never been so bored in my life. But watching these you bring it to life! How wonderful ✨😍
These videos are marvellous! Even though I’m a Londoner born and bred (but haven’t lived there for many years), I just see and learn so much about my home town from videos.
I’m 57 now and you’re absolutely right. When I was young you absolutely wouldn’t want to go around that area. I went there last year and the change is astonishing!
Most security guards don't really know the law, especially when it's also a public right of way. Some interesting UA-cam vids by architectural photographers dealing with this problem.
Agree. They just like playing 'Policemen'......but really bad ones.
The Prince Albert! Went there last year when I visited England for the very first time, loved it. Greetings from the US!
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The song Dirty old town was about Salford and was written by Ewan Mccall, father of Kirsty
Yes, Lou mentions it was him. Often wondered where he was talking about
Adopted by Hartlepool . . .
The best version of that song (imho) is sung by Luke Kelly of the Dubliners, check it out.
Have to agree Luke Kelly sang it best.
@@roeng1368 I agree!
Great video Joolz. Shame the security guard stopped filming He mentions private property, but if your stood on a public footpath filming just the outside / external part of the building i didn't think you needed permission under section 62 of the copyright, designs and patents act 1988. You do need permission if you intend to make a 3d model of the building and the building is within the terms of its copyright (usually lasts for the life of the architect plus 70 years), or you want to enter the building and photograph / film inside then yes you might need permission. I thought you were on a public footpath while filming the German Gymnasium?
This is precisely why I am a fan of Joolz! Quirky, sentimental tidbits of odd historical minutiae attached to seemingly everywhere you look! Like that Joolzy memorial to Glindor Michael, or linking the misdaventures of Verlaine and Rimbaud to Simons' rather brilliant impression of Stallone's Rambo, or Julian's more than passable Jimmy Stewart. All the while on a pleasant stroll on a gorgeous Autumn day! This is just great TV-especially good during lockdown, when all we crave is to get out of the house and visit places outside our bubble! Thank you Julian. You are doing invaluable work!
Thank you Joolz, always glad when your notification bell goes off. It's what I want, what I really, really want!
I used to work in Vale Royal, at the Camden end of York Way. Well remember the rat-arsed Ozzies and Kiwis lining the pavement outside the Walkabout on Sunday mornings.
Also the ‘Ladies of negotiable affection’ would park up with their clients outside our office garage door in the wee small hours, we’d let them have a few minutes to get started, then push the button to open the shutter! Well, it kept us amused. 🤣👍🏻
Great phrase that.... "ladies of negotiable affection" !
@@robertmoore7153 I know! 😁 I can’t claim it as my own though, the credit must go to the late Terry Pratchett.
I work at St pancras hospital and would have loved to bump into you. I bought a tiny kite from you one by the Tate. Thanks for doing camden mate!
Hello Joolz I have been banished from London all year, to Hospital in Leeds, where they have some of the best Blood Cancer treatments in the country. Anyway your tours of London have consistently cheered me up even through a bone marrow transplant so, thank you!
Back in the 70's when we traveled to England to visit relatives , we would catch the Train at Kings Cross to Bedfordshire , loved riding the old Wooden escalator ,it was massive. (tragic event was heartbreaking) ----- OOH Eddie And The Cruisers A Season in Hell -Arthur Rimbaud !
Another cracking guide joolz.... incidentally, the decorative pineapples are a sign of friendship and hospitality
The "pineapple" on the tomb was a pine cone, a classical symbol of eternal life.
Congratulations, you have got me checking postboxes whenever I walk around London. Also, loved the Oliver! rendition
Thanks to that workman!
Unfortunately covid has given many many lonely emotionally fragile people that feel as if they have done nothing with their lives, a sense of 'power' over others by being able to order them around when normally others would just ignore them. You can see how so many became informers in 1930's Germany.
The virus is a jobsworth recruiting agent.
You're a brilliant guide Joolz! Lovely stories - so engaging and a treat to watch. My great grandfather was a master builder and constructed a house in Royal College St (19c) It was acquired compulsorily by the Railway to build the line that goes through the area - they were sad to lose it and as it was for public works apparently got a pittance in return). My granddad died at St Pancras Hospital sadly. But the Pearly Kings of Kings Cross have a statue at St Pancras Cemetery (in N. Finchley - which is used for buriels of locals) - so the connection continues. Thanks for sharing your really great insights x
Ah Joolz, if only a fella could subscribe twice...
This vids are destined to be archives for all to reference when thinkiing about coming to London Town. Better than anything the tourism bureau has ever put out and gives a person a reason to cross the waters.
Ah, thank you for this beautiful nocturne composed by our national icon Frederic Chopin. Really suits the beautiful sunny weather here in the south of Poland, somehow made me feel so pleasantly nostalgic. Best wishes, Joolz ;-)
Yes, wonderful. Would be nice to know who is performing. It is Op. 9 N°1 in Bb Minor for other interested viewers.
The song dirty old town was written by Ewan McCall about his hometown Salford.
Kirsty MacColl's dad
@@ciar67 May she rest in peace. Now have to listen to Fairy tale of New York.
That Stallone impression was brilliant! :D
Simply charming. Cathartic. Excellent.
Picked up a brass here in 83! Wonderful times.
The melancholy invoked by the Bb minor Chopin Nocturne was so fitting watching this in lockdown. I never realised that the Wannabe video was shot in the Great Midland. Great vlog and I can't believe how much the are has changed even since the nineties when I used to play snooker round there.
Late June 2021!
I’m rewatching all of Joolz videos for the 5th time lol 🇬🇧
Cheers all!
Fantastic video. So many hidden jewels in London that I'd never know about without your knowledge. It's a shame there's a growing problem of security guards comcerned about filming stuff as though it's somehow stealing.
no, they're concerned a terrorist might learn whhere all the cameras are or something -- stll bullshit though
Best audio: "Splendid ... oh, I wasn't talking about you." ;-)
A Chopin's nocturne as a background to video makes it even better 🙂 Thanks a lot!👍
This Western Canadian,who just happens to have been born in Isleworth way, way back when, loves your videos. Please keep them coming. Hopefully things will improve sooner rather than later and I can once again visit London to explore some of the more off the beaten track places that you talk about!
West Middlesex Hospital?
Another brilliant vid to kick off the day here in the USA. The footage evoked fine memories of a walk I took last summer on lazy afternoon from the amazing London Canal Museum to Little Venice via the canal and a hop up primrose hill. Loved the flashback of sites and sounds.
Another gem of a video from Joolz and team. So good it should be on the telly. I love what happens at 1:30 lol.
Absolutely top hole as usual, don’t let security push you around! Guess what, I’m doing exactly that but in the heat of a Queensland heat...
Do you ever get around Barnes as my Daughter lives there. I was blown away with the history of the Olympic studio.
Keep up the great work old man.
Thanks for doing a video about the area Joolz, I lived around there for years and worked down in the freight depot at Bagley's, it's very different now but I loved it as it was before the redevelopment, it had real character then and was an oasis of calm in an otherwise chaotic city.
Woo hoo. Just got back from the pub (Brisbane time) and here's a Jool'z waiting in my list. I've had a fantastic day and night and it's now capped off as the perfect ending. Rock on, Joolz! And yes, I'm three sheets haha
Also from Brisbane. What are the odds!
@@usernnammee12345ffghjjjjjjjk Cool, @xx. My apologies for not acknowledging earlier. Again I come back home (Bramble Bay Bowls Club) from jam session afternoon. But NO Joolz! Sigh
@@WobblyBootsDuke sounds like fun :)
A great video. We stayed close to King's Cross. My husband and I got lost. We could have used you then. Some day we'll be back to London.
Now i know where ive seen Jools before , The Spice girls . He hasn't changed a bit , Old spice wasn't he . lol .
Thank you Joolz...music was excellent, story very interesting, I had beautiful time with all of you🌹God bless you for those stories....make me feel I am still alive❤️💙💚🧡💛
Best wishes from Belgrade,Europe...
I miss Belgrade! I'm sure I'll be back next year
@@Joolzguides ..you are more than welcome🌹👍
Just catching up on some of the old videos, particularly loved this one. My Dad worked around Kings Cross from the 1950s-1990 and he actually saw them filming The Lady Killers.
Nice to see you on my wedding day Joolz. Glad you popped in. :)
So cool I live here see how much history Camden has summers town as well I was born in 1971 so I remember how much as been lost not everything new is good keep on doing this mate thanks
Recently found your channel and am steadily working my way through each and every video. I have been looking for a a channel like this for ages but none of them have entertained and filled me with knowledge as much as yours. Thank you thank you!! Also if you can recommend any books about the history of london that would be great.
Brilliant Rambo impression - I almost fell off my seat!!
Who gave this thumbs down?!
Brilliant video.
As usual.
Youre a top lad Joolz. Last year i lived for 6 months next to hampstead health in a transit van. I love your content and ive always kept up with your content. I like and share as much as i can.
Enjoying all of your videos from Dallas Texas. Another great one!
I love the little Simon reveals. Good jokes and impressions all around!
What a treat for a Sunday afternoon thank you Joolz🥰🥰🥰 also what is this beautiful piece of piano music
??? 😻😻😻
I dont think its Mozart. It's very whimsical - I've heard it before.
@@friendlywomble its so lovely 💕
Chopin, Nocturn Op. 9: No. 1 in B-Flat Minor. A beautiful choice.
@@bluemethodify THANK YOU 💗
Instant like for top quality content. Pip pip tally Ho here’s some Joolzy guides Sunday viewing for all you curious folks!!
Jules, your guides are filled with fun, information I never heard and I have lived in London since 1985!! Its so refreshing to see you out and about even in Lock down. Keep up the good work and a nod and a wink to your sister for her own songs, brilliant channel, love it! xx
I'd love to 1 day buy Jools , Lou and Simon a nice pint. Love you guys, from a convict covid ridden down under. Cheers!
The house in the last killers was a mock up house .
It was at the end of Fredrica Street which ran off The Caledonian Road to to where the road ended just before the southern portal of Copenhagen tunnel.
The first tunnel was gasworks tunnel.
I find it rather ironic that the lady killers picked this location and the unsuspecting Mrs Wilberforce as a short walk down Fredrica Street the Daly was The Ville or Pentonville prison a place where some of not had done a bit of porridge.
Love your videos.
The richness of London is amazing.
I still miss it even though I moved to Aus way before you were born
I love Lou's handbag!
I have also been chased from the new piazza near King's Cross whilst filming for a piece on Camden Council. The headquarters is situated there. I had official blessing to film INSIDE the building, but outside was banned by the jobsworths. I pointed out that others were cavoting near a fountain happily snapping and filming, but the secirity person said it was fine for them but not for me as I had a tripod.
Your vids always make me want to go to London. I miss my days out on a train, visit a gallery, get a lovely lunch. Roll on next summer! In the meantime, thank you 😊
I can remember the Cubitt civil engineering company back in the 1960s, it was later taken over by Tarmac, A company I worked for constructing the Suez Canal road tunnel just up the canal from the town of Suez.
Thanks for the Vlog, thank fully no lock down in Vietnam.
thanks for taking us along on your travels through London
I appreciate the tours, as I cannot travel there just yet. Keep adding to my list, for when I finally get there. Stay well. Best to you.
What a surprise! Me and my daughter really love that one, because we’ve learnt something new about our area😊 Most of the streets and buildings are so close to our flat. Thank you🙏
Another satisfying tour of London...from my abode in Florida, Northeast Florida....
Your channel was an accidental find, as one of your videos was added into my queue automatically. I’m absolutely loving your videos, they are so interesting, engaging and extremely funny. You would be a brilliant History teacher!
I laughed when you did that spice girls song!! lol Nice vids as usual!!
same here lol.
J W thank you for this video I love you & miss lots ! Warmest sweetest hugs & kisses !
Man, I love these videos! There is not a single soul I haven't told about my obsession with Joolz Guides videos.
Thanks Joolz, as an out of Towner I always find your guides invaluable for occasional trips to London. I visited Coal Drop Yard in the snow earlier in the year. This has cheered me up a lot, long may you continue.
Hey dude! Another brilliant film...right at the end when you're in Argyle Street, you're walking around the same streets that my dad and his brothers and sisters (there were 10 of them all told), grew up on (in the 50's/60's). If you'd walked to Sidmouth Street off the Greys Inn Road, that's where my aunt still lives! Interesting, I know. Thank you as always for a top film.
Now that was a lovely Sunday afternoon walk
I phoned my local taxidermist, he told me to get stuffed.
I suggested to my girlfriend that rather then going out that we could stay in and have pizza. Strangely she also told my to get stuffed!
Doh! You guys.....
Does he do security guards, I wonder?
Thanks for keeping these films going Joolz and crew! They are a bright spot during these dark times. :)
Great video Joolz. The Lockdowns are playing havoc with your drinking😂. Your videos are priceless👍👍👍
I once read that the inspiration for the design of Kings Cross station was taken from the Tsar's riding school in Moscow. I don't know if this is true.
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Beer n Joolz..I love Friday nights..cheers to you!
Coffee and a walk with Jools ☺️
Bookshop on a barge! Wow, heaven x
Wasn’t the area called _Battle Bridge_ (over the Fleet) before it became King’s Cross - hence the associations with Boudicca? It’s a superb summary Joolz tremendous work: and _oi_ the hangovers I remember from the raucous chaos of The Church.
Speaking of which, that is of course St Pancras *Old* Church even though it’s a Victorian rebuild: the New Church is the one opposite the fire station on the corner of Eversholt Street and Euston Road with the huge caryatids. I do miss that old an odd wasteland behind the stations where the arches of St Pancras used to stretch back darkly seemingly for ages before they were demolished for the Eurostar.
It sadly comes as no surprise that _The Man Who Never Was_ was a vagrant of Somers Town. This was one of many great countless details I learned. (we all know she’s *really* buried beneath the Tumulus on Hampstead Heath... 😁)
Yes, Battle Bridge. You are right. I sometimes cherry pick which info I think will resonate the most. That one got left behind I'm afraid!
Great job as always Joolz and team! I learned a few new things about the area and I plan to visit some parts I didn't even know existed! Shame about the over-zealous security guard, they seem to have make issues up out of nothing in order to justify their existence. They could have easily just let you be, it's not as if you were planning the next mega-million heist......were you? :-)
0:14 I used to work in Hampstead back when the sign "Camden Road"used to be "I wish I worked in Hampstead."
Back in the early noughties I lived in Archway (and thereabouts) and partied hard behind King Cross Station at Bagleys regularly. I remember the straw on the floor for The Church, also went to the Scala quite frequently and a really nice low key bar on the Caledonian Road or was it Pentonville? Forget the name of it now. South of Kings Cross is interesting too, I used to kickbox at a club there around 2004. I wish I took the time to explore all around the UCL area, but it was all about working in the city and getting drunk back then. Memories are hazy but I can't believe how much the whole area has changed. Looking forward to going back one day, I left London and the rat race in 2009, love your channel bringing back lots of memories and regrets about always taking the tube and not doing all that much walking and taking in the history. Never once thought to walk along the canal from Camden 😢 Mind you, probably was a bit grim back then. Anyway, glad to have found your channel, sir.
you are awesome