Frankly, I think you should be awarded an MBE or something for your services to London and the entertainment and education of thousands of people of its history. Another totally wonderful video.
3:24 I bought the same Paddington Bear at Heathrow when I was changing in London during the pandemic in 2020. And exactly ten years ago we were living in a hotel right in front of the Paddington station and enjoyed the bear statue every day🎉😊
What a fantastic episode to stumble upon! I used to work for a travel company with offices at 10 Frederick Close (29:35), back in the mid-1980s. I don't recollect the fancy gate at the end of the mews going into the cemetery, but perhaps they've tarted it up since 1990. The Queen Vic and the Duke of Kendal were among our local pubs. Has The Tree disappeared in all the redevelopment? It was indeed named for the 'Tyburn Tree' (the gallows). Will have to get Joolz's pub walk/guide to see!
I had no idea that Fleming himself was aware of the potential long term dangers of bacterial resistance to anti-biotic medicine. Truly a remarkable moment in history. The life saving implications of his discovery is almost unfathomable in terms of scale
We were at Paddington last week and everytime I go through the station, I make sure I share a marmalade sandwich with Paddington. I love the statue, so iconic. Another great video Joolz, thank you for all the videos this year, believe me they have come in handy and Merry Christmas to you and all you family.
Thank you for bringing me back where my life in London started in 1967. I was an au pair in Sussex Lodge, the large block of posh flats in Sussex place, just by the gorgeous Victoria pub. I stayed just a month, but revisited the whole area two years ago from Paddington station. Thank you Jules for your very interesting vlogs.
Those animals… 1:40 This is the 'Wild Table Of Love' project by Gillie and Marc. See: wikipedia. I remember it stood on Paternoster Square near the St Paul’s a couple of years ago.
Another wonderful tour of a lovely part of London. Thanks to Joolz, Simon, Lou, etc for all of the efforts involved. Paddington seems like a really cool area. Of course I love the Paddington bears, too. All of the history in this area and the peacefulness of it all. A well appreciated present indeed. Thanks from a longtime subscriber. Cheers!!!
Jules does it again! I lived near oxford and worked in London. I've been through Paddington hundreds (maybe thousands) of times and I always thought that the name "great western railway" meant that it was just a great railway the went west. Now I learn that it was named after a ship, and it was built so that passengers could just travel quickly to the ship in Bristol! life is a constant experience of learning new things. Thanks Jules!😁😁
Merry Christmas Joolz and all! Loved the animation! And all the interesting facts as usual. At 32.10 There is a man on the street who seems to have been frozen like a freeze frame but the traffic is moving behind him. Spooky!!
Thank you for highlighting the former Great Western Railway's Paddington station, Joolz. A truly remarkable London terminus with the most fantastic architecture that you could ever find. The canal area looks very inviting. All the rest of this video is most interesting too, with lots of local history. Many thanks.
Spotted you in someone else's London Walk UA-cam Video I spotted you on a recent London Walking You Tube Channel. The Channel is called Paseos guiados and he does walking videos around London. The Video title is "London Christmas Walk 2024, London's WEST END Christmas" and you appear between 56:51 and 56:59 strolling along singing a tune. I think it was a pretty good catch. Cheers from Texas.
Lovely. This one featured a lot of places I remember vividly from living in the area years ago. It's a strange thing nostalgia. it can physically hurt like hunger pains. But in a good way.
Oi I'm the Messenger!! haha. Great video, I was a member of the Paddington Bear Club when I was a child, I believe the Duchess of York was patron at the time. Always lovely to hear Tom sing 🙂 Wishing you, Simon and your families a very Merry Christmas!
I was just about to shut it all off until the boxing day test and then a Joolz guide came to the rescue to spread some cheer. Cheerio old boy from Australia
Thanks Joolz and Simon and Little Lou ✨🌟 fascinated by the Great Western Railway boat to New York 👌 There are always lots of lovely gems of information in your videos. I will buy your pub guide too ✨🌟👌💫🎄🧑🎄🎈 Happy New Year 2025 💫☘️✨
When I get the train to London from Bristol, I alight at Paddington & leave the area straight away to get where I'm going. I didn't realize there was so much of interest roundabout. Next time, I'll take a closer look. Thanks for this. As a kid growing up in the 80s, any Sunday PM viewing would be the likes of Supergran or Terrahawks. These days, it's Joolz Guides which are just as enjoyable in their own way & educational to boot...
Another great vlog with that little touch of British eccentricity that makes it special. Love your jaunts around London. London's gotta be my favourite city. I had my first date with my future wife and future ex-wife at the Victoria pub on Strathearn Place. Yes, Paddington station and British railways were state of the art in the 19th century. I have just returned from China and saw railway stations that are as large as Heathrow's terminal 5 and a 40,000 km high-speed railway system, which must be 21st century's state of the art. I travelled from Shanghai airport to downtown Shanghai on the Maglev super-fast train. We did the 20-mile journey in 8 minutes. I came down to earth on my return when I caught the Manchester airport train to Piccadilly.
Many thanks as always Joolz, for a brilliant video. But with the added bonus 21:37 that you have answered a question that I had tried researching without success? Back in the 1980s to 90s I had come across a term for beer used in Yorkshire, but could not, for the life of me remember the word, STINGO. I shall now bore everyone silly, in asking for a pint of Stingo 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😍 Love to Joolz and the gang, plus everyone reading this post, and Merry Xmas to you and yours.
Cheers Joolz, it’s Sean in Atlanta! Love the video but I really wanted to simply wish you and your family and friends, a very Merry Christmas from Atlanta! Sean
Edgeware Road follows the route of roman Watling Street, it regains that name after passing through Elstree where it again runs in an almost straight line to St. Albans
Great episode Joolz. My neck of the woods again! If you get the chance for the future, can you please do a Hercule Poirot episode showing the places he lived in and visited around London? Particularly showing the art decor architecture which is adorable. Merry Christmas to you and your sister and Simon.
The bomb shelter in Paddington Green is "Paddington Control" one of the Borough Control bunkers built for the local councils after the war - there is a description and some photos on the Sub Brit website.
My father went to England on an exchange program in the late 1940s. He was supposed to stay with Joyce, who was a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital, but ended up staying with a family in Lewisham. But it was Joyce who showed him around London most of the time, and he’d meet her outside the hospital. Dad promised us we’d go to England on holiday one day, but I had to wait for 14 years before we finally did.
Thank you for a wonderful walk. As a Sherlock Holmes story lover, I noticed that many detective customers came directly from Paddington Station. 🔎 Happy Christmas joolz from Poland. 🌲
Still got my original Clarkson bear from Yorkshire. My parents bought from Kendals in Manchester, Christmas 1977. I lost his original wellington boots though as I used to put them on and wear them! The original 70's Paddington bear cartoons were awesome. Simplistic and fantastic. I was a massive fan. Looking at the teddy now it looks nothing like the modern Paddington Bear. The original bears are really heavy. Hard to carry for a toddler.
Very Happy Christmas to you, Joolz, and the production team. Look forward to seeing your vids next year. I went past Blair's gaff a few years ago. It had armed police outside.
Every time I watch another of your videos Joolz, I realize just how much I still have left to see in London. We stayed in a hotel right near Paddington Station (Mercure Paddington) but I never did a thorough walk of the area. Splendid walk capped by the usual visit to a pub for a libation. That was pale, looked like a cider. 😊
We used to live in Connaught Street over looking the St George’s Fields, there was an archery range, tennis courts and waste land where scouts had weekend camping. In 1964 the landlord wanted to double the rent because of the good outlook. We moved, by the end of the 60s the flats had been built. On a Saturday lunchtime the milkmen would go to the Duke of Kendal pub to do their books, all had electric milk floats except United Dairies who had a horse drawn dray.
Nadolig Llawen! Yes, the inscription at the entrance to the old St David’s church is in Welsh. It’s about 6 years since I last went there, but I sang as an ad hoc member of the choir there for a Welsh carol service at Christmas in either 1995 or 1996. I am originally from West Wales and Welsh-speaking, but I lived in London off and on from 1976 until September this year and am now in Kent. Pity you missed the GWR Paddington Band. They’re at the station every Friday from March until Christmas every year, continuing a musical tradition going back to 1856 or so. I confess, I am a member of the band.
Happy New Year Joolz & friends, i am a yorkshire fella, but live in Chiang Mai northern thailand, much of my family live london, i do love watching your videos, reminding me of 'blighty'
Paul from Kent another wonderful video full of great history have a happy Christmas and a wonderful new year keep up the great work you and doing for the channel
Regents Canal was the first Joolz Guide video I watched when I was planning my trip to London. I have watched all your videos and used several of your suggested places when I went.
Just for the sake of accuracy, Mary Secole wasn't a nurse and didn't go near any battlefields. She was a businesswoman who set up a restaurant/bar in the Crimea for officers who could pay their way.
Interesting! The British Establishment have, for years, portrayed Mary as a Florence Nightingale who deserved the same recognition. eg. on a brief google search about her: 'Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse and business woman who helped wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. She was the top choice in a 2004 poll of 100 Great Black Britons.' Many British politicians are lobbying to have her featured on a British £50 note.
Christmas special Joolz ! Never fails to lighten the weekend ❤ Would you mind adding the map of your magnificent strolls into your videos ? Also, where can I find your beautiful vintage soundtracks ? Great work as ever !
Amidst all the gloom and doom comes another Joolz video to lift our spirits with wit and knowledge...fantastic
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The pop-ups were brilliant!
Merry Christmas Joolz and family and anyone who is reading this!
Frankly, I think you should be awarded an MBE or something for your services to London and the entertainment and education of thousands of people of its history. Another totally wonderful video.
Hear hear ! Or a spot on Strictly .
@ Ha, ha! Love it. Quite right!
Your videos make my Sundays better
I was born in London in 1947 and lived there until I moved to Spain in 2004.
I love watching your videos although they do make me feel a bit homesick.
Enjoy your life over there with fond memories of London back then. Merry Christmas
Great message @@FranssensM
A lovely Christmas Sunday morning touring around London with Joolz, Simon, and Lou! Great special effects inserts with the Paddington pop-up book!
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3:24 I bought the same Paddington Bear at Heathrow when I was changing in London during the pandemic in 2020. And exactly ten years ago we were living in a hotel right in front of the Paddington station and enjoyed the bear statue every day🎉😊
What a fantastic episode to stumble upon! I used to work for a travel company with offices at 10 Frederick Close (29:35), back in the mid-1980s. I don't recollect the fancy gate at the end of the mews going into the cemetery, but perhaps they've tarted it up since 1990. The Queen Vic and the Duke of Kendal were among our local pubs. Has The Tree disappeared in all the redevelopment? It was indeed named for the 'Tyburn Tree' (the gallows). Will have to get Joolz's pub walk/guide to see!
I had no idea that Fleming himself was aware of the potential long term dangers of bacterial resistance to anti-biotic medicine. Truly a remarkable moment in history. The life saving implications of his discovery is almost unfathomable in terms of scale
My doctor gave me antibiotics the very next day!
Thank you, Mr. Fleming.
We were at Paddington last week and everytime I go through the station, I make sure I share a marmalade sandwich with Paddington. I love the statue, so iconic. Another great video Joolz, thank you for all the videos this year, believe me they have come in handy and Merry Christmas to you and all you family.
Thanks, Jules for another year of London gems! We never cease to be amazed at the tales you dig up. Keep it going, Happy Christmas.
Thank you for bringing me back where my life in London started in 1967. I was an au pair in Sussex Lodge, the large block of posh flats in Sussex place, just by the gorgeous Victoria pub. I stayed just a month, but revisited the whole area two years ago from Paddington station. Thank you Jules for your very interesting vlogs.
Great job everyone, thanks. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
Now THIS is what you call a Christmas present. Merry Christmas Joolz, Simon, Lil Lost Lou and all the JG Crew. Big love.
Thanks for this! Went to St Mary’s med school and this brought back great memories of living in Paddington for 6 years.
heart breaking what they have done to London
Somehow this channel slid off my feed. Missed the tours.
Those animals… 1:40 This is the 'Wild Table Of Love' project by Gillie and Marc. See: wikipedia. I remember it stood on Paternoster Square near the St Paul’s a couple of years ago.
Jules is a national treasure 😊😊 always makes my day
Another wonderful tour of a lovely part of London. Thanks to Joolz, Simon, Lou, etc for all of the efforts involved. Paddington seems like a really cool area. Of course I love the Paddington bears, too. All of the history in this area and the peacefulness of it all. A well appreciated present indeed. Thanks from a longtime subscriber. Cheers!!!
A great start to 2025! Thanks, Joolz.
Pip Pip christmas is early!!!! Happy christmas joolz 🎄🎄🎄
Jules does it again! I lived near oxford and worked in London. I've been through Paddington hundreds (maybe thousands) of times and I always thought that the name "great western railway" meant that it was just a great railway the went west. Now I learn that it was named after a ship, and it was built so that passengers could just travel quickly to the ship in Bristol!
life is a constant experience of learning new things. Thanks Jules!😁😁
Thanks for another fantastic walk. You're like good wine - getting better with time. ❤
Merry Christmas Joolz and all! Loved the animation! And all the interesting facts as usual. At 32.10 There is a man on the street who seems to have been frozen like a freeze frame but the traffic is moving behind him. Spooky!!
Great to see all the team again in Pop-Up-O-Vision!
Thank you for highlighting the former Great Western Railway's Paddington station, Joolz. A truly remarkable London terminus with the most fantastic architecture that you could ever find. The canal area looks very inviting. All the rest of this video is most interesting too, with lots of local history. Many thanks.
In elementary school we read a short story called “The Miracle that Flew Through the Window” about Flemming
Spotted you in someone else's London Walk UA-cam Video
I spotted you on a recent London Walking You Tube Channel. The Channel is called Paseos guiados and he does walking videos around London. The Video title is "London Christmas Walk 2024, London's WEST END Christmas" and you appear between 56:51 and 56:59 strolling along singing a tune. I think it was a pretty good catch. Cheers from Texas.
Another corker, thanks Jools and Simon 🙂
Ah yes, another Sunday and Joolz Guides!
Pre-ordered! You are as splendid as ever, Joolz!
Lovely. This one featured a lot of places I remember vividly from living in the area years ago. It's a strange thing nostalgia. it can physically hurt like hunger pains. But in a good way.
Oi I'm the Messenger!! haha. Great video, I was a member of the Paddington Bear Club when I was a child, I believe the Duchess of York was patron at the time. Always lovely to hear Tom sing 🙂 Wishing you, Simon and your families a very Merry Christmas!
Love the pop-up book bits.
Joolz has a voice without a trace of makeup 🍓
Good old Joolz , top editing as per , thanks .
I wouldn't be Christmas without a Joolz video. Happy Christmas 🎄
I was just about to shut it all off until the boxing day test and then a Joolz guide came to the rescue to spread some cheer. Cheerio old boy from Australia
I hope you and your family, Joolz have a wonderful Christmas & you thrive in 25!
I have been waiting for years for you to do Paddington as I used to live on the Edgware Rd in the 1980s and used to do my drinking in Praed Street
Well that was good!
Thanks Joolz and Simon and Little Lou ✨🌟 fascinated by the Great Western Railway boat to New York 👌 There are always lots of lovely gems of information in your videos. I will buy your pub guide too ✨🌟👌💫🎄🧑🎄🎈 Happy New Year 2025 💫☘️✨
Wielkie dzięki za film. Zdrowych i spokojnych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia oraz szczęśliwego Nowego Roku 2025.❤
Great video, thanks Jules. Took me back 30 years when The Victoria was my local. Glad to see it hasn't changed.
When I get the train to London from Bristol, I alight at Paddington & leave the area straight away to get where I'm going. I didn't realize there was so much of interest roundabout. Next time, I'll take a closer look. Thanks for this. As a kid growing up in the 80s, any Sunday PM viewing would be the likes of Supergran or Terrahawks. These days, it's Joolz Guides which are just as enjoyable in their own way & educational to boot...
Another great vlog with that little touch of British eccentricity that makes it special. Love your jaunts around London. London's gotta be my favourite city. I had my first date with my future wife and future ex-wife at the Victoria pub on Strathearn Place. Yes, Paddington station and British railways were state of the art in the 19th century. I have just returned from China and saw railway stations that are as large as Heathrow's terminal 5 and a 40,000 km high-speed railway system, which must be 21st century's state of the art. I travelled from Shanghai airport to downtown Shanghai on the Maglev super-fast train. We did the 20-mile journey in 8 minutes. I came down to earth on my return when I caught the Manchester airport train to Piccadilly.
Many thanks as always Joolz, for a brilliant video. But with the added bonus 21:37 that you have answered a question that I had tried researching without success?
Back in the 1980s to 90s I had come across a term for beer used in Yorkshire, but could not, for the life of me remember the word, STINGO.
I shall now bore everyone silly, in asking for a pint of Stingo 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😍
Love to Joolz and the gang, plus everyone reading this post, and Merry Xmas to you and yours.
I really appreciate your videos, Joolz. In this crazy world, your content feels like a steady rock to lean on. Thank you for that!
It's not a proper Sunday morning for me without a Joolz Guides video. Love the pop-ups! Thanks Julian!
Cheers Joolz, it’s Sean in Atlanta! Love the video but I really wanted to simply wish you and your family and friends, a very Merry Christmas from Atlanta!
Sean
Edgeware Road follows the route of roman Watling Street, it regains that name after passing through Elstree where it again runs in an almost straight line to St. Albans
Great episode Joolz. My neck of the woods again! If you get the chance for the future, can you please do a Hercule Poirot episode showing the places he lived in and visited around London? Particularly showing the art decor architecture which is adorable. Merry Christmas to you and your sister and Simon.
Always enjoy your tours. Your new book will make good g8ft for my son, he loves walks, f8nding things, & old interesting pubs.
The bomb shelter in Paddington Green is "Paddington Control" one of the Borough Control bunkers built for the local councils after the war - there is a description and some photos on the Sub Brit website.
My father went to England on an exchange program in the late 1940s. He was supposed to stay with Joyce, who was a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital, but ended up staying with a family in Lewisham. But it was Joyce who showed him around London most of the time, and he’d meet her outside the hospital.
Dad promised us we’d go to England on holiday one day, but I had to wait for 14 years before we finally did.
Thank you for a wonderful walk.
As a Sherlock Holmes story lover, I noticed that many detective customers came directly from Paddington Station. 🔎
Happy Christmas joolz from Poland. 🌲
such a delightful episode, now will be one of my favourites
This is absolutely a high quality channel, thanks Julian and Simon and happy new year 🍻
As usual, I enjoy your videos. Keep up 👍
You should do a TV with all your guide walks on , would be a definite hit 😎👍
The Gothic writing is Welsh, can pick out Llandaff, as is Sarah Siddons, there’s a pub in Brecon named after her
A very merry Christmas to you both ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Fantastic yet again Joolz. You and the team, Have a spiffing Christmas and great success for 2025🎉🎅🎄🎊💃🏽
First time I went to London I stayed at a hotel in Paddington off of Radnor. Perfect base to explore the city and SE England.
Still got my original Clarkson bear from Yorkshire. My parents bought from Kendals in Manchester, Christmas 1977. I lost his original wellington boots though as I used to put them on and wear them! The original 70's Paddington bear cartoons were awesome. Simplistic and fantastic. I was a massive fan. Looking at the teddy now it looks nothing like the modern Paddington Bear. The original bears are really heavy. Hard to carry for a toddler.
Hi Joolz. I remember during lockdown when we couldn't get out, your little vids were a godsend. Thanks.
This video is the only this that made me realise today was Sunday.
Took me by surprise too.. I had to rush the upload!
@@Joolzguides It's a problem.
What a truly fascinating walk you've taken us on. Lots of history and very good company. Thank you
Very Happy Christmas to you, Joolz, and the production team. Look forward to seeing your vids next year. I went past Blair's gaff a few years ago. It had armed police outside.
34:45 Got to love the Lincoln Continental and the Fiat 500 parked next to each other!
Merry Christmas. May father Christmas fill your stocking with much joy.
My favorite part of London,and favorite pub aswell 🙂
Hi jules , great video, I have the original Paddington’ bear and aunt Lucy too . Regards mark
Wooohoooo!! Great video, really enjoyed it, nice one Joolz
Every time I watch another of your videos Joolz, I realize just how much I still have left to see in London. We stayed in a hotel right near Paddington Station (Mercure Paddington) but I never did a thorough walk of the area. Splendid walk capped by the usual visit to a pub for a libation. That was pale, looked like a cider. 😊
We used to live in Connaught Street over looking the St George’s Fields, there was an archery range, tennis courts and waste land where scouts had weekend camping. In 1964 the landlord wanted to double the rent because of the good outlook. We moved, by the end of the 60s the flats had been built.
On a Saturday lunchtime the milkmen would go to the Duke of Kendal pub to do their books, all had electric milk floats except United Dairies who had a horse drawn dray.
The good old days
Delighted you have uploaded walks around areas in West London recently. Absolutely brilliant, as always! Thank you, Sir!
funnily enough the very thin house mentioned at 32:10 was built to block a passageway which was used by graverobbers to get to the cemetery behind.
Amazing
Nadolig Llawen! Yes, the inscription at the entrance to the old St David’s church is in Welsh. It’s about 6 years since I last went there, but I sang as an ad hoc member of the choir there for a Welsh carol service at Christmas in either 1995 or 1996. I am originally from West Wales and Welsh-speaking, but I lived in London off and on from 1976 until September this year and am now in Kent. Pity you missed the GWR Paddington Band. They’re at the station every Friday from March until Christmas every year, continuing a musical tradition going back to 1856 or so. I confess, I am a member of the band.
Buon Natale, Merry Christmas Joolz (Giuliano?). Rossella from Milano
Thanks Joolz… you brought back some awesome memories for these 2 Canucks! Paddington came home with us too! 🎉
Tally Ho. Joolz is here, probably the last one this year! Merry Christmas. Hope you have a good one.
Happy Christmas!
Happy New Year Joolz & friends, i am a yorkshire fella, but live in Chiang Mai northern thailand, much of my family live london, i do love watching your videos, reminding me of 'blighty'
Paul from Kent another wonderful video full of great history have a happy Christmas and a wonderful new year keep up the great work you and doing for the channel
Sweet heartwarming vid Joolz
Tom Caradine …. ever since I first heard him sing on Jools Guides, I thought he was Paul Merton …. and now I can’t unhear him. 🤦🏼♀️
Regents Canal was the first Joolz Guide video I watched when I was planning my trip to London. I have watched all your videos and used several of your suggested places when I went.
What a delight to see a 1977 Lincoln Mark V "Cartier Edition" because my father owned that exact model from new. Unexpected, to say the least.
Lovely way to spend a Sunday. Brilliant video.
Great job!
Just for the sake of accuracy, Mary Secole wasn't a nurse and didn't go near any battlefields. She was a businesswoman who set up a restaurant/bar in the Crimea for officers who could pay their way.
Interesting! The British Establishment have, for years, portrayed Mary as a Florence Nightingale who deserved the same recognition. eg. on a brief google search about her: 'Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse and business woman who helped wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. She was the top choice in a 2004 poll of 100 Great Black Britons.' Many British politicians are lobbying to have her featured on a British £50 note.
Just in time for Christmas! Looking forward to watching this with my family next week x
34:55 Victoria is always a good choice😎😙 Just the Royal classics. P.S. I want to visit this pub badly, it has such a stylish ambiente 🎉
Christmas special Joolz ! Never fails to lighten the weekend ❤
Would you mind adding the map of your magnificent strolls into your videos ?
Also, where can I find your beautiful vintage soundtracks ?
Great work as ever !
Thank you Joolz for another year of fun and facts, Merry Christmas to you, Simon and all involved in your videos...great stuff.
Happy Christmas, Joolz. Thanks for your wonderful walks. Looking forward to more!
Sarah Siddons had an underground locomotive named after her and still maintained for heritage trains on the underground.