Most Excellent London Walk - West Fitzrovia and Cleveland Street
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Cleveland Street is one of my favourite streets for some reason. When I walk into the centre of London I always seem to end up going down Cleveland street.
It only became officially recorded as Fitzrovia on ordnance survey maps in 1994 and was all fields 250 years ago.
In this walk we go to Fitzroy Square where George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf lived. Then we see some charming mewses which were occupied by cabbies and dairy farmers.
Then there's Cleveland Street with the invention of morse code and my tailor Paul Kitsaros.
This is also the street where the Telecom Tower is and has a history of scandals and communist clubs involving the heir to the throne and Karl Marx.
Then there's the lady who sells buttons in Charles Dickens' house and the beautiful Fitzrovia Chapel.
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Great to see those tailors and the “Button Lady” real characters. Years ago they’d have found they way into a Dickens book I’m sure.
I remember when the Middlesex hospital was there. I snuck out of work one day to see Princess Diana arriving for a visit.
Mews: A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments. (The Free Dictionary) I've learned something new today.
Your visit to the old Middlesex Hospital site brought back memories to when I was a young patient there in 1949....We lived off Tottenham Court Road at the time & so did all my relatives & I went to my first school next door to the hospital in Langham Place..you may not realise it but this used to a totally unpretentious working class neighbourhood back then in the 1940/50/60's...
You’re the most interesting man in the world.
And the most handsome 👍🏻
And the most professional.
Thank you very much,
Dear Joolz.
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Oh I love the button shop. So quaint and seemingly untouched by modern technology!
love the button lady - would be fascinated to see more of these specialized shops and special shop keepers
I thoroughly agree. Cheers
I agree and seeing this lady reminded me of the button makers that used to be in my home town. I would love to know more about this lady and her buttons.
It reminded me of a bead shop I discovered back in about 1970-71, somewhere in the West End. Amazing place. Small and dark and packed full of jars of brightly coloured beads of every imaginable size and hue, on floor to ceiling shelves... I wonder if it's still there...
Definitely he should!
He's a very good at interviewing! Some of shop cheaper are probably getting old, but very interesting!!
and needs interview them!
I found that so interesting as well! I really hope someone is able to take it over in the family
Matthew Flinders is still remembered in Sydney. We have Bass & Flinders Point, and outside the State Library there's statues of both Flinders and his cat Trim.
Isn't there a train station in Melbourne called 'Flinders' ?
@@MrRQBQ Flinders Street is one of the two main stations in Melbourne
@@matthewalker Thanks, I seem to remember watching a documentary about the train station.
Not to mention there's an island in Bass Strait named after him.
The Flinders Ranges that Jules mentioned in the video are in South Australia. Lots of very old rocks there.
I had dinner in the Post Office (Telecoms Tower) restaurant in 1966/67 - We were visiting my Aunt and Uncle who lived in Virginia Water, Surrey. I was only 6 or 7 at the time, so didn't really appreciate it.
I remember eating there with my mother in the late sixties, sorry to hear it's not open anymore.
I was a similar age when we had a meal there and my father received a gold watch from a company he worked for.. I had to go to the loo halfway through and when I got back the restaurant had moved around and I got lost!! 🙈😂
A great sunday. New edition of Joolz Guides have landed.
Superb video. I worked in Fitzrovia for 27 years so there were a lot of familiar sights here. What is noticeable is how much the area has been spruced up in the last 40 years but still retains so much of its charm and quietness despite its proximity to Tottenham Court Road and the Euston Road.
Many years ago, I had a real struggle to learn a Mozart piano sonata, K576 in D, before it became hidden again in the mists of time. Then I watch an interesting Jools vid, and up it pops again, and I'm transported right back to those hours slaving away at the piano again! It's a lovely piece, but a real pig.
That tower looks like a giant sonic screwdriver 😂
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A good friend of mine is a descendent of Captain Flinders. After seeing his portrair he looks like him too, crazy.
one of the things i love about London is these quirky shops, that would just not exist anywhere else - what a top button lady
it’s nice to see old trades being kept alive .let’s hope they can survive in the future
Almost 200 000 subscribers! So so deserved! ❤️ Thanks for keeping London close while we have to stay away, and generally brilliant knowledge and entertainment 😊
Jools "I'll introduce me to my tailor who I haven't see for five years"
Tailor "It'll be ready next week!"
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Love the new blazer!
This was the best walking tour of London I have watched. I’ll make there, one day, because I want a button.
This bloke should be on mainstream TV instead of the crap we have to put up with .one of the best ch on UA-cam .
Your Tailor kept me in stitches!
people have been shot for less, mr Barrett.
Is it me, or you're really getting better and better? :)
The button shop is just extraordinary!
Ha ha.. Thanks. I like this one too. I think it's easier now that things are open and I can visit fun people.
@@Joolzguides I bet you didn't know this , that the British actor Sean Bean (known for GoldenEye , Lord Of the Rings as Boromir and in Game Of throne ,) use to live in belsize park
@@Joolzguides More interviews, definitely! Great stuff, And living history! I bet you could do an entire episode just on that lady!
No one does travel guides better than Sir Joolz💪
You really seem to know everyone amazing in London. Which, of course, makes you just as much a wonderful fixture as they are!
3:15 - Flinders has a mountain range in South Australia and a university in Adelaide named after him, as well as a major street in Melbourne. There's a statue of Flinders outside the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney - and behind him on a ledge is a statue of his loyal cat, Trim, who was named after the character in 'Tristram Shandy'. The cafe at the State Library is named after Trim.
Another very interesting video on London. Matthew Flinders has several places named after him around Australia. In Victoria where I live there is a town on the Mornington Peninsula aptly named Flinders. In suburban Melbourne there is the Matthew Flinders Hotel which back in the 1970's was one of the biggest Pub Rock venues around. AC/DC played there at some stage. And where I live in Mornington there is a plaque commemorating Matthew Flinders as he landed near here on 28th April 1802.
Around 1978 I sang in a small chamber choir that rehearsed in the chapel of the Middlesex Hospital. Most of the 12 singers were young medics, whilst I was a teacher. The acoustic was amazing. I'm glad the chapel has survived, but didn't realise it was called the Fitzroy Chapel.
Loving this walk Joolze. I lived on Charlotte Street for about 2 years back in the 80's before the area became known as Fitzrovia so this is bringing back many memories. I wish I could afford to live there now.
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions ‘Charlotte St’
Joolz is impeccably dressed
To say I live in England too and I've only been to London once I feel like I should go and explore london more myself
Wonderful. So many memories, we lived in Manchester Square until I was 12 in 1971. We would wait for my grandmother to fall asleep and then run across the Square and spend an hour in the Wallace Collection.
I worked and walked around London for 12 years, I've wandered through many of the areas that you feature, but never knew the history. I can't wait till you let us "Yankees" back in so that I can revisit them and see them in a different light. Thanks for the great tours! Cheers!
Would rather you didn't.
Wait for me!
@@ryanessex7978 are you okay, Ryan? Talk to someone, your behaviour is worrying.
@@paulw242 His Brain needs a Re-Boot.
It never gets old
In my home town of Aylesbury there are several pubs that claim to be where the Great Train Robbers met after doing a recce. What is certain is that when they were arrested they were taken to Aylesbury police station where my Dad stood in a identity parade with some of the gang. His office was directly opposite the nick!
Thanks Joolz, that was a great walk. I’m off to visit the chapel, the tobacconist, the button shop (I love buttons) and to say hello to Capt Matthew Flinders and have a bit of a yarn with him!
When I was living in Australia my school house was named Flinders. Didn't know however that he had such a short life. You learn something new every day - lol
I lived in London years ago but I never knew anything about it until I started watching Joolz's guided tours.
This is not just a guide...it's an embrace. Thankyou.
You do make wonderful videos, Julian. I used to love to wander around Londons's streets when I lived there, but the buildings weren't so smart & beautiful at that time. I lived in London, off & on, between 1975 & 1991. You are impressively knowledgeable about where you go walking. It is so nostalgic for me to to be able to go around your beautiful city on these video tours of yours, & to be able to realise the dates of the various buildings. Thanks for that.
Brilliant map animation. It really clarifies everything. Thanks Joolz and team!
I love watching your vids....I had an ancestor live in Cleveland Street, and my ancestors (Jewish) were from the East End. Matthew Flinders is very well known here, well at least here in South Australia, and the Flinders Ranges are magnificent up in out northern outback region. My father was born up there, and my Kentish ancestors lived and worked up there in the 1850s onwards and did a lot of mining, carting etc as pioneers from 1836 (when SA was first proclaimed at colony, oops my Kentish family came out in 1839). Love all your videos walking about London, been there in 2008 but would love to go again. You rock. Thanks so much from South Oz.
We just talked to our son in Lamberhurst Kent from a caravan park in Port Augusta South Australia and I felt like a bit more UK Thank you Jules
Bob Monkhouse's best joke was. "Dropped a huge block of ice on my foot. Hurt like hell but the swelling went down!". Legend
Thank you Joolz. Greetings from Leipzig. When my son was at Wycliffe College Junior School, the headmaster was Mr. Roger Outwin-Flinders, a distant relative of the explorer.
Very cool! I did karaoke there once
Just love these guides, brilliant, love the little streets, ally’s and mews
Enjoyable and informative as always, makes me love London even more!
It was a great shame that Middlesex Hospital was demolished. I was born there on the 18th of December1959 and spent my first christmas there.
Thank you Jules, you've made my Sunday.
Always a joy:) i miss walking around in London. Hope be back as soon as pandemie is over.
In Morse code, the final clap is the end of the message, there are no characters after it.
That shop and that lady that sells buttons was amazing. It's fantastic that youve got that on record for posterity. Once again you show just how much of interest there is in London,not just in far off history but also in recent times and now.
Love your videos. Came across them while researching places in London that my family lived during Victorian times. My great grand aunt actually lived on Cleveland street. Believe number 66. Rest of my family lived around Holborn/St Giles/Chadwick St (where the channel 4 building is).
Extraordinary seeing that button maker....my dad who was a tailor in Charlotte St used to visit a lady in Cleveland St who was a felling hand who would prepare holes in suites where buttons would fit into...I reckon that my dad must have known this shop personally 70 years ago...gobsmacked!!
Brilliant, as always - why on earth would anyone hit the thumbs down button?
Nice to see where I used to work in Fitzroy Square, great place, lots of film making to watch & the Indian YMCA & loads of little pubs & restaurants
I really enjoy the bits you share about the people mentioned on the landmarks. Like Henry Fitzroy who married a 5 year old! This throws up red flags. However, Henry was only a 9 year old at the time. I guess it was really all about land ownership and expanding your wealth as soon as possible.
ha ha ...good point!
Still THE BEST GUIDE... in the WORLD. 😀
I so look forward to these videos. I can’t wait to get back to the UK.
Despite living in London for over 20 years , this is an area I wasn’t that familiar with other than sitting in traffic on the Euston Rd…..love your videos for both reminiscing from my London days and also learning heap
Hi Joolz's, I'm glad to see you in a Pub having a pint at the end of your video. It's like your trademark learning about Pub's history and where the name's came from. Thanks for another great video.
This is a warm and interesting introduction of your father's story and occupation at Morse school into the history of the city, I was touched 😆 And we hope to know one day more about your club 🎩
London is a fascinating town
Hooray! My Sunday has been made! I LOVE your videos Joolz! Thank you SO much for doing them! Love from London Canada!
I always look forward to you video's and visit the places you've visited.Always very interesting.
I used to work for a pub company that owned the Northumberland Arms on Warren St. The 1st floor of the pub had a "Being John Malkovich", 7 1/2 floor with a really low ceiling height, you can see it from the street. I always wondered why.
I always miss Loindon when I have seen one of your videos. I have to visit when things are back to "normal"....
Joolz, your videos are always enjoyable. They're fun, full of facts and your narration is spot-on. Really enjoyed meeting the "Button Lady" I never knew that about the American Pie song, now I got to listen to it..... Great video.......
Great informative walk as always, thank you!!!When I get back to London someday(hopefully) I'm going to visit some of these lovely small streets!!!I just ADORE London!!!I spent 2 of the best years of my life in this blessed city and country!!!Greetings from Athens-Greece!!!
Really enjoy your videos, they pass so quickly, love the quirky places you show us, button shop was great, I still have a button tin.
No Sunday is complete without a Joolz guide video. I used to visit the RAF Central Medical establishment when I was a Medic in the RAF. The strangest group of medical personnel you could ever find!
I ruddy love a joolz guide. Thanks for keepin them coming my man
Thanks for the little jaunt, Julian. It amazes me that no matter how many times I've been to London over years, there are still hundreds of interesting places like this that I've not been to.
Fab! This has come on just as I'm eating my breakfast!
Same here! What a great start to a day!
I live in Toronto and my dad is from England. He says London is a hell hole, but I would love to visit there, so much history. Love these videos!
London is stunning, but like all cities it has parts you really don’t need to visit, ever, & well, it has people who you really don’t need to visit ever 😉 London needs to be walked, best way if are a tourist…
It might’ve been when your dad lived there. It’s clean and modern now. I was born and raised there, left for 15 years and went back for a visit a couple of years ago and was pleasantly surprised!
@Nicky L I was thinking the same thing 😂
This You Tube recommendation is a bit weird for me, I am working on a contract at BT Tower. I was guided to the viewing platform a few weeks ago. The restaurant is no longer open to the public, but it is still in use for BT Corporate Events so I am told. It was closed because of potential IRA threats, not that it was actually bombed.
I walked past your tailor this morning and Paul was at his work bench just as in this video. It is a thoroughly interesting area with really eclectic local businesses even though it is only a few blocks square. I love these parcels of Central London where the tourists don't venture. Thanks for describing the colourful history
Flinders: there are the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, various streets and roads named after him and a town. Darn, there’s even a huge pub in Melbourne called : The Matthew Flinders. One of the main streets in the Melbourne CBD is named Flinders St and indirectly so is our major City terminus station which is called Finders St Station.
Not to mench a bl**dy great river.
My old dad remembers the fields around Tottenham/Enfield. He used to cycle round there with friends as kids.
I work in Fitzrovia (Fitzroy Place) and brilliant to get a history tour of the area - love the videos!
Thanks for the video. Lots of fascinating history!
Flinders ranges it is. Also it's not far from Spencer's gulf. Named after Lady Diana Spencer's family. South Australia.
Edit to add, there is also Flinders street in Adelaide city, which is the capital city of south Australia. Named after Matthew Flinders.
Any relation to Flinders-Petrie of Egypt archeology fame?
@@larrygrimaldi1400 sorry no idea if theres a connection or not!
We also had a pub in the suburbs of Melbourne named the Matthew Flinders.
@@theresabradley4716 and Flinders street train station?
Gday Joolz
Yes Flinders was a prominent part of establishing Australia.
That was a beautiful walk, Julian, on a nice sunny day, which makes all the difference, to me. It seems that both of our fathers grew up to go to war. What a prospect........ growing up to go to war, not knowing whether one was going to live or die at so young an age. However, both of our fathers returned home after the war. Both died a while ago. Your mother looks very fit. Mine is 96 & frail now.
Great walk plus history facts. I trained for 3 years at the London Foot Hospital in Fitzroy Square during the 1960 s….…..sadly it was closed about 20 years later. Thanks for reviving my memories of this interesting part of London.
i think a suit made in London is one of those things all men should own
people bleeding starving to death and you're talking about paying 400 nicker for a "whistle" ?
Spent a year in London in the mid 80's....Cars looked different then...Now they look the same.
My mother grew up at 141 Cleveland Street. Her grandfather, Jonny Hughes of Bloomsbury (BOXER) was in the original Oliver Twist movie, that the workhouse is based on.
Nice bit of history ❤️
Just love it
Love the tailor & the button lady great video as ever Joolz 😃
nice one keep them coming Joolz!
Another wonderful trip across town with you Joolz. Always entertaining and I always learn something new about my incredible city. The button lady and her shop is a gem. Thanks.
Do a video on Ilford please Joolz! Redbridge/Barking & Dagenham, you have Ilford Hospital Chapel (1140), Eastbury Manor & it's where they found all the mammoth bones when they dug up the high street in the 1860s.
Evertime I see you show the po tower...i think of the white cat( aka' the goodies').....on it...as a northerner I love these walks so informative of london..
Post Office Tower is definitely my fave London building by far. I never got to eat up there but my Dad took my Mum up there in 67 on a romantic engagement dinner. That must have been the the coolest place in town for an engagement dinner , rotating completely every 23 minutes!!
It was mentioned in my English Grammar books at school the GPO Tower back in the 70s. It was already closed down when I started discovering London in the 80s I suppose, I wonder what has become of it now
Another wonderful tour! I am always amazed by your knowledge of historical trivia. Always fascinating. Thank you! Cheers!
Love the channel! Btw the shield motif for bastards is called a “bend sinister” in heraldry.
So much information in this London meander, I may need to re-visit for second viewings.
Wonderful listening to someone who loves London.
Robert
Loved this walk, Joolz! Excellent tour, as usual 😊👍
Great start to a Sunday thanks Joolz
Bass and Flinders circumnavigated Australia together. Come the Japanese entry into WW2, some parts of the coast had not been mapped since Bass and Flinders!