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...
Mews: A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments. (The Free Dictionary) I've learned something new today.
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!
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.
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.
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 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 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!! 🙈😂
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.
Almost 200 000 subscribers! So so deserved! ❤️ Thanks for keeping London close while we have to stay away, and generally brilliant knowledge and entertainment 😊
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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!!!
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.......
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).
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.
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 🎩
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!
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.
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!
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!
I went to university in Cleveland Street from 2009 and took the area for granted. A few year later (about 8) I started to read books about London and some of the amazing histories attached to it. This eventually pulled me into the rather splendid world of Joolz Guides and some exquisite videos. I also do a lot of walking around Highbury, Holloway, Crouch End, Tottenham and also Fitzrovia plus lots of other places. But i took the history for granted and now have a new perspective on how to walk in and around Londinium. So having watched lots of the videos I thought I should purchase the Rather Splendid book. I will have this book tomorrow and I will be drooling with excitement as to where it will guide me. Thanks for research and sharing.
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.
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.
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!!
I worked for a designer/boutique in that area for years, so this brought back some nice memories. The mood in the tailors' ..... Yup, I remember that atmosphere!
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.
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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.
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...
Mews: A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments. (The Free Dictionary) I've learned something new today.
Oh I love the button shop. So quaint and seemingly untouched by modern technology!
You’re the most interesting man in the world.
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That tower looks like a giant sonic screwdriver 😂
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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
I remember when the Middlesex hospital was there. I snuck out of work one day to see Princess Diana arriving for a visit.
A great sunday. New edition of Joolz Guides have landed.
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.
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.
This bloke should be on mainstream TV instead of the crap we have to put up with .one of the best ch on RUclips .
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.
A good friend of mine is a descendent of Captain Flinders. After seeing his portrair he looks like him too, crazy.
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!! 🙈😂
Love the new blazer!
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.
one of the things i love about London is these quirky shops, that would just not exist anywhere else - what a top button lady
Almost 200 000 subscribers! So so deserved! ❤️ Thanks for keeping London close while we have to stay away, and generally brilliant knowledge and entertainment 😊
This was the best walking tour of London I have watched. I’ll make there, one day, because I want a button.
it’s nice to see old trades being kept alive .let’s hope they can survive in the future
This is not just a guide...it's an embrace. Thankyou.
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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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.
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!
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.
Your Tailor kept me in stitches!
people have been shot for less, mr Barrett.
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!
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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!
I lived in London years ago but I never knew anything about it until I started watching Joolz's guided tours.
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’
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
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!
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.
Thank you Jules, you've made my Sunday.
Brilliant map animation. It really clarifies everything. Thanks Joolz and team!
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.
Just love these guides, brilliant, love the little streets, ally’s and mews
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
Enjoyable and informative as always, makes me love London even more!
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!
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
Love the tailor & the button lady great video as ever Joolz 😃
Nice bit of history ❤️
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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
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
I so look forward to these videos. I can’t wait to get back to the UK.
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
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!!!
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.......
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).
Brilliant, as always - why on earth would anyone hit the thumbs down button?
Joolz is impeccably dressed
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.
Bob Monkhouse's best joke was. "Dropped a huge block of ice on my foot. Hurt like hell but the swelling went down!". Legend
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.
Fab! This has come on just as I'm eating my breakfast!
Same here! What a great start to a day!
My old dad remembers the fields around Tottenham/Enfield. He used to cycle round there with friends as kids.
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 🎩
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 work in Fitzrovia (Fitzroy Place) and brilliant to get a history tour of the area - love the videos!
Hooray! My Sunday has been made! I LOVE your videos Joolz! Thank you SO much for doing them! Love from London Canada!
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.
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!
I ruddy love a joolz guide. Thanks for keepin them coming my man
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 😂
I went to university in Cleveland Street from 2009 and took the area for granted. A few year later (about 8) I started to read books about London and some of the amazing histories attached to it. This eventually pulled me into the rather splendid world of Joolz Guides and some exquisite videos.
I also do a lot of walking around Highbury, Holloway, Crouch End, Tottenham and also Fitzrovia plus lots of other places. But i took the history for granted and now have a new perspective on how to walk in and around Londinium.
So having watched lots of the videos I thought I should purchase the Rather Splendid book. I will have this book tomorrow and I will be drooling with excitement as to where it will guide me.
Thanks for research and sharing.
Thanks for the video. Lots of fascinating history!
I always look forward to you video's and visit the places you've visited.Always very interesting.
Always a joy:) i miss walking around in London. Hope be back as soon as pandemie is over.
"Oh nice" I said "Joolz has a new educational video"
London is such a fascinating city little off shoots everywhere and it's massive.
I always miss Loindon when I have seen one of your videos. I have to visit when things are back to "normal"....
So much information in this London meander, I may need to re-visit for second viewings.
Wonderful listening to someone who loves London.
Robert
nice one keep them coming Joolz!
Loved this walk, Joolz! Excellent tour, as usual 😊👍
Delightful discourse and Proper Music - as ever. The subject matter as alwys is fascinating.
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.
Simply brilliant and brilliantly simple.
In Morse code, the final clap is the end of the message, there are no characters after it.
Admirable guides, incomparable
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Another wonderful tour! I am always amazed by your knowledge of historical trivia. Always fascinating. Thank you! Cheers!
Can never get sick of your videos, love the history, the locations and your hosting style 🤟
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.
What a wonderful place that button shop is. With the added history of Dickens once living there.
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!!
Ah cheers Joolz..another fascinating watch!
I worked for a designer/boutique in that area for years, so this brought back some nice memories. The mood in the tailors' ..... Yup, I remember that atmosphere!
Just sat down to watch another great video, which always makes my day, and as I always say, I can't wait for the next one!
Love the video, Joolz and Simon!
Nice green...💚 Joolz enjoyed a lot - so, we enjoyed this Sunday edition🤗thank you all
Absolutely adore these videos. You are a gem sir.
So much history our capital city. Joolz you are brilliant at bringing the history to life! I always enjoy your videos. Thanks.
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.
A veritable cacophony of Histoire 👏🏻 thank you Joolz
‘Twas a most wonderful walk around Fitzrovia, thank you Joolz!
Great vid, and I love how now I can put a vision to Don Mclean's song when he sings that line about Dylan. Great stuff :-)
Another interesting and enjoyable video. Absolutely love these history lessons. Thankyou.