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Enjoyed touring about London on a sunny day with Joolz as I sit in the predawn darkness listening to the wind howling and the rain beating on my tin roof here in BC.
I was there on Sunday afternoon at the BBC Proms concert -Royal Albert Hall during my visit to London. It was great to learn more about the theatre and the district. Thanks! :)
Hi Joolz, What a wonderful wander around Kensington. Thank you very much for your time to film and show us around. BTW, the Iron Bridge just outside Coalbrook Dale was made in sections using joints a wood worker would have used, dove tails, mortice and tennons. The Iron Bridge is also where I proposed to my wife 24 years ago 😂. Regards, Peter.
Hi Joolz I’ve been watching your vids for some time and thank you for them all. I’ve just brought your book and hope to visit more often following your footsteps as the wealth of history is fascinating. My mother was born in Sydenham and her father was a barber in Fleet Street, who was born within the sound of bow bells and so a real cockney. Sadly they both passed away a long time ago but I hope to encourage my grandchildren to learn and not just go there to shop. I’m also a busker so love the music injected into your vids too. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and talent 🙏🏻
5:37 Niiiice! We spent 1 week in London back in 2017 only about a 6-minute walk from this very station. Out hotel was on Queen's Gate and Cromwell. We would love to go back and see other hundreds of places that we missed seeing in the city.
Another cracking video covering a lot of the area we visited last year while staying in Queens Gate. Really enjoyed seeing it again, and getting so much background info to it all. Thank You Again !!!
One of my favourite areas in London. Like the nod to Francis Bacon! His studio was on Reece Mews. Nearby, there’s a wall mural of a ski scene featuring a Francis Bacon portrait.
Yes Joolz! I used to work for Royal Marsden Chelsea and Sutton and loved walking around South Ken on my breaks when I was there...Everyone else was off to Bluebird...I grabbed a sandwich and walked the gardens ❤
A Joolz guide day is always a good day! I remember the SAS saving the people in the embasy. Very dramatic! Love the Crystal Palace app as well very cool!
As always a pleasure Joolz- memories of mid - late 80s landscaping contracts in the grand gardens of Kensington and Chelsea (and staggering out of some of its workie friendly pubs to find a bus home to 'Sarf of the river' on Friday evenings) amazing tech to see the Palace in original situ! Many thanks : )
Julian It's always nice to watch a new video of yours, always very interesting and fun with your and our friend Simon! As soon as possible I will also buy your new book, thank you very much 🙏🏻❤️
Cheers Simon, this is Sean in Atlanta! This is such a wonderful video for me! I stayed at Number 9 Knaresborough Road in Earls Court just a half block off Cromwell Road. I used to walk up and down that area to go to Hyde Park,Green Park, St James’s Park and Southbank and the Embankment every single day for almost 3 weeks because it never rained while I was there, except for the hour and a half that I was in the Shard! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I visited both of the museums, the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and walked down Exhibition Road to Hyde Park many times! But, I never knew Exhibition Road led to Hyde Park where that magnificent Victorian iron and glass building was located that is no longer there! By the way, congratulations on another book! I have so enjoyed your first one and will certainly order the new one! Thank you once again for such an excellent video for me, personally! Sean P.S. The only two hooligans I saw in Kensington were…
It is never enough of Victoria&Albert Museum just like it is never enough of Heremitage in St. Petersburg. In your every episode you could tell us each time something new about this magnificent museum🎉 The upcoming book about London pubs will be extremely useful for tourists like me.
Excellent film Joolz. One of the houses opposite the pub you end up in was the home of Daniel Craig's character in the superb gangster flic 'Layer Cake'.
Love your vids (they helped often when I got us lost tin London two years ago). OH and YEAH from Seattle lamop post 1 would be pre 1965. AND the original name was to just be Kennsington but the Chelsea folks said NO!
Luckily for me I remember a gas light in our scullery at home (I was born in 1950) and I was always obsessed watching a new gas mantle lighting up for the first time, and how it would expand from a thin strip to a glowing globe when lit. The mantle you refer to in the gas light was the six globes.
Don't forget you have another book coming out?? Wow, I must have missed the announcement. Seriously, congratulations Sir and good luck, your last book was amazing and this one is looking good as well, great video Joolz, I love the South Kensington area.
I'm surprised that the Royal College of Art was completely ignored on this walk, especially as it's right next door to the Albert Hall and the Royal College of Organists.
Joolz saying buy MY book when he didn't even write it! Says the author is Julian McDonnell right there on the cover. 🤦♂ Splendid walk today Joolz. Fun and informative. 👍
I loved this video as I was a student at Imperial College (a loooong time ago!) and used to live in the area. One of the experiments we did was to go into the park and find the foundations of the Crystal Palace that are still buried there.
I lived in a flat share in Ennismore Gardens in 1975 and the rear of the flat overlooked the mews. Christopher Plummer (Sound of Music) lived in one of the mews houses. The Ennismore pub was on the right hand side of the entrance to the mews. Sadly the pub is long gone.
Crystal Palace park, just below where the Exhibition centre stood was one of my favourite playgrounds in the 1950's as a kid growing up in Penge where the bottom end of the park was. You could get to the Dinosaurs located on the Island, and even got inside one, as it was hollow with a hole on its underbelly.
Great video as always Joolz. That scaffolding around the Queen’s Tower is a work of art in itself. I wonder how long it took to erect it? My Gran lived part of the year in 31 Ennismore Mews for a few years as a child. My Great-Grandfather was a coachman and this was their Summer home when Sir Henry Singleton (his boss) was doing the London Season (he lived at Princes Gate). She was baptised at what was then All Saint’s Church (which I believe is now a Russian Orthodox Church).
Re Iranian Embassy Siege, the whole thing was used as the base for the movie "Who Dares Wins" with Lewis Collins ( Bodie, The Professionals ) as their office was just around the corner.
Hi Jules. Another great video as always. Just to answer about the boroughs Yes, the Royal Borough of Kensington and the Borough of Chelsea were separate until 1965 when the Local Govenment Act of 1963 came in to effect and created the London Boroughs we have today (and I believed abolished the county of Middlesex as well) Before that there were 86 boroughs and urban districts in the Greater London area.
That closed pub was I think originally a shop in the 19th century selling a cornucopia of fine foods, hence the shop type frontage and plaster motifs on the front. It was then a restaurant and only a pub for a year before it closed
A Polish restaurant is not only a restaurant. This is above all a Polish club called “Ognisko Polskie” (Polish Hearth Club). It was established by the British government and the Polish government-in-exile in 1939
Another excellent video, thank you. Regarding the merger of Kensington and Chelsea, if I am able to recommend another RUclipsr, Jay Foreman's 'Unfinished London' series explains it all in 'Why does London have 32 boroughs' I hope I am allowed to make recommendations 😂
Hi Joolz, fellow Londoner here! Are you still doing private tours of London I couldn't see any informationon your website? I really appreciate your videos and would love to see a Christmas special ❤
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I read that as "pie order". (I'm up at 3.30 am NZ time having a snack )
Great to meet you yesterday sorry for catching you off guard
Joolz for MAYOR! Let’s start the movement 🗳️
What a splendid idea!
I'm Canadian but I'll join the campaign. Commonwealth solidarity and all that!
Make a better Mayor for London, than what we got now .❤xxx
Even Frankenstein would be an improvement! 😊@@janetedwards3445
He's too nice. Look at the scoundrels who usurped that position in the dark ages of the 21st century...
Hello from 🇨🇦. I do so enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
South Kensington is difficult to beat, eh? Beautiful and historic. Love your Bowie references, as I am also a fan! 😊
Lovely way to spend a Sunday. Watching some Jools.
Ahhh Sunday with jools.❤
OMG the tiramisu!! WANT! WANT! WANT!
Enjoyed touring about London on a sunny day with Joolz as I sit in the predawn darkness listening to the wind howling and the rain beating on my tin roof here in BC.
Always my favourite sort of Sunday. Thanks
Watching your channel is like diving into a world of great ideas and creative solutions. Keep inspiring us with your brilliant videos!🍟♂️🐢
Thanks Sophia.
Alice is amazing
Sunday morning walk for me as its my Sunday treat 😊 thank you.
That's some really impressive bit of scaffolding on the Queen's Tower!
For a young man who was bored of history at school, you have certainly come a long way ! Thank goodness or we wouldn't have these wonderful Walks!!
The Albert Hall steps I remember from Micheal Caine having a fight in The Ipcress File.Another great episode.
Makes for a perfect Sunday ❤❤
I feel a pang when I see a closed pub, with that living history of the area gone. Looking forward to your new book!
Yep, agree. You think they would close something truly useless, like 10 Downing Street.
Every Sunday I wake and see a new Joolz video is a a great day
I was there on Sunday afternoon at the BBC Proms concert -Royal Albert Hall during my visit to London. It was great to learn more about the theatre and the district. Thanks! :)
Another captivating walk.
That is a wonderful part of London, thanks.
Hi Joolz,
What a wonderful wander around Kensington. Thank you very much for your time to film and show us around.
BTW, the Iron Bridge just outside Coalbrook Dale was made in sections using joints a wood worker would have used, dove tails, mortice and tennons.
The Iron Bridge is also where I proposed to my wife 24 years ago 😂.
Regards, Peter.
Cat at 3:35 "Oh he's filming, better go a different way" 😺
thanks jools i british but lived asia now 23 years & love your uploads for obvious reasons ! take care
Pub crawl guide. Sounds a good idea.
Joolz your R.P is wonderfully endearing.
Absolutely brilliant, thank you.
I really enjoyed this one. One of your grooviest episodes to be sure.
Hi Joolz I’ve been watching your vids for some time and thank you for them all. I’ve just brought your book and hope to visit more often following your footsteps as the wealth of history is fascinating. My mother was born in Sydenham and her father was a barber in Fleet Street, who was born within the sound of bow bells and so a real cockney. Sadly they both passed away a long time ago but I hope to encourage my grandchildren to learn and not just go there to shop.
I’m also a busker so love the music injected into your vids too.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and talent 🙏🏻
I went to see Echo and the Bunnymen at the Royal Albert hall, splendid it was 🙂👍🏻
A lovely Autumn morning touring around London with Joolz and Co! A lovely way to enjoy an extra hour on a Sunday!
5:37 Niiiice! We spent 1 week in London back in 2017 only about a 6-minute walk from this very station. Out hotel was on Queen's Gate and Cromwell. We would love to go back and see other hundreds of places that we missed seeing in the city.
Great Sunday walk with you Joolz, interesting as always.
Queens Gate Mews was the location for the chauffeur scene in the film Performance
South Kensington is one of my primary hangouts when I visit London. Joolz, thanks for giving me ideas for new places to visit on my next trip.
Another cracking video covering a lot of the area we visited last year while staying in Queens Gate. Really enjoyed seeing it again, and getting so much background info to it all.
Thank You Again !!!
Thank you for showing that was so Interesting great video jooiz 😊 have a lovely week ahead 😀
One of my favourite areas in London. Like the nod to Francis Bacon! His studio was on Reece Mews. Nearby, there’s a wall mural of a ski scene featuring a Francis Bacon portrait.
Love to visit V&A every time I am in London
Another great video, perfect hangover therapy!
I think you completely ‘geeked out’ with the counting of those 6 Gaslamp orb things.
Yes Joolz! I used to work for Royal Marsden Chelsea and Sutton and loved walking around South Ken on my breaks when I was there...Everyone else was off to Bluebird...I grabbed a sandwich and walked the gardens ❤
A Joolz guide day is always a good day! I remember the SAS saving the people in the embasy. Very dramatic! Love the Crystal Palace app as well very cool!
Nice to see you as usual, Joolz. Look forward to watching this later today.
Love this tour ❤ thanks
As always a pleasure Joolz- memories of mid - late 80s landscaping contracts in the grand gardens of Kensington and Chelsea (and staggering out of some of its workie friendly pubs to find a bus home to 'Sarf of the river' on Friday evenings) amazing tech to see the Palace in original situ! Many thanks : )
Julian It's always nice to watch a new video of yours, always very interesting and fun with your and our friend Simon! As soon as possible I will also buy your new book, thank you very much 🙏🏻❤️
I get so jealous of you Jools rating all the lovely food, most of which I can't eat😔❤. Brilliant tour as usual!
A new book! fantastic. I have only the Brixton walk to do to complete the first book. Better get it done.
Joolz,
Surely one of your walks has to be a Krays tour … ending in the Blind Beggar pub!
I think I've mentioned them before...The Bethnal Green video finishes there I think.
Cheers Simon, this is Sean in Atlanta! This is such a wonderful video for me! I stayed at Number 9 Knaresborough Road in Earls Court just a half block off Cromwell Road. I used to walk up and down that area to go to Hyde Park,Green Park, St James’s Park and Southbank and the Embankment every single day for almost 3 weeks because it never rained while I was there, except for the hour and a half that I was in the Shard! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I visited both of the museums, the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and walked down Exhibition Road to Hyde Park many times! But, I never knew Exhibition Road led to Hyde Park where that magnificent Victorian iron and glass building was located that is no longer there!
By the way, congratulations on another book! I have so enjoyed your first one and will certainly order the new one!
Thank you once again for such an excellent video for me, personally!
Sean
P.S. The only two hooligans I saw in Kensington were…
It is never enough of Victoria&Albert Museum just like it is never enough of Heremitage in St. Petersburg. In your every episode you could tell us each time something new about this magnificent museum🎉 The upcoming book about London pubs will be extremely useful for tourists like me.
Excellent film Joolz. One of the houses opposite the pub you end up in was the home of Daniel Craig's character in the superb gangster flic 'Layer Cake'.
Hello Joolzy have fond memories of growing up in Knightsbridge London.... Great walks.Blessings and happy thoughts!😇🙏🤳🎭🇬🇧⛲🕺
Another superb & highly informative video , keeping history interesting & fun. Well done sir. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Your enthusiasm is so infectious , so look forward to your posts , thank you so much and also to Simeon
Preordered!
Great episode....looking forward to the new pub book
We can all observe that Joolz is a big Bowie fan. What a great film it would be if he was to take us round Bowie London
Love your vids (they helped often when I got us lost tin London two years ago). OH and YEAH from Seattle lamop post 1 would be pre 1965. AND the original name was to just be Kennsington but the Chelsea folks said NO!
Luckily for me I remember a gas light in our scullery at home (I was born in 1950) and I was always obsessed watching a new gas mantle lighting up for the first time, and how it would expand from a thin strip to a glowing globe when lit. The mantle you refer to in the gas light was the six globes.
Another great video Jooles, those little things in the gas lamp you didn't know the name of are called mantles, hence the word mantelpiece.
Don't forget you have another book coming out?? Wow, I must have missed the announcement. Seriously, congratulations Sir and good luck, your last book was amazing and this one is looking good as well, great video Joolz, I love the South Kensington area.
Thanks. It will be out in March!
I really admire your love for this city despite everything going around there :) Not to mention interesting stories and facts
I'm surprised that the Royal College of Art was completely ignored on this walk, especially as it's right next door to the Albert Hall and the Royal College of Organists.
Great vid.
Henry Cole and George Cole in the same episode, wonderful 😀
You're best video to date..
Donovan sang about Sunny South Kensington - love your videos Joolz. Cheers
Joolz saying buy MY book when he didn't even write it! Says the author is Julian McDonnell right there on the cover. 🤦♂
Splendid walk today Joolz. Fun and informative. 👍
I loved this video as I was a student at Imperial College (a loooong time ago!) and used to live in the area. One of the experiments we did was to go into the park and find the foundations of the Crystal Palace that are still buried there.
Fantastic! Learned some things and it didn't even hurt.😉
I lived in a flat share in Ennismore Gardens in 1975 and the rear of the flat overlooked the mews. Christopher Plummer (Sound of Music) lived in one of the mews houses. The Ennismore pub was on the right hand side of the entrance to the mews. Sadly the pub is long gone.
Acid Bath Haigh also stayed at a hotel in Onslow Gardens where his final victim resided too.
Crystal Palace park, just below where the Exhibition centre stood was one of my favourite playgrounds in the 1950's as a kid growing up in Penge where the bottom end of the park was. You could get to the Dinosaurs located on the Island, and even got inside one, as it was hollow with a hole on its underbelly.
What a nice video of a splendid area, time for me to go off for a pint
Great video as always Joolz. That scaffolding around the Queen’s Tower is a work of art in itself. I wonder how long it took to erect it? My Gran lived part of the year in 31 Ennismore Mews for a few years as a child. My Great-Grandfather was a coachman and this was their Summer home when Sir Henry Singleton (his boss) was doing the London Season (he lived at Princes Gate). She was baptised at what was then All Saint’s Church (which I believe is now a Russian Orthodox Church).
You teased the pub walk guide some time ago! I shall be picking up a copy when available!
14:44 ... the answer is YES! I studied German at the Goethe Insitut in about 2013-2014............and now I live back in Australia.... such is life!
In about 1986, I remember going to a concert by INXS with Michael Hutchence at the Royal Albert Hall .....
The bulb in the gas lamp is called a mantle. I used to change them when I was a kid at my dads works.
Re Iranian Embassy Siege, the whole thing was used as the base for the movie "Who Dares Wins" with Lewis Collins ( Bodie, The Professionals ) as their office was just around the corner.
Hi Jules. Another great video as always.
Just to answer about the boroughs Yes, the Royal Borough of Kensington and the Borough of Chelsea were separate until 1965 when the Local Govenment Act of 1963 came in to effect and created the London Boroughs we have today (and I believed abolished the county of Middlesex as well)
Before that there were 86 boroughs and urban districts in the Greater London area.
13:10 = Mantles... Little baskets that used to be silk? Now we still use them for gas lamps for camping..
Ah yes! Thanks.
Fun fact - The mantles are radioactive; l’ve seen them used to calibrate Geiger counters.
That closed pub was I think originally a shop in the 19th century selling a cornucopia of fine foods, hence the shop type frontage and plaster motifs on the front. It was then a restaurant and only a pub for a year before it closed
How far you've come Joolzy,over 3000 views in one hour! A world away from those days on the Wobbly bridge!
Great!!
Another wonderful video, surprised you didn't mention Francis Bacon blue plaque at Reece Mews!!
You missed the Thin House on Thurloe Square near South Kensington Station. At its narrowest, it’s only 6’ (1.8m) wide!
The gas lamp apparatus are called mantles
Thanks!
Joolz is the cure for a dreary Sunday!
A Polish restaurant is not only a restaurant. This is above all a Polish club called “Ognisko Polskie” (Polish Hearth Club). It was established by the British government and the Polish government-in-exile in 1939
Did you say you had a new book coming out Jools!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another excellent video, thank you. Regarding the merger of Kensington and Chelsea, if I am able to recommend another RUclipsr, Jay Foreman's 'Unfinished London' series explains it all in 'Why does London have 32 boroughs' I hope I am allowed to make recommendations 😂
Yay Pip Pip it's joolz
Hi Joolz, fellow Londoner here! Are you still doing private tours of London I couldn't see any informationon your website? I really appreciate your videos and would love to see a Christmas special ❤
Love you. ❤❤
I believe the parts of the gas lamp is called "filament" but you're welcome to use my childhood word for them 'fire socks'.
Another great video so interesting about South Kensington well done Paul in Kent
The light-up 'things' in the gas lamp are properly called Mantles I think!
Joolz have you ever included Trinity House?