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Joolz absolutely fabulous show thank you for bring joy into our lives. The walk through Ealing studio was grate. Although I have never been to the UK and will never be able to afford to, every time I watch you shoe it like taking a holiday in London. Thank you so much.
I painted those flats in Ealing village in 1962 or thereabouts I remember Ken Wolstenholme and the brother of Victor McGlocklin lived there too. We used the longest wooden ladders I have ever seen. They didn't reach the stairwell tops I had two guys hang me over the edge by my ankles and finished the part we could not reach from the ladders. Also painted the insides of them. Wonderful memories thanks.
@@claywebb8199 It was more than you can imagine it was a totally different work environment than today. I went on to become a Steeplejack and work in Hong Kong for twenty-five years looking after the outside of the 1500-foot tall Bank of China now 80 years old.
Jules, My wife and I come to London ( greatest city in the world ) for a month every year from the U.S. You do us the huge favor of pointing out new areas to tour, like Ealing. Thank you so much !
Fascinating tour through Ealing Studios - jam-packed with the history of British cinema. Nearby Ealing Village is quite a little gem - Art Deco's take on the Dutch Colonial style. Ealing has quite a jolly feel to it, jolly good!
Gunnersbury was not named after gunners. It was named after King Cnut's niece who took the large swaith of land we know today as Gunnersbury and built her Manor house and named it after herself Gunnhildr or Gunylda. She lived there from 1016 to 1044 when the new Saxon King, Edward The Confessor seized the throne and banished her.
Thank you for the walk about. Visited Ealing last October and toured the Studios where my great uncle Sir Michael produced all those classic films. Wonderful return visit (and seeing the charming Lorraine again)!
Fantastic episode about Ealing. Seeing inside the Ealing Studios was magic. Wow, so exciting to see it all. I never imagined it being like that. Such a beautiful area too. I really loved this episode. So well done and so interesting! Thanks so much. x
I left Ealing in 2004, and moved to Australia. I have rarely been back since then, [and have never seen behind the back of white house at Ealing Studios], so this was a lovely trip down memory lane.
This has to be my favourite so far , wow Ealing studios were amazing to see , and that man made Wayne’s world ( one of the best films ever ) never realised how stunning Ealing is , just wish your blogs were longer , I never want them to end , thanks for your hard work as always
Ealing means so much to me. I lived there in the 1970s and one of my jobs led to my meeting famous musicians. It's a great place to live and to work and socialise.
Hey Joolz , Your films always end too soon. Always so enjoyable, thanks so much for you and Simon for taking the time to do them, they are so appreciated 👍🏻
I worked for Ealing Council for 7 years in the late 1990's. This video brings back wonderful memories of the area, and how much it's changed. It also bought back memories of the great Monty Python sketch, 'Climbing the Uxbridge Road'.
If you had walked around All Saint's Church, you would have found that number 9 Elm Crescent has a plaque on it commemorating Ralph Downes CBE KSG, who lived there for many years. He was the organist who designed the organ for the Royal Festival Hall, and also for the London Oratory.
So interesting to see things today. You included the church near Ealing Common where I married and the town hall where my mum was married. Had you wandered towards the North Korean Embassy you would have passed by Sid James' house before he moved nearer to Pinewood. Back at Ealing Broadway was where Jim Marshall had one of his two shops (Hanwell bring the other and more interesting; the birth place of Marshall amps). But at his Ealing shop, Jimi Hendrix came in. As it so happened, Mitch Mitchell was Marshall's drum salesman and a drummer in several bands; a local Ealing boy. Jim Marshall lived in Southall for many years and had initially made his amplifier enclosures in his garage to be completed in his Hanwell Broadway shop.
I mean, how many people can turn up unannounced at Ealing Studios and get a personal tour from the owner!?! Another fun and interesting video! Very much looking forward to getting your book, as one of these days I'll make my way to London to do some proper walking.
Fantastic Jools. My old uni mate used to have a flat in Ealing and it got used in the TV series "New Tricks" as Dennis Waterman's character's apartment. He made a shed load of money for the use of the flat and after each series of filming the film company completely re-painted the flat and made repairs where needed.
I went to university of west London, so good to see it again. We used to use a recording studio in Ealing film studios and just having the privilege of being there just takes your breath away. Also miss that red lion pub always stopped for one on the way home from there
All of your videos are entertaining and first-rate, but the tour of Ealing Studios was special. Barnaby was exceptionally gracious to take us all on the tour. A tip of the hat to him. Cheers from Florida!
thanks Jules, loved the Ealing Films tour, we always wait till the end credits to see if a movie was filmed at Ealing. I have your book which I sm currently enjoying
Thanks for that wonderful walk around Ealing, where my mother, grandparents and great grandparents came from (I live in Australia). By the way, I've bought your book, which is ... splendid!
I was thrilled to see that the Ealing Studio is still there!!! All those great Alec Guiness movies. I didn't even know Will Hay filmed there. That was really exciting.
Thanks Jools, I grew up in Ealing and lived in one of the flats along Hanger Lane Parade. It brought back memories and there's been a lot of changes as well.
How lovely to see my old stomping ground, I grew up in Ealing and my great Uncle used to work at Ealing studios as a cinematographer, so lovely you got to peek inside!
Always fascinating videos, the history and the people that were part of it and the way of the telling make these videos so captivating. This one, with the Ealing Studios content is fantastic. Thank you for bringing them to us.
Great tour of Ealing Studios with Barnaby Thompson... Fragile Films have a special place in the UK Film Industry. Some good films, some not so good !!! And , "yes", Colin Firth is in a large number of them!!
I found that totally fascinating and interesting. I was born in West Ealing and look forward to seeing you doing a walk through there, although now it is nothing like it use to be and now a bit of a slum. Uxbridge road then had all the big department stores and the biggest one was F.H Rowse Ltd, but that closed in the early 1980's and was demolished.
Since receiving your splendid new book and watching your posts on IG, I thought you might pop up at Cannes this year with the glitterati. With your Brummel fashion sense you should be a natural at the Met Gala next May. Glad to see you're walking with a spiffing guided tour around Ealing! Well done, sir.
So cool that you are advertising your book and have QR codes so people can go to a video for the walk on that page! Bravo Joolz! Good way to integrate it with modern society to keep the interest!
Oh wow! Ealing is very dear to my heart as my dad’s family came from there, lots of lovely memories and some places I didn’t know existed. Ealing Studios was fab, my dad use to snuck over the wall (late 50’s) to half inch old film rolls in their dustbins to make stink bombs, not sure if he was pulling my leg though lol 😂 Another great video, thanks 😊
We used to make those stink/smoke bombs from old cellulose? film rolls back in the 50s. Take length of it, fold it to a small bundle, wrap it tightly in newspaper, light it and when it started to burn furiously........stamp on it to stop the flames, and then it furiously smouldered pumping out masses of vile smelling smoke.😂
@@davethatcher4954 what a fantastic memory, I remember Nan telling me that my dad and his older brother were on the naughty and cheeky side and I can vision them doing practical jokes lol 😂 thank you 😊
An absolutely brilliant borough of London, Joolz. This district is packed full of very interesting facts about buildings and character that frequented the place over the years. It's the first time that I've seen a post box with a stamp issuing facility on the side of it - totally amazing. The underground station has great architecture of the old style of art nouveau, I'd say, and still very original. Going around the film studios really made this video, seeing all those huge buildings, and where I never knew that Downton Abbey was filmed there, plus loads of the older classic British cinema classics. Marvellous, and so, many thanks for this film, Joolz.
"An absolutely brilliant borough of London"?; far from it, the only parts of Ealing borough that are decent are the back streets of Ealing Common, Haven Green, and to the east of Ealing Broadway station, which make up less than 5% of the borough. Northolt is the worst district of Ealing Borough, with Southall close behind second from last.
@@HELL-BENT74 Pitshanger, Northfields, South Ealing, Hanwell, St Stephens, North Ealing.. I could go on... All lovely areas that people would hope to live in. Ealing is the 3rd biggest borough; so naturally it would have a few parts that aren't as nice.
Flips sake Joolz, I lived in Ealing for maybe 7 months in 1989/90 and was doing so many long shifts I just never had the time to explore and now curse my lust for money. I'm 60 soon and my daughter, dearest, lives in London so I may need to revisit after watching your brilliant Vlog on what I feckin missed. Great work and I did receive your book having pre-ordered, I had almost given up hope when it landed on the mat. Was it worth the wait? Not Half!!!!
Thanks for coming to my part of the world. 🙂 Glad you liked our Town Hall-it is pending sale to a hotel developer so I don't know how much will be retained! Also quite a bit of Ealing Studios will be demolished in the next few years-but thankfully it will still be a film studio and not a bunch of flats.
@@CJ-ib2qx No, Historic England's listing covers the "White House" which is the building facing the road and Stages 2, 3A, 3B and 5 which were built in the 1930s. The rest is not. It is quite a large site-have a look at the satellite view.
The Town Hall also featured in the film "The Borrowers" with John Goodman, I went by as they were filming, they had lots of green Morris Minors outside.
Many thanks for another amazing video. As a Pole, I am impressed by your Polish pronunciation. I was moved to tears. It was also great to hear the Polish names of the dishes. A wonderful episode with Chopin's music performed by the sensational Lukas Krupinski. Lukas has his birthday today! All the best to all. 🍀
Would love to see you do an entire episode with Barnaby Thompson and all the work he has done on British films. His resume is amazing, and he seems like a charming man. Ealing is now on my "must see" list next time I hop the pond. LOVE Art deco. First time I've ever drooled at the thought of visiting a Tesco... FUN FACT: Ada Lovelace was used in the Doctor Who episode "Spyfall"
During WWII many Polish fighter pilots were based at nearby Northolt airfield. They remained after the war and brought family over, as life under the Soviet overlords wasn't particularly pleasant.
Ealing Village is gorg3eous, I can't afford to live there, but there or thereabouts would be wonderful, so pretty. Hanwell - reminds me of the reference in Pygmalion, such a great film with Leslie Howard, the dialog is superior to the music in My Fair Lady.
I lived in the Ealing Common area for forty years before moving back to my native Australia in retirement. Strolling around Ealing was very nostalgic..
You missed the amazing White House, a reconstruction of a Polish country mansion! I lived in EAling for 30 years from about 1965 so a lot of this was familiar to me. You really need to do a Part 2 though - so much more to see!
Fantastic! I lived in Ealing Village in early 90s and the Grange was my favourite pub; great video and particularly enjoyed seeing inside Ealing Studios. Thanks Joolz!
I've been watching your videos for a while and often wondered when are you coming to Ealing, eventually you made it and your take on life here captures all that is nice about the area, its rich film history, wonderful architecture and pleasent parks and green spaces. I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Thanks.
The polish parish in Ealing was relatively late to accquire its own church, they used to use St Matthew's anglican church. polish churches in Shepherds Bush, Balham and Putney all came before it.
Got my school uniform in John Sanders as a pupil at Christchurch school across the road. Remember visiting the best toy shop Confesserie Francais all the time! Lovely memories!
Wow a blast from the past, I loved Confesserie Francais, you are right it was the best toy shop ever. I went to school in Mattock Lane & used to go to this toy shop almost daily after school, talk about kid in a sweet shop, they had everything.
Oh my! I remember drooling over a bmw remote controlled car with pop up lights in CF!😊also next door was the very fine Ealing Sports who sold all the fine Italian tennis gear! Ealing holds so many memories for me like watching the first Star Wars in the cinema, singing a solo in the church at Christmas, dancing the night away in Luckies on Haven Green in the 80’s! Who had the most amazing smoke machine on the dancefloor! Drove around there today!😊
Oh my goodness, someone who remembers that toy shop…..as my parents are now sadly gone I felt I had imagined the place all these years as I had nobody to ask about it! It was on The Mall right?
@@rbr2023 The funny thing is that I frequently tell my wife about that toy shop but there is nothing historically on line to show her, only my wonderful memories! I was into Air fix models, spent all my pocket money at this place.
Splendid. Now there's another coincidence. I'm in exotic West Drayton for a couple of weeks cat sitting for a friend and I'm heading to Ealing today looking for potatoes on Planet Organic. I've had a lot of people all over the country, in the past, who've mistaken me for Dr Who (Sylvester McCoy). Strange that, must have been the straw hat . No I said, I'm Dr Derek. Been dabbling a bit in London walks a little lately, trouble is I'm just very amateurish. All jolly fun in my old age though. More energy would be a bonus . I do a lot of walking on my London visits. Thank you Joolz I enjoy your videos on the beast.
I've lived in Ealing all my life and had no idea about some of those things so thanks for sharing! Have always wondered what the studio backlots looked like.
I enjoyed looking at the studios. Even as an American, I've seen a lot of movies that came out of there, so the name was familiar. It looks like you hd beautiful weather for yourwalk.
I moved to Hanwell a year and a half ago and this is absolutely brilliant. Bravo mate, fabulous and learned so much. I'm always out exploring and visiting new parts of London but this goes to show how much you can learn on your doorstep. The Ealing studios part was fabulous and I love you name checked Rentaghost. Surely a fellow 70's kid (the hey day for inventive children's television on absolutely shoestring budgets). I'll watch your others now over time! Seriously, great research and kudos to you.
More years ago than I care to remember I made regular visits to Ealing Studios when, together with some other school friends, we played the part of pupils in a BBC comedy written by Frank Muir and Denis Morden, starring Jimmy Edwardes called " Wacko".
I love your videos, I was born in Kew, grew up in Richmond my first girlfriend lived in Ealing, her mum was a barmaid at the pub across the street from Ealing studios she took a night off one Thursday to go out with me and her daughter at another pub just down the road across from St Mary’s church and that night in 1974 the IRA blew up the pub she worked in …. Lucky escape On NYE 1974/75 we walked back from Trafalgar Square as no night buses then and bumped into a very drunk man outside Ealing Film Studio who shared his bottle of scotch with us at 4am. Your videos bring back many happy memories, I also worked for 6 years in a clothes shop opposite Ealing Broadway Station and brought many of my favourite singles every lunchtime around the corner in Smiths. Thank you for the videos!
Fantastic episode made me realise what i miss about not living in uk for theclast 39 years. I will most defo buy the book when i come back to visit. Your enthusiasim and posititivtiy is very endearing. All the best mate
Your videos are always well worth waiting for even better than some programs on the television 😊 the Ealing was brilliant really enjoyed seeing all the history 👏👍
5:30 I know this pub very well, plus a lot of the other locations, having lived in Ealing/Acton/Chiswick for 3 years (89-92). Thanks for the memories and showing my Alma Mater - UWL.
I can understand being overwhelmed seeing those sound stages. I that way just seeing them on RUclips. I sincerely hope that Ealing Studios is protected. This isn' just film history it is British history period. Thank you for the tour Joolz.
A bit of music trivia. An old obscure Queen song Bring Back that Leroy Brown. Brian May plays a George Formby Ukulele on that track written by Freddie Mercury.
Great to see Ealing. Don't often go there, but now you've done Ealing please do Eel Island !!! Probably won't be a long episode so you may have to combine it :D
Thanks Joolz, I was born in Ealing and went to school next to Walpole park in fact we played football at lunch and would often see Darleks and Sybermen without the tops of the costumes smoking at the back of the film studios. My first job was in the Pomfrit restaurant opposite the original entrance to the Walpole Cinema and many a well known face would drop in for lunch/coffee when it was a recording/rehearsal room. It truly is/was a lovely place to live and work. I’m now resident in Scotland and haven’t been back for a while so it was a pleasant trip down memory lane, just off of Bond Street as I recall 😂 Thanks again.
Really great how people like the owner of Ealing Studios allow access and take the time to give you additional information. Good on them! Also, really enjoy your book. Glad I ordered a copy - very interesting and well written/done even without the video links etc.
I went to Ealing Art School and in fact was Social Secretary there. I booked bands like Osibisa and Kilburn and the High Roads. Loving the book, Jules and hope to see you at the restaurant soon.
Another "superb", "splendid" episode, thank you, Julian. i discovered this channel a couple of weeks ago, have gone throu most of the videos. You have a genuine talent, a great raconteur and entertainer. Best wishers from LA, the tinseltown.
I loved seeing Ealing Studios for the first time in this video. For some reason, I thought they were long demolished. I probably didn’t think so in the 80s but a queen of the suburbs indeed!
Great video. Lots of historic interest too. I'm surprised that the 1897 old railings from the Common survived the railing and metal fence grab from the WWII, when a lot of railings were removed to supply metal for tanks and planes.
Joolz - you finally visited Ealing W5 - The Queen of the Suburbs - where I grew up. Now living in the Netherlands -nice to see Ealing Common, you walked past my house !!! Great video......
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Joolz absolutely fabulous show thank you for bring joy into our lives. The walk through Ealing studio was grate. Although I have never been to the UK and will never be able to afford to, every time I watch you shoe it like taking a holiday in London. Thank you so much.
I have your book which I like a lot except that the print is far too small. As an older person I find it very difficult to read on the move.
Great book sir! Very happy to have bought it.
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If you appreciated me watching your video why not throw me a milkshake 😕
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I painted those flats in Ealing village in 1962 or thereabouts I remember Ken Wolstenholme and the brother of Victor McGlocklin lived there too. We used the longest wooden ladders I have ever seen. They didn't reach the stairwell tops I had two guys hang me over the edge by my ankles and finished the part we could not reach from the ladders. Also painted the insides of them. Wonderful memories thanks.
Blimey -- couldnt you have tied a brush to a broom?!
😂😂😂😂 hilarious
Sounds like an Ealing Comedy! 😬
@@claywebb8199 It was more than you can imagine it was a totally different work environment than today. I went on to become a Steeplejack and work in Hong Kong for twenty-five years looking after the outside of the 1500-foot tall Bank of China now 80 years old.
Jules, My wife and I come to London ( greatest city in the world ) for a month every year from the U.S. You do us the huge favor of pointing out new areas to tour, like Ealing. Thank you so much !
Worth adding that the computer programming language Ada was named after Ada Lovelace.
Plus one of the tunnel boring machines used to make the Elizabeth line was called Ada, after Lovelace
Fascinating tour through Ealing Studios - jam-packed with the history of British cinema. Nearby Ealing Village is quite a little gem - Art Deco's take on the Dutch Colonial style. Ealing has quite a jolly feel to it, jolly good!
Gunnersbury was not named after gunners. It was named after King Cnut's niece who took the large swaith of land we know today as Gunnersbury and built her Manor house and named it after herself Gunnhildr or Gunylda. She lived there from 1016 to 1044 when the new Saxon King, Edward The Confessor seized the throne and banished her.
Thank you for the walk about. Visited Ealing last October and toured the Studios where my great uncle Sir Michael produced all those classic films. Wonderful return visit (and seeing the charming Lorraine again)!
You walked passed what was the Ealing Palladium (WH Smiths on the Uxbridge road) Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin both played there!
Amazing! I wish I knew.
How wonderful to have a tour of Ealing Studios. Thank you Joolz!
Wow a tour of Ealing Studios with Barnaby Thompson !! Lorraine is a real gem. That was a a wonderful surprise thanks Joolz and Simon.
I literally shouted at the screen. Lorraine is one of the nicest people you could ever meet.
Fantastic episode about Ealing. Seeing inside the Ealing Studios was magic. Wow, so exciting to see it all. I never imagined it being like that. Such a beautiful area too. I really loved this episode. So well done and so interesting! Thanks so much. x
Opposite the town hall, next to the cinema, there is an alleyway called 'Barnes Pikle.' My favourite street name in London.
Knew it well, as I went down it daily to school in Mattock Lane
The Walpole park - Ealing Broadway connection
I would never have remembered that name without you mentioning it!
I left Ealing in 2004, and moved to Australia. I have rarely been back since then, [and have never seen behind the back of white house at Ealing Studios], so this was a lovely trip down memory lane.
One of the best new videos in a while. But I am biased as I used to live near Ealing for 3 years. One of the best parts of London!
This has to be my favourite so far , wow Ealing studios were amazing to see , and that man made Wayne’s world ( one of the best films ever ) never realised how stunning Ealing is , just wish your blogs were longer , I never want them to end , thanks for your hard work as always
Ealing means so much to me. I lived there in the 1970s and one of my jobs led to my meeting famous musicians. It's a great place to live and to work and socialise.
Hey Joolz ,
Your films always end too soon.
Always so enjoyable, thanks so much for you and Simon for taking the time to do them, they are so appreciated 👍🏻
We have to have a moment to fetch a pint ourselves...then off to the next vid. Cheers
I worked for Ealing Council for 7 years in the late 1990's. This video brings back wonderful memories of the area, and how much it's changed. It also bought back memories of the great Monty Python sketch, 'Climbing the Uxbridge Road'.
That was filmed at churchfield road acton, not the uxbridge road tho
If you had walked around All Saint's Church, you would have found that number 9 Elm Crescent has a plaque on it commemorating Ralph Downes CBE KSG, who lived there for many years. He was the organist who designed the organ for the Royal Festival Hall, and also for the London Oratory.
I love your book. Pity I'll never get to London but these vids are a fabulous consolation.
So interesting to see things today. You included the church near Ealing Common where I married and the town hall where my mum was married. Had you wandered towards the North Korean Embassy you would have passed by Sid James' house before he moved nearer to Pinewood. Back at Ealing Broadway was where Jim Marshall had one of his two shops (Hanwell bring the other and more interesting; the birth place of Marshall amps). But at his Ealing shop, Jimi Hendrix came in. As it so happened, Mitch Mitchell was Marshall's drum salesman and a drummer in several bands; a local Ealing boy. Jim Marshall lived in Southall for many years and had initially made his amplifier enclosures in his garage to be completed in his Hanwell Broadway shop.
I mean, how many people can turn up unannounced at Ealing Studios and get a personal tour from the owner!?! Another fun and interesting video! Very much looking forward to getting your book, as one of these days I'll make my way to London to do some proper walking.
Fantastic Jools.
My old uni mate used to have a flat in Ealing and it got used in the TV series "New Tricks" as Dennis Waterman's character's apartment. He made a shed load of money for the use of the flat and after each series of filming the film company completely re-painted the flat and made repairs where needed.
Thanks for featuring beautiful Ealing this time ❤
I went to university of west London, so good to see it again. We used to use a recording studio in Ealing film studios and just having the privilege of being there just takes your breath away.
Also miss that red lion pub always stopped for one on the way home from there
All of your videos are entertaining and first-rate, but the tour of Ealing Studios was special. Barnaby was exceptionally gracious to take us all on the tour. A tip of the hat to him. Cheers from Florida!
Loved your video of Ealing studios!!!make more 🍷🍷🍷
thanks Jules, loved the Ealing Films tour, we always wait till the end credits to see if a movie was filmed at Ealing. I have your book which I sm currently enjoying
Loved the tour of ealing studios . Wonderful neighbourhood !
One of the best yet, Ealing Studios has so much history, and made some iconic movies.
Thanks for that wonderful walk around Ealing, where my mother, grandparents and great grandparents came from (I live in Australia). By the way, I've bought your book, which is ... splendid!
I was thrilled to see that the Ealing Studio is still there!!! All those great Alec Guiness movies. I didn't even know Will Hay filmed there. That was really exciting.
Thanks Jools, I grew up in Ealing and lived in one of the flats along Hanger Lane Parade. It brought back memories and there's been a lot of changes as well.
How lovely to see my old stomping ground, I grew up in Ealing and my great Uncle used to work at Ealing studios as a cinematographer, so lovely you got to peek inside!
Always fascinating videos, the history and the people that were part of it and the way of the telling make these videos so captivating. This one, with the Ealing Studios content is fantastic. Thank you for bringing them to us.
Great tour of Ealing Studios with Barnaby Thompson... Fragile Films have a special place in the UK Film Industry. Some good films, some not so good !!! And , "yes", Colin Firth is in a large number of them!!
I found that totally fascinating and interesting. I was born in West Ealing and look forward to seeing you doing a walk through there, although now it is nothing like it use to be and now a bit of a slum. Uxbridge road then had all the big department stores and the biggest one was F.H Rowse Ltd, but that closed in the early 1980's and was demolished.
Great channel m8 ,I'm a london cabbie and I find your videos interesting will you be making one about enfield town and forty Hall any time soon 👍
Since receiving your splendid new book and watching your posts on IG, I thought you might pop up at Cannes this year with the glitterati. With your Brummel fashion sense you should be a natural at the Met Gala next May. Glad to see you're walking with a spiffing guided tour around Ealing! Well done, sir.
So cool that you are advertising your book and have QR codes so people can go to a video for the walk on that page! Bravo Joolz! Good way to integrate it with modern society to keep the interest!
Oh wow! Ealing is very dear to my heart as my dad’s family came from there, lots of lovely memories and some places I didn’t know existed. Ealing Studios was fab, my dad use to snuck over the wall (late 50’s) to half inch old film rolls in their dustbins to make stink bombs, not sure if he was pulling my leg though lol 😂 Another great video, thanks 😊
We used to make those stink/smoke bombs from old cellulose? film rolls back in the 50s.
Take length of it, fold it to a small bundle, wrap it tightly in newspaper, light it and when it started to burn furiously........stamp on it to stop the flames, and then it furiously smouldered pumping out masses of vile smelling smoke.😂
@@davethatcher4954 what a fantastic memory, I remember Nan telling me that my dad and his older brother were on the naughty and cheeky side and I can vision them doing practical jokes lol 😂 thank you 😊
You’ve outdone yourself with this video Joolz, absolutely fascinating visit to the Ealing Studios
An absolutely brilliant borough of London, Joolz. This district is packed full of very interesting facts about buildings and character that frequented the place over the years. It's the first time that I've seen a post box with a stamp issuing facility on the side of it - totally amazing. The underground station has great architecture of the old style of art nouveau, I'd say, and still very original. Going around the film studios really made this video, seeing all those huge buildings, and where I never knew that Downton Abbey was filmed there, plus loads of the older classic British cinema classics. Marvellous, and so, many thanks for this film, Joolz.
"An absolutely brilliant borough of London"?; far from it, the only parts of Ealing borough that are decent are the back streets of Ealing Common, Haven Green, and to the east of Ealing Broadway station, which make up less than 5% of the borough. Northolt is the worst district of Ealing Borough, with Southall close behind second from last.
@@HELL-BENT74 Pitshanger, Northfields, South Ealing, Hanwell, St Stephens, North Ealing.. I could go on... All lovely areas that people would hope to live in. Ealing is the 3rd biggest borough; so naturally it would have a few parts that aren't as nice.
Flips sake Joolz, I lived in Ealing for maybe 7 months in 1989/90 and was doing so many long shifts I just never had the time to explore and now curse my lust for money. I'm 60 soon and my daughter, dearest, lives in London so I may need to revisit after watching your brilliant Vlog on what I feckin missed. Great work and I did receive your book having pre-ordered, I had almost given up hope when it landed on the mat. Was it worth the wait? Not Half!!!!
Really enjoyed this, the tour of the studios was fantastic! Ealing looks really lovely 👍👍
Thanks for coming to my part of the world. 🙂
Glad you liked our Town Hall-it is pending sale to a hotel developer so I don't know how much will be retained! Also quite a bit of Ealing Studios will be demolished in the next few years-but thankfully it will still be a film studio and not a bunch of flats.
Agh. 😢
Isn't all of Ealing Studios a listed building?
@@CJ-ib2qx No, Historic England's listing covers the "White House" which is the building facing the road and Stages 2, 3A, 3B and 5 which were built in the 1930s. The rest is not. It is quite a large site-have a look at the satellite view.
The Town Hall also featured in the film "The Borrowers" with John Goodman, I went by as they were filming, they had lots of green Morris Minors outside.
Many thanks for another amazing video. As a Pole, I am impressed by your Polish pronunciation. I was moved to tears. It was also great to hear the Polish names of the dishes. A wonderful episode with Chopin's music performed by the sensational Lukas Krupinski. Lukas has his birthday today! All the best to all. 🍀
What a wonderful tour today! The Ealing Studios section was fascinating!
Would love to see you do an entire episode with Barnaby Thompson and all the work he has done on British films. His resume is amazing, and he seems like a charming man.
Ealing is now on my "must see" list next time I hop the pond. LOVE Art deco. First time I've ever drooled at the thought of visiting a Tesco...
FUN FACT: Ada Lovelace was used in the Doctor Who episode "Spyfall"
Your best video to date - not least because of the Ealing Studios tour!!
During WWII many Polish fighter pilots were based at nearby Northolt airfield. They remained after the war and brought family over, as life under the Soviet overlords wasn't particularly pleasant.
Doctor Who, Downton Abbey and Freddie Mercury in one video! Wonderful. Oh, and Nandos's.
Ealing Village is gorg3eous, I can't afford to live there, but there or thereabouts would be wonderful, so pretty. Hanwell - reminds me of the reference in Pygmalion, such a great film with Leslie Howard, the dialog is superior to the music in My Fair Lady.
What a wonderful video, Julian. You & Simon make a great team. Ealing looks wonderful under blue skies & sun.
I always love your videos, but having a tour through Ealing Studios was a special treat for a film buff like me.
I lived in the Ealing Common area for forty years before moving back to my native Australia in retirement. Strolling around Ealing was very nostalgic..
You missed the amazing White House, a reconstruction of a Polish country mansion! I lived in EAling for 30 years from about 1965 so a lot of this was familiar to me. You really need to do a Part 2 though - so much more to see!
Yes, indeed. There is too much there!
That is one of the nicest areas of London I've seen featured. I really enjoyed seeing Ealing, thanks.
shhhh.. don't tell anyone. We keep our green, artsy 'Queen of the Suburbs' community a secret! ;)
@@AM-dz2sh Your secret is safe with me.
This is another excellent coverage Julian, thanks for that. Particularly, Ealing Studios were brilliant. Looking forward the next one. Take care mate.
Fantastic! I lived in Ealing Village in early 90s and the Grange was my favourite pub; great video and particularly enjoyed seeing inside Ealing Studios. Thanks Joolz!
I've been watching your videos for a while and often wondered when are you coming to Ealing, eventually you made it and your take on life here captures all that is nice about the area, its rich film history, wonderful architecture and pleasent parks and green spaces. I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Thanks.
Taking my first London trip in November, I love your videos!!
The polish parish in Ealing was relatively late to accquire its own church, they used to use St Matthew's anglican church. polish churches in Shepherds Bush, Balham and Putney all came before it.
C'mon Netflix, snap Joolz up. He's a top fella!
No not Netflix. Morals of a sparelouse
That would be the end of a good thing
George Formby was also my favorite❤. Watched the films many times.
Got my school uniform in John Sanders as a pupil at Christchurch school across the road. Remember visiting the best toy shop Confesserie Francais all the time! Lovely memories!
Wow a blast from the past, I loved Confesserie Francais, you are right it was the best toy shop ever. I went to school in Mattock Lane & used to go to this toy shop almost daily after school, talk about kid in a sweet shop, they had everything.
Oh my! I remember drooling over a bmw remote controlled car with pop up lights in CF!😊also next door was the very fine Ealing Sports who sold all the fine Italian tennis gear!
Ealing holds so many memories for me like watching the first Star Wars in the cinema, singing a solo in the church at Christmas, dancing the night away in Luckies on Haven Green in the 80’s! Who had the most amazing smoke machine on the dancefloor!
Drove around there today!😊
Oh my goodness, someone who remembers that toy shop…..as my parents are now sadly gone I felt I had imagined the place all these years as I had nobody to ask about it! It was on The Mall right?
Yes on the Mall next door to Ealing Sports which is now a bookmaker! The clock above the old toy shop is stll there! 😊
@@rbr2023 The funny thing is that I frequently tell my wife about that toy shop but there is nothing historically on line to show her, only my wonderful memories! I was into Air fix models, spent all my pocket money at this place.
Splendid. Now there's another coincidence. I'm in exotic West Drayton for a couple of weeks cat sitting for a friend and I'm heading to Ealing today looking for potatoes on Planet Organic. I've had a lot of people all over the country, in the past, who've mistaken me for Dr Who (Sylvester McCoy). Strange that, must have been the straw hat . No I said, I'm Dr Derek. Been dabbling a bit in London walks a little lately, trouble is I'm just very amateurish. All jolly fun in my old age though. More energy would be a bonus . I do a lot of walking on my London visits. Thank you Joolz I enjoy your videos on the beast.
i used to shop in Ealing years ago and would have love to go on a tour of Ealing Studios. Thank you Jools.
Great video thank you for showing the old film 🎥 studios Wonderful and it's still There Thank goodness.😊
I love that you're keeping the history alive.
I've lived in Ealing all my life and had no idea about some of those things so thanks for sharing! Have always wondered what the studio backlots looked like.
Joolz, all your episodes are great but this one towers over them all with the insight into Ealing Studios. Thank you very much.
I enjoyed looking at the studios. Even as an American, I've seen a lot of movies that came out of there, so the name was familiar. It looks like you hd beautiful weather for yourwalk.
I moved to Hanwell a year and a half ago and this is absolutely brilliant. Bravo mate, fabulous and learned so much. I'm always out exploring and visiting new parts of London but this goes to show how much you can learn on your doorstep.
The Ealing studios part was fabulous and I love you name checked Rentaghost. Surely a fellow 70's kid (the hey day for inventive children's television on absolutely shoestring budgets).
I'll watch your others now over time!
Seriously, great research and kudos to you.
More years ago than I care to remember I made regular visits to Ealing Studios when, together with some other school friends, we played the part of pupils in a BBC comedy written by Frank Muir and Denis Morden, starring Jimmy Edwardes called " Wacko".
I love your videos, I was born in Kew, grew up in Richmond my first girlfriend lived in Ealing, her mum was a barmaid at the pub across the street from Ealing studios she took a night off one Thursday to go out with me and her daughter at another pub just down the road across from St Mary’s church and that night in 1974 the IRA blew up the pub she worked in …. Lucky escape
On NYE 1974/75 we walked back from Trafalgar Square as no night buses then and bumped into a very drunk man outside Ealing Film Studio who shared his bottle of scotch with us at 4am. Your videos bring back many happy memories, I also worked for 6 years in a clothes shop opposite Ealing Broadway Station and brought many of my favourite singles every lunchtime around the corner in Smiths. Thank you for the videos!
Now that was a real treat. Loved having a quick gander around Ealing studios. It would be wonderful to spend a day wandering around the place.
😊☕️ I used to live in Ealing with my Sicilian partner. It was there I became a coffee snob.
Fantastic episode made me realise what i miss about not living in uk for theclast 39 years. I will most defo buy the book when i come back to visit. Your enthusiasim and posititivtiy is very endearing. All the best mate
Your videos are always well worth waiting for even better than some programs on the television 😊 the Ealing was brilliant really enjoyed seeing all the history 👏👍
5:30 I know this pub very well, plus a lot of the other locations, having lived in Ealing/Acton/Chiswick for 3 years (89-92). Thanks for the memories and showing my Alma Mater - UWL.
I can understand being overwhelmed seeing those sound stages. I that way just seeing them on RUclips. I sincerely hope that Ealing Studios is protected. This isn' just film history it is British history period. Thank you for the tour Joolz.
A bit of music trivia. An old obscure Queen song Bring Back that Leroy Brown. Brian May plays a George Formby Ukulele on that track written by Freddie Mercury.
I loved the studio tour that director was so interesting!
Great to see Ealing. Don't often go there, but now you've done Ealing please do Eel Island !!! Probably won't be a long episode so you may have to combine it :D
Yes! Combine it with Twickenham!😊😊
Thanks Joolz, I was born in Ealing and went to school next to Walpole park in fact we played football at lunch and would often see Darleks and Sybermen without the tops of the costumes smoking at the back of the film studios. My first job was in the Pomfrit restaurant opposite the original entrance to the Walpole Cinema and many a well known face would drop in for lunch/coffee when it was a recording/rehearsal room. It truly is/was a lovely place to live and work. I’m now resident in Scotland and haven’t been back for a while so it was a pleasant trip down memory lane, just off of Bond Street as I recall 😂 Thanks again.
Really great how people like the owner of Ealing Studios allow access and take the time to give you additional information. Good on them!
Also, really enjoy your book. Glad I ordered a copy - very interesting and well written/done even without the video links etc.
hi joolz, great vid as i enjoy watching George formby, will hay films and nice to see Ealing studios still about :0)
Lovely. Many thanks, and thanks, too, to the owner of Ealing Studios.
Yes he was articulate and a good conversationalist with Jules
I went to Ealing Art School and in fact was Social Secretary there. I booked bands like Osibisa and Kilburn and the High Roads. Loving the book, Jules and hope to see you at the restaurant soon.
Another "superb", "splendid" episode, thank you, Julian. i discovered this channel a couple of weeks ago, have gone throu most of the videos. You have a genuine talent, a great raconteur and entertainer. Best wishers from LA, the tinseltown.
I loved seeing Ealing Studios for the first time in this video. For some reason, I thought they were long demolished. I probably didn’t think so in the 80s but a queen of the suburbs indeed!
I first met my wife in the Red Lion in 1976 when it was one of the only decent pubs in the area.
Great video. Lots of historic interest too. I'm surprised that the 1897 old railings from the Common survived the railing and metal fence grab from the WWII, when a lot of railings were removed to supply metal for tanks and planes.
Another corker of an episode. Loved the Ealing Studios tour!
Thanks Julez , I asked you to do Ealing in your guides and thought you'd forgotten but you didn't, you just earned a lifetime subscriber 😁
Thanks for mentioning my home town of Perivale. If you ever visit you must take a look at the Hoover Building, Horsenden Hill & the Vangaurd Building.
Great to see you in my area, looking forward to West Ealing in the future! 👀
I live in Ealing if you walked further down Gunnersbury ave by the common you would have seen Sid James house with a blue plaque on it, good video 👌
Very cool! Got my book and planning for 2024 vacay. Thanks Jules!
Joolz - you finally visited Ealing W5 - The Queen of the Suburbs - where I grew up. Now living in the Netherlands -nice to see Ealing Common, you walked past my house !!! Great video......