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@begbieyabass

8 ай бұрын

We have a games night watching your videos but our is not alcohol , we do Coke.....🎉

@bobbybigboyyes

8 ай бұрын

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel with their song 'Sebastian' Fabulous!!! 🥰

@ffrancrogowski2192

8 ай бұрын

I don't have a bank account, Joolz, but I could send you a donation, if I knew where to send it to.

@lookandlistenenglishlessons

8 ай бұрын

Magnificent indeed!! Thanks for another wonderful video with incredible points and 2 iconic Davids Bowie and PM Ben - Gurion were particularly close to my ❤️ 🥃🇬🇧mate

@ehpeachylove

8 ай бұрын

The details explained on the old architectural building that was a brothel by the man on the street was fascinating. Living in the states and a British mother .. I love your channel. Before I left home in the early 70’s and returned to the states I had an opportunity to visit London and it provided me with happy memories. I always learn so much from you.. thank you for always making me smile.

I love when you get some of the locals who have been there forever to talk about the history of an area. Who else could have discussed the meaning of the carvings on that brothel in context? Marvelous !

@jameshollyoak8230

8 ай бұрын

What a lovely man he was , and that building was amazing

@peternesbitt

8 ай бұрын

Not to mention his dismissal of the Church for funding the slave trade.

Cant beat a Sunday morning wander around London.

The Carlton Tavern in Maida Vale was quite a mission to rebuild, with the architects having to sift through the rubble of the wreckage and piece it together like a jigsaw puzzle. Spiffing job!

@Elitist20

8 ай бұрын

The same thing happened to a pub in Melbourne - the Corkman Irish pub, previously known as (wait for it) the Carlton. The developers were fined and went to jail! 👊 Now it's being rebuilt, though not to the original design. ☹

@marinedrive5484

8 ай бұрын

These sorts of developers work on the fait accompli theory - just tear it down and hope for a slap on the wrist fine. @@Elitist20

The “snob screens” at the Prince Alfred, are actually because that small section was for women. And it let them close themselves off from the rest of the pub. In fact, the Prince Alfred is arguably the best preserved pub in the United kingdom that still has sections that separated the classes. Those “snob screens” are the one of only 8 left in the united Kingdom.

@alexconnolly1139

8 ай бұрын

Great until you have to move between them after a few beers!

@jamesmassin7982

7 ай бұрын

@@alexconnolly1139yep, I preferred drinking at the Warrington because of the pain in the neck moving between stalls

@philgray1023

6 ай бұрын

​@@alexconnolly1139I would find that quite easy because it would allow me to get a good grip on the floor.

I have never appreciated the place I live so much since watching Joolz Guides. Thank you.

Magnificent video of Maida Vale, Joolz! That lovely tube station you admire was built solely by women during the Great War.

Always love your videos Joolz. Always full of little gems of social history. May I take a little moment to remember the tragic night of December 13th 1974, and the fire in the Worsley Hotel at 3/17 Clifton Gardens, a fire set by an arsonist that claimed the lives of six residents and that of Fireman Hamish ( Harry) Pettit, who lost his life when the roof collapsed, trapping himself and three other Firemen. You’ll never be forgotten Harry. RIP.

God I love running into people like that in London. Me and a friend were killing time in St Bart's, and a guy came up to us and started talking about his father and grandfather being expert woodworkers who restored old manor houses etc, fixing up window frames and door frames etc. At first I thought he was just daft and rambling, but after a few minutes I realized that he was literally giving us a completely true story about some little town up on the East coast. There was an airfield there in the war and sure enough I looked it up later and it was all 100% true. One of the best experiences I've ever had visiting London.

OMG my Dad grew up in Paddington. He lived on Ashmore Road. So did his Aunties and when he and Mum got married they also lived on Ashmore Road. I did until I was 18 months old! This is officially one of my fave videos 😊

11:13 in. Joolz was standing outside Browns Chemist for a bit. Historically known to the locals where Madness filmed their only number 1 hit. House of fun

I wonder if an historical brothel walk of London is in order, after the many references in this episode? It's lovely to tour this part of London with you, Julian and Simon!

@TheUluxian

8 ай бұрын

I'd be down for that!

@TalesOfWar

8 ай бұрын

Add it to the drinking game. We'll all need new livers by the end of it.

@MrDaiseymay

8 ай бұрын

Why not, Joolz seems to find the most BIZARRE things to group together.

@SnabbKassa

8 ай бұрын

Ladies of the night? Houses of ill repute? Drabbing? "Companionship". What were dommes called back then? Houses of flagellation?

@kenh3344

8 ай бұрын

​@@karlfoster5129you on the ball. Brother.

YOU'RE THE BEST MAN ..... without you so many people won't know anything about LONDON !!! SIMPLY THE BEST IN TOWN !!!!

I've been meaning to tell you about the time I went into a cabman shelter!! We were working at the V&A and some equipment we needed didn't turn up so we went to get some dinner. We asked at the shelter if we could get some grub and the lady said we could come in and eat our food there. I didn't realise at the time that only cab drivers were allowed to use them. We visited again a few weeks later and had a rather smashing fry up in there too. I feel rather privileged now to have sat in one and eaten some food👍🏻

I can't believe you stood right in front of the chemists where Madness filmed the "House of Fun" video, and didn't mention it!

Thanks for the 31 bus mention, my mum was a clippie on that route out of Battersea Garage across the road from The Prodigal’s Return.

Hi Julian and Simon - The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is also where some of the effects for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series were found/created. Douglas Adams said it was fortunate on two counts as they had some great effects, plus they got to find out what the pubs were like in Maida Vale.

canal barge'es used to "leg" through a tunnel. hence "leg it!"

The Bishop of Southwark was heavily involved in the organisation brothels of in his area, the link between the church and brothels has a very long history in London.

@ericchristen2623

8 ай бұрын

Like hypocrisy...😅

Here in the U.S. they've taken away all the public phone boxes, they're impossible to find. But I'm old and remember using them all the time, too. In the cutest part of my little city, you can find a genuine red phone box from the UK, and a genuine red double decker bus (which is being used as a little fish and chip shop). People like to take pictures with them. They're both quite old, but I'm not sure the exact years.

I lived about 200 yards from 'The Rec' from the time I was 2 years old until I was 18 and played there countless times. Back then there was a really good playground and a paddling pool which had a stone boat beside it. Also, where you were standing on the field looking at the Pavilion, there used to be a large and very popular cycling track. And as another coincidence, my wife lived in the house next door to Norman Wisdom when she was a child with her family. Browns Chemist was there back in the late 1950s and was the venue used in the Madness video, 'House of Fun'.

That Mews you walked through looked like Simon Templar’s house in ‘The Saint. Definitely the same Mews used for an episode of ‘Gideon’s Way’ in 1965. Ah, happy days!

@stephengraham5099

8 ай бұрын

I did a search and it isn't Simon Templar's Mews. His house was at Eaton Mews North. You can find a video on youtube. The one Joolz entered is just down the road from Maida Vale underground station. It is Elgin Mews South , I found it on Google street view.

Its a wonderful trio: Joolz, Simon, with lovely Lou singing in the background. Great banter. A winning combination.😊

Every time you walk by a pub that is shut down everyone should do a shot. 😥

You've done it again Joolzie old son, after 54 years in Canada I'm right back in my old playground, thanks again and keep it up.

Your book is awesome. My wife and i are coming to London next May and your book will help fill the time on the flight from Boston to London next May.

The gentleman about the houses was absolutely marvelous!

Another absolute treat of a video here from Joolzy. This was my first neighbourhood when I moved to London in the summer of 2008, lived round the corner from the Chppenham, so sad to hear it's gone now. Used to have unbelivable Sunday roasts and during the summer, it was one of the few places in the area you could sit outide well into the night and have a drink. 25:54 - that street has a lot of famous residents both sides of the canal - Noel Gallagher, Lulu, Adam Clayton, Paul Weller, Frankie Miller....

Having lived on the corner of Sutherland and Warwick av. for most of 1975, visiting the beautiful Warrington Hotel pub at the end of your video brought back many wonderful memories to this once-young Canadian, having hoisted many a pint (only 52 p!) there

112 million you tube videos....and I stumble on you. The "torch snuffers" was just a brilliant observation.

LOVED this one Joolz - thank you. Back in the day I lived on Sutherland Avenue in the old Hotel Vienna (burned down) when I was in a theatre program w/ teachers from RADA. The Prince Alfred and the Warrington Crescent were where we all hung out (they're both more posh now...) Didn't know until recently that the term "randy" was supposedly a code word used by men who were going to go visit the brothels along Randolph Avenue... 😅

Thank you so much for this. My trip to the UK was in 1998. I lived in Maida Vale. This returned so many fond memories. Thanks from a wandering Aussie

I really appreciate that gentleman who explained about the social housing and the brothel all funded by the church! Brilliant.

I lived in Maida Vale for 8 years maybe more and in Little Venice, I used to see David Gilmour and Annie Lenox, and many were guests at my flat back then.

Great video. We were literally saying we need a drinking game right before you said it. Our phrases are river fleet, Sir Christopher Wren and luxury flats.

I visited the BBC studios with my father when he did recordings with Frank Chacksfield and Geoff Love. Also I used to live in Formosa Street opposite the King Alfred at 17:00 - the little bar with the snob windows was named the Ladies Bar.

This is wonderful! The old gent describing the buildings and "half the American army" comment! 😄 Thanks for another great show, Jules!!

@RighteousReverendDynamite

8 ай бұрын

It reminds me of the scene from "The Dirty Dozen" when the Maj. Reisman has Sgt. Bowren scrounge up some "lady guests" for the men at the end of their training. Before D-Day, even though it was kept on the QT big stylee, a witness had said that night before the invasion, if one walked along Hyde Park, you would not believe all the noise beyond the bushes.

Finally Joolz finally..Great to see my manor on the little screen at last. I remember you said it would take two weeks, I been waiting over two years for this mate, cheers

Another great film sharing the neighborhoods of London, not just with locals, but also enthusiasts all over the world. Hello from los angeles 👋🏾

OK my Nan lived in Fernhead Road before she died, opposite Norman Wisdoms house! I'm loving this video!

With all those brothels the place could have been Laida Vale. I do agree about the hideous white pointing. Across the road, the properties benefit from the original 'tuck' pointing which is a lost art apart from on the restoration of heritage buildings. Glad to see the would-be developers of the Carlton Tavern got a financial bloody nose when they were forced to rebuild it to as it was. I must add it to by pub wish list.

Maida Vale underground railway station is a marvel, Joolz. The original style of architecture and those lovely roundels in mosaic are fantastic. There's loads of history in this area and all the original phone and postal boxes aplenty are really special. I can't say that there's any dilapidation in buildings here, whatsoever, and there has most certainly been an abundance of celebrities that lived here over the years. It must be good, because David Bowie had a spell in the district. An entirely interesting video, Joolz, and so many thanks. Take care.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Yes. Please do a tour of places where The Sweeny, and Minder were filmed haha.

As one who has both enjoyed and been educated by your presentation of the many boroughs of London, I say thank you. Additionally, I have felt quite knowledgeable on my numerous trips to London. Thusly, I felt I owed you more that simply thank you so, I purchase your book today. I look forward to the read. Cheers

The ghost sign on the corner of Shirland Rd and Saltram Crescent was for Jay’s credit furnishers who seemed to have had branches all over London. Advertising from turn of 20th century to after WW2.

Such a thoroughly entertaining and joyful celebration of Maida Vale. I enjoy your videos for the information, but mostly the enthusiasm. Thank you so much

@alanchriston6806

8 ай бұрын

For mash get smash Ha ha ha 😊🏴‍☠️🎈👽

Yay another Sunday morning with Joolz!

What more can be said than what a brilliant episode.

I am glad you showed the maida vale studios. My dad was a musician and most weeks he worked up at maida vale. As a kid I had no idea where he went so it is nice to see it now.

It's genuniely surreal watching you tour the area I grew up and live in. A pleasant surprise on this dull Sunday.

The payphone ( or PCO Public Call Office in GPO parlance) next to Warwick Ave tube is a K1000

@AtheistOrphan

8 ай бұрын

That’s also a Pentax SLR camera 📷

Marvellous young chap !!

I diverted for 20 mins to watch Jazzin' for blue jean. Fascinating. And Bowie's backing band in that little film included Richard Fairbrass of Right Said Fred fame. There you go, we all love an obscure fact! Back to the tour...

oh, i am so pleased you filmed this video!!! It's like I've sent you to specific spots to remind me of places I went to on my visit to London! I ended in Maida Vale after a very emotional visit to Abbey Road one novemeber morning, and I popped into that Starbucks behind you. There's even a Gail's there now! Back in 2015 it was a very residential area and with very few cafes. I also sang Duffy's song when I got to Warwick Av, and so many other places you pass by... aaaah, this was utterly joyous for me! The pub/hotel at the end! I took a picture of it but didn't remember much of the surroundings! Thank you thank you.

Moved into Maida Vale by chance when I first emigrated to London and lived there 5 years before having to move out as it got increasingly expensive. Its still my favourite part of London. I've often wondered about many of the buildings and history there as I walked around the neighbourhood, and this was a fascinating insight. Thank you! Was great to see my old boozer, the Prince Alfred. Fun fact: Daisy Ridley used to pull pints there before she got famous. She served me many times.

I enjoy your videos immensely. I found your channel by accident awhile back and have been hooked ever since. The areas you go to sre beautiful and so clean unlike here in America. Your history lessons are very interesting, the shops and pubs are beautiful and the garden center in this video is absolutely amazing. I really appreciate your videos, I only wish I could get to England some day but health issues won't allow it. Thankfully I have your walking tours to watch and there are other videos of interesting people and places to watch. The other day I found some videos about Fred Dibnah. What an amazing individual he was. Well anyway, thank you for your great videos and please keep them coming. Dave from America. 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸👍

@eshaibraheem4218

8 ай бұрын

Hello, Dave.

@cuetlaxochitl

8 ай бұрын

There is rubbish in England too, not just the US.

@neilboulton9813

8 ай бұрын

What a nice positive comment to make I bet you feel better for making it.

Norman Wisdom! I recognized the name immediately from my childhood. When I was a child in the late 1960's, I was given the album soundtrack to ANDROCLES AND THE LION. It starred Norman Wisdom, Noel Coward, Ed Ames and a host of other very talented actors. I loved that soundtrack as a child. A great story and great acting!

I remember they used the outside of the Carlton Tavern as wonderful Hylda Baker's pub in the '70s series "Not On Your Nellie."

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned yet, but the BBC have sold the studio at Maida Vale. It's now owned by Hans Zimmer amongst others..

From 1975 until 1985 I lived at 15, Warwick Ave, spent many hours in the Warrington Hotel, also the Warwick Castle, when in 1977 the mews were closed off for the Queens 25th Jubilee. Lots of beer, music and dancing. That was a hang over and a half.😅 Not forgetting the Windsor Castle down in the village as I called it. The landlady was a copy of Joan Collins from Dynasty. She was a fabulous character. My useless information, the modern church at the bottom of Warwick Ave the stained glass windows came from a disused church in East St, Farnham Sy, my home town. I always enjoy your videos, thank you.

@thomasfisher5742

8 ай бұрын

PETER i do believe the WARWICK was also an early "GIG" FOR THE STONES with Brian jones in the early 60s

@peterward3965

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasfisher5742 It may well have been, I've no knowledge of that. Can't remember the name but there was another Maida Vale pub which had a large selection of real ales in smaller casks on offer. A couple of ales you could stand a spoon upright where it was so thick and strong tasting. YUK As much as I like ale. If you drank so much and was still standing upright your name went up on the wall of the pub in gold leaf on plaques around the pub. A number of ladies names were shown as I recall. Cheers 🍻

Wow, just the mention of " the sweeney" and I long for the 70s again. Cheers Joolz

"Naaaa-chos". The Texas in me loves the London in you, Joolz.😉 😊😊

This brings back brilliant memories of years gone by

Thank you J and S You made my day...🍀👍🥂 Love the architecture in this video...and little chatts with ,,locals,, ... Keep posting🙏

love the looks of that area

Your presentations and tours are excellent !

Marvellous, heartening and informative as ever. Incidentally, Vale Court is also where the musician Robert Wyatt had the accident that left him paraplegic.

Eating your Sunday roast without watching Joolz... is like eating your roast beef without gravy & mustard.

I had heard of Maida Vale but did not realise it was such a lovely area. Great video for a rainy Sunday afternoon!

Joolz, you spectacular fellow, those short column decorations are neither pineapples nor pinecones. They are Venusian heads frozen in position by the stone angels of Dr Who...🫣

33:40 What a beautiful pub! I will definitely visit it. From East London with love 💕

Great stuff. The north side of Paddington Rec / Carlton Vaie is really South. Kilburn. Point of fact the Carlton Tavern demolition was attempted by by a private developer NOT a housing association. Well done nevertheless🎉 from the Kilburn Stroller

I thought you said "SNOG screen"! But nope, it's a "snob" screen 😂. I suppose it works either way, tho dunnit? 😉

Wow, those two pubs are gorgeous inside. Will go visit when I'm in London over Easter.

I'dlike to request a film about Streatham Park'Tooting including Boundary Corner/Thrale Road and the association with Samuel Johnson Hester Thrale and so on, also the interwar years with artist Rudolf Haybrook

Joolz is back, all is right with the world.

I used to enjoy walking along the canal to the Prince Alfred from Notting Hill when I fancied a little change of scenery. If any place personifies luxury flats I always felt it was Maida Vale. Love the Brannigan mention Jules. They certainly don't make movies like that anymore!! It's straight out of a Simpsons joke.

Brilliant video Joolz! [and cheers to Simon for his sapience] Such a lovely gentlemen imparting wisdom about the neighbourhood.

Another brilliant tour , thank you , as soon as I saw the Warwick Avenue street sign , I was singing Duffy , beautiful buildings around London

Bing Crosby died playing golf. This led to a bad taste joke that I remember as a school child. Won’t tell it but Hitler / Crosby / bunker . Great video

This one gave evoked particularly fond memories of long ago years when i used to wander the area in much the same way as you were doing. I have watched it several times avidly and am now off to get my stomach pumped.😉

Paddington Rec is in South Kilburn next to the north entrance at the restored Carlton Tavern in Calton Vale. The plaques in the Rec are for Dr Bannister and Sir Bradley Wiggins. The Carlton Tavern was demolished by a private developer. Fernhead Road is South Kilburn. You may have been taking to too many estate agents?

19:18 I was hoping one day you'd get here. Thanks.

This video is brilliant! Use to live on Warwick ave for 7 years, so really brings back come great memories. 😀 Keep up the great work, and yes The Sweeney, what a show back in the day.

Aw man, my partner, dogs, and I are frequent visitors of Paddington Rec - would’ve loved to run into you, Joolz!

always love these walks but the sweeney pub at the end was brilliant and looks so much better than it did when jack was upstairs

I love the music you play. Even tho I love lots of more modern music I grew up in the 60's in Australia but back then a lot of our movies and music were English, and mum's family were from East End London, she was born here tho, and so I heard that music and it does bring back childhood, so I think the music adds so much to your videos and I just love them. I have visited London in 2008 and went to East End London to find ancestors, but know so much more now, I need to come back and also go to the places you film. Just beautiful. Thanks.

@Joolzguides

8 ай бұрын

My sister will be pleased that you liked her song!

Does Anne Lennox still live in Maida Vale? My uncle Chris who was a well known Antique Dealer in London, and I, the tag-a-long, helped her find an antique wrought iron bed frame on one very hot summer day. The story is kind of funny. It was early 1980's, I was 12 and living in London with my uncle Chris. On one occasion when my uncle had work, we climbed into the white Moris Minor car he had inherited, it was THE same car from the Miss Marple TV series, and we drove to Maida Vale in it to pick up Annie Lennox. I had no clue who she was at that time. When we arrived at the place, an odd looking lady came out wearing a motorcycle helmet with the visor down and got inside the car. I didn't know she was famous and didn't care when she removed the helmet inside the car. We spent the entire day shopping with her for a wrought iron bed frame while she wore the helmet with the visor down the entire time we were in public. It wasn't until years later when I was a teenage girl who watched alot of MTV that I learned who Anne Lennox was. ☺My reaction after I found out who she was still makes my family laugh. I've been a loyal fan ever since!☺

Unless I misheard: Sir Alex Guinness wasn't in 'A Bridge To Far' it was 'A bridge over the river kwai'

@kartofle123

8 ай бұрын

He wasn't in a bridge too far but every other famous actor at the time was in the film.

We went to a very spectacular wedding at Lauderdale Road Synagogue, Just the 350 guests, followed by reception, dinner and dance in the Ballroom at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Someone obviously had a more than a few quid.

You are correct that Bing Crosby died on a golf course,in fact it was one in Madrid,Spain in 1977

Leslie Green was from maida Vale, so the station was a special one for him.

Love Maida Vale ❤the wonderful actress Irene Handel was born there.

Another lovely way to spend a wet(!) Sunday afternoon. That older chap on the Church and its brothel(😮?😅) was a find; really knows his stuff. Should be on the staff!

Well, as it is 7am on a Sunday the only thing I'll be drinking is coffee. :) Another great one, Joolz!

Wonderful tour 😊

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this video, packed with so much historical information. Look forward to the next one!!!👍👌😊

thanks! i love your stuff, especially these long ones. youmake my day. and so good to hear LLL' s music.

How nice to see you again Julian and Simon for another great video, these videos will be in my heart for life, thank you for making me laugh and have fun while learning a lot about London and its beauty. Un saluto dall'Italia ❤