Brick Lane & Columbia Road - Lazy Sunday in London's East End Markets

Why not spend a lazy Sunday afternoon in London's east end markets, including Brick Lane and Columbia Road Flower Market.
(For music details check below!)
We start near the Geffrye Museum on Kingsland Road.
Then we walk down the Columbia Road Flower Market.
Then we visit Hackney City Farm.
After that it's off to Brick Lane and the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
Music by Lil lost lou ➜ www.lillostlou.com
featuring Shane from “The Band Rudy Warman & The Heavy Weather” ➜ www.rudywarman.co.uk
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  • @Joolzguides
    @Joolzguides4 жыл бұрын

    If you like the music in this video it was by Lil Lost Lou ➜ www.lillostlou.com featuring Shane from “The Band Rudy Warman & The Heavy Weather” ➜ www.rudywarman.co.uk

  • @Milkatee

    @Milkatee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 100k subs!! It won't be long until we reach 1M i'm sure of it😊

  • @gonedetectinguk5906

    @gonedetectinguk5906

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great channel been watching for hours love the mudlarking Have few pipes Btls marbels. N stuff from dumps Subbed from Scotland great work

  • @loyalsmith4096

    @loyalsmith4096

    4 жыл бұрын

    Looking dapper today sir!

  • @loyalsmith4096

    @loyalsmith4096

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pip-pip,have you been to the locations of the musical SWEENEY TODD?

  • @pamelabrooks4503

    @pamelabrooks4503

    4 жыл бұрын

    SHYluvsCHUCK )

  • @ivx8345
    @ivx83454 жыл бұрын

    "...'cause this video is getting a bit long" Don't you worry about that chap.

  • @i20010

    @i20010

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, we can take it Joolz, no worries.

  • @arriesone1

    @arriesone1

    4 жыл бұрын

    IV X The longer the better

  • @KittehHawk

    @KittehHawk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine hour long videos, oh boy!

  • @taradow2932
    @taradow29324 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are so superior to those headache inducing, super sharp, quick edited ones that so many people seem to gush over. Those videos are done for the editors pleasure, not the viewers. Your videos focus on people, both the locals and your audience. Thank you so much!

  • @judywhittlesey4010
    @judywhittlesey40104 жыл бұрын

    I can never Thank You enough for your channel! I have always wanted to live in ENGLAND and you really bring London to life. Love your interactions with the shop keepers and people on the street. I've watched PBS TV travel shows in the U. S.A. for 25+ years, imo you have topped them all, hands down!! You absolutely are THE BEST. You are a great ambassador for your country. We should be addressing you as SIR JULIAN! I hope that someone, who has HER MAJESTY'S ear, is aware of you and your channel! BBC must be blind! 🇺🇸👵

  • @dogie1070

    @dogie1070

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are sooo correct! Each episode raises my IQ incrementally 🤓

  • @rayenbow3281

    @rayenbow3281

    4 жыл бұрын

    Be careful Judy, don't get your expectations up too high. London overall is not a nice place and this video is not typical. If you want to visit a beautiful city and see traditional England, visit York, now that IS a beautiful place.

  • @gloryglory5688

    @gloryglory5688

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ray Enbow you’re ‘avin a bubble bath my son 😂

  • @patrickfitzgerald2861

    @patrickfitzgerald2861

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Ray Enbow - Julian recently admitted as much to me in a reply to my comment on his weathervane video that I much prefer seeing London on his YT channel rather than visiting there in person. One would need to be highly tolerant of noise, stench, litter, dog poo, crowds, rude people, traffic, expense and ubiquitous CCTV spying in order to enjoy living there.

  • @resnonverba137

    @resnonverba137

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@patrickfitzgerald2861 What a little ray of sunshine you are.

  • @gochocitizen
    @gochocitizen4 жыл бұрын

    Joolz, I’m sure I’m not the first subscriber to tell you that you’ve become a “treasured good ol’ friend” with whom one enjoys taking long walks. Please, keep these awesome videos coming. Never has my financial contribution supported such an enjoyable and reciprocal “friendship”. God bless you, and Simon, from the US.

  • @stevev3664
    @stevev3664 Жыл бұрын

    When I was a child in the 50s and 60s Brick Lane Market was a great place to go on Sunday mornings. They had puppies, kittens, parrots, tropical fish, budgerigars etc. There was a man that sold hot fresh Apple fritters. Six fritters in a paper bag and sprinkled with sugar. He would cook them while you waited. There was also a stall that sold hot and cold sarsaparilla by the glass and there were stalls selling hot dogs and hamburgers. Thanks for the video.

  • @rogerclarke860
    @rogerclarke8602 жыл бұрын

    "He prefers to go in through the back passage...Rather than the fishy front!" Could've been straight out of a 'Carry on' film.I'm in tears!

  • @thecliffdweller1212
    @thecliffdweller12124 жыл бұрын

    A good day always has a new Joolz Guides in it. Rashings of dead people's stories with legs akimbo

  • @proudvirginian
    @proudvirginian4 жыл бұрын

    "he prefers to go in through the back passage, rather than the fishy front" ~Joolz Thanks for another great video and congrats on 100k subs. I'm glad to be part of the viewing public 😊♥️

  • @joeadm3771

    @joeadm3771

    4 жыл бұрын

    I died

  • @fasthracing

    @fasthracing

    4 жыл бұрын

    Twas funny that.

  • @DHBenoit

    @DHBenoit

    4 жыл бұрын

    This breh is the quintessential public school boy,

  • @curzone

    @curzone

    3 жыл бұрын

    fnarr fnarr!

  • @dubskj01
    @dubskj014 жыл бұрын

    I remember dying once after eating a very hot chili. Never again, I tell Ya!

  • @Outerrythem
    @Outerrythem2 жыл бұрын

    I moved out of London to Australia 20+ years ago. These videos take me back. I can remember working as an art student in the Atlantis art shop which used to be below the Truman Brewery on Brick lane, buying my bagels at lunchtime, checking out the stalls to see I could get some good deals on the art supplies that had just been freshly nicked from the art shop that morning.

  • @carolynmedlock811
    @carolynmedlock8114 жыл бұрын

    I was a letter carrier here in the US for 25 years and to me I love those red letter boxes...so much cutie than the ones we use

  • @user-ck5ho3di2o

    @user-ck5ho3di2o

    11 күн бұрын

    Yes they are cute,you think they would look after them,still it's only part of our history so don't really matter

  • @simoncooper6752
    @simoncooper67524 жыл бұрын

    Speaking of Victorians, Can you do a video on London locations associated with Gilbert and Sullivan, please?

  • @laurakaye33
    @laurakaye333 жыл бұрын

    The shops that only take credit cards started appearing in NYC a few yrs ago and drove me crazy. Lots of New Yorkers complained until eventually (pre-pandemic) a law was passed that ALL shops in the City had to take cold hard cash...

  • @ACoincidentalLife
    @ACoincidentalLife4 жыл бұрын

    The only thing that has ever made me want to visit London are your videos! While watching this I ordered Lou's album proving that men can multi-task!

  • @chrisbagginsmay2474
    @chrisbagginsmay24744 жыл бұрын

    Only discovered these vids on Thursday......pretty much watched them all and the Pitcairn film too. Wife’s getting worried! Brilliant and informative. Nice one 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @chelsal
    @chelsal4 жыл бұрын

    Always a treat watching a Joolz Guides video .

  • @chineymo
    @chineymo4 жыл бұрын

    When we visited in 2016, we went into the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, bought a little engraved bell :-) There was a small museum at the front of photos and history, and the gentleman in the store said that there wasn't a lot of call for new bells, that most of their business was maintenance. Sort of hoped they would be working on Big Ben during their renos. Really gutted to hear they closed the following year, wanted to go back and get another bell. You always think when a place has been around forever and in a grade listed building, you will have time. It was quite the place inside, and a factory just out back. Seems it will be turning into a hotel by new owners. Such a history, at least it was merged with another bell company, and the Whitechapel name will live on on some of those bells.

  • @jayonenote7527

    @jayonenote7527

    4 жыл бұрын

    I believe that is where the Liberty Bell was cast

  • @johnpotter9531
    @johnpotter95314 жыл бұрын

    Just loved your Sunday guide-one of your best-thanks Joolz!

  • @roeng1368
    @roeng13684 жыл бұрын

    Looks like a lot of fun, for a day out. Excellent video as always.

  • @brian9731
    @brian97314 жыл бұрын

    My Dad, now 92, was born at 118 Columbia Road in his grandparents' flat above their shop. They sold bedding but we've looked a bit into the history and later on it became a carpenter's workshop - as apparently many of the shops on Columbia Road were - and more recently, it was a hat shop, whose owners had to shovel tons of sawdust out from under the shop. Now, as far as I know, it's a shop that sells jewellery.

  • @chineymo
    @chineymo4 жыл бұрын

    We half expected you to mention that Ezra Street was "Duckett's Passage" from Goodnight Sweetheart tv show with Nicholas Lyndhurst. When visiting London, one quiet Sunday i suggested we go there to see where he disappeared down the alley into the 1940's and see the Royal Oak pub front & shops used in the show.. never knew of the Columbia Road Flower Market , but sure do now LOL We never time traveled down that passage ourselves, but my spouse did say "you go first" just in case. Great market video!

  • @angiehogan7718
    @angiehogan77184 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant episode Joolz

  • @lreeher
    @lreeher4 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Today is a good day! Thanks Joolz!

  • @birdsaloud7590
    @birdsaloud75902 жыл бұрын

    These videos make me fall in love with London all over again.

  • @Whatsupp666
    @Whatsupp6664 жыл бұрын

    Great work your doing here, keeping us Londoners informed with our rich history. Thanks!

  • @cbarnett2112
    @cbarnett21124 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant! Another awesome Sunday stroll with Joolz! Love the farm and the markets! What a lot of fun! It's cool to see the local life along side the historic locations. Great to see and hear Lou as well. Love the tune! Just saw the vid on Lou's channel. Thanks again for making my Sunday! Cheers!

  • @thomasbarker6912
    @thomasbarker69124 жыл бұрын

    As always, Joolz; completed with your usual charm and casual wit. Keep it up. Thanks.

  • @danniantagonist
    @danniantagonist4 жыл бұрын

    Love seeing these joyful videos of my old manor. Thanks!

  • @SuperKojak2009
    @SuperKojak20094 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely love your history of london walks. Short and sweet. Well presented too. Thank you so much.

  • @paulescue4478
    @paulescue44784 жыл бұрын

    Joolz Guides, the best discovery I've made on the net in some time. You really bring out the anglophile in me. Keep up the smashing good job.

  • @dambrooks7578
    @dambrooks75784 жыл бұрын

    That train robber was Buster Edwards, I have purched flowers from him when he was still alive.

  • @p51nion
    @p51nion4 жыл бұрын

    Another highly enjoyable seventeen-and-a-half minutes, musical score and all. Thanks Joolz, thanks LLL. Hearty congrats on passing 100k subscribers !

  • @jayflynn2250
    @jayflynn22504 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely love your video's! Engaging, informative, and very enjoyable! Brilliant!

  • @fraseraitken1837
    @fraseraitken18374 жыл бұрын

    great as always Jules-thanks

  • @tollan23
    @tollan234 жыл бұрын

    Great video. I moved from London to live in Canada about 9 years ago. I don't really miss it that much anymore, but your videos are one of the only things that make me feel nostalgic for the place, and remind me of some of the positive things about the city.

  • @cherchezlavache5183
    @cherchezlavache51833 жыл бұрын

    Excellent tour, as always! My favorite market used to be Bermondsey. It started in the dark, in the wee small hours of the morning, & over the years I bought some wonderful things there. Portobello Road was wonderful also, & I have many, many things from there, but going to Bermondsey early, having bangers & mash, or a jacketed potato, in the cold morning air, before starting the hunt, will always remain my #1 market memory. Thanks so much, Joolz!

  • @vickywitton1008
    @vickywitton1008 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! What a vibrant place! Wonderful!

  • @deborahrogers9760
    @deborahrogers97604 жыл бұрын

    It's always a nice Sunday morning with Joolz!

  • @caduvale
    @caduvale Жыл бұрын

    I was a Londoner but living in Australia for now, but I miss so much this city, when I have this nostalgia I watch your videos. I used to live close of Broadway Market and on my Sunday's I used to walk from there to Columbia Road/Bricklane. Thank you for the content.

  • @DoubleDeckerAnton
    @DoubleDeckerAnton4 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on hitting 100k subs Jules. Your hard work has paid off and you always remain professional and smart in your very very informative videos...!!!

  • @Tom_Mroz
    @Tom_Mroz4 жыл бұрын

    Although I am not a Londoner, I love London and your great videos confirm why. Happy to see that your subscribers count picked up momentum. Well deserved !

  • @allanrobinson5342
    @allanrobinson53422 жыл бұрын

    Thanks again Joolz, loving your videos.

  • @aremegoso
    @aremegoso4 жыл бұрын

    A lazy Sunday indeed, best to watch a Joolz video.

  • @robspunk
    @robspunk4 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic again, thank you Jules!

  • @kdean9537
    @kdean95374 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful video Julien...just love your channel! 💖Always positive and uplifting and makes me smile...thank you! ...take care!

  • @rachelring2542
    @rachelring25424 жыл бұрын

    Great to hear and see❤❤

  • @reginacarretta2433
    @reginacarretta24334 жыл бұрын

    On a snowy day, housebound, I re-visit some of your best visits around London....an absolute favorite last spring was to go with a friend to look for her roots in the east end....we strolled Brick Lane, Columbia Road flowers, Tower Hamlets, Spitalfields City Farm.....on our bus, out the window we saw Hackney City Farms....and seeing your stroll on this video, made me so pleased....on the next trip in June, it goes on the list. Thank you for showing the colorful, unique parts of London......

  • @crystalwaters8852
    @crystalwaters885211 күн бұрын

    Keep vcash in circulation! ❤ thank you for the tour Jules!

  • @Pauldjreadman
    @Pauldjreadman4 жыл бұрын

    I have been waiting for the next episode. Quality :) It still surprises me how compact London is.

  • @fredmaldonado7849
    @fredmaldonado78494 жыл бұрын

    This guy is very educational when I travel I tried to learn as much as I can in the town that I visit London should be very proud of this man

  • @i20010
    @i200104 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos! Its amazing how much stuff there's in a square mile in London. Please keep it up! cheers

  • @steverennie5787
    @steverennie57874 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video.. love seeing the more interesting, non-touristy area of different cities. Thanks from Canada.

  • @MrMichaelsen
    @MrMichaelsen4 жыл бұрын

    Columbia Flower Market are my favorite along with Broadway Market also in East London

  • @patrickfitzgerald2861
    @patrickfitzgerald28614 жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite video of yours Julian. That looked like a really fun day, and the interactions with the various people and your sister were a hoot. Good work! 👍👍

  • @helenamizera3807
    @helenamizera38074 жыл бұрын

    hi joolz. i love the type of music you add to your videos. it makes your channel unique.

  • @puressenceuk35
    @puressenceuk354 жыл бұрын

    "We've got a lot of collectibles and object d'art" - translation = "we're selling a load of old tatt"

  • @franl155

    @franl155

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol and at prices that definitely ruled out local purchasers!

  • @janbonsema5888
    @janbonsema58883 жыл бұрын

    happy days at London Markets. I've gone to one , Camden , mostly used clothing. An excellent video from Jools , displaying the wit of the London merchant, with thier quick repartee and also the pearly queens, priceless....! Thanks Jules I'm sitting behind my desk where i work as a salesman in CDMX, but after viewing this video I feel a bit as if I've been on holidays.

  • @joansmith3296
    @joansmith32964 жыл бұрын

    Super video! I love these cute little pubs you go to. You look wonderful as usual Julian. Thanks!

  • @volition51
    @volition514 жыл бұрын

    Love your work!!!

  • @NDKY67
    @NDKY674 жыл бұрын

    My ancestors were French Huguenot silk weavers in the Brick Lane area, who moved to North after the silk weaving trade collapsed and became servants at Chatsworth House.

  • @geraldhannibal7654
    @geraldhannibal76544 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Joolz. A real eye opener. Next time I'm in town I'm off for some oysters. Bless you and yours bro. Gx

  • @alextr3a640
    @alextr3a6404 жыл бұрын

    Hi Julian, just listening to all your sisters music on Spotify! Great thanks!

  • @mikewilson9601
    @mikewilson96014 жыл бұрын

    I'm a brummie, but i love London. We come down every year for a few days. Your videos are so educational and entertaining. They keep me going until i get down there again.

  • @tdauk1
    @tdauk14 жыл бұрын

    the pub with the black horse on Hackney Rd was originally called The Nags Head. Closed in '91

  • @Es-gs1dm
    @Es-gs1dm4 жыл бұрын

    Just found you today this is my second video and I could not be happier!!! I am in love with the accent and everyday life. I may never be able to visit and because of your video I get to be apart of it all for a moment. Thank you for sharing with us here on KZread !!! Wishing you all the best from SouthWest Florida 🤗

  • @websitesthatneedanem
    @websitesthatneedanem4 жыл бұрын

    What great laugh for cold rainy October Sunday afternoon... Fanks Jools! 👍👍👍👍j

  • @rogerhudson9732
    @rogerhudson97323 жыл бұрын

    Great videos, always proving why London is definitely the best city in the world !! I used to like going to a Bagel shop at 3 in the morning on the way home

  • @baekho10
    @baekho104 жыл бұрын

    As always love your work

  • @superpatje
    @superpatje2 жыл бұрын

    Monty's....... Love that bar in Bricklane. Streetartist hangout spot !!

  • @guymorris6596
    @guymorris6596 Жыл бұрын

    Joolz, you absolute legend, this is about the fifth time I've watched this video. I find, by reason of the intro song, myself moving around to the music. The East End looks like loads of fun and I like how the vendors announce to passersby the wares and services they have on offer. I've been working on my genealogy since 1991 and am now discovering I have many ancestors in England, quite a few with royal titles, among other countries in the UK and Europe. I'm in the process of trying to get my US passport and want to travel to the UK and Europe. I love watching your videos because they are loaded with history and fun details. You are visibly enjoying yourself as you walkabout through London. May you, your crew and family and the rest of your viewers and subscribers have a safe and blessed day my brother from another mother.

  • @andypoopoo16
    @andypoopoo164 жыл бұрын

    The back passage and fishy front was so naughty but I loved it...keep up the great work Julian

  • @cbarnett2112
    @cbarnett21124 жыл бұрын

    100K subscribers!!! Congrats! I knew that was right around the corner. Well done!

  • @harebell6850
    @harebell68504 жыл бұрын

    Love your stuff. music is better. keep up the good work.xxxx

  • @rvail136
    @rvail1364 жыл бұрын

    Joolz, you're a gem of information. I hope to visit London in the not too distant future. My wife and I have been perusing your videos for destinations.

  • @emilystaudte8401
    @emilystaudte84014 жыл бұрын

    Fabulous as always. And another great song from Lou! And nobody winds you up like Lou does, sorry that your torture is our entertainment 😂

  • @charmainechatkin4263
    @charmainechatkin42638 ай бұрын

    I looooove your channel. You are great, so professional.

  • @cliffordadams8353
    @cliffordadams83533 жыл бұрын

    Joolz you’ve got three great things going for you A personality, you don’t take yourself too seriously,and, and,and a sense of humour Most people would be happy with one of these

  • @eyuptony
    @eyuptony4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Joolz I like watching your channel its very colourful with your humour and informative local London history knowledge.

  • @abushman5938
    @abushman59384 жыл бұрын

    The only thing better than your videos is your videos with Lil Lost Lou.

  • @hangoorhuis1033
    @hangoorhuis10334 жыл бұрын

    Love your trousers!

  • @robbey300
    @robbey3004 жыл бұрын

    Puerile quips aside it was very informative again! Will. be checking out that farm! 😎

  • @claudettemurray2107
    @claudettemurray21074 жыл бұрын

    Cheers! You're absolutely fabulous.

  • @Scottinuk
    @Scottinuk4 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on reaching over 100k subscribers!

  • @Rothiman
    @Rothiman4 жыл бұрын

    for some reason your video about english idioms popped up in my recomendations. Easy subscription and I'm looking forward to a lot more old and new videos. I like London even though I haven't been there for nearly 20 years.

  • @pavmar5197
    @pavmar51974 жыл бұрын

    very underrated channel, when they get more funding they'll be doing guides around the world soon

  • @Joolzguides

    @Joolzguides

    4 жыл бұрын

    One day God willing

  • @salmankhan-fk2qc

    @salmankhan-fk2qc

    4 жыл бұрын

    ok...pin...pand...m..

  • @i20010

    @i20010

    4 жыл бұрын

    Though I love these charming local secrets!

  • @pegleg7621

    @pegleg7621

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're underated bruh..... The channel is based on London and surrounding areas... not the world dummy

  • @Torso
    @Torso4 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see the Crypt Of The Wizard pop up for a second, a really cool record shop for all your heavy metal needs!!!

  • @RobCCTV
    @RobCCTV2 жыл бұрын

    I really REALLY miss the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. I was lucky enough to have a tour of it, in its last year. Amazing craftsmanship and specialist equipment. Pity it did not survive. It just could not compete with some newer-equipped foundries in Europe.

  • @bikejoede
    @bikejoede4 жыл бұрын

    I want to visit London so badly now and you're to blame! ;-) Anyway, thanks a lot for the most brilliant London videos ever and congrats to 100k. You well deserved it.

  • @aiferapple1246
    @aiferapple12464 жыл бұрын

    Only discovered your channel last week. Absolutely loving it :)

  • @sarwarmehedi
    @sarwarmehedi4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Joolz , great videos. I visited London in July. Before I went I browsed through KZread for London videos and found your great channel. There are some other people that showed London but nobody compares to you. Your videos have great narration, a lot of history blended with a lot of humor. I visited as much London possible in one week and later I watched more of your videos and related many more things. And I am more curious and interested in London and will come back again in future. Congrats for 100k. You deserve it and you deserve more.

  • @draoi99
    @draoi994 жыл бұрын

    Lovely, this show should be on TV. I'm going to visit Hackney City Farm soon.

  • @rose1971
    @rose19714 жыл бұрын

    First, congratulations on 100,000 subs, how exciting! I’m also excited for the new video. I can’t wait to go to these markets I love them. It would be a great place to people watch. 😊 ❤️

  • @jetsons101
    @jetsons1013 жыл бұрын

    Brick lane reminds me a bit of Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk on a summer weekend, quite a cross section of society. Great watch and thanks for posting......

  • @atilashefik5127
    @atilashefik5127 Жыл бұрын

    Always amazing to watch your videos I enjoy take care

  • @legitkamz7493
    @legitkamz74933 жыл бұрын

    Lovely video only thing it's to short thanks for the upload really enjoyed it brings back the old memories of my childhood

  • @margem10001
    @margem100014 жыл бұрын

    As a cockney boy from Bethnal Green I thought this was a great video to watch Thank You

  • @chrisclem5613
    @chrisclem56133 жыл бұрын

    Great videos, takes me back to my days living in London many years ago. Hope you can make one about Broadway market, London Fields, Mare Street, The Narrow Way, all those places join together. Would love to see you walking around that area.

  • @IanDDalton
    @IanDDalton4 жыл бұрын

    Sunday just isnt Sunday without a Joolz video!

  • @robertbell2524
    @robertbell25242 жыл бұрын

    That was good, Julian; I enjoyed my walk down memory lane. I used to like to go down Brick Lane with friends to the Indian cafe/restaurants. I liked going to Columbia Road Flower market too. The East End opened up a whole new world to me. I liked the music.