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@trevorrandom

3 жыл бұрын

Why anyone would want to go to Birmingham at 'High speed' is quite beyond me quite frankly

@moftheinternets606

3 жыл бұрын

we need a video of all the hearts your mom broke. :)

@trevorrandom

3 жыл бұрын

@catchit good point 👍

@kellyr3179

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite YT channels!! ❤👏

We DO care Jools! Don’t belittle all your interesting historical facts!

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! Thanks... I only say that when I'm being vague about something and can't be bothered with the exact facts.

@stephaniecowans3646

3 жыл бұрын

I love hearing all the bits of trivia Joolz offers and the back and forth with Simon. This is what I enjoy in the videos in addition to the sights and sounds of the city.

@wasabista1613

3 жыл бұрын

My sediments exactly! Joolzy is much too modest. He should start saying, "This is Joolz Guides, the greatest London KZreadr in the universe."

@AvaT42

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely aarisone1.!!👍

@Elitist20

3 жыл бұрын

I care - especially as it's part my own personal history, having stayed here (flat in Crowndale Road) for a week in 2012 before going on Eurostar from St Pancras. Saw the Egyptian cat building. Went to the Harry Potter Studio Tour from Euston (via Mornington Crescent - got our coffee from the Costa next door). One 'arrgh' moment - walked past the 'Koko' venue and didn't realise it was formerly the Camden Theatre where they recorded most of the Goon Show episodes! Also walked over the Hampstead Rd railway bridge (with the metal rotating coronaviruses) to find the NHS Regents Park medical practice in Cumberland Market, as daughter had somehow contracted impetigo on her lip on the 24 hour flight from Sydney. Sigh - will I ever return?

I lived in London for 20 years before I moved to New Zealand 10 years ago, I am missing London terribly, these programs are a wonderful tonic to my unquenchable nostalgia and disconsolate sickness for home. Thank you, my ghost of Christmases past.

@jamess1817

3 жыл бұрын

I am in the same boat mate. I am English and moved here 2006. I miss London alot especially the tube. And now it's very disconcerting not knowing when I can go back for a visit. I watch heaps of KZread to make me feel better.

@aussiej2973

9 ай бұрын

londonastan now

Morning cup of coffee with a new Joolz tour! No better way to start a sunny Sunday ❤️❤️❤️

@redd605

3 жыл бұрын

Central London on Sunday morning you see so much and check place

@redd605

3 жыл бұрын

Central London on Sunday morning you see so much and check place

@1987jugernaut

3 жыл бұрын

Get a life

@claireyoga8483

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, same here a few Sundays later :-)

Who cares? I do Joolz - I love the history. So keep it coming, OK.

The statue of Sir John Betjeman in St Pancras station, is without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite statue of anyone, anywhere. It perfectly embodies everything about the great man. Thank you for another great wander round the greatest city in the world.

@michelles2299

3 жыл бұрын

The sculptor is very interesting too, he was on great lives radio 4 talking about his great life choice another sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger

@MrDaiseymay

2 жыл бұрын

When was the statue made and erected there ? after Sir Johns death no doubt. I loved his TV series, and books.

@corditekid1

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay November 2007, unveiled by Sir John’s daughter.

Look forward to these on a quiet Sun morn in USA. Need the laughter these days🤪

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

It's all going to be ok..

@richardtaylor3047

3 жыл бұрын

There'll be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover, and everywhere else,very soon!

Who Else LOVEs London!

Thank you Joolz, excellent video. I was born a stones throw from Mornington Crescent Tube Station so found this really interesting. My Mum was a cigarette packer at The Black Cat Factory. At Christmas the company put on great parties for the children of their employees, which we attended each year🎉🎉. The company moved out of London, to Basildon, Essex in 1959 and the staff invited to move with them. Mum didn’t fancy this and we remained in Camden Town.

You should win the Nobel Prize for Cheerfulness imho. You really are elite level cheerfulness

@maiaallman4635

3 жыл бұрын

And memory!

Oh boy, a London tour. My day's better already! Thanks Joolz.

"Endlessly staring out of windows" It's these wee extra gems that make these history walks so compelling

After the most horrible week here in the U.S since 9/11, it's a huge relief to see a notification that our dear Joolz uploaded a new video. This was a wonderful way to start my Sunday and I think I'll spend most of today re-watching most of his videos to help me keep my equanimity. So glad to see that Joolz was able to end his video in a pub as is his won't.

@stephaniecowans3646

3 жыл бұрын

Dang spell check --- should be "wont " without the apostrophe. :P

@vickywitton1008

Жыл бұрын

I watch his videos because they make me happy too!

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." - Samuel Johnson, September 20, 1777,

@GuinessOriginal

3 жыл бұрын

They're leaving in their droves

@jorgevieira4489

3 жыл бұрын

Actually I’ve left For Lisbon I still miss London but brexit is horrible

@mwoxo

3 жыл бұрын

If only Sadiq Khan and his throng would leave London

A Sunday morning stroll around the capital how spiffing

Nothing better than a wander around the sites of london on a Sunday morning , i like covent garden and its buskers on a sunday .when this pandemic passes i will return for a weekend break with my daughter and her wonderfull son who is growing up fast cant wait for his grandad to give him a weekend away stay safe and well joules god bless

Love your videos. Very positive and uplifting in these dismal times.

Very enjoyable walk about. I spent 3 summers working for Camden Council (Inverness Street) as a street sweeper in the 1970s. Excellent pay and I learned fascinating (!!) skills such as strapping rubbish bins to lampposts up and down Camden High Street. It seems a lifetime ago (it is).

Willie Rushton was indeed on ISIHAC. He also provided the voices for the Claymation characters in "The Trapdoor". The Mornington Crescent game is just meant to be a send up of games with obscure, complicated rules. I'm pleased to see you apparently approached Mornington Crescent correctly according to Finch's variant rules...

Hola Jools, I grew up in San Francisco, but move to Tennessee in 1978. I have visited London twice and traveled all around the UK and over to parts of Europe. However, London keeps calling me back. I enjoy watching your videos and getting a tour while sitting in my living room just a little west of Nashville. Keep up the excellent work you and your camera man are doing mi amigo. Be safe.

I do love these relaxing meanderings through London. That coffee shop looks amazing. Let’s hope he doesn’t embrace any modern technology any time soon.

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

No chance of that!

@stephaniecowans3646

3 жыл бұрын

Watching the stop in that coffee store had me craving coffee.

Thank you for another breath of normality and innocence.

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Sometime I wish I really was normal

@wealdenpete

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoolzguidesWhat about innocent? :-)

LOVE a Joolz film of a Sunday morning

Joolz: ''who cares!? I hear you cry'' Me in the background: i do

The Laurence Corner ex army shop was great, bought all my work clothes in there, I was on the construction of the Victoria Line Tube, the site was just down the road from there. My father was The Works Superintendent and bought a huge steel frying pan, big enough to cook a full Sunday english breakfast for two persons.

Here in Oz it is Sunday night and the last day of my holidays, what a perfect end, thank you.

@rhomahno8878

3 жыл бұрын

Haha here in Oz too, last day of my holidays also, and reliving my trip to London in the early months of 2020 before everything went to hell!! Cheers to the next holiday!

@scottwallace901

3 жыл бұрын

Oz is that where the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz lives?

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I was there too. Freezing here.

@simonwhitlock9189

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joolzguides mate I will have your cold over my heat any day.

Drinking a smoothie along with a slice of cheese toast on a chilly Sunday morning while being given a London tour by Joolz. Who needs money?

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it can't buy happiness but it can buy the brand of misery I prefer!

@normanpearson8753

3 жыл бұрын

The cafe owner .

Genuis at work......one day I will get the opportunity to share a walk with you.

Perfect Sunday morning viewing 👍

So good to have program like this, even during lockdown thank You 😊

Here I am in late June 2021 rewatching all of Joolz videos for the 5th time around! lol 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Hey don’t judge me lol. There are lots of worse things I could be doing instead of driving up the view count on Joolz videos lol I encourage everyone to share his videos with as many people as you can. Lets see if we can get his subscribers up to a million before the lockdowns are completely done. WOOHOO!!! Come on people! We can do it! He does so much to bring us joy, entertainment, and most of all as close to being in London as possible without booking a flight or train and actually going there lol 🇬🇧👍🇬🇧🚙🛵✈️🚅🍺🍺🍻 🇬🇧 Cheers everyone! 🎩👑🎭🤹🏻‍♂️🏰

This video was a bright spot in my day.

Watching while having breakfast (Asheville North Carolina). Love your tours, will look you up when ever we can get back to the UK.

@craigadams4143

3 жыл бұрын

Watching from Asheville , as well....STAY WARM today...

Joolz! All I had to say to my husband was, ‘There’s a new Joolz!’, and we tuned in to KZread on our ‘telly’ ! You have given us such a gift, especially after our Feast of the Epiphany storming of our capitol! We then replayed your two Christmas videos! There are so many places that you go that we have never heard of! Your tours are so very rich..and fun! It has been such fun seeing your wonderful London with you! We were planning to come when COVID broke out and our air conditioning crashed.A fortune to replace! So, it may be a few more years. Anyway, until we get to travel again we’ll travel with you. As soon as I figure out this patreon thing Joe and I will send something! Your video is just what we needed during this second impeachment process. Is there a chance for a Sherlock Holmes tour? Love your sisters music too!Thank you, thank you, thank you!

It's amazing how much history is behind these places that we pass by everyday, amd even live in, but we don't take a second thought about. It's also quite sad when you think about what the older buildings have become and what they meant to alot of people. I especially like hearing about the clubs and bars that were popular haunts of celebrities

Back in the 90s I worked as an IT Trainer at The Kings Cross Technology Project (KXTP) which back then occupied the upper 3 floors of the Lord Palmerston pub shown at 13:24. I also remember The Lawrence Corner army surplus store that was mentioned. The area has changed a lot since those days but it's good to see that the Asian restuarants and food shops where we bought lunch and went for evening meals still appear to be there despite all the redevelopment taking place.

I had to laugh when you said you were in the Malaysian restaurant and they brought everything at once. I live in Malaysia and that’s totally normal here, even if you order something which is listed in the menu as a Starter or an Appetiser! 🤣

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, same in Wagamama.... dessert comes before main course. Fine by me!

I grew up in mornington creasent and I love seeing the history of it and around the surrounding area, thanks!

What a lovely way to greet Sunday morning. Cheers, Joolz! Stay safe. ❤️🇬🇧

Always love it when a bit of Withnail is thrown in a video 💖

A mate of mine and his wife used to run the Bree Louise back in the day... Rob and Grace. Shame it had to close, they did a good selection of beers in there when I last popped in prior to its closure.

Pip pip tally ho good to see a new video hope you had great christmas and new year 👍

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers

@MRoderick89

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joolzguides your very welcome sir have a great day from Liverpool 👍

genuinely obsessed with this channel

I had stuff from Lawrence corner. A massive canvas ex navy hold-all. My school bag for four years, when my mates were getting through an Adidas bag in a term.

thank you so much for this ..really having a hard time right now with lock down was watching this is so helpful ..even if you did a tour of your flat during lock down would be interesting !!! thank -you again !

I love this series. Thank you for keeping going x stay safe out there.

@toni4729

2 жыл бұрын

I used to love his videos but he spends too much time acting in them now.

Wow. Jules pronounced the Roti Canai and Nasi Lemak Ayam Berempah perfectly!

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

More by luck than judgement!

This is one of the best Joolz Guides ever !! I used to roast coffee beans in the same manner in The Importers Coffee Shop/Lounge in Golders Green of all places.

There’s nothing better than a brand new vid from joolz to cheer you up

Good Morning Julian nice too see you out and about, also Happy New Year to you and your Family, let's hope things get better in 2021

@trevorrandom

3 жыл бұрын

Happy New Tier more like...

Hello Joolzy from Pretoria lockdown South Africa 😇🙏🎉🎊😘🍾🍺🙋‍♂️

Another fantastic upload, thank you, the amount of knowledge you have and give out is incredible

I am reading LONDON: The Biography at the moment, an amazing book by a great author Peter Ackroyd

@catsinhouse

3 жыл бұрын

That's a fantastic book - worth a second read.

I lived in a flat at the point where Mornington Terrace joins Delancy Street in the early 1970s. (We could hear the wolves in the zoo howling at night). I had to bus everyday to my office in St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street. It must be a nightmare trying to do that now with the HS2 crap going on. It was so nostalgic watching this video. So wish something like your tours had been available when I lived in London. I love watching them, thank you! Mornington Crescent tube station was closed for donkeys' years, which might have been why Willy Rushton and the crew chose it for the game....who knows?!! Very best wishes from Devon!

Thank you, dear Joolz! And thank you for subtitles.

Awesome video I enjoyed watching.

Another fabulous video! Thank you, Joolz!

I used to be a security guard and in charge of the external security at the British Library around the time when they were constructing the new addition to the Kings Cross Station, the CTRL or Central Tunnel Rail Link, and Midland road was closed for ages. Great memories and nice to see the BL.

Just what I needed... Cheers Jools 👍🏼

Thank you Joolz you always manage to cheer me up.

Euston just gets more soulless every time I see it. Used to arrive there to walk to college and despite years of passing through it is just depressing. Great vlog as always.

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't look great around there

I worked in Greater London house many years ago. I was told that the reference to the black cat was to do with the origins of the cigarette maker. Before moving to this building he had a very small premises in which a black cat sat in the window of his shop. I think and not a 100% sure that he had a brand called Black Cat. An interesting point about the interiors was the very high ceilings, again I was told they were high as they needed to hang the tobacco. Really enjoy the videos and during this time of limited movement it’s great to see other parts of London.

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. That's interesting to know.

@seamusmcquaid1316

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joolzguides by the way do any of your videos mention the Castle pub in cow cross st in the Farringdon area, which is I believe is the only pub that still has a pawn brokers licence. Due to a link with George IV. I got to know the pub as my parents ran it for a short time in the 1980’.

@seamusmcquaid1316

3 жыл бұрын

Another story I have is about the Museum Tavern pub opposite the British Museum. My mother worked there in the late 1940s, so it has a bit of a nostalgic element for me. I visited the place a few years ago with my brother-in-law, who is originally from Iran. He enjoys history and I do my best to find him places of interest in London when he comes over, your guides are very helpful that way. I was told by a barman that Arthur Conan Doyle and Karl Marx used to be regulars, this came up in conversation as I noticed that the only original mirror they had behind the bar was a Watney’s or Mann’s(my parents were publicans for them) brewery embossed mirror. Apparently, the two men had been arguing, which was a common occurrence, and one of them throws a glass at the other and missed, it hit one of the mirrors, which was replaced by a plain mirror. Is it a true story I really don’t know, but it would be great to think it was true?

Thanks Jools. Great vid as always.

I was born on Hampstead Road, in a large (horrible house where we had a flat, the Landlord was Britsh Rail) just a short walk from Mornington Crescent station. I left in 1961, it was rough then and wasn't much better the last time I went back there some years later and again, not long ago. When I was a lad the area was a mix of Greek Cypriots, Irish and a few other small minorities. St Pancras Town Hall (the Borough back then was St Pancras) a stone's throw from where I lived and once the home of a true hard-left council in Britain where they flew the Red Flag every May Day. Strangely the local MP was Geoffery Johnson Smith who was a Tory. Lawrence Corner was another place where I would buy any "extra" kit needed when I was in the army. Across the road from the Tube station were two pubs on opposite corners and I am sure they were the only two where you could see both "Up the IRA" daubed on one and "EOKA" on the other, and as a soldier travelling in uniform in the early 60's it was slightly bizarre but not the least intimidating. My grandmother was so concerned about me going to school in the area, she got a job in Chelsea and got me into a school there which made It a two-hour round trip each day come hell or high water. Some years ago I was sat in the street in Chichester and an older lady next to me was talking about London and darn me, she was also a resident in Hampstead Road, not far from where I was born at No 257 (long gone to dust and rubble now) and was the terrace that you mention in relation to Charles Dickens. We also thought that Jack The Ripper had lived there on the terrace as well... I was surprised when you pointed out where the location is now as I am sure it was on a house just along from ours. My Uncle worked for a while at the Black Cat factory and got a free ration of fags every week. The "Mornington Cars" office at the tube station was a Chemist at the time and where my mother worked as a young girl, our dentists' surgery was above the station and passengers in passing buses could look from the top deck into the surgery and see you under the drill!!! This has been a really excellent video and I have to confess to a few moments of "moist eyes". Thank you Jools you brought back some long forgotten memories.

@natmeyy5675

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Mornington Crescent in the 60s I'm the youngest of seven but remember the Chemist ,and the dental surgery also the sweet shop where the cab office was .Do you remember the stone drinking trough for horses at the side of the Greater London House think it also had a drinking fountain ?

Amazing work always, keep up the good work joolz.

Another Fabulous day with Joolz!♡

Lovely video. Thanks Joolz.

24.44 minutes of total happiness! Thanks Joolz x

Thank you Joolz. Another fine video!

Another Jolly Good Show! Thank you Joolz!

When I can finally travel to see London I'm definitely going to make it a point to get a tour by you! No matter the area or subject you're talking about you always make it interesting and have some trivia about something associated with it. There was a really old movie that had a line where a man described someone by saying "He was a man that could make a walk down a long, empty, dead end street feel like a destination you'd want to take with him", and it seems like a way to describe you as well because you could make any walk taken interesting with your knowledge, style and your "gift of gab" to entertain us!

Loved this one. Familiar and lots of memories. Great channel

Thank you so much Julian I miss London so much and travelling you help make these times lighter

I love these shows !!

Happy New Year, an interesting film, thank you

Excellent as always Joolz

Love your videos, makes me miss London so much

Love your videos, they always cheer me up. Long may they continue.

Thanks for the walkabout through history today

Hello Joolz, Thanks for the Grand tour and sharing the History of London 🇬🇧

That was one of your best. I really enjoyed that.

Hello Joozl thanks for the lovely update darling.. I hope you still do individual tours. I’d like to book with you some time in February if possible.. Hopefully, restrictions will ease some by then. 🤞🤞🙌

Hi Joolz. At 2:42 those "Lady columns" look a lot like the columns at the Erechtheion Temple, "Porch of the Maidens," at the Acropolis. "Erechtheion"------Hmmmm, that word. When doing construction in London how much old stuff do the workers come across, things like Roman coins, old culverts, human bones, medieval foundations just to think of a few. Really enjoy the dialog between you and the video guy, it's a great touch. I can smell that "coffee place" from here, it looks like a great place for a cup. What a fantastic watch, you really pull in the viewer. Thanks for your time and work.

Wonderful film again! Bit of music trivia...Mornington Crescent tube station is where Madness filmed their video for One Better Day. It featured Mrs Suggs (aka Bette Bright of Deaf School fame) and was entirely filmed round Camden with lots of recognisable places from your Camden music film. Keep up the good work my friend!

Very enjoyable as usual... Thanks!

Thank you, Joolz. I so look forward to getting the notification of a new Joolz Guides video, and especially during this time when we're hibernating because of the dreaded lurgy. Keep well, my friend.

hey man, been watching you for months during lockdown... been watching on smart tv so this is my first comment here watching from my computer. just wanted to say that you and your channel are an absolute treasure, especially in these times when so many of us are stuck at home and in my case across the Atlantic in Canada and unable to travel. you give us a sense of joy and lots of reminders in your older videos of what was like when we all had our freedoms. I've been to London twice before and barely scratched the surface of this amazing city. your knowledge and wealth of historical references are staggering. absolute gem of a concept you've come up with here. I just cant say enough good things about what you do. thanks for the hours upon hours of escapism during what is probably the darkest time any of us have ever experienced!

Great video. Willie Rushton brought back his good friend Tony Hancock's ashes from Australia 1968!

Another brilliant guide, love London so much , can’t wait to be able to visit again , thank you for making us all happy

Thanks for all the history you share with us I absolutely love it

Great videos. Keep up the amazing work!

Thank you so much for all your wonderful tours of London..I’ve spent so far my lockdown watching them all, I really enjoy the cheerful way you show us around London, all the facts you point out, the music you play, I especially love when you show the very old parts of London, the hidden courtyards, the old churches and graveyards..I hope when everything returns to normal you will do more..

🌹thank you Joolz🌹was pleasant walk with you🤗like Sunday s walks🤗you are the best...but - I would like to hear one or two stories your mom could tell us about...some people you mention in video...🤭could be interesting...All the best,🌹from snowy Belgrade, Serbia

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Oooh..must be freezing there!

@marijanabilic9246

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joolzguides ...no, it is very pleasant❄️💙enjoyed Sunday walk through Kosutnjak forest (you know Karadjordjevic family liked that one),❄️💙best wishes for mom,🤗

Excellent video,,really enjoyed it, thank you for producing!

Excellent video Joolz. The area you covered has got so much history.

Thank you so much I really do enjoy your videos..

Best channel on YT by far. Information and entertainment in tandem.

What a splendid spiffing London walking tour by Jools Guide. Wonderful and fascinating! Thanks a lot. 🏆🎖👍

Joolz is back, yay! I'm American an an unabashed Anglophile. I love seeing places that pop up in so many stories I enjoy, and I always learn something new. 😀🎡

Great programme! I live in Mornington Crescent and this is a very interesting show with lots of intriguing facts