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@darinmullins4770

3 жыл бұрын

Born in England haven't been there in years ! Thank you !

@natashanyxx9486

3 жыл бұрын

I’m thinking that seeing you drink whiskey on a park bench should become at least a semi-regular feature of your videos.

@robspunk

3 жыл бұрын

Jules on Strictly！ Haha imagine that. Shoe-in for the top prize. Shoe-in... wonder where that come from...

@sirnearlyheadlesnick

3 жыл бұрын

If you konw any one that works for Pay Pal that can help me get back into my account since i need to ok a message they send to a disused mobile no to get in and well i dont have access tro that No. any more and cant get back into my Pay Pal account. Since im outside of the Uk the No. to call wont work from South Africa, mate in London can call it but not me? and there is no email address to complain to?

@rotel1111

3 жыл бұрын

What’s the music in the background Sir?

These should be given out globally to cheer people up. Proper good medicine for the soul.

@velvetindigonight

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed............... should be on the BBC! Enjoy

@maudegonne3740

3 жыл бұрын

@@velvetindigonight II hope everybody is expressing their appreciation by chucking the Man a few pennies. PS I agree about the pineapples are pine cones representing the pineal gland . There's a massive one out side the Vatican/There is a lot of esoteric symbolism in London

We cannot travel to London now so your vlogs are so apreciated

@the_oslovian

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!

@timokauppinen5238

3 жыл бұрын

I have a return flight to London is on hold, these videos help a little. 😁

@JohnZaabi

3 жыл бұрын

so first world problems! unrelatable

Never ceases to amaze me that no matter how often I pass a place there is always a bit of history or trivia that is new to me. Keep up the delightful guides Joolz.

Loved the Winston Churchill snippet, Joolz is a man of variety.

Love these rambles. I've spent years dawdling around London and find something new every time - these guides have replaced the telly in my house :-)

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

They even mentioned me on the radio yesterday!

@pulltheotherone5035

2 жыл бұрын

Well here I am 8 months later watching and thinking these videos are the only way I will ever see London again....being second class as I am now!

I'm near Kansas City, about 2 hours from Fulton and the Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury, pass it frequently going back and forth between St. Louis. They have a beautiful Churchill museum there now. Unfortunately it's closed until June for renovations, but I'll go after that and take a picture and be sure to tag you. :)

As a Londoner who doesn’t live too far from the City and once worked in the area of the walk you featured, I love and am proud to have being born in the greatest city in the world. Lovely to see people from around the world appreciating our capital as well and thanks for your enjoyable walks.

I realize not every building and landmark can be saved for various reasons, but when they’re gone people have fewer and fewer reminders of the stories that took place there. What you are doing is incredibly important. You are helping people visualize the endless rich history every step of the way. This channel is educational and impressively entertaining. Very well done

It's great to be able to travel to London from my couch in Toronto. Maybe someday I'll get to see all these things for real.

@nigelcarpenter4814

3 жыл бұрын

greatest city in the world

@chelseagirl278

3 жыл бұрын

Fellow Torontonian here, great channel isn’t it?!

@musingwithreba9667

3 жыл бұрын

@@chelseagirl278 absolutely! can't get out to see our own city even, might as well watch Joolz

@chelseagirl278

3 жыл бұрын

@@musingwithreba9667 yes, be entertained and learn!

Just what this Black Country girl needed to brighten my day ❤️

Just add me diamond, I recognise many of your sights when I moved from up North ie Hartlepool to London for work I lived in the streets of London for 3 months including thru the kings x fire 🔥 and the Great storm, I passed thru Kings x 5 mins before the fire in 87, and passed back thru the area on the underground when I returned ( I rode the underground rails ) you could then for hours for 50p, and watch the mail train , I remember the great storm within a month in 87, the police ushered everyone of the Waterloo concorse as the glass in the roof was collapsing onto the concourse, the police said stay near the station, I however , went for a walk around London as I thought it was a unique opportunity to see The greatest capital in the world, 300 hundred year old trees fallen across the Mall, Now back up North but probably end back up on streets ( maybe in London). Your films are superb and unique 😊 Cheers Joolz 🥂 Alan

Cheers from Chicago, keeping me cheered through the winter of our discontent

I love walking around London, learning about it’s history and discovering new things. Still not bored of it despite living in it nearly all my life.

Oh how I miss wandering around in London. I hope with the vaccines we’ll be able to travel again in a few months time. So for now I’ll just enjoy these great films. Cheers from Norway.

@Anna-oo3yf

3 жыл бұрын

Vaccination guidance says we still have to practice social distancing and wear masks.... go check it out... what a joke

@johnfeehan5219

3 жыл бұрын

its what I miss the most especially the Southbank and The Globe area . Love Norway too

@MrMurraymanson

3 жыл бұрын

When you take the fax you might be able to walk at all Einar.

Good Morning Julian, glad to see you back with another Joolz Guide, hope that You, Your Mum and Family are doing fine this Sunday Morning

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

That's very kind. All well thanks!!!

Pine cones Joolz. Pineapples would have spiky leaves sprouting from the top. Pine cones are an ancient symbol of the pineal gland held in high regard by mystics and kabbalists like Christopher Wren.

@chrisfunx7968

3 жыл бұрын

I came here to say the same thing great observation! Joolz you should look into this.

@ChicagoTurtle1

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisfunx7968. Me too. Though I don’t have much information to add. Weren’t these pine cones as architectural decorations used in other places? How about in the Roman Empire??

@chenchina4577

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, first thing that came to mind was pine cones. From a fan in HAWAII.

@TheEarthHistorysConfusing

3 жыл бұрын

Gald you see that, He is unreal to say its for parties. he didn't research much ..

@michaelmcdonnell5998

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrylaw296 Or maybe artichokes! I'm sticking with pine cones. Nothing esoteric about pineapples!

Hooray. Sunday complete.

@constancemiller3753

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers. See you next Sunday. 🌞

Love your tours, thanks from a Londoner abroad x

Thank you for continuing to put out great content under less than convivial circumstances. While it is so quiet in London, I wish the authorities in the City would give you access to places where you might not normally be able or allowed to go - your videos really bring out the best of London life and are a fantastic, quality boost for the old town.

a pleasant surprise for a Sunday. Lets watch!!

18:45 interesting it's named after a fort, the Barbican does remind me of a big sea fort outer walls always stained with dripping water. Walking around there even during a lunch time down the narrow corridors, there's just no one about even though as you state in the video, practically all homes are occupied. The outer courtyard is always empty. You can regard it as a semi failed project that just keeps chugging away through the ages.

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

an extraordinary place

St Georges Fields just north of Hyde Park was like the Postman' s Park with grave stones around the perimeter. There was an archery ground, tennis courts and a rough area where scouts and guides would spend week end camps. Now the ground has been built with three blocks of flats.

Happy Sunday, Joolz! Do you know that I dream of London occasionally. Haven’t been there in decades, but I think you inspire me. Love the trousers! Stay safe. We’ll be out and about before too long. Cheers from the U.S.! ❤️🇬🇧

This has been my favorite installment of your series. I had to watch it twice, while pausing frequently to read the plaques and memorial stones you've featured in this. I've been hoping you would tour the Barbican as it has always been a very attractive place to me. You showed the Museum of the City of London in a previous episode, and it used to be located at The Barbican. Once again, thank you for a smashing tour of some of the most interesting places in The City!

Hi Joolz, I love your videos,they take me right back to the seventies when I was based in Chelsea barracks, and doing public duties. When off duty I used to go wandering around London taking in all the historical sights. Thanks Joolz. Keep making the videos they're great.

They're not Unicorns Joolz. They're horses with candles attached to their foreheads.The first headlights for carriages at night !!!!!?? Great to see you again. Hopefully seeing London too .

@keithfowler2013

3 жыл бұрын

@ab c Thought that might work for your American clients !!

@julieharnett3600

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you are ok.

@julieharnett3600

3 жыл бұрын

Have you been to priory church Dunstable

@vespasian606

3 жыл бұрын

@@julieharnett3600 Round the corner from me. I should go to a service when all this "stuff" is over.

I could’ve sworn they were pine cones. The romans used the symbol of pine cones too

@johnvonundzu2170

3 жыл бұрын

They ARE pine cones, an ancient symbol of immortality/eternity. Classical architecture put them all over the place. Associated with Dionysus as well. Pineapples show up very late, an import from South America.

@cijmo

3 жыл бұрын

See now, I always thought artichokes and have this delicious plot for a skit of you, me and Joolz all standing beneath one and aruging about it LOL. Getting all red-faced and trying to illustrate our point.

@johnvonundzu2170

3 жыл бұрын

@@cijmo Artichokes? Nah, antiquity was all about pine cones and pomegranates.

@davidgreen7392

3 жыл бұрын

Sure they're not Pineal Glands (also from the Vatican ?)

@annother3350

3 жыл бұрын

The pine cone represents the pineal gland

I've been watching ALL of your guides. They are wonderful! I am in Florida but am planning a London visit, if Covid-19 ever ends! You should do a tour of Charles Dickens places where he lived, favorite Pubs, etc.

More Joolz Guides is always good.

Joolz! Your video this morning was just what we needed! Thank you! We love your sister's new song on this video, too!

@loupsyche

3 жыл бұрын

thank you :-) I only got give two days to write and record something for this one so a little rough and ready but i liked it too

@jennifertorres5380

3 жыл бұрын

@@loupsyche it's really great! I love when a quickly written song is awesome like that!

That soulless building next to the Museum of London was the mega-law firm Clifford Chance - I used to work there many years ago and can confirm it was definitely soulless.

@razzle1964

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if, like many of us, you took solace & comfort in the surrounding hostelries, to counter the soullessness, lol!😉

@lamiaitaly2549

3 жыл бұрын

Certainly did, I have fond memories of the Lord Raglan which Jools also went past.

@razzle1964

3 жыл бұрын

@@lamiaitaly2549 I, too, am familiar with the Lord Raglan. Happy days, eh!

Lot's of fun again. Jolly good. Don't stop.

Made my day seeing a new video posted. As always, brilliant.

Hi Julien, Wonderful walk! So nice to see all the history wasn't wiped out, loved the ancient walls...what a treasure to find amongst all the new builds! 😊 Your videos are so uplifting...all the work you do is so appreciated! 👍Thank you so much, take really good care of yourself, stay well, be safe! Much love Kathy x 💖Ontario, Canada

Welcome back, Joolz! A great show again, thanks for sharing.

Always good to see Joolz.

Amazing. I love the city so much. Thank you for showing so much of it to us.

Thanks for posting this Joolz, it makes my day to see your videos!

Another excellent video love these they make my Sunday long my they continue.

Greetings from Poland.I love your vlog,very interesting London's history💂‍♀️💂‍♂️☺☺🇵🇱👏👏👏

I love your attention to detail, research & humor. You’re videos are a joy to watch.

Always glad to see another Joolz Guide video. Love all of your walks. One day I will get back to London to explore these places.

Love it! “Of all the pubs in England called the King’s Head, one built on that site would have been the only one to actually have had a king’s head!”

Always and forever...thank you!

In case you're like me desperately trying to find out the band name that accompanies these episodes, it's called "Lil' Lost Lou" and it's amazing!

@loupsyche

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Another brilliant video keep them coming jools so much history and information

First time since started watching a couple of weeks ago that I get early to a video posting. Thank you for making these videos, we watched as a family when eating meals 😊

Interesting video as always joolz. Thanks for sharing it and I looking forward to the next one.

Not only informative but entertaining as well, as always! Can't wait to make a trip across the pond to see it all!

What a wonderful way to wake up this fine Sunday morning in L.A. : a new Joolz video and my morning cup of coffee. Thank you so much, Joolz, for putting me in such a good mood right off the bat! 💋

Thank the gods for your videos. The only way for us to see London right now. You are the best!

Joolz, thanks for another delightful guide. You made my day!!!

I was introduced to your channel yesterday and have binge watched a number of videos since ! I have worked in the City and Square Mile for over 30 years and each of your tours so far have taught me a massive amount about somewhere I thought I knew well ! Bravo !

Wonderful video, as usual. Thank you, Joolz, mate!

Fantastic video Joolz- love all of the history that you share with us! Your sense of humour and joie de vivre provides great enjoyment for us in lockdown in Canada!!

I love your channel. I think you do an excellent job and I'm just so pleased that someone exactly like yourself chose to start a channel covering precisely the things you do. Well done, you're of enormous value to planet Earth here. :)

Another thoroughly enjoyable jaunt Joolz thankyou, and RIP Doug Mountjoy a true gent.

Thank you Joolz for yet another brighter Sunday 💃

Thanks Joolz/Simon, love the history of London, we're so lucky to live here. Used to work around Wood and Gresham Street. Just used to take the area for granted. Love the end with Simon and yourself sharing the Whisky wearing blue tartan strides, so funny with Simon's paper cup and you with the bottle.

Thanks Joolz! Love when you feature areas that have to do w/ the Gresham's as I am descended from them. Christian Gresham married Sir John Thynne (my 11xggrandparents). Just wish that Sir Gresham's home still existed off the Old Roman Road area, but I believe it burned in the great fire & that a huge bank now stands over it!😕 Thanks again! Lisa from Eugene, Oregon

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Gosh..how amazing. I hope I didn't get my facts wrong about him!

@ramibu239

3 жыл бұрын

@Joolz Guides - London History Walks - Travel Films you probably know more than I do!😅 However, when you were showing those livery halls I was really hoping you might point one out for The Worshipful Company of Mercers which Thomas's father (Richard) & uncle (John) founded (if it even still exist!😁). Thomas btw was Christian's brother so he would be a ?x-gr uncle. But his father & uncle were Lord Mayor (obviously at different times - I believe John was even High Sherrif at one point) during the time of Henry the VIII & it is said that they had a huge home down on the Old Roman Road - even though I really enjoyed your vid you did on the Gresham, the Grasshoppers & The Exchange, I found it sad to see that huge modern bank built over the top of where it once stood.

@razzle1964

3 жыл бұрын

Lovely story, Lisa ... I worked in the heart of the City for 32yrs & spent many lunches & evenings in the many fine pubs that adorn Gresham Street. As a humble, retired civil servant & lover of the City, I salute your ancestry.

I feel so good everytime I see your smile : ) I miss London.

Love this channel!! Such a comfort.. we cannot travel to London, so many thanks for bringing us on your explorations!

Hey Joolz! I've had a stressful time recently. Your videos and energy are a welcome thing

Thanks for another brilliant tour. I think that what makes your videos so good is not just the fascinating subject matter but also you: your personality, style, humour, happy demeanour, etc. In short, you have the X factorJoolz.

Thank you - again - for the nice Sunday walk - and for the feeling, as like I was there🤭🤗...with you

Loved learning about the Barbican, I found that building to be wistful and melancholy, beautiful in a concrete and sorrowful way --- loved loved loved it. Merci

I studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2009. Seeing you walking around the Barbican complex bought back some really nice memories that I'd not thought about for a little while. So thank you! Loving this channel and your style; you got yourself a new subscriber.

This is one of you best yet Julian. The flow and editing was excellent.

The content of you videos never disappoints! Before I watched your channel I had no idea that London had so much to offer. I can't wait for lockdown to end, so that I can go on an adventure to London for the day!

Thanks for another awesome vid! I pretty much copy all your walks for my outings around London and have always been meaning to go to The Barbican so now I am going to trace the entire wall from Blackfriars to The Tower on my next walk. Thanks! I can't even imagine the amount of research that must go into each of your videos!

Brilliant Joolz! One of the best walks around London I've followed you on. Not only do you reveal so many historical details which the average passer by fails to see, but you always have an amusing tale to tell. I love the City & never fail to walk round it when in the UK. Your KZread walks are definately the best as the majority are totally boring with inexperienced guides. Keep up the good work. Pity you didn't find a pub! 👏🍾👍

What a good episode! "She Who Must Be Obeyed" and I are in California, but we have managed to save up enough to visit London about every other year. 2020 was an exception for obvious reasons, so your video visits now especially make us "homesick". We are so glad that you love London as much as we. Thank you.

Thank you so much, mate! Glad you finally got time to do this. Can't say you don't listen to your fans. Great channel.

Met the love of my life in Postman's Park.. such a lovely place. Excellent video Joolz

Thank you for these videos I live in Cardiff and miss visiting but your videos help in this tough period. Hopefully I’ll be able to visit again soon. Miss the pubs

Love love love these historical facts!! We love ya!

Splendid.

Another excellent video. A great guide, history lesson and fun all rolled in one. Keep up the vids Joolz. All the best from Australia mate.

What a really great video today, the London's wall was very interesting to learn about thank you. It was a little strange to see part of the London wall in the parking structure but it's nice to see they were trying to preserve it. Wish her in America we would try and save more of your history and really learn about it more.

Enjoyed another one Joolz ! Please keep em coming ! Cheers

I live near Fulton, MO and as so excited to hear about the move of the church from London. Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech was given there. I love how you inform me on London history and now my local history too.

I love the Barbican Center. A few years back a museum in it had an exhibit that I want to see. Had the hardest time trying to get in and and even more trouble exiting. Some how I ended up in a subterranean parking garage and had to follow the traffic out. I guess that the only way an American knows how to exit.

Another excellent walk through London. Thank you Joolz. Would love to walk these streets myself now, during this Lockdown, so quiet. Must be bliss. Keep up the good work👍

Really enjoyed this escapism. Thank you Joolz, you look great.

Earliest I've been to a Joolzy video. Good to see you back!

Jools. How about doing a vid in the 'footsteps of Samuel Pepys' ? From (Birth) Salisbury Court - St Olaves (Seething Lane) Lots of interesting narration to use there from the diary.

@Joolzguides

3 жыл бұрын

Would be great..but a lot of work for sure!

@davidlathrop9360

3 жыл бұрын

It would be so worth it, though. Pepys is just such an excellent source of relatively normal life in Restoration London, such a journey would be fitting! Just have to find a sack posset for the ending, and a proper "and so to bed".

@johnmh1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joolzguides Pretty please??

Thanks to you I can take stupenduos walks in London. Miss it. Many thanks, Joolz!

I love your channel Joolz..You keep me positive. xxx thank you.

Tons of fun and tons of great info! King’s Head Pub, indeed!Sitting there at the end in your bowler and scarf and crooning away as you swig on your pint, you look like a prime target for Alex and his droogs. :-)

Finally something good to watch on telly tonight :-)

I used to work in Barbican in 1980/82 ...it was great.!!! Wish I could go back in time.

Yippee. I love when I wake up to a new Joolz Guide posting. Love you Joolzie💕🥰

I thought I knew London better than most but your knowledge is exceptional & your enthusiasm infectious.. Well done sir. Keep it up. Much fun & a real tonic

Fantastic as usual joolz. Very enjoyable

Love it! have binged the whole channel throughout our various lockdowns, have really missed walking around London. That being said, keeping my eyes out for interesting street furniture in the local neighbourhood more now. There's a stink pipe sewage lamppost thing just outside my work! It's sad but this made me excited when i finally realised what the thing actually was😆 anyway thanks for another great walk Jools 👍

Brilliant. Thank you for showing the history. Love your channel. My Mum was born to the sound of Bow Bells

A really great Episode, great information...thanks J...

A delightful walk, brilliant as always! How surprising, however, for a talented thespian and singer to explore the Barbican without even a passing mention of music! The Barbican is, after all, the home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama!

Thank you for your rather splendid videos. The weather seems rather cold. Stay safe😷😷😷