Even more famously, the bridge over Freston Road (at 31:01) was the location of the video for Rick Astley's - never gonna give you up. Cant believe you missed that piece of cultural heritage.

Ahhhh! 4:00 AM here in Los Angeles. I do love waking up on Sundays to see what wonders of London Sir Joolz shows us.

Merry Christmas Joolz, I have been a fan of this channel for ages. The one thing I love is that you have become a custodian of history. All these buildings with a rich history that have now become luxury flats, you bring them back to life, that's truly an amazing thing to do, because we then can research them and discover more about their history, looking forward to more in 2023.

@Joolzguides

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 yes I suppose at least the buildings are still there even if they are flat now

Joolz seems to be popular amongst lorry drivers.

@Joolzguides

Жыл бұрын

More so than I realised!!

This channel proves once again how compact London is. 100 years of history in 6 feet of walking.

My old stomping ground. The Elephant Man had a scene shot in the old toilets. Here's another fascinating fact, Beatrix Potter bought a rabbit from the pet shop in Shepherd's Bush market (still there last time I looked) and this was the inspiration for Peter Rabbit.

The only bloke who makes London look worth visiting these days!

@mgunit7447

Жыл бұрын

I can tell you this area isn't. Looks like Lebanon these days

@clivebaxter6354

Жыл бұрын

@@mgunit7447 waiting for him to do a tour of London Mosques!

I worked around Shepherd’s Bush and White City for around 5 years. Some great people and memories

We stayed in Shepherd's Bush in 2014, and being hopeless Whovians and fans of Britvid generally, we made pilgrimage to the BBC. There we found it abandoned and cordoned off. A mournful guard at the gate lamented that it was no longer the BBC Television Centre. He said it was in the process of being "converted into 'luxury flats'"! It was the first time I ever heard that phrase. The derision and contempt with which he intoned "luxury flats" far exceeded Joolz's delivery, which trends more toward resigned, wry fatalism.

Slowly and surely you are becoming a national treasure..

A delight to see this area again. Particularly because my late mother who passed recently had many happy years working for Unigate Dairies, who had a large bottling plant on Wood Lane, directly opposite White City Stadium that was still there. She took great delight in driving her 4.2 Daimler Jaguar, the one and a half miles to the offices and parking next to the company managers Ford Cortina. Many comments came from that. White City was still functioning as a greyhound racing track and banger cars demolition circuit. I recall frequently walking down Wood Lane to one of the first McDonald's in London, Shepherds Bush branch, and bumping into many a well known face from BBC fame on the way. Often seeing Rowan Atkinson, Michael Parkinson and a long list of others. I wonderful time of happy memories once again stirred up by your excellent tours. A personal thank you for these recollections. Prosperity and happiness to you and your dearest.

@gazzertrn

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a happy childhood , interesting to see all those famous people .

@cliveramsbotty6077

Жыл бұрын

that dairy caught fire a few years back

@julianwaugh8221

Жыл бұрын

I used to live in the area as a poor student in a grotty flat where you had to put money in the meter to keep the lights on.

Slap bang in the middle of my formative years! I went to school in Bloemfontein Road, kicked a tennis ball on the Astroturf pitch at QPR as it was being laid, played 5 aside in the Harrow Club next to the Westway, I worked down Shepherd's Bush market, got my first motorbike from the scooter shop seen briefly in Goldhawk Road, I went to college in Lime Grove, I painted Clifton House and half of the White City Estate too! The two Dimco buildings were also featured in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Great stuff, cheers!!

@BrianMarcus-nz7cs

Ай бұрын

Ohjj you sex pistol 👍😊

Merry Christmas mr jools thanks for all the London history tour uploads in 2022 here’s to many more in 2023

@noorimeldaelle3403

Жыл бұрын

Hello Mark i am from Singapore i am 40 years old. Yes time fly really fast isn't it?. Christmas is just around the corner and 2023 also just around the corner. By the way Merry Christmas to u in advance

@jeanpeuplu5570

Жыл бұрын

@@noorimeldaelle3403 If I may: Time FLIES fast, DOESN'T it. I'm learning too, from France. Keep up the good work!

@noorimeldaelle3403

Жыл бұрын

@@jeanpeuplu5570 Oui 👍 comment allez-vous?.

@jeanpeuplu5570

Жыл бұрын

@@noorimeldaelle3403 Bien merci ! What about you ?

@noorimeldaelle3403

Жыл бұрын

@@jeanpeuplu5570 i am fine

In Australia, I first heard of Shepherd's Bush from seeing Steptoe & Son in the 70s. And then I finally got to London, got on the Tube Central Line, reached White City where the line comes out from underground, and saw the BBC Television Centre - which I recognised from The Goodies blowing it up!

@cockneyse

Жыл бұрын

We're you looking for Oil Drum Lane?

If your'e a fan of the Judy Dench show TV "As Time Goes By" they filmed the season 6 episode "The Stalker" at Sheperd's Bush Market

Always a pleasure to see your smiling face and explore London vicariously through you. Really appreciate everything you do.

I"m admiring how many people recognize you Joolz! That's awesome. That's how much we appreciate your history walks!

@keithcheney5343

Жыл бұрын

Joolz as usual is excellent 😊

@keithcheney5343

Жыл бұрын

😊has Joolz’s new book been published yet?

@becsterbrisbane6275

Жыл бұрын

Joolz is super famous now with all that beeping, haha!

Even though I'm an Aussie, born and bred... and I have never visited England.. I love these walks and talks you do Joolz.... so much rich history and nostalgia -- thanks for letting me tag along. Cheers

Born & raised in Shepherds Bush in the 60's, living in Aus now. Great to see my old hometown!

Had school swimming lessons opposite Lime Grove Studios in the 1950's.Clearly remember Arthur Askey yelling 'Hello Playmates' across the road at us having turned up to record his tv program.

Lovely trip down memory lane. Grew up in the Bush in 80's and 90's as part of the London Irish diaspora, so great to see the old girl being treated to a well deserved history tour. Sorry to see the walkabout go, a place of great joy and certainly the Antipodean influence rubbed off on me, as I moved to Oz to live.

Hawkwind silver machine absolute classic.

"A bird in the hand is worth two in Shepherd's Bush." - Spike Milligan(?)

This is Your Life, was another TV show broadcast from the Shepherd's Bush Empire. The Cinamatagraph Theatre became the Essoldo Cinema before becoming the Walk About. Next door to the Essoldo was the Pavilion Cinema, which became the Gaumont Cinema and then changed again to the Odeon. The baths in Lime grove was a regular venue for World of Sport's Saturday afternoon Wrestling presented by Kent Walton. QPR played at White City Stadium for a short period and famously beat the England squad there in a practice match 3-0.

I lived in Shepherds Bush for three years 1972=1975 as I married the local GP. No appointments in those days, one just arrived and waited one's turn. We lived in Frithville Gardens which was the back door and most used entrance to the BBC. I loved it. especially the market. There were many New Zealanders in Shepherds Bush too and many were our patients. We went to visit them in New Zealand and in fact never came back. I want to be a TV producer and director and women even talented women were not wanted in those days. I was wanted in NZ and in fact sold the TV programmes I made there to the BBC Frithville Gardens was bombed and rebuilt and I wish you had included it. We backed onto Metropolitan railway whose arches housed as iron foundry. and a store for BBC props. Thank you! It was like a living East Enders! I shall never forget it.

@BrianMarcus-nz7cs

Ай бұрын

Thanks luky you ,😎👍

Quadrophenia was filmed around Shepherd's Bush, the gang of mods chase Ray Winstone (one of the rockers) through the market. Jimmy (Phil Daniels) goes into a pie and mash shop on the Goldhawk Road, sadly closed I believe now. The bath house may have been the one featured in the film as well. White City stadium features in the chase scene at the end of the Blue Lamp staring Dirk Bogarde which introduced the character of Dixon of Dock Green. The stadium also hosted a game in the 1966 world cup as Wembley wouldn't cancel the greyhound racing they were staging that night!

@DenkyManner

Жыл бұрын

That pie and mash, Cooke's, closed about 6 years ago. Turned into offices but they've repainted to look authentic, which is both nice and confusing.

@howardscott1556

Жыл бұрын

@@DenkyManner that was the last remaining pie and mash shop in West London.

@keith79mod11

Жыл бұрын

If you remember the Bush Hotel that was a mod club on Saturdays, Sunday and also have a club night on a Monday then it was Tuesdays and you have some of the top bands on the mod scene playing there from 84 -86

@papercup2517

Жыл бұрын

@@DenkyManner Here it is, at 10:27, in case anyone missed it.

@kevindunham3669

Жыл бұрын

Yes Cookes pie and mash my Saturday, lunch for years

You R’s!!! I’ve followed your channel for many years, and as a nearby resident I consider this an early Christmas present 😃

Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes used to share an office above the KFC on Shepherd's Bush Green.

Pete Townsend released an album & video called 'White City' that I enjoyed quite a lot. It was great to learn the history of this area. Spiffing walk, Joolz. You & Simon earned your pints!

@wayneandrews9298

Жыл бұрын

another nonce lover , did you like the thing about saville too

@12:12 That was actually 150 Goldhawk Road - former home of the Townhouse recording studios..

8pm over here in Western Australia; and so great to keep seeing the London of my youth - with quite a few changes of course! Brilliant work Jules, Bravo!

Was surprised to hear the Edward Woodward joke .. made me laugh out loud and brought back some long lost memories! 🤣

A pleasant Sunday morning surprise from Joolz Guides! Watching from Toronto Canada this morning! Tons of memories at Shepherd’s Bush and Market where my late uncle Chris bought and sold antiques while driving THE Morris Minor car from the show “Miss Marple”! He told many good stories about celebrities he took “shopping” with him. I was a very young and naive girl when he first introduced me to an up and coming Eurythmics singer called Annie Lennox??? Who’s that? I was a very young girl when I first heard about her and met her. No big deal. Imagine me less than 5 years later when I was a teen and Eurythmics was all over the map famous? Yah I wanted to kick myself. When I first met Annie Lennox we spent the day driving around Shepherd’s Bush in this retro Morris Minor car while my fun loving uncle Chris searched places to buy an antique wrought iron bed frame that she wanted. She brought along a motorcycle helmet that she would wear the entire time if we had to walk through crowds of people. There also was an old pie and mash shop that we used to catch a bite from but I’m not sure if it’s still there. Wow, thanks for another great video of London Mr. Joolz. Many blessings to you at Christmas and the New Year on its way. Cheers to all who love London and Joolz Guides!

As a kid I used to get my sweets on the way to school from that newsagents and W12 Music used to be a shoe shop where most of the kids in the area got their shoes from.

I loved this film. I used live in Shepherds Bush in the very late 90s. I used to love the walkabout (I used to date the manager) so I spent many hours in there! It was fab!

A nice Sunday mooch from a mush in Shepherd’s Bush

Ah! At last in my neck of the woods! Let me add a few bits to this wonderful take on the Bush. The toilets on the green I remember for their original green Edwardian tiles and oak panelled cubicles. It was a snooker club for a while before turning into Ginglik nightclub. Just around the corner from the village hall is where Ewan Mcgregor and Charley Boorman set of on their motorcycle trip around the world! The Dorset hotel next to the old walkabout used to be a cinema in the 70s.I remember the really steep escalators leading up to the foyer where as a child I went to Saturday morning pictures! Also remember going with my dad to the the greyhound races at White City stadium. Lots of corrugated iron I recall. The open air lido on Blomfontain Rd stick in my memory too! Love your work and hope to bump into you some day! 🍻

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers Edward Woodward in the Equalizer - most people remember him from the original Wicker Man or the Callan TV show, but to me he'll always be Robert McCall, The Equalizer!

Oh my goodness Part of my childhood between Goldhawk Road and my Gran in Upper Addison Gardens on the Kensington edge, I am only 65 and I remember HORSE DRAWN MILKCART WITH GLASS BOTTLES AND HOOVES CLINKING

I love that joolz is getting more n more recognized on the streets of London. Probably the only person you'll find with that wonderful hat

Thank you so much for your video of Shepherds Bush, it bought back so many memories. I got bought up in Shepherds Bush and now live in Australia. Thank you for going to Hopgood street and showing Macfarlane road in your video.

Lived there from 69-74....best place in London...

Joolz's performance in the Odyssey really made the movie for me. Bravo!

The Alexi Sayles reference is the best bit of this one! Merry Christmas!

Your video covers a lot of my old stomping grounds from the 1980s. I worked in "The Wellington" pub (no longer extant, alas), once situated on the The Uxbridge Road right on Shepherd's Green. I was also a squatter on Freston Road for a short while (squatters were affectionately known as "The Frestonians"). I was delighted to see you finish the video by dropping into in The Stewart Arms in the Edward Woods Estate, which was one of several of my old watering-holes.

I use to watch blue Peter. I even had a blue Peter badge. Which I keep for years. I can't remember what happened to it.🇬🇧👍👍

So great you are taking us round west London, so much to offer.Cannot wait for Ealing, Hanwell, Brentford so much to talk about there... Thanks so much for creating these films for our enjoyment.

I worked for the BBC in the 70/80s and I loved going to Lime Grove. It was a total warren and had an air of seedness about it. I also have fond memories of the BBC TV Theater as the Empire was called in those days. Walking onto the stage I was so surprised how small and shallow it was.

Thanks for solving a mystery for me! When I lived in the area I would sometimes go to a place where you would just sit around on the floor and listen to live bands for free. I couldn't remember where it was, but it must have been People's Hall. You really should do a full episode of this area, it's fascinating.

I was at Wandsworth School in the 60s at Southfields and as a former grammar school they had kept up the fencing and a set of 5s courts to keep the rather old fashioned teachers happy with the comprehensive system that they weren't terribly keen on.

Holy cow. Bush's changed a hell of a lot. That iron bridge we use to roller skate across that we use to shout gang way as we went across. an old cockney gal.

Gainsborough court (behind Gaumont Terrace) gained a blue plaque in the past ten years, referencing the previous BBC studios. This blue plaque lasted a year or two, before being pilfered. It's wiser to attach these items higher up the wall, I think. Gainsborough Pictures was a film studio; some of it's production was from the studios in Lime Grove.

@Joolzguides

Жыл бұрын

Yes, all the Abbey Road ones went

@edwardsp1916

Жыл бұрын

Great video and interesting info Dee Dee as some of my favourite WIll Hay films were Gainsborough Pictures.

@stablefairy9437

Жыл бұрын

Gainsborough pictures was a VERY British film studio, and they started off all their films with this very glamourous 17th century lady in a huge hat and elaborate dress, nodding at the camera. you also mention Gaumont -British which was also based in Limegrove, Shepherds Bush and was a sister company of Gainsborough.

@smokemeakipper1076

Жыл бұрын

BBC is a scummy organization that hates the UK and hid jimmy saviles crimes.

Bloemfontein Road was part of the 1908 Anglo French exhibition and the surrounding areas were named after their possessions.There used to be a Canada Way and Australia Road.

Fear not Jules, I also wrote to Jim All Fix It, and spent my childhood being disappointed that he never fixed it for me, how hindsight has made me reevaluate not getting to go hand-gliding...

You missed the fact that the video for Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up was filmed under the bridge at Freston Road. Such a gem I think you’ll agree 😂

Thanks, loved your video, went to school on Blomfontein Rd, Christopher Wren School from 1957 to 1962, the area has changed a lot since then. On a visit back in 2016 we walked from King St, Hammersmith via all the back roads to Christopher Wren which as a kid I used to walk or cycle every weekday. You must be the most posh person to ever visit Shepherd's Bush.

@johnp515

Жыл бұрын

Jools is not posh.

A Merry Christmas to all the subscribers 🎄🎅

As a Brit in Mexico, I really enjoyed this. Great use of old photos to show changes.

You always make me feel like a local. The human side of the city.

Hope your legs are faring better of late, Joolz! Thank you for filming these videos despite the pain!

Who could forget the bridge -muggers paradise back then

As a lad, I lived just down the road from Shepherd's Bush in Acton Vale. Spent many a Saturday afternoon at the Market (and remember the old lady selling shopping bags for half a crown each) and one time attended a performance of 'What's My Line?' at the Empire. I learned to swim at the Lime Grove Baths, close to Steptoe's yard. You couldn't get on a bus on days when Queen's Park Rangers were playing at home - they would be full of football fans.

The Acme Factory was also filmed in that large red bricked building for Who Framed Roger Rabbit

So sweet of you for featuring Mleczko shop👍🏻 they have such a friendly staff there and the doughnuts are to kill for💘🍩🍩🍩

@paulsz6194

Жыл бұрын

Polskie Pączki tam maja ?

grew up here most. my life, learnt a lot here

Joolz! That watch shop on Goldhawk road is phenomenal. One man has been there for decades, he is a lovely guy and I get all my watches fixed with him. Go have a chat with him if you ever can!

@ip5799

Жыл бұрын

You also missed the finest nut shop in London by that bakery called nut case!

As a kid I used to go to Shepherd's Bush market to buy bags of candyfloss, then rush home on the 207 bus, to watch the football results update on Teletext.

Three things 1: love your content, 2 On our London visit this past September I can't count the times when I realized I was on the path of one your walks and 3 what you really need is a META spot on Doctor Who-recording a tour whilst holding forth on the time ( insert name of supporting cast member or role they played) tried to date your mum or how your dad washed out of UNIT due to an injury

Another great one, Joolz! Don't forget about Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb / East Finchley please

According to my mum, before the Shepherd's Bush Roundabout was built it was the sight for a gypsy horse mkt. Why was Goldhawk Rd called The Devil's Highway? Interesting to see so many new built estates sprung up in place of much nicer older mahoosive buildings. Learnt the art of bricklaying at Goldsmiths College 😂 A great trip down memory lane. Thank you

@JohnnyRocker2162

Жыл бұрын

interesting as the Wormholt Estate part of White City was in the shape of a horned devil and that it was a place of bad luck.

I think Bush Hall was once the Harp Cafe. My parents knew the Cypriot family who owned it (until the 90s) and we'd regularly visit. Away from the punters view, it had the most amazingly, glamorous Edwardian spanking white staircase. I believe it was all once a big dance hall or something. But it all got covered up. It was a fascinating building, with hidden staircases and lots of relics from the past. The cafe was lovely, many memories. The launderette has been there for donkeys' years! Further down the Uxbridge road was a lovely mural which got covered up with those yellow, blue and white tiles. Was great to be reminded of it all thanks.

Hi Joolz! Greetings from San Antonio, Texas! Your videos are very helpful to my very first trip to the UK next year! Thanks!

What a beauty. Brought back a lot of memories. From going in and out of a BBC building up the road from the 'Empire' for auditions (as well as the TV centre where you could wander in if you said you were dropping a letter off at reception. so i'd go up in the lift and drop my photo and CV off at individual producers offices. security was tightened later in the 80's i think) to a stint i had as a porter at the Kensington Hilton. Loads of actors working at the Beeb stayed there and it was quite galling carrying the bags of people i'd worked with...so i'd drown my sorrows over the road at the 'Stewart.' (who'd also do lock-ins when we finished at 11) Great times.

The Dimco buildings were also the ACME factory in who framed Roger Rabbit

Went to the closing of the walkabout messy night

I really enjoyed this guide, as I do all your guides💖 thank you Joolz and co.💖 It brought back great memories for me. I live in Camberwell now but I grew up in East Acton, W12, so Shepherds Bush was very well known to me. My Mum and Dad moved to Champlain House, White City flats, in the 30’s. They had a lovely new flat. During the war, Mum used to look out the window and see the glow over London from air raids! Dad was away in India with the RAMC. They then got a lovely council house in East Acton near Wormwood Scrubs, a great place to grow up.🥰 I could really do with some Cooke’s pie n mash now💖💖 Merry Christmas everyone🎄🎄☃️☃️

@SM-xf5dg

Жыл бұрын

I loved the Bush growing up. Sadly the pie and mash shop is closed

@gisar.6539

4 ай бұрын

When my mum was in uni, I used to stay over at Champlain House as a little kid, at her friend’s house until she was finished with her lectures. Then I’d get picked up and went straight home. I lived on Du Cane Road. Some of my childhood school mates lived on Cornwallis House and Blaxland House

Joolz covers so many different historical and interesting places to see that are never in an "official" travel brochure.

You have a seemingly endless store of fascinating anecdotes that you relate as you point out the lucky survivors hidden within the horrors of modern London. Thanks Joolz. In my opinion you are The Best.

One of your very best, Joolz, my friend! As an East Londoner who rarely ventured to the west side, it was fascinating to hear about so many historical (and contempory) references related to Shepherd's Bush. Who knew 😃 Great stuff as usual. Please keep up the good work.

Nice to see you guide us around my old neighbourhood! I lived in Bloemfontein Avenue for a few years. I recognised most of the places and possibly eaten at the Polish cafe, but also lots of great surprises in there. Love the film references. Coming home on the 220 - we always knew when someone big was playing at the Empire...or the Hammersmith Apollo - both on the bus route, because the crowds often spilled over the road lanes and it would take bloody ages to get home!

@patriciaoreilly8907

4 ай бұрын

I use to eat at the Ritz cafe near the green 😊

Lived in Shepherds Bush early 80s 😊 nice community vibe . Cosmopolitan friendly & relax .

Lived there for many years ;-) I knew a few historical facts, but not all of them. Thank you !

You forgot to mention Breaking Glass with Hazel O'Conner was filmed under the westway.

Hello Jools. Love your videos. Just wanted to point out that the “village hall” that you pointed out next to the Westfield Centre was actually the Drill Hall for the London Voluntary Artillery as stated on the foundation stone 👍🙂

Love the Vid Joolz ................But how about a "Steptoe & Son Special ? .........locations & such like Gold hawk Road and Oil Drum Lane.

I wish I’d known all this when I spent a year in London when I was at university. I’ll just have to go back.👍

Hooray💕 Nothing better in the world than a video drop from Joolzie 🎉 That grandfather character from Hard Days Night DID have the most creepy smile almost sinister…..lol

You should get a M.B.E for your hard work preserving the history of our nations capital.

London city I'd love to visit, shepherd's bush when I hear it it straight away reminds me of steptoe and sons

I saw Gary Numan at the Shepherd's Bush Empire. Several times i seem to remember.

The mummy buildings were also the exterior for the denouement of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

You can walk from Woodlane to the other side of the West cross route, to Latimer. Up steps and over the road. You were going the right way before you got the tube.

@Joolzguides

Жыл бұрын

I did try but it took me further south than I wanted..I liked the view from the tube in the end

@Mathemagical55

Жыл бұрын

@@Joolzguides DenkyMan beat me to it. I'm not sure you found the right route because the steps come out in Hunt Close which is only a little south of Latimer Road tube. Once you cross the road, however, you are in North Kensington and definitely no longer in Shepherds Bush.

Our primary school class came up from Kent in 1966 to watch Crackerjack at the BBC Shepherd's Bush Theatre - Leslie Crowther, Peter Glaze, Pip Hinton etc. and the guest pop group were the Spencer Davis Group.

so much has changed from the 70s 80s it's looking really nice now, the deserted station and beyond is now Westfields, and the old breakers yards have since disappeared, and my old BBC days as a motorbike courier up and down Wood Lane, getting the news to the 6th floor, love the QPR ground that's not going

That shot at 17:52...that tiled wall behind you used in the 80s and early 90s, to be an amazing, almost dystopian mural with a baby under a machine with soldiers and all sorts...ever since the internet was accessible to me, I have been trying to find pictures of this. I know I didnt dream it, travelling up and down the Uxbridge road on the 207 bus in my childhood!

a smile is as good as a wink. guilty as charged😇

Great one, Joolz. Always enjoy your energy when dispensing knowledge. Thought that I might add... Where you were filming under the Westway near the tennis courts, you showed some graffitied walls (the graffiti is mostly legitimate, not vandalism, with a lot of it coming from local art students). If you went further in, past the concrete walls backing a car salvage yard, there is a section opposite the back of the rock climbing area with more recently erected wooden boards hiding an old horse-riding manège where, amongst other things, Victoria and David Beckham's kids learnt to ride. Hidden in between the concrete graffitied wall and these graffitied wooden boards, you will come across a dodgy-looking, very narrow alley - that alley is a short cut to a road called Stable Way. Stable Way is a cul-de-sac mostly known for the scrapyards and Traveller village there, but opposite the exit of the narrow alley is a red brick wall which conceals the old stables - these stables had been originally built as a concessionary gesture for travellers, totters and costermongers from Portobello market and were one of the last rag-and-bone stables in London. It was these stables that provided the old horse, Hercules, for Steptoe and Son. The current building was from a rebuild in 1979 by the Westway Trust and, up until about 10-12 years ago (2010-ish) the stables were still in use for horse-riding in the manège and hacking on Wormwood Scrubs, but now they are being used to store cars. Going back even further, the area used to be grassland, of which Wormwood Scrubs is all that remains. The grasslands were traditionally used for the working horses that served the city - the horses that used to pull milk floats, taxi-cabs, dray carts and the like. Prior to the development of the west side of Notting Hill, there used to be the quite well-known White City Horse Shows (similar to the Royal Windsor Horse Show with Show Jumping, Carriage Driving, Horse-showing, etc.). Before that there was a horse-racing track built in 1837 by John Whyte called the Kensington Hippodrome. The race-course area was mostly located in Nottinghill, incorporating the slopes of Notting Hill and the meadows west of Westbourne Grove, but the north-western end extended to pretty much where the Westway Roundabout is now with the southern end running almost to Holland Avenue just north of Holland Park. The stables under the Westway didn't service the racecourse - those stables were located in what is now Pottery Lane, Nottinghill. The government once leased land at Wormwood Scrubs for military exercises and cavalry horses used head along Wood Lane to get to he grounds. Instead of taking the tube, there is a way to cross to the other side of the Westway feeder road - enter Westfields, go through M&S by descending down to the basement supermarket and, in the corner behind the escalators, is a back entrance that leads you outside to stairs and a lift that service a pedestrian crossing across the West Cross Route (A3220) - you actually had this crossing in the distance in your shot from the window of the tube. Also, next to South Africa Road, the names for the 'main' roads inside the White City Estate are Australia Road, India way, Commonwealth Avenue, New Zealand Way and Canada Way. The area North of Goldhawk Road used to be contracted by real estate agents to NoGo (NO-rth of GO-ldhawk), as an area in which you didn't want to live, but, due to the in-affordability of housing in other areas, it is now becoming a sought after location. Behind the West 12 Shopping Centre is the Shepherds Building. It used to be a tax office, but is now home to a number of media-related companies (due to the proximity to the BBC), like Tiger Aspect, Endemol (Big Brother), Castaway Television, Backlight Television, Kudos Film & Television, Shine TV, etc. amongst a number of other companies like Gu desserts, OP Talent, and a number of construction, software, computing and other companies.

God, I love the venues The Empire and Bush Hall! 😊 So many good gigs there! At the Shepherds Bush Empire I saw Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop, Dinosaur Jr. with The Stooges, and The Black Crowes (with Noel Gallagher, who got booed when he came on as a guest!) amongst many other bands there too. At Bush Hall I saw The Heads, Wooden Shjips, Amanda Palmer, Soul Savers and more I can't recall right now! 😊 God, it's been at least 20years since I last went to either venue. Quite a few drug dealers around there on the housing estates towards White City. 😏😬But I'll say no more!😊😉

@fellspoint9364

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Wooden Shjips !!!

@nickthelick

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@@fellspoint9364 Wooden Shjips supporting The Heads, that or the other way around!

Great to see old SB again after all these years. Lived in Macfarlane Road in the late 80's - many a student party!!

@phatbob71

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I lived in macfarlane rd too ! 😍

I used to work in an office block in Woodger Road called Apex Court. Up until the mid 90s it was leased by the BBC and it's postcode is W12 8QT. So I hate to break it to you, but all the post went there. Honest, check it.