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@freethinker4991

Жыл бұрын

Joolz absolutely fabulous show thank you for bring joy into our lives. The walk through Ealing studio was grate. Although I have never been to the UK and will never be able to afford to, every time I watch you shoe it like taking a holiday in London. Thank you so much.

@davsav

Жыл бұрын

I have your book which I like a lot except that the print is far too small. As an older person I find it very difficult to read on the move.

@Metadasius

Жыл бұрын

Great book sir! Very happy to have bought it.

@Mindsi

Жыл бұрын

Keep your eye out for Typhoid Mary😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉

@barbararice6650

Жыл бұрын

If you appreciated me watching your video why not throw me a milkshake 😕 Brexit forever 😁👍

Worth adding that the computer programming language Ada was named after Ada Lovelace.

@garethbray9017

Жыл бұрын

Plus one of the tunnel boring machines used to make the Elizabeth line was called Ada, after Lovelace

Gunnersbury was not named after gunners. It was named after King Cnut's niece who took the large swaith of land we know today as Gunnersbury and built her Manor house and named it after herself Gunnhildr or Gunylda. She lived there from 1016 to 1044 when the new Saxon King, Edward The Confessor seized the throne and banished her.

You walked passed what was the Ealing Palladium (WH Smiths on the Uxbridge road) Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin both played there!

@Joolzguides

Жыл бұрын

Amazing! I wish I knew.

Jules, My wife and I come to London ( greatest city in the world ) for a month every year from the U.S. You do us the huge favor of pointing out new areas to tour, like Ealing. Thank you so much !

I painted those flats in Ealing village in 1962 or thereabouts I remember Ken Wolstenholme and the brother of Victor McGlocklin lived there too. We used the longest wooden ladders I have ever seen. They didn't reach the stairwell tops I had two guys hang me over the edge by my ankles and finished the part we could not reach from the ladders. Also painted the insides of them. Wonderful memories thanks.

@annother3350

Жыл бұрын

Blimey -- couldnt you have tied a brush to a broom?!

@russcooke5671

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂 hilarious

@claywebb8199

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like an Ealing Comedy! 😬

@reason43poole37

Жыл бұрын

@@claywebb8199 It was more than you can imagine it was a totally different work environment than today. I went on to become a Steeplejack and work in Hong Kong for twenty-five years looking after the outside of the 1500-foot tall Bank of China now 80 years old.

Opposite the town hall, next to the cinema, there is an alleyway called 'Barnes Pikle.' My favourite street name in London.

@guyhorner8165

11 ай бұрын

Knew it well, as I went down it daily to school in Mattock Lane

@MrSpec0p

9 ай бұрын

The Walpole park - Ealing Broadway connection

If you had walked around All Saint's Church, you would have found that number 9 Elm Crescent has a plaque on it commemorating Ralph Downes CBE KSG, who lived there for many years. He was the organist who designed the organ for the Royal Festival Hall, and also for the London Oratory.

Fascinating tour through Ealing Studios - jam-packed with the history of British cinema. Nearby Ealing Village is quite a little gem - Art Deco's take on the Dutch Colonial style. Ealing has quite a jolly feel to it, jolly good!

Wow a tour of Ealing Studios with Barnaby Thompson !! Lorraine is a real gem. That was a a wonderful surprise thanks Joolz and Simon.

@frequencymanipulator

Жыл бұрын

I literally shouted at the screen. Lorraine is one of the nicest people you could ever meet.

I left Ealing in 2004, and moved to Australia. I have rarely been back since then, [and have never seen behind the back of white house at Ealing Studios], so this was a lovely trip down memory lane.

I worked for Ealing Council for 7 years in the late 1990's. This video brings back wonderful memories of the area, and how much it's changed. It also bought back memories of the great Monty Python sketch, 'Climbing the Uxbridge Road'.

@GreatSageSunWukong

8 ай бұрын

That was filmed at churchfield road acton, not the uxbridge road tho

How wonderful to have a tour of Ealing Studios. Thank you Joolz!

One of the best new videos in a while. But I am biased as I used to live near Ealing for 3 years. One of the best parts of London!

Hey Joolz , Your films always end too soon. Always so enjoyable, thanks so much for you and Simon for taking the time to do them, they are so appreciated 👍🏻

@Normandy1944

Жыл бұрын

We have to have a moment to fetch a pint ourselves...then off to the next vid. Cheers

Ealing means so much to me. I lived there in the 1970s and one of my jobs led to my meeting famous musicians. It's a great place to live and to work and socialise.

Doctor Who, Downton Abbey and Freddie Mercury in one video! Wonderful. Oh, and Nandos's.

Thank you for the walk about. Visited Ealing last October and toured the Studios where my great uncle Sir Michael produced all those classic films. Wonderful return visit (and seeing the charming Lorraine again)!

Fantastic episode about Ealing. Seeing inside the Ealing Studios was magic. Wow, so exciting to see it all. I never imagined it being like that. Such a beautiful area too. I really loved this episode. So well done and so interesting! Thanks so much. x

So interesting to see things today. You included the church near Ealing Common where I married and the town hall where my mum was married. Had you wandered towards the North Korean Embassy you would have passed by Sid James' house before he moved nearer to Pinewood. Back at Ealing Broadway was where Jim Marshall had one of his two shops (Hanwell bring the other and more interesting; the birth place of Marshall amps). But at his Ealing shop, Jimi Hendrix came in. As it so happened, Mitch Mitchell was Marshall's drum salesman and a drummer in several bands; a local Ealing boy. Jim Marshall lived in Southall for many years and had initially made his amplifier enclosures in his garage to be completed in his Hanwell Broadway shop.

Fantastic Jools. My old uni mate used to have a flat in Ealing and it got used in the TV series "New Tricks" as Dennis Waterman's character's apartment. He made a shed load of money for the use of the flat and after each series of filming the film company completely re-painted the flat and made repairs where needed.

Thanks for featuring beautiful Ealing this time ❤

During WWII many Polish fighter pilots were based at nearby Northolt airfield. They remained after the war and brought family over, as life under the Soviet overlords wasn't particularly pleasant.

I lived in the Ealing Common area for forty years before moving back to my native Australia in retirement. Strolling around Ealing was very nostalgic..

All of your videos are entertaining and first-rate, but the tour of Ealing Studios was special. Barnaby was exceptionally gracious to take us all on the tour. A tip of the hat to him. Cheers from Florida!

@peteranderson6643

11 ай бұрын

Loved your video of Ealing studios!!!make more 🍷🍷🍷

I was thrilled to see that the Ealing Studio is still there!!! All those great Alec Guiness movies. I didn't even know Will Hay filmed there. That was really exciting.

Great tour of Ealing Studios with Barnaby Thompson... Fragile Films have a special place in the UK Film Industry. Some good films, some not so good !!! And , "yes", Colin Firth is in a large number of them!!

I mean, how many people can turn up unannounced at Ealing Studios and get a personal tour from the owner!?! Another fun and interesting video! Very much looking forward to getting your book, as one of these days I'll make my way to London to do some proper walking.

One of the best yet, Ealing Studios has so much history, and made some iconic movies.

Since receiving your splendid new book and watching your posts on IG, I thought you might pop up at Cannes this year with the glitterati. With your Brummel fashion sense you should be a natural at the Met Gala next May. Glad to see you're walking with a spiffing guided tour around Ealing! Well done, sir.

Flips sake Joolz, I lived in Ealing for maybe 7 months in 1989/90 and was doing so many long shifts I just never had the time to explore and now curse my lust for money. I'm 60 soon and my daughter, dearest, lives in London so I may need to revisit after watching your brilliant Vlog on what I feckin missed. Great work and I did receive your book having pre-ordered, I had almost given up hope when it landed on the mat. Was it worth the wait? Not Half!!!!

I went to university of west London, so good to see it again. We used to use a recording studio in Ealing film studios and just having the privilege of being there just takes your breath away. Also miss that red lion pub always stopped for one on the way home from there

This has to be my favourite so far , wow Ealing studios were amazing to see , and that man made Wayne’s world ( one of the best films ever ) never realised how stunning Ealing is , just wish your blogs were longer , I never want them to end , thanks for your hard work as always

How lovely to see my old stomping ground, I grew up in Ealing and my great Uncle used to work at Ealing studios as a cinematographer, so lovely you got to peek inside!

The polish parish in Ealing was relatively late to accquire its own church, they used to use St Matthew's anglican church. polish churches in Shepherds Bush, Balham and Putney all came before it.

Thanks Jools, I grew up in Ealing and lived in one of the flats along Hanger Lane Parade. It brought back memories and there's been a lot of changes as well.

I love your book. Pity I'll never get to London but these vids are a fabulous consolation.

You missed the amazing White House, a reconstruction of a Polish country mansion! I lived in EAling for 30 years from about 1965 so a lot of this was familiar to me. You really need to do a Part 2 though - so much more to see!

@Joolzguides

Жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed. There is too much there!

Oh wow! Ealing is very dear to my heart as my dad’s family came from there, lots of lovely memories and some places I didn’t know existed. Ealing Studios was fab, my dad use to snuck over the wall (late 50’s) to half inch old film rolls in their dustbins to make stink bombs, not sure if he was pulling my leg though lol 😂 Another great video, thanks 😊

@davethatcher4954

11 ай бұрын

We used to make those stink/smoke bombs from old cellulose? film rolls back in the 50s. Take length of it, fold it to a small bundle, wrap it tightly in newspaper, light it and when it started to burn furiously........stamp on it to stop the flames, and then it furiously smouldered pumping out masses of vile smelling smoke.😂

@tiggiegillespie4356

11 ай бұрын

@@davethatcher4954 what a fantastic memory, I remember Nan telling me that my dad and his older brother were on the naughty and cheeky side and I can vision them doing practical jokes lol 😂 thank you 😊

Would love to see you do an entire episode with Barnaby Thompson and all the work he has done on British films. His resume is amazing, and he seems like a charming man. Ealing is now on my "must see" list next time I hop the pond. LOVE Art deco. First time I've ever drooled at the thought of visiting a Tesco... FUN FACT: Ada Lovelace was used in the Doctor Who episode "Spyfall"

So cool that you are advertising your book and have QR codes so people can go to a video for the walk on that page! Bravo Joolz! Good way to integrate it with modern society to keep the interest!

I found that totally fascinating and interesting. I was born in West Ealing and look forward to seeing you doing a walk through there, although now it is nothing like it use to be and now a bit of a slum. Uxbridge road then had all the big department stores and the biggest one was F.H Rowse Ltd, but that closed in the early 1980's and was demolished.

Ealing Village is gorg3eous, I can't afford to live there, but there or thereabouts would be wonderful, so pretty. Hanwell - reminds me of the reference in Pygmalion, such a great film with Leslie Howard, the dialog is superior to the music in My Fair Lady.

Thanks for coming to my part of the world. 🙂 Glad you liked our Town Hall-it is pending sale to a hotel developer so I don't know how much will be retained! Also quite a bit of Ealing Studios will be demolished in the next few years-but thankfully it will still be a film studio and not a bunch of flats.

@garryferrington811

Жыл бұрын

Agh. 😢

@CJ-ib2qx

11 ай бұрын

Isn't all of Ealing Studios a listed building?

@hoosiersands

11 ай бұрын

@@CJ-ib2qx No, Historic England's listing covers the "White House" which is the building facing the road and Stages 2, 3A, 3B and 5 which were built in the 1930s. The rest is not. It is quite a large site-have a look at the satellite view.

@jaybe2908

6 ай бұрын

The Town Hall also featured in the film "The Borrowers" with John Goodman, I went by as they were filming, they had lots of green Morris Minors outside.

Loved the tour of ealing studios . Wonderful neighbourhood !

I first met my wife in the Red Lion in 1976 when it was one of the only decent pubs in the area.

A bit of music trivia. An old obscure Queen song Bring Back that Leroy Brown. Brian May plays a George Formby Ukulele on that track written by Freddie Mercury.

Thanks for that wonderful walk around Ealing, where my mother, grandparents and great grandparents came from (I live in Australia). By the way, I've bought your book, which is ... splendid!

thanks Jules, loved the Ealing Films tour, we always wait till the end credits to see if a movie was filmed at Ealing. I have your book which I sm currently enjoying

😊☕️ I used to live in Ealing with my Sicilian partner. It was there I became a coffee snob.

Your best video to date - not least because of the Ealing Studios tour!!

An absolutely brilliant borough of London, Joolz. This district is packed full of very interesting facts about buildings and character that frequented the place over the years. It's the first time that I've seen a post box with a stamp issuing facility on the side of it - totally amazing. The underground station has great architecture of the old style of art nouveau, I'd say, and still very original. Going around the film studios really made this video, seeing all those huge buildings, and where I never knew that Downton Abbey was filmed there, plus loads of the older classic British cinema classics. Marvellous, and so, many thanks for this film, Joolz.

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO

Жыл бұрын

"An absolutely brilliant borough of London"?; far from it, the only parts of Ealing borough that are decent are the back streets of Ealing Common, Haven Green, and to the east of Ealing Broadway station, which make up less than 5% of the borough. Northolt is the worst district of Ealing Borough, with Southall close behind second from last.

@AM-dz2sh

11 ай бұрын

@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO Pitshanger, Northfields, South Ealing, Hanwell, St Stephens, North Ealing.. I could go on... All lovely areas that people would hope to live in. Ealing is the 3rd biggest borough; so naturally it would have a few parts that aren't as nice.

Great channel m8 ,I'm a london cabbie and I find your videos interesting will you be making one about enfield town and forty Hall any time soon 👍

George Formby was also my favorite❤. Watched the films many times.

Many thanks for another amazing video. As a Pole, I am impressed by your Polish pronunciation. I was moved to tears. It was also great to hear the Polish names of the dishes. A wonderful episode with Chopin's music performed by the sensational Lukas Krupinski. Lukas has his birthday today! All the best to all. 🍀

Really enjoyed this, the tour of the studios was fantastic! Ealing looks really lovely 👍👍

I can understand being overwhelmed seeing those sound stages. I that way just seeing them on KZread. I sincerely hope that Ealing Studios is protected. This isn' just film history it is British history period. Thank you for the tour Joolz.

What a wonderful tour today! The Ealing Studios section was fascinating!

What a wonderful video, Julian. You & Simon make a great team. Ealing looks wonderful under blue skies & sun.

You’ve outdone yourself with this video Joolz, absolutely fascinating visit to the Ealing Studios

That is one of the nicest areas of London I've seen featured. I really enjoyed seeing Ealing, thanks.

@AM-dz2sh

Жыл бұрын

shhhh.. don't tell anyone. We keep our green, artsy 'Queen of the Suburbs' community a secret! ;)

@TXMEDRGR

Жыл бұрын

@@AM-dz2sh Your secret is safe with me.

I've been watching your videos for a while and often wondered when are you coming to Ealing, eventually you made it and your take on life here captures all that is nice about the area, its rich film history, wonderful architecture and pleasent parks and green spaces. I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Thanks.

Always fascinating videos, the history and the people that were part of it and the way of the telling make these videos so captivating. This one, with the Ealing Studios content is fantastic. Thank you for bringing them to us.

I enjoyed looking at the studios. Even as an American, I've seen a lot of movies that came out of there, so the name was familiar. It looks like you hd beautiful weather for yourwalk.

Great video thank you for showing the old film 🎥 studios Wonderful and it's still There Thank goodness.😊

I always love your videos, but having a tour through Ealing Studios was a special treat for a film buff like me.

I love your videos, I was born in Kew, grew up in Richmond my first girlfriend lived in Ealing, her mum was a barmaid at the pub across the street from Ealing studios she took a night off one Thursday to go out with me and her daughter at another pub just down the road across from St Mary’s church and that night in 1974 the IRA blew up the pub she worked in …. Lucky escape On NYE 1974/75 we walked back from Trafalgar Square as no night buses then and bumped into a very drunk man outside Ealing Film Studio who shared his bottle of scotch with us at 4am. Your videos bring back many happy memories, I also worked for 6 years in a clothes shop opposite Ealing Broadway Station and brought many of my favourite singles every lunchtime around the corner in Smiths. Thank you for the videos!

Your book is available in deepest Australia, I noticed 2 copies in our local Ballarat bookshop. I may need to go and buy one.

This is another excellent coverage Julian, thanks for that. Particularly, Ealing Studios were brilliant. Looking forward the next one. Take care mate.

C'mon Netflix, snap Joolz up. He's a top fella!

@marilynwoolford-chandler1161

Жыл бұрын

No not Netflix. Morals of a sparelouse

@Pyjamarama11

Жыл бұрын

That would be the end of a good thing

Fantastic! I lived in Ealing Village in early 90s and the Grange was my favourite pub; great video and particularly enjoyed seeing inside Ealing Studios. Thanks Joolz!

More years ago than I care to remember I made regular visits to Ealing Studios when, together with some other school friends, we played the part of pupils in a BBC comedy written by Frank Muir and Denis Morden, starring Jimmy Edwardes called " Wacko".

I love that you're keeping the history alive.

Fantastic episode made me realise what i miss about not living in uk for theclast 39 years. I will most defo buy the book when i come back to visit. Your enthusiasim and posititivtiy is very endearing. All the best mate

I went to Ealing Art School and in fact was Social Secretary there. I booked bands like Osibisa and Kilburn and the High Roads. Loving the book, Jules and hope to see you at the restaurant soon.

I moved to Hanwell a year and a half ago and this is absolutely brilliant. Bravo mate, fabulous and learned so much. I'm always out exploring and visiting new parts of London but this goes to show how much you can learn on your doorstep. The Ealing studios part was fabulous and I love you name checked Rentaghost. Surely a fellow 70's kid (the hey day for inventive children's television on absolutely shoestring budgets). I'll watch your others now over time! Seriously, great research and kudos to you.

Splendid. Now there's another coincidence. I'm in exotic West Drayton for a couple of weeks cat sitting for a friend and I'm heading to Ealing today looking for potatoes on Planet Organic. I've had a lot of people all over the country, in the past, who've mistaken me for Dr Who (Sylvester McCoy). Strange that, must have been the straw hat . No I said, I'm Dr Derek. Been dabbling a bit in London walks a little lately, trouble is I'm just very amateurish. All jolly fun in my old age though. More energy would be a bonus . I do a lot of walking on my London visits. Thank you Joolz I enjoy your videos on the beast.

Thanks Joolz, I was born in Ealing and went to school next to Walpole park in fact we played football at lunch and would often see Darleks and Sybermen without the tops of the costumes smoking at the back of the film studios. My first job was in the Pomfrit restaurant opposite the original entrance to the Walpole Cinema and many a well known face would drop in for lunch/coffee when it was a recording/rehearsal room. It truly is/was a lovely place to live and work. I’m now resident in Scotland and haven’t been back for a while so it was a pleasant trip down memory lane, just off of Bond Street as I recall 😂 Thanks again.

Your videos are always well worth waiting for even better than some programs on the television 😊 the Ealing was brilliant really enjoyed seeing all the history 👏👍

You appear to have missed out The Questor's Theatre in Ealing. One of Ealing's Gems.

Lovely. Many thanks, and thanks, too, to the owner of Ealing Studios.

@marilynwoolford-chandler1161

Жыл бұрын

Yes he was articulate and a good conversationalist with Jules

I loved seeing Ealing Studios for the first time in this video. For some reason, I thought they were long demolished. I probably didn’t think so in the 80s but a queen of the suburbs indeed!

i used to shop in Ealing years ago and would have love to go on a tour of Ealing Studios. Thank you Jools.

Joolz, all your episodes are great but this one towers over them all with the insight into Ealing Studios. Thank you very much.

Staines Road Feltham, outside the MOT Garage is a stone mile marker date 1743. Its the old Roman Road .

Now that was a real treat. Loved having a quick gander around Ealing studios. It would be wonderful to spend a day wandering around the place.

Jools you pronounced name of that polish church 95% correctly. I'm speachless

hi joolz, great vid as i enjoy watching George formby, will hay films and nice to see Ealing studios still about :0)

Taking my first London trip in November, I love your videos!!

Great to see Ealing. Don't often go there, but now you've done Ealing please do Eel Island !!! Probably won't be a long episode so you may have to combine it :D

@kashd4668

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Combine it with Twickenham!😊😊

Another corker of an episode. Loved the Ealing Studios tour!

5:30 I know this pub very well, plus a lot of the other locations, having lived in Ealing/Acton/Chiswick for 3 years (89-92). Thanks for the memories and showing my Alma Mater - UWL.

I've lived in Ealing all my life and had no idea about some of those things so thanks for sharing! Have always wondered what the studio backlots looked like.

I work in Ealing 2 days a week, just by the Broadway. It is a very relaxing place to walk around. Traffic isn't that bad, some nice places to eat and see, and the common is a well kept area too. Nice to visit if you have a few hours to spare in West London and feel like a stroll 😊

In Gunnersbury Av there is a house with a blue plaque on the wall " Sid James lived here " .

Great to see you in my area, looking forward to West Ealing in the future! 👀

Great video. Lots of historic interest too. I'm surprised that the 1897 old railings from the Common survived the railing and metal fence grab from the WWII, when a lot of railings were removed to supply metal for tanks and planes.

Really great how people like the owner of Ealing Studios allow access and take the time to give you additional information. Good on them! Also, really enjoy your book. Glad I ordered a copy - very interesting and well written/done even without the video links etc.

Joolz - you finally visited Ealing W5 - The Queen of the Suburbs - where I grew up. Now living in the Netherlands -nice to see Ealing Common, you walked past my house !!! Great video......

Thanks for mentioning my home town of Perivale. If you ever visit you must take a look at the Hoover Building, Horsenden Hill & the Vangaurd Building.