I'm not currently creating videos as I'm busy working as a full time London tour guide, do check out the History Hit YT Channel where I'm working on a series of London's Hidden History.
If you'd like to book a tour there's more information on public and private tours on my website. Hoping to have more videos in 2023 but for now please enjoy the videos already uploaded!
Look Up London is run by me - Katie - a Blue Badge Tourist Guide and award-winning London history blogger. My aim is to create fun, fascinating, videos about London’s hidden history. Stories of overlooked details that help you understand London better.
Look Up London runs walking tours across the city, especially aimed at Londoners. I create interesting and fun walks that showcase the details that we so often miss by not looking up!
I started running walking tours in 2015 and I qualified as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide in 2018 - the top accreditation in the country - winning 'Best Overall Presentations'.
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You forget the horniman museum
Great video, my favourite pub is the grapes in Narrow St ;-)
I love your videos but you speak so softly that I can not hardly make out what ur saying, even with volume at full blast. Keep up the amazing work!
Sorry, maybe you said but I lost: where can the beautiful artwork on tiles you've showed several times during the video be found?
Greetings from Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿 My parents emigrated to NZ after WW II in 1949. There's nothing much in NZ older than 200 years! You dont know how it feels to be a European of Anglo-Saxon descent, living at the tail end of civilisation.... NO ancient history anywhere. So far from home. Even our indigenous Maori have only been here since the early Medieval period. They built marae, but not of stone, so those early dwellings have not survived. This is as close as I'll ever get to my ancestors! Thank you for your good work ❤❤❤❤❤❤
No way they built that at that time history is a set of lies u just believe tarterra empire
A number of other prisons were also used for more private executions once public spectacle was seen as no longer coherent with the original intent, dire warning. The Museum of London also has maps of numerous other executions near the scene of the crime.
The National Film Theatre is under Waterloo Bridge on the South Bank. At the left end of the projection room for NFT2 when I last saw it, about 20 years ago was some stonework which I believe was part of the old bridge. There is a wooden door leading out onto a walkway under the bridge which is the fire escape from this projection room and it used to be possible to see some of this stonework through a small gap above this door. I think this stonework may have been covered up since I was last in that projection room.
Saint Paul preached to the Druids at Ludd Hill, the very sight of St Paul's Cathedral, probably explains why he is the patron of the capital. Source information, the missing chapter of acts, acts 29, Saint Paul in Britain by R.W Morgan and Drama of the lost disciples , chapter 16 by George F Jowett. ✝️🇬🇧
Why is it called "black friars?"
Because they wore black cloaks (the Whitefriars wore white and Greyfriars wore - surprise! - Grey :) )
@LookUpLondon but no lactations named "white: and "grey" friars. 🤷🏾♂️
@@fgeiger41 There's a "Whitefriars Street" by their old monastery by Fleet Street and Christchuch Greyfriars church remains survives by the their old monastic site close to St Paul's.
Had a visitor to Kingston Lacy insist I come and see this. You beautifully descriptive video makes me think he was right. Fabulous content thank you
I flew to London from Vancouver, British Columbia in May 1974 to get at Compilation book of Sherlock Holmes short stories published by John Murray and Sons. Going to their office they referred me to Hatchard’s where I picked it up and flew home.
Delving into storytelling and video exploration, VideoGPT subtly refines my content, adding depth and professionalism to my creative projects.
If I ever went to London the places I would visit would be, the oldest shops and oldest churches. I would definitely do the Ripper guided tour at night. Hopefully, there is one at night. Last would be the tombs of King Henry the 8th and his wives. That's it. Nothing else would interest me.
this is a good video very informative, well done, pity the audio is poor quality
I’m coming to one of ur tours on Friday
Queen Elizabeth11 shopped at Fortnnam and Mason's and I remember she went in there one day with Camilla and Kate.
Gud video
They sure don't look like 13th C. I'd say 17th or late 16th.
Hi, I live in São Paulo and work in a perfumery, I came across your video because I was researching the street, after all we have the perfume Roja 51, which was to pay homage to perfumer Roja Dove's first store.Thanks.
Aaaww. How cute.
I really like the walkie talkie
your a blue badge im a green badge i no wot your gonna say already before i watched the video it was built by women
I don’t understand. The Crown used “pirates” to help defeat the Spanish especially in the Caribbean. Pirates were usually condemned criminals and given one chance to redeem themselves in service of the crown, but when they got drunk and reverted back to their hellraising ways, they were condemn to death as common criminals. Strange juxtaposition. Ps the first governor of Jamaica was Henry Morgan a notorious former pirate.
The red lion pub in Westminster, next to parliament must be in contention for the title. Cheers
imperial institute was bombed
The Georgian era spans the years from 1714 to 1837, covering the reigns of George I, II, III and IV, as well as that of William IV. It was an era of great social, political and cultural changes.
Metropolitan Police 1829. City of London Police 1839.
The Old Spotted Dog was my favourite pub, but I don't know why it closed down. East London is getting derelict
Superb
City island, even with the fig leaf of a ballet school, is a sterile, claustrophobic development of souless boxes. Trinity buoy wharf is awesome!!
Good video 👍
Near tower bridge you'll find a factory called alaska factory, it was a fur factory.In the nineteen eighties there was an archeological dig there that found tanning pits dating back to roman times.the water table round there is about thirty feet below the surface but two thousand years ago it was a lot higher.there were many amphibious dwellings.The museum that conducted this research was the london museum in the barbican.
There is a lot of history here.Downstrean you have the Samuel Pepys pub which is the only remaining building left of Brook's wharf and swathe of development on lower Thames street Under Blackfriars Bridge there used to be a car park for employees of the Sun Newspaper. I'm talking of a London that's virtually disappeared. oh and there is another statue of Queen Victoria in St Leonards
I'm in London every year, visiting from Canada. I've been in every one of these except for the Lamb & Flag. Have to visit when I'm there again this coming May. I like them all.
Love a pub with History
Excellent
As a resident of Burgh le Marsh Lincolnshire and former assistant webmaster I was disappointed that although Lincolnshire was mentioned in regard to the 1965 renovations Hansons Mill Burgh le Marsh was not specified as supplying the milling equipment. I was contacted several years ago by someone at the Brixton Mill to confirm this fact. Hansons Mill has been a private residence for many years now.
Great video, thank you! Sorry, I'm late in commenting, but have you read Dan Cruikshank's book on the area? Read it not long ago; very informative and interesting!
Really recommend the Museum of the Home for anyone who hasn't been! Beautiful Museum & amazing garden area 😊
Ye olde fighting cockspur St Albans Herts oldest in England. Sadie Khan wants shut all pubs vermin scum
So interesting. Londons history is so detailed and layered. Always more to learn. Thank you!
❤️🩹Thank you for being you Fabulous From an English Man here Down under ✍️☮️
I want to see the inside !
I'm fortunate to have had a pint and some fish and chips in the cellar of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. Absolutely beautiful. The energy is present within! Mind your head! 🍻 😉
Wow! Interesting! Never thought of how Clerkenwell got its name.
Thanks for showing us these fascinating statues. Whichever century they were made, they are certainly ancient!
I like "Haunch of Venison Yard" in Mayfair and "Crooked Usage" -way up north in-between Finchley and Hendon.
My grandfather was born in Spitalfields in the early 1880s. The family left for Quebec, Canada near the turn of the century. It’s on my bucket list.
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