Crystal Palace - Jolly Marvellous London Walking Tour 

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What an utterly delightful channel this is...

Ha. Love that guy who shouted out his window In appreciation!!! Wonder of he has watched this episode yet?

Another class performance joolz. How your talent hasn't been snapped up by the BBC is beyond me!

You hit the nail on the head with your remark about the area being fog free. I went to school in the Crystal Palace area during the great smog of 1953 and it was amazing how the fog disappeared as the bus climbed up to Beulah Hill.

Confession: Sometimes, I just put you on a playlist on my TV while I clean, because I love to hear you talk and you keep me company. True story. ❤️

1800's Time traveller goes to 2021 Crystal Palace gardens and asks himself ... "is this a ruined dystopia ?"

Joolz, you dapper old geezer... I've got more value out of London watching your vids than I ever did living there. Keep it up mate.

I love that bit "I watch you on RU-vid" "we're talking about your house" brilliant 🤣

Crystal Palace Park is a real gem and everyone who uses it is very protective of it. They wanted to build a big cinema complex there a few years ago but people got together and defeated it. And thank goodness fir that. People power!

I remember going up to Crystal Palace park (in the 90s) and sitting near those big steps, and finding a piece of molten glass just in the grass there. I still have it.

I do adore watching these and dream of better days when travel was easier, they will return again, as indeed will I to the land of my ancestors. Thank you Joolz

Yay, finally you came to CP my area. Wish I bumped into you! Great

I've lived in Crystal Palace for 26 years and I didn't know half the stuff you talked about. Brilliant! More South London stuff plz I wish you could have seen the old cycle shop on Central Hill run by an old couple in their 70's. It was like walking into a shop from the 1930's. Sadly closed about 10 years ago

I have been waiting for this one, when I tell people about the Dinosaurs of Crystal Palace they look as if I'm mad, it's one of my favourite places, great video Joolz

When I say that London is the most beautiful and exciting city in the world.. Gosh I miss it so much 😢

Love this channel

Excellent video, Jools. I've been waiting for you to do a video of Crystal Palace for ages. The Brunel water towers were demolished during the Second World War to stop Luftwaffe pilots from using them as reference points.

Spent 5yrs living in Crystal Palace! Wish I’d known all this history that I ignorantly walked by everyday! Amazing thanks guys! I’m subscribed!

So pleased you got to Sarf London. I worked at the CP Sports Centre in the 80,’s Loved that Croydon got a mention. From a Croydon gal living in Perth Western Australia! Always learning! So much history! Thanks for sharing 🤗

Always love how it is: "Pickles THE dog." Any other dog in history would be: "A dog called Pickles." Plus he's got a blue plaque... Great walk btw!

"I watch you on youtube"..."w are talking about your house" one of the most amazing moments of all your videos..........hahaha

Glad to see Joolz making the odd trip to Sarf London. It really is very civilised here.

Who watches TV anymore!? Thanks for another cool tour around London, we tried to get to the Crystal Palace area on a previous trip, but ended up at Kew Garden's Palm House instead, should have headed south instead of west!

I love and appreciate that you're consistently committed in producing excellent informative videos about London.

From what I've seen in other articles about the Crystal Palace they moved the structure by taking it apart then rebuilt it on the new site. The structure was only ever intended to be a temporary one for the exhibition, so it was designed and built to be taken apart and recycled. That made moving it easy.

What a wonderful channel this is. No one tells the history of places in and around London in such illustrious way. How very nice... Subscribed some time ago.

23:10 - The River Effra not only runs underground, but also uphill! It really ought to be more famous than it is ;-)

Blast from the past for me seeing those dinosaurs. I used to go visit an uncle who lived in Dulwich Village and one of my earliest childhood memories is Crystal Palace on a roasting hot day.

Jooz is the Crystal Palace of London guides

Great video, as always Joolz! On the 30th November 1936, my parents watched The Crystal Palace burn down and later went back for a lump of melted glass to keep as a souvenir (err, after it had cooled down!). They had noticed the blaze from their homes in Forest Hill. They said it was a terrible conflagration and the heat was intense. Rather a sad ending for the great building, but it was getting in a bit of a ropey state by then anyway...

That was bloomin' marvelous, fascinating, bravo Julian.

Love a jools guide. Never want them to end! Be nice to do a Peckham guide sometime. I hail from there.

Very interesting about the Crystal Palace. Loved the Citizen Kane reference.

As always, the great Joolz brightens up a dreich Glasgow afternoon! I'm moving back to London soon, I'm going to furnish you with a few pints at The Engineer as recompense for all your great work.

My girlfriend's band performed on that stage (4:50). The interference from the TV mast into the amplifiers was so strong that they had to play basically acoustic. BTW Love the "Yogi Bear" bit! And I saw Jimi Hendrix there in pouring rain, IIRC.

Thanks as ever Joolz for yet another fascinating video, keep them coming.

I got the "rosebud" reference ... Citizen Kane if you haven't seen it. 👍

I am a Liverpool fan but honestly Crystal Palace is a very beautiful city. Also very interesting. There are lots to learn and to see

You just made my Sunday absolutely wonderful, Joolz! Another brilliant video. I so appreciate all the hard work that goes into making these videos: deciding on what to present, researching it, scheduling with either Kai or Simon to do the filming, etc. And doing your best to work around the restrictions imposed by this (expletive deleted) COVID.

LOVELY ! THE SHARD OF ITS DAY !!!!! THANKS ! FROM U.K. (2023).

Thanks joolz great video of crystal palace it must have been something when the exhibition centre was there 😀

very cool

I used to play around Crystal Palace when I was a kid (in the 60's). Before they built houses on the track bed we were able to walk through the tunnel and at the far end there was/is a big block of flats. The underpass was still open then and it was used as an air raid shelter during WW 2. The dinosaurs were made of brick with a render on the outside and we used to hire a boat (rowing boats then) and get on to the islands they were standing on. The bigger ones had an opening in the belly part which allowed us to get inside.

It's fascinating to see where Crystal Palace used to be and to imagine how grand and magnificent it was - we have a crystal palace here too, but it's just a chinese restaurant

I remember reading about this many years ago & thought how amazing it must have been to actually see. Thanks for the tour. Fan from Minnesota!!😎🇺🇸

What a great dad or uncle you would be!

Thank you. I really enjoyed that. Used to enjoy going to see the dinosaurs when I was a child. Can you do a guide on Dulwich and especially East Dulwich please

Lovely episode! Love the piano in the background. Really lowered my blood pressure. 🏆

Such a coincidence! I was just watching your tottenham video when you posted a new one just few seconds ago!

No mention of the motor racing circuit at Crystal Palace though. I remember, as a young child on the 1950’s watching the racing cars and I believe Sterling Moss participated there.

great to finally see you in south london proper! big love joolzy x

all the beautiful trees, so wonderful

Oh, Joolz, you would be perfect for Strictly!

London really is one of the most incredible places. My sister was gestated while on the banks of the Thames under fire from the Luftwaffe

That was so interesting and informative. Just love these Joolz Guides , can never get enough .

Brilliant....can't believe I was born & grew up where madam Tusuard started her waxworks on central hill

Please keep them coming. I am learning so much plus seeing places ok now going back 92 years, Thank You. From Beryl Now in Sydney. I was born in Marylebone Australia.❤🦘🐨🦜🇦🇺🇬🇧

Crystal palace has some of the best views of the city.

LOL that vehicle at 12.09 looks like the Jeepers creepers van ! 🤣 Looking for those peepers!

Always loads of fun.

Thank you Joolz for yet another episode of your fab guides. We lived in London in the lat 90s, came back in winter 2019/2020 with our kids for a visit and now get to travel from the comfort of our lounge in NZ. We thank you and will shout you a pint or more on paypal (c'mon viewers you should too!).

So many happy memories of visiting my grandparents, who lived in Orleans Road just off from Central Hill, as a child. Then taking my own boys to visit them as they were growing up. Wonderful stuff Joolz.

Mary Nesbitt, what a gal! Very interesting Joolz, thank you!

Your joy is helping me. I miss London more than I can say... ❤️

Another Joolz guide, that's the evening's entertainment sorted.

Excellent, Joolz. You should get one of those instant donation thank you buttons when they become available. That way, people can make a small donation quickly.

Another great video Joolz, and as I always say, I can't wait for the next one!

What a lovely part of London but I particularly liked the reference to the All Blacks!

Thanks joolz for the excellent bite size history of crystal palace..You give it warmth, fun that adults and children can enjoy together,,,, please can you do a tour of croydon.

I love your vids Joolz, good vibes mixed up with great historic and cultural content

Thank you Joolz, this was one of you more delightful videos!

The England - New Zealand rugby game was a question on my trivia last night!! What fun. Your interesting facts are ACE, sir.

Always the best. Great info jokes and a memory I can’t believe. Of course I’m from America so you could be saying anything Londony. Hehe. Thanks so much. Please tells us that you explained “rosebud” to Kye

Thank you Joolz, Watching from New Zealand, even since we discovered your London Walks videos, we cant get enough of them, full of historical information and you make it so entraining at the same time, PLEASE keep them coming

I grew up on Farquhar Rd. When we were kids, legend had it that the old train line that was closed down has an unexploded WW2 bomb in the blocked off tunnel you mentioned. And that Madonna tried to buy that big church behind you on Gipsy Hill. Also that the Crystal Palace radio tower is higher above sea level that the Eiffel due to it being on such a tall hill!

You never said ‘Sydenham’! Me and my Mum and Dad used to live a couple of suburbs over, in Forest Hill, back in the 1960s. Crystal Palace looks even nicer than I remember it. Gosh, I’ve come over all nostalgic…

One of my favorite bits of 'victorian london' history, and only now noticed it was posted on my birthday!! What a treat!

Loved this. I work in Upper Norwood and didn’t realise all the History.

So wonderful your little strolls are ... heartwarming. Thank you.

Smashing stuff thank you Jools. I lived near Palace in 1981. X

Thanks for getting down to part of my old stomping ground. Your whole channel shows for non-Londoners how diverse and big London is. Completely different atmosphere to Hampstead or Nothing Hill, or Ealing, or Walthemstow. But it's all London. Tired of London, Tired of Life!

Although I love your videos and have been a subscriber for a long time, this is the one I have been looking forward to. Those dinosaurs are now rightly protected and I wish someone would do something remarkable with the most beautiful train station arches you will ever see.

Thank you for a lovely, informative, afternoon stroll

The pattern of brickwork you mentioned is known as diaper, a term for repeating rhombic shapes. This later came to describe cotton or linen with the same pattern, hence how the Americans came to call nappies diapers. How's that for a jolly good Joolz type fact?

I always wanted to visit this park as a kid. Especially the dinosaur portion of the park. It was featured in a 1985 kids documentary entitled "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs" with hosts Gary Owens and Eric Boardman. I went to London in the early 90s, but never got to go here, unfortunately. I'd have loved to see it then, because I've seen recent pictures and videos of the park, and it looks to be run down, and more of a shadow of its 1980s era. In the documentary, the dinosaurs were painted, and the gardens and waterways around them were greener and more abundant. Whereas now, it seems the water level is low, the plant life is all but dead, and the dinos are no longer painted. I hope this place is being restored. It would be ashamed to let it just rot away.

Wow the view of the old power station stacks where Ikea Croydon is now... Part of my Grandads job as a bricklayer was to repair the brickwork on the towers... Guess that would have still been in Surrey at the time....

What a magnificent palace that was, Wow! But You forgot to mention the racing cirquit that used to be there in the sixties and seventies ( and maybe before that). It held many great races which some can be found here at YT. Thank´s for bringing us all that fascinating information and history of Your wonderful Capitol. Cheers from Sweden!

Can't believe it. Was just thinking this morning how great a video about Crystal Palace would be. Hope you took in the statue of the stag with the very droopy antlers

as a thomas fan i appreciate the mention of that sign

I'm living up North now but this is where I grew up, the memories I have in Crystal Palace park...it's so nice seeing it again. Thanks Joolz

I always look so forward to your video's Joolz. They are so educational. As always another great one! Your friend, Steve Bonds from Bay City, Michigan USA

It's a Jolly holiday with Joolzy☆

I grew up in crystal palace. Did not know about much of this history. very informative.

My Sunday mornings are not complete unless I have a video from my favorite London tour guide. Let me brew up some tea and grab a scone.

Much appreciation from someone that lives in Lisbon. I love London and you make me travel along.

please do wembley Joolz. A lot has changed but the history is amazing with the Empire Exhibition and the failed Watkins Folly which would have been bigger than the Shard!

Loved The Italian Job, the original, but never knew the blow the bloody doors off scene was filmed at Crystal Palace.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I'm from Norwood, I had a local history book, it said that there was a village meeting to decide whether to erect a second windmill, they came to the conclusion that there was not enough wind for two windmills. Amazing :)

Loved this. Spent all my childhood in Tivoli Road, West Norwood, until I married a “Chelsea Girl”. Went over the handlebars on Central Hill when I was 11 and technically died until a passing district nurse saved me. Brilliant tour guides.