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Brought back fond memories. Used to go up Kings Road every Saturday in the seventies to shop and watch all the supercars cruising. Was in pubs where Rod Stuart hung out,also Jimi Hendix. Then it was lunch at the Six Bells to listen to Humphrey Lyttleton's jazz band. Glory days!
I'm from Chelsea, rich people were different in the 70's, understated, green wellies, scarves with corduroy trousers. Like the Queen. Chelsea was an exciting place for a teenager then, we would always bump into stars like Bowie, McCartney, Marsha Hunt, Patrick McNee (horrible bloke). I remember Marty Feldman was really friendly and much better looking than on screen, the Sex shop was around the corner from my house and all the punks would be hanging about, there weren't too many then. Happy days.
Another fine tour Joolz 👍🏻😄 ... MacDonalds in Sloane Square !! shock horror 😂 ....... Oscar Wilde also had a son, he could've had two sons .. About 20yrs ago when i was a care worker for a private care agency in Victoria I used to go to look after an elderly lady called Oriana, very rich and lived in Fulham Rd. I would stay with her for 5 days for a number of months, at the weekend a young girl would take over ... Oriana was very good friends with Oscar Wildes son and would hang out within his set of friends, she was rather bohemian and very interesting as she had lived a very full and fun life ... She would talk about her young days living it up in Chelsea and her times spent with this son. She did tell me his name but I've forgotten it now as she used to talk about lots of things ... About two sons, I just have an inkling that Oriana said there were two sons ...
Thank you for my daily dose of loverly London. If you only knew what this means to me. Next time I'm back, the pints are on me, see you in the Churchill. They serve the best pint of Guinness in London. Thanks again.
Down to the further end of K.Rd was a boutique called, Granny takes a Trip. It struck me as a strange name for a clothes shop but I didn't go in to investigate as it seemed for women's fashions. However, online, the mystery was finally solved, as it was also the title of a song by The Purple Gang (never heard of them!). They did a pop video of the shop and street - you'll find it on RU-vid.
Pheasants, especially the males, Julian, are very beautiful birds. I think you might be impressed by those colourful birds if you look at images of them on the Internet. I have occasionally seen them locally in the countryside around my hometown of Ayr. It was interesting to learn about Kings Rd. Thanks for that.
Such greats videos! I used to live in Cheltenham Terrace in the sixties, next door to P J Proby and underneath Amanda Lear lol, I spent many a night in the Pheasantry Cllub, those days were just amazing and Chelsea remains my favourite part of London. Thanks so much for the memories
I think I went there once or twice. I remember it as a basement bar, not a lot going on except amongst the Chelsea Set or Beautiful People, as the Beatles called them, who kind of lounged about looking expensive. It was one of the few places you could just walk in and have a late drink. Unfortunately, I couldn't stay all night as had to get a bus home.
I started to hang around Kings Road in 1969 aged 15, We use to get in the Chelsea Drug Store on Our way too the "The Birds Nest" stopping off at the Trafalgar for a swift One, I now live in the area
Used to visit King's Road in the 1970s to see The Rocky Horror Show at the Kings Road Theatre (about 16 times). Next door was a Borsch and Tears restaurant.
Another fascinating video. Thank you. I used to go to school just behind Sloane Square station, and remember going to the Chelsea Drug Store with a schoolfriend who wanted to buy the Little Red School Book. She found it , too!
In "His Last Vow" , the season three finale of Sherlock, he and Watson paid a visit to one of the archetypal 'secret London' locations: Leinster Gardens.
Yes! That is right. Did I mention it in one of my films? I think I go there in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rH4JmqSqEtE.html
The throwaway comment about London looking dirty in the 1970s is pretty accurate. It was almost as if the War had just ended. You get a sense of it if you watch The Ipcress File. House prices were lower than the rest of the country. Maybe it’s age but l prefer that London to the shiny, rich, international city it is now.
Ive shopped there. Got clothes at the Malcolm McLaren shop and groceries at the Sainsbury's. It felt beautiful, opulent and fresh in a time when we struggled as young people to earn enough to live. Got an escargot which fell off a bin outside the poisonnerie on a side road, and actually kept it as a pet for awhile in a pyrex bowl. Fed it Wheetabix mushed in water. Kept hoping I'd get a glimpse of Boy George lol, since his fave pub supposedly was there. Loved passing the house on a side street there where Joni Mitchell supposedly wrote Chelsea Morning. The yellow and blue roses still grew by the walkway, though were uncared for by then.
Fun London Guides - Julian McDonnell Films Yes, so right! And in spite of the sad & wistful bits, you have me laughing all the way, revisiting & re-enjoying it all! Really great videos, and well worth watching repeatedly. Your life-affirming exuberance is infectious & superb for the soul! :D Much appreciation. Will gladly contribute soon.
So happy to learn about your channel. We are staying in Chelsea and Kensington the next few days and your tips and history are wonderful. Can't wait to see them in person.
Chesea Drug store later Drummons was a fashion shop with a record store downstairs. It wasn't referred to by rolling stones, since he went to chelsea drug store to fill her prescription. It wasn't a pharmacy. Bought my first record there. But now I find out from a documentary I was wrong, Pharmacy had closed by time I was there. Doh!
Excellenet video ! do you know where in Kings Road was the hi fi store that Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys were met for first time?
Can’t always get what you want was playing in my mind this morning, and then I watch this video and you reference it! Serendipity? Probably just coincidence but it got me all hyped up!!
Ahh, you missed a good one on there, The Chelsea Potter. In the 1960's it was THE place to hang out with the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Macnee and the Avengers girls (Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson), John Mills, Hayley Mills, Kenneth Moore, Trevor Howard, Twiggy, Mary Quant (who'd opened her first shop opposite), Dave Allen -- everyone worth knowing used that pub, even, occasionally, the Richardsons -- the West End equivalent (and far nastier) to the Krays, although as DIs from Scotland Yard also used to drink there, the crooks usually avoided the place.
Didn't Marc Bolan have a tailor or there was some shop he loved in this area? I remember him mentioning King's Road in a couple of interviews. Fun fact: in A Clockwork Orange, at the scene at the record store, you can see a Tyrannosaurus Rex album on the wall .
Visited this area last week, very posh but fairly nice. Maybe you could do more in this area, tying it into either Pimlico on one side, or Fulham (home to many an episode of Minder!) on the other. :)
I know that Columbo episode, love that show. Very interesting Jules, I never knoew that about the Kings road. I was watching the Sherlock Holmes movie with that Downey bloke and it portrays old London as such a beautiful city ful of awesome buildings, sadly Gerry had much of it removed and unlike Gerry we didn't replace it in the same traditional style as they did with theirs when harris returned the favour. When I invent my time travelling machine I will ne revisiting in the time of Dickens and looking up the sites/characters he based his stuff on.
J'adore les vidéos de Joolz Guides , I love the very typicak Joolz Guides videos nice to discover cornersof London that we don't know . Joolz speaks too quicky parle trop vite , 1 French translator would not be a luxury because even with the Google subtitles it is not really that. Très intéressant Merci Joolz Guide 🥖🥐
I love the thought of a 'pheasant shop'. "Oh good afternoon, I am in the market for some grouse?" "PAH! You'll be wanting the 'Grouse Emporium' around the corner, we are clearly EXCLUSIVELY a proprietor of pheasant and pheasant-related products. Good day to you."
When McDonalds were given planning permission to open in the King's Road there was a caveat on the permission that no McDonalds advertising or signs etc could be displayed on the side facade of the building. This was adhered to for many years but now seems to be being ignored or overturned. The Chelsea residency association should look into this.
Hi Joolz. I've lived in Canada for the past 64 years but my home in England was at 31 Sunwell Street in Peckham Rye, London. I can't find it on any London map. Would you be able to locate the area and show it in a future video? That would be fantastic if you could. I went to the school at the top of Sunwell Street. Sorry I can't remember the name of it though. This would have been about 1952, or 1953 I believe.
It's no longer called Sunwell St. it's been altered with new houses and they have a Sunwell Close today very near to the street version in my old A to Z. The south end of Sunwell Close runs into Cossall Walk which is where Sunwell St used to be. London SE15. I think the school you refer to is John Donne primary school in Woods Rd.
Hey wait a minute there...what's this about Simon doing "re-sculpting" of the Rolls Royce "Spirit of Ecstasy"?? Way too casual an info drop there. Discerning listeners want (need) to know more.
This is my neighbourhood. You should have gone to the pub, Chelsea Potter. Where legend has it that the early stages of the Great train robbery was planned.
wasn't there a College, part of the University of London, just off King's Road..? Chelsea College, of course..!! and Stamford Bridge, the football stadium is also in the neighborhood too.. right?? but Joolz, I guess you are only interested in the Artsy... 😏🙄
I went down to the Chelsea drug store To get my [ah, it's "your"-->]-->prescription filled I was standing in line with Mr Jimmy And man, did he look pretty ill We decided we would have a soda My favourite flavour Cherry Red [got this far just from memory, gonna check the rest on iTunes now...]... I sung my song to Mr Jimmy And he said one word to me and that was: "dead" "To get my fare share of abuse" comes later in the verse starting: "I went down, to the demonstration". That was recorded in Olympic Studios London, November 1968, so I've often wondered was "Mr Jimmy" Jimi Hendrix or The Stones' new Producer Jimmy Miller ??
Gosh, well I guess you would know better than me. I vaguely remembered the line but it was off the top of my head. Yes, Jimi Hendrix would make sense I reckon. Thanks for watching!
Not all of Chelsea is rich people they have council housing & peabody estates mostly for migrants now, John Cleese said London is no longer an English city I used to drink in the Chelsea Drug store
In 1967 I bought a tin whistle and for a joke started walking down the Kings Road like a pied piper. I soon had 25,000 people following behind me like one glorious snake, until I was arrested for having no clothes on and a vibro in my bottom.
uncle albert The Worlds End has been a Pub since 1897. My Father ran a bookies outside it in the 50’s & other family had a fruit stall outside. It’s closed as a pub now...all the great pubs in the area have gone sadly, sign of the times.
Im didnt even live the 70s or 80s and I still agree. I mean life in general was obvious better bacj in those days than it is now. No one goes out and just hangs out in their own hang out places and have fun. People nowadays rather live on screens. Its become a poor quality of life. People who were able to grown up in the 70s and 80s are blessed..
@@PindarMOD , the negative effects of globalization greed, international investment properties and money laundering scum have destroyed its culture and community. Just like every major city.
I’m 23 so I wasn’t around back in the time you’re talking about but I will say King’s Road is boring lol. I worked on King’s Road as a waitress up until the end of last year and to be honest, if it wasn’t for old pics/videos of what it used to be I would NEVER understand why people talk about it so fondly😂🤷🏿♀️
In a clapton Stephen Stills interview they said Stephen got out the window. Clapton got handcuffed. It wouldn't happen today. What a waste of the police & court's time and energy.
You call yourself an Englishman, yet you are in London and you said the phrase "Not a lot of people know" WITHOUT doing a poor Sir Michael Caine impersonation?.... Well.... Shame on you sir ! I shall be writing to my member of parliament about this. 🇬🇧😉
